Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Ceviche

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Ceviche

El pescado crudo marinado en limón o jugo de limón con aceite de oliva y especias y sirve como aperitivo.

Ingredientes
2 libras de filete de pescado blanco (preferiblemente bajo el mar), cortado en trozos pequeños
¼ de taza de jugo de limón fresco (o más, si es necesario)
2 cebollas en rodajas finas
1 cucharada de aceite de oliva
1 cucharada de cilantro fresco
1 diente de ajo, aplastado
1 a 2 chiles finamente picados
Pimienta Negro
1 cucharadita de sal
Procedimiento
Mezclar el jugo de limón con las rodajas de cebolla, aceite, cilantro, ajo, chiles, pimienta y la sal en un tazón.
Coloque el pescado en un vaso bajo, o el plato de cerámica lo suficientemente grande como para sostenerlo en una sola capa. Vierta la mezcla de jugo de limón por encima. El pescado debe estar completamente cubierto con la mezcla. Agregar más jugo de limón si es necesario.
Cubra bien con plástico y refrigerar por varias horas (o durante la noche) hasta que el pescado es "suave cocinada." (Asegúrese de que ha marinado el tiempo suficiente.) Servir sobre hojas de lechuga aderezada con aros de cebolla, finas tiras de pimiento, y la batata y / o el maíz en la mazorca.
Para 4 a 6.

Ceviche
Raw fish marinated in lime or lemon juice with olive oil and spices and served as an appetizer.
Ingredients
2 pounds white fish fillet (preferably sea bass), cut into small pieces
¼ cup fresh lime juice (or more, if needed)
2 onions, thinly sliced
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Tablespoon fresh cilantro
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 to 2 chilies, finely chopped
Black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
Procedure
Mix the lime juice with the onion slices, oil, cilantro, garlic, chilies, pepper, and salt in a mixing bowl.
Place the fish in a shallow glass or ceramic dish just large enough to hold it in a single layer. Pour the lime-juice mixture over it. The fish must be completely covered with the mixture. Add more lime juice if necessary.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours (or overnight) until the fish is "soft cooked." (Make certain it has marinated long enough.) Serve on lettuce leaves garnished with onion rings, thin strips of pepper, and sweet potatoes and/or corn on the cob.
Serves 4 to 6.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Westminster Main Street at the RR tracks looking east

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http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/183544.html
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The Union Bridge Buttersburg Inn


The Union Bridge Buttersburg Inn http://tinyurl.com/llj9ol

Posted August 24, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/l66vvk

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On August 14, 2009 my family had the opportunity to have a wonderful dinner at the Buttersburg Inn.

See my latest “Archives” column in Explore Carroll – http://www.exlorecarroll.com/: “Appetite for history and cuisine both satisfied in Union Bridge,” http://tinyurl.com/llj9ol.

http://explorecarroll.com/community/3324/eaglearchive/

EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted 8/23/09

Recently I have had the opportunity to travel several times to the western reaches of our fare county and one of my favorite destinations, Union Bridge.

It's a great drive through the beautiful Carroll countryside, and once you arrive in Union Bridge you find yourself in a community steeped in tradition and history. It's always fun to take a walk on its historic Main Street, lined with older homes, and eat at the Buttersburg Inn.

Of course, truth be told, history is only one reason for my love of Union Bridge. Eating is another.

Read the entire column here: Appetite for history and cuisine both satisfied in Union Bridge

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Please be sure to see some pictures of one of our eating excursions to Union Bridge and the Buttersburg Inn on July 5, 2007: “The Dinners at the Buttersburg Inn” July 5, 2007.

Find this post on Kevin Dayhoff Art, here: http://tinyurl.com/ljpz5b or http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/08/dinners-at-buttersburg-inn.html

Find all posts on the Buttersburg Inn on Kevin Dayhoff Art, here: http://tinyurl.com/n3m9mk or http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Restaurants%20Buttersburg%20Inn

For all posts on Union Bridge on Kevin Dayhoff Art – go here: http://tinyurl.com/ntmytr or http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Carroll%20Co%20Dist%20Union%20Bridge

Find a picture of the flag and the historic Blue Ridge College bell here http://twitpic.com/7zip5 or here on Kevin Dayhoff Art, http://tinyurl.com/ko4dlh.

