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Celebratory Smokes
Posted: Oct 7, 2010 12:00am ET
Years ago, long before I worked at Cigar Aficionado, I went to a party at a friend's house. A member of his family had just given birth, and it was time to celebrate. A tent was put up in the backyard, long tables brought out and huge bowls of pasta with red sauce and sausage were passed around, with plenty of red wine and loud conversation. After cake and coffee, after the meal was cleared away and the sun had set, someone passed out cigars. The men lit up, laughter ensued, and a new child was welcomed into this world the way it had been done time and time again, surrounded by relatives bonding over a smoke.
The cigars were far from fancy, the wine no award winner, but it was a memorable night. Cigars are for celebration. I smoke cigars all the time, and if you're reading this blog I suspect you enjoy a great smoke on a regular basis as well. But when there's a wedding, or a birth, or a big deal to commemorate, even casual cigar smokers and a few brave non-smokers might grab a Churchill from the box that is passed around, light up, and celebrate in style.
This age-old ritual (who knows when it began?) was brought to the forefront last week when the Cincinnati Reds, a baseball team that has been denied a postseason berth for 15 years, grabbed the National League Central Division with a walk-off home run and celebrated the milestone with big cigars in the locker room
A few people watching on TV called to complain. (Read our story here.) People watching adults celebrating a team's biggest win since 1995 with a few cigars called to complain, prompting Cincinnati officials to send an inspector to ensure such a transgression doesn't happen again.
What a great use of city resources.
Cigars have been lit to celebrate the finest things in life for ages, and some of my fondest moments have been paired with celebratory smokes. The type of cigar being smoked isn't what's important-I've been handed Cubans, Nicaraguans, Dominicans, even machine-made smokes and have puffed away happily to commemorate happy occasions. Births. Weddings. Promotions. New homes. The list goes on and on.
A New Cigar Aficionado Online
Posted: Sep 20, 2010 12:00am ET
Flash back to 1997. The space station Mir was in orbit, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 7,000 for the first time, a computer program called Deep Blue made history by beating champion Gary Kasparov and Cigar Aficionado magazine launched its website, CigarAficionado.com. Today, after 13 years, all of us here at Cigar Aficionado would like to personally welcome you to the completely new beta version of CigarAficionado.com. It's a very modern take on your favorite cigar website.
We released the beta version of our new site this morning, while leaving our old site intact for a few more days. We hoped to ease you into the new site, rather than making an abrupt change, and also allow you to compare the differences between the two. We've been opening up the two homepages side-by-side to make comparisons.
The differences are striking. The most obvious change from a visual standpoint is our new slider of photographs. Our old homepage typically had images that were the size of a mini Post-It note, about 1 1/4 inches square. The photos on our new slider are huge-6 1/2 inches wide and more than three inches high. (In fact, the width of the new photos is identical to the length of the celebratory cigar I'm smoking right now.)
Our cigar ratings are improved-there are more than 13,000 cigars in our database-and they're easier to sort and use so you can find the best cigars to suit your palate. You can search by price, tasting date, country of origin, even the type of wrapper you enjoy.
The new site is engineered to make you a bigger part of what we do. On the original site, any user feedback only happened in our forums. Now you can comment directly on any story we've written. And registering to comment is entirely free.
Speaking of registering, the process is much easier than in the past. Have a Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, AOL or Yahoo account? You can use any one of those to log in, or simply create an account with an email address.
Saturday Report: 122 Cigars
Posted: Aug 14, 2010 12:00am ET
I'm home from the IPCPR trade show going through my notes and all the cigars I brought home from the trip. I thought I'd put together a few numbers about what I found in New Orleans:
122 Cigars (all singles, none in boxes) brought back in my carry-on bag from the trip. This is fairly typical for me. I'm happy that I didn't have to go through a bag search this year. One year it happened, and I got a kick out of the inspector's face as she pulled Ziplok bag after Ziplok bag of cigars from my satchel, her eyebrows rising higher with each discovery.
60 The hot ring gauge of the trip. Ultra fat cigars, specifically those measuring six inches long by 60 ring gauge, are becoming the hot size in cigar shops. Some call it a Gordo, and more and more cigarmakers are adding them to their lines, if they haven't already. Xikar had a 6x60 banner as tall as me in their booth announcing the addition of the sizes do their line. As one retailer told me, "If they make it in a six-by-60, I buy it."
11 The amount of pounds gained by my suitcase while on the trip. Most of that is press materials.
2 Number of times I ate alligator on Tuesday. Alligator po boy at Mulates? Very nice. Fried alligator with chili aioli at Cochon? Amazing.
12 The amount of pounds I feel like I gained from all the fine New Orleans food I ate while in the Big Easy.
0 Number of raw oysters I ate while in NoLa. (I love raw oysters, but I never eat raw Gulf oysters.)
3 Number of people I know who got sick on this trip from eating raw Gulf oysters.
6,400 The weight, in pounds, of the segment of Berlin Wall on display at the show.
138 Pages of notes I took in my reporter's notebook on the trip. More than one cigarmaker thought I write in shorthand, but it's just bad (and quick) handwriting.
2 The number of La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amors that I smoked. Ashton's Sathya Levin wanted my second opinion, as I wasn't blown away by the first one. The second truly impressed, and it had that Pepin-like intensity that I'm used to.
Thursday Report: IPCPR Day Three
Posted: Aug 12, 2010 12:00am ET
There was sad news to report as the trade show began this morning. I found out that Jean Clement, the cigarmaker who was better known by the name of his cigars, Juan Clemente, died here at the trade show. But, as with all things in this world, life must go on, and so did the trade show.
Try as best you can, there's no way to see everyone at the show. I set out this morning ready to cross the final names off my list and meet as many people as possible and smoke as many cigars as I could.
I started off with Jon Huber at the C.A.O. booth, and he showed me the new C.A.O. La Traviata Maduro, which I've smoked before. C.A.O. has plenty of new things, including a La Traviata Ninfa (four by 38), which comes in tins of five ($14.95 per tin.) It looked like a good way to start my day, but they didn't have a sample, so I moved on to my next stop.
I smoked my first cigar with Alejandro Turrent, the maker of Te-Amos and the grower of San Andres leaf from Mexico. He has a new cigar made in Nicaragua by Omar Ortez, and the cigar (called Dos Familias by Ortez y Turrent) is roughly a 50/50 split between Nicaraguan and Mexican tobaccos. Very nice blend. I found it salty and nutty, with a touch of sweetness and just a bit of earthiness. It's about $6.
La Palinas, made by Graycliff for Bill Paley, now have four new sizes. I puffed on a La Palina Alison while talking to Paley, and I asked him if he had encountered any resistance to his prices, which run $13 to $23. "I expected tons," he said. "I've had little resistance. People understand what it is, and where it belongs." It's not cheap to make cigars in the Bahamas-the duty is enormous. I found the Alison very pleasant.
