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[[#abrt-ccpp-service|link to this item]] - [[rhbug:749603|Bugzilla: #749603]]
[[#abrt-ccpp-service|link to this item]] - [[rhbug:749603|Bugzilla: #749603]]
When upgrading from a prior Fedora release, the abrt-ccpp service is not enabled. This will prevent the abrt program from catching software crashes, which will prevent users from reporting bugs. A workaround is to enable and the service manually.
When upgrading from a prior Fedora release, the abrt-ccpp service is not enabled. This will prevent the abrt program from catching software crashes, which will prevent users from reporting bugs. A workaround is to enable and the service manually.
Revision as of 18:01, 23 November 2011
This page documents common bugs in Fedora 16 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.
- 1 Release Notes
- 2 My bug is not listed
- 3 Resolved issues
- 4 Installation issues
- 4.1 Attempting to upgrade a system with /var on a different partition or LV to / will fail
- 4.2 Cannot boot with /boot partition on a software RAID array
- 4.3 Cannot install over an existing RAID configuration
- 4.4 Error "you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device" appears in partitioning menu
- 4.5 Upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 with preupgrade leaves bootloader in previous configuration
- 4.6 Upgrade from previous releases resets the enablement status of services
- 4.7 Incorrect partition type assigned to /boot partition on GPT-labelled disks
- 4.8 No workable bootloader action in text mode upgrade
- 4.9 Installer doesn't ask for wifi password
- 4.10 Disk encryption with national keymap often doesn't work
- 4.11 Must explicitly specify clearpart=none to use an existing disk layout in kickstart
- 4.12 Minimum space for Desktop live install incorrectly calculated
- 5 Hardware issues
- 6 Software issues
- 6.1 Bash entry in /etc/shells disappears after update
- 6.2 Glibc may cause applications to crash with large groups
- 6.3 Secondary group membership not correctly registered with non-disk backed user account backends
- 6.4 Starting GNOME Shell fails after upgrade from Fedora 15 with color profile installed
- 6.5 Starting GDM (login manager) fails on x86_64 systems after upgrade from Fedora 15 due to i686 caribou package being installed
- 6.6 GNOME Shell uses excessive CPU time with System Monitor extension installed
- 6.7 After a kernel update, Loading... message on boot refers to the wrong kernel
- 6.8 Setting back system time breaks boot
- 6.9 Cannot send files via Bluetooth
- 6.10 Abrt will not catch crashes
Release Notes
Read the F16 Alpha release announcement and the Fedora 16 release notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 16 and other general information.
My bug is not listed
Not every bug is listed in this page, but Bugzilla should be a comprehensive database of known bugs. This page is a sampling of the bugs most commonly discussed on our mailing lists and forums.
To see if your bug has already been reported, you can search Bugzilla. If it has not yet been reported, we encourage you to do so to help improve Fedora for yourself and others. A guide to Bugs and feature requests has been prepared to assist you.
If you believe an already-reported bug report should be added to this page because it is commonly encountered, you can:
- Add it yourself, if you have wiki access. Please follow the style and guidelines explained in the comments in the page source.
- Or, add the CommonBugs keyword to the bug report. Someone from the QA team will then inspect the issue to determine whether the bug should be listed as a common bug. To expedite your request, please add a comment to the bug that includes
- a summary of the problem
- any known workarounds
- an assessment on the impact to Fedora users
For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
- CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to this page)
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Resolved issues
Xfce power manager crashes on login
link to this item - Bugzilla: #736727
There was a bug in the
xfce4-power-manager shipped with Fedora 16 which caused it to crash frequently, including on initial login, for many users. This issue has been fixed with an update, but you may still notice it on initial installation of Fedora 16 Xfce if you do not enable the updates repository during installation.
This issue was fixed in the updated xfce4-power-manager-1.0.10-2.fc16 package. To solve the issue, update your Fedora 16 installation as usual. You should no longer encounter this issue after updating to that version or later of
Installation issues
Attempting to upgrade a system with /var on a different partition or LV to / will fail
link to this item - Bugzilla: #748119
If you have your system set up with
/var on a separate logical volume or partition to that used for the root filesystem (/), then the Fedora 16 installer will not find the RPM db in
/var/lib/rpm/ and fail to offer the option to upgrade. This happens with preupgrade as well as upgrade from install media.
A fix for this problem is available as an update image for the installer. For more information on update images, see Anaconda/Updates. To use this updates image, pass the kernel parameter updates=http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/748119.img to the Fedora installer. You can edit the boot parameters after hitting the Tab key when the boot menu screen is shown, or if you are using preupgrade, you can also choose to edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf and add the parameter after the preupgrade application has downloaded the update packages but before rebooting to complete the upgrade.
You can also manually workaround the issue by copying the contents of
/var/lib/rpm/ to the root filesystem volume prior to attempting the upgrade. Anaconda will then detect your current installation and be able to upgrade it.
Cannot boot with /boot partition on a software RAID array
link to this item - Bugzilla: #750794
Attempting to boot after installing Fedora 16 with the /boot partition on a software RAID array will fail, as the software RAID modules for the grub2 bootloader are not installed. Having the /boot partition on a RAID array has never been a recommended configuration for Fedora, but up until Fedora 16 it has usually worked.
To work around this issue, do not put the /boot partition on the RAID array. Create a simple BIOS boot partition and a /boot partition on one of the disks, and place the other system partitions on the RAID array. Alternatively, you can install the appropriate grub2 modules manually from anaconda's console before rebooting from the installer, or from rescue mode. Edit the file
/mnt/sysimage/boot/grub2/grub.cfg and add the lines:
insmod raid insmod mdraid09 insmod mdraid1x
Now run these commands:
chroot /mnt/sysimage grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-install /dev/sdb
Adjust the device names as appropriate to the disks used in your system.
Cannot install over an existing RAID configuration
link to this item - Bugzilla: #729640
If you attempt to install Fedora 16 onto a disk which contains a RAID array, the installer may crash with an error of the format IOException: Partition(s) 3 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
Currently the only known way to workaround the issue is to destroy the existing RAID array in some way, such as by wiping its metadata with mdadm --zero-superblock, prior to installing Fedora 16.
link to this item - Bugzilla: #752063
Error message is shown when you try to create a new partition layout and don't create BIOS boot partition. It says "you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device". This obscure message wants to say, that user forget to create a BIOS boot partition. To avoid this, you have to create a new partition. It must be 1-2 MB large and file system type must be 'BIOS boot'.
Upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 with preupgrade leaves bootloader in previous configuration
link to this item - Bugzilla: #737731
If you use the
preupgrade utility to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16, the bootloader configuration will be left in its previous state. This is due to preupgrade not recognizing that anaconda cannot 'update' the bootloader configuration in such an upgrade, due to the migration from grub to grub2 that should occur as part of the upgrade. This will result either in the system attempting to boot with a Fedora 14 kernel, or failing to boot entirely (depending on whether the previously-installed kernel is still present following the upgrade).
This issue is already resolved in the latest stable Fedora 15 preupgrade package, only Fedora 14 is still affected.
An updated preupgrade package has been submitted to the updates-testing repository for testing. Users experiencing this problem are encouraged to test this update and report to Bodhi whether it solves the problem. To test the update, run this command:
su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'
Upgrade from previous releases resets the enablement status of services
link to this item - Bugzilla: #752846
If you upgrade from a previous Fedora release, some services that you previously had enabled may be disabled and therefore they will not be started automatically on boot. This happens to services whose initscripts were converted to native systemd units. This is intentional. The rule for migration to systemd is to "start-over fresh" with default start and stop policy from the new package, and not to migrate what the user had previously configured. systemd provides a tool (
systemd-sysv-convert --apply) to help do this conversion if you want after the package is updated. You can instead choose to inspect the services' enablement status manually by using
systemctl list-unit-files and
systemctl enable foo.service as needed.
