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GM Crops Ten Years On: The Undying Promise
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/news/gm-crops-ten-years-on-the-undying-promise
10 June 2009 Dominic Glover
At an IDS Dangerous Ideas in Development event in Parliament this evening (10 June 2009), the STEPS Centre Biotechnology Research Archive, spanning 10 years of GM research, will be launched along with Dominic Glover's new STEPS Centre working paper, Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology's Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years On.
Current thinking on GM crops and the poor
In the last couple of years, government ministers, journalists and commentators have depicted transgenic (GM) crop technology as a vital tool for feeding an expanding global population. These influential voices are aware that GM technology is intensely controversial. They also know that one of the reasons for the controversy is the widely held suspicion that GM crops have been designed to benefit the biotechnology industry and could actually undermine the livelihoods of poor farmers in the developing world. However, they now think that there is a good news story to be told about GM crops in developing countries. They believe that their confidence is backed up by the encouraging conclusions reached by a number of academic studies that have been published in respectable peer-reviewed journals. Those studies have been interpreted by some analysts as showing that GM crops have proved to be broadly beneficial for poor farmers in places like China, India and South Africa. But is that view based on a firm foundation?
New analysis reveals a more complex picture
Detailed analysis of the studies in question reveals a rather more complex and mixed picture – one that should strongly qualify any claim that 'GM crops are good for the poor'. Certainly, some farmers have benefited from the new technology, but others, especially smaller and poorer farmers, have not. The data also confirms that the impacts of GM technology depend on an awful lot more than one or a few new genes inserted into a crop plant.
Key facts lost in translation?
An intriguing gap has opened up between the story revealed in data collected from farmers' fields and the ways in which that data has been interpreted and represented to policy makers and the general public. It seems there is a marked reluctance by some people to let go of the alluring promise of GM crops as a biotechnological quick fix for the problems of hunger, poverty and underdevelopment.
The Archive, working paper, material from today's event, plus new Eldis and id21 GM resources are all available on the Steps Centre website.
Dominic Glover is a Post-doctoral Fellow in theTechnology and Agrarian Development Group, Wageningen University, NL.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/news/gm-crops-and-the-global-food-crisis
GM CROPS AND THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
On Wednesday 10 June, three speakers from SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, Wageningen University and the University of East Anglia spoke at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade on the often controversial topic of genetically-modified (GM) crops and their potential to counteract the global problems of poverty and hunger. The event marked the launch of a new paper by one of the speakers, Dominic Glover, entitled 'Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology's Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years on', which is a critical review of the available evidence on Bt cotton's effectiveness in improving the incomes of poor farmers.
The example of Bt cotton
Glover began the debate, which was chaired by the Countess of Mar. There has been, he felt, a 'triumphalism' amongst advocates of GM crops, and too little attention paid to the environmental, social and political context surrounding their use. Glover has kept track of the evidence on Bt cotton, which he feels has been distorted, leading to the risk of poor policy decisions being made on the basis of insufficient facts.
His paper reviews the literature that has been published in peer-reviewed journals on Bt cotton. In it he explains that there are a number of limits to the potential usefulness of Bt cotton. It protects against pests, but will not improve yield in those years when pests are not a problem – and in fact, in those years yield might even be less than with other seeds. It has a marginal impact on pesticide use, and has been shown in some studies to have less impact than farmer training. There is concern that secondary pests might increase in numbers to fill the 'ecological gap', which would mean the benefits are not sustainable. There is a chance poor farmers could suffer financially if they spend extra on Bt cotton, and then lose the crop anyway to a different pest.
Overall the impacts of Bt cotton have been diverse and contingent; but this is not what one would gather from some authors' summaries of their work. The impacts are not, as has been claimed, necessarily significant, consistent or even positive. There is the allure of the technological 'quick fix'; when a product is preconceived as effective and successful it can be tempting to swim with the tide rather than against it.
The complex problems of hunger and poverty need complex answers. There is a danger that a focus on GM crops could crowd out other possibilities, such as integrated pest management systems or irrigation, in the fight for donor dollars and government attention. Glover finished by emphasising that he was not in any way anti-science, or event anti-GM, but calling for careful research which takes account of policy and institutional frameworks.
Context matters
The next speaker was Erik Millstone of SPRU. He began by setting out the question as he sees it; namely not 'is GM beneficial?' but 'under what circumstances are GM crops beneficial?' Millstone said that there are examples in which GM could be very beneficial; for instance, if crops could be made unattractive to locusts.
He explained that in order for GM to benefit poor farmers, it would have to be very low cost. Making GM crops the same price as other seeds is too high; he spoke to farmers in Kenya who had not bought any seeds at all for years, making the GM debate essentially irrelevant to them. The technology should also be employment-generating, not labour-replacing, if it is to alleviate poverty. Patents raise the price of technologies beyond the reach of poor farmers; often farmers are not allowed to re-use seed but have to re-buy it each year. Other times the technology itself has not been sensitive to farmers' situations; drought-resistant seeds contain more moisture, but this makes them more prone to mould and hence difficult for poor farmers to keep in good condition. He also dismissed the argument that GM crops are 'scale-neutral', saying that all technologies have economies of scale, and pointed out that introducing a new technology into an unequal society does not diminish pover!
ty but can amplify inequalities.
A solution in search of a question?
Peter Newell of the University of East Anglia was the third speaker. He said that broader issues relating to poverty and hunger, such as land rights or social protection, were often ignored when talking about technology, and that GM crops could be seen as 'a solution in search of a question'. Newell stated that we need to be more explicit in what we mean when we talk about the pro-poor benefits of GM; yield increases may not be sustainable year on year, assumptions are often made about affordability and focus has been on the genetic modification of cash crops rather than staple foods. Assuming a technology can bypass its political and institutional context does its potential a disservice. He pointed out the contradiction in expecting commercial entities like Monsanto to make poverty reduction their aim; but emphasised that where public money is being spent a different process should come into play. Viewing GM as a magic bullet is only going to entrench opposition to it; inst!
ead, we need to be realistic about which technologies can best address the issues faced by poor farmers.
10 06 2009 GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis presentations
Recording of the three presentations from this event.
GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis presentations
http://cdn1.libsyn.com/ids/GM_Crops_and_the_Global_Food_Crisis_-_Presentations.mp3?nvb=20090615132727&nva=20090616133727&t=02088fa3f73fded516ba1
10 06 2009 GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis full event recording
Recording of the whole event including questions and answers;
GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis full event recording
http://cdn4.libsyn.com/ids/Gm_Crops_and_the_Global_Food_Crisis_full_event_with_questions.mp3?nvb=20090615132723&nva=20090616133723&t=05d4493723aa6719563a8
10 06 2009 GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Glover presentation
Recording of Dominic Glover's presentation.
GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Glover presentation
http://cdn4.libsyn.com/ids/GM_Crops_and_the_Global_Food_Crisis_Glover_presentation.mp3?nvb=20090615132720&nva=20090616133720&t=0e8354acdf93b88ef439d
10 06 2009 GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Millstone presentation
Recording of Erik Millstone's presentation. GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Millstone presentation
http://cdn1.libsyn.com/ids/GM_Crops_and_the_Global_Food_Crisis_Millstone_presentation.mp3?nvb=20090615132717&nva=20090616133717&t=04109c9de0c7b33ab5f7b
10 06 2009 GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Newell presentation
Recording of Peter Newell's presentation.
GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis Newell presentation
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/ids/GM_Crops_and_the_Global_Food_Crisis_Newell_presentation.mp3?nvb=20090615132537&nva=20090616133537&t=0b6d0930ebc34d071bab7
Glover, D (2009) 'Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology's Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years on', STEPS Working Paper 15, Brighton:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=C97B86EE-FCA3-C1B2-48B554D0FDCFF75A
Glover, D. (2009) 'Transgenic cotton: A 'pro-poor' success?', STEPS Briefing 15
http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=C970CE17-DAAF-EDEB-CE91D36E25A285A5
STEPS Biotechnology Research Archive http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/gm.html
June 15th, 2009 | Category: Industrial Crops


