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If there's one thing that has unified FADER staffers over the many years of our existence it is a distaste for arbitrarily ranking our favorite albums, songs, videos etc at the end of the year. If we put something in our magazine or on this site, we love it and want you to. No need for numbers. But that doesn't mean we don't like lists of all the things that made this year what it was, from skanks to raves to epic weed boner jams. Enjoy our fifth annual Listmania, thanks for reading The FADER and we'll see you on January 4th, 2010 all shiny and new.
Top Three Skanks (not what you think)
3. Jump in the Middle and Skank
2. Jungle Skank
1. Migraine Skank
Top Five Musicians The XX Wear Black T-shirts of
5. Coolio
4. Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block
3. Tina Turner
2. Ronnie Spector
1. Siouxsie Sioux
Educated Villains' Top Five Throwback Albums Enjoyed While Steering Clear of the Music Avalanche That Was 2009
1. Eazy E – Eazy Duz It
2. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (R.I.P.)
3. Scarface – The Fix
4. Gucci Mane – Trap House
5. UGK – Ridin' Dirty
Top Two Things We Heard Raekwon Ask With Our Own Ears
2. "Does this store sell blunts?"
1. "Can I have some fruit?"
Top Seven Words in the Band Name "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart"
7. Pains
6. of
5. at
4. Heart
3. The
2. Pure
1. Being
Top Five Reassurances That Our Tough Alliance Obsession Is Not Insane
5. The Drums
4. The part in Yeasayer's "O.N.E." from their new album with the goofy synths and vocal samples (counts because we heard it first this year)
3. Kid Cudi's "Enter Galactic (Love Connection Pt. 1)"
2. Tanlines @ Glasslands in November
1. Chillwave
Harry McNally of Pegleg's top five dates of 2009
Six World Star Hip-Hop Headlines That Accurately Sum Up 2009
6. Rappers Who Believe In The Illuminati: Canibus & Professor Grif Release A Track Called Dead By Design "Illuminati Going To Murder Us Just Like They Did To 2pac" [Audio]
5. Lil Jon Hosts A $500 Chicken & Beer Contest In ATL! (Females Who Can Eat The Most Chicken & Drink The Most Beer)
4. Jamaica Aint The Only Country With Them Wild Dances: Peruvians Dancing Really Freaky On Stage To A Popular Latin Song "Perreo Chacolanero" (Guys Trying To Get Feels On Girl & One Dude Drops His Pants Down)
3. Throwback Clip Of The Week: French Montana Releases Footage Of Lil Cease Dancing Butt Nekked With Men & Femals In The Room! *NOT SAFE FOR STRAIGHT MEN*
2. Animal Clip Of The Week: Ghetto Ass Hawk Attempts To Hunt Down Bambi!
1. So True: 2 Dudes Act Out & Make A Song Bout How Females Good Looking Default Pictures Be Lying On Social Sites! (Are They Lying?)
Top 5 Music Video Scene Stealers
5. Beats By Dre Headphones on Lady Gaga's pet dogs in Wale's "Chillin" (lamest product placement of all time, finally where it belongs!)
4. Venom & Damage wolf
3. Lil B's laser
2. Beercan hair rollers in Maluca's "El Tigeraso"
1. Cam'ron's Moustache
Top 3 Chip Da Ripper Samples
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Rich" ("Whoa" feat. Pootie Tang)
2. Old Dirty Bastard talking about hippies ("Thank God")
1. Sublime "Pawn Shop" ("Pawn Shop")
Most Memorable FADER TV Moments:
1. Bradford Cox Hating On Schnipper's Creative Interviewing Technique
2. Our visit to Max B's apartment in the Bronx prior to his 75-year sentence
3. When Kurt Vile stared down the camera for an Open Bar and made us all feel uncomfortable/sexy.
4. When Nikki Minaj asked Felipe on a date.
5. When we got high with Waaves on the coldest day in February.
6. When we learned literally everything there is to know about pizza with Wild Yaks and then a squirrel made off with one of our slices!
7. When we hopped a plane down to Orlando, FL within three hours notice and put our lives in the hands of a meth-addict cab driver to film At The Bar with Holiday Shores.
8. When we interviewed Farmer Dave Scher inside of a tree at Party in the Pines.
9. When we learned the true meaning of "pre-roll."
Top Five Cooler Things Gucci Mane Could've Done to Violate His Georgia Probation
5. Sell bootleg DVDs in the subway
4. Shoplift
3. Wave sparklers
2. Own a dildo
1. Download The State vs Radric Davis
Six Photographers Who Inspired Us in 2009
Irving Penn
Michael Schmidt
Bruce Davidson
David Goldblatt
Robert Frank
Erwin Blumenfeld
Best Style Collabs of 2009
Duckie Brown x Odin: Edward
Issey Miyake x Doc Martens
Quoddy x South Willard
Jil Sander x Uniqlo
Rodarte x Target
Mister Mort x New Era
Dream Music Collabs for 2010
Slim from 112, Serani and Ellie Goulding singing barbershop chipmunk electro-dancehall
Nicki Minaj album produced by Ryan Leslie
Phoenix & The-Dream (actual band name)
Zomby scoring Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
The Knife vs Salem
Big Boi & Andre 3000
Top Two Waka Flocka Flame Mixtape Covers
Top Non-Ironic Air Guitar Jams
3. Dinosaur Jr, "Said The People"
2. Built to Spill, "Nowhere Dream"
1. Girls, "Laura"
Top Five Imaginary Raves Experienced While Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Listened To Music On Her Office Headphones
5. L-Vis 1990, "United Groove" – Impromptu rave in Generra Hypercolor shoppe
4. Toadally Krossed Out, "Toads Theme" – Two-person Madagascar rave. One person is three-toed sloth.
3. Joker, "Digidesign" – Rave of mimes.
2. Fuck Buttons, "Surf Solar" – 100,000 MDMA induces visions of rapture (and strong desire to hug)
1. Jinder, "Youth Blood (Bok Bok Rmx)" – The Magical Makeout Rave of 2010 occuring in James Franco's NYU dorm room
Most Unexpected Mental Influences of 2009
9. Children of the bush
8. Franck Ribery
7. JetBlue
6. Acái smoothies
5. Car Talk with Click & Clack
4. Twilight/Gossip Girl
3. Wii Fit
2. Hollister cologne
1. Everything except good stuff sucking so hard
Clothes That We Fantasized About But Couldn't Afford
1. Ann Demeulemeester lace-up sandal boots
2. A double-breasted Dries Van Noten suit
3. The entire Woolrich Woolen Mills Collection
4. A zillion dollar, shimmering Balmain mini-dress
5. The Duckie Brown for Florsheim brogue boots in all five colors
6. A limited-edition three-piece hunter green safari suit designed by Albert Hammond
7. Acne x Lanvin denim
8. Tsumori Chisato pajamas
Top 10 things on eBay that Nick Maggio of LA-based site A Time to Get Can't Live Without But Won't Be Bidding On (in no particular order)
Least Believable Moments in Fashion
1. That Giovanna Battaglia actually ate this.
2. That 13-year-old style prodigy Tavi writes her own blogs.
3. That Lady Gaga thought showing up to meet the Queen of England dressed as a kinky Queen of Hearts was a good idea.
4. That Alexander McQueen designed shoes that look like the big toe of T-Rex
5. That Rick Ross kept his shirt on.
6. That fashion people think leggy Dutch model Lara Stone is fat at a size 4!
7. Amber Rose: some much body, so little spandex.
The Way We Wore: 18 Items That Found Their Way Into Our Sartorial Hearts in 2009
1. Double breasted blazers
2. Wedges
3. Tie-dye
4. Houndstooth
5. Vintage Coogi sweaters
6. Quoddy moccasins
7. Army parkas
8. Sailor stripes
9. Wallabees
10. Sea foam denim
11. Kenyan wedding beads
12. Uniqlo
13. kaftans
14. Fur gilets
15. Texan tuxedos
16. Clogs
17. Backpacks
18. Fez caps
Top Ten New Age Jams Vena Cava Designers Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock Listened to
While Designing Their Fall 09 Crystalarium Collection
1. Jean Michelle Jarre, "Oxygene Part 1″
2. Tangerine Dream, "Chronozon"
3. Om, "Pilgrimage"
4. Laurie Anderson, "Big Science"
5. Bobby Beausoleil, "Movement of The Forth"
6. Bo Hanssen, "Fog on the Borrow-downs"
7. Cocteau Twins, "Beatrix"
8. Gang Gang Dance, "Bebey"
9. Eloy, "Horizons"
10. Andreas Vollenweider, "Caverna Magica"
Top Ten Foods Consumed at the Vena Cava Headquarters That Were purchased Bulk from Staples:
