Blackberry App World store makes early switch to Blackberry World, but no music or video yet

We're still a few days away from BB10's genuine debut, but RIM's decided to press on early with its app store changes. Starting with the webstore front (which is rolling out in the next 24 hours, depending on your territory) then moving on to the PlayBook and existing BlackBerry phones, the renamed BlackBerry World store will also offer up access to videos and music -- RIM reckons it'll be your "one-stop shop" for mobile entertainment, but those channels aren't live just yet. Test out the store's new offerings at the source link to the right.

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Immune system molecule with hidden talents

Jan. 22, 2013 ? Dendritic cells, or DCs for short, perform a vital role for the immune system: They engulf pathogens, break them down into their component parts, and then display the pieces on their surface. This in turn signals other immune cells capable of recognizing these pieces to help kick-start their own default program for fighting off the invaders. In order to do their job, the DCs are dependent upon the support from a class of immune system molecules, which have never before been associated with dendritic cells: antibodies, best known for their role in vaccinations and diagnostics.

Now, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to show that antibodies are essential for dendritic cell maturation. The researchers' findings have been published in the scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The human immune system is made up of some half a dozen different cell types that are all working in tandem. Team work is key since each cell type has a single unique job to perform, which is central to its ability to help defend the body against invaders and ward off disease. If one of these players is taken out of commission, the entire system is thrown out of whack.

This is precisely what Dr. Siegfried Weiss, head of HZI Department of Molecular Immunology, and his team of researchers observed when they looked at immunodeficient mice. "Our 'RAG' mice are lacking adaptive, or acquired immunity," explains Weiss. "Basically, what this means is they are missing their antibody-producing B cells, among others."

The dendritic cells belong to a different branch of the immune system -- innate immunity, which, although far less pliable, is capable of a fairly rapid response. Which is why these cells should not be affected by a defect in acquired immunity. Still, the scientists noticed that DCs obtained from this particular murine strain were not working properly -- their maturation process was faulty and instead of breaking down a pathogen into small pieces, they ended up destroying the pathogen altogether. "The broken down pieces are called antigens. Presenting antigen is the dendritic cells' main job," explains Dr. Natalia Zietara, one of the scientists who worked on this study. "In fact, it is one of the most important points of intersection between the immune system's innate and acquired branches. If it goes missing, any subsequent immune responses don't ever get triggered," adds her colleague, Dr. Marcin Lyszkiewicz. The cells' normally highly precise interplay comes to a standstill and the acquired immune response becomes largely ineffective at a targeted defense against invading pathogens.

Starting with this observation, the immunologists were interested in identifying the cause behind the defect in the DCs' function. To this end, they initially examined the dendritic cells' surface markers for any potential deviation from the norm -- albeit to no avail. Only once they began studying the transcriptome, the sum total of genes that are active in the cells that were being examined, the researchers found what it was they were looking for: The activity of a select few genes, among them those encoding a family of receptors capable of binding antibodies, had been altered. Through a series of subsequent experiments, the researchers were able to show that it was these very molecules, which stimulated dendritic cell maturation.

Antibodies, also called immunoglobulins, are proteins made by B cells. Their normal job is one of neutralizing toxins or viruses and labeling bacteria for destruction by other immune cells. The concept of vaccination is based on artificially prompting the organism to make antibodies, which, at a later stage -- specifically, upon contact with the actual pathogen -- helps the body ward off disease. Until now, this new role for antibodies was completely unknown. "We had no idea that B cells and dendritic cells use immunoglobulins to communicate with each other. It just goes to show you how complex the immune system really is and how we are a long way from truly grasping the full scope of its complexity," says Dr. Andreas Krueger, head of the Lymphocyte Biology research group at the MHH's Institute of Immunology. In a way, you might say the researchers discovered a 'hidden talent' of antibodies.

Natalia Zietara and Marcin Lyszkiewicz are both named as the study's primary co-authors. They initially kicked off their investigation during the time of their doctoral work in Siegfried Weiss' department at HZI and, upon earning their PhDs, transferred to the MHH where they were able to see the project to its conclusion working in Andreas Krueger's lab. According to Weiss, "this is a prime example of a genuine scientific collaborative." Two other HZI research groups, along with scientists from Freiburg University and the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, were also part of the research project.

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Light shed on complexity of gene therapy for congenital blindness

Jan. 21, 2013 ? Independent clinical trials, including one conducted at the Scheie Eye Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine, have reported safety and efficacy for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a congenital form of blindness caused by mutations in a gene (RPE65) required for recycling vitamin A in the retina. Inherited retinal degenerative diseases were previously considered untreatable and incurable. There were early improvements in vision observed in the trials, but a key question about the long-term efficacy of gene therapy for curing the retinal degeneration in LCA has remained unanswered.

Now, new research from the Scheie Eye Institute, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that gene therapy for LCA shows enduring improvement in vision but also advancing degeneration of affected retinal cells, both in LCA patients and animal models of the same condition.

LCA disease from RPE65 mutations has two-components: a biochemical blockade leading to impaired vision, and a progressive loss of the light-sensing photoreceptor cells throughout life of the affected patient. The authors of the new study explain that until now gene therapy has been optimistically assumed, but not proven, to solve both disease components at the same time.

