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What is a vote of no confidence?
Dr Ben Worthy from Birkbeck's Department of Politics explains why confidence is such an important part of being Prime Minister and what might happen when it's no longer there.
Being prime minister is all about confidence. In fact, the British constitution is held together by confidence. Being, and staying, prime minister means you have to 'command the confidence of the House of Commons'. You don't have to have a majority (though that's always nice) but you do need to able to get your votes through. The Cabinet Manual, which sets out the rules as to how government runs, states that:
The Prime Minister is the head of the Government and holds that position by virtue of his or her ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons, which in turn commands the confidence of the electorate, as expressed through a general election.
So to be thrown out without an election, you need to somehow lose that confidence.
The main way this can be done is if the opposition passes and wins a vote of no confidence. If a prime minister loses such a vote then, technically, they've lost the magic 'confidence' and something has to happen, whether their resignation or an election. So far, so simple. So, to illustrate, Jeremy Corbyn has said if May loses her vote on her crucial bill next week, Labour will immediately call for a vote of no confidence in the government.
The government can also do the opposite and call for a motion of confidence in itself. This makes a vote crucial, and was a way of making sure it's MPs supported them. This is a good discipline device and has been used by 'prime ministers down the ages to keep their backbenchers in line and say that "this vote really matters"'. John Major famously did it over Maastricht, as a way of saying to his party: 'support me or we lose power'. Neither of these, by the way, should be confused with a party vote against its leader, of the type that fizzled out against May recently.
So far, so simple (ish). So why aren't both sides throwing around confidence or no confidence motions every few months when things get sticky? One reason is that they are seen as a weapon of last resort. Another is that to win a vote you need the numbers, obeying Lyndon Johnson's first rule of politics to 'learn how to count'. Politically, you shouldn't call one unless you are pretty sure you can win. So Labour can call for a vote of no confidence but whether they have the numbers to pass one is another matter.
Most importantly, do they work? Well, sometimes. The last successful no confidence vote was in 1979, which led to the end of James Callaghan's government (the government lost by one vote, legend has it because one MP was in the pub and didn't get back to the House of Commons in time). Before that you have to go back to 1924 when the first ever Labour Prime Minister, Birkbeck's own Ramsay MacDonald, was forced out by one.
Then things get more complicated. The Fixed Term Parliament Act has limited how no confidence votes can be called. It also means that if a government loses a vote there is 14 days before another, after which an election is called if that's lost too.
So, If May loses a Labour confidence, let's say next Wednesday, what happens then? The next 14 days could be very messy and confusing. Probably she would resign as Prime Minister, though she could stay as a caretaker leader. Another possibility is that someone gets an early Christmas present, and steps in as a temporary Tory PM to cobble together enough support to carry on. Where would Labour stand in all of this, and should Corbyn get a chance? Because the rules aren't set, no one is quite sure. A week is a long time in politics. Two weeks could be even longer. Catherine Haddon, who you should follow on twitter, is best placed to explain all the scenarios.
So one outcome of the next few days could be a vote of confidence. Yet no one knows, with any confidence, what would happen next if it's lost. And all the time, the clock is ticking on Brexit.
Dr Ben Worthy
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Posted on June 9, 2017 by Louisa
General Election results: Birkbeck comments
The shock of a hung parliament following what only a few weeks ago looked certain to be a landslide victory for the Conservative Party has made this election one of the most unpredictable in recent generations.
The election also saw a number of Birkbeck alumni elected or re-elected as Members of Parliament: congratulations to: Kemi Badenoch (Con, Saffron Walden), Kwasi Kwarteng (Con, Spelthorne), Gloria Di Piero (Lab, Ashfield), Lisa Nandy (Lab, Wigan), Lucia Berger (Lab, Liverpool Wavertree), John McDonnell (Lab, Hayes & Harlington), Tulip Siddiq (Lab, Hampstead and Kilburn) and Sir Ed Davey (Lib Dem, Kingston).
Since the election was announced six weeks ago, Birkbeck academics have been using their expertise to offer insightful analysis of the unfolding political developments.
The Queen's Speech
"While there is no specific Higher Education legislation the Government are still committed to an Industrial Strategy of which skills and training are a component and they are further committed to creating Institutes for Technology at locations throughout England. Whether these will embrace FE and HE qualifications or delivery we don't yet know. The Conservative manifesto had also committed to a review of Tertiary education funding. While this is unlikely to happen more due to parliamentary arithmetic legislation would not be required should it choose to undertake this review. Finally, the Queen's Speech is not the only opportunity for a Government to bring forward new policy. It is almost certain there will have to be a Budget and many positive measures for Birkbeck eg: PG Loans have come about that way. Let's watch this space!"
– Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Advisor, Birkbeck
Let's put the champagne on ice: the Commons' missing women
With a record high number of women elected to Parliament, was the 2017 general election something to celebrate? Professor Sarah Childs (who will join Birkbeck's Department of Politics from 1 September – pictured left), Meryl Kenny (University of Edinburgh) and Jessica Smith (Birkbeck PhD student) re-assess the recent result and consider what it means for women's political representation.
What can organizational psychology tells us about the calibre of our political leaders?
Organizational psychology provides substantial evidence about the characteristics of a successful leader, yet, as Dr Almuth McDowall explains, this knowledge is not consistently used when considering the suitability and capability of our political leaders in the UK.
We need to talk about Jeremy: why I was wrong about the 2017 General Election
Dr Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, examines why so many people underestimated the effectiveness of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign prior to the election.
As it becomes clear that the most likely scenario following last week's election is a minority Conservative government, with the backing of the Democratic Unionist Party, Dr Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, discusses what a hung parliament is – and how long it is likely to last.
Results day reaction
Dr Jason Edwards, Lecturer in Politics :
"The election result reflects important and ongoing changes in British politics and society. First and foremost, it shows how far the old ways of doing politics have declined. The vitriol against Labour and Corbyn expressed in the traditional right-wing press seem to have had little impact. Social media now seems to be of much greater importance in motivating people to vote, and in shaping who they vote for.
"One effect of this is that the electorate is much more informed and policy-focussed than usually thought. This can be seen in attitudes towards Brexit. The lazy belief that most people either want to remain in the EU on current terms or have a 'hard' Brexit has been exposed. There is no clear divide between remainers and Brexiteers and people's attitudes are much more nuanced.
