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Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Man Fatally Shot at Towson Town Center - Towson, MD Patch

Man Fatally Shot at Towson Town Center - Towson, MD Patch: Police & Fire:


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Man Fatally Shot at Towson Town Center

Police responded to shots fired outside Nordstrom and arrived to find a man dead on the sidewalk. Officers searched inside the mall for the shooter, but no suspects have been identified.

UPDATE (10 p.m.)—Baltimore County police have no suspects after a man was shot and killed outside Towson Town Center Monday evening, during the height of the holiday shopping rush. 
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Police responding to a call for a shooting outside the Nordstrom department store at around 6:20 p.m. Monday arrived to find the victim dead on the sidewalk near the mall's Fairmount Avenue entrance, near the Cancer Survivors Park.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million


This is the oldest motor vehicle car in the world that still runs. 

It was built one year before Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler invented the internal combustion engine. 

 
The world's oldest running motor vehicle has been sold at auction for an astonishing $4.62 million (R36.5-million), more than double the pre-sale estimate, as two bidders chased the price up in a three-minute bidding war. 

The 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout drew a standing ovation as it was driven up onto the stage at Friday's RM Auction in Hershey, Pennsylvania - to prove that this 127-year-old car really does run! - and attracted a starting bid of $500 000, which was immediately doubled to $1 million. 


Encouraged by the applauding crowd, the bidding went swiftly up to $4.2 million (R33 million) - 4.62 million (R36.5 million) including the 10 percent commission - before the car was knocked down to a unnamed buyer. 

 
The Dos-a-Dos (Back-to-Back) Steam Runabout was built in 1884 by George Bouton and Charles-Armand Trepardoux for French entrepreneur Count de Dion, who named it 'La Marquise' after his mother. 

 

In 1887, with De Dion at the tiller, it won the world's first ever motor race (it was the only entrant to make the start line!) covering the 32km from the Pont de Neuilly in Paris to Versailles and back in one hour and 14 minutes (an average of 25.9km/h) and, according to contemporary reports, hitting a breathtaking 60km/h on the straights! 

  


La Marquise has only had four owners, remaining in one family for 81 years, and has been restored twice, once by the Doriol family and again by British collector Tom Moore in the early 1990's.  Since then, it has taken part in four London-to-Brighton runs and collected a double gold at the 1997 Pebble Beach d'Elegance in California.
 













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Vladtepesblog.com: The direct story on Hitchens in Lebanon. A must read.

The direct story on Hitchens in Lebanon. A must read.



This story is much more than about Chris Hitchens utterly brave and rightious actions against a classic symbol of utter tyrany. It’s also a dramatic eye opener as to the nature of the Syrian regime, Lebanon and the possible Somalification of parts of the middle east. I will have to read this a number of times to digest all the new information contained herein. I do appreciate one thing Hitchens said though…

No that was a lie. I appreciate everything Christopher Hitchens says. But in particular he said something about this incident which reflects one of my most personal inner monologues... http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=5791

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Caroline Glick: Why I won"t miss Christopher Hitchens

Why I won"t miss Christopher Hitchens http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-is-still.php

I have read several appreciations of Hitchens written by conservatives and neo-conservatives who knew him and appreciated his transformation from a man of the left into a man of the right since the US invasion of Iraq.

All of these essays, like the generous conservative swooning over Hitchens for the better part of the last ten years makes me uneasy. For all of his personal transformation, there is one prejudice that I don't think Hitchens every abandoned and that is his anti-Semitism.
Please read the linked essay on the subject by Benjamin Kerstein. Kerstein wrote it last December and I believe that he definitively proved that my unease at Hitchens has always been well-deserved. ... http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-is-still.php

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Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines: Photos: Last U.S. airmen fly out of Ali Air Base



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Photos: Last U.S. airmen fly out of Ali Air Base
The last U.S. airmen to leave Iraq boarded a C-17 Globemaster 

Saturday night at Ali Air Base in Tallil, Iraq, some 200 miles 
southeast of Baghdad. The airmen and some U.S. soldiers 
shook hands with senior leaders as they boarded the plane. 

[img]Minesweepers ?some of the most versatile? sailors
As the USS Patriot steamed down the western coast of Japan under 

blackout conditions, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jesse Kenner and 
several junior sailors pored over radar and communications screens 
in the ship's combat information center. 

