Podcasts about Patapsco

Recovery and clean up efforts continue following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March. Earlier this week, the port of Baltimore's channel fully reopened following 11 weeks of demolition and scavenging to remove debris from the Patapsco River. Gov. Wes Moore joins Midday to discuss the latest. We ask him about how much of the $60 emergency funds remain unspent, and if there is the possibility of speeding up the rebuild of the bridge spanning the Patapsco's channel.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

En Haïti, deux semaines après sa nomination par le Conseil présidentiel de transition le Premier ministre Garry Conille devrait dévoiler la composition de son gouvernement. « Des noms d'éventuels titulaires circulent sur les réseaux sociaux (…) mais tout reste à confirmer, car tant qu'un arrêté ne sera pas publié dans le Journal officiel Le Moniteur des changements pourront intervenir », précise notre confrère Gotson Pierre, directeur de l'agence Alterpresse. Le site d'information revient également sur la mort de trois policiers durant le week-end. Le Premier ministre Garry Conille a présenté ses condoléances aux familles et a salué l'engagement de ceux qui luttent contre les gangs. ► L'agence Alterpresse. Au Mexique, Claudia Sheinbaum prépare son arrivée à la présidenceClaudia Sheinbaum et son prédécesseur se sont rencontrés pour se mettre d'accord sur les termes de la transition et les chantiers du début de mandat, comme le souligne le journal Milenio. L'investiture de Claudia Sheinbaum est prévue le 1er octobre 2024. Elle a détaillé dans une conférence de presse les trois grandes réformes qu'elle souhaite promouvoir. Elle veut notamment revaloriser les retraites du secteur public, reformer le pouvoir judiciaire, et s'attaquer aux questions constitutionnelles. La première femme de l'histoire à la tête du Mexique qui promet de nommer son cabinet la semaine prochaine, devrait, selon ses annonces, rencontrer ce mercredi (12 juin 2024) une délégation de l'administration américaine. Sans plus de précisions, tel que le rapporte El Universal.Élection au Venezuela : les sondages donnent l'opposition gagnante en juillet face à MaduroLe Venezuela vote dans un mois et demi pour l'élection présidentielle. Les sondages donnent l'opposition gagnante en juillet (2024) face à Maduro. Ses membres mettent toute leur énergie dans la campagne. Notre correspondante Alice Campaignolle est allée à leur rencontre lors d'un meeting dans les environs de Caracas.Gabriel Boric en visite en Allemagne pour trouver des investisseurs dans l'industrie du lithiumÀ l'occasion de sa deuxième visite en Europe, le président chilien Gabriel Boric fera escale en Allemagne, en Suède, en Suisse, puis en France. Il souhaite trouver des investisseurs pour développer l'industrie du lithium au Chili pour soutenir notamment les énergies vertes. Il compte mettre en avant l'interdépendance entre son pays et les Européens.À Baltimore, le trafic maritime est complètement rétabli« Il a fallu plus de 2 000 personnes pour travailler pendant près de 11 semaines », écrit le New York Times. Conséquence de l'effondrement d'un pont dans l'estuaire du fleuve Patapsco lorsqu'un cargo singapourien s'est engouffré dans un des piliers, il y a deux mois et demi. 50 000 tonnes de débris ont été déblayées. Il y avait urgence, car le port de Baltimore est une véritable plaque tournante du commerce de véhicules neufs aux États-Unis. 850 000 voitures et camions y ont transité l'année dernière (2023), plus que n'importe quel autre port américain.À la Une du journal de la 1ère En Guadeloupe, les partis de gauche réunis pour un appel à plus d'autonomie.

Les conséquences économiques de l'effondrement du pont de Baltimore, survenu le 26 mars 2024, sont importantes. Le port de la ville, poumon économique, est à l'arrêt, et le transit de produits très important également. Le port de Baltimore est notamment le deuxième port américain pour les exportations de charbon. Quand tout est normal, pour le commerce et le transit du charbon, la situation du port de Baltimore est idéale. Il se trouve à proximité relative d'importants lieux de production du nord du massif des Appalaches, en Virginie occidentale et en Pennsylvanie. Pour arriver jusqu'au port, le charbon prend le train par des lignes pratiquement dédiées.Des infrastructures difficiles à adapterL'un des deux terminaux appartient d'ailleurs à une compagnie ferroviaire qui possède le réseau d'infrastructures qu'il est évidemment presque impossible de modifier ou d'adapter rapidement. L'autre est la propriété d'un producteur de charbon, qui n'a également pas beaucoup d'alternatives en terme d'infrastructures.Le premier port américain pour l'exportation de charbon est celui de Norfolk, en Virginie, également sur la côte est, mais 400 kilomètres plus au sud. Il dessert donc d'autres régions de production, et adapter les réseaux de transport ferroviaire ne peut pas se faire d'un claquement de doigt. C'est pour cela que les exportateurs basés à Baltimore comptent les heures jusqu'au dégagement de la rivière Patapsco et la reprise du trafic maritime.À lire aussiÉtats-Unis: lourdes conséquences économiques après l'effondrement du pont de BaltimoreDes effets potentiels à l'autre bout du mondeLes producteurs sont donc coincés, mais leurs clients pourraient aussi l'être. Ils se trouvent de moins en moins aux États-Unis, où la demande pour cette énergie fossile, parmi les plus polluantes qui soient, est en baisse. Ces clients sont loin, très loin même, et la fermeture du port de Baltimore, si elle se prolongeait au-delà de quelques semaines, pourrait aussi perturber leur production.Le charbon exporté de Baltimore est utilisé par des producteurs de matériaux de construction en Inde ou des producteurs d'acier au Japon et en Chine. Autant de marchés et leurs prix qui pourraient être influencés par une rupture prolongée dans leur chaîne d'approvisionnement si, à l'autre bout du monde, la fermeture du port de Baltimore devait se prolongerÀ lire aussiPont effondré à Baltimore: une reconstruction à l'ombre de la campagne présidentielle

Biden y Netanyahu tendrán la primera llamada tras el ataque a la ONG del chef José Andrés; el Departamento de Medio Ambiente de Maryland no encontró contaminantes en el río Patapsco y rechazan la petición de Trump de retrasar su próximo juicio penal en el llamado caso Stormy Daniels, entre otras noticias. Más información en UnivisionNoticias.com.

2024. április 4., csütörtök 6.30-8 óra NÉVNAPOK, ÉVFORDULÓK, SZÜLETÉSNAPOSOK. LAPSZEMLE és TŐZSDEI HELYZETKÉP BUDAPEST, TE CSODÁS: hírek a fővárosból Frappáns visszaszólás a főtájépítésztől; Szabadság híd terhelésese vizsgálat; Hajókitiltás háttér ÉBRESZTŐ TÉMA: Versenytorzulás elleni harc vagy politikai bunkósbot? A szakmai szervezetek riadtan tekintenek egy készülő törvényre, amely akár a nagy cégek részvényeseinek a tulajdonjogát is érintheti. Hasonló szabályokra több országban van példa, a magyar kormány viselt dolgai miatt azonban sokan attól tartanak, hogy ebből a törvényből is politikai bunkósbot lehet. Brückner Gergely, a Telex újságírója. NULLADIK FAKTOR:  Egy érdekes csalástípus, a kéretlen okosóra Röviden összefoglalva: apósa után az elvileg pénzügyileg tudatos 24.hu-s gazdasági újságíró is megjárta. Kamuküldemény Kínából, nem rendelted, de jön pl. egy okosórának tűnő, de használhatatlan minőségű, pár dollár beker költségű tárgy. Utánvéttel kell fizetni. És utána azt is bonyolult lenyomozni, hogy ki küldte a cuccot, hiszen mi senkitől se rendeltünk. Itt tehát nem arra megy ki a játék, hogy megszerezzék a banki adatainkat, simán nagy tömegben eladnak kéretlenül semmire se jó tárgyat. Persze lehet, hogy aki vissz akarja szerezni a pénzét és megadja az adatait a visszatérítéshez, azzal is visszaélnek, erről nem szól a cikk. Mindenesetre a júzerek nagy része valszeg benyeli a bukót, mint hogy ismeretlen webshopokkal, vagy szállítókkal levelezzen. HETI ALAPOZÓ: A híd, ami nem volt túl messze Rájár a rúd a dán Maersk szállítmányozási cégre. A világban tomboló deglobalizáció, de főként a vörös-tengeri geopolitikai feszültségek miatt nagyon nehéz piaci körülmények között kell működnie, amikor jött a baltimore-i hídszerencsétlenség. A Maersk egyik meghibásodott konténerszállítója nekiütközött a Patapsco folyó torkolata felett átívelő 2,6 kilométer hosszú hídnak. Az árfolyam euróban 25 százalékot esett az elmúlt évben, 40-et az elmúlt két évben. Tunkli Dani, az Accorde Alapkezelő befektetési igazgatója.

