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There are so many ways to get involved with this incredible event.

Today, more than 2,500 volunteers work around the calendar to produce an event that includes parades, pancake breakfasts, world-class concerts, chili and chuckwagon cook-offs, carnival, exhibits, Indian Village, military open houses and performances by the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, and of course the event that started it all nine Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) rodeos.

Learn More about Volunteering

Cheyenne Frontier Days is a small community in and of itself for the better part of the month of July, and, complimented by a full-time staff of 15, the “community” works because of the volunteers who won’t let it be anything but the best.

See Current Employment Opportunities

Exhibitors & Vendors

Cheyenne Frontier Days™ hosts a number of commercial exhibitors each year. Put your business at the center of the action!

Exhibitor and Vendor Information and Applications

Cheyenne Frontier Days™ would not be possible without the involvement of our sponsors. Contact Us for more information on how to become a Sponsor. See full Sponsor List

Interested in advertising in our annual souvenir program? For more information please email Dawn.
View the souvenir program rate card.

Parade Participants

Parade Applications for 2020 will be posted in early January. For questions or concerns, please contact one of the following:

Bands – [email protected]
Mounted Groups – [email protected]
Floats and Specialty Entries – [email protected]
Visting Queens and Royalty – [email protected]

National Anthem Singers

Cheyenne Frontier Days™ seeks performers of the National Anthem every day prior to the rodeo throughout the Daddy of ’em All® including during the Opening Day Celebration on the first Friday. Next year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days™ takes place July 17-26, 2020.

Selected performers sing the first verse of our National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” a cappella in the center of the rodeo arena at Frontier Park. Because of the magnitude of Cheyenne Frontier Days™ as the world’s largest outdoor rodeo and the overall decorum of our pre-rodeo entertainment, the National Anthem should be performed in a conservative, traditional manner with little or no inflections or deviations.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old to apply. National Anthem singers receive complimentary parking for one passenger vehicle, gate access onto the rodeo grounds and rodeo seating for a maximum of six persons on the date of their performance. Cheyenne Frontier Days™ is unable to provide airline or ground transportation, hotel accommodations, or concert/night show/evening entertainment tickets for National Anthem singers. Cheyenne Frontier Days™ also is unable to provide complimentary parking, gate access or rodeo tickets to National Anthem singers on dates other than their performance date.

Please email your interest and a link to a sample performance to [email protected]

IT’S THE CHEYENNE THING TO DO… -Bill Dubois, a 2004 inductee in the Cheyenne Frontier Days™ Hall of Fame and volunteer for more than four decades.

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Without your generous support, we would be unable to maintain and improve our collections, enhance our exhibits and offer a wide array of cultural events throughout the year. Join us and help preserve the spirit and history of the American West!

I’m thirteen and I am from Cheyenne. I’ve been a Boy Scout for three years now, and Cub Scouts since I was like six. We are out here catching pancakes. We do it every year. Corey Clever, Boy Scout and Pancake Breakfast Volunteer
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Global engineering consultancy working heavily across transportation and other safety-critical systems sectors. Specialists in the integration of systems and software engineering methodologies, including human factors and system safety, with practical program delivery.
Proven experience in delivering, installing and commissioning high integrity systems for the railway sector across Australia.
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You will be responsible for the efficient delivery of high quality systems and safety assurance services to clients, particularly in the rail industry.  You will be involved in developing safety assurance strategies, plans and analysis in order to ensure safe and reliable operations and meet regulatory requirements.
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  • Develops systems assurance plans and any supporting processes and documents
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  • Highly experienced team of consultants that specialise in complex railway systems projects
  • People enjoy working here due to the culture and the opportunity to work in a group that are genuinely passionate about system engineering and safety assurance
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Founded as a radio orchestra in 1925 in connection with the launch of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the Danish National Symphony Orchestra consists today of ninety-nine musicians. It is based in the DR Concert Hall, which was inaugurated in 2009; one of Europe’s most spectacular concert halls, it is the work of the French architect Jean Nouvel with acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota. In 2012, succeeding such influential conductors as Thomas Dausgaard, Gerd Albrecht, Ulf Schirmer, Leif Segerstam, and Lamberto Gardelli, the Spanish maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will take up the post of the Orchestra’s chief conductor. The Orchestra’s honorary conductor is Herbert Blomstedt, chief conductor from 1967 to 1977. Principal guest conductors have been Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Schønwandt, and Dmitri Kitayenko. In its early years the Orchestra was built up by the two legendary conductors Fritz Busch and Nicolai Malko, the latter since honoured with the international Malko Competition for Young Conductors. The Orchestra has performed under such luminaries as Bruno Walter, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Rafael Kubelík, Sergiu Celibidache, Kirill Kondrashin, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Christoph Eschenbach, and Kurt Sanderling, and over the past years has worked regularly with Gary Bertini, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sylvain Cambreling, Marek Janowski, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, and Ton Koopman. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has collaborated with composers such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Boulez, Lutosławski, Stockhausen, and Henze, as both soloists and conductors.

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Badgers back up to #16 in AP poll

The Wisconsin Badger men’s basketball team jumped five spots to 16th in the Associated Press men’s basketball poll released Monday.

Wins over Minnesota and Michigan last week moved the Badgers from 21st last week.

The Badgers are now 21-5 overall and 8-5 in the Big Ten.

Wisconsin’s next game is a showdown with 15th ranked Iowa Saturday in Iowa City.

AP MEN’S BASKETBALL POLL – Monday, February 17th

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2. Florida

3. Wichita State

4. Arizona

5. Duke

6. San DIego State

7. Cincinnati

8. Kansas

9. Villanova

10. Saint Louis

11 (tie). Creighton

11 (tie). Louisville

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14. Virginia

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Calligo Acquires Microsoft Azure, Office 365 Cloud Partner Connected Technologies

Calligo, a global data optimization and privacy specialist, has acquired Brampton, Ontario’s Connected Technologies, Inc. (CTI), which provides outsourced IT and cloud services. CTI’s expertise includes Office 365 and Microsoft Azure.

