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

Saturday, April 08, 2017

Come on over and join us at the Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Come on over and join us at the Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny April 8th, 2017 7-11 AM
Westminster Fire Engine and Hose Co. No. 1

A fundraiser and family-friendly community get-together to raise money for your local fire company.

Join us on Saturday, April 8th, 2017 7-11 AM for Breakfast with the Easter Bunny – Adults $8 and children under 12 – $5

ADDRESS Westminster Fire Engine and Hose Co. #1, 
28 John Street, Westminster, MD 21157

For more information:
PHONE: 410-848-1800

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Friday, April 07, 2017

Dayhoff: Pastor Marty Kuchma honored by the Carroll County Human Relations Commission


Dayhoff: Pastor Marty Kuchma honored by the Carroll County Human Relations Commission http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/features/ph-cc-dayhoff-040917-20170403-column.html April 7, 2017 by Kevin Dayhoff Carroll County Times reporter.

St. Paul's United Church of Christ pastor The Rev. Dr. Marty Kuchma was named as the 25th recipient of the Carroll County Human Relations Commission's human relations award at its annual awards dinner on March 27.

St. Paul's Consistory President Ben Rogers wrote in the March church newsletter "Highlights," that Kuchma was "recognized for his many efforts in addressing homelessness, diversity, inclusion, and other important issues with which we are faced in Carroll County." He further noted that Kuchma "represents us so well in St. Paul's efforts in making the world a better place."

Kuchma has been the pastor of St. Paul's in Westminster since July 2005. In his introduction of Kuchma at the awards dinner, Rodgers said Kuchma, "came to us with a background in the social services field, where he cut his teeth helping troubled children, teens, families, and adults ..."


Dayhoff: Pastor Marty Kuchma honored by the Carroll County Human Relations Commission http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/04/dayhoff-pastor-marty-kuchma-honored-by.html

Dayhoff: Pastor Marty Kuchma honored by the Carroll County Human Relations Commission https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10210527111187607?pnref=story 
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Thursday, April 06, 2017

Block these numbers on your phone now: 212-332-0849; 248-297-6218; 801-278-1062; 430-231-4002; 302-922-5143; and 434-322-9044.


Block these numbers on your phone now: 212-332-0849; 248-297-6218; 801-278-1062; 430-231-4002; 302-922-5143; and 434-322-9044.

212-332-0849 17:08 April 6, 2017 New York – No answer upon answering. When I tried to call back immediately, I get the standard Verizon recording that your call cannot be completed as dialed…

Now it is four telemarketer calls in the last three days.

248-297-6218 Michigan 13:53 04/06/2017 No answer upon answering. I have friends with a Michigan connection, so I immediately left the room and called back. Sure enough, it was unwanted telemarketer with an automated response asking if I wanted to be placed on the "Do Not Call" list. So that is three calls in three days. I am well aware of folks who get number of calls per day, but in the past, I have not. I really wish something could be done about this.

April 6, 2017: Today, I even got a spam text from Verizon. From number: 9000070003121 What the What!? #@!!*&?? "FREE VZW MSG: Receive 1GB of free data on us! Sign up for Verizon Selects and get 1GB of data for free. View details go.vzw.com/verizonselects. Reply "X" to opt out of msgs. http://go.vzw.com/verizonselects Get 1 GB free.Thank you. If you wish to restrict all future marketing text messages from VZW, reply 'Q'.

But then again, I have always figured that the telemarketers have always worked in collusion with Verizon – it must bring in an enomous amount of revenue.

Block these numbers on your phone now: 801-278-1062; 430-231-4002; 302-922-5143; and 434-322-9044. http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/04/block-these-numbers-on-your-phone-now.html


801-278-1062 Salt Lake City 13:50 April 5, 2017 Said that the offer to lower my rate on my credit card expired today. It was an imperative that I speak with an operator. Funny, I've been getting these malicious scammer-calls for years. Block this number.

430-231-4002 Texas 17:19 April 4, 2017 No one on the phone when answered.

Block this number on your phone 302-922-5143 at 12:15 p.m. 23Mar2017 robocall from Delaware. No one on the phone when answered. Upon call back I was invited to be placed on the do not call list.

