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- Strengths: Easy to deploy.
- Weaknesses: Built on Salesforce.com, the platform will be highly dependent on changes to that platform. Per-user license model can be costly to scale to larger organizations.
- Verdict: Brings GRC capabilities to the mid-sized organization in a model that is easy to use and deploy. Pricing is still within the ballpark of enterprise products if access for several users is needed.
The Aruvio GRC suite is a complete set of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) applications, including controls, compliance, vendor risk, enterprise risk, incident management, and policy and training. The solutions are geared toward mid-sized organizations, as they are designed to be simple to deploy and priced to be attractive for smaller user counts.
The product is available as a cloud-based SaaS offering only, and is built on top of Salesforce.com technology. As a fully hosted offering, the system is typically deployed in under one week. Since it's offered as software-as-a-services (SaaS), a web browser can be used to access the product. Therefore, it is accessible via any device running a web browser, including mobile devices, such as iPads and iPhones.
Aruvio is an audit-driven solution with modules available to test compliance, preliminary risk and risk assessment. There is a tool to quickly develop audits and workflows. All web-based, it uses email notification to users as a workflow engine for all audit and alerting functions. Role-based authentication controls display who has access to what features. Aruvio integrates regulatory compliance documents and consolidates inputs. Users can upload company-specific policy, standard documents or use the pre-loaded common control framework that comes from integrating to the Unified Compliance Framework (UCF). The seamless integration between frameworks and internal standards helps avoid redundant control testing with "test once, report many."
Assets and vulnerabilities can be imported from various configuration management databases (CMDB) and vulnerability scanners using an easy-to-use data loader interface. Once loaded, users can perform risk assessment of identified vulnerabilities and threats by assets. There is an asset wizard to create assets as well. From what we saw, asset creation looked to be manual. This can be a pro and con: The positive being it is easy to roll up assets to "systems," and the negative being there will be some setup time.
There is a policy module as well. One creates policies outside of the tool and upload them as PDF files. Further, there is a useful feature that allows one to create the training on the policy and track that adherence, as well as a read-and-accept audit-tracking feature. Users can deploy the data from the policy tool to map policies to controls, and then measure and report on compliance under one's risk assessment. Also, there is a vendor risk module that allows admins to set up white-labeled and branded portals to deliver and track vendor assessments for inclusion in one's risk reporting. It appeared to be more of a manual process to get all the data in, but that said, there are data imports that are easy to use.
Reporting and dashboard capabilities are well done. Users have numerous reports and views out of the box and one can customize any of these as desired. The dashboards are easy to use and it is simple and quick to get to the detailed data. One can look at a risk profile as a whole or quickly click to a view of risk by any regulatory type - i.e., quickly see a risk profile for just PCI DSS.
Support is included in the yearly subscription fee and includes 24/7 phone and email access. There is not a web-based support option. - ML
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The Camp Nou in Barcelona has seen a lot of success and not just in football
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Dubai Back in 2009 when the Fifa Club World Cup came to the UAE for two years, the incredible excitement among the locals and yes, us journalists too, to see mighty Barcelona and in particular Argentine superstar Lionel Messi in action was only matched by the brand of football the Uefa Champions League winners had produced that year. It was in front of a packed house at the Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi that Messi and co mesmerized us and Argentine club Estudiantes to win the their record sixth title of the season.
Fast forward to July 2012 and there I was inside the Camp Nou in Barcelona. I had to pinch myself to believe that I was actually walking the same steps that have been repeatedly trodden by the likes of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and Pique.
I had reached Barcelona knowing that our itinerary did not include Camp Nou as one of the places we would visit. The occasion was Emirates' inaugural flight to Barcelona from Dubai and we were to be there for four days. I checked the itinerary to see where we could fit in a visit to the home of FC Barcelona and saw the window of opportunity on the second day.
We were to visit the Picasso museum and as much as I like seeing the works of these great masters, I had already seen several works of Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and honestly I couldn't pass up on the chance to visit the home of the present masters of football. I spoke to our tour guide and we agreed to cut short our museum visit and head to Camp Nou.
