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Guests of the Chattanooga Zoo’s annual fundraiser were treated to tastings of wines, beers and spirits from around the world while sampling great food from some of the best local restaurants. Additionally, they enjoyed live entertainment and animal art.

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Matias Gomez, left, and Jeronemo Ramirez, right, move food and perishables out of the destroyed concession stand at the Dixie Speedway in Woodstock, Ga., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Volunteers and workers began clean up at the speedway where damage was extensive and the massive bleachers on turn-one were thrown into a steel heap. Meteorologists from the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado with maximum winds of around 90 miles per hour touched down Monday just south of the Dixie Speedway. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)

Vice President Joe Biden, right, administers the oath of office to Dir. of the CIA David Petraeus, center, during a swearing-in ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept., 6, 2011. Holding a Bible is Petraeus' wife Holly Knowlton Petraeus, left. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEVE KEESEE 9/2/11 Travis Nelson, of Benton, tees off on the first hole Friday at Little Rock's Hindman Golf Course.

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Zachary Kaewdee, 3, concentrates on riding his Spider Man bicycle while his sister Dia, 6, runs ahead and mom Ti watches closely at Murray Park on Tuesday afternoon. All names are CQ.

A defected army soldier, left, stands guard at a street where protestors march during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after winning the first set during his match against Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul J. Bereswill)

Libya rebel local military chief and mosque preacher Sheikh Hussein Furjani, left, finds a looted safe during a raid to find illegal weapons and belongings of suspected Gadhafi supporters in Khalet El Furjan district in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Rebel fighters burst into various houses of suspected Gadhafi supporters, searching rooms and hauling away military uniforms, a looted safe and documents linking homeowners to the former regime. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

This August 2011 image made available by NASA shows paths left by walking astronauts, single lines, and lunar buggy tracks, parallel lines, from the 1972 U.S. Apollo 17 moon mission. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter made this and other photographs of lunar landing sites from 13 to 15 miles above the moon's surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

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A selection of old-fashioned toys are now on display at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The toys are kept in the open, and patrons are free to play with them. Here, Alex Joyce, 10, of Bella Vista, demonstrates a "rattletrap" toy.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS --08/30/11-- Magazine quarterback Ryan Chambers tries to shake West Fork defender Wil Jarnagan as he runs for a big gain in the first half of Tuesday night's game in Ozark.

Momcilo Perisic, the former chief of staff of the Yugoslav army, right, enters the court room of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, to hear the verdict of the court Tuesday Sept 6, 2011. Prosecutors accused Perisic of providing crucial aid to Bosnian Serb forces that allowed them to carry out atrocities including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men at Srebrenica and the four-year siege and campaign of shelling and sniping targeting Sarajevo. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

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Stacy Prammanasudh lines up a putt on the 18th green during a practice round before the start of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, center, holds a news conference outside the IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, after a gunman opened fire with an AK-47, killing three and injuring six. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

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Greenland High School quarterback Darian Froud makes a pass during practice Tuesday morning in Greenland.

Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun connects for an RBI single in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, in Houston. The Brewers won 4-0 to sweep the Astros. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

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An insect perches on a flower Tuesday afternoon at the Old Mill in North Little Rock.

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A selection of old-fashioned toys are now on display at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The toys are kept in the open, and patrons are free to play with them. Here, Alex Joyce, 10, of Bella Vista, demonstrates a "ball and cup" toy.

During a hearing on the troubles of the U.S. Postal Service, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., left, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, confers with Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who chairs the Senate subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, center, holds a news conference outside the IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, after a gunman opened fire with an AK-47, killing three and injuring six. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

FILE - In this June 27, 2010 photo, host Regis Philbin arrives at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, in Las Vegas. Philbin says he'll retire from his talk show on Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pauses during a meeting with Palestinian doctors at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. A delegation of 40 Palestinian medics met with Abbas on Tuesday before leaving on an aid mission to Libya. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

With bullet holes seen in a window, officers look for evidence at the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Seven people were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant, authorities said. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS --09/02/11-- Lavaca Coach Mark Headley watches his team take on Prairie Grove in the first half of Friday nights game in Prairie Grove.

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Botanical Garden of the Ozarks gardner Holly Shields, bottom, and director of operations Gerald Klingaman, top, fit a portion of the garden's new Butterfly House with mesh screening Tuesday morning in Fayetteville. The house is scheduled to open to the public Sept. 19.