Tras el colapso del puente de Baltimore, la Casa Blanca dice estar “moviendo cielo y tierra” para que el puerto vuelva a la normalidad, pero Wes Moore, el gobernador del estado de Maryland, dijo que su reapertura tomará tiempo. Este accidente, dicen los expertos, muestra la fragilidad de las construcciones del siglo pasado ante los peligros del presente. La imagen del gigante buque que derriba la frágil estructura del puente conmovió al mundo entero. El buque Dalí aparecía como un gigante al lado del Francis Scott Key, un puente de acero y concreto construido en los años 1970, que atravesaba el río Patapsco en Baltimore, estado de Maryland. El puente colapsó en cuestión de segundos cuando la embarcación, construida en 2015 en Corea del Sur, se estrelló en uno de sus soportes.Un buque titánico“Estamos hablando de un buque Neopanamax, que son capacidades bastante mayores. Las dimensiones son de una eslora de 300 metros, la manga (el ancho) de 48.2 metros y un calado de profundidad de 14.5 metros. Este buque desarrolla una velocidad máxima de 22 nudos, con una capacidad de carga de hasta 10.000 TEUs [unidad de medida equivalente a veinte pies]”, explica a RFI el director de la Escuela de Maquinaria Naval de la Universidad Marítima Internacional de Panamá, Ervin Vargas.El experto en transportes marítimos también considera que lo sucedido en Baltimore muestra los grandes cambios y desafíos tecnológicos de nuestros tiempos. Los barcos son cada vez más grandes y se requiere por lo tanto una actualización de las infraestructuras. “La tecnología permite que estamos construyendo más buques, podemos transportar mayor mercancía de carga. Entonces también el recinto portuario necesita reactualizarse”, comenta Ervin Vargas.Evolución en la construcciónEvolución tecnológica por un lado y evolución de los sistemas de seguridad por el otro. Para Manuel Simón-Talero, ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, las actualizaciones de los reglamentos de construcción son cruciales para evitar este tipo de accidentes. Y sobre todo cuando se trata de mega estructuras.“Los impactos que se consideran ahora en el diseño son de cuantía más elevada porque las normativas se adecuan y los requisitos de diseño se adecuan a la actualidad. Lo mismo pasa con las cargas vehiculares y con las de ferrocarril. Antes no había ferrocarriles de alta velocidad y ahora los hay. Por tanto, las infraestructuras se diseñan para esa alta velocidad. Pues lo mismo para las nuevas acciones, por así decirlo. Pero las antiguas, algunas se han adecuado, supongo, y otras a lo mejor no tanto como pudiera ser, que es el caso de este puente”, detalla el ingeniero.El colapso del puente de Baltimore podría resultar el mayor pago de un seguro marítimo del que se tenga registro, estimó este jueves la aseguradora británica Lloyd's of London. Maryland ha pedido una dotación inicial de 60 millones de dólares y el presidente Joe Biden prometió que el Gobierno federal cubriría el costo total de la reconstrucción del puente.

Tras el colapso del puente de Baltimore, la Casa Blanca dice estar “moviendo cielo y tierra” para que el puerto vuelva a la normalidad, pero Wes Moore, el gobernador del estado de Maryland, dijo que su reapertura tomará tiempo. Este accidente, dicen los expertos, muestra la fragilidad de las construcciones del siglo pasado ante los peligros del presente. La imagen del gigante buque que derriba la frágil estructura del puente conmovió al mundo entero. El buque Dalí aparecía como un gigante al lado del Francis Scott Key, un puente de acero y concreto construido en los años 1970, que atravesaba el río Patapsco en Baltimore, estado de Maryland. El puente colapsó en cuestión de segundos cuando la embarcación, construida en 2015 en Corea del Sur, se estrelló en uno de sus soportes.Un buque titánico“Estamos hablando de un buque Neopanamax, que son capacidades bastante mayores. Las dimensiones son de una eslora de 300 metros, la manga (el ancho) de 48.2 metros y un calado de profundidad de 14.5 metros. Este buque desarrolla una velocidad máxima de 22 nudos, con una capacidad de carga de hasta 10.000 TEUs [unidad de medida equivalente a veinte pies]”, explica a RFI el director de la Escuela de Maquinaria Naval de la Universidad Marítima Internacional de Panamá, Ervin Vargas.El experto en transportes marítimos también considera que lo sucedido en Baltimore muestra los grandes cambios y desafíos tecnológicos de nuestros tiempos. Los barcos son cada vez más grandes y se requiere por lo tanto una actualización de las infraestructuras. “La tecnología permite que estamos construyendo más buques, podemos transportar mayor mercancía de carga. Entonces también el recinto portuario necesita reactualizarse”, comenta Ervin Vargas.Evolución en la construcciónEvolución tecnológica por un lado y evolución de los sistemas de seguridad por el otro. Para Manuel Simón-Talero, ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, las actualizaciones de los reglamentos de construcción son cruciales para evitar este tipo de accidentes. Y sobre todo cuando se trata de mega estructuras.“Los impactos que se consideran ahora en el diseño son de cuantía más elevada porque las normativas se adecuan y los requisitos de diseño se adecuan a la actualidad. Lo mismo pasa con las cargas vehiculares y con las de ferrocarril. Antes no había ferrocarriles de alta velocidad y ahora los hay. Por tanto, las infraestructuras se diseñan para esa alta velocidad. Pues lo mismo para las nuevas acciones, por así decirlo. Pero las antiguas, algunas se han adecuado, supongo, y otras a lo mejor no tanto como pudiera ser, que es el caso de este puente”, detalla el ingeniero.El colapso del puente de Baltimore podría resultar el mayor pago de un seguro marítimo del que se tenga registro, estimó este jueves la aseguradora británica Lloyd's of London. Maryland ha pedido una dotación inicial de 60 millones de dólares y el presidente Joe Biden prometió que el Gobierno federal cubriría el costo total de la reconstrucción del puente.

The bodies of two construction workers killed in the Baltimore bridge collapse have been recovered from the Patapsco river. Israel's prime minister says "victory" is a few weeks away in Gaza. A judge says ex-Trump lawyer John Eastman should be disbarred for falsely trying to challenge the 2020 election results. Sam Bankman-Fried is due to be sentenced today for his FTX fraud, and prosecutors want a lot of jail time. And, a stabbing rampage in Illinois has killed four people and injured seven others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Varios vehículos cayeron al agua cuando el puente Francis Scott Key colapsó sobre el río Patapsco.

2024.03.27 - Összedőlt Baltimoreban, a Patapsco folyó fölött átívelő 2,5 kilométer hosszú Francis Scott Key híd. Egészen elképesztő felvételeket láthatunk az esetről. Érkezik a Samsung galaxy ring! 15 éve léteznek okosgyűrűk a piacon, de semelyik sem tudott igazán berobbanni. Van ezeknek a kütyüknek létjogosultsága?

Rescuers searching Patapsco river for survivors after ship collision. Also: China former football chief jailed for bribery, could adult nappies overtake children's ones in Japan and AI generated recipes.

