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Hoping to latch on to the buzz surrounding former Vice President Al Gore's double dose of Oscar, the Annapolis and Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce said yesterday that the Gore eco-friendly train will stop in Baltimore. Gore, whose documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, took home Oscars on Sunday night for Best Documentary and Best Song, will give a 90-minute speech May 8 on the effects of global warming -- the topic that has turned him into a hip wonk. "We snared him a good while ago and it just happened that he got the Nobel Peace Prize nomination and Oscar wins, so that was pretty cool," said Anne Joyner, who handles special projects for the Chamber of Commerce.

Don't know about you, but I'm ready for this fantasy football season to be over. No matter where I go - the office, a government meeting, a Hampden pub to watch some playoff baseball - well-meaning folks ask how my teams are doing. They assume, sensibly, that because I put myself out there as some kind of fantasy sage, I'll have good news or at least a little insight. Well, maybe next year. My teams stink. I thought the worm might be turning after both eked out cheap wins in Week 4. Turned out that the low point totals were indicative of their quality.

It will happen after all. Politician-turned-concert organizer Al Gore announced yesterday that Live Earth -- a global series of shows to raise awareness about climate change -- will also have a presence in the nation's capital. Highlights of the show include brief performances by the country-music couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood and remarks by the former vice president. If you go The Mother Earth Concert segment of Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis begins at 10:30 a.m. outside the National Museum of the American Indian at Fourth Street and Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington.

Certifications David R. Bogus of the accounting and consulting firm Ellin & Tucker has been certified as an accredited senior appraiser by the American Society of Appraisers. Contracts Vericom Technologies Inc., a Columbia-based firm, has been selected by Guardian Cos. of Delaware to provide mobile resource management solutions. New clients Warschawski has been named as the national agency of record for W.L. Gore & Associates, makers of Gore-Tex and Windstopper products. New name I4 Commerce, a Timonium-based alternative payment service, changed its name to Bill Me Later Inc. The service lets shoppers make purchases without using a credit card and be billed at a later date.

Al Gore came a long way to talk about global warming with his former congressional colleagues, but the distance was more psychic than physical. He had to cover a lot of personal ground in order to arrive in Washington last week as a certifiable celebrity and Oscar-winning star of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. As I watched Mr. Gore testify before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, that fateful winter six years ago - when Mr. Gore had to concede the presidential race and then certify George W. Bush's election from the floor of the Senate - seemed like six decades ago. Mr. Gore's bete noire is the committee's ranking Republican, James M. Inhofe.

Newspapers are often accused of printing only bad news, but you'd think a front-page report on an American's winning the Nobel Peace Prize would be considered good news. You would be wrong. Years ago, the news that an American had won the world's most prestigious award would have been cause for celebration and national pride. It would have been received as an especially good kind of good news. But that was then. Given the reaction of readers of The Sun and other newspapers across the country to the news that Al Gore will share this year's Nobel for his work on climate change, we can no longer assume such news is "good."

WASHINGTON -- Apparently Hillary Clinton's campaign-mode posture toward being first lady -- been there, done that -- is now being adopted by Al Gore regarding the vice presidency. Just Mrs. Clinton is popping in and out of her role as first lady, the vice president is being quoted these days as saying that "running for president of this country is far more important than being the best vice president I can possibly be."This observation comes in the context of Mr. Gore's determination, as all vice presidents running for the Oval Office in the shadow of their presidents seek, to be "his own man."

HANOVER, N.H -- Sticking firmly to the high road, former Sen. Bill Bradley shrugged off repeated jabs from Vice President Al Gore last night in their first joint appearance of the Democratic presidential campaign.Neither candidate managed to get off a memorable line or land a damaging blow. But the two rivals also committed no blunders as they fielded questions from a serious-minded audience of New Hampshire voters for more than an hour.Bradley seemed to get a slightly warmer reception with his responses, which even Gore praised, at one point, for their eloquence.

WHEN Bill Clinton was contemplating Al Gore as his 1992 running mate, he placed a call to former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, and wondered aloud whether the fact that both he and Mr. Gore hailed from small, adjacent Southern states would prove an electoral disadvantage."

WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans held their first hearing on proposed gun-control legislation, Vice President Gore appeared on Capitol Hill yesterday to accuse the GOP leadership of seeking to kill the measures with needless delays.Are they "genuinely troubled over the details of the legislative language?" asked Gore, flanked by more than a dozen House Democrats. "Of course not. It is because some within the Republican caucus are so responsive to the NRA. They are hoping against hope that if they can slow-walk this whole measure, then the American people will lose the sense of urgency."