I was less enamored with a bargain smoke from Jesus Fuego, a $2.50 little cheroot known as a Origen Original. It's rustic, made with a binder leaf to save some money, and it's nice and cheap, but I found the flavor disappointing.
Illusiones are typically some of my favorite smokes, and I paid a visit to Dion Giolito, owner of the brand. He has a candela lancero-few people smoke candelas, and few smoke lanceros...how many smoke lancero candelas? Dion has your cigar! I opted to try his Illusione Singulare, which he changes each year. This one is lovely, made mostly of seco tobacco (from low on the plant) in what Dion calls "the mildest cigar I've ever made." It's very, very flavorful, with a sweet, nutty richness that I enjoyed very much. I followed that with a Padrón Family Reserve No. 44 in natural wrapper, which is consistently wonderful.
Wednesday Report: IPCPR Day Two
Posted: Aug 11, 2010 12:00am ET
The crack of thunder shook me out of my slumber this morning in New Orleans. It was a line of storms with frequent bolts of lightning and booming retorts, followed by a heavy rain. Welcome to August, storm season in New Orleans.
The previous night was a late one. It began with dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Cochon, where team Cigar Aficionado was joined by Tim Ozgener and Jon Huber from C.A.O. International and Nish Patel and Sam Phillips from Rocky Patel Premium Cigars. We dined on crisp and flavorful bites of alligator; spicy, roasted oysters; smoked rabbit and cornbread dumplings and roasted red fish. Cochon, which is hip and eclectic, is perfect for trying food you won't find elsewhere and washing it all down with bracing cocktails. It's loud, vibrant and enormous amounts of fun. The good times continued as we made our way to Frenchman Street, which has side-by-side bars featuring live music. We walked into the Spotted Cat Music Club, and were treated to the sweet sounds of Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns. What a great band (there was a guy playing a mean sousaphone) and what a glorious voice on Miss Lake. That woman can sing.
This morning I made it through the rain and into the convention center, where my first visit was Oliva Cigars. I smoked an Oliva Serie V Double Robusto with Gilberto Oliva Jr. and his brother Jose. Gilberto spoke about how difficult it is to get consistency out of cigars, with tobacco crops changing ever year.
"Making cigars is like playing a nice piano-you're always tuning it," he said. "If you want to have consistency, you have to keep tuning it all the time."
His tuning is working out great-the Serie V was exceptional, as always. Lovely smoke.
The talk of the morning was the tropical storm watch-New Orleans was in the bullseye of a storm system that had formed in the gulf, and it was expected to gather strength and hit us on Thursday. People were quite distracted from buying cigars, and many were planning on getting out of Dodge early to avoid getting stuck. (Maybe that's why people usually don't hold conventions in New Orleans in the heart of hurricane season.)
Tuesday Report: IPCPR Day Two
Posted: Aug 10, 2010 12:00am ET
After a bracing southern breakfast of eggs, grits and biscuits at the hole-in-the-wall New Orleans institution known as Mother's, I rolled into the convention center for the formal start of the IPCPR trade show. (I really mean rolled--I'm feeling very full here.) I headed for the Cigar Aficionado booth, and nearly walked into the Berlin Wall.
Wait, you ask. Didn't they tear down the wall? They sure did, but they saved parts of it, and one 6,400 pound, 12 1/2 foot tall chunk was standing in the middle of the Hammer + Sickle cigar booth. Brand owner Eric Hanson bought it and has created a cigar inspired by its fall 21 years ago.
Hammer + Sickle Berliner Mauer 1961-1989 was made for Hanson by Camacho Cigars, and is all Honduran save for the filler blend, which is Dominican and Honduran. The cigars come in three sizes, each made with a copper band (real copper, not copper colored, and the tensile strength of the metal rather than glue keeps it around the cigar.) I touched the piece of the wall that was on display, which had me in awe. Wins my award for most visually arresting product launch.
Next stop was Ashton, where I met with Sathya Levin. Ashton has a host of new product, primarily the La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor brand, made at My Father Cigars in Estelí, Nicaragua. The big thing here is the wrapper, a very dark Mexican leaf grown from Cuban seed. I puffed on the 6 inch by 52 Magnifico size, which had some bittersweet chocolate, earthy notes, and a dry finish, with a medium body. It was fine, but I didn't like it as much as I enjoy the other La Aroma lines. Ashton also has a bunch of new limited-edition lanceros, as well as a selection of $10 figurados (Salamone-esque in shape) in various lines, and a squat new San Cristobal called the Fire Plug.
At the La Aurora booth I chatted with José Blanco about the company's new Guillermo León cigar, which I puffed. It's a slow starter that gets mild, easygoing and a bit creamy, with a touch of sweet spice. La Aurora also has a new Corojo (grown in Ecuador).
First Day in New Orleans
Posted: Aug 10, 2010 12:00am ET
I flew into New Orleans Monday afternoon for the start of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers show, also known as the IPCPR.
Today was all about getting into town, getting settled, and getting ready for a busy week. The long taxi ride from the airport showcased the typical New Orleans summer weather. I was treated to a spectacular lightning display as bolts of white thundered down from the heavy, charcoal gray clouds covering the city, followed by a hearty southern rainstorm.
I checked into the Windsor Court hotel, and before too long the storm abated, and I met up with executive editor Gordon Mott and the rest of the crew from Cigar Aficionado for a smoke and a pre-dinner cocktail. New Orleans, alas, has gone the way of most American cities, and smoking is a largely outdoor activity here. Here that means smoking on a terrace, so we pushed aside the sodden cushions and hunkered down for a cold drink (Abita Amber in my case, a great local brew) and a fine cigar.
I'll be smoking new cigars all week, so I started with something I knew well to calibrate the old palate, a My Father No. 1, our No. 3 cigar of 2009. It was rich, hearty and balanced, with a fine amount of sweetness. I love that cigar. We were soon joined by Tim Ozgener, Jon Huber and Mike Conder from C.A.O. International Inc.
They were toting the new C.A.O. La Traviata Maduro, which I had tried before, and I tucked one into my shirt pocket for later. (IPCPR strategy: never walk around in shirts without pockets, or without a bag, because you will inevitably run out of space for your cigars.)
The show begins in full Tuesday morning, and I'm eager to see the retailer turnout. This show is always held in the middle of summer, and whenever the site is hot and humid, subject to hurricanes, tough to get to, or not Las Vegas, people fear the retailers who are here to buy might stay away. I've heard a good crowd is expected—I certainly hope that's true. We'll see tomorrow.
Going to the Trade Show
Posted: Aug 6, 2010 12:00am ET
Starting Monday I'll be in New Orleans for the annual International Cigar Pipe and Retailer trade show, the show formerly known as RTDA. Those of you who follow the industry know that this is the time when cigar companies unveil their latest smokes. Those of you who are new to this blog or website should get ready: there's going to be a lot of news about great new smokes coming out next week.