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Q: Why I got runtime error while I am using local N instead of global N? In this code when I use N is globally it works but using the same value as a local variable shows a runtime error. But I can not fix the problem. Actually, why should I use this N globally?
void solve()
{
    long long n;
    cin >> n;

    long long N=210;   /// But when I use this locally it shows runtime error
    long a[N];
    long long dp[N][N];

    for(int i=1; i<=n; i++){
        cin >> a[i];
    }

    sort(a, a+n+1);

    dp[0][0]=0;

    for(int i=1; i<=n; i++)
    {
        dp[i][0]=1e9;

        for(ll j=1; j<=2*n; j++){
            dp[i][j]=min(dp[i][j-1], dp[i-1][j-1]+abs(a[i]-j));
        }
    }

    long long ans=dp[n][2*n];

    cout << ans << '\n';
}

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long long N;   /// But when I use this locally it shows runtime error
long a[N];

There are two problems with this:

*

*N is uninitialised. The behaviour of the program is undefined since you read the value of an uninitialised object.

*N is not compile time constant. It cannot be used as the size of an array variable. The program is ill-formed.

If N was global, then it would be zero-initialised, so the first problem would be resolved. However, that would introduce another problem that the size would be zero which isn't allowed for array variables. The non-constant problem also remains.
To properly solve  1. initialise the variable before attempting to use its value.
To properly solve 2. either use compile time constant size or create a dynamic array. The simplest way to do the latter is to use std::vector. There's no need to use a global variable:
std::size_t N;
std::cin >> N;
std::vector<long> a(N);

long a[N];
// ...
for(int i=1; i<=n; i++){
    cin >> a[i];
}
sort(a, a+n+1);

There's a potential problem here. If N is less than or equal to n, then this will overflow a and the behaviour of the program will be undefined.
Furthermore, you never initialised a[0] so when std::sort reads it, the behaviour of the program will be undefined.
I recommend using range-based loops to avoid overflows:
for(int& element : a) {
    std::cin >> element;
}
std::ranges::sort(a);

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This will see Spotify adopting the Nielsen Brand Effect function across Spotify in Japan, Australia, US, Germany, Canada, Mexcio, UK, Spain, France and Netherlands. The integration also captures exposure to audio, video, and display formats heard or seen across desktop, mobile and connected devices.
Through the move, Spotify looks to help marketers garner a deeper understanding of how their ads resonate and affect brand lift with their target audience. This is by examining the effectiveness of campaigns in raising brand awareness, perception and purchase intent, a statement read. The insights also look to help marketers make more informed media investment decisions across their mix and drive increased campaign performance on Spotify.
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The band began to tour around the USA in 2010, and then "Another Night" was the official studio debut in 2011. The album was a big smash, and so HIGH SPIRITS made the first European tours in 2012 and 2013. The next album "You Are Here" was released in 2014, followed by tours all over the USA and Europe. The autobiographical album "Motivator" came in 2016, and since then the band rocked over fifty more gigs and remained popular on the heavy metal festivals and smaller venues as well. HIGH SPIRITS played a 10th anniversary show in Chicago in August 2019, and then it was time to make the next album…
… and that's a heavy one! Recorded like always by Chris Black in Chicago but then mixed to full power by Dan Swanö at the famous Unisound Studio. This new batch of nine unforgettable songs shows why HIGH SPIRITS is still the first name in 100% high-energy rock! The time is right, you know. And the bond between HIGH SPIRITS and audience is unbreakable. Just like the album cover, it's a blazing beam of light through the dark… Now listen, because "Hard To Stop" is about to echo across the world!
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There are a lot of words to describe my incredible educational travel in one of the prospering and unusual countries in East Asia. But it is much more difficult to express my delight with one word, which could describe and convey all those impressions, knowledge, emotions which I gathered during two weeks spent in South Korea.
In mighty Russian there is a unique word, which can deliver all range of events, and this word is "amazing".
Amazing country, trip, people, program, events ….
Everything has started with an amazing announcement of a competition on participation in winter school of "SolBridge" university. The program is designed for twenty people, but only for ten participants, who have passed the competitive selection, IAB could cover the most part of trip expenses. I decided to participate and submitted all necessary documents for competition. After one week the answer that I passed has come. I cannot express all my happiness in words, because it was possible only to dream of such trip. I started to prepare documents for visa, collect suitcase, and read articles about history and culture of South Korea.
On December, 3 our delegation has arrived to Daejeon city. Our incredible program has begun with the moment, when we have crossed a threshold of SolBridge University. I was conquered by the atmosphere of university at once. At first glance it seemed to us that we have arrived to the business center, but then it became clear, that the lectures are held in the modern futuristic building. Benevolent managers of the program of students' mobility have met us with a great hospitality, and I have forgotten about the fatigue of long and exhausting flight.
Within ten days we attended trainings and lectures on the international business and marketing. The last course of lectures has been devoted to business etiquette, and the lecturer who was an ambassador of South Korea worked in this position for more than twelve years. He managed to visit almost all countries worldwide; personally had dinner with presidents of world powers. Isn't it surprising?
After passing the subjects attestation, the second block of the program, cultural and historical, has started. We managed to see South Korea from all sides: we visited five cities, ethno-villages, megalopolises, tourist centers and also the largest manufacturing enterprises and techno parks of Korea. The Hyundai Company has opened their doors for us, they showed us not only how cars are collected, but also the biggest in the world sea tankers.
Korea is an amazing country, with unusual culture and traditions, and their cuisine fully delivers a peculiar exotic. What at first glance seems to be sweet is actually sour-salty, and pickles can be luscious and sweet. If you ask me to give advice about what to take with you to Korea, I would advise you to take more black or green tea. It was the only thing we missed in cold and rainy winter weather.
There are a lot of words, metaphors, epithets in language …, but it is very important to pick up such word which will manage to unite so many contrasts, emotions, impressions and knowledge in one general picture. Likewise in life there are a lot of events, cities, people, but it is very important to note the moments, which enormously influence the person's identity and his attitude.


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Q: Why are submersions open maps? I am trying to understand submersions and I ran into this explanation:

A submersion is an open map. This is because locally there exists
co-ordinates in which the submersion can be written as the projection
onto the first few co-ordinates, which is an open map.

Why is this open? All I know about submersion is that by the local submersion theorem, around any point $p$ you can locally turn your submersion into the canonical projection onto the lesser dimensional space. i.e. you get $(x^1, ..., x^m) \rightarrow(x^1, ... , x^n)$ with $n < m$.
I don't see why this is open. For example take a closed ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and project it down onto its shadow in $\mathbb{R}^2$, well that is certainly a canonical projection since all we did is take out the last coordinate as required, but the image is the closed disk, so we are just mapping a closed set onto a closed set.
What am I misunderstanding? Is the theorem actually stating that the coordinates in the submersion span the whole of $\mathbb{R}^m$ and $\mathbb{R}^n$?

