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Friday, November 22, 2013
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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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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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
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.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Frederick News-Post Newsroom: Breaking — Sheriff's Office at scene of suspected murder-suicide in Lake Linganore
Breaking — Sheriff's Office at scene of suspected murder-suicide in Lake Linganore
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/locations/local/frederick_county/linganore-bartonsville/article_dbe15e38-525b-11e3-b4d1-001a4bcf6878.html
Deputies arrived to the home on Woods Court around 8:15 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor. Two adults and an infant child are dead of apparent gunshot wounds, Capt. Tim Clarke said.
For more, click here. http://www.fredericknewspost.com
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/locations/local/frederick_county/linganore-bartonsville/article_dbe15e38-525b-11e3-b4d1-001a4bcf6878.html
Deputies arrived to the home on Woods Court around 8:15 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor. Two adults and an infant child are dead of apparent gunshot wounds, Capt. Tim Clarke said.
For more, click here. http://www.fredericknewspost.com
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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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"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
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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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:
Patuxent Publishing Co., The Carroll Eagle: www.explorecarroll.com: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dayhoff&action=GO
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
Westminster Patch: http://westminster.patch.com/search?keywords=Dayhoff
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
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
Labels: Art Artists Sosnowsky John Debby, Art Off Track Art, Art Off Track Art guest artist, Art Off Track Artists news info, People Sosnowsky John - See more at: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/#sthash.spNZcXV4.dpuf
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#KED #Westminster
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
Find a map here: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215239526327018628982.0004eb3bd56ed70f3dc61&msa=0&ll=39.568704,-76.98751&spn=0.00827,0.013711
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
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E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
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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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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.
For more info: http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/
“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
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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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Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/ “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page
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Westminster and state officials cut the ribbon on downtown sidewalk retrofit project
Westminster and state officials cut the ribbon on downtown sidewalk retrofit project
Westminster and state officials joined together Tuesday
morning to cut the ribbon on over 200 new disabilities-compliant sidewalk curb
cuts throughout downtown Westminster
By Kevin E. Dayhoff,
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Westminster city officials and representatives from four
Maryland state government departments gathered together Tuesday morning in
front of the Westminster Recreation and Parks Family Center on Longwell Avenue
to celebrate, and cut the ribbon, on an unprecedented groundbreaking $318,000 partnership
that resulted in the completion of 214 new or rebuilt ADA-compliant curb ramps in
the downtown area.
“What a wonderful project this is and with so many partners,
said Westminster mayor Kevin Utz in prepared remarks for the occasion, after he
was introduced by Mark Vernarelli, spokesperson for the Maryland Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Services.
“With these partners 4 curb ramps were reconstructed, 64
curb ramps were modified and 164 new curb ramps were installed…” Because of
this partnership, “over 200 ADA Compliant curb ramps now exist in Downtown
Westminster,” explained Utz.
Utz read-off a long list of state secretaries and
dignitaries who traveled from state offices in Baltimore and Annapolis for the
occasion; including MD Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Secretary Gary Maynard, Deputy Secretary J. Michael Stouffer, Public Safety
Works Coordinator John Rowley, Director of Corrections Felicia Hinton, and
Facility Administrator Leonard Rice.
Also present were Department of Disabilities Secretary
Catherine Raggio, Deputy Secretary George Failla, Jr., and Access Maryland
Director Cari Watrous as well as MD Department of Housing & Community
Development: Assistant Secretary Carol Gilbert, Director of Community Programs
Cindy Stone, and Project Manager Dona Sorce.
Along with Tony Romano, a representative of Romano Concrete
Construction and Ronnie Townes, 21, an inmate who helped build the curbs; MD
Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Coordinator, Career and
Technology Programs Ken Weeden, Field Director of Correctional Education Jack
Cunning, and David Bordley were there to cut the ribbon and discuss the
unprecedented city, state and private partnership.
According to information provided by the department of
public safety, DPSCS, the project was “Grant-funded thanks to work by the
Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development … The curb project is
the largest project of its kind ever done by inmates in the DPSCS Public Safety
Works community project initiative. The inmates learned concrete skills from
Romano Concrete, a longtime and valued partner with DPSCS.”
