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European Remembrance - Strand 1
Key Dates to be Celebrated per year of Application
1917 The social and political revolutions, the fall of empires and their impact on Europe's political and historical landscape
1957 The Treaty of Rome and the beginning of European Economic Community
1918 The end of the WWI – the rise of nation states and the failure to create a European cooperation and peaceful coexistence
1938/1939 Beginning of WWII
1948 Beginning of the Cold War
1948 The Hague Congress and the integration of Europe
1968 Protest and civil rights movements, invasion to Czechoslovakia, student protests and anti-Semitic campaign in Poland
1979 European Parliament elections – also 40 years since the first directly elected EP in 1979
1989 Democratic revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin wall
2004 15 years of EU enlargement into central and Eastern Europe
1950 Robert Schuman Declaration
1990 German reunification
2000 Proclamation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
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Page 1:Introduction
Page 2:Power-Hungry, Hot, And Big
Page 3:Test Setup And Benchmarks
Page 4:Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage
Page 5:Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
Page 6:Benchmark Results: Crysis
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Page 9:Benchmark Results: World In Conflict
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Without anti-aliasing, Far Cry 2 does a reasonable job of pushing the entire platform—especially at lower resolutions. We see the two GeForce GTX 275s turning in the best numbers at 1680x1050 and 1920x1200. Moving to 2560x1600, however, the GeForce GTX 295 catches up and passes the cards running at the same clocks.
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- Introduction
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- Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: Stalker: Clear Sky
- Benchmark Results: Left 4 Dead
- Benchmark Results: World In Conflict
- Benchmark Results: H.A.W.X
- Benchmark Results: Grand Theft Auto 4
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Happened in WiC w/o AA as well. Difficult to say went on there, but the results are repeatable. Probably more important, though, is that when more of an emphasis is put on the graphics subsystem, you see those stock-clocked boards take the lead, as we'd expect.
avatar_raq1.Very good article, unlike some other author's articles in this site, this article is solid (starting from the test system down to the conclusion) and interesting, this is what I always expect from Chris.
2.As for the strange issue in L4D, HAWX and WIC where the slower 275s beat the faster ones....Odd indeed. Is there any chance the normally clocked cards automatically clocked down to 2D mode or somthing in-game? In other words the GPUs usage dropped due to the CPU bottleneck or whatever, and the cards' driver decided to clockdown to save energy! I've seen nvidia and ati cards do that. The monitoring utility of rivatuner could have revealed such things since it shows real-time clocks..BTW what software did you use to downclock?
It would be funny to consider downclocking our cards to 'gain' performance!!
3.I hope the new (single PCB) 295 will drop in larger quantities, perhaps it will be more practical than the current one, and will tip the balnce here in its favor.
daerosQuote:The most striking result here is the drop from 1920x1200 to 2560x1600. The same bug seen in Crysis manifests itself here as well.
This isn't a bug, nor is it fixable by a driver update. It's called not having enough VRAM to handle all those MASSIVE textures at quadruple their on-screen resolution. The same thing happens when I move from 1920x1200 to 2048x1536 on my 4870. The only solutions are smaller textures or more VRAM. This is why the "professional" cards (FireGL/FireSTREAM and Quadro/Tesla) will often have 2-4 times the framebuffer as the desktop counterparts.
IF the problem is VRAM then why isn't the same result replicated in the GTX 275 benchmarks? Bear in mind SLI setups can only address half the available ram so in this case both cards have the same amount of VRAM.
daerosWell, let's see: the 275 at stock clocks went from 31.3 to 7.4, the 275 at 295 speeds went from 28.2 to 8.1, and the 295 went from 28.7 to 7.9. So you tell me how it didn't happen in the 275 benchmarks.
ps- If you want validation of my remarks, just take a look at all the benchmarks comparing the 4870 512MB to the 4870 1GB. You can see the exact same thing there. Or, if you want to stick with the green, go back to when the 8800GT 256MB came out. At low resolutions it was fine; but crank up either the resolution or the AA/AF, and it chokes.
