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The Cordilleran Section recognizes the high quality of science being presented at our meetings in general, and by our student members in particular. The Section acknowledges this excellence by awarding Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards for student presentations in each of the following four categories: Undergraduate Poster, Undergraduate Oral, Graduate Poster, and Graduate Oral. If Professional members are interested in participating in evaluating these presentations, please contact the Section Chair, or the Local Organizing Committee Chair.
Katherine A. Alexander, Western Washington University, Graduate Poster Presentation
Rates and kinematics of active crustal faults in the central Oregon Cascades
Peter M. Zander, California State University, Sonoma, Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Daniel O'Hara, University of Oregon, Graduate Poster Presentation, Runner-up
Volcanic topography covaries with subsurface magmatic structures through time in the Cascades arc of the western U.S.
Jazzy M. Graham-Davis, Portland State University, Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Runner-up
Kyle Milke, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Undergraduate Poster
Transport mechanisms of metal-bearing historic mine tailings in a semi-arid environment
Riley Witte, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Undergraduate Oral Presentation
Evaluating potential for recovery of Te as a byproduct of Au extraction at the Golden Sunlight Mine (Whitehall, MT)
Nicole Knight, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Graduate Oral Presentation
An assessment of tellurium in semi-arid mine tailings at Delamar, Nevada: Implications for human and ecosystem health
Benjamin Johnson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Graduate Oral Presentation
Early Paleozoic assembly of the north slope subterrane: Evidence from an accretionary complex exposed in the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska
Gabriela Ferreira, Portland State University, Graduate Poster
Arsenic mobilization from silicic volcanic rocks in the southern Willamette Valley
Jessica Bruns, California Polytechnic University-Pomona, Undergraduate Poster
Rare Earth Mineralization of Southern Clark County, Nevada
Brad Pitcher, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, Undergraduate Poster
Crustal Assimilation in the Recent Mt. Etna Magma Plumbing System: Evidence From in Situ Plagioclase Textural And Compositional Data
Zachary Anderson, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, Graduate Poster
Structural and Kinematic Analysis of Miocene Rocks, Black Canyon, Arizona and Nevada
Rachael Hunt, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, Graduate Poster
Documenting the Origin of Compositional Diversity of Subduction Zone Magmatism, Alicudi, Aeolian Arc (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) Using in situ Plagioclase Data
Jeanette Arkle, California State University, Fullerton, Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
Focused exhumation in the Southern Alaska Syntaxis
Sarah Nagorsen, Central Washington University, Honorable Mention, Graduate Oral Presentation
Fault kinematics in the Western Mina Deflection: field studies in the Adobe Hills, California
Pamela Clay, San Jose State University, Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
Tectonic implications of ductile shear zones in the Jurassic Keiths Dome Pluton, Northern Sierra Nevada Batholith, California
Chris Kohel, San Diego State University, Honorable Mention, Graduate Poster Presentation
Forearc basin evolution of the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Eugenia Formation: new mapping in the Vizcaino Peninsula, Baja California Sur
Nathan Evenson, Carleton College, Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation
U-Pb zircon geochronology and provenance of the Paleogene–Neogene Kootznahoo Formation, southeast Alaska
Tyanna Schlom, California State University, Fullerton, Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Earthquake magnitude and recurrence from scarp morphology, Eureka Valley Fault Zone, Eastern California
Michael Prior, California State University, Fullerton, Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Constraining the exhumation history along inferred faults in the Western Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Josh Goodman, San Francisco State University, Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
New constraints on the style, timing, and rates of post-middle-Pleistocene deformation in the Confidence Hills, southern Death Valley, California
Marc Nabelek, Whitman College, Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Developing the Resazurin-Resorufin system as a "smart" tracer to measure microbial respiration and sediment-water interactions
Ben Shapiro, University of Puget Sound, Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Unique geochemsitry of Gravelly Lake, Tacoma, Washington: evidence for a deep groundwater component
Heather Green Lackey, San Francisco State University, Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
New insights on the pluvial history of Lake Manly and tectonic development of Southern Death Valley recorded in Pliocene-to-Recent lacustrine stratigraphy
Michael Stearns, University of Utah, Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
Assembly of the incrementally emplaced McDoogle Pluton, Central Sierra Nevada, CA
Steven Giovannoni, University of the Pacific, Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Impact of land use on water quality in the lower Calaveras River watershed
Mimi Pierson, Denison University, Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Geophysical evidence for Neoproterozoic rift basin underlying the Burke River Structural Belt, Eastern Georgina Basin, Central Australia
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Andrew Greene, Univ. of British Columbia, Outstanding student oral presentation
Wrangellia flood basalts: Exploring the architecture and composition of an accreted oceanic plateau
Patrick Hanley, Trinity University, Texas, Outstanding undergraduate poster presentation
Detrital zircon dating of Jurassic Great Valley Group strata: implications for the early evolution of the Great Valley forearc basin
Heather Bleick, Vanderbilt University — Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
Production and distribution of hybridized magma in a replenished, open-system magma chamber; Aztec Wash pluton, Eldorado Mountains, Nevada
Valbone Memeti, University of Southern California — Honorable Mention, Graduate Poster Presentation
Regional and emplacement-related tectonism during intrusion of the Tuolumne batholith: Results from the Benson Lake and May Lake Pendants, Sierra Nevada, California - Honorable mention, Graduate Poster Presentation.
