Virginia Hotels

Open Question: Am I on the right track for my future?

So I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm already starting to plan my future. My top colleges are JMU (James Madison University) in Harrisonburg VA, UVA (University of Virginia), and George Mason University in Fairfax VA. My top choice so far is JMU because of the more laid-back environment and that it has a really good music program. But I want to major in both music and in health because I'm planning to be a medical assistant and a part-time singer in a hotel or restaurant or something. Can I major in both? Or choose one? Also, I want to know if JMU has a health/medical program as well as a music program? If not, which of these do you think is the best choice?

Open Question: ABOUT how much is a 1 week vacay in Seattle for 1 person? From VA?

I'm coming from Virginia. About how much do you think I should save up (ex: $500-900) for a ONE week trip for ONE person? I know how to get flight estimates so I am asking about once I arrive in Seattle, how much would you estimate a person would need for a week? I won't be shopping or going to safeco for games, just hotel by night and walking downtown/parks sight seeing by day basically. I'm a penny pincher so I have faith I can find cheap food also. I know this may be too vague but maybe some natives can give me a round about figure for a week? If I live in the downtown part I can get on the free bus zone so that's taken care of. (just for fun) ..Coming from VA what do you think will be the BIGGEST shock when I arrive to Seattle? Thanks. I'm from Richmond btw.

Resolved Question: Looking for a vacation spot on the Atlantic ocean?

We don't want to go to a big city with tons of people. So places like Virginia Beach and Myrtle Beach are out. We're looking for a place thats not a popular tourist location but can still get a hotel facing the ocean. Any ideas?

Resolved Question: Do You agree with Castro that this is interesting?

HAVANA – Fidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and far right: that the shadowy Bilderberg Group has become a kind of global government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture. The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma to quote — largely verbatim — from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin. Estulin's work, "The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club," argues that the international group largely runs the world. It has held a secretive annual forum of prominent politicians, thinkers and businessmen since it was founded in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland. Castro offered no comment on the excerpts other than to describe Estulin as honest and well-informed and to call his book a "fantastic story." Estulin's book, as quoted by Castro, described "sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists" manipulating the public "to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self." The Bilderberg group's website says its members have "nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern" once a year, but the group does nothing else. It said the meetings were meant to encourage people to work together on major policy issues. The prominence of the group is what alarms critics. It often includes members of the Rockefeller family, Henry Kissinger, senior U.S. and European officials and major international business and media executives. The excerpt published by Castro suggested that the esoteric Frankfurt School of socialist academics worked with members of the Rockefeller family in the 1950s to pave the way for rock music to "control the masses" by diverting attention from civil rights and social injustice. "The man charged with ensuring that the Americans liked the Beatles was Walter Lippmann himself," the excerpt asserted, referring to a political philosopher and by-then-staid newspaper columnist who died in 1974. "In the United States and Europe, great open-air rock concerts were used to halt the growing discontent of the population," the excerpt said. Castro — who had an inside seat to the Cold War — has long expressed suspicions of back-room plots. He has raised questions about whether the Sept. 11 attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government to stoke military budgets and, more recently suggested that Washington was behind the March sinking of a South Korean ship blamed on North Korea. Estulin's own website suggests that the 9/11 attacks were likely caused by small nuclear devices, and that the CIA and drug traffickers were behind the 1988 downing of a jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that was blamed on Libya. The Bilderberg conspiracy theory has been popular on both extremes of the ideological spectrum, even if they disagree on just what the group wants to do. Leftists accuse the group of promoting capitalist domination, while some right-wing websites argue that the Bilderberg club has imposed Barack Obama on the United States to advance socialism. Some of Estulin's work builds on reports by Big Jim Tucker, a researcher on the Bilderberg Group who publishes on right-wing websites. "It's great Hollywood material ... 15 people sitting in a room sitting in a room determining the fate of mankind," said Herbert London, president of the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank in New York. "As someone who doesn't come out of the Oliver Stone school of conspiracy, I have a hard time believing it," London added. A call to a Virginia number for the American Friends of Bilderberg rang unanswered Wednesday and the group's website lists no contact numbers. Castro, who underwent emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 and stepped down as president in February 2008, has suddenly begun popping up everywhere recently, addressing Cuba's parliament on the threat of a nuclear war, meeting with island ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry, writing a book and even attending the dolphin show at the Havana aquarium.

Resolved Question: Going up to NYC for the 9/11 Memorials...?

Other than visiting Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty...what can I do while I am up there? I am driving from Virginia. I'm not really interested in any museums...unless their free..trying to spend as little as possible seeing that hotels will drain me.

Resolved Question: how can i get pick ups and drop offs different for visitation?

