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Friday, May 22, 2009

This week in The Tentacle



This week in The Tentacle

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Friday, May 22, 2009
Vice President Emeritus
Roy Meachum
A considerable portion of the American public seems curious that ex-Vice President Dick Cheney developed into the Great Defender of the recent administration. I am not. During the eight years George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office Mr. Cheney ran the nation, especially in financial and foreign affairs.

Squirreling Away – Part 2
Joan McIntyre
Yesterday I started this conversation about how elitist I believe our Frederick County Board of Education and the administration of Frederick County Public Schools have become. Today, I continue in that same vein with the hopes of stirring your emotions to do something. To put your foot down and scream “Enough is Enough.”

Decoration Day
Tom McLaughlin
Even when he was deep into his Alzheimer’s state, Dad always seemed to know when it was Memorial Day – Decoration Day, as he called it. I guess it might have been the war movies that showed constantly on the television that clued him in, or maybe he just knew.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Squirreling Away – Part 1
Joan McIntyre
The Board of Education seems to have "found" a $4.1 million surplus from the current year. It saved so much money from conserving things such as electricity, by turning off the lights, that we now have an excess. They are having a little trouble remembering to whom the money actually belongs.

Needed: A Different Approach for Change
Chris Cavey
Rolling up to the 2010 election it seems the predominate theme within our state is a continued desire for change. Is it a philosophical change, or a broad-brushed wholesale changing of the "professional," long-term politicians, who, regardless of party, are perceived as sharing the blame for the current political and economic situation?

The Cradle of True Leadership
Farrell Keough
I enjoy a number of talk radio shows from our local ones to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. Of course, these national shows have a strong leaning towards conservatism. I am okay with that.

Entertaining Entertainment
Roy Meachum
Somehow entertainment became a negative word in the theatre. Maryland Ensemble Theatre could change that. "And the World Goes Round" makes a case for evenings that are entertaining, not uplifting, carrying messages or making the world a better place.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Pause to Remember and Honor
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Next Monday is Memorial Day. It is a day when we should come together as a community and take a break from the rancid political bickering in Washington, which passes as national leadership today, and reflect on the men and women in uniform who are serving our country in the darkest corners of the world.

A Review – “Design for Living"
Roy Meachum
Once upon a time, as all good stories begin, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne epitomized theatrical royalty and this was in the era when the Barrymores were the first family of the stage. Noel Coward's chief claim to that company was that he was a kind of industry jester.

Alfred Wallace and Me – Part 3
Tom McLaughlin
Kampung Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysia – Alfred Wallace’s second and most famous Law of Natural Selection “suddenly flashed upon him” (his words) in February, 1858. With the monsoon season beginning to taper off, he suffered from malaria induced fevers.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Where's Jennifer?
Roy Meachum
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and I did not agree; her political strategists said she could win the governor's race by concentrating her efforts (and expenditures) after Labor Day. She tried, and had her head handed over by Republican Bob Ehrlich.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…
Michael Kurtianyk
A day doesn’t go by that I’m not asked: “How’s the real estate market? Any good news?” I’m here to say that we’re seeing increases in the number of properties going under contract this spring.

Monday, May 18, 2009
Death by Technology Dependence
Steven R. Berryman
How do civilizations die? How do cultures die? How do people die?

Friday, May 15, 2009
Budget Time, Bad Political Jokes
Roy Meachum
In the fat years – and we've had more than several recently – budget time takes on the tenor of holiday dinners fed by someone else. Local politicians get to say "You're welcome." A lot. Particularly to the Board of Education.

Of Opportunity and Failure
Joe Charlebois
Twelve million dollars is approximately the maximum amount of money that the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will spend this year to allow residents of our nation’s capital to attend the schools of their choice including private and parochial schools.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
All Democrats Have to Fear is Themselves
Tony Soltero
We currently stand at what could be a watershed moment in America's political history. As has been well documented, the Republican Party is in serious disrepair nationally. It has essentially been reduced to a regional Southern party, with a few scattered pockets of influence in the Midwest and West. It's become all but extinct in the Northeast, and its reach is shrinking rapidly on the West Coast.

