Youtube Friday #2 video

NOTE: PLEASE READ THE POSTING BELOW BEFORE WATCHING THIS VIDEO.
As a random example of Tobuscus`Literal Trailers, I selected the first one i watched.
Enjoy...

youtube Friday 2 - May 6

I was unable to get on to post yesterday so i decided to come on today as I have missed too many Fridays already.

The youtube Fridays featured video series of the week is, Drum Roll Please, Tobuscus`literal trailers. In these comedic videos,

Tobuscus

sings, to the tune of the game or movie`s music, exactly what is going on in the trailer. This may sound awkward but makes for quite laughable entertainment. These trailers are quite difficult to describe so just look at the example posted above.

Election 2011 Results Part 2 - The Winners

You`ve seen the losers (and the Greens), now let`s look at who came out ahead on Monday night.

4) Canadians drink Orange Crush
Many were stunned to see the NDP surge to a record high of 102 seats as they picked up an additional 66 seats making them the biggest winners in terms of seat gains. The massive gains came largely in Quebec where the NDP received over 42% of the vote which translated to 58 seats. Many of their seats came at the expense of the devastated Bloc who lost their iron grip on the province (Quebec). Jack Layton, who handily defeated all other candidates in his riding, should make a decent leader of the official opposition as he does a very good job of pointing out flaws in party policies and of forcing the other parties to take action to correct these flaws.

5) Harper Gets His majority
On account of the NDP surge and the always solid Liberals, the Conservatives again failed to reach their goal of a majority After 5 years and three elections, the Conservatives managed to grab that elusive majority despite the ORANGE CRUSH that swept across Quebec. Their solid gain of 24 seats, of which a fair amount came in Ontario, propelled them to a total of 167 seats, 12 more than they needed for a majority. His position secure, Stephen Harper should be Prime Minister for at least the next four years until the mandatory election (must be an election every 5 years but most governments chose to have 1 after four to prevent any surprises).

In Part 3 I will analyze the results to see how these changes happened and what they mean for Canadians.

Election 2011 Results Part 1 - The Losers and The Greens

The federal election witnessed by Canadians on Monday (May 2) had more surprises and twists than a soap opera.
Let's start from the bottom of the pile.
1) The Green Party wins a seat
Green party leader Elizabeth May defeated the Conservative Minister of State(sport), Gary Lunn (who has held the riding for the last 14 years), securing the first ever Green Party seat in the House of Commons as the representative of Saanich-Gulf Islands, British Columbia. She will not have much of a say (especially with the Conservative Majority) but will provide a refreshing voice in the House of Commons. She is also guaranteed a seat at the Leader's debate in the next election which she had been denied this election.

2) THE DEATH OF THE BLOC
To the shock of many, the Bloc Quebecois came out as the biggest losers in the election. Succumbing to the ``Orange Crush``, the Bloc plummeted 43 seats (ALL to the NDP) all the way down from 47 to just 4 seats in the House, resulting in the loss of their official party status. This leads to the question of whether or not separatism can survive in Quebebc. Highlighting the historic defeat was the crushing defeat of leader Gilles Duceppe in his riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie (which he has represented for over 20 years) where he lost by almost 5400 votes (23% less than NDP winner Helene Laverdiere (or 11% of the overall vote)). Needless to say he resigned his position of party leader shortly after the election.

3) The Liberals seeing red
The Liberals also lost a stunning 43 seats, falling all the way down to a historic low of 34 seats in the House. For the first time in the history of Canada, the Liberal Party will not be the party in power or the leader of the opposition, having succumbed to both the NDP (who added an astonishing 68 seats to their ranks) and Stephen Harper`s Conservatives who finally got their majority. Among the surprising defeats (19 of which came in Ontario) came popular candidates Gerrard Kennedy and Ken Dryden who had long represented their respective ridings and had been considered for party Leadership. Adding to the defeat was Michael Ignatieff`s loss in the Liberal stronghold of Etobicoke Lakeshore by over 2000 seats.

