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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

IPS - Middle East & North Africa: ‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’

IPS - Middle East & North Africa: ‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’

‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’
Annabell Van den Berghe
Amani has just turned 22. Two months ago she fled from the civil war in Syria and left her house in capital Damascus. After a dangerous nightlong trip she arrived at Zaatari, the refugee camp just over the border in Jordan, where her parents and two sisters had already lived for over a year. In ... MORE > >

Jordan's Farmers Struggle to Weather Climate Change
Elizabeth Whitman
Abu Waleed isn't quite sure where to begin his litany of grievances. Bugs that chomp their way through the mint he grows, or the dry well that forces him to pump water from a half kilometre away? Or perhaps the 160 dinars he spent on spinach seeds only to see scant growth after planting. For the ... MORE > >

For Kurdish Women, It’s a Double Revolution
Karlos Zurutuza
"I got married when I was 14 and I already had four children at 20," recalls Nafia Brahim. In her fifties now, she is working hard so that no other woman loses control of her life. Brahim is one of 12 members of the assembly that runs the Centre for Training and Empowerment of Women in Qamishli, ...MORE > >

A ‘Green Intifadah’ Takes Root
Pierre Klochendler
“O green Battir, mother of the air,” Mariam Ma’mmar sings in praise of her village. As the hot season draws to a close, the land – her people’s strength – dries up. Not here in her Battir, where a peaceful form of resistance against the Israeli occupation is taking root. The 5,000 people of ... MORE > >

Iraq Retakes Washington Centre-Stage, Briefly
Jim Lobe
Ten and a half years after invading U.S. troops ousted President Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime, Iraq re-emerged here this week, if only briefly, as a major foreign policy agenda item. The occasion was the visit of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki whose main purpose was to secure greater U.S. ...MORE > >

Fragile Peace Holds on a Syrian Island
Karlos Zurutuza
"The whole region is under control but be careful in the city centre," says a Kurdish militiaman at the eastern gate of Qamishli, 600 km northeast of capital Damascus, confirming rumours about breaches in Syria’s relatively stable northeast. Sandwiched between Turkey and Syria, this city of ...MORE > >

Saudi Arabia, Sans Human Rights, Seeks Council Seat
Thalif Deen
When Saudi Arabia permitted women to vote but not drive, a newspaper cartoon last year captured the double standard with dark irony. As a group of women in burqa wait in line to vote at a polling station in Riyadh, an aggressive-looking polling agent tells the women, "We have a small problem ... MORE > >

OP-ED: Bahraini Opposition Shuns Bogus Dialogue
Emile Nakhleh
Bahraini opposition groups announced on Tuesday their opposition to participating in the dialogue that is supposed to start tomorrow. According to the Bahrain Mirror, the five opposition groups that signed the joint statement included al-Wifaq, Wa’d, al-Minbar, al-Tajammu’, and al-Ikha’. The ... MORE > >

U.S. Jews Less Hawkish on Iran
Jim Lobe
Despite renewed calls in Congress for increasing pressure on Iran, support for a U.S. attack against the Islamic Republic has declined markedly over the past year, according to the latest in an annual series of polls carried out by the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Asked whether they would ... MORE > >

Syrians Under Siege Now in Egypt
Hisham Allam
Mahmoud Abu Yousef, 28, sits in one of the suburban subway stations of Egyptian capital Cairo selling socks. He had fled Syria with his wife and one-year-old child this February after his parents and three brothers were killed in the civil war that has been raging in his country since March ... MORE > >

“Terrorist Groups Are Displacing Kurdish People”
Karlos Zurutuza
Kurdish fighters have emerged as a powerful player in the Syrian war thanks to the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG - “People's Protection Units”), a seemingly well-organised armed group which has so far proved capable of defending the territory it claims in northern Syria. IPS spoke to Redur Khalil ...MORE > >

Refugees Eating Dogs to Beat Starvation
Mutawalli Abou Nasser
Acute food shortages have reached desperate levels in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Leading religious figures in the camps have issued a fatwa permitting the killing and consumption of cats, dogs, mice, rats and donkeys. “We have been under siege for three months. There is nothing left ... MORE > >


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Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey Wins Re-election

BREAKING NEWSTuesday, November 5, 2013 8:05 PM EST
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey Wins Re-election, Exit Polls Show 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/chris-christie-re-elected-governor-of-new-jersey.html?emc=edit_na_20131105
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey won re-election on Tuesday, defeating his Democratic rival, State Senator Barbara Buono, by a crushing margin. The victory vaulted him to the front ranks of Republican presidential contenders.
In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 700,000, Mr. Christie won decisively, making impressive inroads among younger voters, blacks, Hispanics and women – all groups that Republicans nationally have struggled to attract...  