Sunshine Mansfield, Humboldt State University — Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Geology south of Punta Gorda, Mendocino Triple Junction region, CA
Dylan Rood, UC Santa Barbara — Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
Neogene to Quaternary kinematics of the central Sierran frontal fault system in the Sonora Pass region: Preliminary structural, paleomagnetic, and neotectonic results
Lee Murai, Moss Landing Marine Labs — Honorable Mention, Graduate Oral Presentation.
Trans-terrestrial landslides along the northern rim of the Circum-Pacific and the impact on the marine environment: Big Sur coastline, California
Martín Hernández-Marín, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Deformability of volcano-lacustrine sediments during subsidence by aquitard consolidation
Sarah Gaudio, College of Wooster — Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Discrimination and correlation of Peach Springs Tuff and Peach Spring age-equivalent ignimbrites by geochronology, petrology, and immobile element geochemistry, northern Colorado River extensional corridor
Ryan Gold, Whitman College — Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation
A comparative study of aerial photograph sand LIDAR imagery for landslide detection in the Puget lowland, Washington
David Barbeau, University of Arizona — Honorable Mention Undergraduate Oral Presentation
Detrital zircon geochronology of basement and cover rocks from the Santa Lucia Mountains, California; new evidence for limited transport of Salinia
Lorna Jaramillo, University of Colorado -- Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
Remote sensing evaluation of element dispersion characteristics of porphyry copper deposits in the Silver Bell Mountains, Arizona
Ewa Szynkaruk, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation
Tectonic implications of geomorphologic an structural characteristics of the Morelia - Acambay fault system, central Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Vlad Constantin Manea, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
Thermal models, coupling and metamorphism for the Mexican subduction zone beneath Guerrero
Matthew Forrest, Moss Landing Marine Labs — Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation
Present-day shallow-water hydrothermal venting along the El Requesón fault zone provides possible analog for formation of Pliocene-age chert deposits in Bahía Concepción, B.C.S. México
Matthew Silver, Whitman College -- Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation
Analysis of plan-view geometry of clastic dike networks in Missoula flood slackwater sediments (Touchet beds), southeastern Washington
Robyn Cook, Middlebury College -- Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Differentiation of two Quaternary Mt. Hood lahars by clay mineralogical, quantitative X-ray diffraction and particle size analyses
Tandis Bidgoli, San Francisco State University -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Determining uplift rates and patterns from Quaternary marine terraces of the Point Reyes Peninsula, California
Jessica Olsen, California State University, Northridge -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Changes in the hydrogeology of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah defined by shifts in mineralogy and Sr-isotope composition
Brian Collins, University of California, Berkeley -- Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
Geotechnical observations and analyses of recent coastal bluff failures, Pacifica California
Derek Ryter, University of Oregon -- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation
Quaternary tectonic evolution of the central San Jacinto fault zone, southern California
Heather Petcovic, Oregon State University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation
Dike-wallrock interactions in granitoids of the Wallowa Mountains, NE Oregon
Michael O'Neal, University of Washington -- Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation
The effects of moraine degradation on lichenometric dating of Little Ice Age moraines
Brandi Molitor, Western Washington University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation
Extent and climatic implications of the Upper Truckee Glacier during the Tahoe glaciation -Assessing conflicting scenarios
Todd Williams, Humboldt State University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation
The geodetic signature of modern deformation within the southern Cascade margin, northwestern California
Sean Fleming, University of British Columbia -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation
Single and multiple mass transfer rates: Implications to groundwater contaminant transport at large temporal and spatial scales from deterministic and stochastic analysis


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Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets, but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market.
"If we're going to have this technology in five to 10 years, we could finally do things that take way too much processing power today," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights and Strategy. "This could really open up our concept of what is a computer... The phone would be smart enough to not just be a computer but it could be my computer."