Calligo has been active on the M&A front — acquiring cloud services provider 3 Peaks in October 2017, and outsourced IT services company Mico Systems in May 2018.

The addition of Connected Technologies makes Calligo one of the largest IT managed services providers serving the Greater Toronto Area by both client numbers and team headcount, according to the company. It also gives Calligo the largest concentration of CPA customers in the region, the company asserts. ChannelE2E hasn’t independently confirmed the claims.

Founded in 2011, Calligo provides public and hybrid cloud, IT managed services, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and archival and erasure services, all supported by ‘privacy-first’ data management consultancy. The company also offers CPA-specific services and provides specific assistance with national, international, and industry-specific data protection obligations.

Calligo Acquires Connected Technologies: Executive Perspectives

Speaking about the deal, Calligo Founder and CEO, Julian Box said:

“We are very excited about what the acquisition of Connected Technologies means for Calligo in Canada and internationally. We have been very strong in the delivery of cloud and managed services in Toronto for some time now. Adding Connected Technologies’ experience and skills to our own will cement our position as the first choice for Toronto businesses wanting to outsource their IT.”

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Box also said he anticipates the deal will strengthen the delivery of Colligo’s public and hybrid Azure services throughout the globe.

William Shilson, president of CTI, added:

“This acquisition was the result of obvious synergies between our two organizations – strong company cultures, a shared focus on customer centricity and a hunger for innovation. We have seen firsthand the interest that our customers have in the wider services that Calligo offers, particularly in data optimization and also in ensuring that their processes and infrastructure meet their data privacy obligations. This acquisition will therefore create a compelling new service proposition for existing clients, while putting Calligo in the strongest possible position to serve the needs of the wider market.”

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Humanists UK seeks an experienced and highly organised Office and Administration Manager to lead our office administration team and deliver a first-class service for the organisation.

You will need to be personable with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude. You will be working with and leading the Administration team as well as being a point of contact for office issues.

The Office and Administration Manager will lead, manage, develop and continuously improve effective administration and support for all departments.

You’ll require good organisational & team management skills. Experience in line managing staff is essential as is being able to adapt to changing priorities at a moment’s notice.

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Regulator raises concerns about external scrutiny of charity accounts

Written by Joe Lepper

Too many charity accounts, particularly those submitted by small voluntary sector organisations, are not being properly scrutinised by external examiners and auditors, according to a Charity Commission report.

The regulator measured the 2017 accounts of 296 randomly selected charities against its external scrutiny benchmark, which determines whether minimum standards of scrutiny by auditors and independent examiners have been met.

It found that some examiners and auditors are “letting the profession and charities down”.

Just 37 per cent of accounts of small charities, with an income of between £25,000 and £250,000, met this benchmark, according to the report.

The proportion of those meeting these standards rises to 51 per cent among charities with an income of £250,000 and £1m.

Among large charities with an income of £1m or more 76 per cent of charities meet the regulator’s external scrutiny benchmark.

Failings include incomplete reporting, in 77 cases, of related party transactions, which relates to potential conflicts of interest.

“This raises additional concerns that the failure by trustees to manage conflicts of interest is also being under-reported, states the Charity Commission.

The regulator is working closely with accountancy bodies to improve awareness of the requirements of accountancy reporting.

The regulator has also passed on details to relevant professional bodies of accountants that have failed to meet the benchmark. In addition, the Charity Commission may raise formal complaints about non-compliance.

Only 44 per cent of accounts submitted by qualified examiners and just 18 per cent of those submitted by unqualified examiners meet the regulator’s benchmark.

“The Commission is making its benchmark available on GOV.UK and expects those scrutinising charity accounts to make use of it, and trustees and those interested in charity accounts to be aware of it,” says the regulator in a statement.

Already 135 charities that failed the regulator’s benchmark have been contacted and offered guidance to help them improve the quality of their reports and accounts.

Nigel Davies, head of accountancy services at the Charity Commission, said: "We know from research we have carried out into public trust in charities that the public care deeply about transparency. It is therefore vital that charities are able to provide an accurate and clear picture of their finances.

"External scrutiny is an essential part of the checks and balances process that charity accounts go through and so it is disappointing that so many independent examiners and auditors appear to lack the necessary understanding of the external scrutiny framework.

"Those that are getting this right are playing an important role in upholding charities’ accountability to us as regulator, and the public. Clearly others are letting the profession and charities down. We are working closely with the accounting profession to tackle shortcomings and raise standards; I am encouraged by the commitments to work with us that have already been made."

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Top Arts and Crafts Camps in Seattle

Published Dec 12, 2019 | Updated Jan 2, 2020

Are your kids creative and wanting to create their own masterpiece this summer? Here are a few great camps where they can put their creativity to good use.

Top Arts and Crafts Camps in Seattle

Step aside Picasso. Move over Martha Stewart. We’ve got a new generation of awesome arts and crafts experts. Let your kids and their creativity run wild at the top arts and crafts camps in your local community. Whether your kids like painting, drawing, sculpting ceramics, or exploring film, ChatterBlock is your one-stop resource for the most creative camps in town.

Roaring Mouse Creative Art Studio

Roaring Mouse's classes, camps, and workshops engage children in their creativity and self-expression through the exploration of visual arts, music, dance, storytelling, and play.

This year's summer camps include Summer Creative Arts (ages 2.5  to 5) and the multi-themed Summer Palette Mini-Day Camps (sessions for ages 2.5 to 5, and 4 to 8).

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The Moonpaper Tent

Moonpaper Tent hosts summer camps that combine drama, art, and storytelling into one dynamic camp. Camps have a maximum of 10 kids, and two adults will lead each group.

