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Thursday, June 28, 2012

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Nadal, Murray advance into Wimbledon second round

Two-time winner Rafael Nadal and British hope Andy Murray reached the Wimbledon second round, but Australia's men slumped to their country's worst performance since 1938.

Nadal, fresh from a record-breaking seventh French Open win, enjoyed a 7-6 (7/0), 6-2, 6-3 victory over Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci despite having trailed 4-0 in the first set.

"It's always tough to make the change from clay to grass, especially when over the last couple of months I played almost every match on tour. Physically you start having some troubles," admitted Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion.

"I'm very happy to be back on probably the best court in the world and winning in three sets is good for me."

Fourth seed Murray, a semi-finalist for the last three years, had the last laugh as he silenced Nikolay Davydenko's taunts with an easy 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 win.

The Russian had claimed players laughed at the Briton, believing he regularly exaggerates his injuries.

"I'm desperate to get the tournament going because there's a lot of talk from a lot of people," said Murray.

Serena Williams, the 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010 champion, reached the second round with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic.

The American sixth seed triumphed on the same Court Two where sister Venus had on Monday suffered her first opening round loss at Wimbledon since 1997.

"It always has some sort of an effect," said Serena of her sister's loss. "I always want to play even better if she's out of the tournament."

Defending champion Petra Kvitova overcame early nerves to progress 6-4, 6-4 against Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, but the 22-year-old Czech fourth seed did it the hard way, having trailed 3-0 and 4-1 in the first set.

World number two Victoria Azarenka eased through, seeing off America's Irina Falconi 6-1, 6-4.

Lleyton Hewitt's 10th anniversary party of his 2002 title was gatecrashed by French fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who cruised to a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win, handing the Australian his earliest exit at the All England Club since 2003.

His loss also meant that there will be no Australian man in the second round for the first time since 1938 after compatriots Bernard Tomic, a quarter-finalist last year and seeded 20, Matthew Ebdon and Marinko Matosevic were also beaten.

It is a depressing statistic for a country which has won 21 Wimbledon men's titles.

The injury-plagued Hewitt, 31, whose ranking has plummeted to 202 after undergoing radical surgery to cut bone out of his big toe, refused to entertain any notion that the problems of Australian tennis mirrored a decline in the country's sporting prowess in general.

"I reckon we'll go all right at the Olympics," he said.

American hopes, which were so badly bruised by the opening day exits of five-time champion Venus and big-serving John Isner, were earlier boosted by Mardy Fish and Bryan Baker.

Fish made a winning return to tennis in his first match following an operation to address a frightening heart scare.

The world number 12 beat Spain's Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 7-6 (7/1), but later felt unwell and pulled out of a mandatory post-match press conference.

Baker, who lost six years of his career to an assortment of injuries and underwent five operations, clinched a first ever win at Wimbledon, beating Portugal's Rui Machado 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, 6-0.

Juan Martin Del Potro, the ninth seeded Argentine and 2009 US Open winner, also went through, beating Dutchman Robin Haase 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5.

Rain brought an early end to the second day with three-time runner-up Andy Roddick a set and a break up on Britain's Jamie Baker.

Spanish seventh seed David Ferrer was two sets up against Germany's Dustin Brown while Austria's Jurgen Melzer was just a point away from beating Swiss 25th seed Stanislas Wawrinka.

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Symptoms Of Metabolic Syndrome Improved By Testosterone-Replacement Therapy June 27, 2012

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Poorly Controlled Type1 Diabetes Improved By Liraglutide With Insulin June 27, 2012

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Astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical.

Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at such a distance ? with a gravity field so strong that it distorted the light of the galaxy behind it in a rare display called gravitational lensing.

"When I first saw it, I kept staring at it, thinking it would go away," said University of Florida astronomer Anthony Gonzalez, lead author of the study announcing the discovery. "The galaxy behind the cluster is a typical run-of-the-mill galaxy with a lot of young stars, but the galaxy cluster in front of it is a whopper for that range. However, it's really the way that the two systems are lined up that makes the occurrence truly remarkable."

Gravitational lensing, or bending of light from the distant galaxy, has never been observed behind a cluster at this range.

The team reports its findings in the July 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

The cluster's mass is noteworthy because its distance from the telescope, 10 billion light-years, means that it was already in existence when the universe was only one-quarter of its present age. Currently accepted models for how the universe evolved suggest that relatively few of these clusters were around when the universe was young.

Just finding the cluster itself might be considered lucky considering the team was exploring a mere 9-square degree patch of sky.

"If you extend your arm in front of you and hold up your index finger," Gonzalez said. "Your finger covers approximately 1-square degree of sky." So finding a massive cluster at that range that is also gravitationally lensing is a real long shot, even if you were looking at the whole sky, he said.

Researchers initially found the cluster using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. But they first saw evidence of the gravitational lensing in 2010 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. They used data from the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, or CARMA, radio telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to independently verify its mass and distance.

Gonzalez said that finding a cluster of that magnitude at that distance in such a small field of observation could mean that scientists have underestimated how many massive clusters were in existence 10 billion years ago. In other words, perhaps the odds of spotting the cluster were not as great as the models predict.

"We just don't know," he said. "We need to find more clusters at this range so that we can get more data. So far we only have one example to study."

And you might say that they are lucky to have that.

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Report: Housing Finance Agencies Have Put Recovery Act's Tax ...

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ANNAPOLIS, MD- The Government Accountability Office issued this report last week examining the nation?s Housing Finance Agencies? use of the Tax Credit Assistant Program funds. According to The National Council of State and Housing Agencies? assessment of the report, the GAO had found that HFAs, like DHCD, have been successful in their implementation of TCAP.

TCAP funds were administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Recovery Act was implemented after the faltering of home income tax credit in 2008 and continued decline in 2009. The TCAP funds where meant to provide supplemental grants to HFAs so they may pursue housing projects and revitalize local economies.

Because of HFAs? monitoring of building sites and construction zones, heavy reliance on experienced staff and effective communication between local bureaucratic agents and federal authorizes, the GAO found that TCAP funds where used optimally to reinvigorate the housing markets on the state level.

The DHCD received $31.7 million out of the $54 million it requested of the TCAP funds. The DHCD awarded the funds to 15 different community development projects, which in turn produced 1,400 new home units and over 750 new jobs. The DHCD efforts have poured $204 million back into Maryland?s economy.

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