Sunday, November 06, 2011

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November 6, 2011

<p>One recent study found that people were able to burn up an extra 450 calories a day with one hour of moderate exercise. That can include walking briskly, biking or swimming. </p>

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Losing Weight: A Battle Against Fat And Biology

Most people who lose weight end up gaining it back — and it's not just a matter of willpower. In fact, once we begin to shed those first few pounds, says one expert, "the biology really kicks in and tries to resist the weight loss."


	KRULWICH WONDERS... Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library? It began with a "poetree" — an ornately-crafted paper sculpture left in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Next was a paper dragon. Who was leaving these cryptic messages around town?	Support comes from: Become an NPR sponsor


	7 BILLION AND COUNTING Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion The U.N. says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a bit easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.


	SHOTS - HEALTH BLOG Secret To A Long, Healthy Life: Bike To The Store Even if people used bikes to run short errands than half the time, it could save more than 1,100 lives a year in 11 Midwestern cities, thanks to reduced air pollution and improved health. That's the word from scientists at the University of Wisconsin, who figured people would bike 4 months out of the year.


	THE FRESH AIR INTERVIEW Tom Waits: The Fresh Air Interview The darkness of Tom Waits' lyrics is accentuated by the rumble and rasp of his voice, which sounded old even when he was young. On Bad As Me, Waits reflects on loneliness, life, death and heartbreak. Here, he talks to Terry Gross about performing, being a father and writing his haunting melodies.


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The Washington Post News Alert: A year from 2012 election, U.S. electorate is frustrated

A year from 2012 election, U.S. electorate is frustrated

One year out from the 2012 election, President Obama faces the most difficult reelection environment of any White House incumbent in two decades. But public disaffection with the party and a muddled battle for the GOP nomination leave open the possibility that Republicans will not be able to capitalize on the conditions that have put the president on the defensive. These conclusions are drawn from a Post-ABC News poll and from interviews with officials, strategists and advisers.

Geographically, the election will be won or lost in roughly a dozen states, beginning with most of those Obama took away from the Republicans in his first election but including a handful of traditional battlegrounds that may be more competitive than in 2008. Independents, as well as the coalition of African Americans, Latinos, younger voters and suburbanites that backed Obama in 2008, will again be key.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-year-from-election-day-2012-a-dark-mood-awaits-obama-and-his-gop-rival/2011/11/04/gIQAaPa0qM_story.html

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Saturday, November 05, 2011

South Hagerstown defeated North Hagerstown

South routs North in city gridiron battle

South Hagerstown defeated North Hagerstown, 41-7, in the annual football game between the two city schools. The Rebels' victory ended the Hubs' eight-game winning streak in the series... http://www.herald-mail.com/breakingnews/hm-south-routs-north-in-city-gridiron-battle-20111105%2C0%2C3953786.story

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UVA 31 UM 13 with 10 minutes left in the game. Looks like Jefferson triumphs

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Friday, November 04, 2011

Gail Elwell Maggie Ball Bobby Waddell at Gail's art opening at Birdie's

Rupert Wates is playing this evening at Birdie's in Westminster

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Carroll County Agriculture Center Corn maze is open this weekend

Corn maze has encore at Carroll County Ag Center http://dlvr.it/tZwkr

Group rates and times are available. For more details, contact Nichole at 410-848-6704.

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The annual Carroll County Corn Maze at the county Agriculture Center, 706 Agriculture Center, Westminster, is being held over an extra weekend.

Due to the good weather forecast for the weekend, organizers decided to open the maze Friday, Nov. 4 through Sunday, Nov. 6.

Hours are Friday 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 2 to 7 p.m…

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-corn-maze-1106-20111103,0,7549075.story

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Carroll County (Maryland) Agriculture Center

Website: http://www.carrollcountyagcenter.com/ or www.ccag.biz

410-848-6704

WELCOME to the Carroll County Agriculture Center; the site of the new state-of-the-art Danele Shipley Memorial Arena, as well as numerous meeting facilities, function and banquet rooms, outdoor facilities, and much more!