Neo Art School

Neo Art School is Seattle's oldest locally owned art school for children. Weekly summer camps are offered all summer in full-day and half-day sessions. At Neo's art camps, campers will get to work with a range of media, including, drawing, painting, clay, wood sculpture, paper mache, bookbinding, and more.

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Children's Museum of Tacoma

If your children are between 3 to 5 years old and are curious, creative, and imaginative, then there is a summer camp at the Children's Museum of Tacoma that will ignite their spark! This year's camps include Art FUNdamentals, Story Telling, Silly Science, Cooking and Adventure Camp.

Kirkland Arts Center

The Kirkland Arts Center offers five weeks of summer camps for ages 5 to 12 during June and July. Aftercare is also available. Kids will work in a variety of art mediums (clay, paper, pastels, printmaking, inks, and water-based paints) with trained instructors.

KAC also offers three weeks of teen intensives for drawing, painting, and ceramics.

IGIMO Art Station

Igimo Art Camps teach the basic principles of art in fun and engaging ways. Each day begins with a guided step-by-step drawing or painting lesson. After a quick stretch and snack break, students will then participate in a 3D craft project, all inspired by the art camp theme! Themes include Dinosaur World, Arty Beyond the Galaxy, Animals in Art, Ocean Adventures, and Fantasy Art.

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Stroum Jewish Community Center

Stroum JCC campers learn songs, play games, cook, act onstage, conduct science experiments, and make lifelong friendships.

Whether this will be your first summer or you’re a seasoned veteran, Stroum JCC is excited for you to build friendships, create memories, connect with the outdoors, and, most importantly, have fun in the sun!

FrogLegs Kids Culinary Academy

Cooking, fun, art, games, stories and more are what await you when you walk through the FrogLegs' doors. Campers will enjoy making lunch, a snack, and drink each day that go with the week's theme. They also have an added art class at their two locations (Kirkland & Seattle).

This is a true hands-on experience with joy, imagination, and creativity!

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Fremont Community School

At the Fremont Community School, week-long art camps and nature camps are offered for children ages 4 to 10 in half-day morning sessions. Each camp explores a new theme, like ocean art, nature art, enchanted art, or felted friends.

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Looking for an exciting summer program that boosts creativity? Try Pratt's Summer Art Camp! Campers will explore a weekly theme while drawing, painting, and building sculptures to create original art that is sure to make a memorable summer. Summer art camps are taught by professional artists.

If you didn’t discover an awesome art class from the list above, ChatterBlock has hundreds of other cool camps and classes that your kids will absolutely adore. Check out our Camps and Classes page for more details.

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Copthorne Hotel Birmingham

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  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Gym
  • Breakfast Available

What's nearby

  • Popular Location
    Library of Birmingham
    4 min walk
  • Popular Location
    Birmingham Town Hall
    5 min walk
  • Popular Location
    International Convention Centre (ICC)
    6 min walk
  • Airport
    Birmingham (BHX)
    19 min drive

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Your dates need to occur after 2020-01-17. Try updating your dates to see prices for your trip.

    About this area

    In the city center, Copthorne Hotel Birmingham is in Birmingham's Birmingham City Centre neighborhood, a walkable area with good shopping. Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall are cultural highlights, and some of the area's popular attractions include Broad Street and National Sea Life Centre. Looking to enjoy an event or a game? See what's going on at Arena Birmingham or Villa Park.

    Popular Location

    What's nearby

    • Library of Birmingham - 4 min walk
    • Birmingham Town Hall - 5 min walk
    • Symphony Hall - 5 min walk
    • International Convention Centre (ICC) - 6 min walk
    • Birmingham Cathedral - 8 min walk

    Getting around

    • Birmingham Snow Hill Station - 10 min walk
    • Birmingham (BHX) - 19 min drive

    • Bugis Street Restaurant – Restaurant with a bar offering Singaporean cuisine. Serves breakfast and lunch daily.
    • Goldies Bar – Bar offering British cuisine. Serves lunch and light fare daily.

    About this property

    Copthorne Hotel Birmingham

    This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, 24-hour room service, a business center, and conference space are onsite. All 211 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, TVs come with satellite channels, and guests will also find coffee makers and hair dryers.

    Property amenities

    Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
    Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

    Parking and transportation

    Self parking: GBP 12.00 per night
    Limited parking spaces

    Food and drink

    Full breakfast available for a fee 6:30 AM–9:30 AM on weekdays and 7:30 AM–11 AM on weekends: GBP 10.00 per person
    1 restaurant
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    24-hour room service

    Things to do

    Fitness center

    Family friendly

    Dry cleaning service
    Laundry facilities
    Soundproofed rooms

    Banquet hall
    Free newspapers in lobby
    Front-desk safe
    Reception hall

    Guest services

    24-hour front desk
    Daily housekeeping
    Dry cleaning service
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    Luggage storage

    Languages spoken

    Business services

    Business center
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    If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them in the special requests field on the booking page after selecting your room.
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    Assistive listening devices available

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If you have some spare time we would love to welcome you to the Festival as a volunteer.  There are many different roles available during the Festival or you may have other skills you feel may benefit the Festival.

Volunteer Roles:

Steward: Our Stewards are the face of the Festival as they welcome the audience to each event and answer any queries they may have.  As a steward you may also be asked to welcome choirs and direct them to their holding room or help take performers to the office to collect certificates or cups.

Foyer Desk:  The front desk in the foyer of the Town Hall is the arrival point where visitors buy their daily entrance tickets and perhaps become a Friend of the Festival.  Stewarding here is a busy role and great if you like helping people.

Adjudicators Stewards: Our professional adjudicators need close support from our volunteers so that they can do their job easily and efficiently. These stewards also provide an essential link between each event and the Festival back office.

Announcer: Each event needs an announcer to call the performers to the stage and provide information to the audience before and after each class.  If you are confident to address an audience with scripted announcements and instructions then this could be for you.