A: If you want to check whether a map is open, why are you starting with a closed set? Of course you won't get anywhere. Assume that $m>n$ and consider the projection $\pi\colon \Bbb R^m \to \Bbb R^n$. Let $\Omega\subseteq\Bbb R^m$ be open and let's show that $\pi[\Omega]\subseteq \Bbb R^n$ is open. Write $\Bbb R^m = \Bbb R^n \times \Bbb R^{m-n}$, so that $\pi$ reads $\pi(x,y) = x$. Let $x\in \pi[\Omega]$. Then there is $y\in \Bbb R^{m-n}$ such that $(x,y)\in \Omega$. Now since $\Omega$ is open there is $\epsilon > 0$ such that $B((x,y), \epsilon) \subseteq \Omega$. Then we claim that $B(x,\epsilon) \subseteq \pi[\Omega]$. Let $x' \in B(x,\epsilon)$, so that $\|x-x'\|<\epsilon$. Then $\|(x,y) - (x',y)\| = \|x-x'\| < \epsilon$, which says that $(x',y) \in B((x,y),\epsilon)$, so that $(x',y) \in \Omega$. This means that $x'\in \pi[\Omega]$, as desired.
(Here, we use the norm on $\Bbb R^m = \Bbb R^n \times \Bbb R^{m-n}$ given by $\|(x,y)\| = \|x\| + \|y\|$. Recall that all norms in finite dimensional vector spaces are equivalent.)


Gautham Menon put his foot forward and cleared all the air around the controversy involving the two of them and posted a 2 page letter on Twitter clarifying everything.
A lot is happening between filmmakers Gautham Menon and Karthick Naren who have collaborated for a film titled Naragasooran starring Sundeep Kishan, Arvind Swami and Shriya Saran. Karthick Naren has made allegations that Gautham Menon has misused the funds allocated for the film and he was treated as trash by the filmmaker. Karthick Naren and Gautham Menon have had an ugly spat on social media with both of them accusing each other of wrongdoings. But Gautham Menon put his foot forward and cleared all the air around the controversy involving the two of them and posted a 2 page letter on Twitter clarifying everything. Gautham Menon has also mentioned that Karthick Naren and himself have sorted everything out now and all is good now.
A note from me to end this….
It all started when Karthick Naren randomly posted a tweet hinting that he had trusted someone blindly and was cheated. It was speculated that Karthick was referring to Gautham Menon, producer of Naragasooran, and the two seem to have fallen out. And activities in the last 48 hours on Twitter confirmed that all is not well between Gautham Menon and Karthick Naren.