1 Cheese Balls
2 Coffee
3 Generic Brand Swedish Fish
4 Industrial Sized Pretzel Rods
5 Roasted Cashew Pieces
6 Microwave Burritos
7 Fruit Flavored and Mint Flavored Gum
8 Salt Packets
9 Red Vines
10 Hersheys Fun Size Assortment Pack
Top Gastronomical Staff Getaways After or During Long Work Days
6. Thai Son
5. Bar Tabac
4. Dok Suni
3. Pongsri
2. The shelf/table thing next to the garbage cans in the office kitchen
1. Max Fish (in 2009!)
Dean Bein of True Panther's Best Songtitles from a Mixtape He Made When He Was 15 and Found at His Mom's House a Couple Weeks Ago
1. Die Human Race
2. Dankstahz
3. Unholy Ascension
4. Socialized Death Sentence
5. Balls Deep
6. Goat Skrote
7. Pull The Plug
8. Bible Thumpers Go To Hell
9. Worthless Ideal Arrangement
10. Louie, Louie
Best Rapper Twitters
6. Lil Jon
5. Nicki Minaj
4. Juelz Santana
3. French Montana
2. Fabolous
1. Noreaga
**Honorable Mention: Trick Daddy before the intern or whoever just started twitting links
Top 5 Characters from NBC's Ridiculous Thursday Comedy Line-up:
5. Dot Com
4. Grizz
3. Kelly Kapoor
2. April Ludgate
1. Tom Havemeyer
Top Annoying Things FADER Cover Artists Went Through "For Art"
Phoenix: Gave us a bottle of rosé after we stared at it for an entire day
Drake: Flew to Toronto on crutches
Mad Decent: Coordinated all being in Philly at the same time where we shot them separately
Zomby: Agreed to be photographed and interviewed
Bat for Lashes: Took Off Her Shirt
David Byrne: Recorded personal voiceover for a guided tour of his office slideshow
Little Boots: Had us up to her mum's in Blackpool
Animal Collective: Did our jobs for one issue
Six FADER Photographers Choose Their Favorite Images From 2009 That Didn't Make the Published Edit
Jason Nocito – Theophilus London #61
Leonie Purchas – Little Boots #59
Gabriele Stabile – No Place Like Home #64
John Francis Peters – Interwoven #60
FADER Photographer Of The Year! (Ranked By How Often Their Work Appeared In Our Magazine In 2009)
4. Leonie Purchas: 25 pages
3. Peter van Agtmael 28 pages
2. Gabriele Stabile: 34 pages
1. Jason Nocito: 52 pages
Top Five Julie Tumbles of the Decade as Executed by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
5. Breaking ankle during New Year's Eve Y2K on a pile of wet leaves
4. Tripping off curb after FADER 50 party
3. (3,500-way tie) Light stumbles on nothing
2. Dislocating elbow while vogueing
1. While standing on the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic waiting for the crosswalk, in totally normal weather conditions, completely sober, on flat ground, not moving, falling flat on face, having the light turn green and the first car to pass rolling down passenger side window to do Nelson Muntz laugh
Top 11 Beach-Oriented Band Names/Song Titles in No Specific Order from the Year of The Beach:
11. Suckers, "Beach Queen"
10. Mathemagic, "Beach Days"
9. Miracle Fortress, "Beach Baby"
8. Kurt Vile, "Beach On The Moon"
7. Ducktails, "Beach Point Pleasant"
6. Bon Iver, "Beach Baby"
5. Beach Fossils
4. Real Estate, "Beach Comber and Let's Rock The Beach"
3. Wavves, "Beach Demon"
2. Beach House
1. The Amazing, "Beach House"
Top 4 Snow-Oriented Band Names/Song Titles in no Specific Order from NOT the Year of Snow:
4. Miike Snow
3. Deerhunter, "Snow Dogs"
2. Real Estate, "Snow Days"
1. Malakai, "Snowflake"
Top 3 Brother Bands that either broke up or didn't break up:
3. Oasis
2. Kings of Leon
1. Jeff The Brotherhood
Top 4 Underrated Emoticon Faces In Order of Underratedness
4. Zipper mouth face
3. Question mark at the side of the head face
2. Sarcastic face that doesn't look sarcastic at all face
1. The Red angry face
Top Billion DFA Related Records of 2009
16. Pixeltan, "Yamerarena-i" 12-inch
15. Altair Nouveau, "Space Fortress 12-inch
14. Woolfy, If Ya Know What's Good For Ya
13. Holy Ghost, "I Will Come Back" 12-inch
12. Jessica 6, "Fun Girl" 7-inch
11. DJ Kaos, "Love the Night Away (Tiedye Remix)" 12-inch
10. Still Going, "Spaghetti Circus" 12-inch
9. LCD Soundsystem, "Bye Bye Bayou" 12-inch
8. Free Energy, "Free Energy" 7-inch
7. Yacht, Psychic City
6. Black Meteoric Star, "Dominatron" 12-inch
5. Holy Ghost!, The Remixes Vol 1 cassette
4. Black Meteoric Star, "Death Tunnel 12-inch
3. Walter Jones, "I'll Keep On Loving You" 12-inch
2. The Juan Maclean, "Happy House" 12-inch
1. Black Meteoric Star, "Dream Catcher" 12-inch
Top Seven Words That We Have Futilely Banned For 2010
7. Dubious
6. Epic
5. Extra
4. Jam (3rd year in a row)
3. Pause
2. Bone(r)
1. Audible sigh
Top Three Ways That Drake Thinks You are the Prettiest
3. In sweatpants
2. With your hair tied
1. Chilling with no makeup on
Moments That Drove FADER Staff Lovingly Insane in 2009
5. Chioma and Julianne giggling in the "girl corner"
4. Mobolaji drinking all the booze
3. Schnipper playing air guitar three centimeters from your face
2. Sam learning the definition of "gaslighting" and turning it into his life philosophy
1. When Pete downloaded the Mad Decent iPhone app (air hoorrrrn!)
Top Five Nicki Minaj Slang Terms via the Nictionary
5. Alfred Bitchcok
4. Balloon Boy
3. Fire Marshal
2. Tumble Dry
Top Five Lyrics That Prove That Christopher Owens of Girls is a Modern Day Byron, Too Earnest to Be a Modern Day Don Juan, Just a Simple Man with Regular Desires and No Need or Understanding of How to Quell, Mask or Spurn What he Truly Wants
5. Lay in the park, smoke in the dark/ Get high like I used to do/ Summertime soak up the sunshine with you
4. No, I'm never gonna fix up and i might me crazy/ But I've really got it goin' on
3. I've got an ice cream cone, and I'm feeling fine tonight/ And when I get you back home, oh you know I'm gonna do you right, oh yeah
2. I've got a sad song in my sweet heart/ And all I really ever need is some love and attention
1. Let's be the people that we want to be/ Let's live like we could never part
T-Pain's Top Two Songs About Kinds of Girls
2. "Mixed Girl"
1. "Regular Girl"
Top Country This Year Whose Artists Finally Didn't Put Out a Million Incredible Pop Albums, Thus for the First Time in Many Years Making Us Feel Secure about Living in a Country with No Strong Support for the Arts (Not to Mention No Public Health Care)
1. Sweden
Top Seven Wavves Song Titles We Made Up
7. "Pigskin Blaster"
6. "Dementia Beach"
5. "Oat Bran High"
4. "Bummer Weed Face
3. "My Sun, Yr Summer"
2. "Gargoyle Mouth"
1. "Ankle Goth II"
Top Things We Got Stoned To In 2009:
