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With five teams still mining for a new head coach, Ken Whisenhunt's name is picking up steam.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Sunday on NFL Network's "GameDay Morning" that the Detroit Lions view the offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers as a top candidate. They aren't alone, according to sources informed of those searches.
The Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings have shown interest, and the Tennessee Titans -- who fired Mike Munchak on Saturday -- are creeping around, too.
Let's go back to the Lions: After Detroit missed out on interviewing a pair of coaches they coveted in Lovie Smith and Bill O'Brien, Rapoport expects the team to meet with Whiz this week, depending on his schedule and where the Chargers stand after Sunday.
Why is Whisenhunt so popular? Rapoport was told that he's viewed as a steady, proven coach who can work wonders under center. Finding the best possible tutor for Matthew Stafford and Robert Griffin III looms as a top priority for those team. In Tennessee, Jake Locker's future is up in the air, and it's possible that Minnesota's next coach could sweep that quarterback room clean.
Whisenhunt has helped revive Philip Rivers, but interested teams would be wise to ponder what happened during his stint as coach of the Cardinals. Arizona, post-Kurt Warner, was crippled by a clown car of underperforming passers who all but sunk that team and led to Whiz's firing.
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Financial companies are good exposures when an economy is in recovery - and Morgan Stanley believes Mexico is at the inflection point right now.
As such, Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico (BSMX) is upgraded to Buy with $14 price target.
Here are analysts Jorge Kuri and Jorge Chirino:
We are bullish Mexican banks, as they offer a levered play on the economy, which the market has not fully priced in. Year-to-date, BSMX has underperformed GFNORTE and the overall market, and consensus forecasts already incorporate a more reasonable outlook for earnings and profitability. If anything, faster economic growth offers upside to estimates.
But what do institutional investors think? Which companies are poised to gain the most from an economic rebound? This is an important question because the answer may give clues to equity rallies when Mexico does recover.
Morgan Stanley conducted an investor survey. Banorte (GBOOY) is considered by most investors (62%) to be able to leverage to an economic recovery. Cemex (CX, 44%), Wal-Mart de Mexico (WMMVF, 38%), Inbursa (GPFOY, 30%) and America Movil (AMX, 26%) were also on the list.


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'Luv' review: Coming of age in Baltimore
Drama. Starring Common, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton and Michael Rainey Jr. Directed by Sheldon Candis. (PG-13. 136 minutes.)
In terms of pure ensemble acting firepower, "Luv" rivals any movie released in 2012. Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover and Dennis Haysbert are complemented by what appears to be half the cast of "The Wire."
Sheldon Candis doesn't get starstruck, directing a scrappy coming-of-age drama that retains its tense pull on viewers, even as it unravels in the final act. The strength is in the performances and visual detail. The flaws are mostly in the script, which asks the youngest cast member to pull off a near-impossible transformation.
Multitalented rapper Common is Vincent, a man just released from prison who takes his elementary-school-age nephew Woody (Michael Rainey Jr.) out of school for a day to teach him how to be a man. Vincent is trying to do right, but willing to commit wrongs to meet his goals. He studied business in prison and maintained good relations with his criminal allies. But it's quickly apparent that he's not prepared for the world he has re-entered.
Candis has a wonderful grasp on the characters and the Baltimore community - Vincent's trip to get Woody a suit reveals more about their relationship than any amount of narration could. Common embraces the contradictions in his performance, remaining sympathetic even when it becomes clear that the child is the better role model of the pair. ("Flowers from the Earth, man - God own them," he says, after Woody questions his theft of a bouquet.)
The narrative falls apart when the audience is asked to swallow the skittish Woody's sudden transformation into a fast-thinking tough guy. He's learning to drive one moment and pulling getaway duty a few scenes later. He can't talk to girls, then outthinks a drug dealer. The operatic resolution doesn't help, offering almost none of the nuance that made the first parts a pleasure to watch.
None of the above is a knock against Candis and his abilities behind the camera. Some excellent artists - David Simon, Barry Levinson and John Waters - have documented Baltimore, and Candis has something new to add. Even with themes similar to Simon's work, "Luv" never feels like imitation.
Among "The Wire" alums, Michael K. Williams proves that his drug dealer-robbing Omar character could have been a pretty good detective as well. And Anwan Glover, the former Slim Charles, shows once again why he's a great narration choice for any filmmaker who can't afford Morgan Freeman or Sam Elliott.
Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle's pop culture critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @PeterHartlaub


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Harvard Conference Seeks to Jolt University Teaching
By Dan Berrett
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A growing body of evidence from the classroom, coupled with emerging research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, is lending insight into how people learn, but teaching on most college campuses has not changed much, several speakers said here at Harvard University at a daylong conference dedicated to teaching and learning.
Too often, faculty members teach according to habits and hunches, said Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who has extensively studied how to improve science education.
In large part, the problem is that graduate students pursuing their doctorates get little or no training in how students learn. When these graduate students become faculty members, he said, they might think about the content they want students to learn, but not the cognitive capabilities they want them to develop.
"It really requires someone to be doubly expert," Mr. Wieman said. As sometimes happens in some disciplines and departments, a few people develop deeper knowledge of pedagogy. These doubly expert faculty members, he said, can show colleagues how to apply new approaches to teaching the discipline.
Such approaches would demand much more of students and faculty. Students should be made to grapple with the material and receive authentic and explicit practice in thinking like an expert, Mr. Wieman said. Faculty would need to provide timely and specific feedback, and move beyond lectures in which students can sit passively receiving information.
"We assume that telling people things without asking them to actively process them results in learning," Mr. Wieman said.
The conference, which also featured demonstrations of innovative approaches to teaching, was the first event in a new Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, a project supported by a $40-million grant from two benefactors, Gustave M. and Rita E. Hauser. In addition to the conference, the money will pay for the redesign of classrooms at Harvard and for a grant program that will finance innovative ideas. More than 250 Harvard faculty, staff, and students have submitted letters of interest for projects costing nearly $10-million. Awardees will be selected in April.
Many colleges routinely hold seminars on teaching and learning. But the fact that Harvard is focusing on the subject—and that many speakers referred worryingly to the growth of online and for-profit providers—suggests a growing concern at even the most elite institutions that the classroom experience is not all it could be.
The Hausers wanted their money to have a broad effect across Harvard's departments and disciplines. They also wanted the university to respond to changes in students. "You can see there will be a fundamental break in how students are learning," Mrs. Hauser said in an interview, "and we thought Harvard should be at the forefront of that."
Confronting Misconceptions
Students are indeed changing, some speakers said. Their level of curiosity has declined over the past two decades, said Clayton M. Christensen, a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Christensen also drew an analogy between Harvard and the for-profit world, and General Motors and Toyota, describing how new businesses often enter the bottom of a market and claim untapped customers whom they reach through some new technological advance. Eventually, they move up-market and overtake the dominant player.
Higher education once was immune, he said, until the spread of online learning, which will allow lower-cost providers to extend into the higher reaches of the marketplace. "Higher education," he said, "is vulnerable to disruption."
And, while students are changing, several speakers described conventional teaching approaches as being ineffective.
Take, for example, the lecture, which came up for frequent shellacking throughout the day. It is designed to transfer information, said Eric Mazur, professor of physics at Harvard. But it does not fully accomplish even this limited task.
Lectures set up a dynamic in which students passively receive information that they quickly forget after the test. "They're not confronted with their misconceptions," Mr. Mazur said. "They walk out with a false sense of security."