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/chris-christie-re-elected-governor-of-new-jersey.html?emc=edit_na_20131105
Big Money Flows in New Jersey Races to Thwart Christie Agenda

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

Democrats and unions spent more than $35 million in the state trying to prevent any shifts in the Legislature that would give Gov. Chris Christie more power... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/nyregion/in-new-jersey-big-money-flows-to-foil-christie.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131105&_r=0
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Westminster and state officials cut the ribbon on downtown sidewalk retrofit project

Westminster and state officials cut the ribbon on downtown sidewalk retrofit project

Westminster and state officials joined together Tuesday morning to cut the ribbon on over 200 new disabilities-compliant sidewalk curb cuts throughout downtown Westminster

By Kevin E. Dayhoff, 

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Westminster city officials and representatives from four Maryland state government departments gathered together Tuesday morning in front of the Westminster Recreation and Parks Family Center on Longwell Avenue to celebrate, and cut the ribbon, on an unprecedented groundbreaking $318,000 partnership that resulted in the completion of 214 new or rebuilt ADA-compliant curb ramps in the downtown area.

“What a wonderful project this is and with so many partners, said Westminster mayor Kevin Utz in prepared remarks for the occasion, after he was introduced by Mark Vernarelli, spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

“With these partners 4 curb ramps were reconstructed, 64 curb ramps were modified and 164 new curb ramps were installed…” Because of this partnership, “over 200 ADA Compliant curb ramps now exist in Downtown Westminster,” explained Utz.

Utz read-off a long list of state secretaries and dignitaries who traveled from state offices in Baltimore and Annapolis for the occasion; including MD Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary Maynard, Deputy Secretary J. Michael Stouffer, Public Safety Works Coordinator John Rowley, Director of Corrections Felicia Hinton, and Facility Administrator Leonard Rice.

Also present were Department of Disabilities Secretary Catherine Raggio, Deputy Secretary George Failla, Jr., and Access Maryland Director Cari Watrous as well as MD Department of Housing & Community Development: Assistant Secretary Carol Gilbert, Director of Community Programs Cindy Stone, and Project Manager Dona Sorce.

Along with Tony Romano, a representative of Romano Concrete Construction and Ronnie Townes, 21, an inmate who helped build the curbs; MD Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Coordinator, Career and Technology Programs Ken Weeden, Field Director of Correctional Education Jack Cunning, and David Bordley were there to cut the ribbon and discuss the unprecedented city, state and private partnership.

According to information provided by the department of public safety, DPSCS, the project was “Grant-funded thanks to work by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development … The curb project is the largest project of its kind ever done by inmates in the DPSCS Public Safety Works community project initiative. The inmates learned concrete skills from Romano Concrete, a longtime and valued partner with DPSCS.”

Westminster mayor Kevin Utz was joined by Westminster Common Council president Dr. Robert Wack, council member Tony Chiavacci, city administrator Marge Wolf, public works director Jeff Glass, police chief Jeff Spaulding, , Community Programs Specialist Sandy Anderson, city engineer Mike Matov, assistant street superintendent Wayne Reifsnider and recreation and parks director Abby Gruber.

Planning for the project began in earnest after a similar, but much smaller partnership was called to Glass’ attention in the summer of 2012. “We submitted the grant application on August 27,” said Anderson. “The actual work on the sidewalks began last May.”

“I’m very pleased that what initially started as a conversation with Secretary Maynard and Secretary Skinner has become a model partnership between the City of Westminster and three state agencies – Disabilities, Public Safety and Corrections, and Housing and Community Development,” said MD Dept. of Disabilities Secretary Catherine Raggio. “As a result of this partnership, we now have sidewalks that are safer and more accessible for individuals with disabilities, seniors and others.”

“DPSCS worked with the MD Dept. of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to secure the partnership with Romano Concrete---with whom DPSCS inmates previously worked on the Eastern Shore at Cambridge in a similar but smaller project,” according to information provided by DPSCS. “This project is the first to give inmates DLLR on-the-job certifications.”

