QP, a close-cousin to the Quixote web framework, is now at 2.0 release:
The MEMS Exchange released updates of QP and Qpy today. We also released updates of the Durus, Dulcinea, and Sancho packages. More detail about all of these updates can be found at http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/ (via QP mailing list)
When trying to pull off a trick its often helpful to distract the audience and lead their eye away from where the action is really happening.
Harper ‘fanning flames’ of controversy, says May
May has been in the headlines for comments she made on the weekend that compared the government’s approach to climate change to former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis.
Speaking on CBC Newsworld, May said the comparison was not her own, but came from British journalist and author George Monbiot.
May said she included it in her address in order to illustrate international opinion of Canada.
“In citing that, what I was saying was, ‘Look how far Canada’s reputation has fallen, look at how the world is now looking at us for violating our international commitments on Kyoto,’” she said.
May said she left out a portion of Monbiot’s article, in which he says U.S. President George W. Bush, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Harper will be remembered as the new “axis of evil” for failing to meet the environmental challenges of the day.
I don’t disagree with Monbiot at all there, but Paul Martin, Jean Chretien, and Brian Mulroney ought not to be left out of the reckoning. Each has had their own hand in shaping Canadian policy on climate change since the late 1980’s, and each has failed to measure up. Mulroney allowed his environment minister Lucien Bouchard to renege on earlier promises to seek reductions. Bouchard of course went on to form a separatist party whose goal is to break up Canada. Chretien signed treaties and promised lots but never empowered any of his environment and industry ministers, nor allowed parliament, to make the necessary policy changes. Martin diddled on every file.
Stephen Harper, now boxed in by the current climate of awareness, is trying to appear to be doing all that he can without actually trying to do all that is required. Its a sales strategy more than a campaign to save the planet. And all these “leaders” have continued to plug globalism (one of the root causes of the acceleration of greenhouse gas production) as they only way to conduct the business of the world, as if there is no other alternative.
Harper isn’t the only environmental obstructionist, he’s just the latest to hold power. Add to him the former Canadian Alliance and Reform party leaders Stockwell Day and Preston Manning and you have a triumvirate of Alberta-centric leaders who have consistently demonstrated in Parliament and out that their only interest over two decades has been to obstruct any move to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.