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The annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice seeks to engage participants in discussion and analyses of strategies and actions that can eliminate social inequality.


TeamTalk Limited (NZX: TTK) will sell its remaining 30 percent stake in BayCity Communications — which trades as Farmside — to Vodafone for $3.0 million.
TeamTalk Limited (NZX: TTK) will sell its remaining 30 percent stake in BayCity Communications — which trades as Farmside — to Vodafone for $3.0 million.
In March 2017 TeamTalk sold 70 percent of Farmside to Vodafone for $10 million in cash, with the option to sell the remaining 30 percent at any time. That move dashed Spark’s hopes of acquiring the business, despite the fact that it had offered $22.7m for 100 percent of the business.
In the run up the shareholder vote on the deal with Vodafone TeamTalk said there were considerable synergies with Vodafone. TeamTalk was one of Vodafone’s largest wholesalers of RBI through Farmside and TeamTalk also provided last mile connectivity to Vodafone enabling it to serve a major corporate rural customer.
TeamTalk’s CEO Andrew Miller said sale of the remaining 30 percent would enable TeamTalk to focus on its key priorities: rolling out its National digital tier III network and undergrounding its fibre network in Wellington’s CBD and that TeamTalk and Vodafone would maintain their relationship. “Vodafone and TeamTalk would continue to work together on strategic opportunities where appropriate,” he said.
Also, TeamTalk said it would work closely with Vodafone to ensure that services provided by TeamTalk under the management agreement were successfully transitioned.
TeamTalk said Vodafone had no plans to make major changes at the present time. “Staff and operations will continue to be based in Timaru, and all the services Farmside currently offers to rural customers will continue,” TeamTalk said.
The parties have agreed that the ownership change will become effective from midnight 31 May 2018.


A switch in Taliban tactics to use increasingly sophisticated home-made bombs has made this year the bloodiest for British forces since the Falklands War in 1982.
About three-quarters of the 100 UK deaths in Afghanistan in 2009 are thought to have been caused by insurgent-improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
This represents a conscious shift by the militants away from taking on Nato troops in pitched gun battles, which were invariably won by the better equipped and trained foreign forces.
When they come under fire from insurgents, UK soldiers can limit casualty numbers by calling in air support, but IEDs strike suddenly and without warning.
British troops have been hit particularly hard because nearly all of them are based in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold and major centre of opium production which is the most dangerous province in the country.
One expert said the growing complexity of the IEDs used in Afghanistan suggested that the Taliban were getting help from either state sponsors or - more likely - experienced Islamist insurgents who have fought in places like Iraq or Chechnya.
Dr Tim Bird, a lecturer in the defence studies department of King's College London, said: ''The Taliban changed their tactics about 18 months ago.
''Initially when we moved into Helmand in 2006, the Taliban were keen and eager to have pitched battles.
There has been intense debate this year about whether the equipment and vehicles provided to British troops in Afghanistan are adequate to protect them from insurgent bombs.
Some critics have blamed a shortage of helicopters for the high number of UK deaths, pointing out that personnel often have to travel around Helmand on land.
But Dr Bird said it was vital for troops to move among the local population in a counter-insurgency operation, adding that no vehicle was invulnerable to IEDs.
''I was talking to a few military guys about the general political debate about whether we need better vehicles,'' he said.
''I was expecting the military guys would all buy into that.
Similarly, having more helicopters would lead to the militants concentrating on targeting them, he said.
Dr Bird said the IEDs laid by the Taliban were ''clearly'' getting more complex, but played down the possibility of Iran being as heavily involved in supporting insurgents in Afghanistan as it was in Basra, southern Iraq.
''The people instructing the IED-makers probably will have experience in Iraq or Chechnya. That would explain the growing sophistication of the devices,'' he said.
UK forces were first officially deployed to Afghanistan in November 2001, when Royal Marines helped secure Bagram airfield as part of the US-led invasion following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Several thousand more troops followed but the human cost remained relatively low until Britain sent a taskforce to Helmand in spring 2006.
By the time the British military death toll in Iraq reached 100 in January 2006, there had only been five fatalities in Afghanistan.
Three months later the then-defence secretary, John Reid, said he would be ''perfectly happy'' if UK troops left Helmand three years later ''without firing a shot''.
This proved to be a massive misjudgment as the military became engaged in some of the fiercest fighting UK forces had experienced since the Second World War.
There were 39 British deaths in the Afghan conflict in 2006, 42 in 2007 and 51 in 2008.
The death toll soared this year as UK troops launched major missions over the summer to provide security in Helmand ahead of August's presidential and provincial elections.
Dr Bird said British commanders had set out a clear outline for the future direction of operations in Afghanistan.


Even the term "Daesh" fights Daesh, as a pejorative acronym for the so-called Islamic State, as well as a reminder that the fight is not just on a military level.
It is clear that Daesh is a threat that will not go away soon. Now, in addition to its forces in Syria and Iraq, forces in Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Afghanistan have pledged themselves to Daesh. And beyond the armed groups is the threat of radicalized individuals, such as Omar Mateen whose recent rampage in Orlando killed some 49 people.
Military efforts have forced Daesh to surrender large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, greatly reduced the influx of new fighters traveling to Syria and encouraged desertions by those already there. Nevertheless, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency stresses that Daesh remains a significant threat as it expands an interconnected global network tied to a sophisticated internet system. This appeals particularly to marginalized Muslims with a core theme that the West is fighting to suppress Islam.
So military efforts against Daesh have two effects: they reduce the territory it holds but validate its larger picture of a West hostile to Islam. Indeed, Omar Mateen specifically said that his rampage was motivated by the bombing in Syria and Iraq. So from a Daesh point of view, the bombing is a double-edged sword that also cuts against the West.
But the bombing has directly supported the fall of Fallujah to Iraqi troops and this has two significant positive consequences. The first is the obvious reduction in Daesh territorial control with its attendant loss of credibility and reduced appeal to foreign fighters. But the other consequence is an opportunity for the West to fundamentally undermine the Daesh picture of a hostile West.
The fighting has resulted in widespread destruction within Fallujah and has created tens of thousands of desperate refugees. This is a monumental opportunity for the West to demonstrate a striking and inspiring program of support for everyday Muslims. A concerted effort to re-build Fallujah and bring its refugees back into a renewed and vibrant city could do more to undermine the global Daesh appeal than any military actions. It would also demonstrate Iraqi government support of its Sunni population and help to reduce the inter-denominational frictions that are badly the weakening the country. And it would help reduce the flow of Iraqi refugees toward Europe and provide a model of development so badly needed in this troubled area of the Middle East.
Daesh indeed needs to be confronted on a military level. But more fundamentally it needs to be confronted on a social level and the conquest of Fallujah provides an enticing opportunity to do exactly that.


Words can not possibly begin to describe how excited we are to be bringing you episode 157 of the Who Goes There Podcast. Let me just tell you, this is one of the most WTF movies we’ve covered on the show to date. Chosen by the king of our Patreon, this week we’re covering 1991’s Mom, which could best be described as Santa Clarita Retirement Home. Get ready, this episode gets a little wacky.
At the Hungry Heifer, we won’t give you a bum steer. We’ll give you the Who Goes There Podcast episode 157!


The European Central Bank delivered a fresh round of monetary stimulus in a bid to shore up the weakening economy as it cut its growth forecast by the most since the advent of its quantitative-easing program four years ago.
ECB President Mario Draghi said the eurozone economy will now expand only 1.1% this year, a drop of 0.6 percentage point from forecasts just three months ago. A package of assistance from new loans for banks to a longer pledge on record-low rates is intended to expand existing stimulus, he said.
"The persistence of uncertainties related to geopolitical factors, the threat of protectionism and vulnerabilities in emerging markets appears to be leaving marks on economic sentiment," Mr. Draghi told journalists Thursday in Frankfurt. "The risks surrounding the euro-area growth outlook are still tilted to the downside."
The euro fell for a fifth day, dropping 0.6% to $1.12, while government bonds rose, pushing the German 10-year yield to the lowest since 2016.
But bank stocks dropped as the new loans will have less favorable terms than the ECB's previous operation. There may also be concern about the ECB's gloomy prognosis for the economy and the limited ammunition it has left if things worsen.
The ECB is reverting to more monetary support just three months after policymakers decided to end their bond-buying program and hoped to start weaning the eurozone economy off its crisis-era stimulus. The export-dependent European economy buckled under the weight of trade tensions, a slowdown in China and the uncertainties around Brexit.
Mr. Draghi said officials expressed confidence that the economy would follow the path outlined in the updated forecasts and consider the probability of a recession in the 19-nation bloc as "being very low." The Italian cited growing wages, an improving labor market and consumption that remains "by and large in good shape."
While Mr. Draghi said that the package of measures agreed unanimously Thursday would make the ECB's policy stance more accommodative and increase the region's economic resilience, he stressed that options for the central bank are limited.
Policymakers can't solve problems related to protectionism and Brexit, he said. Thursday's meeting was their last before the U.K. is set to leave the European Union on March 29.
While many anticipated the ECB would act, an announcement wasn't expected as early as Thursday. That signals the level of concern among Governing Council members, something that's been echoed across other institutions and central banks in recent days.
The OECD slashed its forecasts for European and global growth, the Bank of Canada said there's "increased uncertainty" about the timing of its future rate increases, and New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said the U.S. central bank can be patient about deciding its next move.
"The fact that the climate has become more uncertain doesn't mean one has to stay put — you do what you think is right," Mr. Draghi said. "In a dark room you move with tiny steps. You don't run, but you do move."
The ECB's main move was to revive its Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations with the intention of encouraging banks to provide credit to businesses and customers. The loans will have a maturity of two years, and the interest rate will be indexed to the main-refinancing rate over the life of each operation. Similar to previous offers, the program will have built-in incentives to keep credit conditions favorable.
On rates, officials pledged that they'll stay at current record-low levels at least through the end of the year, several months later than they previously guided. Some officials at the meeting even argued for pushing guidance on stable rates until March 2020, while others raised the issue of adverse impact of negative rates on bank profits, Mr. Draghi said.