1. The entire Girls album, with a pizza and a bottle of wine.
2. Concert film Fillmore: The Last Days
3. "In Lust" by Eric Wareheim
4. A Mariah Carey music video retrospective
5. The cover of Merriweather Post Pavilion
Top Five Things We Did Not Get Stoned To in 2009
1. The entire Fever Ray album standing on a diving board covered in dirty rags
2. Concert film Michael Jackson's This Is It
3. "Muñecas de Sangre" by Bijoux Altamirano
4. A Metallica music video retrospective
5. The cover of the Flaming Lips' Embryonic
Top 14 Underrated 2009 Songs We Forgot About Until We Hit Shuffle While Coding Listmania (In The Order That They Came On)
14. The Gutsies, "Surfer Body"
13. Evan Voytas, "Astro"
12. Woolfy, "Oh Missy"
11. Assassin, "Gangsta From Mi A Step"
10. Izza Kizza, "Insane With My Pimp Game"
9. Phoenix f. Devendra Banhart, "Rome (Neighbors Remix)"
8. The last minute of Soulja Boy's "Get Em Got Em" where Gucci goes into weird numerology zone
7. The Horrors, "New Ice Age"
6. DJ Normal Nada, "Danca Da Barriga"
5. Lil Wayne f. Drake, "My Darlin Baby"
4. Bauchamp, "Tchumu"
3. Foreign Born, "It Grew On You"
2. Young Dro, "On Fire'
1. "My Girls" by the Animal Collective
Top 12 Animal Pictures Sent by Peter Macia to FADER Staff
12. The Hey Guys We're Almost Done With This Issue BE BRAVE Kitten
11. The I Smell Weed In The Hallway Labrador Retriever
10. The I Have A Meeting Out Of The Office Hang In There While I'm Gone Cat
9. The Does Anyone Know How I Got Home Last Night Dachsund
8. The Do We Have Any Promo Beer Otter
7. The Office Clean Up Day! Random Dog
6. The We're Going To Have To Stay Late To Ship Pages Pug
5. The We Just Broke A Traffic Record Conquering Viking Cat
4. The We're Short-Staffed Today So Do What You Can Kitten
3. The There Hasn't Been A Blog Post In Two Hours What Are You Doing Sleeping Spaniel
2. The HOLY SHIT IT'S THE LAST WORK DAY OF THE YEAR I'M PROUD OF YOU LET'S GET OUT OF HERE French Bulldog
1. The Let's Make Something Out Of Nothing Magical Wizard Pyramid Eyes Cat
Top Songs Inspired By Listmania:
1. Phoenix, "Lisztomania"


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Personnel Profile
Jeong Yang, Lecturer of Computer Science
Ms. Jeong Yang received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from Hallym University, South Korea, and her M.S. degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University. She was in the Ph.D. program in Auburn University for four years. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University -Kingsville in 2008.
Teaching: Ms. Yang has taught or is teaching the following courses: Introduction to Computer Science, Introduction to Computing Using Visual Basic and Excel, Data Structures & Algorithm, Object-Oriented Programming, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Database Systems, Software Engineering I, and Web Application Programming with PHP/MySQL. She received the Dean's award for the Professor of the year of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science in 2013, and the Texas A&M University System Student Recognition Award for Teaching Excellence in Spring 2011. She also was nominated for Non-Tenure Track Teaching Excellence Award and "Be All You Can Be" Faculty Award in 2010.
Research and Scholarly Activities: Ms. Yang is currently working for the project, "Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Capacity Building: Future STEM Teachers in South Texas (F(ST)2)" as a senior programmer to build a Cyber Social Community for stakeholders involved in the project. She slao has two on-going projects, "Development of Texas Animal Control Association Membership Management System" granted from Texas Animal Control Association and "Construction Scheduling with Primavera P6 for Kiewit Olympus TLP project" granted from Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd.
Research Interest: Software Engineering, Software Visualization, (Mobile) Web Engineering
Contact Information
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MSC 192 Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas 78363-8202
voice: (361) 593-2630
fax: (361) 593-4026
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Personal Website: http://yangtamuk.weebly.com/index.html
This page was last updated on: June 11, 2014

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text: Winter Skin Care Tips Winter Skin Boot Camp: 5 Ways to Whip It Into Shape by Guest Writer 1/10/12 0 Reactions 24 Shares Print 1 12 10 1 0 We're delighted to present the following post written by celebrity makeup artist and beauty expert Brett Freedman. Soft, healthy-looking skin seems like such a challenge in the Winter. The first week you put the heat on in your house is the worst. Whose skin doesn't kind of freak out? We all have Summer and Winter clothes, but how many have a Summer and Winter skin care regime? Address these environmental changes with nudges to your face and body moisturizing routine. I recommend a week of boot camp to get skin in supple shape. So get toned right up with my body-beautiful skin care tips. Source: Thinkstock Shower Tips What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Keep it warm, not hot. It's tough to do in the colder months, but this makes a big difference. The hotter the water the more drying, so dial down the temperature a touch. Be sure to also turn off water while using your back brush and washing your body. Not only does this cut down on the steam and heat in the bathroom, but it limits the drying effects of being submerged in water the whole time. Cold rinse? Yes, cold rinse! This step tightens pores and gives you a burst of energy before getting out of the shower. No more sleepy wet noodle pouring out of a hot shower. Source: Thinkstock 1 / 5 Face Wash What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lighten up in the colder months and choose a gentler cleanser for the face. For normal to oily skin (like mine), I love Neutrogena's classic amber liquid ($7). It removes oil without stripping. A few times a week I will also spot wash with Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap (prices vary by size) to clarify. I'll use it just on my forehead and nose if I feel like they are getting bumpy. For drier skin, I heart Dermalogica's Essential Cleansing Solution ($33): a great, basic cleanser that cleans skin but doesn't overdry. 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Just blot your face and body very lightly after the shower. Then, apply your face and body moisturizer while the body still has beads of water on it. If you feel like it's kind of slimy and slick, you're doing it right! It really feels strange, but trust me: your skin will feel and look much more hydrated. Source: Thinkstock 4 / 5 Supermoisturize Dry Areas What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finish by "detailing" using a moisture-binding dab of Vaseline on dry areas. I put Vaseline on my elbows, knees, and feet after every shower. Yes, it's a pain in the butt, but it makes a huge difference. Another little tip is to use a touch of Palmer's Cocoa Butter Balm ($2) over your favorite eye cream. It gives a little extra durability and locks in your eye cream's moisture and ingredients. This is perfect before bed, too. In the drier months, more is more! I'm sure some of you already do these tips, so comment your success so the newbies to some of these ideas get some from-the-field reinforcement. Got any other moisture-friendly tips? Share them with us now. Enjoy Pretty, Brett Source: Thinkstock 6 / 5 1 12 10 1 0 Read More Winter BeautyGuest BlogBrett FreedmanCommunitySkin Care Skin Care Seeing Red? It Could Be Rosacea 21 hours ago 10 Important Things to Know Before You Use Retinoids 1 day ago Electrolysis Will Get Rid of Your Unwanted Hair Forever 2 days ago Dermatologist-Approved DIYs That Save Your Skin After a Sunburn 3 days ago 18 Ways to Simplify Your Beauty Routine With Vaseline 3 days ago Update! New Skin Care Launches You Need to Get a Better-Looking Body 3 days ago Get a Personalized Fashion & Beauty Newsletter! 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I was recently commissioned to create a cover for a middle-grade novel. It will be released around April so look for it then on Amazon!
This is what I'm doing with my fancy art degree.
Angraecum - Regality
Lotus for innocence
Work in progress. Shades come next.
Work in progress.
Sorry for the watermarks, but unfortunately it's become necessary.
Didn't feel finished before. Now it does. Hurrah.
Thesis collection so far.
Anemones for fragility
Digital. Photoshop.
Fly by Dream Themes


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Welcome to The O'Donoghue Society
- July 2014 DNA Project report published
- July journal published
- Davina Gilmore-Stewart appointed to The O'Donoghue Society Council
- Donojhue, Donughue, Dunoghue, Danoghue, Donojhu name variants added from Ellis Island records
- Project 'The Ó Donojús of Spain' being undertaken by Laura Bravo and Eva Millán
- Expand to 20 messages >>
The O'Donoghue Society welcomes everyone of the name, from all over the world, interested in the history and genealogy of our families. The surname has changed in many ways from the Gaelic Irish Ó Donnchadha or Ó Donnchú, and there are a number of different ancestral lineages who have assumed the name Ó Donnchadha in one of its forms. We hope to further our knowledge of the name, however spelt, and help people make connections, both by locating relatives and discovering more about their historical origins.
There are two types of researcher for whom this site is designed. As a subscribing member you will have access to all the resources of the society and to every feature of this site. Our objective is to help you progress your family history research. You will also learn a great deal about the background to and history of our name.
As a guest researcher, for whom there is no subscription, you are able to navigate the entry pages of the features of site. You can only gain access, however, to limited detail. You can use the Message Forum and access The Irish Folklore Centre. Help on research issues will be given if time allows, but members' requirements will take priority.
Registration ensures that you are on the researcher database, and provides password protection. Both members and guests should input their research interests, as it is through knowledge of these that potentially valuable contacts can be made. For a researcher intending to join the society, registration leads to the Pay for Membership process. For guests it gives access to the Message Forum, and enables them to receive regular emails on society activities.
Heroic Landscapes: Irish Myth and Legend
Written by Rod O'Donoghue with paintings by Tighe O'Donoghue/Ross and published by Jo O'Donoghue of Londubh Books, this 256 page book sets out to give a coherent account of the different strands and eras of Irish myth and legend – how the kaleidoscope of stories fit together – and to present them in a way that is accessible to the general reader. In the words of Professor Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the eminent folklorist, 'it fills, uniquely, a gap in Ireland's cultural heritage'. Go to here for more details
The Irish Folklore Centre
Sponsored by The O'Donoghue Society, The Irish Folklore Centre is a new venture to capture people's favourite myths, legends and folk tales together with a related blog in which the country's folklore can be actively discussed all over the world. It is open to folklore enthusiasts of any name and in any country and those interested in Irish history. Go here for more details.
