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

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The mayor & council chambers of city of Charleston So. Carolina Dates to 1801

Randolph Hall Cistern Yard the 13th oldest college bldg in US still in use

College of Charleston 1770 the oldest municipal college in America

1947 'Pilot Television' 3-inch television receiver.

Having lunch at the Fresh Food Co at the College of Charleston So Carolina

Looking to a presentation on the 'American Farmer' by Paul Mobley

Washington Post - Dylan Matthews: How much do Chicago teachers make?


How much do Chicago teachers make?

Posted by Dylan Matthews on September 11, 2012

Monday, I passed along the Chicago Public Schools’ estimate of the mean teacher salary, which is $74,839. Pro-union sources are objecting, with some putting the figure at $56,720, almost $20,000 below CPS’ estimate. So is the school district just lying about this? … http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/11/how-much-do-chicago-teachers-make/



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AP: Libyan officials say U.S. ambassador killed in attack


AP: Libyan officials say U.S. ambassador killed in attack

Libyan officials say U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens was killed in an attack Tuesday at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the Associated Press reports. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/news-agencies-us-ambassador-to-libya-killed-in-attack-outside-consulate/2012/09/12/665de5fc-fcc4-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html?hpid=z1

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By  and , Updated: Wednesday, September 12, 7:01 AM

U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and at least two other embassy staffers were reported killed Tuesday in an assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Wire services and reporters on the ground said Libyan government officials confirmed that Stevens and the others were fleeing the consulate when a rocket-propelled grenade struck their vehicle. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Benghazi said the bodies of the dead had been taken to the Benghazi airport... http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/news-agencies-us-ambassador-to-libya-killed-in-attack-outside-consulate/2012/09/12/665de5fc-fcc4-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html?hpid=z1
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Democrat Wendy Rosen Withdraws from Congressional District 1 Race

Democrat Wendy Rosen Withdraws from C.D. 1 Race
Democrat Candidate Challenging Cong. Andy Harris
Had History of Voter Fraud
Marylanders for Joe GettySeptember 10, 2012
Many Republicans in Annapolis, including myself, have sponsored legislation to require voter identification with a photo i.d. at polling places on Election Day.

During the bill hearings, we are always met with a loud chorus by Democratic legislators that: "There is no evidence that voter fraud has ever occurred in Maryland!"

What a surprise then to learn today that the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in C.D. 1 has engaged in voter fraud. According to TowsonPatch.com, Wendy Rosen has withdrawn from the November election because of evidence that she illegally voted as a resident of two states (Maryland and Florida) since 2006.

To read the full article on TowsonPatch.com, click here


Candidate Wendy Rosen at Tawes Crab Feast in July 2012             
 Democratic candidate Wendy Rosen (center) has withdrawn from the November election for Congressional District 1, MD.


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Carroll County Public Library: Great Leaders, Great Readers


Great Leaders, Great Readers

http://library.carr.org/find_books_more/GreatLeaders_GreatReaders.asp 

Jean Lewis
Jean LewisJean Lewis is the President of the NAACP, Carroll County Branch, and a very active and passionate community leader. She was honored for her work with the Achievement Initiative for Maryland’s Minority Students program at Carroll County Public Schools. She initiated the CMC’s March on Washington Oral History Project. A lifelong reader, Jean is a member of the CAPS book group





Jack Tevis
Jack TevisJack Tevis is President and CEO of Tevis Energy/Modern Comfort Systems. Founded by his grandfather, Tevis Oil is celebrating its 80th anniversary. Jack and the Tevis family have enhanced the quality of life in Carroll County through their growing businesses and their philanthropic activities. Jack was on the Carroll Hospital Foundation Board for more than a decade. He has given generously to his church, the Boys and Girls Club, and Carroll County Public School Education Foundation. He is a significant contributor to the library’s Sculpture in Mary Lou Dewey Park initiative in partnership with the Carroll Community Foundation. Jack is a voracious reader on a wide range of subjects.


Joyce Muller
Joyce MullerOur featured great reader is Joyce Muller. Joyce is a lifelong patron of CCPL’s Westminster branch and served on the library board from 2001‐2010. She is the associate vice president for Communications and Marketing at McDaniel College. Joyce favors literary fiction writing by young authors (under 40) and translated works that document world history. Characters, storytelling and exceptional prose win limited shelf space.”


Ted Zaleski
We are delighted to introduce the first in a series of bookmarks featuring books Ted Zaleskirecommended by great readers and leaders in Carroll County.  Our first great reader is Ted Zaleski, Carroll County Director of Management and Budget.  A lifelong learner, Ted regularly read books to his children.  One night his daughter asked him, “Why are we always reading books about boys?”  Ted notes, “Chastened by my daughter’s question I set out to find good books about girls.  It was harder than I expected.  They were out there, but I had to dig for them.  I began to wonder how many girls were being fed a diet of books about boys by default.  It occurred to me that other parents might be interested in the same kind of books I was looking for.”
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Richard A. Viguerie: Time for Ron Paul to Help the Republican Party


Time for Ron Paul to Help the Republican Party

Ron PaulIn 1996, when libertarian icon Ron Paul was running for re-election to Congress as a Republican, a challenger filed against him in the General Election. This challenger wasn’t an establishment Republican or a liberal Democrat, he was a Natural Law Party candidate whose national platform included much of Ron Paul’s agenda.

