Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Carly Fiorina Takes Andrea Mitchell To Foreign Policy School | Truth Revolt

Carly Fiorina Takes Andrea Mitchell To Foreign Policy School | Truth Revolt:
This is how you answer a question.
News
[...]

"Mitchell asked Fiorina what she would do about ISIS. Her answer is more than informed and a stark contrast to the weak sauce offered not only by the former Secretary of State, but also by Republican opponents like Jeb Bush:" http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/carly-fiorina-takes-andrea-mitchell-foreign-policy-school
'via Blog this'
++++++++++++

Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/

Scribd Kevin Dayhoff: http://www.scribd.com/kdayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/kevindayhoff

Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/ 

Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalistsand journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maioremDei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf

Sunday morning services at Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster.


Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Friday, May 29, 2015

George Vincent Martin, a Pearl Harbor Survivor, 95 of Westminster died on Tuesday, May 5, 2015

George Vincent Martin, a Pearl Harbor Survivor, 95 of Westminster died on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/05/george-vincent-martin-pearl-harbor.html

George Vincent Martin, a Pearl Harbor Survivor, 95 of Westminster died on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at the Dove House.  He was born on September 30, 1919 in Philadelphia, PA.  He raised his family on Long Island, New York.

After Pearl Harbor, George faithfully served this nation as a B-25 Pilot in China-Burma and India during WWII.  After the war, he extended his service in the Civil Air Patrol.  He then began a career selling aircraft parts.  George went on to benefit his community as a firefighter in the Wantagh Volunteer Fire Department on Long Island for more than 25 years.

George is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Shirley May Martin and their seven children; Gayle Mulvihill, Glenn Martin, Robert Martin, Richard Martin, Donna Martin, Suzanne Martin and Diane Kaufman; his sisters, Pricilla Hays and Winifred Fogerty; ten grandchildren, Dean Mulvihill, Regina Granados, Bryan Mulvihill, Julie Enderby, Glenn Martin, Jr., Meg Enderby, Alexandria Kaufman, Kaitlyn Martin, Michael Kaufman and Zane Martin.  Also survived by 5 great grandchildren.  George was predeceased by his sister Marjorie Koltun.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from 2-4 and 6-8 pm at Fletcher Funeral & Cremation Services, P.A., 254 East Main Street.  Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, May 27 at 11:00 am at St. Benjamin’s (Kriders) Lutheran Church, 700 Kriders Cemetery Road, Westminster.  Interment will be at the church cemetery.

The Martin family wants to express heartfelt gratitude to Carroll County Hospice, especially The Dove House.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Carroll Hospice, 292 Stoner Avenue, Westminster, MD 21157.

Please hold George as close, as we do, in your heart and in your mind.


+++++++++++++++
Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: 
Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
+++++++++++++++

FDR October, 21, 1944 Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it…

FDR October, 21, 1944 Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it…

"Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October, 21, 1944, on a radio address at the Foreign Policy Association.


*****

Thursday, May 28, 2015

The 2013 Young America’s Foundation President Ronald Reagan Ranch calendar

The 2013 Young America’s Foundation President Ronald Reagan Ranch calendar


Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Economist: Greece - The sorry saga of Syriza

The Economist: Greece - The sorry saga of Syriza

In its first hundred days Greece’s government has failed dismally. A crunch looms


[…]

Perhaps it was naive to expect anything else. A few years ago many of the men now in charge spent their time discussing the contradictions of capitalism over coffee and cigarettes. Few had ever run anything, let alone a government. Their European contacts were limited. Syriza, their party, typically won only 3-4% of the vote. But Greece’s economic calamity transformed its prospects. In 2012 it came within a whisker of power. And after January’s election it went one better, forming a governing coalition.

Syriza, under the leadership of the new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, offered an attractive promise to a country battered by recession and humiliated by years of tutelage at the hands of foreign bureaucrats. Mr Tsipras promised to tear up the bail-outs, restore Greek dignity and keep the euro (as the vast majority of Greeks want). Greece might also, ministers mused, change the rules of euro-zone governance, to the benefit of all Europeans.

Three months on, the first two of these pledges are in tatters, the third looks shaky and the fourth is a bad joke. Less than a month after the election, Greece agreed to extend its second bail-out until the end of June, in the hope of securing the €7.2 billion ($8.1 billion) left in the kitty. The abrasive approach of Mr Tsipras and Mr Varoufakis since then may have played well at home, but abroad it has won Greece nothing but mistrust and scorn.

*****

Mikulski, Cardin Lead Maryland Delegation in Requesting Major Disaster Declaration for Baltimore

Mikulski, Cardin Lead Maryland Delegation in Requesting Major Disaster Declaration for Baltimore

May 27, 2015

Delegation asks President Obama to support Governor Hogan’s request for a major disaster declaration as Baltimore recovers from recent unrest

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) were joined by members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation today in sending a letter to President Barack Obama supporting Governor Hogan’s request for a declaration of a major disaster for Baltimore following recent unrest in the city. If awarded, Maryland will become eligible for federal disaster recovery dollars through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), ensuring the state’s already strained budget is not stretched any thinner. The letter was signed by Senators Mikulski and Cardin, as well as U.S. Representatives Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), John P. Sarbanes (D-Md.), Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.) and John Delaney (D-Md.).