You know, like the biggest blessings the internet brought us this year!
Though 2017 was filled with tragedies and heartbreak that we're still mourning, there were a few things that seemed to unite all of us under a more positive light—be it through humor or tugging at our heartstrings or simply allowing us to take a break from the current climate of the world.
For example, millions of people tuned into the livestream of a pregnant giraffe named April, who carried her calf for more than 15 months. The video lasted for several months and even went on to show her giving birth to a baby boy—a moment the internet couldn't stop talking and tweeting about.
And speaking of pregnancies, of course we included Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement, which broke Selena Gomez's record and became the most-liked Instagram photo ever.
But that's not all...There was a colorful Starbucks drink that took over our social media feeds as well as a hilarious BBC video interview that still has us LOL'ing.
See all the most viral moments from 2017 by launching the video above!


MORE than 100 families living near Phnom Penh International Airport who are involved in an ongoing land dispute will take their protest to the steps of City Hall, representatives said Wednesday.
Families living along Russian Boulevard in Choam Chao commune received their first eviction notice from authorities in April. The final eviction notice was given out last Thursday, when Dangkor district Governor Kroch Phan informed residents that they had until December 11 to voluntarily dismantle their homes.
Kroch Phan said their removal is necessary for airport expansion and the construction of a public park. The families submitted a letter to City Hall on Monday but say they have yet to receive a reply.
“Now we are preparing to protest in front of City Hall because we want to have a meeting,” said resident representative Uth Teng Sakhorn, noting that no date for the protest had been set.
Fellow representative Chea Vuth said the families have always acted according to the law and will continue to do so by consulting with their lawyer first before staging a demonstration.
“We only want to find justice because they did an injustice to us,” he said.
Hem Darith, Dangkor district’s deputy governor, said officials had acted appropriately, and that they will carry out the evictions as ordered.


Phenytoin belongs to the group of medications known as anti-epileptics. Phenytoin is used to manage and prevent certain types of seizures, as well as to prevent and treat seizures that occur during or following neurosurgery. It works on the brain to reduce the number and severity of seizures.
Each Coni-Snap white capsule with orange cap, imprinted "Parke-Davis" and "P-D 100" in black ink, contains 100 mg of extended phenytoin sodium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose, magnesium stearate, sugar, and talc; capsule shell: FD&C Yellow No. 6, gelatin, and titanium dioxide.
Each flavoured, triangle shaped, grooved tablet contains 50 mg of phenytoin (free acid form). Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, magnesium stearate, spearmint oil, sugar, and talc.
Each 5 mL of flavoured, red-coloured suspension contains 30 mg of phenytoin (free acid form). Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, banana oil, citric acid, glycerin, magnesium aluminum silicate, orange oil, polysorbate 40, Red No. 2 FD&C, sodium benzoate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sugar, vanillin, and FD&C Yellow No. 6.
Each 5 mL of flavoured, orange-coloured suspension contains 125 mg of phenytoin (free acid form). Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, banana oil, citric acid, glycerin, magnesium aluminum silicate, orange oil, polysorbate 40, sodium benzoate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sugar, vanillin, and FD&C Yellow No. 6.
The recommended dose of phenytoin varies according to individual needs. The recommended starting dose for adults is 100 mg taken 3 times a day. Your doctor will then adjust the dose based on how well it works and is tolerated. The usual adult dose is 300 mg to 400 mg daily taken by mouth in divided doses. An increase to 600 mg taken in divided doses may be needed in some cases. Once the most appropriate dose has been determined for you, and your seizures are controlled, your doctor may suggest that you take the medication in a single daily dose.
The children's dose is based on age and body weight. The recommended starting dose is 5 mg per kilogram of body weight per day, which is then divided into 3 equal doses.
The level of phenytoin in your blood can be checked through laboratory testing. This test helps your doctor determine the dose of phenytoin that best suits you.
Phenytoin may be taken with or after meals. Do not use capsules that are discoloured.
Allergy: Some people who are allergic to carbamazepine or barbiturates also experience allergic reactions to phenytoin. Before you take phenytoin, inform your doctor about any previous adverse reactions you have had to medications, especially other medications for seizures. Contact your doctor at once if you experience signs of an allergic reaction, such as skin rash, itching, difficulty breathing or swelling of the face and throat.
Dental hygiene: Because phenytoin can cause swollen and bleeding gums, it is important to practice good dental hygiene by flossing, brushing, and visiting your dentist regularly. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how to take care of your mouth, gums, and teeth while taking this medication.
Diabetes: Phenytoin can decrease the release of insulin from the pancreas, resulting in higher-than-normal levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It may also have an effect on the action of medications used to lower blood sugar for people with diabetes.
If you have diabetes, or are at risk of developing diabetes, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. It may be necessary to monitor your blood sugar more closely when starting or stopping phenytoin treatment.
If you experience symptoms of increased blood sugar, such as increased urinary frequency, increased thirst, excessive eating, unexplained weight loss, or a fruity breath odour, contact your doctor.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: Some people who take phenytoin become drowsy. Avoid activities that require complete mental alertness, judgment, and physical coordination (such as driving a car or performing hazardous tasks) until you establish how you are affected by phenytoin.
Hypersensitivity syndrome: A severe allergic reaction called hypersensitivity syndrome has occurred for some people with the use of phenytoin. Stop taking the medication and get immediate medical attention if you have symptoms of a severe allergic reaction, including fever, swollen glands, yellowing of the skin or eyes, or flu-like symptoms with skin rash or blistering. These reactions may be more frequent in people of Asian origin.
Lactose intolerance: This capsule form of phenytoin contains lactose. If you have galactose intolerance (galactosemia, glucose-galactose malabsorption, or Lapp lactase deficiency), you should not take the capsule form of this medication.
Liver function: Some people have reported liver problems and, in rare instances, liver failure, with the use of phenytoin. These cases have been associated with an allergic reaction that includes fever, skin rashes or hives, or swollen lymph glands. The reaction usually occurs within the first 2 months of treatment.
If you experience symptoms of liver problems such as fatigue, feeling unwell, loss of appetite, nausea, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools, abdominal pain or swelling, and itchy skin, contact your doctor immediately. If you have decreased liver function or liver disease, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Osteoporosis: Long term use of anti-seizure medications, including phenytoin, may affect the strength of your bones, because these medications reduce the amount of vitamin D available for your body to use. If you have or are at risk for developing osteoporosis, discuss with your doctor the need to take additional vitamin D.
Other medications and alcohol: Many medications and alcoholic beverages interact with phenytoin, causing decreased effectiveness or increased side effects. If you are taking phenytoin, consult with your doctor or pharmacist before taking any other medications or drinking alcoholic beverages.
Regular dosing: Remember that when you are taking phenytoin, it is very important to take the medication exactly as prescribed. Inform your doctor of any condition that prevents you from taking the medication as prescribed (e.g., surgery, illness, difficulty swallowing).
Stopping the medication: Do not stop taking phenytoin without consulting your doctor. Stopping the medication suddenly may cause an increase in the number or severity of seizures. If it is necessary to stop taking this medication, talk to your doctor about how to gradually reduce the dose of the medication before completely stopping.
Suicidal thoughts and behaviour: Some people taking anti-seizure medications may have suicidal thoughts or behaviour. If this happens to you or you notice this in a family member who is taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately. You should be closely monitored by your doctor for emotional and behaviour changes while taking this medication.
Pregnancy: When phenytoin is taken during pregnancy, it may cause harm to the developing baby. This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking phenytoin, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.