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Master fantasist Diana Wynne Jones, author of the Chrestomanci books, scores another winner in The Merlin Conspiracy. This absorbing tale of magic and courtly intrigue is told in two voices. In the world called Islands of the Blest, Roddy is a young page who has grown up travelling with her family in the King's Progress, a constant journey around the kingdom. Just after she and her younger friend Grundo spot a growing conspiracy to overthrow the King and change the balance of magic, they are whisked away to visit Roddy's grim and silent grandfather; when they return the Progress has moved on without them. Meanwhile in another world, Nick Mallory, 14, blunders into a dreamlike adventure that leads him to the powerful wizard Romanov and involves him in Roddy's mission to save the worlds from the upset planned by the conspiracy.
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Story is interesting and the characters are likeable.
The enjoyable parts are that the multi-world universe, the magical and mythological descriptions are beautifully-written. The plot itself; the balance of entire worlds being threatened by a conspiracy in the Isle of Blest is an interesting idea. The world building is so believable that you feel you could almost get there by turning the next page. I loved the descriptions of the magical folk, the great powers and the personification of entire cities in Blest. The details of weather, houses, animals and landscape are also wonderfully atmospheric.
With the vast imagination on display it really is a bit of a shame that I couldn't like all of it.
The biggest problem is really to do with the characters. *The next part of the review does include a spoiler*.
Nick Mallory is certainly the best of the bunch, he is written as a conscientious boy with a thoughtful and practical mind. Even he gets a little tedious with his unrequited crush on Roddy though. As a lead character Roddy (Arianrhod) Hyde is a disappointment. She comes across as snobbish and patronising much of the time and then given to bursting into tears when she is under pressure. One particular scene that almost made me give up reading is the discovery that Roddy has been manipulated by a friend. There are several problems with this; her reaction is to run off, have a good cry on Nick's shoulder and feel bad about herself. Given Roddy's temperamental nature it would have been a redeeming moment to give the friend a hard thwack with some of her vast array of spells but, alas no, it doesn't happen. It's also rather irritating that the scene comes rather late in the book. Roddy has already been in a dozen situations where this could've been spotted.
I just couldn't take to the female characters in this book. Most of them appear either meek and anxious mousey types or arrogant, self-centred, hysterical harridans who are not very intelligent. The female villain is scarcely credible (for a lead conspirator) as her intelligence seems to be equal with a piece of boiled string. You won't find as scintillating a figure as The Witch of the Waste (from Howl's Moving Castle) here.
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Hal finds himself counseling others with intelligence, sensitivity, and a healthy dose of intuition. Actually, not much escapes Moore today.
Romance is favorable and rewarding today also.
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Seven-day camp at Government College of EducationGaurav Bhatia | TNN | Dec 27, 2012, 01.33 PM IST
CHANDIGARH: During a seven-day NSS camp at the Government College of Education, the NSS volunteers carried out a cleanliness drive by providing their services in Government High School, Kajhedi village. The playgrounds, children's park and herbal garden were the main targets. The energy and enthusiasm of the volunteers was tremendous.
They executed various strategies to generate awareness in students about hygiene by going to different classes and demonstrating the need for personal hygiene and its importance. It was followed by a slogan writing and poster making competition in which all the volunteers participated actively. The theme being 'hygiene and sanitation', the volunteers expressed their ideas in a creative way.
Culture of various states was presented through the folk song singing competition. On the 4th day of the camp a planned visit was organized to the blind school in Sector-26, Chandigarh and the old age home at sector-15, Chandigarh.
Set up in a serene and peaceful surrounding, the volunteers at Blind School had an opportunity to interact with the visually impaired. A trip around the school, hostel and the sensory garden provided the opportunity to understand their living conditions and also the guidance provided there to make them self sufficient.
In the old age home the volunteers went around and interacted with the inmates and heard their plights of loneliness and solitude. In the evening an Antakshri competition was organized especially for the NSS volunteers. Many students participated and exhibited their talent.
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Terrorized by Touchtunes
I don't know what music those people are playing but I bet it sucks. That's because the device they're using, Touchtunes, is an inherently evil, invasive machine that has vastly degraded the once pleasurable experience of going to a bar.