Enric Herrero, a research scientist at Intel Labs in Barcelona, said the lab is working on finding new ways to use and manage many cores in mobile devices.
Today, some small mobile devices use multi-core chips. However, those multi-cores might be dual- or quad-core CPUs working with a few GPUs. Having a 48-core chip in a small mobile device would open up a whole new world of possibilities.
At this point, researchers are working to see how to best use so many cores for one device.
"Typically a processor with one core would do jobs one after another," Herrero told Computerworld. "With multiple cores, they can divide the work among them."
He explained that with many cores, someone could, for instance, be encrypting an email while also working on other power-intensive apps at the same time. It could be done today, but the operations might drag because they'd have to share resources.
Tanausu Ramirez, another Intel research scientist working on the 48-core chip, said that if someone was, for example, watching a high-definition video, a 48-core chip would be able to use different cores to decode different video frames at the same time, giving the user a more seamless video experience.
Ramirez also said that instead of one core working at near top capacity and using a lot of energy, many cores could run in parallel on different projects and use less energy.
"The chip also can take the energy and split it up and distribute it between different applications," he added.
Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO, told Computerworld that a 48-core chip for small mobile devices could hit the market "much sooner" than the researchers' 10-year prediction.
"I think the desire to move to more natural interfaces to make the interaction much more human-like is really going to drive the computational requirements," he said. "Having large numbers of cores to generate very high performance levels is the most energy efficient way to deliver those performance levels."
Rattner said functions such as speech recognition and augmented reality will push the need for more computational power.
"If it's doing speech recognition or computer vision... that's very computational intensive," he added. "It's just not practical to just take sound and pictures and send it up to the cloud and expect that some server is going to perform those tasks. So a lot of that will be pushed out to the client devices."
Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group, said being able to have different device functions, as well as apps all running on their own cores would be a great advance.

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Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, A Special Television Event, Premieres October 1 to 2, 2012, on PBS
Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Diane Lane, America Ferrera, and Olivia Wilde Join Authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on a Global Journey to Turn Oppression into Opportunity for Women and Girls
(San Francisco, CA) — Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a Show of Force LLC and Fugitive Films production developed in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is a special television event that uses in-the-moment investigations and emotionally explosive storytelling to confront the greatest moral challenge of our time: the oppression of women and girls around the world. Filmed in 10 countries and inspired by the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the series is driven by the growing awareness that empowering women is the best way to increase prosperity and stability around the globe. Six talented actress-advocates — Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Diane Lane, America Ferrera, and Olivia Wilde — join Kristof as he travels to Asia and Africa to meet face-to-face with inspiring individuals working to bring about change and the women and girls who confront extreme gender inequality in their daily lives. Introduced by George Clooney, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which will broadcast nationally as a special presentation of Independent Lens, premieres on Monday, October 1, ,and Tuesday, October 2, from 9:00 to 11:00pm ET on PBS (check local listings).
Women and girls around the globe face threats — trafficking, prostitution, violence, and discrimination — every day of their lives. Says WuDunn, "In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time." As we see in the series, hope endures as fearless women and men are developing innovative ways to turn the tide.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a landmark transmedia project with robust content across multiple platforms, including the four-hour PBS and international broadcast event, a Facebook-hosted social-action game and mobile games created by Games for Change, two websites, 20 educational video modules with companion text, a social-media campaign supporting over 30 partner NGOs, and an impact assessment plan. The project is part of the Women and Girls Lead initiative, spearheaded by ITVS in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS.
In addition to ITVS and CPB, major funding to date for Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide has been provided by the IKEA Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca-Cola, the MacArthur Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Nduna Foundation, the Seedlings Foundation, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Nike Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, The Hanami Fund, Ina Brown Bond, and Fran Hauser.
Episode One (Monday, October 1, at 9:00pm ET)
Eva Mendes and Nicholas Kristof investigate gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, a country where most of the assaults and rapes go unreported. They meet with Amie Kandeh, who works with the International Rescue Committee and runs three of West Africa's sexual assault referral centers. Kandeh reveals that the vast majority of the center's rape and sexual assault cases are young women under 17, with 26 percent under age 12. At the police station with her parents by her side, 14-year-old Fulamatu accuses a pastor of raping her. We follow the case closely as several witnesses back up her statements, but justice proves elusive in a country where police officers conduct "armchair investigations" rather than look for evidence or confront the suspect, and where accusations of rape bring shame on the family of the victim rather than the perpetrator.