“It’s been a great project… It’s made a big difference for (getting around) downtown,” said Glass. Wolf and Utz agreed. “Everybody was a winner,” said Wolf.

Maynard called the inmate restorative justice initiative, “groundbreaking.” “This is our largest community curb project yet,” said the DPSCS secretary. “Our inmates have built or rebuilt more than 200 curbs, getting valuable skills training from Tony Romano and his concrete tradesmen, and helping this nice town become more accessible in the process.

“We call projects like these Public Safety Works ‘restorative justice’ programs, because they allow inmates who want to pay society back with a really meaningful way to do that.

“On any given day, we have more than 350 inmates out across the state of Maryland doing meaningful projects. Right now, inmates are rebuilding a skipjack on the Eastern Shore, gleaning fresh produce for the Maryland Food Bank, planting millions of oyster spat, restoring battlefields, cemeteries and playgrounds, and helping cities and non-profits with all kinds of projects they couldn’t do otherwise.

“We are very serious about this particular kind of project here in Westminster---where inmates get actual skills training from professional tradespeople. We’re having inmates trained in hazardous materials abatement and they’re taking down the old House of Correction prison in Jessup, a deconstruction that’s saving taxpayers at least five million dollars compared to the cost of demolition. It’s the only project of its kind in the country.

“These skills should serve the inmates well and give them a leg up on jobs when they get out and go home. I would love to talk to you today about how Public Safety Works might be able to help your agency or non-profit.



Maynard also elaborated upon how the partnership with the city gave the prison inmates an opportunity to learn job skills. “We may be in charge of keeping people locked up,” continued the secretary, “but what we really want is to set people free; to free them from addictions and anger issues, give them education and job skill training, and turn them into productive taxpaying citizens. After all, almost all inmates will one day be getting out.”

“We are very serious about this particular kind of project here in Westminster---where inmates get actual skills training from professional tradespeople,” remarked Maynard.

“This project, however, is about so much more than curbs and concrete,” said Utz in agreement. “With this project, the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) provided training for the inmates. With this project the state corrections department has provided construction experience and positive community participation for the inmates. With this project the inmates have received certification from the DLLR for on the job training. With this project the inmates participated in a major community project.

“Maynard was all smiles as he thanked the city and invited city officials to talk about more opportunities for partnerships. “Thank you again for this wonderful collaborative effort, and thank you, Mayor Utz, for allowing the Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services to perform this important work in Westminster.”

Utz added, “At this time I’d like to personally thank the inmates for their hard work. Their work was crucial to the success of this project. Concrete lasts a long time. We hope that the experience gained from this project will last even longer. Thank you.”

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Westminster Maryland Online: Westminster holds ribbon-cutting for curb cuts constructed by inmates

Westminster Maryland Online: Westminster to hold ribbon-cutting for curb cuts c...: Inmates working with Departments of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS), Housing and  Community Development (DHCD), ...

Inmates working with Departments of Public Safety
and Correctional Services (DPSCS), Housing and 
Community Development (DHCD), Labor, Licensing 
and Regulation (DLLR), and Disabilities (DOD) join 
the City of Westminster to install ADA 
compliant curb-cuts at Lincoln Road and
 East Main Street in Westminster on 
October 15, 2013. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff

Westminster to hold ribbon-cutting for curb cuts constructed
by inmates

City of Westminster, DPSCS, DHCD, DLLR, DOD, and Advocates
for the Disabled to Hold Ribbon-Cutting Celebrating More Than 200 ADA Curbs
Constructed By Inmates

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 11 a.m.

TOWSON, MD (November 1, 2013)-The groundbreaking Public
Safety Works inmate restorative justice initiative celebrates another milestone
on November 5, when The Departments of Public Safety and Correctional Services
(DPSCS), Housing and Community Development (DHCD), Labor, Licensing and
Regulation (DLLR), and Disabilities (DOD) join the City of Westminster to cut
the ribbon celebrating more than 200 ADA-compliant curbs that were done by
inmates in downtown Westminster.

Grant-funded thanks to work by the Maryland Department of
Housing and Community Development, the curb project is the largest project of
its kind ever done by inmates in the DPSCS Public Safety Works community
project initiative. The inmates learned concrete skills from Romano Concrete, a
longtime and valued partner with DPSCS.