If you think you may be interested in any of these roles or if you have any specific skills such as marketing or fundraising please contact our Chief Steward Frances Watson via email, info@cheltenhamfestivalofperformingarts.co.uk


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One of the biggest achievements in life is bringing another life into this world…and then is certainly something worth celebrating in style. If you or someone close to you has a new little one in town, create something beautiful not only for the little boy or girl, but to say a big congratulations to the new mummy and daddy!
In For Kids & Babies you will also find designs for christenings such as the personalised birth announcement print, personalised birth announcement and more.
Choose from personalised word arts to personalised baby photo collage designs; it’s entirely up to you. If you already have some beautiful pictures of the baby and maybe all the family together, send them all to us with your order and create a lovely photo collage that will be treasured in the family home forever.
Our Personalised Animal Alphabet Art is a great design because not only is it super cute with all the little characters, it can also come in handy when they are a little bit older to make learning their a,b,c’s even more fun and exciting.
We also offer personalised cards for a new baby, such as the Personalised Birth Announcement Hedgehog Card, all with your own text on the front and personalised message inside.


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I’m a lifelong Southside Chicago resident. Having attended both grammar school and high school in Chicago (graduating at the age of 16), I am a proud product of the Chicago Public School (CPS) educational system. I hold an MBA with distinction from Keller Graduate School of Management, an M.S. in Biology from Chicago State University, and a B.S. in Biology from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In addition, I’m also a published author, having written a children’s book “The Seasons of the Year”, as well as a poetry book “Laugh Now, Cry Later…A Window to My Soul”.

I’m involved in several community organizations, serving as the Secretary for Gathering Point Community Council (GPCC) and the Vice-President of Communities United for Tomorrow (C.U.T.). In my spare time I volunteer as a mentor to pre-teens and teens.

I have worked as an adjunct Biology professor for The City Colleges of Chicago and have previously taught as a substitute teacher for CPS. I also bring prior experience as a research scientist. My scientific background will bring a much-needed analytical approach to the many problems facing our state.

My main priority is to propose legislation to help the State of Illinois regain its fiscal stability. I believe that this can best be achieved via a balanced budget and enactment of pension reform.

Finally, and most importantly, I am the proud mother of Kennedy Rae (age 2). She is my pride and joy, and I want to rebuild the State of Illinois so that it provides her a world of opportunities. Our family also has a maltipoo named Nike, and various fish. I enjoy making jewelry, reading, fishing, riding motorcycles, roller-skating and swimming in my free time.

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Two minor moves could shake up bottom of roster

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MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH

Two quiet, minor moves at the end of the winter meetings could have a major impact on several players fighting for spots on the back end of Detroit's roster.

The Tigers arranged for two open spots on their 40-man roster heading into the meetings, and on the last day they filled those spots by making deals with teams picking ahead of them in the Rule 5 draft.

Contending teams aren't generally active in the Rule 5 draft because they're forced to keep the players they acquire on their 24-man roster all season or send them back to the organizations they got them from for half the $50,000 acquisition price. These players typically come from the low minors or are one-skill players, their ability to help in critical situations generally limited.

Teams selecting late in the Rule 5 draft will seek out a team picking ahead of them who don't intend to make a choice. They'll make a contingency arrangement for that team to take a specific player and then trade him to them.

Boston, drafting seventh, took second baseman Jeff Kobernus from the Washington organization and immediately flipped him to Detroit for utility player Justin Henry. The New York Mets picked 10th and drafted lefty Kyle Lobstein from Tampa Bay, selling his contract to the Tigers, who had the 20th pick in the Rule 5 draft.

"He has a lot of speed and a lot of athleticism," GM Dave Dombrowski said of Kobernus. "He's a hard-nosed character guy. Positional versatility would be important for him, perhaps elsewhere in the infield, perhaps in the outfield as well."

Both will get extensive looks in spring training to see if they can help a team expected to be a World Series contender in 2013.

Kobernus, 24, has played exclusively at second since being taken in the second round of the 2009 draft, except for four games at short in 2011.

The right-handed-hitting Kobernus has no power but went 42-for-53 in stolen bases at Double-A last season. He is a .279 hitter over four minor league seasons.

Ramon Santiago, who has a guaranteed contract, and Danny Worth were vying for the backup infield spot, but Kobernus could threaten them if he shows he could play shortstop for a day or two. His best chance to make the Tigers might be as the right-handed fourth or fifth outfielder, in which case Brennan Boesch and Quintin Berry would be on the spot.

Lobstein, 23, was also a second-round choice in 2009.

"We just like him as an overall pitcher," Dombrowski said. "He's a guy we can use as (rotation) protection, or as a second lefty (in the bullpen)."

Lobstein, 8-7 with a 4.06 ERA for Tampa Bay's Double-A affiliate last season, is 30-30 with a 3.85 ERA over four minor league seasons.

Detroit's rotation is filled at the moment, but the Tigers could use a second lefty in the bullpen to pair with Phil Coke. Darin Downs is the holder for that role, but three other southpaws also pitched for Detroit at times: Casey Crosby, Adam Wilk and Duane Below.

The Tigers entered the winter meetings seeking to make just minor moves, adding a right-handed-hitting outfielder and a left-handed reliever.

Unless additional moves are made, which is very possible, Kobernus and Lobstein will get a shot in spring training.

MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - NOTES, QUOTES

--C Brayan Pena, released last month by the Royals, agreed to a one-year deal with the Tigers. He will serve as Alex Avila's backup, replacing Gerald Laird, who signed with the Braves. Pena, 30, was the Royals' primary backup catcher since 2009. He hit .236 with two homers and 25 RBI in 68 games last season.