Or find the picture and a short article here in http://www.explorecarroll.com/: “Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge” by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/n7pd4z

http://twitpic.com/e3alt Reproduction of “Love Reconciled with Death” by Union Bridge native William Henry Rinehart Corner of North Main Street and East Broadway Kevin Dayhoff July 5, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/klqmkm

Dinner at the Buttersburg Inn June 27, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/p64tcn

http://twitpic.com/e6r3k On annual “Depot Day” Je 20 2009 Union Bridge Mayor Grossnickle is all wet – for a good cause http://tinyurl.com/ryr2jn

http://www.thebuttersburginn.com/

The Buttersburg Inn, Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland
Locally owned and operated by Jim Rowe and Frank Tunzi
The Buttersburg Inn
9 North Main Street
Union Bridge, MD 21791-9100
Phone: (866) 920-5608
Fax: (410) 775-0541
info@thebuttersburginn.com
Hours of Operation:
Sunday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Tuesday-Wednesday 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Thursday–Saturday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 p.m.

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I wonder what’s in the box? Part 3


I wonder what’s in the box? Part 3 http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/183030.html

August 23, 2009

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This is nirvana for a breakfast hound like me who likes anything that has to do with "Georgia Ice Cream", "Dixie Ice Cream" - grits, corn meal, pancake & waffle mixes, flours, biscuit & bread mixes, pioneer's porridge and …

It’s a package from our good friends who own Nora Mills Granary Grist Mill and County Store – find them here: http://www.noramill.com/

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Many thanks!
For a larger image click here: http://twitpic.com/f3bdc and here: http://twitpic.com/f3bdc

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It’s from our good friends Nora Mills Granary Grist Mill & County Store find here: http://www.noramill.com/

http://twitpic.com/f3bdc http://tinyurl.com/kladyz Nora Mills Granary Grist Mill & County Store here: http://www.noramill.com/

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I wonder what’s in the box? Part 2

August 15, 2009

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I wonder what’s in the box? Part 1

August 15, 2009

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

John, Bond, and Main

John, Bond, and Main

August 20, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

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The intersection of John Street, Bond Street and West Main Street in Westminster Maryland, Thursday evening, August 20, 2009.

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Dayhoff Daily Photoblog, Dayhoff Photos, Dayhoff Photos Westminster, Westminster File Main St

http://twitpic.com/etqii The intersection of John, Bond & W Main St Westminster Md, Thurs evening Aug 20 2009 http://tinyurl.com/kndnme

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/john-bond-and-main.html http://tinyurl.com/kndnme

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Municipal band to hold concert Sunday Aug 23 2009



Municipal band to hold concert Sunday Aug 23 2009

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Municipal band to hold concert By Brandon Oland, Carroll County Times Staff Writer Friday, August 21, 2009

The Westminster Municipal Band is holding a concert at 6 p.m. Sunday at Belle Grove Square in Westminster.


(According to) Band spokeswoman Sandy Miller…

The concert will feature marches, show tunes and other favorites.

Belle Grove Square is located at the corner of Bond and Green streets.


http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/08/21/news/local_news/8_westminster_municipal_band.txt
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Friday, August 21, 2009

I wonder what’s in the box? Part 2


I wonder what’s in the box? Part 1

August 15, 2009

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Nine year old raises money for Baltimore police horses

Nine yr old raises money for police horses

Channel 13 WJZ TV http://wjz.com/ Baltimore video. For more great WJZ videos, go here: http://wjz.com/video. Go here for the entire story: http://wjz.com/local/city.horse.funding.2.1136988.html http://tinyurl.com/n25p4o

“August 20, 2009, A nine-year-old girl steps up to help the Baltimore City Police Horse Patrol.” http://wjz.com/video/?id=59551@wjz.dayport.com

WJZ News Mike Schuh reports Girl 9 helps raise funds for Baltimore police horse patrol
http://wjz.com/local/city.horse.funding.2.1136988.html

Aug 20, 2009

Mike Schuh reports:
Girl Raises Money For City's Mounted Police Patrol

Related story:
Funding For City Police Horses Cut (8/3/2009)

Sophia Litrenta raised $2,000 for the city's Mounted Police Patrol.


A tight city budget is threatening the historic Baltimore Police Mounted Patrol Unit, which needs $150,000 to stay open.

At the crack of dawn Thursday morning, Mike Schuh met with Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld to give an exclusive look at how a 9-year-old girl stepped up to help.

Thursday will be a day third grader Sophia Litrenta will always remember. But it's what she's done that will be remembered by many.

Sophia set up a lemonade stand to raise money for Baltimore City's Mounted Police.