The FMH Good Samaritan of the Year
Michael Kurtianyk
Last Friday, my wife and I had the good fortune to attend Frederick Memorial Hospital’s Good Samaritan of the Year affair at The Lynfield Events Complex. We were worried that we’d get more rain, but I had my own contingency plan. For the last two weeks, I’d been building an ark in the back yard. Fortunately, the rains hadn’t arrived, or I’d have taken the boat off its mooring.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Arlington National Cemetery – Firsts of the heart
Kevin E. Dayhoff
As Memorial Day approaches, it is significant to note that today, on May 13, in 1864; the first soldier was buried at Arlington House, also called the Custis-Lee Mansion. We now know the property as Arlington National Cemetery and it is now the revered final resting place of over 320,000 stories of the heart.

Alfred Wallace and Me – Part Two
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia – The London scientific community viewed Alfred Wallace as a redneck, or, in their lingo of the day, a collector. These were people who went out to the tropics with a butterfly net or gun and brought back animals that were sold to the public.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Pope's New Failures
Roy Meachum
Vatican hypocrisy couldn't be clearer than in the reaction to Notre Dame inviting Barack Obama to address this year's commencement and receive an honorary degree. This president's "mortal sin," in church critics' eyes, derives from his support of abortion rights and for embryonic stem cell research.

Advice from The Voice of Experience – Part 4
Nick Diaz
This is the conclusion of my series on buying a used motorcycle. In my 39 years in the sport of motorcycling, I’ve bought only two new motorcycles, and that was back in the early 70’s. Buying a used motorcycle is one of the most challenging, yet satisfying activities a person can engage in.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Electoral Expectations
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
A recent set of news articles out of Anne Arundel County raise the issue of voter expectations for elected officials.

Anticipating the Air Show! – 2009
Steven R. Berryman
Time to break with your hibernation from the winter blahs; stop getting upset about the politics of Democratic deconstruction and more illegal immigrants for a time. Andrews Air Force base, in nearby Prince George’s County offers the best air show in the region once a year, and it’s this coming weekend!



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It was a perfect day, but the interview did not go well.


It was a perfect day, but the interview did not go well.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

While I was in Princeton New Jersey recently, I found myself walking along Nassau Street across from Princeton University.

It was a beautiful spring day. It was a perfect day - - or as Vivian Laxton would say, “C'est un jour parfait à donner des sédatifs.” (http://tinyurl.com/oh72eo)

The sidewalk was packed with all sorts of interesting folks; so, I thought that I would gather some views on contemporary events from the person in the street.

Hey, these things always go well when Mike Schuh does them.

Well, my experience was not so good.

She had nothing to say.

I can’t imagine what went wrong. I talked at great length about fashion, sports, life in a college town.

I even sang to her: “Oh it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you. Oh such a perfect day, You just keep me hanging on, You just keep me hanging on.

“Just a perfect day, Problems all left alone, Weekenders on our own. It’s such fun.

“Just a perfect day, You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, Someone good.”
(http://tinyurl.com/r43u7h)

In return, I got, like, nothing.

Zip. (And, I might add, it was at this point, that my wife did not know me.)

Maybe I need to get some pointers from Bryan Sears or Clifford Cumber.

Maybe I need to grow a beard like Cumber. Sears would’ve nailed it.

I did get some funny looks from some passers-by.


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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan


Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan by Gerald Paoli Wednesday 20 May 2009

Posted for my friends who know Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK, PJAK, the Pesmerge, and the Asaish. You know who you are... Do not comment here - send me an e-mail or a Facebook message... And be safe.

Gerald Paoli, Truthout:

"Historically, seasonal bombings have been the norm in the northernmost region of Kurdistan. Bombings became a predictable part of an annual rhythm of life. But villagers adjusted to the anticipated attacks and continued to live in the manner dictated by their traditions and customs. In December 2007, George Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan met to discuss strategies for 'dealing' with the PKK. Since then, the bombing have been more intense and regular."

Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan Wednesday 20 May 2009 by: Gerald Paoli, t r u t h o u t Report

[…]

Sulimanaya, Iraqi Kurdistan - The first Zarawa internally displaced persons (IDP) camp was in a valley in the Qandil Mountains. It wasn't home, but it was situated next to a cool stream and was close to the eight villages of the 132 families, who had fled violence rained down on them by Turkey and Iran. Now, they live in the new Zarawa IDP camp built by the United Nation's High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

[…]

Turkey has attempted to purchase both armed and surveillance drones from Israel for use in border operations. However, Turkey's government stated on May 19, 2009, that it might cancel a 2005 contract to purchase ten drones from Israel because of delayed delivery. It's also worth noting that Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan sternly criticized Israel's 22-day Operation Cast Lead assaults against Gaza, begun on December 22, 2008.

