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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Jessica Alba Is the Latest Celeb Mom to Wear Jennifer Meyer Necklace
The mom of two joins Kim Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore as the latest celeb mom to wear Jennifer Meyer's nameplate necklace.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Android predicted to beat Apple in China ? thanks to its potential for ?oppression?
We tend to think of an open source operating system as something that gives both smartphone vendors and end users more freedom to customize their experiences. But as Bronte Capital?s?John Hempton points out, open source software can have a dark side as well if it is changed by authoritarian governments to limit the information that end users can access. Hempton says he bought a Samsung Desire HD off of eBay from a Middle Eastern country a couple of years ago and found that ?it did not contain any access to the Google market place (Google?s equivalent of the App store),? that ?it had limited apps and no possibility of adding more? and ?it contained a non-standard web browser and a non-standard email client (leaving open the possibility of the State watching what I wrote and said).?
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All of this was possible, Hempton notes, because governments have access to Android?s source code and can thus ?demand and implement any changes? they want as a precondition of selling devices on national wireless carriers. Hempton says that it?s significantly more challenging for repressive regimes to drastically overhaul Apple?s iOS for their own purposes since Apple does not hand out its source code to anyone who asks for it. Instead, the regime must negotiate with Apple over potential country-specific modifications to iOS, which means that the government is unlikely to get everything it wants.
[More from BGR: Was Samsung caught fighting dirty in war against Apple?]
Of course, there is a solution to this for Android users living under more repressive governments: They can simply root their phones and install stock Android or remove their device?s more oppressive features. But Hempton worries that knowledge about rooting Android phones will be severely limited in many countries and that rooted Android phones will be used only by a tiny elite who have education?in coding.
All of this brings us to the looming battle between Android and Apple for consumers in China. Hempton speculates that Apple might have to make such severe changes to its operating system to gain broad access to the Chinese market that it could actually wind up degrading its devices? overall user experience. This will only stand to benefit Android vendors, especially among elites who will know how to root their devices to open up access to more apps and content.
?I am assuming that if Apple goes mass-market in China it will sell systems with enough ?apologies??to the cultural differences of China,? he writes. ?Those ?apologies? will make a rooted Android massively superior to a botched-up Apple. The elite will want their Samsungs??Some bulls?on Apple and China may be just flat wrong??
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/android-predicted-beat-apple-china-thanks-potential-oppression-163545115.html
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
US expected to increase aid to Syrian rebels
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of a meeting in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London, Wednesday April 10, 2013. Kerry is meeting in London with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat, a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up aid to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Kerry is in London for a G8 foreign ministers' meeting today and Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, pool)
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of a meeting in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London, Wednesday April 10, 2013. Kerry is meeting in London with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat, a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up aid to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Kerry is in London for a G8 foreign ministers' meeting today and Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, pool)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration's next step in aid to Syrian rebels is expected to be a broader package of nonlethal assistance, including body armor and night-vision goggles, as the U.S. grapples for ways to stem the bloodshed from Syria's civil war.
Administration officials say an announcement of the new aid is not imminent. But Secretary of State John Kerry says the administration had been holding intense talks on how to boost assistance to the rebels fighting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
"Those efforts have been very much front and center in our discussions in the last week in Washington," Kerry said Tuesday, a day before meeting with Syrian opposition leaders in London. "I'm not sure what the schedule is, but I do believe that it's important for us to try to continue to put the pressure on President Assad and to try to change his calculation."
The United Nations estimates more than 70,000 people have been killed during more than two years of fighting between rebels and government forces.
Britain and France have already been shipping armor, night-vision goggles and other military-style equipment to the rebels.
Earlier this year, the U.S. announced a $60 million nonlethal assistance package for Syria that includes meals and medical supplies for the armed opposition. The aid package marked the first direct American assistance to the opposition forces trying to overthrow Assad.
But thus far, the U.S. has resisted providing lethal weapons to the rebels, in part out of fear that the arms could fall into the hands of jihadi groups that are designated as terrorist fronts linked to al-Qaida. However, the U.S. has said it would not stand in the way of other nations that decide to arm the rebels.
Senior officials from the White House, State Department and Pentagon held a high-level meeting Friday that focused on Syria.
In London, Kerry attended a British-hosted lunch alongside several leading members of the Syrian opposition. They included the interim prime minister, Hassan Hitto; Vice Presidents Suheir Atassi and George Sabra; Secretary-General Najib Ghadbian and the opposition's envoys to the United States and Britain.
Kerry then was to meet one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks on the Syrian civil war and several U.S.-Russian disputes that have strained the relationship. Discussions on Syria are expected to continue into Wednesday night when the top diplomats from all the Group of Eight industrialized nations get together.
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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper in London contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Burglars steal Vudu account IDs, passwords
Streaming video provider Vudu announced that a break-in March 24 resulted in the theft of hard drives containing customer information, including names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth and the last four digits of some credit card numbers.
According to Vudu, full credit card numbers were not stolen and that user passwords were encrypted. However, Vudu provided no details on the type of encryption used and whether it could be easily broken.