Varias personas permanecen desaparecidas tras el colapso de un puente que cruza el río Patapsco, en la ciudad estadounidense de Baltimore. El puente se vino abajo después de que un enorme buque portacontenedores que se quedó sin al parecer sin energía chocara frontalmente con el pilar principal de la estructura. Hoy también hablaremos de Julian Assange, que de momento logra evitar una posible extradición a EEUU después de la decisión anunciada esta mañana por un tribunal británico. Tendremos entrevista sobre ello con Amnistía Internacional. Además, un informe de Naciones Unidas habla de que Israel podría estar cometiendo actos genocidas en Gaza, en Italia se investiga al ayuntamiento de Bari y presuntos vínculos con la mafia y en Venezuela la oposición arremete contra Maduro después de que no pudiera ser inscrita la candidata designada por María Corina Machado para concurrir a las elecciones del mes de julio. Además, tendremos reportajes sobre los abusos de la iglesia en Francia y sobre la situación en la República Democrática del Congo.Escuchar audio

Viviana Mazza (00:38) racconta che cosa si nasconde dietro all'incidente sul fiume Patapsco causato dall'impatto di un cargo contro un pilone. Marta Serafini (06:52) spiega la sentenza (a metà) dell'Alta Corte di Londra sull'estradizione negli Usa del fondatore di Wikileaks. Valentina Santarpia (13:51) elenca le numerose contestazioni e iniziative contro lo Stato ebraico negli atenei italiani.I link di corriere.it:Baltimora, cosa sappiamo del crollo del ponteAssange, no all'estradizione (per ora). La sentenza dell'Alta Corte di Londra: “Gli Usa diano garanzie”Momenti di tensione alla Sapienza, prosegue l'occupazione: “La rettrice Polimeni censura le iniziative sulla Palestina”

Jordan and JB celebrate Day of the Dead on a special podcast recorded inside the haunted Patapsco Distillery with guests and occultists Dan & Kat Eckhart along with distillery owner Scott to talk about the building's ghostly activity and all the strange happenings in the supernatural town of Sykesville.

This episode brought a lot of laughter and a lot of cheering! Tom ran the Baltimore Running Festival 10k! Michael finished the Patapsco Valley 50k for the 3rd time, while Erin DNFed the 25k. Diana killed it and ran a 5 mile PR at the Oktoberfest 5! Lots of recaps, along with our usual nonsense of with what we're running for, cheering our goal getters and telling you all something good! . Chapters 0:00 Open 17:00 Goal Getters 29:17 Baltimore Running Fest 37:01 PV50k 1:01:25 Octoberfest 5 Miler 1:19:03 Something Good . Come laugh with us as we share our running experiences and talk about everything from our favorite beer runs to our chafing nightmares. Tell us what YOU run for... Email us or leave a voice memo at WillRunForPodcast@gmail.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram @WillRunForPodcast Tag your pictures and stories @WillRunForPodcast and help grow our community.

Welcome back everyone for this week's episode Peyton from Patapsco Valley Outdoors joins us  to discuss his childhood spent learning to fish in Maryland and later hunting for waterfowl with his father. Maryland, known for its deep waterfowl history, is part of the Eastern Flyway and thus sees many migrating birds. Peyton recalls the different species of fish, waterfowl, and other wildlife he and his father encountered, deer hunting in Nj, Big 6 hunt, blogging, still hunting, plus much more Peyton's insta: https://www.instagram.com/patvalleyout/Website: https://pws410.wixsite.com/patapscovalleySupport the showHope you guy's enjoy! Hit the follow button, rate and give the show a comment!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdhunting/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZtxCA-1Txv7nnuGKXcmXrA

Buckle up Friends, this one is a doozy. This week we get into our feelings and discuss the emotions of running. But before we do, we take care of some house cleaning items and discuss Philly Marathon weekend, our new facebook group, remind you of our Disney Marathon Weekend meetup, and announce the winner of the Will Run For Fall Scavenger Hunt. Then we tell you what we're running for, Michael gives a quick recap of the Patapsco 50k, and Diana and Tom chat about the BARCStoberfest in Baltimore. Erin gives an injury update, which leads into our conversation about the emotions we feel through running. Whether its injury that's sidelined up, a goal we've missed, a DNS or a DNF, or just struggling with life, running can effect us in so many ways. It was a topic many have asked for and so when we went out for feedback, its no surprise you answered the call. There was a lot, some is raw, and one even includes their journey with the death of their son. Please be warned it may be a tough one, but it all well worth listening to. We appreciate how honest, how open and how vulnerable you were. Its what makes this community so special. . Come laugh with us as we share our running experiences and talk about everything from our favorite beer runs to our chafing nightmares. Tell us what YOU run for... Email us or leave a voice memo at WillRunForPodcast@gmail.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram @WillRunForPodcast Tag your pictures and stories @WillRunForPodcast and help grow our community.

This week Mike is talking with Dr. David Stonko, founder of Patapsco Biomedical, LLC and the last Finalist of the Carroll Biz Challenge.

On July 24, 1868, a massive storm caused terrible flooding along the Patapsco River Valley, including the mill town of Ellicott City. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lid finally blows off of the case when Karen discovers a related crime that was not mentioned anywhere in the case file. Dead men tell no tales. Dead women, too.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, a conversation about problems with Baltimore's water system. Aging infrastructure, ineffective accounting and billing, and high costs to rate-payers are just some of the challenges facing the City's Department of Public Works (DPW). Two weeks ago, problems got worse. The Maryland Secretary of the Environment, Ben Grumbles, ordered that the authority over the operations of the Back River wastewater treatment plantbe taken away from the city, and transferred to the state. Late last month, state inspectors found that the Back River plant was discharging polluted water in violation of the Clean Water Act. Their scathing report on the plant cited "the precipitous decline of the functioning of several critical processes at the Plant in comparison with prior inspections.” Yesterday, when Tom asked Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott about why problems at the city-owned Back River and Patapsco wastewater treatment plants hadn't been addressed, the mayor noted that the problems pre-date his administration: "We know the Back River and Patapsco wastewater issues in Baltimore, the issues have been there you know they don't just predate my administration but the administration that came before me and the one that came before that, and the one that came before that.  We are committed to working with MDE and MES to get this facility into compliance.  I actually personally met with the secretary right before this decision was made, and said that we want to continue to work with them. But we know this is not an overnight fix. We're going to work collaboratively with them to combine resources to ensure that we're being good stewards of this service, right? And making sure that we are supporting our Chesapeake Bay. We know that there are supply-chain issues and staffing shortages that have made getting Back River...into compliance difficult."  — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, speaking with Tom Hall here on Midday, yesterday. We think it's important to know what's going on at these wastewater facilities, why these alleged violations of the Clean Water Act are serious, and what the city is going to have to do to solve these longstanding problems. To help us understand, Tom invited two environmental advocates to join us for part of the hour today. Alice Volpitta of Blue Water Baltimore is the Baltimore Water Keeper. Blue Water Baltimore is part of the lawsuits that are currently in the courts…Angela Haren is a Senior Attorney at the Chesapeake Legal Alliance. She also happens to be a former Baltimore Water Keeper… Alice Volpitta and Angela Haren join us on Zoom. We apologize for the technical difficulties on Friday that delayed the publication of this post. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Slushies, do you know your shades and types of blue? Do you know how to say blue in Russian? When we talk of St. Petersburg, are we talking about Russia? Or Florida? When we discuss Max Lasky's poems we discuss what we call things and how we write things and what to call the things we write. (Discuss what ‘lyric' means amongst yourselves.) “Come Here” takes the table to a scene in Maryland, once home to Jason and his long “O,” and is heavy in Hikmet. After reading “Prothalamion Poured from a Copper Cezve,” a love poem or a poem about love, we continue to praise Lasky's juggling of images and figurative tight-rope walking. This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist A.M.Mills, whose song “Spaghetti with Loretta” now opens our show. At the table: Samantha Neugebauer, Alex J. Tunney, Kathleen Volk Miller, Jason Schneiderman, and Marion Wrenn Max Lasky is a poet from New Jersey, currently living in Maryland with his fiancé where they are raising two plant children: a hardy mum named Thomas, and a basil plant named Bunting. Max is finishing up his final year in the MFA program at the University of Maryland and earned his B.A. from Ramapo College. His poems have been published by Trillium and Frontier Poetry, and he is the co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Leavings. He lives in and for the slush. Come Here We read Hikmet during what she called a picnic, though we brought no wicker basket, no plaid blanket, we rolled our jeans up under our knees to wade across the river, wide and knee high, the entire riverbed bedded with sharp rocks covered in moss, slick enough beneath our bare feet to make us walk slow, half cautious, as a group of five men flyfishing spoke Spanish, reeling in fish too small to keep, taking swigs from warm beer cans at the shore when they turned bored, wanting us to leave. We stayed. As did the birds pitching in a nearby thicket, almost inaudible near the pop blaring from a portable speaker, and a quiet drone flew high above the water. Which is to say nature's no more, at least not there in Catonsville, Maryland, mid August, where the Patapsco flowing toward the Chesapeake could double as the sound of traffic passing on a highway. All the plastic, all the tin cans and wrappers littered across the rocks, the sand— and yet hopeless is not something to be, not for me or Hikmet or my love, who smirks when I say a new Turkish word correctly. My love, what are we to do? We lounged on that ripped towel, smoking, when we should've scoured the shoreline picking up trash. In masks because of a pandemic, not one person walking past on the trail looked us in the eye or said hi, how are you? I lose a little hope… I hope a little less and learn a new language, or try. I learn how the river was commandeered from Native American tribes by dead men, white men who wanted to fuel their new plants and mills, men who never imagined the future here, hundreds of years later, or else just didn't care, not for us or the two women who walked hand in hand, a leashed dog barking at their feet, not the men who spoke Spanish and looked at me confused when I asked what kind of fish is that? I already knew it was a trout. I already knew Hikmet was a communist who loved Marx and Lenin and each of his three wives. Some of us strive to better the world, some strive to better ourselves, and the striving sometimes transcends joy. Hikmet tried both not long ago when he wrote “My strength is that I'm not alone in this big world. The world and its people are no secret in my heart, no mystery in my science. Calmly and openly, I took my place in the great struggle.” I turned to face a warm wind that laced my face with sand, for the future's everchanging, before it even happens… Come here and change me, you whose tongue on my tongue tastes of Turkish tobacco, and sun, you who say the unsayable. Come here, aşkım, lend me your hope, teach me how to grin again after two decades of elegy and a broken language rife with misogyny, and god. We took Nazım to the water's edge and read the translations energetically, sweating, as the park closed and the sun lowered, and for a few moments, it seemed as if it was just us three and the river, carving through the earth like the blood through our veins, I learned a new word for landscape.   Prothalamion Poured from a Copper Cezve Zuleyha read my fortune in the dried coffee grinds and tossed the saucer toward the future, its arc across left a chem trail renting the sky, and I didn't ask why, I didn't point it out or make a scene about the vision I'd been led to believe, as if with a shovel in a lame novel, as if my ears were a septic chute that accepted every story, no matter how far from true. I didn't mention my nomad past or how my brain's forced from place to place in caravans, canal boats, tents reeking of frankincense, pine, or how that's just another story I'd been fed with a shovel. I realized somewhat early on in this early life that most people are eager to live their lives like stars beyond a projector, a drive in, seemingly unaware of the dark screen, and willing to wrong anyone if it means someone lifts the loose noose from their own bowed necks— they almost sprint down the steps. I crawl up the steps to every bad decision I've let happen, happy to say I've changed, took notes on each mistake and if I ever turned back I was sure to take a different path. When I go home to the house I grew up in, it's not to stay. As for the story, neither one of us could say if it was imagined. I wake some mornings to find signs that don't make sense, suspicious of my own breath and the sunlight through the slats, because the world's senseless and nonsensical and tense. A paranoiac and a high priestess make for one hell of a couple, our studio's more like a circus, we're trapeze swingers swooping from corner to corner, blowing clown horns as we paint our faces in a shattered mirror. Our strict schedule requires us to weep all day and dance at night, saying I'm so fucking lucky I met you. I'm so fucking lucky… I rejoice, I digress, I paint two red lines under each of our eyes and step in line, waiting stone like. I'm well aware it could be me paranoid and schizophrenic on the side of the street, paranoid past repair, not knowing where the self ends and society begins, it could easily be me if not for five or six good people. As for the lover, I'm damn sure. I put a poem around her finger because I couldn't afford a ring, which means I'm always already all in. I push the stack of chips to the center of the table. I grin.