Libya is out of the news

Well it appears that no major news channel cares about the situation in Libya any more. God forbid anything should take away even seconds of the coverage of the Royal Wedding. After all the "Wedding of the Century" is far more important than Canadian, British, and French (and all other countries involved whom I do not have room to add) soldiers who are taking part in military action in a full scale revolution in an oil rich country in/near one of the most unstable areas in the world (Middle East). Now if I want updates on the situation I have to go to the timeline of the 2011 Libyan Civil War page on Wikipedia. It's not like there's nothing significant going on in Libya at the moment either. Like, I think some people may be interested in the fact that over 1000 European Union ground soldiers are being prepared in case their plans for a ground operation are approved (which very well may be). Maybe people might also want to know that Ghaddafi's snipers are deliberately targeting young children in the streets in the besieged city of Misurata which has been cut off from supplies and has had raw sewage dumped into its drinking water system. The point is that major news outlets should not stop covering a major international event just because it is "old news". People need and want to get accurate information on important events around the world, especially on events that involve their country (ex. me in Canada).

Since the major news outlets are not going to do it, here's a basic update on events in the Libyan Revolution/Civil War:
Rebel forces are currently holding off government troops in their only western city of Misurata (under siege). Everything west of Brega is under firm rebel control including Ajdabiya and the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Everything west of Brega other than Misurata is under government control including the capital, Tripoli. UN and allies continue to strike government forces across the country.

See you next time on Hayden@Earth.

C# programming Basics part 3 - Adding Forms and the Visibility Property

Sometimes, one form is not sufficient to contain all the things you would like to happen in the program.In this case,you must add another form or forms to the project. To add a form, first right click on the name of the project in the properties window and select add then select new item from the list this displays. Select windows form, name the form, and add it to the project. Next you must allow the form to be displayed through a button press on the first form. Add a button to both forms. Name the button on the first form (I named it bttncontinue) and adjust its text property to something like CONTINUE. Name the button on the second form (I named it bttnclose) and adjust its text property to something like CLOSE or BACK TO MAIN. Now You are ready to program. First, right click on bttncontinue to bring up the code screen. Then, simply enter this code (I chose to name the first form mainform and the second form subform):

subform myNewForm = new subform();
myNewForm.ShowDialog();
That's all it takes to add a new form in C#.
One very useful tool in C# programming is the ability to make things appear and disappear at the will of the user. If you want something, like a button for example, to be invisible at the beginning of the program, simply go under the section of code "Initialize Component" (after its last closing Bracket but before the first "private void section")and enter this code (assuming the item is named invisibilitycloak:

invisibilitycloak.Visible = false;

To make it reappear at the press of a button, double click on the button and enter the following code (same name):

invisibilitycloak.Visible = true;

That's all I have on this subject.
See you next time on Hayden@Earth

C# programming Basics part 2 - Buttons and Textboxes

First, let's make a button display text in a textbox.
1) select the textbox tool on the toolbar and make one on the form.
2) name the textbox txtboxdisplay, or anything else you can remember easily
3) select the button tool on the toolbar and add one to the form.
4) name the button bttndisplay or anything else you can easily remember.
now we can start programming
5) double click on the button, bringing you to the code screen
your programming for the task will go under "private void bttndisplay..." (typing line should start there automatically)
6) First you must tell the computer what you want to happen. In this case, because you want the textbox to display TEXT, you would write
textboxdisplay.text
^----(whatever you named the textbox)
7)Next enter the text you want to be displayed.
= "NICELY DONE!!!"
8) Add a semicolon!!! This must be done to every line of code

The final product is

txtboxdisplay.text = "Nicely Done!!!";

You can also make a message box (like those annoying error messages you get) appear by adding this line of code underneath the first line.

MessageBox.Show ("NICE JOB!!!");

Next time we will look at a very interesting and useful tool in C# programming. No Spoilers...

See you next time on Hayden@Earth