Block this number on your phone: 434-322-9044 5:47 p.m. 21Mar2017 robocall wanting to update my Google directory information.

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2017/04/block-these-numbers-on-your-phone-now.html

According to a page on the Federal Trade Commission concerning robocalls, found here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0025-robocalls

Vea esta página en español

If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it's a robocall. We’ve seen a significant increase in the number of illegal robocalls because internet-powered phone systems have made it cheap and easy for scammers to make illegal calls from anywhere in the world, and to hide from law enforcement by displaying fake caller ID information.

To date, the FTC has brought more than a hundred lawsuits against over 600 companies and individuals responsible for billions of illegal robocalls and other Do Not Call violations.

The FTC also is leading several initiatives to develop technology-based solutions. Those initiatives include a series of robocall contests that challenge tech gurus to design tools that block robocalls and help investigators track down and stop robocallers. We’re also encouraging industry efforts to combat caller ID spoofing. Here’s the FTC’s game plan to combat robocalls:

Continue aggressive law enforcement
Build better tools for investigating robocalls
Coordinate with law enforcement, industry, and other stakeholders
Stimulate and pursue technological solutions.

Details about the FTC’s Robocall Initiatives

2015 DetectaRobo Contest
As part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, the FTC is challenging techies to use call data to predict which incoming calls are robocalls.


2015 Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back Contest
The FTC is challenging the DEF CON community to create a tool that people can use to block and forward unwanted robocalls automatically. Forwarded calls will go to a honeypot — a data collection system that researchers and investigators can use to study the calls.


2014 Zap Rachel Contest
At DEF CON 22, the FTC challenged tech gurus to help us zap Rachel and her robocall buddies by creating the next-generation robocall honeypot.


2012-2013 Robocall Challenge
The agency challenged innovators to create solutions that will block illegal robocalls. The challenge is now closed and the three winners with groundbreaking ideas were announced in April 2013.


2012 Robocall Summit
The FTC hosted a one-day public event on Thursday, October 18, 2012 to discuss the rapid rise in illegal robocalls and identify potential solutions. You can view videos and PowerPoint presentations from the event’s panels.

More Information About Robocalls
Robocalls
Telemarketing sales calls with recorded messages are generally illegal unless you have given the company written permission to call you.


Infographic: How Does a Robocall Work?
This visual guide shows how robocalls happen.

National Do Not Call Registry
Tips to help you stop unwanted calls and information about the National Do Not Call Registry

Phone Scams

These tips can help you hang up on a phone scammer and hold onto your money.
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TOP THIS ONE FOR A SPEEDING TICKET IN KINGSVILLE, TEXAS


TOP THIS ONE FOR A SPEEDING TICKET IN KINGSVILLE, TEXAS

Two Texas Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on Highway 77, just south of Kingsville, Texas.

One of the officers was using a hand-held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the town of Kingsville.

The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing.

The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then it suddenly turned off.

Just then a deafening roar over the mesquite tree tops on Highway 77 revealed that the radar had in fact, locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise near its Naval Air home base location in Kingsville.

Back at the Texas Highway Patrol Headquarters in Corpus Christi the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the U. S. Naval Base Commander in Kingsville for shutting down his equipment.

The reply came back in true USMC style:

"Thank you for your letter

"You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down."

"Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment's location."

"Fortunately, the marine pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status, and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on the side of Highway 77, south of Kingsville."

"The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when swearing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech."

"Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left molar. It appears the filling is loose.

Also, the snap is broken on his holster."

Semper Fi

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Block these numbers on your phone now: 801-278-1062; 430-231-4002; 302-922-5143; and 434-322-9044.

Block these numbers on your phone now: 801-278-1062; 430-231-4002; 302-922-5143; and 434-322-9044.

801-278-1062 Salt Lake City 13:50 April 5, 2017 Said that the offer to lower my rate on my credit card expired today. It was an imperative that I speak with an operator. Funny, I've been getting these malicious scammer-calls for years. Block this number.

