| Midlands Hawke's Bay Charity Wine Auction
The Midlands Hawke's Bay Charity Wine Auction in New Zealand is an annual event that raises money for the Hawke's Bay's Cranford Hospice. Each year, New Zealand's winemakers create a variety of lots including oversized bottles and tasting dinners and other unique lots such as the Alpha Domus winery offering which includes a six liter Methuzela Aviator En Premieur and the chance to be a winemaker for the day and blend your own Aviator wine from the 2007 vintage. The auction will also feature a 12 liter bottle of Esk Valley's red wine, The Terraces, 1991 vintage that has been bought and sold at the auction several times. The 16th annual auction will be held in the Hawke's Bay Opera House in Hastings on June 3. Tickets to the auction are $140 and a tasting will also be held here on June 1 for $40 per person.
Oil Futures Bidding To Heat Up As Energy Crisis Looms
Oil ended 2006 roughly where it began, at just over $60 a barrel. This reassured the public that all talk about Peak Oil was hysterical blather from a lunatic fringe. It was reinforced by the publication of the mendacious Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) report issued this fall - a tragic document put out by a giant public relations firm representing the oil industry - with the mission of staving off windfall profits taxes and other regulatory moves that a true resource emergency might recommend. But beyond this debate, in the background, another ominous trend can account for the stalling of oil prices in 2006 - totally unrecognized by the public and ignored by the news media: Prices on the oil futures market leveled off because the Third World has effectively dropped out of bidding for it - and using it.
Dubai Muncipality Auction For Jumeira Properties Fetches Dhs15.8 ...
There were 12 villas and 12 shops up for grabs in the auction and their annual rent ranged from Dh170 per square foot to Dh230 per square foot, depending on the location and size.
According to Salah Al Qaiwani, Head of the Specialised Contracts and Investment Section, who also heads the Jumeira Auction Committee at Dubai Municipality, the auction’s results were unprecedented.
"Despite the rent being not so cheap, the key-money offered far exceeded our expectations. This proves two points: first, there is a huge demand on commercial shops in popular areas like Jumeira and second, the business community has a strong confidence in Dubai’s economy," said Al Qaiwani.
He noted that the highest sum recorded was Dhs1.75 million on a 1310 square feet shop while a 2621 square feet villa fetched a key money of Dhs850,000.
Music event will benefit base's care programs
A fund-raiser will be held April 28 to support the operation of two compassionate care facilities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where military families can stay while a loved one is undergoing treatment at the medical center. The event — which carries the theme "A Rockin' American Bandstand" — starts at 6 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and will feature 1950s, 60's and 70's dance tunes spun by a disc jockey. .
Brackets don't just hold up shelves
Take it, Mark: "Bracketology -- the practice of parsing people, places and things into discrete one-on-one matchups to determine which of the two is superior or preferable." While sports fans use it to predict which team will prevail, bracketology has busted out into pop culture. The Morning News, an online magazine, sponsors a yearly "Tournament of Books," in which guest judges (including The Decemberists' Colin Meloy) oversee matchups between books. The volume that makes it through various voting rounds without getting eliminated emerges victorious. The Web is also packed with other totally trivial, but fun, matchups devoted to finding the best band, best car, worst company, best beer and so on. But the most complete bracketology roundup is undoubtedly "The Enlightened Bracketologist," edited by Reiter and Richard Sandomir, New York Times sports TV columnist.
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