Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Facebook debuted a makeover for its main app on Tuesday and said the company is making a major shift in how it's run.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's two-day developer conference with a keynote address in front of about 5,000 attendees in San Jose, California, which revolved around his desire to make Facebook privacy-centric.
"I know we don't exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly," said Zuckerberg, acknowledging skepticism around the company. "I am committed to doing this well."
It's unclear if a new design and approach to privacy will usher in real change for the beleaguered company, which reaches more than 2 billion people around the world, or if it's just a new coat of paint. It could take some time to see if the changes make a noticeable difference.
"I'm sure we're going to keep unearthing old issues for a while, so it may feel like we're not making progress at first," said Zuckerberg.
In addition to a new Facebook app design with a focus on groups, Facebook showed off a faster Messenger app that includes ways to watch videos together, and new features for Instagram, including fund-raising and shopping options. It also announced its newest Oculus VR headsets would be available in May.
The company shared more news around its Facebook Dating feature, which was originally announced at F8 last year. The tool is undergoing testing in countries such as Colombia and Canada, and will roll out to 14 more countries today and to the United States later this year. People will be able to use their first name to set up a dating profile on the platform, but it won't be visible to friends and will not show up in News Feeds.
The company announced a new dating option on Tuesday called "secret crush," which will let users create a private list of friends they're interested in dating. If two friends both put each other on their secret list, Facebook will alert them. The platform is also adding a feature called Make New Friends to connect users interested in meeting new people.
Zuckerberg outlined six principles he said the company is focusing on going forward: private interactions, encryption, reduced permanence (meaning content and messages that disappear), safety, interoperability (being able to communicate across the company's different networks and platforms), and secure data storage (not storing user data in countries where it could be accessed, for example).
"Over the next few years we are going to build more of our services around these ideas," said Zuckerberg. "This isn't just about building features — we need to change a lot of the different ways that we run this company today."
Facebook has had a turbulent past year with a seemingly never-ending string of scandals touching on data privacy, security, election meddling, misinformation and hate speech. It has spent large amounts of money and energy trying to address the issues and repair its reputation. Last week, Facebook said it was setting aside $3 billion to put toward an expected $3 billion to $5 billion fine from the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations.
Zuckerberg is no stranger to trying to diffuse the company's problems. He has used media interviews, an appearance in front of Congress, and his own Facebook posts to repeatedly apologize for the company's mistakes and promise to do better. Now he is promising a new kind of company that is all about privacy, with some dating features thrown in for fun.
Zuckberg and various Facebook executives announced a number of new features — some already here and others just in testing or conception phases. (They did not mention the Clear History tool, which has been delayed repeatedly since it was announced at F8 last year.) Here are some highlights.
Facebook: Hold onto your hat, the Facebook logo is now a circle instead of a square, and the mobile app has switched from a mostly blue design to mostly white....

For the complete town and country experience on Oahu, grab a rental and make tracks for Haleiwa, the North Shore gateway. Getting there is half the fun, because you have two wildly distinct choices. I opted to meander back to Honolulu Airport, at the end of my trip, along the lush Windward Coast, through sleepy hamlets with roadside stands selling succulent mangoes, bright tropical pareu, fresh corn, and pond-raised prawns.
The route offers the most arresting vistas of those emerald-hued volcanic ranges, with their strikingly corrugated folds of Jurassic Park fame. Huddled at its base is the famed movie-set location of Kualoa Ranch. But when you’re first heading to the North Shore, take the Central Oahu route via H2. The red-earthed heart of the island is a broad and fertile valley, where pineapple and sugar-canes march their way to the Waianae Mountains.
An hour out of Honolulu and just past Wahiawa, the route becomes the Kamehameha Highway (H99) which is where I made my first stop. How could you possibly pass the Dole Pineapple Plantation and the delectable temptation of devouring a scoop or two of Dole Whip? This pineapple-infused soft-serve delight is just the first of many signature tastes that radiantly embodies the sensory allure of North Oahu. I dropped by early morning, sans the crowds, downing my Dole Whip while gazing at the Pineapple Express locomotive, which heartily blew its whistle to herald the start of the new day’s service. It’s just 10 minutes drive from Dole Plantation to Haleiwa, Hawaii's surf city. This quaint and rustic sugar-plantation town now enjoys historic protection.
Its ensemble of faded clapboard stores, strung around a picturesque harbour, sets the stage for the surfie crowd, who flock here from all over the planet.  Haleiwa is their holy-grail, a surf mecca, groaning with raffishly charming roadside surfie stores, boutique galleries and eateries. But the most compelling mercantile landmark would have to be Surf N Sea, where its vintage architecture pays homage to its legacy. Originally, the century-old beachfront building was a train station with accommodation upstairs. The Haleiwa Hotel was Hawaii’s first destination resort, before morphing into a general store after World War II.
Since 1965, it’s been home to Surf N Sea, Hawaii’s oldest surf and dive shop. Joe Green has been the ebullient owner for the past 35 years and warmly welcomed me into his part-shop, part-ocean sports shrine, brimming with over 300 surfboards and every imaginable surf brand. Feasting my eyes on all of the surf memorabilia, it’s no wonder many surfies consider this place museum-worthy. The rustic ceilings and walls hold Green's personal collection of vintage surfboards, including the Duke's final fibreglass board from 1968. Joe is also a master ukulele-maker, all handmade from 100% recycled wood, including mango, koa and opuma. Joe salvaged and reshaped ipe wood from the building’s floors, which he has repurposed into the fret board bridges adorning all of his ukuleles.
Impeccably designed, they’re an incomparable buy – an authentic slice of Haleiwa to take home. Joe patiently tried to teach me how to play the ukulele – with mixed results.  More iconic North Shore tastes were calling, and just down the road from Surf N Sea is Matsumoto Shave Ice’s original store in Haleiwa. Established in 1951, the pioneers of Hawaiian snow cones were doing a roaring trade when I lined up for my rainbow-striped offering of sweet syrup infused shave ice. Then there’s Ted’s Bakery, another North Shore legend, where you’ll swoon over their insatiable chocolate haupia pie. It is chocolaty, coconutty and encrusted with macadamias. What a knock-out!
And you’ll want to stake out the hole in the wall bakery in the middle of a field, just west of Haleiwa. Paalaa Kai bakery is a 40 year old institution beloved for its freshly-made snow puffies, flaky and buttery pastries, stuffed with cold, creamy custard...