A statement from Vudu was not encouraging, "We believe it would be difficult to break the password encryption, but we can't rule out that possibility given the circumstances of this theft."
Therefore, all Vudu users should immediately change their passwords on any other sites on that use the same password as your Vudu account. Also, because emails addresses and other personal information were stolen, Vudu customers should be extremely cautious of phishing emails requesting passwords or other personal or financial information.
To help assist with future problems related to the data theft, Vudu ? which was bought by Walmart in 2010 ? has arranged for all customers to receive one year of identity protection services from AllClearID. Enrollment is not required. AllClear services can be accessed, if needed, from your Account Information page on the Vudu site.
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The Algarve: Not just for golf-mad pensioners | CNN Travel
The southernmost region of Portugal, the Algarve has a reputation for being a retirement home for wealthy British pensioners.
While this is partly the case, the Algarve has moved into the 21st century with a more varied outlook on tourism.
Thanks to golf-mad Brit retirees, the region has become a serious golfing destination, winning awards as Europe's best place to swing a club.
But this delightful area with southern and western Atlantic coasts, and more than 300 warm to hot sunny days each year, has more to offer than the most maddening game ever invented.
The region
Fal?sia Beach, one of hundreds in the Algarve, unspoiled and often empty. The Algarve is a haven for sailors, with seven marinas along its southern Atlantic coast; a world class surfing destination; and a great place for swimming, deep sea fishing, body-boarding, diving and kite-surfing.
On land there's motor racing, tennis, athletics and skydiving. Many of Europe's top soccer teams stay in the Algarve for pre-season training.
When I stayed at the Hotel Quinta do Lago, the Libyan national soccer team was there preparing for a friendly match. OK, they're not Barcelona or Manchester United, but the Libyan team proves the area's worth on the national football circuit.
There are more than 100 beaches along the 200-kilometer coastline and a plethora of luxury spas.
Local heritage reflects the various peoples who have inhabited the Algarve -- Arabs, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Celts.
The Algarve also has a reputation for some of the best seafood in the world, reflected in the excellent restaurants in the region, which has the highest number of Michelin stars in Portugal.
It's also a place for environmental tourism, centred around the Ria Formosa Nature Reserve, with its 60 kilometers (37 miles) of islands and channels creating a birdwatchers' paradise.
For a completely back to nature eco-tourist vacation, you can get away from modern civilization and backpack along the Via Algarviana.
The 300-kilometer (186 miles) footpath begins in Alcoutim near the Spanish border and ends at Cabo de S?o Vicente, where the southern and western Algarve coasts meet. The path travels through towns that still live according to the traditions of the rural world.
You can pitch your tent wherever you want or stay in local tavernas.
There's plenty of nightlife, especially in Vilamoura, the largest resort town in Europe, and Faro, the region's capital.
Food
Terrace at the Sea Breeze restaurant at the Hotel Quinta do Lago. In the Algarve seafood is king.
Caught daily in the Atlantic, crab, clams, king prawns, sea bass, sea bream, cod and other ocean delicacies are guaranteed to be superb.
Reflecting the region's Moorish heritage (five centuries of Islamic occupation),?Moroccan restaurants serve chicken couscous and traditional lamb tajine.
There are restaurants for every budget, from fast food to Japanese and, of course, Mediterranean.
As Dunas, Martinhal Resort: At the excellent As Dunas restaurant at the Martinhal Resort in Sagre, two people can have a lovely dinner including wine for less than ?40 (US$52).
Seafood, fresh fish and traditional Algarvean dishes adorn the menu; set among the sand dunes of Martinhal beach,?the location is superb.
Martinhal Beach Resort and Hotel, Quinta do Martinhal, Sagres; +351 282 240 200; www.martinhal.com
La Bella Vita: This Italian restaurant does the usual pizza/pasta along with more elbarorate dishes, like scallops with king prawns and rice. Ravioli and dishes featuring truffles are also a speciality.
Algarve Club Atl?ntico, 20 Alfanzina, Carvoeiro; +351 282 358 556; http://bella-vita.pt
O Costa: With panoramic views across the Ria Formosa lagoon and close to the Algarvean capital Faro, O Costa serves a mix of traditional Portuguese, Spanish and other Mediterranean recipes.
A great selection of tapas is available.
Avenida Nascente, Praia da Faro, Faro; +351 289 817 442; www.restauranteocosta.com
Activities
The fourth green at Onyria Palmares. These looks won't kill, but they might frustrate. Golf: The Algarve has a justified reputation as mainland Europe's finest golf destination.
From Onyria Palmares in the west through the five superb courses at Vilamoura, San Lorenzo and the Laranjal course at Quinta do Lago, to Monte Rei in the east (where you can see Spain from the fairways), there are more than 30 championship courses in the region.
For details go to www.algarvegolf.net.
Surfing/kite-surfing: Nowhere else in Europe offers year-round great surfing waves in the morning and steady kite-surfing winds in the afternoon like the southwest tip of the Algarve, between Cabo de Sao Vincente and Sagres.