"We all hoped that the gene injections cured both components -- re-establishing the cycle of vision and also preventing further loss of cells to the second disease component" said Artur V. Cideciyan, PhD, lead author and co-investigator of an LCA clinical trial at Penn.

Yet, when the otherwise invisible cell layers of the retina were measured by optical imaging in clinical trial participants serially over many years, the rate of cell loss was the same in treated and untreated regions. "In other words, gene therapy improved vision but did not slow or halt the progression of cell loss," commented Cideciyan.

"These unexpected observations should help to advance the current treatment by making it better and longer lasting," commented co-author Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, PhD, principal investigator of the clinical trial. "Slowing cell loss in different retinal degenerations has been a major research direction long before the current gene therapy trials. Now, the two directions must converge to ensure the longevity of the beneficial visual effects in this form of LCA."

In a continuation of the longstanding collaboration between the Scheie investigators and the Section of Ophthalmology at Penn School of Veterinary Medicine headed by co-authors Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD, and William A. Beltran, DVM, PhD, studies were performed to test whether the clinical results were also present in the canine model of this LCA at disease stages equivalent to those in human patients.

"Our gene treatment in this canine model provided the groundwork for the clinical trials of patients, and now we added data to confirm the fact that retinal degeneration does continue despite improved vision" said Aguirre. "The next step is to perform the relevant experiments to ask what intervention will stop the degeneration if added to the gene therapy."

"These new findings contribute to greater clarity in understanding the natural history and complexity of the RPE65 form of LCA and provide a firm foundation for future investigations," said Joan M. O'Brien MD, professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and director of the Scheie Eye Institute.

Co-authors, in addition to the Penn researchers include, William W. Hauswirth, PhD, professor of Ophthalmology, at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

The current patient studies and the experimental studies were supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) grants U10 EY017280, EY 06855, 017549, 019304, and 022012, the Macula Vision Research Foundation, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

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Online dating: Can you fall in love with someone you have never met?

While it is possible to have feelings of love for a person you have never met, experts caution about dishonesty in online dating. (Shutterstock photo)

The Internet has changed the world in a number of ways; not only are people able to access unlimited resources of knowledge in a manner of seconds, but they are also able to connect with other individuals who are sometimes thousands of miles away and even engage in online dating.
In fact, through the Internet, long distance relationships have taken on a new meaning.
But can you really fall in love with someone you have never met?
According to a report from TIME, the brain process involving what people consider to be love is very complex, and while it is a mixture of cognitive, chemical and behavioral processes, the foundation of love is the well-being sensation people develop. This pleasant feeling is associated with the release of ?dopamine, the chemical in the brain linked to positive reward and reinforcement.
?Love is a powerful mental state that has different manifestations, such as euphoria, loss of appetite, hyperactivity, delay of the onset of fatigue and loss of self-control,? Stephanie Cacioppo, an associate professor at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago told TIME ?People who are in love with love rather than with the person would read their [online] messages as they want them to be, rather than as they really are.?
A relationship based solely on online dating rather than personal interaction can be very misleading, caution experts, which is why it is important for individuals pursuing online relationships to have some form of visual contact.
Barbara L. Frederickson, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and author of the soon to be released book Love 2.0, told TIME people can detect sincerity easily?but only if they can make eye contact.

While not a foolproof method of detecting honesty, online dating should include video interaction so facial expressions and eye contact can be made (Shutterstock photo)

But a lack of physical or in-person contact during online dating is not necessarily a deal-breaker when it comes to love, as many people are not placing as much stock in physical appearance as once were.
It is very possible to experience feelings of love for someone you have never met, but the question then becomes, not can you fall in love online, but how risky is it to fall in love online?
Rosanna Guadagno, Ph.D. from Psychology Today conducted one of the first controlled studies looking at how people present themselves online. What she found was women tend to be more honest in presentation over the Internet compared to men, who presented themselves as more agreeable, emotionally stable, and attractive than they really were.
?Clearly men know what women want and if they have a chance to meet their date online, at least those in our study were willing to deceive,? she stated in a blog about the study. ?So, what is an honest online dater to do? Take time to get to know a prospective romantic partner over email. Look for inconsistencies in his or her communications. And, if attractiveness is important to you, get a lot of photographs!?
Because the majority of online dating is based on profiles, experts recommend individuals always push for a personal meeting in a public place. Only in person, or sometimes through video communication where facial reactions can be witnessed, can you tell if you are truly compatible with someone.
According to Harry Reis, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York said in a CNN report, there is almost no substitute for spending two minutes with someone over a cup of coffee.

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In-laws become outlaws on 'Downton Abbey'

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

First off, hooray for Edith! After ?being left at the altar, the Jan Brady of the "Downton" sisters got a little bit of her own back. A newspaper published her letter about women's suffrage and despite her father's horror, she's on her way to moving away from that crushing jilting at the altar and becoming her own woman, as her grandmother encouraged. And she did it without having to take up gardening.

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The Dowager Countess feels certain Edith can find something to do with her life. As long as it's not gardening.

And now, Branson. What in the name of Maud Gonne is he doing? He wants an independent Ireland, but he's also married into a titled family with an enormous country estate.