In Cambodia, where 30 percent of prostitutes are children, the series examines the issue of sex trafficking. Meg Ryan and Kristof meet Somaly Mam, herself sold into slavery as a young girl, but who is now a world-renowned leader in the anti-trafficking struggle. Mam runs a center to rehabilitate and educate girls rescued from brothels. She introduces Somana, sold at age 13 and forced to work as a prostitute, her eye gouged out by the brothel owner. When Mam learns that underage girls have been discovered in a brothel on the Thai border, she organizes a daring raid with the help of local authorities and Kristof and the cameras capture this dramatic and dangerous effort to free underage girls being held as sex slaves. Working tirelessly to bring the voices of these girls to the world, Mam uses innovative approaches, such as a weekly radio show, to raise awareness. "We're going to change Cambodia," she says. "We want you to hear from us. If you don't listen to us, we'll keep on talking. We're not tired at all."
Gabrielle Union and Kristof visit Vietnam with former Microsoft marketing executive John Wood, who started Room to Read, an organization which works to promote literacy and equal education for girls across the developing world. In Vietnam women have been traditionally devalued, and many girls are kept at home to tend to household chores while boys continue their education. Duyen, a teenage girl in the Room to Read program, travels 17 miles by bike and boat to get to school from her rural home. Nhi, age 14, is the primary earner in the household, put to work by her father selling lottery tickets seven days a week. Phung, also 14, rises at 3:00 AM to care for her younger brothers and sisters while her father works as a day laborer. But she is going to school, encouraged and supported by her father, because they understand that education is their only way out of poverty.
"When you educate a girl, there's a ripple effect that goes beyond what you would get from a normal investment," says Sheryl WuDunn. "When you educate a girl, she tends to get married later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids. She takes better care of her kids. She has greater economic opportunity. She might create a business so she can contribute to the local economy. When you educate a girl, you educate a village."
Episode Two (Tuesday, October 2, at 9:00pm ET)
"Half a million women a year die in childbirth," says Nicholas Kristof. "It's not biology that's killing them but neglect." Diane Lane and Kristof investigate maternal mortality in Somaliland, where one in 12 women dies in childbirth due to poor nutrition and the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) — also known as cutting — a brutal ritual that has been performed on more than 130 million women around the world. They meet with Edna Adan, founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Somaliland's first maternal health facility. Adan saves the lives of pregnant women on a daily basis with sophisticated health care and C-sections. She also trains midwives, who then return to their communities, and works to educate women about the dangers of FGM, which causes infection and scarring that leads to difficulties in childbirth. Lane and Kristof visit the hut of a local woman who performs cuttings and learn how Adan and her army of midwives are trying to turn the tide against this dangerous, deeply entrenched tradition.
In India it is estimated that 90 percent of sex workers' daughters follow their mothers into prostitution and, of the three million prostitutes in the country, 1.2 million are children. In Kolkata, America Ferrera and Kristof visit the Kalighat red-light district to meet Urmi Basu, who is working to break the tradition of forced prostitution passed down from mothers to daughters. Basu's New Light shelter program was established to protect and educate young girls, children, and women who are at high risk for commercial sexual exploitation. We meet two of the shelter's brightest girls, whose mothers are still in active prostitution — Sushmita, whose mother believes her daughter can have a different future than her own and is thriving in private school and dreams of becoming a lawyer; and Monisha, whose mother wants her to return to her village and what Urmi is certain will be a life of prostitution. As Kristof says, "We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous — it's that we're luckier."
conomic empowerment is key to turning the tide against poverty, violence, and the oppression of women. When women have money of their own, they invest more than twice as much as men in their families, education, and the future. In Kenya, Olivia Wilde joins Kristof to see firsthand how women entrepreneurs are changing not only their lives but their communities. Ingrid Munro founded Jamii Bora, a microfinancing organization for women; one of Jamii Bora's greatest success stories is Jane Ngori, a former prostitute and single mother of four who is now running a dressmaking business. In Nairobi, they meet Rebecca Lolosoli, the founder of an all-women's village called Umoja, which was established as a haven from rape and violence and sustains itself by creating and selling traditional beaded wares. "One of the best ways that we can deal with all of the abuses that are so troubling against women and girls is through economic empowerment," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "Unleashing the economic potential of women is a win-win economic strategy."
About Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the co-authors of the national best seller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, and two other books: China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia. They are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, awarded in 1990 for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. Kristof, a New York Times columnist since 2001, has served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor. In 2006, Kristof won his second Pulitzer for his op-ed columns on Darfur. He has a huge social-media following on Facebook (five hundred thousand) and Twitter (1.2 million). At the Times, WuDunn worked as a business editor and as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing; she is currently a senior managing director with Mid-Market Securities.