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SOME NOTES ON MY CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF FEDERALISM
TALA AND SIHAYA ARE SET TO TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES
OUR PAR INTERNS LEARN INCLUSIVE & REGENERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
By Tala Alngag Bautista
05.August.2018
Genuine peace and reconciliation (PAR) usually lead towards regenerative-inclusive development.
We understand peace as enjoying harmony in our basic human relationships through the transforming power of God:
harmony with the Creator—spiritual transformation;
harmony with our being—psycho-social transformation;
harmony with others—socio-political transformation; and,
harmony with the creation—economic-ecological transformation.
We understand reconciliation as building relationships between antagonists. The primary goal is to seek innovative ways to create a time and a place to address, to integrate, and to embrace the painful past and the necessary shared future as a means of dealing with the present.
When PBCI makes a covenant with our community partners, we see and understand regenerative-inclusive development as follows:
By regenerative, we mean a normal process of self-reproduction, renewal, or restoration of an ecological system toward a better, higher, or more worthy state. While we start with sustainability — which is the ability to maintain ecological systems at a certain rate or level — we want to seek regenerative development as a foundational principle in this development initiative.
By inclusive development, we mean (a) enjoying a high, regenerative growth to create and expand economic opportunities; (b) experiencing broader access to opportunities to ensure that members of society can participate and benefit from growth; and, (c) having social safety nets to prevent extreme deprivation.
Such are the basic principles we teach our interns.
Marivic Dubria is now a 'farmerpreneur' — serving as Marketing Manager of Bacofa Coop in her village. She's also the Chair of Davao del Sur Coffee Council.
And we expect them to apply these principles in the practical world of business.
Our interns combine commerce and social issues in a way that improves the lives of people connected to our ministry of reconciliation. We measure the social entrepreneurs' success not in terms of profit alone. Our social entrepreneurial interns measure success in terms of people, peace, progress, partnership, and planet.
The social enterprise, to us, are businesses that make money and work toward improving the peace and reconciliation journey of our land. By selling quality goods and services to consumers, which we determine through market research, we seek to help solve conflicts in our land in a sustainable way.
The people who are often attracted to social entrepreneurial principles and practices are those who dream, and are willing to work hard and smart, towards solving a social problem. In turn, social entrepreneurs attract consumers who want to help social problems every time they spend money on something they need or want.
Tala Alngag Bautista
Tala is the Pilipino term for 'star.' She is a proud member of the Kalinga First Nation and celebrates the fact that she belongs to the Indigenous People (IP). She's a graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. Tala is currently working on her Master of Arts degree in Conflict Transformation at the Eastern Mennonite University—Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Tala is the Chief Operating Officer (on leave) at PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. and also Senior Vice President at Coffee for Peace, Inc.
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No Host, Should The Oscars Be Cancelled?
By Doortje Geelkerken - Opinions Writer · February 24th, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.
With the infamous awards show just around the corner, the Oscars organizers have found themselves scratching their heads in regards to who should host the glamorous evening.
Kevin Hart was held accountable for some controversial tweets and statements made in the past, resulting in a situation where he was shunned from hosting the Oscars in a dignified manner.
But should we even be concerned about things like this? Should there even be an Oscar ceremony?
Yes, of course there are appealing aspects to watching attractive people dress in the
most lavish clothing and receive awards for their work on the big screens. But when we look at how much the Oscars cost and how much it takes to produce them, do we believe we should scrap the show all together?
An article written in Vox stated that the last Oscars ceremony that took place without a host was a complete disaster. In the article, Alissa Wilkinson wrote that history could simply repeat itself, and it might just include a disaster similar to when Rob Lowe performed a duet with Snow White back in 1989, which got very mixed reviews.
I personally believe the Oscars are always fun to watch. Even though I don't see the purpose in streaming them internationally, I believe that it is important to give credit where credit is due.
With no host announced, the question remains: should the Oscars take place without a host, or more radically, should there be an Oscars ceremony at all?
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Peter Denton from Action Medical Research explains how 'Bring your Bear' is a simple fun event that everyone can get involved in.
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Bring your Bear is a fun and educational event that raises vital funds to help save and change the lives of sick and disabled babies and children. The charity has a wealth of resources to help teachers and nursery leaders make the most of Bring your Bear day by telling everyone about the event and educating children about the work the charity does.
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Register today and Action Medical Research will send out a free fundraising pack including Paddington Bear stickers, a poster and a guide to making the most out of your day. There are also bear-related activity sheets and resources for teachers available to download including a presentation about the charity that can be used in class or assembly and a letter to parents.
Action has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.
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Or, in English: The Color (out of Space)
This 2010 German film is at its center a faithful retelling of HP Lovecraft's novella, moved to a new setting: Germany just before World War II and just afterwards, with a more modern framing story.
I only know a handful of German words–the useful phrases that a tourist learns while traveling, and the useless ones picked up from WWII movies–but most of this story is told so clearly in visual images or adheres closely enough to Lovecraft's familiar tale that I can follow it without turning on the subtitles.
Anyway, the first part is in English.
Old Dr. Davis has flown from the US to Frankfurt, then disappeared. His son Jonathan (who is supposed to be American, but I find his accent extremely suspect) goes to Germany to try and find him.
Before Jonathan leaves on his journey, he speaks to an old friend of his father's at Miskatonic U, who recalls that Dad was stationed as an army medic at the end of the War around Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg. Dr. Davis hadn't visited Germany since then and has no other connection to that country, so this is the only clue Jonathan has as to where his father might've gone.
Arriving in Germany, he rents a car and drives around the Wurttemberg Forest area until he encounters a detour; an empty valley is being flooded to create a reservoir. The road that used to lead through it is already impassable under water. A narrow dirt road winds around the edge of the new lake. Jonathan takes this through the forest, stopping at one point to get out and look around. The lake is visible through the trees.
There's a feeling that something strange and unsettling is going on in this place: The wings on a dragonfly audibly snap shut when it lands on a leaf. A toad appears to be watching Jonathan from its hole.
What Jonathan doesn't see before he gets back into his car is an American passport lying on ground not far from the road.
Eventually, he reaches a village that's mostly abandoned now that the main road has been cut off. The windows of many houses are boarded up. The only place that's open is a bar where the old people who haven't left their homes yet still hang out. Jonathan shows them a recent photograph of his father, but no one recognizes Dr. Davis.
Then he bumps into one old man and drops the handful of photos and travel documents he's holding. Among these scattered items is a photo of Dad as a young soldier. This one, the old man does recognize.
He introduces himself as Armin Pierske (a Germanization of Ammi Pierce) and tells Jonathan how he knew Dr. Davis. This is shown to us in flashback.
Returning home after the end of the War, a younger, wounded Armin finds his home has been commandeered by the US Army to shelter displaced persons. The house is at the moment occupied by a group of GIs accompanied by Dr. Davis, who speaks enough German to explain this to Armin.
When Armin sees that the GIs intend next to explore an empty farm that they see down in what appears to be a desolate and burned-out part of the valley, he protests and tries to stop them from going. Since none of them except the doctor speak any German, they don't heed his warnings, but when he wonders aloud, "It's not over, it is?" (in German), Dr. Davis decides to take him along.
When Old Armin learns that Dr. Davis returned to Germany 2 weeks ago, he says that no one forgets it… The Color.
This leads him to tell Jonathan about that ruined farm and what happened to the family who used to live there.
It all began with the meteorite.
Young Armin saw the meteorite fall and land in the valley one night in the late 1930s, and the next day went out to see the crater near the farm belonging to his friends, the Gärteners.
Like Armin Pierske/Ammi Pierce, the New England names of the Gardners have been Germanicized. The father remains Nahum, but the three sons are Thaddäus, Marwin, and Samuel (as in the Finnish adaptation of Hypnos I reviewed a little while ago, this last is pronounced "Sam-well"; there may not be any German name similar to Zenas).
Before the meteorite crashed in their field, the Gärteners' farm and the valley around it were fertile farm country. We see Frau Gärtener drawing up water from the well on the hillside above their home while the boys run through the lush landscape.
This part of the film follows Lovecraft's story most closely. A group of scientists come out to the farm to see the meteorite at the bottom of its crater and chop out a sample of the extremely soft rock. This, they put it into a wooden bucket, and when it burns a hole through the bucket, they ask for a metal one. They take their sample back to their laboratories for a wide range of tests–which produce some remarkable results–then, when the remains of the sample evaporate overnight, return to the farm to get more. The meteorite is now noticeably smaller.
When they chop into the meteor more deeply this time to get a bigger sample, they discovers a globule of an unknown color within it. The viewer doesn't see what they see; our point of view looks up through a slightly distorted, glassy bubble, as if we're looking through the surface of the globule at the people gathered around it. When the lead scientist taps it with a hammer, there's a pop and flash like an old-fashioned camera flashbulb going off.
During a storm that night, the meteorite draws repeated lightning strikes. In the morning, nothing remains left in the crater. But the influence of whatever was in that burst globule continues to be felt.
Throughout that summer, the crops on the farm grow fantastically. The fruit in the orchard are ridiculously huge; the pears look like gourd squash.
Nahum looks forward to the harvest, but when he and Ammi pick the first pears to take a bite, the fruit is inedible. All the produce is similarly tainted. The crop is worthless.
The family is quick to connect this blight with the meteorite–as if disaster has literally dropped down upon them from the heavens.
"Perhaps God doesn't love us anymore," muses Marwin. His dad hushes him and sends the boys to bed.
That winter, the snow doesn't stay on the ground around the crater site and the acres of the Gärtener farm, even though it lies heavy in other parts of the valley. The neighboring farmers notice.
Thaddäus, the teenaged son and almost a grown man, stops by one night at the bar and joins the other people hanging around and drinking. He confides that he's seen the branches of the trees moving when there's no wind, and that his little brother Marwin listens for sounds at night that no one else can hear.
Marwin is also spooked by the trees moving. So is Armin when he comes to call. The other villagers begin to avoid the farm and the Gärteners whenever they do come into town, which isn't very often anymore. The whole family is constantly weary and depressed.
The following summer, the farm is plagued by insects as absurdly huge as the pears–like the giant bee Armin sees perched on Frau Gärtener's head during one of his visits. More disturbing still, she doesn't seem to notice it nor care.