The traditional lecture also fails at other educational goals: prodding students to make meaning from what they learn, to ask questions, extract knowledge, and apply it in a new context.
And yet, many speakers acknowledged, faculty members harbor their own misconceptions about learning, which still hold sway at Harvard and beyond.
One, said Mahzarin R. Banaji, a professor of psychology at Harvard, is what she called a "myth" about different learning styles, in which it is thought that some students learn best visually, others by hearing, and still others kinesthetically.
"There's no evidence, zero, that teaching methods should be matched up with different learning styles," Ms. Banaji said. "It's intuitively appealing, but not scientifically supported."
Assessing as Learning
Another commonly held notion, that studying is how learning occurs and testing is an afterthought, was upended by Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, a professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, who has studied what is known as the "testing effect."
In an experiment, he broke students into three different groups: One studied a list of words eight consecutive times without taking any tests; the second studied the list six times and was tested twice. The last studied the words four times and took four tests. Two days later, they were asked to recall as many words as they could. Those who took four tests recalled words at up to twice the rate of those who only studied.
"Taking a test on something is a very effective way to learn about it," Mr. Roediger said.
But frequent quizzes—which he said should be low-stakes and not "deadly" multiple choice—often hit a wall of disdain among both faculty and students, he noted. "There's a kind of a conspiracy in higher education that professors don't like to give tests," Mr. Roediger said. "We hate grading tests. Students don't like taking them, so we don't give them very much."
But there are other ways to get students to truly learn, other speakers said. Asking students to explain concepts or to teach one another the material they have just learned are also effective.
Writing is often an effective pedagogical tool, too, several speakers said. For his history of psychology course, Mr. Roediger asks his students to send him short essays before each class meets. They respond to the reading. (Others at the conference who use this method said they sometimes ask their students to identify outstanding questions or relevant areas of their reading that have been left unexplored.) Mr. Roediger reads the one-page essays before class and works their thoughts into his comments.
But writing is also more than a means to convey content. It is a core skill that faculty members often hope their students will carry with them after they graduate, said Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard who studies language and cognition. But even here, students and faculty often fail.
Students are trained to write in jargon-heavy language that obscures rather than reveals the underlying ideas. Mr. Pinker drew an analogy to teaching, saying that obtuse writing and poor teaching both reflect what he called the "curse of knowledge."
Having this curse means that a writer or professor often assumes knowledge the reader or student does not have. More important, the writer or teacher usually forgets that the reader or student is struggling to learn the material for the first time, which often was long ago for the teacher.
"It's hard to know what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know," Mr. Pinker said. "It's the chief driver of bad writing and, I would argue, bad teaching."
Hardly novel, nor a "jolt," but certainly good press for improving education at the college/university level.


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THE massacre of 38 tourists on a Tunisian beach is being linked to an earlier terror attack in the country which killed 22 people, Scotland Yard said today.
Some 30 Britons were among 38 tourists were killed on the beach in Sousse by gunman Seifeddine Rezgui.
The attack in June came just months after 22 people, mostly tourists, were killed at the National Bardo Museum outside the capital Tunis in March.
Commander Richard Walton, of the Metropolitan Police which supplied officers to help the Tunisian investigation into the massacre, said: "We are now linking evidentially the Bardo Museum investigation with the Sousse investigation."
He did not provide more details of the suspected connection but said it was based on "strong" evidence.
Terror group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Sousse attack.
Tunisian authorities have now arrested 150 people in relation to the Sousse attack. Of those, 15 have been charged with terrorism offences.
The victims included leeds couple Christopher and Sharon Bell, of Killingbeck; 72-year-old grandfather Bruce Wilkinson, from Goole, and Claire Windass, 54, a mother, from Hull.
In the aftermath of the Sousse attack, Tunisian officials said Rezgui trained in neighbouring Libya at the same time as two attackers who targeted the Bardo museum in March. A British woman was killed in the earlier atrocity.
Mr Walton, head of Met's Counter Terrorism Command, declined to provide details of the connection, only saying: "It is strong evidence that links the two."
He said a team of officers are working closely with the Tunisian authorities on both inquiries and the coroner in the UK has been told about the link.
Scotland Yard revealed that British officers have taken a total of 459 witness statements since the day of the beach attack in June.
A number of witnesses have referred to a second gunman wearing red shorts.
Investigators said that although they retain an open mind, they now believe the person identified was a beach security worker who attempted to stop the gunman.
More than 370 photograph and video files from mobile devices are being assessed by detectives, while specialist advisers have been sent to Tunisia as authorities in the country review security at resorts and tourist attractions.
Mr Walton said Tunisian authorities have deployed "significant resource" into the investigation.
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Peter Ungar (Univ of Arkansas) looks at the fossil record to determine what it can teach us about the diets of our early hominin forebears. Evidence from tooth chemistry and microscopic wear suggests that some species had increasingly specialized diets, but others, including those of early Homo, ate a broader variety of foods. (#24838)
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I like this story because it is scary, especially when Dracula pops up at random times. For example, he pops up in the room with the maid. I also like how this book is exiting because they're trying to get Dracula. It is exiting when they're trying to find a wooden stake and when the boat sinks. I like this book because it is also funny. For example, Frankie always tunes out the teacher. Devin and Frankie hate reading, but then they go to the library and get stuck in a book. That's funny!
I recommend this book to people who like scary books. It is best for people who are 8 or older. It has too much violence in it for younger kids. It also has some gross parts in it. That's why I think it's for 8 and older.


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May competed in the 100-meter freestyle on Sunday. She touched the wall in 1:06.49, the 25th fastest time of the day.
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The theories, problems, and treatments of allergies and hypersensitivities represent an enormous topic that could easily fill an entire book—in fact, many such books have been written by noted medical authors. This section discusses some of the basic concepts in the field of allergy, with an emphasis on new work related to this growing twentieth-century dilemma, particularly regarding the use of diet and supplements in treating both food and environmental allergies.
Allergies are a result of our physiological and biochemical interaction with the world around us and within us—with the foods, chemicals, and natural substances in our immediate environment that we ingest, inhale, or physically contact, and with various internal microbes and body tissues. Our body's immune system is designed to correctly identify and differentiate between self and nonself—that is, between what our body needs and what is foreign to it—and when it encounters foreign substances, it reacts by making antibodies or releasing certain chemicals, such as histamines. Of course, it is appropriate for us to make protective antibodies against infectious organisms, chemicals, and other foreign substances; pollens, molds, animal hairs, dust, and foods all contain protein antigens that stimulate some antibody response. The problem arises when we have an inappropriate response, or "hyperresponse." Then the antibodies attach to the antigens, causing a variety of internal reactions. Histamine and other chemicals are released into the system, causing an inflammatory reaction. These antigen-antibody (Ag-Ab) reactions affect the tissues and organs, mainly the skin, mucous membranes, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms commonly produced include itchy and watery eyes, runny and congested nose and sinuses, skin reactions, and rapid heart rate. Less obvious but still common allergic symptoms include fatigue, headache, intestinal gas or pain, abdominal bloating, and mood changes.
These allergic manifestations often are the result of multiple stressors and biochemical reactions. I often describe this to patients as the "cup runneth over" theory. Certain people may be reactive to specific environmental and food products, as I myself am. However, if our diet is relatively clean, our stress level is low, and our normal eliminative functions are working well, we will exhibit minimal, if any, symptoms. On the other hand, if we have too many stressors going into our cup—a high-demand schedule; a few dinners out with more bread, cheese and wine; a few extra worries; less exercise; and a little constipation—our cup may "runneth over" and we may experience sinus or upper respiratory symptoms, a skin rash, or other "allergic" problems. From a naturopathic viewpoint, allergic symptoms represent detoxification of any overly congested body; the traditional Chinese viewpoint suggests an imbalance of energies and organs. Western medicine has its own theories, which I also present.
