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bat (one's) eyelashes(redirected from bat my eyelashes)
bat (one's) eyelashes
To flirt with or feign romantic interest in someone, either by literally fluttering one's eyelashes or merely in general. Usually, but not exclusively, refers to women. She kept batting her eyelashes at me each time I talked to her, so I'm thinking of asking her out on a date. I like to bat my eyelashes at bartenders to see if I can get a drink or two for free.


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Dropbox Picks Dublin for Its Second Office
Dropbox, the online syncing and storage provider, plans to establish its first international office in Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin has become a popular spot for Silicon Valley tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to set up shop due to costs, taxes, language, potential employees and other factors. Dropbox hasn't chosen a specific building yet or appointed anyone to be head of its international operations, but it's looking and recruiting now.
It's appropriate for Dropbox to go international at this point in its life because the majority of the company's users are outside the U.S., said CEO Drew Houston on Monday. Actually, it's been that way from the beginning.
Today, a third of Dropbox's users are in Europe. Its 100 million total users live in more than 200 countries.
For Dropbox, expanding into a faraway timezone is key, Houston said. The Dublin office will be dedicated to all sorts of workday-dependent businesses like sales account management, user operations and support.
What about engineering? "R&D will probably stay in San Francisco," Houston said. "It's important to keep everyone together." Still, he said he feels it's important that all Dropbox offices — make that both Dropbox offices — share the same team culture.
Internationalization has perhaps been less of a challenge for Dropbox than other companies. Dropbox is currently localized in eight languages, but Houston noted that sharing files and collaborating are a cross-cultural phenomenon. "The product is really simple," he said, "so localization hasn't been a barrier like with more complicated products."


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Van Roekel, Wisconsin 14 Inspire Delegates
President Dennis Van Roekel Addresses the Representative Assembly, and Honors the "Wisconsin 14"
July 02, 2011
By Will Potter
Educators must stand strong and continue to speak up for students, the teaching profession, and the future of the nation, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said Saturday. Van Roekel addressed nearly 8,000 delegates as he called to order the association's 90th Representative Assembly.
"We care about every student, we care about public education, we care about this country, and we are closing ranks," Van Roekel said. "Our country is not for sale to the highest political donor or the wealthiest corporations. It belongs to the people who built Main Street, not the wheeler-dealers on Wall Street. It belongs to our children who expect us to safeguard its promise."
Educators and collective bargaining have been under attack in Wisconsin, Ohio, and beyond. Van Roekel said that these attacks are about politics, not about closing budget deficits or helping students succeed; now is not the time to retreat, it's time to organize and to lead.
This year's Friend of Education Award was given to 14 Democratic Senators from Wisconsin who showed that leadership. They made the bold decision earlier this year to leave the state, rather than vote for a bill to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights.
NEA delegates gave them a rousing and emotional welcome. They held "Thank You 14" signs, wore T-shirts bearing the nickname and chanted "We are one!"
"My Senate colleagues did not hesitate when the time came to stand up for working people," Wisconsin Senator Mark Miller said, speaking for the group, to rousing applause.
Throughout his speech, the thousands of delegates in attendance shouted, "Recall!" referring to the effort taking place right now in Wisconsin to recall the Republican lawmakers who rammed through Walker's anti-worker bill. There are currently six Republicans facing recall elections in the 33-member state Senate.
Educators have been feeling these attacks across the country, and morale has clearly suffered. But they're rising to the challenge.
"Organizing is the key to all of this," said Melissa Spencer, president of the Des Moines Education Association. "We're organizing members, as well as parents and the community to help talk about how teachers need collective bargaining, a fair evaluation system, and a good public school. And, we're making phone calls, sending emails and visiting legislators to make sure this happens."
Other highlights of opening day included an address from Illinois governor Pat Quinn, praising teachers and support staff. And Friendship Night included a live performance of NPR's popular radio show "From The Top."
Delegates also got a surprise musical performance on the RA floor, with the unveiling of the new RA theme song, "NEA Standing Strong." The song inspired and energized delegates with a message that, after a very tough year, was music to their ears: "Standing strong, standing tall…Standing up for what is right and true, NEA is standing up for me and you!"


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The research division Information and Software Engineering is part of the institute of Information Systems Engineering.
It covers the design and development of software and information systems in research and education.
The other groups cover Distributed Systems, Business Informatics,E-Commerce and Compilers and Languages.
Both theoretical and engineering-like approaches to problem solving are equally balanced in our research and educational work, leading to "real-world problem" solving.
The CDL-Flex research laboratory is working in the context of parallel engineering of industrial plants and has developed the Automation Service Bus® (ASB) concept. The ASB is aiming to integrate the "Engineering Polynesia" and "Engineering Babylon" of heterogeneous software tools and data models in engineering environments. This integration is based on improving the well-established enterprise service bus approach from business IT for the engineering context.
Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation the process of keeping electronic material accessible and usable for longer periods of time has turned into one of the most pressing challenges within the digital library community. Long-term archiving of digital material is a highly complex and diverse matter. One core area of activity is the development of Preservation Planning approaches for specifying and evaluating preservation plans according to the particular requirements of stakeholders. The approach builds on Utility Analysis and a thoroughly defined workflow for reaching informed and accountable decisions on which preservation solution to adopt.
Research Studio SEMERGY
The overall goal of the SEMERGY project is the development of a web-based tool for easily calculating and improving the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings. Based on the building's current energy efficiency and the user's constraints/requirements (available financial resources, targeted energy efficiency level, sustainability of used building products) SEMERGY calculates concrete building- and refurbishment suggestions (on the product level) which meet the requirements of the user. Target groups of the SEMERGY system are private home owners, building planners, architects, and operators of large building groups.