430-231-4002 Texas 17:19 April 4, 2017 No one on the phone when answered.

Block this number on your phone 302-922-5143 at 12:15 p.m. 23Mar2017 robocall from Delaware. No one on the phone when answered. Upon call back I was invited to be placed on the do not call list.


Block this number on your phone: 434-322-9044 5:47 p.m. 21Mar2017 robocall wanting to update my Google directory information.

According to a page on the Federal Trade Commission concerning robocalls, found here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0025-robocalls

If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it's a robocall.  We’ve seen a significant increase in the number of illegal robocalls because internet-powered phone systems have made it cheap and easy for scammers to make illegal calls from anywhere in the world, and to hide from law enforcement by displaying fake caller ID information.
To date, the FTC has brought more than a hundred lawsuits against over 600 companies and individuals responsible for billions of illegal robocalls and other Do Not Call violations.
The FTC also is leading several initiatives to develop technology-based solutions. Those initiatives include a series of robocall contests that challenge tech gurus to design tools that block robocalls and help investigators track down and stop robocallers. We’re also encouraging industry efforts to combat caller ID spoofing. Here’s the FTC’s game plan to combat robocalls:
  • continue aggressive law enforcement
  • build better tools for investigating robocalls 
  • coordinate with law enforcement, industry, and other stakeholders
  • stimulate and pursue technological solutions.

Details About the FTC’s Robocall Initiatives

2015 DetectaRobo Contest

As part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, the FTC is challenging techies to use call data to predict which incoming calls are robocalls.

2015 Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back Contest

The FTC is challenging the DEF CON community to create a tool that people can use to block and forward unwanted robocalls automatically. Forwarded calls will go to a honeypot — a data collection system that researchers and investigators can use to study the calls.

2014 Zap Rachel Contest

At DEF CON 22, the FTC challenged tech gurus to help us zap Rachel and her robocall buddies by creating the next-generation robocall honeypot.

2012-2013 Robocall Challenge

The agency challenged innovators to create solutions that will block illegal robocalls. The challenge is now closed and the three winners with groundbreaking ideas were announced in April 2013.

2012 Robocall Summit

The FTC hosted a one-day public event on Thursday, October 18, 2012 to discuss the rapid rise in illegal robocalls and identify potential solutions. You can view videos and PowerPoint presentations from the event’s panels.

More Information About Robocalls

Robocalls

Telemarketing sales calls with recorded messages are generally illegal unless you have given the company written permission to call you.

Infographic: How Does a Robocall Work?

This visual guide shows how robocalls happen.

National Do Not Call Registry

Tips to help you stop unwanted calls and information about the National Do Not Call Registry

Phone Scams

These tips can help you hang up on a phone scammer and hold onto your money.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

NPR Fresh Air: Father of 2 Sons with Schizophrenia Talks of His Struggle to Save Them

NPR Fresh Air: Father of 2 Sons with Schizophrenia Talks of His Struggle to Save Them




As the father of two sons with schizophrenia, author Ron Powers is familiar with the pain and frustration of dealing with a chronic, incurable disease of the brain.

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On the effects of deinstitutionalization in the 1960s on people with mental illness

The advent of the so-called "wonder drugs" like Thorazine ... were touted as cures for schizophrenia — they weren't. At best they were cures for symptoms. But on the strength of Thorazine and its great consumer success and promise, President Kennedy, seeking to do the right thing, signed legislation ... in 1963 ... that authorized the emptying out of mental asylums and the transferring of their patients, their inmates, hopefully into community care centers that were going to be built around the country to receive them.

Deinstitutionalization was a catastrophic social experiment, one of the worst we've ever had. It ended up creating the [mentally ill] homeless population that still plagues us today.

The second terrible effect of deinstitutionalization was that many of the people never ended up in the community centers. The government ran out of money. They couldn't build enough to contain this outflow of patients, so they ended up on the streets, and from the streets they ended up in prison. Many of them. Today our prisons are overflowing with the mentally ill. Prisons are our de facto mental hospitals.

[…]


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Westminster Md Online: Martha Ann Sitterding Top Rated Family Law Attorne...


