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Ezra Klein and Norman Ornstein have taken the GOP establishment as well as the Wall Street Journal to task for their opposition to the proposed executive order requiring the disclosure of political contributions by companies doing business with the federal government. The charge they level is hypocrisy. |
They have a point. Republicans, the WSJ and other conservative publications have in the past championed disclosure along with much lighter regulation as the best way to manage campaign contributions, and the current arguments against their advancing against the rule changes have them tripping all over themselves. |
So, you have to concede the point to the Progressives. Unfortunately, in their stout hearted defense of leaving no name unpublished they too fall into the hypocrisy trap. In their case, they argue vehemently for sunlight but only want it to shine on a given class of donors, specifically business. |
Full disclosure is a wonderful idea in my book and ought to be adopted forthwith along with a wholesale scrapping of most rules limiting campaign giving, so long as it applies to any and all who fork over, say, more than a buck. That means unions, corporations, individuals, 501(c )3s, law firms, NGOs and any other enti... |
The Republicans are wrong to resist the President’s efforts. They should applaud them and call on him to expand the effort to the entire universe of givers. If he chooses to limit the list of those affected then he can be well and fairly accused of merely engaging in cynical political hardball. And Klein, Ornstein and ... |
There was a book written with that title awhile back and to me, it served to create the illusion that men and women are polar opposites in terms of species and have little hope of ever really understanding each other. |
What this author did not realize is that men as individuals are very different from each other. You cannot start an argument with “Men are all ……” and not look ignorant, because all men aren’t the same. |
The same is true with women. Not all women are alike. What makes each person wonderful is that they are individuals. They each have their own loves and hates, hopes and dreams. |
I know this looks hopeless. If all women are different individuals with different tastes and ideas, how in the name of all things Holy can you learn to talk to each and every one of them? Fear not! What I am about to share with you is a secret. It is the secret of how to talk to anyone no matter who they are and to bui... |
Look past the façade and see the real person beneath it. |
Underneath the clothing of skin and bones, we are perfect people. We have crappy baggage and things in our past that haunt us but these things are not us and we know that. |
No one likes to be reminded of the bad parts of themselves or their painful past. What we are most proud of is who we are innately. We are most proud of the perfect person underneath. When you talk to a woman (or a man or a child) look for the perfect person and talk to him or her. |
In some people it is easier to see this perfect person than in others, and in some it is so hidden by strange pseudo personalities and other weird baggage that it is almost absent. If the person you are talking to makes it too hard to access that perfect person underneath, move on. |
Find someone who doesn’t have as much baggage. And whatever you do, don’t waste your time talking to pseudo personalities. They just aren’t worth it. |
Take the time to build common ground and understanding. |
Practice this skill. Go to the supermarket or somewhere where you will have to interact with people. When you get to the check out, find something you like about the checkout person. |
I find that women love jewelry and take time and effort to choose and wear pieces that look nice. If you find a piece of jewelry on them and you comment favorably to them about it, you will be met with the person looking up and seeing you and not some nameless, faceless person. |
They will automatically start feeling a little better about you. |
Let the person talk about herself. |
This is the easy part. You don’t have to be dazzling or brilliant. All you have to be is a good listener and respond with things that are pertinent to the subject at hand. It really is a piece of cake. |
For example, you have just commented favorably on a piece of jewelry (or a sweater or scarf) and the conversation has started. |
Generally they will tell you a little bit about the piece. “Oh, my mom bought it for me for my birthday!’ You then smile and say “What a great mom you have!” or something that you know she will agree with. |
Resist with all your might the impulse to start talking about yourself. This conversation is all about her. If you keep this up each time you go through the checkout line, you will find that soon you are friends. |
The monks cannot ask for food or store excess. They cannot possess or use money. They cannot farm. |
Forest-dwelling monks have kept an obscure Buddhist tradition alive in the Columbia River Gorge with the help of the White Salmon, Washington, community. |
A small house and a few huts sit at the end of a potholed gravel road in the Columbia River Gorge. Trails wind through the forest past trees and rocks covered in electric green moss. |
Mountain bikers occasionally zoom up and down the forested trails. A ranching family lives next-door. |
Serene and secluded, this place is unfathomably quiet. |
It’s perfect for the forest-dwelling Buddhist monks who call it home. Their hermitage is far enough removed for the monks to practice in solitude. |
But it remains close to town. It has to. The monks are alms mendicants. That is, they eat only what they’re freely given. |
This tradition puts the monks of the Gorge among an extremely limited few in North America. |
“We live dependent on the support of people offering, out of a sense of goodwill or inspiration, the necessities of daily life,” said Ajahn Sudanto, abbot of the Pacific Hermitage in White Salmon, Washington. |