Incorrect partition type assigned to /boot partition on GPT-labelled disks
link to this item - Bugzilla: #746895
When formatting the installation disk with a GPT disk label (which Fedora 16 will usually do when a disk is being completely reformatted, unless you use the nogpt kernel parameter) and creating a /boot partition, the Fedora 16 installer will set an incorrect partition type on the partition: it will be marked as an EFI System partition. This happens because anaconda attempts to set the 'bootable' flag on the partition, but on GPT disks there is no such flag, and the request gets translated into a request to set the partition type to EFI System. In most cases this will have no practical consequences, but if you have another EFI-booted operating system installed on the same disk, it may be confused by the apparent presence of two EFI system partitions.
To work around any issues caused by this, use a GPT-capable partition editor such as parted to correct the partition type on the /boot partition.
No workable bootloader action in text mode upgrade
link to this item - Bugzilla: #742207
If you use the text mode of the Fedora installer to perform an upgrade from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, there is no usable option at the stage where you are asked what to do with the bootloader. The update option cannot be used due to the switch from grub to grub2, and the skip option will often result in an unbootable system as the kernel(s) referenced in the bootloader configuration will no longer be installed.
The easiest workaround for this issue is to avoid using the installer's text mode, if you can. If you cannot avoid this, you should select Skip bootloader and then manually update the bootloader configuration from the installer shell (available on VT2) or from another OS (such as a live boot) following the upgrade process.
Installer doesn't ask for wifi password
link to this item - Bugzilla: #751139
If you want to install Fedora from network repositories and you have only a wireless network adapter available, you need to provide a password manually in order to connect to a secured wifi network. After the installer asks you which wireless network to connect to and you confirm your choice, another dialog called Network Connections pops up. In this dialog go to the Wireless tab, edit your chosen network a provide your password in the Wireless Security tab (WEP Passphrase or WPA Personal are most commonly used security protocols).
Disk encryption with national keymap often doesn't work
link to this item - Bugzilla: #743281
The installer offers a possibility to encrypt your disk partitions. If you chose a non-US keyboard layout earlier in the installation process, there is a possibility that if you encrypt your disk with some language-specific characters you might not be able to decrypt the disk during system boot. This concerns only some languages and only some keyboard layouts, but the full list of affected layouts is unknown.
The recommended approach is to use ASCII-only characters in your disk encryption password, or (this is the safest approach) select the default US keyboard layout in the installation process, and set your custom keyboard layout only inside the desktop session.
Must explicitly specify clearpart=none to use an existing disk layout in kickstart
link to this item - Bugzilla: #752216
Due to a bug in the Fedora installer, you must include either a clearpart or an autopart command in any Fedora 16 kickstart file, even if the disk layout you wish to use does not actually require existing partitions to be cleared or automatic partitioning to be done. So if you wish to re-use an existing partition layout, you must explicitly include the line clearpart=none in your kickstart, rather than relying on it as a default behaviour as you could in the past (and as the documentation indicates).
Minimum space for Desktop live install incorrectly calculated
link to this item - Bugzilla: #753400
The minimum required space for the root partition of a Fedora 16 live installation is incorrectly defined in the Fedora installer. The actual minimum size of the target partition for the Desktop live image is 4096MiB, but the installer will attempt to install to partitions that are somewhat smaller, and fail with the error RuntimeError: error copying filesystem!
There is no exact workaround for this issue: it is simply required that the target partition be 4096MiB or greater in size for a Desktop live installation. The required size varies for some spins: for the Sugar on a Stick spin it is 2048MiB, for instance.
If you must install to a smaller device than is possible with the live image you wish to use, you may try a network or DVD installation. If you select a suitably small package set, these installation methods will allow you to install to a smaller storage device.
Hardware issues
UEFI install to Lenovo Ideapad S205 fails to boot
link to this item - Bugzilla: #748272
If you try to install Fedora 16 to a Lenovo Ideapad S205 booted via UEFI, the installed system will fail to boot. We do not yet have a complete understanding of this issue, but it appears the S205 may have a buggy UEFI implementation which prevents the
efibootmgr tool from correctly writing an UEFI bootloader entry for Fedora. At present there is no known workaround for this issue. Installing in BIOS compatibility mode should avoid the problem, but it is not entirely clear from user reports and publicly available information whether the S205 actually has a BIOS compatibility mode and, if so, how to use it.
Software issues
Bash entry in
/etc/shells disappears after update
link to this item - Bugzilla: #752827
Due to an error in the %postun script of
bash-4.2.10-4.fc16, the version of Bash that was included in the Fedora 16 release images, the first time you update from that version of the package, the entry for bash in
/etc/shells will be removed.
A fixed bash-4.2.10-5.fc16 has already been released. However, the %postun script from a given package version is run when that package version is removed, so it is in fact impossible to fix the broken script in the -4 package with an update, as it will always be the version of the script from the -4 package which is run when updating from that version.
The result is that this bug will always happen on the first update of the
bash package after a fresh Fedora 16 installation, unless you enable the updates repository during installation and so get a fixed version of the package. We will attempt to produce a fix which reverses the effect of the broken script on update, in order to mitigate the problem.
There are several consequences of this bug, likely including some we have not yet come across. Those we know about are listed below.
- It will make it impossible to set bash as the login shell for newly-created user accounts
- It prevents
pkexecfrom working correctly: some other applications use
pkexecto launch commands, so these will also be affected. The error returned by
pkexecwill be The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file
- It prevents login to a VSFTPD server if the user's login shell is set to bash
- It prevents SELinux sandboxing from working correctly: attempts to launch an application inside a sandbox will fail with the error Error: User shell is not valid
Fortunately, the bug is at least easy to resolve: simply run the command
su -c 'yum reinstall bash'. This will reinstall the bash package, which resolves the issue. If you have no network access in order to reinstall the package, you can simply re-add bash to
/etc/shells manually, it is entirely safe to do so.
Glibc may cause applications to crash with large groups
link to this item - Bugzilla: #750361
Groups with either a large number of users or simply a large number of characters forming the user list may have problems with the glibc shipped in the release. The symptoms of this will vary depending on how you store your group information. If using a file in
/etc/group programs which attempt to access group information for a user in that group will crash. If using a local nss db, the group will simply fail to be added to the user's list of groups when the user logs in. The latter may be worked around by running "newgrp groupname". At this time, it's unknown how these bugs affect other nss backends.
Secondary group membership not correctly registered with non-disk backed user account backends
link to this item - Bugzilla: #750388
Due to a change in the default
/etc/nsswitch.conf file, when using a non-file backed user account backend (as is common for remote authentication methods such as sssd), user's secondary group memberships are not correctly registered.
A test build that should resolve this problem is available from Koji: authconfig-6.1.16-2.fc16. If you are affected by this issue, please test this update and report your results to the bug report.
To resolve the issue manually, edit the file
/etc/nsswitch.conf and remove the line:
initgroups: files
Starting GNOME Shell fails after upgrade from Fedora 15 with color profile installed
link to this item - Bugzilla: #741549
If you used the
gnome-color-manager tool to install a color profile for any of your hardware in Fedora 15, then after upgrading to Fedora 16, you may not be able to log in to GNOME Shell with SELinux enabled. Login will fail with the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error screen that GNOME pops up if a component is crashing repeatedly.
The issue is caused by
gnome-settings-daemon crashing when it encounters a color profile with an incorrect SELinux context: the correct context for color profiles changed between Fedora 15 and Fedora 16, but the upgrade process does not re-label existing profiles.
To resolve the issue, boot to a different desktop or to a console and run the command
su -c 'chcon -R -t icc_data_home_t ~/.local/share/icc'. After doing this, GNOME login should work correctly.
Starting GDM (login manager) fails on x86_64 systems after upgrade from Fedora 15 due to i686 caribou package being installed
link to this item - Bugzilla: #741075
Several users have reported that, after upgrading from the x86_64 version of Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, GDM (the default login manager) failed to start, displaying the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error screen. This turned out to be due to the i686 (32-bit)
caribou package being installed instead of the x86_64 version. Installing the x86_64 version of the
caribou package resolves the problem. We are investigating why this problem occurs: if you have any information, please add it to the bug report.
