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Michigan State University College of Law topped teams from 11 other law schools in Michigan and Ohio to win the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition regional event held February 7–9 in Cleveland.
MSU Law beat Cleveland–Marshall College of Law in the final round to become 2014 National Trial Competition Finalists. Patrick Duff, '11, coaches the team, which is comprised of 3Ls Randall Tatem, Ariel Lett, and James DeMates.
"This team worked diligently to prepare for this competition, and we are proud of their success," said Veronica Valentine McNally, director of trial advocacy. "We look forward to another great opportunity to compete at the nationals in March."
Twenty-eight teams from across the country will compete in the nationals in Austin, Texas on March 26–30.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - LeBron James scored 31 points, and the Miami Heat completed a first-round sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats with a 109-98 victory Monday night.
James scored 19 points after injuring his thigh in the third quarter. He finished the game 10 of 19 from the field and had nine assists.
Chris Bosh added 17 points and Dwyane Wade battled through foul trouble and finished with 15 as Miami won its 20th straight game over Charlotte.
The Heat will await the winner of Brooklyn-Toronto series, which is tied 2-2.
Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 29 points.
The Bobcats played without Al Jefferson, their leading scorer and rebounder who has been bothered by a foot injury since the first quarter of Game 1
The loss signaled the end of an era for the Bobcats. They will become the Hornets next season.

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Even though most area towns have hosted summer festivals already, one area community will be celebrating this weekend. The Crooked Creek Days are Winfield's way of honoring its residents. Organizer Sharon Jennings says there are a few additions to this year's edition of the Crooked Creek Days.
She says a group of residents have spent a considerable amount of time restoring a plane that landed in the area 100 years ago, which will be featured in the parade.
The Crooked Creek Days begin with the annual Cardboard Boat Races Friday night, followed by a number of popular events Saturday. Residents can participate in the fun run Saturday morning at 7:00. They can also enjoy the Bill Riley Talent Show at 8:30, followed by the parade at 10:30.
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TOWSON, Md. – Towson Lacrosse (6-2) will try to protect a five-game win streak when the Tigers end a three-game homestand with Delaware (5-3, 0-1 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA)) on Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m.
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Due to a construction project, Osler Drive will be closed on Saturday evening. Fans are advised to take an alternate route. From Charles Street: divert at Emerson and route through West Village, reconnecting at Osler and to the stadium.
Coming from York Road Bypass, fan should continue south on York Road to Cross Campus and to Osler to approach the stadium.
Opening Face-Off
Towson's 2013 CAA title defense begins Saturday against the Blue Hens. Towson extended its win streak to five games with a 10-8 win over UMBC on March 18 at home. Three Tigers scored two goals apiece en route to the win. Delaware lost its Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) opener to Hofstra, 11-9.
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The Tigers outlasted beltway rival UMBC on Tuesday, March 18 by the score of 10-8. The game was tied seven times. Seniors Max Siskind, Devin Grimaldi and Thomas DeNapoli each scored two goals. Junior Justin Mabus had two assists. Sophomore goalkeeper Tyler White made 12 saves on the day.
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Delaware, whose win streak was the team's longest since the 2010 season, jumped out to a 6-3 lead early in the second quarter, but the Pride scored six unanswered goals over the span of the second and third periods to take control and win their fourth straight game. A goal by Mike Malave with 9:58 left in the third quarter broke a 6-6 tie and put Hofstra up for good.
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This is one of Towson's oldest series. Starting in just the third season the Tigers had a program, the teams have met 54 times in the last 52 years. Towson has won six of the last nine meetings. Thirty-one have been decided by three goals or less; the Tigers are 19-12 in those games. Of the 31 matchups decided by three goals or fewer, 13 have been one-goal margins of defeat. Delaware holds the edge in those games, 7-6.
Last Time Out vs. Delaware: March 22, 2013 (Towson 7, Delaware 6 (ot))
Andrew Hodgson and Ben McCarty teamed up on the game-winning goal in overtime as Towson men's lacrosse defeated Delaware, 7-6, at Delaware Stadium. For just the second time all season, Towson scored first and took a 2-1 lead into the second quarter. However Delaware scored five straight goals to take a 6-3 lead midway through the third quarter. The Tigers scored back-to-back goals in the fourth to trim the Hens' lead to 6-5 with 8:09 remaining in the game and got last-minute heroics from Greg Cuccinello, who scored with 2.6 seconds left in regulation on a dribbler to send the game into overtime. Hodgson buried a high-low shot past the Delaware keeper from 13 yards out for the game winner with 1:45 showing on the clock in overtime.
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The Tigers are 9-3 all-time in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) season openers. Towson joined the CAA in 2002 and celebrated with an 18-4 win over Delaware. The Tigers and the Blue Hens have met six times in Towson's CAA openers; the Tigers are 4-2 in those games. Tonight's contest is the fifth-straight time Towson and UD have faced off in the Tigers' league opener.
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America's Best Dance Crew member Kool Raul, also known as RJ Navalta, of Supreme Soul is also a former Ohlone College student. He took a few hours out of his hectic recording schedule to DJ the high school B-Boy dance crew preliminaries Friday night, July 18 at the Ohlone College Amphitheater as part of All The Way Live, the Bay Area Street Dance Festival coming to Ohlone College this fall. Bboy Power Serge of Beatz n Pieces and Margaret Tobias of Passion Society partnered with Ohlone College, style2ouf.com, and Needle to the Groove, to host All The Way Live.RJ is a member of dance crew Supreme Soul, made up of Bay Area dancers competing on M-TV's America's Best Dance Crew. The show, which attracts 7.9 million viewers each week, pits break dance crews from around the country against each other in a heart-thumping competition aired on Thursday nights. Viewers have from the end of the show until 6 a.m. the following morning to vote for their favorite bands. The two teams with the lowest votes face elimination at the end of the next week's show depending on the judges' final decision. Supreme Soul has made the cut to the final five, halfway to the finals.Crew member RJ, who also dances in Ohlone dance crew Beatz N Pieces, traveled to China last year to perform in several cities, including Shanghai and Beijing. Other members of Beatz N Pieces crew served as judges of Friday night's event. The top eight high school dance crews were selected to compete for $300 in the Finals to be held at All the Way Live's two-day event at Ohlone College, Fremont on September 12 and 13 featuring performances, dance competitions and workshops.The winner of the preliminary B-Boy preliminary competition was Sequoia High School, Redwood City. Other schools that will advance to final competition include Sequoia, McNair Team 1 & 2, and a hybrid team of three with students from Fremont High Schools-Mission San Jose, American and Irvington. Participating High Schools included Skyline High School, American High, McNair High, Sequoia High, Mission San Jose High School, American, Irvington and Milpitas High.Part of the proceeds from All the way Live will benefit Passion Society, a non-profit organization that provides music and performing arts education to youth; sponsorship packages still available.The Passion Society was formed to promote positive Hip-Hop activities and life, cultural diversity, and especially "sense of community" within the urban community and in the community at large. It also has committed to implement an annual Urban Dance Festival and offer dance workshops promoting the urban dance community, culture, student groups and performing arts educational programs. The society's project, Journey 2 Origin (J2O) provides free Hip Hop dance and performing arts workshops to children living in poverty. The past three trips to the Philippines and Thailand, (J2O) reached over 5,000 children. The mentors-Beatz n Pieces, Funkonametry, and Nu-Origin--will be volunteering their time and taking this journey once again on January, 2009.For more information about All the Way Live, contact Margaret Tobias at (510) 909-2974.