Did he think it wouldn't get back to them that he was involved in the burning of a castle owned by their friends? Did he think they wouldn't flip out when he left his pregnant wife behind to flee the trouble he'd? gotten into? (Thankfully, she made it to Downton unscathed.)

Branson's ideals may be admirable, but marrying Sybil is looking more and more like a disaster. In 47 years, some mop-topped countrymen of his in-laws are going to sing "All You Need Is Love," but in his case, they might just be wrong.

The slowest plot in "Downton" has to be Bates in jail. Time kind of stops when we cut to that grim British prison, and it's here that we feel the most need for English-to-English subtitles. Is Bates' cellmate named Craig? Greg? Greig? (It's Craig. We think.) When the guard told Craig, "You'd better come with us," it came out to our ears as, "You bear commie osprey." Short version: Bates is back on the good side of the guards -- except for one -- and the backlog of mail between Bates and Anna was finally delivered.

Do-gooding Isobel, Matthew's mother, is helping the nation's fallen women, but she can't save them all. Her heart broke when former "Downton" maid Ethel gave up her young son to his dead father's family. Our hearts broke too, but we're hoping Grumpy Grandpa Bryant will eventually break down and let Charlie's mother be a part of his life.

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Can we move the Bates in jail plot along, please?

In another slow-to-develop plot, Matthew's discovered that Robert (who is no fan of Catholics, we learn, in a bizarrely random slur that the show had better revisit) isn't exactly the Warren Buffett of 1920s England. In short, Downton's finances are a mess.

Perhaps it wasn't such a smart idea to hire that new hunky footman James-call-me-Jimmy-no-you're-James, not to mention Ivy, the new kitchen maid. Daisy would sure like to get rid of Ivy, who caught young Alfred's eye just as Daisy was deciding she was interested in him.

But perhaps Matthew should worry less about money and more about wife Mary's baby situation. She's got to be having trouble conceiving if that brief nursery conversation is any clue. Can no Downton daughter ever be happy? You know the answer to that. Would we watch if they were?

Best Dowager Countess quotes:

• "Well, no one can be as desperate as that." -- When Edith suggests taking up gardening.
• "Maybe they do, but no family is ever what it seems from the outside." -- When Robert bemoans that other people have normal families.
• "He looks like a footman in a musical revue." -- About the new hottie footman, Jimmy -- er, James.
• "Well, obviously, if you've turned to me." -- When Matthew admits he stymied by ?Downton's financial mismanagement.

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Obama girls rock out with military kids at concert

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Usher sang "Yeah!" Katy Perry donned star and stripes for "Firework." And a ballroom full of lucky kids got to rock out with Sasha and Malia Obama at Saturday's Kids' Inaugural Concert, a star-studded event that honors America's military families.

"Now, inauguration is a pretty big deal," first lady Michelle Obama, who hosted the event along with Jill Biden, told the assembled families at the Washington Convention Center. "But I have to tell you that my very favorite part of this entire weekend is being right here with all of you." She paid tribute to the sacrifices that military families make, including their kids.

Pointing out that such kids often attend six to nine schools by the end of high school, always having to be "the new kid," she said being a military kid meant "growing up just a little faster, and working just a little harder than other kids." The concert was streamed live to several military bases around the country.

This was the second such concert for the Obama girls, and the choice of talent seemed to reflect the fact that they are four years older. While in 2009 they were entertained by Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, this time it was Usher and Perry, along with the groups Mindless Behavior and Far East Movement. Also performing were cast members from the Fox TV hit "Glee."

Usher, in black leather, kicked off the proceedings with his hit "Yeah!," followed by "Without You" and "OMG," earning a huge cheer from the crowd. In between acts, there were kid-friendly diversions like a dance-off, or a race among mascots of the Washington Nationals: oversized versions of presidents like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

Three members of the "Glee" cast were greeted warmly by the crowd: Naya Rivera, who plays Santana; Darren Criss, who plays Blaine; and Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes.

Nick Cannon emceed the evening, but it was Mrs. Obama, sporting her new bangs and wearing a white peplum shirt over black pants, who got to introduce the top attraction.

"It is now my pleasure to introduce the fabulous Katy Perry!" she said, and the singer emerged in what looked like a vintage swimsuit, covered patriotically with stars and stripes. She sang her hits "Teenage Dream," ''Part of Me," ''Wide Awake" and then "Firework," which was accompanied by a slide show of President Barack Obama: Obama in the Oval Office, Obama exiting Air Force One, Obama greeting LeBron James.

"I'm very proud to be here ... and to see the Obamas and the Bidens here for four more years," she said.

Perry was the favorite of concertgoer Dylan Garvin, 12, who came from Wilmington, Del. "I thought it was incredible," Dylan said of the concert. "It's a great way to celebrate."

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The Room Holds One Maddeningly Fun Puzzle After Another

Sometimes thousands of user reviewers really get it right: The Room has nearly 100,000 reviews in the App Store with an average ranking of 5 out of 5 stars, which is a feat that grabbed my attention. Hence, I promptly downloaded The Room. But what is The Room? It's a moody, atmospheric mystery puzzle game set inside of a room, set inside of a safe, set inside of a pointy box inside the safe, and so on and so forth.