About the Filmmakers
Show of Force
Dedicated to creating feature documentaries and television series events of the highest caliber, Show of Force is known for dynamic, character-driven storytelling that consistently engages, entertains, and inspires. Show of Force is a media production company represented by CAA (Creative Artists Agency), with 20 years of combined experience and excellence between partners Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre. They have produced over 20 hours of television and media content per year with a staff of excellent young producers and are the recipients of numerous awards and accolades for their work on both U.S. and international media broadcasts. Show of Force is the production company overseeing the multiple platforms of the Half the Sky movement.
Maro Chermayeff (Executive Producer and Director) is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, director, author, and former television executive. She is the founder and chair of the MFA program in Social Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Some of her extensive credits include the six-part PBS series Circus (PBS, 2010), Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (HBO, 2012), Mann v. Ford (HBO, 2011), Parasomnia (France 2, 2010), the Emmy® Award-winning series Carrier (PBS/National Geographic International, 2008), Frontier House (PBS, 2002), American Masters: Juilliard (PBS, 2003), The Kindness of Strangers (HBO, 1999), Role Reversal (A&E, 2002), Trauma: Life in the ER (TLC, 2001), and over 15 specials for Charlie Rose. Represented by CAA, Chermayeff is a principal of Show of Force. She is also an executive producer of the Facebook game and the 3x Mobile games for Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide with Games for Change.
Mikaela Beardsley (Executive Producer) has over 15 years of experience producing award-winning, critically acclaimed, and socially engaged documentary television. Beardsley most recently produced Reporter — a film featuring Nicholas D. Kristof — which was nominated for the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form. She has worked in film and television production since 1993 and has made films with Alex Gibney, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wenders. Beardsley began her television career at WGBH in Boston, and holds a BA in comparative literature from Princeton University.
Jamie Gordon (Executive Producer) co-founded Fugitive Films in 2005. Her company produced Coach, starring Hugh Dancy, and the comedy Wedding Daze starring Jason Biggs. Among other projects, she is developing Grlzradio, a TV project about girls' empowerment. Previously, Gordon was the head of development for GreeneStreet Films, working on In the Bedroom, and worked as a story editor for producer Wendy Finerman, where she worked on Forrest Gump. Gordon has produced independent features including swimfan, Pinero, Chicago Cab, and Certain Guys. She graduated with a BA in history from Princeton University.
Jeff Dupre (Executive Producer) has been producing and directing documentary films for over 15 years. Together with Show of Force partner Maro Chermayeff, Dupre was a director, creator, and executive producer of Circus, a six-part documentary series that premiered on PBS. He conceived, produced, and co-directed Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present and produced Carrier and Michael Kantor's Broadway: The American Musical. Dupre's directorial debut, Out of the Past, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, among other awards.
Joshua Bennett (Producer), with more than 10 years' experience producing film and television, has produced shoots in more than 35 countries and on all seven continents. He has produced programming for PBS, HBO, MTV, the Discovery Channel, A&E, and the Sundance Channel, as well as music videos, commercials, independent shorts, experimental works, corporate, new media and viral media campaigns. Bennett teaches documentary producing at New York City's School of Visual Arts' MFA program in Social Documentary Film.
For a complete listing of all members of the filmmaking team, visit http://pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/filmmakers
About Independent Lens
Independent Lens is an Emmy® Award–winning weekly series airing on PBS. The acclaimed anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of their independent producers. Independent Lens features unforgettable stories about unique individuals, communities, and moments in history. Presented by ITVS the series is supported by interactive companion websites and national publicity and community engagement campaigns. Independent Lens is jointly curated by ITVS and PBS and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional funding provided by PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts. The series producer is Lois Vossen.
About ITVS The Independent Television Service funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy® Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens on Monday nights at 10:00pm on PBS. Mandated by Congress in 1988 and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS has brought more than one thousand independently produced programs to date to American audiences. Tamara Gould is the executive producer of Half the Sky for ITVS. For more information about ITVS, visit itvs.org
About Women and Girls Lead Women and Girls Lead is a multiyear public media initiative to focus, educate, and connect citizens worldwide in support of the issues facing women and girls. Combining independent documentary film, television, new media, and global outreach partnerships, Women and Girls Lead amplifies the voices of women and girls acting as leaders, expands understanding of gender equity, and engages an international network of citizens and organizations to act locally and reach out globally. By building a pipeline of some 50 public television documentaries and integrating content from partners across radio, commercial television, and beyond, Women and Girls Lead offers another model for public media to follow in serving its mission in the 21st century, connecting key stakeholders to sustain productive dialogue and participation on the most critical issues facing local communities, the nation, and the world. For more information, please visit.