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Maybe you've seen them around town. Perhaps you've noticed them over beers at an open mic at the Alaskan, or while dancing with friends at Rockwell. Maybe you saw them open for Harrison B. over the weekend at the Rendezvous. It seems the Wool Pullers, an unassuming boy-girl folk-rock duo, have snuck up on Juneau, and, all over town, people have been taking notice. In their denim and flannel, murmuring hellos into the mic, they're not flashy — because they don't need to be. Liz Snyder and Alex Kotlarsz, the brains behind the guitars, offer a vocal one-two punch that speaks for itself.
Sweet, soaring harmony and not-so-sweet guitar are the duo's trademark. They play original music that defies categorization, and they like it that way. Years of going through phases, playing with others and by themselves and learning what they like is all poured into the songs they write, and has taught them they have a good thing going, they said.
Kotlarsz, 23, said he loves the uncertain way friends have reacted to their sound.
"I want people to be like, 'I don't know what to call that,'" he said.
A chance meeting at a party in April 2012 launched the pair's friendship. Kotlarsz saw Snyder playing a couple songs for the crowd and was drawn to her unusual and captivating voice, he said. He introduced himself and the two hit it off instantly. They started playing together regularly in December.
"We were blown away by each other's talents," he said.
"His style was so different from my style and that makes it into something that's not like anyone else," agreed Snyder, 25.
By now they've played about 50 shows together, said Kotlarsz, including the HomeSkillet Festival in Sitka, the Alaska Folk Festival and KRNN's "Dynamic Duos" concert. They also had a summer-long gig at the Gold Creek Salmon Bake, playing seven-hour shifts Thursdays and Fridays.
"It got us playing together a lot more," Snyder said. "We got to know each other a lot better."
Kotlarsz and Snyder's band name stems from similarities they noticed in the songs they wrote.
"The main underlying theme was manipulation, deception, someone pulling the wool over someone's eyes, pulling the wool on and off of our eyes," Kotlarsz said. "We're trying to keep that theme alive."
The two met for practice at Studio 154 on Franklin Street on Oct. 17, sitting across from each other in the half-lit, grungy lobby of the well-used space. Archaeological layers of band posters and stickers plastered the walls, a reminder of Juneau's vibrant music history. Meanwhile, Snyder and Kotlarsz tuned up to write the next chapter.
"Do you have a pick?" Kotlarsz asked Snyder as he got situated on a stool.
"I just found like 10 of them in the dryer; they were all stuck in the cracks and stuff," she replied, digging one out of the pocket of her black jeans.
While practicing "Inside Passage," a new song they've played live only a few times, the pair passed lead vocals back and forth with acrobatic ease. Snyder's wavering, fragile-sounding croon would break suddenly into powerful but controlled blasts. Kotlarsz's voice rasped with a raw emotion mirrored on his face. Both are masters of dynamics, storing just as much impact in each syllable at pianissimo as at fortissimo. And they can both hit the high notes.
Snyder, who grew up in Juneau, said she's always gotten comments on her unique vocal style, but it took her years to figure out what she was capable of. When she was about 14, she was in a punk, "yelling-singing" phase, she said. Then she heard singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom.
"I started experimenting with my voice just to see what exactly I could do," Snyder said. "I had no idea I could do that."
People always try to compare her vocals to other artists ("I've gotten Bjork before."), but the truth is, "anyone's voice I can imitate," she said.
"It's been an evolution," Snyder said. "My voice has changed a lot since I first started singing, with whatever I've been listening to."
About a month ago, the Wool Pullers finished their first EP, now available on Soundcloud. The two captured the six songs on a clunky 16-track recorder Snyder got as a gift from her dad when she was 16, the same one she used to conduct musical experiments growing up. They were a little skeptical about using the equipment to cut their first release together, but decided to work with what they had.
"I looked at her and said, 'OK, let's do this,'" Kotlarsz said. The sound quality of the resulting EP might be rough around the edges, but it leaves room for improvement, he said. "You hear the evolution better that way."
The next logical step is a full-length album, Snyder said. To fill it out, the two began writing music together a few weeks ago — a first for them. Until now, all the material they've performed and recorded had been written individually and later tweaked to fit both players.
Instead of slowing the songwriting process, which can be difficult enough solo, working together has created a kind of artistic synergy, they said. They can finish songs faster and truly enjoy working with one another.
"Out of all of them they're probably my favorite songs," Kotlarsz said. "I always wanted to be a good collaborator."
The key to their dynamic lies in the yin and yang of their music-writing sensibilities, Snyder said. Kotlarsz — a self-professed metal head from Seattle — is obsessed with the minutiae of intricate riffs and key changes. For Snyder, there's beauty in simplicity.
"I'm like the voice of reason: 'Let's simplify this,'" she said. "I like super simple guitar. I'll make my voice my instrument."
Together, they create a sound that blends yet showcases their individual strengths. This includes their differing lyrical styles, said Kotlarsz.
Snyder is "a lot more specific with her stuff; she likes to get right to the point," he said. "I like to keep people thinking."
Kotlarsz's interest in music grew out of a love for grunge at a young age. When he was 13, he worked up the courage to ask his stepfather if he could borrow one of his guitars.
"He said, 'Yeah, don't break it,'" Kotlarsz said.
He was hooked at 16 after attempting to woo a girl he liked with his budding guitar skills. It worked.
"I thought, 'That was awesome, I'm going to keep doing this,'" he said.
He's happy to be in Juneau now, making waves in the relatively small music scene, he said. Snyder and he agreed it's easier to get noticed in a town like Juneau, which craves new talent.
"Places like this do need music, and they need people to make this happen," Kotlarsz said.
For now, writing, playing and recording together are all the two have in mind; no grandiose plans for world domination yet. Back in the studio, the last chord of "Inside Passage" twangs and fades into silence. Kotlarsz opens his eyes.
"Sweet, we've got that one down," he said.
To hear the Wool Pullers' EP, visit soundcloud.com/thewoolpullers.
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NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch has never been shy about voicing a political opinion, using his worldwide empire of television and newspaper outlets to promote conservative causes. Now, with a raft of complaints about Republican Mitt Romney, the billionaire media baron is signaling that he intends to boost his visibility in U.S. politics--even if it comes at the expense of the man conservatives hope can defeat President Barack Obama.
Murdoch is the founder and CEO of the global media conglomerate News Corp. which owns several outlets popular with conservatives in the U.S., including Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Until now, Murdoch has been far less influential in U.S. politics than he has in his native Australia and until recently in England, where a phone hacking scandal involving several Murdoch-owned newspapers has shaken his status as a fearsome power broker.
The hacking scandal forced the departure of many Murdoch's deputies, peeling away a protective layer around him while also liberating him to take such risks as openly criticizing Romney, some who know him say.
Murdoch, 81 and a naturalized U.S. citizen, chose to launch his critique of Romney on Twitter, the social networking site where information is exchanged in 140-character blasts known as tweets.
"When is Romney going to look like a challenger? Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn of Hispanics," Murdoch tweeted from his iPad on June 24. "Easy for Romney to spell out restoration of the American dream and bash incompetent administration. But not a word!" he said later that day. "Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless (Romney) drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful," Murdoch tweeted on July 1.
On Monday, Murdoch appeared to acknowledge his tweets might be causing consternation for the Romney campaign. "Romney people upset at me! Of course I want him to win, save us from socialism, etc but should listen to good advice and get stuck in!"
The Wall Street Journal's editorial page followed Murdoch's lead Thursday, unleashing a surprisingly harsh attack on the Romney campaign's response to the Supreme Court's affirmation of President Barack Obama's health care law. News Corp. purchased the Journal in 2007 and the paper's editorial page is viewed as an authoritative voice among conservatives.
The Journal responded to mixed messages from the Romney campaign about whether the mandate to buy health insurance constituted a tax as the court suggested, calling the confusion "politically dumb." The paper also urged Romney to shed staff and offer more detailed policy proposals. And it dinged him for playing into Democrats' "rich-guy" caricature by jet-skiing this week at his New Hampshire lakeside retreat.
"Mr. Romney promised Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom they desperately want to defeat. So far Mr. Romney is letting them down," the Journal said.
The former Massachusetts governor couldn't even catch a break in The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine Murdoch launched. "Is it too much to ask Mitt Romney to get off autopilot and actually think about the race he's running?" asked Bill Kristol, the magazine's editor.
Romney advisers have taken note of Murdoch's public comments, though they decline to discuss them publicly. "Gov. Romney respects Rupert Murdoch and also respects his team and has confidence in them," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.
The Romney campaign has no immediate plans to make changes to its senior staff, but officials say they are still in the process of hiring new people for the fall campaign.
Michael Wolff, author of "The Man Who Owns the News," a Murdoch biography, said Murdoch's use of Twitter reflects a new determination to address politics using his own voice and to carve out a separate identity from Fox News, which has grown more conservative than Murdoch himself over time.
"He's not a Fox conservative and he's not a tea party conservative. That's why he's angry about Romney," Wolff said. "Romney is closer to a Murdoch conservative but he is now pandering to the conservative wing of the party that Murdoch has always had contempt for."
Judd Legum, who has researched Murdoch for the liberal Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank, agreed that Murdoch was attempting to separate himself from Fox but for a different reason: he believes the network had gone too easy on Romney.
"They've positioned Fox News to be largely supportive of Romney, with lots of sympathetic interviews," Legum said. "Murdoch is suggesting another approach. He wants to push Romney into a more aggressive posture."
As a political donor, Murdoch has contributed to both Republicans and Democrats including Hillary Rodham Clinton during her run for re-election to the Senate from New York. Murdoch also came close to endorsing Obama in 2008, calling Obama a rock star and saying rival John McCain had "a lot of problems."
News Corp contributed $1 million each in 2010 to the Republican Governors Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, prompting the company's board to announce News Corp would disclose its political giving annually on its website.
Murdoch was cool to Romney even during the Republican primaries, at one point musing on Twitter that he wished the candidate would show more "heart and stomach." Murdoch also made a point of praising Romney's rivals as they surged into contention against him, praising former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's "consistency and humility" and calling former House Speaker Newt Gingrich "brilliant."
Murdoch biographer Wolff said Murdoch may well want Romney to defeat Obama but his tweets suggest Murdoch doesn't think that will happen.
"Murdoch is very, very attentive to political ups and downs. He's a handicapper," Wolff said. "He is always looking to be with the winner."