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Mediafire ? 50GB more free cloud storage

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Jim Kappelhoff was the oldest of four brothers and took charge when it came to organizing pickup games.They made a small hockey rink in the back yard of their St. Paul home, and Kappelhoff would organize neighborhood kids into tournament brackets when they went to the local city park. They would stay there all day playing sports, come home for dinner and then go back to the park.

Jim Kappelhoff plans to spend a lot of time with his four grandchildren after he retires from his post as Blaine?s park and recreation director effective Feb. 28. He also plans to spend more time fishing on his boat, golfing, vacationing with his wife and working on projects around the house. Photo by Eric Hagen

?You could count on the fact that there were always enough kids to have a game of either baseball or football or hockey, and that was our entertainment,? Kappelhoff said. ?We didn?t have the video games then.?

His family moved to Anoka when he was in ninth grade. After he graduated from Anoka High School in 1972 he never lost his interest in organizing sporting events. It would become a significant part of his early career.

Kappelhoff is retiring Feb. 28 as Blaine?s park and recreation director after having served about six years in that role. Kappelhoff started working part-time as an adult athletics league director for Blaine in 1982. He became the full-time recreation supervisor in 1984 and held that title until longtime parks and recreation director Jim Peterson retired in 2007. He had been with the city for 34 years, including 23 years as the director.

Prior to Blaine, Kappelhoff was a program supervisor in Spring Lake Park?s park and recreation department in 1981 and the recreation programmer for the city of Fridley from 1977 to 1980. After he graduated from Anoka High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to get help paying his college tuition under the G.I. Bill. He received an associate of arts degree in recreation leadership in 1972 from North Hennepin Community College and a bachelor of science degree in recreation, parks and leisure studies from the University of Minnesota in 1982.

Mayor Tom Ryan said Kappelhoff and Peterson had the biggest impact on the growth of the Blaine parks program.

?He grew up with the whole program,? he said of Kappelhoff. ?He helped develop it a lot.?

Peterson said Kappelhoff handled the city?s adult athletics programs and was the liaison with youth athletics groups, which included scheduling field use.

Kappelhoff said he set up training programs for the adults volunteering to be coaches of the youth sports teams. He joined the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA) and at one point served as a chapter director for this organization. He has served on the advisory committee for the NYSCA since 2002.

Kappelhoff?s father Jim Kappelhoff was Anoka?s park and recreation director from March 1975 through the end of 1979. His father would later become the director of the North Anoka County Emergency (NACE) Food Shelf in East Bethel for about 20 years.

The younger Kappelhoff was drawn to a career in parks and recreation because of his interest in sports and his father?s background. He would find out that the job was much more about sports, however.

?You have to have a passion and a vision about what?s in the future and try to meet that with the needs of the community,? Kappelhoff said.

Blaine has become a more diverse community. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 84 percent of Blaine?s population is white, 7.8 percent Asian, 3.7 percent African American and 3.2 percent Hispanic or Latino. These are the four largest segments. In 2000, the percentages were 93.9 percent white, 2.5 percent Asian, 0.9 percent black and 1.7 percent Hispanic or Latino.

In celebration of the growing diversity, Kappelhoff started the Blaine World Fest in 2008 to bring together the different cultures through the sharing of foods, dances and arts.

Another key project for Kappelhoff was the Miracle League field at the Blaine Baseball Complex, which was renamed Harmon Killebrew Memorial Field last spring. Killebrew was behind the drive to develop fields in Minnesota that gives kids with disabilities the chance to enjoy the fun and camaraderie of team sports. He attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Blaine field in 2005 and the opening game in 2006.

Kappelhoff said in 2004 that Miracle League of Minnesota founder and executive director Kevin Thoresen came to city hall to pitch the idea of Blaine having the first Miracle League field in Minnesota.

The only thing Blaine had to do was donate the land, Kappelhoff said. The construction material and labor was paid for through donations by the Minnesota Twins Community Fund, the Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation and the Minnesota Utility Contractors Association.

?Of course with Harmon Killebrew on board with the Miracle League of Minnesota, it was a success right from the beginning,? Kappelhoff said.

He fondly remembers opening day on May 6, 2006 and seeing all the kids in their jerseys playing a ball game with a real pipe organ playing in the background and T.C. Bear interacting with the kids and crowd.

Lakeside Commons Park was probably the signature project during his time as Blaine?s park and recreation director, Kappelhoff said. Planning for the nearly $3 million project was challenging, but enjoyable. He worked with multiple city departments including finance, engineering and inspections as well as with various contractors to stay up to date on what was happening.

Lakeside Commons Park opened in 2010 and includes a beach, watercraft rental, beach house with changing rooms and restrooms, picnic shelter, trails and a large playground.

?Providing a facility like that which serves 50,000 people a summer to me is something that is meeting the needs of the community,? Kappelhoff said.

Over 350 people competed in the inaugural Blaine Triathlon at Lakeside Commons Park in May 2012. Registration is open for the second annual competition on May 18. Nate Monahan, program supervisor, oversees the Blaine Triathlon.

Deciding to retire

Peterson felt Kappelhoff was the strongest person to take over for him after he retired in 2007 because he had overall knowledge of the operation of the department.

?I was very proud he was able to fill my position,? Peterson said. ?I thought he would be there longer.?

Kappelhoff also thought he would be there longer, but he was eligible for retirement and decided to accept an offer from the city to retire in early 2013 as part of the city?s overall effort to reduce its budget.