It was a world of treasure that awaited us. Built in 1957, the stadium looked quite imposing from the outside, but before we entered we made a stop at the FC Barcelona official store. It had everything that a fan could wish for, from official jerseys, to individual player kits and every other imaginable club merchandise.
Then we stepped in to the stadium. I could already imagine what it was like sitting there among 99,000 screaming fans, seeing Messi weave his magic past some of the best defenders in the world and score with a deft flick or a chip with his magical left foot. I snapped out of my reverie to hear what the guide was telling us as we entered the away team's dressing room.
He informed us that FC Barcelona's dressing room was out of bounds for visitors simply because it is five times better than the away one. Besides, he explained, when arch enemies Real Madrid came visiting, the air-conditioning would often malfunction in their dressing room. Coincidence?
Nevertheless, we were told, FC Barcelona was more than a football club. "It's more than a club" is what is written on the stands in Spanish. It has obvious political implications since the Catalans haven't forgiven Spain and Madrid on the treatment meted out to them during the time of General Franco.
I could see that given Spain had just won the Euro championships a couple of days earlier and yet there were hardly any celebrations in Barcelona. Our guide informed us that the celebrations were quite wild when FC Barcelona won a title.
We visited the museum which was lined with innumerable silverware. I detected a work in gold and it turned out to be the golden show award that Messi had won in 2010 for being the highest scorer in Europe. Another interesting article that caught my eye was the club jersey with OBAMA written in the back. It was a gift to the US President from the club.
The Camp Nou attracts a million visitors every year who are interested in its facilities and museum which showcases the trophies and memorabilia that have shaped the club's history. As I left the stadium I began to see what it was that made FC Barcelona the most successful club in the world. And no, it had nothing to do with malfunctioning airconditioners.
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The 288-room hotel opens following a $5.3-million property-wide renovation to update guestrooms and public spaces with new furnishings and design throughout. Formerly the Hilton Salt Lake City Airport, the hotel remains part of the Hilton Worldwide portfolio under the leadership of new owner and operator, Aimbridge Hospitality.
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Mar 2, 2013, 10:42 PM EST
Clearly, Philadelphia Union manager John Hackworth was not happy about the things worked out Saturday at PPL Park.
His team took an early lead and generally took to the visitors from Sporting Kansas City.
But poor finishing kept his team from extending the lead, and then defending plus poor goalkeeping dragged the Union all the way under.
Hackworth, now in his first full year in charge at PPL Park, called the loss "unacceptable," and said could not find "any way to feel good about anything that just happened."
"I'm glad Seba is here, I'm glad he scored a goal in his first game back, but this is a team sport. From our perspective it's unacceptable to play at PPL Park and lose the way we did.
"To give one back on a free kick, that undoes us a little bit. Not even having the right amount of courage and fight in us to get one back, when we should have. We're very disappointed. … We're not going to be world-beaters, so we have to maximize being good in both boxes.
"It's about execution and that's what Sporting KC did. We pushed the game the right way and did what we wanted to do. But we didn't execute."
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They gave up after KC went up 2-1. I am surprised it wasn't 4 or 5-1 , they almost totally stopped defending. Also size was a big issue last year and it was quite obvious on set pieces today. You go out and sign Conner Casey and you don't bring him in till around the 83rd. He should have been starting alongside Le Toux. If they play like they did the first 45 all 90 for the rest of the year I can see it working out a lot better than last.
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on Mar 31, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Laughing to the bank
It's scheduled to publish an analysis in April of how the Caltrain corridor would accommodate high-speed trains.
simple answer, it won't work!
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The Mountain View Leaders should join the effort to mitigate the damage to Mountain View that this project will inflict, we need to fight it now while it's still somewhat in the planning stage not after the preliminary designs are published. Where are the city Council Members, they seem to be lost in trivial issues when they should be spending most of time time working to make sure that this project is not constructed at grade or above grade, use cut and fill and then make a park over the underground system. This park would make a great new trail through town.