Once Removed: According to the Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale, the three most stressful experiences in life are the death of a spouse, divorce, and imprisonment. Moving house is only 32nd on the list. But anything could happen in the last ten minutes. Or the first 10 minutes.
A terrified Linda finds herself out of her depth as DI Donoghue questions her on suspicion of murdering her husband Micky. With their friend facing the possibility of life in prison, Gail and Sue desperately try to help her before it’s too late. But they find out there’s more to Carole than meets the eye.
The series returns to follow life on board for the staff and passengers who live, work and play on the vessel. In the second episode, the Royal Princess continues its busy summer season while Europe swelters in the record high temperatures of Heatwave Lucifer.
New six-part comedy from acclaimed writer Lisa McGee who mines her own experiences to create a candid, one-of-a-kind, family-centred comedy set against the spectre of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The girls have been up all night cramming for a big exam.
There’s more crazy cooking on the cards as full-time comedian (and part-time chef) Harry Hill welcomes EastEnders star Jessie Wallace to his chaotic kitchen. Look out for a La La Land tribute, weird recipes and hilarious clips as Harry puts his spin on all things foodie.


Yes, yes, there are germs everywhere. You and I have more bacterial cells than we have human ones. Still, hotel room bedspreads give me the willies. It’s always a dilemma: Do I sleep under just the sheet and freeze, or pull up the bedspread with its untold quantities of previous people’s sloughings?
New research suggest that maybe I should worry about the TV remote and light switches rather than the spread. Presented at the current general meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, the study also includes a finding that housekeeping carts can spread germs from one room to the next, on sponges and mops. Sigh. There goes the lazy pleasure of coming back to a sparkling room.
Surfaces with the lowest contamination included the headboard on the bed, curtain rods and the bathroom door handle.


Pew breadwinners poll: Do marriage and parenthood make you conservative about women and families?
Do marriage and parenthood make people more conservative about women and families?
A mother folding clothes in her son’s playroom.
Are Americans becoming more liberal about marriage, parenthood, and working women? A survey released last week by the Pew Research Center suggests we are. The survey showed big gaps between younger and older Americans on several questions: whether working moms make it harder to sustain successful marriages and raise children, whether kids are better off if their mothers stay home, and whether the increasing number of unwed mothers is a big problem.
The superficial interpretation of these findings is that the country will become more relaxed about family structure as the new generation replaces its elders. But on closer inspection, the picture is more complicated. What makes older people more conservative isn’t just age. It’s marital and parental experience. Yes, the population has become more liberal. But many of today’s young people will turn more conservative as they become moms and dads.
The Pew report cites previous polls that indicate changes in public opinion over time. In 1997, 82 percent of Americans said that the increasing number of women working for pay outside the home made it harder to raise kids, and 67 percent said it made successful marriages more difficult. In the new survey, those numbers have fallen, respectively, by eight and 17 percentage points. In 2003, 61 percent of Americans said children were better off if their mothers didn’t work outside the home. Today, that number is down to 51 percent. In 2007, 71 percent of Americans said that the increased prevalence of unwed mothers was a big problem. Now that number has slipped to 64 percent.
At first glance, the age breakdown of the Pew survey suggests these trends will continue. Compared with respondents aged 65 or older, respondents aged 18–29 were far less likely to say that unwed motherhood was a big problem (42 vs. 74 percent), that kids were better off if their mothers stayed home (37 vs. 58 percent), or that working moms made it harder to raise kids (60 vs. 76 percent) or sustain successful marriages (36 vs. 52 percent). It’s natural to infer that as sexists die out, the next cohort to reach middle age will be more egalitarian.
But the trend isn’t that simple. Take the question of whether the increase in working moms has made it harder for marriages to succeed. Among respondents under 30, the percentage who espoused this view was 36. Among respondents aged 30–49, the percentage rose to 54. But in the older age brackets—50 to 64, and 65 and over—there was no further increase. People born in the 1970s didn’t answer the question any differently from people born in the 1940s. The only division was between those who had turned 30 and those who hadn’t.
That raises an alternative possibility. Maybe the difference between under-30s and their elders isn’t the era in which they grew up. Maybe it’s a lack of life experience. As young people pass from their 20s to their 30s, they get married and have kids. They lose their naïvete about self-realization, having it all, the equality of family structures, and the interchangeability of moms and dads. According to this theory, the reason why older people are more likely to believe that unwed motherhood is a big problem, or that kids do better with stay-at-home moms, is that beyond the age of 30, you discover that these things are true.
Pew’s initial report showed little evidence for this theory. But Pew is no ordinary pollster. The folks who work there go out of their way to help reporters use their data. If you ask them to slice the numbers in a different way, within reason, they’ll do it. I asked them to break down the sample based on respondents’ answers to two other questions in the survey. One question was: “Are you currently married, living with a partner, divorced, separated, widowed, or have you never been married?” The other question was: “Do you have any children under age 18?” I wanted to see whether marital or parental experience influenced the respondents’ attitudes about wives and mothers.
The first tables Pew sent back were intriguing but fuzzy. Parental status made some difference, but not a lot, and not consistently. Marital status made a bigger difference, but the patterns weren’t clear. The categories were confusing. People who had no kids under 18 might be nonparents, or they might be empty-nesters. People who weren’t married might never have had a spouse, or they might have lost one. So I asked the researchers at Pew to separate the respondents without minor children into two subcategories: those over 50, who were more likely to be empty-nesters, and those under 50, who were more likely to be childless. I also requested three marital categories: married, never-married, and an “ex-married” group consisting of respondents who were separated, divorced, or widowed.
This time, the tables showed striking differences. On the attitudinal questions, people aged 50 or older who didn’t have minor children weren’t much different from people of any age who did have such children. But people under 50 who didn’t have minor children—the true nonparents—diverged sharply from those who had kids. Compared to parents under 50, nonparents under 50 were less likely to say that working mothers made it harder to raise kids (62 vs. 79 percent), less likely to say that working mothers made it harder for marriages to succeed (38 vs. 56 percent), less likely to say that kids were better off if their mothers stayed home (36 vs. 47 percent), and less likely to call unwed motherhood a big problem (49 vs. 63 percent).
The tables exposed similar gaps based on marital experience. Compared with people who had never been married, those who were married at the time of the survey were more likely to say that working mothers made it harder to raise kids (82 vs. 62 percent), more likely to say that working mothers made it harder for marriages to succeed (56 vs. 37 percent), more likely to say that kids were better off with their mothers at home (56 vs. 30 percent), and more likely to say that unwed motherhood was a big problem (74 vs. 44 percent). In nearly every case, the gap between marrieds and never-marrieds was bigger than the gap between the youngest age group (18–29) and the oldest (65+). If you want to predict what somebody thinks about women and families, marital experience is a better clue than age.
On their face, these numbers imply that marriage and parenthood could mitigate, or perhaps even halt, the liberal trend in public opinion. But that, too, is uncertain. On some questions, the cultural fight is effectively over. In the Pew survey, fewer than 30 percent of young people agree that it’s better for a marriage if a husband earns more than his wife, and the number doesn’t rise with age until you get to senior citizens. That sort of male supremacism seems to have fallen into permanent minority status. (On the other hand, even among young people, there’s a 30-point gap between the percentage who say kids do better with a stay-at-home mom and the percentage who say kids do better with a stay-at-home dad.) Furthermore, it’s highly plausible that many of the attitudinal differences between married and never-married people, and between parents and nonparents, are causes rather than consequences of marriage and parenthood. If you’re socially conservative, you’re more likely to get hitched and have babies.
But to the extent that experience affects our attitudes about women and families, what’s really intriguing in the Pew data is evidence that this factor cuts both ways. If entering marriage makes you more conservative, leaving it seems to make you more liberal.
To illuminate this pattern, you have to compare married respondents to respondents who classified themselves as separated, divorced, or widowed. On three of the four attitudinal questions, these ex-married respondents were significantly more conservative than never-married respondents, but not quite as conservative as married ones. Compared to marrieds, ex-marrieds were less likely to say that working mothers made it harder to raise kids (75 vs. 82 percent), less likely to say that kids were better off with stay-at-home moms (48 vs. 56 percent), and less likely to call unwed motherhood a big problem (65 vs. 74 percent). The only question on which the gap closed was the one about whether working mothers made it harder for marriages to succeed—a question on which a broken marriage obviously makes you more likely to say yes.
Maybe the sort of people who separate or divorce are simply more liberal than those who stay married. Or maybe the experience of living alone again, and perhaps raising a child by yourself, sometimes restores your confidence that working women can raise children without men around. Conservatives might expect the opposite: After your divorce, you’d find that raising a child on your own as a working parent is harder than it was when you had a spouse’s help. Either way, we’re better off if experience, not age, drives public opinion. Debates about marriage, motherhood, and sexual equality are best resolved not by dying but by living: not by the expiration of our elders, but by learning which claims about happiness and family structure—the left’s or the right’s—turn out, in real life, to be true.
Thanks to Wendy Wang and Anna Brown of the Pew Research Center for humoring my many requests to reslice the data. No other polling organization makes this kind of reanalysis possible.


Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, BYU.
Air Force exacted revenge on BYU after years of frustration against their Mountain West Conference rival, rolling up 409 rushing yards in a 35-14 home win. It was the Falcons’ first win against BYU since 2003.
Not only did the victory get the monkey off the back for Air Force, it surely also brought a smile to the faces of administrators and coaches around the entire MWC. You see, this is the Cougars’ last season in the Mountain West, thanks to their decision to go independent in an attempt to reap more TV dollars. That decision has upset fellow MWC members and put the conference’s future in question. I doubt if the Air Force players care too much about that sort of nonsense, but their victory surely made a lot of suit-wearing MWC people very, very happy.
More good news for Air Force: Cornerback Reggie Rembert was back on the field and snagged an interception a week after being carted off with a head/neck injury.


A new policy recommendation made by the CIO Council would give federal employees greater liberty to use computers and other equipment for personal reasons but also could open the door to disputes between employees and management.
The recommendation, issued March 10, would allow federal workers to use government office equipment for non-government purposes "when such use involves minimal additional expense to the government, is performed on the employee's nonwork time, does not interfere with the mission or operations of a department or agency and does not violate the standards of ethical conduct for employees of the executive branch."
The rationale for this policy change is commendable. The CIO Council believes that giving employees limited personal use of office equipment will enhance the quality of the workplace and help retain valued workers.
But the policy could create confusion. For example, it would allow you to come to the office after work hours and use your computer to access Internet sites. If the sites you visited were a bit tawdry, you wouldn't run afoul of this policy unless someone saw what you did and reported it to your supervisor. Even then, it might not be clear whether you actually had violated the regulations.
The only way a supervisor could wiggle out of such a dilemma would be to nix this kind of use of government resources—which the CIO Council recommendation spells out as a possibility. The problem is that it doesn't say under what circumstances a supervisor can revoke this privilege. Agency supervisors could find themselves entangled in grievances, appeals and lawsuits stemming from contested revocations.The recommendation also allows agency officials to apply this policy to contractor personnel, interns and other non-government employees. Now there's a can of worms if I ever saw one.
The CIO Council defined government office equipment as personal computers and related peripheral equipment and software, library resources, telephones, facsimile machines, photocopiers, office supplies, Internet connectivity and access to Internet services, and e-mail. To comply with this recommendation, an employee's personal use of this equipment would be limited to situations that would not result in additional expense to the government other than normal wear and tear.
"Minimal additional expenses," according to the recommendation, would allow for making a few photocopies, using a computer printer to print out a few pages, making occasional brief personal phone calls, sending personal e-mail messages once in a while or using the Internet sparingly for personal reasons.
When I worked for Uncle Sam, you couldn't use a copy machine for personal use. Many employees did anyway, but at least they knew what would happen if they got caught. That made sense then and still does. Your office shouldn't be where you make photocopies, send personal e-mail or print personal items on your printer.
Executive-branch employees are prohibited specifically from using government office equipment to maintain or support a personal private business. But the CIO Council recommendation says employees should be allowed to make limited use of government office equipment to check their Thrift Savings Plan and—get this—"other personal investments or to seek employment."
In addition, the recommendation says, "Personal use must not result in loss of employee productivity or interference with official duties." I question how easy it would be to prove the effect that personal use of equipment might have on someone's productivity.
It appears the only part of this recommendation that was drafted intelligently is the section that describes what employees can't do. There is a whole laundry list of don'ts. Employees are expected to refrain from using government office equipment for activities that are "inappropriate." These inappropriate uses include activities that could cause congestion, delay or disruption of service to any government system or equipment (sending things such as electronic greeting cards and video file attachments); using government systems to gain unauthorized access to other systems; sending chain letters; activities that are illegal, inappropriate or offensive to fellow employees or the public (basically anything commonly deemed politically incorrect); and any outside fund-raising activity, product endorsement, lobbying activity or partisan political action.
The prohibition against using government property in ways that are offensive to fellow employees or to the public is well-intentioned but totally unworkable because the definitions of sensitive or offensive material are extremely fuzzy. I guarantee that if this recommendation is implemented, supervisors will be spending much of their time embroiled in disputes as to whether a subordinate violated the rules.


FILE - A Syrian man weeps as he cradles the body of his daughter who was killed following reported shelling in the town of Khan Sheikhun in the southern countryside of the rebel-held Idlib province, Feb. 26, 2019.
Peace has not returned to Syria, and it is neither safe nor sustainable for Syria's nearly 12 million refugees and internally displaced people to return to their homes, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria warns.
Syria is entering its ninth year of conflict this week and, while Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have pacified large swathes of territory, the war has not been won.
Chair of the Independent Commission, Paulo Pinheiro, says scores of civilians are killed and maimed in Idlib and western Aleppo by pro-government forces, as well as by the Syrian Democratic Forces and international coalition fighting to regain control of Islamic State's last stronghold in Dayr al-Zawr.
FILE - Paulo Pinheiro, chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, attends a news conference at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 6, 2017.
"Violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law by all sides remain rampant, creating multiple security vacuums, and thus fertile soil for future escalations," Pinheiro said.
The Commission reported that persecution, discrimination, and other forms of ill-treatment are widespread. It said arbitrary arrests, detentions and executions continue in government-controlled areas, and armed groups and terrorist organizations also unlawfully detain or kidnap civilians in Idlib and Afrin for expressing political dissent or for ransom.
Pinheiro says military objectives are placed above civilian governance by all parties, creating a vacuum of the rule of law in parts of the country.
"Lack of security, of rule of law, of access to basic services, of reconstruction, and of overall prospects all undermine the feasibility of safe and sustainable return," he said.
The Syrian ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Hussam Edin Aala, told the council his country does not recognize the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry and said it should not be renewed. He turned his ire on the council itself, saying the U.N. body continuously targeted his country to promote geopolitical agendas that have nothing to do with human rights. He added the debate of the Commission report was a clear example of politicized practice.


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When Domee Shi was a little girl growing up in Toronto, her mother treated her like a precious dumpling, she recalled, constantly making sure she was safe and didn’t wander away.
The film follows an aging Chinese woman suffering from empty nest syndrome who gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggling dumpling boy. But the dumpling starts growing up quickly, and the mom must come to the bittersweet revelation that nothing stays cute and small forever.
"Bao" is Shi's directorial debut, she said. It is also includes several other firsts — the first Pixar short to be directed by a women, the first to be produced by Becky Neiman-Cobb, and the first short to feature a Chinese-American production designer, Rona Liu, a Pixar representative confirmed.
Shi joined Pixar in 2011 as a story intern. It was when she was working on “Inside Out” in 2015 that she decided to create her own side project.
The image of a mother coddling her little dumpling baby popped into her head, and she started drawing and developing the idea as an outside project. But she began pitching it to colleagues, including “Inside Out” director Pete Docter.
Shi said the film is loosely inspired by her own life growing up as an only child. When she was 2 years old, her family moved from China to Toronto. Shi lived there up until 2011, when she “left the nest”.
She added that while her relationship with her mother served as the main inspiration, her love for food was also a big part of the film’s conception.
Shi added she chose a dumpling to represent a child because she felt like dumplings were a symbol of growing up in a Chinese family.
The mother character is inspired by Shi’s mom, but the character’s personality is a combination of all the strong Chinese women including her aunts and grandmother in her life, Shi said.
She noted her mom was heavily involved with the making of the short film as well.
Becky Neiman-Cobb, the producer of “Bao” who had previously worked with Shi as the editorial manager of “Inside Out”, said that they filmed Shi's mother so they could refer back to the footage and the way she folded dumplings.
Shi and Neiman-Cobb said they both feel like their short film tells a universal story that they hope many people can relate to. Shi said that she wants Asian and immigrant audiences to see their lives and families reflected on the screen, but for non-immigrant audiences to find something they can identify with as well.