For details on all watersports available in the Algarve go to www.algarve-watersport.com.
Sailing: With the Portuguese history of seafaring and seven marinas along its southern Atlantic coast it's no surprise that the Algarve has sailing in its blood.
Bring your yacht, hire one or just take a pleasure boat cruise along the 200 kilometer coastline.
Land and water sports: Other water sports include kayaking, deep sea fishing, swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving.
Land sports include ample tennis courts, motor racing at more than 300 kph (185 mph) on the Algarve racetrak, skydiving or soccer at a variety of sports complexes, horseback riding at the Vilamoura equestrian center, mountain biking or trekking through the Algarve mountains and ordinary road cycling.
Culture: Various peoples have inhabited the Algarve -- Arabs (five centuries of Islamic occupation), Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Celts.
The Algarve is home to 13th-century castles, 16th-century churches, modern museums, local arts and crafts, markets and music, from old folk through new wave.
Nature: From stunning Cabo de Sao Vicente, where the west and south Algarve coasts meet, to the Reserva Natural do Sapal de Castro Marim in the east on the Spanish border (and home to one of the largest flamingo habitats in Europe), the Algarve is awash with nature reserves.
The most beautiful is the Parque Natural de Ria Formosa around the region's capital Faro. You can leave civilization behind and rucksack along the 300-kilometer (186 mile) Via Algarviana, a great way to take in the Algarve's natural beauty.
Spa: Here SPA means Sanus Per Algarve ("Health through Algarve") and spa lovers can indulge in aromatherapy, thalassotherapy, sports and therapeutic massages, hot stone therapies, reflexology, yoga or reiki.
You can also visit Caldas de Monchique, a natural spa since Roman times when it was known as Aguas Sagradas (Sacred Waters).
Beach: The Algarve has more than 100 beaches along its 200-kilometer (124 miles) coastline, many of them usually deserted.
Hotels and resorts
The Algarve is home to numerous luxury resorts, many more affordable than you might think. The Algarve is filled with five-star hotels and resorts, plus options for those on a tight budget. For a complete list of accommodation in the Algarve go to www.visitalgarve.pt.
The Conrad: Opened in September 2012 and the only Conrad hotel in Portugal, this luxurious residence, created in the form of a Moorish palace to reflect the Algarve's Moroccan influence, is already winning awards.
Voted the World's Leading New Resort at the World Travel Awards in December 2012, it's spa includes a Caribbean storm shower complete with piped-in birdsong and thunder and lightning effects.
Quinta do Lago, Almancil; +351 289 350 700; from ?209 (US$272) per night; www.conradalgarve.com
The Pine Cliffs Resort: Voted Portugal's Leading Family Resort in 2009 by World Travel Awards, the Pine Cliffs Resort includes a Sheraton Hotel and 280 apartments, town houses and villas.
Its restaurants serve seafood, Portuguese, Italian, Moroccan and Mediterranean cuisine.
There's also a 7,000-square-meter Kids Club and almost every leisure and sporting activity known to man.
Praia da Fal?sia, Albufeira; +351 289 500 100; from ?66 (US$86) per night; www.pinecliffs.com
Vila Gal? Ampalius Hotel: Located 10 meters from the marina in Vilamoura, the Vila Gal? Ampalius is a four-star beauty.
It has two outdoor swimming pools, great views from room balconies and is ideally situated to explore Vilamoura, the biggest resort town in Europe, loaded with nightclubs, restaurants and a casino.
Alameda Praia de Marina, Vilamoura; +351 289 303 900; from ?68 (US$88) per night; www.vilagale.co.uk
The Hotel Quinta do Lago: This beautiful hotel has a gracious staff. The rooms are good, food is great and views from the upper floor rooms across the Ria Formosa Nature Reserve, the Atlantic Ocean and coastline make for spectacular sunsets.
Quinta do Lago, Almancil; +351 289 350 350; from ?335 (US$435) per night; www.quintadolagohotel.com
Quinta Monte Serra: This charming farmhouse in the eastern Algarve, close to Tavira, is owned by?Jean-Jacques de Coninck. He's transformed four of the farm buildings into beautiful cottages, retaining the old rural exteriors while completely modernizing the interiors with kitchens and bathrooms.
The tranquillity is disturbed only by the occasional sounds of the local wildlife.
Esti Rainanteus, Tavira; +351 961 142 562; from ?350 (US$455) per week; www.monte-serra.com
For more details on all the Algarve go to www.visitalgarve.pt.
Source: http://travel.cnn.com/algarve-no-longer-just-retirement-519301
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Body suit: Spanx sued for patent infringement
By Martha C. White
Most reality-TV housewives stick to hair-pulling. But Heather Thomson of the Real Housewives of New York City delivered a legal smackdown to shapewear company Spanx, claiming in a suit filed last week in U.S. district court in New York that its slimming tank tops are copies of designs she patented and sells under her Yummie Tummie brand.
The suit filed by Times Three Clothier LLC, the company Thomson founded to sell her shapewear, asks for sales injunctions against the garments and unspecified damages, including punitive damages.
