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How will Poland's 'rule of law' dispute with Brussels play out in national politics?
Poland's 'rule of law' dispute with the European Commission is becoming increasingly entangled in the country's domestic politics. How this plays out will depend on whether Poles hold the government responsible for the threat of EU sanctions and reduced fiscal transfers, or believe the opposition is putting the national interest at risk in order to gain political advantage.
Linking the 'rule of law' and EU funds
Last month, Grzegorz Schetyna – leader of liberal-centrist Civic Platform (PO), Poland's governing party between 2007-15 and currently the main opposition grouping – claimed that the Commission would 'freeze' EU funds due Poland in the Union's 2021-27 budget because of the failure of the current government – led, since autumn 2015, by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party – to respect the 'rule of law'. These funds would be 'unfrozen' if Civic Platform won the next parliamentary election, scheduled for autumn 2019. Poland is currently the largest beneficiary of EU fiscal transfers, which many commentators see as crucial to the country's economic modernisation.
Mr Schetyna was referring to the fact that, in its May proposal for the next EU budget, the Commission outlined plans to link the distribution of so-called 'cohesion spending', used predominantly to fund public investment in less well-off states like Poland, to 'rule of law' adherence. Under the new instrument, the Commission could suspend, reduce or restrict access to EU funding if it felt that there were 'generalised deficiencies' in the investigation and prosecution of fraud or corruption, or an individual member state's judicial system undermined the determination of court cases, relating to the management of EU funds. The decision to suspend funds could only be over-turned by a qualified majority in the EU Council, giving the Commission much greater leeway in determining whether there should be sanctions against member states.
The Commission proposed this new regulation in part because of its 'rule of law' dispute with the Law and Justice government which has been ongoing since January 2016. At the end of last year, in a major escalation of the conflict the Commission initiated an action against Poland under Article 7 of the European treaties for what it considered 'systemic threats' to the independence of the country's courts, threatening Warsaw with sanctions, including possibly suspending its European Council voting rights. The Commission's original concerns stemmed from a dispute over appointments to, and the functioning of, Poland's constitutional tribunal, but in July 2017 were widened to include the Law and Justice government's controversial judicial reform programme. The Commission agreed with criticisms articulated by Poland's legal establishment and most opposition parties that the reforms allowed the ruling party to pack the courts and judicial bodies with its own nominees, which meant that the constitutionality of legislation could no longer be guaranteed.
The government's supporters argued that the reforms were in in line with the Constitution and sorely needed because Polish courts were too slow, deeply inefficient and tolerated frequent irregularities. Law and Justice believes that, following the country's flawed transition to democracy in 1989, the judiciary, like many key Polish institutions, was expropriated by an extremely well-entrenched, and often deeply corrupt, post-communist elite, which then co-opted a new legal establishment that perpetuated its legacy. They also accused the Commission of bias and double standards, arguing that the reforms were in line with practices that existed in other established Western democracies, and said that Law and Justice had been singled out because it is out of favour with the socially liberal and multi-cultural policies supported by the EU political establishment, and has been robust and assertive in advancing the country's national interests.
Seeking reconciliation with Brussels
However, earlier this year Law and Justice tried to seek reconciliation with Brussels. Last December, party leader Jarosław Kaczyński – who, although he does not hold any formal state positions, exercises a powerful behind-the-scenes influence in determining the government's programmatic and strategic priorities – installed finance minister and respected former international banker Mateusz Morawiecki as the country's new prime minister. Mr Morawiecki struck a more emollient tone than his combative predecessor Beata Szydło, who had a fraught relationship with the Commission, and it was hoped that he could 're-set' Warsaw's relations with the EU political establishment. Law and Justice was concerned that a lengthy and debilitating dispute with Brussels could alienate more moderate Poles, the vast majority of whom remain supportive of their country's EU membership, and overshadow Polish-EU relations.
In addition to the new 'rule of law' regulation, the Commission has proposed both a sharp reduction in traditional EU spending areas such as cohesion funds and changing the criteria for their allocation so that, in addition to a region's GDP per capita, they would include new indicators less advantageous to Poland. As a consequence, Poland is expected to lose 23% of its cohesion fund monies in the next EU budget. The Polish government argues that the current 2014-20 budget was always likely to be the last from which the country benefited so substantially given that British withdrawal from the Union would reduce the overall level of the funding available, and Poland's GDP has been increasing steadily while new EU spending priorities have emerged. The government's critics, on the other hand, say that the cuts reflect the fact that Law and Justice has found itself marginalised within the EU's decision making structures and alienated the major European powers. Either way, Warsaw was hoping to defuse the 'rule of law' row so that it could focus on building an effective 'friends of cohesion' coalition in the forthcoming budget negotiations.
Consequently, the government tried to open up a dialogue with Brussels and amended some aspects of its judicial reforms. These modifications included: removing the justice minister's ability to fire the heads of lower district and appeal courts without consultations with local judicial bodies and the National Judicial Council (KRS), a body which selects judges and decides how Polish courts are run; equalising the retirement ages for male and female judges; the President, rather than justice minister, determining which supreme court judges could continue in office when they reached retirement age; allowing the publication of three disputed 2016 constitutional tribunal rulings that had previously been blocked by the government; and restricting the number of bodies that could initiate the new 'extraordinary appeals' procedure that allows for the re-opening of 'wrongly passed' verdicts from the last 20 years.
No change to the core of the reforms
However, the government's critics argued that these changes were largely cosmetic pointing out that, for example: the justice minister had already dismissed 150 of the 730 local chief judges; the majority of the National Judicial Council was still selected by parliament rather than the legal profession (albeit by a qualified three-fifths supermajority); and the three disputed constitutional tribunal rulings had been superseded by later legislation and were published with the caveat that the decisions had been taken unlawfully. Indeed, even though government supporters argued that the concessions represented a significant demonstration of Warsaw's willingness to compromise, they left the core of the reforms – allowing elected bodies a greater say in the functioning of the courts and appointments of judges and their supervisory bodies to make the judiciary more accountable – intact.
Consequently, although the renewed dialogue initially improved relations between Warsaw and Brussels, the Commission felt that the Polish government's concessions did not address its main concerns. The fate of the 27 (out of 72) supreme court justices who were obliged to stand down on July 3rd as a result of the reduction in their retirement age from 70 to 65 – including the court's first president Małgorzata Gersdorf whose six-year term of office was, the government's critics argued, stipulated in the Polish Constitution and is refusing to resign – still depended upon Law and Justice-backed President Andrzej Duda. Moreover, the 'extraordinary review' procedure could still be initiated by the justice minister (in his capacity as chief prosecutor) and, the Commission felt, threatened the stability of Poland's legal system. For its part, Warsaw expressed doubts as to whether the Commission was acting in good faith and insisted that it could make no further concessions.
As a result, the Commission decided to push ahead with the Article 7 procedure and an initial formal hearing was held at the June EU General Affairs Council. However, to move to the next stage of the procedure, 22 of the Council's remaining 27 members (Poland is excluded) will have to vote that the Polish reforms constitute a 'clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law'. Even then, a subsequent vote to trigger sanctions requires unanimity and the Hungarian government for one has made it clear that it will oppose any such moves. At the beginning of July, the Commission also decided to launch an infringement procedure against Poland before the European Court of Justice, arguing that the new early retirement provisions for supreme court judges threatened the judicial independence enshrined in the EU's charter of fundamental rights, which could also carry heavy financial penalties for Warsaw. Frustration with the limits of the Article 7 process also helps to explain why Brussels is proposing the new regulation linking the disbursal of EU funds to 'rule of law' compliance.
A risky strategy?
While many Poles have misgivings about aspects of the government's judicial reforms, they are also very dissatisfied with the way that Polish courts function and also find constitutional issues such as this rather abstract. Nonetheless, the liberal-centrist opposition sense that the proposed 'rule of law' regulation provides an opportunity to link these questions to the more salient issue of Polish access to EU funds. Last month, Civic Platform appeared to be testing this strategy in the run-up to the autumn local elections, suggesting that Law and Justice's 'rule of law' dispute with Brussels could damage investments and modernisation projects in every locality. If this works then the link between the 'rule of law' and EU funds could become a major issue in both the summer 2019 European Parliament and autumn 2019 national elections. However, even those EU member states taking the Commission's side against Poland in the 'rule of law' dispute may be reluctant to give Brussels such sweeping powers, and while the regulation could be approved by a simple majority Warsaw has suggested that it is prepared to veto the whole EU budget (which requires unanimous support) to block it if necessary.