In This Week's Rundown of the Northeast Trail Running World: 01:02 - Patgonia AirShed Pro Pullover 03:19 – Salomon UltraGlide 07:59 – UltraSignUp Hotlist 09:07 – In the Media – CULTRA and Gagz' Running Times 10:14 – Start of Results Segment 11:07 – Patrick Blair on the Patapsco 50k 23:49 – Kimberly Drozda on the Horseshoe Bend Boogie 31:55 – Iain Nelson on the Summit 50 / 50 41:26 – Simon Lee on the Castle To River Half 49:21 – Kirby Mosenthal on the Castle To River Half 53:28 – Derek Shultz on the Dire Wolf 1:02:33 – Events running in the weekend ahead

Blue Water Baltimore's mission statement is "to restore the quality of Baltimore's rivers, streams and Harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy and thriving communities" (https://bluewaterbaltimore.org/about/). Blue Water Baltimore is part of the International Waterkeeper Alliance, which is a group of over 350 water watchdogs all over the world. Blue Water Baltimore takes a holistic view to all of the issues surrounding water quality. In this tiny chat, we are joined by Alice Volpitta, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper for Blue Water Baltimore. Alice protects and restores the local waterways that flow within the Patapsco and back rivers. We discuss a variety of topics including what is sewage backups, legislation and advocacy efforts done by Blue Water Baltimore, as well as the greater social impact these issues have on communities.

On homeschooling as reclaiming learning, prioritizing in a busy household and the gifts of boredom. Making the decision to homeschool [2:03] Keeping rhythms with non-attachment [8:57] Being driven by children’s interest. Choosing. Focusing [12:31] Reclaiming our learning. Giving ownership to the children [21:48] Interoception. Subtracting and letting kids get bored [23:14] Surviving as a family. Choosing values and saying them out loud [27:15] Being generous with yourself so that you can be more generous [32:10] Recognizing developmental stages [38:42] Working while homeschooling. Knowing your priorities. Love languages [39:56] Johanna Nichols is a mama to 4, an artist and Waldorf inspired homeschooler. Professionally trained as a chef, everything she thought she knew about food changed when her first son was diagnosed with severe food allergies. Her life's work is creating ceremony and rituals that re-connect us to the earth, health and home. She is deeply focused on the empowerment of women and creates circles and courses that honor how we can lead and live in a way closer to the earth, her seasons and the lunar cycle. Children come to her house from blocks away for bandaids and know she is never too busy to apply lavender to a sting. Martha McAlpine is a student, a listener, a leader. A homeschool mama, a Love, a professional yoga teacher. She has been a workshop facilitator, a multimedia producer, and an information architect for Fortune 500 companies during the .com boom. Her studies include a degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a master's degree in Experiential Curriculum Design from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She has practiced and taught yoga publicly and privately for over 25 years and leads the philosophy portion of the YogaWorks advanced teacher training in Baltimore. Her passion and purpose is to teach how to connect our self to our Self. Having traveled and lived around the world, she now lives with her kids outside of Baltimore, MD overlooking the Patapsco river. RESOURCES Martha McAlpine Johanna Nichols Guided Within Collective You are your child’s first teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dancy Waldorf Schools Love Languages Parenting Passageway