Kappelhoff said his original plan was to stay on through the end of 2013 and see through planning of the 40-acre Lexington Avenue Athletic Park complex, finishing up Legacy Creek Park and replacing a field at Aquatore Park.

Kappelhoff is preparing other staff to take over his job responsibilities after he retires, so he has not really thought about March 1, he said.

Robert Therres, who has been with the city of Blaine since 2001 and is the public services manager, will also be taking on the title of interim parks and recreation director when Kappelhoff retires.

One of Therres? roles will be to evaluate current Blaine staff to see if anybody is a candidate to become the next parks and recreation director.

Eric Hagen is at eric.hagen@ecm-inc.com

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Organic Transit?s Solar-Pedal Hybrid Vehicle Is Ready To Ship In March

We've seen the Organic Transit Elf go from a twinkle in founder Rob Cotter's eye to the real deal in a matter of a few short months. The solar-powered pedal hybrid vehicle first showed its face in prototype phase back at our Durham meetup, and shortly thereafter found its way to Kickstarter.

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Obama says US ready to assist Algerian officials

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Saturday the U.S. stands ready to provide whatever assistance Algerian officials need in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attack at a natural gas complex in the Sahara.

The four-day standoff appeared to end Saturday after Algerian special forces stormed the complex. The clash left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all 32 militants involved, the Algerian government said.

The State Department issued a travel warning Saturday night for Americans in or traveling to Algeria, citing credible threats of the kidnapping of Western nationals. The department also authorized the departure from Algeria of staff members' families if they choose to leave.

In a statement from the White House, Obama said the blame lay with the militants and that the United States condemns their actions.

"This attack is another reminder of the threat posed by al-Qaida and other violent extremist groups in North Africa," Obama said. "In the coming days, we will remain in close touch with the government of Algeria to gain a fuller understanding of what took place so that we can work together to prevent tragedies like this in the future."

Earlier Saturday, during a news conference in London with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, British Defense Minister Philip Hammond called the loss of life appalling and unacceptable.

"It is the terrorists that bear the sole responsibility," Hammond told reporters.

Hammond didn't criticize Algeria's handling of the attack directly, but he appeared to reference the increased concern from world leaders about the lack of transparency in Algeria's anti-terror operation.

"Different countries have different approaches to dealing with these things," he said. "But the nature of collaboration in confronting a global threat is that we work with people sometimes who do things somewhat different, slightly differently from the way we do them ourselves."

Panetta said that "those who would wantonly attack our country and our people will have no place to hide."

"Just as we cannot accept terrorism attacks against our cities, we cannot accept attacks against our citizens and our interests abroad," he said.

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Baldor reported from London.

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Why America should declare bankruptcy

This week started with President Obama Monday demanding lawmakers raise the U.S.?s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling, warning Republicans not to insist on spending cuts in return. The same day, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke advocated getting rid of the debt limit altogether. The Washington Post reports in a conversation at the University of Michigan Bernanke said the debt ceiling has only ?symbolic value.?

And the week ends with lawmakers still careening towards a deadline somewhere between mid-February and late March, when the U.S. will run out of funding for most government programs and risk default. They have no plan to raise the ceiling or abolish it. Even so, perhaps playing chicken with the debt limit, a charade we already witnessed once before in 2011, is not the real story.

?Bernanke is quite correct, it is theatrics,? Doug Casey, chairman of Casey Research, professional investor, and author of Totally Incorrect: Conversations with Doug Casey tells The Daily Ticker. ?The problem is the amount of debt itself. The problem is so big at this point, I think it?s very questionable whether this can be solved at all.?

Related: Debt Ceiling Theatrics Could Spark 10% Sell-Off

Casey points to the money America owes above and beyond the official $16 trillion in national debt, as the real issue. This includes the so-called unfunded liabilities from entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.

Two former U.S. government officials put the federal government?s actual liabilities in excess of $86.8 trillion, or 550% of GDP, in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. Casey argues we?re talking of upwards of $100 trillion when you also factor in the liability of promises such as FDIC deposit insurance.

?This is far more than can conceivably be repaid, so the debt is going to be defaulted on, it?s simply a question of how,? he says.

There is the specter of outright default like we?ve seen in the case of Argentina, where Casey himself spends much of his time. There?s also the scenario of ?destroying the dollar,? devaluing it so the debt burden isn?t as heavy.

Related: Bill Gross: Fed?s ?Hot Air? Will Keep Bond Bubble Aloft in 2013

Casey takes it one step further.

?I think the U.S. government should default on the national debt,? he says, pre-empting his statement with the admission that it may sound outrageous and too radical. ?I say that for several reasons. The most important of them is if they don?t default on it, it?s going to make the next several generations of Americans into effect indentured servants, serfs, to pay off the debt that their parents and grandparents have incurred.?

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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?

The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn?t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If you?re not on Twitter, you can email slatedata@gmail.com.) And if you?d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it?s open. You can download it here.

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Pat Robertson Sex Fantasy: 'Bored' Virginia Couple Allegedly Seeks Role Play On Craigslist

Virginia is for lovers, and we're not here to judge anyone. But if this Craigslist ad is legit, it's possibly one of the kinkier ones we've seen.