Moreover, for Civic Platform's strategy to work Poles need to perceive a very clear link between the 'rule of law' dispute and possible suspension or reduction of EU funds. But the new budget will not come into effect (and may not even have been agreed) before the 2019 elections. At the same time, although Poles are overwhelmingly pro-EU they are also wary about the Union's institutions becoming involved in the country's internal affairs and there is a risk that the opposition will become too associated with (and, therefore, end up getting the blame for) possible EU sanctions. A good example of this risk was a statement last month by Civic Platform's Warsaw mayoral candidate Rafał Trzaskowski who went further than Mr Schetyna and suggested that his party had actually persuaded Brussels to freeze Poland's EU funds rather than withdraw them altogether. Mr Trzaskowski thus implied (even if that was not necessarily his intention) that Civic Platform was exploiting its links with EU political elites, who share their dislike of Law and Justice, to conduct behind-the-scenes negotiations on how Poland's EU funds should be withheld unless Mr Schetyna's party wins the elections. By doing so, he left Civic Platform open to the charge that it was jeopardising the national interest to gain political advantage. How Poland's 'rule of law' dispute with the EU political establishment plays out in domestic politics, therefore, depends critically on who frames the terms of the debate most successfully, and whom Poles blame for the threat of EU sanctions or reduced fiscal transfers.


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Harleaqin (Guest):
So, is the last panel her genuine response or just a reminder for those of us (readers) who are a bit slow?
Milo (Guest):
Three challengers down, two to go.
Let's see if Floranne wants to try her luck.
Haha. I love seeing Melody utilize her powers practically.
Posting early always feels like an innocuous action preceding a massive avalanche. The fan base of this comic is so hilariously intellectual about the story's universe.
Khend (Guest):
Sleepy? There's absolutely no way I could possibly sleep if I was that cold. Though I might sit there shivering uselessly.
Milo (Guest):
Maybe their bodies are shutting off due to lack of energy?
Agnes (Guest):
Omg. Panel 3 - Melody is so cute
Shoujo Q (Guest):
Ruh-roh. Melody's got you now!
i kinda makes sense that they (the tree maidens) would get sleepy in the cold seeing as how in the winter time tree's sap recedes and they "sleep"
Emmy (Guest):
One of the last stages of hypothermia is drowsiness...
Comment from last page sill applies. "Winter Fury".
I suppose Floranne, as a demon, is more resistant to these powers.
Marnath (Guest):
@SolarSystem: It might just be that she's standing further away than they were.
Milo (Guest):
Floranne has so far shown a strong affinity for fire powers. Can her fire beat Melody's snow?
Eldoran (Guest):
It was already mentioned, that tree is sleepy and slow in winter. Furthermore it is logical, that the maiden inherit both strengths and weakness from their goddess.
=> they will get sleepy in the winter too - which Melody seems to have brought there.
Kiri (Guest):
I don't think we've ever seen Melody angry before the last couple of posts.
Milo (Guest):
She was angry at the orphan who stole her bag.
Also she claimed to "hate" the maze in Seafall, though that was more fear/frustration than anger.
She was pretty accepting of being knocked out and tied up, though.
Does this explain the Winter in 'Winter Melody'
I've read that when people get extremely cold and have used up just about all of their energy to keep themselves warm, they start to get incredibly sleepy and will sometimes lie down in the snow... which usually results in them freezing to death.
Kencyrath (Guest):
Tree had only one maiden and a plant-demon before converting Tea and Moth? Maidens are immortal, so where are all the other maidens Tree ever had?
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Milo (Guest):
Two things.
1. Not all maidens hang out in their deity's main temple. Post maidens have shrines in every city, map maidens are constantly travelling, and the water maidens seemed to be hanging out in a river with no goddess in sight. If anything, "temple caretaker" seems to be the job of only a minority of maidens, while most are out doing their deity's will in a more worldly way. So Tree may easily have other maidens which are somewhere not-here.
2. Tree is on strained terms with humans, so it may in fact have been a long time since anyone signed up (though that doesn't explain what happened to her old servants).
isaac (Guest):
Haoshoku Haki?! Or it just got too cold and he fell asleep due to plant thing
Vincent (Guest):
@Milo & Kencyrath: There might be a possibility that while being a Maiden means immortality, ones own will eventually comes back, and maidens can end their maidenship by their own will - maybe after a period of 100 years or a year and a day.
And as a goddess if you're really abrasive when it comes to humans, they leave you when their own will resurfaces. And spread warnings about the place.
This is just speculation of course. A darker one being she managed to get her maidens killed somehow.
Matcha (Guest):
Definitely haki! She's dumb enough, too.
Panel 3, my eyes keep flashing between seeing her normally and seeing her huge eyebrows as eyes. Big jack-o-lantern eyes!
The D00d (Guest):
They are trees. Trees sleep during the winter. There was winter around them, so they fell asleep. Does this really count as strength?
hot ham and swiss (Guest):
They are not trees. They may have an affinity with trees, but they are not actual trees.
Fazzey (Guest):
I love how Moth is still Moth & questioning how Melody does ANYTHING!! XD
Darius Drake (Guest):
@ Everyone asking why the maiden trio go to sleep: I think of it as a combination of two factors, Hypothermia and Winter Rest. Namely, everyone who said it's because trees lose their leaves in the winter, I feel that you're half right. But I still think that Melody might have accidentally threatened the Maiden Trio's lives with what she just did.
And, yes, I do know that it takes longer than that for Hypothermia to set in. It's magic snow coming from a suspected at-least-partially divine being. It doesn't NEED to be ruled by the biological properties of our world.


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Wild in the City
Illustrations by Youjin Bae
At their Evendale home, Ruth and Stan Trosset established a sanctuary for native wildflowers. Now, Gorman Heritage Farm has given these important plants a new home.
The browns and grays of winter's fallen leaves and bare bark predominate, but there's pale green at ankle height. Early buds tip twigs; throughout the woods, we see the yellow flares of daffodils and winter aconite. To the untrained eye, it's a tangle of limbs, but as we move deeper in, my guide pauses to mark out a seldom-walked path with branches downed in a recent storm. Moss, lichen, and fungi effloresce in the filtered light. From the leafy floor, tiny blooms of white, yellow, pink, and purple are beginning to emerge.
My guide is former Gorman Heritage Farm director Sandra Murphy. It's a Saturday morning in March, the weather unable to decide whether it's lion- or lamb-like. We pull into the driveway of an unassuming house on Glendale-Milford Road. Lugging a bucket, gloves, pruners, and a shovel, we make our way into the adjacent wooded lot. They're the sort of woods you see, if you notice them at all, that edge many a suburban neighborhood—here today and chopped, chipped, and carved up for new construction tomorrow.
This particular wood was much loved by one local couple, Ruth and Stanley Trosset. Stan was a paper engineer at Miami University; Ruth a research chemist at the University of Cincinnati until children Carol and Michael came along and she became both a stay-at-home mom and keen-eyed chronicler of the wildlife at their doorstep. They built the house in 1955, the year after they married, and later bought two adjoining lots. It was Stan who originally had the idea to collect and plant native wildflowers on the property.
Gathering & Documenting
Carol remembers spending spring breaks with her family hunting native wildflowers. They delighted in watching wildlife and the seasonal successions of buds and blooms. For 43 years, Stan, often accompanied by his wife and children, combed woods and visited the sites of planned development around the region, relocating more than 80 species of native plants—and in the process, creating a sanctuary.
"When we brought back new species, we would discuss micro-habitats to think about where that species was most likely to flourish," Carol says. "We learned how to identify the species. We all gave a high priority to seeing and watching natural things—nesting birds, baby rabbits, waking up during the night to listen to an owl, or seeing how a praying mantis ate a grasshopper."