Tribal elders, bottom, speak to Abdalla Kenshil, chief rebel negotiator, not in the picture, during negotiations in a mosque at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi is determined to fight his way back to power, the toppled dictator's spokesman said Tuesday, but a large convoy of his soldiers has apparently deserted, crossing the Libyan desert into neighboring Niger.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file photo, actor Eddie Murphy attends the premiere of "Shrek Forever After" during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Murphy will host this years Academy Awards show on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, telecast producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer announced Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

FILE-Buffalo Bills head coach Marv Levy, 72, watches his team in the season's final home game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in this Sunday, Dec. 14, 1997 file photo, at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. The Bills, who called a press conference for Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1997, would not confirm speculation that Levy would step down ending his 12-year stint with the team after taking it to four Super Bowls to start the 1990s. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the economic troubles of the Postal Service, a self-funded federal agency in decline because of the Internet and advertising losses, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In this image provided by HPP Images, driver Jeff Gordon (24) crosses the finish line to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup AdvoCare 500 auto race, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, in Hampton, Ga. (AP Photo/HHP Images, Alan Marler) MANDATORY CREDIT

Firefighters pull debris looking for missing people at Gojo, central Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Typhoon Talas dumped record amounts of rain on central and western Japan and lashed wide swaths of the country with destructive winds before being downgraded to a tropical storm. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RICK MCFARLAND--09/06/11-- James and Barbara Ford arrive Tuesday at the Pulaski County Regional Building, 501 W. Markham St., in Little Rock, to early vote in the special election concerning a sales tax increase. The election will be next Tuesday.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RICK MCFARLAND--09/06/11-- Little Rock crime scene investigators leave the Arvest Bank at W. Capitol Ave. and S Broadway St. after gathering evidence in a bank robbery Tuesday morning.

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Brad Atkinson and Quinton Richter, with Koontz Electric, install over 600 new LED lights underneath the Two Rivers Park Bridge on Tuesday. The bridge will be closed for public use until the weekend while work continues.

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the economic troubles of the Postal Service, a self-funded federal agency in decline because of the Internet and advertising losses, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. From left to right are: Donahoe, John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Phillip Herr, director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government Accountability Office, and Thomas Levy, chief actuary of The Segal Company, serving as a consultant on postal employee benefits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RICK MCFARLAND--09/06/11-- Rachel Acosta (left) and Pamela Watson read the bios and look at the pictures of current inductees of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock Tuesday. They were attending an event for the announcement of the 2011 inductees. They are Derek Fisher, Joseph "Joe" Jackson, Abraham Carpenter, Sr. and family, Dr. Robert L. Williams, Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, and Leo "Jocko" Louis Carter. The induction ceremony will be October 15.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --09/06/11--
University of Arkansas senior nursing student Kelly Toner (left) and Cara Osborne, an assistant professor of nursing, speak on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, inside Osborne's office in Ozark Hall on the Fayetteville campus about Midwives for Haiti.

Car collector John Chapman surveys the losses at his home, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Bastrop, Texas. Chapman lost more than 175 cars to the wildfires. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Wildfire smoke billows behind a home in the Crown Ranch subdivision near Montgomery, Texas on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Courier, Karl Anderson)

Jason Hardzewicz of Barclays Capital works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

People march through downtown Milan, Italy, during a general strike Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. A strike by Italy's largest labor union against austerity measures has shut down air, land and sea transport and curtailed other public services throughout the country. Workers for the state railway, city transit systems and ferry services all were on strike. Hospital workers, postal employees and bank tellers also joined in. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Eli Denham, 8, of Fayetteville, tries to catch a wooden loop in a game of "graces" Thursday morning at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. Denham was among a group of about a half-dozen young people participating in a toy-making workshop at the museum.

With bullet holes seen in a window, officers look for evidence at the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Seven people were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant, authorities said. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

Abdalla Kenshil, chief rebel negotiator, centre, speaks to tribal elders during negotiations in a mosque at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi is determined to fight his way back to power, the toppled dictator's spokesman said Tuesday, but a large convoy of his soldiers has apparently deserted, crossing the Libyan desert into neighboring Niger.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS --09/06/11-- University of Arkansas Volunteer Action Center volunteer, Timothy Tucker , junior from Wynne, talks with Leverett 5th grader Daniel Hatter Tuesday afternoon while he and other volunteers talk to the Leverett 5th graders about remembering the events and people of 9/11/01. The volunteers talked about the importance of the Bill of Rights and did an exercise with the students to see what they would be willing to do to help volunteer their time for their family and community.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --09/06/11--
Cody Hale with Mayes Masonry LLC of Goshen grinds numbers into rocks that form the wall along Dickson Street next to the lawn outside Old Main on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. The numbers, which will not be visible when the rocks are replaced, help keep the order so that the rocks are returned to the same positions after construction. A portion of the wall boundry is being temporarily removed to make way for a temporary construction road.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RICK MCFARLAND--09/06/11-- Rachel Acosta (left) and Pamela Watson read the bios and look at the pictures of current inductees of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock Tuesday. They were attending an event for the announcement of the 2011 inductees. They are Derek Fisher, Joseph "Joe" Jackson, Abraham Carpenter, Sr. and family, Dr. Robert L. Williams, Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, and Leo "Jocko" Louis Carter. The induction ceremony will be October 15.

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Zachary Kaewdee, 3, concentrates on riding his Spider Man bicycle while his sister Dia, 6, runs ahead and mom Ti watches closely at Murray Park on Tuesday afternoon. All names are CQ.

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9/6/11

Little Rock Hall's Ashtone (cq) Dixon leaps to block the shot from Parkview's Brianna Swinton during their match on Tuesday evening. Hall defeated Parkview 3-1.

Eduardo Sencion, 32, seen in a photo provided by the Carson City Sheriff's Office, is the suspect in a shooting rampage at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday morning, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Carson City Sheriff's Office)