Related to allergies are hypersensitivities, allergylike reactions that result from the repeated sensitizing of our body by certain substances, usually a protein antigen of foods or specific chemicals. Hypersensitivities are distinguished from immediate allergies by the fact that hypersensitivity reactions are usually delayed, with symptoms appearing several hours or longer after exposure, even up to one or two days later. They are mediated through T lymphocytes of the cellular immune system and delayed-type IgG antibodies rather than the IgE/mast cell/histamine system of rapid allergic responses. In regard to other allergic-type reactions, the term "hypersusceptibility" should be used to describe the rapid symptoms associated with environmental illness or exposure to environmental chemicals. This is likely a neuro-endocrine interaction rather than a true allergy.
We may also have internal "allergies," where our immune system reacts to our body's tissues as protein antigens, and actually forms specific antibodies to them. These antibodies then latch onto the antigen-coded organ tissues, where they may interfere with proper function and produce a wide variety of inflammatory symptoms and diseases. More common areas affected include the thyroid gland, blood vessels, and joints, causing problems such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, polyarteritis nodosa, and rheumatoid arthritis. These abnormal responses to normal tissues are termed autoimmune diseases. They are increasing in frequency and becoming one of the greater mysteries of modern medicine.
Common allergic problems include hay fever, eczema, contact dermatitis, and bronchial asthma. Hay fever, or allergic rhinitis, is characterized by sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, and postnasal drip. It is caused by reactions to pollens such as ragweed, trees, dust, grasses, molds, animals, and foods. It can be diagnosed by skin testing or blood antibody levels. Treatment may include avoidance of, or desensitization to, the allergens, or drugs such as antihistamines, decongestants, cortisone sprays or tablets, and cromolyn sodium nasal spray. Hay fever tends to run in families and is usually seasonal.
Hives, or urticaria, is characterized by red, itchy, and possibly painful wheals (bumps) on the skin. This condition may be caused by reactions to insect bites, chemicals (such as sulfites or food colors), drugs (such as aspirin or penicillin), or foods. Common foods causing hives are shellfish, nuts, citrus fruits, tomatoes, strawberries, chocolate, beef, pork, and mangoes. Avoidance is the key to treatment; antihistamines may relieve symptoms. When reactions are caused by drugs, more acute treatment may be needed. Genetics may play a role in this type of allergy, and prior sensitization to the specific agent is necessary for the reaction, as for most allergies.
Eczema (dermatitis) is characterized by dry, itchy skin, especially on the arms and legs. It is often hereditary, and it may be worsened by stress, sweating, or food allergies. Treatment involves lowering stress, avoiding soaps and detergents, use of cortisone creams and drugs, an elimination diet with avoidance of allergenic foods. Desensitization is usually not very helpful for this problem.
Contact dermatitis is characterized by an itchy, red, raised rash that may blister. It can occur anywhere on the body where contact to the allergen has been made. Common allergenic agents are poison oak or ivy, chemicals such as nail polish or soaps, plastics, metals, and fabrics. Medical treatment involves avoidance of known allergens and the use of antihistamine and cortisone drugs to reduce symptoms.
Asthma is characterized by difficulty in breathing, wheezing, coughing, and production of bronchial mucus. It is caused by a combination of genetic, allergic, and stress factors. It is commonly treated with drugs, avoidance and desensitization, and stress management. (This complex illness will be discussed in my next book, Staying Healthy with Modern Medicine.)
Headaches, alcoholism, and cigarette smoking may also involve allergy factors. Pain in the head, neckaches, and painful sensitivity to light, while they may be a result of stress or muscle tension, may also be caused by reactions to chemicals and foods. In such cases, the treatment would include rest, relaxation, pain relievers, and clearing of allergenic agents. Alcoholism often involves an allergic component with an addiction to grains and/or yeast (intestinal or vaginal yeast, skin fungus, or internal parasites or worms may also act as allergens as well as tissue irritants); it may also be a psychological disease with possible genetic predisposition, and may be related to a deficiency of trace mineral chromium (see Chapter 6), which is a key component of glucose tolerance factor. Treatment involves avoidance and therapy, possibly with the use of drugs or counseling. Cigarette smoking often involves an allergic addiction to either tobacco or the chemicals added to cigarettes. Treatment of nicotine addiction incorporates the elimination of the addiction, which may require counseling, will power, detoxification, and a change of lifestyle.
While there are a great many types of allergic reactions, almost all result from elevated levels of two different antibodies—immunoglobulin E (IgE) and immunoglobulin G (IgG), which occurs more with foods. IgE stimulates the release of histamine, causing immediate physiological activities. The common histamine response includes swelling, redness, itching, and possibly pain. The IgG antibody causes more delayed and long-term reactions. Some of the problems caused by the IgE reaction are hay fever, or pollen reactions, insect sting reactions, urticaria (hives) from ingested substances, such as foods or drugs, and atopic (hereditary allergy-mediated IgE) dermatitis or eczema. Many of these are fairly easy to observe and diagnose; however, reactions such as a change in energy level, decreased mental clarity, or digestive symptoms may be more difficult to acknowledge and to understand as allergic responses. IgG-mediated delayed types of reactions include many drug side effects; problems from exposure to chemicals, including tobacco; and most food allergies (that is why skin testing is not very useful for such allergies—it measures only IgE responses). Most allergy problems are a mixture of these different immunoglobulin-medicated reactions.


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Welcome to this month's catch up showcase of our favorite Adobe Illustrator tutorials available on Tuts+. We publish tutorials on techniques and effects to make awesome vector graphics in Illustrator. My name is Sharon Milne, the Vector and Drawing Editor on Tuts+ and it is my pleasure to share with the Illustrator community five of our most interesting and popular tutorials published during January 2014.


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Arizona, a U.S. state for only about a century, serves as microcosm of our national experience. Most of our ancestors are from away, do not share a common heritage and have seen themselves as God's chosen. We experience an especially strong need and temptation to affirm the unity and simplicity of a set of core values.
Paradoxically, portraying ourselves as uniquely open often serves to strengthen our sense of ourselves as a chosen few and to justify new forms of repression of those who are different. There is a long tradition in the U.S. of treating even domestic dissidents who suggest the limits to or the difficulties in attaining the "American dream" as "foreign inspired."
President Barack Obama's tepid and overhyped stimulus package, leaving unemployment at extraordinarily high levels, occasions poverty, insecurity and scapegoating. Democrats must return to a vigorous jobs agenda. But building support not only for job creation but long-term safety nets requires addressing scapegoating directly.
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman maintains ethnic diversity must be limited to maintain support for the safety net. But perhaps the very repetition of such sociological generalizations helps to entrench the problem. It may give undue solidity to the very murky notion of ethnicity and freeze existing group boundaries.
In addition, Krugman assumes that enactment of a just safety net depends on what is happening within the society. A dynamic between internal and external may play a more vital role than in earlier eras. Rather than build commitment to the safety net - especially in our globalizing world - on cultural or ethnic homogeneity, the best foundation may be far more pluralistic.
