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

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Jackie Kline, Hit by Car While Helping at Traffic Stop, Inspires Many

Jackie Kline, Hit by Car While Helping at Traffic Stop, Inspires Many

Many folks have asked where they may find the articles – and pictures on Maryland State Trooper Jackie Kline’ articles and fundraisers:



Eldersburg Patch: State Trooper Jackie Kline, Hit by Car While Helping at Traffic Stop, Inspires Many, Do you know the rest of the story on Kline's recovery? Check out our blogger spotlight.

Runner raise funds to assist Maryland State Trooper Jackie Kline
Over 800 runners converged in Sykesville Sunday morning to aid injured Maryland State Trooper Jackie Kline http://westminster.patch.com/groups/kevin-e-dayhoffs-blog/p/runners-raise-funds-to-assist-msp-trooper-jackie-kline-at-5k-race By Kevin E. Dayhoff, Sunday, November 10, 2013


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On November 15, 2013, Eldersburg Patch editor Susan Jenkins wrote, “A Maryland State Trooper who was injured in October during a traffic stop has inspired many to take action in the form of a recent 5K benefit and a stepped-up effort by police to increase awareness about the Move Over law.

“Trooper Jacqueline "Jackie" Kline was hit in Anne Arundel County on Oct. 6 as she assisted another trooper on a traffic stop on Route 100 in Pasadena.

“To raise money to help Kline with expenses related to her recovery, about 800 runners participated in the 5K for JK on Nov. 10 in Sykesville. In his blog post on Patch, Kevin E. Dayhoff included photos and wrote about participating in the event. Click here to see the blog and more photos from the 5K for JK...”

























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Monday, November 25, 2013

"It's the Power, Stupid: Be it Soft, Hard, or Smart, It's All About Power," A Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christianna N. Leahy McDaniel College



Published on Feb 8, 2013 "It's the Power, Stupid: Be it Soft, Hard, or Smart, It's All About Power"

A Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christianna N. Leahy, Professor of Comparative Politics, Chair, Department of Political Science and International Studies, McDaniel College

The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy in the USA
"Options on the Table": Soft Power, Intercultural Dialogue, and the Future of US Foreign Policy" The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Washington D.C., January 9th - 11th, 2013)
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Pam Zappardino and Charlie at Pam's photography art show opening at Sidetracked

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Sue Williamson at Pam Zappardino's art opening at Sidetracked in Westminster

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Talking with Charles Collyer at Pam Zappardino's art opening at Sidetracked

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10 Things Only Runners Understand

10 Things Only Runners Understand

Posted: 11/21/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/runners-understand-why-run_n_4310436.html?utm_source=concierge&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=sailthru%2Bslider%2B

"Chad Stafko asked a very valid question in his recent opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal titled "OK, You're a Runner. Get Over It:"

"Why would someone want to get up at 5 a.m. and run 10 miles," he wrote, "adorned with fluorescent tape to avoid being struck by someone who has the good sense to use a car for a 10-mile journey?"

Why, indeed. When you consider the time, effort and physical and mental stamina required, running can seem pretty daunting. But there's a magic to it, a secret understanding shared among members of the "club".

We asked our Facebook fans and Twitter followers who run to share with us the one thing only runners understand. This is why we run."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/runners-understand-why-run_n_4310436.html?utm_source=concierge&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=sailthru%2Bslider%2B

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TheTentacle.com Migrating to Windows 8

TheTentacle.com: Migrating to Windows 8 June 12, 2013 Kevin E. Dayhoff

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5828

My latest experience with Microsoft has left me with the technological equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder. In the last six-months I have migrated light years from the Microsoft Windows XP operating system to Windows 8. It was not easy.

I’m told the twitching and the nightmares will stop with the passage of time and copious amounts of coffee. When I finally pulled the plug on my old laptop for the last time, I had this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach as if I had just taken a loved-one off of life support.

That feeling was quickly replaced by the sheer terror of dealing with an improved computer system in which I could no longer easily perform so many of the functions I had executed effortlessly in the previous, now obsolete, system.

The Microsoft Windows operating systems have been a major force in the modern-era of technology and personal computing. The roots of the software system date back to 1981, although the first version, Windows 1.0 was not available for consumer use until late in 1985.

One of the most popular and widely used systems in history has been the Windows XP system, which was introduced in August 2001, and dominated the market until Windows 7 (released in 2009,) overtook it in August 2012. Windows 8 was released in October 2012.

According to multiple media accounts, “it is reported that when you play the Microsoft operating system installation CD backwards you can hear satanic voices ... but that's nothing. If you play it forward it will install Windows 8…”

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5828

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21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity: "People aren’t always awful. Sometimes, they’re maybe even just a little bit wonderful. Here are 21 pictures to remind you of that fact."

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Norn Covert - Former Fort Detrick spokesman enjoys Scout duties in retirement

'Very Boy Scoutish'

Former Fort Detrick spokesman enjoys Scout duties in retirement

By Courtney Mabeus News-Post Staff


An orange devil’s food cake sat on Norm Covert’s dining table waiting to be auctioned off.