Retirement may seem like the end of the line for many of us, but returning to the work force is becoming increasingly common for those over 65.
Financial personal trainer Hannah McQueen told Jack Tame that this is the new norm for 70 per cent of those who have retired. 
She says that a combination of factors, such as a lack of money or a renewed desire to keep working, is seeing people head back into the work force.
However, ageism and discrimination may make it difficult for people. 
McQueen explains how to avoid being forced back into the work force because of poor planning, and how to find 'your number' that ensures you retire at the right time.

In 1999, American High School Student Hae Min Lee was found dead, and her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was later convicted of her murder.So far, it’s a depressingly familiar story.
Except that around 15 years later, it became the subject of the the wildly popular Serial podcast that has been downloaded tens of millions of times.

It focuses on the potential of a wrongful conviction, and just this week, his lawyer announced plans to take the case to the Supreme Court. 
Enter Oscar-winning documentary maker Amy Berg, who is well known for work including West of Memphis, who wanted to pick up where Serial left off.
Her four-part series, The Case Against Adnan Syed, is available on TVNZ on Demand now. Berg joined Jack Tame to discuss her show and the controversial case.

Pumpkins! They’re fully in season now which means they’re cheap and deliciously sweet – perfect for this pie!
600g raw pumpkin, skin on, deseeded
Crust
200g gingernuts and/or round wine biscuits, crumbed
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tbsp caster sugar
120g butter, melted
Filling
220g sour cream
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
3 eggs
2 tsps cinnamon
1 tsp each ginger & cardamom
Zest of one orange
Pinch sea salt
Crème 
100g crème fraiche
75g cream cheese
1 tbsp honey
½ tsp cinnamon
Preheat oven to 180°C fan bake and line a baking tray with baking paper. Grease a 23cm high-sided tart tin.
Arrange pumpkin,  skin side up  on the baking tray and bake until soft (about 40-50 minutes). Scoop out flesh, discarding skin, and leave to cool, allowing steam to escape. Puree until smooth. It ought to yeild about 1 ½ to 2 cups.
While the pumpkin bakes, make the crust by combining the biscuit crumbs with ginger, sugar and melted butter. Press evenly into the tart tin, pushing the biscuit mix up the sides and over the base. Chill.
In a bowl, combine pumpkin with all the filling ingredients and mix until smooth. Pour into the chilled crust and smooth the top. Bake until filling is set (35-40 minutes).
While pie is baking, make the cinnamon honey crème by mixing the ingredients together in a bowl.
Serve slices of pie at room temperature with crème and a few toasted walnuts (optional).