An ad posted to the "activity partners" section of the Norfolk, Va., Craigslist Thursday afternoon seeks a Pat Robertson impersonator for a sexual role play, along with a woman to play the part of a Home Shopping Network host.

It reads, in part:

My husband I would be naked and making love in our bed all the while Pat Robertson will be constantly attempting to save our souls and the female to have ongoing dialogue trying to sell us an Ab Rocket in 3 easy payments.

Here's a screenshot of the ad, in case it gets flagged. (Or it might end up in the Best of Craigslist hall of fame.)

Kempville, as Uproxx pointed out, is a "quaint borough of Virginia Beach." Apparently, there are at least a few people thinking outside the box there.

Frankly, we're all for creative sex as long as no one gets hurt, and you've got to admit, this fantasy sounds interesting to say the least.

For what it's worth, here's Stephen Colbert's response to Robertson's thoughts on relationships.

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How to save money on your smartphone bill when you travel abroad

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Q. I'm planning a trip abroad and I want to be able to use my smartphone without racking up an enormous bill. What's the best way to save money and stay in contact while traveling internationally??

A.?Your smartphone provider loves to charge high rates for international roaming. The charges, to some extent, are understandable because they don't necessarily have infrastructure where you're traveling. That said, charges are higher than you want to pay and, in some cases, much higher than they ought to be. With a few adjustments and tricks, you can communicate on the cheap without a problem.

Get a pay-as-you-go SIM

Although you can't sign up for a full smartphone contract for a short trip abroad (or, at least, you wouldn't want to), you can get a pay-as-you-go SIM card from most providers if you have a device that supports one.?

In the U.S., we have two primary types of technologies used by carriers: CDMA (Verizon and Sprint) and GSM (AT&T and T-Mobile). Because the majority of the rest of the world uses GSM, you need a smartphone that supports it if you're going to be able to use a SIM card.?

Even if you have a CDMA carrier, some devices still support GSM nonetheless. These are known as "world phones" and describe few devices. Regardless of your provider, you'll need a GSM-capable phone if you want to take advantage of a local SIM card when traveling.

On top of that, you'll want your international provider to support the same cellular frequencies, or bands, as your phone. Basically, AT&T and T-Mobile use the same technologies for 3G service but through different bands. By searching for the technical specifications of your phone, you can find out which bands it supports. You'll then want to find an international carrier that uses those bands for their 3G service, otherwise coverage will be less than ideal and often slow.

When traveling internationally, you have a lot to consider before you even get to the problem of price. Once you find a compatible carrier, however, you can easily pick up an inexpensive pay-as-you-go SIM card and stick it in your smartphone for use. That is, barring one more problem: your phone must be carrier unlocked.?

If you purchased your phone on contract, chances are it is locked to your carrier. In some cases you can ask your carrier to unlock your phone for travel purposes, but often times this will come at a cost. In the end, a pay-as-you-go SIM card is a great way to save money but the many requirements to make this option worthwhile will restrict most people (in the U.S., at least).

Get a pay-as-you-go, Wi-Fi hotspot

If the above method seems like far too much work, you can save yourself some grief by simply picking up a pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi hotspot from a carrier abroad.

?This will allow you to use your phone's Wi-Fi to connect to the hotspot and freely use data without paying any international roaming charges. If you need to make calls, setting up a VOIP number won't take much work. Skype is the obvious choice, as it supports most smartphones and offers inexpensive calling to pretty much any location.?

Google Talk, on the other hand, costs you nothing for Google Voice Chat if calling the United States or Canada. GrooVe IP for Android and a combination of Google Voice and Talkatone for iOS will get the job done.

The downside to this option, of course, is that your connectivity relies on the hotspot. For data usage, this won't feel much differently. Calls, on the other hand, will drop more easily when you're moving about because VOIP doesn't recover from dropouts like traditional cellular calls can.?

Additionally, you'll have two devices to charge: the hotspot and your smartphone. Often times the hotspot won't last quite as long as your smartphone will and you'll need to spend a bit of time thinking about power management throughout the day.?

Finally, although you can sometimes rent a hotspot as a traveler, you may have to buy one. They aren't exactly cheap and can quickly approximate the cost of roaming charges. Research providers and contact them in advance so you can find out your options before you travel.

Get a temporary local phone

Just as you can often rent a hotspot, carriers offer rental devices for traveler who only require temporary communications. While this means getting another number, and generally a local one, you can use your own smartphone over Wi-Fi for everything else.

In fact, if your rental phone has Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities you can use it to provide data to your smartphone and reap the benefits described in the section above. Carrying around two phones isn't perfect, but if you want to save money you often have to make a concession or two.

Sign up for a global traveler plan

If?you're planning on traveling for a month or more, check with your cellular provider about a global traveler plan. Almost every carrier has one (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, T-Mobile).?

Basically, the plan costs you a nominal monthly fee for access to discounted roaming rates. If you plan to use your phone a lot when abroad, you can save a decent chunk of change with a plan like this. That said, the savings aren't enormous. Going directly through your provider will still cost you more money than the aforementioned options. In the end, you'll be paying extra for convenience but that convenience may be preferable over longer trips.