ISLAMABAD >> The Pakistani army says two members of the security forces and eight militants have been killed in a pair of clashes.
A Thursday statement says soldiers carried out a raid in the Tarel valley, killing three militants involved in attacks on tourists and security forces. It says the exchange of fire also killed two security personnel.
The army says another five militants were killed when soldiers returned fire as they attacked a checkpoint in the Khyber tribal region.
The clashes came a day after a bomb blast killed 17 people on a bus carrying government employees in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Pakistani Taliban has waged a war with the state for more than a decade.


hi, i recently purchased a zire 72 and i have been trying to connect it to the internet through the pcmcia modem on my laptop using usb hotsync. is this even possible? after searching all over the net, it seems that the only way i can get online is if i employed bluetooth.. is this true? please help.
Frankly, the usual question is how to program the Palm to fetch Internet material and not how to use devices on the PC.
But you ask how to use the modem in the PC from the Palm. That takes software like MochaPPP (example at http://www.win-hand.com/help/server/ ) which is some sort of middleware that runs on the PC and arbitrates the requests.
PalmSource and PalmOne have developer links that you can start to research and you can look at ROMTRANSFER which is about all that PalmSource reveals on how to control/talk across the USB port.
If you are not going to write your own software, then I don't see a ready to use solution.


Home Featured Top Post Video Header Bidding: The Publishing Industry’s Biggest Buzzword or Misnomer?
Video Header Bidding: The Publishing Industry’s Biggest Buzzword or Misnomer?
Header tags were arguably the biggest trend to come out of the programmatic space in 2015, and were poised for terrific potential as we entered 2016.
Over the course of the past year, the hype did not disappoint. We saw header tags decimate the traditional waterfall-structured auction, allowing all DSPs, marketers and agencies to bid at the same time, side-by-side and in real time for the same inventory.
This upped both yield and revenue for publishers, while programmatic buyers liked that they could workaround the stronghold Google had built with DoubleClick and AdX.
Next we saw the emergence of wrappers, which made header bidding technology scalable across many partners. Wrappers, or containers, address issues of latency that plagued basic header bidding implementation by helping publishers to add and manage demand sources without slowing down load times, incorporating each bidder into a single framework designed to execute header bidding requests in parallel. They also alleviate the huge time and cost associated with adding individual exchange partners to multiple websites. Once implemented, they are far easier to manage, and today play an essential role in a mature header bidding solution, especially given that multiple header bidding partners are necessary for proper monetization.
In much of the same way that header bidding technology was poised to evolve the industry at the beginning of 2016, the implications for publishers who have video header bidding capability have already started to dominate the conversation in looking ahead to 2017. But what do we mean by “video header bidding?” After all, a video player is a piece of embedded technology within a website’s pages; it’s oftentimes a third-party product, and may not have a presence within the header code of those pages at all.
However, this is not to say that the spirit of header bidding can’t be implemented for video. Publishers can still open up their video inventory to all demand sources at the same time, in real time—it just looks a bit different than the header bidding we’ve grown accustomed to with display.
Video header bidding essentially runs the same sort of auction as display header bidding, but does it for video advertising, and runs it while the video player is loading. In this way, it is directly analogous to display header bidding: display header bidding runs while the page loads, and video header bidding runs while the video player loads. And, just as display header bidding evolved to offer easy-to-integrate wrappers for managing multiple partners, so too are vendors beginning to roll out equivalents for video.
Because integration takes place in the video player, not the page, video header bidders are finding that it is as important to approach the owners of the video player technology as the publishers who own the video content – in fact, probably more important. Video player vendors with a full OVP can roll out header bidding to an entire network of publishers, as long as they have the right relationship with those customers.
The end results of implementing video header bidding can be profound. Not only do publishers enjoy uplift in CPMs and fill, but there’s a hidden – and perhaps surprising – benefit that’s not necessarily present with display header bidding. The benefit is a boost to the load times of ads within video players.
If you’ve ever run third-party video ads, you know that: a) winning bidders often don’t actually have an ad for you to play: and b) ads can take a long time to load. The latter is a nasty side effect of the VPAID standard, which has been abused by many third parties to run hidden sub-auctions using code with extended timeouts. And sometimes their code does not even work. All of this leads to a subpar viewer experience, and can drive viewers away before the ad even loads.
So far, video header bidding is dominated by a small group of participants who are either only running their own direct ads, or gating participation to trusted third parties. In some sense, it’s a restart of the video advertising ecosystem, and that’s good news for those few video players and video content publishers who are taking advantage of video header bidding. Ads load quickly and reliably, such that they are ready to play as soon as the video player has loaded, reducing or even eliminating revenue-wasting latency.


Alistair Darling may have been a big, brave Hector standing up to nose-tweaker Brown, but his right-hand minister at the Treasury is a more timid piece of work.
Liam Byrne is Treasury Chief Secretary - the Treasury's hatchet man, the minister who gets to say 'no' to extravagant-spending departments.
A strong chief secretary can save the country billions. Past chief secretaries have been flinty, muscular thrusters, rooted in actuarial propriety.
They have often been seen as future leaders of their party. Mr Byrne is a less obviously steely fellow. Not one of life's leaders.
He is a courtier, a massager of clients, a service provider, follower. Yesterday he was queasy about using the language of cuts.
He, more than most mortals, must know the danger of our national debt. Yet he pansy-tiptoed around any idea of reducing that debt. He wouldn't even talk about 'paying off' the debt.
Instead this former management consultant, this Blairite careerist who only joined the project half way through the New Labour years, spoke of ' paying down the deficit'. Sounds less assertive and dynamic and decisive that way, see?
He was speaking to the Public Administration Committee. Its chairman, Tony Wright (Lab, Cannock Chase), has on occasion taken a jab or two from my nib for being too soapy, but yesterday he flew at Mr Byrne with gusto.
Mr Wright was trying to reconcile the vast national debt with Gordon Brown's desire to carry on spending. It was, said Mr Wright, 'just not sustainable' to claim you could fill a £73billion hole without damaging public services.
Mr Wright shook his head as though troubled by a bluebottle and said Mr Byrne was pretty much talking baloney.
Mr Byrne again: 'I don't think that's a sophisticated enough way of looking at it.' Mr Byrne argued that because Labour had given public-sector workers such hefty pay deals over the past 12 years, only they could now tell those same public-sector workers they had to accept a pay freeze. Shades of a protection racket here, surely.
Mr Wright yelled: 'This is broken Britain. Just drive around and you will find it.' He quoted numerous independent witnesses who insist public services must be cut severely.
Mr Byrne waved aside these claims. He sat there between two Treasury aides, small, very white, like a golf ball in a carpenter's vice. He was a maestro of mumbled waffle. Here was the Chief Secretary of the Treasury, the man we look to as the protector of our tax money, pooh-poohing the idea of cuts.
Ah-ha! So there WILL be cuts. But he was just reluctant to say so - for fear, pretty obviously, of losing public-sector votes.
I realised that the last time I saw that zoned-out calm was on the face of UFO-fancier David Icke during the Haltemprice and Howden by-election.
The received-wisdom merchants, encouraged by anti-Cameron loonies on the foaming Right, frequently attack the Tories for not presenting us with detailed spending plans.
In fact no Opposition can feasibly do so, partly for political reasons, more bluntly because they don't know how many land mines are buried in the Treasury's accounts.
Perhaps the useful idiots of the Thatcherite Right should follow the example of Tony Wright and get stuck in to our current rulers, not least Mr Byrne.
What does the Brown Government intend to cut? When? How deeply? Come on. Spit it out.


Maurizio Sarri‘s fate as head coach at Chelsea is set to be decided in the next fortnight, according to the Daily Telegraph. The Italian is facing increased scrutiny since Chelsea’s 6-0 loss at the hands of Manchester City, the paper reports, with the club said to be facing a season-defining run of fixtures in the coming weeks.
Manchester United have reportedly set their sights on Paris St Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot. The Mirror says reports in Spain suggest United have emerged as the latest Premier League team to show an interest in the 23-year-old Frenchman, who is out of contract at the end of the season. The club could face competition from the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Barcelona, the paper adds.
Juventus are reportedly leading the race for the signature of Ajax star Matthijs De Ligt, with Chelsea and Manchester United also said to be among the sides interested in the 19-year-old. The Sun says reports in Italy suggest Juventus have an edge over their rivals as the side have a good relationship with De Ligt’s agent.
Arsenal tried to offload Mesut Ozil during the January transfer window, but none of Europe’s top clubs wanted him, The Sun reports. The paper says reports in Italy suggest the German was offered to Juventus, but the Italian champions, as well as Inter Milan, were put off by his £350,000-a-week wage demands.
Mohamed Salah: The Liverpool star is said to have been linked with a move to Juventus. The Guardian says rumours suggest the Italian champions have earmarked the Egyptian as a potential replacement for Paolo Dybala.
Efe Ambrose: Frank Lampard is closing in on the signing of the ex-Celtic star, according to The Sun. The 30-year-old is expected to sign a short-term contract to help the Rams with their promotion push, the paper reports.