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PORT CHARLOTTE — The pair of 2-inch-or-so scars between Alex Cobb's neck and right shoulder are daily reminders of the physical challenges he faced in regaining both the past form and promising future that were suddenly jeopardized by the unexpected and slightly complicated surgery.
And when he is at his St. Petersburg-area house, so, too, is the customized box sitting on the mantle displaying the pinky-sized piece of his top right rib that was removed.
But it was the mental aspect of recovering from the August 2011 procedure, which also included removal of a blood clot from his arm and a nasty bout with pancreatitis, that was more haunting.
Doubts would dart in and out of his head for months, even when he was back in the majors by late May, back winning. It wasn't until late last season, when he followed up one of his worst big-league outings with possibly his best, that he felt complete again.
And that is the biggest reason for his confidence going into this season, when Cobb is being counted on heavily to help the Rays fill the void left by the trade of James Shields.
"I think this year, both mentally and physically, I'm as sharp as I've ever been," Cobb, 25, said. "I feel like it is up to me whether I'm going to have a good game or a bad game."
There's a bit of an ornery side to Cobb, which manager Joe Maddon humorously attributes to him having the fiery personality and stubbornness of a redhead, and Cobb finds that somewhat amusing since he considers his hair more of a dirty blond.
But the point is valid, and Cobb carries that to the mound now with what seems a simple approach.
"I definitely go out there like it's a fight every time," he said. "And I don't want to get embarrassed. I get (ticked) whenever I give up a hit or a walk."
A few lockers away in the Rays clubhouse, Cy Young Award winner David Price smiles. He remembers his own bouts with lacking confidence on the way to stardom, and he likes what he hears and sees from Cobb.
"He's got really good stuff, and he's putting the mental side with that now, and that's very key," Price said. "To me, that's the biggest part of baseball, the mental part. And that's something that he's doing a lot better right now, you can tell. …
"You've got to take it personal. That's the one thing, if I'm going to talk to a young pitcher, you've got to take it personally. That's what I do. … And once you can learn to not only be able to take it personally but hone that energy in and use it toward the positive, and not get so mad to the point it breaks up your concentration or you're spending too much energy in the dugout because you're (ticked) off, you really learn how to use it for the good."
The Rays are confident that Cobb is ready, putting him in the rotation based on what they saw during his 11-9, 4.03 season, while leaving Jeff Niemann and free-agent signee Roberto Hernandez to battle for the fifth spot.
Cobb didn't have much confidence, or anything, when he first started working his way back last spring, "throwing fricking 82-85" mph and, despite all the assurances of a full recovery from the slew of experts, wondering, "What if I'm that one guy it doesn't happen to? So that doubt creeps back into your mind."
The first six weeks at Triple-A Durham didn't go much better, eight starts in which he won only once. "The ball just wasn't coming out like I remembered, I couldn't locate like I remembered," he said.
He got called up after Niemann broke his leg in mid May and beat the Braves in his first start, but "that doubt was still in the back of my mind in full force" and it showed as he had some bad games along with some good.
It wasn't until the end of July, approaching the one-year anniversary of the surgery, that he finally felt right. And when he followed up the Aug. 18 embarrassment in Anaheim — eight runs and 12 hits in 22/3 innings — with his first complete-game shutout (vs. Oakland), he knew for sure.
"Things started becoming easier, I started being able to do what I wanted, toy with other things, set up hitters again, and I started pitching again," he said. "That's when I realized I could do it again."


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But Blogger Beta will play with Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. And as I wrote previously, since you can't code HTML automatically as you can with IE 6 and Firefox, It's almost as easy to send e-mail posts.
One thing you can do, even in IE 5, is select and create post labels. Does it do bold? I will find out.


