Petra Kvitova reaches 4th round at Wimbledon

Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic plays a return to Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during their Women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic plays a return to Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during their Women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Britain's Andy Murray of Britain arrives to take his seat on Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, June 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic reacts after scoring a point to Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during their Women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Ekaterina Makarova of Russia plays a return to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during their Women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

LONDON (AP) ? Petra Kvitova avoided becoming the latest former champion to be knocked out in the first week at Wimbledon, rallying from a break down in the final set Saturday to beat Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 and reach the fourth round.

The match had been halted Friday with Makarova up 2-1 in the third set, but the eighth-seeded Kvitova broke right back when play resumed and won the next two games as well. After losing her own serve, the Czech player broke again for a 5-3 lead and then converted her third match point with a forehand winner.

"It was another day for me," Kvitova said. "I played really well. I should go for every point and play my game. So I played quite aggressively. That was the key."

Kvitova won Wimbledon in 2011 but has struggled to match that performance since and has slipped from second to eighth in the rankings. She has a good chance of reaching her second final at the All England Club, however, having seen second-seeded Victoria Azarenka and former champion Maria Sharapova already eliminated on her side of the draw.

To have a chance at another title, though, Kvitova said her consistency has to improve.

"In 2011 I played really well. I mean, I play my best, for sure. Every shot was going to the court," she said. "It's not the same this year. ... I drop off little bit. It's always little bit up and down, but I hope it will be more up than down."

There was another upset on Centre Court, however, as ninth-seeded Richard Gasquet lost to Bernard Tomic, the talented Australian whose father has been barred from tournaments because of an assault case.

Tomic, who in 2011 as an 18-year-old qualifier became the youngest Wimbledon quarterfinalist since Boris Becker in 1985, won 7-6 (7), 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5).

Former runner-up Tomas Berdych also advanced, beating Kevin Anderson of South Africa 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

Later Saturday, top-ranked Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams were set to play their third-round matches, also looking to avoid further upsets after seven-time champion Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were both eliminated early.

Because of rain over the last two days, Wimbledon organizers were playing a bit of catch-up with the schedule on Saturday before Sunday's rest day.

Among several other matches that had been postponed, No. 20 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia beat Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 to set up a fourth-round meeting with second-seeded Andy Murray, who won in straight sets on Friday.

Two other seeded players went out against unseeded opposition, as No. 22 Juan Monaco of Argentina fell 6-4, 7-6 (8), 6-4 to Frenchman Kenny De Schepper, while No. 26 Benoit Paire of France lost 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 to Lukasz Kubot of Poland.

Sloane Stephens of the U.S. reached the fourth round for the first time, coming back to close out an uneven 7-6 (3), 0-6, 6-4 victory over 196th-ranked qualifier Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic.

Resuming at the start of the third set, the 17th-seeded Stephens fell behind 2-0, but Cetkovska double-faulted three times while letting the American take a 4-3 edge. Stephens made a name for herself at the Australian Open in January, when she defeated Serena Williams en route to the semifinals.

No. 23 Andreas Seppi of Italy kept up his perfect record in five-set matches in 2013, winning his seventh straight by defeating 12th-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan 3-6, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-4. Seppi also beat Denis Istomin in five sets in the first round, and won two five-setters each at this year's Australian Open and French Open. He also rallied from two sets down in a Davis Cup match this year.

Eleventh-seeded Roberta Vinci made it an even better day for Italy, cruising past No. 18 Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-4.

As is traditional on the middle Saturday of the tournament, the Royal Box on Centre Court was filled with a number of invited sports stars, this year mainly British gold-medal winners from the London Olympics. Among those getting the biggest ovation from the crowd were cyclists Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton ? as well as Murray, who donned a suit and tie to make a brief appearance in the box to celebrate his singles gold medal won on Centre Court.

Laura Robson then made it another good day for the home crowd when she became the first British woman since Sam Smith in 1998 to reach the fourth round.

Helped by a crucial overturned call, Robson rallied from a set and a break down to beat Marina Erakovic of New Zealand 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Erakovic served for the match in the second set, only for Robson to break back. Having then earned a set point at 6-5, Robson barely got a return back that looped high and just caught the edge of the line, but was called out before Erakovic could smack a winner. Robson successfully challenged the call and the point was replayed, with Erakovic double-faulting to hand her opponent the set.

Robson then jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third set, and clinched the victory with a forehand winner.

"I was getting my butt kicked basically (in the first set)," Robson said. "I was really struggling (with) her serve. She was playing really well. So I just thought, just going to try as best as I can, work as hard as possible and just stick with it until she starts to get nervous, which is what happened."

Associated Press

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T-Mobile expected to report first postpaid subscriber gain since 2009

T-Mobile Q2 Subscriber

T-Mobile?s new UNcarrier intuitive may already be paying off. Analysts forecast that the carrier will soon record its first postpaid subscriber gain in more than four years. Macquarie Capital estimates that T-Mobile will add 98,000 postpaid customers in the second quarter, compared to having lost 557,000 subscribers in the same quarter in 2012. Barclays is a little more conservative with its estimates, projecting the carrier will add 50,000 postpaid customers. Roger Entner of Recon Analytics, per Investors.com, noted that a majority of T-Mobile?s success can be attributed to the iPhone, on top of the carrier?s unique payment plans.

[More from BGR: BlackBerry?s Black Friday: Company sheds billions in market value as comeback hopes fade]

?There was huge pent-up demand for a cheaper option,? the analyst said. ?The neat thing about installment plans is that it lowers the price consumers have to pay when they walk out of a store. That?s putting pressure on other companies.?

[More from BGR: Nokia told to adopt Android before it?s too late]

Even before the launch of the iPhone, T-Mobile was able to slow customer deflection. The company reported that in the first quarter in lost nearly 200,000 postpaid subscribers, down from losses of 510,000 in Q1 of 2012.