Martha Ann Sitterding Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Westminster, MD Attorney Profile: Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Westminster...

Martha Ann Sitterding Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Westminster, MD


Attorney Profile: Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Westminster, MD

Voted 2014 Super Lawyer, Martha Ann Sitterding has provided litigation services to persons in controversies, both civil and criminal, in Maryland Courts for over 30 years.

A Carroll County solo practitioner, she focuses on complex domestic matters; involving divorce, custody, business and other disputes.

She helps each client understand the process, identify issues, set realistic goals, and make decisions geared to achieving those goals.



The Law Office of Superwoman Martha Ann Sitterding
1 Court Place
Westminster, MD 21157

(410) 848-1111




Selected to Super Lawyers: 2014 - 2017
Licensed Since: 1981
Education: The University of Maryland School of Law
Practice Areas: Family Law (70%), Criminal Defense (20%), Alternative Dispute Resolution (10%)

ATTORNEY PROFILE

For over 30 years, Martha Ann Sitterding has provided litigation services to persons in controversies, both civil and criminal, in Maryland Courts. A Carroll County solo practitioner, she focuses on complex domestic matters involving divorce, custody, business and other disputes. She helps each client understand the process, identify issues, set realistic goals, and make decisions geared to achieving those goals. Ms. Sitterding prepares for litigation but encourages alternative dispute resolution and out-of-court settlements as the most cost-effective means of resolution. Member, Maryland State Bar Association who served as Family Law Section Counsel; former President of Carroll County Bar Association; Settlement Officer, Carroll County Circuit Court; and former Carroll County Deputy State's Attorney.

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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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
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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
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Sunday, March 26, 2017

March 26, 2014: "Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing.


"Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing. Semper Fi. We loved it. Convenient to downtown. We walked everywhere. The food was great. The service was good and the place had real character. I felt like we part of history. 26Mar2014





  

 

Mother’s restaurant New Orleans Louisiana
401 Poydras St
New Orleans, Louisiana
(504) 523-9656
Authentic N'Awlins home-style cooking since 1938. The Amato family welcomes you for a taste of tradition.


 

  

Mother’s Restaurant opened its doors in 1938 on Poydras Street’s “Restaurant Row”, situated between a thriving waterfront and the courthouse. Owners Simon and Mary (Mother) Landry and his large family cooked up po’ boys for lines of longshoremen and laborers, newspapermen and attorneys.


During and after World War II, Mother’s became a local hang-out for “the few and the proud” – the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine spirit was in the family – five of the seven Landry children (five sons and two daughters) joined the Marine Corps. Francis Landry was the first woman in Louisiana to be accepted into the Corps. This special association with the Marines earned Mother’s the title of “TUN Tavern New Orleans” in the late ’60s. The original TUN tavern was the official birthplace of the Marines during the Revolutionary War.


Mother’s is not just a part of this great American tradition, but also stands as a uniquely New Orleans institution. The likes of other family-owned local businesses such as D.H. Holmes Department Stores, K&B Drug Stores, MacKenzie’s Bakery, and Werlein’s Music have all departed from the landscape, while Mother’s Restaurant has not only remained almost exactly the same, but has flourished.


In 1986, the Jerry and John Amato bought Mother’s from the Landry’s sons Jacques and Eddie. With the changing of the guard, many things were added but nothing, fortunately, lost. Jerry Amato, chef and proprietor, doubled the already dizzying size of the menu. Now traditional New Orleans dishes like jambalaya and Shrimp Creole line-up next to the po’ boys that Mother’s made famous, such as the Ferdi Special and the debris po-boy (for a history of these and other sandwiches on the Fun Facts page). Breakfast, lunch and dinner items are cooked with fresh ingredients and bold, delicious flavor.


You will still see longshoremen in boots and you’ll find plenty of locals rubbing elbows in line with visitors, veterans, politicians and movie stars. Mother’s remains true to its working class origins. Nobody gets treated better (or worse) than anybody else. As Jerry Amato says, “Everybody gets fed. Everybody comes back.”


So go ahead, join ranks with the not-so-few, but intensely proud – the Mother’s crowd.

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