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The name "Michael Kinsley" is not an indicator of quality these days–he was last seen advising President Obama to surrender over the debt ceiling for no reason at all–but I read his review of the newest Game Change franchise spawn and was actually enjoying it. Kinsley mocks the book's writing style, research methods, and excessively narrow focus that turns such a seemingly epic story as a presidential election into something much smaller, an anti-epic in fact. This part is a killer:
The authors lend a sympathetic ear to Karl Rove, the Republican Rasputin, as he describes his disgust at hearing that Newt Gingrich took a few hours off one Saturday morning in Chicago to go see the dinosaurs at the Field Museum. Can you spot the gaffe? It's not Rove dissing Gingrich for going to a museum. The gaffe is Gingrich taking time off from politics to go to a museum. Shame on him! As the authors put it, he "frittered away" valuable time.
To me, it's one of the best things I've ever heard about Newt. God forbid he should take a Saturday off and go to a museum. God forbid someone running for president should have any interest except politics.
Precisely, and well said.
However, the conclusion simply doesn't wash:
One subject that gets barely a mention in "Double Down" — because it played virtually no role in the 2012 campaign — is race. In a book that aspires to be, and largely succeeds in being, the dispositive (or do I mean definitive?) account of the election, that may be the most remarkable fact of all.
I had to read this several times to make sure this was not ironic. It is ironic, of course, but unintentionally so. Look, I could bring up the greatest hits from 2012, but that's Mark Halperin's job and nobody really wants to relive "self-deportation" and all that. So let's just note a couple of facts:
- In 2008, black voter participation spiked historically, which everyone concluded was a one-off in order to vote for a black presidential candidate for the first time ever. In 2012 it spiked again.
- John Kerry won Asian-Americans by roughly 17 percent in 2004. In 2012, Barack Obama won with the group by over forty points. And their turnout spiked as well.
- In 2004, George W. Bush performed better among Hispanics than any Republican candidate in modern times. In 2012, Mitt Romney performed worse among Hispanics than any Republican candidate in modern times.
Well, given these facts, it sure seems like some people didn't get the memo that the 2012 campaign had nothing to do with race! You have to ask yourselves, why were all these minority groups so desperate to vote against Mitt Romney if race didn't play any part in the election? Minority groups don't just randomly decide to swing wildly to one side or another and surge to unprecedented turnout levels, it occurs in the context of a political environment in which one party brands itself as the party for old Southern white men. The Romney campaign's stated goal was to rack up as many white voters as it possibly could, which lest we forget is a racial strategy. Republicans across the country did their best to suppress the vote among nonwhites, a strategy that palpably backfired last year (and probably backfired again in Virginia a week ago), but one which continues to be a top policy goal of the GOP because disenfranchising minorities is apparently now a conservative first principle that is something you suffer damage to enact, rather than merely a tactic for electoral gain that would presumably be dropped when it stops working. And much of Romney's policy agenda Chait explained this all some time ago:
Romney's political-policy theme is an unmistakable appeal to identity politics. On Medicare, Romney is putting himself forward as the candidate who will outspend Obama, at least when it comes to benefits for people 55 years old and up. Romney will restore the $700 billion in Medicare budget cuts imposed by Obama to its rightful owners — people who are currently old.
He will cut subsidies to the non-elderly people who would get insurance through Obamacare — a program that, Romney's ads remind older voters, is "NOT FOR YOU." Romney's repeated ads on welfare, blaring the brazen lie that Obama has repealed the welfare work requirement, hammer home the same theme. The purpose is to portray Obama as diverting resources from us to them.