?The combination of near-term subscriber momentum coupled with T-Mobile?s position as a potential alternative for parties that are interested in entering the U.S. wireless market should continue to work in favor of the company?s shares,? Barclay?s analyst Amir Rozwadowski explained.

Macquarie analyst Kevin Smithen noted that T-Mobile?s expansion into 4G LTE has also benefited the company and helped it better compete with AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/t-mobile-expected-report-first-postpaid-subscriber-gain-185504415.html

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Japan's Toe reissuing LPs, playing Beat Kitchen on first-ever North American tour

Japan's Toe have been around for a little over a decade now, dominating mathy post-rock. They've released most of their records on their own Machu Picchu label, and this year, Topshelf Records will be reissuing many of them. First up is 2005's The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety, which is due out on August 20. You can take a listen to the LP in its entirety at the bottom of this post.

Toe will be embarking on their first-ever North American tour this fall. That tour finishes off with a performance at Beat Kitchen on October 5. Advance tickets for the Chicago show are on sale now.

All Toe dates and that LP stream are below...

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Toe - The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety (Full Album)

Toe - 2013 North American Tour Dates
Fri 9/27 NEW YORK, NY @ Glasslands
Sat 9/28 BOSTON, MA @ Church of Boston
Sun 9/29 NEW HAVEN, CT @ The Space
Mon 9/30 PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Johnny Brendas
Tues 10/1 TORONTO, ON @ The Drake Hotel
Wed 10/2 DETROIT, MI @ Magic Stick Lounge
Thurs 10/3 CLEVELAND, OH @ Grog Shop
Fri 10/4 COLUMBUS, OH @ Ace of Cups
Sat 10/5 CHICAGO, IL @ Beat Kitchen

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BlackBerry 10 not coming to BlackBerry PlayBook tablets

If you were hoping your BlackBerry PlayBook would get a taste of BlackBerry 10, think twice: Thorsten Heins just revealed that the new OS isn't coming to the company's tablet due to performance and user experience concerns.

Developing...

Filed under: Tablets, Mobile, Blackberry

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"Game Consoles" Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Google might be building a game console, rumors say. Apple too. Actually, everyone's building game consoles. It's just, they aren't game consoles, exactly. They're puzzle pieces.

Game consoles have historically been their own little colony off to the side of technology. For a while that's because they were seen mainly as an expensive kids' toy, and later because they weren't germane to the music sales or laptops or iPods battles of the time. Now, though, as we're digitizing everything in our lives, that TV-connected box in the middle of every family's living room is suddenly looking pretty important.

Google, Apple, and Microsoft want to be your one-stop digital shop. All three have a desktop OS and a mobile OS. All three are making their own hardware now. They all have stores where you can buy movies and music, and they all have their own music streaming service. They are all branching out, increasingly, into more and more parts of your life. Apple's in your car. Google's on your face. Microsoft is already in your living room. But their offerings are too spread out, too fragmented.

The ultimate for all of these companies, and for you, is One Device. You have one thing?probably your phone, ultimately?and that one thing will do everything for you. It'll control your music system and TV, and it will shepherd all your messages and access all of your photos and movies. It will also probably play your video games.

We're not there yet, but we're close. And Apple and Google's inevitable game-playing, little black living room boxes could be what finally gets us there.

State of Play

Microsoft understood that a gaming console could be a valuable Trojan horse into your living room. Or at least, it was in the best position to act on the idea, with the Xbox 360. The Xbox One is a "real" console, in that it fits into the traditional mold of what a gaming console "should be," while also being a portal into a world of movies, music, social, and more. But that also hamstrings Microsoft in a way, as it tries to leverage a box it knows will be in millions of homes into the broader technological landscape. Also, it's hard to compete if your everything-machine costs $500 and the next guy's is a fraction of that.

Google, meanwhile, has had zero luck getting an Android streaming box off the ground. Third-party stuff has mostly fallen flat, the Nexus Q never shipped, and Google TV-enabled television sets have been punchlines for years now. Even the Ouya, a wonderful little idea, met fairly withering reviews. Google-branded hardware, on the other hand, is generally awesome, and inexpensive. So while it's playing from behind somewhat, it'll be ready to make a serious impact.

Apple seems like it would be in the best position to create an all-in-one gaming box, with the popular and inexpensive Apple TV already running a modified version of iOS. It has a history of games being profitable for developers on iOS. It's already got AirPlay speakers in many homes, and if Siri improves to the point it could power voice commands like a Kinect, you'd have a compelling case for the living room.

What would make an Google or Apple "console" so formidable is that it wouldn't have to beat the Xbox or PS4. They wouldn't even have to compete directly. (Though, if you think both companies wouldn't shell out big bucks for a few prime exclusives, you're nuts.) It would just have to exist. It would tread water, attracting developers steadily into ecosystems that have proven to be profitable, and wait for the technology powering it to catch up with the technology powering Microsoft and Sony's heavy hitters.

The entire tech industry is trending this way. Intel has spent the past several years powering itself down to be able to make chips that are efficient enough to be in phones, but still powerful enough to display newer and better graphics. This year's kind of amazing Haswell chips and their 12-15-hour laptop battery life are born form that. Meanwhile, Qualcomm, AMD, Samsung, Nvidia, and, lately, Apple, are pushing SoC chips (which you find in tablets and phones) higher and higher up the graphical food chain. The Tegra 4 already runs fairly current games fluidly. And while it might gets its brains bashed in by this next generation of consoles, are you sure that's going to be the case four years from now? Or five or six? Sometime this generation, mobile processors will pass the consoles, again, and everyone will look around and ask each other, Wait, why don't we just put this on Android?

Good Enough

The other advantage the underpowered consoles of the future will have? The point of Good Enough. Every time you shift away from one standard for another, there's resistance until you hit the point that the new thing is good enough at whatever it's replacing for all its benefits to shine through. Look at the MacBook Air. It was an idiotic product in 2008. It was small and beautiful for its time, but it was underpowered and overpriced. Then, in 2010, it got a makeover and some new flash-based guts and a chipset update. Its parts still weren't current, but the Core 2 Duo was good enough to get the job done for most people doing everyday computer tasks. Three years later, ultrabooks and MacBook Airs are the dominant form of laptop.