Linked Data Lab
Machine-readable datasets which are liberated from the proprietary tools and formats are the key enablers for building innovative application and services. During the past few years, the Linked Data initiative has been constantly growing and today a huge amount of high quality linked datasets are made available to public following the Linked Data principles. Our newly established Linked Data Lab is aiming to exploit the potentials of Linked Data and its applications. The Linked Data Lab is currently pursuing different projects such as Linked Widgets framework, "Vienna Linked Data" project (converting Vienna OGD data to Linked Data and serving via dedicated SPARQL endpoint) and Open Data Mashup project (mashup solution for easy consumption of Linked Data).


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These bonkers photos are by Alan Sailer, who likes nothing more than to take some sausages to his garage, set them up with some pretty lighting on a nice background, and then shoot them.
He sets up a camera and a high-speed flash (ased off an article from a 1974 volume of the Scientific American), and then shoots them with an air rifle or blows them up. The pictures are taken as early into the impact/explosion as possible.
He has hundreds of images on his Flickr page, where he also chats about the process – which is often very very funny.
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With the 2010 MLS Expansion Draft to take place on Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 2 p.m. ET, teams around the league were required to release a list of players available for new MLS members Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Portland Timbers to choose from.
READ: Full list of players available for the Expansion Draft
Each of the 16 teams giving up players put some great names up for grabs, and Portland's and Vancouver's inaugural season could hinge on a couple of smart moves.
Portland will get first honors in the draft. Vote now and give us your take on who will be the top choice.


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I'm making the encryption program mentioned in my other post. When I type all other character besides " ' /\ and . it works fine besides the question mark. It gives me this error when ever i type in a question mark:
This is the code for replacing the ?:Options:
|1. Encryption|
|2. Decryption|
Enter your choice:
Enter the phrase you want encrypted:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta
character '?' near index 0
at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.String.replaceAll(Unknown Source)
at encryption.main(encryption.java:376)
Press any key to continue . . .
if (pdphrase.contains("?")) { pdphrase = pdphrase.replaceAll("?", "24"); }
I don't know whats going on or if I should just scrap that character like i did others. The period caused every number to change it its number and the other ones caused errors when compiling. Please Help!


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Flames host MACRC event this weekend at the Sports Racket
October 4, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Starting Friday at 5 p.m. and running through the weekend, Liberty University will host the first Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Racquetball Conference tournament of the season, a USA Racquetball-sanctioned event at The Sports Racket in Lynchburg.
Approximately 50 players are expected to compete in the event, from Appalachian State, Duke, Liberty, the University of Maryland, N.C. State, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Virginia. Individual players, including alumni, coaches, and staff from schools in Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia, are also eligible to compete for points that will rank them in the MACRC standings.
"The more games they win, more rounds they play and more points they earn," Flames head coach Danny Rodriguez said, noting there are brackets for two to three levels of men's and women's singles and doubles. "Every level starts in a gold division, where you get the most points."
Using the Olympic format, if players win they stay in the gold bracket and if they lose, they will drop down to the blue, red, and finally white divisions.
"When you lose in white, you're out," said Rodriguez, who will be competing with former player Shawn Furman, now a professional, in the A division of men's open doubles. "It's a collegiate format and all the tournaments are played the same way. The critical thing is … the more players you show up with, the more points you can get."
A complete list of first-round matches has been updated online.
Last fall, N.C. State won the team competition at the first MACRC event hosted by Liberty, followed by North Carolina and the third-place Flames.
However, Liberty's lineup was greatly reduced by graduation this past spring and the Flames are in full rebuilding mode, with eight men and four women — three who are completely new to the sport — currently on the roster.
"We had to go through a new recruiting phase this year because 80 percent of our players graduated," Rodriquez said. "We have four players left from last year. We're still in the recruiting process, trying to find more players."
On the men's side, Joel Denny is Liberty's only Level 1 team member, ranking him as an open elite player, while Ryan Evans and newcomer David Schreck are at Level 2, making them A/B players.
"David Schreck is new to the team, but he's really improved," Rodriguez said.
The Lady Flames, who had a dramatic increase in participation last season compared with the year before, will only have one player — Abby Lindsey, who has moved up from Level 3 to Level 2 — available for this weekend's tournament.
"(Denny, Evans, and Lindsey) were strong players last year and they've really helped in trying to get the rest of the team ready for this year," Rodriguez said. "I'm looking for (Lindsey) to lead the female team and to see how she improves this year."
Rodriguez is looking for new team members that have the desire to play the sport and the willingness to make changes to their games.
"We try to correct the flaws," he said of his staff that includes Furman and Charles Billingsley, also a worship leader at the nearby Thomas Road Baptist Church. "For competition racquetball, there is a lot of strategy involved and a lot of different shots you can use. We try to teach them when to make certain shots."
With players confined to a 40-by-20 playing area, positioning is critical, especially when the ball is traveling at speeds of up to 120 mph.
"Some people play too far forward and (their opponents will) blow it past them, or too far back and they'll hit it softly," for drop shots that can be nearly impossible to pick up, Rodriguez said. "There are times you need power and times you need the touch game."


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"NCAA Basketball Championship" (KRQE-13 5 p.m.) The first round has started. Basketball fans are ordered to report to the nearest sports bar for a marathon of regional rivalry and hot wings.
"I Know My Kid's a Star" (VH1 8 p.m.) Former child star, current freakazoid, Danny Bonaduce hosts this reality show competition for kids. ... Might as well crush those egos early.