Ruth Trosset filled notebooks with observations of the life of the woods and of native wildflowers. "She recorded when they broke ground, when they budded, when they bloomed, when they went to seed, and when they died," Murphy says. Beginning in 1956, she recorded 122 species of bird, 50 trees, myriad details of the seasonal lives of mammals and insects, and the intricate interplay between native plants and climate. She kept at it until 1987, when declining health limited her to observations at bird feeders. Such phenological data—how climate variations affect the lives of plants and animals—is now understood to be essential to studying climate change. Murphy mentions a 2013 New York Times article on how researchers have used Henry David Thoreau's notebooks to determine that plants he observed in the mid-1800s are flowering earlier today, indicating a climb in average temperatures.
In the late 1990s, the family gave the two wooded lots to the Cincinnati Nature Center. "We treated the woods with great affection and respect, but we never used words like 'preserve' or 'sanctuary' until we decided to give the property to CNC," recalls Michael. "By then, all four of us had developed a strong sense that the land should be preserved, and that the wildflowers were what really made it special."
Today, the Trosset family no longer owns the home, and while the sanctuary remains, it is inaccessible to the public. So a project is underway to relocate many of the native wildflowers to a new preserve at nearby Gorman Heritage Farm. That effort, headed up by Murphy, received a $10,000 grant from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation's City Gardens Fund this year. Which is why we are here on a cool spring morning. Murphy is on the hunt.
She lets out a hoot of delight.
"Yes! Trout lily!" We drop to our knees to examine a pair of purple-mottled leaves and a stem pushing up through the forest floor. From the stem hangs a single white and violet blossom with petals curling back and skyward to reveal a hanging yellow stamen. The white trout lily, or "fawnlily," grows in colonies on forest floors in the eastern U.S. and Canada. Colonies can be hundreds of years old, spread by runners and by seed. Trout lily is just one of many spring ephemerals concealed in this soil, part of the succession of intricate, fleeting flowers that Ruth Trosset keenly anticipated and detailed in notebooks she bequeathed to Carol.
We clear detritus from the base of the lily, then cut a circle into the surrounding soil, taking care to avoid the bulb. We stow the plant in Murphy's bucket.
To call the Trossets' sanctuary a hobby would be to diminish it. They worked hard to manage the trails and cull invaders. Stan would open the fridge in his office to find native wildflowers left there for him by colleagues. And the family got calls whenever development threatened local flora. As land was cleared for the Cross County Highway, the Trossets rescued Dutchman's breeches and squirrel corn. Green dragon came from a tract of land flooded with the creation of East Fork Lake.
Biologists to whom Carol Trosset has shown Ruth's data have been intrigued by its rigor and thoroughness, despite having been recorded by an amateur naturalist. Ruth's observations stretch to before the 1970s when changes in phenology were first becoming apparent. Ruth also "documented multiple taxa in a single location," Carol says. "Most such data sets include only birds, or only wildflowers." Ruth's scientific mind found stimulation in the sanctuary's interconnected web of relationships.
Carol has just begun to analyze Ruth's data, but even at this stage, she says, "there is clear evidence of bloom dates getting earlier for a variety of wildflower species."
While she cautions it's impossible to predict how relocation will disrupt the plants, the new sanctuary will provide better protection, access, observation, and an opportunity to build on Ruth's record-keeping.
Murphy pauses to clip some daffodils—not a native species, but pretty, nonetheless. They've taken a beating from blooming with unusually early spring warmth followed by a deep freeze. Unlike these daffodils, native wildflowers have adapted to survive the vicissitudes of our Midwestern climate. Some will lie dormant for years until a change in their environment triggers them to re-emerge.
As we walk through the woods, she gives me a mental map of what lies sleeping beneath fallen leaves. Here, she says, you'll soon see bloodroot. There: mayapple. Near the back of the property, away from the road: Solomon's Seal.
But there are also swaths of a non-native lesser celandine, a spreading perennial from the buttercup family that crowds out the native wildflowers, that Murphy and the Trossets made their mission to preserve. Moving along these remnant pathways is an object lesson in the encroachment of suburbanites' imported landscape plants and other invasives. Left unchecked, many can easily spread, disrupting the succession of wildflowers that are integral to our region's natural biodiversity. Along with the celandine, Murphy and I pause to clip back and attempt to uproot multiflora roses and myrtle. The aggressiveness of ornamentals and ground-covers-gone-wild is undeniable evidence of our influence on ecosystems. We are responsible for these intruders. To deny our part in all this is irrational and nonsensical, a form of nihilism. But in acknowledging that we set this chain of cause and effect in motion, a project like the Trosset Wildflower Sanctuary relocation shows we have the power to counterbalance our influence.
This morning Murphy is also scouting where to direct the eight AmeriCorps volunteers who will visit the following day to help gather plants for relocation and wage war on invasive species. As we leave, we see evidence that someone has been cutting locust trees at the edge of the sanctuary. Murphy is concerned they may have entered the preserve. We bag up some rubbish and head to Gorman Heritage Farm.
Re-Making the Sanctuary
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation grant provided a financial infusion that has supported the design, layout, and enclosure for the new sanctuary. For this initial work, Murphy enlisted former Gorman Heritage Farm employee John Hemmerle and his ecological landscape company Our Land Organics. Just west of the farm's bee hives, Hemmerle constructed a 10-foot deer exclusion fence with an impressive gated entry that will soon be flanked by a pair of dogwoods. He plotted a circular path that follows the contour of the hillside and bridges seasonal run-off stream beds that converge within the sanctuary.
Hemmerle's approach is not just to relocate a bunch of plants from the Trosset property, but to create an ecosystem. Healthy native growth will ultimately keep weeds and invasives at bay. Murphy and her volunteers have done a spectacular job of eliminating old, established honeysuckle, but Hemmerle is all too aware that wild mustard, grape, and residual honeysuckle remain threats. The goal is to assemble a healthy native landscape with a succession of growth that will offer few footholds for intruders."The idea is to have 'green to green,' a living mulch of plants touching plants," he says. "So you create protection for the soil and shade out at least some sun-hungry weeds."
The Trosset Wildflower Sanctuary at Gorman Heritage Farm formally opened on April 30. It's a modest-sized lot compared to the Trossets' original place, but a Herculean project when you compare it to the honeysuckle-choked hillside out of which it has been eked. Not that this keeps Murphy from thinking big—she already has designs on the adjoining hillside. She plans to assemble a group of "Friends of the Wildflowers" volunteers to tend to the sanctuary and to make it self-supporting through sponsorships of shrubs and trees planted around its perimeter.
We clear the ground and dig a hole roughly the size and depth of the bowl of earth we removed from the Trossets' land. Along with the lily and its bulb there's some moss and a couple of critters—a relocated section of the forest floor. It settles easily into the depression.
On the hillside above the new sanctuary, looking out over the industrial Mill Creek Valley, it occurs to me that in relocating a trout lily, we're no different from the ants that carry its seed. We enjoy a symbiotic relationship with a flower that is a source of delight and potentially so much more, in the hidden links between our lives.
In the struggle to survive, all beings draw from an ancestral pool of genes, adaptations, skills. From past experience we divine what the future holds. So even in the tiniest acts of preservation, we shape our destiny.
Thanks to the work of Amos Gorman and his grandchildren, Ruth and Stanley Trosset and their children, and Murphy and her volunteers, here grows a place to pause and wonder. And perhaps, like Ruth Trosset, to take note. You might compare her recordings to your own. Or, like Thoreau at Walden Pond, find a mirror for your soul.
Ever since his grandfather put him to work squashing potato bugs and shoveling compost in a vast organic garden north of Philadelphia, Cedric has loved the outdoors. These days, he squashes bugs for his green-thumbed partner, Jen. His writing has appeared in Saveur, Cincinnati, This Old House, and Belt magazines. He is the Collector at the Mercantile Library Downtown.