I have custody of my daughter. Her mother and I were never married. I live in virginia and the mom lives in Maine. Currently we have been meeting in New Jersey because that is the half way point. This has not worked out well. I will make hotel reservations because I don't turn right around and come back to VA, we will stay the night. I will make the arrangments such as time to meet , location...everything. sometimes the mother shows up 6 hours late and some times Not at all! I have been doing this for 2 years now. How can I get our order changed to where the mom has to pay to come to virginia to get our daughter at the start of visitation, and I pay to come to Maine to get her when visitation is over? I am just really tired of emailing her… calling her and all to hear that she will be there (not to mention spending a pile of money to get back and forth to new jersey for her to not even show up...or call 30 minutes before she is supposed to show to tell me that she will be 6 hours late! Uuuuuummmmm......who the F is Mildred and how is that helpful to my question? no one moved away really...i met her when i was stationed in south carolina and she was living there as well. she is originally from Maine, so she moved back there. we were only together once, never had a relationship at all. i am just really sick of spending a pile of money to meet her halfway only for her to be hours late or maybe not even show up! i have an attorney and i'm going to throw the idea out there that she has to come get her from VA when visitation starts, and I will come to Maine to get her when it is done. i don't know if it will work, but i guess it won't hurt to try!

Resolved Question: what if she never shows up?

I am supposed to be meeting my daughter's mother in New Jersey tomorrow to pick her up from summer visitation with her mother. I have "primary Residence" of my daughter, and she lives with me the majority of the time. Her mother and I were never married, but went to court recently at the end of July and were given a court order that she would return my daughter to me 7 days prior to the commencement of the new school year. School starts August 25th, so that would be 1 week from August 18th...tomorrow. Tonight I called to speak to my daughter and after talking with her, she put her mother on the phone. I asked if she had the address I sent her through email of the hotel I would be staying in and everything. She said, "yep, I have it." I said, well then I will see you tomorrow at 6pm like we talked about in the email. I sent several emails to her checking to see what time she wanted to meet and included the address of my hotel. She replied, " tomorrow?? what are you talking about...we aren't meeting till thursday of next week." I said no, we are supposed to meet 7 days prior to school starting...we talked about this. She said she didn't know that and didn't know if she could make it because she was supposed to work and didn't have any money. I would agree to change the day, but I have already reserved a room, I am driving from New Jersey to Virginia, and she is supposed to be driving from Maine to New Jersey. So, plans have been made and this was set in place by the judge. What can I do if she doesn't show up?? Of course, it will be after hours for my attorney when the drop off is supposed to happen, so he will be unreachable. This is not the first go' round with things like this, which is why you can see that I am the Dad and got custody of my daughter (unheard of mostly). This woman is like a 12 year old and I don't know what to do with her. Any ideas? sorry, I mean I will be driving from Virginia to New Jersey and she will meet me there. She has to drive from Maine. did I mention that once before now when she was dropping my child off to me in NJ, she was 6 hours late? We were again supposed to meet at 6, and she called me a 5:30pm to tell me she was running late. I said that was fine and I would see her when she arrived. I didn't know that it would be 6 hours later....so this is not the first time something like this has happend.

Resolved Question: looking for the must have songs of classic rock?

songs i already have: black sabbath: fairies wear boots, war pigs, paranoid, see you on the otherside, sweet leaf blue oyster cult: don't fear the reaper, im burning for you ccr: fortunate son, bad moon rising, susie q cream: born under a bad sign, strange brew, crossroads the doors: hello i love you, the end, la woman, riders on the storm, roadhouse blues, whiskey bar the eagles: hotel california janis joplin: cry baby, leavinf on a jet plane, mercedes benz, take another little piece of my heart, me and bobby mcgee kansas: come sail away, dust in the wind, carry on wayward son led zeppelin: over the hills and far away, dazed and confused, ramble on, stairway to heaven lynard skynard: sweet home, simple man, free bird molly hatchet: flirting with disaster, whiskey man, mississippi moon dog mountain: mississippi queen pink floyd: brick in the wall, hey you, run like hell, house of the rising sun, breathe, comfortably numb, dark side of the moon rolling stones: sweet virginia, painted black, you can't always get what you want, gimme shelter, sympathy for the devil rush: tom sawyer if you can add either bands and songs or songs by the bands listed it will be much appreciated, also i do have other bands like jefferson star ship, acdc, journey, joan jett and some 80s bands like foreigner, bon jovi, warrant... so yeah any classic rock (like 1960-1970s preferably but i also like 80s too) cheers people!

Voting Question: Are there any good resorts in Virginia?

I just moved from Anchorage,Ak to Burke,Va and i have no clue about hotels and lodges here. Are there any good mountains or ski hill lodges/resorts? In Alaska I would go to this hotel,it was FANTASTIC. http://www.alyeskaresort.com/ i know i'm not going to get better scenery,but i was just wondering if there were any good weekend getaway spots here :) Thanks!

Resolved Question: How to I convince my parents to go to Myrtle Beach?

Currently, we are going to Virginia Beach this Friday. BUT I want to go to Myrtle beach SC instead. He mostly talks about it being far and we would use too much gas. We live in central new york. I like the hotel Crown reef. Any suggestions on how to convince my dad? Thanks.