"Above all, and some might say encouragingly, the election shows the clear limits of populism. The Conservatives played the populist card fully in this election and paid the price for it. UKIP were demolished. Labour, despite some calls to transform itself into a leftist populist movement, and while undoubtedly playing on some populist tropes ('for the many, not the few'), set out a relatively clear and detailed programme that, despite widespread doubts about Corbyn's leadership, attracted large numbers of people.
"Some will despair at the messy outcome of the election, but it marks significant shifts in society that offer great opportunities for – as well as threats to – democratic renewal."
Dr Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics:
"Theresa May's premiership looks over almost before it has begun. So how did it happen? And how do Premierships unravel? Here are three rules that, if broken, can get a Prime Minister in severe trouble:
Don't take too many risks
Leaders need to take risks but they should be calculated. Eventually a leader will simply run out of luck. Though she styled herself as the careful and thoughtful Vicar's daughter she was actually a terrible risk taker. May gambled on being able to negotiate Brexit in secret (and failed), gambled on article 50 not going through Parliament (ended up in the Courts and failed) and then decided on an election. In the election she then gambled on a UKIP vote, her own leadership abilities and a set of untested policies (all of which failed). The old adage is that successive Prime Ministers are successively vicars and bookies. Theresa May posed as vicar but punted like a (rather reckless) bookie.
Don't underestimate your opponents
May clearly believed she could beat her rival and capitalise on his unpopularity. She thought wrong. Corbyn has energised young voters and, unbelievably, also appears to have won over the over-65s, gaining a remarkable 40% of the vote. Corbyn's campaign has somehow united Remainers and Leavers and young and old. It may be, as some have argued, that the non-stop Conservative and right-wing media barrage at Corbyn boomeranged straight back at them. After two years claiming the Marxist extremist Corbyn would have us all 'wearing overalls and breaking wind in the Palaces of the mighty' the public just saw a reasonable, positive man promising more money for public services.
Don't overestimate yourself
Hubris is always lurking. May clearly somehow came to believe that she could carry an election based on herself, a kind of cult of personality built around her 'strong and stable leadership'. The campaign ruthlessly exposed May's many weaknesses and Michael Crick memorably said how 'strong and stable' had become 'weak and wobbly'. In the space of six brief weeks, as Paul Waugh put it 'the cautious pragmatist allowed herself to be portrayed both as a Leave-loving zealot and a flip-flopper'.
So now Theresa May's premiership is unravelling before our eyes. Whatever deal is done with the DUP May is in her end game. Any Prime Minister that has to announce they won't resign is already in deep, deep trouble. She has few allies and has fallen out with her Chancellor and isolated herself from her party. Even if May survives and limps on, she is damaged, captured and will be portrayed as being controlled by others: hanging on by her constitutional responsibility rather than her authority. Theresa May broke the three rules and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Consequences for Higher Education
Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Advisor at Birkbeck:
"As the dust settles on what has been an extraordinary General Election campaign and result we ought to take time to see what this means for Education and Universities in particular. The ink hadn't even dried on the Higher Education Act when the election was called and that Bill was as a result of a number of changes committed to in the 2015 Conservative manifesto. It shows how long the political process can take.
At the start of the election campaign and the subsequent manifesto launches it was quite clear that Education along with Brexit and Social Care would become one of the key issues. Labour's commitment to scrapping tuition fees and introducing grants was a bold policy (costed around £10bn) but was clearly designed to appeal to the under-25s. This is a demographic that rarely voted and felt, particularly after the EU Referendum that they were not being heard. Many seats where universities had residential accommodation saw surges in the electoral roll. Curiously when the Lib Dems tried the same policy in 2010 which secured them a record 57 seats but when in Coalition and compromises had to be made it was abandoned and support from students ebbed away. On top of scrapping fees Labour also offered a review into lifelong learning which would have been relevant to Birkbeck but little detail was given.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto went into some detail about research funding and restoring student grants again to appeal to its university heartlands of Cambridge, Sheffield Hallam and Bath however they were only successful in the latter of these seats. While the Lib Dems wanted to put Brexit at the heart of the election campaign it seems that the electorate didn't have the same priorities.
Turning to the Conservative manifesto there is mention of a Tertiary Funding review, the creation of Institutes for Technology and the Industrial Strategy Green paper – all with a focus on Education and Skills. There is also a looming question as to whether there will be further restrictions on international students coming to the UK. Depending on the stability of the Government it will remain to be seen how many of these manifesto pledges can be implemented or whether we will in fact be in election mode so soon after this one…"
How people decide who to vote for
Politics Professor Rosie Campbell reported on how people actually decide how to vote for the BBC, noting that 'more of us are changing our minds,' citing the framing of campaigns by the media, as well as major national or international events (such as recent terror attacks), and emotional influence as likely to change the course of a vote.
Iconography in politics
Sue Wiseman, Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck discussed the iconography of hair of different politicians, and how it affects perceptions of the politician.
Theresa May – leaking leadership capital?
Shortly before the election, Ben Worthy and Mark Bennister commented on the diminishing leadership capital of the Prime Minister, and how leadership can be measured.
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Theresa May: leaking leadership capital?
Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, and Mark Bennister explore Theresa May's leadership capital. They conclude that although she may gain capital after an election win, her strained relations with her Cabinet and the ongoing crises of Brexit, Scotland, and Northern Ireland may eventually diminish her reputation.
Measuring leadership is a tricky business. Our work has experimented with the concept of 'leadership capital' to analyse a leader's 'stock of authority'. Journalists and commentators often talk about political capital as a sort of 'credit' stock accumulated by and gifted to politicians. Leadership capital is, we argue, made up of three attributes:
Skills: personalised ability to communicate, present a vision, and gain popularity
Relations: with the political party, the voting public, and colleagues
Reputation: levels of trust, ability to influence policy, and get things done.
Our Leadership Capital Index tracks the trajectory of leadership capital over time. The general tendency is for capital to be high when a leader gains office (because they win an election, are popular etc.) and to inevitably decline over time as mistakes, scandals, and inability to solve 'wicked' public policy problems diminish it. High capital leaders tend to be transformative, pushing change, and presenting bold policies. Low capital leaders struggle to have an impact and are often consumed with fighting off threats to their leadership, both at elections and with internal challenges. We apply this approach in a new edited volume published by Oxford University Press, using a range of case studies. So how does Theresa May's leadership capital look so far?
