Saturday July 5th [1862] This has been a most anxious and exciting week and even now I am afraid to boast of the great deeds that have been done, and the fields that have been won by our brave soldiers in the past ten days. Jackso…
From Senate Armed Services Committee Member Hillary Clinton (D-NY):
Today another glass ceiling has been shattered in our nation with the nomination of a woman to the rank of General for the first time in the history of America’s armed forces. Lieutenant General Ann Dunwoody’s nomination not only reflects her own remarkable achievements as an officer, […]
by Al King, Spotsy GOP Treasurer, as read inThe Free Lance-Star 06/24/08BPOL Tax means Lower Value, Fewer Profits, Fewer JobsTHE STAFFORD Board of Supervisors is considering adoption of a Business, Professional, and Occupational License (BPOL) tax. Thi…
Given that we were under yet another SPC-issued slight risk for severe weather today I kept a close eye on the convective situation and the associated pre-frontal trough. I was able to leave work a bit early and ran by the house to change, grab the ch…
We had today what seemed like the seventh or eighth straight day of fierce afternoon weather. This afternoon’s storm has blown through, leaving these amazing cumulus-nimbus clouds behind in the eastern sky.
This shot was taken just before sundown. Enjoy the view!
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That’s the answer Speaker Howell gave when Del. Moran asked him why they would re-convene at 11 am tomorrow morning without having any committee meetings in the meantime.
You can’t teach oratory like that. It’s a god-given talent.
The paper: Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Headline: “Two men arrested in connection with Green Top robbery“.
Link.
The story:
One man from Washington and another from Maryland have been arrested in connection with the June 13 burglary of Green Top Sporting Goods in which 34 handguns were stolen.
The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office arrested Michael A. Henderson, 21, of Bowie, Md., and […]
How about tasting some amazing wines? This Thursday, the 26th, we’re holding a wine seminar at our Plank road store. For those of you who have never been, these seminars are basically wine tasting events where we invite a guest speaker to talk about the wines and the wineries that produce them. This week we have Nicolas Maestre, who heads Williams Corner Wine, a distributor based in Charlottesville. It is no exaggeration to say that the line-up of eight wines we have for this seminar is overall the best selection of any seminar we’ve had to date. These are wines you would never normally see open for a tasting. The star of the show is a $70 Barbaresco – a type of Italian red aged for 5 years in oak barrels. I’ve tasted it and it’s amazing. If you’re a wine novice don’t be intimidated – you don’t need extensive wine knowledge to enjoy the seminar. But even if you fancy yourself an educated wine consumer I think you will find these wines quite different from what you’ve tried before.
We’ve done these seminars for a while and every time people tell us how much they enjoyed it. If you want to see the full line-up of wines and a bit more information, click here. The seminar starts at 7pm and goes until about 8:30. Cost is $25 per person.
It brings up an interesting quandary for baseball in that the official rules do not seem to dictate who chooses sides first, the pitcher or the batter. Given that you can change the pitcher after the batter has been announced, and that batter must face the new pitcher, the intent of the rule seems to […]