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For years the operating assumption in Albany political circles on both sides of the aisle was that eventually, one day, Democrats would take control of the State Senate, thus completing the extermination of the Republican Party in New York State.
The logic of this argument was simple: A Republican had not been elected statewide since George Pataki won re-election in 2002, and even that was something of a fluke victory over scattered Democratic opposition. Democrats had a huge majority in the State Assembly. Democrats had a 5:3 advantage in the number of voters registering with their party, a ratio that was likely to increase as more immigrants and minorities came of voting age in the state. The GOP was becoming a party of guns and the God-fearing, neither of which had much traction among Yankee Republicans, or what was left of them.
The only reason the State Senate had remained an island of red in a deep blue sea—which it undoubtedly had: the GOP had remained firmly in control except for a one-year interruption since 1939—was that once a decade they had gerrymandered themselves a lifeline during the decennial redistricting process.
But bit by bit, Democrats worked to beat Republicans at the ballot box, and gradually narrowed the GOP's advantage in the chamber. A gray-headed somnolent aura hung over the Senate majority, as Republican lawmakers stayed in office well into their 70s, after party bigwigs, fearful that only incumbency could keep Democrats at bay, implored aging senators to run again and again.
Then, at last, in 2008, buoyed by Barack Obama, the Democrats won enough seats to have a majority in the chamber. Shangri-La at last! The Republicans were on the run! Democrats controlled every lever of power for the first time in the State since the New Deal, and veritable political paradise was sure to follow.
The Democratic conference was still dominated by liberal and minority members, but they had taken control of the chamber by winning in longtime GOP strongholds on the suburbs of Long Island and even in rural hamlets in the North County and western New York.
On the first day they were in the majority, in a closed-door meeting, Brian Foley, a freshman lawmaker from Long Island in a seat long held by the GOP, told his new colleagues that he was thrilled to be a part of the team, and was looking forward to doing something about skyrocketing property taxes.
He was told he was in the wrong room. The Democrats are not the party that cares about property taxes. If you pay property taxes, you are rich, his new colleagues told him, according to people who witnessed the exchange. We are the party of renters. Mr. Foley said no more.
And so it went for the newly elected Senate majority. They instituted an MTA payroll tax and a millionaire's tax, both of which angered suburban swing voters. Instead of lavishing resources on the upstate counties their newly elected lawmakers represented, they devoted attention to their base in the city.
And the policy decisions were the least of it.
On more than a few occasions, senators nearly came to fisticuffs behind closed doors. Legislative sessions supposed to start in the midafternoon didn't get going until early evening and lasted late into the night. Two senators abruptly decided they were now Republicans; they were eventually lured back with the promise of leadership posts. A campaign season promise to reform the redistricting process that had kept the Democrats in the minority for more than half a century was forgotten when Democrats realized that if they could just hold on through one more election, they would be the ones drawing the lines, and they could at last send the GOP, in one lawmaker's phrase, "into oblivion."
Then, less than two weeks before the 2010 election that would determine if Democrats would get to keep their cushy new majority chambers, the state's Inspector General released a bombshell report detailing how John Sampson, the Senate Majority Leader, rigged the bidding for a favored casino operator to run the slots at a new racing track in Queens, including leaking information about the other bidders and attending a "victory party" at the home of a popular lobbyist once they had properly secured casino operators the winning bid.
In the elections a few days later, demographic trends accounted for very little, and Democrats were swept out of office.
After Election Day, Democrats assumed it was only a temporary blip, but in the months since a string of bad news has left Democrats thinking they may have to get used to the smaller, less comfortable chairs belonging to minority members.
At the beginning of 2011, four mostly moderate, mostly suburban Democratic lawmakers bolted the conference, mainly to distance themselves from the stench of Mr. Sampson's leadership and tumult that a Democratic Senate had come to conjure in the minds of voters.


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The FLOTUS and POTUS are having a lovely day with Queen Elizabeth and the royal family. For the event, the first lady debuted a gorgeous ensemble that was designed just for her.
The 49-year-old First Lady is wearing a striking black and midnight blue dress. It was designed by Dolce & Gabbana for the event.
The outfit also featured a tilted, wide-brimmed hat. The hat was a custom design for the First Lady by her couturier, Hervé Pierre.
The hat is similar to the iconic hat that she wore last year to meet Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, at the White House. That hat was also designed by the French-born Pierre.
The dress and hat are also reminiscent of the outfit that Audrey Hepburn wore in the classic film "My Fair Lady."
In that film, her character, Eliza Doolittle, wore a graphic dress and a statement hat. Her character wore the gorgeous dress to the races.
During the visit, Queen Elizabeth and Melania shared a sweet laugh when wind almost blew Melania's hat off. They appeared to be friendly and enjoying each other's time as they laughed over the near mishap.
Alongside her husband, President Trump, Melania and Trump will have a packed three-day itinerary in the United Kingdom. The visit includes an official welcome, private lunch with the royal family, and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.


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Train worker union CGT Cheminots has announced that SNCF strikes are to continue into the summer, with a "light" calendar offering even fewer trains than seen in the last three months.
Train worker union CGT Cheminots has announced that SNCF strikes are to continue into the summer, with a "light" calendar offering even fewer trains than seen in the last three months.
Laurent Brun, CGT Cheminots general secretary, confirmed the move today, after first suggesting last week that more strikes were to come in July and beyond.
The strike timetable will run throughout July, August, and possibly September, although the actual days of strike are yet to be announced. The SUD union is also expected to be involved.
The first is likely to be on July 11, Mr Brun suggested, speaking to Europe 1.
He said: "The [strike] calendar will not have the same structure [but] there will be fewer trains than in the past few months, while still allowing people to move around."
Mr Brun denied claims that the strike had been timed to deliberately disrupt people's holidays.
He said: "The strike days will not necessarily be targeted to coincide with holiday departure days."
In France, certain days in the summer are always expected to be the busiest for transport and road traffic, depending on when school summer breaks begin in a given region.
Yet, not everyone will be joining CGT Cheminots: On Tuesday, the unions - which have, until now, presented a united front in the strikes - split.
Union UNSA decided not to continue its movement after June 28, and is no longer contesting the railway reform.
Earlier this month (June), the Senate voted to adopt the proposed reforms by 240 votes to 85.
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1. A method of measuring relative form deviation of the surface to be measured to a reference surface is introduced, because it is impossible to set up optical parts without error of angle and position etc, and to analyze the setting error by experiment of each optical part in the interferometer. By applying this method, brightness data of interference fringe patterns for a reference tooth flank and the surfaces to be measured are respectively obtained by CCD imege sensor, as the result, the form deviation of teeth with some errors for spur gear and helical gear with small helix angle is shown to be measurable with the same accuracy as by using contacting stylus.2. Phase obtained by the interferometry is restricted in the region from -pi to pi. A method that the discontinuous phase is converted to a continuous phase surface by partially manual data processing is developed. From this method and principle of two pararel thin films with a small distance, the phase data are converted into the tooth form deviation.3. Fringe density interference fringe pattern obtained by CCD image sensor is very thick. The fact makes transformation of discontinuous phase to continuous one difficult. To avoid this problem, a method to decrease the density is shown by inserting some lenses in the reference optical path, and the use of the optical system brings a thin density of fringe patterns as well as noise.
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Rendezvous with Rama/
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973) I read this book when I was in high school and I still think about it, so I thought I'd re-read it. Not disappointing! It's set in the future when there are various space colonies (Moon, Pluto, Mars) and exploration ships. An alien spaceship makes its way into the solar system, heading for the Sun. It's like a 30 mile long metal cylinder and a party make their way inside it to explore. It's spinning, to create artificial gravity, and there's an entire landscape inside, complete with light source and ocean. The best thing about the book, to me, is the imagining of this landscape and world in there, and then the exploration and discovery of increasingly weird stuff, little by little. Apparently a few people have tried to get a film off the ground, including Morgan Freeman. I've read that he wants to keep it true to the spirit of the book, where it doesn't try to explain everything. I imagine, however, that the big companies who would have to finance a fairly expensive project like that would want to turn it into a horror movie with shit jumping out at you, scores of gruesome deaths, fights, chases, good vs. evil, and a sappy explanation of it all. Maybe it's best if that never happens.