This happens all over technology. We're approaching that point with mirrorless cameras versus entry or even midlevel DSLRs. We reached it with digital cameras themselves with the Canon G1 or the Nikon Coolpix 990 (or maybe the D1 or 1DS). The Tesla might be what finally gets us there with electric cars. The point is, there will always be a tradeoff, but there is always a point where you can decide the step backward you're taking in one respect doesn't offset the steps ahead you're making elsewhere.

For a Google or Apple gaming system?or more accurately, platform?those gains would be significant. You'd get infinite backwards compatibility, refined distribution systems, and total integration to all of your media. More importantly, though, you'd still have mostly acceptible graphics (and with the right art direction, beautiful, even), and all the room for innovative gameplay, story, and creativity that you've seen in games for decades.

That won't be what we see at the start, of course. When and if Apple and Google pull the trigger, they'd probably be more like upscale Ouyas. That's OK, though. We can wait for the future, as long as we know it's coming.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/game-consoles-are-the-final-key-to-digital-domination-611978365

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FCC demands carriers protect customer privacy in declaratory ruling

Privacy has been a hot-button topic of late, no more so than in the area of telecommunications. Perhaps as a response to these concerns, the FCC voted today for a Declaratory Ruling that all carriers must safeguard the private data in their customers' mobile devices. This data is known as customer proprietary network information (CPNI) and consists of metadata like phone numbers, call duration, call locations and call logs. Providers are supposed to protect such data already, but until today that only applied to the network -- now phones are covered under it as well. Carriers are still allowed to collect the information for network support purposes, but all precautions must be met so it's not compromised. It appears that third-party apps and services aren't covered under the ruling, and there aren't any strict regulations on how the CPNI may be gathered or protected. Still, the FCC made it clear that if any of the data is exposed, the carriers would have some serious 'splainin to do. To learn more about the ruling, check out the press release after the break.

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AIDSVu releases new maps that depict impact of HIV in America

Public release date: 27-Jun-2013
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Contact: Melva Robertson
melva.robertson@emory.edu
404-727-5692
Emory Health Sciences

Today, on National HIV Testing Day, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched its annual update of AIDSVu, including new interactive online maps that show the latest HIV prevalence data for 20 U.S. cities by ZIP code or census tract. AIDSVu also includes new city snapshots displaying HIV prevalence alongside various social determinants of health such as poverty, lack of health insurance and educational attainment.

AIDSVu -- the most detailed publicly available view of HIV prevalence in the United States -- is a compilation of interactive online maps that display HIV prevalence data at the national, state and local levels and by different demographics, including age, race and sex. The maps pinpoint areas of the country where the rates of people living with an HIV diagnosis are the highest. These areas include urban centers in the Northeast and the South, and visualize where the needs for prevention, testing, and treatment services are the most urgent.

"Our National HIV/AIDS Strategy calls for reducing new HIV infections by intensifying our efforts in HIV prevention where the epidemic is most concentrated. AIDSVu provides a roadmap to identifying those high-prevalence areas of the HIV epidemic and showing where the local testing resources are located," says Patrick S. Sullivan, PhD, DVM, professor of epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and the principal researcher for AIDSVu. "The addition of new city data means that AIDSVu now displays data from 20 U.S. cities. This expanded city information is critical because most HIV diagnoses in the United States occur in cities."

The free, interactive online tool's new data and features include:

• National maps displaying 2010 data at the state-and county-level, the most recent national HIV prevalence data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Interactive maps of HIV prevalence data by census tract for Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
• New ZIP code level maps for five U.S. cities Memphis, Orlando, San Diego, Tampa and Virginia Beach; and updated ZIP code maps for Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles County, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Juan and Washington, D.C.
• HIV prevalence maps alongside social determinants of health poverty, lack of health insurance, median household income, educational attainment and income inequality in side-by-side map views for 20 cities, in addition to the existing state views.

AIDSVu maps illustrate the geographic variations in the HIV epidemic across the United States:

• The national map shows significantly higher rates of people living with HIV in the Northeast and the South than in much of the rest of the country. AIDSVu's city maps demonstrate that, in many cities, there is a pattern of heavily impacted urban cores with relatively lower impact in areas further from city centers.
• The data on AIDSVu's maps can be viewed by race/ethnicity. AIDSVu shows that HIV disproportionately affects black and Hispanic/Latino Americans, and that these disparities exist in both major metropolitan areas and rural areas.
• AIDSVu also provides downloadable and printable resources including slide sets of the various map views available on the site to help those who work in HIV prevention and treatment educate others about the U.S. epidemic.

AIDSVu and National HIV Testing Day:

• This year's update of AIDSVu is being launched in conjunction with National HIV Testing Day. Currently, more than one million Americans are living with HIV, and an estimated one in five people with HIV do not know their status.
• Information about HIV prevalence at the local level as shown on AIDSVu can help individuals understand the impact of HIV in their communities and the importance of getting tested. The AIDSVu testing locator helps users find a place in their community to get tested for HIV.

The state- and county-level data displayed on AIDSVu were obtained from the CDC and compiled by researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Data on HIV prevalence at the ZIP code and census tract data were provided directly by state, county and city health departments, depending on the entity responsible for HIV surveillance, and were also compiled by Rollins researchers. The project is guided by an advisory committee and a technical advisory group with representatives from federal agencies, state health departments and non-governmental organizations working in HIV prevention, care and research. Financial support for AIDSVu was provided to Emory University by Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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About the Rollins School of Public Health

The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school houses six academic departments, 20 multidisciplinary centers including an NIH-supported Center for AIDS Research and over 160 full-time doctoral-level faculty members.