Covert had spent part of a recent afternoon baking the cake to benefit his 10-year-old grandson Nicholas’ Cub Scout Pack 1055, of which he is associate Scoutmaster.

The cake — intended to look like a pumpkin — looked more like a curling stone or maybe a bomb, Covert joked. He used marshmallows to help shore up a hole in the top around a banana that he’d used as the cake’s stem.

“That’s very Boy Scoutish,” Covert said of his handiwork.

Covert, 70, directed public affairs and worked as a historian on Fort Detrick for 23 years before he retired in 1999. While no longer on post daily, he spends his days about a mile away from the base, working in his home office on his volunteer duties.

“I’m probably working as long hours now as I was when I was working,” Covert said.

A stroke in January set him back, but Covert is beginning to get back to writing. He runs a blog, the Covert Letter, and is a contributor to The Tentacle, a Frederick commentary site.

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2013/11/norn-covert-former-fort-detrick.html

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Harry Potter stamp riles Postal Service panel, traditional stamp collectors - The Washington Post

Harry Potter stamp riles Postal Service panel, traditional stamp collectors - The Washington Post:

 "By Lisa Rein, Published: November 18 E-mail the writer

For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met behind closed doors, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been advisory, they long carried the weight of writ.

Now comes a youngster from across the seas. He isn’t what these leading lights from the fields of arts and letters, athletics, and philately had in mind. For one, he seems kind of crass to some. And worse, he isn’t even American." ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/harry-potter-stamp-riles-postal-service-panel-traditional-stamp-collectors/2013/11/18/95d8ebb2-4d7a-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Say Merry Christmas - Vocal Carrie Rinderer and the American Christian......


Dukakis and the Tank - POLITICO Magazine

Dukakis and the Tank - POLITICO Magazine:

The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever. By JOSH KING November 17, 2013

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/dukakis-and-the-tank-99119.html

"Matt Bennett can still hear the reporters laughing, all 90 of them. He can still picture Sam Donaldson doubled over, guffawing, on a riser that looked out over a dusty field in suburban Detroit. Bennett was a 23-year-old political rookie in 1988 when he was sent to a General Dynamics facility in Sterling Heights, Mich., to organize a campaign stop for Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis: a ride in a 68-ton M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. The visit, meant to bolster the candidate’s credibility as a future commander-in-chief, would go down as one of the worst campaign backfires in history.

Following the event, after the reporters’ laughter subsided and Dukakis’s entourage was preparing to leave, one of the candidate’s traveling aides approached Bennett. “Nice event, Matt” he deadpanned. “It may have cost us the election. But beside that, it was great.”"

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/dukakis-and-the-tank-99119.html

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

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Corrie John Debby Sosnowsky Kevin Dayhoff Caroline Babylon Off Track Art open


Corrie John Debby Sosnowsky Kevin Dayhoff Caroline Babylon at John and Debby's Off Track Art opening

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Exploring the Westminster Cemetery as a walking-running trail


Exploring the Westminster Cemetery as a walking-running trail

November 15, 2013 by Kevin Dayhoff

Yesterday I took a look at running at the Westminster Cemetery on North Church Street in Westminster.

In addition to the trails I discussed here on October 22, 2013, http://westminster.patch.com/groups/kevin-e-dayhoffs-blog/p/fall-is-great-for-running-trails-in-carroll-co?yPos=0; I’ve been wondering how many other walking-running trail opportunities in the Carroll County area I have overlooked.

I mean, I walked the blacktop trails at the cemetery marveling at how many times I had visited the historic cemetery and really never considered it as a walking - running trail.

I saw many other walkers and runners. I did not measure any courses. That will be my next step. Although it is in the middle of Westminster, it was amusingly - and amazingly quiet, bucolic and serene. I grabbed a cup of coffee at Birdie's, http://www.birdiescoffee.com/, and really enjoyed a moment or two to myself - in the middle of town. LOL


Meanwhile, I hope to see many of you at the Terry Burk Wakefield Valley Community Trail memorial dedication service and 5K run on Saturday morning, November 16, 2013. Find more information here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-1103-20131111,0,434181.story
View Westminster Cemetery North Church Street, Westminster, MD in a larger map

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

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Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
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E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
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Directions and more information for Off Track Art Gallery

Directions and more information for Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty St., Side Entrance
Westminster, MD 21157


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Nov. 15, 2013 by Kevin E. Dayhoff

“Off Track Art” is an artists’ collective & gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty St. – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of W. Main St & MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Md.

The inspiration for forming the co-op was spearheaded by local artists Susan Williamson & Pam Zappardino. Off Track had its grand opening on Feb. 13th, 2009.

For the past 4-yrs, the partners in the co-op have changed; however the artist-partners in the co-op have been dedicated to advancing the arts in Westminster as well as the careers, ideas, and artistic visions of its members.

The co-op partners currently include, Kevin Dayhoff, Gail Elwell, Linda Van Hart, Judy Goodyear, Charlotte Laslo, Joyce Schaum, Carolyn Seabolt, Robert Waddell, & Gordon Wickes.



“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland. 

Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

Patti Page - What A Friend We Have In Jesus



Patti Page - What A Friend We Have In Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JpAa702gf8

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How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page