I've already smoked samples of a few of the new smokes that have been sent to me. The Padrón Family Reserve No. 46, which will be on sale in September, is a gorgeous, box pressed corona gorda that is (predictably) delicious and refined. I've smoked that and enjoyed it immensely.
Just this week I tasted the new and substantially more powerful Room 101 Conjura from Camacho Cigars, and I liked it quite a bit. Lots of earth, a pleasant funkiness and a rip-roaring amount of nose spice (I gave one to Greg Mottola, and he dubbed the spice horseradish) make this a fun after lunch or after dinner smoke. Dylan Austin, director of marketing for the brand, warned me not to smoke it before lunch, and that's a well-informed note of caution.
Rocky Patel's 15th Anniversary cigar, which went on sale a week ago, is also superb, very rich, nice and hearty, with a fine balance that comes from Ecuador Habano wrapper, which has become one of my favorites. I'm looking forward to smoking a few more of those, especially in the Toro size.
I love the trade show for many reasons. I went to my first in the summer of 1995, only one week after being hired by Cigar Aficionado. You've heard of trial by fire? There I was, on the trade show floor in Orlando, wearing a suit and tie (we were more formal in those days) grabbing cigars from every booth I could find, picking up business cards by the stack and filling notebooks full of information.
Looking at Bigger Cigars
Posted: Jul 28, 2010 9:16am ETBack in 1995, when I was hired by Cigar Aficionado, I was a huge fan of big cigars (I was also thinner, had no beard, and my hair was all black, but that's another story.) When I wanted a cigar—and I always wanted a cigar—I reached for the big ones, double coronas and Churchills especially. Sure, I loved robustos too, enjoyed big pyramids as well, but I didn't look upon coronas and petit coronas with as much favor.
Things changed. I had my smaller cigar revelations that opened my eyes to just how good a smaller smoke can be. First came the Arturo Fuente Don Carlos No. 3, which is 5 1/2 inches long by 44 ring gauge. (We include them in our corona category when we rate them.) If you haven't smoked one of these, stop reading my blog right now, go to your favorite cigar store and buy one (better yet, buy a couple.) You'll know what I mean. It's one of the all-time great cigars, and it's downright diminutive.
Then came the Cohiba Siglo I experience. It was 1996, and I was sitting on a balcony in Pinar del Río, Cuba. I opened up a box of Cohiba Siglo Is for the first time. Puny little smoke I thought, looking at the four inch long, 40 ring gauge petit corona. I didn't expect much. Wow, was I wrong. It was bold and full of taste. How could there be so much flavor in such a small package?
I moved away from really big cigars for awhile. Sure, I smoked them (I smoke cigars of all sizes, for tasting as part of my job) but when I smoked for pleasure I tended to go with robustos, corona gordas, coronas, lanceros, almost anything but the doubles and Churchills I loved as a younger smoker. One reason was my newfound love for the smaller cigars, but another was the constraints of time on smoking large format smokes.
Hidden Gems
Posted: Jul 19, 2010 3:51pm ETThis weekend I took my wife and son out for breakfast at one of our favorite places. It's a tiny donut shop called Speedy Donuts that has been in business for 41 years, almost as long as I've been alive, and despite driving by the place literally hundreds of times it was only a few years ago when I finally went in for a bite.
The outside is plain and the inside is old. A menu board, which was once colored white but has now taken on a rich patina of coffee with too much cream, lists the simple offerings, each laid out with black press-on letters that were last changed years ago. Egg sandwiches. Pancakes. Western omelets. The soda fountain still has Diet Rite.
There's a counter that seats a dozen and, depending on when you go and who has moved things around, about five tables. The counter is the busy spot, and behind it is where the magic takes place. The coffee is passable, but that's not why I come here. Speedy Donuts makes very simple food using very simple ingredients. Behind the grill, flipping eggs and flapjacks, is a man who is as comfortable there as Carlos Santana is with a six string. Butter is used copiously. The bacon is thick and crispy, and the home fries are always perfect, having been cooked for a long, long time with just the right dusting of oregano. The woman behind the counter, round and smiling and always attentive, serves breakfast the way breakfast should always be. And when you're done? If you have the room, there are the donuts made fresh on the premises, not in some factory miles away, as you might find in a chain donut store. Every time I'm there I see the same old man at work, and every so often he reaches into the donut bin and breaks one apart to check his work. He takes a taste, and nods approvingly before heading into the back to make more.
After tucking into my plate of eggs (over easy), potatoes, bacon and well-buttered rye toast I showed a modicum of restraint and passed on the donut, watching my son chew his way through a fresh one smeared with chocolate and dusted with sprinkles. His smile made my day.


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Definición de cost-of-carry en inglés:
cost-of-carrySaltos de línea: cost-of-carry
The difference between the cost and the financial benefit of holding a particular asset for a specified period.
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- Barring a few exceptions, the cost-of-carry has not influenced prices in the way it is supposed to.
- The implied cost-of-carry, based on the last day of trading, works out to around 5.50 per cent.
- In the cost-of-carry formula the spot price shown is for immediate delivery.
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What is the difference between SchoolPower and SchoolPower Endowment?
SchoolPower and SchoolPower Endowment are separately formed yet closely affiliated nonprofit corporations that have overlapping boards, shared staff and facilities, and the common goal of supporting Laguna Beach schools. SchoolPower devotes most of its efforts towards annual fundraising and events, contributing most of the proceeds to the School District on an unrestricted basis. SchoolPower Endowment is charged with accumulating and managing endowment funds for the long term, and collaborating with donors and School District leadership to make both unrestricted gifts and more targeted grants and contributions.
Should I give to SchoolPower Endowment or directly to the School District?
Contributions to both are welcome, and SchoolPower Endowment will work collaboratively with donors and the School District to satisfy the goals of both. SchoolPower Endowment exists as a vehicle to assist donors and the School District in the segregation and management of endowment funds serving both restricted and unrestricted purposes. In addition, the pooling of contributions into a unified SchoolPower Endowment magnifies and extends the impact of the individual donations of many donors.
How are SchoolPower Endowment board members selected?
Currently, SchoolPower Endowment has a 16 member board. Three of those members are appointed by SchoolPower, generally at the direction of the current SchoolPower President. The remaining SchoolPower Endowment board members are elected by the remainder of the board on a self-perpetuating basis, serving for staggered and renewable three year terms.
Who decides which school programs will be supported with SchoolPower Endowment funds?
All grants from unrestricted SchoolPower Endowment funds are made in consultation with School District staff and leadership. The School District defines the needs. We provide the funds. The disbursement of restricted or donor advised funds is likewise directed to needs identified by the School District, in consultation with donors or in accordance with the restricted purpose of the fund.
What are some examples of programs that are supported by the Endowment?
Every year, SchoolPower Endowment makes grants to benefit each and every school site in Laguna Beach. At the elementary level, our donors' contributions to the Endowment helped establish an elementary level Spanish language curriculum and supported art and science projects, acquisition of equipment for a math lab, and a math intervention program. Middle school grants include a video production program, an "Ibook" mobile lab for visual arts, science labs, classroom Jeopardy, and a climbing wall. Endowment grants to Laguna Beach High School provide critical support to the sciences, photography classes, biotechnology, a multimedia development center, peer counseling, and the Artists' theatre. District wide, SchoolPower Endowment grants have enabled the School District to expand its online capabilities and to improve web and email communications with students, teachers, and parents.


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About the AuthorPatty & John Seale
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Publish Date September 13, 2007
Dimensions Small Square 222 pgs Standard Paper
Category Biographies & Memoirs
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What a wonderful family memory, to have these World War II letters preserved. Lovely book.
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If you're like me, the best thing about Monday night is watching Raw on USA. It's like the light at the end of the tunnel on the toughest day of the week.
Tonight's show is centered around the one question everyone wants answered. Who sent the text message to Kevin Nash? I expect they will sprinkle a few crumbs without giving away the whole cake. At least I hope they do because this story needs more time to develop. I'm also curious to see if Punk is really headed for a full blown feud with Nash, leading to a blowoff match.
John Cena once again has his sights set on the WWE championship. He feels the new champion, Alberto Del Rio, has no credibility due to how he won the title, yadda, yadda, yadda. Expect that storyline to advance dramatically tonight.
I'm also hoping the tag team division continues to get more visibility. I don't think David Otunga and Mike McGillicutty are the guys to be carrying the tag titles, though. These guys are still trying to figure out their gimmick. It's about time to get behind a good team and start rebuilding from there.
Hoping for a good show tonight, Cagesiders. Join us in the comments section for the weekly live blog.
Alberto Del Rio is announced out and he is coming out to open the show. He finally has his name on the belt so that is good. Just as he is about to get started talking, out comes John Cena. He introduces himself to Del Rio and says he wants to take the title from Alberto. CM Punk comes out next. The crowd is behind Punk. They were loud for Cena but there were boos in there also. He points out that he beat Cena twice in high pressure situations. He has no right challenge to be the champion. Del Rio says its his time since he is the Champion. CM Punk wants to cash in his rematch clause. Cena says he wants to rematch his clause. Not sure how Cena has a clause when he lost. Out comes Triple H, I guess he needs to settle this. First Triple H tells Del Rio he will be fighting tonight. It won't be Cena or Punk because they will fight tonight to determine who is the number one contender.
Alberto Del Rio vs John Morrison Del Rio is laughing before the match. He feels as though Morrison is no challenge. Morrison is aggressive early on, but soon Del Rio settles into the match and he gains control. Wow Morrison with a beautiful somersault. Nice execution. That move was Morrison down fall as he missed and Del Rio took advantage. Del Rio hit his head on the fall out of the ring. He has to have cobwebs in his head now. He is fighting through it. Morrison gets a couple of near falls but he goes for star ship pain and misses. That leads to the cross arm breaker. Winner : Alberto Del Rio After the match Del Rio puts Morrison back in the cross arm breaker. I like that mean streak he is showing.
Nickie Bella vs Eve Kelly Kelly Brie are both ringside and the Natalia and Beth have a promo shown before the match. This match is slow and the crowd is getting quiet. Nickie is in control of most of the match but Eve is able to pull out the win. Winner : Eve After the match Kelly Kelly attacks Brie and then celebrates in the ring. Beth and Natalia come out after that just to be seen.
Vickie comes out to introduce her potential next client Jack Swagger. Looks live Vickie will be forming a stable.
Jack Swagger vs Alex Riley As the match is getting good, Dolph comes down to the ring and he want Vickie to drop Jack. Vickie gets knocked over and Swagger goes to help. The distraction caused him to get rolled up for a pin. Winner : Alex Riley This Dolph, Vickie, and Swagger thing could be something really good. Swagger needs a good feud.
Triple H is coming to the ring. I can only assume he will address the Summer Slam events. He wants to clear the air and calls Kevin Nash to the Ring. Kevin back up the story, but he wants a match with Punk. Triple h does not want to make the match because he doesn't have a contract in WWE. He asks Nash to leave because Triple H can't help him. Then out comes CM Punk. He want answers. He want to know who sent the text message. Punk makes his way to the ring and goes to fight Kevin. Triple H gets in his face and the Punk takes offense. He exchanges words with Triple H and then Nash sucker punches Punk. Triple h and Nash leave the ring and I would say that was a successful segment.
Kingston and Bourne will be the Tag Champs next.
Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne vs Michael McGillicutty and David Otunga King is burying Dave and Mike. The announcers also say if Kofi and Bourne win they will name their team. I can get used to this team Winners : Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne I could see these two being the champs for a long time. Good move WWE.
Kofi and Evan Bourne get to celebrate backstage and Zack Ryder and others get in on it also.
As Triple H is backstage John Laurinaitis runs up to him and tells him Nash was in an accident. Triple H leaves to check on him and John is now in control of the rest of the show.
As Santino is coming to the ring Miz and R-Truth attack him viciously. They both get mics and it looks like they are gonna form a team. This is great they are getting the crowd worked up. The main event is next so this should make that match better. These guys can be a great heel tag team. Especially on the mic. Till they tried to rap at the end.
CM Punk vs John Cena Number One Contender Match Alberto Del Rio and John Laurinaitis are both ring side. Cena threw his shirt in the crowd and twice they threw it back . Safe to say the fans are behind Punk. CM Punk might have been the best thing to happen to Cena. Cena seems to be so much better when he is with Punk. As they go to break, the match is still up in the air. Punk just missed an elbow off the top rope. Cena lands his leg drop off the top rope, gets a 2 count. Later Punk turns things around and hit a great knee to Cena's face. Punk signaling for the GTS. Then out comes Nash. Cena takes advantage and lands the AA. Winner : John Cena Del Rio attacks Cena after the match and Laurinaitis breaks it up. Del Rio keeps breaking free and is destroying Cena.
That was a good Raw. To me it seems they are getting things together. The WWE Championship means something again. The Tag division is coming back. Kofi and Bourne are a nice team and maybe soon they will be feuding Miz and Truth. Very good Raw in my opinion. Let me know what you think.


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So how will he do it?
The notoriously media-adverse Popovich was asked that very question at his postgame press conference. His answer was vintage Pop:
Reporter: "What do you do for Game 7, how do you get your guys into Game 7?"
Popovich: "I get them on the bus. It arrives at the ramp over here. We get off the bus. We go on the court, and we play. That's how we get ready."
Popovich's testiness is understandable. His squad just collapsed when they were on the brink of a title.
The video is great too:


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Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Jan 12, 2005
Industry & Economy
India Inc pitches for core sector investment
Our Bureau
Dr Rakesh Mohan, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, and Mr D. Swarup, Expenditure Secretary, on their way to attend a pre-Budget meeting with agriculturists in the Capital on Tuesday. Kamal Narang
New Delhi , Jan. 11
CORPORATE India has made a case for an investment-oriented budget that would give further fillip to infrastructural development, especially in the agricultural and food-processing sectors, besides giving an impetus to growth and boosting employment in the economy.
At their pre-budget meeting with the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, industry captains urged the government to look at widening the tax base by bringing "rich and influential" farmers under the tax net.
The President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mr Onkar S. Kanwar, told Business Line that he had sought an investment-oriented budget with emphasis on employment creation and widening of the tax base.
He said there is a need to have at least 15 crore assesses in the country's tax base as against the existing 3.5 crore. The tax base, he said, could be widened by bringing agricultural income from commercial crops beyond Rs 5 lakh within the purview of the tax net.
The FICCI President is understood to have made a case for lowering the corporate tax rate from 36.6 per cent to 30 per cent for domestic companies. Mr Kanwar also stressed the need for additional depreciation for creating cold-chain infrastructure.
On his part, the President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, Mr Mahendra K. Sanghi, underscored the need for a negative list for the services sector (for service tax) and sought to widen the tax base by bringing in "rich and influential farmers" under the tax net.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers President, Mr Jagdish Khattar, said he had sought scrapping of the 8 per cent special excise duty (SED) on automobiles. "We do not want a 4 per cent cut from the existing 8 per cent SED. We feel that a 4 per cent SED cut will get lost and there would not be any tangible benefit to any stakeholder. Therefore, we have asked for doing away with the 8 per cent SED," Mr Khattar, who is also the Managing Director of Maruti Udyog Ltd, told newspersons here.
Automobiles currently attract an excise duty of 24 per cent, which includes a SED of 8 per cent.
Besides seeking extension of the duration of R&D benefits that are already available with the automobile industry, Mr Khattar also underscored the need to bring down customs duty on raw materials used by vehicle manufacturers.
The Chairman of the Videocon Group, Mr Venugopal N. Dhoot, said the government needs to speed up special economic zones to attract foreign investments and boost exports. He said he had also sought abolition of minimum alternate tax and the 2 per cent education cess. He also suggested that the FDI cap in telecom and insurance sectors be raised.
The Bharti Televenture CMD, Mr Sunil Mittal, said he had sought a "zero-duty regime" for telecom equipment imports.
According to the Confederation of Indian Industry President, Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, the government needs to focus on sectors such as business process outsourcing, textiles, auto components and companies that could emerge as global leaders.
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Since the NHL Entry Draft is only 10 days away, I thought I would list players the Wings should consider drafting with the 18th pick. The list is my option, so feel free to disagree. The List is in no particular order.
Anthony Mantha- Big player who scored 50 goals this past season for the Val-d'Or Foreurs. Likes to play physical.
Frederik Gauthier- Big Center who plays for the Rimouski Océanic. Had 60 points in 62 games last season.
Adam Erne- Plays for the Quebec Remparts. Stands 6'1" and weighs 210 lbs. Had 72 points in 68 games last season
Nicolas Petan- He is on the small side, but had 120 points for the Portland Winterhawks this past season. Only had 35 points in 61 games in the 2011-2012 season.
Valentin Zykov- Played for the Baie-Comeau Drakker and had 75 points in 67 games, including 40 goals. Has similar size to Adam Erne.
Alexander Wennberg- Had 32 points in 46 games for Djurgårdens IF of HockeyAllsvenskan in Sweden last sason.Defensemen:
Robert Hagg- Stand 6'2" and weighs 203 lbs. Only had 1 assist in 27 games for Modo in the Swedish Elite League.
Josh Morrissey- Had 47 points in 70 games for the Prince Albert Raiders last season. Had 38 points in 60 games the year before.
Shea Theodore- Had 50 points in 71 games last season for the Seattle Thunderbirds. Was -24 last season and -36 the season before.
Samuel Morin- Stand 6'6" and weighs 202 lbs. Had 16 points in 46 games for the Rimouski Océanic last season. Had 117 PIMS last season, including 4 fights.
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The city of Valdosta may provide some hope for Small businesses in South Georgia.
Two small businesses recently won the A.L. Girardin award for their service to the Valdosta Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce. One of the winners, who owns a creative marketing company, says it's proof that small business can succeed in Valdosta, even though it's not as easy as it used to be.
"You can't just say 'I'm gonna start a business,' put your sign out there, and your friends and family come and it grows from there. It really takes some strategic planning," explained Steven Heddon, Owner of Fusion Creative Marketing in Valdosta.
"You have organizations like the chamber that will help you get through that process, the city and county government, some of the other players, are trying to make it as easy as possible," Heddon continued.
Scott James, with the radio stations Talk 92.1 and The Jock 1150 AM was the other recipient of the award.
Heddon started his company more than 10 years ago and runs it out of his home.
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Europe is annexed but not without casualties.
Abbott was one of seven midfielders to make the active 23-man roster.
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The Clemson Tigers and Syracuse Orange might be in for a defensive showdown on Sunday.
Daily Villanova Wildcats links, today featuring Bridges' big night, Jerami Grant's injury, and the best fast break we've seen this year.
Macky MacPherson, Jay Bromley, Jerome Smith and Marquis Spruill were selected as captains after a team vote.
Syracuse.com's Donna Ditota published a fantastic profile piece on former Syracuse Orange basketball player Eric Devendorf, who has seemingly matured a lot in the four years since he declared for...
Eric Devendorf is getting the opportunity to co-host a local radio show in Syracuse. (Do we need to say much more?)
Boeheim really wants to put the international borders of the Syracuse City-State to the test and he's looking to take the Orange to "foreign lands" this summer.
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Physical Training For Girls
( Originally Published Early 1900's )
WHEN we ask what exercise can do for the human body we put into the word exercise a very definite meaning. We do not mean for instance the occasional walk that a girl may take on the beach, or the single riding or fencing or gymnasium lesson that she takes once or twice a month. The meaning of the word involves the idea of repeated practice,—something, whatever it may be, that we do once and again and again, possibly for pleasure only, but generally with the additional idea of perfecting ourselves in the practice. And it is only when these muscular movements are repeated and practiced that we can dignify them by the name of exercise, or demand of them any results, either in skill or strength or agility or general bodily vigor. So we shall be understood here as speaking of the regular practice of muscular movements in some fashion or another, and muscular movements which, either through design or accident, bring into play a large part of the body, and do it systematically; for the need of repetition is as necessary in educating the body as in training the mind. If we want to impress anything upon the brain, that thing has got to be repeated until the impression has sunk in; and if you want to make any definite impression upon these thousands of muscle fibres and train the coordinating power of all these nerve centres, and improve the conformation of the skeleton, and develop the capacity of all the organs, you will have to keep at it until the physical impression lightly made today, repeated tomorrow, has at last become an indelible memory, and the habit of the body. "What can you promise that systematic exercise will do for me?" asks a young girl of fifteen, seeking for some definite answer as to results. Well, it will simply make you more of a woman in every sense than you could possibly be without it. It will de this by improving every organ you use in movement ; it will supple all your joints so that grace and ease will belong to them ; it will make fatigue less frequent, and breathlessness uncommon ; it will give you a bigger chest and more supple limbs and some force in your arms; it will clear away the fog in your brain, and the dyspepsia in your stomach and bring you a rose for your cheek ; and when your example has been followed by the girls of one or two or more generations, it will give the world an idea what a noble creation a physically developed woman can be. Only it must be genuine exercise, and it must be systematic, otherwise the body will forget its cunning, and the lesson will not have been learned.