"That Mitchell and Webb Look" (BBC America, 7:20 p.m.) Comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb (best known for their work on "Peep Show") gift us with another season of their sketch comedy show.
"Upright Citizens Brigade: Asssscat" (Comedy Central 11 p.m.) The members of Upright Citizens Brigade (Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh among them) bust loose with some edgy new improv shenanigans (marking one of those rare occasions when "edgy" and "shenanigans" can be used in the same sentence).
"Titans of Taste" (Food Network 4 p.m.) Get to know your fast-food kings with this new documentary series exploring the private lives of people like McDonald's man Ray Kroc and Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. ... Too bad they're all dead. This would have been a much cooler show if Col. Sanders and Orville Redenbacher had been forced to fight to the death in a greasy arena armed only with sporks for the title "Titan of Taste."
The Ten Commandments (KOAT-7 6 p.m.) Every year like clockwork.
Rock Monster (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) Sadly, not a biopic about Gene Simmons, but a lame fantasy movie about a monster. Made of rock.
Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (Cartoon Network 10 a.m.) How come Easter doesn't rate as many secular movies and TV specials as Christmas? All we've got to offer today is this 2005 animated film featuring the voices of Tom Kenny, Dave Koechner, Christopher Lloyd and Roger Moore. ... Roger Moore?
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Comedy Central 9 p.m.) If you missed it on DVD, here's your chance to redress that wrong and catch the new animated "Futurama" feature film. It almost makes up for having canceled this show in the first place. Almost.
"Greek" (ABC Family 6 p.m.) The semi-raunchy (well, for ABC Family, anyway), college-bound sitcom returns for its first season spring premiere.
Autism: The Musical (HBO 9 p.m.) It's described as "uplifting" and "inspiring," but I'm mostly interested because it sounds weird. This documentary follows the quest of one Los Angeles woman to help autistic children defy expectation by writing and performing their own stage musical.
"Deep Fried Paradise" (Travel Channel 7 p.m.) Pickles, turkeys, Twinkies--basically anything that can be hand-held, drenched in batter and then deep fried. ... Throw in a hammock and a couple of comely native gals in sarongs, and you've painted my idea of paradise, buddy.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Western Day 2010
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Game Night!
Cindy, Jae, and Stephanie playing Uno Attack!
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Prayer Partner Tea
My home church (the church I grew up in), which is still my parents church hosts a tea every year where they exchange tea cups and prayer partners! I LOVE this idea, it's so feminine and girly, yummy, and a wonderful way to see God's handiwork put to use! It's fun to see who gets paired with who, and my sister Jae and I love to be a part of it - we are always prayer partners since we live a little far from this church, but its still fun to go and participate in the tea!
Here's my mom, me, Jae and Kai - at one of her first teas!
The only thing I regret is not getting pictures of the decorations! My mom is the Women's ministry coordinator and she decorated for this tea, it was a snowflake theme and she read this amazing poem about snowflakes! It was beautiful!!!!
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Lunch with Kaden
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Picnic Perfect
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Weekend Recap!
All in all, it was a GREAT weekend, hope yours was just as good!
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Snow Day/Ice Day
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Re: Solutions!!!
So...what are your resolutions for 2010? What are your goals I should say???? You know, you can't ever reach a goal if you don't have some, right?
So here are mine for the year!
Be a better Christian: this is me challenging myself to dig deeper into the word, to make a list of things I want to learn about and then look for them in the bible, take bible studies to learn about them, etc. I also hope to pray more and write more in my "But God" book - my mom gave me this years ago, and it truly is one of my favorite things ever!!! You write your prayer requests to God, and then as they are answered, you record to show, "I asked for this, BUT GOD....". It's amazing how many times God has answered my prayers but in a totally different way then I expected and a totally MORE INCREDIBLE way than I ever dreamed! I also want to read the Bible to my kids more, I want to make it part of our before bed routine, along with another book of their choice:) - and make part of talking about God/Jesus part of our EVERY DAY routine - in all things!
Be a better wife: Curt deserves so much more than I ever give him, he's amazing and I want to be a better wife to him. I want to go back to that puppy love stage where I used to surprise him with silly notes, call him "just because", get excited about cooking him dinner, dressed up for date nights, etc. I also want to work to give him the wife he married back somewhat - that means getting myself to the gym. I say this for two reasons, I know I'll never be as small as I was when we got married, but I want to at least work on it - daily, even if only 15 min. a day:) I also know that when I feel better about myself, I'll be a happier person and therefore treat him better:)
Be a better mom: Leave notes in the kids lunches, have calm bath/bed times, not wait until the last minute and then yell and scream, "It's time for bed!", spend more time with them - actually being present, not just there physically but mentally as well, do more crafts, go on surprise trips, sit and talk, have dinner more often at the table and happy conversation, teach them to love eachother and not to fight so much, teach them to earn money and be appreciative of what they get, not spoiled:) Love on them, every day - find the things they LOVE to do and do those things with them or encourage them to pursue these things more.
Be a better friend: This one is hard for me, I LOVE my friends so much but often find myself putting them on the backburner to work, family, life, etc. I want all my friends to know they are incredibly special to me and I want to tell them this, in letters, by having them over for dinner, being there when they really need it, not just when its convenient, going out for coffee/or hot chocolate/tea in my case, being available to watch their kids if they need a break, a date night, etc. Just giving more of myself for them.
Be a better me: I want to take time to do the things that make me a happier person, bible study, working out, painting, crafting, cooking, loving, living, etc. I just want to take each day and enjoy it for what it is, praise God for it, and have no regrets. I am so blessed and this year I want to live that like I KNOW it! God truly is incredible and I thank him for my incredible life!
