This Examiner really wants to enjoy the fantastic lucha libre action that the wrestler formerly known as Mistico can bring to the WWE, yet it seems something always gets in the way. This match which pitted the two masked men against one another for the rights to the Sin Cara name was action-packed but the over produced lighting scheme around the ring took away from the match itself. It felt like the New Orleans crowd was not digging their claws into this one either, with more smarky contingent of the audience giving the “boring” chants. The match was by no means boring. It just felt slightly muted due the lighting around the ring which makes a Sin Cara match look it’s being performed a gentlemen’s club than an arena. The fans were just not emotionally invested in this match which still had flipping power bomb finnish.  Sin Cara’s character is hurt coming out of this poorly produced match.  From here what happens with Sin Cara is a toss up, but something big is being planned for him at Wrestlemania 28.

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by Lauren LaBorde
on Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:55 PM
For those of you who dream of cavorting amid Hugh Hefner’s bevy of former strippers at the Playboy Mansion but must settle for a less Entourage-esque existence in New Orleans, here’s something that might interest you. You may have previously thought the closest you could get to those bunnies was through bathroom reading material and your girlfriend’s DVR recordings of Kendra, but now the Playboy mansion comes to you: on Oct. 14, Stonebridge Golf Club in Gretna (the Los Angeles of the Greater New Orleans area) will be transformed into Hefner’s sprawling domicile when it hosts Playboy Golf, which combines the networking sport with — you guessed it — sexy ladies! (Insert really creepy double entendres using golf terms here.)

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Gulf Coast M3 gasoline differentials climbed 2.75 cents per gallon to 0.75 cent under the November RBOB contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday EDT Tuesday (1600 GMT). Traders said the boost was due to news of the shutdown as well as the fuel’s latest five-day lifting cycle scheduling to move on the Colonial Pipeline.
Space on the Colonial, which transports refined products to the U.S. Northeast from the Gulf Coast, is limited because of allocations.
A spokeswoman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the refinery as part of a 50/50 venture with Saudi Aramco, declined comment on the plant’s operations.
The filing said there were emissions from the overhead of a distillation column due to a leak on the reactor stripper overhead line while performing the shutdown. (Reporting by NR Sethuraman in Bangalore and Kristen Hays in Houston; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer and Andrea Evans) Keywords: REFINERY OPERATIONS/MOTIVA NORCO

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Gulf Coast M3 gasoline differentials climbed 2.75 cents per gallon to 0.75 cent under the November RBOB contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday EDT Tuesday (1600 GMT). Traders said the boost was due to news of the shutdown as well as the fuel’s latest five-day lifting cycle scheduling to move on the Colonial Pipeline.
Space on the Colonial, which transports refined products to the U.S. Northeast from the Gulf Coast, is limited because of allocations.
A spokeswoman for Royal Dutch Shell, (RDSa.L) which operates the refinery as part of a 50/50 venture with Saudi Aramco, declined comment on the plant’s operations.
The filing said there were emissions from the overhead of a distillation column due to a leak on the reactor stripper overhead line while performing the shutdown. (Reporting by NR Sethuraman in Bangalore and Kristen Hays in Houston; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer and Andrea Evans)

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The square is also home to Cafe Du Monde, famous for its cafe au lait and beignets, a great vantage point for people watching or viewing street vendors selling art and jewelry. Walk in any direction off the square and you’ll encounter fashion boutiques, art, antiques and jewelry shops galore. Stop to watch street performers sing, dance, mime or exhibit an assortment of other skills such as puppetry and balancing acts.
If it’s not too hot in the evening, wait in line with others to shuffle into Preservation Hall and hear the local jazz band performing. It’s typically a standing-room-only crowd for these accomplished musicians, who sell their CDs and pass the hat for donations.
Walk along Bourbon Street to experience the city’s seedier side, where half-clad strippers stand in doorways to entice customers inside and employees hawk 3-for-1 drink specials at the numerous watering holes.