Such a coalition might spring from multiple ethnicities, concerns about gender justice, labor, and social gospel and secular sources, all of whom recognize or can be induced to see the danger to each from repressive agendas. Minimally, they develop a greater appreciation for civil liberties. On this basis, some cultivate among themselves and others a willingness to risk challenge to the certainty of their identities in an effort to have a fuller life together. The most alienated will likely reject such overtures, but others confused and disturbed by the drift of our politics may respond.
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In Arizona even as activists oppose a new immigration law both through the courts and boycotts, they can reach out to some police officers who see the cost and inequities in the law. Not all supporters of the new law are racist or unmovable. Collaboration between sympathetic members of the police and Hispanic community leaders can show how community cooperation has already reduced crime. And within the Hispanic community itself, new alliances may be built as some who have shared opposition to the undocumented (perhaps because they or their parents came legally) come to see that demonization boomerangs back on them.
At their best, participants in such coalitions are willing to concede that some of their deepest beliefs about God and truth are not or have not been fully proven. They admit their participation in historic injustices. (Mexicans who break laws by crossing our borders are returning to land stolen from Mexico.)
A pluralistic politics on the international scene may be equally vital, especially as walls between inside and outside become more porous. In an earlier column, I cited the World Social Forum's motto, "Another world is possible." The emphasis is on initiatives from the bottom up. The WSF rejects not only the corporate-dominated model but also even the underlying assumption that the world can be united through one underlying ideology, philosophy or worldview. Its only membership requirements are opposition to corporate domination, an international outlook, nonviolence and open participation, terms whose meaning it continually re-examines.
The WSF, the sister cities movements and the recent global climate summit all recognize that justice among as well as within nations is central to both economic sustainability and to constructive alternatives to the forced population flows.
Undocumented immigrants can be a catalyst to transformations - precisely because they are less rooted. Coming from a variety of Christian and indigenous perspectives, many value cultural, religious and family commitments more than endless material growth. Many also share a greater appreciation for the centrality of political participation both as a value itself and a means to a more dynamic pluralism. Many have engaged at great personal risk in public demonstrations. They may help us enact a more generous society.


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THE PLAINS –– Top-10 finishes for a pair of individuals and seventh-place showings for both Galax's teams punctuated a year full of highlights for Twin County cross country runners as the season drew to a close with the VHSL championships at the Great Meadow course near Manassas on Nov. 13.
Galax's Travis Cockerham brought home an eighth-place finish in the boys' race and Grayson County's Carley Smith finished 10th in the girls' race, with the Maroon Tide placing seventh in both the boys' and girls' team standings.
"Coach [Mary Jane] Ballard and I are extremely pleased with the performances of our kids under the pressure of the state championships," Maroon Tide coach Tony Quesenberry said. "Both teams stepped up and performed at their highest level of the season and seemed to peak very well this year at district, regions and state."
Cockerham and Smith, both juniors, earned all-state honors for the second year in a row. Cockerham shaved more than 30 seconds off his time from a year ago and finished in eighth place in a field of 125 boys, posting a time of 16 minutes, 47 seconds as places five through nine crossed within five seconds of one another.
Jon Ulrich of Lebanon edged Mischa Turner of Northumberland at the finish for the individual championship, both runners posting times of 16:22.
Lebanon runners took two of the top three spots and the Pioneers finished second in the team standings behind Altavista. Radford, Mathews, George Mason, Central of Woodstock, Galax, Floyd County, Clarke County and John Battle rounded out the top 10.
Following Cockerham for the Maroon Tide were Justin Ayers (17:53), Trevor Quesenberry (18:12), Eddie Hanks (18:19), Dyllan Taylor (18:27), Chandler Quesenberry (19:08) and Kevin Loftin (19:10). Ayers, Quesenberry and Taylor all recorded personal best times.
Tyler Pauley of Grayson County posted a time of 18:19 just three months after starting the season as a football player,
Galax placed among the top 10 boys team for the 18th time in 18 state appearances. The Tide's top 10 runners on the boys' team will all return in 2011.
Smith cut 25 seconds off her 10th-place effort from a year ago to post a time of 20:25. Katlyn Ayers of Strasburg topped George Mason's Julia Estrada for the individual championship with a winning time of 19:08.
The Maroon Tide girls will have 11 of 12 runners back, losing Marleigh Durham, who rebounded from an early-season injury to compete in her fourth state championships. Durham was third-fastest with a time of 22:26 among Galax runners, who were paced by a pair of freshmen, Megan Boyles (39th, 21:50) and Lindsey Ayers (47th, 22:01). Kelsey Williams (23:00), Jennifer Laws (23:13), Alexandra Moreno (24:07) and Susan Davis (24:15) rounded out Galax's top seven.
George Mason had three of the top six scoring individuals and won the team championship with 35 points to Radford's 94. They were trailed in the top 10 by Strasburg, Mathews, Parry McCluer, Page County, Galax, Clarke County, Middlesex and PH-Glade Spring.
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Jonathan Harris CBE was one of the pioneering RICS presidential team who brought in the Agenda for Change; the RICS modernisation programme at the turn of the century.
Jonathan Harris CBE, born September 1941 began his surveying career at Chartered Surveyors Pepper Angliss and Yarwood as an office junior in 1959. He became a full partner in 1964 and senior partner in 1974. He held this position for more than 20 years, but eventually left to concentrate on his private business, as well as his long-standing interest in higher and further education.
Jonathan has played many important roles at RICS including leading the RICS team that successfully brought into the organisation the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers and Valuers (ISVA).
He is well recognised for his role in planning the evolution of RICS. He was one of the pioneering RICS presidential team who brought in the "Agenda for Change". This set out the challenges that RICS would face at the turn of the Millennium, and how it would have to adapt to continue growing as an organisation. He chaired the RICS Promotion task force. Its report "Promoting Status and Focus" was fully adopted as RICS future policy.
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My experience with Windows installer -
it doesn't ask you about partitions,
it crashes everything, creates the partitions by itself and extracts the system.
Selection/creation of partitions is a barrier. One more barrier which makes N% of interested people cancel (delay to N years) the installation of eCS.
Do people install several OSes to one hard drive?
My experience:
Usually they install 1 OS to 1 partition.
This related to eCS too.
IMHO, eCS installer should offer:
1) "Empty hard drive and install eCS to 1 parition"
2) "Edit partitions (eCS installer has this dialogs already), Select partition for installation.
Of course, if 1) is selected, the installer should prepare partitions and start installation without reboot.


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The Chromium OS project includes open source software for embedded controllers (EC) used in recent ARM and x86 based Chromebooks. ?This software includes a lightweight, multitasking OS with modules for power sequencing, keyboard control, thermal control, battery charging, and verified boot. ?The EC software is written in C and currently supports two different ARM Cortex based controllers. Intel based designs, such as the Chromebook Pixel use the TI?Stellaris LM4F?(Cortex M4) while the Samsung Chromebook (XE303C12) and HP?Chromebook 11 use an ST-Micro STM32F100 (Cortex M3). Some STM32L variants are also supported. Support for additional embedded controllers is ongoing.
This document is a guide to help make you familiar with the EC code, current features, and the process for submitting code patches.
For more see the Chrome OS Embedded Controller presentation and video from the 2014 Firmware Summit.
What you will need
Getting the EC code
The code for the EC is open source and is included in the Chromium OS development environment (~/trunk/src/platform/ec/). See http://www.ikilp.com.cn/chromium-os/quick-start-guide for build setup instructions. If you want instant gratification, you can fetch the source code directly. However, you will need the tool-chain provided by the Chromium OS development environment to build a binary.