Theresa May seemingly accumulated high levels of leadership capital when she assumed office in July 2016 in the wake of the EU referendum result, even though, like many prime ministers before her, she came into power by 'taking over' rather than winning a General Election. May arrived after a vicious and very public internal party war, to become the unifier for both the Conservative party and the country in the grip of uncertainty and division.
In terms of skills, May championed a clear, if rather succinct, vision of Brexit ('Brexit means Brexit') while her forthright and direct style offered a contrast with Cameron's slick and rather too smooth rhetoric. She entered power with high poll ratings and levels of trust and, perhaps most remarkably, a relatively united party after the civil war over Brexit. Her experience as Home Secretary was seen to demonstrate both firmness and a mastery of details.
In policy terms, May blended a wider policy agenda of reforming capitalism with a populist agenda pitched on the side of working families. Her uncontested party leadership coronation left no rivals with only Boris Johnson in the 'gilded cage' of the Foreign Office where he could do no harm. May was the candidate who could and would 'get things done' with plenty of leadership capital to do it.
Jump forward to June 2017 and May's capital looks a little different. It is still high. May retains her high poll ratings and trust: May is much more popular than her party while the reverse is true for Corbyn. Perhaps most remarkably, the Conservative party has fallen into line behind her stance on Brexit. The General Election of 2017, and with campaign emphasis on May herself, has hinged on these positives. This election, in a sense, is a leadership capital election as this Populus party leader polling shows. The strategic, personalised focus on her leadership was a deliberate approach to contrast with her opponent.
But there have been signs of fraying capital. Her communicative style has been derided as robotic, under the intense media scrutiny of a campaign. Meanwhile her firmness and mastery of detail have been exposed as less positive attributes, once her tendency towards secretive and closed group decision-making became evident, and after some less than certain public performances. The Brexit process has seen White Papers and speeches that appeared less than detailed, while electioneering slogans have glossed over a lack of depth of policy planning. The reformist agenda so far has been a little underwhelming.
When a leader's communication and policy control falters, leadership capital – gifted to them by supporters, commentators and electors – declines. May's problems are exemplified by the U-turn on social care policy, an embarrassing volte-face during an election campaign. As a poorly thought through policy, it apparently by-passed Cabinet and so damaged her relations, not only with colleagues, but also the grassroots members busy knocking on doors. May's attempts to defend the policy left the party rather unhappy and less convinced by her competence. As Janan Ganesh argued:
"Her self-image as a firm leader hinged on her fidelity to this brave, contentious idea…Colleagues who defended her proposal in public, lobby interests who fought it and any EU negotiators tuning in from the continent will infer the same lesson: this prime minister is strong and stable, until you test her."
The social care climb down has not been an isolated incident. It follows a series of mistakes and retreats from National Insurance rise to the fundamental decision to hold a snap election. There is also a tendency towards blaming others in a crisis – whether the EU for leaking or her own Chancellor for the aborted National Insurance rise. Recent headlines perhaps tell us the reputational damage. George Osborne's London Evening Standard editorial described May's campaign as an 'abortive personality cult' that, after the 'self-inflicted wound' of social care, could be summed up as "Honey, I shrunk the poll lead." The Times ran with the headline 'Mrs May has been rumbled as not very good' and Paxman, with a phrase that could haunt May, suggested she was a blowhard who collapses at the first sign of gunfire.
May appears set for a convincing win, if not a landslide. Her polling and personal ratings mean she retains more than enough leadership capital to make this victory her win – though expectations may make a smaller win rather Pyrrhic. Framed as the Brexit election, she can still present herself as the leader with the capital and mandate to see it through, but her personalised campaign has been dented under close scrutiny and in the face of an unexpectedly resilient opponent.
She may gain capital on the back of an election win, but expect her to lose capital in her relations with her own cabinet: collegiality has been with her own Chancellor, tension between her team and the Cabinet, muttering in the party over U-turns and mistakes. Aside from the deep rolling crisis that is Brexit, many other problems will still loom large on June the 9th: from Scotland to the too long neglected divisions and stalemate in Northern Ireland. May's leadership capital could well diminish swiftly after her election victory. As she faces the huge complexity of Brexit, her skills are not so evident, her relations are frayed, and her reputation dented.
Worthy and Bennister are co-authors, with Paul 't Hart, of The Leadership Capital Index, available from Oxford University Press.
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Q: Why the toast message is getting printed twice? When I'm comparing the values of duration2 and duration4, the Toast message I'm using is printing twice, although the answer/message is correct. I don't know why it's happening. Please tell me how to fix this.
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A: Because you are toasting inside the onTouchEvent. There is an ACTION_DOWN and an ACTION_UP.
I suppose a simple fix would be to store a boolean value to say you've shown the message already and add that to an if statement around the duration check

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We are providing help and assistance in visiting the exhibition, provide admission tickets.
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Q: Reading .tar.Z file without decompressing in Python 2.7 I am new to Python and trying to read .tar.Z file name and trying to list the file names compressed inside it. I just need to know the file name and size. I am using Python 2.7. I am able to do it with .tar file. Can somebody explain that with an example?
Thanks

A: The compress command and its .Z files is so antiquated that Python doesn't support it directly (and likely never did).
I suggest
#!/bin/sh
for i in *.tar.Z; do
    tarname=`basename "$i" .Z`
    uncompress "$i"
    gzip "$tarname"
done

Then you can just open the tarfiles as shown in the documentation with the 'r:gz' mode.
If you don't want to migrate away from 1980s compress technology, then you should probably look into
zcat tarfile.tar.Z | tar tf -

using the subprocess module.
(For those who are tempted to say "but bzip2 is better" or "but xz is supported in Python 3", yeah, I agree, but gzip is simply more standard).


Last week, in his annual letter to shareholders of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Uday Kotak, the managing director, stated that private sector banks could increase their market share to as much as 50%. Till a few years ago, private sector banks were expected to carve out a market share of around 32% by 2025.
All of a sudden, the bleakness of the NPA scenario is giving birth to new possibilities and opportunities. Kotak believes, as do many others, that the increasing bad debts of public sector banks could crimp the ability of public sector banks (PSBs) to advance money. That could leave the field open for private banks to step in.
Not that private banks haven't been guilty of advancing bad loans. Watch the list alongside. ICICI and Axis Bank figure among the top 10. But they have the ability to squeeze out more revenues per employee than PSBs have or can. What is also common to the two private banks among the top ten is that their top management was involved with finance related businesses that were carried out by their relatives.
Unfortunately, neither the RBI nor the finance ministry has still come out with guidelines which make both private sector and PSB managements face severe punishment in case they enter into conflict of interest relationships. Either the manager must quit his/her post, or the relatives must quit such lines of business (http:// www. asiaconverge. com/2018/05/chanda-kochar-must-go/ and http:// www.asiaconverge.com/2018/05/did-rbi-and-govt-allow-npa-loot/). Not surprisingly, the best private banks are those that have not encouraged such conflict of interest situations.
Yet, there is no denying that — thanks to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code kicking in — banks are suddenly settling bad debts at over 75 paise to a rupee, where earlier they were happy if they got 30. It has also made banks look to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which were earlier ignored.
But the most interesting development is the rapid growth non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have begun to play. Foreign companies that weren't allowed too much of play space by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have suddenly found that they are more than welcome. Just a few days ago, even P Vijaya Kumar, chief general manager, department of non-banking supervision, was on record exhorting NBFCs not to emulate banks and lend only to large clients. SME's, he clarified, offer bigger profits and opportunities that big players had ignored.
The total value of mergers and acquisition during FY17 in NBFC diversified financial services and banking was US$ 2,564 billion, US$ 103 million and US$ 79 million respectively..
The biggest merger deal of FY17 was in the microfinance segment of IndusInd Bank Limited and Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited of US$ 2.4 billion.
In May 2018, total equity funding of the microfinance sector grew at the rate of 39.88% to Rs 96.31 billion (Rs 4.49 billion) in 2017-18 from Rs 68.85 billion (US$ 1.03 billion) .
Replace microfinance with NBFC, and you will see huge opportunities emerging where private banks and NBFCs will find common ground to explore new avenues that few looked at before.
Maybe, if the government does not allow regulatory capture by erstwhile defaulters, the pain of the NPAs could lead to the blossoming of other businesses that should make India more vibrant than ever before.


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The Flight Attendant Episodes 4–8: So, Everyone Is a Good Person After All?
in The Flight Attendant
Photo: Phil Caruso/HBO Max
by Derrick Gravener December 17, 2020, 4:00 am
Wow, a lot can change in five episodes! The first three episodes left some interesting (and not so interesting) questions left to be answered. Unfortunately I don't think any of the answers we were given were really that satisfying or shocking.
What I'm left with after the final five episodes (and in particular the final two) is a genuine feeling of betrayal from The Flight Attendant—a show that honestly started pretty strong! Ultimately, though, its spinning plates act of different genres and too many storylines comes to a messy and phoned-in conclusion. And it wrongs its talented cast in an ending where everyone is basically a good person??? (Yeah, I'm confused too.)
Your Lawyer BFF Who Does and Doesn't Hate You and Her Hacker Boyfriend That You Almost Killed
Annie (Zosia Mamet) has a fun and confusing arc where she gets really mad at Cassie (Kayley Cuoco) after her hacker boyfriend Max (Deniz Akdeniz) gets hit by a car while pushing Cassie out of the way. They spend an episode fighting and Cassie goes on this bender with Buckley (Colin Woodell). The episode is supposed to come off as sad because she's supposedly hitting rock bottom, but it just feels like a filler episode.
Annie then forgives Cassie for the aforementioned boyfriend/car crash incident when it is narratively convenient. In all of this haze, Annie also realizes she has a conscience and can't work her fancy lawyer job anymore, and that maybe she does love Max. In a very meta-ending for her plotline she has a line that's something like "well my whole identity hinges on me being a lawyer, so I don't know what I'm going to do now."
Photo: Karolina Wojtasik/HBO Max
It's a moment of self-awareness that sadly becomes a rare quantity in the later episodes of The Flight Attendant. Annie's character started so strong as a much needed voice of reason in this world of bonkers characters, but her plot-line is reduced to just realizing that she does love Max, and that there's more to life than being a lawyer.
Although these are important takeaways, I don't fully buy that Annie would forgive Cassie in the timeline presented. I think Annie's character would've actually come back years later, maybe gone on sabbatical for a year and gotten a nose piercing, and time would've healed some of the wounds there.
I know that is perhaps not realistic for the timeline of this show, but I do wish some of the characters were honoured here, because the actors are really giving it their all (particularly Zosia Mamet). Also was it too much to ask for Annie's character to actually be evil…or at least morally corrupt? Surely that would've been more fun than just watching her mope around a hospital bed for the bulk of the later episodes.
Your Dead One-Night-Stand From 3C Who You Actually Didn't Kill
I did kind of forget during some moments of the later episodes that the central mystery here was Alex Sokolov's (Michiel Huisman) murder. The latter half becomes very wrapped up in a weird Cassie/Miranda/Felix drama-triangle.
Anyway, in case you were worried for a second that Alex Sokolov might be complicit in the whole money laundering scheme, he's not! He's a good school boy, and dies a hero! He was actually trying to throw a wrench in the plans of the bad guys, but got killed doing so.
What's rather interesting here—but not actually engaged with—is a brief snippet in which we learn that his parents are heavily involved in this but had kept him in the dark about it. The Flight Attendant has really loved the whole family connection rabbit-hole for Cassie, so I wonder why this wasn't used in Alex's case? Surely having parallel family horror stories would've been more interesting than what was turned in, which felt like just a slew of random villains in random locations.
Also Alex's parents' Westchester house had way more brooding vibes for a villain than just mysterious locations in…London? And while we're on the topic of villains, was Miranda's boss (Ritchie Coster) Victor—the supposed actual big bad—ever fleshed out beyond his random phone calls? (No, no he wasn't.)
The Person Who You Thought was a Hit-Woman but Actually Isn't
Our red herring for being the big bad wolf in this show is of course Miranda (Michelle Gomez), who again has multiple close-calls with Cassie, but in Episode 7 she finally has the chance to kill Cassie! But wait she's going to whip out her catchphrase: "I'm just a flight attendant!"
Well, that and the surprising amount of intel that Cassie has collected which includes the fact that Miranda is also on some mysterious hit-list. They seemingly bond about this, and in a strange end to her arc, Miranda ends up helping Cassie, and having this weird plane monologue where she confesses actually caring about Cassie's well-being.