Welcome to the Maryland Fishing Line Episode 010 Today is Tuesday, July 28, 2020 This is the podcast where we talk about fishing throughout the great state of Maryland.  The Maryland fishing line is a production of The Angler Magazine, Chesapeake Edition.  The Chesapeake Angler can be found throughout southern Maryland, Anne Arundel County, and the Eastern Shore. If you would like to see it in your area and it’s not there let us know!  Greetings and introductions Let’s take a look at what’s going on around the state. Main Chesapeake Bay surface water temperatures have risen to the mid 80s.This is peak water temperature for the Bay.These hot, calm conditions warm surface waters and limit oxygen being recharged to the deeper waters This in turn increases the chance of algal blooms. Gamefish will remain at similar locations on cooler river mouths or main bay structure but moving to slightly shallower depths looking for maximum suitable oxygen in the coolest water available.  Striped Bass The weather is putting a lot of heat-related stress on summer striped bass population. Maybe consider focusing on early morning hours, or switch to other species during the heat wave.If you do target striped bass, remember that you must use non-offset circle hooks when chumming or livelining. Consider using lures with single barbless hooks to make releasing fish easierUse care must be taken when handling fish. Never use a rag while unhooking a striped bass — this will rub off their protective slime layer, making them more vulnerable to the summer combination of heat stress and disease. Bluefish Hot and dry weather with high salinities equals more and better shots at bluefishTrolling spoons and hoses (surgical tube lures) will put you on the bluefish.Small bluefish are running about 1 pound, which is fun for the kids and a perfect eating size, whether fresh or smoked. A reminder that the daily limit for 2020 is 3 bluefish per day for anglers fishing from private boats or shore, and 5 bluefish per day when fishing from a charter boat.. Cobia Cobia fishing has been good this summer at the Middle Grounds, the Target Ship, the Mud Leads, and Point Lookout. The traditional methods are chumming and fishing with cut bait or live eels. In past years, anglers have also caught large cobia with other live baits such as spotSight fishing with live eels or large soft plastics on a lead head jig is a trending method This requires using an elevated platform to spot fish, and polarized sunglasses to cut through the glare on the water..Trolling spoons and hoses will also find cobia. Redfish and Puppy Drum Large red drum are being caught and released by light tackle jiggers with soft plastics in the lower bay.Trolling spoons and hoses (surgical tube lures) will produce large drum around the Target ship. Speckled Trout The shallow-water fishing for speckled trout continues with topwater and soft paddletail baits near shallow grass beds along the Eastern Shore marshes. Zara Spooks work over grass beds But reports show soft plastics and paddletails working best over deeper grass, shoreline structure, rocks. riprap, wood, and stump fields. The best speckled trout fishing is occurring along the marshes of the Pocomoke and Tangier sounds up to Hoopers Island.Speckled trout action continues from the Choptank River south along the Dorchester County shorelines, and down into the Crisfield area marsh shorelines and cuts. Grass beds in 3-5 feet of water are excellent places to cast topwater lures and swim shads. Zara Spooks, Gulp plastics, and soft plastics in pearl or white with sparkles are popular. The structure around Sharps Island lighthouse is a popular spot.Spanish Mackerel Just like bluefish, love the combination of hot and dry weather and salinities being relatively high. Anglers are hoping for a repeat of last year’s hot action on Spanish mackerel which extended all the way to the upper bay.   You will find spanish mackerel right now busting schools of bait fish alongside the bluefish.Spanish mackerel are being caught by fast trolling  — about 7 knots is the target speed — with small Drone or Clark spoons. Always be ready with metal lures in case Spanish mackerel show up on the surface White Perch and Spot White perch and spot run together and are providing reliable action during these hot summer months. They are spread throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, and populations are abundant. Many anglers are finding a lot of small fish in some areas but a few big fish can be culled from the school. The usual small spinners and 1/16 to 1/8-ounce lead heads with Mr. Twister grubs on light spinning tackle will produce results for white perch. Pieces of bloodworm, grass shrimp, wild seafood shrimp are great for spot and add in small minnows for perch. Medium-sized minnows fished under a bobber around shoreline structure will often catch a large grade of perch.White perch and spot can be found on hard bottom areas or shoals off Sandy Point State Park beach, the mouth of the Magothy, and the shallow ends of the Bay Bridge. They can also be found at the Snake Reef, Belvidere Shoal, and the 7-foot and 9-foot knolls. Bottom fishing action for perch and spot can be found at Hacketts and Thomas points on shell bottom and bars, as well as around Eastern Bay, Poplar Island, and the Severn and Choptank riversFishing for white perch in the shallower shoreline areas should be steady from now into September. Shoreline structure such as bulkheads, submerged rocks, fallen trees, and riprap are good areas to cast small spinners, spinnerbaits, and jigs. White perch and spot can also be caught off of docks and piers in 5-10 feet of water with a simple one-hook or two-hook bottom rig baited with pieces of soft crab, bloodworm, or grass shrimp. Synthetic bloodworm-flavored fishbites also work well.Steady bottom fishing action in the hard bottom areas of the lower Patuxent River, Honga River, and off Hoopers Island with pieces of bloodworm on a bottom rig is the best bait for perch and spot alike..  Croaker A few small croaker have been caught in the Severn River, South River, and other areas, but most are sub-legal. Handle those fish quickly and get them back in the water for the future. Largemouth Bass are firmly entrenched now in summer patterns.Look for them to feed early and late in the day and find someplace to be lazy during the day.Ponds and small lakes can be fished from shore with a variety of weedless soft plastics, including plastic worms, flukes, and lizards in grass, lily pads, or near sunken wood structure.Snakehead Northern snakeheads will jump all over traditional bass lures such as buzzbaits and frogs.These are excellent baits to cast over thick grass that we are seeing a lot of now.Chatterbaits and paddle tails will also produce snakeheads. Ttributaries of the tidal Potomac, Patuxent, Patapsco, and other tidal rivers around the Chesapeake have expanding populations of northern snakeheads. For anglers targeting snakehead in central Maryland, try Little Seneca Lake at Blackhills Regional Park. Department biologists first documented a snakehead population in the lake in May 2019 after receiving reports of sightings by anglers. Snakeheads have been observed close to the bank even during the heat of the day. On the Eastern Shore, the Dorchester County tidal backwaters — tributaries to the Nanticoke and Wicomico — are consistent hotspots. Catfish Conowingo is producing some large flatheads and blue cats.Channel cats are abundant just about all over now as well.All of these can be caught on fresh cut baits, chicken livers, clam snouts, and a variety of other stinky baits. The rest… Carp are providing steady summer fun in the upper Potomac, C&O Canal, and various ponds with the traditional baits of scented dough ball baits or corn. Fly casters can catch carp with purple flies that resemble mulberries in areas where the berries fall into the water from overhanging branches.  YouTube catch up We are going to launch a new monthly giveaway with multiple ways on August 1st - you can enter to win a $25 Bass Pro Shops eGift card. As always, if there is something you would like to see covered on the YouTube channel let me know and we will see what we can do about that. Magazine Catch up The August issue will start showing up close by to you any day now. If you want to see your catch in print you can send them to theanglerchesapeake@gmail.com and make sure to include a by-line and that you have attached a high-resolution image suitable for printing.  If you send them from your phone make sure to send the largest file size possible. I want to give a shout out to all of our advertisers for September.  These businesses are dedicated to the outdoors and understand the value and economic impact of outdoors men and women throughout the state so make sure to support them when you can.  You will find links to all of them in the show notes and in every YouTube video description we post. Waterfront Marine in Edgewater, MDAnnapolis Canoe & Kayak in Annapolis, MDCavallaro Heath Group for all your waterfront real estate needsEat Chesapeake in Dunkirk, Rose Haven and BowieHuntingtown Automotive in Huntingtown, MDJMJ Firearms in Mechanicsville, MDModern Aire, LLC for your HVAC needs in Mechanicsville, MDScott's Cove Marina on Deal IslandStoney's Kingfisher in Solomons, MD Personal fishing weekly updates Joey On the redfish Brian Trout fishing in western NC - very exciting.  Caught 3 nice brown trout in a tiny stream in Banner Elk.Strong fish. Question of the week Fishing kayak storage during the seasonHow ToWhat to avoid / Danger zoneOptions BuBye FB.com/AnglerMagazineChesapeake Insta @chesapeakeangler & @bnraines Youtube.com/ChesapeakeAngler And of course you can read the e-magazine online at chesapeakeanglermag.comWaterfront Marine: https://www.waterfrontmarine.com/Annapolis Canoe & Kayak: https://www.annapoliscanoeandkayak.com/ Cavallaro Heath Group: https://cavallaroheath.com/Eat Chesapeake: https://www.eatchesapeake.com/Huntingtown Automotive: https://huntingtownautomotive.com/JMJ Firearms: https://www.jmjfirearmsllc.com/Modern Aire, LLC: https://modernairellc.com/Scott's Cove Marina: https://www.scottscovemarina.com/Stoney's Kingfisher: http://stoneysseafoodhouse.com/kingfi...

