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John Paterakis Sr. didn't believe it when Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke told him nearly two decades ago that Harbor East's Marriott Waterfront Hotel would spur revitalization from the Inner Harbor to Canton. The city had picked Paterakis' H&S Properties Development Corp. to build the hotel, launching a parallel career for the baker and developer. Today, Paterakis marvels at the upscale shops, luxurious living spaces and top-flight office space set to line the southeastern Baltimore waterfront - and already booming along it. "You have to give a lot of credit that he was right," said Paterakis, president of H&S Bakery Inc., which grew from a two-man operation that opened in 1943 to a baking empire spanning more than two dozen states.

Duff Goldman had a "blast" making his new Food Network series — "I got to check out the country. They let me off the leash. " His new project is "Sugar High," a six-episode series debuting Aug. 8. The show sends Goldman and his motorcycle on a "cross-country trek to capture sweet secrets and tasty techniques … in the top dessert destinations around the country. " Sweets along the way include chilled bread pudding on the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles, tableside s'mores in Dallas, apple strudel in Chicago, lemon ginger mousse in Boston and traditional rice pudding in Philadelphia and Sno Ballz from the first-ever, shaved-ice machine in New Orleans.

The video is subtle, but chilling. There, on the floor of a public pool in France, a swimmer has become almost motionless - his lungs filling with water. The view shifts from one camera to the next. What doesn't appear on the video, but remains central to the rescue of the 18-year-old man on the pool bottom is a network of video cameras, a computer running analyses of what the cameras are relaying and an alarm system with pagers that acted in concert one November day last year to alert lifeguards that Jean-Francois LeRoy was drowning.

On January 6, 2004, MARY ELIZABETH McKAY; loving wife of Oliver E. McKay; devoted mother of Darryl N. McKay. She is also survived by two sisters, Vivian Jackson and Lillian Bagby, two grandchildren, two sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law and a host of other relatives and friends. On Sunday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICE, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike from 2 to 8 P.M. On Monday, Mrs. McKay will lie instate at Sweet Hope Baptist Church, 3925 Dolefield Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M., with services to follow.

About 70 Little Italy residents rallied last night in front of St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church against a proposal to convert a vacant warehouse into apartments that would include subsidized units.The residents oppose developer Patrick Turner's plan to renovate the old Bagby Furniture Co. warehouse, at the corner of Exeter and Fleet streets in Little Italy, into 57 units. Ten of those units would be set aside for low- to moderate-income residents to comply with the requirements of loans Mr. Turner is receiving from the city and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

For years, it gnawed at Bill Huber that he didn't know the final resting place of his father's sister, who died a toddler a century ago. When he visits for holidays, the Shelbyville, Del., resident and self-described "cemetery person" makes it a point to go to the graves of other relatives in Maryland. But he could not pay respects to Catherine Louise Huber, who died in 1904 in South Baltimore at age 3. Nobody in the family knew where she had been buried, or what she died of. "Some of us were told a story that someone came into the house on Halloween and they had on a rubber mask or some scary mask, and she jumped or ran and fell down the stairs into a coal bin," Huber, 65, said.

The new Baltimore Bartenders Guild issues no seals of approval. It simply demands that prospective members give a damn about the ingredients and ingenuity of their cocktails. Since profiling the guild last month, I've been checking out members who are new to Baltimore, such as Adrian Ross-Boon of Wit & Wisdom. The results so far — including my most recent excursion to check out Tim Riley's work at Ten Ten — are proving that the guild's ethos is promoting effort, individuality and a desire to surprise customers with something they won't find at just any bar. The bar at the relatively new Harbor East bistro is considered, looks good and has knock-out cocktails.

A state appeals court has made it harder for psychiatrists to make involuntarily committed mental patients take drugs they don't want.fTC The Court of Special Appeals ruled Thursday that mental patients involuntarily committed to state and private hospitals may be forced to take medication only when they pose a danger within the facility -- and not just whenever a psychiatrist decides it will help."

ROBERT JAMES WHITE, Age 73, of Gold Finch Ln., Newland the Land Harbor community and Beverly Hills, FL, died Thursday, September 23, 2004 at his residence in Land Harbor. He was born in El Paso, TX, the son of the late Robert Horace and Hester Bagby White. Mr. White was educated at the University of Arizona where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He retired from U.S.F. & G. Insurance Company where he served as the Executive Claims Adjuster in Baltimore, MD. He was a veteran of the US Air Force having served as a Lieutenant and President of the Land Harbor Tennis Club.

As a resident of Little Italy, I feel obliged to correct false statements and faulty conclusions in your June 12 editorial (''Do What's Best for Little Italy'') about the proposal to develop apartments in the vacant Bagby furniture warehouse.I have examined HUD's file on this project, which is supposed to be financed with federal guarantees. The development company has changed names and ownership so frequently that no one really pretends to know who owns the project.You, too, were fooled, for you listed the developer as Patrick Turner and Henrietta Corp.