--2B Jeff Kobernus, 24, was acquired from Boston on Dec. 6 in exchange for IF/OF Justin Henry. Boston took Kobernus from Washington as the seventh selection in the Rule 5 draft. He hit .282 with one home run, 19 RBI and an Eastern League-best 42 stolen bases in 82 games with Double-A Harrisburg in the Nationals' organization this season. Kobernus was selected in the second round of the 2009 draft out of California and owns a .279 batting average in four seasons of minor league ball. "He has a lot of speed and a lot of athleticism," GM Dave Dombrowski said. "He's a hard-nosed character guy. Positional versatility would be important for him, perhaps elsewhere in the infield, perhaps in the outfield as well." He played some outfield and third base in college but has been used almost exclusively at second base as a pro.

--LHP Kyle Lobstein, 23, was sold to Detroit on Dec. 6 after being selected by the New York Mets out of the Tampa Bay organization in the No. 10 spot of the Rule 5 draft. "We just like him as an overall pitcher," GM Dave Dombrowski said. "He's a guy we can use as (rotation) protection, or as a second lefty (in the bullpen)." Lobstein, a second-round choice by Tampa Bay in the 2009 draft, will get a chance to make the team. His fastball isn't as good as it was coming out of high school but Lobstein locates it well and backs it up with an excellent changeup. He was 8-7 with a 4.06 ERA in 27 starts at Double-A last summer and is 30-30 with a 3.85 ERA in four minor league seasons.

--C Alex Avila probably won't get more rest in 2013 but will need to make some adjustments to account for his sore knees, manager Jim Leyland said. "I think he'll come back real fresh, but maybe I'll need to do a little better job of watching him this year," Leyland said. "I beat him up the year before quite a bit, probably took advantage of him. If I would've kept him a little fresher, it probably would've helped." Avila didn't adjust well to pitchers last season, Leyland feels. "I'd like to see him be more aggressive. I felt like there were too many times this year where he was hitting with two strikes on him, and he was only getting one swing," Leyland said. "He's a very selective hitter, I felt a little bit too selective. Sometimes he takes borderline pitches I think he can knock the crap out of."

--LHP Daniel Schlereth was not offered a contract by Detroit on Nov. 30, allowing him to become a free agent. Schlereth was hurt most of last season, suffering a labrum injury that shut him down until he was able to make three late-season appearances. He had a 10.29 ERA in six games with Detroit. "It's too bad, because I love Detroit and I love the guys on the team," Schlereth, 26, said, "but they probably felt I wasn't healthy enough to pitch or to be as effective as the other guys they have coming in. I understand their decision. I'm a little upset, because I really liked playing there. I'm gonna miss it, for sure. But it's a new chapter."

He was part of the three-team deal that brought CF Austin Jackson and RHP Max Scherzer to Detroit in 2009. But he pitched with a sore shoulder early in this past season and learned a lesson after not telling anybody until he was optioned out. "I think so -- that was probably my fault," Schlereth said. "I guess I learned that lesson this year: Speak up if something's bothering me. But I'm not really wired like that. I probably did too much weightlifting, and, with my body type, that was probably not a good idea. I tend to get a little bulky."

--C Ramon Cabrera, 23, was acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Dec. 5 and will probably begin the season with Triple-A Toledo. He hit .276 with three home runs and 50 RBI in 112 Double-A games and got two hits in his only Triple-A appearance. The switch-hitter was signed out of Venezuela in 2008 and has a .292 minor league batting average. "We think he's a prospect who will give us more catching depth," GM Dave Dombrowski said. "He's solid, offensively." Cabrera threw out just 20 percent of base stealers last season; the short, stocky receiver is described as having good arm strength with footwork that needs improving.

--LHP Andy Oliver, winless in two go-rounds encompassing seven spot starts with Detroit, was dealt to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Dec. 5 for minor league catching prospect Ramon Cabrera. Oliver, 25, was the Tigers' second-round choice in the 2009 draft out of Oklahoma State, but control problems wouldn't go away and he was pitching out of relief in Triple-A at the end of last season. "We couldn't get him to throw strikes on a consistent basis," GM Dave Dombrowski said. "In Oliver's case, a change of scenery won't be bad for him."

BY THE NUMBERS: 50 -- Seasons of baseball for manager Jim Leyland when his Tigers begin spring training.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "You hear the rumblings, not from the organization, but a lot of fans who wanted me fired during the season. That's just part of it. You have to accept that. I'm willing to accept that doing a one-year deal. I don't want a two- or three-year deal, and I doubt they'd want to give me one. I think it works out good because I trust the organization and I also trust my own ability. I think I'll do good enough to maybe get another contract for a year. I think I'll do good enough to do that. If I don't, that's fine. They should get somebody else. That's the way I look at it." -- Manager Jim Leyland about working on his second straight one-year contract.

MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - ROSTER REPORT

Detroit moved quickly to fill its need for a corner outfield upgrade by coming to terms Nov. 14 with RF Torii Hunter, who will hit second in the order. The Tigers added two players via the Rule 5 draft Dec. 6 -- 2B Jeff Kobernus and LHP Kyle Lobstein -- and they will get tryouts in spring training. Kobernus could turn into the right-handed platoon partner the team was seeking for LF Andy Dirks. Owner Mike Ilitch would like to retain RHP Anibal Sanchez but not on the pitcher's terms since LHP Drew Smyly could slide into his rotation spot. DH Delmon Young left, but Detroit will replace him with DH Victor Martinez, who missed the season with a left knee injury. A shortstop with greater range than SS Jhonny Peralta would be nice, but his bat would be tough to replace despite a poor season. Production at shortstop, catcher and both corner outfield spots did not live up to expectations last season, but a major makeover is not necessary despite getting swept in the World Series by San Francisco.

ARRIVALS: 2B Jeff Kobernus (Rule 5 draft pick from Nationals, via Red Sox), LHP Kyle Lobstein (Rule 5 draft from Rays, via Mets), C Brayan Pena (free agent from Royals).

DEPARTURE: C Gerald Laird (free agent, signed with Braves).

