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Not sure what you’re doing for New Years? Who cares! It’s all about what you drink on New Year’s Eve. Here is a list of five fabulous alcoholic drinks for your 2010 New Years Celebration.

1. Lime Margaritas: This classic Mexican drink is perfect for any New Year’s Celebration. Bud don’t even bother with the Margarita mix, use fresh limes for the best flavor possible.
2. Waborita: This drink is simply a fun twist on an old classic. It’s made with fresh limes and is also flavored with cointreau and premium Cabo-Wabo tequila.
3. Tequila Twist: Of course tequila and citrus are the ultimate mix. Try these shots served with a frosted shot glass and make sure its rimmed with sugar and garnished with strawberries. A few of these twists will definitely twirl you off your bar stool.
4. Tequila Fuego: This literally translates to Tequila on Fire! This super spicy shot will wake you up and seriously energize your taste buds. You should prepare it with Tabasco sauce or Tapatia and a jalapeno for that extra bing.
5. Sangrita: If you happen to get your hands on a super-premium bottle of tequila, you might just choose to enjoy it by the sip rather than mixing it. Make up a dashing batch of sangrita and use it as a sipper in between tequila shots.

This New Year’s Eve go wild with these super poignant, super tasty alcoholic drinks. Let your taste buds keep you up all night and give your mouth some kick. All of these mixes will have you dancing on bar stools and well, falling off bar stools. Play it safe and always party hard with a designated driver on hand.

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London’s Top Five Bars

Even in the current recession new bars spring up like weeds. Their highly paid PRs ensure they get at least their hour in the sun and what new bar does not promise the earth?  How then can the discerning drinker sort the wheat from the chaff?  Well below is an insiders guide to London’s bar land.

Making a list of the best bars in London is of course in part a nonsense . The requirements of say a hip young clubber, cocktail aficionado and a gourmet are all going to be very. And that’s before getting into the whole bar vs bar restaurant, bar vs bar club, gay vs straight and public vs private members clubs issue. Below are what I call my five “best of breed” bars .

I make no attempt to crown one “best of show” because as any grocer  will tell you you cannot compare apples and pears.

Peacock Bar – best for entertainment www-the-peacock-bar.co.uk

Now I have to confess to some bias here as I book the club and helped create it. However in my defense Peacock Bar has been rated Best London Cabaret Venue, Best London Burlesque Show as well as Top Birthday Party Venue by ViewLondon [plus won just about every other award under the sun in the last six months including Top London Small Venue from Function Fixers and Spoonfed]. Our programming is very much musical comedy sketches /social commentary in the finest Kinks style After we have cheesy 80s, 90s, 00s till 2.30am with top Djs like Dave DiskoJuice. We also try and program seasonally so for Christmas we are presenting ” Christmas Lunch and Christmas Dinner with a difference with free burlesque and cabaret – put your boss on stage and humiliate him! Particularly well suited for birthday party, Christmas party, hen party and stag party bookings. Should Peacock Bar be rated best for Entertainment? Well where else in London can you get great cocktails, burlesque, cabaret and Djs till 2.in the morning all under one roof!  Runners up Inigo for electronic music and Hawley Arms for live bands.

Vinoteca – Best for wines

I almost did not include this bar because I was initially uneasy about its almost pure wine focus making it completely unlike any other bar I am aware of except possibly Vinopolis (whch isn’t really a bar anyway more a glorified supermarket not my cup of tea at all).
The wine list is a outstanding with a vast range to choose from including several many unusual options by the glass and this is what sets it apart from every other bar and restaurant in London where you have to purchase from the bottle. It is not possible to give justice to the breadth of the wine list in terms of grape varieties, countries and price points. Just go there.
Putting the wines aside I quite like the distressed brick like simplicity (think Smiths of Smithfield), food (suitably plain) offering and overall bar atmosphere. Runners up any Michelin restaurant who invariably have much better wines than any bar but especially Gavroche
It is the wine list that is the star at Vinoteca