The source code can also be broswed on the web at:
Code Overview
The following is a quick overview of the top-level directories in the EC repository:
Firmware Branches
Each Chrome device has a firmware branch created when the read-only firmware is locked down prior to launch. ?This is done so that updates can be made to the read-write firmware with a minimal set of changes from the read-only. ?Some Chrome devices only have build targets on firmware branches and not on cros/master. ?Run "git branch -a | grep firmware" to locate the firmware branch for your board. ?Note that for devices still under development, the board configuration may be on the branch for the platform reference board.
To build EC firmware on a branch, just check it out and build it:
To make changes on a branch without creating a whole new development environment (chroot), create a local tracking branch:
(The --cbr means "upload to the current branch")
Here is a useful command to see commit differences between branches (change the branch1...branch2 as needed):
For example, to see the difference between cros/master and the HEAD of the current branch:
Note: Use three dots "..." or it won't work!
Building an EC binaryNote: The EC is normally built from within the Chromium OS development chroot to use the correct tool-chain. Building directly from the EC repository:
Building via emerge (the build file used when you build Chrome OS):
(optional) Run this command if you want to build from local source instead of the most recent stable version:
Build the EC binary:
Please be careful if doing both local "makes" and running emerge. The emerge can pick up build artifacts from the build sub-directory. It's best to delete the build directory before running emerge with
The generated EC binary from emerge is found at:
The ebuild file used by Chromium OS is found here:
Flashing an EC binary to a board
Flashing via the servo debug board
If you get an error, you may not have set up the dependencies for servo correctly. The EC (on current Chromebooks) must be powered either by external power or a charged battery for re-flashing to succeed. You can re-flash via servo even if your existing firmware is bad.
Note: This command will fail if write protect is enabled.
If you build your own EC firmware with the "make BOARD=<boardname>" command the firmware image will be at:
If you build Chrome OS with build_packages the firmware image will be at:
Specifying "--image" is optional.? If you leave off the "--image" argument, the flash_ec script will first look for a locally built ec.bin followed by one generated by emerge.
Assuming your devices boots, you can flash it using the flashrom utility. Copy your binary to the device and run:
Note: "-p internal:bus=lpc" also works on x86 boards...but why would you want to remember and type all that?
Preventing the RW EC firmware from being overwritten by Software Sync at boot
A feature called "Software Sync" keeps a copy of the read-write (RW) EC firmware in the RW part of the system firmware image. ?At boot, if the RW EC firmware doesn't match the copy in the system firmware, the EC's RW section is re-flashed. ?While this is great for normal use as it makes updating the EC and system firmware a unified operation, it can be a challenge for EC firmware development. ?To disable software sync a flag can be set in the system firmware. ?Run the following commands from a shell on the device to disable Software Sync and turn on other developer-friendly flags (note that write protect must be disabled for this to work):
This turns on the following flags:
The GBB (Google Binary Block) flags are defined in the vboot_reference source. A varying subset of these flags are implemented and/or relevant for any particular board.
Using the EC serial console
The EC has an interactive serial console available only through the UART connected via servo. ?This console is essential to developing and debugging the EC.?
Find the serial device of the ec console (on your workstation):
Connect to the console:
Useful EC console commands:
Host commands
The way in which messages are exchanged between the AP and EC is documented separately.
Software Features
Most code run on the EC after initialization is run in the context of a task (with the rest in interrupt handlers). ? Each task has a fixed stack size and there is no heap (malloc). ?All variable storage must be explicitly declared at build-time. ?The EC (and system) will reboot if any task has a stack overflow. Tasks typically have a top-level loop with a call to task_wait_event() or usleep() to set a delay in uSec before continuing. ?A watchdog will trigger if a task runs for too long. ?The watchdog timeout varies by EC chip and the clock speed the EC is running at.
The list of tasks for a board is specified in ec.tasklist in the board/$BOARD/?sub-directory. Tasks are listed in priority order with the lowest priority task listed first. ?A task runs until it exits its main function or puts itself to sleep. ?The highest priority task that wants to run is scheduled next. ?Tasks can be preempted at any time by an interrupt and resumed after the handler is finished.
The console "taskinfo" command will print run-time stats on each task:
The "stack used" column reports the largest size the stack for each task grew since reset (or sysjump).
Hooks allow you to register a function to be run when specific events occur; such as the host suspending or external power being applied:
DECLARE_HOOK(HOOK_AC_CHANGE, ac_change_callback, HOOK_PRIO_DEFAULT);
Registered functions are run in the HOOKS task. ?Registered functions are called in priority order if more than one callback needs to be run. ?There are also hooks for running functions periodically: HOOK_TICK (fires every HOOK_TICK_INVERVAL mSec which varies by EC chip) and HOOK_SECOND. See hook_type in include/hooks.h for a complete list.
Deferred Functions
Deferred functions allow you to call a function after a delay specified in uSec without blocking. Deferred functions run in the HOOKS task. ?Here is an example of an interrupt handler. ?The deferred function allows the handler itself to be lightweight. Delaying the deferred call by 30 mSec also allows the interrupt to be debounced.
static int debounced_gpio_state;
static void some_interrupt_deferred(void)
int gpio_state = gpio_get_level(GPIO_SOME_SIGNAL);
if (gpio_state == debounced_gpio_state)
debounced_gpio_state = gpio_state;
dispense_sandwich(); /* Or some other useful action. */
/* A function must be explicitly declared as being deferrable. */?
void some_interrupt(enum gpio_signal signal)
?? ?hook_call_deferred(some_interrupt_deferred, 30 * MSEC);
Shared Memory Buffer
While there is no heap, there is a shared memory buffer that can be borrowed temporarily (ideally before a context switch). ?The size of the buffer depends on the EC chip being used. ?The buffer can only be used by one task at a time. ?See common/shared_mem.c for more information. ?At present (May 2014), this buffer is only used by debug commands.
Making Code Changes
If you see a bug or want to make an improvement to the EC code please file an issue at?crbug.com/new. It's best to discuss the change you want to make first on an issue report to make sure the EC maintainers are on-board before digging into the fun part (writing code).
In general, make more, smaller changes that solve single problems rather than bigger changes that solve multiple problems. ?Smaller changes are easier and faster to review. ? When changing common code shared between boards along with board specific code, please split the shared code change into its own change list (CL). ?The board specific CL can depend on the shared code CL.
Coding style
The EC code follows the Linux Kernel style guide (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle). ?Please adopt the same style used in the existing code. Use tabs, not spaces, < 80 column lines etc...
Other style notes:
Submitting changes
Prior to uploading a new change for review, please run the EC unit tests with:
Pre-submit checks are run when you try to upload a change-list. ?If you wish to run these checks manually first, commit your change locally then run the following command from within the chroot and while in the src/platform/ec directory:
The pre-submit checks include checking the commit message. Commit messages must have a BUG, BRANCH, and TEST line along with "Signed-off-by: First Last <[email protected]>". The signed-off-by line is a statement that you have written this code and it can be contributed under the terms of the LICENSE file.
Please refer to existing commits (git log) to see the proper format for the commit message. If you have configured git properly, running "git commit" with the "-s" argument will add the Signed-off-by line for you.
While adding printf statements can be handy, there are some other options for debugging problems during development.
Serial Console
There may already be a message on the serial console that indicates your problem. ?If you don't have a servo connected, the "ectool console" command will show the current contents of the console buffer (the buffer's size varies by EC chip). ?This log persists across warm resets of the host but is cleared if the EC resets. ?The "ectool console" command will only work when the EC is not write protected.