[…]

Read the entire article here: Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan Wednesday 20 May 2009 by: Gerald Paoli, t r u t h o u t Report

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Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero

"Fishing" July 23, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero

Arts on the Dock is an entertainment filled evening on the docks of one of Ocean City's most scenic marinas, the Ocean City Fishing Center.

[…]

Every Thursday, June 18th - September 24th, from 4:00PM - 8:00PM…

[…]

Are you an artist, who'd like to show at Arts on the Dock? Any Questions? Call the Ocean City Fishing Center at (410) 213-1121.

Read the entire post here: Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC


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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC

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Why Krugman Is a Thorn in (Everyone's) Side


Why Krugman Is a Thorn in Obama's Side

May 21, 2009 by Chosun Ilbo columnist Kim Ki-cheon

Newsweek magazine in a cover story entitled "Obama's Nobel Headache" describes the embarrassment to the U.S. president from a series of scathing criticism from last year's Nobel laureate in economics Paul Krugman. Krugman has slammed the U.S. government's bank bailout plan as paying "cash for trash." He lambasted the so-called "stress test," which gauged the financial health of major financial institutions, as coming close to fraud.

Krugman is a natural rebel…

[…]

Yet Krugman was also the scourge of the Bush administration.

[…]

Some accuse him of being "an economist who died 10 years ago," claiming he has been more interested in inflammatory politics than research ever since he began writing the New York Times column in 1999.

[…]

In an international seminar in Seoul a few days ago, Krugman once again offered a pessimistic view, saying the global economy has just emerged from intensive care. Then when will it end? A hint comes from a comment posted on his blog in the New York Times. "We will know when the economic crisis is over when we no longer see Krugman everywhere."


The entire column is a must quick read. Find it here: Why Krugman Is a Thorn in Obama's Side

By Chosun Ilbo columnist Kim Ki-cheon

englishnews@chosun.com / May 21, 2009 12:00 KST

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/05/21/2009052100905.html

20090521 Why Krugman Is a Thorn in Obama's Side


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Herman's loss in Sykesville is a blow to countywide economics by John Culleton

Herman's loss in Sykesville is a blow to countywide economics

Culleton on Carroll - By John Culleton Posted on
www.explorecarroll.com 5/18/09

Sykesville has lost two of its best elected officials. We learned earlier that Jeannie Nichols had declined to run again for the Town Council.

Now, in a surprising development, Jonathan Herman was defeated for mayor. These two were among the most able elected officials I have had the privilege to see in action. I wish their successors well, but undoubtedly Sykesville will be poorer for their absence.

Carroll County has had a persistent and serious problem. The industrial tax base is too small. With residential values falling and hence future residential taxes to decline as well, the county will find itself in a fiscal bind.

The one bright spot in our largely unsuccessful effort to attract industrial taxpayers has been the Warfield Commerce and Cultural Center, which takes a piece of non-taxable, state-owned property and converts it to corporate campus-type facilities.

Mayor Herman was the prime mover in this project. His experience in contracting and construction gave him special skills to handle the details.

He was also well connected with the Democratic committee chairs in the General Assembly. Annapolis is a partisan town, and as a leading Democratic voice in Carroll County, Herman had access other officials lacked.

The election itself is a puzzler. Only 560 voters showed up at the polls?

The population of Sykesville in July 2007 was estimated at 4,417. The median household income was estimated at $91,467.

The vote tally was 294 for Miller, 266 for Herman.

I can only speculate that between his day job and his duties as mayor, Herman devoted insufficient time to campaign. But a turnout of 560 voters is embarrassing.

Those who run for office in towns such as Sykesville are essentially volunteers; the stipend of $200 per meeting for the mayor doesn't cover much. Even our county commissioners, who receive $45,000 per year, must have other sources of income.

All our public officials, commissioners, mayors, council members and elected members of the school board are seriously underpaid.

Volunteerism is all very well, but those salaries are ridiculous.


Read Mr. Culleton’s entire column here: Herman's loss in Sykesville is a blow to countywide economics

http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/2910/hermans-loss-sykesville-blow-countywide-economics/

For more information please see: Miller upsets Herman in Sykesville mayoral race By Charles Schelle on “Soundtrack.”

