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Saturday, January 29, 2022
The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books - Librarians are amazing. BY ANIKA BURGESS AUGUST 31, 2017
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Magic Octopus Issue 1 August 31, 2012
http://issuu.com/sp8cemunky/docs/mo1/21?e=0
http://www.magicoctopusmagazine.com/
August 31, 2012
A Baltimore arts, life and writing magazine, Magic Octopus features essays, fiction, poetry and lots of photographs. This is the pilot issue, and the theme is GLITTER.
Magic Octopus Issue 1
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Gathering a few ideas for a library addition to my house
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Friday, May 01, 2009
This week in The Tentacle for Wednesday April 29 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Mockingbird’s Song
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee, celebrated a birthday yesterday. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama.
Malaysian Wedding – Part 3
Tom McLaughlin
Seremban, Malaysia – I returned to the groom’s home after a refreshing sleep. To my surprise, a ceremony was in progress. I thought I had it down about Malay weddings, but this part was not in my file.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Overwhelming Majority
Roy Meachum
At the end of his first 100 days on the job, a significant poll indicates President Barack Obama receives approval from an overwhelming majority of his fellow Americans. Sixty-three percent voted in his favor, 36 percent did not, in a survey paid for by The Washington Post and ABC-TV.
Advice from The Voice of Experience – Part 3
Nick Diaz
Alas, my third installment on buying a used motorcycle, one of my favorite activities. Buying a used motorcycle, as I’ve mentioned before, is much more fun than selling one.
Monday, April 27, 2009
General Assembly Journal 2009 – Volume 12-Part 2
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Last week, we started a review of the fallout from the just completed General Assembly session. Let's pick up where we left off.
While you were out…
Steven R. Berryman
If you blinked at the wrong moment over the last few weeks, and rely solely on one part of the media paradigm for your news, you may have missed any of these following items. Not necessarily because of media-bias, but simply because we only have so much time and tolerance for added information in our lives:
Friday, April 24, 2009
"Turtle" Jennifer
Roy Meachum
Aside from her declaration on City Hall steps, ex-mayor Jennifer Dougherty seems to have disappeared. What a difference from her recent campaigns!
If you ain’t the lead dog…
Joe Charlebois
President George W. Bush led. President William Jefferson Clinton led. Presidents George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan led. No matter what your opinion of our last four presidents in regard to their policies, they were leaders.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
George Santayana was correct…
Chris Cavey
Maryland’s political landscape is showing the pre-revolutionary signs of change. Just over a week ago, thousands of voting citizens took to the streets in the cold damp April rain to show their disgust in government’s rampant spending and to exercise their right to assemble in protest.
You’ve Found Your Voice. Use it!
Joan McIntyre
I’m guessing that by the time this article makes it to print there will others already out there about the Tea Party. I also suspect there will be as many different angles to that day as there will be stories.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
‘Smiling Faces…’
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On Monday a smiling President Barack Obama stopped by CIA headquarters for the first time since taking office. It was a charm offensive to give the agency a pep talk to help stave off low morale issues.
In the Face of Tragedy…
Michael Kurtianyk
On Sunday morning, I heard the church bells ring as I went to get the morning papers. I wanted to make sure that I picked them up before my 7-year-old daughters got to them. I knew what the headlines were going to be, and I didn’t want daughters to read the headlines before my wife and I had a chance to talk and prepare for that conversation.
A Malay Wedding – Part Two
Tom McLaughlin
Seremban, Malaysia – It’s the day before the celebration. Nazir’s son picked me up at the airport and I feigned I knew him, faking it most of the way. The marble finally dropped into the correct location in the brain and I realized who he was and could participate in the conversation instead of stupidly nodding my head.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Selling Newspapers?
Roy Meachum
"State of Play" opened this weekend; the film will be discussed with Bob Miller on his WFMD "Morning Express" Friday. Its’ message about modern newspapering burns in my mind and cannot wait another three days.
