http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/business/genetically-engineered-crops-are-safe-analysis-finds.html
>Genetically engineered crops appear to be safe to eat and do not harm the environment, according to a comprehensive new analysis by the advisory group the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
>However, it is somewhat unclear whether the technology has actually increased crop yields.
>The report from the influential group, released on Tuesday, comes as the federal government is reviewing how it regulates biotech crops and as big packaged-food companies like Campbell Soup and General Mills are starting to label products as being made with genetically engineered ingredients to comply with a new Vermont law.
>The report also says that new techniques, like a way to make small genetic changes in plants using genome-editing, are blurring the distinction between genetic engineering and conventional plant breeding, making the existing regulatory system untenable. It calls for a new system that pays more attention to the attributes of the crop, as opposed to the way in which it was created.
>Despite its roughly 400 pages, however, the document is not expected to end the highly polarized dispute over biotech crops, which are often called G.M.O.s, for genetically modified organisms. Both sides on Tuesday pointed approvingly to findings that buttressed their viewpoint and criticized those that did not.
...
>The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, which represents companies that sell genetically modified seeds, said it was “pleased” that the study found “that agricultural biotechnology has many demonstrated benefits to farmers, consumers and the environment.’’
>But Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, which is critical of the crops, pointed to the lack of a significant increase in yield.
>“Despite industry claims, these crops are clearly not the answer to world hunger,” he said in a statement.
>Perhaps because of the sensitivity and complexity of the issue, many of the document’s conclusions are hedged by caveats.
>“We received impassioned requests to give the public a simple, general, authoritative answer about G.E. crops,” Fred Gould, a professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and chairman of the committee that compiled the report, wrote in the preface. “Given the complexity of G.E. issues, we did not see that as appropriate.”
>This is the latest of several reports on genetically modified crops by the National Academies, which are private, nonprofit organizations set up by Congress to give advice on issues related to science, technology and medicine.
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>A previous report by the groups, released in 2010, found that genetic engineering had provided environmental and economic benefits to American farmers.
>The new report was written by a committee of 20, almost all of them from academia. There was no one from crop biotechnology companies like Monsanto or DuPont on the committee, though some members have developed genetically engineered crops and might have been consultants to the companies.
>The committee examined more than 1,000 studies, heard testimony from 80 witnesses in a series of public meetings and webinars, and analyzed 700 comments submitted by the public.
>The committee concentrated its review on the genetically engineered crops that account for the vast bulk of such plants grown in the United States. These are corn and cotton containing bacterial genes that make the crops resistant to certain insects; and soybeans, corn and cotton that are resistant to herbicides, particularly glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup.
>The report says that foods made from such crops do not appear to pose health risks, based on chemical analyses of the foods and on animal feeding studies, though it says many animal studies are too small to provide firm conclusions. Several other regulatory, scientific and health organizations have previously also concluded that the foods are safe.
...
>The committee also looked at the incidence of certain diseases, in some cases comparing rates in North America, where genetically modified crops have been part of the diet since 1996, and Western Europe, where food from biotech crops is not eaten much. It said it found no evidence that the crops had contributed to an increase in the incidence of cancer, obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, autism, celiac disease or food allergies.
>The document also says the regulatory system should be tiered, with potentially riskier products receiving greater scrutiny before they can be marketed, whether those products are made using genetic engineering or not. Other new products, regardless of how they are made, might need virtually no scrutiny. New techniques like DNA sequencing can be used to more closely analyze the molecular composition of food products, the authors write.
>“Clearly the report makes a bold statement in favor of greater transparency and modernizing the review system to make sure the regulatory tools are keeping pace with the technology,” said Scott Faber, vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, which advocates labeling.
>Regarding environmental effects, the report says there is “no conclusive evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship ship between G.E. crops and environmental problems. It says it has not been proved that the increased planting of such crops is indirectly responsible for the decline of the monarch butterfly.