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For whatever reason, I find it to be hilarious. I'm not much of a fan of Ubuntu's naming scheme, but this one from Fedora struck a chord with me. I guess it's my inner 12 year old that finds this amusing.
Likewise. I don't know why there's such a commotion. In a world where everything is overmarketed and calculated, I enjoy the increasingly rarer instances of defying, refreshing silliness.
I find it amusing that as a result of this name, I think this kicked off:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Future_Release_Naming [fedoraproject.org]
After several tries at getting 'Beefy Miracle' in, and the leadership seemingly forced to accept it. Hence a new naming process.
Some of the suggestions are really lame. Pandas - Chinese names transliterated into random phonemes that few can pronounce let alone remember. Sports - cool idea when it's snowboarding or beach volleyball but who's going to code for fedora 28, lawn bowls?
I like the page that links to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Markdude [fedoraproject.org]
Good heavens, what an unfortunate name for a Linux release.
You think that's bad, Ubuntu 13.04 is going to be called Rampant Rabbit.
Ubuntu 8.04 was a spoonerism for Hairy Hardon. Once someone pointed it out, it became practically impossible to remember the original.
The Gods cried when 12.4 wasn't named Pretty Pony.
They were looking for something that fit the B.M. initials. At least it wasn't called Bowel Movement.
What? That's the releasename?
I think I got an email about that, but I thought it was herbal enlargement spam and deleted it.
Yes, but it is halel and kosher too.
And the version sounds like a political cause. "Justice now! Release the Fedora 17!"
Unfortunately a lot of linux distro coders don't seem to know where the dividing line between wryly amusing and lame is when it comes to naming releases. The novelty of Ubuntus silly release names wore off for me personally around 5 years ago. All I want a OS so please just stick with the release numbers and don't treat me like a 7 year ago girl looking for a new cuddly toy.
don't treat me like a 7 year ago girl looking for a new cuddly toy
And with that, I'm honestly afraid of the kind of replies you're apt (oh wait, they use yum... crap, that makes this worse) to get related to this release's codename.
Names are useful for the creative team who doesn't know which backend their creative materials (look and feel) are going with. When the creative starts, it might be Fedora 16.2, 17, 17.5, 18... Apple has proven that these names from creative can be used for branding and Debian... have followed suit.
It makes sense. You don't like cute names you aren't the target.
Names are useful for the creative team who doesn't know which backend their creative materials (look and feel) are going with. When the creative starts, it might be Fedora 16.2, 17, 17.5, 18...
I have no problems working on features and fixes for future Linux kernel versions without needing to know what actual version name the release will be called. I don't see how the distro developers can't do the same thing.
I imagine they could do the same thing. But it is easier to have a name. Particularly if they are working on multiple projects. Then that name sticks.
Toy Story 2 [wikipedia.org]
Toy Story 3 [wikipedia.org]
The most significant difference between Fedora and Ubuntu here is that in Fedora, the only time you're likely to see a release name is on a Slashdot article, and then if you look at
In Ubuntuland everybody calls the release by at least the noun part of the release name.
Since when? All the people I see talking about an Ubuntu release use the adjective: Hardy, Lucid, Oneiric, etc..
Unfortunately a lot of linux distro coders don't seem to know where the dividing line between wryly amusing and lame is when it comes to naming releases.
The same can be said for FOSS developers generally.
The problem only gets worse when they port their apps to other operating systems and markets.
Just today I was looking at windowing test tools...
and found this:
windowlicker - Java GUI Testing Framework - Google Project Hosting
What a terrible name... especially if you google it.
I dunno, man. "Distro" is about as accepted as "blog" or "app" nowadays.
Otherwise known as the "BM" edition. Lame...
Isn't this supposed to be news?, who cares what you think about Gnome 3?
I don't say it might not be a valid discussion (which has been made over and over), but just stating that you hate it on the summary as you do seems to be very out of place.
Chevys and what an unholy mess their electrical systems are?
Not enough can be said on this topic.
A Chevy Colorado Owner
... which is always fun to talk about. Fedora is really pushing the state of Linux forward more than any other distro.
systemd for faster boot and starter reactions to changes (eg USB device plugged in). Moving every thing to
Single window gimp! And lots more.
Moving every thing to
Meaning that the system no longer supports
Of course, you can still use
Why would you want
Seriously, read the level of professionalism and maturity on that page. This is the level or maturity to which Linux slowly seems to be sinking. As a long-time Linux user and supporter I find this deeply disappointing.
And what's the reason for all this? Because the udev developers can't wipe their own a{r|s}es, put their house in order, and properly sort out which files go where (or at least sort out what needs to be done to mount any necessary non-root filesystems, mount them, and then continue with any programs/scripts which use them). Instead, all of that gets pushed out to initrd (ie. oh no it's hard, let's give it to someone else to do). Seriously, they're like a bunch of 8-year-olds bragging to their friends that they won't clean their bedrooms, even when mummy thinks they should.
One thing I'm wondering - how improved is their package management? As I've noted in the past, apt-get is far more advanced, and on the BSD side of things, so is PBI. So has Fedora/Red Hat done anything to enable packages in rpm format to be more easily installed, as in not run into dependency hell?
Also, how does Fedora compare w/ other rpm based distros, such as Mageia, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS and so on?
It isn't the packaging tools that make Debian and the BSDs more consistent in package installation. If anything, RPM has more advanced features than either debs or ports. The Debian and various ports repositories have standard practices for naming, versioning, dependencies, and integration that are adhered to year after year. It is concern for the long term integrity of these package repositories AS A WHOLE that make them easy to deal with. But bullet point differences between Deb and RPM? Not so much.
Debian based distros also tend to limit themselves in how they diverge from the Debian Mothership and periodically resync in any case. I routinely port source packages between Ubuntu and Debian all the time. Since the naming and dependency maps don't diverge much, I mostly succeed at doing this. On the other hand, a SUSE SRPM isn't likely to port easily to Fedora absent a lot of low level surgery on the package metadata. Each RPM distro tends to be an island universe. Deb based distros all have Debian for a parent or grandparent hence the high compatibility at the source level.
For that matter RHEL and spinoffs like Centos and Scientific mostly achieve this as well though the experience is mostly like using Debian Stable without the option of (easily) backporting SRPMS from newer distros.
Yum is pretty solid. There are only two things that kind of bug me about it:
1. Sometimes (especially when dealing with third-party repos e.g. RPM Fusion) you'll see what looks like the same package listed 4 times. My guess is that there is a separate package for each architecture. Simply omitting the package portion from the name when you run the install command seems to pick the correct package(s). Still a bit confusing though, especially in cases where there are other compounding factors like differen
Setting up the third-party repos isn't as dummy-proof as setting up PPAs in Ubuntu. (It's a pretty straightforward but largely manual process, unless I'm missing something. And if I'm missing something, then that is a problem in itself.)
It's one click in a web browser, though it would be nice if the system itself had a option to install it, even if it gave you a "you're being naughty and installing non-free stuff" warning. You also have to know it exists in the first place.
One thing I'm wondering - how improved is their package management? As I've noted in the past, apt-get is far more advanced
People who still ask this question tend not to have used yum/rpm in about a decade.
That is just not true. I've used a cheap virtual machine with limited memory ( 512 MB) for hosting stuff, and I'm waiting for my Raspberry Pi to arrive which has 256 MB memory.
Using yum on such systems is utter, and complete, pain. It will simply not work with anything less than a gig of memory. Apt however, will work flawlessly. There is VERY MUCH room for improvement concerning package management.
Using yum on such systems is utter, and complete, pain. It will simply not work with anything less than a gig of memory.
Sure it wil, though some plugins will slow it down. I've personally used yum on a ps3.
Perhaps for the incidental installation of an editor that has hardly any libraries it depends on.
I've pulled down large updates including openoffice on a Linux equipped PS3 so I know yum works on systems with low RAM. The real stickler is protectbase if you use ps3bodega, protectbase slows yum down a lot. But the thing works with less than a gig of RAM.
Interesting; apparently your use case precludes the memory problems I've seen. Have you ever run "yum update", in which it encountered a libc update? Or perhaps an update to an X library? Basically anything that has a large number of dependencies. Also, you're increasing the memory we're talking about, we started with 512 MB, and you're now saying it works with less than a gig of RAM.
By contrast, apt-get works perfectly with 128 MB of ram.
Yes, I've ran updates that pulled down large amounts of stuff...and secondly the PS3 only has 256MB of RAM.
When was the last time you used yum anyway? Yes, the more RAM you have the faster it'll be, but it IS usable on low RAM systems.
For about two years, I've administrated three RedHat 5 systems, which were upgraded every now and then until they reached 5.5. The memory on those systems varied between 128 and 512 MB memory, two were virtualized with Xen. It seemed that 384 MB was the lower limit for these systems to run "yum update" without hitting swap. These were standard LAMP webservers. Often, I'd shut down MySQL, Apache and Postfix to run yum.
Anyway, since you say you did fine with 256 MB, I'm going to revisit the scenario, and see
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but apt-get has never been more advanced than yum (at least, not since yum was included in Fedora). Notable features of yum that apt-get lacks include the ability to install a package from a local file, resolving and installing its dependencies from repositories, and the ability to resolve and install a package given a path or the name of a feature it "Provides". Yum's a little slower than apt-get, but it's definitely the more capable of the two.
As for dependency hell: tha
Wait, which binary blobs would those be?
Plain old xfce works just fine without any trickery. Except for the creation of custom icons. That requires a few more steps than I like, but I'll live. Its very very stable.
...don't turn yet another Fedora release thread into a GNOME Shell argument, people. It's just a desktop. We have lots of them.
If you don't like GNOME, don't use it. You can pick GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE or Sugar right from the package customization screen of a Fedora 17 DVD install, or you can download any one of those desktops as a live spin at https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#desktops [fedoraproject.org] or https://spins.fedoraproject.org/ [fedoraproject.org] .
If you don't like GNOME, don't use it, but that doesn't mean you can't use Fedora, or that Fedora is bad.
Oh, if only Fedora 17 provided Sugar Spin...
What kind of system do you have, and what size monitor? Just wondering.
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The issue of how much to pay elected officials was settled Monday, Dec. 16, by the Shelby County Commission on one front.
Shelby County Commissioners ended a prolonged political debate about pay raises for elected officials on one level Monday.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
But the debate will still be around in another form in the new year.
Commissioners voted down the first of three readings of a proposed $20,000 pay raise for Shelby County Schools board members and kept the pay of the county mayor, sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk and assessor at the same level they are now.
The votes on the non-school board elected officials were on third and final reading, and they effectively decide issues that have prompted much commission debate in the last two months.
The failure of the school board pay raise on first reading, with two more to come, however, ensures the debate will continue into the new year with a different frame of reference.
Commissioner Melvin Burgess, who is audit director for Shelby County Schools, supported the pay raise for school board members who set his own pay, linking it to overall funding of education.
"Either we invest here today, or we invest on the back end in prison," Burgess said. "We are at a crisis in education in this community."
Burgess, in a disclaimer before the vote, acknowledged his job with the school system, but still voted on the matter.
Commissioner Terry Roland said he will formally contest Burgess' ability to vote on the question.
"How is it not a quid pro quo?" Roland asked as he termed the vote "illegal."
"Do you see how bad this looks to the public?" he asked. "We're talking about deals being made here with the public's money."
The pay raise fell two votes short of the nine-vote, two-thirds majority needed for passage but still advances to second and third readings.
Commissioner Steve Mulroy plans to have some numbers by second reading on how much school board members are paid in other comparable Tennessee cities and counties.
Shelby County Schools board members are paid $4,200 a year. Mulroy said he was surprised to learn Metro Nashville Schools board members are paid "only" $14,000 a year.
"There's never been a good time to do something like this," said Commissioner Mike Ritz who proposed the raise. "I think that's why we need to do this now."
Commissioners Chris Thomas and Wyatt Bunker, both former school board members before the merger of Shelby County's two public schools systems, spoke against a pay raise that so far no one on the seven-member board has publicly endorsed or called for.
Commissioner Heidi Shafer said the raise is "kind of putting them in an embarrassing position."
"It makes them look as if they are lining their pockets as they ask others to sacrifice," she said, referring to the transition to schools consolidation in which some teachers and other schools employees lost their jobs or took pay cuts.
Shafer and other commissioners also said the timing wasn't right given a Shelby County property tax hike earlier in the year.
Commissioner Henri Brooks, however, said it was unfair to link the issues, which she said amounts to "pitting one group of people against another."
"That has inflamed people to no end," Brooks said. "You can't make sound decisions when the community is inflamed. They need to be adequately compensated. … How do you think we look when we pay our school board $4,200 a year?"
There were many more rounds of voting and more parliamentary maneuvering than debate as the commission ultimately approved on third and final reading an ordinance that leaves the pay of the Shelby County mayor and Shelby County sheriff the same when they begin their new four-year terms of office Sept. 1, 2014.
The mayor's pay will remain $142,500 a year, and the sheriff's pay will remain $115,000.
The commission also voted on third and final reading to keep the pay of the trustee, register and county clerk at $107,933 a year and the pay of the assessor at $108,615 a year.
The third ordinance in the set of three passed with very little political fireworks. That ordinance keeps the pay of commissioners at $29,100 a year for the next term of office.
Commissioners also approved Monday a $7.1 million settlement of the long-running litigation in Shelby County Chancery Court over payments-in-lieu-of-taxes from Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division through the city of Memphis.
The city will pay the county the money to settle the dispute for tax years 2010 and 2011 under terms of the settlement resolution, which emerged after a closed session Monday with attorneys by the commission.
The resolution appears to require passage by the Memphis City Council at some point.