Lab – best for cocktails
What Vinoteca is to wines Lab is to cocktails but like Vinoteca it is very much a one trick pony but hey what a trick! A very convenient position in the middle of Soho is a somewhat spoilt by a having to go into a rather dingy and low ceilinged basement (ignore the ground floor which is pokey and reminiscent of an  airport lounge) . The atmosphere can also be rather flat with too many out of towners trying out the excellent cocktails before moving onto dinner. The food average at best. Entertainment is just a CD player. However Lab has consistently produced the highest quality of cocktails in London bar none for at least the last five years and manages to do so in a non stuffy way (please note various hotel bars I prefer not to publicize). That for me means Lab gets my vote as one of London’s Top Five Bars. Runners up none spring to mine but a list of pretenders to the throne would be  endless

Loungelover – best for style
You either love it or you hate but everyone who has any sense of style loves it. Picture this a room are taken up by seating, which is mostly regency-style chairs with low, candlelit tables, each with a four foot champagne. The bar area features high glass fronted bookshelves filled up not with books, but with wine and glasses. Opposite the main room is an antiquities room and VIP area (also used for performances) also serves as a green room for any performers. The very back of the room is the red section of Loungelover. Decked out entirely in red, even down to red tinted windows, this area surely has only one purpose – seduction. And it works the drinks and food are first rate albeit on the pricey side. Runners up on the style front Ziegfrieds and Lost Society

The Library and Garden Room – best hotel bar
Not really my thing but for any US investment bankers reading this article get on down their fast. The Library at the Lanesborough Hotel conjures up drinking men’s clubs from regency times, with wall to wall books and high ceilings and though you won’t find old lords snoring in the corner, you will find a standard of service unknown since colonial days. Following a refurbishment, the Lanesborough has created The Garden Room, for those who believe the life went out of the London bar scene along with the smoke. An extensive collection of Cuban cigars is offered for those who want to complete their evening in style. Runners up Met bar and Zetters

As someone who works in the cigar industry, it takes a lot to get me excited about a cigar. I’m used to sales reps hyping up the “latest and greatest” from whichever brand they happen to be representing. It’s their job, I get it, but it’s made me very skeptical. So, you can imagine how thrilled I was to discover that one company always delivers the goods. That company is Davidoff and their newest line, Puro D’Oro, did NOT disappoint.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t already partial to Davidoff. I don’t think I’ve experienced many cigars smoother than the Davidoff Thousands series that offer such an amazing caliber flavor profile. Emerson’s Cigars is one of the few brick and mortars in my area, Hampton Roads, Virginia, that offers Davidoff at all five of their locations for such an amazing price. So, when I heard Davidoff was introducing the Puro d’Oro, I knew exactly where I would be smoking my first one.

Davidoff Puro d’Oro is a very special cigar, not only because it’s from Davidoff, but because it has such an amazing story. Literally meaning “pure gold,” Puro d’Oro is a testament to what can happen when someone combines science, creativity, and lots of patience. In 1996, Hendrik Kelner began experimenting with tobaccos for this cigar’s wrapper. His initial attempts with Criollo seeds failed, at least to Davidoff standards, even though they were meticulously and expertly cross-bred with specially selected hybrid seeds. Then came the miracle idea. Hendrik hypothesized that the red, clay-like soil of Yamasa would produce a unique, interesting, but rich flavor as a wrapper leaf. Flash forward years later and success was granted. The Puro d’Oro was born.

I tried the Davidoff Puro d’Oro at the Emerson’s Cigars new location in the up-and-coming Peninsula Town Center in Hampton, Virginia.  They have an extremely comfortable and chic lounge area with beverages and flat screens. (If you can’t make it to one of their stores, they have amazing prices on their online store- (www.EmersonsCigars.com) I decided to begin with the Notable. Construction was impressive, not many veins, with a classic pigtail end. I’ve obviously never smoked a cigar with a Yamasa wrapper before so there wasn’t anything to compare it to!  The initial taste was buttery with a slight hint of cream. This moved into notes of spice, becoming heavier and more earthy through the end. I really love a Dominican puro. I think the flavors are bold without being overpowering yet delicate enough to be enjoyable. The burn was as even as could be and held a brilliant ash through the better part of the cigar. Price points are pretty fair. Emerson’s Cigars sells them in 25 count boxes and pre-packaged four packs. The Puro d’Oro from Davidoff is definitely a lovely, innovative, yet traditionally packaged and presented cigar. Well worth its weight in gold.

Perhaps it’s because there’s a close cultural connection between great music and smoky bars. Anyone who knows anything about jazz knows that its truly legendary improvisers – Coltrane, Bird, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie – cut their teeth playing in bars so smoky that it’s a good thing everybody was too busy improvising to need sheet music.