Frau Gärtener is the first person to be seriously affected. She stands in the farmyard staring blankly, yet she seems to be hearing or seeing something the others do not and responds to that alone. The family shuts her up in her room, where she goes mad over what she hears.
By the autumn, the local wildlife dies off and the oversized plants start to wither and rot, then fall apart. When Nahum touches a large mushroom growing in the woods, it crumbles into ash beneath his fingertip.
Thaddäus goes mad next from something he's seen up at the well. He screams about "Lights! Lights everywhere!" as he's taken to his room and to be shut up there like Mom. Little Marwin is deeply disturbed by the shouts and hysterical cries he hears from behind their doors; he ventures into Thaddäus's room.
That night, during a pan around the farmland at dusk, we see the Color for the first time.
How does a film show a color "unlike any known… of the normal spectrum… almost impossible to describe"?
By making it the only color we see.
Up until this point, the film has been entirely in black and white. The pin-points of magenta light that suddenly appear in the twilight landscape like unearthly fireflies are an unexpected and delightful surprise the first time you see them.
There'll be more of the Color as the story progresses, used more effectively on some occasions than others, but for me that first glimpse is the most wonderful, even magical.
Now the true horror begins.
Marwin disappears. Old Armin says that he didn't know then what had happened to the boy, but it was clear to him that something in the water was affecting the family. They hadn't eaten the tainted fruit, but they did drink water from the well.
After he didn't hear from the Gärteners for two weeks, he went out to farm for the last time.
Young Armin at the farm tells Nahum about the water, but that information is long past doing any good for anyone. All of three of the boys are gone, one way or another. Nahum sits huddled in his chair in the kitchen, and doesn't seem clear on what happened to his sons. Samuel, he says in answer to Armin's question, "lives below. Below in the well." He thinks his wife and eldest son are sitting right there in the room with him although no one else is there. He also thinks that Marwin is around the house somewhere and calls for the boy to come and put more wood on the fire. There is no fire.
Armin ventures upstairs and looks around the house for the others. He finds Thaddäus lying dead in his room, little more than a dust-covered skeleton. Frau Gärtener is in her room as well. Still alive? Sort of. She's a desiccated body about to crumble into ash, but animated by the globules of Color that pour out of her as she reaches out and falls to the floor.
More Color pours in through the window. Armin hides in the closet and watches through a crack while the Color descends on the crumbling form on the floor; it sounds like it's slurping as the little purple globules from the body coalesce with the bigger globs.
Downstairs, Nahum… melts. We don't quite see what happens to him–but we do see through his eyes as if he's looking up from beneath water as the horrified Armin throws a blanket over him.
Even though much of the movie is set in Germany during the late 1930s, there's no mention at all about the rise of the Nazis. History doesn't play a part in this story except very briefly when old Armin mentions that the War began soon after this; he was glad to go into the army and get far away from the place. He didn't go near the now-empty farm of his former friends until he returned home again.
Jonathan doesn't believe Armin's story. It sounds too weird to him and it doesn't tell him where his father is now.
As he leaves, Old Armin calls after him that his father and the other US soldiers saw the Color too, but Jonathan doesn't come back to hear the rest of the story. We see it, though.
As Young Armin flees the farmhouse after covering up his liquefied friend, he hears a strange, buzzing sound in the distance and looks up to see a bright, but not Colorful, light shining between the hills. He stares at this, entranced, until he's distracted by a reflected glare in his eyes, which allows him to pull himself together and run away. He knew then that it wasn't over.
During the years of World War II, the blight around the Gärtener farm spreads to cover most of the valley with ashen grey.
It's through this barren and desolate landscape, after the War, that he and young Dr. Davis and a couple of the GIs drive out in a jeep to look at the ruins of the farm. It doesn't look like anyone's been there since Armin fled the place years before. There are no bodies to be found. The bedrooms are empty apart from a thick layer of dust.
The GIs want to check out the well up on the now bare and rocky hillside. They look down into it while Armin hangs nervously back; he tries to warn them again when one of the soldiers drops a rock in to see if there's any water.
The rock plops into the sludge far down at the bottom, then sinks slowly into it. Something awakens and a magenta glow rises from the depths.
Before everyone runs for cover, one of the GIs tosses a grenade down the well, which only bursts the well's wooden walls and brings up a large globule of Color. Armin is drawn toward it, but the doctor holds him back. The others hide behind the jeep.
As they stand bathed in purple light, they witness a scene that corresponds to Ammi Pierce's final visit to the farm with the Arkham coroner and a group of other officials after the deaths of his friends–the departure of the Color:
"It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh; and its colour was that same nameless intrusion which Ammi had come to recognise and dread. All the while the shaft of phosphorescence from the well was getting brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men a sense of doom and abnormality which far outraced any image their conscious minds could form. It was no longer shining out, it was pouring out; and as the shapeless stream of unplaceable colour left the well it seemed to flow directly into the sky."
Bright magenta points of light rise out of the land all around them and merge to form one big blobby thing that flies swiftly upwards and off into space.
"Is it over?" Armin asks. He looks up into the quiet night sky.
Instead of staying in the village overnight, Jonathan has camped out in his rental car on the road through the woods close to the new lake's shore. I don't know how he could sleep there out in the dark all alone with the creepy trees rustling all night, but it looks he managed it.
The next morning, when he gets out of the car to have a look at an old standing stone nearby, he finds his dad's hat in the underbrush… and then sees Dad standing there, staring off in the direction of the lake.
Jonathan runs over to hug his father and talk to him, but Dad is unresponsive, much as Frau Gärtener was many years ago. His son takes him back to the car.
As they get in, there's a quick flashback, a memory, of young Dr. Davis during the War. After the Color has flown off, he looks down into well again and says that he sees nothing down there. "Absolutely nothing." But he's lying. There's still a faint purple glow.
Old Dr. Davis's eyes move to look toward Jonathan as they drive away.
Old Armin, meanwhile, lies curled up at home, remembering earlier scenes from his youth–including one or two we haven't seen before related to the fates of the Gärtener boys. He murmurs to himself. "Is it over? Is it over?"
No, I don't think it is.
Author: Kathryn L Ramage
Kathryn L. Ramage has a B.A. and M.A. in English lit and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She lives in Maryland with three calico cats named after the Brontë sisters. In addition to being the author of numerous short stories, reviews, essays, and period mystery novellas, she is also the author of a series of fantasy novels set in a dukedom called the Northlands on an alternate Earth whose history has diverged from ours somewhere during the medieval period.	View all posts by Kathryn L Ramage
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Akili McDowell On His Role In 'David Makes Man'
June 19, 2021 by Julia Mangels
Season 2 of OWN's show David Makes Man is just around the corner, releasing next week on June 22, 2021. The show is centered around the titular character David, played by young actor Akili McDowell.
Described by Oprah Winfrey as "poetry on television," the show follows the story of an African-American teenager who tries to make it into the high school of his dreams while dealing with poverty and the death of his close mentor.
He Wanted to Be an Actor at 8
The actor, who graduated high school in 2021, first picked up the acting bug when he was just eight years old.
During an interview with the In Creative Company, McDowell revealed that he first thought about becoming an actor when he saw Kyle Massey portray Cory Baxter, Raven's brother in the Disney show That's So Raven.
The way he brought his character to life and has so much personality and in his character I could see a lot of myself.
He Has a Lot in Common with His Character
Since he was just an eight-year-old nagging his mother about how he wanted to be like the guy on TV, she had a hard time believing him.
Still, after a lot of pleading, the actor claimed that his mother realized that his passion and commitment were undeniable even at such a young age.
In the same interview, he also suggested that he had a lot in common with his character David. Be it the fact that both of them were raised by a single mother or the fact that they want to always be there for their family, the connection between the two was real.
So, even when McDowell was simply acting out his part in David, he confessed he had learned a lot from that character that applied beyond the reel life.
His Height, Weight, and Age
Hailing from Huston, Texas, McDowell's other extracurricular interests include playing football. In fact, he played for his home team North Shore Mustangs, and even boasts a NextGen All America Camp badge on his player profile.
Other details in his profile include his height, which is five-foot-four, his weight which was 135 pounds, and his birth year: 2002, which puts him at 19 years old as of 2021.
As per his profile, he was enrolled in North Shore Senior High School and had a GPA of 2.9.
Fresh Out of High School
McDowell recently took to his Instagram to announce his high school graduation to the world. The post featured a series of snaps of The Astronaut Wives Club star posing in red academic regalia.
In the caption, the actor encouraged all those who read it to make sure to complete high school when they were ready and cherish every moment spent doing so.
"I'm officially done with with Highschool," he concluded, "On to the next chapter…"
Even though he is fresh out of high school, his acting portfolio already has 10 credits on his IMDb page. He is best known for his roles in The Astronaut Wives Club, Billions, and obviously, David Makes Man.
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Hire Velocity Welcomes Andrea Hopkey as Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations
Hire Velocity, a leader in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and human capital solutions, welcomes Andrea Hopkey to the leadership team as Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations. Andrea brings more than 24 years of experience in corporate leadership and recruiting to her new role, where she will spearhead corporate communications, presentations, proposals, and client quarterly business revenues with the goal of greater efficiency and revenue growth. She will also work with HR to develop the company's Leadership and Organization Development program.
Andrea's commitment to excellence and innovation aligns closely with Hire Velocity's mission to deliver exceptional results and superior service to clients. In this new role, she will work closely with sales, marketing, and client delivery to ensure quality in all areas of client service and relationships.
"We're thrilled to have Andrea join our leadership team," said Hire Velocity Chairman John West. "She has an impressive track record of developing and implementing new strategies that will help generate the best results for clients. We're looking forward to working with her in this capacity."
Andrea has an extensive background in the recruiting and staffing industry that includes roles as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Recruiting Director at national and international companies. In these roles, she achieved significant increases in revenue, implemented growth strategies, designed and launched new operations both in the U.S. and internationally, and designed and implemented new delivery models that resulted in growth and cost savings. Her leadership has served clients well in each of her roles and has also improved employee satisfaction ratings through increased efficiency and streamlined processes.
A current board member of Covenant Community, Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in residential life-stabilization for homeless men recovering from substance abuse, Andrea has deep roots in the Atlanta area. She was also named to Birmingham Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 list and was a finalist for CEO of the Year for mid-size companies.