Westminster mayor Kevin Utz was joined by Westminster Common
Council president Dr. Robert Wack, council member Tony Chiavacci, city
administrator Marge Wolf, public works director Jeff Glass, police chief Jeff
Spaulding, , Community Programs Specialist Sandy Anderson, city engineer Mike
Matov, assistant street superintendent Wayne Reifsnider and recreation and
parks director Abby Gruber.
Planning for the project began in earnest after a similar,
but much smaller partnership was called to Glass’ attention in the summer of
2012. “We submitted the grant application on August 27,” said Anderson. “The
actual work on the sidewalks began last May.”
“I’m very pleased that what initially started as a
conversation with Secretary Maynard and Secretary Skinner has become a model
partnership between the City of Westminster and three state agencies –
Disabilities, Public Safety and Corrections, and Housing and Community
Development,” said MD Dept. of Disabilities Secretary Catherine Raggio. “As a
result of this partnership, we now have sidewalks that are safer and more
accessible for individuals with disabilities, seniors and others.”
“DPSCS worked with the MD Dept. of Labor, Licensing, and
Regulation to secure the partnership with Romano Concrete---with whom DPSCS
inmates previously worked on the Eastern Shore at Cambridge in a similar but
smaller project,” according to information provided by DPSCS. “This project is
the first to give inmates DLLR on-the-job certifications.”
“It’s been a great project… It’s made a big difference for
(getting around) downtown,” said Glass. Wolf and Utz agreed. “Everybody was a
winner,” said Wolf.
Maynard called the inmate restorative justice initiative,
“groundbreaking.” “This is our largest community curb project yet,” said the DPSCS
secretary. “Our inmates have built or rebuilt more than 200 curbs, getting
valuable skills training from Tony Romano and his concrete tradesmen, and
helping this nice town become more accessible in the process.
“We call projects like these Public Safety Works
‘restorative justice’ programs, because they allow inmates who want to pay
society back with a really meaningful way to do that.
“On any given day, we have more than 350 inmates out across
the state of Maryland doing meaningful projects. Right now, inmates are
rebuilding a skipjack on the Eastern Shore, gleaning fresh produce for the
Maryland Food Bank, planting millions of oyster spat, restoring battlefields,
cemeteries and playgrounds, and helping cities and non-profits with all kinds
of projects they couldn’t do otherwise.
“We are very serious about this particular kind of project
here in Westminster---where inmates get actual skills training from
professional tradespeople. We’re having inmates trained in hazardous materials
abatement and they’re taking down the old House of Correction prison in Jessup,
a deconstruction that’s saving taxpayers at least five million dollars compared
to the cost of demolition. It’s the only project of its kind in the country.
“These skills should serve the inmates well and give them a
leg up on jobs when they get out and go home. I would love to talk to you today
about how Public Safety Works might be able to help your agency or non-profit.
Maynard also elaborated upon how the partnership with the
city gave the prison inmates an opportunity to learn job skills. “We may be in
charge of keeping people locked up,” continued the secretary, “but what we really
want is to set people free; to free them from addictions and anger issues, give
them education and job skill training, and turn them into productive taxpaying
citizens. After all, almost all inmates will one day be getting out.”
“We are very serious about this particular kind of project
here in Westminster---where inmates get actual skills training from
professional tradespeople,” remarked Maynard.
“This project, however, is about so much more than curbs and
concrete,” said Utz in agreement. “With this project, the Department of Labor,
Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) provided training for the inmates. With this
project the state corrections department has provided construction experience
and positive community participation for the inmates. With this project the
inmates have received certification from the DLLR for on the job training. With
this project the inmates participated in a major community project.
“Maynard was all smiles as he thanked the city and invited
city officials to talk about more opportunities for partnerships. “Thank you
again for this wonderful collaborative effort, and thank you, Mayor Utz, for
allowing the Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services to perform this
important work in Westminster.”
Utz added, “At this time I’d like to personally thank the
inmates for their hard work. Their work was crucial to the success of this
project. Concrete lasts a long time. We hope that the experience gained from
this project will last even longer. Thank you.”