The U.S. Air Force has picked the first three bases to station the new KC-46A refueling tanker, the service announced. |
The service selected Altus Air Force Base, Okla.; McConnell Air Force Base, Kan.; and Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H.; it said in a May 22 release. |
The decision, first announced by lawmakers from those states, drew instant criticism from colleagues on Capitol Hill who weren't so lucky. Air Force officials were careful to say the selection is "preliminary" and may change, pending the outcome of a year-long environmental review. |
"These are the preferred alternatives," Ann Stefanek, a spokeswoman for the Air Force at the Pentagon, said in a telephone interview. "A final basing decision won't be made until the environmental impact statement is complete." |
The Air Force initially plans to buy 179 of the Boeing Co.-built planes as part of an effort to replace more than 400 KC-135 and 59 KC-10 tankers, according to the service. The first phase of the program is expected to cost about $35 billion and conclude in 15 years. |
The selection of the bases was based on site surveys, operational assessments and cost estimates and made by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh. |
Senators from Oklahoma, Kansas and New Hampshire were ecstatic and didn't wait for the Air Force's official announcement to share the news. |
"This decision will have a positive impact on Oklahoma and the city of Altus for decades to come," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., the top ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. |
Altus Air Force Base, located in the southwestern corner of Oklahoma, was selected as the preferred spot to host the unit that will train pilots to fly the tanker. |
The Air Force plans to house the aircraft at a total of 11 bases, including a training site and 10 operational sites, according to Stefanek. |
McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., located in Wichita, was picked as the top spot for the first active-duty main operating base and Pease Air Guard Station, N.H., was selected as the best location for the first Air National Guard main operating base. |
"I couldn’t be more proud," Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said in a statement. "Our state and the city of Wichita have a long history of supporting air mobility and standing behind the air men and women who call McConnell home." |
New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, and Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, made similar comments. |
"This is great news for Pease and the dedicated members of the 157th Air Refueling Wing," they said in a release. "We're thrilled that the Air Force recognizes Pease's many strategic advantages." |
Lawmakers from states such as Washington, North Dakota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, were upset that installations there weren't initially selected. |
MILWAUKEE COUNTY — A jury found him guilty on three felony charges in connection with the shooting death of Bryson Brown that occurred at the US Gas Station near Green Bay Avenue and Cornell Street on June 17th, 2014. On Thursday, July 2nd, 26-year-old Demario Easley was sentenced to prison. |
Easley was sentenced on first degree reckless homicide, felon in possession of a firearm and bail jumping convictions. |
He has been sentenced to serve 43 years in prison, and 20 years of extended supervision. |
He has been ordered to pay more than $1,900 in restitution in this case. |
Easley was arrested in Florida after a warrant was issued for his arrest in Milwaukee County. He was extradited from Miami to Milwaukee. |
Police were dispatched to the US Gas Station near Green Bay Avenue and Cornell Street around 1:00 p.m. on June 17th, 2014. There, they found Bryson Brown lying near a gas pump with gunshot wounds to his right chest, left side, back and left neck. |
Milwaukee Fire Department personnel arrived and pronounced Brown dead at the scene. |
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy, and determined Brown died as a result of gunshot wounds he suffered. |
Police spoke with a man at the scene on June 17th — and he told police he knows both Easley and Brown. That man was able to positively identify Easley in a photo array as the person who shot and killed Brown. |
The man told police he saw Easley with a handgun in his hand — saying he saw Easley shoot Brown before Easley fled the scene in a vehicle. |
At some point while at the gas station, the man told police Bryson Brown approached the vehicle the men were in, and began talking to them. While this was occurring, the man told police Easley was given a handgun — and he then began to shoot the handgun directly at Brown. |
The man told police he fled from the vehicle as Easley was shooting, and Easley then fled in the vehicle following the shooting. |
Another of the men on scene that day told police he witnessed Easley firing what he described as a semi-automatic handgun at Brown — before fleeing the scene. |
Police were able to observe surveillance video from the gas station, and the video was consistent with the witness statements in this case. |
At the time of the shooting on June 17th, Easley was out on bail in that separate case filed on April 1st, and was ordered to possess no firearms or controlled substances — and commit no crimes as a condition of his bail. |
The criminal complaint filed against Easley also references a conviction for fleeing/eluding an officer — a felony charge. In that case, Easley was sentenced to nine months in the House of Correction, after he pleaded guilty. That case was filed on March 22nd, 2012. |
Say bye bye for a long time demario you sissy boy!!! |
So why did he start shooting at Bryson? Seems like an incomplete story. Regardless glad this man was convicted and is in jail for a long time. God bless! |
