ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 review: meet the company's new top-of-the-line tablet

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When ASUS first teased the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 back at CES, many customers looked on, simmering with rage. You see, only several weeks earlier the company started selling the Transformer Prime, a top-tier tablet priced at a not-so-cheap $500. It was a state-of-the-art product... until ASUS unveiled the TF700, a tablet that was similar, only better. It, too, has a Tegra 3 chip and 8-megapixel camera, but it adds a higher-res, 1920 x 1200 display and promises improved signal reception, a pain point for the Prime.

Little did those disgruntled Prime owners know it would actually be a long time before the TF700 ever became available. Now, we're finally hearing it will go on sale in the US in mid-July, at which point the Prime is expected to drop in price before it gets discontinued. But is the TF700 all that much of an improvement over the original? And how does it stack up against comparably priced tablets, such as the new iPad, Acer Iconia Tab A700 and Toshiba Excite 10? Check out our early review to find out.

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Morsi's Win: Progress or Paralysis?

And so it begins: an unprecedented test on the world stage of whether Islamist politics can, at long last, join modernity. Can an Islamist head of state renounce jihadist violence in practice (as al-Qaida or its many offshoots, and Hamas and Hezbollah, have been unable to do)? Can he can work with the international community rather than consistently defy it (like the Iranian regime)?

True, the immediate prospect for a positive solution to these questions doesn't look especially promising. Sunday?s announcement that the Muslim Brotherhood?s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, won Egypt?s presidential runoff marked the first election of an Islamist head of state in Arab history. But Egypt?s quasi-junta, the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces, has already stripped Morsi?s presidency of most of its powers, with vague promises of restoring them under a new constitution.

And yet, with Morsi garnering an announced 51.7 percent of the runoff vote, there are risks posed by any new Egyptian constitution because the new president has pledged that it will be founded on the Quran, and he intends that it will impose a strict version of Islamic law, or sharia. Morsi also told The Washington Post in an interview last year that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with its salafist or ultra-conservative version of sharia, was a good model for Egypt. But since Egypt is not a monarchy any longer, it was unclear how a new Egyptian government based on the Saudi model could be imposed other than by a Brotherhood or pan-Islamist takeover, along the lines of the Iranian model.

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At the same time, Morsi has expressed a willingness to work with other political parties in governing Egypt; the Muslim Brotherhood has officially renounced violence; and it has spoken of integrating Egypt?s economy with the rest of the world, all hopeful signs. And Morsi , 60, did study in the United States, earning a doctorate in engineering from the University of Southern California. But on a personal level, his U.S. stay only seemed to disgust him morally and radicalize him, as it apparently helped to do to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind who had studied in North Carolina in the 1980s. Morsi has also spoken harshly about Israel, though he has indicated he has no plans to abrogate the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

The most likely outcome in Egypt now is long-term stalemate and a slow muddle-through approach?and, oddly enough, the Obama administration probably favors this.?That?s because the checks and balances in Egyptian democracy, such as they are, now exist mainly between the military and the Islamists, with the hopeful secular Democrats largely marginalized for the moment (and actually favoring, over the Brotherhood, the generals they once crowded the streets to oust). No one in the West especially wants either side, military or Muslim, to dominate.

Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East expert at the London School of Economics, told National Journal on Sunday that the Brotherhood and SCAF have already reached a modus vivendi for the moment. ?Morsi would not have been declared a winner without a deal with SCAF,? Gerges said. ?The Brotherhood will play politics and will not take on the military. They have been burned before, a fact deeply etched in the imagination, so the Brothers will go to great lengths to wheel and deal to avoid a confrontation.?

Gerges also says that those who fear the Islamist parties will ?hijack and Islamize the? political systems of the region? are alarmist. In the last three decades, he says, the majority of religious activists have evolved, matured and distanced themselves from maximalist goals, including ideal Islamic states. ?As realists, Islamists also know that checks and balances exist and that the military would strike with an iron fist if they act recklessly,? Gerges writes in a new as-yet-unpublished paper. He adds: ?The big battles over the future of Egypt are yet to be fought. There is a lot of dust and let?s not be blinded by it.?

Not surprisingly, the Obama administration has been consistently cautious on the election results, gingerly seeking to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, but at the same time not coming down too hard on the Egyptian generals.?The problem: Washington finds itself unable to endorse either the interim constitution imposed by SCAF, which stripped the presidency of its powers and dissolved the legislature, or any prospective sharia-based one sought by Morsi.

In comments last week, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the Obama administration would review the U.S. relationship with Egypt if SCAF failed to restore full powers to the presidency and permit a new parliamentary election.?But these official protests have remained strikingly muted: Only days after the Pentagon announced that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on June 15?"highlighted the need to move forward expeditiously with Egypt's political transition" in a conversation with Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the SCAF announced its?legal coup. Mostly silence from the administration followed, punctuated by a few mild protests from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

What is becoming settled wisdom in U.S. policy-making circles, except among those on the extreme right or aligned with the pro-Israel lobby, is that the U.S. has no choice but to engage with the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups that, during the long era of Arab autocracy, proved to be the only alternative means of political expression. Even some of the smarter hardliners, like Reuel Marc Gerecht,?are coming to realize that the Arab world may find another route to democracy?through Islamism.??