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Public release date: 27-Jun-2013
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Contact: Melva Robertson
melva.robertson@emory.edu
404-727-5692
Emory Health Sciences

Today, on National HIV Testing Day, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched its annual update of AIDSVu, including new interactive online maps that show the latest HIV prevalence data for 20 U.S. cities by ZIP code or census tract. AIDSVu also includes new city snapshots displaying HIV prevalence alongside various social determinants of health such as poverty, lack of health insurance and educational attainment.

AIDSVu -- the most detailed publicly available view of HIV prevalence in the United States -- is a compilation of interactive online maps that display HIV prevalence data at the national, state and local levels and by different demographics, including age, race and sex. The maps pinpoint areas of the country where the rates of people living with an HIV diagnosis are the highest. These areas include urban centers in the Northeast and the South, and visualize where the needs for prevention, testing, and treatment services are the most urgent.

"Our National HIV/AIDS Strategy calls for reducing new HIV infections by intensifying our efforts in HIV prevention where the epidemic is most concentrated. AIDSVu provides a roadmap to identifying those high-prevalence areas of the HIV epidemic and showing where the local testing resources are located," says Patrick S. Sullivan, PhD, DVM, professor of epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and the principal researcher for AIDSVu. "The addition of new city data means that AIDSVu now displays data from 20 U.S. cities. This expanded city information is critical because most HIV diagnoses in the United States occur in cities."

The free, interactive online tool's new data and features include:

• National maps displaying 2010 data at the state-and county-level, the most recent national HIV prevalence data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Interactive maps of HIV prevalence data by census tract for Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
• New ZIP code level maps for five U.S. cities Memphis, Orlando, San Diego, Tampa and Virginia Beach; and updated ZIP code maps for Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles County, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Juan and Washington, D.C.
• HIV prevalence maps alongside social determinants of health poverty, lack of health insurance, median household income, educational attainment and income inequality in side-by-side map views for 20 cities, in addition to the existing state views.

AIDSVu maps illustrate the geographic variations in the HIV epidemic across the United States:

• The national map shows significantly higher rates of people living with HIV in the Northeast and the South than in much of the rest of the country. AIDSVu's city maps demonstrate that, in many cities, there is a pattern of heavily impacted urban cores with relatively lower impact in areas further from city centers.
• The data on AIDSVu's maps can be viewed by race/ethnicity. AIDSVu shows that HIV disproportionately affects black and Hispanic/Latino Americans, and that these disparities exist in both major metropolitan areas and rural areas.
• AIDSVu also provides downloadable and printable resources including slide sets of the various map views available on the site to help those who work in HIV prevention and treatment educate others about the U.S. epidemic.

AIDSVu and National HIV Testing Day:

• This year's update of AIDSVu is being launched in conjunction with National HIV Testing Day. Currently, more than one million Americans are living with HIV, and an estimated one in five people with HIV do not know their status.
• Information about HIV prevalence at the local level as shown on AIDSVu can help individuals understand the impact of HIV in their communities and the importance of getting tested. The AIDSVu testing locator helps users find a place in their community to get tested for HIV.

The state- and county-level data displayed on AIDSVu were obtained from the CDC and compiled by researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Data on HIV prevalence at the ZIP code and census tract data were provided directly by state, county and city health departments, depending on the entity responsible for HIV surveillance, and were also compiled by Rollins researchers. The project is guided by an advisory committee and a technical advisory group with representatives from federal agencies, state health departments and non-governmental organizations working in HIV prevention, care and research. Financial support for AIDSVu was provided to Emory University by Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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About the Rollins School of Public Health

The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school houses six academic departments, 20 multidisciplinary centers including an NIH-supported Center for AIDS Research and over 160 full-time doctoral-level faculty members.

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Book asks if Bruce Springsteen helped bring down the Berlin Wall

By Michelle Martin

BERLIN (Reuters) - Almost 25 years ago, Bruce Springsteen gave communist East Germany its biggest ever rock concert in a performance that fuelled a spirit of rebellion and may have contributed to events that brought down the Berlin Wall, a new book says.

In "Rocking the Wall", U.S. journalist Erik Kirschbaum says the rock star's music and his anti-Berlin Wall speech helped to inspire more than 300,000 fans at the concert in East Berlin, and millions more watching on television, to strive for freedom.

Germany was divided into East and West in the wake of World War Two and by the time of the Springsteen concert in July 1988, the Berlin Wall had been up for almost 27 years, separating 17 million East Germans from their West German counterparts.

They were growing restless and impatient for reforms.

The author uses eyewitness accounts, interviews with Springsteen's manager and translators, documents from concert organizers and files from the Stasi secret police to tell the story of how "The Boss" ventured behind the Iron Curtain and, perhaps unwittingly, mobilized his fans.

"It's great to be in East Berlin. I'm not for or against any government. I came here to play rock 'n' roll for you, in the hope that one day all barriers will be torn down," Springsteen said at the concert 16 months before East Berliners tore down the wall.

Kirschbaum, a Reuters correspondent in Berlin, argues that this short speech, delivered in German, touched a nerve in a country without freedom of speech, where the media was censored, political opposition was all but non-existent and those trying to escape the Wall risked being shot by border guards.

"It was a nail in the coffin for East Germany," Joerg Beneke, a Springsteen fan who was at the 1988 concert, told Kirschbaum. "We had never heard anything like that from anyone inside East Germany. That was the moment some of us had been waiting a lifetime to hear."

The crowd went delirious and grew even wilder when Springsteen labored the point by launching into the next song, Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom". Leaving the stage, Springsteen and his manager told each other they felt East Germany was about to change dramatically.

"Whether Springsteen deserves belated credit for helping end the Cold War depends to a certain extent on whether you believe in the power of rock 'n' roll," Kirschbaum said.

"But what is beyond doubt is that Springsteen's 1988 concert is a glorious example of the influence that rock 'n' roll can have on people who are hungry and ready for change."