BIGGEST NEEDS: Landing Hunter crossed a corner outfielder off Detroit's list of needs, although adding another via trade remains a possibility as the Tigers seek to beef up the bottom of their order. RHP Jose Valverde's replacement as closer will probably come from within, with rookie RHP Bruce Rondon getting the first shot. A shortstop with more range than Peralta remains on the club's radar.

FREE AGENTS: DH Delmon Young, RHP Anibal Sanchez, RHP Jose Valverde, LHP Daniel Schlereth, LF/2B Ryan Raburn, UT Don Kelly.

Young will be allowed to leave as DH Victor Martinez returns after missing a year with a left knee injury. Laird went to Atlanta on a two-year deal. Sanchez originally was a rental and, while Detroit would like to retain him, it won't go for the length and money the pitcher seeks. Valverde's key figures dropped this season, and his postseason collapse assured he will pitch elsewhere in 2013.

ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE: RHP Max Scherzer, RHP Rick Porcello, RHP Doug Fister, LHP Phil Coke, CF Austin Jackson, RF Brennan Boesch, C Alex Avila.

Multi-year deals are possible for Scherzer, Fister, Jackson and Avila.

IN LIMBO: RF Brennan Boesch, OF Quintin Berry, IF Danny Worth, IF Ramon Santiago, LHP Darin Downs.

--DH Victor Martinez (left knee surgery) has been hitting off a tee and running for a month; he's expected to be ready for spring training.

--2B Omar Infante (broken left hand) was hit on the hand in the ninth inning of the final World Series game, suffering a non-displaced fracture that will not require surgery. He should be ready for spring.

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What is Normal? ... it's a good question, I guess it means people that fit within a certain set of criteria determined by standard deviation of the mean techniques! But what a rather crude method of evaluating people? and what is the purpose of evaluating anyway? ... and who be the judge?

The actual question of the title though is not what you might at first think, it is more a question of, are Normal people more likely to be not enabled? ... In order to get under the covers of this question we have to first look at some pretty amazing and inspiring people. You have to look no further than in sport and the paralympics to see people who rise above all the odds to do the most amazing things. You could also be inspired by the Australian Nick Vujicic and whether you believe in god or not is irrelevant, Nick's purpose was revealed to him...

Now... his purpose was revealed to him... here is the crux of the message here... through a severely limited set of capabilities Nick was by the age of 15 able to focus and learn the meaning of his purpose, and once that was cracked, he has gone on to fulfil his life's purpose and you would probably agree, he is one of the happiest souls on the planet!

This brings me onto my next point. There are many people in the history of the human race who have done the most amazing things...

Inventors & Scientists
Alexander Graham Bell
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison

Tom Cruise
Whoopi Goldberg
Keanu Reeves
Kiera Knightley
Oliver Reed
Henry Winker (the fonz)

Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Andy Warhol
Tommy Hilfiger
David Bailey

John Lennon

Muhammad Ali
Duncan Goodhew
Steve Redgrave

Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders
Richard Branson
Henry Ford
William Hewlett (HP)
Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA Founder)
Steven Spielberg
Walt Disney

All of the above have Dyslexia... they are all 'classed' as having learning difficulties... or to put it another way... to not learn in the same manner as most 'normal' people. Well what do you think the people above did? ... accept they were somehow inferior to 'normal' people? ... no they found out how to learn 'their way' and went about building their life doing what they loved, using the talents they had... and I'm sure you would agree we are pleased they did? ... most of them by the way would not have been diagnosed of anything in their time... there wouldn't have been a name for it back then!

Now here is another chap below... take some time out to listen to his story... Scott Sonnon talks about the 70 different learning styles and the one which we mainly use to teach in our schools. Titled, "how we suppress genius and create learning disability"

Watching this video we learn that not everyone's sensory ability is the same, many of us pick up knowledge and information through our senses differently. Like our attempts in healthcare to apply mass produced medication to a population where each individual is different, so we do the same thing in education. Everyone is bright, everyone is capable of learning... just in our modern day education system, the ones attuned to learning in the way we want to teach, do fine... the rest are consigned to the scrap heap... or labelled as academically challenged.

I know from my own experience at school... to be honest I thought much of it was all a waste of time... why did I need to know all these facts and figures from history? ... If I wanted I could look them up in an encyclopaedia... I wasn't interested enough to want to keep them in my head. In fact looking back one thing that was consistent on every single school report was "Chris does enough to get by"... why? ... because just getting by met the system's criteria? I hadn't failed according to the system. But the sad fact was I hadn't been stimulated to be the best I could be either... I had in fact failed myself, I could have done much better but the right learning methods were not being used for me... I needed another way... we never got to find out what that was in my day... perhaps I had some learning difficulty but was able to do enough... how many other people out there like that???

Nowadays young adults have access to smart phone technology, they have the information resources of the whole planet at their fingertips and yet we continue to bash away with the tired old teaching methods... and still largely ignore the fact that students need to learn in different ways!

So are 'Normal' people disabled? ... Well without any obvious physical constraints people have the world of possibilities at their feet. This presents a different kind of challenge. What on earth do I do? The world is my oyster, but what is my purpose? ... instead of us focussing on assisting people in discovering what motivates them, their passions, we continue to drill our young adults in a mind numbing way and destroy creative thinking and problem solving... and largely ignoring any possibility that some might respond to education differently if we first worked out how they learn best... in short we ought to be much better at doing education!!

One last thought... considering that there are 70 learning styles we know of... and that it is highly likely only perhaps the top 15 out of the 70 excel in the way we are taught in schools today... and that 55 out of 70 could improve their learning if we were able to establish what learning technique works best for them... interesting isn't it? ... but wouldn't that be worth at least some investigation? ... in this case almost all of us have an element of what is rather broadly labelled as Dyslexia but we never even know it! ... who out there can help us discover our learning style? ... +Corinna Shepherd

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(In theaters, August 1999) Somehow, I expected better from this Hollywood satire, almost as if it was deliberately pulling its punches in order not to offend anyone. Yes, Eddie Murphy does a creditable job in two roles that ask a lot of courage from a superstar actor, but is this the hilarious comedy we could have expected from Steve Martin? Though steadily amusing, there aren’t very many big laughs in Bowfinger and one has to wonder why given the great premise (an actor is manipulated to star in a film without him knowing it). As it is, though, even if the film is a slight disappointment, it is not a waste of time.