In Maryland and across the nation, people are beginning to rethink the economic and environmental implications of America's dependence on expensive imported oil and are deciding to go green, in ways small and large. Last week, the state rolled out hybrid buses to begin replacing its polluting diesel fleet, and Gov. Martin O'Malley gave a nod toward joining Delaware in placing power-generating windmills off the Atlantic Coast. Meanwhile, Al Gore provocatively suggested that the nation can convert all electricity generation to wind, solar and other renewable sources within 10 years.

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts. "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Gore said in a speech to an energy conference here. "The future of human civilization is at stake." Gore called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon 39 years ago this month, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy famously embraced that goal.

Hollywood is messing with our national past again, and this time, the potential for confusion, cynicism and paranoia about our politics and shared sense of history seems greater than ever. Next Sunday, HBO will premiere Recount, a docudrama starring Kevin Spacey and Tom Wilkinson that purports to tell the "story behind the headlines" of the contested 2000 presidential election in Florida. Of course, the real-life wounds from that bare-knuckled political battle between the operatives of Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, and Republican George W. Bush, have not yet healed.

Peacefully, on March 19, 2008, BERNADETTE (nee McNulty) GORE; beloved wife of the late Leroy "Buddy" Gore; loving mother of Mary Vilnit and her husband Daniel, Bernadette Adams and her husband Chris, Steven Gore and his wife Patricia and the late Billy Gore and Timmy "Piggy" Gore; treasured mother in law of Dawn Gore and Rose Gore; cherished grandmother of Danny, Matt, Johnny, Nicole, Jared, Christen, Heather, Buddy, Crystal and Chuck; great-grandmother of...

On January 16, 2008, BARBARA B. GORE. Friends may visit the family owned March Funeral Home East Inc., 1101 E. North Avenue on Tuesday after 8:30AM, where the family will receive friends on Wednesday at 11:30AM. Funeral services will follow at 12PM. In lieu of flowers, make donations to the American Cancer Society

Newspapers are often accused of printing only bad news, but you'd think a front-page report on an American's winning the Nobel Peace Prize would be considered good news. You would be wrong. Years ago, the news that an American had won the world's most prestigious award would have been cause for celebration and national pride. It would have been received as an especially good kind of good news. But that was then. Given the reaction of readers of The Sun and other newspapers across the country to the news that Al Gore will share this year's Nobel for his work on climate change, we can no longer assume such news is "good."

BOSTON -- Until now, I believed that the smallest unit of time was between the moment the traffic light turned green and the car behind you honked. I was wrong. The shortest unit is actually between the moment you win the Nobel Peace Prize and someone asks if you're running for president. This is the story of Al Gore. It's wrapped succinctly in the Time magazine headline: "Gore Wins the Nobel. But Will He Run?" The best answer came from Rep. Rahm Emanuel: "Why would he run for president when he can be a demigod?"

The first President Bush belittled Al Gore as "Ozone Man" for his early warning about the damage to the environment caused by human behavior. A decade later, the second President Bush sought to undermine a growing consensus that Mr. Gore's alarm should be heeded. Mr. Bush called instead for "sound science." There was no sign of gloating Friday, though, when the former vice president was awarded a most prestigious sign of vindication - a Nobel Peace Prize that affirmed not only the legitimacy of his views on global warming but also the threat that rapid climate change poses to world peace and security.

Don't know about you, but I'm ready for this fantasy football season to be over. No matter where I go - the office, a government meeting, a Hampden pub to watch some playoff baseball - well-meaning folks ask how my teams are doing. They assume, sensibly, that because I put myself out there as some kind of fantasy sage, I'll have good news or at least a little insight. Well, maybe next year. My teams stink. I thought the worm might be turning after both eked out cheap wins in Week 4. Turned out that the low point totals were indicative of their quality.

Certifications David R. Bogus of the accounting and consulting firm Ellin & Tucker has been certified as an accredited senior appraiser by the American Society of Appraisers. Contracts Vericom Technologies Inc., a Columbia-based firm, has been selected by Guardian Cos. of Delaware to provide mobile resource management solutions. New clients Warschawski has been named as the national agency of record for W.L. Gore & Associates, makers of Gore-Tex and Windstopper products. New name I4 Commerce, a Timonium-based alternative payment service, changed its name to Bill Me Later Inc. The service lets shoppers make purchases without using a credit card and be billed at a later date.