Look, I know Michelle Gomez was a re-cast quite late and they had to reshoot a bunch, but this really came out of nowhere for her character given that she spent like five minutes with Cassie, and I really don't think Cassie is that likable. She's human and flawed and you root for her, but I don't think she's likable (more on that later).
Miranda ends up taking the money—you know the money from the account codes Alex had written in the copy of Crime and Punishment which Cassie had taken as a see-you-later gift for herself—and re-gifting the book to Cassie in a mysterious ending moment for her character. Anyway, wherever she ended up, I hope she's happy. I think Michelle Gomez is great, but god help the contradictory arc she was given. This whole criminal with a heart of gold thing, ugh. Surely there's someone actually bad here.
Are You There, Greg Berlanti? It's Me, Joe Goldberg Felix/Buckley
Okay, yes. There is the person who actually killed Alex—and a bunch of cats during childhood—but I didn't actually find this twist that rewarding or shocking. I mean, why else was this random actor so interested in her? (Also, a moment of silence for the You-esque montage of Felix wearing a black baseball cap in public and not being recognized.)
Anyway, yeah Buckley's name is actually Felix (and he's the real piece of work that works for Miranda's boss Victor). But when I ask for a bad person to be a part of this show, I don't mean an actual psychopath, I mean like morally corrupt and fascinating, but supposedly good in our eyes.
The finale (and episode before) spend a lot of screen time with Cassie/Miranda running from Felix, which is understandable, but also kind of a complete waste because nothing else actually gets revealed in the finale, besides confirmation that Felix killed Alex, but that was heavily implied in the previous episode.
My main beef to pick here is with how Cassie handles the situation with Buckley/Felix. See, when she gets off the plane in Italy, Felix is waiting for her, but he doesn't know that Cassie knows that he's Felix the serial killer! To his knowledge Cassie still thinks that he's Buckley the actor, y'know the one that she talked about running away with!
So why would she reveal her cards here? Why wouldn't she simply run to his arms, apologize for breaking it off with him, and act like he did this to run away with her? I ask this question because in the end Cassie is recruited to work with the CIA. And I do think that's all fun and good, and I do think she actually managed to do a lot of detective work. So it begs my question: why would someone so supposedly intelligent not play this situation smarter?
Unfortunately I have to chalk it up to inconsistent writing of Cassie. In one moment she's this total genius fighting her way out of things and putting together complex corporations, in another moment she's a dumb, alcoholic flight attendant. Sure, we contain multitudes as human beings that often contradict one another, but this one just didn't add up for me. Cassie (and Kayley Cuoco) deserved better.
The People Who Wanted You in Jail But Now Realize You're Just a Flight Attendant
Then of course there's your favourite FBI agent dynamic duo (Merle Dandridge and Nolan Gerard Funk) who…I don't know just kind of pick up the phone and call a bunch of people in the end to try and protect Cassie from Felix.
I kind of wish there was more to say about these two but there's not. Remember earlier on when Merle Dandridge had that really sloppy monologue about intersectionality and oppression in the workplace? Yeah, that was a weird moment, but I also wish there was more characterization attempts like that for these two. I've been a fan of Nolan Gerard Funk since the weird cult-classic The Canyons, so I know he can sort of act, but this really didn't do anything for him. Remember that corrupt FBI agent that Annie blackmailed in the beginning that worked in the office? That was fun, where was more of that?
This Whole B-Plot That's Basically a Different Show Starring Your Other BFF Rosie Perez
Elsewhere in a B-Plot that fails to connect to the main story besides the whole Shane (Griffin Matthews) working for the CIA and actually being there to monitor Megan (Rosie Perez) thing, we have this weird standalone piece of an unfulfilled wife's life.
That's really all it adds up to for me, she's unfulfilled, she breaks some rules, lands her husband in some real hot water and ultimately feels regret. Arguably Megan is the baddest and most morally corrupt person on this show, and faces the most consequences, but none of that actually connects to the whole Alex Sokolov murder/Cassie main plot. Weird, honestly. Can you believe Rosie Perez caught COVID in Thailand while traveling to film The Flight Attendant and ended up with this plot-line? Yikes.
When Will You Learn That Your Actions Don't Have Consequences?
My last bone to pick with this series is Cassie's conclusion and overall lack of consequences. Again, I think the whole CIA thing is kind of fun, and I do think Cassie is smart enough to do work for the CIA, but my main issue with this ending is that I feel like Cassie is rewarded for her behaviour throughout. There are no consequences for her general selfishness, and in the light of her trauma coming out, there is also no real healing given to her character.
The trauma is of course getting into an accident where her drunk father dies. She runs from the accident and sees a rabbit (hence all the rabbits in this show). Cassie has a nice moment where she goes back and talks to her past self, and another nice moment where she has a moment with Alex where they kiss and stuff after she's vulnerable.
Then again, I do feel like some acknowledgement that she was changed because of this was needed. Maybe she started to work on her healing and alcoholism instead of just getting on a plane and having this very "and I'm a flight attendant!" ending? (Which felt very like a superhero blasting off to save the world again, ugh.)
Remember the episode where she said she became a flight attendant to help people, and then in the end she actually realized she became a flight attendant because she runs towards chaos? Where was that self-awareness in the ending?
It's like all the contradictory edges of her character were discarded, all her wrong-doings (including years of gaslighting her brother) were forgiven, and just like that she goes to work for the CIA. I half expected Cassie and Alex to break out in this specific song from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but alas The Flight Attendant lost its self-awareness in the end, and really all touches of reality.
I think it really could've done something smart and subversive for the whole mystery/thriller/comedy genre if it kept that up, but sadly that wasn't the case. If you must watch The Flight Attendant, keep your expectations stowed at all times, and don't check any baggage, you'll probably just want to take your carry-on and run. Thanks for flying Imperial Atlantic!
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Written by Derrick Gravener
Derrick Gravener is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Creative Writing Program and his work has been featured in PRISM International, The Garden Statuary, and The Real Vancouver Writers' Series. He has lived in Brooklyn, Jersey City, Vancouver, Windsor, and now Victoria.
He's currently watching: We Are Who We Are, This is Us, A Teacher, Shameless, and rewatching Russian Doll, and Happy Endings
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 public $email;
 public $clave;
 public $password_repeat;
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 public $recover;

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    {
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            [['email', 'clave', 'password_repeat', 'verification_code', 'recover'], 'required', 'message' => 'Campo requerido'],
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A new audio dossier features poets who have been published in The Nation reading selections of their work.
