Arizona Bass Fishing tips and

Arizona bass fishing is ideal, especially for the experienced angler. While those that are new to the game may have a bit more challenge than they realized, the fish offer an outstanding trip nearly every time. Bass fishing here is just one of many types you can do. Yet, for most anglers, it is one of the best locations for this type of fishing. It pays to get to know the area well before you visit, or through the locals that are surely able to help you.

If you are looking to go bass fishing in Arizona, get ready for the fight of a strong fish in these prime Arizona lakes and waterways! These are just a few of the many options you have.

Lake Pleasant is located about half an hour from Phoenix. Full of largemouth, white, and striped bass, the levels in this lake tend to go up and down often, which tends to make the fish easy to find most times. Fly fishermen and casters alike are sure to find lots of action at Lake Pleasant year round, and old timers are usually around to offer suggestions on location and technique, and are eager to help novice fishermen.

* Bartlett Lake is about a forty-five minute trip from the city of Scottsdale, Arizona. It is considered by many to provide the very best fishing in the state, based largely on its consistency in providing opportunities for fishermen of all ages and skills levels all year long.

* Saguaro Lake is also about a forty-five minute drive from Scottsdale, this lake, well known for its trophy sized catches of largemouth bass, is not uncommon to bring in bass in excess of ten pounds, making it one of the most popular trophy fishing sites in the world.

* Canyon Lake is about an hour from Scottsdale, Arizona. It is known for its beauty and photo opportunities as well as largemouth bass of trophy class size.

* Roosevelt Lake is about two hours from Scottsdale. In the year 2004, this lake flooded, giving it about 20,000 areas of surface water. As is the case with new water, this caused the fish population to increase exponentially. Huge catches of 100 fish are common. The varied cover provides ample opportunity for a wide choice of techniques and equipment.

* Alamo Lake is about two and a half hours west from Phoenix, Arizona, and is considered by many to be one of the very best places to fish in the state. This lake requires a large test strength of fishing line, and provides lots of heavy cover, so if you are a fisherman who enjoys demanding casting and big fish are healthy, you'll appreciate the problem that this lake is the Alamo.

* In Salt River, about forty-five minutes from Scottsdale, Arizona. It is clear, deep pool offers ample opportunities for Don and supplies in the chest waders in deep water to catch redfish, trout.

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Gordon Ramsey has been called a lot of names – many of which would not meet PopWatch decency standards. He’s never been dubbed quitter, though. So when he stormed off in defeat from a doomed Philadelphia restaurant on the premiere of Kitchen Nightmares, I didn’t believe it for a second. The fact that the Foul-Mouthed One’s outburst took place at the 20-minute mark also tipped me off that it wasn’t the end of the story for Hot Potato Café, but they certainly had their work cut out.

The Fishtown eatery, with its fondness for serving weeks-old frozen fodder and lack of adequate leadership, was in desperate need of a Ramsey overhaul. It was the recipe for a perfect Nightmare story: bad food, a family operation with three inexperienced owners (who produced almost as many bleeps as Ramsey), and to seal the deal, a poor review in the local paper that had soiled their reputation. The headline of the review had read: ”Spuddy Hell.”

But Ramsey soon found out that three-week-old, sans-potato potato skins were the least of the restaurant’s problems. At the helm of the kitchen catastrophe was a 21-year-old head chef, niece of the owners, who had only signed on for the job so she could help her family. As Ramsey put it, the restaurant had been using a menu that was ”passed down from a bad chef to an inexperienced chef.”

Watching the story unfold, I became angry. The weight of a fledgling quarter-million dollar effort (according to one of the sisters) was resting on a clearly overwhelmed girl who didn’t even want to be a chef – at least at the beginning of the episode. She was taking on more than she could handle, but it seemed as though her aunts neither noticed nor attempted to help ease her burden. Ramsey noticed this too, making it a point to give the girl words of encouragement throughout the episode. In the end, he even arranged for a local chef to mentor her. The gesture moved the girl to tears and ignited her passion for cooking. Ramsey’s heart grew three sizes.