The author was not able to interview Springsteen for the book but the 63-year-old star's manager, Jon Landau, did cooperate and is quoted extensively with backstage anecdotes.

The book jumps back and forth in time, from early Cold War history from 1981 to the concert in 1988.

It is probably impossible to give a definitive answer to the question raised by the book of whether Springsteen played a role in the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In September 1989, a little more than a year after the Springsteen concert, East Germans took to the streets chanting "Wir sind das Volk" (we are the people), expressing discontent with the government and demanding basic civil rights.

Two months later, on November 9, 1989, East Berliners surged through checkpoints along the wall and breached the hated Cold War symbol, hacking bits out of it and ecstatically dancing on top of it as East German border guards looked on.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Stephen Brown and Paul Casciato)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/book-asks-bruce-springsteen-helped-bring-down-berlin-164100505.html

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American Baking Competition Recap: Dessert Drama

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LG G2 purportedly spied in promo shots, may carry backside volume buttons

LG has teased the Optimus G's successor for awhile, but we've seen precious little of the phone's design. We may have just received a better peek: a tipster has sent @evleaks some images that appear to come from a promo video for the flagship device. While the snapshots are clearly victims of Mr. Blurrycam, they're detailed enough to suggest a big break from last year's model. They show both a previously seen buttonless front as well as an extremely slim profile that moves the volume controls to the back. There's also no mention of the Optimus badge -- all the on-screen graphics simply refer to the phone as the "G2." None of the images are verifiable, so there's no guarantee that they reflect the real thing. If we happen to see something similar-looking on August 7th, however, it won't come as a surprise.

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Simple two-drug combination proves effective in reducing risk of stroke

June 26, 2013 ? Results of a Phase III clinical trial showed that a simple drug regimen of two anti-clotting drugs -- clopidogrel and aspirin -- lowered the risk of stroke by almost one-third, compared to the standard therapy of aspirin alone, when given to patients who had minor or transient stroke symptoms to prevent subsequent attacks.

Described this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (July 4, 2013 print issue), the clinical trial was conducted at multiple sites in China and designed in partnership with a physician at UC San Francisco.

The trial involved 5,170 people who were hospitalized after suffering minor ischemic strokes or stroke-like events known as transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, in which blood flow to the brain is briefly blocked. All patients were randomized into two groups and treated for three months with either aspirin alone or aspirin plus clopidogrel, which is marketed as Plavix. The three-month period following stroke is considered the most critical for medical intervention.

Overall, 8.2 percent of patients taking both drugs suffered subsequent strokes in the three months of follow-up compared to 11.7 percent of patients taking aspirin alone.

"The results were striking," said S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, a professor of neurology and associate vice chancellor of research at UCSF who was a senior author on the study.

The Chinese trial, called CHANCE (Clopidogrel in High-risk Patients with Acute Non-disabling Cerebrovascular Events), is nearly identical to a National Institutes of Health-sponsored trial that is already enrolling patients in the United States, including at UCSF, called POINT (Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke).

"If POINT confirms CHANCE, then we're done -- the two-drug combination becomes the standard of care," said Johnston. "Anybody with a transient ischemic attack or minor stroke will get clopidogrel plus aspirin."

The POINT trial is important, said Johnston, because genetics, risk factors, and medical practice differences could all lead to differences in trial results in China compared to other countries. Johnston is the principal investigator of the POINT trial.

Stroke in China and the United States

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.

More than 795,000 people in the United States have strokes every year, and, in 2008 alone, some 133,000 cases were fatal, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another 300,000 people in the United States have TIAs each year.

Many strokes are minor -- shorter in duration than a full-blown stroke and usually have no lingering health impacts. In China, for instance, about 3 million new strokes occur every year, and about 30 percent of them are minor.

The protocol for the CHANCE trial was developed by Johnston and colleagues at Tiantan Hospital in China. The lead author of the study was Yongjun Wang, MD, of Beijing Tiantan Hospital.

China has many times more people who have strokes every year than the United States because of the size of the population and higher stroke rates, which allowed investigators to screen 41,561 patients in just three years at the 114 clinical sites, and enroll 5,170 patients in the trial.

Increased Risk of Subsequent Stroke

The reason for minor attacks is much the same as a full-blown stroke: a blood clot causes a blockage in the blood vessels that feed oxygen-rich blood to the brain. But in patients with TIAs and many minor strokes, the clot quickly goes away, usually in a few minutes, due to the natural mechanisms in the human body that are designed to deal with such clots.

However, in the weeks following a TIA or minor stroke, there is great risk that another clot will form, causing additional strokes -- potentially major ones. About 10 to 20 percent of people who have a TIA or minor stroke go on to have a subsequent stroke within three months.

Because of this risk, the first 90 days after a stroke or TIA is the most critical window for medical intervention. Currently, people who have minor strokes or TIAs are initially treated with aspirin alone. The purpose of the CHANCE trial was to determine whether clopidogrel with aspirin was more effective than aspirin alone in this intervention.

The drugs basically work the same way. They are "antiplatelet" agents, which target clotting agents found in the bloodstream know as platelets, preventing their aggregation. The combination is used commonly in patients who have heart attacks, but there has been no adequate clinical data to suggest it would work in stroke.

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Supreme Court delivers wins for gay marriage movement

By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by recognizing that married gay men and women are eligible for federal benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California.

The court, however, fell short of a landmark ruling endorsing a fundamental right for gay people to marry.

The two cases, both decided on 5-4 votes, concerned the constitutionality of a key part of a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that denied benefits to same-sex married couples and a California state law enacted in 2008, called Proposition 8, that banned gay marriage.

The Supreme Court rulings come amid rapid progress for advocates of gay marriage in recent months and years in the United States and internationally. Opinion polls show a steady increase in U.S. public support for gay marriage.

Gay marriage is an issue that stirs cultural, religious and political passions in the United States as elsewhere. Gay marriage advocates celebrated outside the courthouse. An enormous cheer went up as word arrived that DOMA had been struck down. "DOMA is dead!" the crowd chanted, as couples hugged and cried.