Charles Schelle’s article may found here: Miller upsets Herman in Sykesville mayoral race By Charles Schelle

The election results may be found here: Sykesville, Carroll County Maryland May 5 2009 municipal election results

20090518 Hermans loss in Sykesville by John Culleton

Information release from the Sykesville Police Department

Information release from the Sykesville Police Department

May 20, 2009

In an effort to obtain current information out to the community and dispel rumors, the Sykesville Police Department is releasing the following:

On May 15th, 2009, at approximately 4:45 pm a white male operating a mustard colored vehicle attempted to speak to a young child riding his bike on Harlan Lane. It is unknown what, if anything, was said as the child ran home to inform his parents. The parents contacted the police, the area was checked but the individual was not located.

Our officers have increased patrols in the area and will maintain a visible presence. To date, no crime has been committed. However, we do take these matters seriously and are eager to identify this person. It may have been a harmless gesture or event, but we want to gather all information in an effort to identify and question this person.

I certainly appreciate the support and cooperation of the community but we still need to approach this matter will great sensitivity and caution.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

John R. Williams
Chief of Police
Sykesville Police Department
7547 Main Street
Sykesville MD 21784
(410) 795-0757
(410) 795-8864 FAX

20090520 Information release from the Sykesville Police Department

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Westminster Police Department Rite Aid Robbery Media Release


Westminster Police Department Rite Aid Robbery Media Release

May 19, 2009


On May 17, 2009 at approximately 2:25 p.m., Andrew Thomas Duhigg entered the Rite Aid in the 140 Village Shopping Center and requested to have a prescription refilled. After waiting approximately 20 minutes, Mr. Duhigg returned to the pharmacy counter and handed the pharmacist a note demanding a variety of scheduled medications. The pharmacist complied and gave Mr. Duhigg an undisclosed amount of scheduled medications. Mr. Duhigg then fled the store in an unknown direction. Mr. Duhigg never displayed or stated that he had a weapon.

Mr. Duhigg may be driving an Enterprise rental vehicle which is described as a 2008 Nissan Sentra 4door, dark blue in color with MD Registration 9DZD35. A warrant is on file with the Westminster Police Department charging Mr. Duhigg with Robbery, Theft over $500.00 and Second Degree Assault. Mr. Duhigg should be considered DANGEROUS.

Citizens with information on the whereabouts of Mr. Duhigg should contact the Westminster Police Department at (410) 848-4646.

24-HOUR ANONYMOUS TIPS LINE (410) 857-8477

DUHIGG, ANDREW THOMAS
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L/K/A 2804 GILLIS RD
MT AIRY, MD 21771-8918

Contact: Captain Gerry Frischkorn
Date: May 19, 2009
Administrative Bureau Commander
(410) 848-1638

WESTMINSTER POLICE DEPARTMENT
36 Locust Street, P.O. Box 300
Westminster, Maryland 21158
Phone (410) 848-4646
Fax (410) 848-4230


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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Rumsfeld disputes GQ report

Rumsfeld disputes GQ report By Ben Smith

May 19, 2009 Categories:
Magazines

An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed
GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld "appreciated" the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings, and that Rumsfeld brought the briefings to President Bush.

Urbahn e-mails that the briefings in question were not routinely sent to Rumsfeld, and that Rumsfeld considers the cover slides "harmful and counterproductive to the war effort."

Urbahn's full e-mail:


Read the rest of Mr. Smith here: Rumsfeld disputes GQ report By Ben Smith

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Rumsfeld_disputes_GQ_report.html

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Andy Cashman and Caroline Babylon at Carroll Co Ag Center event



Andy Cashman and Caroline Babylon at Carroll Co Ag Center event

May 8, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

Andy Cashman and Caroline Babylon take a short break and catch up on business at the pig weigh-in - inside the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County Riding Arena - for the annual Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair.

After a long winter, the annual spring weigh-in is a great opportunity for families in the Carroll County ag community to catch-up and share plans for the Annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair.

For more information on the fair go to: http://www.carrollcountyfair.com/

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20090508 Annual Fair pig weigh in (21)bw Andy CB

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Jefferson Airplane - Today

Quicksilver Messenger Service What About Me


Quicksilver Messenger Service What About Me

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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air

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Donovan - Mellow Yellow


Donovan Mellow Yellow

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Posted for Pastor Kevin Clementson of Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster, Maryland.