GNOME Shell uses excessive CPU time with System Monitor extension installed
link to this item - Bugzilla: #748241
When the
gnome-shell-extension-systemMonitor package - the System Monitor extension for GNOME Shell - is enabled, GNOME Shell can come to consume an excessive amount of CPU time. The issue can be worked around temporarily simply by restarting the Shell (a quick way to do this is to hit alt-f2 and enter the command as the single character 'r'). There is no known permanent workaround besides removing or disabling the extension.
After a kernel update, Loading... message on boot refers to the wrong kernel
link to this item - Bugzilla: #732654
After you first install an updated kernel on a Fedora 16 system, the line which shows up briefly during the boot process - Loading (kernel version)... - will refer to the wrong kernel. This is because the
grubby utility Fedora uses to update the bootloader configuration file does not correctly update this line.
The bug is entirely cosmetic: the correct kernel is loaded in all cases, only the message is incorrect. This issue will be resolved with an update to the
grubby package.
Setting back system time breaks boot
link to this item - Bugzilla: #748920
If you set back your system time for more than one day into the past, Fedora will not boot on next system restart. It will complain about your disk mount time being too far in the future. Typically the error message looks like this (dracut shell):
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) dracut Warning: e2fsck returned with 4 dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: Superblock last mount time (Tue Oct 25 14:40:08 2011, dracut Warning: now = Sun Sep 25 14:41:50 2011) is in the future. dracut Warning: *** An error occurred during the file system check. dracut Warning: *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will try dracut Warning: *** to mount the filesystem(s), when you leave the shell.
Or it can look like this (emergency mode shell):
systemd-fsck[605]: /dev/sda2: Superblock last mount time (Tue Oct 25 10:40:12 2011, systemd-fsck[605]: now = Sun Sep 25 10:41:59 2011) is in the future. systemd-fsck[605]: /dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. systemd-fsck[605]: (i.e., without -a or -p options) [ 13.652068] systemd-fsck[605]: fsck failed with error code 4. Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or ^D to activate default mode. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):
You have to use the shell to correct the filesystem that is claimed to be "inconsistent". If you have multiple partitions you may need to do the following procedure for all of them. The easiest approach is:
- Note that partition name in the error message (
/dev/sda2in our examples).
- Run this command
fsck <partition name>
For example:
fsck /dev/sda2and confirm you want to fix it.
- Run
It may happen that you are presented with the error message, but you are not given any emergency shell. In that case please boot from the Fedora installation media and select Troubleshooting -> Rescue a Fedora system. After the rescue tool mounts your system disks you can just reboot, everything should be corrected.
Cannot send files via Bluetooth
link to this item - Bugzilla: #753617
Due to changes in the kernel bluetooth interface, you will not be able to transfer files to another device via Bluetooth in Fedora 16. There is no known workaround for this issue besides transferring the files to the device in some other way (e.g. via USB cable or wifi).
Abrt will not catch crashes
link to this item - Bugzilla: #749603
When upgrading from a prior Fedora release, the abrt-ccpp service is not enabled. This will prevent the abrt program from catching software crashes, which will prevent users from reporting bugs. A workaround is to enable and the service manually.
# systemctl enable abrt-ccpp.service # systemctl start abrt-ccpp.service


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The author recently made a presentation on this subject to a workshop at the highly successful LatinAmerica2014 conference in London. This piece is based on the notes for that presentation.
The economic growth rate of the Latin American and Caribbean countries as a whole has changed dramatically from the beginning of this century. Living standards have improved after a lost generation from the 1980s onwards. Tens of millions have been lifted out of absolute poverty and many more have seen their lives transformed. It is important both to learn from this process and to understand the threats to it.
The World Bank offers a variety of measures of real GDP. For a continent such as Latin America it is important to use a single international currency, in this case US Dollars. On this basis, in real terms the growth rate of the entire continental economy accelerated sharply in 2000. In the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 the average annual real growth rate was just 2%. From 2000 to 2013 this has increased to over 3.3% per annum. The change in the trend growth is shown in Fig. 1 below.
Fig.1 Latin America & Caribbean, Real GDP, US$ 2005
Fig.2 Latin America and the Caribbean, Real Per Capita GDP, US$
Fig.3 Latin America and the Caribbean, Persons Living on $2 a day, millions
There are a large number of indicators of poverty reduction and social progress which point in the same direction, although some important indicators of the position of women have not improved or have even gone backwards. These are significant omissions which need addressing. But taken as a whole the improvement in the economy, the general well-being of the population and its poorest members have also shown remarkably rapid and dramatic improvement since the beginning of this century.
Source of growth
Many Latin American and Caribbean economies are exporters of basic commodities. Like all commodity producers they benefited from the strong rise in global commodity prices in the early years of this century. The increase in commodities' prices is illustrated in Fig. 4 below, as the commodities' research Bureau (CRB) aggregates a basket of many of the key commodities' prices, which doubled in price over the period.
Fig.4 CRB Commodities Index, 1993 to 2012
Source: Reuters/CRB
Table 1. Latin America & the Caribbean, Growth of GDP & Its Components, 2000 to 2016 (Forecasts)
For most of the period 2000 to 2012 exports were one of the weaker components of GDP growth. Over the period as whole they grew more slowly than GDP itself. Furthermore for the entire period exports grew more slowly than imports. As a result net exports actually subtracted from growth.
It was only in 2010 and 2011 that exports grew more strongly than GDP. This was a result of global quantitative easing led by the US and the modest recovery in the leading economies which had the effect of driving up global commodities prices even further. But this produced its own negative effect. 2012 was the first year where fixed investment growth lagged GDP growth and the economy has slowed since. As resources are diverted away from investment economic slowdown inevitably follows.
Problems caused by the US
The period 1980 to 2000 was a lost generation for Latin America. The US had overthrown the Allende government in 1973 and held sway over the continent mainly through its alliances with brutal military dictatorships. The revolts against the dictatorships in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Grenada were all blocked or overturned by the US or US-backed forces.
It was this US dominance in the region which paved the way for economic collapse. The US had unilaterally withdrawn from the Bretton Woods currency system in 1971, provoking a global spike in commodities' prices. It was forced to do so because it was unable to finance both the Viet Nam war and domestic consumption at the prevailing exchange rate. This fall in the US Dollar/rise in commodities' prices resulted in a huge increase in the Dollar export earnings of the oil producing states, concentrated in the Arab world.
The oil producers, led by Saudi Arabia effectively bailed out the US through a huge inflow of those earnings in the form of 'petro-Dollars' into US banks. As well as financing US budget and trade deficits these funds were also used to boost US banks overseas lending, especially in Latin America.
The global downturn of the late 1970s left these borrowers exposed, primarily government borrowers. A full-blown currency, debt and economic crisis was marked by the Mexican government's debt default in 1982. At US insistence, it was the US banks that were rescued, not the Latin American economies, through the issuance of 'Brady Bonds, named after the US Treasury Secretary. Debt crises in a host of other countries followed and the resulting debt burden sucked capital from South to North over the following decades and led to economic stagnation and misery.
These gyrations are not solely of historical interest. The role of the US Dollar as the major reserve currency and the denominator for virtually all globally-traded commodities means that significant or abrupt changes in US economic and monetary policy are magnified in commodity-producing and/or debtor economies. Sharp changes in US monetary policy always lead to sharp dislocations in the rest of the world, especially in 'emerging markets'. As the US is also the world's largest net debtor economy, it has a constant necessity for inflows of overseas capital. In periods of economic expansion this need increases sharply. Changes in US monetary policy are conditioned by this requirement for capital generated in the rest of the world and so can cause abrupt and hugely dislocating flows of capital in other countries.
This is precisely what has happened in the most recent period. The US Federal Reserve Bank ended its third round of quantitative easing on October 29. This had helped to inflate financial assets included commodities prices from 2010 onwards. Now the US is consciously aiming to drive down key commodities' prices. The US has agreed with the key oil producer Saudi Arabia that the oil price should fall. On the US side this is an extension of the sanctions against Russia, but it welcomes the collateral damage to countries such as Venezuela, where sanctions are now also threatened.