Long Shot
Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) is a gifted and free-spirited journalist with an affinity for trouble. Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is one of the most influential women in the world. Smart, sophisticated, and accomplished, she's a powerhouse diplomat with a talent for... well, mostly everything. The two have nothing in common, except that she was his babysitter and childhood crush. When Fred unexpectedly reconnects with Charlotte, he charms her with his self-deprecating humor and his memories of her youthful idealism. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter, much to the dismay of her trusted advisors. A fish out of water on Charlotte's elite team, Fred is unprepared for her glamorous lifestyle in the limelight. However, sparks fly as their unmistakable chemistry leads to a round-the-world romance and a series of unexpected and dangerous incidents.
The Aftermath
The Aftermath is set in postwar Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
The Chaperone
Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn't break, epitomised the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It's a story full of surprises--about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

Chernobyl: HBO's intense historical drama about the 1988 explosion at the Chernobyl Power Plant and the human response to the catastrophe (SoHo, Tuesday 7 May)
Behind the Curve: a documentary about the growing worldwide community of theorists who believe the Earth is flat, which also explains the psychology behind the rise of such conspiracy theories (Netflix)
Educators: this new Kiwi web-series is an unscripted, behind-the-scenes comedy about a bunch of hapless and idiotic teachers, and stars Jackie van Beek, Jesse Brugh and Tom Sainsbury (TVNZ OnDemand, Wednesday 8 May)

A heartbreaking new ad from Spark is the "best ad that's gone on Kiwi TV for years", according to Kevin Milne.
The 90 second ad appears to show a Kiwi dad giving the wedding toast at his daughter's wedding, but over the course of the ad, the sad truth is slowly revealed.
He says that over the course of the ad, the ad managed to bring tears to his eyes, and shows a return to the classic big budget ad.
Do you agree?

Call me a cynic; I don’t think illegality has stopped many people from using P.
If the 65 deaths (at least) caused by synthetic drugs in the past couple of years aren’t enough to turn people off lighting up, I really can’t see how the threat of an appointment at District Court One would possibly do anything to stop them. 
I just can’t see it. I just can’t see how someone who finds themselves in the social environment where they are exposed to seriously damaging drug use has ever thought ‘Oh I’d love to get in on this but last I checked, it’s a Class A drug and I’d be risking prosecution.’
The Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill is being debated at parliament at the moment and has been characterised by several submitters as effectively decriminalising personal drug use in New Zealand.
I actually don’t think that’s an unreasonable description. The bill would codify Police discretion for personal use. So if they catch someone using drugs, Police would be required to decide whether a health approach would be better for the drug user than a punitive approach. And there’s some really interesting language in the bill as it stands. “A prosecution should not be brought unless it is required in the public interest.”
Imagine you’re a police officer working off that. You’d have discretion to prosecute or not to prosecute, but quite obviously the law is pulling you a long way in one direction. The Law Society quite rightly notes that if someone is prosecuted by Police, a defence lawyer could probably turn up in court and quite easily argue the case wasn’t in the public interest. No one would ever be convicted of personal drug use crimes.
Ideologically, I’m all for the change. I think our drug laws of the last however-many decades have totally failed us. After all, if locking people up was an effective way of reducing drug harm, we wouldn’t have our devastating methamphetamine problem. We wouldn’t have dozens of young Kiwis, most of them from the most vulnerable circumstances, dying after using synthetic drugs.
I’ll tell you now, if 65 rich Pakeha kids had died within the space of 18 months, the law would have changed a whole lot faster than it has. And it’s important to note, this bill wouldn’t be the de facto decriminalisation of all drugs. Drug dealing would remain very much illegal.
But I do have concerns about the bill. My first is the nature of discretion. We have to get that exactly right. I want to be sure that if Police are given the explicit instruction to favour a health approach, some drug users aren’t deemed more worthy of discretion than others. We know Maori are grossly over-represented in our criminal justice system, and I’d want to be sure that in practice discretion doesn’t allow for any prosecutorial bias. 
But the most important part of this huge proposed change is the other prong. There’s no point in choosing a health-first approach if we don’t have the addiction and support services to actually help people. As it stands, our support services don’t have anywhere near the funding and resources they’d require to help all the Kiwis who need it.
We won’t know until the budget at the end of this month whether that situation is likely to improve.  
But to effectively support the Police, to reduce drug harm in our communities, and to stop Kiwis from dying, we have to do more than just put away the handcuffs.

For many people, the prospect of living without a car, a smartphone, a laptop and a watch is unthinkable.
However, one couple, who have a 30-year age gap and met while travelling, have revealed how they gave up their home to live life as nomads for 12 years.
Miriam Lancewood chucked in her regular life as a teacher, sold all her possessions and starting living a nomadic life in the woods with a man 30 years her senior.
They spent their days dealing with the immediate need, hunting, collecting firewood, building fires and finding shelter.
Miriam, who is originally from the Netherlands, is back in civilisation for the Dunedin and Auckland writers’ festivals and joins Saturday Morning with Jack Tame to chat about her fascinating life.
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