Located in central Carroll County – the Region's finest agriculture country – the Agriculture Center and Shipley Arena are perfectly situated to meet our diverse needs and those of our neighbors in Baltimore, Washington D.C., southern Pennsylvania and western Delaware.

Our facilities are designed to host a wide variety of events from livestock and equestrian outings to live music shows and entertainment events to trade shows and exhibits, and fairs and circuses.

The Carroll County Agriculture Center is the permanent home of the nationally-known and highly-regarded Carroll County 4H & FFA Fair.

The Agriculture Center and Shipley Arena are available to all for exciting events, meetings and outings YEAR-ROUND!

Visit us soon – we look forward to hosting you or your next event in comfort and style in any one of our facilities.

To book any of our facilities – or inquire about rates, specifications – and for more information and directions, call the Agriculture Center at 410 848-6704; or go to www.ccag.biz or click on http://tinyurl.com/2fxtxhn

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20110918 CCAgCtr corn maze notes links

http://www.scribd.com/doc/65809310/Carroll-County-Ag-Center-Corn-Maze-to-open-this-Friday-September-23-2011

http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/10436199839/carroll-county-ag-center-corn-maze-to-open-this

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/09/carroll-county-ag-center-corn-maze-to.html

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2011/09/carroll-county-ag-center-corn-maze-to.html

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2011/09/carroll-county-ag-center-corn-maze-to.html

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Gail Elwell opens art display at Birdies and Peter Plant opens art display at Off Track Art Westminster MD Friday Nov. 4, 2011

Friday, November 4th in the evening, enjoy two art receptions open to the public:

5:30 to 7:30 pm, Off Track Art welcomes PETER PLANT as guest artist.

7:00 to 10:00 pm, Birdie’s Cafe features GAIL ELWELL's collage work.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/71539636/Gail-Elwell-opens-art-display-at-Birdies-and-Peter-Plant-opens-art-display-at-Birdies-Westminster-MD-Friday-Nov-4-2011

Peter Plant is the gallery guest at Off Track Art for November and December. Peter is a studio and plein air artist who has worked in a traditional style of painting in acrylics. Over the past two years however, he has branched out and experimented with a variety of mixed media techniques which have broadened his experience in both studio and plein air work. His studio work has included wet-in-wet acrylics on watercolor paper, images drawn with markers, as well as poured and splattered paint backgrounds. Plant’s goal is to explore media and techniques that enhance the creative experience while presenting realistic images to the viewer. Pearlescent inks, Sharpie markers, watercolor pencils, and colored pencils have all found their way into his art.

Off Track Art

11 Liberty Street (Side Entrance)

Westminster, MD

Gail Elwell, a partner of Off Track Art, shows her collage series, “52 Weeks.” This exhibit at Birdie’s Cafe on Main Street in Westminster, runs November through December. Gail worked steadily for an entire year creating a collage every week, hence the exhibit’s title.

Birdie’s Cafe

233 East Main Street

Westminster, MD

LABELS: Art Artists, Art Artists Culture Carroll Co, Art Artists Culture Westminster, Art Off Track Art, Art Off Track Art In The News, Off Track Artist Elwell Gail, Restaurants Birdie's, Westminster Bus Birdies's

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2011/11/gail-elwell-opens-art-display-at.html

http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/402395.html

http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/12319401859/gail-elwell-opens-art-display-at-birdies-and-peter

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2011/11/gail-elwell-opens-art-display-at.html

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/11/gail-elwell-opens-art-display-at.html

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Gail Elwell opens art display at Birdies and Peter Plant opens art display at Off Track Art Westminster MD Friday Nov. 4, 2011

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Thursday, November 03, 2011

November 3: National Men Make Dinner Day and more from Westminster Patch

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November 3: National Men Make Dinner Day

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Thursday, Nov. 3 is National Men Make Dinner Day--a day created to encourage men who are not typically in the kitchen.

Artist Profile: Lori Fritsch 'Engineers' Clay into Functional Art

Kerri Gaither | Nov 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Lori Fritsch expresses the creative side of her engineering skills through hand-crafted functional stoneware.