I'm writing today with the great pleasure of announcing the debut of Lyric Nation, an audio dossier featuring a poet who has been published in The Nation reading selections of his or her work. You can find Lyric Nation here: www.thenation.com/lyric-nation.
A new installment of Lyric Nation will be posted on the last Monday of each month; poets you'll be hearing soon include Jeffrey Yang, Ange Mlinko and Devin Johnston.


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Q: android service using SystemClock.elapsedRealTime() instead of SystemClock.uptimeMillis() works in emulator but not in samsung captivate? First question here in stackoverflow :)
I'm running a little android 2.2 app to log cpu frequency usage. It is set up as a service that will write the data every 10 seconds using a new thread. The code for that part is very basic (see below).
It works fine, except that it would not keep track of time while the phone is asleep (which, I know, is the expected behavior). Thus, I changed the code to use SystemClock.elapsedRealTime() instead. Problem is, in emulator both commands are equivalent, but in the phone the app will start the thread but it will never execute the mHandler.postAtTime command. Any advice regarding why this is happening or how to overcome the issue is greatly appreciated.
PS: stopLog() is not being called. That's not the problem.
    mUpdateTimeTask = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            long millis = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - mStartTime;
            int seconds = (int) (millis / 1000);
            int minutes = seconds / 60;
            seconds     = seconds % 60;

            String freq = readCPU ();
            if (freq == null)
                Toast.makeText(CPU_log_Service.this, "CPU frequency is unreadable.\nPlease make sure the file has read rights.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            String str = new String ((minutes*60 + seconds) + ", " + freq + "\n");
            if (!writeLog (str)) stopLog();
            mHandler.postAtTime(this, mStartTime + (((minutes * 60) + seconds + 10) * 1000));
    }};

    mStartTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
    mHandler.removeCallbacks(mUpdateTimeTask);
    mHandler.postDelayed(mUpdateTimeTask, 100);

A: As the documentation states, for postAtTime(), "The time-base is uptimeMillis()." Hence, you cannot just decide to use elapsedRealTime().
I would recommend you simply use postDelayed(), to eliminate the whole time-base problem.


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Home » Blog » Housing » Turning life the right way up again: Anthony's Story
Turning life the right way up again: Anthony's Story	 20 December 2017
Speaking to Anthony today, it's hard to imagine he was at rock bottom just five months ago when he first showed up at our workshop. It had been a tough year. Anthony had started drinking after a relationship breakup, and he lost his job soon afterwards as things spiralled out of control. Estranged from his family and living in a hostel he had nothing to lose by giving Handcrafted a try.
On his first day at the workshop, Anthony began to rebuild himself. He saw the opportunity to do something practical with wood and nails that demonstrated what he really valued. A toy box for his daughter was ambitious for a 'first day' project, but he pushed through and completed it by the end of the day. He also connected with others who understood how he felt because they'd had similar struggles.
"I met nice people at Handcrafted who said about just taking life five minutes at a time, taking it easy."
Anthony showed an interest in the house renovation projects that we had on the go. In the weeks that followed, he went to work on renovations with our trainer, Matt Arthurs, and started a tenancy in one of our properties.
"I'm living in a handcrafted property at the moment and getting support. There's the support there as and when I need it.
In the meantime, the toy box went down well. Anthony's family saw him making positive changes, hope was rekindled and contact improved. We've been able to be alongside him while he's made the best of what we have to offer: building confidence on practical projects, being part of a community, having a place to live and making it a home … finding employment and getting life back on track.
We were able to arrange a job trial for Anthony from his interest in renovations. The connection was a success.
"I've now started full time employment: I'm working full time as a brick layer. I've had all the support I needed off Handcrafted to enable us to do that. I think Handcrafted has helped us a lot to see things in a different light."


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DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$GPHOME/lib:\$GPHOME/ext/python/lib:\$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
EOF
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Home > Culture & Recreation > Arts > Surrey Public Art > Public Art Collection > Were It Not For You
Were It Not For You
Artist: Glen Andersen
Location: Holland Park (13428 Old Yale Road)
Category: Civic collection
About Were It Not For You
The three-panel "bas-relief" (low relief sculpture) decorates the central fountain wall in Holland Park. The scenes on the panels are executed in a joyous, Art Nouveau style, with a nod to Asian ornament. The triptych's imagery depicts earth, air, fire, water, and space in dynamic interplay. Symbolic of these are images of a curling fern frond, a hummingbird, the sun, and a fish with overarching waves. This artwork celebrates the life force and complements the other nature-based artworks in the park.
More on Were It Not For You
Glen Andersen is a Vancouver-based sculptor and mosaic artist. After studying film at Simon Fraser University, he shifted directions and committed himself to making what he describes as "accessible, human-scale, handmade pedestrian-friendly" public art.
He is best known for his mosaics, which he has created on his own and in collaboration with community groups. Andersen's art may be seen in parks, plazas, school grounds, residential neighbourhoods and private gardens throughout the northwest.
His other public artworks in Surrey include Pebble Mosaics, also found in Holland Park, and Semiahmoo Trail Mosaics and The Train Arriving at the Station, both at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre.
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I had an opportunity to travel to the state of Victoria in Australia for 5 days in the Autumn this year. After two years of Covid and lockdowns in Victoria six times, it was very interesting talking to the people who have lived through this time of lack of social interactions and loss of business and jobs across the state. There is a feeling of loss about it all and how much people have missed out on seeing people and being barred from visiting loved ones who, under normal circumstances, would have been able to see each other. Gatherings were halted and people retreated to their homes. And now, even though the restrictions have been lifted, not everyone is ready to socialise again. There are masks on many, but not all wear them on public transport. Some youngsters said they had already had covid so were immune for three months so were not worried about getting it again, because their experience with the virus was mild and not a major issue for them, so if they did get it again, they were treating it as a flu-like virus.
Like a lot of older Australians, I am cautious and wear my mask in settings where there are crowds. I have not had Covid and I have also had a second covid booster and feel relatively safe and also a flu jab too. But I am not prepared to take any risks, and wear a mask in my job as a secondary teacher.
So on with the journey. I landed in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. The weather was predictable, there was a coolness in the air but it was not very cold. I prefer to travel with a certain winter feel in preference for to a hot climate, especially a humid one.