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Drivers of zero-emission cars could be given green number plates to help them benefit from incentives for cleaner vehicles.

The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on plans to give special licence plates to cars which conform to the highest environmental standards.

This will make them easily identifiable to local authorities who want to promote the use of zero- emission vehicles through schemes such as allowing drivers to use bus lanes or charging them less for parking.

The measure is part of the Government's £1.5 billion strategy to clean up road transport.

Special number plates have been trialled in Ontario, Canada, with drivers of electric vehicles given free access to toll lanes and high occupancy vehicle lanes.

The city subsequently saw an increase in electric vehicle registrations.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "The UK is in the driving seat of global efforts to tackle vehicle emissions and climate change and improve air quality, but we want to accelerate our progress.

"Green number plates are a really positive and exciting way to help everyone recognise the increasing number of electric vehicles on our roads.

"By increasing awareness of these vehicles and the benefits they bring to their drivers and our environment, we will turbo-charge the zero-emission revolution."

The DfT hopes more people will consider buying cleaner cars when they see the plates.

Elisabeth Costa, senior director at the Behavioural Insights Team, which is part-owned by the Cabinet Office, employees and innovation charity Nesta, said: "The number of clean vehicles on our roads is increasing but we don't notice as it's difficult to tell clean vehicles apart from more polluting ones.

"Green number plates make these vehicles, and our decision to drive in a more environmentally-friendly way, more visible on roads.

"We think making the changing social norm noticeable will help encourage more of us to swap our cars for cleaner options."

Potential plate designs include:

- A fully green number plate with black lettering

- The addition of a green flash on the plate

- The addition of a green dot or symbol

RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes warned that while some drivers could see the plates as a badge of honour, they could foster resentment among owners of conventionally fuelled vehicles.

He said: "On the face of it, drivers we've questioned don't seem too impressed. Only a fifth think it's a good idea and the majority said the number plates wouldn't have the effect of making them any more likely to switch to an electric vehicle."

Mr Shapps recently announced that he has doubled funding for electric vehicle charging points on residential streets.

The Government is also consulting on requiring charge points to be built into all new homes with a parking space.

Data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders shows 25,097 purely electric new cars were registered during the first nine months of the year, more than double the figure during the same period in 2018.

These cars now hold a 1.3% share of the new car market.


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Well in control and 13-0 up with a try by Howe and two penalties and a conversion by Walker, indiscipline cost them as York hit back in the last five minutes of the first half to score tries through Copeland and Karma, Ventriss converting one.

With a strengthening wind behind them after the interval, they went ahead with a try by Bass, and whilst Walker kicked another penalty for City, the home side rode out a strong City challenge.


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PG&E is planning another Power Shutoff beginning Saturday October 26th in the early afternoon. The exact time has not been determined.

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From tongue to brain stem takes just nanoseconds and yet a Master Sommelier candidate has a little over four minutes to taste, evaluate, and identify wines. What happens in between? How much time do you really need to figure out what you think and how you feel about a wine? In this class, you’ll taste five wines, learn the lingo, understand what you prefer, and how to enjoy it with food, family, and friends. You’ll leave with a practical, fun, and common sense way to appreciate, record, and remember the wines you’ve tasted so you can find more wines you want to drink and avoid the ones you don’t.

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Image above: Cicadas are dependent on gut bacteria that have evolved into separate species inside the insect. (Image credit: Martin Hauser)

Bacteria that live in the guts of cicadas have split into many separate but interdependent species in a strange evolutionary phenomenon that leaves them reliant on a bloated genome, a new paper by CIFAR Fellow John McCutcheon’s lab (University of Montana) has found.

Magicicada_fg08-300x281Cicadas subsist on tree sap, which doesn’t provide them all the nutrients they need to live. Bacteria in their gut, including one called Hodgkinia, turns the sap into amino acids that sustain them during their unusual lives. Cicadas spend most of their lives underground before emerging in droves, singing loudly, mating for weeks and then dying off en masse. McCutcheon studied the evolution of Hodgkinia in Magicicada tredicim, a type of cicada that burrows for 13 years. He dissected the insects and removed the bacteria, then sequenced their DNA.

What he found, shortly after setting up his own lab several years ago, perplexed him so much that he thought there was a technical mistake. “I could not make heads or tails of it,” McCutcheon says. “It looked so, so broken.” Hodgkinia’s genome was a fragmented and overlapping mess that seemed to contain many copies of its DNA with slight variations.

He set it aside for a while, until last year, when he found that in the gut of a South American cicada with a much shorter life span, Hodgkinia had split into two separate species about five million years ago. The split left the insect reliant on double the species to create the same nutrients that required only one species to make before.

When McCutcheon’s lab returned to the 13-year cicada, they found many more than two splits. Pulling apart the web of genetic information revealed the bacterium’s genome had increased about 10-fold from what the scientists estimate its ancestor’s DNA looked like. They found at least 17 new chromosomes or genomes, but estimate that the cicada may rely on as many as 50 to survive.

“We think Hodgkinia has a very high mutation rate,” McCutcheon says. “It makes a lot of mistakes every replication cycle.”

In cicadas with longer lives, those mistakes might be piling up during idle years spent underground, leading to broken genes in different cell types. McCutcheon’s lab is now studying how a growing symbiont might make life difficult for cicadas. McCutcheon compares the problem with trying to care for many children — several species of Hodgkinia — in addition to its other symbiont, a bacterium called Sulcia.