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Delaup, 43, missed the golden age recalled by the Champagne Girl, but fell in love with the stories and the spirit of the retired dancers he interviewed for a ongoing documentary film project. Eventually, Delaup was drawn into producing contemporary burlesque shows in New Orleans, including his long-running Bustout Burlesque evenings at House of Blues. In 2011, Travel Channel listed Bustout Burlesque as one of the “Top 10 Burlesque Shows” worldwide.
“Burlesque was once a natural part of the cultural landscape in New Orleans — and I think it should be again,” Delaup said. “This was part of the glamour that helped make Bourbon Street a familiar name everywhere. That reputation still draws visitors, but do they ever find what they are looking for?”
Old-style glamour is also part of the appeal for today’s performers, Delaup said.
“Some call themselves strippers, some call themselves exotic dancers — the name doesn’t matter. It’s the attitude of these dancers that sets them apart. Most of them are a little older — late 20s and early 30s — because it takes time to get confident on stage, to understand an audience, understand yourself, and work out a routine that draws on that.”

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Video footage taken seconds before a murder outside an IHOP in eastern New Orleans last year and shown on YouTube helped convict a 27-year-old man in the shooting — one of two murder convictions that Orleans Parish juries returned last week.
By an 11-1 count, a jury convicted Carl Labat in the slaying of Travis Anderson, 25, who was shot a dozen times in the parking lot of the pancake house on I-10 Service Road.
Labat and Anderson had been involved in an altercation the night before at Passions, a strip club, and witnesses said Labat had announced a threat against Anderson outside the apartment complex of the victim’s family about 20 minutes before the shooting.
Police said Labat and his girlfriend, Sheena Edwards, 25, had argued with Anderson at the strip club, where Edwards worked as a dancer. The couple allegedly told Anderson that they would kill him, flashing 9 mm and .40-caliber handguns while pledging to track Anderson down.

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Not every combat veteran emerges from war with this sense of dislocation. For some, an extreme life experience — war, trauma, a natural disaster — can give their lives new meaning. After the hurricane, I relocated to Virginia, where, working on a story for the local newspaper, I interviewed J.R. Martinez, a then-22-year-old Army corporal from Shreveport, Louisiana. Martinez had suffered burns over 40 percent of his body when he drove a Humvee over a landmine in Karbala, Iraq, and was trapped inside. 
At a fundraiser where he was helping raise money for other veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, Martinez pulled off his knit cap to show me the breast implant that was embedded under the skin of his skull to expand the skin, which would be grafted onto other, scarred parts of his body. I suggested that when he was done with it, he donate the breast implant to a stripper who had only one breast implant, and we laughed. At the time, Martinez had undergone over two-dozen surgeries. For the most part, he was cheery and upbeat. It seemed through what had happened to him, he had found his purpose.

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Speedy veteran Jonathan Vilma leads a linebacker corps that likely will feature two new starters outside. Jonathan Casillas is the frontrunner on the weak side after missing his second season because of a Lisfranc injury. He’s a Williams favorite and is a classic sideline-to-sideline tackler. Rookie Martez Wilson and veterans Scott Shanle and Danny Clark will compete for the starting job on the strong side.
The strength of the unit is the secondary. Starting cornerbacks Jabari Greer and Tracy Porter are solid cover men outside. They don’t make many big plays, but they also rarely blow assignments or get burned deep. Patrick Robinson, a 2010 first-round pick, played sparingly as a rookie but has talent. He’ll try to hold off newcomer Fabian Washington and promising third-round draft pick Johnny Patrick for the nickel spot. Strong safety Roman Harper is the team’s best tackler and ball-stripper but can still be exploited in pass coverage. Free safety Malcolm Jenkins is the best of the bunch. Smart and instinctive, he’s very similar to former teammate and mentor Darren Sharper.

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The Party Patrol typically operates at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville streets. The volunteers approach tourists, claiming they have violated a made-up law, such as “failing to have a good time.” They write fake tickets and say the only way to resolve the issue is to buy a Party Patrol hat for $10 or more.
It’s the most effective way to get the attention of tourists who are barraged by “clowns, musicians, acrobats, tap dancers and restaurant and club barkers,” Kaufman said.
Kaufman refused to be interviewed but in a series of emails he wrote that Food for Life and the Hare Krishna of New Orleans have “tolerated decades of bigoted and ignorant abuse from the likes of strip club owners, salacious souvenir hawkers and other morally questionable profiteers who prey on the public in their own inimitable ways.”

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