The Brick Companies is not a household name in the area, but they've been around for more than 125 years!  If you ever played golf at the Golf Club at South River or Queenstown--you know The Brick Companies. If you have ever pulled into one of their Atlantic Marinas on the Magothy or Patapsco rivers--you know The Brick Companies. Today, we sit down with Lex Birney, the CEO and President of the organization to learn about the history and the future and how they have done (and will do) it all in keeping an eye on the local community and the environment! Have a listen! Links: The Brick Companies (Website) The Brick Companies (Facebook) The Brick Companies (YouTube) Launch Workplaces (Website) Launch Workplaces (Facebook) Launch Workplaces (Twitter) Launch Workplaces (Instagram) The Golf Club at South River (Website) The Golf Club at South River (Facebook) The Golf Club at South River (Twitter) The Golf Club at South River (Instagram) The Golf Club at South River (YouTube) Atlantic Marinas (Website) Atlantic Marinas (Facebook) Atlantic Marinas (Twitter) Atlantic Marinas (Instagram) Queenstown Harbor (Website) Queenstown Harbor (Facebook) Queenstown Harbor (Twitter) Queenstown Harbor (Instagram) Up next Saturday: Weems Creek Nursery School Want to hear some of our past spotlights? Here's your link to them all! http://bit.ly/EOALBS CONNECT WITH US!   THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS:  http://bit.ly/EOAConnect

On July 24, 1868, a great flood swept through the Patapsco River valley, causing great damage and loss of life.

It was 290 years ago that the Maryland General Assembly issued Baltimore a town charter -- actually, voted out on July 30, 1729 … but Charm City is celebrating tonight with a party put on by Live Baltimore. The little settlement on the Patapsco was named for Cecil Calvert, second Baron Baltimore, first proprietor of the Maryland colony. Calvert never visited his colony. But even if he had, it’s safe to say neither he nor any of the succeeding Barons Baltimore would recognize what the city has become. What hopes do those who live here now hold for Baltimore? We asked more than two dozen denizens -- From Mayor Jack Young to film director and author John Waters -- to make a wish and tell us what they most desire for Charm City, on the threshold of its 290th year.