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Princeton New Jersey Public Library


Princeton, New Jersey, Public Library

Dayhoff Daily Photoblog Friday, May 15, 2009

The Princeton, New Jersey Public Library at Wiggins and Witherspoon Streets.

This picture was taken from a vantage point in the intersection of Hulfish and Witherspoon Street on the evening of May 15, 2009.

(c) Photo by Kevin Dayhoff
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Sara Michael: MEDIA MAY 8 2009 Stephen Janis The Voice of Baltimore

Sara Michael: MEDIA MAY 8 2009 Stephen Janis The Voice of Baltimore

After his newspaper shut down, investigative reporter Stephen Janis started his own news website.


Conversations with Stephen Janis are often interrupted by his cellphone. The former investigative reporter at the Baltimore Examiner newspaper never stops taking calls and meeting sources, and not even the newspaper's folding in February slowed him down. Having covered stories in Baltimore City like the murders of prostitutes and the arrest of a seven-year-old for sitting on a dirt bike, Janis can't stop now.

Perhaps he's become completely mired in the ills of the city; perhaps he is fully unemployable in any other field. But once laid off from the newspaper, he took his leads, his sources, and his obsession with unearthing the real story, and launched his own online news organization, Investigative Voice. After just two months, the website has broken stories that were picked up by the local television media.

Janis, a former contributing writer for the city's alternative weekly and a former record producer, was part of the original crew that launched the Baltimore Examiner, a free tabloid daily, in April 2006. The Examiner's short stories (most of them around 500 words) and sensational headlines (think "Bludgeoned!" and "Suburban Shocker") competed with the legacy Baltimore Sun newspaper, itself now a struggling rag. Janis covered stories others wouldn't touch, and made officials in the city government pay attention, picking up fans and enemies along the way. His stories on a city parking agent writing fake tickets led to an inspector general investigation, and his series on the mysterious death of activist and prominent businessman Robert Lee Clay prompted the FBI to reopen the case.

Even before the Baltimore Examiner folded on Feb. 15, Janis was planning Investigative Voice, and the site went live nine days after the last paper was printed. While the other laid-off reporters, including me, dusted off our résumés, my former colleague Janis was still meeting with sources. In the following interview, which has been edited for clarity, Janis talks about how he wrestles with having to play the competing roles of a businessman concerned with driving hits to the site and an investigative reporter obsessed with keeping tabs on crime and City Hall… http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_voice_of_baltimore.php

20090508 MEDIA Stephen Janis The Voice of Baltimore

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Climate Change: Garbage Gets Fresh Look as Source of Energy By JEFFREY BALL




HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Times change, and yesterday's environmental problem starts to look like today's solution. That is what is happening with trash.

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has shut down hundreds of pollution-spewing waste incinerators on the belief that burning detritus was a bigger environmental sin than burying it. Today, most American garbage is sent to landfills, some spanning hundreds of acres miles from the cities that generate the refuse. New York City, which tosses about eight million tons of nonindustrial trash each year, trucks much of it to big landfills in states such as Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Jeffrey Ball/The Wall Street Journal.


Covanta's Hempstead, N.Y., plant burns nearly a million tons of trash a year.

Landfills have been convenient. But they are falling out of favor as improved technology and changing environmental priorities start to upend the old thinking about garbage.

Past orthodoxy held that burning trash was bad because it spewed toxic substances into the air. In an era when the big environmental threat was localized pollution like smog and cancer-causing plumes, landfills seemed the lesser evil.

Dirty air is still a concern, but now it has been eclipsed by fears of global climate change. In that calculus of environmental harm, recent research suggests, burning trash is better than burying it.

The appeal of most modern incinerators is that they don't only torch trash. They also use the heat from the incineration to boil water, which creates steam, which in turn generates electricity. Yet trash incineration produces just 0.4% of the country's electricity. Even if all U.S. garbage were burned, it wouldn't produce anywhere near enough power to meet the country's energy needs. But as concern about climate change grows, any renewable source of energy -- even a pile of garbage -- seems appealing.

[…]

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A9

Further Reading

The best way to deal with trash is to produce less of it. The next-best way is to recycle more of it, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But that still leaves loads of trash, and burning it to produce electricity is better than burying it in a landfill,
the EPA says. Incinerating a ton of trash emits at least 35% less greenhouse gas and yields 10 times as much electricity as burying it, according to a recent study by EPA researchers.