Our property was surrounded by acres of flat farm land and when a storm came there were no trees, hills, or mountains to stop its effects. We became used to losing shingles off our roof and buckling down anything that could fly away.
I had heard the wind during the night, but living only a couple miles from Lake Michigan, I was used to hearing it as it came off of the lake. But now when I looked out the window I couldn’t see anything. It was a total whiteout. It was as if someone painted the entire countryside white and not a glimpse of light could get through. It really was quite frightening.
In the fall I had seen my neighbor tie a rope from his house to the barn. He said he hoped he wouldn’t have to use it, but he knew how the winters were in the country. He was a dairy farmer, and it was important for him to get to the barn. Of course, I thought this was like the days of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder and her experiences on the prairie! I sort of chuckled when he told us about this. But now, looking at the whiteout, I was beginning to understand the importance of that rope!
The snow kept coming down, the wind howled, and Ralph and I sat waiting for it to end. We were surprised when we heard a loud pounding on our front door. We couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to be out in this kind of weather.
Ralph was reluctant to open the storm door as the wind was at a blizzard stage. As he began to push the storm door forward the wind caught it and tore the hinges off. The door was now at the mercy of the wind as it moved freely back and forth on one remaining hinge. A woman, trying not to get hit by the door, was standing helplessly. She was caked with snow. Ralph quickly pulled her into the house and had her stand by our wood-burning stove. She told us her story.
She was going to church. From where she lived, it looked like a little snow was falling, and she felt it would not be a problem driving the car. However, as she continued down the country road, the snow began to come down faster and heavier. There was no place for her to turn back, and soon she was driving directly into the whiteout. She was blinded by the snow and drove the car into a large ditch that was in front of our house. She was not hurt and managed to push the car door open to free herself. Not knowing where she was, she used her feet for direction! She pushed the snow away until she felt gravel underneath them. She knew as long as she followed the gravel eventually there would be a house or barn. It took some time for her to find her way to our front door.
It was later when the first county snow plow arrived. The snow and wind had subsided, and we were able to watch from our windows. The snow drifts were so high that this plow looked buried before it began. It looked way too small to do the job! We saw the driver back up and leave. I was told by a neighbor that there were times when no plow could get through for two weeks! I began to wonder if this was one of those times! Then we heard something coming. It was a huge “papa” snowplow. We watched as that big plow hit the drifts without hesitation. It rammed them with such force that snow flew 30 feet in the air! But, the drifts were so big and deep that the plow could only go a short distance before having to back up and ram them again! This went on until eventually a lane was opened. Our unexpected friend did not have to spend the night as her husband was able to pick her up.
Ralph and I loved the country and our home. We did learn about a whiteout and how quickly it could develop! We did have an extra bed for someone — just in case — and we were very well aware that a rope was a good idea for our neighbor! He laughed as he told us that his only concern was that the rope would break and fall in the deep snow, he couldn’t find it, and he would be wandering, perhaps for hours, trying to find the front door of his home!
This is my memory of a winter day in Michigan. Oh yes, we have ice and snow in Tennessee and we have to endure for a few days, but I haven’t seen a whiteout yet. I do like Tennessee.


Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts,” Richard Feynman famously declared in 1966. Ever quick to challenge accepted wisdom, he distinguished the laudable ignorance of science, forever seeking unattainable certainties, from the dangerous ignorance of experts who professed such certainty.
Twenty years later, he would drop a rubber ring into a glass of ice water to show a panel of clueless rocket experts how willful ignorance of basic temperature effects likely caused the Challenger shuttle disaster (1).
Feynman’s warning against faith in the phony trappings of “cargo cult science” fell on deaf ears. Policies affecting every aspect of our lives are now based on dangerous forms of ignorance.
A prime case in point is the noble edifice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where a high-ranking EPA official was recently jailed and fined for collecting pay and bonuses for decades of non-existent work while he claimed to be working elsewhere for the CIA. Such long-standing fraud would hardly come as a surprise to Evaggelos Vallianatos, who toiled for a quarter of a century in the EPA’s Pesticide Division, ostensibly responsible for protecting human health and the environment from commercial poisons. His new book, Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, documents a culture of fraud and corruption infesting every corner and closet of the agency.
The EPA, created with much fanfare by Richard Nixon in 1970, was an agency crippled at birth by inadequate funding, political hypocrisy, and laws protecting industry profits above all. Vallianatos points out that one of the fledgling agency’s greatest handicaps was its initial staffing with personnel from USDA, steeped in the religion of corporate agriculture and lethal technologies. With USDA staff came also USDA’s outdated pesticide registrations, which were to be reviewed and reregistered by EPA. In addition, hundreds of new pesticide applications accumulated every year, each supported by industry-produced safety studies to meet new federal requirements. Hired as scientists, EPA staffers spent their time cutting and pasting industry studies and conclusions into rubber-stamped registration approvals. Under industry-crafted laws, once a pesticide was registered, it could never be unregistered without massive, unequivocal evidence of harm.
As if such misuse of science weren’t bad enough, audits by FDA and EPA soon found that most of the thousands of industry safety studies used to approve pesticide registrations were fraudulent. Alerted by FDA scientist Adrian Gross, EPA had discovered in 1976 that Industrial BioTest Laboratories [IBT], which had conducted many of the pesticide safety tests submitted to EPA by manufacturers, had been routinely faking tests, falsifying data, and altering results for years. Subsequent investigations of other testing laboratories found similar practices in more than half the labs whose tests supported EPA registrations of pesticides.
In 1979, during the seven years of EPA dithering over this scandal, Vallianatos came to work at EPA. He soon learned that not a single pesticide registration was to be canceled due to fraudulent or nonexistent test data. Instead, he notes, EPA’s reaction was to outsource science. It shut down its own testing laboratories, closed its own libraries of toxicity data on thousands of chemicals, and outsourced all evaluations of industry-sponsored studies. “The unspoken understanding in this outsourcing of government functions has been the near certainty of finding industry data satisfactory – all the time.” This issue is relevant today, given that chemicals such as 2,4-D and glyphosate (Roundup™), whose uses have been vastly increased by GMO practices, were originally registered on the basis of invalid IBT studies.
During Vallianatos’s first year at EPA,1980, some 1.1 billion pounds of pesticide active ingredients were applied to U.S. food crops, a number that does not include home and garden uses, parklands, golf courses, playing fields, and municipal landscapes. In 2011, two billion pounds of pesticides were sold in the U.S. Most if not all of those pesticides lacked valid testing data then, and still lack such data today. Furthering the fraud, Vallianatos points out, the active ingredient is only the tip of the iceberg, being as little as one percent of the product; the remainder is a trade secret stew of untested, unknown “inert” ingredients that are often more toxic than the active ingredients. What he calls “The Big Business of Fraudulent Science” has replaced even the semblance of environmental protection.
visited on whistleblowers; and ever and again, bureaucrats, with full knowledge of the consequences, setting policies that result in death and suffering. For 25 years, Vallianatos saw and documented it all.
“This entire book is, in a sense, about a bureaucracy going mad,” Vallianatos adds.
Such monumental fraud demands drastic remedies, which Vallianatos bravely urges: rebuild an EPA completely independent from industry and politics, remove incentives for huge scale, chemically-dependent corporate agriculture, and address the underlying problem by encouraging small family farms and agriculture without chemical warfare.
These are facts, and this is a book that scientists and citizens alike ignore at great peril.
Carol Van Strum is a writer, editor, farmer, parent, and chronic thorn in the side of those who endanger the health and safety of people and the environment. She lives and works in the Oregon Coast Range. She is the author of A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights.
(1) See his account of the investigation into the Challenger disaster in What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard P. Feynman, 1988.
(2) Richard Feynman, What is Science? Presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, 1966 in New York City, and reprinted from The Physics Teacher Vol. 7, issue 6, 1969, pp. 313-320 by permission of the editor and the author.
(3) For more information about the extent of this lab fraud, see A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights, by Carol Van Strum, 1983, revised 2014 with full texts of Peter von Stackelberg’s exposé of the issue in a new appendix.
This review originally ran on Independent Science News.