Bryson was a snake,but didnt deserve that. |
That’s what he gets! Now they need to catch his sister who killed Alonna! She’s on the run also! |
DODGE CITY - Theda Barbara Fagen, 93, died Nov. 27, 2013. She was born June 11, 1920, to Thomas Loy and Evalena (Hutton) Davidson. She married Walter Reimer June 11, 1939. She married Alfred Fagen Dec. 26, 1964. He died in 1977. Visitation noon to 8 p.m. Friday and funeral 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Swaim Funeral Home, Dod... |
A female patient at Rampton Secure Hospital who can rarely leave her room repeatedly punched a nursing assistant without warning, a court heard. |
Elehah Etemadi launched the attack on July 6, last year. |
Prosecutor Kate Beardmore said: “The defendant was sitting outside and said she felt mentally unwell. She was encouraged to go back into the hospital. |
The nursing assistant was left with bruising and discomfort, but no lasting injuries. |
Jill Hawkins, mitigating, said Etemadi has been at the hospital for more than five years and is currently on the high-intensive psychiatric Emerald Ward. |
“She is very rarely brought out of her room because there are incidents like this,” she said. |
She said Etemadi’s ESA had been suspended, but staff didn’t know why. |
Etemadi, 35, admitted the assault via her solicitor, at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Friday. |
She was ordered to pay compensation of £150 and costs of £85 from her savings. |
Day two of Lollapalooza was held at Grant Park in Chicago on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Fans listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers during day two of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers where forced to the streets of Chicago after a thunder storm hit Chicago and forced Lollapalooza to delay day two of the three day music festival on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform during day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers slide in the mud after a rain storm flooded Grant Park during day two at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Thousands of concert goers leave Grant Park during a rain delay on day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com The Chicago skyline during day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com The Weekend performs during during day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers get ready to slide in the mud after a rain storm flooded Grant Park during day two at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers play in the mud after a rain storm flooded Grant Park during day two at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers dance in the mud after a rain storm flooded Grant Park during day two at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
The Weekend performs during during day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4, 2012. |
When we decided to upgrade our facilities in 2006, we looked for a cost-effective way to implement the highest quality equipment we could afford. |
SALISBURY, MD. In late August, and with the help of our systems integrator, The Systems Group, we became the first in our market to produce and broadcast local newscasts in high definition. We are now able to produce news content for both the local CBS and Fox network affiliated stations from our new facility, thanks t... |
When we decided to upgrade our facilities in 2006, we looked for a cost-effective way to implement the highest quality equipment we could afford. It all had to be HD-compatible and had to allow our news staff to be as productive as they could be. That vision has become a reality with the completion of our new 11,000-sq... |
Dan Panichella Our Grass Valley Ignite HD system is used with two Panasonic SD tape decks, and as we shoot with DVCPRO cameras in the field, upconversion is performed by the Grass Valley Kayak switcher associated with the Ignite. The system controls the tape decks along with our three video server channels. |
Our decision to go with the Grass Valley Ignite system was based on several factors. We wanted a system that would allow our newscasts to be error free, and we also needed a quick turnaround between shows. Daily, we produce five hours of news for our CBS outlet, WBOC-TV, and a 10:00 p.m. show for the Fox channel. Both ... |
Using the system's Transition Macro Elements technology (TME), a director will "code" a show with the appropriate TME after receiving the script. TME's treat news segments and transitions as "events" on an event timeline, allowing every live newscast segment to be pre-programmed and previewed prior to airing. |
We have four Grass Valley HDC robotic cameras in our new "NewsPlex" studio that are used for shooting the main desk, weather and interview set. Live production is handled with the Ignite HD system, via a shot box. There's also a VGA display with a GUI of the Kayak switcher control panel, allowing directors to "hot... |
Several Grass Valley representatives provided training on the Ignite system for our employees, making it easy for them to acquire operational skills. Our news team also adjusted to the new workflow, which includes non-linear editing. |
The station's newscasts now look "cleaner" than ever, as the Ignite system allowed us to eliminate many manual and redundant processes. Even our audio sounds better, as it is now mixed with a Klotz Digital audio console that is integrated into the Ignite system. |
It's a pleasure to watch a newscast come together by staff members using some of the newest technology. It's more than just automating the production process—we feel as if we are better able to handle any type of breaking news story and get it on air faster than our competition. That's the value the Igni... |
Dan Panichella has been chief engineer at WBOC-TV for five years and has been with the station for 33 years. He may be contacted at danpan@wboc.com. |
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