Now...how to get that all done in a year...I'm not sure, but one day at a time will be my motto: not worrying about tomorrow but living in the present - and looking upward and forward to all God has in store for me!!!!
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Happy Birthday to Me!!!!!
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After much anticipation following her growing mainstream recognition, even recognised by national newspapers due to her recent wedding dress endeveours, Pam Hogg's latest collection at Vauxhall Fashion Scout was greeted with sea of excited curiosity. With the despairing title, 'Save Our Souls', intrigue was at its peak as the lights plummeted the restless crowd into silence.
A single spot light revealed the first figure, sinister and writhing, barely concealed with a kind of bandage and brandishing two small flash lights in the pitch black. Here we go. SS13's Save Our Souls display starts as it meant to go on, as the lights are poignantly reminiscent of distress signals, with the bandages and broken movement depicting the fragility of the soul in such a way that raised the hairs on our necks. As the lights return even brighter than before, a familiar face in the form of Alice Dellal appears, seemingly as a nurse with an expression dead behind the eyes.
Wearing a completely backless, white apron-dress; cuffed at the arms and composed in sheer fabric keeps the shock element in full swing. The following sequence of models sported outfits of a similar clinical style, adorned with statement zips and pins to provide a typical Pam edge over the comforting familiarity of a person in care.
Stepping away into classic designer territory, nurses are replaced with what I like to think of as Disco Space Babes. Bold flashes of pink and orange, blue and green are present on skin-tight lycra textures , laced with metallics geometric designs. High definition pops of colours were offset with space age thigh-highs, capes and skull caps, feeding into the alien nature.
Keeping things fresh, the collection entered its final trimester, replacing the extra terrestrial with intricate head pieces and bold formations; the soul coming full circle to embody strength. Grandiose ruffles and sequins married with pink tulle cuffs and constructions, again barely concealing the body but very much revealing the soul. As Alice Dellal took to the runway for her final look, a healthy round of applause sounded out for her ensemble – a black cage for a skirt complete with exposed ribbing and sheer fabric, complimenting head wear fanning out above her. Arms outwards possibly for effect and most definitely her own balance, she sashayed her way down to the end to provide the story's conclusion.
Plunging into darkness once more, The Only One's – Another Girl, Another Planet appropriately blared out as guests including Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie and Fred Butler clapped their approval. Walking arm in arm with her majestic looks and delirious models, Pam Hogg delivered another out-of-this-world experience guaranteed to leave the audience clawing at the doors to get a look in next season. Expressive, inventive and almost poetic in its execution, you can guarantee I'll be first in line.
And I was in the same room as Nick fucking Cave.
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Thanks to Xeron's amazing AVI capture feature, it's now easier than ever to make videos of the Oric games and demos, so here is one I did today:
- Quintessential video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Miw2ImYBaU
- Pouet.net page: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=6864 (vote !)
Quintessential demo noz in video
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Was the Governor-General wrong to prorogue? Hell if I know. It seemed like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of situation, and there really was no good choice. Harper should not have asked for it, that much is certain. But what's done is done.
One thing that a lot of people--including a lot of people I like and respect--don't seem to be getting right now is that decisions about government on that level aren't about policy. They aren't made based on the idea that a Harper-led government is going to be better on the economy, or a Dion-led government is less likely to cut much-needed social programs. Decisions on that level are about nothing more and nothing less than giving the Canadian people a government that works based on the parliament they voted for. We're not going to get that because our voting system doesn't actually give us the parliament we vote for, but we still have the possibility (and, I would argue, the responsibility) to form as democratic a government as we can based on the parliament we do have.
By that token, I support the proposed minority-coalition-plus-support-agreement not because I think it would enact better policy than a Harper-led government, but because it's an option that would a) reflect more than 50% of the elected parliament, b) be willing to compromise and work together across party lines, and c) be willing to commit to governing for a particular time period, creating more stability than we have had in years. But here's the rub: it's not the only option that could provide those things. The current government has lost the confidence of the House--but they could regain it. They could commit to leading a minority government that governed for a particular length of time, and consulted with at least one other party in the House on every piece of legislation they propose. They could even propose a different coalition, or a minority government that had an agreement with one particular opposition party, with the same kinds of "majority of the House", "compromise", and "durability" terms that the Dion-led coalition would have.
If we're talking about what I personally want, of course I would like to see Harper out of the Prime Minister's chair. I think he's been a terrible prime minister on the democracy end of things, and his policy preferences are not mine, either. But this exercise isn't about what I want, or what you want, or what any one group wants. It's about what Canadians voted for. And there are still several open possibilities that would give us that, or at least something much closer to it than we've had in a very long time.
I've never had a lot of faith that these things will actually work as they're intended to, and I've lost even more of that faith this week. But it would help me regain some of it if we could all put partisanship aside and commit to working toward and supporting the existence of a stable, cooperative government formed from the House we elected. In whatever form that might take.
Resisting the pull of cynicism since 1969.
Friday, December 05, 2008
One of several options
Was the Governor-General wrong to prorogue? Hell if I know. It seemed like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of situation, and there really was no good choice. Harper should not have asked for it, that much is certain. But what's done is done.
Posted by Idealistic Pragmatist at 10:13 AMRecommend this post at Progressive Bloggers
Labels: coalition governments, conservatives, political culture
25 comments:
- Ian said...