Depending on where you're traveling, however, you may have the option of adding free calling to and from that destination specifically. U.S. travelers visiting Canada or M?xico, for example, can often take advantage of a plan add-on that costs a nominal monthly fee with no additional roaming or international calling charges. The same goes for many European countries. Depending on the carrier and the countries, an additional fee may not even be required. Before jumping on a global traveler plan, make sure your carrier doesn't offer a better option for the specific place you're traveling.

With these options, you should find at least one way to reduce the cost of using your smartphone while traveling abroad. It's never a cheap endeavor, but with a little effort you can cut costs and have a better, less-expensive trip.?

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5 Leading Home Improvements That Include Worth For your Home ...

5 Leading Home Improvements That Include Worth For your Home

Carrying out some home improvements for your home not just boost the performance and usability of one?s home, when the right improvements are completed then you can certainly also include worth for your home. Because of this it?s essential which you are conscious of which improvements include probably the most worth to create certain you?re obtaining the largest bang for the buck. I?ve outlined the 5 leading worth including improvements beneath which ought to allow it to be simpler for you personally to determine how very best to invest your cash, and acquire the very best return for it.

Develop an extension for your home: This clearly needs to include probably the most worth for your home while you are growing its dimension and including to its performance. Regardless if you are including additional bed rooms or growing the dimensions of one?s kitchen area, it doesn?t truly make a difference, just the truth that you?re growing the dimensions from the home and including much more useable rooms to it?ll create a distinction. In case your home doesn?t have a bathroom downstairs and also you are including an extension you need to allocate a small area from the floor area additional to supplying a bathroom.
Loft conversion: A loft conversion is a superb method to include additional performance for your home, and may be considered a less expensive choice than getting an extension constructed. In the event you decide to go down this route you need to ensure that you receive all of the pertinent preparing authorization needed, or else your hard-earned money might be squandered whenever your nearby developing control group learn about the function you?ve carried out and stop you from utilizing the additional room/s. Also whenever you arrive at market the home any potential purchaser will require to become pleased the function continues to be completed based on the newest developing laws. It?s also really worth thinking about including a set staircase for your loft instead than the usual make do pull down ladder. You need to also ensure that you?ve sufficient natural light coming in to the new rooms by including sufficient roof windows. This also provides you the additional benefit of providing an enhanced see.
Enhance your kitchen area: Changing a exhausted searching kitchen area having a shiny new one with all of the newest devices and area conserving benefits, can help considerably enhance the performance of one?s kitchen area as well as help to enhance the sale capability of one?s home. The kitchen area has most likely the largest effect on creating the right impact when anyone arrives to see your home. Let us face it if you?re thinking about altering your home which generally indicates growing your home loan to buy a much bigger or much better home you don?t wish to need to invest much more cash on possessing a new kitchen area fitted.
Possess a new bathroom fitted: This isn?t very as essential as possessing a kitchen area refit however it does go very a method to assisting drive potential purchasers into selecting your home instead of any other people they?ve seen, once more due to the comfort element of getting no significant cash to invest in ripping out and renewing an previous or from date bathroom.
Landscape your backyard: Everyone desires a pleasant backyard that may be loved all through the yr, but couple of individuals want the function and cost of placing it so as on their own.
An additional crucial element which you ought to think about if you?re going to undertake any home improvements, would be to ensure that you organize any finance you?ll need in advance. For those who have a bundle of money inside your pocket you may be amazed at how a lot cash you are able to conserve by haggling using the contractors.

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Montreux Jazz Fest founder Claude Nobs dies

By Katharina Bart and Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters

GENEVA, Switzerland --?Claude Nobs, who founded the Montreux Jazz Festival nearly 50 years ago, has died after several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident, the festival said on Friday.

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Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs on July 3, 2009.

The Swiss impresario immortalized by rock group Deep Purple as "Funky Claude" in the song "Smoke on the Water" and who lured the biggest stars of the music world to his festival on the shores of Lake Geneva died on Thursday at the age of 76.

"He died peacefully, surrounded by family and close friends," said a statement issued by the festival, where Mathieu Jaton assumed his duties as director earlier this week.

Nobs launched the summer festival in 1967 while working as an accountant at the Swiss resort's tourism office. Over the years, his blend of persistence, patience and charm managed to persuade leading lights such as Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Prince to take the stage at Montreux.

But he often had to meet their whims to coax them along.

"I got Miles a Ferrari for him to drive along the lake, Nina Simone wanted a diamond watch and we found the mineral water that Prince likes in Geneva. We always find a way," Nobs told Reuters last April during an interview at his beloved chalet.

A former festival employee told Reuters on Friday: "He was a shy man but still managed to negotiate. That was his strength and led him to create something huge."

Nobs fell while cross-country skiing on Christmas Eve near his chalet in Caux, overlooking Montreux, a property that he shared with his longtime partner Thierry Amsallem, who is in charge of digitalizing the festival's archives of 5,000 hours.

Last year's two-week festival, which attracted about 250,000 people, featured sold-out concerts by Bob Dylan, American chanteuse Lana Del Rey and British actor and musician Hugh Laurie.

A musical tribute to the people of Montreux is planned in February, in accordance with his wishes, to be followed by events in New York and London this spring, festival board president Francois Carrard told Reuters.

