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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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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Online: http://womenintheworld.org/pages/women-in-the-world-summit-2013
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-headlines-ny-womens-conference-140457220--politics.html
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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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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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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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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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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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.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-dc-mayor-marion-barry-hospitalized-100657002.html
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