Under a six-lane span of freeway leading into downtown Baltimore sits what may be the most valuable parking spaces in America. Lying near a development project controlled by Under Armour’s billionaire CEO Kevin Plank, one of Maryland’s richest men, and Goldman Sachs, the little sliver of land will allow Plank and the other investors to claim what could amount to millions in tax breaks for the project, known as Port Covington. They have President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul law to thank. The new law has a provision meant to spur investment into underdeveloped areas, called “opportunity zones.” The idea is to grant lucrative tax breaks to encourage new investment in poor areas around the country, carefully selected by each state’s governor. But Port Covington, an ambitious development geared to millennials to feature offices, a hotel, apartments, and shopping, is not in a census tract that is poor. It’s not a new investment. And the census tract only became eligible to be an opportunity zone thanks to a mapping error. As the selection process was underway, a deputy chief of staff to Maryland's governor wrote in an email that “Port Covington does not qualify” as an opportunity zone. Maryland's governor chose the area for the program anyway — after his aides met with the lobbyists for Plank, who owns about 40% of the zone. “This is a classic example of a windfall benefit,” said Robert Stoker, a George Washington University professor who has studied economic development in Baltimore for decades. “A major investment was already planned and now is in a zone where they are going to qualify for all kinds of beneficial tax treatment.” In selecting Port Covington, the governor had to exclude another Maryland community from the opportunity zone program. In Baltimore, for example, the governor dropped part of a neighborhood that city officials recommended for the program — Brooklyn — with a median family income one-fifth that of Port Covington. Brooklyn sits just across the Patapsco river from Port Covington, in an area that suffers from one of the highest drug and alcohol death rates in Baltimore, which in turn has one of the highest drug fatality rates nationwide. In a statement, Marc Weller, a developer who is Plank’s partner in the project, defended the opportunity zone designation. “Port Covington being part of an Opportunity Zone will attract more investors, foster more economic growth in a neglected area of the City, and directly benefit all of the surrounding communities for decades to come,” Weller said. Supporters say the Port Covington development could help several nearby struggling south Baltimore neighborhoods. An official in the administration of Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan, said, “The success of that project is really going to go a long way to providing benefits for the whole city of Baltimore.” The official added: “The governor is a huge supporter of the development.” A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development, which was involved in the selection process, said that “due to the time limits of the federal tax incentive, the state of Maryland did purposefully select census tracts where projects were beginning to increase the odds of attracting additional private sector investment to Maryland's opportunity zones in the near term.” The Birth of a New Tax Break In December 2017, Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, his signature legislative achievement. Much criticized as a giveaway to the rich, the law includes one headline provision that backers promised would help the poor: opportunity zones. Supporters of the program argued it would unleash economic development in otherwise overlooked communities. “Our goal is to rebuild homes, schools, businesses and communities that need it the most,“ Trump declared at a recent event, adding, “To revitalize these areas, we’ve lowered the capital gains tax for long-term investment in opportunity zones all the way down to a very big, fat, beautiful number of zero.” The provision has bipartisan support. “These cities are gold mines,” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a 2020 presidential hopeful and main Democratic architect of the program, told real estate investors in October. “They’re domestic emerging markets that are more exciting than anything you’ll see overseas.” Here’s how the program works. Say you’re a hedge fund manager, you purchased Google stock years ago, and are sitting on $1 billion in gains. If you sell, you’d send the IRS about $240 million, a lot less than ordinary income tax but still annoying. To avoid paying that much, you can sell the shares and put the $1 billion into an opportunity zone. That comes with three generous breaks. The first is that you defer that $240 million in capital gains tax, allowing you to invest more money up front. But if that’s not enough for you, you can hold the investment for several years and you’ll get a significant reduction in those taxes. What’s more, any additional gains from the new investment are tax-free after 10 years. It’s impossible to predict how much the tax break will be worth to individual investors because it depends on several variables, not least whether the underlying project gains in value. But one investment pitch projected 10-year returns would jump to 91% from 29% on a hypothetical $1 million investment. That includes $284,000 in tax breaks — money the federal government would have collected from taxpayers with capital gains but for the program. The tax code already favored real estate developers like Trump, and his overhaul made it even friendlier. Investors can put money into a range of projects in opportunity zones, but so far most of the publicly announced deals are in real estate. The tax break has led to a marketing boom, with Wall Street pitching investors to raise funds to invest in the zones. Critics argue that the program is flawed, pointing out that there’s no guarantee that the capital investment will help community residents, that the selection process was vulnerable to outside influence, and that it could be a giveaway for projects that were going to happen anyway. In a case in Chicago uncovered by the Real Deal, two tracts already slated for a major development project were selected by the governor as opportunity zones even though city officials hadn’t initially recommended them. Under the new law, areas of the country deemed to be “low-income communities” would be eligible to be named opportunity zones. The Treasury Department determined which census tracts qualified. Then governors of each state could select one quarter of those tracts to get the tax benefit. That governor prerogative turned out to be very useful to Kevin Plank.   Plank’s Dream In 2012, Plank-connected entities quietly began buying up waterfront property on a largely vacant and isolated peninsula south of downtown Baltimore. Often using shell companies to shield the identity of the true buyer, they ultimately spent more than $100 million acquiring much of the peninsula. Plank’s privately held Sagamore Development now controls roughly 40% of the area that would later be named an opportunity zone. In early 2015, more than two and a half years before Trump’s tax law passed, Plank revealed himself as the money behind the purchases. He planned a new development and headquarters for Under Armour, the sports apparel company he started after coming up with the idea as a University of Maryland football player. Today, Under Armour employs 15,000 people. Plank has a net worth of around $2 billion. Though the Port Covington area was cut off from downtown by I-95, Plank said he likes the location because of the visibility. “When people drive through Baltimore [on I-95] I literally want them to drive through and go, 'There's Baltimore on the right. There's Under Armour on the left,’” he told The Baltimore Sun. A year later, Plank’s firm took his vision to the general public, running TV and print ads touting the new project. One of the ads, reminiscent of the Democratic presidential primary spots airing at that time, was filled with a diverse cast sharing their dreams for a new city within a city. “We will build it. Together,” the ad begins, before running through a glittering digital rendering of contemporary urban design features. Office towers, shops, transit, parks, jobs — all of it to be anchored by a new world headquarters of the city’s most visible brand name, Under Armour. Sagamore would spearhead the project and sell land to others who would build businesses and housing. Even before qualifying for the opportunity zone break, taxpayers were going to subsidize the development. Days after the ads touting togetherness, Plank proposed that the city float $660 million in bonds to help build what the company has said would be a $5.5 billion development. Opponents contended Plank’s proposal amounted to corporate welfare that would exacerbate the city’s stark economic and racial divides. But the company agreed to provide millions of dollars to the city and a group of nearby low-income neighborhoods to gain support for the project, and the City Council passed the measure that fall. As Under Armour’s stock plummeted in 2017 amid slowing sales growth and progress on the Port Covington project lagged. That September, Goldman Sachs stepped in to commit $233 million from its Urban Investment Group. Hogan, himself a real estate developer, personally spoke with the then-CEO of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, about the deal. Meeting With the Governor’s Office In the weeks after the 2017 federal tax overhaul passed, Plank’s team spotted an opportunity. Nick Manis, a veteran Annapolis lobbyist who has also represented the Baltimore Ravens, reached out to Hogan’s chief of staff about Port Covington, according to emails obtained by ProPublica through a public records request. The developers and their lobbyists had given at least $15,000 to Hogan’s campaigns in recent years. A meeting was set for early February. But the developers had a problem. The Friday before the meeting, a deputy chief of staff to the governor wrote in an email that “Port Covington does not qualify” for the coveted tax breaks. The Port Covington tract, which includes a gentrified corner of South Baltimore north of the largely empty peninsula, was too wealthy to be an opportunity zone. There is a second provision of the law for wealthier tracts: A tract can qualify if it is adjacent to a low-income area. But Port Covington failed that test, too. Its median family income — nearly 160% of Maryland’s — exceeded the income cap even for that provision. Port Covington was out — unless the tract could somehow be considered low-income in its own right. On Feb. 5, the Port Covington development team arrived at the second floor of the statehouse in the opulent governor’s reception room to meet with top Hogan aides. The agenda for the meeting included opportunity zones, as well as transit and infrastructure issues. The developer’s team requested that the Port Covington tract be made an opportunity zone. The state officials “acknowledged their interest in receiving that designation,” a Hogan administration official said. Bank Error in Your Favor Three days after that meeting, Plank and the Port Covington developers got bad news. The Treasury Department released a list of census tracts across the country that were sufficiently poor to be included in the program. Port Covington was not included in that list. Three weeks later, however, things turned around. The Treasury Department issued a revised list. The agency said it had left out some tracts in error. The revised list included 168 new areas across the country defined by the agency as “low-income communities.” This time, Port Covington made the cut. It couldn’t have qualified because its residents were poor. It couldn’t qualify because it was next to some place that was poor. But the tract could qualify under yet another provision of the law. Some tracts could make the cut if they had fewer than 2,000 people and if they were “within” what’s known as an empowerment zone. That was a Clinton-era redevelopment initiative also aimed at low-income areas. Port Covington wasn’t actually within an empowerment zone, but it is next to one. So how did it qualify? The area met the definition of “within” because the digital map files the Treasury Department used showed that Port Covington overlapped with a neighboring tract that was designated an empowerment zone, Treasury officials told ProPublica. That overlap: the sliver of parking lot beneath I-395. That piece of the lot is about one one-thousandth of a square mile. (ProPublica) (ProPublica) There are no regulations or guidance on how to interpret the tax law’s use of “within,” said a spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which compiled the maps. The agency made what it called a “technical decision” that any partial overlap with an Empowerment Zone would count as being “within” that zone — no matter how small the area, or if anyone lived there. Or, if the overlap was even real. Turns out, no part of Port Covington actually overlapped with the empowerment zone. Treasury’s decision ignored a well-known problem in geographic analysis known as misalignment, mapping experts said. Misalignment happens when the lines on digital maps made by two sources differ slightly about where things like roads and buildings lie, according to Henry Luan, a professor of geography at the University of Oregon. For example, if a tract ends at a highway, one file might show the border on the near side of the highway while another — when zoomed all the way in — might show it a few feet away on the far side. When laid on top of each other, the two files end up with minuscule differences that don’t mean anything in the real world. Except in this case, it had big real world consequences for Port Covington. The mapping error allowed the entire tract to qualify as an opportunity zone. “That area of overlap is a complete artifact of” the map files Treasury used, said David Van Riper, director of spatial analysis at the Minnesota Population Center. “It’s not an actual overlap.” Sometime in the mid-2000s, the Census Bureau used GPS devices to make its map files more accurately represent the country’s roads. One of the maps used by Treasury appeared to be based on the older, less accurate Census maps, Van Riper said. Even accepting Treasury’s misaligned maps, the entire Port Covington tract receives tax benefits, even though less than 0.3% of it overlaps with the neighboring tract. “Only a minimal overlap, but you make the whole Census tract benefit from the policy?” Luan said. “That doesn’t make sense to me.” Port Covington is one of just a handful of tracts in the country that ProPublica identified that qualified through similar flaws in Treasury’s process. Taking the Break There is no evidence that Plank or the Port Covington developers influenced the Treasury Department’s revision. But the lobbying of the governor before the Treasury change appears to have paid off. As they were lobbying, Baltimore officials were working out which parts of the city would benefit most from being opportunity zones. They petitioned the governor to pick 41 low-income city neighborhoods to get the tax break, all of them well below the program’s maximum income requirements. The city’s list remained largely intact when the governor made his selections in April. Hogan made just four changes, three of which qualified under the main criteria without the benefit of the mapping error. But the fourth didn’t: Port Covington. Plank’s team cheered the revision. The very thing that made Port Covington a poor candidate to be an opportunity zone — that it wasn’t a low-income area — could make it exceptionally attractive to investors. In January, they convened an opportunity zone conference at their Port Covington incubator called City Garage featuring state officials and executives from Goldman, Deloitte and other firms. “Port Covington kind of fits all the needs,” said Marc Weller, Plank’s partner, at the conference. “It has all the entitlements, and it has a financial partner in place as well. It’s probably the most premier piece of land in the United States that’s in an opportunity zone.” The opportunity zone program has restrictions intended to prevent already-planned developments from benefitting. But the Port Covington developers told Bloomberg that the firm will be able to reap the benefits of the tax break because it has found new investors. Among the potential new investors who might take advantage of the tax break are Plank’s own family, one of the developers told the Baltimore Business Journal. A Port Covington spokesman denied that Plank’s family members are potential investors. To get the maximum benefit, investments need to be made in 2019, though investments made through 2026 can take advantage of growth tax-free. Only a portion of the Port Covington project is expected to be underway by then. A Goldman spokesman said it is “likely” that the firm will take advantage of the opportunity zone benefits in Port Covington, adding that it has “made no firm decisions about how each component will be financed.”             Margaret Anadu, the head of Goldman’s Urban Investment Group and the lead on the Port Covington investment, recently said of the opportunity zone program: “These are the same neighborhoods that have been suffering since redline started decades and decades ago, pretty much eliminating private investment. … And so we simply have to reverse that. And the only way to reverse that is to start to bring that private capital back into these neighborhoods.” The Port Covington tract is just 4% black. For it to be included in the program, another community somewhere in Maryland had to be excluded. The ones that the city suggested that were excluded by the governor, for example, are 68% black and have a poverty rate three times higher than Port Covington’s. There is some evidence suggesting being named an opportunity zone has already been a boon for property owners. An analysis by Zillow found that sale price gains in opportunity zones significantly outpaced gains in eligible tracts that weren’t selected. Real Capital Analytics found that sales of developable sites in the zones rose 24% in the year after the law passed. Under Armour has said it’s still committed to building its new headquarters on the peninsula, but it’s not clear when that will happen. Still, other aspects of the once-stalled project finally started moving forward in recent months. After presenting plans for the first section inside the opportunity zone this winter, the project finally got underway on a rainy day in early May of this year. "The project is real,” Weller said at the kickoff event, which included Anadu, the Goldman Sachs executive, and city and state officials. “The project is starting. We're open for business."

Thrift Store Thursdays Episode 18. Took trip to Patapsco flea market to hunt for video games! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/videogamevotary/support

Inspired by Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" Podcast, In Search of Black Power host Lawrence Grandpre does a deep dive on Baltimore history, using the stories of the riots of the 1860s and the 1960s to show Baltimore as a site where the highest hopes, and deepest darkness, of the American experiment in race relations have been played out. Support the show (http://www.newtimbuktu.com)

Uploading this early cause i have to help my boyfriend move. We went to Patapsco and Dundalk Flea Markets and then swung by Ye Olde Sounde Garden to pay our friend Prof. Nicholson a visit

A long abandoned fort lies in the middle of the Patapsco river in the shadow of the Key Bridge. Just at the Baltimore line, it stands guardian to the inner harbor and the port of the city. Unlike some of it’s sister forts, Fort Carroll is long abandoned by humans leaving room for it’s new […]

It was 289 years ago that the Maryland General Assembly issued Baltimore a town charter -- actually, voted out on July 30, 1729 … but Charm City is celebrating tonight with a party put on by Live Baltimore.The little settlement on the Patapsco was named for Cecil Calvert, second Baron Baltimore, first proprietor of the Maryland colony. Calvert never visited his colony. But even if he had, it’s safe to say neither he nor any of the succeeding Barons Baltimore would recognize what the city has become. What hopes do those who live here now hold for Baltimore? We asked nearly two dozen denizens -- From Mayor Catherine Pugh ... to film director and author John Waters -- to make a wish and tell us what they most desire for Charm City, on the threshold of its 289th year.