If you have interactive access to the serial console via servo, you can use the read word "rw" and write word "ww" commands to peek and poke the EC's RAM. You may need to refer to the datasheet for your EC chip or the disassembled code to find the memory address you need. There are other handy commands on the serial console to read temperatures, view the state of tasks (taskinfo) which may help. ?Type "help" for a list.
The EC may save panic data which persists across resets. ?Use the "ectool panicinfo" command or console "panicinfo" command to view the saved data:
The most interesting information are the program counter (pc) and the link register (return address, lr) as they give you an indication of what code the EC was running when the panic occurred. "HANDLER EXCEPTIONS" indicate the panic occurred while servicing an interrupt. "PROCESS EXCEPTIONS" occur in regular tasks. ?If you see "Imprecise data bus error" listed, the program counter value is incorrect as the panic occurred when flushing a write buffer. ?If using a cortex-m based EC, add "CONFIG_DEBUG_DISABLE_WRITE_BUFFER" to your board.h to disable write buffering (with a performance hit) to get a "Precise bus error" with an accurate program counter value.
Assembly Code
If you have a program counter address you need to make sense of, you can generate the assembly code for the EC by checking out the code at the matching commit for your binary ("ectool version") and running:
make BOARD=$board dis
This outputs two files with assembly code:
which (in the case of the LM4 and STM32) are essentially the same, but the RW addresses are offset.
Write Protect
The EC has read-only (RO) and read-write (RW) firmware. Coming out of reset, the EC boots into its RO firmware. The RO firmware boots the host and asks it verify a hash of the RW firmware (software sync). If the RW firmware is invalid, it is updated from a copy in the hosts RW firmware. Once the EC RW firmware is valid, the EC jumps to it (without rebooting). The RO firmware is locked in the factory and is never changed. The RW firmware can be updated later by pushing a new system firmware containing an updated EC RW region.
Note that both the RO and RW firmware regions are normally protected once write protect has been turned on. The RW region is unprotected at EC boot until it has been verified by the host. The RW region is protected before the Linux kernel is loaded.
Hardware Write Protect
A hardware-based mechanism is used to prevent the RO firmware from being changed. The most common design is to have an input grounded by a screw. When the screw is inserted, hardware write protect is enabled. This grounded signal can be read by the host chipset and EC. It is also routed to the "write protect" pin on any SPI flash chips containing firmware.
Software Write Protect
Software-based write protect state stored in non-volatile?memory. If hardware write protect is enabled, software write protect can be enabled but can't be disabled. If hardware write protect is disabled, software write protect can be enabled or disabled (note that some implementations require an EC reset to disable software write protect).
The underlying mechanism implementing software write protect may differ between EC chips. However the common requirements are that software write protect can only be disabled when hardware write protect is off and that the RO firmware must be protected before jumping to RW firmware if protection is enabled.
Ectool includes commands to enable and disable software write protect.
ectool flashprotect - Print out current flash protection state.
ectool flashprotect enable - Set ro_at_boot flag. The next time the EC is reset it will protect the flash. Note that this requires a cold reset.?
ectool flashprotect enable now - Set ro_at_boot ro_now all_now flags and immediately protect the flash. Note that this will fail if hardware write protect is disabled.
ectool flashprotect disable - Clear ro_at_boot flag. This can only be cleared if the EC booted without hardware write protect enabled.
Note that you must reset the EC to clear write protect after removing the screw.?If the ro_at_boot flag set and the EC resets with the HW gpio disabled, the EC will leave the flash unprotected (ro_now and all_now flags are not set) but leave ro_at_boot flag set.
Flashrom can also be used to query and enable/disable EC flash protection.
View the current state of flash protection:
Enable protection. This is immediate. The protection range indicates the RO region of the firmware.
Disable protection. Disable can only be done with hardware write protect disabled.
Reboot with screw removed. Note that protection is still enabled but the protection range is zero.
EC Version Strings
The read-only and read-write sections of the EC firmware each have a version string. This string tells you the branch and last change at which the firmware was built. On a running machine, run "ectool version" from a shell to see version information:
You can also run the "version" command on the EC serial console for a similar output.
The format of the version string is:
If the version is: rambi_v1.6.68-a6608c8
The branch numbers (as of May 2014) are:
Hack command to check the branch tags:
Run "util/getversion.sh" to see the current version string. The board name is passed as an environment variable "BOARD":
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Gonzaga's seven-foot center Kelly Olynyk has decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the NBA draft, Olynyk's father, Ken, confirmed in a text message to USA TODAY Sports. The Spokesman-Review (Wash.) first reported the news Friday afternoon.
"I love this place, I love my teammates, but the NBA has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid so it was something I had to act on," Olynyk said in a statement released by Gonzaga later Friday. "It's your dream. That's the highest level and everyone wants to play at the highest level. It will be a journey, but I think it will be a fun one. You have to make sure you are ready to go and you are ready to play. You're just moving on and you don't know what's going to happen up there."
"It was tough. When you talk to people no one really tells you to go or not go; everyone says it's your decision. Everyone tells you why you should go and why you could come back. Everyone kind of leaves you hanging in that sense. They just say go with your heart, go with your gut and that's what will make the best decision."
Olynyk told Gonzaga coach Mark Few he was going pro Friday morning. Few said in a statement he was "very proud" of what Kelly accomplished at Gonzaga and wished him well at the next level.
The redshirt junior averaged 17.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.1 blocks per game this season. He also shot 63 percent from the field, helping to guide Gonzaga to a 32-3 record. Olynyk emerged as one of the nation's premier players after sitting out for a season to develop as a basketball player. During his redshirt year, Olynyk worked on strength training, agility and balance.
PREVIOUSLY: Olynyk propels Gonzaga to the top
He needed to improve in all those areas, particularly if he wanted playing time. Over his first two seasons with the 'Zags, Olynyk averaged just 4.8 points and 12.9 minutes a game. He debated transferring, but instead decided to stay put and improve his body and game in Spokane.
"Kelly's always had a belief that he was an NBA player," Gonzaga strength and conditioning coach Travis Knight told USA TODAY Sports in January. "Early on, I think that was met with a lot of comments, basically, trying to help him see the picture clearly of where he really was. Really, you think you play like this guy? You think you're going to be this guy?
"He had a belief that he could do it. He kept that goal in the front of his mind and didn't let go of it. There are a lot of guys who say that but don't, in their heart of hearts, believe it. But Kelly does, and we're all starting to see it."
Olynyk is projected to be a first-round pick in the June 27 NBA draft.


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Jennifer Mallory Sinclair, 28, arrested last week; made first court appearance on Monday
DEEP RUN � A former South Lenoir High School music teacher faces two counts of a sexual offense with a student after being arrested at her home last week.
Thursday, the school resource officer at South Lenoir � Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office Deputy Brantley Dawson � learned of alleged sexual relations between teacher Jennifer Mallory Sinclair, 28, and an 18-year-old SLHS student.
Sinclair was released from her position at the high school the same day.
�The school system promptly reported this matter to law enforcement and will continue to fully cooperate with law enforcement as it addresses this matter,� responded Lenoir County Public Schools in statement. �The school system has taken appropriate measures to address this as a personnel and school matter, but now the matter is the hands of the criminal justice system.�
LCSO detectives began an investigation of the allegation and took Sinclair into custody at her home at 534 Nobles Road in Deep Run early Friday afternoon. She was booked into the Lenoir County Detention Center an hour later and received a $15,000 bond.
She later made bail and was released.