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Paul Ataide Named Executive Director for Monarch Coopers Corner
Real Estate In-Depth | January 9, 2023
Paul Ataide has been named executive director for Monarch Coopers Corner in New Rochelle. In this position, he is responsible for day-to-day community operations. Monarchs Coopers Corner is nearing completion and is scheduled to open early 2023.
Ataide previously was executive director at a senior living community in Westchester County. He also served as associate executive director in senior living in MA. He brings more than 15 years of healthcare experience to this position. Monarch Coopers Corner is the first senior living community in Westchester County to seek WELL certification from the International WELL Building Institute, or IWBI. WELL is grounded in research into the health effects of physical spaces on people. The community, located at 11 Mill Road in New Rochelle is being developed and managed by Monarch Communities.


You won't have to spend time trying to decide what to wear on chilly fall days when the Carve Designs Whitcomb Sweater is in your closet. The rolled neck and dropped shoulder seams project laid-back vibes that pair perfectly with jeans for everyday demands. The boxy fit contributes to the relaxed aesthetic, while the wool blend material is soft and breathable against your skin for day-long, casual comfort.
I love this sweater! Adorable with its stripes and raglan sleeves and boxy fit. It's also incredibly soft and warm. And while it does run a little big, I washed it (I know I know, its 50% wool, dry clean only and all that jazz. But ain't nobody got time for that. I washed it in a delicates bag, on cold, no dryer, usually handwash only stuff does ok that way) and it shrank a tad. Still fits fine but isn't quite as adorably big anymore. I usually wear a small and ordered a small. I actually liked the original fit so much I might order it in a medium ;) Anyway, this sweater is good stuff other than the shrinkage but you could argue that that's 100% my own fault.
I am a huge fan of boxy over-sized sweaters, and so of course I love this one. Super soft, really cute pattern, and a high crew neck which is great. Not a typical itchy sweater.. it also breathes really well too!
This is seriously my favorite sweater that I own. It's sooo soft, and the boxy fit is adorable! Since it's meant to be a more relaxed fit, I think it might be a bit big for more petite ladies, but I'm 5'6" and 135lbs and the Small fits me perfectly. If you're looking for the perfect fall staple piece, look no further.
p.s. the Walnut Mariner colorway is gorgeous!
This is meant to be a loose fitting sweater. I went with a medium, which is what I usually wear in tops and jackets. I really like how soft it is and the loose fit around the body and arms. Super cozy for chilly fall days!
I absolutely love this sweater! It fits me great as a relaxed fit sweater! I have longer arms and torso for my size and this fits great! I am 5'4 and bought the XS and found this sweater to fit great and be one of my favorites for this fall! Definitely recommend trying it out and seeing if it fits!
This sweater had an awkward fit on me. It is meant to be big, but it was a little too big. The sleeves were really big, like double the size of my arm. They were also really long, they completely covered my hands. The body was also pretty big and didn't have any shape to it. I am a huge fan of over-sized sweaters but this one was just not a good fit.
The material of it was very soft! And I loved the Walnut Mariner color. It is definitely a cute fall sweater if it fit properly.


After two days of protest at the site of the controversial Letpadaung copper mine, the NLD slams authorities' failure to address social and environmental concerns.
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — After two days of protest at the site of the Letpadaung copper mine project in Sagaing Division, the National League for Democracy (NLD) issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing Burmese authorities and the Chinese company behind the mine for failing to address the social and environmental impacts of the project.
On Monday, Khin Win, a 56-year-old woman, was shot dead by police during a protest against the copper mine project—a joint venture between Myanmar Wanbao Mining Copper Limited and the Burma Army-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings.
On Tuesday, several more villagers were injured in confrontations with police near the project site, including at least three who were shot with rubber bullets.
A parliamentary commission headed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reviewed the controversial project in early 2013 and recommended that it continue, provided the company adequately address the mine's social and environmental impact.
In March 2013, President Thein Sein formed a committee to implement the findings of the parliamentary commission's report. The NLD said in its statement on Wednesday that authorities had failed to heed the commission's recommendations.
Khin San Hlaing, an NLD MP and a member of the Suu Kyi-led commission, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that Thar Aye, Chief Minister of Sagaing Division, had rejected the NLD's claim.
The project has drawn vehement opposition from local communities that have objected to the mine's environmental impact, land confiscation and the removal of religious structures in the area.
Tensions flared between villagers and Wanbao contractors on Monday and Tuesday after the latter began clearing land with bulldozers and fencing off more than a dozen acres of farmland in Hse Tae village as part of the planned expansion of the mine.
On Wednesday, a commission was formed to investigate the clashes between protestors and police, with Thar Aye as vice-chairman. "He [Thar Aye] said he would then handle the issue based on the findings of the commission," Khin San Hlaing said.
However, the NLD MP questioned the impartiality of the commission, as all its members were reportedly government officials.
Thar Aye said that the company would continue fencing off land in the project area, according to Khin San Hlaing.
The President's Office said in a statement on Wednesday that 11 police and 11 protestors were injured during protests at the mine site on Monday and Tuesday. The statement claimed that villagers were armed with slingshots, knives and sticks and said that security forces had fired warning shots.
Regarding the death of Khin Win, the President's Office said it was taking action according to the law.
In the last two years, there have been numerous confrontations between villagers and security forces as the mine's operators attempted to extend the project's operating area.
In Nov. 2012, dozens of protestors, many of them Buddhist monks, suffered serious injuries after police fired incendiary rounds, believed to be white phosphorous, into a protest camp near the mine.


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The most basic craps bet is the Pass Line bet. When you place a Pass Line bet, you're betting with the dice. In other words, you're betting that the either a 7 or an . While acting as the shooter, a player must have a bet on the "Pass" line and/or the "Don't Pass" line. "Pass" and "Don't. I recommend you play at this casino for the best online craps experience. For the Pass Line bet, the come-out roll favors the player but then shifts to the house .
You can play craps by knowing just one bet, the PassLine bet, so that's what we'll teach you here. You can certainly learn all the otherbets if you want (see our. Here we simplify the three dice game and teach you how to play Craps properly. If the come-out roll is a 2, 3 or 12, also known as "craps," the pass line loses. The game of craps is considered to be based mainly around the pass line wager. In fact, statistically about 90% of all players who enter a craps table, play the.
The Pass is the most fundamental bet in craps; almost every player at the table bets on it. If you only understand one bet in craps, it should. QUESTION: My usual betting system in craps is to play the pass line with full odds and then follow it up with two come bets with full odds.


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Power efficiency has become the most important consideration for many modern computing devices. In this paper, we examine power efficiency of a range of graphics algorithms on different GPUs. To measure power consumption, we have built a power measuring device that samples currents at a high frequency. Comparing power efficiency of different graphics algorithms is done by measuring power and performance of three different primary rendering algorithms and three different shadow algorithms. We measure these algorithms' power signatures on a mobile phone, on an integrated CPU and graphics processor, and on high-end discrete GPUs, and then compare power efficiency across both algorithms and GPUs.