In this episode, we examine the supposed sighting of a gigantic shark in the waters off Annapolis, Maryland, some real shark encounters, visit the Calvert Cliffs, and hear of a strange religious vision the pastor who wrote the account of the monster shark had had previously.    Sources “10-foot shark in West River,” Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1918. “A pest of sharks,” Baltimore Sun, August 31, 1895. “Another appears off Annapolis,” Baltimore Sun, July 20, 1916. “Capture of a shark,” Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1895. “Man-eater near Easton,” Baltimore Sun, July 20, 1916. “Man-eating sharks invade Severn,” Baltimore Sun, August 13, 1920. “Mr. Smiley hears an angel at Annapolis singing 'peace on earth,' and awakes to find it all a dream,” Baltimore Sun, June 7, 1921. “Precaution against sharks,” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 14, 1910. “Sharks after rock fish,” Baltimore Sun, August 15, 1898. “Sharks in the Chesapeake,” Baltimore Sun, July 16, 1916. “Sharks in the Patapsco,” Baltimore Sun, August 15, 1904. “Submarines at Annapolis,” Baltimore Sun, March 21, 1907. “The prey of sharks' hunger,” Richmond Times, June 13, 1891. “Two sharks captured,” Baltimore Sun, August 7, 1903. “Was it a shark?” Baltimore Sun, August 10, 1895. A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat #8).  https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/a-7.html Anti-Vivisection Society of Maryland. Dawn: Denouncing the Pollution, and Advocating the Entire Suppression of Vivisection. Baltimore: Anti-Vivisection Society of Maryland, Incorporated, 1901-1908.  Hadwen, Walter R. “Claim Everything.” Journal of Zoöphily 23:11 (November 1914).  McLennan, Jeanne D. Miocene Sharks' Teeth of Calvert County. Maryland Geological Survey, 1971. Mellin, John. “Anne Arundel vignettes: mysterious authors II,” Annapolis Capital, March 19, 1987.

On June 17, 1905, a freight train collided with a passenger train near Ransom, a little village southeast of Patapsco, Maryland.

On the 400 block of E Patapsco Avenue, you'll meet octogenarian pigeon racers, evangelizing barbers, philosophical convenience-store clerks, reformed and not-so-reformed drug dealers, aspiring hip hop musicians, and more.

Are you ready for the 2015 season?! Mark kicks off the season with updates of several team changes and in-depth results of some of the early season races. Mark also gets you up-to-date with some news on upcoming races, including the Patapsco 100, the World Challenge Series, True Grit Epic, and some NUE news. He also provides a special monologue about women in cycling by Barnabas Froystad. Listen in to get up to speed on the news and heat the results of the Attakwas Extreme MTB Marathon, 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo, and the Andalucia Bike Race. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremiah Bishop http://www.jeremiahbishop.com/ Topeak-Ergon Cycling Team  http://www.topeak-ergon-racing.com/de/en/home Sonya Looney  http://www.sonyalooney.com/ Rare Disease Cycling  http://rarediseasecycling.org/ Toasted Head Racing  https://toastedheadracing.wordpress.com/ Stan’s no Tubes Elite Women’s Team http://www.notubesracing.com/womenselite/ National Ultra Endurance Series  http://nuemtb.com/ Blue Ridge Adventures/Pisgah Stage Race http://www.blueridgeadventures.net/ Patapsco 100  http://patapsco100.com/ Yat Attack and World Challenge Series  http://theyakattack.com/ World Endurance Mountain Bike Organization  http://www.wembo.com.au/ Epic Rides’ 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo  http://www.epicrides.com/index.php?contentCat=5 Attakwas Extreme MTB Marathon  http://www.atta.co.za/ Andalucia Bike Race  http://www.andaluciabikerace.com/?lang=eng The Last Aid Station Facebook Page Mountain Bike Radio Endurance Calendar Email Mark Email Ben

The National Ultra Endurance (NUE) Series kicks off soon and this episode gets you ready! Mark interviews NUE Director, Ryan O'Dell, about what everyone can expect in the 2015 series!   Ryan breaks some big news on this episode about a chance for racers to win a trip to the Rincon Challenge 100 in Costa Rica and some news about La Ruta! He also shares the names of the big guns who are planning to show up at True Grit and other races. Ryan also shares his thoughts about doping controls. This is a great episode to get behind the scenes about the series and get pumped up for 2015!   If you are a race director or racer who would like to hear your race report on an episode of The Last Aid Station, please contact Mark at Mark@Mountainbikeradio.com.    ---------------------------------------------------   RELATED SHOW LINKS:   National Ultra Endurance Series - http://nuemtb.com/ Kenda Tires - http://www.kendatire.com/en/bicycle/ Rincon Challenge 100 - http://www.rincondelaviejachallenge.com/ La Ruta de los Conquistadores - http://www.adventurerace.com/ Cohutta 100 - http://trailheadoutdoors.squarespace.com/cohutta-100/ Mohican 100 - http://ombc.net/mohican-100-trail-run/mohican-100-trail-run-general-info True Grit Epic - http://truegritepic.com/ Lumberjack 100 - http://lumberjack100.com/ Bailey Hundo - http://www.bailey100.com/ Pisgah 111 - http://www.pisgahproductions.com/events/pisgah-111k/about/ Patapsco 100 - http://patapsco100.com/ Mountain View Epic - http://www.arkansasoutside.com/event/mountain-view-epic/ Christoph Sauser on Twitter Christoph Sauser's Website The Last Aid Station Facebook Page Mountain Bike Radio Endurance Calendar About the host, Mark Email Ben

Sean McComb -- 2014 National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb, an English teacher at Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts  in Baltimore County, was named 2014 National Teacher of the Year. In addition to teaching, McComb supports his Patapsco colleagues through coaching and training as the school's Staff Development Teacher. He also served as a curriculum writer for the school system and an adjunct instructor in Education and Writing at Towson University.   In this episode you will learn:  Sean's journey into teaching Patapsco's A.V.I.D. program The emotional toll of being a teacher A lesson that failed for Sean How to ignite passion in the classroom How to ask the right essential questions When to hold back and let students control the class Why intellectual curiosity is important What you can do to build better connections with your students Why the Teaching Channel is a great resource a tip to improve student writing What he is most proud of as a teacher The post #60 2014 National Teacher of the Year — Sean McComb appeared first on Talks with Teachers.

The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program is the largest school based father engagement program in the nation with over 4000 schools participating. This week, we are so proud to have as our guest, National Teacher of the Year - Mr. Sean McComb. Mr. McComb is a 9-12th grade English teacher at Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently completing his eighth year as an educator and has been at Patapsco since beginning his teaching career. “A strong teacher-student relationship facilitates the opportunity for deeper learning and more critical thinking,” says McComb. He firmly believes that public education is the foundation for opportunity and success for any child. In addition to his role as an English instructor, McComb helped develop, and continues to spearhead, Patapsco’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program which boasted a 98% college acceptance rate for its last two graduating classes. McComb’s devotion to the teaching profession extends beyond the classroom as well. He also coaches the Patapsco Cross Country Team, supervises cultural exchange programs, and has led several university training sessions and presentations for future teachers. McComb says that he has found his purpose in teaching stating, “I have worked to engage my students and push them to achieve the excellence within them. Every child deserves nothing less, and my calling is to champion that effort.” He holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Masters of Education in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds a Certificate in School Improvement Leadership from Goucher College. Each week, WatchDOGS Radio host Keith Schumacher and co-host Chris Danenhauer discuss how this program is impacting families and schools across our nation and in four foreign countries.