A Call to Arms…
Farrell Keough
I had the privilege of attending the Frederick County Tea Party. While neither man will accept the credit, great thanks goes out to Blaine Young and Bob Miller of WFMD radio, 930 A.M. That attendance on such an awful day to be outside was remarkable!
Monday, April 20, 2009
General Assembly Journal 2009 – Volume 12
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
The General Assembly Department of Legislative Services produces a document each year summarizing the legislative session. This year, I thought I’d produce my own right here on The Tentacle.
Because Hope is not a Method
Steven R. Berryman
My name is Steve, and I’m a “right-wing extremist.” That’s how I would start an “AA” meeting if those letters stood for “activists anonymous!”
20090429 This week in The Tentacle
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Carole King “It’s Too Late” released April 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeVbEg1DHE
This version here is from the 1971 album… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q8884GxUIU
The song came up in my April 29, 2009 The Tentacle column, “The Mockingbird’s Song”
The reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee, celebrated a birthday yesterday. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama…
Carole King
Album: Tapestry
Song's name: It's Too Late
Song info: Lyrics and Music: Toni Stern and Carole King feat. Dina Carroll
Lyrics:
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There's something wrong here
There can be no denying
One of us is changing
Or maybe we've just stopped trying
And it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can't hide
And I just can't fake it
It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy
And I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy
And I feel like a fool
And it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
and I can't hide it
And I just can't fake it
There'll be good times again for me and you
But we just can't stay together
Don't you feel it too
Still I'm glad for what we had
And how I once loved you
But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can't hide
And I just can't fake it
Don't you know that I...
I just can't fake it
Oh it's too late my baby
Too late my baby
You know
It's too late my baby
http://www.loglar.com/song.php?id=3
19710400 Carole King Its Too Late released April 1971
Friday, March 06, 2009
Annual Random House Carroll Community College Book Fair article by Bob Allen
Random House Book Fair also includes movies
Posted on http://explorecarroll.com on 3/04/09
Steven Wantz, executive director of the Carroll Community College Foundation, describes the Random House Book Fair, held on the Westminster college campus for the past 11 years, as both a fund-raising and a friend-raising event.
"Over the past 12 years, it has raised over $200,000," Wantz said of the fair, which takes place Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7.
Proceeds from the two-day fair provide scholarships and financial aid to the college's students. In recent years, the fair has drawn about 3,500 people to the campus.
"It's an opportunity for people who have never been on our campus -- or who don't get here very often — to come out and get a peek at an institution that our county commissioners have described as 'the gem of Carroll County,' " Wantz said.
"People can come out and see what's changed and what's new here," he added. "Elements of the book fair (see related article "Books are back in town" for full schedule) are spread throughout the campus, so they get to see what's going on around the college."
Wantz said that in the past five or six years, he and his colleagues at the foundation have gone to great lengths to make the fair a family-oriented event. The Saturday schedule, for example, features a children's activities area ($2), and free events including story times, science presentations and even free children's books, while supplies last.
The emphasis, he said, is "creating a passion for reading in young people."
"There are so many activities this year for young families that you'll need at least a couple of hours to experience the whole thing," he added.
"We're hoping that at this point of the winter, people are fed up with being stuck at home and will come spend the day with us," Wantz said.
In recent years, one of the fair's most successful draws is the Friday night movie at the college's Scott Theater. This year, the Walt Disney movie "Bolt," will be featured — twice.
"We actually sold out and had to turn people away from the movie for the past two years," Wantz recalled. "So this year, we're having two showings, one at 4 p.m. and another at 7 p.m.
"Also, 'Bolt' isn't out yet on DVD, so you can come out to the college and still see it on the big screen," he added.
Wantz said it's yet another barometer of the book fair's appeal that many authors and vendors return year after year.
One of these is John Hoffert, a Hanover, Pa., resident who has written several thrillers, including "The Zero Factor," "Aphrodite's Redemption" and "The Time of Reckoning" — part of what he calls "The Lion" Series.