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For more information, visit: www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky, www.halftheskymovement.org
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Talk:Alternative DNS services
Future of the page
Another alternative could be to refocus this page on Arch solutions and non-commercial DNS. -- Kewl (talk) 18:42, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Such information could be incorporated into Domain name resolution. --Larivact (talk) 19:07, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- I also think so, then some information of the DNS Alternative page could be used in this new section in Domain name resolution. --Kewl (talk) 19:11, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- The ArchWiki is not more reliable than Wikipedia. If anything it's the opposite because Wikipedia requires sources, which we do not do at all. --Larivact (talk) 16:10, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Most content on ArchWiki you can verify yourself and having source for that would be redundant. We often add links to the relevant sources when needed to prove some claim or give more information. Often we get new wiki contributors because something on our pages turns out to be more or less incorrect and we got just the right type of audience that wants to contribute and fix it. I don't think one wiki is worse than another, it would probably depend on the contributor and where one puts their effort in. -- Svito (talk) 18:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Given above discussion, my proposal for this article is to (a) make a note at the beginning referring to the wikipedia article for its (lately grown, see Nov17) table with details such as privacy policy references, offered services, etc; (b) keep watching the entries here stay neutral and short, quoting references for more info; optionally (c) suggest moving it to a subpage of Domain name resolution, referring it from (maybe) a new subsection in the main article as Kewl suggests.
- My take on archiving would be to start proposing that again once the info gets markedly outdated/unmaintained.
- Objections? --Indigo (talk) 19:16, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- As I understand, everything in Alternative DNS services apart from opennic-upAUR and "Wikipedia:Public recursive name server#List of public DNS service operators" is useless (i.e. not good enough compared to the list on Wikipedia). So I propose to merge those two relevant bits into Domain name resolution#Privacy, rename it to Domain name resolution#Alternative DNS services and also rewrite the section. See proposed draft below. -- nl6720 (talk) 08:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- I really don't like the word "Privacy" in the section title. What's so private about sending your DNS queries a third-party server? And I hope "confidentiality" isn't meant "hiding from the ISP", because the ISP has more than one way to track the user.
- I'd like to keep Template:Warning because reading the privacy policy is essential, and it should be explicitly stated that connecting to a third-party server means trusting it. If you want to add the words "security" and "integrity", then I think DNSSEC must be mentioned. -- nl6720 (talk) 11:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- "from everybody whom they don't concern" is quite a broad category. Some might say it includes everyone in w:Public recursive name server#List of public DNS service operators. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with nl6720 on the section title, but my consequence is different in that I believe your exchange shows there is a need for both section headings. To me this argument starts from it being far from ideal to list commercial services under a "Privacy and security" heading in the context. In turn I agree that under said header a warning is indeed overdoing it, but in combination with listing services it indeed is warranted. --Indigo (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- I was referring to the packages you two listed in the draft. And to the wikipedia argument I want to re-iterate that it is a different wiki, far less accessible & with a different focus than ours. How about another up-to-date moderated alternative list to link? --Indigo (talk) 19:11, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- There's also https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers/, but it is not as good as the Wikipedia's list. -- nl6720 (talk) 09:57, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, not as good as wikipedia's. I missed the question regarding accessibility above: one has to distinguish between read and write access to wikipedia. w:Censorship of Wikipedia gives an idea about the first, the latter is more difficult to evaluate. But most users of proxy/vpn services are barred from contributing to (and by) wikipedia; that alone is in the 8-digit range of internet users. --Indigo (talk) 18:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Interesting, I didn't know about w:Wikipedia:Open proxies. --Larivact (talk) 19:17, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- To be fair, we don't know if some countries or ISPs censor the ArchWiki - the same (in)accessibility arguments may apply just as well as for Wikipedia. And I don't see how the amount of Wikipedia users is relevant, since the Arch community, including all potential ArchWiki readers and editors, is not even remotely as large. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 22:43, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Sure, I don't want to over-emphasize that side; I mentioned it to help with one rationale for allergies. We likely (hopefully) all agree it's not the primary rationale for the list at hand: that being Arch users merely using the section/page as a KISS way to share a moderated list of what the individual contributors/maintainers saw as a quality/useful DNS service in the past. --Indigo (talk) 17:12, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- I interpreted it as let's wait on what we do with this page. My draft may not be perfect but it is definitely better than the current Domain name resolution#Privacy.--Larivact (talk) 19:34, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- I'm at a loss why you redirected the article now, while you wrote above you want to merge the #Draft 2: Domain name resolution#Privacy replacement? --Indigo (talk) 18:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- I find the Domain name resolution page pretty damn good now, so let's at least close the draft below. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 20:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, it has sure grown well, yes. Yet, the TOC of DNS is problematic with too many top level sections. For example, do you really see #Third-party DNS servers is best placed in the main DNS article, while we have an Alternative DNS services page? Why? --Indigo (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- I don't think that 8 top-level sections is too many, especially since 4 of them don't have any subsection. As for the placement of #Third-party DNS servers, that depends on whether we should keep this page. Or, as Kewl mentioned above, whether Domain name resolution#Third-party DNS servers can be considered as the result of merging Alternative DNS services to Domain name resolution, using Wikipedia as an external data source with superior content. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 22:43, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Well, I suggest the TOC other than the third-party section is best to cover in DNS talk. Also, I don't want to be the only one holding this up and want to acknowledge that everyone proposing redirection here has invested time and effort into the article previously.