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Slow Cooker Veggie Lasagna Recipe
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- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 3 tablespoons 1% cottage cheese
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons egg substitute
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3/4 cup meatless spaghetti sauce
- 1/2 cup sliced zucchini
- 2 no-cook lasagna noodles
- 4 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Spread 1 tablespoon spaghetti sauce on the bottom of a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker coated with cooking spray. Top with half of the zucchini and a third of the cheese mixture.
- Break noodles into 1-in. pieces; sprinkle half of the noodles over cheese mixture. Spread with 1 tablespoon sauce. Top with half of the spinach and half of the mushrooms. Repeat layers. Top with remaining cheese mixture and spaghetti sauce.
- Cover and cook on low for 3-1/2 to 4 hours or until noodles are tender. Yield: 2 servings.
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"I wish all of you had actually made this recipe and reviewed it instead of talking about "veggie" this and "vegan" that. I'd like to make it and I want to know if it's a good recipe."
"I can't believe some of the nit-picking over semantics involving a vegetarian vs. vegan fued. As a born-and-raised vegetarian (who goes strictly Macrobiotic every so often to purify my system), I've never been inclined to think my way is the ONLY way to eat. Moreover, some of you act like this is a dietary supremecy contest...dividing yourselves over an egg or freakin' cheese. This is America folks...where we have a bountiful supply of food...and the freedom to eat whatever we want...without being judged. Those of you doing the judging so pompously..take off the judges robe and step down from the bench with the rest of us. Now, lets all get back to why we are here...good food!"
"I don't have a slow cooker, please tell another way to cook this dish.Sara"
" I think you could easily use an egg substitute. I have been a vegetarian for over twenty years. I don't think the title of this recipe is misleading, though. Not sure about the vegan "egg" comment. It doesn't say "vegan" lasagna. It says "veggie". What I get upset about is when a recipe is listed in the "vegetarian" part of the cookbook and it includes chicken broth. Or anchovies. That is just wrong. This recipe sounds great! I will definitely give it a try. "
"As a vegetarian for 19 1/2 years, eggs are definitely part of a vegetarian diet. There are not eggs, however,as part of a vegan diet, a diet that uses no animal products at all. Trust me, vegans have enough of their own trusted recipes not to be wandering around other, nonvegan sites."
"Just use an egg substitute, if you don't want the egg."
"Really not "veggie" if you include an egg -- thinking it could be made without -- just me tho --"
"that looks and sounds tasty!"


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INDIANAPOLIS – When Chuck Pagano takes the podium at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on Fridays, he announces injury matters heading into game days.
Today, he announced almost 10 percent his roster is out –
"Everybody else is a go from there," said Pagano. "Guys are excited to get back out there. We've got a huge challenge ahead of us."
The injuries across the offensive line mean
McGlynn was a 14-game starter at center in Philadelphia in 2010. He shifted inside from right guard twice in 2012 and opened the San Francisco and Jacksonville games – two of the Colts' most lop-sided wins – there this year.
Satele is battling an elbow injury and did not practice. He missed the 49ers and Jaguars game with elbow ailments. It will be the sixth different starting alignment on the line this season.
Brazill is fighting a bruised foot suffered in the first half of last week's Cincinnati game, a contest where he had three receptions for 53 yards and two touchdowns. Brazill missed all three practices this week.
"All discussions that we'll have once we know for sure," said Pagano when asked if the club would add a receiver prior to Sunday. "He (Brazill) got stepped on in the game and has been dealing with it ever since."
Indianapolis carries four wide receivers on roster. Colts backs are active in the passing game and have been split wide on certain occasions, but Brazill's status could trigger a roster move.
Toler has been down for the past six games with a groin injury. While there has not been a recent setback, he will miss a seventh contest.
"He's not there yet. He's just not 100 percent, and I just don't want to throw him out there," said Pagano. "Playing the position he plays, you have to be able to pedal, flip, turn, run, burst, all those things. It doesn't make any sense to throw him out there until he's 100 percent."
Pagano feels Toler will be healthy soon.
Indianapolis will be seeing Case Keenum for a second time. Keenum was making his second career start when he faced the Colts in November.
"We had a complete game on him in the Kansas City game but then from there on, we got a lot of other games that we've seen him play in," said Greg Manusky about having a better feel for Keenum. "We know what his tendencies are a little bit, where he's throwing the ball and what he likes to throw."
After allowing six scoring tosses beyond 25 yards and having three interceptions in the last six games, Manusky says communication and execution is needed Sunday.
"We got to make sure we keep the ball in front of us, that's the biggest thing," said Manusky. "We got to make sure that we cover the guys we're supposed to cover. Sometimes we didn't.
"We got some stack situations where some guys were left free. We can't do that. Communication is the most important thing. It's vital. We've got to continue to get better at it."
McNARY READY SATURDAY –
Navy (7-4) has beaten Army (3-8) 11 consecutive years to own a 57-49-7 series edge.
McNary had a strip-sack as a senior that Army used to get a score, but he never played on the winning side in the historic series.
"It's the culminating event of the season for anyone at a service academy," said McNary. "We've always been the underdog. It was a chance at redemption to avenge the previous year's defeat.
"It's a great game. It becomes like a reunion with old teammates coming back. Everyone is psyched up. If the (rivalry) scale stops at a 10, this one's a 10 without a doubt. It's healthy hatred.
"We realize we're brothers-in-arms once we graduate. We're all just semesters away from being protectors of our freedom. We know we're going to coordinate efforts with each other to protect the country. There's a mutual respect, but we're 60-minute enemies. It's 'America's Game' for a reason."
PRACTICE REPORT – Did not participate: DT-Ricky Jean Francois (foot), OT-Jeff Linkenbach (quad), C-Samson Satele (elbow), FB-Stanley Havili (knee), WR-LaVon Brazill (foot), CB-Greg Toler (groin); Full Participation: NT-
INJURY REPORT – Out: Linkenbach, Jean Francois, Toler, Satele, Havili; Questionable: Brazill; Probable: Franklin, Mathis, Thornton.