"Our marriage has not been recognized until today," said Patricia Lambert, 59, who held her wife, Kathy Mulvey, 47. A South African, Lambert said she no longer would have to worry about being forced to leave the country if her work visa expired.

The court struck down the federal law as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law but ducked a ruling on Proposition 8 by finding that supporters of the law did not have standing to appeal a federal district court ruling that struck the law down.

While the ruling on DOMA was clearcut, questions remained about what exactly the Proposition 8 ruling will mean on the ground. There is likely to be more litigation over whether the district court ruling applies statewide.

After hearing of the California ruling outside the courthouse, Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the fight for gay marriage would head back to the states.

"We take it to the states - state by state, legislature by legislature, governor by governor, and constitutional amendment by constitutional amendment," he said.

EQUAL PROTECTION

In the DOMA case, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority that the federal law, as passed by Congress in 1996, violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

"The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity," Kennedy wrote.

Kennedy, often the court's swing vote in close decisions, also said the law imposes "a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the states."

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia both wrote dissenting opinions.

Roberts himself wrote the Proposition 8 opinion, ruling along procedural lines with the court split in an unusual way.

Twelve of the 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize gay marriage. Three of those dozen - Delaware, Minnesota and Rhode Island - legalized gay marriage this year.

Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act limited the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman for the purposes of federal benefits. By striking down Section 3, the court cleared the way to more than 1,100 federal benefits, rights and burdens linked to marriage status.

As a result of Wednesday's ruling, Edith Windsor of New York, who was married to a woman and sued the government to get the federal estate tax deduction available to heterosexuals when their spouses pass away, will be able to claim a $363,000 tax refund.

President Barack Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to endorse gay marriage but he had long asserted that same-sex marriage was a matter for the states to handle. At the last minute, however, his administration decided to enter the California dispute and argue that federal guarantees of constitutional equality forbid states from limiting marriage to heterosexuals.

Numerous public figures including former President Bill Clinton, who in 1996 signed the DOMA law, and prominent groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics have come out this year in support of same-sex marriage and gay civil rights.

Individual members of Congress - Democrats and Republicans - also voiced new support for gay marriage.

While more developments lie ahead, the legal fight over gay marriage already constitutes one of the most concentrated civil rights sagas in U.S. history. Just 20 years ago the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that its state constitution could allow gay marriage, prompting a nationwide backlash and spurring Congress and a majority of states, including Hawaii, to pass laws defining marriage as between only a man and woman.

In 2003, when the top court of Massachusetts established a right to same-sex marriage under its constitution, the action triggered another backlash as states then adopted constitutional amendments against such unions. Five years later, the tide began to reverse, and states slowly began joining Massachusetts in permitting gays to marry.

The cases are United States v. Windsor, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-307 and Hollingsworth v. Perry, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-144.

(Additional reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Howard Goller and Will Dunham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-due-set-legal-course-gay-marriage-050417451.html

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Sprint shareholders approve Softbank merger

Sprint and Softbank are officially approved to merge by Sprint shareholders, the companies announced this morning. According to Sprint, approximately 98 percent of shareholders at today's meeting voted to approve the deal, which represents "approximately 80 percent of Sprint's outstanding common stock" as of late April 2013. Of course, the United States Federal Communications Commission still needs to sign off, though the companies are expecting it to go through FCC approval unscathed by some point in July. The US Justice Department already gave the deal its thumbs up.

Shareholders are expected to receive approximately $7.65 per share (or an option to convert their current Sprint stock holdings to "New Sprint common stock"), part of a $16.64 billion pie. Softbank already owns a 70 percent stake in Sprint, which it purchased earlier this year for approximately $20.1 billion. Should this merger go through as it's expected to next month, Softbank and Sprint will become one. It's kind of like Voltron, but with fewer pieces and a lot more money.

Updated: This post originally noted that the merger still required approval by the US Federal Trade Commission, which is incorrect. We've updated the above post to reflect the correct information.

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T-Mobile Prism II from Huawei is official, yours tomorrow for $116 outright

If you're looking to tap into one of T-Mobile's low-cost unlimited plans but are feeling squeamish about paying for your phone outright, then you might be curious about the Prism II: a new budget smartphone that's about to hit widespread availability at T-Mobile. The handset has been on our radar for some time -- ever since it was first outed by @evleaks in March -- but just recently became official with a wallet-friendly price of $116 outright. The Prism II arrives as a successor to the original model from Huawei, but with added horsepower and a fresh version of Android. In all, it brings a 3.5-inch HVGA (480 x 320) display, a 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 3.2-megapixel camera, 4GB of expandable storage, a 1,750mAh battery and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The Prism II is currently listed as "Coming Soon" on T-Mobile's website, but carrier reps tell us that it'll hit nationwide availability on June 26th... in other words, tomorrow.

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This Brilliant Subway Hack Guarantees You'll Never Fall

The only thing worse than getting on a full subway car where there's no place to sit, is getting on an even fuller subway car where there's no place to brace yourself. But here's a brilliant hack that not only guarantees you've always got something secure to hold onto, but also something no one else has put their dirty hands on: a toilet plunger.

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Brain cancer: Hunger for amino acids makes it more aggressive

June 24, 2013 ? An enzyme that facilitates the breakdown of specific amino acids makes brain cancers particularly aggressive. Scientists have discovered this in an attempt to find new targets for therapies against this dangerous disease.

To fuel phases of fast and aggressive growth, tumors need higher-than-normal amounts of energy and the molecular building blocks needed to build new cellular components. Cancer cells therefore consume a lot of sugar (glucose A number of tumors are also able to catabolize the amino acid glutamine, an important building block of proteins. A key enzyme in amino acid decomposition is isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH). Several years ago, scientists discovered mutations in the gene coding for IDH in numerous types of brain cancer. Very malignant brain tumors called primary glioblastomas carry an intact IDH gene, whereas those that grow more slowly usually have a defective form.