The way that exercise can actually change the structures of the body, so that they will be different not only as to power, but to touch and appearance and intimate constitution, is well seen in an exercised muscle.
A muscle that is exercised has evidently been profoundly changed in its qualities,—its fibres have become firmer and harder; it has lost its superfluous fat; it is evidently less liable to fatigue than before its training; it does not suffer the pains common to unused muscles after exertion. It has become, in fact, not only a more enduring instrument, but one much more competent to execute our pleasure ; it is swifter and more graceful because more exact in its execution of our commands. Exactly what has gone on in its interior we do not see, but we know by certain experiments that by its exertion it has helped to throw off waste products in the body, burning them up by its internal heat, and so helping to free the body of these hindrances, and that its activity has also quickened the circulation and the respiration, so that heart and lungs are engaged simultaneously in eliminating worn-out material and bringing new to refresh the body.
The feeling of fatigue from which delicate persons suffer greatly, after even slight exertion, is probably better endured by one who exercises constantly, because, among other reasons, the nerve which supplies the muscle has become hardened by the repeated contractions of the muscle, so that its covering is rendered more resistant to pressure, and it becomes less sensitive to the buffetings of the muscle-bed in which it lies.
Since we see this process of improvement gradually going on in an external muscle under exercise, there is no reason why we should doubt that the same results are brought about in the internal organs and structures that we have learned are largely composed of muscle; and experience shows us that exercise does actually strengthen the muscle of the heart so that its contractions become more energetic with its increasing firmness of fibre, and it performs its work more vigorously, and at the same time more easily, than when it was less strong.
A soft and flabby heart muscle, such as sometimes occurs after a long illness, is indeed in no better condition to work wisely than is the rest of a convalescent's body, which is trembling with weakness, and unable to direct its steps. The nerves that should control such a heart are evidently sharers in its weakness, and so are unable to guide it with a steady hand. Tonics and nutrition are what these convalescents need for the body in general ; and for girls as well as for their elders, exercise is the tonic that the heart requires in health, under which it gains the steady control and the muscular power that the body requires for perfect development.
Breathlessness, that disagreeable foe to exertion, is always lessened by exercise, for two or three reasons. In all unusual exertion the heart pumps blood so quickly to the lungs as often-times to embarrass them ; being unaccustomed to the sudden demand for more air, they are confused, as we may say, and hardly know how to adjust their machinery to the demand. And besides that fact, they have been unaccustomed to make use of their whole territory, many of their air-cells being under ordinary circumstances quite unexpanded and idle. It is this confusion that we call breathlessness; and like similar unexpected incidents elsewhere in life, if we can only know of it beforehand we can be prepared for the emergency, and avert the confusion incident to the surprise. Now, exercise acts upon the lungs as moral training does upon the character,-gradually accustoming them to prepare for and meet the emergencies of sudden exertion with calmness; so that they really learn to breathe more deeply and more evenly under this efficient teacher, and to make less ado about it at the same time. The ascent of two stairs at once, to one accustomed to mount only one at a time will at first make a girl "out of breath" ; but constant repetition of the exercise will make it as easy to ascend two as one, while breathing with ease and comfort. So will a run down a gymnasium hall or swinging of Indian clubs, means breathlessness to one who tries it for the first time; but the ease with which one in training can perform these trifling exercises, and many more considerable, shows how the lungs are trained by exercise to adjust themselves to work, so that they take in more breath and take it in more easily than before. The experience of mountain climbers corroborates this; and that is the secret of "training" in running, or other rapid exercises.
The joints are immensely improved by exercise; and this is a direction that needs cultivation and repays the training.
It is really upon the ease with which we move our joints that most of our grace and skill in movements depends. And perhaps some of the most noticeable regions of improvement through exercise are the joints. By movements they rapidly become more limber, more supple and easy in their movements. Piano-practice is a proof of the influence of constant exercise upon the joints in the hands and wrists, as well as an excellent one of what training will do to strengthen and educate muscles. The acrobat, too, and the contortionist show the result of constantly exercising the joints of the body, while ordinary gymnasium practice soon shows its results in the increased pliability of the shoulder and arm joints. The fluid that lubricates these regions is probably increased in quantity by exercise, so increasing the smoothness of their action ; and we know, too, that constant exercise tends to delay the changes in the joints that come with old age, when concretions form, and the fluid is apparently less in quantity, with the result that the joints become stiff, and are moved even with pain.
It is not a gracious thing to refer to the age of ladies, but it is well known that the most famous and charming women actors are no longer in their girlhood; yet who would fancy from the grace of motion and the supple attitudes, and the succession of rapid changes in position, involving sometimes the larger pro-portion of the important muscles and joints of the body, that these women were beyond their earliest youth. In fact these queens of the stage put to shame, in their physical accomplishments, the average girl of sixteen or twenty, and this by no means because they were born graceful and supple; on the contrary most of them have attained this skill through persistent exercise, carried on systematically for many years. In the sense of the bodily changes that mean old age, such people will remain young long beyond the natural period, and are generally physically fresh to the end.
The effects demonstrated by exercise upon the digestive canal, composed, as that is, so largely of muscular fibre, are very evident. Anything that develops the natural powers of organs improves their structure. Since digestion depends partly upon the movements of food all about the stomach, which are effected by its muscular coats, and intestinal digestion also partly upon the vigor of the muscular coats of that canal, we can readily believe that a better digestion and more regularity of the intestinal functions, and consequently better health and vigor will follow strengthening of this muscular structure. Practically we find this true dyspepsia and constipation being often relieved by the prescription of muscular exertion when medicine has failed.
Exercise will also undoubtedly reduce fat in the body. While a certain amount of this tissue is indispensable, and many girls need more instead of less, many individuals suffer from an excess, which is really undesirable for various reasons. Such excess is a dead weight upon the body. Now, it appears to be so partly from its actual mechanical weight, and partly because it absorbs a large quantity of oxygen which would otherwise go to support more useful parts of the body, so that very stout per-sons easily become breathless because the supply of oxygen which should belong to the body in general is largely appropriated for the benefit of adipose tissue alone. Exercise reduces fat evidently by increasing perspiration, which subtracts water from the fatty tissue, and also by increasing the combustion and destruction of its constituents.
So through all the different machinery of the body we can trace the benefits of regular exercise in invigorating and developing organs and making their working power greater and easier; and we can see how we have by exercise really improved upon ourselves as we came from nature (not as we were intended to come, however), and have, seeing the changes that we can effect at will in this way, demonstrated to ourselves once more that heredity, powerful as it is, is by no means all powerful and conclusive.