If you don't know how Touchtunes works, it's a new-ish jukebox that allows you to search for and play, not every song in the world by any means but quite possibly most of them, with the touch of a button or with an app on your phone. The problem with this is that, confronted with such a dizzying array of choices, most people are overwhelmed and don't know what to play.
Touchtunes solves this problem by having "Most Popular Songs Played" as the first option which means that it is the option most people choose and as a result a friendly neighborhood barfly like myself may be subjected to something like Night Moves by Bob Seger two, even three times in a night and that's just wrong. Patrons can also pay extra to have their songs pushed to the top of the list and there's no limit to how many times they can repeat a song so, not only might you have your playlist replaced by Black Dog, but you might also have to hear it multiple times in a row.
Speaking of Black Dog, I didn't choose that title arbitrarily. It's incredible to me how many people, virtually all of them, play music exclusively from the '60′s, '70′s and '80′s. There is a dearth of music selected from our own time and to me frankly that's just weird. Billy Idol, Fleetwood Mac, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, etc. should be retired from jukebox and radio station playlists the world over. Most people don't listen to new music, they have twenty or so go-to nostalgia songs from their past and so that's what they play when they go out and Touchtunes rewards this behavior by making the most played tracks cost a credit less than other tracks thereby fostering mediocre, unimaginative playlists that promote brain dead listening habits.
The truth is that we should not be placing the awesome responsibility of selecting what music is played in the hands of the masses. The music must be curated by someone with sensitivity and taste and with some idea of what kind of environment they're going for. This would be a D.J. or someone who curates a limited selection for a jukebox. There are plenty of crowd pleasers that aren't Benny and the Jets which I just had to hear last night and yes it's not a bad song but my God how many times do I have to hear it before I die when there are so many great artists out there today that deserve to be heard and who I'd much rather hear than Elton Freakin' John who has had his day and done quite well thank you very much?
All of that is bad enough but the truly frightening thing about Touchtunes is the way they have stripped identity away from bars, many of whom were defined by the music you'd hear within their grimy walls. Bars used to have to curate the music that was in their jukeboxes and there was an eclectic but still limited choice for the patrons who often would choose which bars to hang out in based on the music in the jukebox. With the advent of Touchtunes, however, bars no longer have a sonic personality and you're as likely now to hear some watered down band like Death Cab for Cutie at a punk bar as you are to hear, you know, punk rock. Once the Touchtunes is installed and turned on you can say goodbye to any kind of individuality because even if your bar is called Bones of the Undead I guarantee the first song someone will play will be Endless Love or something just as bad.
- Written by: Seth Boustead
- On: December 28, 2014
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Uh, why would endless love be bad?
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As I have mentioned many times, completing treasure hunts in SecondLife is something I really enjoy doing. Solving cryptic clues (some harder than others) kicks the mind into gear whilst allowing me the opportunity to feed my shopping addiction by discovering new stores.
When accepted to blog the Rock Attitude special Halloween edition hunt, I was thrilled. The hunt started on October 30th and will run until November 30th, so you have plenty of time to find all the gifts. Each prize costs 5 Linden and with nearly 50 stores involved you will find yourself travelling the grid.
For more information visit the Rock Attitude Hunt Webpage or click HERE to find the Hints.
Remaining true to the theme of my blog and resisting the temptation to post just pictures and credits, I have decided to have some fun and "ROCK IT UP", Aussie style!
Like many, music is a huge part of the Australian culture and one of the biggest aspect to my life. For me music is the calm in the storm. The celebration of good times or the words when I cannot speak.
Music, with or without lyrics can soothe the soul, heal the heart, dry the tears and give one enough strength and courage to battle whatever challenges lie ahead. We fall in love, create memories and tie ourselves to particular songs as the tunes play in the background of our lives.
My love for music came from my father. Each night curled up in a bean bag we would listen to the sounds of Bob Dylan, Elvis, Neil Diamond and Pink Floyd. Then came the Australian music of The Angels, Skyhooks, Cold Chisel and world-renowned, ACDC.
With a love for strong base and guitar Australian Rock music has spanned the decades from 1960. So to partner each prize item post I have chosen a favourite Australian rock song of mine. I hope you enjoy the sounds of the music which forms part of my life.