�The school system acted quickly to investigate the rumors of this relationship,� Lenoir County Sheriff Chris Hill said in a statement. �My officers ran with the information and obtained a formal confession from Sinclair and were able to obtain an interview with the student, which corroborated the statement of Sinclair. None of the acts are believed to have occurred at the school and the relationship appears to have been of a short duration.�
Sinclair made her first appearance in Lenoir County District Court on Monday morning, expressing to Judge Charles Gaylor she wished to receive court-appointed counsel. After making her decision, Sinclair left the courtroom with a bailiff to complete her paperwork and receive a business card of the attorney who will be representing her.
Court documents were still in use Monday afternoon, so Sinclair�s attorney and her next trial date were unknown as of press time.
The two felony counts charged to Sinclair come from a state law declaring sexual conduct illegal in two circumstances where consent of the victim isn�t a defense.
The part of the law applicable to this case says that a school official and a student at that same school cannot have sexual contact, during that period or after, while the alleged victim remains a student. For instance, because of Sinclair�s and the alleged victim�s age, if they hadn�t been teacher and student at the same school, their contact would have been legal.
Sinclair previously taught music at Woodington Middle School, where she was one of three finalists for teacher of the year in Lenoir County for the 2010-2011 school year. She had been active with promoting local music and music education.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 and email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @WolfeReports.
According to an arrest report obtained from the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office, a 28-year-old employee of South Lenoir High School has been charged with two counts of felony sexual offense against a student.
Jennifer Mallory Sinclair of Nobles Mill Road, Deep Run, was arrested on Oct. 11 at 1:20 p.m. Her bond was set at $15,000 and her first court appearance is scheduled for today.
See Tuesday's edition of The Free Press and www.kinston.com for the full story.
The following information was released by the LCSO on Monday morning:
On October 10, 2013 a Lenoir County Sheriff�s deputy (Resource Officer) at South Lenoir High School, Deep Run, was made aware of an allegation of a sexual relationship between a South Lenoir music teacher and an 18-year-old South Lenoir High School student.
The information was derived from school administrators.
A criminal investigation ensued and as a result the teacher, Jennifer Sinclair, age 28, was arrested at her Lenoir County home on October 11, 2013 by Det. Christy Smith. Sinclair was taken to the Lenoir County courthouse and charged with two counts of sexual activity with a student.
Sheriff Chris Hill stated, �The school system acted quickly to investigate the rumors of this relationship. My officers ran with the information and obtained a formal confession from Sinclair and were able to obtain an interview with the student, which corroborated the statement of Sinclair. None of the acts are believed to have occurred at the school and the relationship appears to have been of a short duration.�
Sheriff Chris Hill
Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office


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August 2005
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report was released this year. What did it encompass and why?
Marine species for commercial purposes have been reduced by 90 percent in much of the world. Photo: Olena Sullivan
Samper: The well-being of people depends on ecosystems and the benefits, such as drinkable water, that they provide. However, human impact on the environment has increased. So the United Nations initiated a comprehensive scientific study, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, to better comprehend the consequences of recent changes to ecosystems, to propose scenarios for the future, and to suggest actions that might limit damage to ecosystems. Nearly 1,400 experts from 95 countries participated in this assessment.
How does science describe an ecosystem?
Samper: An ecosystem is defined as a habitat where a community of organisms—animals, people, and plants—interact with one another and with their physical environment. It includes other components such as soils, water, and nutrients that support the organisms living in an ecosystem. Human well-being depends on the services provided by ecosystems and their components.
How do ecosystems provide services to humans?
Samper: Ecosystem services are the benefits people receive from ecosystems. We derive basically four kinds of services:
- Provisioning services are things like food, timber, and water
- Regulating services regulate things like climate, floods, and disease
- Supporting services support geochemical and biological processes on Earth, for example, the nutrient cycle and pollination
- Cultural services make a difference for our souls, physical and aesthetic enjoyment, and our communities
How have ecosystems changed in the last 50 years or so?
Samper: One of the findings in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that the ecosystems of the world have changed more rapidly in the last 50 years than at any other point before human history. For instance, we estimate that about 25 percent of the terrestrial continental surface of the planet is currently under some type of cultivation system. In cultivated ecosystems, increased agriculture and the greater use of a few modern varieties of crops have reduced the genetic diversity of domesticated plants and animals.
Other findings of the report include the following:
We find that degradation has been different in different kinds of ecosystems. We know that the forest ecosystems, both temperate and tropical, have been degraded substantially, whereas in others, like some of the mountain grasslands or savannahs, the impacts have been less. For about half of the ecosystems that we surveyed, more than 50 percent of the total area has been lost in the last 100 years.
In marine ecosystems, fisheries have declined tremendously because of growing global demand for food and animal feed. Marine species exploited for commercial purposes has been reduced by 90 percent in much of the world since commercial fishing began.
The number and/or geographical spread of many animal and plant populations have declined. For example, a quarter of mammal species are now under threat of extinction. Human activity is the reason that there have been between 50 and 1000 times more extinctions in the last 100 years than would have occurred naturally.
What are the main causes for these changes?
Samper: The overall main change has been land transformation and habitat degradation, but it really depends on the kind of community or ecosystem that you are looking at. We know that for forest ecosystems and for drylands, land use and land use change have been the most important driver. We know that for island ecosystems the main driver has probably been invasive species. We know that in certain kinds of wetlands and other kinds of ecosystems, pollution and climate change have also had a big impact. So the driver depends on the type of ecosystem.
How do these changes affect biodiversity?
Samper: They affect it in many ways. Partly they have reduced the range of many species. We know that there are many species that have gone extinct locally or globally. We know that the population size of most species is actually decreasing, with the exception of certain species that tend to be invasive. For those particular species, which is a small number, their overall distribution range is increasing worldwide and substantially. But it is not only about the individual species. We find that these changes affect the interactions among them and the functioning of the communities and the ecosystems as well.
And how do these changes affect human well-being?
Samper: Because as humans we have derived so many of our essential elements of our livelihoods from these ecosystems, these changes affect us directly by, say, reducing the access to provisional services like food or fuel or water. But they also affect us to a greater extent, say, by affecting flood regulation. We see that in many parts of the world the number of floods is increasing in direct proportion to deforestation. So there are many indirect effects that come to haunt us.
How can we reverse the degradation of ecosystems?
Samper: There is a range of tools. As a part of the assessment we considered about 70 different kinds of responses. They are grouped in a set of economic steps that need to be taken, primarily through the removal of certain kinds of perverse incentives that promote the unsustainable use of particular kinds of use of ecosystems.
Take the logical solutions that have to do with developing certain kinds of technologies that improve the efficiency of the use of certain ecosystems. Many of these technologies are available; we just need to transfer them faster around the world. We know that there are certain kinds of social incentives and response measures that work, primarily through education, creating awareness, and changing consumption patterns. There is a set of scientific areas where we have important gaps in our understanding that we need to fill, and also institutional measures primarily related to governments and the types of institutions that we have for regulating access to ecosystems and their services.
What are the prospects for ecosystems in the foreseeable future?
Samper: The majority of the scenarios show that there will continue to be important increases in ecosystem loss in the next 30 or 40 years. As part of the assessment we developed four general scenarios looking at the future effects of different kinds of drivers. What we find is that under all scenarios populations will increase substantially in the next 40 to 50 years, but under some, the population will actually start decreasing substantially by the year 2100. And, clearly, what we are finding is that it is not only about limiting the population size but also about how we can use different technologies and market incentives to do this. The good news is that clearly there are many tools that we know will have an impact in terms of improving ecosystem services. What we need to do is just to embrace them and to transfer some of them faster in terms of policies and goodwill.