In the key swing state of Virginia, former Republican Congressman Virgil Goode has qualified to be on the ballot as the Constitution Party’s candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has qualified in states across the country as the Libertarian Party candidate, despite running in the Republican primary elections and demanding to be included in the televised Republican primary debates.

In states like Montana, where there are close Senate races, Libertarian candidates are pulling votes from solid conservative candidates, like Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg, who is locked in a race with Democratic Senator Jon Tester that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

The peculiar tendency for libertarians and constitutionalists to turn on anyone who works to change the Republican Party from within has reared its ugly head again this year in the aftermath of the Republican National Convention.

Admittedly, Ron Paul and his delegates to the Convention were treated in a ham handed way by establishment Republicans – but that is hardly cause to hand the election to Barack Obama and control of the Senate to the Democrats... http://www.conservativehq.com/article/9736-time-ron-paul-help-republican-party
The New Yorker’s Steve Coll Proves the “Jindal Rule”
By George Rasley
Liberals are going to impute all kinds of bad things to you if you are a Republican, so you might as well run as a conservative and sell the real conservative agenda, as opposed to trying to rebut the phony one they construct.
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Sunday, September 09, 2012

32 Degrees yogurt King Street Charleston SC

Memorial service at McDaniel recalls Case as passionate educator, adventurer

Memorial service at McDaniel recalls Case as passionate educator, adventurer

Former McDaniel provost climbed in Nepal, ran in Alaska


More than 500 people took time from their Labor Day weekend to fill Big Baker Chapel at McDaniel College on Sept. 1, paying respects at a memorial service for the late Dr. Sam Case.

Case, 70, a longtime Westminster resident, died Aug. 22 at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster, from complications from leukemia

He was a respected and admired professor and coach, who taught human physiology and exercise science courses for nearly four decades at McDaniel College.

Before Case retired from McDaniel in 2004, he served as the school's provost for four years.


Case retired shortly after he was diagnosed with leukemia, a disease he faced with determination — and by going mountain climbing in Nepal.

Classmates, fellow professors, students, wrestlers, football players and distance runners attended the service. After a welcome by Case's son-in-law, James Ellison, colleagues including Dr. Alex Ober, Gary Scholl, Dr. Kathy Mangan, Dr. Sherri Lind Hughes and former McDaniel College President Joan Develin Coley offered tributes to Case.

Case's daughter, Lauren Case, said her dad had cautioned her, "I don't want people sitting around so keep it short."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/towson/ph-ce-case-obit-0909-20120908,0,3359179.story

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Friday, September 07, 2012

Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt to display critically acclaimed rural farm paintings at Off Track Art in Westminster.


Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt to display critically acclaimed rural farm paintings at Off Track Art in Westminster.

Show opens with a reception for the artist on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 5:30 to 7:30 at Off Track Art, [http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/] 11 Liberty Street – side entrance in the Liberty Building in historic downtown Westminster. The show will continue through October.

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com


Off Track Art is celebrating the art of Jerry DeWitt for its first opening of the fall season on Friday, Sept. 7th, 2012 from 5:30--7:30, to show his beautiful watercolors from a variety of locales including Carroll County.

Mr. DeWitt, a Smallwood, Carroll County Maryland artist, has just returned from Montana and Michigan. Earlier in the year, this past March, Mr. DeWitt was the featured artist in the Babylon Great Hall at Carroll Community College. [http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2012/03/jerry-dewitt-discusses-his-farm.html] The highly successful show was well-received and the opening was packed. It has been reported that Mr. DeWitt sold a large number of painting at the Carroll Community College show…

“Jerry DeWitt was born in Michigan in 1933 and has been painting, primarily watercolors, since his teenage years,” according to information provided by the artist…

“Over 300 paintings hang in homes and businesses from Alaska to Florida. His work has been shown in galleries in Washington, DC; Montana; and Maryland. Mr. DeWitt’s Montana paintings were featured in American Artist magazine. 

“Mr. DeWitt enjoys traveling, and has series of paintings from Maine and from Frederick and Carroll Counties. His subjects are often old farm buildings or homes, as he strives to capture and retain the spirit of American places of the heart.

“Viewers may be drawn to tranquil scenes and transported to a quieter, more peaceful time. He has a special affinity for birds and has painted many species. Jerry has framed many of his paintings in old barn wood, sometimes from the very site portrayed.

“Most notable of these paintings is his award-winning portrait of the Wye Oak, framed in the wood from that famous tree.