[img]?No sadness? as U.S. troops leave Iraq
With little fanfare, the last U.S. troops in Iraq rolled through an 

open gate at the Kuwaiti border Sunday, officially marking the
 end of the Iraq war. 

[img]Camp Echo packs up in Iraq with little fanfare
Army Reserve Sgt. Christopher Williams was there at the start, 

in 2003, when U.S. forces streamed north from Kuwait into 
Iraq after the 'shock and awe' aerial bombardments 
in a race to secure Baghdad. 

[img]Final days at Sather Air Base, Iraq
Servicemembers with the 447th Expeditionary Security 

Forces Squadron, Sather Air Base, Iraq, spend their 
final days in Iraq training Iraq Air Force security forces 
servicemembers and strengthening their relationships. 

[img]USAREUR adds 'newsroom' section to smartphone app
U.S. Army Europe has updated its smartphone app, 

adding a 'Newsroom' section that links users to the 
command's news page on its website, USAREUR 
announced Friday. 


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History of The US Marines


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When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard: "When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips


by Peter Ginna | December 15, 2011


There’s long-form narrative, and then there’s book-length narrative. Both are “long,” but a story that’s 300 pages long is a different proposition, for both writer and reader, from one that’s 3,000 words.


Writers embarking on their first book-length project respond to the challenge in different ways. Some panic, staring blankly at their screen as fine beads of sweat form on their foreheads. Some luxuriate in the expanse of real estate and begin wandering to and fro around their subject, leaving no random thought unexpressed. Some try to take a 3,000-word piece and inflate it to 300 pages.


In a few decades as a book editor I have published journalists, historians and novelists. In this post I’ll identify some problems that I see often in manuscripts or outlines of book-length nonfiction."


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Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011

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1. Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami (New York Times)

2. What teachers really want to tell parents (CNN)

3. No, your zodiac sign hasn't changed (CNN)

4. Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps (CNN)

5. (video) - Father Daughter Dance Medley (Yahoo)

6. At funeral, dog mourns the death of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan (Yahoo)

7. You'll freak when you see the new Facebook (CNN)

8. Dog in Japan stays by the side of ailing friend in the rubble (Yahoo)

9. Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines (Yahoo)

10. New Zodiac Sign Dates: Ophiuchus The 13th Sign? (The Huffington Post)

11. Parents keep child’s gender under wraps (Yahoo)

12. How to Talk to Little Girls (The Huffington Post)

13. Stop Coddling the Super-Rich (New York Times)

14. Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior (Wall Street Journal)

15. (video) - Twin Baby Boys Have A Conversation! (Yahoo)

16. Man robs bank to get medical care in jail (Yahoo)

17. Why You're Not Married (The Huffington Post)

18. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs (New York Times)

19. Ryan Dunn Dead: 'Jackass' Star Dies In Car Crash (The Huffington Post)

20. Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’ (Yahoo)

21. Notes From a Dragon Mom (New York Times)

22. A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy" (The Huffington Post)

23. Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph (Washington Post)

24. Penn State, my final loss of faith (Washington Post)

25. Golden-Voiced Homeless Man Captivates Internet (Yahoo)

26. The most typical face on the planet (Yahoo)

27. Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis (CNN)

28. Permissive parents: Curb your brats (CNN)

29. A father's day wish: Dads, wake the hell up!(CNN)

30. (video) - Laughing Baby Loves Ripping Paper! (Yahoo)

31. Epic Cover Letter: How To Get Hired For Your Dream Job (PICTURE) (The Huffington Post)

32. New Zodiac sign dates: Don't switch horoscopes yet (Washington Post)

33. Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know (Yahoo: Money Talk News)

34. The Psychology of Revenge: Why We Should Stop Celebrating Osama Bin Laden's Death (The Huffington Post)

35. (photo gallery) - ‘Where Children Sleep’ (New York Times)

36. Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis (CNN)

37. Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies (CNN)

38. China's latest craze: dyeing pets to look like other wild animals (CNN)

39. Grant Hill’s Response to Jalen Rose (New York Times)

40. Steve Jobs’s Patents (New York Times)


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