But before the tears of joy, there had been tears of desperation. After witnessing one particularly disastrous night of service, Ramsey angrily asked for their reflection on the evening. Instead of a response, he was met with blank stares from the owners, who looked more like kindergarteners who’d been caught awake during nap time. ”I honestly don’t have the passion or the drive to take it through,” he said rather emotionally, before calling it quits and storming out.

The owners followed after him and confessed that they had lost hope and needed him to save the day. The speech swayed Ramsey to give it one last shot. A cooking lesson, a new menu, and one short segment of Extreme Makeover: Restaurant Edition later, they re-launched the restaurant and even invited back the critic who’d ruined them before.

My mind immediately went to Ratatouille. I expected a high-brow critic with an icy stare and attitude to boot. The intense background score had me preparing for the worst. Instead, we got a man who used terms like ”potato-rific” to describe the newly revamped hot potato soup. Pfft.

Armed with a positive review, a new outlook, and a fresh take on food, the ladies from Hot Potato were ready for their second go at entrepreneurship. Ramsey summed up his experience with an awkward ”long live the power of women!” declaration.

Now it’s your turn PopWatchers. What did you think of the premiere of Kitchen Nightmares? Did you feel as bad as I did for the 21-year-old head chef? Did the Hans Zimmer-esque background score build up the anticipation for the critic’s appearance for you too? Sound off below!

We at the Daily News are proud of our letters page. Many of our readers are as scrappy and opinionated as we are, and we are proud of the fact that the page shows that. Our letters pages embody our mission as "the People Paper," and we publish about 2,000 letters a year. We see the pages as a town square where everyone has a right to speak. And we make sure that people without e-mail and Internet access have as much speech as those who do.

In fact, that's why newspapers are so important. That the Ellie Light letter got so much attention in a world where so much online commentary is anonymous speaks to the power of newspapers. Our brand of democracy requires only 75 cents to enter, not a computer or Internet access. We believe the conversation on our pages are richer because of it.

This wasn't the first time a paper used the scandal as a chance to brag about its own popularity: the Los Angeles Times spun that same yarn on Monday.

The growing consensus in the media is that the little people should be happy for a chance to speak at all. And when this process is corrupted by deception? According to the News, you should look for some cheese to go with that whine:

THE BOTTOM line: Having your say is a precious privilege we have in this society. Ellie Light took advantage of this privilege, while taking advantage of the newspapers in question. We'll continue to verify basic facts, but we'll also continue to rely on the good faith of our readers. If a few readers of less-than-good faith get through, to us, it's a price worth paying.

So you see, these professional editors get paid to act more like bystanders and less like security guards. The privilege of getting published is such a "precious" thing that anyone can do it. Free speech is so sacred, so special, so important, that common liars are granted access without anyone caring.

Perhaps this lackadaisical approach to editing, coupled with the arrogant assumption that they're doing the public a favor, has something to do with the News's struggling profits, which forced the owner into bankruptcy protection less than a year ago.

Only in the liberal media can a newspaper exist on life support while lecturing others about "a price worth paying."

Meanwhile, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been handsomely rewarded for providing honest coverage of the scandal. The article that broke the story earned more than half a million hits in just three days and resulted in the paper claiming ownership of an internet wildfire.

But no matter. The News is content to pay a more noble price of printing bogus spam letters as a service to society.

As to an explanation for why Light's letter was chosen, it offered exactly eight words: "it was short and made its points well."

Too bad the News didn't feel that way when dealing with George Bush. When the Philadelphia Inquirer sought to hire a Bush attorney in May 2009, the News complained about free speech being so freely available:

Will Bunch of the rival Philadelphia Daily News wrote, "It's not about muzzling John Yoo from expressing his far-out-of-the-mainstream opinion in the many venues that are available to him, but whether a major American newspaper should give Yoo, his actions, and the notion of torture advocacy its implied endorsement by handing him a megaphone."