Hoffert has rented a table and been selling and signing copies of his books at the fair every year for the past five, and he'll be back again this year.
"It's a really good venue, and ... they don't charge vendors an exorbitant up-front fee," said Hoffert, who hopes to finish the latest novel in the Lion Series, "Pyrrhic Victory: The Lion's Wrath," later this year. (For an excerpt, visit www.JohnHoffert.com.)
"As book fairs go, it's just the right size," he added. "I was at a really big book fair in Philadelphia not too long ago, and there were hoards of people, but most of them had come to see the big-name writers. Independents like me really did get lost in the shuffle.
"It's definitely much friendlier — and much more manageable," he said.
20090304 Random House Book Fair article by Bob Allen
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
Hat Tip: Truthout
Blaming History Friday 19 December 2008
Michael Tomasky explains how Milan Kundera's The Joke changed his view of politics.
So the assignment is "a book that changed my view of politics." Harder than it sounds. I will confess that when I was a younger man, I was far more likely to think of records, as we used to call them, as life-changing, and if pressed, I could probably to this day defend the proposition that The Basement Tapes taught me as much about America as did, say, either John Steinbeck or V.O. Key.
I could name something predictable by Schlesinger or Hofstadter, or one of those seminal works on the 1960s or Watergate that I and most other American liberal males of my generation display on our shelves and in select cases have actually read to completion. But the idea of "life changing" led me to reach into the memory hole for those rare occasions when reading a book so fired my mind that, while I was immersed in it, I could think of nothing else. You know the feeling: You can't wait for work or class to finish so you can plow back into the book; as you near the end, you actually slow down because you don't want it to stop and can't imagine not being able to read it anymore.
It turns out that it's a novel, Milan Kundera's The Joke, that met for me the above criteria: The book is quite political and contains within its pages lessons about how people adapt to the larger political contexts in which they live. These are lessons that were and are more universal than one might assume - given that Kundera was assaying totalitarian society - about what can happen when the stirrings of the soul are thwarted by the imperatives of the state.
Read the entire essay here: Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
20081219 Blaming History by Michael Tomasky for The American Propsect
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Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
Hat Tip: Truthout
Blaming History Friday 19 December 2008
Michael Tomasky explains how Milan Kundera's The Joke changed his view of politics.
So the assignment is "a book that changed my view of politics." Harder than it sounds. I will confess that when I was a younger man, I was far more likely to think of records, as we used to call them, as life-changing, and if pressed, I could probably to this day defend the proposition that The Basement Tapes taught me as much about America as did, say, either John Steinbeck or V.O. Key.
I could name something predictable by Schlesinger or Hofstadter, or one of those seminal works on the 1960s or Watergate that I and most other American liberal males of my generation display on our shelves and in select cases have actually read to completion. But the idea of "life changing" led me to reach into the memory hole for those rare occasions when reading a book so fired my mind that, while I was immersed in it, I could think of nothing else. You know the feeling: You can't wait for work or class to finish so you can plow back into the book; as you near the end, you actually slow down because you don't want it to stop and can't imagine not being able to read it anymore.
It turns out that it's a novel, Milan Kundera's The Joke, that met for me the above criteria: The book is quite political and contains within its pages lessons about how people adapt to the larger political contexts in which they live. These are lessons that were and are more universal than one might assume - given that Kundera was assaying totalitarian society - about what can happen when the stirrings of the soul are thwarted by the imperatives of the state.
Read the entire essay here: Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
20081219 Blaming History by Michael Tomasky for The American Propsect
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Westminster's sacred places are shrines of community life
My Sunday Carroll Eagle column is up…
Westminster's sacred places are shrines of community life
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on www.explorecarroll.com on 7/25/08
Since this is a Sunday column, I do hope it's fitting to talk about sacred places.
Not necessarily houses of worship, mind you, though those are most often considered sacred places.