What better song to kick off this week of ROCK, than THE Aussie rock anthem
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It's Friday morning, 10:30AM, as I write this, and not a soul is awake here, no one wandering the paths between the pools and roses, and, but for the lonely echo of a far-away metal chair scraping across a balcony, and the whisper of the wind in the palms, it is perfectly, perfectly quiet.
The full glory of the sun is just beginning to be revealed through the morning fog -- this gray ocean mist that comes to San Diego on May mornings, and lifts itself in slow motion, deliberately, to make you savor the suspense, like the slow unwrapping of a birthday gift.
No one in their right mind is up at this ungodly hour. Not after last night's wild all-night dancing and balcony/hot-tub parties parties; and not in these last few hours before workshops begin and the full weight of the schedule descends upon us.
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Thursday here was a different animal!
Pro-Am Strictlys were held yesterday afternoon, and social dancing took off like a horse with cabin-fever before the last competitors even left the floor, not letting up until everyone took their seats for Rising Star at 9, and immediately taking off again with a frenzied excitement the very instant Rising Star was over.
And continuing at that feverish level until daybreak.
Rising Star was terrific! Ferocious competitors in this division, some fabulous choreography.
What's cool is that for this division Showcase rules apply, meaning that lifts and drops are allowed, but, unlike Showcase, are not required. Gives leeway for new competitors to experiment, find what they can do, and what feels most like their "language."
The ballroom! It is beautiful. Rearranged this year to feel more intimate, with the idea of re-creating the US Open "pit" of the past. Tables on all sides, every seat in the house brought closer to the floor, dancing to all four walls for all divisions this weekend.
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In a previous post, I waxed poetic on the concept of incentives, as it relates to the economy and economic theory. I concluded with the following recommendation:
If a politician--or an economist--isn't talking about incentives, when it comes to the consequences of a given policy--they're not worth listening to.Today, Martin Feldstein--former chair of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors--offered an op-ed in the WSJ on the subject of tax reform. From the beginning of the piece (my boldface):
The Tax Reform Act of 1986, enacted 25 years ago last Friday, showed how a tax reform that includes lower rates can change incentives in a way that grows the tax base and produces extra revenue.There you have it, boys and girls. You may freely listen to Mr. Feldstein because he's speaking the right language, the language of incentives. And Mr. Feldstein's research on tax returns demonstrates--with empirical evidence--exactly what I was arguing in my previous piece: changing income tax rates doesn't lower or increase revenues, it creates different incentives for the individual. Not surprisingly--since it's exactly what I said--the evidence shows that incentives to under-report taxable income are greater when the income tax rater is higher:
Lower marginal tax rates also caused individuals to shift some of their compensation from untaxed fringe benefits and other perquisites to taxable earnings. Taxpayers also reduced spending on tax-deductible forms of consumption.See, when people do their tax returns--when they sit down to figure out how much money they owe the government--they look for ways to lower their tax bill. Some people even *gassteinp* cheat to lower their tax bill. Many people will tell you that cheating on one's taxes is what rich people do, but that's just not true. Far more middle class people cheat on their taxes than rich people, because there are far more middle class people. But regardless, the cheating doesn't matter because--again--just about everyone looks to lower their tax bill. That's human nature,
And one of the best ways to lower that bill is lower one's reportable income. Ask any tax accountant that you know if you doubt me. Thus, the larger the potential tax bill, the lower the reportable income will be for the individual (within the range of real, true income and what is eventually reported as income). At the same time, if the exceptions for lowering reportable income are taken out of the tax code, reportable income can't help but go up.
Those two things are exactly the focus of Feldstein's article, exactly the focus of the Reagan administration, with regard to income taxes, and exactly what should be the focus, now. Simply the tax code, lower rates, and Federal revenues will go up, economic activity will increase, and Federal revenues will go up even more. Oh, and as an unintended consequence, employment will also increase.
This remains a very difficult concept for many to grasp, particularly those in Washington, D.C. that are charged with making the tax laws. Well okay, it's not that it's too difficult for them, so much as it is not conducive to a mindset focused on class warfare as a means of garnering and maintaining political power.