I really don't understand how Romney's months-worth of demagogic welfare attacks (!) and obvious "they're robbin' you" thinly-veiled stuff gets dismissed as having nothing to do about race. Or the fact that every group of nonwhite people (including several, like Cuban-Americans and Asian-Americans, who used to be part of the Republican coalition) continues to flee the GOP in ever-increasing numbers. Admittedly, anti-Communism waning as a political force probably had something to do with this. But the rapid rate of collapse suggests something more than the mere lessening of ancestral ties to party…
Like Lev in a prior post, I went from zero-to-irritated over the media's "The McCain Maverick Is Back!!" nonsense faster than I got over Gangnam Style.
With that said — and I pre-apologize for giving Johnny Walnuts more airtime — the story of the ever-mercurial McCain finding a new back to stab is somewhat legitimate news.
Because my fingers are feeling like they're scraping on a chalkboard even typing this, I'll keep it brief:
President Obama on Friday made his most extensive comments on race since entering the White House, and they are generating extensive commentary.
Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who lost the 2008 presidential race to Obama, called the president's remarks "very impressive," and said they should help all Americans think about how to improve race relations in the wake of Trayvon Martin's death.
"I think we continue to make progress," McCain told CNN's State of the Union, but recent events show "we still have a long way to go."
Compare this, of course, with Fox News's parade of black conservatives spitting bile at President Uppity McDarkerson for daring to talk about race:
I'm not sure just how many more of these black conservatives the media can manage to drag out there to go after President Obama and the speech he gave this Friday on what the George Zimmerman verdict means for the state of race relations in America, but this Saturday, old HuckaJesus and his producers at Fox managed to find one more to attack President Obama — and of course repeat, verbatim, every Republican talking point we've been hearing for ages now.
I don't know what the salary is to be a spokespuppet for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher like Tara Setmayer, who appeared on Huckabee's show this Saturday and attacked President Obama's speech, but my guess is someone is paying her well with a lot of wingnut welfare for her to be willing to spread this much hatred and bullshit on national television and still look herself in the mirror when she gets up the next morning.
Setmayer wants the audience at Fox to believe that it's somehow "beneath the President" for Obama to talk about race, because, you know, no one's allowed to do that other than the race baiters over at Fox. How dare our first President of color think it's his place to talk about racism, or what he experienced first hand. How arrogant of him to do that and upset all of these right-wingers who want to pretend racism is dead in America because President Obama was elected.
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The authors of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" self-defense law say George Zimmerman should probably be arrested for shooting Trayvon Martin, reports the Miami Herald. "He has no protection under my law," former Sen. Durell Peaden told the newspaper. […] It is the fact that Zimmerman ignored the 911 operator's advice not to follow Martin that former Sen. Peaden says disqualifies him from claiming self-defense under the law. "The guy lost his defense right then," Peaden told the Miami Herald. "When he said 'I'm following him,' he lost his defense." Rep. Dennis Baxley, Peaden's co-sponsor in the Florida House, agrees with his former colleague, telling the newspaper that the law does not license neighborhood watch or others who feel "like they have the authority to pursue and confront people. That is aggravating an incident right there."It's pretty simple. You can stand your ground and have the defense apply to you, or you can take it upon yourself to chase after the perpetrator (i.e., you are no longer STANDING your ground) and lose the defense. The cops involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.
Whitey Please. It's Hard Out Here For A Wealthy, Privileged, White Southerner!
This made me throw up a little in my mouth just now:
GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (TX) has faced severe backlash this week as the result of stories that he had opposed a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses across the South and that he had hosted family and friends at a West Texas hunting camp that once read "Niggerhead" on its entrance gate.
Yesterday on Mike Gallagher's radio show, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended Perry. "Rick Perry is not a racist," Graham said, saying the Texas governor is the victim of an "intimidation" campaign. "You know if you're a southern white guy, it is part of your life."
The Economist's Lexington columnist explains:
Working-class whites are angry with the Democrats for lots of reasons. Race is not one of them.Maybe not skin color, exactly, but some people did make a racial issue out of the opposition to Bill Clinton… in writing about the impeachment in 1998, Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker that he'd been mistreated because of his "Blackness":
..the prospect of a Democratic rout prompts an inevitable question. Have such voters turned on the Democrats because Mr Obama is black? His election was hailed as proof that America had moved beyond race. And yet voting in the mid-terms will be polarised by race. Most whites will pull the Republican lever. Almost all blacks and most Hispanics will vote Democrat.