New challenges
Politics comes before economics. The economic transformation of an entire continent cannot happen randomly. Across the region (with certain exceptions) through decades of upheaval a political leadership has been forged that rejected the dominance of the US and its neoliberal economic policies. The period 2000 to 2002 was marked by the sharp turn of Hugo Chavez's revolutionary government in Venezuela towards Bolivarian socialism, ending generations of national humiliation. Shortly afterwards the serial humiliations inflicted on Argentina hit a brick wall with its default. Then in 2002 the Lula and the Brazilian Workers' Party won the Presidential election.
Although they represent different social coalitions their common platform is a desire for economic growth, and the improvement of the living standards of the population, in particular the poorest layers of society. In different ways they draw inspiration from the Cuban revolution and its determined resistance to US rule.
It is important to stress that economic redistribution was an outcome made possible by growth. It was not the driver of it. The principal economic contributor to the economic transformation was the rise in fixed investment. Until 2012 fixed investment was the strongest component of growth and was its leading element. Growing trade, including intra-Latin American trade was a key catalyst for investment-led growth. This in turn allowed the growth of both public and private consumption, which indicates the general rise in living standards.
But the catalyst of rising export revenues has gone into reverse. At the time of writing the CRB Index had fallen to 247, close to levels last seen at the depths of the crisis in 2008. The oil price has fallen below $65/bbl a new 5-year low. This is a direct consequence of changes in US policy. This is in effect a crisis of 2008/2009 proportions for most of the commodity-producing economies, which takes in virtually the entire continent of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The growth of fixed investment has slowed to a crawl, which will prevent any sustainable revival of GDP growth. This is illustrated in Fig.5 below with reference to Brazil, which is by far the largest regional economy and accounts for nearly 40% of the entire continental GDP. This shows Brazilian Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) as a proportion of GDP, both the total and the specific contribution of the private sector. From 2002 onwards the long-term decline in the investment rate was being reversed. But there has been a renewed decline in 2012 (and other data suggest this has been extended since).
Fig. 5 Brazil GFCF, Total and Private Sector, % of GDP
There is also a new threat in the form of capital outflow. The US is the dominant financial power in the world and the US Dollar the main currency denominator not only for commodities but also for international debt. Yet the US has a structural capital shortage, as shown by its chronic deficits on the balance of payments. In periods where US capital is seeking to expand, it is obliged to suck in capital from the world. The outflow of capital from 'emerging market economies' was recently the subject of a strong warning from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This is a specific threat to the Latin American economies.
The BIS data show that Latin America and the Caribbean owe BIS-reporting banks (the banks of all the industrialised economies) a net amount US$1.337 trillion. Of this $565 billion is held in foreign currencies, which is virtually all in US Dollars. The overwhelming bulk of this US Dollar debt is owed by both private sector firms and banks based in the region and is owed to Western banks. US Dollar debt owed by governments is a relatively modest $113 billion.
In addition to the challenge posed by falling commodities' prices and the need to reverse the sharp slowdown in the growth rate of investment, it is the region's private sector firms which are the Achilles Heel of the economy.
The regional firms and banks are no longer benefitting from the rise in exports and are primarily responsible for the sharp slowdown in investment. They are also the primary source of capital outflow from the domestic economies, and will in many cases be directly responsible for it. They are likely to come under severe pressure as they absorb the effects of lower exports, slowing domestic economies and rising debt-servicing costs. There is no point in minimising the scale of these difficulties. They amount to a new crisis for the entire region and need a new response.
Responding to the new threats
A revival of growth is vital for a return to rising living standards. Three key steps are required, each of them interrelated. Returning to per capita GDP growth depends first on reviving the growth of fixed investment. Secondly it is necessary to soften the blow of falling export prices by increasing trade diversification. This is both a geographical diversification as well as adopting measures to increase the value created in production by increasing the output of finished goods and manufactures, compared to basic commodities. Thirdly a series of strong defensive measures are needed to insulate the region from the US-driven outflow of capital.
The decline in fixed investment is primarily the responsibility of the private sector. Since private sector investment is determined by the anticipation of profits a spontaneous recovery cannot be relied on, especially in the current conditions. Therefore the state sector must increase its own level of investment. It can do so in a number of ways, including directing domestic banks to increase productive investment by cutting back on speculation or other useless activity. It can regulate the level of private sector firms' investment by legislation and other means (including in the awarding of government contracts). It can also apply windfall or other confiscatory taxes to fund direct government investment. If the private sector resists any of these measures, all necessary steps can be taken to overcome that resistance, including nationalisation.
One of the great successes of the period of expansion has been increasing continental economic co-operation through a variety of regional bodies, including Mercosur/Mercosul and ALBA. This helps to break down colonial patterns of development, where nearly all international trade was formerly geared towards exports of basic goods to the US. The deepening of regional ties through increased trade and infrastructure projects can help to soften the blow of falling commodities' prices. But it is also important to move higher in the value chain of production and away from basic goods. Over the long-term manufacturing has been in decline as a proportion of GDP across the region. Increasing regional value creation requires both development of the economic capacity and access to hi-tech investment products. Here the two key potential allies are the deepening of ties with China and Russia. The former can provide funding for regional infrastructure and both can provide access to hi-tech investment goods, vital to revival of manufacturing and increasing value-added.
The outflow of capital represents an immediate and significant threat to regional prosperity. National savings need to be protected from US predations. Strong counter-measures are required. These may include restrictions on financial trading, capital controls and taking state ownership and control of the banks where necessary, as they facilitate the highly damaging outflow of capital.
Latin America and the Caribbean have seen a remarkable transformation in the most fundamental of living standards of the population in the first decade of this century. The first condition was the forging of a political leadership capable of coming to power and ending US domination.
Economically they were able to achieve this as the commodity-producing economies of the region benefited from the global rise in commodities prices. But this benefit was used to fund investment, which was the leading component of growth. It was the rise in investment which allowed the rise in living standards.
Now commodities' prices have gone into reverse. Yet it remains the case that only increased investment can lead to increased prosperity. Therefore new radical measures are required in order to fund investment. Continuing the transformation in distribution will require a transformation in production.
This is centred on the direction of private sector firms and banks operating in the region. They have reduced their level of investment in the face of falling commodities prices and a slowing economy. They are also the primary source of the potentially disastrous capital flight from the region, which is being orchestrated by the US to destabilise its enemies and for its own benefit. Only by directing their levels of investment can growth be resumed. In some cases taking ownership of some of these banks and firms can the governments continue with their policies of economic and social transformation.

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Grizzlies down Clippers, grab 3-2 series lead
Los Angeles, CA – Memphis' Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph don't have the athletic leaping ability of their counterparts in Lob City, but the Clippers haven't found the antidote to stopping them over the last three games.
And a road team has finally taken a contest in this series.
Randolph had 10 of his 25 points in the fourth to go with 11 rebounds, while Gasol added 21 points and eight boards in the Grizzlies' 103-93 win over Los Angeles in Game 5 of this Western Conference first-round series.
The duo combined for 43 points and 19 rebounds in Game 3 and went for 48 points and 22 boards in Game 4.
"We won defensively," Gasol said.
The Grizzlies will attempt to close out the series in Memphis on Friday.
Mike Conley tallied 20 points and six assists for the Grizzlies, who committed just seven turnovers against the team that forced the most in the NBA during the regular season.
"We played the way we've been playing the last few games," Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins said.
Chris Paul tied a playoff career high with 35 points to lead Los Angeles.
Clippers forward Blake Griffin exited the tilt midway through the third quarter with a right ankle injury that he hurt in practice Monday. Griffin finished with just four points on 2-of-7 shooting.
"It was an unfortunate thing that happened yesterday. He came down on Lamar's (Odom) foot. Today in the third quarter he was struggling to move. It's unfortunate timing, a freak thing," Clippers head coach Vinny Del Negro said of Griffin's injury.
Jamal Crawford finished with 15 points in defeat.
"We can't allow them 33 free throws and we have to control their big men better. They put a lot of pressure on us with their two bigs. We need more production from a lot of guys," Del Negro said.
Gasol picked up his fifth foul with 10:23 remaining and two Matt Barnes free throws whittled the Los Angeles deficit to 75-71, but the Clippers never got any closer.