Criticizing a newspaper for "handing him a megaphone" sounds a lot like muzzling, but hey, that was a Bush supporter. Ellie Light was a brilliant defender of Democrats who kinda sorta lied about her identity - an "implied endorsement" of her was just fine.

Not to be outdone, the Lebanon Daily News, just a few miles west in Lebanon, PA, also published an angry screed against its own critics that began with - wait for it - congratulating itself on printing letters from the little people:

Space in any newspaper is always at a premium, and we try to provide as much as possible for the people's voices, particularly on the editorial page. So when Light responded to our inquiry and said she was from Cornwall, that was good enough for us, and we rolled with it.

We usually have to write a variation of this editorial at least once a year. The titillating idea of "gotcha" is too much to pass up for some folks. Fine. We have a liberal - and we mean in the sense of what we allow, not the political leaning - policy on what's allowed on our editorial page. We always have. We welcome conventional views, opposing views, third-party views (especially those, frankly), alternate views and even the occasional skewed view. We provide a significant chunk of real estate for one to bring one's message. Most news papers don't allow upwards of 400 words for letters. We do.

How kind of these papers to welcome a variety of opinions from the very readers who patronize them. It's almost like they're starting to realize normal citizens pay their salaries.

In the middle of a hard recession that's caused newspaper profits to plummet, perhaps it would be wise of these editors to humbly apologize for making a mistake. Instead, readers are given snarky rants about "gotcha" scandals and warnings to be thankful for a paper that prints any letters at all.

If predictions about the future hold true, the newspaper industry might eventually find itself completely out of business...and Ellie Light will be remembered as a big reason why.

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Stories Texas Chili - Facts and Legends

Chili con carne was officially designated the state food of Texas by the State Legislature in 1977, but to most Texans, the fact that a genuine "bowl of red" can only be found in Texas has never been in doubt.

It is generally accepted that, despite its Spanish name, chili con carne (chili peppers with meat) originated in San Antonio Texas. According to a popular theory, Texas chili is an adaptation of a spicy stew that was introduced to the region by immigrants from the Spanish Canary Islands, who came to the area now known as San Antonio in 1731, in what was then the Spanish province of Texas.

Supporting this theory, is the fact that all the spices used in the early versions of chili con carne: chili peppers, oregano and garlic, grow wild in southern Texas; except for the cumin, which was imported from the Canary Islands by the aforementioned Spanish settlers. These spices were boiled along with what ever meat was available to concoct a cheap, simple and satisfying peasant stew.

From the early days, chili was utilized as the perfect trail food. Cowboys on cattle drives took chili along with them on the trail. One simple method of doing this was to pound the beef, suet, chili peppers, and spices together to form bricks that once dried, were readily packed. The chili bricks could easily be boiled up in a pot of water, and served as a convenient, instant trail food. Alternatively, range cooks planted chili peppers, oregano and onions in Mesquite correction is on the way forward for livestock units (Mesquite bushes protected livestock forage grasses). Here is the first version of the file Chili Con Carne, prescription chef since the beginning of 1800:

Cut the meat you think you want (of any type is good, but the meat may be the best) in pieces the size of a walnut. Put in a saucepan with some Suet (so that the won tons of meat 'Stick the bank) and cook for aboutthe same amount of wild onions, garlic, oregano, and chilies as you have got meat. Put in some salt. Stir it from time to time and cook it until the meat is as tender as you think it's going to get."

In time, chili con carne became popular in the small Texas towns that grew up along the cattle trails. In this way, the dish spread throughout the state.

