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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

New York Times: Top 5 of 2010, the Year in Arts and More

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The Year in Arts
Take a look back at the best movies according to A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis
and Stephen Holden. Don't miss Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood's selection
of the top 10 shows of 2010, in theater. See the year in mashed-up pop, 100
notable books of 2010 and much more on nytimes.com/arts.

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David Pogue picks The Pogie Awards for the best tech ideas of 2010 and asks
whether the phrase "sustainable electronics manufacturing" is almost an
oxymoron, sparking a lively debate about recycling gadgets among his @Pogue
Twitter followers. Discover all of this and more on nytimes.com/technology.

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Personal Technology
David Pogue picks The Pogie Awards for the best tech ideas of 2010 and asks whether the phrase "sustainable electronics manufacturing" is almost an oxymoron, sparking a lively debate about recycling gadgets among his @Pogue Twitter followers. Discover all of this and more on nytimes.com/technology. 
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“If you, like millions of others seeking to lose weight, made a resolution to eat less in the coming year, a focused walk around the block may help you meet your goals.”
Readers' Comments:
“"For the chocolate eaters, let me offer a suggestion. Instead of ordinary American chocolate, which has a trace of cacao diluted with a great deal of fat & sugar, get chocolate that's 70% plus cacao. You may well find, as I did, that you eat much less to attain the proper blood-chocolate level. And if all else fails, remember that chocolate IS a fruit!"”
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Sam Sifton's Best Dishes of 2010
The restaurant critic for The New York Times describes the 15 best dishes he ate in the city this year.
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Kevin Dayhoff Explore Carroll: Firefighters battle fire and ice in two-alarm Westminster blaze

Firefighters battle fire and ice in two-alarm Westminster blaze

Units across county help in fighting house fire

By Kevin Dayhoff
kevindayhoff@gmail.com
Posted 1/09/11  http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5063/firefighters-battle-fire-ice-two-alarm-westminster-blaze/

Area firefighters had their hands full Saturday afternoon as they battled the winter weather and lack of water at a two-alarm blaze north of Westminster.

The fire was called in to the Carroll County emergency operations center at 1:30 p.m.  When units from the Westminster Fire Engine and Hose Co. No. 1 arrived at 1:42 p.m., the two-story 3,500-square-foot house in the 1000 block of Phyllis’s Reward Drive, just north of Westminster, showed heavy black smoke, according to Bob Cumberland, Westminster Fire Department president and public information officer.

Shortly after arriving on the scene, incident commander Lt. Josh Evans requested a tanker task force and Rapid Intervention Dispatch to battle.

A second alarm was sounded. The rural location of the home, outside of available hydrants, presented firefighters with constant water supply issues.

The freezing cold, light snow on the ground, along with the water being used on the fire freezing on the ground, made matters worse.

The Carroll County roads crews assisted by salting the ground to help with the ice. Nearby neighbors, Dale and Teresa Fletcher, opened their home – and their garage -- for firefighters to set up a relief station for the 80 to 100 firefighters from three counties to periodically take refuge in shifts.

More than 40 pieces from every fire station in Carroll, except Harney, fought the blaze.  Harney provided back-up services, while units from Baltimore County and York and Adams counties, Pa., also assisted...  http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5063/firefighters-battle-fire-ice-two-alarm-westminster-blaze/
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Washington Post: Breaking News Alert: Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison

Breaking News Alert: Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison
January 10, 2011 3:27:09 PM
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Judge sentences ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to 3 years in prison in money laundering scheme.
By JUAN A. LOZANO
The Associated Press
Monday, January 10, 2011; 3:33 PM

AUSTIN, Texas -- A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.


The sentence comes after a jury in November convicted DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay was once one of the most powerful men in U.S. politics, ascending to the No. 2 job in the House of Representatives.


Senior Judge Pat Priest sentenced him to the three-year term on the conspiracy charge. He also sentenced him to five years in prison on the money laundering charge but allowed DeLay to accept 10 years of probation instead of more prison time.


The former Houston-area congressman had faced up to life in prison. His attorneys asked for probation.