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Spoilers, I guess.
So I watched this over the weekend (three hours of pseudo-plot going nowhere in a hurry) and had a question at the end.
Night Owl Sr tells NO Jr that the superheroes started when some cops started wearing costume to ***** with the gangsters who were wearing costumes. But the current crop (plus Comedian) seemed to possess at least somewhat supernatural speed and strength. Comedian punches chunks out of his apartment walls in his fight with Ozy. Ozy smashes Comedian's head through a granite bar top. Comedian is still alive after this. Also, Comedian held up very well for a guy around 70 years old.
The others (NO Jr, Silk-whatever, Rorschach) all seem to posses agility & strength beyond the norm as well as they dodge bullets, beat up bad guys, etc. Are they supposed to be "super"heroes (and, if so how did they get their powers) or is this just Batman style "I'm the most skilled guy in the world at everything!" chicanery?
Obvious, Dr. M is "super" in the classic sense of the word. I mean the other guys.


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Boston Bruins forward Michael Ryder used last season as a platform to disprove the theories emanating from his former team in Montreal that he was an unmotivated, one-dimensional player. Ryder made his case loud and clear with a 27-goal regular season and five more scores in the playoffs.
Now that he's silenced the critics on the outside, he can go back to worrying about satisfying his personal desire to get better.
"I just think for me personally, I've just got to try to get better every year. You can't change your game, you've just got to go out and make sure you get better at it. That's how you get to be a better player," said Ryder today after his off-ice testing on the first day of training camp in Wilmington, Mass.
Offseason tidbit: Ryder honed his golf game this summer and is now down to a 3 handicap.
Position battle: With Phil Kessel a holdout and seemingly destined for another team, there's an opening on Marc Savard's right wing that might be the perfect landing spot for Ryder. His favorite centerman from a year ago, David Krejci, might not be available to start the season, so Ryder will have to find some quick chemistry with someone else to avoid getting off to a slow start. Ryder will also be competing for a spot on one of the top two power-play units.
Projection: With Kessel all but gone, the Bruins are going to need Ryder to at least reach 30 goals. That should be achievable if he can avoid the early season slump he suffered through last fall.