Suppose we look for a moment at the record of "gains" that can be shown in a girl's gymnasium. It is not a small thing that a young woman should have all of her body machinery so improved and stimulated to growth by twelve months' practice in a gymnasium that she should add two inches to her narrow chest, the same to her stature, and increase her lung capacity by thirty per cent. It is not unimportant, when we remember the small strength of her arms when she entered, and how tired her back that she should find many of her strength tests doubled in actual figures, and that she can look with a pardonable pride upon the erect spine and the vigorous arm that she has gained herself in these few months, while the consciousness of controlling her body instead of having it control her, the knowledge that skill and agility and courage and a dozen other longed-for qualities have come to her through these few months of systematic but pleasurable practice, make the benefits of exercise seem very real to her, and to many others such as she. For this is not a fancy sketch, but has been repeated once and once again within the writer's knowledge, and I doubt not is being happily repeated in every well-organized gymnasium in the land, where the city girl is having an opportunity to recover her birthright.
Figures have been printed in every recent book that has been written upon any one's experience in the direction of physical training, to prove what wonderful gains can be made in a few weeks or months of systematic exercise. It is nothing unusual to find much more startling records than the simple ease that has just been quoted. Every one of experience knows that a chest can be developed, and arms can be increased in size, and backs can be strengthened and straightened, and muscular strength even trebled. But once more, desirable as these things are, it must be remembered that they are only the external signs and tokens of the many complex changes for good that have been simultaneously going on within the body, by which the whole economy has been stimulated to better growth, quicker life, and higher activity, improving its chances for life and doubling its capacity for enjoyment.
These results of exercise prove its importance for the adult and the mature as well as for the child and the young girl who has yet to perfect her physical powers ; they help to persuade us that even after physical training has helped to develop us in youth there is still a large sphere for it in maintaining the good work it has begun, so that exercise is part of the privilege of the mature young woman as well as of the undeveloped girl.


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BEAMS arts festival 2013
Media Release 16th August 2013: BEAMS arts festival
BEAMS arts festival is returning for one bright night in Chippendale!
Saturday 21 September, 5pm-10pm
This September the BEAMS Arts Festival will once again fill the laneways of Chippendale with a kaleidoscope of colour. Last year's festival exploded onto Sydney's cultural calendar with a dizzying array of artists, performers and musicians.
The programme for 2013 is expected to deliver a greater profusion of talent, with galleries, artists, production houses, designers, academics, students and creative individuals from far and wide with a focus on the high caliber of creatives coming together to create a street party like no other. This year will also see a greater involvement from our most exciting and cutting edge musical talents.
The BEAMS Festival is revitalising the creative community and re-imagining the possibilities for the city through collaborative imagination. The community and visitors will participate through hands-on art-making, workshops and plein air performances.
For one bright night the laneways of Chippendale will be filled with the most daring works and performances from Sydney's creative community. This year's themes are 'Revitalisation' and 'New World Cities', with BEAMS embracing works that open up new dialogues on the future of Sydney's urban landscape.
The festival is nurturing up-and-coming artists, giving them the opportunity to be displayed in a vibrant festival environment alongside some of Australia's most talented artists, musicians and performers.
We are proud to announce the line-up of musical artists for the festival! There is set to be an uplifting Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, and Jazz Fusion sound, with a splash of free spirited Indie Rock to cushion your evening. Musicians on the bill are: Gang of Brothers, Alphamama, Milan, The Psyde Projects, Billie McCarthy, Dane Laboryie Duo, Kristie Nicholas, The Rhythm Hunters, and Krista Pav, with more acts to be announced. DJ's on the night include Graham Mandroules JC (Funkdafied), Patrick Curda, and The Groove Merchant.
With Artist Profile, Art Almanac and Yelp confirmed as media partners and City of Sydney, Frasers Property Australia, Sekisui House and Production Technologies as major sponsors, the spotlight is now on BEAMS to deliver a world‐class creative program.
Mark your diaries for Saturday September 21, when art will take to the streets to BEAM a light on Sydney's talent.
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IT security teams can investigate these three identity-oriented strategies for efficient security services beyond traditional access control.
Identity based endpoint configuration management. The traditional device-centric policies burden IT with providing each user with approved applications for accessing corporate resources from desktops, laptops, iPads and smart phones. The user is also burdened by a device-centric approach by having to understand different application interfaces to perform the same job. A strategy of utilizing user identities and roles allows IT to provide a service of pre-configured application packages that are based on virtual desktop and workspace concepts for supported device types.
Identity based data protection. One of the problems with data leakage protection strategies is that they tend to be so focused on analyzing each transaction for intellectual property and user access rights that they totally miss thefts of bulk data by authorized users. Identity based data protection policies analyze deviations in user activity and dynamically compares users with similar roles to alert IT to the possibility of a theft incident. DLP products that use identity based policies can help detect abuses of access privileges that may increase the risk of a disclosure incident, while transparently accommodating changes to data access requirements.
Identity based event logging. Most security investigations for data theft incidents start with tracking log entries by device addresses before moving to applications and then users. While this approach holds devices accountable, it makes it more difficult to rapidly identify inappropriate user behavior that could lead to a disclosure event and to differentiate illegitimate infrastructure activity from legitimate business actions.
One of the challenges facing security organizations is to be recognized as helping users to safely do their jobs, and not perceived as overseers zealously restricting user activity. While using authenticated identities to control access is clearly important, there are opportunities where security services based on identity knowledge can be extended to enhance employee productivity. These include, automating compliant configurations based on business need, intelligently choosing optimal and secure application delivery options, and deploying insightful data access and auditing policies.
Eric Ogren is a security analyst at the Ogren Group.


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2013-14 Directions book
The Directions book is produced by the Peel District School Board each year. Directions maps and all school boundaries are available throughout the 'Schools' section. The board distributes more than 13,000 copies to schools, community agencies and families moving to Peel.
You are welcome to pick up a copy of the 2013-14 Directions book at the HJA Brown Education Centre, 5650 Hurontario St., Mississauga (the southwest corner of Hwy. 10 and Matheson Blvd.).
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FOX 8 received this news release from the New Orleans Police Dept. Tuesday evening:
Officers are asking the public's help in finding 15-year old Shanna Rodgers, who was last seen yesterday at about 10:00 P.M., in the 4600 block of Gabriel Drive.
Her mother advised that she last seen her daughter Shanna Rodgers on June 17, 2013 at approximately 10:00 P.M. in her room. Her mother advised when she checked on her at about 10:30 p.m., she was not in the room. Shanna Rodgers has run away in the pass and advised that she has not been seen or heard from since.
Shanna Rodgers suffers with ADA and Autism and is need of her medication.
She is described as an African-American female, 5'9" tall, weighing approximately 240 pounds with brown eyes, black and brown curly bob hair style. She was last seen wearing a hot pink shirt, peach pants and pink shoes.