[…]

Sophia took in more than $2,000 in just two hours at her lemonade stand.

[…]

The Mounted Patrol Unit is the longest continuously-running unit in the entire country. It has been in action since 1888.

Sophia's parents say they will continue to collect money and turn all the donations over to police.

To donate money for the horses, click on this
link. Or, you can mail a check, labeled "Mounted Patrol," to:

Baltimore Community Foundation
2 East Read Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

http://wjz.com/local/city.horse.funding.2.1136988.html

Read the entire story here: Girl Raises Money For City's Mounted Police Patrol
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver remembered

Eunice Kennedy Shriver remembered for founding the Special Olympics

Sunday August 16, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

Some folks have asked where they may find my tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Shriver remembered for Special Olympics and also for a connection to Carroll that appeared my Carroll Eagle Archives column on Sunday August 16, 2009

So I thought what I would do is post the long version which is unedited to meet word limit…

Last Tuesday, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, died at a hospital on Cape Cod surrounded by several generations of her large family. She was 88 years old.

Inspired by her sister, Rosemary Kennedy, who was born mentally retarded, Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 for persons with intellectual disabilities.

As a child, Rosemary and Eunice Kennedy are reported to have spent a great deal of time together swimming and sailing. Rosemary died in 2005.

Shriver earned a sociology degree from Stanford University in 1943 and subsequently worked as a social worker at a prison for women in Alderson, W. Va, and the juvenile courts system in Chicago, before she took over the philanthropic foundation named after her brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., who had been killed fighting in WW II.

Throughout her lifetime received numerous awards for her work with children. In 1962, when no one spoke in public about the mentally handicapped, Shriver broke the ice and turned on the light on the plight of the handicapped.

It was then that she “revealed her sister's condition to the nation during her brother's presidency in a 1962 article for the Saturday Evening Post,” according to a number of historical accounts of Shriver’s incredible life of service to our nation.

A year earlier, in 1961, President Kennedy “signed a bill she championed to form the first President's Committee on Mental Retardation,” according to news accounts.

Shriver was the fifth of nine children in the family of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were two of her more famous brothers.

Many folks will also remember her as the mother of former NBC newswoman Maria Shriver; and the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

She married R. Sargent Shriver, from Willis Street in Westminster, in 1953. Sargent is a member of the historic Shriver family in Carroll County, known as community, political and business leaders; whose heritage has been, in part, preserved by the Union Mills Homestead.

He later became President Kennedy’s first director of the Peace Corps. He was also Sen. George McGovern's running mate in 1972, and ran for president himself in 1976. It is reported that the couple were very close and that she was an integral part of her husband’s political career.

However, it is through the Special Olympics that she will live on through the ages.

She was the daughter of a millionaire, the sister of a president and a U.S. Senator, and the mother-in-law of a governor; however she is best known for her tireless lifelong commitment to the mentally handicapped – and the Special Olympics.

Tovia Smith said it best on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered:” Shriver “was born to one of America’s most powerful families but spent her life laboring for some of the least powerful.”

Kevin Dayhoff may reached at kevindayhoff at gmail.com or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/
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Woodstock: Hippy Dippy Stardust and Golden Memories




Hippy Dippy Stardust and Golden Memories by Kevin E. Dayhoff August 19, 2009

In case you missed all the recent over-hyped media coverage, forty years ago the weekend of peace, love, and revolution took place in the garden at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm in upstate New York.

For the past number of weeks, much of the media has waxed poetic about the self-aggrandizing maniacal mayhem which took place August 15-18, 1969 – the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y.


Read the rest here: Hippy Dippy Stardust and Golden Memories by Kevin E. Dayhoff August 19, 2009

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@kevindayhoff Woodstock http://www.thetentacle.com/: Hippy Dippy Stardust & Golden Memories Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/qrpsts

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Top Picture credit: Todd Huffman (via Flickr) found here: Woodstock, And All That By Emily Bobrow http://tinyurl.com/ojroar

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A visit to Gettysburg College, June 30, 2009 #gburg2013

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A visit to Gettysburg College, June 30, 2009

A family member will be beginning college this fall at Gettysburg College. She will be the fourth generation to attend. The family visited Gettysburg on June 30, 2009. Enjoy a few of the many pictures that I took that day.