A bit later, after DeAndre Jordan's tip-in again trimmed the margin to four, Memphis answered as Tony Allen got his tip-in to drop and Randolph's running hook across the paint increased the advantage to 81-73 with 8:26 to go.
Eric Bledsoe split a pair of free throws and Crawford knocked down a jumper on back-to-back touches to get LA within 91-86, but Tayshaun Prince nailed a backbreaking right wing triple to make it 94-86 to all but seal the outcome with 1:29 left.
LA led 28-26 after a quarter of play, but the Grizzlies used an 11-2 run during the latter stages of the second to vault them to a seven-point advantage.
Gasol, who had five points during the surge, had a three-point play before Jerryd Bayless capped it with a 3-pointer for a 49-42 Memphis cushion.
The Grizzlies went into the locker room with a 54-48 spread.
Back-to-back buckets by Paul pulled the Clippers within 54-52 before Memphis answered with 11 unanswered points. Gasol had six points during the swing and Conley concluded it with a three-point play for a 65-52 lead midway through the third.
Memphis entered the final frame with a 73-65 advantage.
Game Notes
Prince netted 15 points for Memphis ... The Grizzlies were 26-of-33 (78.8 percent) from the foul line, while the Clippers went 19-of-25 (76 percent) from the charity stripe.


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Supporters of undocumented immigrant driver's license bill rally in New London
New London — Undocumented immigrants drive to work, school and home again every day in southeastern Connecticut, and supporters of a bill being considered in Hartford rallied Saturday to allow immigrants to obtain legal driver's licenses to make local roads safer for everyone.
With what they called a common sense stand that "licensed drivers are safe drivers," more than 150 people gathered at the Second Congregational Church to support the bill with signs, chants, prayers and personal stories in English and Spanish, along with petitions containing the names of 2,337 collected over the past two weeks in the New London area.
Participants from local churches, social justice groups, labor unions and political groups had hoped to take their message to the streets with a march and rally to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, but rain altered their plans.
Instead, St. Francis House, a Christian residential program that advocates for peace and social justice, invited participants to join with that group's annual Fiesta — also forced indoors to the Second Congregational Church. Supporters of both events said the merger fit both their missions.
Debra Pennuto, director of Encounters of Hope — a program founded in 2009 at the First Hispanic Baptist Church of New London — and a rally organizer, said her group helps first-generation immigrant families with paperwork for school, job training and work permit applications.
"And hopefully soon, we'll help them fill out driver's license applications," she said to loud applause.
Lizabeth Boao of New London told the audience she worked for 11 months taking care of a woman with terminal cancer. Boao did not have a license, but the woman told her not to fear as she drove the woman to medical appointments, dialysis treatments and "many times" to the hospital emergency room.
"She was very happy to have my help, and I was very happy to have her help," Boao said.
Boao and others stressed that immigrants already are driving to work or driving their children to school and appointments, and the proposed law would allow them to be properly trained, to register their cars and buy insurance.
The rally shifted between Spanish and English, as did Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio's remarks. A strong supporter of the legislation, Finizio said the bill would make New London and all of Connecticut safer. He apologized for making his remarks in English, saying he understands many Hispanics in the audience who might feel nervous speaking in their newly learned English. He felt the same as a new Spanish learner. Finizio concluded his address in Spanish, to a rousing reception.
About two dozen members of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union provided strong vocals for the rally, led by southeastern Connecticut union representative Jose Rodriguez, who led chants in Spanish in between speakers.
Union political director Matt O'Connor said the union has adopted the motto "justice for janitors," as it represents some 4,400 cleaning workers throughout the state, including about 75 to 100 in southeastern Connecticut.
"We've been working hard to help get the legislation passed," O'Connor said. "If they are working hard to feed their families, we want them trained, insured and driving registered cars."
House votes to allow residents living illegally in state to apply for driver's licenses
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Morris/CA 11, YME 6
Yellow Medicine East lost their share of the West Central Conference South title with an 11-6 loss to the new conference champion Morris/Chokio-Albert Tigers Tuesday night in Morris.
The Tigers sprinted to the lead early with an eight-run first inning. The Sting tried to claw back late but Morris continued to open the gap with two runs in the fourth and a run in the sixth.
Morris/CA 11, YME 6
Yellow Medicine East lost their share of the West Central Conference South title with an 11-6 loss to the new conference champion Morris/Chokio-Albert Tigers Tuesday night in Morris.
The Tigers sprinted to the lead early with an eight-run first inning. The Sting tried to claw back late but Morris continued to open the gap with two runs in the fourth and a run in the sixth.
The Sting only managed one hit, with a Haley Enstad single, but drew eight walks and took advantage of two Tiger errors to score six runs.
The Sting will now look forward to section seeding this Wednesday.
"Morris (likely the No. 1 seed) only has a couple of losses on the year and we obviously have a few more than that, so who knows. We'll be two or three, that's what we can hope for," said YME head coach Kristi Klassen about seeding.
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Yellow Medicine East: Haley Enstad 1-for-4
Morris/Chokio-Alberta: Steph Hennen 3-for-4, 2 rbi, 3b, Tracy Meichsner 1-for-4, Holly Amundson 1-for-4, Brooke Johnson 1-for-3, 2 rbi, Brooke Wente 1-for-1, Olivia Reimers 3-for-3, 4 rbi, Nicole Strobel 1-for-3, 2 rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Yellow Medicine East: Allie Trudel (L) .2-4-8-0-3-0; Mariah Norell 5.1-7-3-3-0-1
Morris/Chokio-Alberta: McKenzie Van Batavia 6.1-1-4-2-7-11; Brianna Abril .2-0-2-2-1-0
Minnewaska 3, YME 1
Courtney Hinz waited at third as the tying run wavered at second with the score 3-1 in favor of Minnewaska in the bottom of the seventh. Just one out hung on the board.
The table was set for Yellow Medicine East, but would be cleared prematurely by the Laker's Mady Phillips as she went on to notch a strikeout and induce a groundball to close a 3-1 victory for Minnewaska Monday in Granite Falls.
Though a loss, YME head coach Kristi Klassen was pleased with her team's performance as they come down the stretch with a game to decide the West Central Conference South on Tuesday and the Section Tournament beginning later this week. ?"We played well today," said Klassen. "I was proud of the effort. We got some hits, we couldn't string many together, but we hit the ball hard. We played great defense and Allie pitched well. So, I thought we put it all together. We just couldn't push a couple runs across there at the end."
The Laker's spread out runs in the first, third and fifth innings Monday.
YME scored their lone run in the third. Dani Roden would rip a single to get on base for the Sting. She would score on a throwing error after Nena McCalla hit another single and the Laker's over-threw third to try and catch Roden.
From the pitching circle, Allie Trudel would have to take the hard-luck loss for the Sting after striking out five and giving up just two earned runs in a complete-game performance.
Meanwhile, Mady Phillips worked all seven innings for the Lakers and struck out eight without issuing a walk to get the win.
"I'm really pleased with how we hit this kid tonight, because she's one of the best pitchers we'll see this year," said Klassen about facing Phillips. "If (our hitting) can come around we can do some damage in the Section Tournament."
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Minnewaska: Kaylyn Oberg 1-for-3; Kaylee Jacobs 2-for-4, 2b, rbi; Julie Helander 2-for-3, rbi; Allyssa Engfer 1-for-3, rbi; Courtney Schmidt 1-for-3; Brook Winter 1-for-3
Yellow Medicine East: Nena McCalla 1-for-4; Courtney Hinz 1-for-3, 2b; Angie Scheffler 1-for-3, 2b; Allie Trudel 1-for-3; Haley Fischer 1-for-3, 2b; Dani Roden 1-for-3
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Minnewaska: Mady Phillips (W) 7-7-1-0-0-8
Yellow Medicine East: Allie Trudel (L) 7-8-3-2-0-5
YME 10, LqPV 0
Allie Trudel allowed just one hit as the Sting themselves collected 10 in a 10-0 thrashing of Lac qui Parle Valley on Friday in Granite Falls.
