In case anyone in the Democratic party is wondering why support disappeared in Massachusetts, perhaps examining the score card of the Obama administration will reveal why some people feel the behaviour of the executive is little different from the war criminal he replaced.

• Gave money to the banking executives and left the majority of victims of their predatory lending with no support. He should have just nationalised any bank going bust, sacked the executive boards, and established a means to renegotiate usury mortgages.
• Attacked a country (Pakistan) which had not attacked the U.S. in the first week of taking office. Even Bush took 9 months before he acted like Hitler.

To help the people of Haiti, I recommend donating to Partners in Health that already have offices in Haiti and a long history of provision of aid, without preconditions and excessive bureaucracy. I have donated to them during the flooding that occurred in 2004 and they do great work. They have already provided two trucks of medical equipment into Port-au-Prince from their office in another town.

Of course, if you choose another aid organisation, that's still great.

Via Jill, I learned of a documentary that is currently seeking funding, following the people of Carteret Island in the Pacific who are being displaced by rising waters. There are other climate refugees, such as people fleeing the conflict in Darfur, due ultimately to the evaporation of Lake Chad and loss of arable lands. However, the issue of impending loss of low lying islands due to erosion from sea level rise has been raised by many island nations such as Tuvalu and the Maldives. The film illustrates the effect on the people of Carteret island of forced emigration to nearby Bougainville island as the first refugees solely due to climate change. The film is seeking funding online, which is in the form of pledges.

Commit by leighsmith :: r197 /trunk/Calliope/Fonts/ (Calliope.otf Calliope.sfd): (link) Corrected further warnings by FontForge

Commit by leighsmith :: r196 /trunk/Calliope/Fonts/ (5 files): (link) Removed self-intersecting paths, bumped version number, adjusted Ascender and Descenders and added Roman baselines in order to resolve the excessive line gap. Added CFF OpenType font, removed old OTF.dfont and TTF versions

Dear Prime Minister,

I urge you to recognise Australia's obligations to the world in it's negotiations at the Copenhagen COP-15 summit. Australia heavily burdens the world with it's continued reliance on coal and natural gas export industries. This is a short-sighted economy which is extremely exposed to changes in production, demand and political influence from multinational corporations. While successive Australian governments have provided enormous taxpayer subsidies to these carbon intensive industries, we have invested relatively tiny amounts of money in renewable energy industries. This is holding back Australian research and development in knowledge intensive renewable technologies.

Commit by leighsmith :: r195 /trunk/Calliope/Application/winheaders.h: (link) Added math.h include for latest GNUstep which seems to have purged it from Foundation.h

There is now a new release available of the MusicKit that will run on MacOS 10.4 through to 10.6 and GNUstep. Binaries for MacOS 10.6 Intel only are now also available. Versions of MacOS below 10.4 are no longer officially supported. Please refer to MusicKit_ChangeLog.txt for the official list of changes, but the highlights are:

• MacOS 10.6 is now supported.


• Vector hardware on MacOS X is supported for both PPC and Intel.


• Apple AudioUnits are now built as standard in the SndKit.

Commit by leighsmith :: r194 /trunk/Calliope/Application/ (29 files): (link) Added accessors to StaffObj x & y ivars, corrected erroneous channelList reuse for MKScore generation

Commit by leighsmith :: r193 /trunk/Calliope/Application/ (35 files in 4 dirs): (link) Corrected Metro reading StaffObj clients. Factored MusicKit score and MIDI generation for file I/O. GVPerform will be replaced later. Moved saveEPS & saveTIFF to OpusDocument. Replaced VOICEID macro with -voiceWithDefault: method. Added extra copyWithZone methods to Staff, newFrom in Graphic and subclasses defaults to calling copyWithZone:. Added partName accessors. Font debugging turned back on while I try to nail this down. Inverts Verse fonts if negative when encoded.