In January, Times Three sent a cease-and-desist letter to Spanx over the tank tops. Privately held Spanx, whose founder Sara Blakely was dubbed ?the world?s youngest self-made female billionaire? by Forbes last year, responded last month by filing documents in federal court in Atlanta requesting a judicial declaration that Spanx was not infringing on Yummie Tummie designs and asking Thomson?s company to pay its legal fees.
?Anyone can make a claim, but it doesn?t mean it has merit,? Spanx said then in a statement that referred to ?countless imitators? of its products. ?Spanx has not infringed on any valid patent, and we will continue to make fabulous products for our loyal fans."
In the suit filed Tuesday, Times Three said, ?Defendant Spanx by Sara Blakely intends to continue its willful and intentional infringement of Yummie Tummie?s design patents asserted herein.? Spanx did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomson told TODAY last month she was ?in shock and appalled? by Spanx?s response, although this isn?t the first time she?s taken other garment producers in court. In 2011, Thomson got a $6.75 million settlement in a patent-infringement suit filed against underwear giant Maidenform. That year, it also sued the American subsidiary of manufacturer Li & Fung Group for patent infringement, which Women?s Wear Daily reported was settled for an undisclosed amount.
?I hope she?s ready for war,? Thomson told Women?s Wear Daily last month in reference to Blakely.
So far, it?s shaping up to be quite the battle of the bulge.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Church: Rick Warren's son commits suicide
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) ? The 27-year-old son of popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide at his Southern California home, Warren's church and authorities said on Saturday.
Matthew Warren struggled with mental illness, deep depression and suicidal thoughts throughout his life, Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement. His body was found in his Mission Viejo home Friday night, said Allison O'Neal, a supervising deputy coroner for Orange County. She declined to release the cause and manner of death pending an autopsy of the young man.
"Despite the best health care available, this was an illness that was never fully controlled and the emotional pain resulted in his decision to take his life," the church statement said.
Rick Warren, the author of the multimillion-selling book "The Purpose Driven Life," said in an email to church staff that he and his wife had enjoyed a fun Friday evening with their son. But their son then returned home to take his life in "a momentary wave of despair."
Over the years, Matthew Warren had been treated by America's best doctors, had received counseling and medication and been the recipient of numerous prayers from others, his father said.
"I'll never forget how, many years ago, after another approach had failed to give relief, Matthew said 'Dad, I know I'm going to heaven. Why can't I just die and end this pain?'" Warren recalled.
Despite that, he said, his son lived for another decade, during which he often reached out to help others.
"You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man," Warren wrote. "He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He'd then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them."
The elder Warren founded Saddleback Church in 1980, according to his biography on the church website, and over the years watched it grow to 20,000 members. He and his wife, Kay, began by holding Bible studies for people who weren't regular churchgoers.
Matthew Warren was the youngest of their three children.
As Saddleback grew over the years, it spread out from its Lake Forest headquarters, 65 miles southeast of Los Angeles, adding several other campuses and ministries around Southern California.
The church says it now offers more than 200 community ministries and support groups for parents, families, children, couples, prisoners, addicts, and people living with HIV, depression and other illnesses.
In 2008, the church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it several days beforehand, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.
Warren was named the top newsmaker of the year for 2009 by the Religion Newswriters Association. He gained attention that year with his invocation at Obama's inauguration, as well as with comments he made in the aftermath of California's Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/church-pastor-rick-warrens-son-commits-suicide-211206608.html
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Pork found in Ikea's moose lasagna
FILE - In this April 27, 2006 file photo, an exterior view of the Ikea furniture store in Duisburg, western Germany. Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
FILE - In this April 27, 2006 file photo, an exterior view of the Ikea furniture store in Duisburg, western Germany. Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium.
Ikea spokeswoman Tina Kardum said the product had only been on sale for a month when it was pulled off the shelves on March 22.
The company didn't announce the withdrawal publicly until Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet wrote about it Saturday.
Kardum said the company found out Friday that a follow-up test in Belgium confirmed the lasagna contained 1.6 percent pork.
"We have more information now. That's why we choose to inform now," Kardum said.
Moose meat is common in Sweden though it's not typically used in lasagna.
Ikea has previously recalled meatballs and other meat products sold in its cafeterias and frozen foods sections after tests showed they contained traces of horsemeat.
The Swedish furniture giant is one of many European companies caught up in a scandal over mislabeled meat in frozen food products.
Ikea's withdrawn products came from a Swedish frozen foods maker, which in turn blamed the mislabeling on its meat suppliers.
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NYC 'zombie' finds Long Island cat in Times Square
In this undated photo provided by BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Jeremy Zelkowitz, who dresses in character as a zombie for a year-round haunted house in Times Square, holds a cat named Disaster which he found crossing 42nd Street in Manhattan on March 30, 2013. (AP Photo/BluePearl Veterinary Partners)
In this undated photo provided by BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Jeremy Zelkowitz, who dresses in character as a zombie for a year-round haunted house in Times Square, holds a cat named Disaster which he found crossing 42nd Street in Manhattan on March 30, 2013. (AP Photo/BluePearl Veterinary Partners)
NEW YORK (AP) ? It took a zombie to find Disaster at the Crossroads of the World.
