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$30 for an Online Test-Preparation Course from BenchPrep (Up to $149.99 Value)

As technology for obtaining information progresses, so does the usefulness of smartphones, which currently discover facts by calling their encyclopedia roommate. Phone in a wealth of knowledge with today’s Groupon: for $30, you get an online test-preparation course from BenchPrep (up to a $149.99 value). Customers have unlimited access for life to their chosen course after paying the initial course fee. Featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal , BenchPrep’s educational network prepares students to undertake difficult exams with confidence through innovative and interactive online content. Students can enlist in a field of study from BenchPrep’s courses , forged with the aid of McGraw-Hill, BarOutlines, and photocopies of Athena’s classroom cheat sheets, to gain access to the site’s comprehensive content, reporting, and score-analysis tools. Students cultivate their academic knowledge with content-specific reading material, notes, bookmarks, customizable quizzes, and practice tests. When in need of assistance, students can e-tap the e-shoulder of a number of experts, friends, and fellow test takers through chats and public discussions. BenchPrep’s innovative cross-platform technology allows online students to begin their studies on a web-based computer and continue their lessons in transit via iPhone, Android, or iPad. Lesson plans can also be downloaded to a smartphone device through the BenchPrep app to facilitate on-the-go learning without an Internet connection, handy for studying in signal-destroying subways or while time traveling to pre-WiFi locales. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Motivational Mottos Are all curses actually just remedies for hubris? Read more…

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Virginia Company Bank’s New Williamsburg Location Now Open

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Board of Directors at Virginia Company Bank is excited to announce the opening of their new banking office in Williamsburg’s High Street development on Monday, January 30th.

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Mediterranean Fare for Two or Four at Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant in Williamsburg (Up to 52% Off)

Italy has given us legendary works of art, from the evocative paintings of Caravaggio and da Vinci to the miniature meat sculptures of Boyardee. Admire edible Italian masterpieces with today’s Groupon to Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant in Williamsburg. Choose between the following options: For $15, you get $30 worth of Greek and Italian fare for two people. For $29, you get $60 worth of Greek and Italian fare for four people. Situated across from the Victorian splendor of Williamsburg’s High Street, Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant unfurls a Mediterranean menu of pizza, pasta, souvlaki, and shish kebabs. Chefs exchange shrimp’s nautical pool noodles for a tastier flotation device in the scampi with capellini ($14.95), letting the crustaceans bob across an ocean of olive oil, garlic, and spices. Specialty pizzas ($12.95–$18.95) such as the sausage and oregano-laden viennese and the meat-heavy supreme sail to tables with or without a ration of tomato sauce. Skewers dominate the Greek menu, where spikes of swordfish ($15.95) soak up a marinade of rosemary-and-lemon sauce as they challenge each other to rock-paper-scissor duels upon a field of rice pilaf and vegetables. Waist-watchers and vegetarians will find a flavor-heavy bounty in the feta, oregano, and kalamata olives of the greek pizza, or the creamy blend of potato and eggplant of the moussaka baked in béchamel sauce ($12.95). Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Terms of Affection Read more…

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Mediterranean Fare for Two or Four at Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant in Williamsburg (Up to 52% Off)

Italy has given us legendary works of art, from the evocative paintings of Caravaggio and da Vinci to the miniature meat sculptures of Boyardee. Admire edible Italian masterpieces with today’s Groupon to Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant in Williamsburg. Choose between the following options: For $15, you get $30 worth of Greek and Italian fare for two people. For $29, you get $60 worth of Greek and Italian fare for four people. Situated across from the Victorian splendor of Williamsburg’s High Street, Angelo’s Greek and Italian Restaurant unfurls a Mediterranean menu of pizza, pasta, souvlaki, and shish kebabs. Chefs exchange shrimp’s nautical pool noodles for a tastier flotation device in the scampi with capellini ($14.95), letting the crustaceans bob across an ocean of olive oil, garlic, and spices. Specialty pizzas ($12.95–$18.95) such as the sausage and oregano-laden viennese and the meat-heavy supreme sail to tables with or without a ration of tomato sauce. Skewers dominate the Greek menu, where spikes of swordfish ($15.95) soak up a marinade of rosemary-and-lemon sauce as they challenge each other to rock-paper-scissor duels upon a field of rice pilaf and vegetables. Waist-watchers and vegetarians will find a flavor-heavy bounty in the feta, oregano, and kalamata olives of the greek pizza, or the creamy blend of potato and eggplant of the moussaka baked in béchamel sauce ($12.95). Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Terms of Affection Read more…

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Disruptor Capital Announces Investment in Potomac Research Group

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Disruptor Capital CEO Pete Snyder today announced the company’s lead investment in Potomac Research Group (PRG). “PRG is an innovator and market leader in the rapidly growing policy research industry,” said Snyder. “In a day and age when Washington, Wall Street and Main Street often don’t speak the same language, Potomac Research Group is effectively bridging that gap, helping institutional investors understand the complex world of policy making,” Snyder said. S

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MSRB Publishes 2011 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today published its 2011 Annual Report, which outlines accomplishments for the year and includes audited financial statements for fiscal year 2011. The report details activities aimed at achieving the MSRB’s investor and municipal entity protection mission, and for implementing the municipal market provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). Highlights of the M

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MSRB Publishes 2011 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements

ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today published its 2011 Annual Report, which outlines accomplishments for the year and includes audited financial statements for fiscal year 2011. The report details activities aimed at achieving the MSRB’s investor and municipal entity protection mission, and for implementing the municipal market provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). Highlights of the M

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High winds knock down Christmas tree

High winds from Wednesday night’s storm caused damage in a few Hampton Roads localities. In Suffolk, the Christmas tree display, located in the 300 block of N. Main Street, was blown over.

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REMINDER: Intersections Inc. CFO to Present at the 22nd Annual Wall Street Institutional Investor Conference

CHANTILLY, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intersections Inc. (Nasdaq: INTX), a leading provider of consumer and corporate identity risk management services that has protected more than 34 million consumers since its inception, today announced that John Scanlon, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be participating in the upcoming Wall Street Institutional Investor Conference. The investor meetings will highlight Intersections’ operating strategy and recent financial results. The com

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Relay: May I See Your ID?

Talking with Kenny Mann, whose film “Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots,” about her ancestral past, will be shown at Bay Street on Sunday, got me thinking about identity and, of course, how it relates to me.

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