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Your ideas, suggestions and comments on our activities are very important to continuing progress. If you wish to communicate with the society on these, or any other matters, please use Rod O'Donoghue's E-mail page. Full contact details are available here.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The goal of this year's annual Mayor's Summit was on Secondary Transition Services. Metro Mayor Karl Dean hoped to help more children with disabilities find work in the city.
Jimmy Ross is a part of a program called Project Opportunity, a government program aimed at getting young people with disabilities real jobs.
"It's life changing. It's a big step in responsibility. I've learned a lot," said Ross.
The 20-year-old works at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital sterilizing and bar coding instruments for surgery.
"We saw a high turnover rate in entry level positions at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, and we also saw a high amount of unemployment in individuals with disabilities," said Project Opportunity Director Susan Ezell.
Vanderbilt signed on as a partner to the program, and more than a dozen Project Opportunity interns work there.
"More young people like these deserve opportunities. These students and later employees make judgments and preconceived notions disappear," said Dr. Kevin Churchwell at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
Mayor Karl Dean would like to see more of this kind of program.
"It would speak so highly of our city if our city becomes a leader in establishing transitional services - be it for the workforce or higher education for children with special needs," said Dean.
City leaders spent Monday discussing ways to help children with disabilities before they graduate.Be Involved in Your Child's Education
"There is a need here. There is a need in our community, and in our school system," Metro Schools Director Dr. Jesse Register.
A need that many say can be met through programs and partnerships. Elise McMillan is on the Mayor's Council on Special Education and knows her son, Will, had benefited from the program.
"When he talks about the things he's doing at the hospital, and he is somebody that benefitted. He was at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital for surgeries when he was little, and for him to be able to give back, it's very important for him," said McMillan.
The Mayor will use the input from Monday's Mayor's Summit for future plans and programs to help children with disabilities.
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THE opening of a new Greggs at a Brierley Hill shopping centre has created 22 jobs.
Merry Hill welcomed the new bakery shop, which has seating for up to 48 people, and will serve up sausage rolls, sandwiches, cakes, coffee and full-size takeaway pizzas.
Joanna Ellis, shop manager of the Merry Hill shop, said: "I am very proud to be managing this new shop and look forward to welcoming people through the doors to enjoy Greggs' favourites, as well as trying our new product ranges.
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Store Grid Styling Issue
Could someone explain the Grid CSS for the product display? Whenever I show more than 8 products on a page, the layout gets screwed up. I tried editing the following code, but am unable to get the results needed to show 3 (or more ) rows with 4 products each..productListing.productListingGrid li:nth-child(2n+1) {clear: none !important;}.productListing.productListingGrid li:nth-child(5n) {clear: left !important;}
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Vote Up0Vote Down michael_leaplogic March 2012 PermalinkWould it be possible to post the site link? It would be easier to troubleshoot that way.Thanks
Sure thing
- the site is not live yet but you can view the page here -
http://www.ericksonchiroathens.com/productsAny help/suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks
If you get rid of the clear:left on the (5n).productListing.productListingGrid li:nth-child(5n) {clear: none !important;}
they will line up.
P.S. I have problems in the store, where light re-sizes some images but does not always re-size the 'no product image'
@ckinteractive,Thanks for the tip - I tried your suggestion and it does make the first page of products line up, but if you navigate to the 2nd page, the product listing gets screwy again -
http://www.ericksonchiroathens.com/products?paginate=2813338:2Now, if I change the # of products per page to 16, it works for all pages, but I'd like to be able to understand the code and how to change it to fit my needs for future use.With the resizing, I've found that if the images you upload aren't larger than the dimensions you set for the product listing images, it won't resize them. So if I uploaded an image that was 100x100 and set my product listing to 150x150 it wouldn't resize. I haven't had to use the 'no product image' but maybe you could just create your own at the size you need and name it the same as the one currently in the system and replace it with yours.Thanks again for the effort.
it looks like the HHS product image is a different size, so the next one in the list that is supposed to go to the row is getting stuck under it.
the best thing I can think of right now is to put a height (or min-height) on the <li>, then if any of the product images are different sizes it won't matter.
As for my image problem, it goes a little deeper than that. All the images are the same size- made sure of that (including the no product image). Light seems to be resizing some of the images but not always resizing by product type.
Setting the min-height on the li worked. Very much appreciated.I feel like a developer at Light should still take a look at the CSS for the grid display though. The issue will continue to appear for others since it's something that is built in to their default styles and templates.When I first ran into the issue, I tried to see if I could recreate it on a test site to be sure it had nothing to do with my template or styling conflicts -example - https://testsite10.publishpath.com/submitGood luck with your images issue and thanks again for the workaround.
off the top of my head I can't remember if 'min' works in IE 8+.
so double check, you may have to set height only, instead of min-height.
I just looked at it in IE8 and the product pages show 6 rows of 2 products each (on my clients site and my test dev site) - which again, I'm guessing has something to do with the nth-child() on these lines of code.productListing.productListingGrid li:nth-child(2n+1) {clear: none !important;}.productListing.productListingGrid li:nth-child(5n) {clear: left !important;}And another reason the default Grid CSS needs to be looked into. Thanks again for all your input.
don't think IE8 supports nth child.
will try to look at for you. possibly IE8+ (lt) only css product li display:inline (what ever the property name is)
but I haven't tried it - got to boot up another machine.
I can only see the gridViewFix li style in IE8
so try this, but test it for sure
ul.productListing li.gridViewFix {clear:none !important;}
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So what's happening in N Africa and the ME?
All sorts of fun stuff … but has anyone noticed how the coverage of Egypt had all but ceased? What's up with that?
Uncovered by most of the media has been the return from exile of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who has, for years, hosted one of the most watched talks shows on Al Jazeera.
Some of the young activists who launched the Egyptian uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak say they are skeptical about the military's pledges to hand over power to a democratically elected government.
They also warned Western diplomats in Cairo Monday that the remnants of Mubarak's regime that still hold positions of power could overturn the uprising's gains.
Nah … that can't be true can it? And who do those who ran through the streets denouncing Mubarak, Israel and the US want to help ensure the military keeps its word?
The seven activists – representatives of a broad coalition of youth groups – also called on the international community to support Egypt's transition toward democracy, and asked for help in tracking down Mubarak's assets – rumored to be in the billions of dollars.
The activists spoke as senior U.S. and European officials, including British Prime minister David Cameron, were to arrive in Cairo for talks with the country's military leaders.
Why us, of course.
Meanwhile in Gadaffi land, things have gone from bad to worse. The old boy has managed to get a fatwa issued against him.
'Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should do so,' Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television.
Qaradawi also told the Libyan army not to fire on protestors. And there are reports in some areas of Libya that those instructions are being followed.
Probably most interesting about the collapse going on in Libya are the words of Gadaffi's son about what may follow:
"Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt. Libya is composed of clans and tribes. There are alliances. Libya does not have a civil society with political parties. No, Libya is composed of clans and tribes. [...]
"There will be civil war in Libya. We will return to the civil war of 1936. We will kill one another in the streets. Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt. Libya has oil, and that is what united the country. An American oil company played a pivotal role in the unification of Libya.
"We have a single source of income – oil. It is found in central Libya – not in the east or the west. It is in central and south Libya. That is what all five million Libyans live off. If secession takes place – who will give us food and water? Who will control the oil wells? Who is capable of managing the oil sector in Libya? [...]
"We will be forced to emigrate from Libya, because we will not be able to divide the oil between us. There will be war, and all of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country, because today, everyone will want to be president, or Emir, and everybody will want to run the country.
"Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt. Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt."
Interesting points about Libyan society (lack of political parties meaning lack of democratic institutions/tribes and clans – Afghanistan in N. Africa, except it has oil.) Of course he also said:
"There is no alternative other than to adopt a firm stand. I tell you that the army will play a central role in this, and the Libyan army is not like the army of Tunisia or of Egypt.
"Our army will support Libya and Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi to the last moment, and it will be victorious, Allah willing. Matters will be set straight. We will destroy all the dens of strife. [...]
"In any event, our morale is high. The leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi is here in Tripoli, leading the campaign. We stand by him, and the armed forces stand by him. Tens of thousands of people are on their way to Tripoli. We will not sell Libya short. We will fight to our very last man, woman, and bullet. Under no circumstances will we leave our country.
"Let Al-Jazeera TV, Al-Arabiya TV, and the BBC laugh at us. Let those bullies and those traitors, who live abroad, laugh at us, and say that we are destroying our country, but we will not leave it." [...]
And he's considered the "reasonable" one in the Gadaffi family. My guess is our State Department has no clue about the societal implications and probable outcome of this particular revolution – so I expect sunny, moon-pony pronouncements about "democracy advancing" in Libya to be their stock answer to everything.