The chili queens of San Antonio are another colorful feature of Texas chili lore. They were Hispanic women with an entrepreneurial spirit who made large pots of chili by day and, clad in brightly colored dresses, trundled their carts to San Antonio's Military Plaza, ladling out their vendibles from cast iron pots heated over wood or charcoal fires in the evening. This tradition started in the 1880s when San Antonio was host to soldiers of the Spanish army, who camped in Military Plaza; the fact that it was also a cattle town and a railroad town ensured that the chili queens had plenty of potential diners willing and able to tuck into their fiery wares. In 1887, the chili queens were moved to Market Square by the city government, where they remained a popular fixture of downtown San Antonio until 1937, at which time they were required to comply with the sanitation regulations set for all the town's food establishments. Many chili queens set up indoors so as to continue in business, but San Antonio lost one of its unique and colorful attractions.

Frank H. Bushick, the San Antonio Commissioner of Taxation, wrote an article about the chili queens that appeared in the July 1927 issue of Frontier Times. According to Bushick:

"The chili stand and chili queens are peculiarities, or unique institutions, of the Alamo City. They started away back there when the Spanish army camped on the plaza. They were started to feed the soldiers. Every class of people in every station of life patronized them in the old days. Some were attracted by the novelty of it, some by the cheapness. A big plate of chili and beans, with a tortilla on the side, cost a dime. A Mexican bootblack and a silk-hatted tourist would line up and eat side by side, unconscious or oblivious of the other."

The chili queens returned to San Antonio, after a fashion, in the 1980s, when the city began historic re-enactments of the chili queens as a tribute to the state food of Texas: chili con carne. The El Mercado Merchants sponsor the annual "Return of the Chili Queens Festival" held in Market Square during the May Memorial Day celebrations.

Of course chili con carne is not only popular in Texas. The piquant dish first got national exposure when it was served at the San Antonio Chili Stand set up in 1893 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago Illinois, where it was a great hit with the crowds.

The Chili cookoff is a popular form of delicious, good-natured competition all over the United States. In fact, cookoffs officially sanctioned by the International Chili Society are held as far afield as Canada and the Cayman Islands. But the grandpa of all the Chili Cookoff held each year in Terlingua, Texas, was founded in 1967 with the help of Carroll Shelby, Texas, and father of the famous sports car, Cobra.

First Terlingua Chili Cookoff was held to answer the call of H. Allen Smith, author of New York, who wrote a story called "Nobody knows Chile About Me" for the August 1967 issue of the magazine Holiday. The articleclaimed that, "...no living man, I repeat, can put together a pot of chili as ambrosial, as delicately and zestfully flavorful, as the chili I make." And, to add insult to injury, his recipe included beans!

Beans are not considered to be an ingredient of genuine Texas chili. As the title of the unofficial anthem sung every year at the Terlingua cookoff would have it: "If You Know Beans About Chili, You Know That Chili Has No Beans." Texas chili champion Homer "Wick" Fowler, not being able to stomach this outrageous claim, challenged the presumptuous New Yorker to a showdown, and the great chili cookoff was born. Unfortunately, the results were inconclusive as the third judge excused himself from service after he had spat out the spoonful of chili he had tried to swallow all over the referee's foot. According to a witness, Sports Illustrated writer Gary Cartwright,

"Then he went into convulsions. He rammed a white handkerchief down his throat as though he were cleaning a rifle barrel, and in an agonizing whisper Witts pronounced himself unable to go on."

So the first chili cookoff ended in a tie, but the Texans haven't given an inch on the issue of beans in chili, at least at sanctioned chili cookoffs. The first rule of the International Chili Society's Official Contestant Rules and Regulations states that:

The following rules and regulations for cooks at the World's Championship, State, Regional and District Cookoffs are as follows:

1. Traditional Red Chili is defined by the International Chili Society as any kind of meat or combination of meats, cooked with red chili peppers, various spices and other ingredients, with the exception of BEANS and PASTA which are strictly forbidden.