According to an article about Mr. DeWitt’s work by critically acclaimed Carroll County artist, photographer, and writer, Phil Grout, “When Jerry DeWitt paints a barn, there's a bit of the gentle clanging of cowbells mixing in with the watercolors. [http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2012/03/smallwood-artist-jerry-dewitt-draws.html]

“That sound echoes back to his grandfather's Depression-era farm at the end of a lane in Bedford County, Pa. He was just 2 years old when his father left home for good and the youngster was uprooted from Lansing, Mich., to live with his grandparents.

“And in between trips to the pasture to the hand-dug well for another bucket of water, or out to the shed for an arm load of firewood, the sights and sounds and smells of farm life wrapped themselves around Jerry's memory, eventually finding their way to paint and paper more than 30 years later…

After Mr. DeWitt served in the Navy during the Korean War, “became a house carpenter building houses in Maryland and Florida.

“Years later, with his wife, Kris, and four children, Jerry answered his calling — back on the farm, with paints and brushes instead of water bucket and firewood. The family went to Florida for a visit to his wife's parents. Jerry stayed behind in Hagerstown.

“He had a week all to himself. So he went to a five and 10 store in town and bought a set of watercolors and some brushes and then headed out to a barn he'd spotted many times along Interstate-70 on his way to a house construction site.

“DeWitt was 37 when he sat out there on the east side of Cosen's Barn with his new set of paints.

“‘That was it. Time disappeared,’ he says. ‘Something was opening up inside of me, and I could hear those cowbells. I could smell my grandfather's barn.’”

For more information and photographs of Mr. DeWitt and his work, see Phil Grout’s article, “Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt draws creative inspiration from his farm past,” in the Baltimore Sun on March 17, 2012, about Mr. DeWitt’s work and his well-received and highly successful show at Carroll Community College. [http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-03-17/explore/ph-ce-dewitt-and-wisdom-0318-20120317_1_oil-painting-smallwood-farm-life]

Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff@gmail.com. Writer Phil Grout contributed to this article.


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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Runners' top 12 trails

Runners' top 12 trails


Get off the road and into the great outdoors on one of these favorite scenic routes


By Kit Waskom Pollard Special to The Baltimore Sun

August 30, 2012

Do you feel the nip in the air?

Runners do. For them, the advent of fall means more than changing leaves and back to school. Cooler weather and coming races (the Baltimore Running Festival is October 13) make autumn the ideal time to run in the great outdoors.

Baltimore is full of places to run, from stately neighborhoods to waterside paths. But for some runners, nothing beats the off-road experience.

"Even if you start off easy, it's fun to explore," says Chris Cucuzella, a member of the Baltimore Road Runners Club, a trail running group.

Here, 12 great trails endorsed by the enthusiastic members of local running clubs… http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-hs-running-trails-20120829,0,2117907.story

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Eagle Archive: Kinzy found rocky soil, but planted a fertile seed in Cooperative Extension

Eagle Archive: Kinzy found rocky soil, but planted a fertile seed in Cooperative Extension





Much has changed in Westminster and Carroll County since Grover Kinzy, the first Maryland Cooperative Extension agent, came to town on Nov. 10, 1916 — in part, as a response to the economic chaos in the agriculture community resulting from the market repercussions of World War I.

Kinzy's office was in the Times Building, across the street from the old Westminster fire hall on Main Street in Westminster. One of the first things Kinzy did was help start local 4-H clubs.

According to the definitive history book on agriculture in Carroll County — "Legacy of the Land" by Carol Lee — it wasn't an easy task for Kinzy… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0902-20120901,0,1065554.story

… Tom Ford, the county agriculture adviser-consultant in the Carroll County office of the Cooperative Extension Service, wrote on Sept. 19, 1992… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0902-20120901,0,1065554.story


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The Problem with Google Drive | PCWorld Business Center

The Problem with Google Drive | PCWorld Business Center:

'via Blog this'


The Problem with Google Drive

Google Drive is here. On paper the Google cloud storage service compares favorably against rivals like Dropbox, SkyDrive, and Box. However, there’s one aspect of Google Drive that could force many users to shun Google in favor of the alternatives.
No, I’m not referring to the fact that Google Drive is inherently Android-centric and does not provide a mobile app client for any of the other platforms. Certainly, this is a factor for people who rely on iOS, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone mobile devices, but Google Drive can still be accessed via the Web on these platforms if necessary.
Google DriveGoogle Drive is great if you're Google-centric, but may have a fatal flaw if you're not.Robb Henshaw, Director of Communications atSugarSync, explains, “One reason we believe the average user will have trouble with Google Drive is that it requires users to convert their files into the Google Docs format if they want to work on their files.”
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Saturday, September 01, 2012

The Washington Times Communities: TSA detains Ron Paul's family, aides after RNC



After attending the Republican National Convention, Rep. Ron Paul’s family and aides were allegedly detained and interrogated in Clearwater, Fla. Paul’s family and aides attempted to depart for Texas when eight Transportation Security Administration agents refused to allow their passage. Read & Comment


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