Westminster and state officials cut the ribbon on downtown sidewalk retrofit project by Kevin Earl Dayhoff
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John & Debby Sosnowsky to open exhibit at Off Track Art in Westminster on Fri., Nov 15
Artists John and Deborah Sosnowsky exhibit at Off Track Art http://westminster.patch.com/groups/kevin-e-dayhoffs-blog/p/artists-john-and-deborah-sosnowsky-exhibit-at-off-track-art
John & Debby Sosnowsky to open exhibit at Off Track Art
in Westminster on Fri., Nov 15 http://tinyurl.com/k8vqdr7
By Kevin Dayhoff,
Join the artists of Off Track Art to welcome an exhibit
by award-winning nationally acclaimed artists John and Deborah Sosnowsky,
creators of jewelry, art and music.
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John and Debby Sosnowsky have been designing and
handcrafting jewelry, art and music since 1980. Jewelry includes signature
niobium and carnelian pieces. Photo courtesy of www.sozra.com
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Join the artists of Off Track Art to welcome an exhibit
by award-winning nationally acclaimed artists John and Deborah Sosnowsky,
creators of jewelry, art and music. “John and Debby have been making, designing
and handcrafting Jewelry, Art & Music full time since 1980,” according to
the website sozra.com. Photo courtesy of John and Debby Sosnowsky
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The opening for the Sosnowsky exhibition will be on November
15, 2013 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Off Track Art, 11
Liberty Street, Side Entrance Westminster, MD.
Meet artists John
and Debby, who have been designing and handcrafting jewelry, art and music
since 1980. Jewelry includes signature niobium and carnelian pieces, and we
will enjoy their music as well. Work on view and for sale until Dec. 22, 2013.
Parking, refreshments.
“John and Debby have been making, designing and handcrafting
Jewelry, Art & Music full time since 1980,” according to the website sozra.com.
“They
met at Towson State University in the Art department. John's concentration was
in photography and Debby's was in Fabric Design and Weaving.
“Shortly
after they were married, they decided to combine their talents to create a
jewelry business. John's music and art is a never-ending creative endeavor. His
5th CD Multiverse Vortex will be coming out in the fall of 2013. The music is
an extension of the Multiverse Vortex 2D Art series.”
“John
Sosnowsky is a graduate of Towson State University and a native Marylander
current residing in Frederick County. With his wife Debby he has been teaching,
demonstrating and creating jewelry, Art and Music full time for over 30 years
under the name Sozra Studio.
“He
has been the onsite juror of the Pittsburgh Three River Arts Festival, served
on the Maryland Renaissance Arts and Craft Board and the Artist Market Chair of
the Frederick Festival of the Arts. John is a contemporary Artist. His work is
sold through various juried shows, galleries and on the web at www.sozra.com”
John Sosnowsky elaborated upon his concept of “Geometric
Surrealism,” in his artist statement:
“Beauty
and harmony in nature are defined by their simplicity and apparently effortless
existence. Art, regardless of tradition, time, historical relevance or medium
has attempted to recreate and mimic nature since the first intentional lines
were drawn in the soil beneath primitive feet.
“As
my experiences through travel, study, and technology would have it, the medium
and creative direction my art has taken spans continents, religions, time and a
multitude of resources. In an attempt to recreate the beauty and harmony I have
emanating in my being, my experiences and imagination have converged with
simple geometry, high technology and ancient symbolism to bring an element of timelessness
and universality to the piece before you.
“These
pieces are meant to evoke comfort and curiosity, calm through chaos, and the
untraditional through convention. Enjoy the juxtaposition of each piece as
simplicity draws you into complexity.
“All
human construct evolves from basic laws of existence. In the case of visual
arts, we remember basic geometry. Nothing starts without a point. Two points
may connect a rigid line. Yet a series of points can give semblance to a wave
or abstraction of sorts. Regardless of time, space, culture or belief these are
the rules we abide by in our visual creations of ‘art.’ With this collection I
hope to bring you on a positive, visual journey that spans all that is known
while remaining simple.
“With
a Bachelor’s Degree in Art from Towson University, I have been working for over
30 years, with my wife Debby, creating and selling art at juried shows and
galleries.”
Check out their
website for photos of their beautiful work: http://www.sozra.com
If you go:
November 15, 2013
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street,
Side Entrance
Westminster, MD 21157
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“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/
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