Two years after he disappeared from his Long Island home, Disaster the cat was found this week in the heart of Manhattan ? by a Times Square haunted house promoter dressed up as a zombie.
Jeremy Zelkowitz, who sells tickets for the Times Scare haunted house, spotted Disaster early Saturday morning crossing 42nd Street. He snatched up Disaster, a black and white cat who appeared to be well-kept and neat, and brought him to a nearby animal hospital.
"I'm a big animal lover but I have a dog so I couldn't take him," Zelkowitz, 22, said Thursday. "The whole situation is very, very bizarre."
Staff at the BluePearl Veterinary Partners animal hospital scanned Disaster who had been implanted with a microchip, revealing his last known owner: New York City police Officer Jimmy Helliesen.
Helliesen, 51, received a call Saturday morning from the hospital, informing him that his long-lost feline friend had been found.
"I was shocked," said Helliesen. "How did he get to Manhattan? That's quite an adventure."
For years Helliesen has adopted stray cats he finds hanging around his Brooklyn precinct. Two years ago he adopted Disaster after he strayed from the precinct and ended up getting captured by local Animal Care and Control. That's when Helliesen got him fixed and implanted with the chip.
But six months after living in his Long Island home, Disaster escaped one day through an open window and never returned.
Helliesen never thought he'd get the cat back ? and has since taken in eight more cats he's found around the precinct who need homes.
"Disaster makes it nine," he said. "My wife has been very understanding."
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
The Daily Roundup for 04.04.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Hillary Clinton headlines NY women's conference
NEW YORK (AP) ? Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a rousing speech Friday about improving the future of women across the globe, gave no hint of plans for her own future. But that didn't mean everyone in the audience wasn't thinking about it.
"Of course, the big question now about Hillary is what's next," quipped Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, as she introduced the former secretary of state and possible 2016 presidential candidate to the annual Women in the World summit.
The crowd at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater responded with cheers.
Two months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton re-emerged this week with two major speeches ? one in Washington on Tuesday and Friday's address to the high-profile women's conference, attended by celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey. The speeches coincided with the announcement Thursday of her new memoir about her years as secretary of state.
But rather than speak of her career, Clinton addressed the subject that she talks about each year at this summit: the state of women's rights. She concluded with her famous rallying cry: "Let's keep telling the world over and over again that yes, women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all."
But Clinton also stressed that despite the huge difficulties women and girls face in places like Pakistan, where teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education, there is also work to be done at home in the United States.
"If America is going to lead the way we expect ourselves to lead, we need to empower women here at home to participate fully in our economy and our society. We need to make equal pay a reality," Clinton said, pointing to the need to extend family and medical leave and encourage women and girls to pursue careers in math and science. "We need to invest in our people so they can live up to their own God-given potential."
"This truly is the unfinished business of the 21st century, and it is the work we are called to do," Clinton added. "I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead. Let's keep fighting for opportunity and dignity."
The former secretary of state wasn't the only Clinton onstage Friday: Daughter Chelsea Clinton moderated a panel on technology. Also appearing, at a lunch for delegates to the conference, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, who addressed concerns about North Korea and challenged the notion, raised by interviewer Andrea Mitchell, that the administration of President Barack Obama marginalizes women.
"In my experience, that's a bogus criticism, to be quite honest," Rice said.
While Clinton was clearly the main attraction on Friday, another celebrity getting huge cheers was Winfrey, who again interviewed the woman she said had been her favorite interviewee in her career hosting more than 4,000 shows ? Tererai Trent, of Zimbabwe, who revolutionized education for girls in her home village and beyond.
Trent got the audience's attention when she said she was focusing on boys' education as well ? because, she said, "When we educate boys, they'll be respectful of girls."
The education of girls was a theme of the two-day summit, especially on Thursday evening, as Jolie presented a video message from the 15-year-old Malala, who has been recovering and attending school in Britain.
"Today I'm going to announce the happiest moment of my life," the girl said, dressed in a bright red headscarf, at one point shyly covering her face with her hands.
She said that thanks to the new Malala's Fund, which she will administer, a new school in her homeland would be built for 40 girls.
"Let us turn the education of 40 girls into 40 million girls," she said.
Clinton also referred to Malala in her speech.
"The Taliban miscalculated," she said. "They thought if they silenced Malala, and thank God they didn't, that not only she but her cause would die. Instead, they inspired millions of Pakistanis to finally say, 'Enough is enough.'"
Malala has garnered huge global attention since she was shot in the head in October by Taliban attackers angered by her activism. After undergoing skull reconstruction in Britain, she has now signed a deal to write her memoir.
Jolie gave a poignant rendition of her story.
"Here's what they accomplished," she said of Malala's attackers. "They shot her at point blank range in the head ? and made her stronger. The brutal attempt to silence her voice made it stronger."