“Following the tragic death of Freddie Gray, citizens of Baltimore reacted with outrage in their demands for truth and their demands for justice,” the Members wrote. “For seven days, from April 25, 2015 through May 1, 2015, the City of Baltimore experienced civil unrest... Maryland and its local jurisdictions have contributed a vast amount of resources, which will continue to have economic impacts around our state. A Major Disaster declaration is necessary to help provide the resources needed by all.”


The full text of the delegation’s letter of support is as follows:

May 26, 2015

The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We are writing to express our strong support for Governor Hogan’s May 21, 2015 request for a Major Disaster declaration for the City of Baltimore. Given the massive impact that the situation in Baltimore is having on the state’s resources, we respectfully request that you urgently approve Federal assistance.

Following the tragic death of Freddie Gray, citizens of Baltimore reacted with outrage in their demands for truth and their demands for justice. For seven days, from April 25, 2015 through May 1, 2015, the City of Baltimore experienced civil unrest. The boiling emotions of a small fraction of Baltimoreans turned into violence and vandalism to homes and businesses that the vast majority of Baltimore’s citizens have been working to rebuild and restore.

Governor Hogan took appropriate action under State law and directed the execution of the State Response Operations Plan in accordance with Section 401 of the Stafford Act. In addition, the Governor issued an Executive Order declaring that a State of Emergency existed and activated the Maryland National Guard to State service. The Governor has certified that additional Federal assistance is needed. The Governor has provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a preliminary damage assessment of over $19 million in expenditures for local jurisdiction law enforcement, security, firefighting, and emergency management costs as well as out-of-state resources required to supplement local and state resources. This Major Disaster declaration is necessary to address emergency protective measures and public buildings and contents per Category B & E of Public Assistance under the Stafford Act. This situation has the potential to negatively impact services in other areas, given an already strained state budget environment.


Maryland and its local jurisdictions have contributed a vast amount of resources, which will continue to have economic impacts around our state. A Major Disaster declaration is necessary to help provide the resources needed by all.  We appreciate your consideration of Maryland’s request, and look forward to continue working with you in this recovery.
*****

News from The Hill: Obama asserts power over small waterways By Timothy Cama

News from The Hill

Obama asserts power over small waterways

By Timothy Cama

The Obama administration asserted its authority Wednesday over the nation's small waterways like streams and wetlands, moving forward on one of the most controversial pollution rules of recent years.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers said they are making final their proposed waters of the United States rule, which Republicans and many businesses have long panned as a massive federal overreach that would put the EPA in charge of ditches, puddles and wet areas.


*****

10 States to Avoid if You Have Poor Driving Skills 05/24/15 By Laurie Kulikowski

10 States to Avoid if You Have Poor Driving Skills 05/24/15 By 

TheStreet) -- Using bad judgment when driving is not only dangerous, but can cost you thousands in insurance premiums.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13143555/1/10-worst-states-to-be-a-terrible-driver.html
[...]



WalletHub's hypothetical driver is a single male, age 37 years, and driving a 2008 Honda Accord.
Dying to know where your state falls on the list for insurance premiums for high risk drivers? Check out the 10 states where it will cost you the most if you're a bad driver. And when you're done, see the top states where it is the cheapest, despite poor driving.
[...]
10.Maryland
Base Annual Premium: $1,626
Maryland is the tenth most expensive state to be a poor driver in. The state is in the top third of most expensive base premiums compared to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. And being a bad driver will really pile on the cost. For instance, getting into two accidents in two years in Maryland adds $2,015 to annual premiums. Getting a DUI conviction adds $827 per year, according to WalletHub.
*****

Contracts Don’t Make a Family Any Less Natural by Martha Ertman

Contracts Don’t Make a Family Any Less Natural by Martha Ertman
Oscar Wilde famously quipped that the only thing worse than being talked about isnot being talked about. Paradoxically, much of the testimony in his 1895 trial for “gross indecency”—which was reported in papers throughout the world—concerned his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the very person who coined the phrase“the love that dare not speak its name.”
A little more than a century later, that love is on everybody’s lips.
In the United States we’re waiting to see how the Supreme Court decides the marriage cases it’s reviewing, and Wilde’s home country just became the first in the world to extend marriage equality to same-sex couples by popular vote. Freakishly smart and always happy to grab the spotlight, Wilde would likely have been one of the many Irish expats who traveled home to vote “yes” on the marriage referendum and probably would have taken delight in eviscerating the arguments put forth by nay-sayers, like Michael Brendan Dougherty, who claim that same-sex marriage is “unnatural.” Wilde would be right. It’s clear that when defenders of what they call “traditional marriage” have to justify their position, none of their arguments stand up to scrutiny.
Marriage opponents’ first error is historic. Dougherty imagines a past where genetic parenthood determined legal and social parenthood. But that past does not exist. To the contrary, both law and society have long recognized that love comes in different packages. Some are more common—heterosexuality, marriage, parents raising kids conceived with the fun, free stuff lying around the house—but that hardly makes them “natural.”
*****

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Cleveland agrees to strict new rules on its police department


By Sari Horwitz


The city of Cleveland has agreed to have its police department overseen by an independent monitor and subject its officers to strict and explicit new rules on the use of force under an agreement with the Justice Department that was announced Tuesday.