Today, the U.S. burns 13% of its trash; it sends 54% of its trash to landfills and recycles 33% of it. Other countries, particularly countries in Europe that have less available space for landfills and fewer domestic fossil-fuel resources, burn more of their trash, according to a
study by the European Environment Agency.

A bill drafted by Congressional Democrats would give incineration, known as "waste-to-energy," a boost. The bill would require utilities to produce 20% of their electricity from renewable-energy sources and energy-efficiency improvements by 2020. The bill's current version defines waste-to-energy as one form of renewable power, along with sources such as the wind and sun.

Many environmentalists worry that encouraging trash incineration will impinge on recycling efforts.
A 1997 report by the Natural Resource Defense Council's Allen Hershkowitz argues that recycling rates could be dramatically improved with more effort. A 2008 study by trash consultant Eileen Brettler Berenyi concluded that trash incineration isn't restraining recycling. Her study, partly funded by the trash-incineration industry, found that U.S. communities with waste-to-energy plants tend to have higher-than-average recycling rates.

Read the entire article here: Climate Change: Garbage Gets Fresh Look as Source of Energy By JEFFREY BALL

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124233937494621157.html



DAYHOFF: Cutting a ribbon on history at the Westminster Water Treatment Plant




DAYHOFF: Cutting a ribbon on history at the Westminster Water Treatment Plant

Bottom photo: April 24, 2008 Westminster, state, county and industry officials cut the ribbon at grand opening ceremonies for the new Westminster Cranberry Water Treatment Plant. From right to left: Ben Movahed from Watek Engineering, Westminster Common Council president Roy Chiavacci, Dr. Robert M. Summers, deputy secretary from the State Department of the Environment, Westminster mayor Tom Ferguson, Carroll County commissioners’ president Julia Gouge, Westminster Common Council members Dr. Robert Wack and Kevin Utz. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff (20090424 NewWTPribbon (18)b and 20090424 NewWTPribbon (24)b)

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DAYHOFF: Cutting a ribbon on history at the Westminster Water Treatment Plant Published April 29, 2009 by Westminster Eagle ... prosper. Note: next week's column will review a more in-depth history of the story of the early Westminster water systems. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster, where he served as mayor from 2001 to 2005. When he is not enjoying a great glass of Westminster ... ...

Dayhoff: How water drove the growth Westminster ... and still does Published May 4, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle ... 200 years after our community banded together to maintain a steady and reliable water supply.

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Last week’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Westminster water treatment plant put the city on the cutting edge of water.

Carroll and Westminster officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting April 24 at the Westminster Cranberry Water Treatment Plant, on Lucabaugh Mill Road just north of Westminster.

Mayor Tom Ferguson and Dr. Robert M. Summers, deputy secretary from the State Department of the Environment, shared remarks and recognized folks in attendance for working hard to make the state-of-the-art facility a reality.

Westminster council president Roy Chiavacci, councilmembers Kevin Utz and Dr. Robert Wack and Board of County Commissioners President Julia Gouge watched with well-deserved pride.

Among the folks recognized were Westminster city administrator Marge Wolf, engineer Mike Matov, representatives from Watek Engineering Corporation (who designed the facility), Conewago Enterprises and Siemens Water Technologies.

According to Kelly Martin, the city's information and communications specialist, the design of the plant, by Watek Engineering Corporation, took into account future growth capacity, while minimizing operation and maintenance costs.

“The Plant is designed to currently supply 2.75 million gallons per day (MGD) of potable water into the City's distribution system,” said data provided by Martin.

Simply increasing the number of membrane modules — part of the technology noted as “best available” by regulatory agencies — could increase the plant's capacity to 5 million gallons per day.

Although construction of the new treatment facility started May 2007, the story of water in Carroll and Westminster has its beginnings in the 1700s.

Indeed, the very spot upon which the new water facility is now located has a history that dates back to 1795.

According to information researched at the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian Richard Hyson, one of the earliest references to Winter's Mill — which now also lends its name to the high school — can be found as early as 1795 when it a grain mill and sawmill operated by Ledwick Wampler.

Airhart Winters took possession around 1860 and the mill can be located on the Lake, Griffing & Stevenson 1877 “Illustrated Atlas of Carroll County, Maryland.”

The property is described as being that of “Airhart Winters, Farmer and Manufacturer of Flour, Feed &c. Custom Sawing and Grinding done promptly. One and a half miles east of Westminster.”

Unfortunately, a fire around 1960 destroyed the adjacent mill master's home and all the records of the early days of the mill and the water company perished.

The mill master's house was located on the exact spot where the new treatment plant is now situated.

In 1920, the old Cranberry Water Pumping Station was constructed by Westminster Consolidated Utilities Company at the Old Winter's Mill, taking advantage of a millrace there to bring water into the plant from a millpond upstream.

Water in Westminster was supplied by a private company from 1883 to 1964. The city purchased the Maryland Water Company, a successor to the Westminster Consolidated Utilities Company, in 1964 for $961,792 and sold approximately $1.45 million worth of 2.5 percent bonds to pay for the system and improvements and expansions.

Compare that to the $12.3 million cost of the new water treatment plant; most of which was borrowed from the Maryland Water Quality Bond Fund through the Maryland Department of the Environment at 1 percent for 29 years.

When the water system was purchased 45 years ago, Westminster consisted of 477 acres and had a population of 6,123 compared to approximately 4,000 acres and 17,000 folks today.

Today, the water system supplies more than 33,000 people with water when you include the households it serves outside the city limits.

Over the past decade, community leaders have been grappling with how to continue to supply fresh drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities for a growing population and meet increased (and unfunded) federal and state water quality mandates.

The history of the new water treatment plant really began in the 1990s when Ken Yowan was the mayor of Westminster.

Jeff Glass, the Westminster director of public works, recently helped refresh my memory about the early discussions about the need to build a new facility.

“Well, it all started a long long time ago” with a quality control process called a CPE, comprehensive performance evaluation, recalled Glass. The purpose of the CPE is “to find weaknesses and areas for potential improvement.”

The city's first CPE was completed by by Lenny Gold in conjunction with MCET, the Maryland Center for Environmental Training.

“Jake Bair was running (MCET) at the time,” said Glass.

Bair has since retired but Gold is still in the consulting business, based in Easton. Glass said “both are really good guys. ... Lenny is the one who taught me how to operate a treatment plant.”

In approximately 1998, the CPE identified that the city would one day need to upgrade its water treatment process to provide additional barriers to guard against Cryptosporidium, Giardia, bacteria, turbidity and suspended solids in the water system.

Discussions and long range planning continued for years. When I took office as the mayor in May 2001, my predecessor, Mayor Yowan, and I had a series of transition discussions and the need for improvements to the then-80-year-old treatment plant was one of the many items reviewed.

In January 2002, $565,000 was included in the capital budget for design and construction of the filter re-bedding and preliminary plant design.

As challenges were identified, “it was then that we went out to bid for an evaluation of the current plant. The concept was to decide what was the best option(s) available to us, to take us into the future,” recalled Glass.

Enter Ben Movahed from Watek Engineering.

Movahed, along with Sophia Liskovitch, also with Watek, and a team of city officials including Glass, then-water treatment plant superintendent Paula Martin and her successor Bret Grossnickle, Tom Owens, all the water treatment plant operators, Tom Beyard, then the city's planning and public works director, and (Westminster engineer Mike) Matov , checked through the old plant with the concept of upgrading.

An additional $300.000 was allocated in February 2003 and another $300,000 in March 2004 as complications and challenges were identified in the complicated process of replacing an old water treatment system that dated back to the 1920s.

It was ultimately determined that upgrading the old plant was not a cost effective way to move forward and the idea to build a new plant firmly took root.

However, to further complicate the matter, it was also determined that the existing sand filtration media in the old plant needed to the re-bedded — changed-out — before a new plant could be constructed and brought on-line.

Another complication was researching what membrane filtering system to use. Since this technology is cutting edge, few existing examples could be studied.

This required research trips to several of the few existing facilities in the world. One was in England. Another in California and yet a third was in Toronto.

It was the facility above Toronto that proved especially trying as Glass recalls that the trip coincided with weather which saw the temperatures plummet to 40 degrees below zero.

Yet even more complicating was determining whether to use the “Zenon” filter or the “MEMCOR” filter.

When the investigation and research began, both were manufactured by stand-alone companies.

Then MEMCOR was purchased by U.S. Filter, which was subsequently purchased by Siemens.

Zenon was purchased by GE.

By 2007 drawings and planning process were complete and the city was able to begin construction of the new facility in May 2007.