November 2: Plan Your Own Epitaph Day

Kerri Gaither | Nov 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Nov. 2 is the official day to plan your own epitaph, a way to to memorialize yourself with words of your choosing.

Secretary Hall, Commissioner Howard Weigh in on Success of PlanMaryland Forum

Kym Byrnes | Nov 2, 2011 | 7 Comments

The debate about PlanMaryland rages on as some public officials continue to question the validity of the state's sustainable growth plan.

Carroll County Public Schools: Pretty in Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Kym Byrnes | Nov 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Employees of Carroll County Public Schools paid to be pink on Oct. 28.

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November 3, 2011

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Best Bet: Inventions, Anyone? at Westminster Library

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2011 Carroll County Business Awards Program

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A Message from the Governor: Veterans Day, Energy Efficiency and State Regulatory Review

A Message from the Governor

In all the many difficult decisions that we have to make as a people, job creation must be our number one priority, always.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments. That isn't a Democratic or Republican idea, it's an historic and economic truth.

But in our country today, we face a serious investment deficit. While our global competitors like China invest 9% of their Gross Domestic Product in infrastructure like roads, bridges, and tunnels – in the United States, we invest only 2%.

It's not what other countries are doing to us; it's what we're not doing for ourselves. President Obama has a plan to move us forward. The President's proposal would create hundreds of thousands of jobs rebuilding our roads, railways, and runways. How? With a $50 billion investment in surface transportation and the creation of a new, National Infrastructure Bank.

The President's plan will make a difference for those of us in Maryland – allowing us to create jobs and improve our quality of life, with investments in priorities like widening the I-70 bridge over Concocheague Creek in Washington County --and reconstructing the I-695 Baltimore Beltway bridge over Milford Mill Road,… a bridge that is 50 years old and structurally deficient.

Rebuilding America's infrastructure matters for job creation. It matters for our global competitiveness. And it matters for the type of country we leave to the next generation

- Governor O'Malley

What's Happening?

Reviewing State Regulations

Last month, Governor O'Malley signed an executive order to spark job creation in Maryland and we need your help! The executive order calls for a 60-day state review of current state regulations to identify and potentially eliminate regulations that are duplicative, outdated or present a barrier to job creation.

Our Cabinet Secretaries have begun their internal reviews and will submit recommendations in December. An essential piece of the report will consist of feedback and suggestions from you.

Please visit our website to submit your suggestion for a regulation that can be eliminated or reformed.

Maryland Students Excel, Again

For the past three years in a row, Maryland's public schools have ranked #1 in the country. Our high school students lead the nation with their Advanced Placement scores and together we've been able to cut the achievement gap between black and white students by nearly half. This week, we received more good news that over the past two years, Maryland's public school students made greater improvements on national standardized tests than most other States, according to the recently-released 2011 Nation's Report Card.

Congratulations to our students, educators and parents on this achievement.

Marylander on the Move: Erin Byers

Erin Byers is an Army veteran and multi-media artist who devotes her time to the Veteran Artist Program.

At age 26, she joined the Army and was deployed to Iraq where she served as a combat medic, leaving her passion for photography behind.

After returning home, she found art to be a healthy way to deal with the realities of war. She explains that "… there are things you see that other people don't want to hear you talk about and art is a way that veterans can 'talk' about their experiences."

She wants to help other veteran artists return to the passion that many of them had to give up.

Innovative Maryland

Maryland is committed to creating green jobs and building for an energy-efficient infrastructure to make our State more sustainable. Since 2009, Marylanders have saved over 900,000 MWh of electricity and over $117 million through efficiency upgrades, reduced consumption and investments in renewable energy options.

Just last month, Maryland was ranked one of the top 10 states in the nation for energy efficiency, according to the 2011State Energy Efficiency Scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. This determination is based on a variety of metrics comparing states on their efforts to advance efficiency in their residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors.
Maryland also received high marks in the area of transit-oriented development thanks to our high standards for greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions as well as our integration between transportation and land use planning.
Maryland has set a goal for electricity suppliers to procure 20% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2022. You can learn more about energy conservation in your own home and business here.

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