Race was a factor in 2008, and still is. Why else would blacks alone have stuck so staunchly by their man? As for working-class whites, they did not much care for Mr Obama even in 2008, preferring John McCain by a margin of 18%. But as Mr Obama campaigned, his colour seemed to count for less.
For 20 years Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, studied the blue-collar white voters of Macomb County near Detroit. In 1984 they voted by two to one for Ronald Reagan because, Mr Greenberg found, when such voters heard Democrats talk about economic "fairness", they saw this as code for transferring money to blacks. Nonetheless, in 2008 Mr Obama won Macomb County with a margin of eight points. Over the course of his campaign, the proportion of Macomb voters who said they were "comfortable" with the idea of Mr Obama as president rose from 40% to 60%. Having watched Mr Obama closely, Mr Greenberg concluded, they "became confident he would work for all Americans and be the steady leader the times required."
If such voters have now changed their minds, the reason is not that Mr Obama is black—he was black in 2008. And for all its momentous symbolism, his election is not the most recent evidence that America has turned the page on race. In June, in South Carolina of all states, Tim Scott, a black Republican, defeated the son of the segregationist Strom Thurmond in a primary, and is on his way to a seat in the House. Compare that to 1983, when a disgraceful number of Democrats in Chicago voted for the Republican rather than send the black Harold Washington to city hall.
All of that has gone. The electorate may be divided by race, but no longer mainly because of race. Some of Mr Obama's enemies have tried to harness pockets of bigotry by painting him in various ways as un-American. But outright racism in politics is now beyond the pale and will probably have little to do with the coming rejection of the Democrats by the white working class. A wrecked economy and the feeling that their president is out of touch are reason enough. It has, after all, happened before. In two short years from 1992 to 1994, when Bill Clinton was president, white working-class support for the Republicans soared like a rocket from 47% to 61%. Nobody blamed that on skin colour.
Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
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"While mobile is currently experiencing a surge, we expect it will settle onto strong and sustained growth rates, just as general online advertising expenditure did in 2000 after an extraordinary period of growth," said IAB director of research Gai Le Roy.
Mobile advertising, a subset of general display and search expenditure, achieved growth rates "reminiscent of the early days of online advertising". Total expenditure for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $33.8 million, a growth of 55% over Q3.
According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers/IAB figures, 58% of mobile advertising for Q4 2012 was allocated to smartphones and 42% to tablets. Over half (56%) of mobile advertising was general display while 44% was search.
In other research, this time from Marin Software, Australia was found to be leading the way globally in terms of ad clicks from mobile devices.
The "Mobile Search Advertising Around the Globe" report, released earlier this month, found that Australian marketers allocate the highest percentage of budget (8%) on tablet advertising than any other country. Australia also has the second highest allocation of budget to smartphones (8.8%), second only to Singapore (12.3%) and level with Japan (8.8%).
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In an effort to make late-winter decisions on the fate of two of Southern Lehigh School District's elementary schools, both school district and municipal officials accompanied by engineers toured Hopewell and Lower Milford elementary schools on January 8th.
As part of her monthly report to the board, Superintendent Leah Christman said school board directors Kathy Parsons, Brian Merkle, and William Lycett attended the recent tour accompanied by Southern Lehigh Director of Support Services Todd Bergey and Rob Sarnowski, an engineer from Barry Isett Engineering.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana House budget-writing committee Monday advanced a $24 billion spending plan for next year that could force steep cuts on colleges and health services, but few lawmakers expect it to resemble the final bill.
The Appropriations Committee stripped nearly $500 million in patchwork financing proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal from one-time land sales, legal settlements and fund sweeps to spend on ongoing expenses in the 2013-14 budget. The panel then voted 15-9 to move the reworked spending plan to the full House for debate.