Now that oppression is rampant on our nation’s campuses, many colleges and universities have established “bias teams” and “diversity officers” whose job it is to root out and eliminate any whiff of patriarchy or disenfranchisement before social justice warriors melt down, safe spaces are invaded and entire campus communities collapse under the weight of their own manufactured outrage.
More: Fat Activist Says ‘Lose Hate, Not Weight’
The University of Minnesota, for example, which just hosted a “fat activist” to help its School of Public Health students learn why diets and exercise are the tools of “thin privilege,” has a VP of diversity who holds “office hours” on three random dates, for two hours at a time.
You have to make your appointments in advance, you forfeit your appointment if you’re five minutes late, and sign up begins 30 minutes in advance of office-hour shifts. So students should prepare for safe space violations as they vie, elbow to elbow, with other social justice warriors for some precious gripe time.
The University of Oregon has a different approach. Its “Bias Response Team,” which sounds rather ominous (nifty logo, though), is composed of seven administrators, including an LGBT director, a “multicultural inclusion specialist,” a “director of global citizenship,” and a “Native American retention specialist” to “gather information about bias incidents,” to provide a safe space for victims of bias to heal, and to educate the Oregon community on triggering micro-aggressions.
Submit a report here:
https://uodos.uoregon.edu/Programs/BiasResponseTeam.aspx?q=bias
Original article:
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/trigger-happy-univ-of-oregons-bias-response-team-deployed-85-times-last-year/
Thank you based anon. I'm going to blame countless microaggresions on Jeremy and outright hate speech on Damien.
"There was a social gathering in the dorms and I overheard Jeremy mention that when he was over in India, it was difficult to find a public restroom. Damien said he had the same problem when he was an exchange student in China.
So what? Are they suggesting that people who defecate in private are somehow better than everyone else? This is Western privilege at its worst."
Oh look more /pol/ bait. That's so rare on /news/.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/28/fox-baltimore-station-evacuated-after-man-threatened-to-set-off-bomb.html
>>41443
R9K ?
Where do I get panda suit? Also why do panda bomber threads keep getting deleted?
What was on the drive?
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http://www.9news.com/news/nation-now/apples-loss-is-four-times-worse-than-enron/204859165
>Apple's market losses have hit epic proportions - explaining why big investors like Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn disagree if the stock is damaged goods - or a steal.
>Investors have seen nearly $240 billion in wealth evaporate in their Apple holdings since the stock hit its closing peak on Feb. 23, 2015, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. >That's a staggering loss rivaling some of the biggest implosions in stock-market history - even exceeding stock investors' losses on failed energy firm Enron, which many think of as the epitome of a terrible investment.
>Investors simply looking at Apple's price, which has fallen 29% from its all-time high to $94.20 a share, might miss the gravity of the decline given Apple is one of the most widely followed and owned stocks by individuals and professionals alike. When a company once worth more than $700 billion drops this much, it's a massive event that signals how the company is transitioning to different owners with different objectives.
>Some hope the big losses in Apple's market value will attract back investors who see it as a value.
>"Yes, we're in a funk (with Apple stock) but you have to look at it long term," says Anil Doradla, analyst at William Blair.
...
>The sheer amount of stock market wealth erased by Apple is staggering as measured by:
>* Exceeding market losses at Enron. The Texas-based energy firm, which once was also a darling with many professional and individual investors, was worth $60 billion at the end of 2000 before it imploded following an accounting scandal and stock investors were wiped out, according to research from Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu. That means Apple investors have lost four times more in paper losses than investors lost in all of Enron stock. Doradla points out, however, Apple created much more stock wealth during its ascent than Enron, too.
>"Apple created six to seven times more in equity value than Enron ever created, so comparing dollar amounts of decline (is) probably not fair," says Tavis McCourt, analyst at Raymond James. The other big difference is fraud and faulty accounting triggered the decline in Enron and resulted in the company becoming the sixth largest bankruptcy in U.S. story, says BankruptcyData.com. Apple is a perfectly sound company, on the other hand, and has $233 billion in cash and investments. "What Buffett's and Icahn's investment before him show is that Apple's historic valuation creation over the past decade is built on a solid foundation of cash flow, with an outlook that many reasonable people conclude can continue to grow over the long term," McCourt says.
