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Sunday, April 18, 2010

This week in The Tentacle

Friday, April 16, 2010

Some of My Best Friends
Roy Meachum
Some of my best friends had a rollicking time Thursday, speaking and ranting against Washington, the White House and the current resident. If you’re read my columns, I have made crystal clear my opinions on all three.

Don’t Let the Gas Pass
Joe Charlebois
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday announced plans to further limit the release of toxic greenhouse gases in a press release entitled “A Summary of Current Threats to Global Air Quality and Recommendations to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” The new summary provides guidelines and details future requirements.

Gwen Ifill: The Dreams
Kevin E. Dayhoff
These days, the only people who seem to care about race are the political hard right, left-wingers, and the media-elite who are pounding that narrative in order to appear relevant or desperately wanting to impugn critics of President Barack Obama.

2010 Election Candidates
John W. Ashbury
As a public service TheTentacle.com will publish every Friday the list of Candidates who have filed for the various elective  offices which will appear on the ballot in the September Primary Election. If errors appear, please notify me at info@thetentacle.com.


Thursday, April 15, 2010

Families and Communication
Patricia A. Kelly
They say that children raised in front of video games will grow up missing the skill of reading body language. They say this will hinder their ability to pick up social cues, and, thus, their ability to communicate effectively.

Gwen Ifill: The Scars
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Last week a noted Public Broadcasting host spoke at Gettysburg College for about 25 minutes from prepared remarks and then took 16 questions from the audience for another half-an-hour on everything from her thoughts on the “Tea Party” movement, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to the national debt.

A REVIEW – The Play with Three Authors
Roy Meachum
In a play Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company opened last weekend, the writer is publicized as the French tragedian Pierre Corneille; “The Liar” is listed as his only comedy. But Monsieur Corneille publicly proclaimed he had lifted the idea from Spanish-American Jose Ruiz de Alarcon.


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Gwen Ifill: The Difficulties
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In the pursuit of gaining more insights into the caustic vagaries and vituperative whims of all things divided and bitter that is Washington these days, I attended a presentation recently by a distinguished Public Broadcasting Service journalist and left the building with more questions than answers.

A Volcanic Adventure…
Tom McLaughlin
Bandung, Java Island, Indonesia – “A sidewalk!” I cried. “A real sidewalk!” We were usually walking in the road next to roaring motorcycles and trucks, often able to kiss the driver or his partner on a bike with just a lean over and pucker. Getting excited over this red brick pathway may seem ridiculous until one has spent time dodging vehicles in most Indonesian cities.

A REVIEW – Wrong About “Phantom”
Roy Meachum
When “The Phantom of the Opera” first played before my reviewer’s eyes, some 25 years ago, at the Kennedy Center, it earned a negative notice. Looking at the show, opening night at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre, I was shocked to find how wrong I was.


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Right, But for Wrong Reason
Roy Meachum
In proclaiming April a Confederate history month without mentioning slavery, Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell was right, but for the wrong reason.

The Assault on Americanism
Nick Diaz
I often amaze my motorcycle-riding friends with my memory for facts, and my ability to put recent events in chronological order, and assign a certain event an approximate date.


Monday, April 12, 2010

Campaign Diary – Post Easter Weekend
Michael Kurtianyk
Our family typically drives up to New York to see my mom and my wife’s parents, all in Upstate New York. However, this year, due to my candidacy and real estate commitments, we stayed home. It was great to get caught up with work and reflect on a few things.


Friday, April 9, 2010

Playing the Race Card
Roy Meachum
Frederick Republican friends introduced Michael Steele when he was running for lieutenant governor, in 2002; I found him diffident and very intelligent. He had a warm smile. Robert Ehrlich headed the ticket.

A Statement from the Author
Joe Charlebois
On Faith – There is a God. A higher being created the world where we are all born free with basic natural rights. Our founders acknowledged this time and time again.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Gwen Ifill: The Difficulties Kevin E. Dayhoff

 

Wednesday, April 14, 2010  Gwen Ifill: The Difficulties 
by Kevin E. Dayhoff Part one of a three part series:

In the pursuit of gaining more insights into the caustic vagaries and vituperative whims of all things divided and bitter that is Washington these days, I attended a presentation recently by a distinguished Public Broadcasting Service journalist and left the building with more questions than answers.


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Gwen Ifill, 54, the moderator of Washington Week, senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” took time away from her hectic schedule to make a ...
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Washington Week with Gwen Ifill | PBS
Read Gwen's The Breakthrough Read the national bestseller The Breakthrough Politics & Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill. Washington Week on Facebook Join ...
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Gettysburg College - Gwen Ifill to speak about why politics matter ...
Gwen Ifill will speak on "Breaking Through: Why Politics Matters" April 8 at 7: 30 p.m. in the Gettysburg College Union Building, Room 260. ...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Gettysburg College News: NewsHour Journalist Gwen Ifill to speak about why politics matter April 8

kevindayhoff NewsHour Journalist Gwen Ifill to speak about why politics matter April 8 at Gettysburg College http://tinyurl.com/yd6n9ap


Gwen Ifill will speak on "Breaking Through: Why Politics Matters" April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gettysburg College Union Building, Room 260.