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Recent articles in http://www.explorecarroll.com/ by Kevin Dayhoff


Recent articles in Explore Carroll by Kevin Dayhoff


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Impact of the 111th Congress by Don Kornreich

Don Kornreich
Impact of the 111th Congress
Originally published January 09, 2011  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=dKornreich&storyID=114923#postComments

Hat Tip: Steve Berryman: http://www.mediahooker1.blogspot.com/

The 111th Congress is no more. The November elections appeared to confirm what the "public" believed about the 111th Congress: overwhelmingly disapproving of its performance -- with only 13 percent giving it a positive rating. The elections gave the Republicans a significant majority in the House and more seats (although not a majority) in the Senate.

Yet the Democratic-controlled 111th Congress did not rest on its laurels in the final weeks of its session. To the contrary, it actively, and to a large extent successfully, pursued its agenda during the postelection "lame-duck" session. As a result, legislation was enacted extending, for another two years, the tax rate reductions passed during the Bush presidency. The underpinning for the extension is the belief that they will be a strong and productive economic stimulus to begin to reduce our lingering high unemployment rate, which as of November was 9.8 percent.

There remains to be dealt with the impact of the rate reductions on our growing national debt and annual budget deficits. It will be up to the 112th Congress to find a way to offset the budget deficits. As a result, in my opinion, reducing the amount of federal spending will be at the core of a lot that will be the concern of the new Congress....http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=dKornreich&storyID=114923#postComments
  

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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Connecticut Post - John Burgeson: Officials: 2 firetrucks lost in crash saved lives

Officials: 2 firetrucks lost in crash saved lives

John Burgeson, Staff Writer  Published: 11:19 p.m., Saturday, January 8, 2011
The floor of Stratford Fire Headquarters was covered by the fire-fighting and rescue gear that had been stowed in the two smashed-up fire engines. Both Engine 1, and Engine 5, suffered heavy damage when they were hit by tractor-trailer trucks on I-95 Friday night. Six firefighters also received minor injuries. Photo: John Burgeson / Connecticut Post |

The floor of Stratford Fire Headquarters was covered by the fire-fighting and rescue gear that had been stowed in the two smashed-up fire engines. Both Engine 1, and Engine 5, at left, suffered heavy damage when they were hit by tractor-trailer trucks on I-95 Friday night. Six firefighters also received minor injuries. Photo: John Burgeson / Connecticut Post |


STRATFORD ---- The Stratford Fire Department is reeling after the sudden loss of two of its fire engines in a crash on Interstate 95 in which one tractor-trailer slammed into Engine 1, and another into Engine 5.

The crash occurred about 8:30 p.m. on the southbound side on I-95 near Exit 30. Six firefighters received minor injuries and were treated and released at Bridgeport Hospital, according to Fire Marshal Brian Lampart.
Officials said the engines were responding to a two-car crash with injuries. It was snowing at the time, and weather was "definitely a factor," Lampart said.


The two crashes occurred almost simultaneously, officials said.


Lampart said the two engines, each with a replacement value at about $420,000, were parked in a "staggered" configuration on the highway, in order to protect the lives of the firefighters, police officers, EMTs and other first responders to the original car crash. In this positioning of the trucks, one is parked in the right-hand lane and the other in the center lane, in order to both direct traffic around the mishap, and also to provide protection in event an incompetent driver happens upon the scene.

"The system worked," Lampart said. "Even though we lost two trucks, we would have been looking at six or seven fatalities and/or very serious injuries had those trucks not been in place."

Officials said that the procedure of staggering the engines on highways when responding to car crashes is standard operating procedure in most fire departments nationwide.

"One engine works the crash, and the other is a `bumper,' if you will," said Fire Chief James J. Cavanaugh.
Fire officials said that fire protection in Stratford won't be jeopardized because the town has two older spare fire engines.

"But that's it -- we're out of spares," Lampart said, adding that surrounding towns have offered to provide coverage, if needed.

Cavanaugh said in the next few days, factory representatives will visit fire headquarters to look at the damage to determine whether the engines are reparable. At the very least, officials said that both trucks will be out of service for several months.

Cavanaugh said that the town will vigorously pursue insurance settlements from the two tractor-trailer drivers. Both trucks had their emergency lights flashing at the time of the crash.