You really earned the title of "Idealistic Pragmatist" with this post, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Assuming that we somehow avoid an election (although I'm not convinced of Ms. Jean's will against Harper), this turmoil will at least: weaken Harper politically and/or force him to cooperate. Both of which are good for this country.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Agreed. It's been hard for me to see the good in any of this through all the bad, but you're right about that.
If we manage to produce a long-term stable, cooperative government out of all this--of any shade or combination of shades--it will have been worth it. If we go to an election this spring, though, I will have a very hard time having faith that the system can ever produce what it's supposed to produce.
- Greg said...
But here's the rub: it's not the only option that could provide those things. The current government has lost the confidence of the House--but they could regain it. They could commit to leading a minority government that governed for a particular length of time, and consulted with at least one other party in the House on every piece of legislation they propose. They could even propose a different coalition, or a minority government that had an agreement with one particular opposition party, with the same kinds of "majority of the House", "compromise", and "durability" terms that the Dion-led coalition would have.
I totally agree with this (although like you I would hate the foreign policy direction an Iggy/Harper combo would come up with). If you are a believer in PR, you have to take the chance that your party will not be included in the government coalition. You have to make your case that you have something to contribute and if it doesn't happen so be it.
The big question is can Harper work with people who don't agree with him on every thought that crosses his mind? I haven't seen evidence of that, but I am prepared to be amazed, for the good of the country.
- Tyrone said...
The trouble is that Quebec has basically withdrawn from the party system. Without it, it is very hard to assemble a working majority. The Liberal majorities of the 1990s relied on a simultaneously weak NDP and divided right, a combination unlikely to recur.
Had I been a Quebec resident, I'd have voted for the Bloc every year since 1993 - a generally progressive party with a much better shot at seats than the NDP, and its support of sovereignty wasn't really relevant in a federal election. But no more. The Bloc's mere presence forces not only minority Parliaments, but unstable, divisive, ineffective minority Parliaments, since no one can make it even a coalition *supporter* without being demagogued in English Canada.
Canadians might welcome a German-style "grand coalition", which Canada did have in 1917, but the parties will never go for it now (then again, it didn't work well in 1917 either).
Given the Governor General's acquiescence to the PM so far, I think the most likely scenario is for an election to be held in February, in which the Conservatives will win a majority.
- Robert Vollman said...
You're right. I'd have respected the Conservatives a lot more if they had shown some willingness to compromise. For instance, if they had taken everything out of their fiscal update that the opposition complained about.
(Wait, what? ... they did what? ... oh then never mind).
- Curmudgeon-at-Large said...
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- Ben (The Tiger in Exile) said...
The purist in me opposed prorogation and demanded a snap election.
- daveberta said...
Great post, IP. I have to agree with Ian's comment, the pragmatism in this coalition is fascinating. I really wonder how long it can last with Michael Ignatieff now on his way to becoming installed as Liberal leader.
The media portrayed him as cool to the idea of a coalition, but hopefully the spirit of cooperation in the House of Commons won't completely fall apart come January.
haha..great post!
- Ben (The Tiger in Exile) said...
We miss you, IP. Post again.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
I was pretty shaken by finding out back in December just how little Canadians know about what their votes are doing. But nobody wants to read about some half-anonymous blogger's political angst, so I've decided I wouldn't post about Canadian politics until something other than despair or vitriol would flow from my fingers. It hasn't happened yet.
- Ben (The Tiger in Exile) said...
Oh, when the PM broke 50% in the polls?
Yeah, that was kinda nuts.
Still, there it is. You go into the elections and political crises with the people you have, not necessarily the people you want. :p
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Nah, it has nothing to do with the PM's success in the polls, or for that matter with the success/non-success of the proposed coalition.
What matters to me is the polls that showed that a majority (a majority!) of Canadians think they elect the prime minister and his government directly and live in a republic, and the number of people who thought that forming a new government from the same parliament would literally mean "overturning the result of the last election." That's a level of ignorance I wouldn't even have expected from Americans, and it's made me wonder whether I've just been deluding myself all these years that Canadians are more knowledgeable than Americans when it comes to political and government matters. At the moment I couldn't write a blog post without being snide (at best) and despairing (at worst), and that's not the sort of thing people read my blog for. *shrug*
- Ben (The Tiger in Exile) said...
Oh, every year we see polls from the Dominion Institute that show that less than 10% of Canadians know that the Queen is the head of state.
If they can't even get that one right (I think that most think that the PM is), well, it doesn't bode well for the rest of it...
- Tiny Perfect Blog said...
You ever gonna blog again?
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
This really is my longest hiatus ever, isn't it? Sorry about that.
I will almost certainly blog again. I don't know for sure that I will ever blog regularly again. That's the best I can do right now.
- laura k said...
I thought there might be a secret blog somewhere that I haven't been invited to. (Moi, paranoid? Nah!)
I miss your thoughts! But I hope you're doing what you want to do.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Aw, it's nice to be missed!
My thoughts these days are about things other than politics, I'm afraid. But I'm sure I'll be bitten by the bug again someday.
- Ian said...
It seems this has become the petition to bring IP back. Well add my name to the list.
Perhaps another familiar contest at home will remind you how much you love to write ;-)
- West End Bob said...
You know, IP, we're still missing you.
"Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" . . . .
- KevinG said...
Well, pleading is clearly not working. Perhaps we should try baiting: after sober reflection it has become clear that FPTP is a superior voting system ;)
- Wilf Day said...
Please, please come back, IP. Blogging from the Netherlands is permitted. ;)
Meanwhile: Tyrone said... "The trouble is that Quebec has basically withdrawn from the party system."
Not so; that's an illusion of our ineffective voting system.