The win keeps Yellow Medicine East's hope for a share of the West Central Conference South title alive and sets the stage for a match-up Tuesday against conference leader Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta.
The Tigers, who lost 2-1 to YME earlier in the season, are 10-1 in the South. A win would give them the title outright.
The Sting sent 11 batters to the plate in a seven-run second inning with Nena McCalla and Jennessa Hoffman supplying RBI singles and Angie Scheffler and Trudel drawing walks when the bases were loaded.
In the fourth inning Cassie Struffert effectively called the game when her single brought Scheffler and Mollie Nielsen around to score.
With the Eagles failing to score in their half of the fifth, the game was called.
McCalla was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI, while Scheffler went 2-for-2 with a double and two RBIs.
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YME 170 2x — 10 10 2
Lac qui Parle Valley: Questa Stensrud 1-for-2
Yellow Medicine East: Nena McCalla 2-for-3, 2b, 2 runs, rbi; Jennessa Hoffman 1-for-3, rbi; Courtney Hinz 1-for-3; Angie Scheffler 2-for-2, 2b, 2 runs, 2 rbi; Hailey Enstad 1-for-2; Cassie Stuffert 1-for-1, 2 rbi; Haley Fischer 1-for-2; Dani Roden 1-for-1
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Lac qui Parle Valley: Alyssa Harms (L) 2-9-8-8-2-2, Michaela DuFrane 2-1-2-2-3-1
Yellow Medicine East: Allie Trudel (W) 5-1-0-0-0-2
YME scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth against BOLD to sneak out a one-run win. Pinch-hitter Hailey Enstad had a key two-run single in the sixth inning for the Sting. Allie Trudel went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs for YME, while Dani Roden was 1-for-4 with a double and three RBIs.
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Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City pitcher Natasha Dallmann held Yellow Medicine East to five hits in a 7-1 complete-game win during a mixed double-header Thursday in Granite Falls.
Angie Scheffler had a double for the Sting in the loss.


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BOSTON, Mass.—Four women's tennis players have been named Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athletes for maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 (4.0) scale or better for the 2012-13 academic year.
Junior Samantha Counts (Bridgewater, Mass.) earned the award for the second consecutive season, while first-year players Shihyu Yang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ngoc Le (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Cindy Lee (Pomona, Lee) each earned the recognition for the first time.
The Beacons showed tremendous determination during the 2012-13 season, staying in contention for a playoff spot in the Little East Tournament for the entire year, despite losing three of their starters from the 2011 season. Counts teamed up with seniors Hieu Nguyen (Dorchester, Mass.) and Wendy Steinman (Dudley, Mass) at the top of the UMB lineup, while the Beacons three first-year players made up the core of the Beacons' bottom three.
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Grounding of the Costa Concordia
After the Costa Concordia made the headlines by running onto a rock off the island of Giglio in Italy, we've received many questions whether this could have been prevented. Now we can't tell what happened exactly on the bridge of the Costa Concordia the night of the grounding, but we have made a small reconstruction based on theAISAutomatic Identification System (AIS) is a system, where ships transmit their navigation data to other ships for enhanced safetydata.
We used our Qastor Pilotage software to replay the final minutes of the Costa Concordia and show the sort of warnings that are available to the mariner in today's software.
We used our Qastor Pilotage software to replay the final minutes of the Costa Concordia and show the sort of warnings that are available to the mariner in today's software.
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update 21-Jan-2012
We have created a more detailed version of the reconstruction. Please note that we have used interpolation to fill in some of the position gaps of the original movie.
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update 23-Jan-2012
On the 14th of August 2011, the Costa Concordia made a passage close the Island of Giglio. This is a reconstruction of this passage.
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update 30-Jan-2012
We created a 3D presentation of the incident with Costa Concordia. The movie is created using standard QPS tools such as QINSy and Fledermaus. The data is derived from:
- AIS data recorded from the AISLIVE network
- A low resolution depth model
- A Bing satellite image
- A low resolution height model (from CGIAR)
- The vessel model purchased from The 3D Studio
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Li Na is destined for more grand slams and a place in the Hall of Fame after the Australian Open win cemented her position as the most influential female player of the last decade, said former great Chris Evert.
Li's final victory over Slovak Dominika Cibulkova on Saturday gave her a second major following her 2011 French Open title, a triumph that made her Asia's first singles grand slam champion.
Evert, the winner of 18 grand slam titles, joined WTA Tour chief Stacey Allaster in hailing the Chinese's achievements at a timely promotional event on Monday for the end of year championships in Singapore and women's tennis in Asia.
"Yeah, I'd vote for her," Evert told reporters when asked if Li was worthy of a place alongside her in the Hall of Fame. "It's not only about winning grand slams its about the influence that you have in tennis.
"Look at her, as Stacey said she is the most influential women's tennis player in the last 10 years, with what she has done for global tennis so absolutely 100 percent.
"Something would be wrong if she didn't get into the tennis hall of fame."
Her impressive play and comical post match interviews have made her a crowd favorite in Australia and around the world, with Allaster brimming as Asia, and China in particular, embraces the sport.
Singapore and Beijing now house WTA offices while 17 WTA events will be played in Asian Pacific in 2014. Allaster said Li's latest boost had been timely.
The 31-year-old clubbed her way past first-time finalist Cibulkova in Saturday's showpiece to help erase the memories of two previous failures in Melbourne Park finals.
The Wuhan native, who moved up one place to world number three in the rankings courtesy of her victory, saved match points in her third round victory in Australia over Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic before finding her feet.
Li, the winner of nine WTA titles, then dropped only 18 games in her four subsequent matches to leave Evert predicting the Chinese could add a third or fourth grand slam before the year is out.
"This year she is still up for grand slams, along with Serena (Williams), Maria (Sharapova), Victoria (Azarenka).
"She is right up there with them too. There was always a little gap before you said Li Na's name but now I think she is right up there with all of them after the type of tennis she played at the Australian Open."
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AndrewF's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
from the the-legend-continues dept
Previously, on Techdirt ...
- The New York Times reveals that Apple's mass patent frenzy began shortly after being sued for patent infringement itself. This confirms my longstanding suspicion that patent plaintiffs are like vampires. Upon being bit by one, there's a good chance you'll turn into an undead shell of your former self.
- Cisco, Motorola, and Netgear team up to fend off a patent troll suing over expired WiFi patents. It's like the Avengers! Sans helicarrier. Because it's patented. And horribly impractical.
- DHS makes up a report about Russian hax0rz and claims it's a success. So you can make shit up and still be successful? That bodes well for me, because I'd like to be a lawyer. Or Tom Clancy.
- I learned that making the bottom of a font "heavier" makes it easier for dyslexics to read. There's also something about competition and bogus lawsuits, but seriously, there's a special dyslexics font? That's awesome.
- A court rules that digitizing your library is fair use. It's about fracking time.
Will the Avengers save Russian children from a life without Wi-Fi? Will Kevin Butler admit that he's actually pretty excited about Halo 4? Will Dark Helmet feed his Charizard baby panda solely to spite PETA? Find out next week on another exciting post of ... Techdirt: The Legend Continues.


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Telephone your usual vet practice number. You should be directed to the out of hours service. Have a pen to hand, you may be given another telephone number to use.
This website is intended as a guide only. It helps you to decide how quickly you should seek veterinary attention for your pet. If you are in any doubt over your pet's condition, telephone your vet for advice. It is intended for use in the UK.
If your pet's symptoms are not on the site and you are worried about your pet, contact your vet for advice.


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15 Toughest Interview Questions (and Answers!)
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14. What motivates you?
Bad Answer:
"Doing a good job and being rewarded for it."
It's not that this answer is wrong – it's just that it wastes an opportunity. This question is practically begging you to highlight your positive attributes. So don't give a vague, generic response – it tells them very little about you. Instead, try and use this question as an opportunity to give the interviewer some insight into your character, and use examples where possible.
Good Answer:
"I've always been motivated by the challenge of meeting a tough deadline – in my last role, I was responsible for a 100% success rate in terms of delivering our products on time and within budget. I know that this job is very fast-paced, and deadline-driven – I'm more than up for the challenge. In fact, I thrive on it."