How much did vandalism cost town's taxpayers in the last year?
MORE than £4,000 of taxpayers' money has been spent on vandalism repairs in Witney in the last year.
Witney Town Council has had to divert cash from other projects to fix 21 separate cases of damage caused by yobs since May 2018.
The total of just over £4,000 was down on the £6,400 spent on repairs in 2017/18, but the council revealed reports of vandalism 'aren't getting any shorter'.
A spokesperson said: "Witney has a great community spirit. However, there's a small but determined minority who choose to ruin things for others.
"The council cannot afford to continue endlessly replacing and repairing at the expense of the council taxpayer.
"We would far rather spend money on enhancing our town’s existing facilities and investing in future projects to meet the needs of our growing town."
The council's community services committee added: “At each meeting we receive a number of reports and sadly the vandalism report is one that isn’t getting any shorter.
"That being said, our works team are quick to respond and will always prioritise making areas safe to use."
Twelve incidents occurred in play and sports areas, four in bus shelters, three in cemeteries and one each at the Lake and Country Park and Lakeside allotments.
One of the biggest repairs was the £965.76 spent fixing the Burwell music stand when it was broken last June.
Newland bus shelter was targeted three times, ruining an art installation created by students at Abingdon and Witney College.
Graffiti has since been scrawled on the shelter, adding £480 to the cost of the original refurbishment.
This is despite the council's risk management measures, such as installing 'robust and attractive' age appropriate equipment in play areas and repairing damage 'swiftly' to discourage copycat crime.
However, vandalism is down on the period from July 2014 to January 2015, when damage costing £10,410 prompted the council to write to the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Witney was hit by a spate of youth crime at the end of 2018, but the council said it 'acknowledges that not all acts of vandalism are perpetrated by young people'.
In February, 16 organisations from across Oxfordshire met for an 'urgent forum' at Witney Corn Exchange, aimed at returning sustainable youth services to the town. A follow-up meeting is set to take place later this month.
Social enterprise Synolos was one of the groups invited and its CEO and founder, Barry Ingleton, believes vandalism should not be blamed entirely on young people.
He said: "The most important thing is that we don't victimise young people.
"We need to build bridges between younger and older people as vandalism happens when you don't care about the area you live.
"Young people are always going to rebel. We've got to keep calm and do what we can to engage with them."
If you witness vandalism taking place, call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


What about students who transition after admission?
Morehouse College, a historically black men’s college, recently announced it would start admitting transgender men in 2020.
Although it was a historic win for transgender men who want to attend Morehouse, trans women will not be admitted and students who are admitted to Morehouse identifying as men and transition during their time at Morehouse as trans women, would no longer be eligible to stay at the school.
While it is wonderful that Morehouse has finally taken a step toward trans inclusion like the historically women’s college HBCUs Spelman and Bennett, it is disappointing that they will not allow someone assigned male at birth who subsequently decides that they are not male to stay. Many historically women’s colleges, including nearby Spelman, enable individuals assigned female who no longer identify as female to graduate.
Morehouse said there are exemptions to this rule, which will be granted by a three-person committee appointed by the president after a student provides a written appeal. A student can make a final appeal to the college president if they disagree with the committee’s decision. The college also accepts nonbinary and gender nonconforming people for admission.
ThinkProgress reached out to Morehouse for more clarification on the policy and how it will be enforced. When asked whether Morehouse will require students to provide certain documentation with their correct gender marker, which is a barrier for some students, Morehouse sent its gender identity admissions and matriculation policy.
Gender non-conforming and nonbinary people are a diverse group of people whose understanding of their gender, as well as their presentation, varies widely. Gender non-conforming people and nonbinary people use a variety of pronouns, including both she and they pronouns, or he and they, or simply they. Some gender non-conforming and nonbinary people use pronouns such as ze, sie, or hir. It’s unclear how Morehouse is “embracing the fluidity of individuals” by stating that it won’t broaden its use of language.
ThinkProgress also asked Morehouse to clarify how it plans to enforce a policy that excludes trans women, such as, whether a trans woman on campus would have to inform a staff person or someone in the administration of their gender to essentially be kicked out or if staff and faculty plan to monitor students they believe are transgender women due to their pronouns or gender presentation. Morehouse did not directly answer those questions. Instead, Morehouse only pointed to its policies, which explained that the college “will offer guidance and resources” for trans women who are no longer eligible to enroll there. But it begs the question: Who will be impacted by this policy? Gender nonconforming and nonbinary people can be affected by the policing of gender presentation and use of pronouns on campus as well as transgender women. Cisgender men could be affected by this policy merely by presenting themselves in a way that strays from certain masculine norms of dressing.
Some trans men and non-binary and gender nonconforming people tweeted out their disapproval of the policy.
Transgender women and nonbinary students have already spoken out about their concerns with the policy. Marquintas Oldham, a queer nonbinary Morehouse student who uses they and them pronouns, told the New York Times that they identified as men when they enrolled. Oldham said that Morehouse’s policies are not truly inclusive to nonbinary people.
Tatiana Rafael, a trans woman who is a student at Morehouse, told BuzzFeed News she believes she will not be affected by the new policy because she is grandfathered in. “Morehouse is missing a crucial opportunity to become more inclusive by purposefully excluding trans female students,” she added.


I'm an experienced professional person who weighs close to 400 pounds. I believe that I am routinely passed over for positions I interview for because of my weight. I excel at phone interviews but it seems that when I get into face to face interviews, that interest all of a sudden dries up. I have considered that it is my interviewing skills. However, I have been interviewed recently by my boss for a promotion (I know it was the political game that ended that opportunity) and he told me I interviewed well. He has always been honest with me in the past and I do not believe he would lie about that. So, that means that either the rest of the candidate pools are that much better than me (which doesn't seem likely), or there is something else preventing me from getting positions. I am not one to jump to excuses or blame other people.
If I had indications of something I needed to work on, I'd work to address the issue. I just don't have those indications. I know that there are negative stereotypes about overweight people...and all things being equal I can understand why they would choose someone who is not overweight. However, I am not the typical overweight person. I am very active, I get involved in lots of physical activities and I can even do the splits. I'm also very organized and do whatever is necessary to get the job done. Any thoughts on how to proactively approach a hiring manager's concerns about my weight in the interview process? I don't want to introduce concerns that are not there or make the hiring manager uncomfortable as those are both ways to end my chances for the position. Any advice you have will be welcome.
Do I think that being close to 400 pounds is hurting your job search? Absolutely. As George Clooney's character said in that HR related film, Up in the Air, "I stereotype. It's faster." The reality is that we all stereotype. We have to. If we had wait for full information before making each decision, we'd never even pick a checkout lane at the supermarket. And then where would we be?
[A research project] conducted by Frank Bernieri at the University of Toledo in Ohio, dealt with job-interview impressions. This researcher selected two participants to act as interviewers and had them professionally trained for 6 weeks on interview techniques. These two later interviewed nearly 100 people of various backgrounds and filled out an extensive six-page interview questionnaire on each. Bernieri's goal was to determine whether there are particular mannerisms that could ingratiate some people with interviewers.
He found that wasn't the case. There don't seem to be any particular tricks one can use to win at an interview.
But then one of Bernieri's students asked if the videotapes of these encounters could be used for another purpose. She had heard that "the handshake is everything" and wanted to test that old adage. Using a 15-second piece of video showing the candidate knocking on the door, shaking hands, and being greeted by the interviewer, she asked a group of new participants to rate these applicants on the same criteria that the two trained interviewers had been using.
"On nine out of the 11 traits that the applicants were being judged on, the observers significantly predicted the outcome of the interview," Bernieri told The New Yorker. "In fact, the strength of the correlation was extraordinary."
This is a disturbing conclusion. Here were well-trained interviewers, knowing just what to look for and how to get the information they sought, filling out a detailed, five-part form ensuring a complete and unbiased interview. Yet total strangers, who viewed only 15 seconds of video, arrived at similar conclusions.
Yikes. Well trained interviewers do a similar job as untrained people who look at 15 seconds worth of video. So, what to do, what to do. First off, I'm going to say something that might cause the comments to explode with what a terrible person I am. Here it goes: You said, "If I had indications of something I needed to work on, I'd work to address the issue." The reality is, you do have an indication of an issue you need to work on and it's your weight. You're right that walking in and saying, "Hey, I may be overweight, but I can still do the splits!" is probably not the best way to go about it. But confusing the ideal (people should be judged on their skill and value they bring to the company) with the reality (people hold negative stereotypes about overweight individuals) doesn't get you anywhere. I have no idea if you have underlying medical conditions that make weight gain easy and weight loss nearly impossible, or if you just like eating too much. Either way, though don't delude yourself saying, "There's nothing I need to work on." This is, undoubtedly, affecting your career and most likely you can work on it.
But, even if you can lose weight, it's not instantaneous. You need to know what to do right now. First of all, I would stop worrying that bringing it up will make the situation worse. This isn't like walking in and saying, "Oh, by the way, I'm diabetic." This is an obvious situation and it's best to address it straight out. I honestly don't know if addressing it head on will make it better, but it won't make it worse. After all, right now you aren't getting the job offers, so in a worst case scenario, you address it and you still aren't getting job offers. But, in a best case scenario, addressing it forces the interviewer to snap out of stereotype mode and analyze the information they have on hand.
Perhaps you should try a little experiment. The next time you have a phone interview, after they've set a time for the face to face interview, say something like, "I'm looking forward to meeting you in person. I'll be easy to spot. I'll be the 400 pound guy in the red tie." My reasoning behind this is that while being overweight is common enough, being 400 pounds isn't. By telling the interviewer before, the interviewer will have time to let the rational side of her brain take over, which will allow her to judge you on your actual qualifications, rather than having the surprise at meeting you force her into the stereotype.
I don't know if this will yield better results or not. And honestly, there are numerous skinny people who aren't getting jobs right now either. But, let us know if this helps. I'm sure there are other people in your situation.