A proportional House of Commons, assuming a regional open-list system, would include seven more Liberal MPs from Quebec regions:
In Quebec City and Eastern Quebec three MPs, not none. Maybe Jean Beaupré and Pauline Côté from the Quebec City region, and Nancy Charest from Matane. (If Liberal voters in that region voted most for those regional candidates on the regional ballot.)
In Montérégie two MPs, not just one. Maybe Roxane Stanners from Saint-Lambert.
In Laurentides--Lanaudière -- West & North Quebec three MPs, not just one. Maybe Pierre Gfeller from Labelle, and Cindy Duncan McMillan or Michel Simard from the Outaouais?
In Estrie--Centre-du-Québec--Mauricie one MP, not none. Maybe Denis Paradis from Brome--Missisquoi.
On the other hand, Liberal voters would have elected four fewer MPs from Montreal where they are now over-represented.
Conservative voters would have elected eight more MPs from Quebec regions where they were unrepresented or under-represented:
In Montreal and Laval three MPs, not none. Maybe Jean-Pierre Bélisle, Rafael Tzoubari and Andrea Paine?
In Montérégie two MPs, not none. Maybe Michael Fortier and Maurice Brossard?
From Estrie--Centre-du-Québec--Mauricie two MPs, not none. Maybe Éric Lefebvre and André Bachand?
From Laurentides--Lanaudière -- West & North Quebec two MPs, not just one. Maybe Claude Carignan from Saint-Eustache or Jean-Maurice Matte from Abitibi?
However, Conservative voters would have elected two fewer MPs from Quebec City and Eastern Quebec where they are now over-represented.
New Democrat voters would have elected eight more MPs from Quebec regions where those voters are unrepresented or under-represented:
In Montreal & Laval three MPs, not just one. Maybe Jean-Claude Rocheleau and Anne Lagacé Dowson?
In Laurentides--Lanaudière -- West & North Quebec two MPs, not none. Maybe Françoise Boivin and Pierre Ducasse?
In Quebec City and East Quebec two MPs, not none. Maybe Anne-Marie Day from Quebec City and Guy Caron from Rimouski?
In Montérégie one MP, not none. Maybe Richard Marois?
In Estrie--Centre-du-Québec--Mauricie one MP, not none. Maybe Annick Corriveau from Drummond?
Green voters would have elected MPs from regions where those voters are unrepresented:
One from Montreal-Laval: maybe Claude Genest?
The Bloc would have 31 MPs, not 49. (I know, it would be 28 under a perfectly proportional province-wide calculation, but for the sake of accountable MPs elected regionally, I can live with three extra Bloc MPs.)
- Saskboy said...
James Bow linked here the other day, and I realized it's been aaages since you blogged.
C'mon I.P. Time to get back to your mission. End your dormancy!
- Unknown said...
The governor gen eral did thje right thing. It is not within her power to go against the ruling government. The GG is a ceremonial figure and just that.


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California remained the state with the most thefts, with Texas having seen a slight decrease in incidents but continuing to follow in second. The 64 thefts in California accounted for 30% of all the incidents across the United States. Texas had 32 thefts, 15% of the total, while Florida reported 25 thefts, 12% of the total, placing it third on the list of most targeted states during the three-month period.
Of the incidents in which location types were recorded, unsecured parking was the most common, with 75% of thefts. Secured parking saw 13% of incidents, a slight increase from the last rolling quarter. Thefts at a facility dropped from 20 the last rolling quarter to five this period. The five thefts from a facility interior and four in-transit thefts together comprised about 6% of all incidents.
Following the usual trend, incidents involving theft of trailer/container, 157 in all, were most common during the rolling quarter, accounting for 74% of all thefts. Thefts from trailer/container increased from 12 the previous three months to 16, comprising 8% of the total. Driver theft increased slightly from 14 incidents during the May-July period to 15 this rolling quarter, with 7% of the total. Thefts of other types claimed 11% of the total this rolling quarter. These included deceptive pickup with eight incidents, last-mile courier theft with seven, facility burglary with five, hijacking with three and attempted hijacking with one reported incident.
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A report by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education calls for a global policy agenda that focuses on access to quality education and learning for all children and youth in the developing world, especially poor girls who are often left behind and remain at a disadvantage.
The report, supported by MacArthur, estimates that 65 low- and middle-income countries are losing approximately $92 billion per year by failing to educate girls to the same standards as boys, and a 12 percent reduction in world poverty could be achieved if all students in low-income countries obtain basic reading skills in school.
Listen to a panel discussion about the report.
Leaders from 40 companies and foundations, including MacArthur, came together in New York to discuss actions and strategies to address the global learning crisis in developing countries. They agreed on a statement to encourage their collective efforts in the future. Download a PDF of meeting summary.
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File consists of photographs taken during a 1957 trip to Anthony Island, part of Haida Gwaii, to survey and/or acquire and preserve totem poles from the island. This expedition was undertaken as part of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee. This committee was set up in 1953 by members of MOA, UBC's Department of Anthropology, and the BC Provincial Museum, with support from the lumber and fishing industries. Their aim was to survey existing poles of the province, and to acquire and preserve all those not in use. H.R. MacMillan and W.C. Koerner supported the purchase and transportation of the poles which were brought to Vancouver and Victoria from coastal villages.
Members of the 1957 expedition included Wilson Duff, Michael Kew, Harry Hawthorn, John Smyly, and Bill Reid.