Morocco, Bahrain and Yemen are also undergoing disturbances and protests in some form or fashion – and some of those are being met with violent government crackdowns.
Meanwhile in Iran:
Antigovernment protesters gathered throughout parts of Iran on Sunday, most concentrated in the capital Tehran, to mark the deaths of two men killed during demonstrations last Monday. The government mounted a stultifying security presence in the capital, with the police making arrests and using tear gas to try to prevent the unrest from escalating.
The security forces seemed prepared for them, and in some locations, witnesses reported that police officers and baton-holding mercenaries outnumbered the protesters. There were reports of police officers firing on the crowds, although those could not be confirmed, because most foreign journalists were not allowed to report in Iran.
Opposition Web sites and witnesses said that ambulances were driven into the crowds. Security forces, including riot-control units on motorcycles, deployed tear gas to disperse crowds in several places, including near Valiasr Square and Vanak Square.
Plainclothes officers stopped and frisked people on the streets and removed people from vehicles, witnesses said.
Business as usual. And if not busy enough at home, Iran has decided now was a good time to provoke Israel by sending two warships through the Suez canal for "exercises" with Syria – the first time in 30 years Iranian warships have transited the canal.
Finally, something else to keep an eye on:
BEIJING—Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a "Jasmine Revolution" in China by protesting in 13 cities—just a day after President Hu Jintao called for tighter Internet controls to help prevent social unrest.
Only a handful of people appeared to have responded to the call to protest in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other cities at 2 p.m. Sunday, a call first posted on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com and circulated mainly on Twitter, which is blocked in China.
Yeah, probably not happening — yet.
Not a good week for authoritarians it appears. Of course be careful what you wish for – while we may see one crop of authoritarians shunted to the side, there is no indication that anything other than a different type of authoritarian regime would replace it in many of these places. Change is definitely in the air. But whether that's finally a "good thing" remains to be seen.
NYT: Blogs "wane" as young set moves to sites like Twitter
In another example of how little the NYT knows about blogging (but fervently wishes for the day they'd just go away and the Times could get back to the good old days of deciding what is news or just flat making it up), it reports today that blogs are on the "wane". Check out this paragraph:
Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook, where his friends were sure to see and comment on his editing skills.
"I don't use my blog anymore," said Mr. McDonald, who lives in San Francisco. "All the people I'm trying to reach are on Facebook."
This is the lead for the story. It is clueless.
Some 17 year old who likes to make videos doesn't use his blog to show them off anymore, but instead uses Facebook – and that sounds the death knell of blogs?
What this youngster wanted to do was show his vids off to a few (tens? hundreds?) friends at most. Facebook is a much better venue for that. In fact, it's an even better venue than YouTube because your friends have to go to YouTube to find your vids vs. having them delivered to their Facebook page via your posting. It. Makes. Perfect. Sense.
But … it says more about the misapplication of blogging (for what the young man wanted to accomplish) than the demise of blogging.
Twitter – same thing. For some things it's perfect. For others, a blog is perfect. Depends on what you want to do. Like say anything that takes more than 142 characters. Blogs, Twitter and Facebook are all networking tools that provide an application that helps accomplish what the user wants to accomplish.
The case the NYT is trying to make is blogs will die out as the younger demographic moves to different venues:
The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier.
Well here's a news flash – I don't read "children" or their blogs and they most likely don't read mine. But note the next demo – 18-to-33 year olds – suffered a whole 2% decline from two years earlier.
As of Feb. 16th, 2011, according to Wikipedia, there were 156 million blogs in existence. A two percent drop in two years is simply statistically insignificant. And, blogs aren't just for "social networking" as the Times would like you to believe. Nor do they require writing "lengthy posts" unless you want too.
Blogs went largely unchallenged until Facebook reshaped consumer behavior with its all-purpose hub for posting everything social. Twitter, which allows messages of no longer than 140 characters, also contributed to the upheaval.
No longer did Internet users need a blog to connect with the world. They could instead post quick updates to complain about the weather, link to articles that infuriated them, comment on news events, share photos or promote some cause — all the things a blog was intended to do.
Phenomenal – I never had to blog to "connect with the world". Nor was any blog I was a part of "intended" for comments on the weather or to just share photos.
I hadn't waited on blogs to "connect with the world" – that had been available for years via email, first through bulletin board systems, then through Usenet and Google Groups. Blogs are just another method of doing so and may someday be supplanted by something else. But on the wane because of Facebook and Twitter?
All I can say is if Twitter is now the first choice of someone who was once blogging, they were never a serious blogger to begin with. And, if Facebook is now the choice of a blogger, they've greatly narrowed their outreach to only those who subscribe to them. The fact that they're on Facebook, even with an open page, doesn't mean anyone is going to read them any more than when they had a blog.
Obviously things are going to change and evolve in the online media and social networking world, but as much as the NYT would love to declare the blog dead and gone, it's not even close.
And a little note for the editors and publishers of the Times – when blogs have finally gone the way of the dodo bird, the NYT will most likely have predeceased them by a substantial amount of time. My guess is Hot Air has as many or more readers than the Times does. HuffPo just went for 300 plus million to AOL. Point me toward the last major newspaper that sold for that much.
Who is winning the public relations fight in Wisconsin?
Rasmussen says it's Republican governor Scott Walker:
A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and nearly half side with the governor.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think teachers, firemen and policemen should be allowed to go on strike, but 49% disagree and believe they should not have that right. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.
And finally:
Public employee unions have long been strong supporters, financially and otherwise, of Democratic Party candidates, so it's no surprise that 68% of Democrats support the union workers in the Wisconsin dispute. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans and 56% of voters not affiliated with either of the major political parties side with the governor. [emphasis mine]
The bold line is key. I find nothing particularly surprising about either of the percentages from Democrats polled or Republicans. But again this indicates that the Democrats have lost the independent vote and lost it significantly. Public opinion, based on this poll, is definitely with the Governor.
What is playing out in Wisconsin has been recognized by unions as a hill they must die on or suffer the probably irreversible consequences of losing political power. They also understand the potential reaches far outside Wisconsin. If Wisconsin goes, others could follow:
"Some of the labor people are saying, 'It's the beginning of the fight back,'" said a top labor official. "But if the labor movement rallies and gets run over in Wisconsin, it opens [the gates] in every state" for governors to start pushing harder to curtail labor rights.
"Not every state's going to roll back collective bargaining," the official — who, like many, spoke off the record to avoid undermining the protests — added, but said it could open the gates for union losses on various fronts, like benefits.
Don't be fooled – this isn't just about "benefits". It is about power, politics and money. The mix of those three have given public sector unions a synergy that has allowed them, in many places, to hand pick Democratic representatives, have them elected and then have them do the union's business. It is a pernicious and non-competitive arrangement that is finally, because of the financial downturn, coming to light.
But the unions have a problem. They haven't been able to sell the emotional argument (benefits) and they certainly aren't about to try to explain the real reason they're fighting this (power and money). So what they're having to deal with the the public's perception, formed over many years in Wisconsin, that the public sector costs too much, has to be cut and that includes public sector employee benefits as well:
But this fight isn't at the time or place of the unions' choosing. Hostility to public-sector workers, including teachers, is at an all-time high amid a recession and a new national mania for curbing the tide of fiscal red ink. Walker appears to have a firm legislative majority on his side.
And labor is struggling to explain — and convince a voting public that has inched away from the concept of unions as a bedrock American institution over the years — that while it's willing to be flexible on Walker's demands for cost control, his attempts to change the rules governing public unions are a matter of institutional life and death and union principle. Labor hopes the public will see Walker's attempt to use a budget gap to reshape labor-management relations as an overreach. But for many people watching from afar, the details of what Walker wants to accomplish have gotten lost, and the fight is playing out as yet another in a long string of recent state-based brawls over the high cost of the public sector.
So public sector unions have a heck of a PR problem not only in Wisconsin, but if the Rasmussen poll is to be believed, throughout the US. Nationally that could mean this:
Bradley Tusk, a former Illinois deputy governor and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager, said that if Walker succeeds in the fight, "this will be portrayed as a major change toward fiscal sanity and protecting taxpayers."
"The average voter will never feel any pain from it," he added, "so the high ground shifts away from labor. That puts Obama and other Democrats in the position of being forced further to the left, or moving more toward the GOP position and risking losing support from labor. … This almost creates some of the problems that a primary forces on the challenger."
And the union's "winning strategy" to counter that?
As a broader issue, in other states, national union officials think they've found a winning strategy in shifting the fight off government and slamming Wall Street, armed with repeated polls that show anti-financial industry sentiment at an all-time high.