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Thursday, December 10, 2009
"Everything Must Go," Oasis Journal 2009 Contest Winner-Best Nonfiction
I wrote this essay never intending it to be a part of Someday I'm Going to Write a Book.
It's a very personal story about the divorce from my childhood sweetheart and the aftermath-which is a big deal in an Italian Catholic family whose elders stayed married,some for more than fifty years until death they did part.
So how did it wind up in Someday, subtitled Diary of an Urban Missionary? Well, during the writing process my readers kept telling me to include more about myself to give a better context to the patient related stories I was telling. Otherwise it made my prose feel like a case study rather than a heartfelt examination with a connection to universal experience.
In more simple words, I was above it all looking down instead of immersed and invested emotionally in my experiences. Professional distance is critical in clinical practice, but this memoir isn't a lecture.
When I looked back at the "Everything Must Go," I realized the inciting incident did not only end my marriage. It killed my innocence, my invincibility, my youthful bravado, the illusion that I was above all the misery I had borne witness to. It also coincided with very significant events in my career and propelled me in a new direction. But most of all, the depression and the process of recovery gave me critical insight into what it's like for people being tossed about in a storm they just happened into-and how to better help them pull out of it.
So, in "Everything Must Go" I acknowlege the enduring effect of families on everyone's life, pay tribute to the very special people who had a major impact on my life and career--my ex-husband, whose love, support and generosity made it possible for me to achieve what I have today, his mom and dad, his sisters and their husbands. Even though I am no longer a part of the family, they remain a part of me.
And special thanks to my current husband, who accepted me with all that baggage and continues to this day to be by my side as I struggle to carry it all.
Winning Oasis Journal's prize for best nonfiction for this excerpt has affirmed that it speaks to the universal experience and does indeed belong in Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: The Diary of an Urban Missionary.
I'd driven by the house on my way to work, almost everyday, for the last eighteen years. Until I saw the sign, it was easy to deny how much time had passed since the gate creaked open and I meandered past the immaculate garden, up the long driveway, through the back door, and into the cozy kitchen with pots simmering on the stove. I can still smell garlic in the meatballs, and the bittersweet tang of stuffed cabbage and sauerkraut balls. The cat would brush against my ankles while the dog's tail beat a welcome across my legs.
The dining room hosted Thanksgiving feasts of turkey, bread stuffing, candied sweet potatoes and peas—but only after the lasagna. On Christmas mornings, we crowded into the living room and plunked onto bulky chestnut colonial furniture upholstered in trendy orange and brown. A fire flickered, stockings hung from the mantelpiece. Pale winter sunlight filtered through ivory lace curtains, glinting off the dark wood paneling and polished hardwood floors.
The tree was surrounded by more presents than one could ever imagine for three teenage children and their assorted boyfriends and girlfriends. The cat and dog ran rampant through discarded wrapping paper. There was always My-T-Fine chocolate pudding for dessert, with Saran wrap on the top to prevent the skin from forming.
More love to go around than the average family, and you could feel it the minute you walked in the door to hugs, cries of welcome, and fights. Was it really over?
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I married into the family in 1979, but was welcomed in many years before that. We met when Michael was a seventeen-year-old star shortstop, and I was a fourteen-year-old Little League groupie.
Like most love struck teenagers, we vowed to stay together forever and went steady for eight years before finally getting married. He encouraged me as I pursued the career I so desperately wanted, and had faith that I was going to be the best nurse ever. I knew he would succeed in business and finance. We stayed married long enough to graduate college, land good jobs and buy not just one house, but also a vacation getaway in Vermont.
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I love the "new" title- "Diary of an Urban Missionary." Fantastic!ReplyDelete
I applaud your honesty, Carole. It's very hard to share something so personal as a divorce. Glad to see you've turned it into something good. You're probably helping lots of woman by including it in your book.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Carole, I'm so glad to find your blog and website. I always love finding other writers and see what they are writing and doing. It takes courage to write about your life experiences like divorce. I agree with Joylene and applaud your honesty.ReplyDelete
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I love your new blog & am now following you. I love your article & the honesty it holds!
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Villagers in Skeffington say they are outraged that grass verges were not cut for six momnths near a notorious accident blackspot in their village.
Andy Brown, chairman of the A47 Skeffington Speed Reduction Campaign said the grass and weeds were allowed to grow up to 6ft high in some places, reducing vision for motorists trying to exit juctions.
He added: "Skeffington is a well known, notorious blackspot for road traffic accidents with three fatalities to date on this dangerous stretch of road.
"Leicester City Council can spend £19,000 painting shops different colours in the city, but Leicestershire County Council cannot spend a fraction of that amount cutting grass. They are putting pedestrians and road users lives in danger. Villagers spent over £10,000 of our own money introducing new calming gates and signage in an attempt to reduce speeding traffic, which become totally overgrown with 6ft high grass and weeds.
"The village bus stop gets obscured to motorists with young children also elderly alike trying to make the rat run across the A47 back into the village."
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BELMONT, N.C. -- Mackenzie Chrapliwy had 12 kills and accounted for 18 points and Cassidy Bonito posted a double-double of 32 assists and 15 digs, leading Belmont Abbey to a 3-1 (25-16, 18-25, 25-21, 25-16) victory over Limestone in the quarterfinals of the 2017 Conference Carolinas Championship. The Crusaders, seeded No. 2 in the North Division, will face No. 1 South North Greenville at Barton in the semifinals.
Chrapliwy had five of The Abbey's 13 aces and nine digs, while also registering two block assists. Brianna Morgheim tallied 10 kills and a .240 hitting percentage, while Sarah Kenney added a team-high 16 digs. Lydia Sale also reached double figures in digs with 10.
Belmont Abbey (16-11) rallied in the first after trailing 5-2. It scored five straight points on Kenney's serve to start an 8-3 run. The Crusaders pushed the lead to 20-12 on Chrapliwy's serve, then closed out the set 25-16 on a service error by the Saints. BAC posted a .407 hitting percentage, compared to .250 by Limestone.
Just like Saturday when the teams closed the regular season against each other, Limestone clawed back in the second set. The Saints trailed 6-5, but tallied seven of the next nine points for a 12-8 margin. The Crusaders closed to within one three times, the last at 18-17, but the visitors ran off six in a row to lead by seven en route to tying the match, 25-18.
But that did not deter Belmont Abbey, which broke a 3-3 tie with six straight points. Limestone never led in the set, although they were able to close the gap to three late in the frame, before the Crusaders hung on 25-21.
Bonito started the fourth with points on her first three serves, but Limestone evened the score at 4-4. Trailing 12-11, the Saints scored back-to-back points for a 13-12 lead, but the Crusaders answered with five points in a row to lead by four, 17-13. With the score 18-14, Chrapliwy served seven straight times to set up the first of three match points. Limestone saved two, but a Bonito kill sent the Crusaders to their second straight semifinal.
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Pittsburgh was my home for 16 years, and I loved it. I have been to many places all over the world, and people would sometimes ask me which was my favorite. And as wonderful and unique as each place was, my answer always had to be: Pittsburgh!
But this post is not about my previous home; it's about my new home in Mosnita Veche. And while completely different in almost every aspect from Pittsburgh, it is also a wonderful place to live.
Pittsburgh was a city full of hills and mountains, rivers and forests. The village of Mosnita is flat. Really flat. Farmland and fields abound. The Timis and Bega Rivers flow by about 10 miles from here, and on a clear day you can see the Western Carpathian Mountains way off in the distance. I miss the mountains sometimes, so am very glad for every chance to see them. The flats, though, have their advantages, too: huge rainbows, beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and storms moving across the plains can only be seen where there is nothing to obstruct the view. Each day brings beautiful and new sights to behold.
One of the reasons I loved Pittsburgh is because that is where my family was. As the saying goes, there really is no place like home! But now when I think of 'home,' our little house in Mosnita is what comes to my mind. I do miss my family, but it is also wonderful to have my own home and family here. And now in addition to my family in the United States, I have acquired even more family here in Romania and in other parts of Europe!