I spent day catching up with my very good friends and preparing for the gathering I was here to enjoy. A significant birthday.
It was terrific seeing familiar people and meeting new ones.
The following day, I caught the VLine train – a country train as opposed to the suburban network. So for an hour I travelled north to a largish town called Seymour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour,_Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_railway_station,_Victoria
The area has has industries surrounding horses, cattle, sheep and wine. The population is around 6 000, so a small but significant sized town in Victoria. From there my friend who met me at the train drove me through the countryside, west on Pyalong Road towards Kyneton. On that journey we came across this lovely trestle bridge.
Historic Trestle Bridge is a Rail Bridge which was constructed for the Victorian Railways in 1890 by McDermott & Sons
along the Wandong-Bendigo line, south of Pyalong.
My friend who drove me to Kyneton's grandfather, used to drive trains along this route and over the trestle bridge.
Degraves Hill
Bluestone Flour mill
Lancefield was a lovely historical town with traditional buildings and great photo opportunities. Established round 1865. www.aussietowns.com.au/town/lancefield-vic
Lancefield Hay & Grain Store
Garage in the Main Street of Lancefield – marketing expert.
Lancefield Corner Store
Lancefield main street
Autumn colours, Lancefield, Victoria
Aspy Cafe – beautiful muffins and generous serves also in
Lancefield's main street.
Really loved the garage with its old world charm and clever marketing. He has embraced the history of the the town and capitalised on the tourist interest in historic and rustic decorations. The only disappointment is that the Hay and Grain store was not! On the corner facing the street there were steep steps into a very small, new age style gift shop with incense, candles, trinkets, glass balls and soaps. Not what I expected. Just around the corner on the side of the building was an old wool press and that was all that showed any of the history other than the structure itself.
Wool Press in Lancefield
After a walk around Lancefield, we had a lovely muffin and eggs and bacon for my friend and a cup of tea at the Aspy Cafe – which I might add was very tasty and fast to the table. It was lovely. The staff are friendly and efficient. #AspyCafe
Aspey Cafe – Lancefield
Aspy Cafe – beautiful muffins and generous serves. Lancefield main street.
The town was established as a supplier of goods for the goldrush in the 1850s and there is an example of the buildings of the time in
"Kyneton's oldest surviving stone building, the Church of England Rectory, located at 61 Ebden Street, commenced in 1850 and is a rare surviving example of a pre-gold rush dwelling."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyneton
Church of England Rectory
Old Kyneton Rectory, Victoria, Australia – also now, luxury accommodation.
: Victoria in Autumn
Pyalong Road to Kyneton
Kyneton Railway Station
Scale at Kyneton Station
The winter is approaching and all around Victoria the deciduous trees are colouring their leaves. Reds, and browns, yellows and orange. Beautiful against the often grey skies.
My next stop was the town of Trentham where some long time family friends live. Our parents were friends and as a result we spent time together as kids and have remained relatively close since. I really love seeing them, now all our parents are gone. It's a link to our shared pasts and a welcome one.
The following information was copied from https://visithepburnshire.com.au/trentham/
So go have a read if you want. It's a lovely village. With charm and history and it is just great to look at. It has a tendency to get snow often, sometimes enough to make snowballs.
Cool country. Spud country. For a tiny town, Trentham packs a punch. Not just what it is famous for – but for its lesser known gems too.
A quaint village retaining many historic buildings and a charming streetscape also boasts drop-dead pretty gardens and shady tree-lined streets (not to mention the main street has even featured in several movies, but Trentham is too modest to boast of such things).
Situated half way between Woodend and Daylesford and located high on the Great Dividing Range, Trentham's soil is fabulous for growing some of the country's best spuds along with a veritable cornucopia of seasonal produce. From chestnuts and cherries, to heirloom fruits and olives, there isn't much that won't flourish in this rich volcanic dirt.
In June 2021 there was a damaging storm and Wombat Forest was decimated. Most of the forest is 'new' growth as opposed to old growth. The reason for this is during the goldrush years in the 1850's there were huge demand on the forest for timber for shafts and tools for the gold diggers. So as a result not much of the forest in very old, and so was nt strong enough to handle the huge winds.
Well that is the end of this little visit to Victoria in the Autumn. I highly recommend it.
#AspyCafe#Degraves_Mill#goldfields#Kyneton#muffins#Pyalong#Seymour#Trentham#trestlebridge#VictoriaAustralia#Wombat_ForestAutumnLancefieldMelbourne


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Medvedev Changes His Tactics Over Ukraine
The economic crisis didn't have the effect on Russia that the West was counting on. Instead of compliance, they've shown more aggression. Rather than being scattered around the world, Russia's now focused on strengthening its position as an independent center of gravity. In other words, it's expanding its markets and political influence into adjacent territories.
Obama's Consensus Diplomacy Put to the Test
The main geopolitical tools of the 20th century — nuclear weapons and ideology — are losing their former value. The new priority is to maintain a complex balance between multiple states. But it is first necessary to understand the interests that drive numerous regional conflicts.
Navigating Together in Dangerous Conditions
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit next week to Moscow is generating more interest in U.S.-Russian relations than we have seen in a long time. A dozen or so presummit conferences sponsored by leading think tanks dedicated to future relations between the two countries have been held recently in Moscow and Washington.
Moscow Shows Who's Boss With WTO U-Turn
Moscow's decision to halt negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization and to focus instead on a joint bid through a customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus appears to be politically motivated. It is a step toward establishing an independent identity on the world arena. Such a policy is conceptually based on several propositions.
Crisis as a Catalyst
The global economic crisis remains the focus of everyone's attention, but the panic of late last year has given way to a sober analysis. The world has not been turned upside down and the problems caused by the crisis have only become catalysts of processes that had begun to take shape long before the autumn of 2008.
A Positive but Confusing Security Strategy
Last week, President Dmitry Medvedev signed Russia's national security strategy to 2020. The document reflects the uncertainty in the minds of Russia's leaders regarding the path of the country's development in the 21st century. As before, Russia is in a state of transition, but we are not sure exactly where it is transiting to.
High Stakes for Moscow in U.S. Play for Iran
The situation in Iran will likely become the center of global tensions in the months and years ahead. Tehran's desire to establish its status as a regional power will surely clash with Washington's desire to solidify its own global leadership role. And Russia, which has one foot in both camps, will find itself in an increasingly difficult position.