But the time for such games is coming quickly to a head, and then an end.
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According to a spokesman for the president-elect, they decided not to ask the rapper if he wanted to perform, because it is not the right place for his style of music.
Last December, the meeting between Donald Trump and Kanye West at the New York magnate's tower surprised many, especially as that could mean the rapper's involvement in the Republican's assumption, which would take place on Friday, January 20.
Nevertheless, everything was in pure speculations and never again was spoken of the subject, especially by some artists who refused to participate of the investiture in Washington.
One day after the ceremony, a spokesman for the president-elect said, West was not invited to participate, because his music is not appropriate for the "typical and traditional American event."
Tom Barrack who is the spokesman for the Presidential Inauguration Committee explained that the ceremony was not an appropriate place for Kim Kardashian's husband. "He has been great, he considers himself a friend of the president-elect, but it is not the place," he said.
"It's going to be typical and traditionally American, Kanye West is a great guy, we just have not asked him to do it," said the head of the event committee when asked if the musician would participate.
We all thought Kanye West was going to sing at the Trump Inauguration. One morning in December, days after leaving the hospital and having a turbulent year-end with rumors of divorce, cancellation of his tour, etc., Kanye West appeared in the lobby of the Trump Tower, was swallowed up by the elevator doors and descended About twenty minutes later with the president-elect. "He's a good man, we've been friends for some time," Donald Trump told reporters.
So it's surprising that in the program of possession of Trump does not appear Kanye West. Several celebrities did not want to participate. But it is possible that Kanye wanted, but they did not even ask him.
Now the question is "What does Tom Barrack Jr. mean by 'typically and traditionally American'? The list of artists at the opening includes an Irish dancer, Italian opera singer and DJ Ravidrums, who specializes in art Super-traditional American drum mixes live.
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Transparency Virginia's 2017 post-legislative review.
20 January 2017
Transparency Virginia, a collection of lobbyists and advocates monitoring transparency in the General Assembly, will again this 2017 legislative session be monitoring the three areas of legislative accountability that first brought the group together in 2014.
First, TVa monitors the notice that is given for subcommittee and committee meetings so that citizens and advocates may observe or participate in them. Second, TVa also believes that all bills should receive consideration by a committee or subcommittee. Finally, TVa believes that all votes on bills should be recorded by name, not just by an up or down voice vote.
TVa members have endorsed HB1677, brought by Del. Ben Cline (R-Amherst), which would codify these second two points above: The bill would require all legislation in both the House and Senate "to be considered by the committee of purview or a subcommittee thereof and receive a recorded vote."
Passage of HB1677 would complement the committee notification system implemented in the House of Delegates last year by Speaker of the House William Howell. The notice system greatly improved the ability of citizens, the press, lobbyists and advocates to follow when bills they care about are being discussed and voted on in the House committees and subcommittees.
Though outside TVa's three main areas, TVa also supports a measure announced by the Speaker this year to archive video recordings of House floor sessions on the House livestreaming website (http://virginia-house.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3). Video access enhances the public's ability to monitor their elected officials in action and ascertain their positions on bills.
The meeting notice improvements and the video archives are improvements made since TVa's formation and have brought Virginia government closer to the public.
TVa applauds the Speaker's actions and encourages the Senate to make similar efforts.
Questions about TVa's past and current work can be directed Megan Rhyne at 540-353-8264.
Transparency Virginia's 2016 post-legislative review. Click here or click the image below to open the PDF.
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Report: Virginia lawmakers block transparency, access to legislative process
In February, Delegate Jeffrey Campbell tried to revise Virginia's "reckless" driving threshold so motorists couldn't be criminalized for driving six miles over the speed limit on I-95. His bill never made it out of the Courts of Justice Committee. Like so many others, the Marion Republican's measure was "left in committee," where bills that lawmakers just don't want to risk an up-or-down vote go to die, with no recorded tally. That way, constituents who couldn't make the middle-of-the-day meeting in Richmond have no clue where their lawmakers stand on that bill or hundreds of others. It might be one thing if that was a rare occurrence. But a new report from Transparency Virginia backs up what anyone who's spent time in the General Assembly knows well — both parties and chambers are rife with practices that thwart transparency and accountability in the legislative process.