The second rule of the official Chili Cooking Rules of Chili Appreciation International, the organizers of the Terlingua Chili Cookoff says:

2. NO FILLERS IN CHILI - Beans, macaroni, rice, hominy, or other similar ingredients are not permitted.

Be that as it may, even many Texans enjoy beans in their chili. Chili con carne is the kind of dish that invites creativity and experimentation and an infinite number of delicious variations are possible. But, even though there are almost as many chili recipes as there are stars in the sky, not all of them qualify as the genuine article form the Lone Star State. I'll leave you with a quote:

"Chili concocted outside of Texas is usually a weak, apologetic imitation of reality. One of the first things I do when I get back to Texas to have a cup of red. There is simply nothing better. "- Lyndon Johnson, 36 President of the United States.

Reaping rewards of rental cars

If you rent a car frequently you're probably already a member of one or more car rental company's frequent renter program. If not, you should be!

Whether it's Alamo ReservePlus, Avis Wizard, Budget Fastbreak, Dollar Express, Enterprise Plus, Hertz #1, National Emerald or Thrifty Bluechip, frequent renter programs are offered to car renters by car rental companies for a variety of reasons.

By rewarding frequent renters with special benefits, program offers and car rental rewards, car rental companies can build customer loyalty and make your rental experience easier and faster, and provide you with specials, savings and rewards that will keep you coming back. Competition is the
name of the game and when there is often not a lot of difference between base rates of certain car sizes with different companies, their membership rewards and benefits for their frequent renters can
be the deciding factor.

Some car renters have one company that they rent with all the time, but more and more renters today will choose the rental company that best fits their needs and budget for a particular rental. There are many renters who have memberships with one or two companies for business travel and will use others for their leisure and vacation travel.

Most frequent renter programs are offered free of charge and are accessible online to enroll and manage. Rewards can range from special email offers for members only, to extra discounts and free day coupons.

If you rent even semi-frequently you should look into joining a frequent renter program with at least one car rental company. I would join as many as you can. This will give you the opportunity to
quickly research which car rental company will give you the best deal and benefits to fit your general needs or the needs for a specific rental.

Deep in the art of Texas: The economic impact study shows a significant impact of art in Texas

The results of a 2003 economic impact study out of Austin confirms the suspicions of many Texas cultural art lovers, demonstrating that the cultural arts have a Texas-sized impact on our economy. The purpose of the study, produced by leading Texas economist Dr. Ray Perryman, was to comprehensively examine the economic impact of the arts on Texas. The study concludes that the arts have an extraordinary impact on the Texas economy ranging from billions of dollars in total expenditures, gross product and personal income, to almost two million permanent jobs.

The study raised awareness of the total contributions of cultural activities within the state and offers a perspective on future patterns and prospects. The report focuses on the full integration of the arts into the entire spectrum of production in the state.

Key findings of the study include:

1. The Arts as a Component of the Entire Economic System

When viewed in terms of their contributions to all sectors of the economy, the cultural arts account for $190.2 billion in total expenditures (12.3% of the state total). The cultural arts also result in $98.4 billion in Gross Product, $61.7 billion in Personal Income and 1.918 million Permanent Jobs (15.7%).

2. THE ARTS AS TRADITIONALLY MEASURED (Visual, Literary, Media and Performing)

The overall effects of the contribution of the arts as traditionally measured (visual, literary, media, and performing) include $63.7 billion in Total Expenditures, $31.5 billion in Gross Product, $18.7 billion in Personal Income, and over 600,000 Permanent Jobs.

As traditionally measured, the cultural arts are responsible for about 19.8% of the total tourism in the state.

3. THE NONPROFIT SEGMENT OF THE ARTS

The nonprofit segment of the arts brings a net benefit to Texas of $19.0 Billion in Total Expenditures, $9.5 billion in Gross Product, $5.9 billion in Personal Income, and over 200,000 Permanent Jobs.

The nonprofit arts sector is the incubator for the vast role of cultural activity in the economy. For every $1 spent on those activities, more than $298 of long-term cultural impact on the economy occurs, as well as $9.20 in State revenues.

4. RURAL IMPACT

Approximately 5.5% of the economic impact of traditional cultural arts occurs in rural segments of the state.