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Helen Clark: "Making the Case for International Development Co-operation"Mar 5, 2013
Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
"Making the Case for International Development Co-operation"
Kenneth and Patricia Mariash Global Issues Dialogue
Calgary, Canada
Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:15pm
It's a pleasure to come to Calgary to inaugurate the Kenneth and Patricia Mariash Global Issues Dialogue. My thanks go to the United Nations Association in Canada for their invitation, and to Kenneth and Patricia Mariash for making this annual dialogue possible.
As the prospects of nations and peoples grow increasingly interconnected, a dialogue series like this one becomes even more important.
With growing interdependence across national boundaries, it is critical to understand global challenges and how they impact on our lives, our communities, our economies, and our countries. Governments have to grapple with responses to these challenges – speaking as a former Prime Minister, I know how important is to have an engaged and informed public which understands the global pressures and context which affect domestic decisions and priorities.
Four years ago, I moved on from leading my country to leading the United Nations Development Programme which works in some 177 developing countries and territories.
Our mission is human development: lifting living standards, creating opportunities, and enabling people to live fulfilling lives.
None of that happens in a vacuum. While money isn't everything, it certainly helps. Developing nations do need to grow their economies, but it's also important to apply the fruits of growth in ways which will sustain and improve human wellbeing.
At UNDP we see many of the non-financial constraints on human development – war and conflict, armed violence, low social cohesion, poor governance, corruption, poor enabling environments for trade and investment, and a lack of capacity to drive the development and implementation of strategies which could bring about transformational change.
In a sense our mission is to tackle those non-financial constraints and build the basis for getting traction on development.
Getting that momentum matters to all of us.
We all benefit if developing countries have vibrant economies, are well governed and peaceful, have educated and healthy populations, and can support the fight against climate change by pursuing low carbon routes to development.
It's worth noting now, as a number of advanced economies suffer continuing fallout from the global financial and economic crises, that the developing economies and regions, including Africa, have become very important global growth engines. Demand for commodities, goods, and services from growing numbers of people with higher disposable incomes and better prospects has without doubt helped economies like those of your country and mine at a time of sluggish demand from many of the advanced economies.
This really is a significant point to emphasize in making the case for continuing investment in development co-operation. Yes, times are tough in much of the Western world, and budgets for international development are under scrutiny along with everything else. I understand that – I've sat in the chair which brings down the gavel on a nation's budget. But I also know that it's important to invest in our future growth and prosperity. If major growth prospects are beckoning in the developing world, the efforts we make there to support development not only benefit the citizens of those countries – they will help sustain jobs and living standards in our own.
There is no question in my mind that the long term commitment to development of countries like Canada has made a difference.
Our world has been unprecedented progress on almost every dimension of human well-being. Because bad news sells, we don't often hear of the successes, but in my job I hear of them every day, and have the privilege of seeing them for myself as I travel.
In 2000, leaders from most of the UN's Member States went to the Millennium Summit in New York and signed the Millennium Declaration. I was one of them. What followed was to influence the course of global development for the next fifteen years: the launch of the Millennium Development Goals. Those MDGs galvanized global action around eradicating poverty, educating children, reducing deaths from preventable causes, improving water and sanitation, and protecting the environment.
With little more than one thousand days to go to the MDG target date of 31 December 2015, we see the results of this unprecedented global partnership in many ways. For example
The proportion of people living in extreme poverty, on under $1.25 per day, is now half of what it was in 1990.
The world is within reach of seeing every child enrolled in primary school, and has achieved parity in primary education between girls and boys.
Spending on vaccines, bed nets, and nutrition has helped push child mortality rates in sub-Saharan countries down by 41 per cent. Children under five years old are now more likely to survive in almost every country in the world
In 2002, there were 300,000 people receiving HIV/AIDS medicine; today the number exceeds eight million and the rate of infection has slowed. In 2010 there were 21 per cent fewer people newly infected by HIV than there were in 1997.
Without question, development assistance focused on achieving the MDGs has played a role in these successes, along with leadership, commitment, and action by developing countries. A recent paper on Disability-Adjusted Life Years by Chris Murray and co-authors suggests that the 32 per cent decline between 1990 and 2010 in the burden from disorders targeted in the MDGs between 1990 and 2010 is largely due to the increased global attention they received.
But plenty of challenges remain – reducing hunger and poor nutrition, poor sanitation, and high maternal death rates have proved to be among the most difficult MDG targets to reach. As well, the global figures on MDG progress mask large disparities within and across countries.
Achieving the global poverty reduction target, for example, was in no small part due to the phenomenal success of China in lifting hundreds of millions of its people out of extreme poverty.
Projections suggest that in 2015 almost one billion people will still live in extreme poverty. Many still will not have clean water or improved sanitation. Many will still suffer from hunger, malnutrition, the burden of preventable ill-health, gender discrimination, and more. Whether or not global MDG targets are met, this is inconsistent with the vision for dignity, equity, freedom, peace, and prosperity agreed by world leaders in the Millennium Declaration.
To finish the unfinished business of the MDGs, to advance our shared prosperity and wellbeing and to meet new global challenges, the world needs a reinvigorated global development agenda beyond 2015. A lot of effort is going into that right now through global and national consultations on what the agenda should look like.
If the result is another clear set of global targets which are easily communicated, as the MDGs were, then I think there's a good chance of galvanizing the global community to again.
The good news is that the global community engaged in development co-operation is larger than ever before. Western countries' official development assistance is substantial, although it has tailed off a little in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The emerging economies are very active in South-South co-operation, as are the major philanthropic foundations and NGOs. Significant private sector players are now very engaged in development too.
Overall, development assistance from developed countries is makes up a relatively small share of the resources invested in development. Resource flows from trade, foreign direct investment, remittances from migrant workers, and domestic resources mobilized from the growth of developing economies themselves make up the largest share of the monies flowing to development.
This makes it all the more important that the official development assistance flowing from advanced economies like Canada is used in smart and catalytic ways to help developing countries make the transformational change they seek. That can happen in a number of ways. Let me suggest just some:
Building resilience to disaster
When humanitarian crises arise, the world is generous. Starvation was averted in Africa's Sahel last year and most of the Horn of Africa the year before because of timely responses to severe drought and food shortage. Resources, not least from Canada, have flowed to Haiti in the aftermath of severe weather events and the massive 2010 earthquake.
What is important is for the investment not to end when the relief phase is over, or to be confined to the very important humanitarian needs. Each of those crises, and many others like them, are crises augmented by underdevelopment; for example, in the case of drought where lack of water infrastructure and social protection schemes leave communities very vulnerable. The phenomenon of climate change will deliver more extreme weather events more often, so the need to invest in adaptation and resilience to those events is pressing.
A year ago I visited Niger with the UN's Emergency Relief Co-ordinator to see how the severe drought was affecting communities. We saw the stark difference there between the village we visited with a large reservoir and a well, and the ones without. Building resilience to drought is not rocket science, but it does require investments on a scale which are often beyond the reach of poor countries' own resources.
Investments in building resilience can be made during the humanitarian relief phase if the relief is timely. Community work schemes can employ people on basic infrastructural work which will lay the ground for greater resilience in the future. UNDP followed that approach even in the difficult circumstances of Somalia during the 2011 drought, and since the earthquake in Haiti where more than 400,000 temporary jobs were created – forty per cent of them for women.
Drought-prone Niger in Africa's Sahel region is now a particularly rewarding place in which to work as its government is committed to building resilience to future extreme weather events. Prior to the 2012 drought, Niger's new early warning system alerted the international community to its likely needs. As well the country is working on reforestation, and working with UNDP and FAO and others on more basic infrastructure, and support for small holder farmers. I am confident that if Niger pursues the good plans it has, it can become a food secure nation.
In the case of Haiti, the country lacked resilience to the major earthquakes it can expect from time to time – not only along its southern coast as in 2010, but also along its northern coastline. The recovery of Port-au-Prince and other affected towns needs to be based on building back better with strengthened construction, so that lives and livelihoods can be saved next time. UNDP is involved in support for home building where grants are made only for quality building supplies and where the homebuilder has had basic training.
Other least developed countries like Haiti also face huge risk from earthquakes. Nepal is an example – the current building stock in Kathmandu is such that significant loss of life could be anticipated with a major shake. As in Haiti, preventive measures are needed, including through better building codes which are enforced.
But that brings me to another significant area of opportunity for smart and catalytic aid:
Investing in better governance for development and resilience.
Effective governance drives development. Governments need to be able to make quality decisions and implement them. That requires capacity to plan, legislate, regulate, raise and allocate resources, and deliver. That is as relevant to building resilience to natural hazards as it is to attracting investment in basic infrastructure like energy. Poor governance lies at the heart of the non-financial constraints which hold back development.
Take, for example, the huge challenge of rolling out energy access to the 2.3 billion or more people who use traditional biomass for cooking and heating. On the surface, there is a huge business opportunity here – to be part of building the infrastructure which can deliver modern energy services to all. But to make that happen, enabling environments capable of attracting investment have to be built – and that means developing all those capacities required for effective governance.
There are significant amounts of private capital looking for good investments – and there are growing pools of climate finance available to developing countries. Creating the enabling environments and skills to attract finance for development, including for climate change adaptation and mitigation, is a priority in UNDP's work.
Investing in women and girls
Investing in opportunities for and the empowerment of women and girls is not only the right thing to do – it has huge multiplier effects for development. As Hillary Clinton once said, it's smart economics. Why would a country not want to maximize the potential of half its population? More action on gender equality and empowerment would enable faster progress to be made across the MDGs targets. I note here that in New Zealand we once calculated that a significant reason for our GDP per capita being rather lower than that of Scandinavia, related to the lower participation of women in the formal workforce. Women's economic empowerment and participation lifts whole nations – developed and developing.
Canada is a strong supporter of gender equality and empowerment in its aid programme – this is indeed money well spent. A girl who has the opportunity to complete her education is less likely to be married young, is less at risk from dying in pregnancy and childbirth, and is likely to have more economic independence and choice over the life she leads. The survival prospects of children also improve with the rising level of women's education.
Investing in long term peace and stability
A significant amount of official development assistance is now directed to countries considered fragile – some of them mired in conflict, and others attempting to recover from it.
In these countries a cluster of problems often needs to be addressed – including poor governance, lack of social cohesion, conflict over resources, including land and water, and grinding poverty. Addressing the drivers of conflict is a development function, and one my own organisation, UNDP is very engaged in.
This matters to all of us. In weak states where, for example, the reach of government is limited – if it exists at all, the citizens suffer. It is no coincidence that not one of the fifty states identified by the World Bank as burdened by fragility has achieved or will achieve a single Millennium Development Goal by 2015.
But weak states not only harm their own citizens. In the absence of the rule of law and effective governance, they may harbour groups capable of inflicting and motivating damage far away. Think of the destruction of the World Trade Centre and the bombings in London, Madrid, and elsewhere. Think of the international drug and criminal syndicates which base themselves in weak states. The absence of the rule of law and effective governance is a threat to us all.
In these few words today, I've set out to make the broader case for development. Peace, prosperity, and the rule of law matter to us all. There are good investments to be made in development which tackle the root causes of conflict, instability, and poverty. Canada has been a very important partner to many, including UNDP, in making these investments – and globally we see the results in higher levels of income, education, and health status than ever before. Development has huge net benefits for our whole world, and it's important to stay the course.