There are definite advantages to living in a city. There were several large grocery stores all within a few minutes' drive from my home. Here in the village there are no grocery stores. There are a few convenience-type stores, but they rarely have anything worth buying besides perhaps bananas or a pint of fresh cream. However, about once a week we venture into the city to do some shopping at the piata. There we can buy fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, raw milk, and cheese from the locals. You can't get much better than that!
There are other things that I sometimes miss living here in Mosnita, but for each one, God has provided an equal blessing.
Some people think I'm crazy, but one thing I often miss is driving. Driving an automatic, that is. We don't have a car, but even if we did, it would more-than-likely be a stick shift, which I am in the process of learning how to drive (we'll see if I like it as well as driving an automatic...). But whether I was cruising down the highway at 70 mph, or just driving around town with a nice breeze blowing in my window, I have always missed driving when I have been overseas.
But I have also enjoyed being able to use my bike more and learning to use the bus system. On weekdays there are a number of buses back and forth to town, and it is an easy as well as very reasonable option. Taxis and trams once in the city are also generally easy to use and are not terribly expensive.
Another thing I miss is my church. The preaching, of course, was the best, and I loved the abundance of singing, as well as the opportunities to play for the congregational singing. The people in my church were also my second family. But like I said, there are equal blessings here! While I often am unable to communicate extensively, our church people here are also becoming my family; I have enjoyed hearing the different preachers here and learning new songs; and at the Romanian church we go to on Sunday mornings, I sometimes accompany the choir, assist at their monthly practices, or play for the service if the regular pianist is not able to. And I get to listen to my husband teach or preach each week. It doesn't get much better than that.
Another thing that is different is, of course, the language! While I'm far from fluent, I am enjoying finally being able to communicate on a small level with those around me. Visiting with the neighbors, getting help from store clerks, and fellowshipping with those at church are challenging at times, but also exciting as I practice using the things I've learned. It can be frustrating when I don't always understand what's being said around me, especially if I'm in a group of people or if there is a lot of background noise. But those times when I'm able to communicate one-on-one with a helpful partner who's willing to speak slowly and clearly and give me assistance when I need it is, indeed, a blessing. And to top it all off, I have a husband who speaks Romanian like a native, so I can always get any help I need from him!


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Good Enough?
Atelophobia. The fear of imperfection. Of not being good enough.
Although I'm generally fairly perfectionistic in life, when I write I'm mainly afraid of being overlooked. I don't care as much about everything being exactly how I want it to be, but I am afraid that my writing is just not worth people's time.
Many people seek inspiration by observing those who excel in the areas in which they aspire to improve. I personally love watching interviews with my role models, reading books by people I aspire to be like, and engaging in discussion about topics in which I'm interested. That's just it, though. Everywhere I look, I see people who are seemingly so much more qualified, more eloquent, and I think, more passionate than me. Although I know they may be older, be more experienced, or have had more, or different opportunities, I can't help but wonder why I continue to put myself out there, as these more experienced individuals who say very similar things, are able to reach and impact more people.
In this same way, I can never commit to just one pastime. It's not necessarily that I want to be the best at everything, but just the fact that other people are better than me at the things I like doing, makes me think I'm better off trying something else. Success for me is mostly measured in how many people I reach, even just my external impact in general. Even if I'm not bad at something, I never feel good enough until other people have not only affirmed this, but have given concrete examples of how they were affected by my actions. In some areas, I've accepted this aspect as part of my personality and do things just because I enjoy them, but in other areas, I feel the need to really, really push the limits and go beyond everyone's expectations. I guess that when I do spend the time and energy I do, on one thing, I really do care about it.
It's so much easier said than done, especially in regards to my own life, but no matter how much better everyone else might seem, I believe that we all need to try. Maybe we'll find our niches in the world, or maybe we'll give up. Maybe we've realized that the point is not to find a niche, but rather to connect them all. Maybe we don't have to have developed and in-depth views on a few things, but rather an understanding of the bigger picture, of ourselves and how we can interact and have an impact on the world around us.
Maybe it's not about being good enough, but just about being ourselves.


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Consultant Radiologist/Clinical Director
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Due to the forthcoming retirement of our current Clinical Director of Breast Screening applications are invited for an enthusiastic, experienced Breast Radiologist to join our pro-active team at Kettering General Hospital. We adopt a strong team ethic and all disciplines work closely together in striving to provide the best quality service to our patients. The successful applicant will be supported by a dedicated clinical and managerial team including a NHSBSP Programme Manager, Advanced Practitioners and a Consultant Radiographer.
The purpose built integrated Breast Care unit provides both breast screening and symptomatic breast imaging services. The unit has a breast screening population in excess of 55,000 women and we consistently meet all of our NHSBSP key performance indicators.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 9, 2018) — Natalie Decker, in her first attempt at Daytona, won the General Tire Pole for Saturday's Lucas Oil 200 Driven by General Tire at Daytona Int'l Speedway.
The Eagle River, Wisconsin rookie qualified with a top speed of 181.859 mph in her No. 25 Venturini Motorsports-prepared N29 Capital Partners – Yamaha Power Products Toyota Camry. Her top speed came from the fourth group among the six groups that qualified.
"This means so much to me to be here," said Decker. "And to get the pole at Daytona is definitely the biggest moment of my career. I beat Johnny Sauter once at State Park Speedway, but this even beats that."
Decker got some good help from veteran spotter Eddie D'Hondt.
"My goodness…it was crazy. My spotter talked the whole time. I told him to talk to me a lot. He told me to hold it on the yellow line and that's what I did. He sent me a big long text last night and it helped so much. Thanks to Dave (Leiner/crew chief), Billy (Venturini), Toyota and everyone at Venturini Motorsports for giving me this opportunity and continued support. We've put together a great team!"
"There's been so much learning. Dave has helped me so much. I'm so thankful he's my crew chief and to be running with Venturini Motorsports. They've helped me so much."
Dave Leiner is slated to be Decker's crew chief for the entire 2018 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards season. Leiner is a 5-time ARCA winning crew chief at Daytona International Speedway.
"Well I said last year, second or third race in…I said Natalie's the real deal," said Leiner. "I've worked with a lot of young drivers. Nat has what it takes to win here…to get to the next level. She's got the drive, the talent and the backing. She gives good feedback, she listens well…she's a joy to work with, and I couldn't be more proud of her."
"It's been a wonderful, wonderful day. I'm so excited to be here. I know I'm going to get nervous when I climb in that car for the race; but I'm going to turn those nerves into drive and excitement once the race starts."
Despite being nervous, Decker also said she has no hesitation when it comes to racing in a big pack at Daytona.
"No hesitation," she said. "Danica (Patrick) has done such a good job of paving the way for all girl drivers. There are a lot of them coming up…and they're all fast. I want to have a good showing tomorrow night for all of them, and I know I have the right team to do it with."
Decker becomes the third female driver in history to win poles for the ARCA race at Daytona; Patty Moise won back to back poles in 1989 and '90. Erin Crocker won the pole in 2007.
Decker makes up one of four team entries for tomorrow afternoon's season opener. Leilani Munter, driver of the VEGANSTONG.com Toyota will start a career best fifth. Last year's pole award winner, Tom Hessert, will start 10th in the U.S. Turf Equipment Toyota while Michael Self in the green and white Sinclair Oil Toyota will roll off 13th.
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Over the last 35-years Venturini Motorsports (VMS) has evolved into one of the most recognizable names in professional motorsports. Known for long-time dominance in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, Venturini Motorsports is held in high regard as one of the premier NASCAR driver development programs in the county. Since 2007, VMS has specialized in the career development of some of today's top racing talent including current NASCAR "Stars" – Joey Logano, Erik Jones, William Byron, Alex Bowman, Ryan Blaney, Darryl 'Bubba' Wallace Jr., Daniel Suarez, Christopher Bell, Justin Allgaier, Noah Gragson, Ben Rhoads, Ryan Reed, Brandon Jones, Matt Tifft, Brennan Poole, Dalton Sargeant, Justin Haley and Todd Gilliland. Integrity, dedication and continuous innovation paired with years of on-track success has helped define Venturini Motorsports as one of the longest tenured teams in all of modern day racing. In 2012, the Venturini racing family was recognized for their collective achievements and inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame – now finding themselves enshrined with such sports icons as Joe DiMaggio, Mario Andretti, Chip Ganassi, Andy Granatelli, Vince Lombardi, Tommy Lasorda and Rocky Marciano.