Apparently, however, union officials don't understand that it isn't an "either/or" situation. The public blames both for different reasons. But more importantly, the public realizes "what is, is" and you deal with it. Whether they believe (or not) that Wall Street is to blame, that doesn't change the fact that the problem (budget deficit) has to be confronted and solved and part of the solution has to be borne by public sector employees.
Norman Adler, a longtime lobbyist for public sector labor unions in New York, says the unions have to fight – that this is not something they can walk away from. And, if they lose in Wisconsin, they "have to reconfigure their tactics and move on." But, he says:
"Labor pretty much lost the PR fight a number of years ago," he said, suggesting the true targets of opportunity at the moment are state lawmakers who are "on the fence," and can be swayed because they're worried about getting elected back home. "And I think their position is that they have to show political muscle here."
Translation: this could get even nastier.
Watch for it.
WI Republicans – snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Why is it that in almost every scenario imaginable, where a stiff spine, adherence to principle and with public support behind them ensures political victory, there always seems to emerge a group willing to compromise (unnecessarily) before the fight is over?
With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate that has drawn thousands of protesters to the state capital for a sixth straight day.
The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public employee unions to be eliminated – per Mr. Walker's bill – but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultzs's chief of staff Todd Allbaugh.
"Dale is committed to find a way to preserve collective bargaining in the future," said Mr. Allbaugh in a telephone interview.
Really? Why? Because one of the major reasons the state is having to rescind the sweetheart deals made to state workers is the result of the so-called "collective bargaining" done in the past.
Consider this – in the private sector, corporations compete against other corporations for market share. The demands of competitiveness help keep union demands in check as both sides in a negotiation understand that going to far will cripple the corporation in terms of its competition and may cost everyone their job. So private sector union members have been paying a higher portion of their wages toward their own pension and health care than public union members.
There's also an healthy adversarial relationship between labor and management that lends to checking the benefits allowed.
There is no competitive atmosphere within the public sector nor is there much of any adversarial relationship present. In short, there are none of the checks on those unions that a competitive atmosphere puts on private sector unions.
Secondly, the public sector unions have become huge players in state and national politics. What happens is the guy they help elect is the guy with whom they often end up sitting across the negotiations table. What do you think the union extracts as promises from politicians they support for election? Well of course, sweetheart deals like those enjoyed by the unions members in Wisconsin where the taxpayer is dunned for their pension and health care benefits instead of the union member.
The bill in question is an important one. It would also remove the requirement that state employees must join the union to hold a job in state government. That, of course, scares the living daylights out of the union leadership. Why?
Because it breaks their monopoly control on government employees, it removes their ability to use the state to require and collect union dues for them and it threatens their ability to fund political activities and further extend their power.
And then there's the accountability "problem" they'll suddenly face. The Wisconsin bill would require the union to hold a yearly recertification vote by secret ballot. Until now, with mandated membership and the state collecting dues for the union (via payroll deduction), the union has had no need or requirement to be accountable to its members. Members have had no choice but to join the union regardless of whether they wanted to or agreed with the union's direction. With the passage of this bill the union would suddenly have an accountability requirement. As you might imagine, they want nothing to do with that.
With all of the liberty enhancing aspects of this bill as they pertain to the Wisconsin public service unions, why in the world are some "moderate" Republicans getting wobbly in the knees (thankfully Gov. Walker is standing his ground)? They have a strong case, they have a voter mandate, they have public opinion on their side, union members are acting like spoiled children and their political opponents have shut down state government.
But with Democratic senators indicating they are willing to remain away from the capital indefinitely, state government remains shut down with no end in sight.
That's bad on them. So why is Dale Schultz trying to entice them back to the table with an absurdity like suspending collective bargaining rights for only 2 years? It shouldn't be their side that is showing signs of giving in, it should be the Democrats who've run off to another state to avoid doing their job. Let public pressure work on them.
It is to the advantage of the state GOP to let the Democrats carry out this travesty for as long as they wish. Let the so-called public servants stay off the job and throw their selfish tantrums in the capitol. It doesn't reflect well on them and the public will finally tire of it.
But if the GOP there capitulates and compromises it will most likely turn the public opinion tables on them and encourage the unions and Democrats there and elsewhere to duplicate the tactics that forced the compromise.
For once, I'd like to see the GOP stand its ground – firmly – and invite the opposition to give it their best shot. I think Democrats have badly misread this situation and are in the middle of hurting themselves. What's the old political axiom: when your opponent is in the middle of self-destruction, get out of their way and let the process continue – or something like that. WI "moderate" Republicans need to grow a pair and stand their ground. What they're proposing is in the best interest of the state and its citizens, and that is what they were elected to concern themselves with.
Observations: The QandO Podcast for 20 Feb 11
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the demonstrations by public employee unions in Wisconsin, and the wave of protests across the Mideast.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
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Carter: Obama has given up on Middle East peace
Former President Jimmy Carter is not at all impressed with Barack Obama's efforts toward Middle East peace. Speaking Tuesday at the LBJ library's annual Harry Middleton Lectureship series, Carter said that in terms of the peace process in the Middle East, "nothing is going on."
Answering a question about Egypt, the former president praised President Obama's handling of the situation there saying he's "done quite well" and that Obama has handled it "about the same way I'd have handled it if I'd been in office."
However, on the broader question of the Middle East peace process, Carter was much less complimentary saying, "President Obama has basically given up on peace in the Middle East."
Pointing out that Obama had started out well, Carter blasted Obama by claiming that he'd now become "more accommodating to Netanyahu and Israel than George W. Bush was." Trying to dampen his critique of the Obama administration, Carter said he really wasn't there to criticize, but he'd been asked a question and that was the answer. "I don't have any feeling of success for what President Obama had done in the Middle East", Carter concluded.
The session was an hour long question and answer period on a wide range of topics including Carter's run for the presidency, his term in office and his work after he left office. In it Carter's most pointed remarks came during the discussion of the Middle East peace process.
Often cited as someone who cozies up to dictators, Carter admitted to having "lunch or dinner" each time he went to Egypt with Omar Suleiman, the intelligence chief, because he knew "more about the Middle East than anyone", and he described Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad as a "young, fairly progressive president" who had "inherited" the presidency from his father.
But it seems that even the likes of Jimmy Carter knows an empty suit when he see's one and a person from whom you would expect to see fairly significant support can't find it in himself to say anything positive about the Obama Middle East peace initiative – or lack thereof.
Madison equals Cairo? Not even close
It's a cold day in hell here as I favorably quote someone who I usually savage. And I have to revise my thoughts on the left not getting irony – apparently some do. Who am I taking about? Joe Klein. Yup that Joe Klein, TIME's Joe Klein. He actually gets it:
Revolutions everywhere–in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they're protesting against it. I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting "Freedom, Democracy, Union" while trying to prevent a vote? Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Senators have fled the democratic process? Isn't it interesting that some of those who–rightly–protest the assorted Republican efforts to stymie majority rule in the U.S. Senate are celebrating the Democratic efforts to stymie the same in the Wisconsin Senate?
An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that.
I know … you're wondering, "what did they do with the real Joe Klein", but hey give the devil his due (keeping with the cold day in hell metaphor) – he's exactly right.
The other Klein, the Ezra type, not so much.
Let's be clear: Whatever fiscal problems Wisconsin is — or is not — facing at the moment, they're not caused by labor unions.
That, sir, is irrelevant. Whatever "fiscal problems" are present need to be solved by having across the board spending cuts and that's the point of requiring public service labor union members to pitch in a little more on their benefits. Essentially what Wisconsin is trying to do is put state employees on an even par with private employees in terms of benefits.
Here's the bottom line of what is triggering these protests:
Besides limiting collective-bargaining rights for most workers—excepting police, firefighters and others involved in public safety—it would require government workers, who currently contribute little or nothing to their pensions, to contribute 5.8% of their pay to pensions, and pay at least 12.6% of health-care premiums, up from an average of 6%.
Wow. No more free lunch. Can't imagine that, can you? You know, actually having to pitch in for your pension and health-care? Privately employed citizens have been doing that forever. So why are the public sector folks exempt? Well that's the dirty little secret isn't it?
Let's go to Matt Welch for the answer:
We are witnessing the logical conclusion of the Democratic Party's philosophy, and it is this: Your tax dollars exist to make public sector unions happy. When we run out of other people's money to pay for those contracts and promises (most of which are negotiated outside of public view, often between union officials and the politicians that union officials helped elect), then we just need to raise taxes to cover a shortfall that is obviously Wall Street's fault. Anyone who doesn't agree is a bully, and might just bear an uncanny resemblance to Hitler.
There is Wisconsin in a nutshell – distilled as well as you'll find it anywhere. These deals were mostly pay for play and the state's taxpayers were sold down the river. I noted some months ago that the Democrats have become the party of public service unions instead of the party of the blue collar worker. They are dependent on the money and machine those powerful unions provide to stay in power.