What are the main conclusions drawn from the assessment?
Samper: The main conclusions are these:
Clearly, in terms of the status and trends, we have lost important areas of most ecosystems around the world, both terrestrial and marine.
We know that most of these changes are increasing and the rate of change is increasing, pretty much throughout the world.
We know that the changes in ecosystems and their services is having a direct impact on the livelihoods of people all over the world. In many parts of the world it is increasing the inequities in terms of affecting disproportionately some of the poorer people.
We know that some of the changes in ecosystems are generating more and more nonlinear changes. These are changes that we'll never expect. A good example of that is the fishing industry off the coast of Newfoundland where we know that fishing pressure was so increased that the entire fisheries population crashed. We have not been able to recover that. We are seeing more and more changes like that that are not easily predictable.
We know that under most of our suggested scenarios ecosystem change will continue but that there are certain scenarios that are clearly better than others for decision makers and others designing plausible futures.
Last, but not least, we know that there are certain types of responses that we can implement right now to substantially improve ecosystem services and human well-being.
So, all in all, ecosystems have suffered greatly and will continue to suffer greatly unless we undertake a series of measures. The assessment has provided some answers, based on comprehensive investigation, as to the measures we can take. The assessment is only the first step. We must now act to initiate changes that will ensure the well-being of the human race in the future.
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Last month I went to see the Kips Bay Decorators Showhouse in New York City where there were not one, but two great kitchens, and I will feature the second kitchen soon. The walnut species kitchen and living area of this first kitchen were designed by James Rixner, interior designer from New York city. Here are my thoughts on this kitchen!
Below: The view from kitchen to living area. Someone tell me, what's not to like...not much! The kitchen is (relatively) simple, clean, modern, colorful and interesting. What I love is the use of white, seen in the kitchen and in the furnishings. To my eye, the white shade, especially in the kitchen, serves to reflect light, always a good thing in a small space and it also sort of tones down the feeling of formality.
In addition, the seamless white countertop and backsplash allows the space to flow, undisturbed by visual clutter (I'll get to that later.) Less is more is a mantra I always have in my head and having the strong interest of the rug as a patterned visual anchor...on the floor, in this case, is an excellent place to use pattern. I don't think I would have used the stainless steel apron sink, but that is another quibble where there is no right or wrong to attach to it. The rug's connection (and the floor as well) to the living area also makes perfect sense visually. Love.
Below: Here is where I will talk about visual clutter and in one respect, it is a quibble. For those who have not lived in a New York City apartment (among my immediate family, 3 of us lived in NYC apartments for a collective total of 22 years) a few things out of place have a way of pretty much drastically affecting the feeling of spaciousness. To my eye, there are too many accessories in this kitchen. It's also a simple fix to edit the accessories here.
Below: Another quibble - the shelf is so shallow, I would have continued it across range or included a stainless steel shelf of the same dimension. You never know what a coop board will or will not allow, however.
Below: A visually strong feature, I think I would have designed this stunning stainless steel wall cabinet to be in the center of this particular countertop section with an equal amount of wood on each side, probably ending in line with the base cabinet corner, but it's an interesting and creative feature, very much so.
Below: I do really like the shallow wood shelf that runs along the backsplash. It is useful and a great feature, as it is elegant, simple, and just different. I like it.
Below: Another view of the shelf. It works for me. The stainless material throughout in various places ties in beautifully, accentuating a cool/warm feature, allowing each element to "pop."
Below: Yes, it's a narrow ledge for casual dining, but, hey, it's New York City and you are lucky to have that alternative dining spot!
Below: To me, this is near perfect. I'm good with all of it. Too many accessories? Maybe, and that's a quibble.
Below: Warm, stunning, lively, absolutely beautiful.
Below: Love the glass table and love the white. I also love the varying shades of blue and the analogous color scheme.
This kitchen is a beautiful execution with a feeling of elegance, the right amount of comfort and great function. What do you think?


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This morning we awake to some good news coming from the official Raspberry Pi blog:
We're pleased to announce that from today all Model B Raspberry Pis will ship with 512MB of RAM as standard. If you have an outstanding order with [RS Components or element14/Premier Farnell], you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered. Units should start arriving in customers' hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory.
According to the post, the additional memory "would enable some interesting embedded use cases (particularly using Java) which are slightly too heavyweight to fit comfortably in 256MB."


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Moderators: Three Stars, dagny, pfim, netwolf
Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank water from a tank in which a young woman's body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks, police said.
Elisa Lam's corpse was found in the Cecil Hotel's rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low Tuesday.
Lam's parents reported her missing in early February. The last sighting of her was in the hotel on January 31, Los Angeles Police said.
Detectives are now investigating the 21-year-old Canadian's suspicious death, police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said.
"The water did have a funny taste," Sabrina Baugh told CNN on Wednesday. She and her husband used the water for eight days.
"We never thought anything of it," the British woman said. "We thought it was just the way it was here."
What she described was not normal.
"The shower was awful," she said. "When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal."
meecrofilm wrote:Great lunch article
Hockeynut! wrote:columbia wrote:Police Sting Nets "Cougar," 71, On Prostitution Rap
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... ted-689543
She'd be more of a sabertooth tiger...
Rylan wrote:Those are some great stories these past few posts.
shmenguin wrote:Rylan wrote:Those are some great stories these past few posts.
great, in a sense. so bad i kinda want a lobotomy, in another.
Meet Rasoul Speight.
The Bloods gang member is facing a narcotics charge after New Jersey cops yesterday discovered a whopping 100 bags of heroin hidden in his anus, police report.
Speight, 32, was driving on the Palisades Interstate Parkway when his 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer was pulled over during a routine traffic stop. When cops detected the smell of marijuana they asked for--and received--permission to search the car.
While Speight, seen above, was being processed at police headquarters, he "was found to be in possession of 100 bags of heroin which were concealed in his anus and undetectable at the scene." Police estimated the heroin's vale at $1000 in New York City, and $2000 in upstate New York, "where both subjects were traveling to."
Speight, who cops noted is "also listed as a Bloods gang member," was jailed in lieu of $38,500 bail on a pair of felony drug counts.
shafnutz05 wrote:http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/heroin-hidden-in-butt-561324
columbia wrote:D.C. Pepsi Machine Found to be Vending Malt Liquor
http://dcist.com/2013/02/pepsi_machine_ ... ding_m.php
A huge sinkhole about 30-feet across opened up under a man's bedroom and swallowed him, taking all of the furniture too.
PensFanInDC wrote:columbia wrote:D.C. Pepsi Machine Found to be Vending Malt Liquor
http://dcist.com/2013/02/pepsi_machine_ ... ding_m.php
Well...the jig is up I guess...
Sam's Drunk Dog wrote:It's all part of Sweden's diabolical plan to take over the world. Their first step was to injure us with their poorly made furniture. Now they are on to poisoning us with their poorly made food.
Police say a man was high on the synthetic stimulant known as bath salts when he was naked and chased a car down the street in central Pennsylvania.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 35-year-old Douglas Leary III, of Altoona, who was arrested after a woman in the car called 911 to report the man's behavior early Saturday morning.
The homeless man accused of going on a stabbing spree in the East Liberty Target store has a criminal history that stretches across the nation and includes convictions on charges that he bit a man on the head and aided in a robbery that led to a woman's death.
A man bitten by a poisonous coral snake killed the reptile by biting off its head, then used its skin as a tourniquet _ a move that probably saved his life.
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