Or maybe it’s because both cigars and music are contemplative pleasures. A casual smoker can get a quick tobacco-fix from a cheap cigarette, just as a casual music listener can enjoy the background hum of pop songs on the car radio. But to really enjoy a great performance, or a good tobacco, sitting still and paying attention are necessary.

In any case, music and cigar smoking seem to belong together, and some of the most famous musicians are (or were) cigar devotees – just as, it turns out, one of the most famous of cigar devotees is also a musician. Avo Uvezian, the maker of Avo cigars, is also a respected classical and jazz pianist, a Julliard graduate, and even the one-time official pianist of the Shah of Iran. After a successful musical career based first in his native Middle East, and then in the contiguous United States, Uvezian moved in the 1980s to Puerto Rico, where he opened a restaurant and bar and dabbled in cigarmaking. After customers at his Puerto Rico restaurant told him how much they enjoyed some cigars he’d had rolled himself, from a blend of tobaccos he hand-picked, he opened his own Dominican Republic-based cigar factory, working with noted cigar maker Hendrik Kelner. Now his company makes three million cigars a year, and Uvezian himself still makes music – his first CD, Legacy, was released in 2004.

For another example, consider the great trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who smokes, by his own estimation, four or five cigars a day. Music allowed the Cuban-born Sandoval to rise to fame in his native Cuba – and to defect from that country in 1990, during a long stint playing concerts in Europe (he now lives in Florida). Sandoval has played the horn for Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, Gloria Estefan and Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand and Frank Sinatra. His technically flawless playing has resulted in his being the kind of musician whose work is often known by people who couldn’t name him – he is brought in as a session musician by some of the world’s finest and best-known (see above), and he often scores movie soundtracks. As his work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic prove, he’s even proved able to handle the rigors of classical music as well as jazz – sometimes doing both in the same concert.

The cigar-music connection is especially strong in Cuba, known as one of the world’s cigar capitals. Both cigars and music are staples of island life (the cigar remains one of the island’s most prominent exports), and the strength of both in Cuban culture depends partly on the nimble and intelligent blending of elements from everywhere – wrappers and fillers from different parts of Latin America, rhythms and melodies from the African coast, South America, US pop, Western European classical, etc. In other words, Cuban cigarmaking and Cuban music have both survived, and flourished, by mixing and melding.

For generations, cigar rollers were entertained by the sound of paid musicians or by music from the radio. (This tradition continues even now in the Dominican Republic, where workers at the Arturo Fuente factory, among other places, are treated to the work of performing musicians.) With this tradition in place, it’s no wonder that some of Cuba’s music legends got their start as cigar-factory entertainers; and since tobacco smoking has been a part of Latin American life far longer than it has in some other places – Columbus’s sailors noted it being smoked in what is now modern Cuba in the year 1493, so there’s many more centuries of lore to draw on its psychological and emotional associations are deeper and richer, providing better material for songwriters to mine. Thus famous Cuban songwriter Beny More, himself a former entertainer for the cigar-factory workers, touches on the song in a number of his classic compositions.

Any time I talk about writing articles, I hear people say things like “I don’t have the ability to write” or “I’m a really good writer but I have a hard time with procrastination.” Now, I don’t have a problem with the writing. I know I can write pretty well but I do have a problem with getting started and then finishing.

Of course, staring at my computer screen all day isn’t exactly my idea of a good time. Certainly, I’d much rather be carving waves or mountains. What would you rather do: toil away all day on your computer writing article after article or simply rewrite some high quality articles, tie them together, make them look like your own and then do whatever it is you like to do?

If any of the stuff above reminds you of the person that you see every morning in the mirror, then these four ways that you can profit from private label content are for you as are the other four in Part 2.

Here are four ways in which you can use private label content to easily make money:

1. Take the content, plug your affiliate links into the content and compile them into a spectacular little eBook.

I just love to use this little strategy Now, for instance, let’s say that you have a website that sells cigars. You buy private content about cigars that cigar aficionados would like then compile it into a mini eBook. Then load the eBook with links back to your website and encourage your customers to pass it along so that it will spread like a virus.