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Lack of Virginia's General Assembly openness is criticized
Virginia's lax ethics laws mean it can be tough to watch for officials' conflicts of interest, but the job is even tougher with the General Assembly's tendency to kill bills without recording how legislators vote. On top of that, General Assembly committees and subcommittees that are supposed to hear public views on legislation often give little notice of their meetings and agendas, and frequently block any public comment, according to a study of this year's legislative action by Transparency Virginia, a coalition of citizen groups. The coalition released its report Tuesday. "People are being left in the dark," said Megan Rhyne, executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government and author of the Transparency Virginia report. (Marisa Porto, the vice president of content for the Daily Press, is on the Coalition for Open Government's board of directors.)
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Editorial: Report faults Virginia House of Delegates on transparency
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Opening statement for Transparency Virginia press conference
The following statement was given by Megan Rhyne at the April 14 news conference where Transparency Virginia's report was released. Rhyne is executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government and the report's principal author.
It is tempting for each of us in this room to take for granted the ways of the General Assembly. Year in and year out, as lobbyists, advocates, media, staff or lawmakers, we all gradually figure out how the process works and how it doesn't work.
We know how to look up committee meeting times, we know how to look up legislation, we know how to act and what to expect in a committee meetings. We know what the motions mean. We know how to approach the secretaries, the legislative aids, the staff attorneys. And we always remember to preface our committee testimony by thanking the chair and the committee members.
We know these things because it is our job to know. We figure it out through being here, by observing, asking, and learning from others.
But are we in this room and elsewhere in the General Assembly and Capitol buildings today, are we the only ones who care about what happens here? Are we the only ones who have a stake in the outcome of proposed legislation? Are WE the only ones who want to know how well our elected officials have performed the jobs we elected them to do?
The answer is clearly no.
Yet, for any member of the public or press who is not intimately familiar with the legislative process, following or participating in that process is so difficult as to be nearly impossible. For example, when seasoned lobbyists are chastised for not following unwritten rules for opposing a bill, imagine what a citizen faces when trying to participate in person.
When engaged observers are physically present in the committee room and yet still cannot completely pick out which members of a 22-person committee shouted out aye or nay, imagine a citizen's confusion back home when the disposition of a bill is listed online only as "subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote."
The system is set up for those on the inside, yet even many professionals are frequently left in the dark. Where decisions about state and local laws that directly and indirectly affect each and every one of us are made, the short sessions and the rapid-fire scheduling of committee meetings undermine participation by and accountability to the citizens of Virginia.
It is with this backdrop that Transparency Virginia formed in December of 2014 and today releases its report documenting the murky practices frequently seen in the Virginia General Assembly.
We are a loosely formed coalition of non-profit advocacy groups and individual lobbyists and advocates. We met in early January to identify the three practices we would take special note of during the session:
notice of meetings
the consideration of bills AND
recorded votes on bills
We chose these three areas because citizens would have little trouble understanding the fundamental role of each in the overall legislative process.
Many of Transparency Virginia's findings are disturbing. Bills were introduced but then left in committees without ever being added to an agenda much less given a hearing. Bills were defeated by unrecorded voice votes, allowing some lawmakers to avoid responsibility and disallowing others from making their position known. Meetings were called with notice so short as to make it virtually impossible for anyone other than the committee members to attend.
These practices paint a stark reality: A body that prides itself on being a citizen legislature is too often a legislature that is NOT for the citizens.
It must be stated clearly and emphatically, though, that this report is not a condemnation of any one person or any one party.
Though Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate, it would be as much of a mistake to say, "This is a Republican problem," as it would be to say, "This is an attack on Republicans."
The sad truth is that these are systemic problems. Problems that have developed over time, over parties and over party leaders.
To anyone who would reduce this to a partisan issue, I would make the following two points:
First, as the report mentions, there are committee and subcommittee chairs who do the right thing and committees that operate openly. All of these committees are chaired by Republicans.