The ribbon cutting ceremony last Friday witnessed the completion of the first full scale membrane filtering water treatment plant in Maryland.

The story of the plant is like much of the history of Westminster — a story of teamwork, careful planning, thinking outside of the box and adapting to change.

Perhaps the only thing more important than water in Carroll County history is how the community has always come together to meet hardships and challenges and adapt to the changes.

By working together we can easily meet the current water challenges and prosper.

Note: next week's column will review a more in-depth history of the story of the early Westminster water systems.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster, where he served as mayor from 2001 to 2005.

When he is not enjoying a great glass of Westminster water, he may be reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.

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The evolution of an Elon baseball player by Sam Calvert

The evolution of an Elon baseball player by Sam Calvert, May 12, 2009

Players pave the way to program’s success

Elon Baseball on Dipity.

Throughout the years, Elon has enjoyed a rich tradition in intercollegiate athletics. Several sports have had successful seasons, but none have sustained the long-term success of the Elon baseball program. Since World War II, the baseball team has posted a record of 1498-905-4 and a .622 winning percentage.

This two-part series will delve into the factors that have contributed to a successful program. Part two looks at the players who have made up the Elon baseball program and the roles they have played in the success of the program.

Although it is easy to see the success of the Elon baseball team in the number of coaches, to truly understand the cause of the success one must dig deeper into the biggest assets the coaches have — players.


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Don Surber: Democratic Party Guilt

Don Surber: Democratic Party Guilt

May 13, 2009

Don Surber weighs-in on the escalating hard feelings between the CIA - the Democrat-dominated Congress and the Obama administration; as attempts to criminalize public policy differences are quickly becoming an acceptable partisan political tactic.

Also see: “Prosecutors to Question Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings” By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 14, 2009; 3:09 PM

No word as to whether or not these folks will also investigate the mass firings of the U.S. attorneys by President Bill Clinton.

Oh, silly me, it's okay when Democrats do it…

Meanwhile, see also: Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying May 14, 2009, 12:17 p.m. By Tory Newmyer Roll Call Staff - http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/05/speaker-accuses-cia-of-lying.html

Don Surber: Democratic Party guilt

Democratic Sen. Carl Levin: The Central Intelligence Agency is out to make us look paranoid.

Out, out damned spot.

After decades of shabby treatment by the Democrats in Congress, CIA personnel sense another attack coming. They waterboarded three guys — including the man who beheaded Daniel Pearl — and got the information that spared the nation. Now CIA personnel see the Democrats trying to distort that into torture.

Apparently, someone is trying to ward off the witch hunt by leaking the truth to the newspapers: Democrats knew and went along with it because they did not want to be held responsible for a second 9/11.

[…]

Levin told Politico: “I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think.”

Read Mr. Surber’s entire post here: Don Surber: Democratic Party guilt


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And be sure to read the one comment: gk1 Says: May 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Interesting when it was the CIA leaking against the Bush admin they were brave “non partisan” watchdogs speaking out against a corrupt, power hunger presidency. When they leak against democrats its because of “embarassment”….

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Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying


Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying May 14, 2009, 12:17 p.m. By Tory Newmyer Roll Call Staff

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back hard against the controversy over what she knew, and when, about harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques by accusing the CIA of lying to her in a classified briefing on the matter in September 2002.

“At every step of the way, the administration was misleading the Congress. And that is the issue,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday.

[…]

Meanwhile, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, immediately derided Pelosi’s statements. “What is this, like version 3.0 from Nancy’s perspective of what happened in that meeting?” he asked.

Hoekstra said Pelosi’s allegations about the CIA are serious, calling it “a very, very serious charge. I’m not a lawyer, but I would expect that Congress would treat that as a crime.” 2009 © Roll Call Inc. All rights reserved.

[…]

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Arlington National Cemetery – Firsts of the heart


As Memorial Day approaches, it is significant to note that today, on May 13, in 1864; the first soldier was buried at Arlington House, also called the Custis-Lee Mansion. We now know the property as Arlington National Cemetery and it is now the revered final resting place of over 320,000 stories of the heart.

[…]

The history of Arlington Cemetery before it was officially designated as a national cemetery on June 15, 1864, by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, is of additional interest as it is steeped in the history of the families of some of America’s more memorable historic namesakes.

Read the entire column here: Arlington National Cemetery – Firsts of the heart

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