After Jolie's introduction, Brown, who created the Women in the World summit, told the audience that Jolie had just committed $200,000 personally to the fund, which was established by the Washington group Vital Voices, with a donation from the Women in the World Foundation.
Streep was there to honor another activist, Inez McCormack, of Northern Ireland, who died in January of cancer. At the first summit in 2010, Streep had played McCormack in a short play, called "Seven," with McCormack watching from the audience. Streep spoke some lines from the play on Thursday evening in a flawless Irish accent.
And late Friday, Hanks grew tearful as he honored Nora Ephron, the writer, filmmaker, journalist and author of his new play on Broadway, "Lucky Guy," who died last year at age 71.
But clearly Clinton was the headliner of the event, with the audience excitement over her potential future plans. As she concluded her speech she told the crowd: "I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead."
She didn't, though, say in what capacity.
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US meat industry renames cuts; pork chops are now ribeyes
BBQ fans, brace yourselves: "Pork butt" will soon be a thing of the past.
In an effort to boost sales just ahead of the U.S. grilling season, and make shopping at the meat counter a bit easier, the pork and beef industries are retooling more than 350 names of meat cuts to give them more sizzle and consumer appeal.
The revised nomenclature emerged after two years of consumer research, which found that the labels on packages of fresh cuts of pork and beef are confusing to shoppers, said Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing for trade group National Pork Board.
A stroll down the meat aisle had become baffling for shoppers looking for a steak. When they would see packages of "butler steak" or "beef shoulder top blade steak, boneless, flat iron" - they would walk away with an empty cart, said Trevor Amen, director of market intelligence for the Beef Checkoff Program.
So recently, the National Pork Board and the Beef Checkoff Program, with the blessing of officials with USDA, got the nod to update the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards, or URMIS. Though the URMIS system is voluntary, a majority of U.S. food retailers use it.
So pork and beef industry officials say they hope the new names will show up in stores nationwide by this summer's grilling season.
If it does, the lowly "pork chop" will be gone. Instead, grocery retailers could be stocking stacks of "porterhouse chops," "ribeye chops" and "New York chops." The pork butt - which actually comes from shoulder meat - will be called a Boston roast.
"One of our biggest challenges has been the general belief among consumers that a pork chop is a pork chop," said Fleming. "But not all pork chops are equal, and not all pork chops are priced equally."
So much for pork being known as the other white meat--a label the pork industry used for years to lure consumers away from chicken.
In the beef aisle, a boneless shoulder top blade steak will become a flatiron steak, a beef under blade boneless steak will become a Denver Steak. Not all names in the meat counter will change - ground beef will still be ground beef
The new retail names will also come with new labels for retail packages, which will tell consumers what part of the animal's body the cut comes from, as well as include suggested cooking instructions.
This marketing move comes at a challenging time for the nation's livestock sector, which has wrestled with historic high grain prices and devastating droughts.
Overseas demand for U.S. meat has cooled as both Russia and China have concerns about possible traces of the feed additive ractopamine, which is used to make meat leaner. That has protein clogging the nation's supply chain and the supply pork and beef in commercial freezers hit a record high for the month of February, according to Agriculture Department data.
Also domestic sales have been slow as the relatively cool spring has quashed consumer interest in breaking out the backyard grill.
While fresh beef and pork cuts have official names that are approved by USDA, compliance with using those naming conventions is voluntary for the industry, said Sam Jones-Ellard, spokesman for USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service.
"There won't be any changes to our naming conventions, but we're supportive of this," Jones-Ellard said. "Anything that simplifies the names of cuts of meat is a good thing for consumers."
At least one section of the meat department will stay the same: A spokesman for the National Chicken Council said Wednesday that no such plans are in place to change the names of chicken cuts. A chicken breast, the official said, will remain a breast.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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MAKE | How-To: Leather Handled Wooden Box Organizer
Organize your craft supplies and tools in style with this leather handled wooden box tutorial that Melissa Esplin shared on WhimseyBox!
Have you seen the $3 natural wood boxes in Target?s dollar section? I discovered them the other day and had to buy all of the boxes that were left. I can see a million applications for these basic boxes, so I had no choice!
One of them is now a little utility box that I can put random things in. I have my dedicated art space, but sometimes I need to do work in the kitchen or the living room, so I see myself using this box often.
This handy little box would also be a great guy-friendly gift idea. Head over to WhimseyBox to see the full how-to!
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Associated Press Axes the Term 'Illegal Immigrant' to Describe ...
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The Associated Press Stylebook has done away with the term ?illegal immigrant? or ?illegal? to describe people.
It?s a significant move from the largest news-gathering outlet in the world and its influential stylebook, which is followed by newsrooms around the globe. It comes after a campaign by former Washington Post journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who outed himself as illegal in 2011, to get media organizations to drop the term.
?The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term ?illegal immigrant? or the use of ?illegal? to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that ?illegal? should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally,? Kathleen Carroll, AP senior vice president and executive editor, said in a statement Tuesday.