Anyone seeing Shanna Rodgers or knowing her whereabouts is urged to contact the New Orleans Police Department at 821-2222.
NOPD provided an updated photo of Shanna Rodgers Friday, also noting that she may be in the area of Canal Street and Elk Place, or near Bourbon Street.
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By DREW GARDNER 6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Hospitals from Johnson City to Chattanooga took part in one of the largest hospital drills ever held in Tennessee Wednesday morning.
It was a scary scene at UT Medical Center. Although it was just a drill, it's a scene doctors have never had to deal with in Knoxville.
"The scenario is a mass casualty bombing similar to what happened in Boston," said Katharine Killen with the Knox County Health Department.
Mock patients were admitted to the emergency room with several different types of injuries that would be seen if a real bombing were to occur.
"We're seeing shrapnel injuries and debris injuries," said UT Medical Center Safety Coordinator Jeff Pigg. "We've had several burn patients. We've also received amputation type injuries."
It's not just UT that would be effected if a massive blast happened locally. The Massachusetts Health Department advised organizers that during the Boston Marathon bombing, communication between all health care providers was key. That's why the entire region is also participating in the drill.
"Hospitals all over East Tennessee are seeing a surge of patients," said Killen. "That's one of the things we are testing is a surge plan."
In all, 1,000 student actors played patients with various injuries. Each were admitted and put through the same treatments those with real injuries would receive.
"Part of making sure we are prepared to manage that, should something like that happen, is having the plans and procedures in place, but also exercising those plans and procedures to make sure they will work in an event," said Killen.
Once the exercise is complete, all those who participated will take part in a debriefing to see what worked and what didn't. From there they will make a list of improvements that can be made at area hospitals.
While this is the biggest regional drill UT has participated in, they say they hold a similar large scale drill in their hospital once a year.
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text: 78 striking portraits of people in black and white and color made from 1971 to 2008. Many of the photographs were created at public events and document an amazing diversity in the ways creative people present themselves. There are also images documenting the relationship between individuals and the world, all seen from Hair's unique perspective. Most images were made with a Hasselblad camera, and all were made on film, allowing for the greatest detail and sharpness. It is Hair's intention to create a quality record of people who may be outside the traditional, and have created lives that are extraordinary.


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How to spread Christmas cheer the Google way
Summary: Google and NORAD are teaming up once more to track Santa Claus on his Christmas Eve flight around the world. But Google's holiday celebration doesn't stop there.
Few companies get as into the Christmas spirit as Google. Here's a rundown of all the different ways you and yours can experience the reason for the season, including tracking Santa himself on Google Maps as he makes his deliveries worldwide, sending personalized video messages, and of course making it snow in your search results.
The most obvious thing Google's done is updated its homepage with one of its famous Google Doodles. Oddly enough, while several websites are reporting a seasonal Google logo that plays Jingle Bells, all this blogger sees is a festive, Christmas lights-themed version on the frontpage.
So your holiday mileage may vary. Earlier in the week, Google announced that you can send custom phone messages from Santa himself to loved ones - or leave him a message by dialing 855-34-SANTA, his Google Voice number. Google took it a step further with the ability to make custom video messages, too.
And speaking of Santa, as you may or may not know, NORAD has tracked Santa's flight every Christmas Eve since 1955, and this year, Google's getting in on the tradition once again. Starting 2AM EST on December 24th, you can visit noradsanta.org to see Santa's progress in Google Maps. Search [santa] on one of the Google Maps mobile applications, and you can see the same.
The website also offers "Santa cam" videos of his journey around the world, and will appear on a dedicated YouTube channel as they're captured. And with the right Google Earth plug-in, you can ride along in 3D (as shown in the above picture). NORAD's Santa-tracking team is going to be offering live updates on his progress on Google+, Twitter or Facebook, if that's your thing.
Finally, as you may or may not know by now, Googling "let it snow" turns your search results page into a winter wonderland. Between these little seasonal celebrations and its year-end philanthropic initiative, no one does Christmas like Google.
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Two Yakob Stories by Anna Shipstone
Two Stories for reading to very young children.
By Anna Shipstone
Come and meet Yakob - he is big and blue and cuddly!
Come and meet Ooky Bung-stove - he is very wise!
Come and meet all the funny animals who live in this snowy country so far away!
About the Author
I grew up in rural South-east England. I have always been interested in art, reading and writing. Other interests include psychology, the unexplained, yoga, spirituality, history & caravanning. Currently working as a pencil/colour pencil portrait artist based on the net.
Publish Date February 16, 2009
Dimensions Standard Portrait 32 pgs
Standard Paper
Category Children
Tags fun, magical, magic, funny, happy, animals, colored, coloured, color, colour, drawings, picturebooks, picturebook, illustrations, pictures, illustrated, imaginative, sweet, cute, fantasy, babies, baby, small, very, young, stories, story, books, book, children's, childrens
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Cleveland Browns
Chris Ogbonnaya - #25 - RB
|6' 0"/ 225 lbs.
|Houston, TX
|Years played
|2009, 7th round, 2nd pick by Rams
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The Cleveland Browns have agreed to terms with running back Chris Ogbonnaya on a two-year contract. Ogbonnaya was signed by the Browns in 2011 and started four games. Cleveland has three running backs under contract: Richardson, Ogbonnaya and Montario Hardesty.||||||| Ogbonnaya made one start and played in 15 games last season, usually replacing Trent Richardson on third down. He finished with 24 receptions for 187 yards and gained 30 yards on eight carries. He made a career-high six receptions for 73 receiving yards in a win at Cincinnati, and had a career-long 54-yard reception against the New York Giants.
With starter Trent Richardson nursing a rib cartilage injury, Ogbonnaya could see some action against the Colts Sunday.||||||| Richardson is expected to start, but may be limited after getting banged up in last week's win over the Bengals. Montario Hardesty could also get more carries if Richardson can't carry the load.
Ogbonnaya ran for a career-high 115 yards and a TD during Sunday's 14-10 win over Jacksonville.||||||| While Ogbonnaya is averaging 102.5 yards over the last two weeks, he could lose his job if Montario Hardesty returns from injury. Fantasy owners need to keep an eye on this situation heading into Week 12.
Ogbonnaya rushed for a career-best 90 yards on 19 attempts in Sunday's 13-12 loss to the Rams.||||||| Ogbonnaya, who came in with 86 rushing yards, could get another start with Peyton Hillis expected to miss Sunday's game against Jacksonville.
The Browns have signed running back Chris Ogbonnaya to their active roster from Houston's practice squad.||||||| Ogbonnaya played in two games for the Texans this season, carrying three times for six yards. He was originally drafted in the seventh round in 2009 by St. Louis, where he was with Browns coach Pat Shurmur. Ogbonnaya spent the first 11 weeks of his rookie season on the Rams practice squad before appearing in two games. The 6-foot, 225-pounder played college ball at Texas, where he was a teammate with Browns quarterback Colt McCoy.


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