And you can take it a step further if you have a rebrander program. Don’t know what a rebrander is? With a rebrander, your affiliates can take your eBook and place their affiliate link to your store in it. This really is the essence of viral marketing because now it is easier and more profitable for your affiliates to promote your web site.

2. Make a solid report by culling some of the articles together and then give it away to promote your site. Also, if you use a rebrander, you can rebrand the report and allow your affiliates to promote your website by giving it away for free.

Of course, most salespeople know that it takes an average seven contacts with a customer before they will place an order. A few people will order the first time, but more often than not, you will have to contact them 4+ times before they will order. The small problem is that you need their email address because they’re not going to just hand it over… that’s way you give them the free report.

Well, the better the report the more trust you build with your customer and the more likely they become to open their wallet. I mean, let me ask you this: would a report with 25 articles in it make you happy? Damn straight you would!

3. Simply create a small niche content site and make money by placing Google Adsense on your website’s pages.

I love Google Adsense… it’s the easiest way to make money! Why? Because even a small little website with only five pages can make me $5-10 per day. You can make $36,000-73,000 by simply creating twenty little 5-page websites. A 25-page site can make me $25-50 per day… 365 days per year!

You do the math. A small little website + submitting your articles to article directories = $$$$. Simple. Awesome. Extremely lucrative. And with private label content… very little work!

4. With private label content packages, you get hundreds of articles across various niches every month so you can load up your articles to go out once a week and have a newsletter set for a year in advance.

Are you like me? Do you like to spend time setting something up all at one time so that you don’t have to deal with it for a year or two? Just so I never have to buy any for the rest of the year, I always buy two cases of toilet paper at Costco. Well, with private label content packages, you get hundreds of articles each month so you can do the same basic thing.

I mean, wouldn’t it be great to take the articles and put them together as an newsletter that goes out every single week like clockwork? Wouldn’t that be spectacular? Every day, money will flow into your bank account for work that took you one day months or years ago.

If you want to make money with private label content, then these four ways are an excellent starting point. Of course, these are not the only ways to make money from private label content. In fact, if you haven’t already done so, check out part 2 of this article. Just click on one of the links in the resource/bio box below!

The number of people shopping online for cigar accessories has been on the rise, in the past one decade or so. Perhaps this is yet another piece of evidence that the Internet market has come of age – so that people shop there for things they wouldn’t even have considered buying remotely, in days gone by. And the beauty of online shopping is that trends can be very easily monitored. It is from such monitoring of online shopping for cigar accessories that we can be in a position to work out what the most commonly bought cigar accessories are.

Understandably, cigar lighters come across as the most commonly bought cigar accessories online – and presumably, offline too. These, for the benefit of those who are new to the whole cigar smoking business, are the devices you use to light up your cigar, so that you can smoke it. Of course, anything that produces an open flame can serve this purpose. But using the ‘right tool for the right job’ (the specialized cigar lighter in this case) makes you come across as a person with a refined taste,  a person of class; which is definitely not the case when you use a matchstick for the job. Some cigar lighters will tend to be very beautifully crafted; whereas others are rather rudimentary, practical if you like. Ultimately, you tend to get what you pay for.

The reason as to why cigar lighters are amongst the most commonly bought cigar accessories is because their usage is inevitable. You have to light a cigar to enjoy it. And if your image is something you care about, you need to ensure that it is a proper lighter you are using. It also doesn’t help that the lighters are notoriously easy to lose; so that most people are perpetually replacing theirs.

Cigar tubes are another variety of cigar accessories that are very commonly bought. They are meant to serve the purpose of protecting the cigars, the same way an arsenal would protect the arrows in it. They are also image devices: you don’t want to be seen pulling cigars out of your pocket, if you can afford to be seen getting them out of a proper case.

Then there are cigar cases, as another variety of very commonly bought cigar accessories. These too, serve a practical purpose of protecting the cigars (just as the cigar tubes do); but they tend to be larger in size. They are also something of image devices – being seen pulling your cigars out of a case is definitely better than being seen pulling them out of your back pocket.

Cigar cutters are the next most commonly purchased cigar accessories. These find application in the smoking process itself; and they are quite indispensable. They are the devices you used to nip the ‘cap’ of the cigar so that you can start enjoying it. Of course, you could use your knife to uncap your cigars; but only will you look uncultured, you will also be taking the risk of making a mess of them.