November, 20, 2014 'Not Who We Are As Americans' : Obama Acts on Deportation Relief for Millions

(NBCNews) - President Barack Obama on Thursday announced broad executive action to offer temporary relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants, saying that the separation of families or the oppression of low-wage immigrant workers is "not who we are as Americans." "If you've b...

November, 20, 2014 Italian Nuns Are Making Orange Wine for God and the Rest of Us

(Munchies) - About 30 miles north of Rome is the Monastero Suore Cisterci (Monastic Order of Cistercian Nuns), near the town of Vitorchiano. Founded in 1098 as a Cistercian order of the Catholic Church, a group of about 80 nuns are taking on the world of natural wine. The Catholic Church has histor...

November, 19, 2014 TOP 10 BIZARRE US DRINKING LAWS

(TDB) - From the practical and protective to the inexplicably bizarre, America is home to some of the world’s oddest alcohol laws. When the 21st Amendment ended the 13-year Prohibition in 1933, authority for regulating the consumption of alcohol was handed over to state lawmakers. ...

November, 19, 2014 California: High court allows delta water contracts to be challenged

(SFGate) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed environmentalists to challenge the government’s renewal of 41 long-term contracts for irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, in a lawsuit seeking greater protection for the endangered delta smelt. Water districts had aske...

November, 19, 2014 WineGavel Founder Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

(WineSpectator) - Former WineGavel online auction house founder and president Joshua Krummenoehl, who was arrested in New York in July on charges of grand theft by embezzlement for auctioning clients’ wine and never sending them the proceeds, has pleaded guilty in a Napa court to one count of...

November, 18, 2014 The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate

(WP) - There's no easy way to say this: You're eating too much chocolate, all of you. And it's getting so out of hand that the world could be headed towards a potentially disastrous (if you love chocolate) scenario if it doesn't stop. Those are, roughly speaking, the words of two huge chocolate ...

November, 18, 2014 Could Wine, Chocolate Help Shield Your Heart From Smog?

(HealthDayNews) - A diet rich in chocolate, wine, fruits and vegetables may help protect people from heart disease caused by air pollution, new research suggests. The researchers found that elderly men were less likely to experience changes in heart function during heavy smog days if they ate fo...

November, 18, 2014 Wineries Growing the Bitcoin Ecosystem: Where Wine Goes So Goes the World

(BitCoinMagazine) - Serving up bottles of select vine varieties, Picnic Wine Co. was the first winery dedicated to selling wine exclusively for bitcoin. Emblazoned on their bitcoinwine.com homepage, a prominently displayed mission statement reads, “Let’s stay in Bitcoin, shall we? The b...