Some of the ruin was obvious -- both engines seemed to have suffered almost identical damage, with their left-rear corners pushed in. But there are quite likely things wrong throughout both vehicles.
"A tractor-trailer has a lot of kinetic energy," Lampart said. 


Cavanaugh said that the fire department had just gotten over a period in which it had a serious apparatus shortfall, and now it suddenly finds itself in the same hole. 


"We thought we were off the hook," Cavanaugh said. "It is a little somber here. We thought we were in pretty good shape, and now we're back to square one."


Both engines are based in Fire Headquarters at 2750 Main St. Engine 5 is the older of the two; it's a 2000 Pierce Saber pumper. Engine 1 is the department's newest large apparatus; it's a 2008 Smeal pumper, Cavanaugh said.

Smeal trucks are built in Snyder, Neb., and the Pierce engines are built in Appleton, Wis.

On Saturday, firefighters were seen struggling to get the equipment doors open on both trucks. Because the door frames were out-of-square, or "racked," they had to be pried and sledge-hammered open. The floor of fire headquarters was filled with axes, fire extinguishers and other firefighting gear that had been securely stowed on the two trucks a day earlier.


"This hurts. The men spend a lot of time outfitting the apparatus," Lampart said.


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Explore Carroll: Legislators wary of business climate in Annapolis

Explore Carroll: Legislators wary of business climate in Annapolis

Explore Carroll By Vanessa Junkin: Legislators wary of business climate in Annapolis http://t.co/F5Wa7m5

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MarylandReporter.com launches redesigned website

Special edition, Sunday, January 9, 2011
MarylandReporter.com launches redesigned website

From: Len Lazarick
Editor and Publisher
  MarylandReporter.com over the weekend launched a redesigned website that we think looks more vibrant and newsy, and adds some of the features you may be used to at other news sites.
  The site now allows us to use more photos, makes commenting on our stories easier, improves our search function and adds a new blog called Annapolitics.
  Our new site is easier to read and interact with. It gives more prominence for photos and better ways to display them and to share videos. We’ll be doing more of videos and more podcasts in weeks to come.
  Almost all the content we’ve produced over the past 15 months has been moved to the new site. The rest will be moved Monday. The only downside is that if you saved a link to one of our stories or daily State Roundups in the past, those links will no longer work, and you’ll have to find those stories again. Also, if you’ve subscribed to RSS feeds, you’ll need to subscribe again as well. Sorry for the inconvenience.
MAKING COMMENTS: The new site allows readers to interact with us and with each other in a very easy way. While we will “moderate” the comments for inappropriate language or libelous content after they are posted, we will no longer need to “approve” the comments that come in. We hope you’ll take advantage of this.
ANNAPOLITICS: Some people call our whole news website a “blog” – we won an award in that category from the Society of Professional Journalists. But we didn’t really have a true blog on the site that would spur conversations with readers and sources. We’re hoping to put fresh content on the Annapolitics blog every day – hopefully edgier and funnier than our news stories. And we encourage our buddies (and our adversaries too) from other blogs of every stripe to weigh in with their postings.
SEARCHING: At last, the search engine on the site will display the results with the newest items first. If you’re looking for an old story, and you know the headline or topic, try putting that into the search function.
TWITTER: A window on the right side of our homepage shows tweets from users talking about Maryland politics. When the General Assembly session begins, we hope that our Twitter window will be a source for what is going on in hearings and meetings in real time.
GIVE US FEEDBACK: Let us know what you think about the redesign, and especially let us know if you think something is not working properly, or you can’t find an older story.
Some of the ideas behind our redesign came from the reader survey we did in October. We got 118 responses. Those surveyed overwhelmingly liked our stories and State Roundup, but gave lower marks to the site’s interactivity and ease of use.
redesign is the product of months of work by Associate Editor Megan Poinski, with the able technical assistance in the past month from Richard Peng of Mays & Associates, our web hosts from the start.
Thanks to them and to you for reading us.
Send your comments or concerns to me or Megan. (We’ve had some problems with our e-mail in the changeover this weekend, so if you get something bounced back, e-mail my home account atmailto:lenlazarick@verizon.net)  

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