Second, a committee is more than its chair. Every committee is made up of members of both parties. And any member of either party can make a motion or a substitute motion that is or is not in the spirit of transparency. The data Transparency Virginia analyzed shows only how the committee or subcommittee voted as a whole, not which individual made the motion.
Further, any legislator of either party can speak out about opaque practices before, during and after committee meetings. No one from either party is gagged from advocating for transparency.
Transparency takes collective will and collective action. It can't take place in a vacuum where lawmakers tell the public only how much they want to let them know, or where the public gets to demand that every detail be laid bare.
The aim of this report, and indeed for Transparency Virginia, then, is to facilitate a conversation about what makes better open government practices. What can we do to help citizens get and stay informed? What can we do to make participation easier?
We don't have all of the answers.
It is our hope, instead, that our elected officials today and whoever they might be tomorrow take the public's right to know seriously. They should work with their constituents and others to develop policies and procedures that work to the public's benefit. And they should make it a priority to put those policies and procedures into practice.
This is what is best for us all. This is what makes us a Common-wealth. This is what makes us Virginians.
Transparency Virginia's 2015 post-legislative review. Click here or click image to download the PDF.
Killing bills by stealth
This is an Associated Press story that appeared Feb. 25, 2015, on the Washington Post website
In Virginia General Assembly, many bills die by stealth
RICHMOND, Va. — There's more than one way to kill legislation in the Virginia General Assembly.
There's the straight-up way: Put it up for a vote and lawmakers must go on record, pro or con.
Then there's the stealthy way: Kill it in a subcommittee without a recorded vote, and it vanishes without a trace.
It's a longstanding practice in Virginia's 400-year-old legislature. But transparency advocates say the public deserves better.
A new broad-based coalition of 22 advocacy organizations says the system is undemocratic and should be changed. Throughout the 2015 legislative session, Transparency Virginia has been documenting instances of unrecorded votes, bills killed with no hearings, and failure to provide timely notice of meetings.
Most stealthy bill deaths occur in the House of Delegates, where the practice is routine. And no bill is too high-profile to escape such a fate.
Redistricting, for instance.
An ethics advisory panel appointed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe last year recommended removing the job of drawing legislative district lines from the General Assembly and turning it over to an independent, bipartisan commission. Critics say the current system results in bizarrely shaped districts designed to protect incumbents and preserve the majority party's power.
A bipartisan measure to establish a redistricting commission in the state constitution passed the state Senate easily.
Then it went to the House Privileges and Elections Committee. It was assigned to a subcommittee and was never heard from again. No vote was taken.
Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel of Fauquier County, the measure's Republican patron, said she didn't bother making a full-blown presentation to the panel because she knew from prior experience what would happen.
"The bottom line is, it was not going to succeed," she said.
When Sen. Adam Ebbin's proposal to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reached the same House committee, Ebbin wasn't even given the opportunity to make a pitch for it.
The amendment would ban discrimination based on sex.
"No hearing. No consideration," said Ebbin, an Alexandria Democrat. "Just dismissal of the prospect of equal treatment of all without any discussion."
In other cases, bills were killed by a voice vote of a subcommittee, with no record made of who voted which way. Among them were bills to:
— Allow voters 65 and over to vote by absentee ballot.
— Prohibit discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation.
— Allow future governors to seek a second consecutive four-year term.
After watching legislation get the stealthy death treatment for years, a group of activists decided this year it was time to make some noise about it.
The result was Transparency Virginia, which includes the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club and the Virginia Coalition for Open Government.
Julie Emery, executive director of the Virginia Civic Engagement Table, another member of the coalition, noted the problem is bipartisan.
"Whatever party has been in control has abused that power," she said.
Del. Mark Cole, the Spotsylvania County Republican who chairs the Privileges and Elections Committee, said unrecorded votes are rare.
"The vast majority of those votes are recorded, or have the ability to be recorded if a member requests it," Cole said.
Even an unrecorded voice vote occurs in a public meeting where witnesses can see it, he said: "There's nothing done in secret."
Any change in the procedure would require a modification of the House rules, Cole added — "and I understand the rules have been that way forever."
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