[...]

The settlement, set against the growing debate over policing tactics in the United States, comes just days after a judge acquitted a white Cleveland police officer in the fatal shooting of two unarmed African Americans in 2012. The agreement is an outgrowth of a scathing report the Justice Department, issued in December, accusing Cleveland police of illegally using deadly force against citizens.





*****

It's the time of the year for Aloha Sno-Balls at Baugher's in Westminster.





Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

May 27, 2002 135th Westminster Md. Memorial Day parade and ceremonies

May 27, 2002 135th Westminster Md. Memorial Day parade and ceremonies
 
The speaker at the 135th Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies on May 27, 2002, U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Thomas Hiltz, also a member of the Carroll County Board of Education, and Rick Will; at the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial on Memorial Day May 27, 2002. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff May 27, 2002
 
The left to right, Westminster elected officials march in Westminster for 135th Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies on May 27, 2002. From left to right is Council members Roy Chiavacci, and Greg Pecoraro, and Westminster Mayor Kevin E. Dayhoff.  Photo by Caroline Babylon May 27, 2002


 The rain poured down in Westminster for 135th Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies on May 27, 2002. From right to left is Westminster Mayor Kevin E. Dayhoff is at the podium, Harry Emigh, Charles Fisher, Sr. and the speaker at the 135th Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies, U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Thomas Hiltz, also a member of the Carroll County Board of Education. Photo by Caroline Babylon May 27, 2002
+++++++++++++++
Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: 
Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
+++++++++++++++

Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age - NYTimes.com

Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age - NYTimes.com

Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age



"SINGAPORE — http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/business/international/singpost-reinvents-for-digital-age-of-ecommerce.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45685287&_r=0

When a German lingerie brand wanted to sell bras online in Malaysia, it turned to Singapore’s nearly 200-year-old national postal service.

Singapore Post built a website, developed a marketing strategy and now delivers packages for the company, Triumph International. 


The customer service team even answers questions about sizing. 

 As postage stamps give way to keyboard clicks, SingPost is redefining the role of the letter carrier, by creating a one-stop shop for retailers’ e-commerce needs in Asia.

In South Korea, SingPost is helping to sell Levi’s jeans. In Singapore, it is stocking Toshiba laptops. In Malaysia, it is delivering Adidas sneakers. 



 With traditional mail services in decline, post offices around the world are scrambling to reinvent themselves for the digital age.

“Sitting on that burning platform, we looked around and said, ‘Where could we develop?’” said Wolfgang Baier, the chief executive of SingPost.

Continue reading the main story  
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/business/international/singpost-reinvents-for-digital-age-of-ecommerce.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45685287&_r=0

RELATED COVERAGE

Alibaba to Buy Stake in Singaporean Postal System MAY 28, 2014 


Japan Post is buying the largest private package and freight delivery company in Australia, Toll Holdings, in a bid to create a rival to UPS and FedEx. The United States Postal Service, which lost $5.5 billion last year, is providing Sunday deliveries for Amazon. Australia Post is working with the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba to help local businesses connect with consumers in China."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/business/international/singpost-reinvents-for-digital-age-of-ecommerce.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45685287&_r=0

'via Blog this'
+++++++++++++++


Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: 
Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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/




See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalistsand journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maioremDei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
+++++++++++++++

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Kasich: Cleveland a 'model' for responding to protests Kasich, a possible 2016 GOP presidential contender, urged protesters to be peaceful.

Kasich: Cleveland a 'model' for responding to protests  Kasich, a possible 2016 GOP presidential contender, urged protesters to be peaceful.  http://hill.cm/c1yldNu 

By Mark Hensch - 05/24/15 Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) praised Cleveland officials on Sunday for their response to protests after a police officer was found not guilty in the 2012 shooting of an unarmed black couple.
“What I will say is that I think the people of Cleveland handled this, I mean, they should be so proud of themselves and we should look at Cleveland as a model,” Kasich told host Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.”
“But the credit goes to the leadership in Cleveland who have spoken in with one voice saying protest, but no violence is acceptable in Cleveland,” he said.
*****

Classico Pizzeria for dinner.





Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Commissioner Steve Wantz' equipment rack at Pleasant Valley Community Fire Company.





Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone