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NoneDecember 5, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by Boyce Thompson Institute As climate change accelerates, scientists are sounding the alarm about its potentially devastating impact on the world's food supply. In a paper published by Trends in Plant Science , an international team of researchers warns that without rapid changes to how we develop climate-resilient crops, we could face widespread food shortages leading to famine, mass migration, and global instability. "We're in a race against time," explained Silvia Restrepo, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and one of the paper's co-authors. "The crops we depend on for food are increasingly struggling to survive extreme weather, from heat waves to droughts and floods. Meanwhile, our current approaches to developing tougher, more resilient crops simply aren't moving fast enough." The problem is complex: Not only are crops battling higher temperatures, but they're also facing more frequent pest outbreaks and diseases. Even when plants survive these challenges, climate change can reduce their nutritional value. Adding to the urgency, agriculture itself contributes to about 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions , creating a vicious cycle. The researchers outline five key recommendations to address this crisis: Create global research initiatives that bring together scientists from developed and developing nations to share resources and expertise Study plants in real-world conditions rather than just in controlled laboratory settings Establish stronger partnerships between laboratory scientists and farmers Build public trust and acceptance of new crop development technologies Streamline regulations to speed up the implementation of innovative solutions One of the paper's most striking observations is that despite agriculture's crucial role in human survival, only about 4% of global climate funding (roughly $35 billion annually) goes toward developing climate-resilient food systems. Even more concerning, most of this research focuses on large-scale farming in developed nations, leaving smaller farms and developing countries behind. "We need to completely rethink how we approach this challenge," said co-author Andrew Nelson, an associate professor at BTI. "Instead of starting in the lab and hoping solutions work in the field, we should begin by understanding farmers' real-world challenges and then work backward to develop practical solutions." The researchers emphasize that success will require unprecedented collaboration between scientists, farmers, policymakers, and the public. They also stress the importance of making new technologies accessible to all regions, particularly in the Global South, where climate impacts are often felt most severely. As climate change continues to accelerate, the paper's authors argue that the time for incremental changes has passed. By decisively implementing the five recommendations outlined above, we can create agricultural systems that are resilient to the impacts of climate change while also improving food security and nutrition. The group of 21 co-authors from nine countries was formed as a result of the First International Summit on Plant Resilience, organized by the Plant Resilience Institute earlier this year. The keynote speaker was co-author Michelle Heck, adjunct professor at BTI and Cornell University and Research Molecular Biologist at USDA-ARS, who spoke about her innovative research to prevent citrus greening disease. The summit promoted global collaboration, bringing together leading plant scientists from diverse disciplines. Together, they developed a roadmap to establish plant resilience research as a cornerstone of global climate change solutions. A follow-up summit is planned for 2026. More information: Seung Y. Rhee et al, Resilient plants, sustainable future, Trends in Plant Science (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001 Journal information: Trends in Plant Science Provided by Boyce Thompson InstituteDickey's Barbecue Pit Opens First Location in Oaxaca de Juárez, Spearheading Expansion in Mexico
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In the early days of the Mexican republic, an army officer and sugar plantation owner from the east coast state of Vera Cruz was elected President. He soon tired of the job and left his vice-president, Valentín Gómez Farías, in charge. He did that three more times in the course of running for President seven times, leaving the day-to-day affairs of running the country to his vice president. Whenever Gómez Farías landed up in hot water, Santa Ana would return to the capital and take over. Sound familiar? Who died and made Elon Musk president? He sure wasn’t elected. He wasn’t even born here, a constitutional requirement for being elected. Did the November election give Trump a mandate to do whatever he wanted to do, including delegating the presidency to an immigrant? No, he’s utterly despised by almost half of the country; that’s not a mandate. And he can only afford to lose four votes in the House (218 to 212) and three (52 to 48) in the Senate. Thirty-four Republican Congressmen just voted against his bill that would have shut down the government before Christmas. If that was President Musk’s attempt to flex his muscles, he needs to hit the gym. If you ever imagined that Elon Musk, who has a net worth of $438 billion as of today, shares the views of educated Americans, his true colors are now shining through. He has backed the far-right Alternative for Germany party, causing alarm in Berlin. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” he wrote on X in a recent endorsement of European far-right parties. He has also supported Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and UK leader Nigel Farage. His attempt to push through a bill raising the debt ceiling before Biden’s Presidency ends was killed last week by a huge majority, supported by only 38 Republican Congressmen. Trump needs the debt ceiling raised in order to pass the massive tax reduction for the rich that he plans on doing early in his administration. Apparently, if the debt ceiling is raised by Biden, the most ignorant voters will assume that this gift to the one percent is bipartisan. It’s not. Potential conflicts of interest abound. Musk holds more than $15 billion in federal contracts, mainly through his SpaceX rocket company that NASSA has come to rely on. The Pentagon also depends on Musk for Starlink satellite services, which are critical for U.S. military operations around the world. His Tesla vehicles, which make up almost 50 percent of all EV sales in this country, are largely manufactured in China. China even offered him a green card during one visit with President Xi. President Musk spent $277 million helping Trump get elected, and has offered to spend more of his own money to oppose anyone who threatens his legislative agenda in the mid-term primary elections. He was the only donor to RBG PAC, giving more than $20 million to run ads implying that the PAC represented Ruth Bader Ginsberg and that she had opposed Roe v. Wade, a claim that Ginsberg’s granddaughter vociferously denied, saying that the PAC was “an affront to her grandmother’s legacy” that was “nothing short of appalling.” He’s not ashamed to buy elections; it’s what he does. Why has Trump given Elon Musk such a high-profile role in his government? He doesn’t actually have a role at this point. His “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE (the acronym, which harkens back to the Doge - Italian for Duke - of Venice) doesn’t yet exist, and might not even be created if Musk falls further from favor before the Inauguration. And how many of his own employees is he likely to fire in the name of efficiency in the process of causing his competitors to fire their employees? The putative reason for such a department is to get rid of “inefficient” government programs in order to save money. The actual reason is to kill progressive programs that use taxes paid by the rich to help poor people, which is the one percent’s definition of socialism. Wealthy Americans aren’t opposed to spending so much as they’re opposed to paying . Get rid of progressive government programs and you can get rid of the higher tax rates that the wealthiest citizens pay. Eliminate Social Security and Medicare, and you eliminate the need for almost half of the federal budget. If you’re rich, you won’t die, live with chronic illness, or go hungry if those programs are eliminated. And if you don’t care about those who will, it’s no skin off your behind. The Party Of No has other cost savings in store for you: Kash Patel, named to head the FBI, has said that he intends to close the FBI and turn it into a museum; Robert Kennedy Jr, who will be in charge of medical programs including vaccinations, wants to do away with vaccinations; Dr. Mehmet Oz would oversee a budget of more than $1 trillion covering more than 150 million Americans, including the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, drug price negotiations, and decisions regarding medical insurance coverage; Doug Bergum’s decisions as head of the Department of the Interior would increase oil and gas drilling on public land (the cost of externalities associated with oil and gas production is well documented, but is universally denied by the petrochemical industry); and by passing classified military information to the Russians, Tulsi Gabbard could save us a fortune by helping Russia complete their takeover of Ukraine. Some Republicans (Rand Paul and Marjorie Taylor-Green) have suggested that Musk should replace Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. The Speaker isn't required to be an elected Congressman, although normally he is. But there's nothing normal about our times. That would create an endless stream of conflicts of interest; but Trump weathered many conflicts of interest during his first presidency, and all of them were promptly forgotten. Seriously, how did this happen? How did we get a government so infested with people who are in no way qualified to do their jobs? We got it by having a man who only wanted the Presidency in order to stay out of jail, who didn’t even want the job, and who certainly didn’t have the knowledge, temperament or skills to be President. We elected a psychopathic con man to run the country, and he has delegated it before even bothering to take the oath of office. We got it by allowing liars to lie, voters who believe lies to vote, and billionaires to buy elections. And unless we fix all three problems, we’ll continue to get incompetence in government; and not just Americans, but the whole world, will pay the price. Les Pinter lives in Springville.
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A Michigan man now has a college fund for his children thanks to work by Iowa Treasurer Roby Smith and State Rep. Mike Vondran, who helped reunite him with more than $317,000 in lost property. Smith and Vondran marked the found funds with an event at the Scott County Treasurer's Office Tuesday morning. The connection was made as part of the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt . Rep. Mike Vondran and Iowa Treasurer Roby Smith stand together in the Scott County Administration building on Tuesday, Nov. 26, to present a $317,0000 check to a Michigan man named Robert. After Robert's aunt passed away, her assets were never claimed and instead went to the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt program, where Vondran and Smith worked together to find an heir to the money and return it to family. Each year, millions of dollars are turned over to the state treasurer for safekeeping after financial institutions and businesses lose contact with the owner. Every effort is made to return the assets back to the rightful owner or their heirs. Examples include dormant checking and savings accounts, uncashed checks, lost stocks and bonds, utility security refunds and insurance benefits, according to a news release. Smith said he gave Vondran a list of the top 100 people in his district with unclaimed property. This was by far the largest amount, Vondran said. "Mine range from a low of $12,000 to a high of $317,000. It's an amazing thing when you find these resources, these legacies have just kind of disappeared on people and they wind up here," Vondran said. "These dollars have to go somewhere, by law, so they wind up in this account, and many people just lose track of things." The check presented on Tuesday was a result of a family member passing and their assets getting lost in the process, he said. "This individual's legacy was sitting in the account without an attachment to family and heirs, and we were able to find the single heir," he said. But, there was a catch. When Vondran called the heir — a man named Robert who resides in Michigan — Robert thought it was all a lie. "(Robert) actually called me one day out of the blue, after me leaving repeated messages, and said, 'Hey, I'm so sorry. I thought it was a scam. I was actually traveling through the Quad-Cities ... visiting with family, and referenced this and said, 'You can't believe what just happened to me,''" Vondran recounted. "And his distant cousin said, 'Well, I know Mike. He's my representative.' And then we called and made the connection." Vondran sent over the proper paperwork and in less than two weeks, Robert, who was not present Tuesday, was united with the lost family money, which he plans to use for his children's college fund, Vondran said. "It's a great story, and it's one of the largest (returns) in the history of Scott County," Smith said. "We gave out a record number last year, almost $35 million was the record in the history of Iowa, that we've given back. And the top amount was around the $4 million but I can tell you, as part of the history, this is up there for Scott County." The state has more than $566 million it is looking to return to its rightful owners, Smith said. Anyone who would like to search for a claim can go to www.greatiowatreasurehunt.gov and type in their information. Illinois residents can search a similar program in their state at icash.illinoistreasurer.gov . Iowa's Lucy Olsen and Taylor Stremlow discuss the Hawkeyes' win over Washington State in Iowa City at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, Nov. 24. (Ethan Petrik/Quad-City Times) Exchange students visiting the Quad-Cities through the Rotary Young Exchange of the Moline Rotary got to see the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade and partake in the 39th annual Festival of Trees at the Davenport RiverCenter. Former KWQC TV personality Paula Sands waves to the crowd. Sands was Parade Marshal for Channel 6. Santa and Mrs. Claus wave to the crowd during the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade in downtown Davenport on Saturday. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. Arts for the kids is one of the many attractions this year at the Quad City Arts Festival of Trees being held through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. Kids play in the globe at the Quad City Arts Festival of Trees which opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. The Quad City Arts Festival of Trees opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. Braelynn Armstrong, 4, holds onto her mother's hand as she tells Santa her Christmas wishes from a distance. Santa will be hearing wishes during the 39th annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees that opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. Bentley Armstrong, 11 months, sits quietly on Santa's lap on Saturday during the 39th annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees that opened Saturday and runs through Dec. 1 at the Davenport RiverCenter. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Davenport Police Sgt. Eric Gruenhagen watches the route of the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade on Saturday in Davenport. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people, young and old, lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people, young and old, lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Davenport police take the point and begin the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade on Saturday in downtown Davenport. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. The Moline Maroons March Band makes its way down Davenport's 3rd Street as part of the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade on Saturday. The Moline Maroons Marching band high steps it down Davenport's 3rd Street during the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade held Saturday. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people young and old lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Parade goers young and old found the candy during the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Holiday Parade held Saturday in Davenport. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. Thousands of people young and old lined the streets of downtown Davenport on Saturday for the 32nd annual Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Parade. 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NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading securities law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP announces that a lawsuit has been filed against Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE:EW) and certain of the Company’s senior executives for potential violations of the federal securities laws. If you invested in Edwards Lifesciences, you are encouraged to obtain additional information by visiting https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/edwards-lifesciences-corporation . Investors have until December 13, 2024 to ask the Court to be appointed to lead the case. The complaint asserts claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on behalf of investors in Edwards Lifesciences securities. The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and is captioned Patel v. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation , et al. , No. 24-cv-02221. What is the Lawsuit About? The Complaint alleges that Edwards is an international company that researches, develops, and provides products and technologies for heart valve repair and replacement therapies, as well as critical care monitoring solutions. Edwards categorizes its therapies and technologies into four categories: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (“TAVR”), Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (“TMTT”), Surgical Structural Heart therapies, and Critical Care therapies. As alleged, Edwards consistently touted the TAVR platform, the significant unmet demand for TAVR, and the Company’s ability to capitalize on that demand by scaling its various patient activation activities. These statements were allegedly materially false and misleading. In truth, TAVR’s demand and growth had stalled as Defendants’ patient activation activities failed to reach the perceived low-treatment-rate population and healthcare organizations prioritized other treatments over TAVR. On July 24, 2024, Edwards slashed guidance for TAVR for fiscal 2024 and announced disappointing financial results for TAVR for fiscal 2Q 24. This is allegedly because developments in new procedures, including Defendant’s own TMTT, put significant strain on hospital structural heart teams such that they were underutilizing TAVR, despite the Company’s continued claims of a significantly undertreated patient population. The news disclosed on July 24, 2024 caused a significant 31% decline in the price of Edwards stock, from $86.95 per share on July 24, 2024 to $59.70 per share on July 25, 2024. Click here if you suffered losses: https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/edwards-lifesciences-corporation . What Can You Do? If you invested in Edwards Lifesciences you may have legal options and are encouraged to submit your information to the firm. All representation is on a contingency fee basis, there is no cost to you. Shareholders are not responsible for any court costs or expenses of litigation. The firm will seek court approval for any potential fees and expenses. Submit your information by visiting: https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/edwards-lifesciences-corporation Or contact: Ross Shikowitz ross@bfalaw.com 212-789-3619 Why Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP? Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP is a leading international law firm representing plaintiffs in securities class actions and shareholder litigation. It was named among the Top 5 plaintiff law firms by ISS SCAS in 2023 and its attorneys have been named Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar by Law360 and SuperLawyers by Thompson Reuters. Among its recent notable successes, BFA recovered over $900 million in value from Tesla, Inc.’s Board of Directors (pending court approval), as well as $420 million from Teva Pharmaceutical Ind. Ltd. For more information about BFA and its attorneys, please visit https://www.bfalaw.com . https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/edwards-lifesciences-corporation Attorney advertising. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.The world premiere of Laurie Anderson’s new three-hour multimedia extravaganza begins with a sparkling globe spinning on a big screen like a Christmas tree bauble. Its surroundings are less jolly: a mushroom cloud, a raincloud soon surrounded by thunder, and a low, disturbing drone. Weaving together music, storytelling, film, animation, a local choir and more, explores, says its press bumf, “what has brought us here and how much time do we have left”. Its scheduling, just after Donald Trump’s potential election victory, one assumes, was not a coincidence. It’s also a follow-up. debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February 1983, where Anderson, then 35, explored life in Ronald Reagan’s America. In two parts split over consecutive nights, it was a similar mix of forms and styles, when climate change was a new-ish kid on the block and the cold war was frosty. Things are arguably chillier now. That production included her eerie, eight-minute-plus masterpiece – a surprise No 2 hit in the UK in late 1981 after the support of Radio 1 DJ John Peel, which led to an eight-album deal with Warner Bros. Meshing together the familiarity of a phone call from mother with the failed attempt to rescue US hostages in Tehran in early 1980, she told presenter Anderson Cooper in 2022, it was a song about how “technology cannot save you”. Recently, funnily enough, it’s had a revival on TikTok. The tale of her uncle returning shellshocked from war and screaming in the attic is a perfectly sharpened American short story O Superman doesn’t feature tonight, although other songs and elements of Anderson’s past do, including her arresting 1982 track Walking and Falling. She also begins the show wearing headlamp-lit glasses, just as she ended more than four decades ago. Anderson perkily tells us about her show’s whirligig concept. In brief: were about a religious sect recharting the Old Testament flood, which meant the garden of Eden was around New York City. is about the flood being here, and the need to build an ark. The water comes from clouds made by extreme weather, nuclear fission and the banks of data from our lives that could so easily break down. Oh yes, and Ai Weiwei will play Yahweh (Anderson jokes about the artist ruining her show’s continuity by shaving his head while she was trying to film him), Elon Musk the devil (rendered in supervillain-style cartoons) and Anohni a “Buddhist angel”. Aside from Ai, who occasionally wanders across the backdrop, we barely see or hear them after their introduction. Anderson’s personality compels throughout, but lots of her show sags. The songs, a mixture of avant-garde jazz and dub reggae pulses, fall flat and are muddily mixed, although musician Doug Wieselman and percussionist Kenny Wollesen are fun to watch, nimbly swapping between instruments as they wander into sets created by projected films. Anderson’s spoken words are also better heard solo. Her penchant for processing her voice into a deep, sinister brogue, a common effect over her decades-long career, retains its strange power. Exhilaration comes when we’re asked to scream for 10 seconds in tribute to Yoko Ono’s response to Trump’s election in 2016 – an odd joy – and emotion arrives when Anderson reflects on her life. This is when the show properly breathes. The tale of her uncle returning shellshocked from war and screaming in the attic is a perfectly sharpened American short story. Her grandfather’s tall tales about his life, masking a much more upsetting childhood, are delivered through a photo album made by AI. The effect is unsettling but also strangely moving, reframing the relationship between reminiscence and fiction. Closeup black-and-white footage of Anderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, ends the show’s first half. He disappears as she approaches his image up the stage steps, then the singing group join her and Reed reappears in the rising volume of their voices. Anderson also shares the couple’s tips for life as the show comes to a close: “Don’t be afraid of anyone... get a really good bullshit detector... be really tender.” The show gels when Anderson, 77, explores approaching the end of her life, in a world where catastrophe and collapse feel ever present. At these points it plays a little like an odd cousin of David Bowie’s final album, . ends with us being directed by Anderson to do awkward tai chi – impossible in theatre seats – which feels somewhat hopeful but also half-arsed. Yet fits its brief in many ways: a show trying to piece together a country and a planet, while also trying to piece together itself.
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