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I am trying to render to all 6 faces of cubemap with a single drawcall.The GL cubemap is attached to an offscreen frame buffer object.The result I am getting is only the face number zero is affected by both frame buffer clear color and the fragment shader output.The goal is to use geometry shader which is invoked 6 times (once per face),then the gl_InstanceID is assigned to built-in gl_Layer.Fragment shader stage would read gl_Layer value and shade the raster based on in.It is expected that all 6 faced will be painted with a unique color that depends on gl_Layer value.
For the tests to see that I am getting correct gl_layer value I'm trying to render the layer id into the alpha channel of the texture by the following fragment shader:
#version 430
// Ouput data
layout(location = 0) out vec4 color;
in int gl_Layer;
void main(){
color = vec4(0.5,0.5,0.5,float(gl_Layer)/255.0);
The vertex shader basically do nothing:
#version 430
in vec3 position;
void main(){
gl_Position = vec4(position, 1.0);
and the geometry shader executes 6 times, render a unit square (covers the whole viewport) and sets gl_Layer according to gl_InvocationID:
#version 430
layout(triangles, invocations = 6) in;
layout(triangle_strip, max_vertices = 4) out;
out int gl_Layer;
void main()
const vec2 vert_data[4] = vec2[]( vec2(-1.0, 1.0), vec2(-1.0, -1.0), vec2(1.0, 1.0), vec2(1.0, -1.0) );
for(int i=0; i<4; i++)
gl_Layer = gl_InvocationID;
gl_Position = vec4(vert_data[i].xy,0,1);
and finally, this is how I set the texture and the framebuffer:
glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_COLOR_ATTACHMENTS, &fbtextures_count);
// how many textures to create? depends on complexity of your effects.
glGenFramebuffers(1, &framebuffer);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer);
glGenTextures(1, &fbcubetexture);
GLenum target = GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP;
// initializing color maps
glBindTexture(target, fbcubetexture);
glTexParameteri(target, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(target, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
initData(255,255, 255);
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X + i, 0, GL_RGBA8, cube_s, cube_s, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data);
glFramebufferTexture(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, fbcubetexture, 0);
GLenum drawBuffers[] = { GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0 };
glDrawBuffers(1, drawBuffers);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
I am reading the faces colors on the client with:
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
glGetTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X + i, 0, GL_RGBA,GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data);
The result I get for GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X, is correct. but the rest of the face stay with the same first initialized value.I also debugged using NVIDIA NSIGHT where the whole cubemap texture is seen with only one face painted.
I read tens of examples which show how to use gl_Layer id for multi-target rendering through geometry shader but all of them do it differently.
For example,it is not clear if it is enough to attach cubemap texture to a single render target of FBO,or each face must be attached to a different render target?
Should glFramebufferTexture be used to bind the attachments or glFramebufferTexture2D ?
When cubemap is attached to the framebuffer is glClearColor supposed to clear all the faces to some color or just the first one?
What do I miss here?Anyone can show how to do it the right way?
System specs:
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce 960 GTX
Windows7 64bit
I can't prove this is the problem. But it is certainly one problem:
for(int i=0; i<4; i++)
You said that your GS takes
triangles as inputs. Well, those only have three vertices, not 4. So your triangle strip will have a bad vertex in it.
When looping over items in a GS, it's always safer to do this:
for(int i = 0; i < gl_in.length(); i++)
That way, if you change the input primitive type, your length automatically gets updated.


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Israel, US to Sign 10-Year Defense Deal
This is the largest and longest such agreement between the two nations. No details yet on the agreement's impact on Qatar's and Kuwait's ability to clear long-awaited fighter sales from the US.
Carter Opens Boston Brainiac Unit
East meets West: DefSec Carter opens a Boston Brainiac counterpart to his Defense Innovation Unit's Silicon Valley unit.
'Brexit' Could Trigger Sequester-Like Consequences
Brexit, the UK's possible departure from the European Union, could cause global firms, particularly defense industries, to scale back business.
Good News for Contractors in Defense Bill
There's a lot to like in the procurement reforms in the draft defense bill, even with concerns about some new workplace regulations.
Infrastructure Moves Up on HASC Budget List
After years of shifting infrastructure dollars to acquisitions, the House Armed Services Committee looks ready to pony up for bricks and mortar.
Russian Role in Middle East Expanding Rapidly
Israel is concerned Russian weapons in Syria will reach Hezbollah.
US Slow to Fit Weaponry to Stealth Fighters
Europe leads the US in developing weaponry to fit stealth fighters. Current weapons are too large.
House Approves Spending Bill
The House of Representatives passed the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and it now moves to the Senate for its consideration.
Quarter-Million in Uniform Overseas for the Holidays
Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey reminds Americans of the hundreds of thousands of service members and civilians workers who do not take holidays off from the job of keeping us safe.


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First thing the next morning I took the chili chicken out of the freezer for Mr Fudge's Saturday evening meal, with careful instructions on how to push the microwave button. I secretly prayed that it was the chili chicken and not the frozen egg whites, as that could have turned out to be a very disappointing meal indeed.
Now, as a general rule I never to travel on anything flying through the air with less than four jet engines, so I really had to take a leap of faith when we were confronted with our aircraft of choice. It was a twin-engine turboprop, and since my brother had earlier recalled a classic cartoon involving a spare propeller being carried down the aisle past startled passengers mid-flight, we had to laugh. But the trip only took 45 minutes, so I figured if the worst came to the worst,we could probably glide into Canberra.
My brother had booked us into two separate rooms, so the second surprise was to discover that each room had been upgraded to a two bedroom suite. Luxury.
We were first in the dining room that evening. We didn't want to be late for the game and only had time for the main course before hopping into the rental car for the drive to the stadium. A few minutes after we settled into our seats, you can imagine our surprise (No 3) when our friendly host distributed the evening meal. We felt like Hobbits having Second Breakfast and thanked our lucky stars that we didn't have the full three-course meal back at the hotel.
The game was very close and I think I must have been the only person in the stadium barracking against the home team, but after 21 years living in Queensland, the Queensland Reds had my undying support. There was much delirious cheering during the final seconds of the game when the home team was given a penalty virtually in front of the goal posts. As the never-miss goal shooter lined up in front of the ball, the final siren blasted and his boot simultaneously sent the ball on its way. The delirium turned to stunned silence as the ball sailed slowly past the wrong side of one of the uprights. In fact, the only sound to be heard was me madly cheering. We won by one point.
There's nothing like a little drama to get the blood flowing through the veins. The next morning, after a leisurely breakfast at the hotel, we decided to get to the airport early to avoid any last-minute problems returning the hire car. My whole life flashed before my eyes as it became clear that the car was lifeless. The headlights had been accidentally left on overnight and unlike many modern cars, this particular model didn't automatically turn the headlights off after a few minutes. Internal screams. My second name is Chicken Little, so it's just as well my brother is the calm, methodical type. After a couple of phone calls, the road assist people advised that we had been bumped to the top of the list and within 10 minutes the friendly NRMA man was there and the car very swiftly breathed life once more.
We arrived at the airport a few minutes before the aircraft was due to leave, only to be advised that there was an hour's delay due to local fogs. So we had Second Breakfast.
It was such a grand adventure.


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I recently had an interview published in Art & Inspiration, a free bilingual English/French e-magazine & website with a directory of international artists. In the article titled From Crisis to Creativity: an Interview with Mark Matousek, I discuss the common threads in the stories from my book When You're Falling, Dive, how to face crisis, as well as my philosophy that each of us is born with creative genius. I hope you enjoy it.