- Looking over the wikipedia list I miss two of the nine entries on ours. These were silently accepted casualties, removed in error, or discussed and I missed that, or is there information they won't make it into the wikipedia list? Just to know, not to create extra work. --Indigo (talk) 17:12, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- They will just be removed (as they already were earlier) because of lacking notability / self-citations. w:Talk:Public recursive name server#Notability of public name server providers. Reopening. --Larivact (talk) 05:20, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Draft 2: Domain name resolution#Privacy replacement
Privacy and security
The DNS protocol is unencrypted and does not account for confidentiality, integrity or authentication, so if you use an untrusted network or a malicious ISP, your DNS queries can be eavesdropped and the responses manipulated. Furthermore, DNS servers can conduct DNS hijacking.
You need to trust your DNS server to treat your queries confidentially. DNS servers are provided by ISPs and third-parties. Alternatively you can run your own recursive name server, which however takes more effort. If you use a DHCP client in untrusted networks, be sure to set static name servers to avoid using and being subject to arbitrary DNS servers. To secure your communication with a remote DNS server you can use an encrypted protocol, like DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS or DNSCrypt, provided that both the upstream server and your resolver support the protocol. To verify that responses are actually from authoritative name servers, you can validate DNSSEC, provided that both the upstream server(s) and your resolver support it.
Be aware that client software, such as major web browsers, may also (start to) implement some of the protocols. While the encryption of queries may often be seen as a bonus, it also means the software sidetracks queries around the system resolver configuration.[1]
Third-party DNS servers
There are various third-party DNS services available, some of which also have dedicated software:
- dingo — A DNS client for Google DNS over HTTPS
- opennic-up — Automates the renewal of the DNS servers with the most responsive OpenNIC servers
Draft comments
Ad first paragraph: I think it would be better if the second sentence listed conditions (untrusted network or a malicious ISP) before the scary words (eavesdropped and manipulated). Meaning, if you use an untrusted network or a malicious ISP, your DNS queries can be eavesdropped and the responses manipulated. -- nl6720 (talk) 11:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
DNSSEC should be more than an afterthought :( -- nl6720 (talk) 11:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- Suggestion: "you can use DNSSEC" -> "you can validate DNSSEC". Passthrough counts as using. If the local resolver doesn't validate it, then it is up to individual applications, which is ineffective. -- nl6720 (talk) 12:19, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- How about moving the sentence about DNSSEC validation to the first paragraph, after DNS hijacking is mentioned? -- nl6720 (talk) 10:07, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Tools vs. clients
Ad subsection: Just call them "tools". It will be easier to expand if more of them appear. -- nl6720 (talk) 11:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- My point was that opennic-upAUR is not a DNS client, but I guess it could be called a client of sorts for the DNS service. -- nl6720 (talk) 10:48, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Recursive name server vs. resolver resolver I suggest replacing "recursive name server" with "recursive resolver". Since it will be running locally, the resolver functionality is more important. -- nl6720 (talk) 12:06, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- That's how I understand it too, It's just that most people don't think of the local resolvers as DNS servers. I'm still not certain if "recursive name server" is correct, it's the resolver part that does the recursive query, no the server part... Let's keep it as it is until someone smarter comes along. -- nl6720 (talk) 12:30, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- I am quite sure because Wikipedia agrees: w:Name server#Recursive query and w:Public recursive name server. --Larivact (talk) 12:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
DNSSEC server support
- DNSSEC also cannot be done without server support
Yes but that formulation doesn't really fit if you run your own recursive name server because then you have multiple authoritative servers. --Larivact (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- Then fix the formulation. The statement about server support should still be there though, because the draft is intended to replace the Alternative DNS services page and DNSSEC support is not obvious. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 19:36, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- I don't quite know how. Alternative DNS services does not explain DNSSEC but I agree that it's not obvious --Larivact (talk) 19:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- I too admit to not knowing very much of this. If I understand w:Domain Name System Security Extensions#Recursive name servers correctly, validating resolvers recursively verify the signatures starting from DNS root. So, "self-signing all responses regardless of what has been received from other DNS servers" can only happen with a malicious server, but the sentence is specifically about running your own recursive resolver. -- nl6720 (talk) 09:51, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- I restored your formulation and refined it more elegantly. --Larivact (talk) 16:20, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Are there still objections to the section title Privacy and security? --Larivact (talk) 19:43, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- I still don't like it. I could agree with the title, if the paragraph about connecting to remote DNS servers, the Wikipedia link and the tools would be placed in a separate section (not subsection) below it, e.g. Domain name resolution#Alternative DNS services. -- nl6720 (talk) 10:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Service lists
