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The New England Patriots and Golden State Warriors do not contain a city or a state in their name.
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# 95% of pages have more than 10 fans

# 65% of pages have more than 100 fans

# 23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans

# 4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans

# 0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans

# 0.047% of pages have more than one million fans 297 in total.

via It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans.

One quarter of all candy sold each year is purchased between September 15 and November 10, making candy …

via Halloween.Fast Factscandy salesBrief Article | Article from Journal of Property Management | HighBeam Research.

World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

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7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

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30 Ways to Make Your Life More Simple

1. Resign from a commitment you’re not passionate about.
2. Stop trying to be perfect.
3. Implement a basic cleaning schedule.
4. Sign up for automatic billpay.
5. Automate a portion of your investing.
6. Clean out your media collection and keep only the items you love.
7. Plant perennials that will automatically bloom next spring.
8. Clean out your purse or wallet.
9. Put a paper shredder next to your mail spot.
10. Winnow your wardrobe down to pieces that work together.
11. Delete any social networking accounts you don’t actually use.
12. Add your number to the do-not-call list.
13. Create a car maintenance schedule and post it somewhere you’ll see it.
14. Design a filing system that you can stick to.
15. Start your day with a healthy meal.
16. Turn your phone off when you need quiet time.
17. Invest in a programmable thermostat.
18. Set one good goal, and go achieve it.
19. Record your good “shower” ideas and then implement them. (Don’t we all get our best inspirations in the shower?)
20. Write to a friend with (gasp!) pen and paper.
21. Set limits on your bad habits, and reward yourself when you stick with them.
22. Stop trying to be a saint and indulge yourself every once in a while.
23. Pay off your credit card debt.
24. Avoid watching commercials and reading advertisements.
25. Rediscover the pleasure of reading purely for enjoyment.
26. Plan two weeks of delicious meals ahead of time and skip the nightly grocery run.
27. Go to your doctor for a preventative checkup.
28. Remember the joys of doing nothing.
29. Singletask as much as possible.
30. Learn to ask for help.

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97% of iPhone owners are satisfied with the device while over half are NOT satisfied with AT&T service according to a recent survey:

- Owners of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS love the device, but more than half of them hate AT&T, the smartphone’s exclusive mobile carrier in the U.S., according to a just-released survey.

“There’s no indication that Apple’s AT&T problem is going away,” said Paul Carton, research director at ChangeWave Research. “The better consumers feel about their iPhones, the worse they feel about AT&T.”

Carton said that the latest ChangeWave survey, which polled nearly 200 owners of Apple’s newest iPhone model, the 3GS, showed a “near-perfect satisfaction rating” for the product. More than eight of every ten iPhone 3GS owners said they were “very satisfied” with the smartphone, while another 17% said they were “somewhat satisfied.”

“Extraordinary,” is how Carton interpreted the 97% total. “That’s the highest ratings we have ever had for any smartphone, including previous iPhones,” he said.

iPhone owners love Apple’s smartphone, hate AT&T, survey says.

The Standish Group research shows a staggering 31.1% of projects will be cancelled before they ever get completed. Further results indicate 52.7% of projects will cost over 189% of their original estimates. The cost of these failures and overruns are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The lost opportunity costs are not measurable, but could easily be in the trillions of dollars in the United States alone.
On the success side, the average is only 16.2% for software projects that are completed on-time and on-budget. In the larger companies, the news is even worse: only 9% of their projects come in on-time and on-budget.

And, even when these projects are completed, many are no more that a mere shadow of their original specification requirements. Projects completed by the largest American companies have only approximately 42% of the originally-proposed features and functions. Smaller companies do much better. A total of 78.4% of their software projects will get deployed with at least 74.2% of their original features and functions.

Did you know that the great state of CT has the most horses per square mile than any other state in the US?

yes..its true, and RANDOM!!