Band Aid - Let Them Know It's Christmas Time, Video

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From 1984.  Serious flash back.  It's a great song so we went out and looked up the video.  Found it on numerous sites but pulled it in from YouTube.  Other sites had long ads attached to the video and it was the same video, so YouTube won the porting game.  The song was created back in 1984 to raise money to feed the hungry.  One has to wonder if sales of the song still continue and if so, where that money is going.  Are sales still supporting that cause or is the song now being milked for profits only?  We went out to find more information on this.  It turns out that the folks behind the song caved to pressure from various avenues insinuating that the lyrics of the song were highly misleading and that a remake of the song in 2004 was probably the last version.

  Many in the pop music culture thought the song was pretty bad considering the talent that went into the entire production.  We don't care, we like the song and here it is.  The lyrics do have issues, but we are not discounting what they tried to do for those in need.

http://mp3skull.com/mp3/band_aid_do_they_know_its_christmas_time.html

Above is an interesting link if you like this song.  Enough said about it.

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Gloucester, VA Local Government Using Local Business Tax Dollars To Kill Local Businesses

Gloucester, VA Local Government Using Local Business Tax Dollars To Kill Local Businesses

GVLN Press Release

July 17^th, 2012

Gloucester, VA. Local county government is flooding the local search engines with a huge amount of pages from it's main site located at www.gloucesterva.info. With a net effect of taking over the vast majority of local search results. This is coming at a large cost to local businesses with web sites and any other potential business considering putting up a local web site as the sites are getting lost in the search engine results.

A business that yesterday may have been on the first page of a Gloucester, VA search engine result may now find themselves way down on the 5^th or 6^th page of search results thanks to local government efforts to tie up local search. This is just bad for local commerce. How can anyone compete with a local government with such deep pockets all funded by local tax dollars? Where one ranks in the search engine results can make a huge difference in the amount of business one does in this information age.

Expected response from local government officials would be to say that it's an honest mistake made as the county was only trying to make the community aware of all the local government services available and part of it's effort in a transparent government process. Gloucester, VA Links and News thinks that there are other reasons for the county flooding the search engines. An old SEO trick when the county comes under attack with negative press is to flood out the results of that press so that it has little to no effect on the county government.

Gloucester, VA Links and News has been covering numerous negative news pieces about Gloucester, VA official’s and various offices and believes that this is the exact reason why the county government is flooding the search engines.

Either way, it's bad for local businesses as their sites keep getting pushed further down the search engine results causing a net negative effect in local commerce that helps fund the local government to begin with. It's just a self defeating move on the part of the county.

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Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum at the Abingdon Episcopal Church 4-3-09, Video 10

Our tenth and final video in our mini series for the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. This one is a slide show of pictures taken before, during and after the event. It was a pleasure attending this event and then getting to meet some of the choir. We look forward to your next return to this area.

Gloucester High Marching Band

Found this on YouTube. Thought it would be nice for everyone to see.  Video of the Gloucester High School Marching Band.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Gloucester Wal Mart

Technically speaking, what you see in this video is a big no no. Wal Mart does not allow cameras to be used in their stores and if they had caught the person who did this, they would have made sure this file never made it to this point. My opinion? It was not done in anyway that would harm Wal Mart, so I have no issues posting it here, in case you have not seen it.


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Battle Of The Hook

Battle Of The Hook We highly recommend this site as one to visit for a major upcoming event. Billed as the nation's largest Revolutionary War Reenactment, this is a can not miss event. We have this on our calender of events that we will be posting as much as possible about after the event. One of the sponsors of this event is the Stagecoach Market a local Antique, flea and farmers market. Another site that we highly recommend that you visit. In the event you have no idea of what to expect at this market, please visit the site by clicking on the above link.

  The owners took down the main Battle of the Hook site a few months after the event.  In fact, most web sites that contained information about the battle are long gone.  You Tube has plenty of videos from the event including our own.  We have our own Battle of the Hook site up and the link is at the top of the page and on the right hand side bar.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Gloucester News Website

Gloucester News Here is an incredible news website just found. Between the Gloucester - Mathews Gazette Journal and this site, you will have the full perspective of all the local news going on in this area. Looks like we will be a regular user of this site ourselves. Very clean and well done.  Topix is the name of the news site.  They have some crazy posts from many local people.  Some fights are found here.  This is not an actual local site.  It's part of a national site with local feeds.

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