How about adding links to [3] and [4], so that Wikipedia is not our only source of DNS services? E.g.:
..., there are various alternative DNS services available. A list of them can be found in Wikipedia:Public recursive name server#List of public DNS service operators, https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers and https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Public+Resolvers. Some of the DNS services also have dedicated clients: ...
-- nl6720 (talk) 09:55, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- I find the DNSCrypt list quite useless because it does not show addresses / link websites. Your second list is quite short (only 3 providers), lacks sources and confuses the Cloudflare FAQ with their privacy policy. --Larivact (talk) 11:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Untrusted networks
I think that "untrusted networks", e.g. public wifi, should be somehow mentioned in #Third-party DNS servers. -- nl6720 (talk) 09:56, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Why if it is already addressed in the section above (#Privacy and security)? --Larivact (talk) 10:21, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Secure DNS in a untrusted network will make the DNS somewhat secure (depending how the local resolver is configured). My original point was about DNS hijacking and DNS cache poisoning. The issue with the current text "DNS service of your ISP" is that, the ISP's DNS server might not even be involved. Local networks run their own DNS servers, and (untrusted/public) networks might serve incorrect DNS either from the network's DNS server or a malicious party in the network. -- nl6720 (talk) 11:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for elaborating. I added a sentence about DHCP to the Note. --Larivact (talk) 12:46, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- I don't know if it's important enough for a Template:Note, but I'm glad it's mentioned. Thanks.
- One minor nitpick: If you use DHCP; the user can usually only control the client side, so "using DHCP" sounds too grand for me. How about If you use a DHCP client? -- nl6720 (talk) 13:06, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- With Special:Diff/562252 this has been undone. Now #Third-party DNS servers only mentions avoiding the ISP's DNS servers and not the local network's. -- nl6720 (talk) 16:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
The draft uses the term third-party as if it included ISPs but it just hit me that ISPs are probably 2nd parties. Is there a better term for something that is not yours? --Larivact (talk) 12:57, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Which instance of "third-party" do you find problematic? -- nl6720 (talk) 13:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Every instance. When you search the internet for "Third-party DNS server", it is always meant as not yours (first-party) and not from your ISP (2nd-party). How about renaming the 2nd section to Other party DNS servers and explaining 1st, 2nd and 3rd parties in the section intro? The "alternative DNS services" link should then be renamed to "third-party DNS servers". --Larivact (talk) 13:25, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- "Other party DNS servers" would just make it very confusing. Can you even think of a good and understandable explanation for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parties? I think it's better to evaluate the occurrences of "third-party" one by one and see what we can think of. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- If you use a third-party DNS server, be sure to check its privacy policy.
- I don't see a problem here. You evaluate the 2nd party (ISP) and its policies when you sign the contract with it. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
To use DNSSEC with a third-party name server, it needs to be supported by both the server and your resolver.
- Suggestion: change it to: To use DNSSEC, it needs to be supported by both the name server and your resolver. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:41, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Resolved by Special:Diff/562252/562257. --Larivact (talk) 16:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- #Alternative DNS services or #Alternative DNS servers? This obviously doesn't involve the ISP's DNS servers. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Before using a third-party service, check its privacy policy for information on how user data is handled. User data has value and can be sold to other parties.
- Replace "third-party service" with "DNS service". Before using a DNS service, check its privacy policy for information on how user data is handled. User data has value and can be sold to other parties. -- nl6720 (talk) 13:46, 7 January 2019 (UTC)


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