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- Snow, sleet give way to rain in afternoon; December snowfall at BWI at 6.8 inches |
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- State monitor sees no improvement in conditions; Earlier report detailed abuse; Juvenile detention facility is run by Florida company |
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- Displaced tenants sent to a black neighborhood instead of Canton in '90s |
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- Centennial High students report discrimination; 'We cannot tolerate that'; Parents demand training in diversity, new policies |
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- North Pole: For 70 pediatric cancer patients, BWI becomes the gateway to Santa and smiles for a day. |
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- Democrats: Organizations that once dominated Baltimore and Maryland struggle to exist. |
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- Hispanics: A Carroll Catholic parish's lively observance of the Virgin of Guadalupe's feast day is a sign of its growing ministry. |
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- 4-page 'piece of history' goes to N.J. collector |
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- Policy: Appointed school officials tend to have fewer problems working with one another. |
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- I added five pictures from our trip to Jacksonville in the Photo Lab. Check out the Aubree, Carri, and Miscellaneous section of the Photo Lab at your earliest convenience to see the new pictures.... |
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- As if it isn't enough of an everyday challenge in today's political climate to be a liberal who is vociferously... |
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- Saddam has been captured, huzzah! Meanwhile, the war was still a profoundly stupid idea, sold to the public via a... |
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- Saddam has been captured, huzzah! Meanwhile, the war was still a profoundly stupid idea, sold to the public via a... |
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- Looks like Saddam still has a lot of rhetoric to spew. |
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- (1) Is there anyone in Yankeeland who is genuinely upset that we replaced Pettitte and Clemens with Kevin Brown and Javier Vasquez? Vasquez consistently has ERAs in the low 3s, which will translate into about 18 wins a year in the south Bronx. When healthy Brown is among the top 10 pitchers in baseball, and all signs point towards a healthy year coming up. I certainly prefer Gary Sheffield to Juan Rivera in rightfield, Bernie Williams to Nick Johnson at DH, and Kenny Loften to Soriano at leadoff. Moreover we'll have a host of strong arms to get to Rivera in the 9th. |
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- YOu should have 30 days to return it. I would. |
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- Carat Color Clarity Depth Tbl Lab Gdl Cul Sym Pol Flr |
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- Suppliers to collapsed South Australian-based Normans Winery have hit out at the company's liquidators. Liquidators Ernst & Young have ordered 150 growers to return grape payments of up to $AU80,000 each, paid before Normans collapsed in 2001. |
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- Australian-based wine marketing specialist Dr Larry Lockshin is in the process of turning some accepted wine marketing truths upside down. That is because he is interpreting consumer wine buying decisions in a way that differs from many of the traditional models. - www.wine.co. |
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- Geraldine Johns looks at three budding Bannockburn vineyards with prized pinot noirs. You would not want to decline if you got invited to drinks in Cairnmuir Road. |
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- Peter Gago reckons he has the best job and it's in a very adult world. Just one of the perks is consuming (er, tasting) 50 vintages of Penfold's Grange. |
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- "Triage" means approximately the same thing in winemaking as it does in treating injured people. In an emergency room, the staff performs quick evaluations of new patients as they come in, so those in dire need of care can get attention more quickly than those with less urgent need. In winemaking, triage also has to do with rapid evaluation -- this time, of grapes. |
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- West Australian wine producers face a potentially damaging short-term red glut. Large quantities of the 2003 vintage remain in storage tanks that will soon be needed for the southern hemisphere 2004 vintage, which will being in late January. |
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- Western Australia's largest wine producer, Evans & Tate, responded angrily to claims of a red wine glut from the state's wine industry association, describing the claims as inaccurate and misleading. |
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- The small site in Bannockburn, Central Otago, boasts two vineyards: Akarua and Bannock Brae, which have each taken home top international and local awards in recent months. And to keep things in the neighbourhood, the Bald Hills Vineyard, which is in cooee of the other two, has also picked up some prize bounty. Each has done it with a pinot noir. |
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- French restaurants have started offering diners a "doggy bag" for any leftover tipple to stem a drop in wine sales as drink-driving controls get tougher. |
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- Indigenous food will be one of the features of the Harvest Hawke's Bay wine and food festival in February. Details of the festival ñ which was cancelled this year then revived when new sponsors came forward ñ were issued yesterday. |
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- Argentina's wine industry enjoyed a healthy September, according to figures released on Wednesday. Wine exports rose in both volume and value for the month compared to the same period last year. |
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- Canberra - It's not looking like a vintage Christmas for winemakers in Western Australia state. Faced by a grape glut, they are desperate to get rid of five million liters of red wine unsold from last season and being held in storage tanks that are needed for a new harvest in January, an industry group said Wednesday. |
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- Tickets have gone on sale today for February's Harvest Hawke's Bay wine festival. In September, the annual three-day event was cancelled due to a lack of sponsors. |
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- Almost 5 million litres of Australian red wine will be poured down the drain or turned into vinegar unless sold by February. Growers are desperate to get rid of the equivalent of 7 million bottles of wine, the result of a bumper harvest last year and overplanting of vineyards, to clear the vats for next season. |
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- The new Bioterrorism Act rules are inconvenient for most food and beverage companies, but they could wreak havoc in the esoteric world of collectible wines. |
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- Le port de Québec vu de Lévis, vers 1885. Version légè |
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Nixon (Dec 14 2003 23:27 GMT) - While others were being well-informed about the day's news this afternoon, I was watching Oliver Stone's Nixon, which is inordinately long, though -- to me -- quite enjoyable. The film is notable, however, for the absurd lengths to which it... |
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- Earlier today, St. John's of Minnesota defeated RPI 38-10 to win a place in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Division III Football national championship game. RPI and St. John's fought to a 10-10 tie at halftime. But, in the second half, St. |
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- Those of you who have been following Rensselaer Football all season with RCNJ.org already know that the Engineers will take on the St. John's Johnnies in the Division III Football Semifinals on Saturday, December 13, at 1:00pm Eastern Time. The game will be played in Collegeville, MN on St. |
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- I've spent nearly the entire evening watching the news. BBC1 and ITV4 in particular had a great deal of coverage of the event here. It is of course about politics according to the BBC Washington correspondents... as if Dean ever had a prayer of a snowflake chance in hell of winning next fall. Ken Adelman gave two marvelous remote screen debate performances within an hour and on both channels. |
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- Sure signs of the divorce to come.. Phone rings, “Hi I am going to be late at work, I should... |
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- Business idea: I charge aspiring actors $50 an hour to teach them how to cry, by making them slice onions. Then I sell the... |
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- Time Magazine has these notes from Saddam's first interrogation. He's not cooperating. When asked “How are you?” |
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- DAVID BROOKS: "I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs." |
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- "Partners in Progress" - A Great Investment The political goodwill created by "Partners in Progress" paid off handsomely on Friday. Assuming St. Joe contributed circa $1 Million to the PIP "BayCountyFirst" campaign, the return on investment was super. |
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- Dan Gillmor: "China is adopting open-source software in a big way." [Scripting News] |
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- Dan Gillmor: "China is adopting open-source software in a big way." [Scripting News] |
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- "I'm sick of opening the paper and seeing yet another bad-news story about Maori," says James Wheeler. Tohu Wines, the company he runs, definitely falls into the good-news category. |
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