Rural regions of Texas enjoy 6.6% of all nonprofit arts activity.

STAND UP AND TAKE NOTICE, Y'ALL!

Governmental investments in arts and cultural organizations are no longer about intangibles. Arts and cultural organizations in Texas make very real and significant contributions to the local economy and are worthy of community support and advertising dollars. These contributions are significant and sustained. Even in the face of economic slowdown, arts and cultural organizations continue to impact the Texas economy substantially, in addition to the enjoyment and fulfillment they provide to our citizens and visitors each year.

One look at the numbers will surely cause any Texas advertiser to stand up and take notice of the potential when linking up with artistic and cultural endeavors as part of this year’s promotional campaign. They need your support and you need their audiences.

In 2003, arts and cultural organizations in Texas generated over $55 million in economic activity and impact from construction and capital expenditure activity to new and existing facilities. These same organizations generated about $320 million in economic activity from indirect audience spending associated with attendance at arts events during that same year. Nearby, the total economic impact of the arts in Fort Worth in 2003 was about $250 million; in Dallas, over $500 million. Other metroplex communities generated about $23 million.

Do the math: that’s nearly $800 million! The Governor’s office has noticed. Have you?

ARTSY COMMUNITIES MEAN BUSINESS

Bear in mind, when we talk about “the cultural arts,” we’re including everything from Art Museums to Texas Music and Dance. We’re talking about the ethnic culture here from Polish to German, Mexican to Italian. From Texas Indians to the history of our great educational institutions, people want to know so they can go! They want to visit and they want to learn. It’s ALL of interest to SOMEBODY and people are spending good money in Texas to be part of what the Lone Star State has to offer.

The legacy of every civilization is, in large part, found in the art they leave behind. No wonder that, when the one hundred most influential people of the past were named, over one quarter of those named represented the cultural arts. In addition to the arts being so important to our social structure, they are, as shown, an important part of our economy and are worthy of our attention. They are, in fact, completely, immovably, forever engrained into our economic system.

Blu Dornan, a local artist from Stephenville, said, “I have been received very well since I started promoting my art [in Stephenville] a year ago... Art within the community reflects the local environment. It gives us pride as a society and lets visitors know who we are as a community and what we are about. Remember, an artist's greatest fear is that his or her work will never be seen and the vision never realized.”

SPEAKING OF STEPHENVILLE...

As a Civil War and Alamo buff who has done his share of painting, writing, sketching and illustrating on a professional level, this writer would love nothing more than to see my home town of Stephenville, Texas - the Cowboy Capital of the World - become the State’s next hotbed of artistic and cultural activity as well. We have so much to offer and so many people would benefit by visiting here. Fact is, folks are coming here in droves and tourism numbers are way up for each of the past three years. Among other things, they're visiting our local museums and historic points of interest including the Cowboy Capital Walk of Fame, Heritage Square, the Dublin Dr Pepper Museum, and the Stephenville Historical House Museum. Tarleton University has much to offer including their Planetarium, the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural and Educational Center in Granbury, and the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas.

Currently, thanks to the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council (CTFAC), there’s a surprising amount of cultural arts activity in our community. Last August, we thrilled to the Glenn Miller Band outdoors and the Fort Worth Symphony makes a stop in town every other year. We are always looking forward to more of the same. The Stephenville Chamber’s Hispanic Business Council, entering its second year, has already taken steps toward tapping into the talents and cultural expertise associated with the area’s Hispanic population. And we’ll be seeing more from them as well.

Where fine arts are concerned, we have art galleries the likes of Brian Drake Studios, the Thompson Fine Arts Gallery, Brooks Art Gallery, Tarleton’s Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center and Gallery and, of course, the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Center’s River North Gallery.