Less Rhetoric, More Pragmatism in London
The promise by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to "press the reset button" in its relations with Russia holds promise for rapid progress in the near future as well as for dealing with serious problems down the line.
Learning the Skills of Being a Regional Power
The economic crisis is obviously having a strong impact on global politics, but nobody is venturing to predict what the new alignment of forces will be. Most likely, all countries will have to economize, rein in their ambitions and set more realistic priorities.
The Orange Emperor Has No Clothes
Despite living separately for the last 17 years, Russia and Ukraine are still inextricably intertwined. Events in one country inevitably have an impact on the other. In fact, two of Vladimir Putin's greatest foreign policy failures were linked to Ukraine.
Taking the Demons Out of the Relationship
Many observers have written that the change in leadership in the United States will open up new opportunities for U.S.-Russian relations. It is hard to argue with this for the simple reason that bilateral relations could hardly get worse than they are now.
2 Crises Derailed Attempts to Improve EU Ties
The year 2008 will receive a special mention the history books of Russia's foreign policy. The Georgia war in August brought a host of consequences demanding attention, and the convulsions of the global financial markets in September and October redefined the boundaries of what Russia could realistically achieve.
The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
In the two weeks since he was elected president, Barack Obama has received conflicting signals from Moscow. Aside from a threat to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, the Kremlin has made some conciliatory statements. Whether we see a new chapter in U.S.-Russian relations will become clear only ...
Two Crises on the Way to Reshaping the World
Two crises have occurred one after the other in the past few months that have had a significant impact on Russian foreign policy. The Russian-Georgian war in August and the upheavals on global financial markets in September and October are not related. Yet both events, each in its own way, have contributed to the formulation by Russia of its national interests. One can say that the two crises have set a conceptual framework of interests, defining a vector for the indispensable and boundaries for the possible.
Reading the World, Rewiring Institutions
Sir Roderic Lyne not only knows a great deal about Russia, he understands her as well. I think I probably don't have to explain that this is not always one and the same thing. When events in a country are examined in the wider context - both geographical and historical - many things appear in a different light and, more importantly, become a great deal clearer.
United States Lost Russia and Everything Else
The financial crisis has pushed the Russia question to the back burner during the U.S. presidential election campaign. No matter what might have happened in Georgia -- or any other former Soviet republic -- U.S. citizens are far more worried about the safety of their bank accounts and retirement savings.
History never went away
The cliche, currently in vogue, to describe events in our times as "the return of history" is a staggering example of western arrogance. Taken literally, it means everything that took place in the 1990s was not history: the tragic breakup of multinational states, accompanied by civil wars and millions of broken lives ...
Walking Carefully From Transdnestr to Yerevan
Following the tumultuous events in the Caucasus, the struggle for influence in the former Soviet republics has turned into an open confrontation. Moscow has clearly articulated its policy toward its neighbors, calling those regions Russia's exclusive sphere of influence. By trying to create its own geographical sphere of influence, Moscow is ...
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
The fighting between Georgia and Russia has resulted in a serious political crisis in U.S.-Russian relations. It seems as if both sides have gone back to the sharp Cold War rhetoric of the early 1980s. But apart from the combative tone, the current conflict has nothing in common with the Cold War standoffs because the ideological element is absent in both Russian and U.S. foreign policies today...
In Anticipation of Change
There is an anticipation of change in the world today, although no one can say exactly how things will change. This anticipation stems from the handover of power – already accomplished in Russia and which will soon take place in the United States; from new internal turbulence in the European Union; from the marked growth of China's presence on the global stage; and from ever new signs of a crisis in various international institutions.
Lessons From Bosnia
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, who bears a significant portion of responsibility for the horrors of the civil war in Bosnia, is an appropriate ending to his political career. There are no grounds to portray the former president of Bosnian Serb republic as a victim of circumstances; he is getting what he deserves.
From Vancouver to Vladivostok
President Dmitry Medvedev has made a number of foreign policy statements since taking office. His speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has drawn the most attention, although it was lacking something new in content. But his June 5 speech in Berlin was remarkable, especially in the context of the rejection a week later of the Treaty of Lisbon, a document that represented a watered-down version of the failed European Constitution.
Timofey Bordachev, Fyodor Lukyanov
A Time to Cast Stones
Russia's gradual but irreversible return to the global economy and politics opened up new opportunities – and simultaneously set new requirements and structural restrictions to the national foreign policy. Russia emerged a full-fledged player in global politics in the first years of this century and displayed a conduct completely proportionate to that politics.
Next U.S. Leader Cannot Undo Bush's Mess
The U.S. presidential election campaign is entering its decisive phase. The candidates for the rival parties seem to have been determined, and now the real struggle begins. U.S. President George W. Bush is suffering record-low approval ratings, and his exit is eagerly awaited both at home and abroad. Europeans are especially looking forward to a change in the White House...
An Early Assessment of Putin's Foreign Policy
President Vladimir Putin's participation in the NATO summit in Bucharest and his talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in Sochi marked the final foreign policy episode in his two terms. Putin's legacy is worthy of serious study and impartial analysis, but this is not possible right now.
Good Policies Should Make Good Neighbors
At his first news conference following his election victory, President-elect Dmitry Medvedev touched upon only one foreign relations topic. He said Moscow's priority was the Commonwealth of Independent States, and he promised that his first state visit would be to one of the CIS countries.
Our First Five Years
Russia in Global Affairs is celebrating a small anniversary: five years ago – in January 2003 – the first regular issue of our journal appeared in print. Five years is a short period of time in historical dimensions, but the pace and substance of the current changes make one recall the practice of calculating one's length of service in the Soviet Union. At that time, a year of work under harsh climatic conditions or a year of performing a hazardous job was counted as two.
Refitting Global Organizations for New Order
Kosovo's proclamation of independence has sparked a storm of debate. The main topic of discussion is how Kosovo's decision will influence other regional conflicts. More interesting, though, is what role the events in the Balkans will play in the overall weakening of international institutions.
Reciprocal respect could calm the troubled waters of EU-RUSSIA relations
Relations between Russia and the European Union are still described officially as a "strategic partnership" with a shared goal of "integration". In practice, however, neither side makes any attempt to hide their irritation at the other. The illusion that Moscow would follow the European model of development began to fade back in the days of Boris Yeltsin. Under President Vladimir Putin, it has become clear that Russia is, in fact, heading in a very different direction.
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