?The discussions on this topic have been wide-ranging and include many people from many walks of life. (Earlier, they led us to reject descriptions such as ?undocumented,? despite ardent support from some quarters, because it is not precise. A person may have plenty of documents, just not the ones required for legal residence.),? she said.
It?s a reversal for the AP, which reaffirmed ?illegal immigrant? after Vargas began his push in September, saying the term reflected a ?legal reality.?
?A number of people felt that ?illegal immigrant? was the best choice at the time. They also believed the always-evolving English language might soon yield a different choice and we should stay in the conversation,? Carroll said.
But the AP has been ?ridding the stylebook of labels? in other areas ? for example, saying someone was ?diagnosed with schizophrenia? instead of ?schizophrenic,? she said.
?[T]hat discussion about labeling people, instead of behavior, led us back to ?illegal immigrant? again,??Carroll said. ?We concluded that to be consistent, we needed to change our guidance.?
The AP?s revised stylebook entry in full:
illegal immigration: Entering or residing in a country in violation of civil or criminal law. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant. Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission.
Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented.
Do not describe people as violating immigration laws without attribution.
Specify wherever possible how someone entered the country illegally and from where. Crossed the border? Overstayed a visa? What nationality?
People who were brought into the country as children should not be described as having immigrated illegally. For people granted a temporary right to remain in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, use temporary resident status, with details on the program lower in the story.
The change also comes amid continuing talks of a major immigration deal being worked out in Washington.
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Discovery of 1,800-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' for tropical ice cores
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Find offers the most complete picture of Earth's low-latitude climate history to date
COLUMBUS, OhioTwo annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's tropical climate history in unprecedented detailyear by year, for nearly 1,800 years.
Researchers at The Ohio State University retrieved the cores from a Peruvian ice cap in 2003, and then noticed some startling similarities to other ice cores that they had retrieved from Tibet and the Himalayas. Patterns in the chemical composition of certain layers matched up, even though the cores were taken from opposite sides of the planet.
In the April 4, 2013 online edition of the journal Science Express, they describe the find, which they call the first annually resolved "Rosetta Stone" with which to compare other climate histories from Earth's tropical and subtropical regions over the last two millennia.
The cores provide a new tool for researchers to study Earth's past climate, and better understand the climate changes that are happening today.
"These ice cores provide the longest and highest-resolution tropical ice core record to date," said Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor of earth sciences at Ohio State and lead author of the study.
"In fact, having drilled ice cores throughout the tropics for more than 30 years, we now know that this is the highest-resolution tropical ice core record that is likely to be retrieved."
The new cores, drilled from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, are special because most of their 1,800-year history exists as clearly defined layers of light and dark: light from the accumulated snow of the wet season, and dark from the accumulated dust of the dry season.
They are also special because of where they formed, atop the high Andean altiplano in southern Peru. Most of the moisture in the area comes from the east, in snowstorms fueled by moist air rising from the Amazon Basin. But the ice core-derived climate records from the Andes are also impacted from the westspecifically by El Nio, a temporary change in climate, which is driven by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
El Nio thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.
"We have been able to derive a proxy for sea surface temperatures that reaches back long before humans were able to make such measurements, and long before humans began to affect Earth's climate," Thompson said.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, distinguished university professor of geography at Ohio State and director of the Byrd Polar Research Center, explained that the 2003 expedition to Quelccaya was the culmination of 20 years of work.
The Thompsons have drilled ice cores from glaciers atop the most remote areas of the planetthe Chinese Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Papua Indonesia among othersto gauge Earth's past climate. Each new core has provided a piece of the puzzle, as the researchers measured the concentrations of key chemicals preserved in thousands of years of accumulated ice.
A 1983 trip to Quelccaya yielded cores that earned the research team their first series of papers in Science. The remoteness of the site and the technology available at the time limited the quality of samples they could obtain, however. The nearest road was a two-day walk from the ice cap, so they were forced to melt the cores in the field and carry samples back as bottles of water. This made some chemical measurements impossible, and diminished the time resolution available from the cores.
"Due to the remoteness of the ice cap, we had to develop new tools such as a light-weight drill powered by solar panels to collect the 1983 cores. However, we knew there was much more information the cores could provide" Mosley-Thompson said. "Now the ice cap is just a six-hour walk from a new access road where a freezer truck can be positioned to preserve the cores. So we can now make better dust measurements along with a suite of chemical analyses that we couldn't make before."
The cores will provide a permanent record for future use by climate scientists, Thompson added. This is very important, as plants captured by the advancing ice cap 6,000 years ago are now emerging along its retreating margins, which shows that Quelccaya is now smaller than it has been in six thousand years.
"The frozen history from this tropical ice capwhich is melting away as Earth continues to warmis archived in freezers at -30C so that creative people will have access to it 20 years from now, using instruments and techniques that don't even exist today," he said.
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Coauthors on the study include Mary Davis, Victor Zagorodnov, and Ping-Nan Lin of Byrd Polar Research Center; Ian Howat of the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State; and Vladimir Mikhalenko of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation's Paleoclimatology Program and Ohio State's Climate, Water and Carbon Program.