And when that machine falters? Well, you get tantrums like this. Remember the union protesters in Illinois a few months ago clamoring for the governor there to raise taxes instead of cutting their benefits? Just like Ezra Klein they want to lay off the fiscal mess on others instead of recognizing its reality and understanding that the free ride has come to an end. It doesn't matter if the unions had anything to do with the mess – the mess says everything is on the table. That's the only way out of the mess.
But, this is Armageddon for the Democrats and their stakeholders. If states succeed in breaking the hold public service unions have on government, Democrats stand to lose substantial power. That explains why President Obama has entered the fray. While he wouldn't back the protesters in Iran because it might be seen as meddling in the internal affairs of the state, he has no qualms whatsoever of meddling in the internal affairs of the state of Wisconsin. Apparently elections only have consequences when he wins.
What has the unions so terrified of the Walker plan? Well here's the plan:
His plan allows workers to quit their union without losing their job. He requires unions to demonstrate their support through an annual secret-ballot vote. He also ends the unfair taxpayer subsidy to union fundraising: The state and local government would stop collecting union dues with their payroll systems.
Under that plan, union membership would be an actual choice instead of a mandated requirement to hold a job. Horror of horrors. How dare a governor advance something which actually enhances freedom (choice = freedom) – why that makes him a dictator, of course and akin to Hitler.
Make no mistake, these protests in Madison aren't about democracy, freedom or liberty. They're about the left's power and something they love to project on the right and Wall Street – selfishness. The protests are a collective tantrum from adolescents who refuse to acknowledge that their special-interest Candyland no longer exists and while it did, it existed on the back of the tax payers who were made to unwillingly subsidizing their way of life.
This is the wrong fight, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Democrats are on the wrong side. Public sector unions are not popular and despite Ezra Klein's denial, are held responsible for some of the fiscal problems the states face (like pensions):
A new poll from the Washington-based Clarus Group asked:
Do you think government employees should be represented by labor unions that bargain for higher pay, benefits and pensions … or do you think government employees should not be represented by labor unions?
A full 64% of the respondents said "no."
That includes 42% of Democrats, and an overwhelming majority of Republicans. Only 49% of Democrats think public workers should be in unions at all.
So, as you watch these "protests" keep them in context. They're an astroturfed attempt, orchestrated from the highest office in the land, to keep the power current structure in place that underpins the political power of the Democrats. This isn't about rights or liberty or freedom, this is about power and money. And it has finally unmasked the left in this country and revealed what it is really all about.
Canadian court rules baby must die as it decides, not as the parents request
This is sure to revive talk of death panels. And I'm afraid I simply don't understand the reasoning here. But it is a stark example of the state making decisions that should be left to the people involved – in a free country, that is.
A Windsor, Ont. couple's fight to bring their gravely ill baby home to die ended in bitter tears Thursday when a Superior Court judge dismissed their appeal to stop doctors from removing the infant's breathing tube at the hospital.
The father and relatives of one-year-old Joseph Maraachli wept outside a London courthouse after an emotional Justice Helen Rady upheld the earlier decision of an independent provincial tribunal forcing the baby's parents to comply with doctors' orders.
With all of their legal avenues exhausted, the family will have to say goodbye to Joseph Monday morning — on Family Day — when his breathing tube will be removed.
Apparently the baby has a rare neurological disease which has put him in a "severe and deteriorating neurological condition that has left him in a persistent vegetative state, according to specialists in London, Ont., who've examined him. "
Bottom line, the child is dying. It is now to the point where the baby can't swallow or breath on his own. The parents know and understand that. They know the child will die. They're not asking the state to try and save their baby. Instead, what they are asking – what they have to ask, apparently – is permission of the state to take their child home and let the baby die among "friends and loved ones".
Pretty outrageous request, isn't it? And yet they don't have the final say.
The parents had petitioned the regional medical board for a tracheotomy to be performed on the child to facilitate their ability to take him home with them. That would have opened up a direct airway which would have made it possible to take the baby home and let it die there.
Oh, too much to ask apparently. Remember, the baby is dying. It's going to die. There's no question about that – everyone involved knows it will be dead in a matter of hours if not days. The parents are not asking for heroic or extended (and expensive) treatment be continued. Just a tracheotomy.
The reason given for the refusal?
But doctors refused to perform the procedure, citing serious risks of infection, pneumonia and other possible complications.
It's a bit like refusing a lung cancer patient with stage 4 cancer a final cigarette because it might kill them. The reason is absurd on its face. But apparently enough that a judge decided for the state and not the parents. So instead of risking infection or pneumonia and letting the parents take their child home to die, the state insists on removing the breathing tube in the hospital and letting the child smother to death there.
Maraachli and Nader went before the Consent and Capacity Board of Ontario, an independent body that deals with matters under the Health Care Consent Act, which sided with the doctors in late January and agreed that it was in Joseph's best interest to have the breathing tube removed.
Don't you love it when something called the "Consent and Capacity Board" has the final say on what is in the "best interest" of a child, rather than the parents?
Given the structure and effect of this monstrosity called ObamaCare, that is the probable end state we'll eventually see here – an insurance industry which will collapse and in answer to the "problem" which government created, a single-payer system will be implemented. And you can bet that something along the line of the "Consent and Capacity Board" will eventually take all such decisions out of your hands and make them exclusively the decision of the state.
(HT: All American Blogger)
Wisconsin heats up while "civility" takes a holiday on the left
Wisconsin is a great example of special interest constituency politics. I'm not talking about politics that focus on the constituents in your district or state if you're an elected representative or senator. I'm talking about special-interest constituents who provide you money and backing when you seek election or reelection – whether from your district or not.
That's pretty much what is going on in Wisconsin boils down too. Wisconsin's Republican Governor, Scott Walker has proposed a number of ways to "repair" the budget. In summary, those aimed at public service unions place limits on their existing power:
It would require most public workers to pay half their pension costs – typically 5.8% of pay for state workers – and at least 12% of their health care costs. It applies to most state and local employees but does not apply to police, firefighters and state troopers, who would continue to bargain for their benefits.
Except for police, firefighters and troopers, raises would be limited to inflation unless a bigger increase was approved in a referendum. The non-law enforcement unions would lose their rights to bargain over anything but wages, would have to hold annual elections to keep their organizations intact and would lose the ability to have union dues deducted from state paychecks.
Apparently such limits are simply outrageous. Unions hold annual elections? Public workers pay more toward their pensions and health care costs? And, of course, the bargaining "rights" curtailed in everything but wages?
So that's prompted an astroturf campaign which has involved organizations outside Wisconsin, to include the White House. The one thing public sector unions can do effectively it seems is "flash mobs". Reports of advertisements in Illinois aimed at recruiting activists for protests in Wisconsin were common.
The Democratic National Committee also has involved themselves in the local fight.
The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America arm — the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign — is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.
OfA Wisconsin's field efforts include filling buses and building turnout for the rallies this week in Madison, organizing 15 rapid response phone banks urging supporters to call their state legislators, and working on planning and producing rallies, a Democratic Party official in Washington said.
So anyone who thinks this is all "spontaneous" might want to buy a clue.
Meanwhile, all the Democratic state senators in Wisconsin have run off to Rockford, Ill to avoid having to do their jobs. You see, Republicans hold a majority, but are one short of a quorum needed to pass legislation. So without the Democrats, the Senate is unable to act on legislation. Democrats have issued a "list of demands":
"We demand that the provisions that completely eliminate the ability of workers… to negotiate on a fair basis with their employers be removed from the budget repair bill and any other future budget," Miller said.
He also demanded legislative oversight on changes to the state's medical programs, which are targeted for changes in the bill. The bill would also require union members to contribute to their health care and pensions.
My guess is there's some negotiating room there, but if I were the governor I'd tell Dems that there'll be no talk about their demands until they act like adults and show back up in the capital ready to do their jobs. And Governor Walker has laid out the alternative fairly clearly:
Walker said the only alternative would be layoffs of 10,000 to 12,000 state and local employees.
Of course, without a quorum, that isn't the strongest hand in the world. But what Democrats are doing sure seems like a childish tantrum in my eyes. Republicans may not have a quorum and state government may grind to a halt because of it, but I doubt that voters are going to blame members of the GOP for that.
All of this has spawned the usual misinformation as charges and counter-charges fly. Ed Schultz provides an example of a completely false statement about the controversy according to Politifact Wisconsin. Said Shultz:
Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin "who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight."
Not true. Although state employees would have to pay a higher percentage for their benefits (in the 6 to 11% range) none are looking at "20 percent of their income disappear[ing] over night".
Unions have been losing favor in the eyes of the American public for years, with a fairly sharp downturn in their popularity in 2007. Since then their favorability rating has stayed about the same, but unfavorable numbers continue to build:
Americans' attitudes about labor unions changed only slightly over the past year, following a sharp downturn between early 2007 and early 2010. Currently, 45% say they have a favorable opinion about labor unions, while nearly as many (41%) say they have an unfavorable opinion.
