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

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Washington Post: Facebook makes sweeping changes in privacy, sharing controls

Washington Post: Facebook makes sweeping changes in privacy, sharing controls

By Jacob Schulman, Updated: Wednesday, August 24, 8:51 AM

Facebook is making some sweeping changes when it comes to how you share content with friends, and many look to be inspired by some of Google+’s more robust features.
Not all of these features are completely new, but are simply being relocated from rarely-visited privacy settings pages to more trafficked spots like the news feed and profile pages. New inline profile controls allow you to control visibility of nearly every bit of information you share, and are eerily reminiscent of Google+’s Circles sharing implementation. A new drop-down menu will appear next to individual status updates and pieces of profile information (see above), enabling users to select the “audiences,” groups, and friend lists who can see those bits of their personal lives. The View Profile As tool will now reside at the top of your profile page rather than deep in the privacy settings, making it painless to preview what your mom will see before approving her friend request. Keep reading for a breakdown of some of the other big additions....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-makes-sweeping-changes-in-privacy-sharing-controls/2011/08/24/gIQAbDC8aJ_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

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Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists


Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists

Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report
A scene from Mars Attacks!
When they see what a mess we've made of our planet, extraterrestrials may be forced to take drastic action. Photograph: PR
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim...

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Orioles Great Mike Flanagan Found Dead Near Monkton Home

Lutherville-Timonium PatchBREAKING NEWS
POLICE & FIRE 
Orioles Great Mike Flanagan Found Dead Near Monkton Home
The Cy Young winner is dead at 59.
By Tyler Waldman and Sean Welsh | Aug 24, 2011
Orioles great Mike Flanagan was found dead Wednesday afternoon outside his home in northern Baltimore County, according to Orioles officials and news reports. WBAL-TV reports that police found a body… Read More

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As You Like It Richard III by Kevin Dayhoff in The Tentacle

This Friday, August 26, “The Shakespeare Factory Players” will be performing As You Like It, in historic downtown Mount Airy at Watkins' Park ... For more information contact info@theshakespearefactory.com or 410-218-1479...  

August 24, 2011

As You Like It Richard III
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4581

Kevin E. Dayhoff  
Now is the winter of our discontent… On the morning of August 22, in 1485, a defining moment in English history took place with the death of King Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Of course, this has little to do with central-Maryland or local, state or national politics – or does it? The crushing tedium of the current state of affairs of our nation’s political discourse, the seemingly endless foreign wars and the intractable national and global economic malaise is enough to cause my bud of calm to blossom into hysteria. I almost wrote a column on the history of nylons.

As our nation currently attempts to extricate itself from an economic, social and political tar pit and wallows around like a bellowing mastodon, the Shakespearian melodrama and theatricality of Obama I is reminiscent of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.

Or The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, by William Shakespeare.

The death of Richard III – “the last English king to die at the head of an army… established the Tudor dynasty and the modern state,” according to anarticle in the Guardian by Martin Wainwright.

The skirmishes over the historic significance of the battle in Leicestershire County, in the center of England, which effectively ended the 30-year, English civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster, the Wars of the Roses, and the end of the Middle Ages, has raged ever since.

However, not in doubt is the fact that the battle ended the House of Plantagenet line of 15 kings that ruled England from 1154, when it took over from the House of Normandy, until 1485.

After the death of Richard III, King Henry VII seized the throne and became the first English monarch of the House of Tudor, which lasted until 1603....

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4581


As You Like It Richard III by Kevin Dayhoff in The Tentacle
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Obama's Announcements on the Earthquake

Obama's Announcements on the Earthquake

BREAKING NEWS: August 24, 2011 - President Obama has just announced that the earthquake that affected Washington, D.C. yesterday occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line known as "Bush's Fault."  The President also announced that the Secret Service and Rep. Maxine Waters have launched an investigation of the quake's suspicious ties to the Tea Party.

Leading Republicans, however, dispute the President’s analysis of the quake’s origins and insist that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

History Unfolding: The Two-party system

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011

The Two-party system

[Those of who who have found this page because you received a forged email, attributed to me, comparing President Obama to Hitler, should know right away that it is a forgery that does not reflect my views. I ask you however to read this entire post.]

With the exception of relatively short periods such as the 1820s, the late 1850s, and 1912, the United States has essentially had a two-party system. In the 1820s the Federalists disappeared and what drama remained took place within the Democratic Party, until in the early 1830s the Whigs formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson. About twenty years later the collapse of the Whigs, followed by a split among the Democrats in 1860, created a very confused situation that allowed Abraham Lincoln to win a sweeping electoral majority with only a little more than 40% of the popular vote, but the war turned the Republicans into the majority party at least in the North (and for a while, during Reconstruction, in some of the South as well.) In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt's attempt to return to the White House split the Republicans and Woodrow Wilson, like Lincoln, won a huge electoral majority with a popular minority. (Wilson failed again to win a popular majority in 1916, although he had a bare plurality.) Third parties won about five southern states in 1948 and in 1968 because of the civil rights movement, once again depriving the victor of a popular majority. Ross Perot played the same role in 1992 and 1996, although he won only a few electoral votes. ...