"The study of the IDH gene currently is one of the most important diagnostic criteria for differentiating glioblastomas from other brain cancers that grow more slowly," says Dr. Bernhard Radlwimmer from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ). "We wanted to find out what spurs the aggressive growth of glioblastomas." In collaboration with scientists from other institutes including Heidelberg University Hospital, Dr. Martje T?njes and Dr. Sebastian Barbus from Radlwimmer's team compared gene activity profiles from several hundred brain tumors. They aimed to find out whether either altered or intact IDH show further, specific genetic characteristics that might help explain the aggressiveness of the disease.

The researchers found a significant difference between the two groups in the highly increased activity of the gene for the BCAT1 enzyme, which in normal brain tissue is responsible for breaking down so-called branched-chain amino acids. However, Radlwimmer's team discovered, only those tumor cells whose IDH gene is not mutated produce BCAT1. "This is not surprising, because as IDH breaks down amino acids, it produces ketoglutarate -- a molecule which BCAT1 needs. This explains why BCAT1 is produced only in tumor cells carrying intact IDH. The two enzymes seem to form a kind of functional unit in amino acid catabolism," says Bernhard Radlwimmer.

Glioblastomas are particularly dreaded because they aggressively invade the healthy brain tissue that surrounds them. When the researchers used a pharmacological substance to block BCAT1's effects, the tumor cells lost their invasive capacity. In addition, the cells released less of the glutamate neurotransmitter. High glutamate release is responsible for severe neurological symptoms such as epileptic seizures, which are frequently associated with the disease. When transferred to mice, glioblastoma cells in which the BCAT1 gene had been blocked no longer grew into tumors.

"Altogether, we can see that overexpression of BCAT1 contributes to the aggressiveness of glioblastoma cells," Radlwimmer says. The study suggests that the two enzymes, BCAT1 and IDH, cooperate in the decomposition of branched-chain amino acids. These protein building blocks appear to act as a "food source" that increases the cancer cells' aggressiveness. Branched-chain amino acids also play a significant role in metabolic diseases such as diabetes. This is the first time that scientists have been able to show the role of these amino acids in the growth of malignant tumors.

"The good news," sums up Radlwimmer, "is that we have found another target for therapies in BCAT1. In collaboration with Bayer Healthcare, we have already started searching for agents that might be specifically directed against this enzyme." The researchers also plan to investigate whether BCAT1 expression may serve as an additional marker to diagnose the malignancy of brain cancer.

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U.S. justices agree to hear abortion clinic protester challenge

By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a challenge to a Massachusetts law that ensures access for patients at clinics that offer abortions.

Anti-abortion protesters challenged the law, saying it violated their constitutional rights, including their right to freedom of speech, by preventing them from standing on the sidewalk and speaking to those entering clinics.

The case concerns a 2007 law that amended an existing statute that restricted conduct outside abortion clinics by introducing a blanket 35-feet (11-meter) no-entry zone that only allowed patients, staff, passers-by and emergency services to enter.

The protesters say the exemption makes the law unconstitutional under the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment because the government is choosing one set of beliefs over another.

Lawyers for the state of Massachusetts dismissed that claim, saying the law was enacted purely to deal with a potential public safety problem.

Oral arguments and a ruling are expected in the court's next term, which begins in October and ends in June 2014.

The case is McCullen v. Coakley, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-1168.

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(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller, Will Dunham and Bill Trott)

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EU risks upsetting Turkey with threat to call off talks

By Adrian Croft

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is on the verge of scrapping a new round of membership talks with Turkey, a move that would further undermine Ankara's already slim hopes of joining the bloc anytime soon and damage its relations with Brussels.

Germany, the EU's biggest economic power, is blocking efforts to revive Turkey's EU membership bid, partly because of its handling of anti-government protests that have swept the country in the last few weeks, EU sources say.

The Netherlands, too, has voiced reservations about the EU's plan to open talks with Turkey next Wednesday on a new "chapter", or policy area, the sources say.

EU officials had hoped that opening the new chapter, on regional policy, would breathe new life into Turkey's deadlocked EU membership negotiations.

EU ambassadors, who failed to agree last week, were due to discuss the issue for a last time on Monday morning.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who has been more positive on Turkey's accession to the EU than Chancellor Angela Merkel, said he still hoped for an agreement in the coming days.

"We are on a good path," he told the broadcaster ARD, adding that there was still the possibility of a positive outcome, although he did not expect a decision on Monday. "We are working on this," he said.

If there is no last-minute change of heart in Berlin, Ireland, currently holder of the EU presidency, will have to tell Turkey that Wednesday's meeting has been postponed or canceled.

Turkey, already locked in a diplomatic row with Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was appalled by its crackdown on protesters, has made clear it would respond forcefully to any EU decision to scrap Wednesday's talks.

ALARM

Germany's hardline stance is causing alarm among some European policymakers who think the EU should be engaging more with Turkey to support civil rights rather than moving away.

"It would be a huge mistake to try to block Turkey's EU progress right at this time," Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt tweeted on Sunday.

Marietje Schaake, a Dutch liberal member of the European Parliament, said it would be unwise for the EU to slam the door on Turkey.

"This situation creates ... a chance for the EU to step up efforts to improve the rule of law in Turkey, such as the independence of the judiciary and respect for the fundamental rights of all people in Turkey," she said on her website.

Analysts see electoral considerations as playing a role in Germany's position. Merkel's conservatives oppose Turkish EU membership in their manifesto for September's parliamentary election and delaying talks with Turkey could help them politically.

Amanda Paul, a Turkey expert at the European Policy Centre think tank, said Germany's stance would have an "extremely serious" impact on Turkey's membership negotiations, already virtually blocked for three years.

"I don't see the logic behind what the Germans are doing ... because it is not going to be helpful to either Turkey or the EU. This relationship is an important relationship, it is not one that can just be thrown away," Paul said.