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Dining table for 4-6 persons. The structure is solid ash wood, clear lacquered. Table top white. Legs with traditional mortise and tenon joint. MATERIAL, FINISH: solid ash clear lacquered, MDF lacquered white, black metal DIMENSIONS: 180 x 90 x 74 cm DIMENSIONS: 120 x 120 x 74 cm
Whereas washstand, bench or bed of the PRIVATE SPACE furniture collection combine bed- and bathroom to the private zone of an apartment, the collection is also extended to the "public" space of a home, which is the place you share with your guests. Well suitable for office use also, the clear and straight designs of these furniture - from sideboard and wardrobe, easy chair up to side and dining tables - pick up traditional timber joints, but still create a modern atmosphere of comfort and ease. Also characteristic for this line are the 3D patterns doors of the case furnitures. Explore the warm look and feel of solid ash wood in combination with white.
In 2006 Jannis Ellenberger established a studio for product- and interior design in Bremen, Germany, which offers design services to manufacturing companies and is mainly working on designs of furniture, lighting and accessories.


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No director Oscar nod? No problem says Hooper
If director Tom Hooper, who won the best-director Academy Award in 2010 for "The King's Speech," is bothered by not getting a nomination this year for "Les Miserables," he's not letting on.
Instead, the British director says he's relishing the musical's many other accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe wins, nine BAFTA nominations and eight Oscar nods, including best picture, best actor for Hugh Jackman and best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. (Hooper was also nominated for a Directors Guild award but lost to Ben Affleck for "Argo" over the weekend.)
Hooper directed the HBO miniseries "John Adams" and the TV drama "Longford." "Les Miserables" is an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo's novel.
In a recent interview, he talked about fame, this year's Academy Award nominations and who he'll be rooting for during the Feb. 24th ceremony.
AP: What are your thoughts on this year's Oscar nominations?
Hooper: I think it's important in awards season to just be incredibly grateful for any recognition that you've already got and to not expect anything beyond it. I was very fortunate two years ago with `The King's Speech' and this year it's a year of extraordinarily wonderful and beautiful films. So it's a very special year. So I'm just pleased to be part of it.
AP: Besides `Les Mis,' what's your pick for best film of 2012?
Hooper: I really loved the Woody Allen film `To Rome With Love,' which hasn't had any nominations at all. But I think Woody Allen remains an extraordinary storyteller. ... I mean it's genius. Also, the way he just keeps working, it's a great model for me. I'd love to be at his age and still making a film a year.
AP: Of the directors in the Oscar race, who are you rooting for?
Hooper: I saw `Life of Pi' recently and I thought that was an extraordinary directorial and technical accomplishment. The way Ang (Lee) uses 3-D, it feels like you're seeing the medium for the first time. ... The great thing about (awards season) is you take a beat to learn about filmmaking and see what other directors are doing. That's a great way of thinking about the art form once a year in a concentrated way.
AP: Are you getting recognized more on the street?
Hooper: The joy about being a director is that when your film comes out you possibly get stopped a little bit, but within three months you can go back to being completely anonymous. And then you wait for the next one to come out and you'll have a brief moment where people will recognize you. So it's kind of great because if you're a famous actor that process never stops.
AP: Is that one reason directing appealed to you?
Hooper: Yeah, I think I chose to be behind the camera because I didn't want that. I always wanted to be the person behind the scenes.
AP: What's next?
Hooper: Two years ago I managed to not reveal that I was thinking about `Les Miserables' at all. So I'm going to do the same this time and not reveal anything.
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Create a new project in Eclipse called Assignment 2.
Create a package within this project called bank. To this package add the classes Account, Bank, CreditAccount, SavingsAccount and Customer.
Create a second package called person. To this package add the classes Person and Address.
Make sure you use the classes supplied and do not use your own. Several changes have been made to these classes. For example, the Date class is no longer used (thus Customer has no date of birth). Each new Customer has exactly one SavingsAccount and one CreditAccount (created when the Customer object is created). Make sure you examine each of these classes closely.
Task 1
Task 1 involves setting up the controls for the main JFrame window. Other windows (dialog boxes) will be invoked from this window. They will be described in later tasks. For this task it suffices to set up the components and listeners for the main window.
Create a package called task01.
Create a class called TestBankApplication. This class should extend JFrame and implement ActionListener. It should contain the main method that runs the application. The window created should be the starting point for all of the functionality for your application.
Firstly, provide an instance variable which provides an object of class Bank (from the bank package). This object should be instantiated in the constructor. Remember (from assignment 1) an instance of the Bank class has a Vector of Customer objects. We will use this Vector (I'll just refer to it as the Vector) a lot in this assignment.
Now add components which perform the following functionality.
• Two radio buttons labelled 'add customer' and 'list customers'. Supply a default selection when the window opens up.
• A push button labelled 'submit'. When this button is clicked then, depending on which radio button is selected, one of two dialogs should appear. You do not have to supply the dialogs in task 1. They will be described in later tasks.
• A push button labelled 'exit'. Clicking this button should allow the program to exit without saving the current contents of the vector.
• A menu item labelled 'open file'. Clicking this menu item will allow the user to open a currently saved file. The contents of this file should overwrite the current contents of the Bank's contents of vectors. You do not have to supply this functionality in task 1. It will be described in a later task.
• A menu item labelled 'save file'. Clicking this menu item will allow the user to save the current contents of the Vector to a file. The user should supply the filename that the contents will be saved to. You do not have to supply this functionality in task 1. It will be described in a later task.
• A menu item that performed the same functionality as the 'exit' push button.
Now make your program extend ActionListener. Provide code to handle the clicking of each menu item and push button. Fully implement the functionality of the exit button.