Contact:
Lonnie Thompson
614-292-6652
Thompson.3@osu.edu
Ellen Mosley-Thompson
614-292-6662
Thompson.4@osu.edu
Written by Pam Frost Gorder
Editor's note: Lonnie Thompson will be on travel from Saturday, March 30 until Thursday, April 4. During that time, he can be reached through Pam Frost Gorder.
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Find offers the most complete picture of Earth's low-latitude climate history to date
COLUMBUS, OhioTwo annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's tropical climate history in unprecedented detailyear by year, for nearly 1,800 years.
Researchers at The Ohio State University retrieved the cores from a Peruvian ice cap in 2003, and then noticed some startling similarities to other ice cores that they had retrieved from Tibet and the Himalayas. Patterns in the chemical composition of certain layers matched up, even though the cores were taken from opposite sides of the planet.
In the April 4, 2013 online edition of the journal Science Express, they describe the find, which they call the first annually resolved "Rosetta Stone" with which to compare other climate histories from Earth's tropical and subtropical regions over the last two millennia.
The cores provide a new tool for researchers to study Earth's past climate, and better understand the climate changes that are happening today.
"These ice cores provide the longest and highest-resolution tropical ice core record to date," said Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor of earth sciences at Ohio State and lead author of the study.
"In fact, having drilled ice cores throughout the tropics for more than 30 years, we now know that this is the highest-resolution tropical ice core record that is likely to be retrieved."
The new cores, drilled from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, are special because most of their 1,800-year history exists as clearly defined layers of light and dark: light from the accumulated snow of the wet season, and dark from the accumulated dust of the dry season.
They are also special because of where they formed, atop the high Andean altiplano in southern Peru. Most of the moisture in the area comes from the east, in snowstorms fueled by moist air rising from the Amazon Basin. But the ice core-derived climate records from the Andes are also impacted from the westspecifically by El Nio, a temporary change in climate, which is driven by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
El Nio thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.
"We have been able to derive a proxy for sea surface temperatures that reaches back long before humans were able to make such measurements, and long before humans began to affect Earth's climate," Thompson said.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, distinguished university professor of geography at Ohio State and director of the Byrd Polar Research Center, explained that the 2003 expedition to Quelccaya was the culmination of 20 years of work.
The Thompsons have drilled ice cores from glaciers atop the most remote areas of the planetthe Chinese Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Papua Indonesia among othersto gauge Earth's past climate. Each new core has provided a piece of the puzzle, as the researchers measured the concentrations of key chemicals preserved in thousands of years of accumulated ice.
A 1983 trip to Quelccaya yielded cores that earned the research team their first series of papers in Science. The remoteness of the site and the technology available at the time limited the quality of samples they could obtain, however. The nearest road was a two-day walk from the ice cap, so they were forced to melt the cores in the field and carry samples back as bottles of water. This made some chemical measurements impossible, and diminished the time resolution available from the cores.
"Due to the remoteness of the ice cap, we had to develop new tools such as a light-weight drill powered by solar panels to collect the 1983 cores. However, we knew there was much more information the cores could provide" Mosley-Thompson said. "Now the ice cap is just a six-hour walk from a new access road where a freezer truck can be positioned to preserve the cores. So we can now make better dust measurements along with a suite of chemical analyses that we couldn't make before."
The cores will provide a permanent record for future use by climate scientists, Thompson added. This is very important, as plants captured by the advancing ice cap 6,000 years ago are now emerging along its retreating margins, which shows that Quelccaya is now smaller than it has been in six thousand years.
"The frozen history from this tropical ice capwhich is melting away as Earth continues to warmis archived in freezers at -30C so that creative people will have access to it 20 years from now, using instruments and techniques that don't even exist today," he said.
###
Coauthors on the study include Mary Davis, Victor Zagorodnov, and Ping-Nan Lin of Byrd Polar Research Center; Ian Howat of the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State; and Vladimir Mikhalenko of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation's Paleoclimatology Program and Ohio State's Climate, Water and Carbon Program.
Contact:
Lonnie Thompson
614-292-6652
Thompson.3@osu.edu
Ellen Mosley-Thompson
614-292-6662
Thompson.4@osu.edu
Written by Pam Frost Gorder
Editor's note: Lonnie Thompson will be on travel from Saturday, March 30 until Thursday, April 4. During that time, he can be reached through Pam Frost Gorder.
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Former DC mayor Marion Barry hospitalized
WASHINGTON (AP) ? District of Columbia Councilmember Marion Barry is in the hospital after he says he experienced a drop in blood sugar.
The longtime councilmember and former mayor tweeted Tuesday night that he was going to the hospital. His chief of staff, Joyce Clements Smith, says Barry went to the hospital after he started feeling weak. Doctors kept him overnight for observation.
The 77-year-old Barry has been hospitalized more often in recent years.
In May 2012, he was taken to the hospital in Las Vegas. He said he had developed a blood clot while waiting on a plane heading to a retail convention. He was also hospitalized in January 2012 for a minor operation following a urinary tract infection.
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