Ifill is moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Author of "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," she also moderated the Vice Presidential debates during the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2008.

This event is the final in the Eisenhower Institute's Spring Speaker Series at Gettysburg College, which included USA Today Journalist Joan Biskupic and United States Naval Academy Professor Howard Ernst.

Posted: 4/5/10

Gettysburg College creates new major in Organization and Management Studies

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Gettysburg College's Department of Management has overhauled its major, which is now called Organization and Management Studies (OMS).

In addition, the department has initiated changes to more closely align the management curriculum with the College's liberal arts focus while better preparing students for the contemporary workplace.

The new OMS major will explore "organizations, how they behave within the context of societal issues, how people in those organizations behave, and how those organizations are managed." Anchored firmly in the social sciences, OMS aims to "reaffirm the liberal arts foundation of the studies of organizations and management."

Prof. Bennett Bruce, department chair and chief architect of the changes, said that OMS was the department's answer to three questions: "How can we contribute to the mission of the College, how can we create something that's great for students, and how can the faculty do something that we're passionate about?"

The major in OMS is intended to give students a solid foundation in organization theory and behavior, statistics, research methods, and systems thinking, while choosing one of two tracks: Organizations and Society or Intra-Organizational Dynamics. Courses cover such topics as organizational culture, social responsibility, ethics, leadership, motivation, gender and diversity within organizations, and organizational change.

OMS replaces a more traditional management major that combined courses in management and business, according to Bruce. The new major, he said, will give students the "intellectual freedom" to dig deeply into some of the most important issues organizations grapple with today, such as sustainability, corporate ethics, and globalization.

Though business courses have been removed from the OMS major, they still have an important role in the Gettysburg curriculum. Students in any major will now be able to add a business-literacy minor to their field of study. The minor includes courses in finance, marketing, accounting, organizational behavior, and economics.

Distinguishing the OMS major from a traditional business major is one of the objectives of the new structure. Critical thinking, rigorous inquiry, and the acquisition of knowledge-instead of just skills-are central to the OMS curriculum, which stresses "intellectual boldness, creative problem solving, entrepreneurial thinking, and the practice of responsible management."

Bruce said the new major will give students "a larger perspective than just how to maximize profit," while also giving them a competitive advantage when they graduate. "Our students will get a good foundation for graduate work. They'll be prepared for cutting-edge work in organizations. And they're likely to be attracted to companies that are doing something innovative."

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

Posted: 4/6/10

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Gwen Ifill is an appalling choice to “moderate” the upcoming vice presidential debate


Gwen Ifill is an appalling choice to “moderate” the upcoming vice presidential debate

October 1, 2008

Gwen Ifill is an appalling choice to “moderate” the upcoming vice presidential debate. How do decisions like this get made?

Perhaps Cindy Sheehan or Keith Olbermann were not available.

Look up “liberal bias” in the dictionary and Ms. Ifill can be seen jockeying her way to the front of a photograph with her colleagues from the New York Times, NBC, MSNBC, and the like.

Meanwhile, Ms. Malkin points out quite correctly: “Can you imagine a right-leaning journalist writing a book about the "stunning" McCain campaign and its "bold" path to reform timed for release on Inauguration Day -- and then expecting a slot as a moderator for the nation's sole vice presidential debate?”

A Debate "Moderator" In the Tank for Obama by Michelle Malkin

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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… there is nothing "moderate" about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She's so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate…

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In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on Jan. 20, 2009 -- a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.

The title of Ifill's book? "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." Nonpartisan my foot.

Random House, her publisher, is already busy hyping the book with YouTube clips of Ifill heaping praise on her subjects, including Obama and Obama-endorsing Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. The official promo for the book gushes:

"In 'The Breakthrough,' veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama's stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. … Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Sen. Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the 'black enough' conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history."

Ifill and her publisher are banking on an Obama/Biden win to buoy her book sales. The moderator expected to treat both sides fairly has grandiosely declared this the "Age of Obama." Can you imagine a right-leaning journalist writing a book about the "stunning" McCain campaign and its "bold" path to reform timed for release on Inauguration Day -- and then expecting a slot as a moderator for the nation's sole vice presidential debate?

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Read her entire column here: A Debate "Moderator" In the Tank for Obama by Michelle Malkin

20081001 A Debate Moderator In the Tank for Obama by Michelle Malkin

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/10/01/a_debate_moderator_in_the_tank_for_obama?page=full&comments=true