For the others, in task 1, it will suffice to simply have System.out.println statements which say what each button will do. For example,
System.out.println ("The add customer dialog will appear when this button is clicked!");
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NEW YORK — Here at the Republican National Convention, you can tell with each passing day just how formidable, disciplined and unabashedly deceptive the Bush campaign will be as it wages political war with John Kerry.
The problem is, as the month of August comes to an end, an old familiar Kerry campaign I've seen before has emerged.
As Howard Dean's campaign manager, I saw a front-running Kerry campaign literally fall asleep in the early months of 2003 because they knew they had the nomination won. Then our little ragtag Dean campaign gathered steam while the Kerry campaign spent nine months walking in its sleep. By the end of the long summer of 2003, the Kerry campaign's slumber was so pronounced that many thought it dead.
As alarm bells finally woke the Kerry campaign. John Kerry moved his entire campaign to Iowa, and to Kerry and his campaign team's credit they pulled off an amazing come-from-behind victory and stormed on to gain his party's nomination.
If only it were that simple now.
Someone has to say it: The Kerry campaign is doing it again. The campaign became so sure of victory over Bush, so confident of a win in November that the old slumbering Kerry campaign of summer 2003 is back like clockwork in August of 2004.
The big difference is that they are not facing the under-funded campaigns of Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, and John Edwards. Nor are they facing the energized but woefully inexperienced campaign of Howard Dean.
They are facing the most monied campaign in history, among the most experienced campaign teams ever, and the most deceptive campaign since Richard Nixon's.
If the Dukakis campaign of 1988 taught Democrats anything, it should have taught us that you don't sleep in August. Not against these guys, and not against anyone in this business no matter how formidable the lead. The Kerry campaign should have learned from their close call with the Dean campaign to never sleep walk or fall into the slumber of overconfidence again.
So wake the hell up damn it!
I know something else about the Kerry campaign: I know when John Kerry and his team's backs are to the wall that no one is better, stronger and more tenacious. They proved that in Iowa when they came back from the dead.
And that is the difference this time as well. The Kerry campaign is no where near dead, the campaign is very much alive. And if instead of sleep walking, we see the Kerry we all saw in Iowa emerge in the next few days and run to daylight in November, he still can win this thing.
I feel like the hotel desk clerk that calls with the 5 a.m. wake up call after you've dropped yourself into bed at 2 a.m. It may not be fair (in fact as someone who slept for two hours a night for two years, I know just how unfair that call can be), but I am going to make the call: Come on guys. Wake-up and fight.
Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former campaign manager, is an MSNBC contributor and a political analyst for "Hardball with Chris Matthews." He's contributes to Hardball's weblog, and is author of "The Revolution Will Not be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything."
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With Herman Cain's candidacy on suspension and Occupy Wall Street protests being shut down (though not silenced), I got to thinking about some things. Things like inequality, male privilege, and the circumstances that allow them to continue–and which are the forces that tie such seemingly disparate things as political sexual scandal and outrageous economic inequality together.
Let's start with the sex. (This ain't my first time to the rodeo: I know how to keep a reader engaged.) What do you think it is that allows a man to pull a woman's face to his crotch with the smooth line, "You want a job, don't you?", cheat on his wife for 13 years–in a relationship that sounds to amount to little more than a cool exchange of goods for services–and then to run for the highest office in the land–basically offering himself up for scrutiny under the most intense microscope in the land–with nary a worry that he'll be caught?
Some might say arrogance. I'd tend to agree. And I'd go further: when it comes to arrogance, the corporate world as it currently exists may be the greatest enabler around. In the context of the workplace, arrogance–and its close cousins: aggressiveness, ambition, and risk-taking–is rewarded. Power is a great big ego-stroke: people treat you differently when you've got it; you believe you've earned that special treatment. And that sense of entitlement leads to behavior of epically bad proportions.
The same could be said on the macro level: power (and money) is viewed as an end unto itself–what an organization might actually do with this wealth and influence is viewed as beside the point. He who dies with the most toys wins, right? And if that's the paradigm, is the inequity encapsulated in Occupy's rallying cry–we are the 99%–any wonder?
How did that happen? A case can be made that this inequity is a result of a totally lopsided definition of power and a completely unbalanced way in which it is valued and exerted. In a world where, for centuries, men have held the bulk of the power and built the very structures of this society unchecked, it's not difficult to see how we've arrived at this point: What we're seeing is the result of an overvaluation of the masculine strengths — machismo — run a-freaking-mok.
How can we be anything but completely out of balance when a man thinks it's somehow appropriate to suggest a blow job in exchange for a job-job? When the top 1% of the people in the country control over 40% of the wealth?
When the woman who dares to speak out about her experience with the man in power is subjected to a complete autopsy of her "character," while the man is allowed to deny–no matter that his accusers outnumber him by a factor of–well, what is it now? 6?
When women continue to be paid unequally for the same work (in DC, a woman makes 89 cents to the man's dollar; in Wyoming, only 65 cents)? When
After the worst economic downturn in nearly a century, men continue to earn more than women in 361 metropolitan areas in the country, an annual survey by the Census Bureau found. If current trends continue, it will take 45 years for women's salaries to equal that of men's, research by the Institute for Women's Policy Research shows.
So what would it take to bring things into balance? To redefine what it means to have–and wield–power in the world? To value compassion and equality as much as status and market share? To realize that a properly functioning human being has some measure of all of these opposing qualities–both the feminine and the masculine–and that a properly functioning society should, as well?
To quote Gloria Steinem:
'Sometimes people say to me, at my age, well aren't you interested in something other than women's issues?' she said. 'And I say 'show me one. Show me one that isn't transformed by including both halves of the population.'