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What happens when you knock on death's door not once, but twice?
As Steve Sjogren opened his eyes during surgery, the people around his bed didn't look familiar. They didn't look like any people he had ever seen before—they were transparent. No words were spoken, but he knew in an instant they were present to support him, to urge him not give up his desperate fight for life.
Steve had gone into the hospital for a planned forty-five-minute "simple surgery" to remove his gallbladder. But things went haywire that day as the surgeon accidentally cut his aorta and caused his heart to stop for several minutes. He did not go home that night as was scheduled. In fact, he feels like he has been in the recovery room for more than twelve years since that procedure.
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A Certain Magical Index
A Certain Magical Index: In a world where science clarifies supernatural powers. In a huge college that has power development in its curriculum. To a resident high school student, Kamijou Touma, a pure white sister appears. She calls herself Index and says that sorcerers are chasing her. Thus, Kamijou Touma enters the world of the occult. Kamijou Touma is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever. Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head. As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear at the exciting scientific town.
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Parents who prepped for the day their baby starts crawling with the Push 'n Snap Cabinet Lock from Safety 1st, beware! The popular babyproofing item has been swept from the shelves in a major recall after at least 140 kids were able to get past the safety system and into the cabinets their parents had so carefully locked up -- some as young as 9 months! This affects 900,000 of the locks sold by the Dorel Juvenile Group.
But before you panic, here's what you need to know ...
1. The recall is only for the Safety 1st Push 'n Snap Cabinet Lock, not other items in the company's babyproofing line. If your lock is one of the recalled items, it will have two straps that wrap around the knobs or handles on a cabinet door. If it's in the "lock" position, a green triangle can be seen through a window on the device.
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2. This is not a recall you should ignore -- the items are being voluntarily recalled after 200-some complaints that the locks do not securely close cabinet doors. Of the 140 kids who managed to make it inside the cabinets, at least three received emergency treatment after they'd swallowed or handled dishwasher detergent, window cleaner, or oven cleaner.
3. Fortunately this does not involve all of the cabinet locks; only model numbers 48391 and 48442 (printed on the back of the product). They were produced between January 2004 and November 2010 (date of manufacture is also on the back of the product).
4. The locks were sold at retailers online and nationwide between January 2004 and February 2012 but have since been pulled from the shelves.
5. Safety 1st will replace the faulty lock free of charge. To get a more secure system, call 866-762-3212 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday or email the company at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also visit their website to ensure yours is on the list.
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6. If you have removed the lock, be sure to move any dangerous items from the cabinet so your little crawler can't get at them until a replacement arrives!
Have you been babyproofing with cabinet locks? What could your little one have gotten hold of if the lock failed?
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Borussia Dortmund chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke believes the side are well prepared for a UEFA Champions League trip to Zenit St Petersburg.
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Watzke feels his side's visit to Shakhtar Donetsk at the corresponding stage last season will serve as good preparation for their next challenge.
"I can live with this draw, but Zenit do have a host of quality players such as Hulk and others. It's not the shortest trip for us, but we will manage," he explained.
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1. Love and War
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Behind the Scenes
All's Fair…
Producer Scott Handcock provides a diary covering the making of Doctor Who: Love and War
It was the summer of 2011 when fellow producer Gary Russell and I were mulling over ideas for how to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Bernice Summerfield. It's quite a milestone for a spin-off character, and the fact she's remained consistently popular was worthy of celebrating so, whilst we knew we had two box sets, two books, and were already pulling together our plans for the charity mania that is Many Happy Returns, we still felt we needed to honour her roots somehow.
'How about a Companion Chronicle?' I foolishly suggested, most probably over e-mail. 'We could reunite Lisa [Bowerman, Benny] with Sylvester [McCoy, the Doctor] and Sophie [Aldred, Ace] and set something during the New Adventures that taps into her history. Hey, we could even call it War and Love!'
I chuckled. (No one else did.)
Lovely line producer David Richardson then came back and, instead of nodding politely and backing away as he normally does, suggested something even better. Something we'd considered, then disregarded as out-of-the-question: a full-cast adaption of Bernice's very first adventure, Love and War.
Now, I'll be honest: I loved this idea. The chance to work with Sophie and Sylvester was irresistible, and – even though I was too young when the novel came out – I obviously knew of its standing in fandom, and that the pressure was absolutely on to get it right. This is a unique release, a one-off – novels don't always suit other mediums (though this one did). Either way, we had to make it count.
Thankfully, Bernice's creator, Paul Cornell, was on board from the off… possibly before we even mentioned the idea. He likes to say 'yes', does Paul. His one proviso, which we'd already pre-empted because she's marvellous, was that Jacqueline Rayner would be the writer we asked to adapt it. (Now, as anyone who's aware of why we're producing a charity adventure will know, Jac's schedule is not always necessarily an easy one to navigate, but when she commits, by God does she commit. And she really rose to the challenge of bringing such an iconic book to life!)
By now, it was September. Ish. We knew we had to record in January to accommodate everyone's schedules, so we just had to sit and wait, twiddling thumbs and tapping at tables. It's a strange experience waiting for a script where you already know what's going to happen. The anticipation's still there, but for completely different reasons. You want to know if it still stands up, if it keeps your attention, if it feels fresh and new and exciting!
Which, as we discovered upon delivery in December, it does. Very much so. There's a real sense of jeopardy and pace. It's a whirlwind of characters and situations and events: new friends, ancient enemies and all manner of people in between. Then, because I am a fool who doesn't quite know when I have enough on, I dug out the old Prelude from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine and another e-mail exchange ensued:
'Hey! Wouldn't it be fun if we adapted the Prelude too and released that beforehand, just like they did back in '92?'
'Do it!' came the reply. So we did. And it adds a whole new dimension to the story: a sense of dread and impending melancholy, all brought to life so beautifully by Sophie. (Seriously, download it, listen to it! Whet those appetites!)
And so, we had scripts. All we needed was a cast, so Gary called upon all manner of actors, old and new, to come and play. James Redmond is a loveable, gentle Jan. Bernard Holley is a villain who genuinely could seduce you into suicide. Maggie Ollerenshaw's exactly as you imagine Ace's mother… in fact, everyone's at the top of their game, whether they knew the novel or not. The characters really do leap off the page, and everyone knew exactly what they were doing. (Special mention goes to Sophie Aldred for channelling Nineties Ace, and really driving the narrative all the way through. That woman astounds me more than ever!)
It's probably a cliché – Big Finish recordings are generally full of laughter and merriment, usually after lunch – but Love and War felt genuinely special. Reuniting the three leads was particularly joyous, especially out in the green room… So much happened on those days: we persuaded Sophie to sign up to Twitter, we ate lots and lots of trifle, and Sylv randomly stepped into the courtyard at one point, where a gust of wind caused a designer skirt to land atop his head. Mad, fun times!
Then it was in the can, recorded. Months of work, two days in studio, and it felt like it was over – but then it all begins again. We handed it over to our post-production supremo, Steve Foxon, who has pulled the whole thing together and made it sound amazing, truly amazing. And Andy Lambert did the cover – that new striking image, which now seems somehow more iconic than the novel that spawned it.
Original writer Paul Cornell reveals his thoughts on the new lease of life for Love and War
Love and War's a very special release, celebrating twenty years of Bernice Summerfield. Why do you think the character's endured the way she has?
She was originally created to be the domestic foil to a very cosmic Doctor, and I think there are all sorts of things that need deflating like that. In truth, I'm continually surprised and pleased by her success.
Why do you think she was chosen as the Doctor's new companion all those years ago?
Maybe because the audience was getting older too, and the idea of a companion with an older point of view appealed.
How did you react when the idea of adapting the novel was first put to you by Big Finish? Were you protective at all?
I wanted to make sure it was done well, but when I heard they wanted Jac Rayner to do it, it was clear that it would be. And I got to just take a quick look and cross a few Ts. I'm after that 'mucked about with' credit that Terry Pratchett gets on his TV adaptations.