>* Ranking among biggest wealth destroyers. The $240 billion lost on Apple makes it the fourth largest market value loss among current members of the Standard & Poor's 500 from their all-time highs to now, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Global. Cisco Systems (CSCO)'s $419 billion loss from its dot-com bubble top on March 27, 2000 remains the largest amount lost. But Apple's loss even exceeds that on Exxon Mobil (XOM), which has taken a hit from the implosion of oil prices. Shares of Exxon are only down 13%, or $71 billion, from its all-time high in July 2014.
>* Depressing the Dow. Apple has been an unwelcome drag on the Dow Jones industrial average ever since it was added March 19, 2015. During that time, Apple has dropped 26% while the company it replaced, AT&T (T) has jumped 16%. Apple's anchor is a big reason why the Dow is down more than 2% since March 2015, with the stock accounting for about a fourth of the Dow's point loss since joining the average.
>* Recalling past bubbles. It's difficult to compare the Apple implosion with other manias since it's one company while the Internet bubble was characterized by hundreds. But the amount of money lost on Apple’s stock is 20% of the $1.4 trillion value of the Internet bubble near its peak, measured by the USA TODAY Internet 100 on March 2000 of the 83 members with valid historical data. It's important to note that unlike many Internet companies, Apple is highly profitable unlike many dot-coms which imploded. Apple reported a profit of more than $50 billion over the past 12 months.
>Investors can't deny the size of the losses, but many analysts insist it's an opportunity not the start of something worse. The average analyst thinks Apple's stock will be trading for $124 a share in 18 months, which is 31% potential upside. "Its not the first time (Apple stock has) been this inexpensive relative to near-term earnings," McCourt says. "When this last occurred, the optimists were duly rewarded."
>LARGEST MARKET VALUE DECLINES FROM ALL-TIME HIGHS*
>Company, Symbol, Lost from all-time high to now ($ billions)
>Cisco Systems, CSCO, $418.2
>Intel, INTC, $354.9
>General Electric, GE, $324.1
>Apple, AAPL, $236.2
>Microsoft, MSFT, $211.4
>Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence, USA TODAY
>* Based on intraday highs
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/egyptair-flight-disappears/index.html
Flight from Paris to Cairo vanished over Mediterranean south of Turkey
>>45295
Disappearing over the ocean is never a good sign.
>>45297
Early reports suggests terrorism but could just be CNN scare bait
Has anyone else noticed that SPIDR's down?
SPIDRman, what's the issue?
http://spidr.duckdns.org/
>>45368
Hmm working for me! Also it looks like spidrman fixed those few formerly broken RSS links.
All hail Lord Spidrman, The KING of /news/.
>>45370
Not for me. I just don't know what the issue is.
Are you in the US?
>>45371
Not the anon you replied to but it works for me and im on mobile in us
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/donald-trump-wall-mexico/483156/?utm_source=atltw
Neat graph. Article is mostly a book ad
>>45443
Build
not giving free clicks.
>>45449
Breed
new alternative media website syndicating more then 20 channels on an hourly basis.
(ad-free)
check it out. Also would love suggestions for good channels not on our list.
http://stream-news.com
>>43869
You might ask spidr Anon what sites he uses
>>43869
this is really retarded and most things are biased on the site. it essentially youtube but for "news"
>>43869
Try this:
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/War+&+Terrorism/Military+%28World%29
That's right kids now you can use any bathroom or shower you like or else the whole school could lose funding. Have fun teens!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-to-schools-give-transgender-students-bathroom-rights/ar-BBt14Xp?ocid=spartanntp
"The letter to the schools from Washington said that, to get federal funding under existing rules, a school has to agree not to treat students or activities differently on the basis of sex. That includes not treating a transgender student differently from other students of the same gender identity, officials said."
I know it's nonsense of my behalf but I truly hope the degenerates that do indulge transgenderism rape some girls.