The dollars would be removed in cuts of up to 20 percent to any agency that receives state general fund revenue. The biggest share of that funding goes to higher education and the state health department.
But the cuts were part of a larger strategy to maneuver the budget through procedural hurdles that could be used by conservative House Republicans to stall the legislation. They don't necessarily reflect lawmakers' support for slashing the budget.
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Two-thirds support of House members is needed to debate and pass a budget proposal that seeks to use "one-time" sources of money to pay for ongoing programs and services. Without the piecemeal funding, the budget won't require the two-thirds vote that could be used to cause a stalemate on the House floor.
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As they stripped the one-time dollars, Appropriations Committee members also removed $19 million that had been slated to pay for agencies to fill vacant jobs.
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NOV 26 Blogger Tom Aswell is writing about the behavior of the two finalists in the 6th Congressional District race: Edwin Edwards and Garret Graves. Edwards has come out swinging, but Graves' campaign seems bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Tom says.
NOV 26 Blogger CB Forgotston is confused, he says, because Governor Bobby Jindal said higher education wouldn't get cut, but it looks like it is being cut. CB's asking: When is a cut not a cut?
NOV 26 Unless you're in Virigina, you shouldn't count on seeing our Governor on Election Day. Mark Ballard writes in the Advocate's political blog that Bobby will be appearing at a GOP love fest of some kind there, instead of spending the day here.
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NOV 26 Not all college students are focused on football games and parties at this time of year. This post on DIG Baton Rouge recounts an LSU student group that tries to make sure that those who are hungry and homeless are not forgotten by those of us who aren't.
NOV 25 Edwin Edwards took off the gloves on Monday, this post on WAFB tells us. At a Press Club appearance, he wondered how his 6th Congressional District opponent, Garret Graves, could be an expert in all the areas in which he claims to be - when he has no college degree in anything. (Five years - FIVE YEARS - in college, but no degree. Huh?)
NOV 25 Blogger Mike Deshotels offers this primer on predatory charter schools and how they operate, specifically in Louisiana. They're not just profiting from our tax dollars, they're using children and shortchanging them to do so, Deshotels says.
NOV 25 Here's a link to the petition that has been created to save Zeus, a family dog who is targeted for death by the learned fathers of the Avoyelles Parish village of Moreauville. They passed an ordinance based on nothing that outlaws pit bulls and Rotweillers. As of Tuesday morning, the petition had more than 230,000 signatures - a number that's a wee bit higher than the village population of 929.


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Tim McGraw, Faith Hill announce Las Vegas shows
Country music power couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are heading to Las Vegas.
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Country music power couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are heading to Las Vegas.
They will be performing a 10-weekend run of shows at The Venetian starting Dec. 7. The couple announced the news Tuesday during a press conference at the hotel.
Sitting on a white leather sofa in the 1800-seat theater where the show will take place, McGraw welcomed everyone to their part-time Vegas home.
Hill said they were thrilled about the opportunity to be creative in a way they've never experienced together before.
"Being in this intimate environment, it will be `us,'" added McGraw. "I'm very excited."
The show is called "Soul2Soul," named after their hugely successful co-headlining tours in 2000 and 2006. According to Pollstar, their 2006-2007 "Soul2Soul II" run remains the highest grossing North American tour in country music history.
The Vegas shows will mark the first time in six years that McGraw and Hill have performed a full concert together in the United States. McGraw said they are in the process of building the show and promises that the production will be cutting edge.
They may be superstars, but McGraw and Hill are also full-time parents of three daughters. Hill said the Venetian worked around their children's school schedules to make this happen.
McGraw said his daughters, two of whom are teenagers, are excited to see the shows in Vegas, joking that "they probably won't see ours, though."
Pre-sale tickets go on sale Wednesday and open to the general public Monday.
The couple have sold more than 70 million albums and charted more than 40 No. 1 hits between them.
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