Debbie Reynolds, Director of the CTFAC, says, “The gallery provides a place for artists to exhibit their work without a fee, where they can offer their art for sale and is open free to the public…” Mrs. Reynolds reminds us, “Not only do the arts have an economic impact, but they also improve the quality of life. Not just through entertainment, but education as well. Statistics show that students who participate in any form of the arts: band, theater, visual art, choir, dance, etc. are higher academic achievers. They score higher on tests, develop leadership and cognitive thinking skills, time management, self discipline, creativity and problem solving skills.” She added, “In September 2004 the State Board of Education adopted new curriculum requirements for grades K-5 regarding increased arts education in Texas schools. These new initiatives will start with the 2005-06 school year….we are exposed to art forms every day all day long, whether it is through the music we listen to, through magazines, movies, TV, billboards, architecture, auto design, textiles, clothing design, home decorating, floral design and the like.”

Dan Delgado, President of the Stephenville Visual Arts Booster club says, "...the Arts are a basic component of a healthy, well-rounded person...The Arts cause us to stop, remember life and relive….they capture the wonder of life and pass it on in a manner that allows others to enjoy it, even if it’s through a vivid imagination, or a dream. The mind is a wonderful tool and enjoying the Fine Arts is the perfect way to put it to use...there is no right or wrong way to appreciate the Arts. There’s only your way!”

To the local businessman looking for a suitable place to spend your advertising budget, according to the author's professional marketing, we need to sponsor arts and cultural events, as if not tomorrow.

So put your money where the art. You will not regret it.

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Redirecting traffic and increase your Page Rank

What to do with all of those old pages? Whatever you do, don't delete them. In most cases there is a better solution - 301 Redirect, otherwise known as a "Google-Friendly" redirect.

Do a Google search and you'll find tons of information on this topic. But, clients still ask "Why?" Here's my explanation (and this analogy is a bit of a stretch). We all work very hard to have our current content and pages ranked and indexed. Picture climbing a very, very tall mountain - Let's say Everest. Each new page starts at Base Camp 0 - no associated page rank. Older pages, depending on many ranking factors, could be located anywhere between base camp and the summit. When you redirect the old page to the new page, you give the new page a leg up, based on the elder's position. So, if you can get a head start, why wouldn't you??

A second analogy (again, a stretch): Think of heading on a long journey - Maybe driving cross country, starting in California. You reach Texas and realized that you missed the exit to the Alamo. Do you A, return to California and begin your trip again? Or, B, make a U-turn and quickly get back on track? That's what I thought!

There are many other reasons for creating redirects, especially if you have a large or popular site - Links! All cross-links and backlinks will become broken if you delete the old page. All of the "link" power will be transferred to the new URL if you use the proper redirect practice.

Finally, if You can update your existing page, without changing the URL, is the best practice! No need to go creating new pages and new routes in a simple update of existing pages can be done.

Alamo City - San Antonio

San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas and the seventh most populous city in the United States over all. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 1,296,682, and the San Antonio metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,942,217.

San Antonio's economy is principally based on healthcare, defense, financial services, and tourism. Just to the Northwest of the city center is the South Texas Medical Center, which is a conglomeration of hospitals, clinics, educational and research establishments, and which in total employs over 27,000 people. Meanwhile The defense industry in San Antonio employs over 89,000 people, and additionally there is a large military presence in the area, including the bases at Brooks City-Base, Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base and Randolph Air Force Base, all within the city, and Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley just outside the city.

San Antonio is a popular tourist destination, visited by more than 20 million tourists each year. Attractions in San Antonio include the SeaWorld San Antonio and the Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks. Also popular is the River Walk (also known as "Paeo del Rio"), which is a network of walkways in the downtown area around the San Antonio River, and contains many shops, restaurants and bars.

Finally, any description of tourism in San Antonio, can not go without mentioning the San Antonio de Valero Mission, which is popularly simply known as "The Alamo". Now a museum, in Alamo, a former mission and fortress, which was a few battles, the most famous is the Alamo, 1836, one of the great battles between the Republic of Texas and Mexico in the Texas Revolution.