CHALET PARTIES
Nobs threw legendary parties at his chalet, full of vintage Wurlitzer jukeboxes, flat screen TVs and sophisticated sound equipment. Waiters delivered fine food and champagne around a pool with a breathtaking view of the Alps.

A Japanese kimono worn by Freddie Mercury, a print signed by Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and a larger-than-life bust of Aretha Franklin were among mementoes on display.

Film director Roman Polanski stopped in on his way to see his wife Emmanuelle Seigner perform at Montreux in 2010. Days earlier he had been freed from house arrest in Gstaad after Swiss authorities said they would not extradite him to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, Phil Collins and Gilberto Gil have all been regulars at the festival, whose two venues are the larger Stravinski Auditorium and more intimate Miles Davis Hall.

In the mid-1960s, after his first flight on an airplane, Nobs formed a decisive and lifetime friendship in New York with Atlantic Records executive Nesuhi Ertegun, whose father was a former ambassador of Turkey to Switzerland.

"That first time I met Nesuhi, I had no credentials, nothing, something magical happened," Nobs recalled in his memoirs "Live! From Montreux", first published in 2007.

Of the first edition, he wrote: "That first festival was obviously when I had to learn a massive amount extremely quickly - from how you deal with one artist arriving whilst the act from the previous night's show still hasn't woken up yet, let alone vacated the suite the incoming band are supposed to be going straight into."

The Deep Purple anthem which dubbed Nobs "Funky" was written about a fire that burned down Montreux casino during a Frank Zappa concert in 1971.

Despite heart surgery some six years ago, Nobs had stayed on as festival director, a position he shared during the 1990s with American producer Quincy Jones who returns each year from Los Angeles to introduce new talent and refers to Montreux as the "Rolls-Royce of festivals."

Nobs often joined musicians on stage, playing harmonica, sometimes accompanied by his St. Bernard dogs.

The 47th edition is scheduled for July 5-20.

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Jaguar to add 800 new UK jobs on soaring Chinese demand

LONDON (Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover plans to create 800 new jobs at its Solihull factory in central England as demand for its premium cars rockets in China and elsewhere.

For the first time, demand from China outstripped that of British carmaker JLR's home market, with sales in China in 2012 rising more than 70 percent to 71,940 cars.

JLR, owned by India's Tata Motors , said on Sunday that total global sales rose 30 percent to over 350,000 vehicles.

JLR said earlier this month that its outlook for 2013 was positive after UK vehicle sales rose almost 20 percent in 2012.

Its next biggest markets are the U.S., Russia and Germany.

The expansion at the Solihull plant would support the introduction of new models in 2013, the company said.

Last week, Japanese carmaker Honda cut around 800 jobs at its plant near Swindon due to falling demand for its vehicles across mainland Europe.

(Reporting by Rhys Jones and Rosalba O'Brien Editing by Jane Merriman and Diane Craft)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jaguar-add-800-uk-jobs-soaring-chinese-demand-230627218--finance.html

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Dos heridos graves en el incendio de una nave industrial en Sant Vicen? de Castellet

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Dos personas han resultado heridas de gravedad este s?bado en el incendio de una nave del pol?gono industrial Coll de Tapau, en Sant Vicen? de Castellet (Barcelona).

As? lo han informado en un comunicado los Bomberos de la Generalitat, que han movilizado una quincena de dotaciones para apagar el fuego, que ha afectado al exterior e interior de dos naves de una f?brica de pintura.

Los heridos han sido atendidos por el Sistema de Emergencias M?dicas (SEM) en el pol?gono industrial, cuyos dos accesos han sido cortados.

La explosi?n les ha dejado quemaduras, por lo que han sido derivados con pron?stico grave a la Unidad de Quemados del Hospital Vall d'Hebron de Barcelona.

Seg?n han informado fuentes hospitalarias, se trata de un hombre de 32 a?os con un 5% de quemaduras de segundo grado en la cara, y otro hombre de 63 a?os, con un 12% de quemaduras de tercer grado en cara y manos.

Source: http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20130112/54360813116/dos-heridos-graves-en-el-incendio-de-una-nave-industrial-en-sant-vicenc-de-castellet.html

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Wrap-up: Engadget editors sound off on CES 2013

This was our biggest CES group of all time, by a long shot. As we pack our bags and return to our home cities around the country and beyond, our team of ace editors took some time to share their final impressions of the show. Scroll down below to hear from Tim Stevens and Darren Murph, who helped to provide invaluable direction and motivation here in Vegas, then click past the break for some brief reports from the rest of the team.

Tim Stevens, Editor-in-chief For me, the story of CES 2013 was the massive shift of focus from mega-announcements by mega-corporations to the micro-innovations pitched by the crowd-funded. This, to me, is far more exciting than the usual iterative advancements we fixate upon in Las Vegas every year. I don't know what that means for the future of CES as a mega-show, but I can't wait for 2014's iteration.

Darren Murph, Managing Editor Here's the problem with CES 2013: nothing is shipping soon, and nothing is affordable. But that's also what made CES awesome. I'll one day be able to afford a 4K HDTV, and the new Tegra 4 / Snapdragon gear will one day be in an Android phone I'll crave. Now that the dust has settled, I'm actually pretty amazed that envelopes are still being pushed in a world where people are increasingly content with existing technologies. Onward and upward.

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