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HomeSan Mateo CountyElection workers spot check ballots after odd result with Measure W
Election workers spot check ballots after odd result with Measure W
BY EMILY MIBACH
Daily Post Staff Writer
Opponents of Measure W, the half-cent SamTrans sales tax, agreed yesterday (Dec. 6) that none of the damaged ballots duplicated by the county's elections office were copied incorrectly, but now they're offering different reasons why they lost.
Last week when the last few hundred ballots were being counted by the elections office, the measure went from losing to winning.
It needed two-thirds or 66.7% to pass. It jumped in the final days of the vote counting from 66.55% to 66.85%, just squeaking by the threshold for passage.
The spike in "yes" votes prompted the opponents of Measure W— county Republicans and members of the local Sierra Club — to begin to look into what happened.
One opponent of the measure, Gladwyn D'Souza, conservation chair for the Loma Prieta chapter of the Sierra Club, noted that the percentage of "yes" votes spiked after the elections office counted damaged ballots.
Damaged ballots might have a stray mark on them, or the paper may have been ripped. When that happens, county employees transcribe the votes on the damaged ballot to a clean ballot, which is then fed into a scanner for tallying. Because Measure W opponents were so concerned about the possibility that the damaged ballots were transcribed wrong, Elections Official Mark Church decided that his office would do an audit of 1% of the 1,200 damaged ballots that were counted.
That audit was scheduled for yesterday (Dec. 6). While the audit went forward, it was not without drama. Winners object to audit Attorney Jim Sutton, who is representing the Yes on Measure W side, showed up at 40 Tower Road, where the audit was scheduled to begin, and objected.
Sutton, a San Francisco attorney with a speciality in election law, told the Post that while the "yes" side had "full faith" that Church's office correctly copied the ballots, they wanted to "go on record" and object to the audit.
"Under the law the only way that one side has the right to ask for documents and for them to be re-re-viewed is through a recount that they pay for," Sutton said. "It's shocking that they had four supervisors and 12 employees working for eight or nine hours on this all because the losing side kind of brow beat them into doing so."
Sutton said he knew from his work with the county's election office in the past that Church's employees are some of the most careful elections workers in the area, but were shocked that the office was corralled into the audit.
"I felt like we had to go on record to object because this was extraordinary and was only authorized because they were browbeat into doing do," Sutton said.
Election workers checked 100 ballots, and every one of them was transcribed correctly.
David Schonbrunn, a San Rafael resident who runs Transdef, an environmental group that has come out against past tax measures that would fund transportation, said he felt that the Yes on W's inference was a case of being "sore winners."
"The fact that they tried to shut down the process says things about the kind of transparency they welcome here," Schonbrunn said.
He also said he was pleased with the lack of errors found during the audit.
"If there was any wrongdoing, it was not in the walls of Tower Road," said county Republican Tom Weissmiller, referring to the elections division.
Schonbrunn agreed, saying that at the time of the results change, the group was not aware of the impacts of so-called "ballot harvesting" and same-day voter registration.
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The ONE Show is a celebration of our collective humanity told through a seamless choreographed narrative of drumming, moving image, dancing, all culminating in magnificent performances in human flight. Our interactive & immersive show demonstrates in a very powerful and unique way a story of human interdependence and collective destiny.
The 100 performers selected are from Brazil, the USA, Canada, China, Russia, Ukraine, the UAE, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Mexico, Australia, Chile, France, the UK, Japan, and Italy. Their individual journeys and personal stories are an intrinsic part of our building community through collaboration and courage. We welcome you to click on the 100 and read each of their stories by hovering over their photo.
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"Quality is an attitude of mind." The great architectural mastermind of our time Norman Foster, who turned 80 in June 2015, here reflects on a long and prosperous career – and life – with prominent buildings and more than 1,000 employees all over the world.
Foster has always considered technology to be an ally. As a child he was immensely excited by machines and their speed – he spent many hours making sketches of and reading about them. He left school at age 16, did National Service for two years, worked different jobs to earn money, but never abandoned his private world of drawing and dreaming. When he discovered that he as an architect could actually do the things that had always excited him, it simply didn't feel like work.
Respecting the structure of a city or a place is essential: "I've realized the important links between individual buildings and infrastructure." Architecture has to address the bigger issues and make a difference to the world we live in. Architects can't solve every problem in the world, but what they can do, however, is to contribute by turning the complex into something simple via shape as well as material and being aware of the "urban glue" that binds everything together: "We have rethought, redesigned, reinvented. We have questioned and gone back to basics."
Norman Foster was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in his home near Geneva, Switzerland in April 2015 – Source: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
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Mom of baby with Trisomy 13: I have 'gratitude for being chosen to be Gabrielle's mother'
By Sarah Terzo | April 29, 2020 , 12:24pm
Diane Simoni was told at 20 weeks that her baby had severe health problems. She told her story of choosing to parent a baby with Trisomy 13 in "The American Feminist," the magazine of Feminists for Life. Simoni explained, "At about 20 weeks gestation, an ultrasound picked up abnormalities in the infant I was carrying. Sadly, major brain and heart defects were noted."
From the beginning, she was determined not to abort:
The obstetrician and the head of the Genetics Department were direct with me about having amniocentesis, suggesting to me that if I knew what the chromosomal abnormality was, I would lean more toward abortion. They didn't know how firmly I stood.
She did have an amniocentesis, which found that her baby had Trisomy 13, a chromosomal condition. Most babies with Trisomy 13 do not survive for very long, although survival rates are increasing if these children are given aggressive medical treatment.
Despite the poor prognosis, Simoni carried her baby to term, and named her Gabrielle. She wrote, "Gabrielle lived for 12 days and died in my arms at home. Hospice services were a wonderful resource, as my husband and I learned to change her feeding tube and prepare for her death."
Simoni does not regret having her baby, and has a deep sense of gratitude for the time she got to spend with Gabrielle. She calls herself "privileged" to be Gabrielle's mother. "Over the years, my gratitude for being chosen to be Gabrielle's mother has changed and grown," she said. "I have gained ever deepening understanding of the privileged position I am in for having her as a daughter."
READ: Baby with Trisomy 13 lives 135 days and reaches 500,000 Facebook fans
Simoni encourages other parents whose babies have fetal anomalies to make the same choice she did. She opposes abortion and believes those who choose it miss out on the joy of knowing their children:
When well-meaning doctors and medical personnel try to influence women to abort their babies with major medical issues, the parents may give in to the pressure and miss out on the experience of getting to know that child. Parents should know that even babies with chromosomal abnormalities can find a home through adoption if they don't feel capable of parenting a child with special needs. Whether they choose adoption or take care of the child themselves, there are supports to help families in their situation. Parents should know about all of those resources before being put in the difficult position of considering abortion. With time taken to learn about resources, perhaps someday in the future they will look back and feel privileged to be that child's parents.
Multiple studies show that women who carry to term after an adverse fetal diagnosis heal faster and suffer less emotional pain than those who have abortions. Simoni is far from the only one to derive comfort from spending time with her baby, even though her child didn't live long. The joy of getting to know the baby, hold him or her, and be a parent, even for a brief time, brings comfort to many women. They are free of the guilt women who have abortions suffer, and feel more closure.
Source: "Diane Simoni" The American Feminist 2012, p. 24