America may simply have to endure an unpleasant Islamist middle stage?and Arabs may have to experience its failure, as the Iranians have?before modernity finally overtakes Iraq and the Arab world. As Columbia University scholar Richard Bulliet has written: "Finding ways of wedding [Islam's traditional] protective role with modern democratic and economic institutions is a challenge that has not yet been met." The best hope, some of these scholars say, is that after a generation or so, the "Islamic" tag in Arab religious parties becomes rather harmless, reminiscent of what happened to Christian democratic parties in Europe.

With Morsi?s election, we finally have a real-world test of this proposition.

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What happened while we were on vacation (abiraterone acetate ...

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Sitemaster

After a careful review of the (hundreds of) e-mails that accumulated in the several in-boxes?used by?the Sitemaster while he was on vacation, we are pleased to see that we appear to have missed?just one really?important new piece of??news? about prostate cancer while we were off line.

On July 15, Johnson & Johnson announced that two of its operating companies had filed supplementary applications with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and with the European Medicines Agency (EMEA)?seeking approval for?the?company to market abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) ? in combination with prednisone or prednisolone ? for the treatment of men with asymptomatic or mildly sympromatic, chemotherapy-naive, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer, based on the results of the so-called ?302 trial? ??data from which was recently presented at the annual meeting of ASCO.

Here is the link to the media release issued by Johnson & Johnson?s relevant operating companies.

Assuming that these applications are ?clean? and do not raise major questions for either the FDA or EMEA, one could reasonably expect to see approvals of abiraterone acetate for these indications in the USA and in Europe by the end of 2012. However, such approvals may take longer if either regulatory agency expresses concerns about the quality of the applications. As we have mentioned in prior commentary, there?is the potential for such concerns on the part of the regulatory agencies.

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Tony Parker could miss Olympics due to eye injury

FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker (9), of France, takes the ball downcourt past Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant during the first half of Game 6 in the NBA basketball Western Conference finals, in Oklahoma City. San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is suing a New York City club and its operators for $20 million over a scratched retina he says he suffered during a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker (9), of France, takes the ball downcourt past Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant during the first half of Game 6 in the NBA basketball Western Conference finals, in Oklahoma City. San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is suing a New York City club and its operators for $20 million over a scratched retina he says he suffered during a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

PARIS (AP) ? NBA star Tony Parker may miss the London Olympics after almost losing his eye in a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage.

Parker's cornea was scratched in the fight, and the San Antonio Spurs guard revealed he had to have an operation to remove a shard that had "penetrated 99 percent" of his left eye.

"I almost lost my eye," Parker said in an interview posted on his website Sunday.

He did not join the rest of France's team Wednesday and will see a specialist in New York when he is cleared to take long-haul flights after July 5.

"I'm seeing a specialist in New York with the hope of being given the all clear to play in the Olympic Games," Parker said. "Spurs are very worried.

"Anything can happen, including me being out of the Olympics. The decision doesn't belong to me anymore. It's in the hands of the doctor and San Antonio."

Parker said he has been having hallucinations and been unable to leave his hotel room for eight days because of the risk of infection. He also has to apply five different products into his eye every two hours.

"Fear sets in," Parker said of being told he would have to undergo surgery. "An eye is so fragile. ... I couldn't believe it. But that's life. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"I didn't have luck, but I came out well from my misfortune. It could have been worse. The rest of my career is not in question. I just have to wait for the injury to heal itself."

Despite being unable to play, Parker will spend the rest of his time in France with the French squad in Pau.

France's first game at the Olympics is against the United States on July 29.

Chris Brown, his girlfriend and his bodyguard were among eight injured during the fight inside the W.i.P club in SoHo on June 15. Police say members of Drake's entourage stopped Brown as he was leaving. The fight escalated and bottles were thrown.

Parker is suing the New York City club for $20 million.

Associated Press

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Illinois Football Recruiting: New Coach Tim Beckman Builds Initial Class

First-year Illinois Fighting Illini coach Tim Beckman landed three-star recruit Jarrod Clements out of Ohio this week, as SB Nation's Hail to the Orange reported on Tuesday.The 6-foot-2, 270-pound defensive end committed to the school on Tuesday, pushing its 2013 recruiting commitments up to seven.

According to Hail to the Orange, Clements turned down offers from Louisville, N.C. State, Tennessee, Toledo and West Virginia in favor of playing in Champaign. He's now the fifth three-star prospect to be reeled in by Illinois since hiring Beckman to replace Ron Zook after last season.

Four-star athlete Aaron Bailey, who will play quarterback at Illinois, is the highest-rated player that's committed to Illinois so among within the 2013 class.

For updates, stay tuned to SB Nation Chicago. For more in-depth coverage of Illinois recruiting, check out Hail to the Orange.

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