A controversial CIA contractor has found new work in Haiti, flying drones on disaster recovery duty.
When last we heard from Evergreen International Aviation, the Oregon-based firm was offering to post sentries at local voting centers during the 2008 election, "detaining troublemakers" and making sure voters "do not get out of control."
*Join Reddit’s Haiti relief fundraising drive with Direct Relief International.*Now, company vice president Sam White tells Aviation Week that the firm is flying at least one ScanEagle surveillance drone over Haiti. "The company has a fleet of 747s and a fleet of large and small choppers, and has begun ferrying in supplies to Port au Prince," the magazine's Paul McLeary notes. "White wouldn't say who the company is moving cargo for, saying only that 'we’re working with different agencies, and we have one plane coming in tomorrow full of humanitarian supplies.'"
Over the years, Evergreen has had all sorts of interesting clients over its five-plus decades in operation. Back in the late '80s, the company "acknowledged one agreement under which his companies provide occasional jobs and cover to foreign nationals the CIA wants taken out of other countries or brought into the United States." In 2006, Evergreen's parent company flew Bill O’Reilly into Kuwait in 2006, according toSourceWatch. Last April, the company won a $158 million contract to supply the Air Force with helicopters in Afghanistan.
Haiti wouldn't be Evergreen's first disaster-response mission, however. In September, the State of California chartered Evergreen's 747 supertanker, to help put out forest fires there.
UPDATE: Brian Whiteside, executive vice president of Evergreen Unmanned Systems, denied that his company is flying drones for the earthquake recovery operation. "We have no UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] in Haiti – nothing currently in Haiti, and nothing in the region,"he tells Danger Room. Whiteside acknowledged that "we do have teams over there that are trying to help." But Whiteside isn't sure what, exactly, they've been able to accomplish. "We don't have very good comms with them." And when I asked him which government agency or charity Evergreen was trying to support, he ducked the question, and referred me to his spokesperson.
UPDATE 2: McLeary went back and posted the quotes he got from Evergreen's Sam White. "We also have some UAVs here that we’re bringing in to, uh, probably work with the press to help out downloading live video links and aerial shots of the devastation," he said. "We also have 747 cargo airplanes, and so we’re working with different agencies there and uh, we have a plane landing here tomorrow to bring in a lot of humanitarian supplies. So we’ll be here for quite some time."
So which Evergreen exec is telling the truth?
UPDATE 3: Now Whiteside is telling McLeary that Evergreen isn't flying drone over Haiti yet – but hopes to do so as soon as Saturday.


Is Samsung planning a 5-inch Windows Phone handset?
Samsung may be planning a new Windows Phone flagship for 2014. A user agent for a handset with the codename of SM-W750V has popped up in several instances, with its default web browser listed as Internet Explorer, pointing to the Windows Phone operating system.
Key details remain unclear about the handset, but through Bluetooth approval in the US and shipping documents leaked in 2013, we can gather the SM-W750V carries a 5-inch display with a screen resolution of 1920x1080 and LTE support.
Samsung hasn't put much faith into the Windows Phone platform thus far, releasing only a few handsets, including the Ativ S I8750 – which was pretty much a Windows version of the Android-based Galaxy S III. With the Windows Phone 8 GDR3 update providing better hardware support, Samsung may finally be ready to jump back in the game with a phablet, alongside the Nokia Lumia 1520, for the Windows Phone ecosystem.
It's not a Samsung phone launch without a few leaked pictures, and we expect those to come soon. In the meantime, we'll be looking for more details for when Samsung may launch its next-generation Windows Phone. There's Mobile World Congress 2014 in February, and we wouldn't be surprised if Samsung made an appearance there.


Mahmoud, you said you are Darfurian....you should worry about issues facing Darfur at the moment. Leave South Sudan alone. Darfur has been the backbone of the NCP during civil war, having been decieved by the Arabs to kill their own black brothers. The ironic thing was that, we sent alot of them to jena. If you want to be one of them (Shaheed), pickup your gun and head south. you will be sent too.


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Defence chief denies war crimes during domestic probe into war against Tamil separatists.
"It's very difficult to identify the civilian casualties ... nobody talks of the LTTE's dead and injured," he said referring to the group's formal title, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The United Nations says at least 7,000 civilians were killed in the last five months of the conflict. In all, it says between 80,000 and 100,000 people were killed during the war.
The International Crisis Group reported earlier this year that at least 30,000 civilians could have died in the last years of the war. It also said civilians in the war zone were deprived of food and medical care.
Rights groups have called for an international probe into abuses by both sides, including allegations government troops shelled a "no-fire zone'' created by itself in the northeast of the island after hundreds of thousands of minority Tamils sought refuge there in the last stages of the fighting.
Rajapaksa told the commission that measures taken to prevent civilian casualties included restrictions on using heavy weapons, creation of no-fire zones, and sending convoys of food, medicine and other essentials.
Asked if Western governments or aid agencies raised questions of rights abuses by the army, Rajapaksa said: "No complaints about human rights violations or abuses by the army was brought to my notice. None at all."
He made no reference to relief agency reports of a "humanitarian catastrophe" during the final months of the war, including the killing of surrendering Tamil Tigers and shelling civilians.
clothing and also using civilians for military work.
Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war ended in May 2009 after the government forces crushed the Tamil Tigers who had been fighting for an independent state for a quarter-century, after what they said were decades of discrimination of Tamils by the ethnic Sinhalese majority.
The eight-member panel is not empowered to probe war crimes, but is expected to focus on why a 2002 truce between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger fighters collapsed and led to more fighting.
Sri Lanka has rejected a separate UN probe into alleged rights abuses and resisted US-led calls for an independent international war crimes investigation.


President Duterte did not give a categorical answer when he was asked the question last Thursday, saying there are things better left unsaid.
MANILA, Philippines — Should honesty be an election issue?
“It depends. It depends. If you’re hanging by the thread, of what good use would it be if it just creates trouble?” the President told reporters in a chance interview during the 122nd anniversary of the Philippine Army at Fort Bonifacio.
“There are things left unsaid and there are things which you can answer correctly. OK?” he added.
Duterte’s daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, recently drew criticism over a statement about lying candidates. Defending some senatorial bets of the administration, she claimed there is no candidate who does not lie and that honesty is no longer an issue in this election.
Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano, she added, had lied when he claimed that government funds were used to buy the campaign shirts of former presidential aide Christopher Go.
“Sinasabi ko, sa kanilang lahat, walang isang kandidato d’yan na hindi nagsisinungaling kaya hindi dapat nagiging issue ang honesty ngayon (I tell you, there is no candidate who does not lie so honesty should not be an issue now),” Carpio was quoted saying last March 6.
Malacañang has refused to react to her remark but claimed it was not possible to say whether a candidate is honest unless one has “personal dealings” with the politician.
Carpio, who also heads the regional party Hugpong ng Pagbabago, later claimed she was helping the opposition candidates to “dig themselves out of their own hole” when she made the remark. She claimed the opposition uses “inaccurate, misleading statements and lies” when they attack other candidates or the President.
“They know they are stretching the truth and yet they deny that they are lying,” the presidential daughter said in a statement also issued last March 7.
Meanwhile, Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez has reminded voters not to rely on surveys in choosing their candidates in the May 13 midterm polls.
He also said in his Twitter account that the public should not simply ride on the bandwagon in selecting their local and national bets for the coming polls.
“Surveys are not the best guide to who you should vote for,” Jimenez said.


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Former Tennessee women's athletic director Joan Cronan and four-time WNBA All-Star Ticha Penicheiro are among the 12 finalists for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame announced Thursday.
Cronan was the Tennessee women's athletic director for 29 years, a stretch that included each of the Lady Volunteers' eight national championship seasons under Pat Summitt.
Penicheiro was a seven-time WNBA assists leader after starring at Old Dominion.
Brock was a three-time AIAW national champion at Delta State from 1975-77. Riley is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time WNBA champion who led Notre Dame to a 2001 national title. Roddy led the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens to two AAU national championships. Still is Kentucky's career scoring and rebounding leader.
Sanderford led Western Kentucky to three Final Four appearances and 12 NCAA Tournament berths. Tucker was a part of nearly 900 wins in 32 seasons as a Stanford assistant coach, associate head coach and head coach.
Bass was CEO of the WBCA from 2001-14. Finch chaired the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee from 1981-88. Kyvallos posted a 311-73 record in her college coaching career and served on the U.S. Olympic Committee. Schneider won five state high school titles and posted 634 wins as a Division II college coach.