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Bruker Launches New High-Speed AFM System for Life Science Microscopy Applications
Bruker today announced the release of the JPK NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed 2 advanced AFM system
JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 Combines Innovative AFM Capabilities for Correlative Microscopy
JPK's market-leading expertise in combining AFM with advanced optical techniques, such as phase, DIC, confocal or spinning disc, single-molecule methods (FRET, FCS, TIRF, FLIM, FRAP), super-resolution methods (STED, PALM/STORM, SIM), and such other techniques as Raman or multiphoton microscopy, enables the new system to deliver unprecedented levels of correlative microscopy. The new JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 is also equipped with Bruker's exclusive PeakForce Tapping®, which provides the user with both superior force control and unmatched AFM ease of use for quantitative high-resolution imaging and property mapping. Now, with access to this unique combination of innovative AFM capabilities, researchers can perform experiments on cells and single molecules with multiparametric methods to simultaneously gain new insights into nanoscale dynamics.
"The correlation of high-speed AFM with advanced optics will allow us to follow dynamic processes on molecular and cellular levels in real time," said Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet, Director of the Center for Structural Biochemistry (CBS) in Montpellier, France. "The combination of a workflow-based software control and ease-of-use PeakForce Tapping could help AFM to become a standard tool in modern life-science research and demonstrates that JPK as part of Bruker can continue to bring AFM forward in biology."
"As the first new system developed as part of Bruker, it was important to continue our commitment to enabling better science through our BioAFM and optical tweezer product families," added Torsten Jähnke, Bruker's director of the BioAFM business. "The NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 system clearly sets a new benchmark for high-end atomic force microscopy in life science research."
About the JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2
The JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 comes standard with PeakForce Tapping®, Bruker's exclusive technology that provides unprecedented high-resolution imaging and extends AFM measurements into a range of samples not previously accessed, particularly for soft biological samples. The new system also incorporates JPK's signature Vortis 2 high-speed, high-performance control electronics. Designed to meet the needs of all user levels, Vortis 2 delivers the lowest noise levels and highest speeds of signal processing. A revolutionary new, workflow-based software graphical user interface (GUI) opens a new chapter in easy-to-use AFM operation. The software provides user guidance and user management modules that allow researchers to focus on their experiments, making the JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 perfect for multi-user environments or imaging facilities. These features are backed by the widest range of accessories on the market, providing the most application and experiment versatility available for users.
About the JPK BioAFM Business
JPK joined Bruker in July 2018, bringing in-depth expertise in live-cell imaging, cellular mechanics, adhesion, and molecular force measurements, optical trapping, and biological stimulus-response characterization to Bruker's worldwide infrastructure and established instrumentation development and support. The new JPK BioAFM business takes full advantage of the best of both histories to provide microscopy instrumentation for biomolecular and cellular imaging, as well as force measurements on single molecules, cells and tissues. To learn more about Bruker's biological research AFMs, please visit: www.bruker.com/BioAFM.
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Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker's high-performance scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity and customer success in life science molecular research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, and in industrial applications, as well as in cell biology, preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics and proteomics research and clinical microbiology.v
BERLIN, Germany – January 29, 2019 – Bruker today announced the release of the JPK NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed 2 advanced AFM system, which combines highest speed and highest resolution AFM with advanced bio-imaging features. Developed in close collaboration with their expanded worldwide user base, the system is the first new product to come out of Bruker's JPK BioAFM business, formed in July 2018 with the acquisition of JPK Instruments AG. With AFM scanning speed of 10 frames per second, true atomic resolution, and advanced life-science capabilities, the JPK NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 2 raises the bar in technical performance for advanced microscopy applications.
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A new kind of cold war
FLC prof chosen to co-author U.N. climate report relating to mountain areas
A snowbow seen early in the morning in Kazan, Russia./Photo by Heidi Steltzer
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It's a good thing Heidi Steltzer can't tolerate the heat or the open ocean. "I thought I wanted to be a marine biologist, and I got seasick," said Steltzer, a professor in the Biology Department and Environmental Science program at Fort Lewis College. "Then, I thought I wanted to be a tropical biologist and went to Costa Rica and my head stopped working because of the heat."
Fortunately, in 1993, she found her happy place: the mountains. As an undergraduate at Duke University, she spent a summer studying at the Rocky Mountain Biology Laboratory in Gothic, outside Crested Butte.
"My physiology works better in cold places, and I came to Colorado and I loved it," said Steltzer, who credits her cold-resiliency to her German/Swedish roots.
Little did she know this tiny ghost-town-turned-science-outpost at 9,500 feet would lead to bigger things. Much bigger.
This winter, Steltzer, who went on to get her PhD from the University of Colorado, was chosen to author a section of an upcoming special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nation's body for assessing science related to climate change. The report, which will be published in September, is titled "The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate," and she is responsible for the ecosystem section on high mountain areas.
"These places that are far away, cold or vast, we don't understand them well yet, and this is an effort to put that story together," she said. "A focus of the report is on how less snow, retreating glaciers and thawing permafrost affect the water supply, hazards, ecosystems and communities in mountain regions and adjacent lowlands."
Steltzer was nominated for the post when the previous author was unable to work for medical reasons. She said it has been a steep learning curve – but one that she has embraced.
"It's still mind-blowing. I've never contributed to a major report before, and this is the major leagues," she said. "But that doesn't mean I don't have the expertise."
In addition to her work at the Gothic lab, Steltzer also has done extensive snow research in the San Juan Mountains, where she moved in 2009. She said she was drawn here not just for the aesthetics, but for the academic possibilities.
"These San Juan mountains are different from the mountains across the rest of the state, and they're less studied," she said. "I wanted to be near this unique place." Since first coming to Colorado 26 years ago, Steltzer has seen changes in climate. "The mountains are different now. We have data that shows snowpack has declined in Colorado and in mountain regions around the world," she said. "Air temperatures are warmer, and desert dust darkens mountain snow, leading to earlier melt." Although there are still years with more snow (such as this one), many years, snow melts early, plants grow early and fewer plants bloom. "Mountain plants are running out of water, as are rivers, as are we," she said.
In conjunction with the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies in Silverton, in 2009, Steltzer published a first-of-its kind study on early snowmelt in Senator Beck Basin. Using landscape fabric draped over the snowpack, the study simulated earlier snowmelt and its effects on the ecosystem. It was a novel methodology at the time – up until then, snow was merely shoveled aside to mimic early snowmelt, but this method failed to emulate the melting of snow and the water's ensuing journey.
"I study the hidden parts of mountain ecosystems that ensure everything else works well, the movement of water and availability of key nutrients," she said.
Steltzer said often the mountains are overlooked when putting together the bigger picture of climate change because population centers tend to be located along coasts and rivers. However, the more sparsely-populated mountains are important as they often provide water for these larger cities.
"People who don't live in or near mountains don't see how significant the changes are and how impactful they can be for whole regions," she said.
In March, Steltzer gathered for a week with other mountain scientists to write and discuss final revisions to the IPCC report. Fittingly, it was held in Kazan, Russia. Although it's considered "southern Russia," it lies at roughly the same latitude as Canada's Hudson Bay.
She said it was apt that the final meeting about a report on the cryosphere (the frozen parts of the Earth for you non-bio majors) was held there. One day, she and some cohorts ventured out in search of the famed Volga River, which flows through the city. "All we saw was this white expanse; the entire river was frozen over, and the sky was white too," she said (quipping that next time she would bring Yak Tracks.)
Growing up in the U.S. during the Cold War era, Steltzer said she never imagined going to Russia. Nevertheless, she found Kazan to be surprisingly cosmopolitan and said the trip – which was paid for by the federal government's U.S. Global Change Research Program – was amazing, on an academic and global level.
"It is a really unique experience to be halfway around the world in a country I'd never think I'd go to, sitting next to people from Germany, Canada, Nepal, Japan, India, Ecuador, Italy and Russia," she said.
Now back in decidedly less-cosmopolitan Durango, Steltzer is toiling away to finish her chapter. She said the bulk of her work entails pouring over peer-reviewed scientific studies to find – or not find – some kind of consensus on changes due to shifts in snow, glaciers and permafrost. She points out that climate change doesn't just mean warmer temperatures, but more erratic and severe weather events.
"There's no doubt the climate is changing. In the future, there's going to be greater uncertainty in what rainfall and snowfall is going to look like," she said.
Steltzer, who has enlisted FLC students to help her scour the literature, said the point of the report is not to be "prescriptive," i.e. provide actions, but to suggest options and alternatives based on science. "We can highlight natural adaptation and human adaptation options," she said. "The idea is assessment."
The report can also recommend further studies, such as Steltzer's with the black fabric, to set a baseline and find commonalities across the world's mountainous regions.
But most importantly, Steltzer's mission is to tell a story using scientific data to engage and make something anyone can understand.
"There is so much out there, we have to try and tell a story," she said. "It will have a greater impact if it links ideas in a new, novel way."
She even added that the "story" has some elements of surprise – but to find out, you'll have to wait until September. That's when the report will officially be released in Monaco.
"We're under embargo until then," she said.
For the next several weeks, Steltzer will be burrowed away with her laptop; her section of the report is due in May. But she has a plan to help ease the pain of being cooped up during prime desert camping season.
"In classic Durango style, I set up my camper in the front yard," she said. "Since I'm not going to be able to go camping, I'm going to at least work on the report sitting in my R-pod."
Then, when her epic all-nighter of all-nighters is done, she'll "rest and hike mountains and do all the fun things that we live in Durango for."
And of course, she also will rest knowing she has scaled a mountain of a different sort. "It's worth it to gain this knowledge and share what I learn, and a piece of it is identifying what we don't know yet," she said. "It's about slowing the rate of change and having the future we want, not the one that we get because we didn't know."
To find out more on the IPCC report "Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate" visit: www.ipcc.ch/report/srocc/.
After a 2017-18 winter with little snow, Heidi Steltzer hiked trails in the northern San Juan Mountains in an effort to understand the impact. She said by early July, the area was uncharacteristically without any snowpack./Photo by Heidi Steltzer


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