Obviously when you wrote the novel, you already had Sylvester and Sophie's voices in your head. What was it like hearing them bring those words to life – and Lisa, who didn't become Bernice for another six years after it was printed?
It's quite startling how Lisa's inhabited the character to such a degree now that her saying this dialogue seems natural rather than strange. And Sylvester and Sophie really sound right for it too. It all seemed to fit together quite remarkably well. The story's been streamlined a bit, but that was necessary, and the cutting is done so well that I don't think, unless you read the novel the week before, you'll notice what's been got rid of.
What do you think the appeal is of this audio for those who read the original novel?
It's that it's done with actors, on audio, and thus with an infinite budget. And you get the Doctor Who Magazine prelude thrown in. It's a love song to the New Adventures, really, and I think, for the uninitiated, a good introduction to Bernice.
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Nothin' but Net: The X Factor
Philadelphia, PA – There's enough star power on the Miami Heat to light the night sky.
LeBron James is one of the most famous people on Earth. Dwyane Wade isn't quite LeBron, but he isn't anonymous and Chris Bosh is going to the Hall of Fame one day. Seriously, just ask him.
Ray Allen will be enshrined. He was even in a Spike Lee movie.
Chris Anderson, Miami's backup big man, has a gigantic Mohawk reminiscent of a electro-shocked rooster and has tattoos covering his body so much so that he looks like an atlas.
Even Pat Riley, the team president, is a rock star.
The Indian Pacers have three different players who've made an All-Star team and one more in street clothes for the entire season. Paul George is becoming a household name. Same goes for Roy Hibbert, appearances on "Parks and Recreation" notwithstanding.
So how is that a second-round draft pick is having such a huge impact on the Eastern Conference Finals?
Lance Stephenson was taken by the Pacers with the 40th overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft. He was a much ballyhooed high school player in Coney Island, N.Y., and is the state's all-time leading scorer.
He went to Cincinnati for one year, was taken in the second round by the Pacers and his career didn't get off to a great start.
In August 2010, Stephenson was arrested for pushing his girlfriend down a flight of steps. The case was dismissed. In high school, he was suspended for an altercation with a teammate, but the biggie was an arrest for groping a 17- year-old fellow student.
The Pacers tired of his immaturity and demoted him to the D-League late in his rookie season.
Stephenson saw more action his sophomore season with the Pacers, but still wasn't a consistent contributor. It wasn't until this season that Stephenson became a factor, and it was only due to the injury suffered by Danny Granger.
Stephenson started 72 games during the 2012-13 campaign, averaging a respectable 8.8 points. Those numbers have climbed during the playoffs and especially in the Eastern Conference Finals.
"When he's bad, we typically struggle. But when he's good, we're pretty darn good," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said after their Game 4 win on Tuesday. "I mean, that's the simplest way to put it, and it's very accurate, he's the barometer."
Truer words may never have been spoken.
During the postseason, Stephenson is averaging 12 points in Pacers' wins, and just 6.8 points in Pacers' losses. He has six double-digit scoring nights in Indiana victories, and only one in an Indiana setback.
Stephenson poured in 20 points against the Heat in the Pacers' win on Tuesday.
"I had to make this one of the best games I've played," he said. "I have to show people I'm ready for any competition or any challenge that comes to me."
Part of that competitive spirit came to light when Stephenson spent some quality time defending James in Game 4. The story goes, Stephenson asked Vogel for the assignment. Who asks to cover James?
"We were just talking. Let's not make a bigger story than that is," Vogel said. "We were just talking about loosening the load on Paul."
The plan will stay in place for Thursday's Game 5.
"Yeah, that was one of the shifts in philosophy going into Game 4, try multiple bodies on him," Vogel said Wednesday of defending James.
But Stephenson is known as a scorer, at least that was his Coney Island reputation. In Game 4, he took the ball to the basket, pushed tempo and even handled the ball.
"I told Lance when he's that aggressive and he's pushing it and looking to score, we're a better team," said Indiana guard George Hill. "We need him to continue to do that for us to win this series, and he knows that."
He definitely does.
"I'm very important to this team," Stephenson said. "I can't take no days off."
- James, David West and Stephenson were all fined for flopping in Game 4. Again, these flopping fines of $5,000 do nothing to stop a player from doing it during a game.
- Officiating can make a huge difference. Let's agree that the officiating in Game 4 was a little suspect late. I don't think the sixth foul on James was a foul, I don't think Dwyane Wade traveled and I don't think the ball went off West's arm on that crucial out-of-bounds play. That last one was more than a little discouraging considering the refs took a month to review it. Officiating should never be discussed in games this far into the postseason, but as ESPN's Tim Legler (go Explorers!) correctly pointed out, Indiana outplayed Miami in Game 4, so at least the "right" team won.
- The way the coach carousel is playing out means trouble for one team in particular - the Philadelphia 76ers. With Mike Budenholzer going to Atlanta, Jeff Hornacek in Phoenix and Steve Clifford headed to Charlotte, there are five openings left - Milwaukee, the Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn, Detroit and Philly. A sixth, the Sacramento Kings, is expected soon, but all reports indicate Golden State assistant Mike Malone is the only choice.
But back to the Sixers, disqualify the Clippers and Nets because the best candidates will take those much more attractive jobs. If Phil Jackson is truly aiding Joe Dumars in the Pistons' search, then Brian Shaw, a longtime Jackson assistant, makes sense. The Bucks seem keen on former Hawks coach Larry Drew. And that leaves the Sixers with? Kelvin Sampson, a Houston Rockets assistant, is my hunch now that Sam Hinkie, formerly of the Rockets, is in charge. Michael Curry, the Sixers' top assistant, is running pre-draft workouts for Philly, and is probably a candidate, but some reports indicate he's in the running for the Milwaukee job. No matter who Hinkie tabs, he's not rushing to do it, that's for sure.
- I love the idea that Karl Malone is returning to the Utah Jazz as a part- time assistant. If you believe Utah is not bringing back Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap (I believe that), then Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter are on. They are both incredible prospects, but need seasoning. Who better than Malone?
- Memphis Grizzlies reserve Quincy Pondexter got a date with Miss Tennessee 2012 Chandler Lawson via Twitter. I imagine I would have to explain this type of courtship for some time to my father.
- Movie moment - Know what's a bad trend in movies these days - the whole movie being made about a holiday. We've seen "New Year's Eve" and "Valentine's Day." They're just vehicles for a bunch of stars to appear in one movie with the holiday as a back drop. Put together a good script about Flag Day and I'll watch.
- TV moment - "The Office" finale is behind us. As I wrote before, I stopped watching last season, but checked out the final episode. As an episode of television, it stunk. As a series finale, it wasn't terrible.


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mash pH in BeerTools
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mash pH in BeerTools
Does anyone know if the mash pH given in the Water Chemistry tool is at room temp, or at mash temp?
My gut says room temp. Thanks.
My gut says room temp. Thanks.
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Re: mash pH in BeerTools
It appears to be the room temperature pH, which is the value that is usually discussed.
Be aware that the pH given is that predicted for a pale base malt mash with that water profile, and isn't affected by the recipe.
Be aware that the pH given is that predicted for a pale base malt mash with that water profile, and isn't affected by the recipe.
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As slothrob said, BTP doesn't consider the grist in calculating mash pH. It also doesn't consider whether you acidify your mash or sparge water. I think you would be better served by using a stand alone calculator such as Bru'n Water. That's what I use and find it very accurate when comparing the pH it predicts against my meter. One caveat though, some have found the learning curve a little daunting, but it's well worth the effort IMO.
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Stanford QB Nunes medically retires
Stanford, CA – Stanford quarterback Josh Nunes, who started the first nine games for the Cardinal this past season, is retiring from football due to medical reasons, the school announced on Monday.
In his first year as the starter under center, Nunes passed for 1,643 yards with 10 touchdowns. He played sparingly in the second half of the 2012 season, though, as sophomore Kevin Hogan started and won five games for the Cardinal that included a Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin.
Specific reasoning for the medical retirement was not explained, but Nunes did suffer an arm injury during offseason workouts that forced him to miss the team's spring practices.


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