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Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a london tradition for centuries'

Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a london tradition for centuries'

The Monday Interview: The capital's greatest chronicler tells Andy McSmith why upsurges of violence are part of the city's texture


Monday, 22 August 2011


DAVID SANDISON
Peter Ackroyd sticks to a diligent routine as he works on three books at once
Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London, particularly its seamy, violent underside. In an age when historians and novelists are encouraged to be pundits and personalities, you would think he would be in demand after recent troubles.
But for 24-hour news, Ackroyd is a wash-out. The author of mighty studies of both London and of the River Thames has a watching-paint-dry view of history. He is struck how slowly and imperceptibly real history unfolds, and intrigued by the aspects of human life that endure for centuries. The rest, by and large, is stuff that happens.
Speaking in a book-lined office near King's Cross, London, within walking distance of where the rioting began, Mr Ackroyd resolutely refused to see a new epoch dawning. "I can't get at all worked up about these most recent phenomena," he said. "They simply show a pattern of activity in the city that will endure as long as the city itself endures...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/peter-ackroyd-rioting-has-been-a-london-tradition-for-centuries-2341673.html

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Democratic Advocate, August 24, 1945: Nylons New tires nylon stockings new radios

It was over 60 years ago this month that the government announced that wartime rationing on tires, nylon stockings and radios would end.

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Nylons New tires nylon stockings new radios

Democratic Advocate, August 24, 1945

Happy Day Coming for Ladies—Nylons - New tires, nylon stockings, new radios.

The Government dropped good news about all three into American laps.

Government officials were careful not to speak of an end to rationing but they said motorists might get a break on new tires within 90 days. They predicted production might jump 100 per cent in the next three months.

That would mean a lot more tires for civilians. OPA officials said they thought they could hold most of the new peacetime goods—when it reaches the stores again—at or near 1942 prices. But they have a fight on their hands. Manufacturers contend that 1945 production costs demand higher than 1942 prices.

Nylon stockings may be back in circulation by Thanksgiving, or at least by Christmas. The Government has turned loose its controls on nylon and rayon. It still has a few details to work out about giving permission for making nylon hose. This should come quickly.

WPD said 3 1/2 million radios may be on the store shelves by Christmas. This was a surprise. The reason: An 80 per cent cut in military orders for radar and radio.

Rent ceilings are expected to disappear soon in certain places. For example: In areas where Army camps close or war plants shut down and people move away.

Democratic Advocate, August 24, 1945.

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Huffington Post Comedy - PHOTOS: 19 Back To School FAILS

    
Saturday, August 20, 2011
It's that time of the year again. The dog days of summer are quickly coming to a close and kids are getting ready to head back to school. But as you'll see below, some of our great educational institutions have a whole lot of "FAIL" going on before kids are even given any tests.

We did some digging around the web and on Fail Blog to come up with 19 funny back-to-school themed FAIL photos for you to enjoy. There's plenty of WTF to go around with inappropriate school shopping suggestions and, of course, hilariously misspelled signs. Vote for your favorite!
WATCH: Colbert Has More Poop Puns For Anderson Cooper
PICTURE: Funniest Headline Of The Day
WATCH: The ORIGINAL 'Flintstones' Pilot
WATCH: Jon Stewart Takes Fox News To Task Over 'Class Warfare'
6 Reasons The Guy Fixing Your Computer Hates You
BLOG POSTS
Maggie Van Ostrand: The Pithy Tale of Owney
2011-08-19-owney.JPG There is no proof that Owney helped railroad's mail personnel sort the mail while in transit, becoming the fastest sorter of all time, but there's no proof that he didn't.
Kenny Hotz: Don't Buy Gold!
Gold is expensive and if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, you might as well spend your money on tangible stuff you can use like iPhone apps.
Phil Perrier: Mr. Teabagger Goes to Washington
Say hello to Wyoming congressional candidate Cody Kane. (Not a real person) Kane, 41 is a former rodeo star turned businessman. He is married to former beauty queen and one time TV weather lady Candy Burgess Kane.
Tim Young: GOP Turns to Craigslist for Obama's Opponent
A lot of voters have been upset with the quality of the GOP presidential candidates. After some research, it appears as if these issues can be directly linked with the party's "modern" recruitment tactics.
Will Durst: Super Duper Congress
Slower than a slug on Thorazine; less powerful than a soggy Kleenex; unable to compromise in a million years. Look! Up in that swiveling leather club seat of that private jet. It's a ruse, it's a sham, it's... Super Congress.

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