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The Costa Brava
The Costa Brava with over 200 km of coastline from the French border to the mouth of the Tordera River near Barcelona is much more than a string of beaches, coves and cliffs which form a rugged but friendly coastline.
A transit point for different cultures and a gateway to the Iberian Peninsula first for the Greeks and then for the Romans, the land of the Costa Brava is steeped in history and tradition, apart from its spectacular landscape of lush Mediterranean vegetation.
Its tourism dates back to the early 20th Century when the writer Ferran Agulló baptized it with its name by which it has now become internationally renowned..
From north to south it has small picturesque fishing villages like Port de la Selva, Cadaqués, Sa Riera, Sa Tuna, Tamariu, Llafranc or Calella de Palafrugell, for those who are lovers of the most secluded, peaceful spots.
There are larger towns which have become major tourist centres for those who want entertainment, to go shopping and nightlife like Roses, L'Escala, L'Estartit, Palamós, Platja d'Aro, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Begur, Pals, Tossa, Lloret or Blanes are by the sea and others are just a few kilometres inland like Palafrugell or Calonge.
S'Agaró, where the elegance and the exclusivity of its architectural set, created by the architect Rafael Masó, combines with the exceptional maritime landscape bordered by the coastal path.
Further inland there are cities that offer more social and cultural activities and first class shopping facilities like Girona or Figueres.
The Costa Brava is an area where one can enjoy culture, sport or fine cuisine while staying at superb and comfortable luxury hotels.


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DETROIT — We'll get to the nuts and bolts in a minute.
Best line from the morning scrums and press conferences came from Mike Babcock and it shows the impact Joe Pavelski — nine goals, 14 points for the post-season — is having on this series.
"My wife actually mentioned it to me yesterday – I was driving the kids around, and when we got back my wife said to me, 'Where's that Pavelski from?' and I said, 'Why?' 'Well, he's a stud.' And I said, 'Well, he played at Wisconsin – thanks for the tip.' It's pretty obvious that he's doing pretty good so far and we've got to play him harder than we have."
****Now, some nuts and bolts.
Expect to see the lines start out tonight pretty much as they finished in Game 2 as Todd McLellan is reuniting Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton and Dany Heatley. Taking things from there (and don't read too much into which line is listed first; that's just my arbitrary distinction):
The only lineup change appears to have Jed Ortmeyer in and Dwight Helminen out. That's based on line rushes and which players left the ice when — not from McLellan.
****Much of the buzz in Detroit is still the penalty disparity and while Babcock and the Red Wings didn't stoke the flames with any talk of bad calls or bias, they did keep repeating how the second least-penalized team in the regular season needs to stay out of the box, emphasis on that regular season stat.
For their part, the Sharks are saying they need to keep doing what they've been doing and they'll be fine.
"We understand that the officials do their job and and it's a tough job to do," Rob Blake said. "But we're going to play the same way we always play – check with your legs, not with your hands is the key we like to focus on."
So do players keep score of which team gets how many penalties during a game?
"The only score we care about is the one at the end of the game," Blake said. "We'll do what we have to do."
McLellan said coaches and players talk before every game about the officiating.
"It's a human part of the game," he said. "We're prepared to start Game 3 prepared to check properly and stay out of the penalty box as much as we can."
And what about the fact the Red Wings are going to be a desperate team tonight?
"You have to raise your desperation, too," Blake said. "Even though we're coming in here with a 2-0 lead, you have to play your best game. We understand that they're going to bring their best. That's the history of this franchise."
While Pavelski said the Sharks would need to match Detroit's intensity, McLellan took it one step further.
"We have to out-do their desperation," he said.
****Here's Dany Heatley's assessment on what the difference has been between this series and the one against Colorado as far as how he, Marleau and Thornton have played as a line:
"I thought in the Colorado series, obviously we didn't produce as much as we normally do," Heatley said. "I think in this series we're skating a lot better and doing what makes us good. Jumbo has really been strong down low, skating and getting in on the forecheck. When you get some offensive time, good things happen."


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I've been working through a section on synthetic division, and in general have found it fairly comprehensible, having made few mistakes. That said, I'm having a hard time with the very last problem of the section. I've spent about an hour twisting it about, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The answer, according to the book, is -9. However, I just can't figure out how to get there. Here is the problem:
Find the sum of a, b, c, and d if:
(x^3 - 2x^2 + 3x + 5)/(x+2) = ax^2 + bx + c + d/(x+2)
I figured since this is a synthetic division chapter that I should probably start there, so I used it on the left side of the problem to figure out, I think, that:
x^2 - 4x + 11 + 17/(x+2) = ax^2 + bx + c + d/(x+2)
I wasn't sure how to proceed from there, but tried multiplying both sides by (x+2) to get rid of the fractions:
(x+2)(x^2 - 4x + 11) + 17 = (x+2)(ax^2 + bx + c) + d
I'm not even sure that this is the right idea, or correct for that matter, and if it is, I still haven't been able to figure out how to remove x from the right of the problem to figure a+b+c+d. Clearly I'm missing something here, and any help in the right direction would be appreciated.


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WOODLAND PARK - With a steady snow falling, bundled-up spectators clinging tightly to cups of hot chocolate to keep warm, and sounds of sticks and pucks crackling under the lights on a frigid night, the landscape of Meadow Wood Sports Complex could have made quite the Norman Rockwell painting.
It's exactly what Ken Martel imagined when the Pine Creek coach got the wheels in motion to stage an outdoor hockey game in the Pikes Peak region
"I'd say this was a huge success," said Martel, moments after his Eagles fell to Lewis-Palmer 5-2 Saturday as both teams remained on the ice to pose for family and team photos. "They'll remember this for the rest of their lives."
William Fraser's turnaround wrist shot highlighted a three-goal second period, helping the Rangers (14-1, 9-0 Peak Conference) overcome a slow start and win their 13th straight game.
Taylor Hill scored a power-play goal, Noah Vanderbeck added another off a turnover, and Ryan Reich put it out of reach with the third period's only goal.
"We've been in situations like that, where we fall behind teams that we should beat," Hill said. "We didn't panic, and in the second period, we just settled down and played our game."
Pine Creek (6-6-1, 3-4-1) took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission, rallying after Julian Claudio gave Lewis-Palmer a quick tally just 2:31 into the game.
Zach Zimmerman tied it on a power-play wrist shot from a sharp angle, then Nathan Lucken scored on a breakaway not quite three minutes later.
Unfortunately for the Eagles, that finished the scoring as the Rangers reclaimed the momentum with a dominant second period.
"After the first period, we just wanted to keep that momentum going," Lucken said. "When we got down, we just tried to come out in the third period like it was a 0-0 game. We just couldn't get anything going."
The moderate snowfall during most of the first period turned the ice into a fluffy mess, slowing the puck to a standstill and keeping cleanup crews busy. At stoppages, volunteers and extra skaters grabbed shovels to uncover the lines.
The snow tapered off as the game progressed, and that seemed to help Lewis-Palmer's game predicated on sharp passes.
"We're a quick, puck-moving team," Hill said. "The snow didn't help, but it was fun to play in this atmosphere, under the lights and outdoors."


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Mozambique: Families Take Stock After Floods Submerge Farms
Despite an excellent harvest of rice in the fields, Joana Latila and her husband, who support four grandchildren, found themselves without immediate access to food.
Their fields became inundated with rain in late January and Joana fears that her grandchildren will suffer from hunger in coming months.
"We don't really know how badly the rice has been affected", she says. "My husband thinks that if the water leaves the field within a week the rice will survive but I am not so sure".
Initial assessments indicate that Joana will be able to rescue the crops which are close to the road but her three fields in the Nkita locality, where three feet of water have engulfed the productive areas, are probably destroyed. Unfortunately, the water also prevents Joana from visiting her brother in the next village. He often provides Joana's four grandchildren with vegetables from his kitchen garden.
Long-term solutions
In support of the Government's response to the disaster, WFP and FAO, led by the National Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security, is carrying out a needs assessment in Zambezia province in February to guage how many people are experiencing similar situations to that of Joana. WFP is distributing food assistance to the residents of Maganja da Costa district where Joana lives to ensure short-term food security while long-term solutions are pursued.
"The maize which we just received from WFP will last us at least a month", she says. "Luckily, our house was not damaged so we have somewhere dry to store it. The children like maize because they eat it at school. To be honest, I think they're a bit bored with my rice!"
Working together
Through the United Nations Development Framework (2012 – 2015), WFP is working with other UN agencies to help the Government predict and respond effectively to disasters. WFP's key partner in this work is the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC). INGC staff work together with WFP field monitors to ensure food assistance reaches people in need like Joana and her family.


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