They're proven degenerates. It's not a matter of opinion - go browse any MtF thread on /lgbt/, they're not sensible humans - hell, they're barely human.
I'm just glad I don't have a daughter.
Good
forcing men to go to the women's restroom was retarded as fuck
Obama doesn't give a shit about the country tbh. It's about how many times he can get into the history books
So I had a dream around 8 to 930 where a gigantic "public transportaion" yellow drone with black letters was shot down over my head and crashed in front of me, when I woke up the first thing on bbc was the article of ms804
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36333992
>/x/
kys
Wow, great story. Interesting stuff.
24-hour hunger strike failed to convince them
University of Chicago student government representatives are more worried about a food fight with their constituents than the societal problem of mass incarceration.
The General Assembly voted down a resolution to ask the university to bring dining in-house so that it avoids any complicity in the “prison-industrial complex,” and to source more food from local vendors.
It’s another setback for student group The Fight for Just Food (FJF), which staged a fruitless 24-hour hunger strike to convince the university to not hire Bon Appetit after UChicago ended its contract with Aramark.
Unlike Aramark, Bon Appetit does not serve any prisons, though its parent Compass Group owns companies that do, according to The Chicago Maroon.
Student activists have been protesting since November, when they created a MoveOn.org petition asking university officials to dump Aramark: “As long as UChicago Dining contracts with any company that serves food in prisons, we are funding the prison industrial complex.” As of Monday night it had 129 signatures.
FJF upped the ante in January with two banners accusing the university of perpetuating mass incarceration, one of which targeted Executive Director of Dining Richard Mason.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27492/
The Maroon reported that Mason has said the university is barred from considering “political questions when making institutional decisions” – such as a contractor’s prison ties – because of its Kalven Report, a nearly 50-year-old document that pledges the university to “free inquiry” and “a diversity of viewpoints.”
The university chose Bon Appetit last month after a competitive bidding process, but did not cite Aramark’s prison service as a reason for dumping that company just halfway through its 10-year contract, the Maroon reported.
The Student Government General Assembly narrowly rejected a resolution on May 8 calling for a move to in-house dining and the sourcing of 40 percent of campuswide food from locally owned businesses on Chicago’s South Side, where the university is located, “within 3 years,” the Maroon said. Mason has said it would take three to five years to bring dining in-house.
FJF’s hunger strike on May 6 featured chants such as “Prisons profit off our tuition—how about prison abolition? This food funds prison labor—this is not a taste we savor. It’s a moral obligation to choose self-operation.”
Its own advocacy may end up supporting prisons, however: FJF has also supported the Teamsters, which not only represented Aramark workers at the university but also represent prison workers.
FJF is part of the university’s Coalition for Ethical and Sustainable Dining, another student organization that includes climate change, animal welfare, and sustainability groups, mirroring the goals of the Real Food Challenge.
Emails from The College Fix to several FJF members as well as a message its Facebook group were not returned. The university responded to an initial email inquiry last week but did not reply with answers by Monday night.
"Prison slavery" is something I believe in that needs change, but college protesting puts such a bad taste in my mouth thanks to social media warping the idea of activism into attention whoring.
>>45179
They got dropped because Aramark is a shitty company. I mean think about it, the slop they serve at some prisons is laughable, so would you really want to risk OKing those same meals at a college? College is already a prison in some respects, so they should at least make the food above average.
My college food was great early on, then nosedived and you could see the effect it had on the students. Flunking (or even doing well on) a test and then eating a shitty meal kills morale, which young and emotional students desperately need.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/05/17/overtime-pay-eligible-employees-workers/84504890/
>Moving to fatten low- and middle-income paychecks that have languished for years, the Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited rule that will make millions of Americans newly eligible for overtime pay. The rule, slated to be formally released Wednesday, would essentially double the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime pay to $47,476 from the current $23,660. That’s expected to make 4.2 million additional workers eligible to receive time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond 40 a week.
>Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said the salary threshold was originally intended to exempt high-paid executives but instead has denied overtime to low-level retail supervisors and entry-level office workers who often toil 50 to 70 hours a week.