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http://twitpic.com/ebvcz A visit to Gettysburg College 2, June 30, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/oobzou

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http://twitpic.com/ebw20 A visit to Gettysburg College 14, June 30, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/oobzou

http://twitpic.com/ebw5w A visit to Gettysburg College 20, June 30, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/oobzou

http://twitpic.com/ebw9y A visit to Gettysburg College 23, June 30, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/oobzou
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Finding Lincoln at a flea market

Finding Lincoln at a flea market

Aug 17, 2009 11:06 AM — Scott Jagow

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/scratchpad/2009/08/finding_lincoln_at_a_flea_mark.html

A guy buys a box of old papers at a flea market. He’s a history buff, so he’s into that kind of thing. He gets the box home and sorts through it. Lo and behold, at the bottom of that stack is an envelope with Abraham Lincoln’s signature on it. Turns out, it could be the last thing President Lincoln ever signed.

The envelope says simply: “Let this man enter with this note. April 14, 1865. A. Lincoln.” From the Morning Journal of Northern Ohio:

Read the entire article here: Finding Lincoln at a flea market

Aug 17, 2009 11:06 AM — Scott Jagow

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/scratchpad/2009/08/finding_lincoln_at_a_flea_mark.html

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I wonder what’s in the box?


I wonder what’s in the box?

August 15, 2009

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Union Bridge Mayor Grossnickle is all wet – for a good cause

Union Bridge Mayor Grossnickle is all wet – for a good cause

June 21, 2009 Updated August 16, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ryr2jn

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On June 20, 2009 I was particular pleased to have been afforded the fine hospitality of Dan Hartzler, Union Bridge Mayor Brett Grossnickle, Carroll County Schools Superintendent Dr. Chuck Ecker and a number of other great folks for the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square at the annual Union Bridge “Depot Day.” (See: http://tinyurl.com/ko4dlh.)

That day, Mayor Grossnickle was literally all wet when I had a chance to chat with him and his lovely family – he had taken a tour of duty at one of the many entertainment opportunities that day, the dunk tank. Obviously some folks got lucky and provided the mayor with an opportunity to take a swim.

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For all posts on Union Bridge on Kevin Dayhoff Art – go here: http://tinyurl.com/ntmytr

Find a picture of the flag and the historic Blue Ridge College bell here http://twitpic.com/7zip5 or here on Kevin Dayhoff Art, http://tinyurl.com/ko4dlh. Or find the picture and a short article here in http://www.explorecarroll.com/: “Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge” by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/n7pd4z

http://twitpic.com/e6r3k At the annual Union Bridge “Depot Day” on June 20, 2009; Union Bridge Mayor Grossnickle is all wet – for a good cause. Kevin Dayhoff

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/union-bridge-mayor-grossnickle-is-all.html http://tinyurl.com/ryr2jn
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Firefox 3.5 Not Playing Nicely With Twitter

Firefox 3.5 Not Playing Nicely With Twitter

Michael Arrington Washington Post - TechCrunch.com

August 16, 2009

This was especially timely and informative. Although I certainly sing Firefox’s praises; I have also had problems with Twitter while using Firefox – and I just tossed it up to my mediocre internet reception and my Windows XP, which seems, at times, to grow exponentially slower with each passing day.

Firefox 3.5 Not Playing Nicely With Twitter Michael Arrington Washington Post - TechCrunch.com Sunday, August 16, 2009; 10:01 AM

Firefox 3.5, which we've Firefox 3.5, which we've ranted about recently , is not playing nicely with Twitter. In fact, for the last week at least users (including me, including today ) have had a lot of problems updating status messages and following new people if they use Firefox 3.5. The site just...

Read his entire post here: Firefox 3.5 Not Playing Nicely With Twitter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/16/AR2009081600954.html

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Joe Trippi.com: Addicted to Twitter

Too funny...
Mr. Trippi writes: "Are you addicted to Twitter? I got a laugh from this piece over at Salon:"
Last Thursday morning, I sat down at my computer with my cup of sludgy coffee,
just like any other day. I checked my e-mail and glanced at the New York Times
Web site. But when I opened up Twitter, expecting the usual hodgepodge of
scattered thoughts and hectic questions, I found there was nothing there.
Nothing at all.

It was the day of the Great Twitter Outage. But I
didn’t know that yet. I only knew that something was terribly
wrong.

Actually, it was funny, in a kind of pathetic, soul-crushing
way: I stared at the blank screen, hitting refresh over and over. Waiting for
everyone to come back. For my online life to resume. Finally, I accepted the
truth. Twitter, my favorite unreliable news source and constant companion, was
gone.
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