STRATEGIC CASE

Fadi Hakura, a Turkey expert at London's Chatham House think tank, said the Turkish government was in a "very prickly and combative mood" and was likely to respond to an EU snub by suspending political contacts and meetings with EU institutions, and possibly recalling its ambassador.

However, Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, did not see Turkey breaking off accession talks, which began in 2005, 18 years after Turkey first applied to join.

Given Turkey's position adjoining Iran and Syria, the strategic case for Europe having a relationship with Turkey was greater than ever, he said. Turkey is an influential power in the Middle East and a member of the NATO military alliance.

Turkey's negotiations to join the EU have so far advanced at a glacial pace. It has provisionally closed just one of 35 chapters or policy areas.

It has opened a dozen more chapters but most of the rest are blocked due to disputes over the divided island of Cyprus or hostility from some EU members, especially France - though that has eased under President Francois Hollande. It has not opened a new chapter since 2010.

Turkey has been leapfrogged by many other EU applicants. Croatia, which applied for EU membership in 2003, is set to become the EU's 28th member next month. The deadlock means the EU has lost its appeal for many Turks.

France and Germany have always had doubts about allowing a largely Muslim country of 76 million people into the European club, fearing that cultural differences and its size will make it too difficult to integrate.

Ankara's supporters, led by Britain and Sweden, say the EU can benefit from Turkey's growing economic clout and its role as an intermediary in the Middle East, and that Europe needs its cooperation to secure energy supply routes.

(Additional reporting by Sarah Marsh and Thorsten Severin in Berlin; Editing by Anna Willard and Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-risks-upsetting-turkey-threat-call-off-talks-190856903.html

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Sugar solution makes tissues see-through

June 23, 2013 ? Japanese researchers have developed a new sugar and water-based solution that turns tissues transparent in just three days, without disrupting the shape and chemical nature of the samples. Combined with fluorescence microscopy, this technique enabled them to obtain detailed images of a mouse brain at an unprecedented resolution.

The team from the RIKEN Center for Developmental biology reports their finding today in Nature Neuroscience.

Over the past few years, teams in the USA and Japan have reported a number of techniques to make biological samples transparent, that have enabled researchers to look deep down into biological structures like the brain.

"However, these clearing techniques have limitations because they induce chemical and morphological damage to the sample and require time-consuming procedures," explains Dr. Takeshi Imai, who led the study.

SeeDB, an aqueous fructose solution that Dr. Imai developed with colleagues Drs. Meng-Tsen Ke and Satoshi Fujimoto, overcomes these limitations.

Using SeeDB, the researchers were able to make mouse embryos and brains transparent in just three days, without damaging the fine structures of the samples, or the fluorescent dyes they had injected in them. They could then visualize the neuronal circuitry inside a mouse brain, at the whole-brain scale, under a customized fluorescence microscope without making mechanical sections through the brain.

They describe the detailed wiring patterns of commissural fibers connecting the right and left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex, in three dimensions, for the first time.

Dr. Imai and colleagues report that they were also able to visualize in three dimensions the wiring of mitral cells in the olfactory bulb, which is involved the detection of smells, at single-fiber resolution.

"Because SeeDB is inexpensive, quick, easy and safe to use, and requires no special equipment, it will prove useful for a broad range of studies, including the study of neuronal circuits in human samples," explain the authors.

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Phyllis Schlafly on Including Women in the Draft - The Spearhead

A lot of men see Phyllis Schlafly as an ally in the fight against rampant feminism. She may be, but actually Schlafly is an ally of convenience. When it comes down to it, Schlafly has women?s interests in mind, hence her strong opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and, most recently, including women in the draft.

The real war against women is the announced plan of the Obama administration, using outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as the fall guy, to assign women for the first time in American history to fight our nation?s enemies in military ground combat. That?s real war, with real guns, real bullets and real deaths.

This war doesn?t involve only women who have volunteered to serve in our military. It?s a real war against all 18-year-old American girls, because for the first time in our nation?s history they will be required to sign up for the draft and be ready for a letter from Selective Service ordering them to report for military duty.

I?d say it?s true that including women in the draft as combat soldiers demonstrates real indifference to the fate of women, and probably in some cases outright misogyny, because women are not by nature suited for fighting. A grown woman at her physical peak is on par with a typical 14-year-old boy, and that isn?t even taking psychological differences into account.

Many will say ?since women have been clamoring for ?equality? in every other field, why not let them fight and die, too?? Well, that?s a reasonable argument I suppose, but only if you truly don?t care about whether or not the US military is effective and efficient, and if you don?t care much about drafted women and the men who would have to serve alongside them.

Having women in combat would present problems not only for the women themselves, but for male soldiers as well. How would you like to go into a combat zone with a weak, slow, frail and passive woman covering you? If you got wounded, would you want to rely on a woman to pull you out of the line of fire? Would you want her running a heavy load of ammo up a hill to your position, or would you prefer a man?

The military is a necessary evil. What soldiers do is terrible stuff. Shooting, burning, stabbing and blowing people up is the kind of work that should be done only when absolutely necessary, and it should be done as quickly and conclusively as possible. Who wants a long, messy war that can?t be won quickly due to battlefield ineffectiveness? Only a monster.

I suppose we should also ask whether we want battlefield equality between our troops and the enemy, because throwing women into combat will definitely blunt our edge in warfare. This push for women in combat demonstrates how absolutely out of touch with reality our ?leaders? have become. There is no doubt that women are, as a rule, inferior soldiers. We have always had moral qualms about using children in war; one of the most disgusting scenes of World war II was Hitler in his last days encouraging little German boys to go out and die in a hopeless cause. And yet when there is no pressing need for it the progressives want to use women.

Some ?progress??

Phyllis Schlafly opposes women in combat because she cares about women. I oppose it because I care about people in general. Those who support this kind of equality don?t care much about either.

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