>Many companies expect to convert salaried workers to hourly employees who will need to punch a clock and track their hours, hurting morale in some cases. Some will likely maintain the status of salaried employees, but will still have to monitor their hours and net the extra pay for logging more than 40. Others will lift workers' base pay to the new threshold to avoid paying overtime.
>Many small businesses can’t absorb the added cost and will instruct employees to work no more than 40 hours a week, bringing on part-time workers to pick up the slack, says Dan Bosch, head of regulatory policy for the National Federation of Independent Business. Perez said that will still be a plus because it will restore leisure time to overworked employees.
>Perez said the new rule also clarifies the types of duties white-collar employees must perform to be exempt. That potentially makes eligible an additional 8.9 million workers now misclassified, he said, such as certain administrative employees who don’t supervise anyone.
I don't know how this will strain small businesses, or corporations on the small side. Every small local business I worked for was willing to pay overtime. It is the corporate giants I've worked for that restrict hours and force salary managers to work 50-60 hours a week at no additional pay. As in zero pay, not even overtime.
>>45176
Yeah. Sadly I don't think this change will do much, but it might push people to work at smaller businesses. That's always a plus.
>>45201
>>45176
It probably won't affect the most-visible small businesses that you're thinking of because the workers in question are more-lucratively-paid anyway - they're lower middle class. We're not talking about a minimum wage errand boy at the doughnut shop.
I would suspect the most likely-to-be-affected small businesses are smalltime contractors that require skilled professionals, like a local land survey business which would make use of professional cartographers, geologists, and graphic designers.
Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
At the end of 2010, Ms. Sanders took out $10 million in loans on behalf of Burlington College to purchase a 32-acre swathe of land from the Roman Catholic diocese, which put the land up for sale to help cover the costs of a $17 million sexual-abuse settlement.
Less than a year after leading Burlington College into massive debt, Ms. Sanders resigned, taking with her a $200,000 severance package. By 2014, because of its shaky finances and running deficits, Burlington College found itself placed on probation for two years by the regional accreditation agency.
Catholic parishioners in Vermont have called for an investigation into whether Ms. Sanders committed federal bank fraud by deliberately misrepresenting the amount that the college had secured in fundraising pledges as she sought financing for the land purchase.
As Ms. Sanders pursued financing for the land acquisition, she repeatedly said that Burlington College had received more than $2 million in fundraising commitments and pledges, according to numerous records.
But in fiscal year 2011, Burlington College raised only $279,000—though the college had earlier claimed to have secured $1.2 million in confirmed pledges.
In January, Vermont lawyer Brady Toensing, who is also vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party, wrote a letter on behalf of Catholic parishioners to the U.S. attorney in Vermont, as well as the inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, seeking a probe into whether Ms. Sanders fraudulently secured the loans.
http://heatst.com/politics/breaking-burlington-college-closes-due-to-crushing-weight-of-debt-acquired-by-jane-sanders/
Money, how does that work?
>>45068
it makes no sense that students and their parents pay higher interest rates for college than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages
>>45077
What does the borrower of a student loan offer the lender as collateral?
Auto loans and mortgages have a large capital good to be repossessed.
Queen says chinese are very rude
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36265224
That's the most British insult I've ever heard.
I'd recommend the Chinese not be so rude next time. Honestly, I don't know why people are getting so worked up about it, the Queen is very politically savvy but making a small comment at a garden party is not going to destroy international relations.
>>44038
She said their state apointed diplomat was rude in a particular instance. She wasn't saying all Chinese are rude.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html?_r=2
Thoughts on this? How about any experience with what this article is relating about in a social setting or the work place?
>>43327
i think it's okay to discriminate based off what people think. this is why some people are in prison. because they think wrong
>>43330
So you have to think a certain way?
>>43333
yes. what you think can be horribly wrong. thinking wrong is what enables people to murder, rape, and steal. We all have the ability to control our thoughts. The people who do not control their thoughts are controlled by their desires. They are not good people and can be discriminated against freely
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