“We can actually see a little bit of evidence for that in our data, where the tissue volume the cicada puts toward one of its children, Sulcia, is getting smaller, because of the increasing space it must devote to its growing gaggle of Hodgkinia. It’s trying to accommodate all these different cell types,” he says.

From a broader perspective, understanding how symbioses evolve over time could help scientists learn more about organelles such as mitochondria, which humans and all other animals depend on.

“The greater context of this is something that people in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity and CIFAR have been thinking about for a long time,” McCutcheon says.

They’ve been studying questions such as why some organelle genomes look very different than others, and how genetic complexity arises from evolution that isn’t adaptive, or beneficial to the organism. “There is no better place in the world than CIFAR to think about these fundamental and broad themes in biology,” McCutcheon says.

The paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was published in conjunction with a Sackler Colloquium co-sponsored by CIFAR and the US National Academy of Sciences, entitled “Symbioses Becoming Permanent: The Origins and Evolutionary Trajectories of Organelles.”

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Global Gathering: The 5th Cigar Smoking World Championship in Split

Under a sunsplashed Dalmatian sky, cigar smokers from across the planet gather as one. Ostensibly, we come for the competition; but we all know why we are really here: to celebrate the brotherhood (and sisterhood) surrounding the hand-rolled cigar. Throughout a long-weekend itinerary of lunches, dinners, drinks, boats and smokes, I marvel at how a simple bunch of leaves can help to cross all boundaries of race, religion, language and experience.

This is the fifth Cigar Smoking World Championship. It’s the brainchild of Marko Bilič, an irrepressible bundle of energy and drive. Together with his close family and circle of friends from the Cigar Club Mareva he has crafted this extraordinary meeting of minds, sponsored by the whisky maestros, Chivas.

Now, early on a Friday evening, more than 100 guests are here on the cocktail terrace of the Radisson Blu Hotel. “This is my dream come true”, Marko tells the crowd, and not for the last time. “Thank you all for making this possible.” The premise of the World Cigar Smoking Championship is to take the longest time to smoke a Montecristo No. 4, without relighting and under strict regulations.

The world record, held by Cigar Journal’s very own Reinhold Widmayer, stands at an incredible 1hr 52mins and 10secs. But first, on this breezy opening night, it’s dinner and cigars on the terrace of the F Marine Restaurant in the old harbor. Saturday is the day of the main event, but there is a treat in store for us first. Gathered and transported back to the harbor the next morning, Marko leads us to the Diocletian Palace – where Roman Emperors once took their summer vacation amidst the cooling offshore breezes.

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And inside – next to long, linen-draped tables – are Roman Centurions, fully dressed and armed, guarding our luncheon. With amazing squid-ink black risotto and cigars from Daniel Marshall, who was personally on hand to deliver a heartfelt speech, and Vegas de Santiago from Costa Rica, we are treated to some goose-bump-inspiring a cappella from Klapa Cambi.

Olivia Divenot then introduces her own sublime Armagnac Baronne Jacques de Saint Pastou, which is a sensational finish to a suitably decadent lunch in the palace.

It takes me a dip in the Adriatic to come round. From the Radisson Blu’s private jetty, one can enjoy a comfortable seat, order from the bar and make the most of this playground of the beautiful. There’s just time for a siesta before the main event begins. Guests in dinner suits and cocktail dresses arrive for registration and there’s a note of seriousness in the air.

The ballroom is hushed as competitors sit down at their tables and the rules are read out; no re-lighting; no blowing on the cigar; one match only is allowed to light; points are deducted for falling ash; the cigar must stay alight. With a countdown clock displayed on overhead screens, the battle is on.

I choose to mingle, walking amongst the tables and the onlookers to assess the action. Bottles of 12-year-old Chivas are soon being served. It’s no mean feat to smoke a mareva-sized cigar for these extreme lengths of time. Fortunately, I have a gift cigar from Rick Rodriguez of CAO Cigars to while away mine in more comfort.

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The clock ticks on. Incredibly, the 90-minute mark comes and goes and several competitors are still in the competition. Many have dropped out because their sticks have underperformed, or they’ve paid too little attention to the burn. Widmayer is an early knockout, his cigar inexplicably giving up the ghost.

He joins the watching crowd with a grin. As we get closer to last year’s record, the tension can be felt. Two women remain to battle it out for a string of pearls for the best female performance. For the winner of the overall competition, the prize is a luxury yacht cruise and a special case of Chivas. The crowd surrounds the remaining tables, now on opposite sides of the room. Competitors try not to be drawn into conversation lest their cigar ashes fall.

A collective sigh fills the room – the second-to-last competitor has bowed out with a round of applause. And now one man remains – already a winner, but tantalizingly close to yet another remarkable world record. As Reinhold Widmayer’s record ticks around on the stopwatch, the crowd explodes with relief; the new man has done it.

After 1hr 55 minutes and 35 seconds, the winner shakes his head and puts down his cigar, which has finally gone out. It is Darren Cioffi of Nashville, Tennessee, an American cigar maker of the excellent Principle Cigars. He is tired from the tension, but elated about winning. Prizes are handed out, hands shaken and, finally, we go upstairs to the terrace for the gala dinner and dance.

All in all, it has been a fabulous excuse to visit this beautiful corner of the world and appreciate that, wherever we are and whatever we do, we are all bound by the leaf. See you next time for the Cigar World Championship. Feel free to bring your partners – with great food, drink, spa and seaside on hand, it’s a trip that everyone can enjoy.

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Darren Cioffi – 01:55:35, USA

2nd Place:
Nenad Medak – 01:41:40, Croatia

3rd Place:
Christine Magnin – 01:32:40 Switzerland

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Nick Hammond is an award-winning writer from the UK. He writes for prestigious international titles on cigars, travel, food, drink, hotels, luxury, and more. Nick has been writing for Cigar Journal since 2010.

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