I'm thinking of the sacred public places as described in a 1981 book by Dr. Ira Zepp [pictured here in a 1996 file photo] and Marty Lanham, "Sacred Spaces of Westminster."
I thought of the book as I sat in a recent Common Council meeting at Westminster City Hall -- a building that many consider one of the true sacred places in Carroll County.
At the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Tom Ferguson read a proclamation recognizing July as Recreation and Parks Month, and paid tribute to the city's recreation and parks director Ron Schroers, as well as other employees who work tirelessly for our benefit.
One of the recreational facilities that Schroers oversees is the popular Westminster playground in the heart of the city.
The playground is one the first pictures, taken by Lanham, in that 1981 book.
Moreover, toward the end of the book, the authors discuss one of the overlooked sacred landmarks in Westminster: the Memorial Gateway to the Westminster playground off of Center Street.
Zepp and Lanham explain that the "gateway was given to the city by H. Peyton Gorsuch in 1937. Its primary purpose was to acknowledge the community's debt to Carroll Countians who had served in the nation's wars."
The book goes on to highlight public places such as Belle Grove Square, various other parks, gardens, memorials and monuments.
Read the entire column here: Westminster's sacred places are shrines of community life
When he is not watching the ducks at the Westminster Community Pond, Kevin Dayhoff can be reached at kdayhoff@carr.org. Please don't feed the ducks ... or the Dayhoff.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
20080208 WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast - Wynn Rousuck reviews Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead at Centerstage
WYPR:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
http://www.wypr.org/MD_MORNING.html
Friday, February 8, 2008
J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Tom Stoppard's play, at Centerstage in
External Link: http://www.centerstage.org/index.php
20080208 WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast - Wynn Rousuck reviews Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead at Centerstage
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
20060104 Mike Schuh WJZ Channel 13
Mike Schuh WJZ Channel 13
January 4th, 2006
Schuh Mike
Reporter
http://wjz.com/bios/local_bio_053095449
Mike Schuh joined WJZ Eyewitness News as a general assignment reporter in April, 1993. In 2002 Mike won a Regional Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting.
During his career at Eyewitness News he has also earned 6 Emmy Awards for Hard News Investigations, General News Reporting and Features Reporting. Mike came to WJZ after reporting for other television stations in Indianapolis, Louisville, Missouri and Illinois.
In 1983 he received his B.S. Degree in News Reporting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Mike lives near Towson with his wife and one very, very energetic daughter.
Just the Facts
Position: Reporter
Year Hired: 1993
First TV Appearance: 1981
Favorite Story: 1998
Memorable Interview: John Travolta
Dream Interview: anyone who connect with the audience
Dream Job: being a better storyteller
First Story:
Role Model: former NPPA Photographer of the Year Mark Anderson
Why I'm A Journalist: I love telling stories
Hidden Talent: pretty good carpenter/painter
Alma Mater: Souther
Hometown:
Kids: 1
Siblings: 5
Hobbies: restoring my home in an historic neighborhood
Favorite Food: Spicy Veggie Ho Fun with Tofu
Favorite Sports Team:
Favorite Destination: The Outer Banks
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January 4th, 2006
Television NewsVideo Workshop
Before joining the CBS O&O in
A Bakers Dozen of Sensible Schuh's:
Be a good employee.
Don't whine.
Pretend you are a freelancer -- like you must impress the bosses every day or you won't be able to afford food.
Surprise the producers. Give them more than they asked for in less time.
Work hard on the little story and the boss will give you the big ones.
Keep your mind on the story, not on the station gossip. Spend at least 5-10 minutes exchanging ideas about the story on the way to the story. Good ideas snowball.
Communicate expectations, communicate needs, communicate wants.
What do I have? What do I need?
On the ride home, go through the sequences about what will work where.
Offer solutions, not just problems.
Stand up straight.
Eat your vegetables.
Wear glasses if you need them.
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