In January 2007, 58% said they had a favorable opinion of unions; 31% had an unfavorable opinion.
Tantrums like this, astroturfing and the plain old uncivil behavior aren't going to help their case. Ann Althouse has some examples of the latter. It appears that Adolph Hitler has made a comeback among the left in Wisconsin. Civility is only a requirement for those on the right, apparently. The left – well it's the left and any insult and comparison, no matter how outrageous, is perfectly fine. Godwin's law is in effect in Wisconsin.
I think Wisconsin is only the beginning of these sorts of spectacles and fights. Entrenched bureaucracies and unions aren't going to give up their power easily and go quietly in the night. How they conduct themselves in this sort of fight will be important though. The point, one assumes, is to bring visibility to their arguments and persuade the public to back them. If that's the case, I don't think the way the Wisconsin protesters (and legislators) are prosecuting their case will be held up as a model to be emulated.
Cuts are coming – whether made willingly or forced by reality. There's no escaping that. Gov. Walker is trying to get ahead of that curve.
Human nature says no one wants to see their ox gored, regardless of reality's demands. But in a battle for public opinion, acting like children, calling people Nazis and importing out-of-state protesters in what is really a local fight doesn't seem to be the best way to get the public on your side.
Quote of the Day–lefty logic edition
When is a penalty not a penalty? Ask Rep Shelia Jackson-Lee (D-TX). Yesterday she told the House Judiciary Committee that the requirement imposed on individuals to buy health insurance doesn't really constitute a penalty for non-compliance:'
"I would make the argument, one, that instead it is an incentive to do right–that it is not penalizing because penalty is punishment," Jackson-Lee told the Judiciary Committee.
"You're not punished if you have health insurance, in fact. And so you are, in fact, incentivized to have health insurance, rather than take the negative which is to suggest that because we have a penalty you are being punished," Rep. Jackson-Lee said.
"I am helping you. I am helping you not to have 26 percent un-insurance in the state of Texas. I'm helping children be insured. I'm helping diverse minorities be insured," said Rep. Jackson-Lee. "And I know during the civil rights argument–even though we were arguing under the Constitution–there were many policy statements being made: Do we want to live in a nation that discriminates against a person because of the color of their skin? In addition to the constitutional argument, do we want to live in a nation where there are people being uninsured causing catastrophic costs unto the nation and others have to pay. I think that is the question that needs to be considered by the courts."
Unfortunately for Rep. Jackson-Lee, who may have never actually read the bill, the law is quite specific about non-compliance.
"If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) [having a government-approved health-insurance policy]… there is hereby imposed a penalty with respect to the individual."
Elsewhere, in a section entitled "Payment of Penalty," it says that individuals failing to carry a government-approved health insurance policy must pay a maximum penalty of $750.
Meanwhile back in the runaway logic train of Ms. Jackson-Lee:
"But I also need to say whether or not it is more an incentive than it is a punishment," said Rep. Jackson-Lee. "I am more inspired by incentive. And I welcome it being a parking ticket. We get parking tickets all the time, and no one complains about being required to do the right thing."
One of those bright stars – because of the level of intrusion we're allowed this government to make – who are making decisions about your life.


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Not having a job lined up for the summer, a student at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has been spending her time watching proceedings in the high-profile Manhattan insider-trading case of Rajat K. Gupta
Benula Bensam also wrote several letters to U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who has been presiding over the Southern District of New York case.
This week, she learned an unexpected legal lesson, the New York Times' DealBook blog reports.
First, according to Bensam, she was taken aside on Monday and grilled by federal marshals about whether she had been trying to influence the outcome of the case. Then she was called into a private conference with the judge and attorneys for both sides on Wednesday, at which Rakoff politely asked her not to send him any more communications, explaining that they could be taken amiss, she told the newspaper.
"I didn't think I was doing anything wrong," said Bensam. "But now I know."
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Modest, Calif., spreads across a well-irrigated valley a few hours east of the Pacific Ocean. The town is prospering and growing rapidly — probably due at least partly to the proliferation of orchards surrounding it. Bee hives and dairy farms also have their niche in the area.
This is a land of milk and honey. It is also home to a well-established settlement of German Baptists (GBs).
The eight of us Amish youth pull into Modesto on the train in the late forenoon of this sunny July 5. As promised, my friend Lowell Beachler is there to meet us.
After Lowell and company get us settled in, he takes us to the church's community building. There is another GB extended family holding something of a reunion here. There are volleyball nets in here, as well as basketball courts. The Rumbles welcome us warmly and we help them play volleyball.
AFTER THE volleyball game, we boys gravitate toward the basketball court. This is where it gets interesting.
These people don't know us. We are thousands of miles from home. And there are ample opportunities for chicanery. This is way too good for friend Mike to resist.
"So what is the game called?"
"Basketball, you say?"
"What is the object of the game?"
"How did you say you score points?"
This is like Henry Ford asking how to put an automobile together.
Mike shoots a few awkward shots underhanded to continue his ignorant act. Then, resigned to teaching us the game, some of the friendly and athletic Rumble men agree to play Mike, Calvin and me in a three-on-three match-up.
BEFORE WE actually get started, Mike does confess that basketball is his favorite game. Then the three of us manage to win all our games. Who would blame the Rumbles for feeling like twisting our ears?
We have a good conversation with one of the patriarchs, John Rumble, who serves as a missionary in China. He relates some interesting accounts of his experiences.
John asks us four boys to sing for them. We oblige. I think we owe them that. We stand together and sing the "Lob Lied" ("Praise Song") to the tune of "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Rumble and Co. reciprocate by singing for us and send us off with a sno-cone.
THAT EVENING we enjoy our time around the campfire at Jon and Bev Flora's place, where our four ladies are staying.
The ice is melting and our hosts are beginning to realize that some of our number have an ornery streak. We spend time on the important things, too — singing hymns together. Per their request, we sing a verse of our "Lob Lied" in our normal slow fashion.
The next day we awake to a gorgeous Saturday morning in California. Oh, this is pleasant!
Lowell and his wife, Doris, take us through Modesto and to the home of Tim and Mitzi Frantz.
We get a hint of what's in store for us there as we pull in the driveway past a field with Tim's zebra herd in it.
From the backseat, Mike comments on the strange spots that herd of horses has. Calvin, Steven and I have been burned way too often to even think about rising to that one. But Lowell hasn't.
"Those are zebras," he corrects Mike.
Then Lowell realizes that is exactly what Mike wanted him to say. This 82-year-old, warm, Christian man threatens to wrestle Mike down and pound him. He has to grin soon afterward, though.
TIM FRANTZ greets us and leads us up his shop stairs to his three trophy rooms. Shock and awe. The other boys (who know much more about these matters than I) say Cabela's pales in comparison.
An entire stuffed giraffe holds court in a room with an elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and an alligator. One other entire wall is filled with trophy whitetails. These are right beside the head mount of an albino buffalo. These are all animals the Frantz's have hunted down for a jaw-dropping total of 233 different species including the ones still coming from the taxidermist.
Mitzi shows us her collection of Flow Blue china before we leave.
There is a youth gathering tonight.
Next time: How to be late for church twice in the same day? Our accompanying ladies demonstrate.
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A finalized concept plan was approved for Heritage Park by Parks and Recreation board members during Tuesday night's meeting.
Dunaway Associates Project Manager Elizabeth McIlrath, who had been working with the city to develop a plan for several months, said a lot of good ideas for the plan came out of a public meeting in Heritage Park last month. The ideas for what to have in the park have been noted, including a small amphitheater, a heritage plaza to honor citizens and events that made a notable difference in the community, a dog park, a nature playground where playground equipment blends more noticeably with its park-like surroundings, and others.
As part of developing a concept plan, Dunaway Associates will produce preliminary cost estimates for what has been discussed, according to a staff report. Board members and the city council will then be able to determine what is most important and be able to pay for the projects in phases, McIlrath said.
Parks and Recreation Director Danielle Felts said once preliminary cost estimates are made, which Felts said should be in the next few weeks, the estimates will be brought back to the council for discussion and final approval.
Some of the potential cost of the upgrades is already onsite, Mcilrath said, including trees and utilities.
"Having things like all the beautiful trees for a backdrop and all utilities in place provides for a lot of flexibility in what you want to do," McIlrath said.
New board member Thomas Moorman said he and his wife frequently used the trails and noted it was "exciting to see this come together."
McIlrath said she and other Dunaway associates went and looked at other parks in the Metroplex to garner ideas and how things would look in the Weatherford space, which will be divided into two areas separated by Jack Borden Way. Directional signs would direct people on the hike and bike trail to the new additions.