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An Amazing Retreat
The "Awakening Genius" workshop in France was even better than I had expected. Such an amazing group of people! I'm fascinated by how deeply a group of relative strangers can bond in five days when they are doing deep work together. We did a lot of writing, a lot of inquiry – into ourselves, our gifts, our desires, our choices, and what we hold sacred – and managed to have A LOT of fun, too. Continue reading
Art & Inspiration
A piece about my work just came out in Art & Inspiration, an online magazine published in France (the article appears in both English and French). The theme of this issue is crisis and creativity; I'm interviewed along with Carolyn Myss and three other writers. Tess Nurman, the very young, very smart editor and founder of Art and Inspiration, talked to me by Skype for an hour – about my personal life and books, especially "When You're Falling, Dive," then assembled a gallery of ancient photographs that took me WAY back … like seeing my life flash before my eyes. Art and Inspiration is published quarterly and is full of powerful pieces and terrific visuals. I'm happy to be in such good company.
Our Week in Gindou, France
I'm looking forward to the residential retreat starting this weekend in Gindou, France! It's called "Awakening Genius: An Exploration of Desire and the Creative Life," and we have a great group coming from around the United States and Europe. We'll be working at Le Perchoir des Paons, a renovated stone farmhouse in the heart of the Dordogne region. Classes and writing time will be in the mornings, and we'll explore the sites in the afternoon, including the nearby prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux. Since our subject is genius – by way of desire – there couldn't be a more historically apt marker of inherent human creativity.
Each of us is born with a unique gift. Within every person exists an original spark of creativity waiting to be ignited. This creative power is our genius, a source of inherent brilliance whose dynamic potential can transform our lives once we know how to find it. In my experience, insight is the key to Continue reading


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Why Gogo, Inc. Shares Took Off
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of in-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo, Inc. were on the move today, climbing as much as 14%, as the stock continued to gain after Monday's strong earnings report.
So what: This looks like a lasting momentum run, as shares are up nearly 60% since last Thursday, and jumped 25% in one day alone on Monday's report. The recently public Gogo showed off 48% revenue growth in its third quarter, hitting $85.4 million in sales, much better than the $76.8 million analysts had expected. Meanwhile, its per-share loss came in at $0.22 versus the $0.31 consensus. Today's belated jump seems to have come from excitement around yesterday's approval of the AMR-US Airways merger, which lifted airline stocks as a whole. Gogo also got a strong endorsement from CNBC's Jim Cramer last night.
Now what: In its earnings report, the tech company also bumped up its outlook for the year, now lifting the high end of its revenue guidance to $325 million, instead of $315 million, and similarly increasing the high end of its adjusted EBITDA from zero, to $10 million. Wall Street may be underestimating this company, as in-flight Wi-Fi seems like a long-term growth category, and Gogo is continuing to innovate. The company also announced that it signed its first contract with a foreign-based carrier, Japan Airlines, and plans to introduce a new ground-to-orbit technology providing faster Internet speeds by next summer. Clearly, there are several new revenue streams ahead for Gogo. I'd expect shares to keep soaring past Wall Street estimates.
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News Archive - October 2010
"Wills for Missionaries" - Prof. Philip Manns shares his efforts in Pro Bono workOctober 28, 2010
The Wills for Missionaries program provides estate planning and other documents (wills, durable powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and travel authorizations) for missionaries of the International Mission Board (IMB), as they head overseas...Read More
Federalist Society Welcomes Professor Esenberg for Jurisprudence TalkOctober 28, 2010
The Federalist Society at Liberty University School of Law welcomes Marquette University School of Law Professor Richard Esenberg, to speak on the topic entitled "The Impoverishment of Legal Discourse: Naked Jurisprudence and Civil Society."...Read More
National Pro Bono Celebration Interview; Prof. Edna Udobong shares her efforts in Pro Bono workOctober 26, 2010
Upon graduation from the Nigerian Law School, and call to the Bar, I first registered for a job with the Nigerian Legal Aid Services where I represented clients in criminal cases. It was my first taste of pro bono legal work that revealed to me how...Read More
National Pro Bono Celebration Interview; Christopher Pitera shares his efforts in Pro Bono workOctober 25, 2010
Christopher has made pro bono service a priority during his tenure at Liberty University School of Law. Over the past three years he has contributed numerous hours of his time providing pro bono service to the Street Law Program, Liberty University...Read More
Today Liberty University Appeared in Federal Court Challenging the Healthcare LawOctober 22, 2010
Today Liberty Counsel represented Liberty University and five additional clients against the new healthcare law opposing the federal government's motion to dismiss in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Liberty Counsel's...Read More
Liberty Law School to Co-Host Seminar on the Constitution and Rule of LawOctober 20, 2010
Liberty University School of Law is excited to offer a free seminar entitled "The U.S. Constitution and the American Rule of Law" on Tuesday, October 26. This event is cosponsored by the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and will...Read More
Tim Todd Claims Victory in Sixth Annual Moot Court TournamentOctober 12, 2010
After nearly a week of intense competition rounds, third-year law student (3L) Tim Todd was declared champion at the conclusion of the Liberty University School of Law 2L/3L Moot Court Tournament held from October 4 through October 7, with the final...Read More
Liberty Law Negotiation Team Wins National Entertainment Law TournamentOctober 05, 2010
Liberty University School of Law proudly congratulates the team of Hannah Reichel (Class of 2011) and Karlee Shelton (Class of 2012) for their victory in the first-ever Southwestern Entertainment Law Negotiation Competition. The team was declared...Read More
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Celebrating Dia de los Muertos
A paper plate is a good staple to have on-hand for lots of projects, particularly this one! White paper plates with the bumpy edges are available at most dollar stores or discount stores, and they make. the. perfect. skull.
Day of the Dead is a chance to honor loved ones who have passed away. It's full of color, flowers, designs, butterflies, and other beautiful things. I used the die cut shape maker in the teacher's lounge to cut out mini flowers, butterflies, and stars. You can use foam or other stickers, small pieces of leftover paper, or even glitter glue to decorate these skulls.
Each student will need:
- 1 paper plate
- Markers
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Wooden dowel, popsicle stick, or chop stick (I added glitter washi tape to our dowels)
- Various colorful shapes, stickers, ribbons, tissue paper flowers, glitter, etc. etc.
- Masking tape
Cut the paper plate (be sure there's only 1) into the shape of a skull. Save about 1- 1/2" to 2" of the outer ribbed area for the teeth. Cut the rest of the ribbed part off and keep the skull nice and round.
Using markers, draw two large eyes with flower petals going around each one. Draw an upside-down heart for the nose and add lots of swirls, gems, dots, and designs on the face. Glue additional flowers, butterflies, etc. for the crown if desired.
Secure the calavera onto the stick using masking tape or painter's tape.
Tips for drawing on the face: Start with the eyes, as they are the largest and most important part of the calavera. You can keep the inner circle small to allow lots of room for colorful flower petals. This part is what makes the skull essentially a calavera. Create swirls around the cheeks, going up. Add dots between swirls and petals, in a line along the chin, and on the forehead.
Traditional colors include magenta, aqua, orange/marigold, yellow, bright green, purple.


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Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is launching a flexible mortgage with no redemption penalties.
It offers a 1 per cent discount off the standard variable rate of 7.44 per cent.
Maximum loan to value is 75 per cent. There is no arrangement fee.
Overpayments can be made immediately and then used to fund payment holidays or underpayments.
Products and marketing general manager Steve Penlington says: "What mostpeople want in a flexible mortgage is the ability to overpay, or make capital repayments. What we are offering is a mortgage with no strings attached. We think this is the type of mortgage that people really want and we expect this scheme to be highly popular."
The procuration fee ranges from 125 to 225.
Putting their best foot forward for charity are (from left) Karen Martens, Amrita Cochrane and Trish Farr. They form part of a team of five from Birmingham Midshires who are tackling the Great Malvern Walk towards the Heartbeat Campaign – a joint three-year initiative between the building society and the British Heart Foundation.
Norwich & Peterboro' flexi mortgage cuts the strings
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is launching a flexible mortgage with no redemption penalties.