DPSCS Secretary Gary Maynard, Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz,
and top leaders from DHCD and Access Maryland will all be on hand, as will some
of the inmates who worked on the project.

When: Tuesday, 11/5/2013 at 11 a.m.

Where: 11 Longwell Avenue just off Main St. in downtown
Westminster, MD



Sidewalks, Westminster, Carroll County, ADA, wheelchair
compliant, restorative justice, ribbon-cutting


http://www.scribd.com/doc/181732298/Westminster-to-hold-ribbon-cutting-for-curb-cuts-constructed-by-inmates



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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Monday, November 04, 2013

Congratulations to Len Lazarick as MarylandReporter.com celebrates 4th birthday, joins Investigative News Network

Congratulations to Len Lazarick and MarylandReporter... 

MarylandReporter.com celebrates 4th birthday, joins Investigative News Network

MarylandReporter.com turned four years old on Saturday. When we formally launched the news website for government and politics, Nov. 2, 2009, it was exactly one year from the 2010 gubernatorial election. This Monday is exactly one year from the next gubernatorial election.

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Westminster Maryland Online: Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack: Taylorsville United Me...

Westminster Maryland Online: Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack: Taylorsville United Me...: Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack: Taylorsville United Methodist Church : Taylorsville United Methodist Church , November 14, 2009, the day of the ...


Taylorsville United Methodist Church

This year the bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 9,
2013 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The church is located at 4356 Ridge Road, Mt. Airy,
MD 21771.

For more information call 410-875-4101

Taylorsville United Methodist Church
4356 Ridge Road
Mt Airy, MD. 21771
Tel: 410-875-4101
Rev. SarahB. Dorrance

Taylorsville United Methodist Church, November 14, 2009, the day of the annual Christmas Bazaar Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/pnwkp





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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/

Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/

Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com

My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Delta Airlines Honor Guard February 13, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VGxfmDmEo

Delta Airlines Honor Guard February 13, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VGxfmDmEo

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UNGER DECISION -- Sniper who shot seven Baltimore City cops in 1976 could get new trial By Alan Z. Forman

UNGER DECISION -- Sniper who shot seven Baltimore City cops in 1976 could get new trial

COURT OF APPEALS  DECISION
TOSSES OUT HIS CONVICTION

John Earl Williams fired from 3rd floor window at Lombard and Carey Sts. in West Baltimore,
killing one police officer,  wounding 6 others

CHRONICLED IN YOU CAN?T STOP MURDER

By Alan Z. Forman


The teenage sniper who shot seven cops -- killing one -- from his third floor window in a West Baltimore row home in 1976 has had his conviction overturned and will likely be getting a new trial.

Four days after a lone gunman shot and killed a Baltimore City councilman and wounded two others in a botched attempt to kill then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer, John Earl Williams telephoned the Baltimore Police Department, told a dispatcher what he was about to do, and then began shooting the city's finest near his home at the corner of Lombard and Carey Streets.

Known as The Good Friday Shooter, his rampage took place on April 16, 1976. Now well into his fifties, Williams, 18, was trying to impress a young girlfriend who had just dumped him. ......


...and check out this week's Dave Maril "Inside Pitch" column on the weekend -- http://voiceofbaltimore.org/?s=inside+pitch

Also review this week's "Need-To-Know News" -- http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/10595

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Column One: Obamacare victims and Israel By CAROLINE B. GLICK

Obamacare victims and Israel

Column One: Obamacare victims and Israel By CAROLINE B. GLICK

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Obamacare-victims-and-Israel-330307

US President Barack Obama views lies as legitimate political tools. He uses lies strategically to accomplish through mendacity what he could never achieve through honest means.

Obama lies in both domestic and foreign policy.

On the domestic front, despite Obama’s repeated promises that Obamacare would not threaten anyone’s existing health insurance policies, over the past two weeks, millions Americans have received notices from their health insurance companies that their policies have been canceled because they don’t abide by Obamacare’s requirements.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board explained that Obama’s repetition of this lie was not an oversight. It was a deliberate means of lulling into complacency these Americans who opted to buy their insurance themselves on the open market, in order to stick them with the burden of underwriting Obamacare.

Continue reading... http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Obamacare-victims-and-Israel-330307
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