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Does the Berlin Patient Hold the Secret for an End to HIV?
In 2009, scientists and researchers announced that a bone-marrow transplant had cured the so-called "Berlin patient" of HIV. At the recent XIX International AIDS Conference, they shared news that two Boston men may have also been cured of HIV, bringing the total number to three worldwide. The unexpected has happened for three HIV-positive people. The question is: how did it happen and what does it mean for people living with HIV?
"Everyone knows about this 'Berlin patient.' We wanted to see if a simpler treatment would do the same thing," Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes told MSNBC. He oversaw the study at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where both men were HIV-positive and had undergone a bone marrow transplant, similar to the "Berlin patient," Timothy Ray Brown. The men had their transplant procedures between two and four years ago and both now have no detectable HIV in their blood. Before declaring them officially cured, doctors will continue to search for HIV in their tissues. At this time, the men both remain anonymous while the study continues.
The basis for this treatment approach began in 2007. Brown, an HIV-positive man from Seattle, WA, was living in Berlin, Germany, and underwent a stem cell transplantation procedure to treat leukemia. His doctor hoped to cure both diseases with a single treatment. And amazingly, the cure appears to have worked. Brown became known as the Berlin patient, the only person in the world to have been cured of HIV. Now the procedure has been repeated for two other HIV-positive cancer patients, and it is possible that they have been cured as well.
Having a stem cell or bone marrow transplant is risky business. Stem cells are the cells in the body that make blood, found in the bone marrow inside bones. When Brown decided to have the procedure, his doctor looked for people with a certain type of cell that would stop HIV. The key in the transplant's success lies in how the HIV virus moves into cells in the body. In order to move from the blood into a cell, where more HIV virus can be made and the infection can take hold, the virus has to attach to a receptor on the cell surface. Most of us have cells that have these receptors.
The bone marrow that was transplanted into Brown was from a donor who did not have the receptor. People without this receptor are rare, but they do exist. To make a long story short: no receptor, no entrance into the cell, no viral infection. As new blood cells were generated by the transplanted bone marrow, they could no longer be infected with HIV.
Even though researchers know that this isn't an approach to be used for the masses, they have continued to explore what it means for HIV treatment. The procedure used for the two Boston men had several significant differences from the procedure used to treat Brown in Berlin. Instead of stopping their anti-HIV medication for the transplant, they continued to take the drugs. But their bone marrow donors did have the receptor that allows HIV to move into cells and begin the infection.
Why, then, has their HIV begun to disappear? It is possible that because these patients were able to keep using their anti-HIV medication, the new cells from the donor did not get infected. And as the donor cells took hold in the patients' bodies, the new blood cells may have killed off the cells that were already infected with HIV.
"Words cannot begin to express my joy that two other men may have been cured of HIV," said Brown, reacting to the news of the two Boston men. His delight is easily understood. The World Health Organization reports that as of 2010 there were approximately 34 million people living with HIV. Clearly, a bone marrow transplant is not an option for most of these patients.
While antiretroviral therapy is the gold standard of treatment world wide, it keeps the virus at bay but does not cure the patient of the disease. Patients can stay healthier, but only as long as they continue their therapy. HIV is a tricky virus. It lurks out of sight in the body, ready to come back as soon as the way is clear. While bone marrow transplantation may not work for everyone, this unexpected success for three patients has provided fresh energy toward finding a cure.
"This gives us some important information. It suggests that under the cover of retroviral therapy, the cells that repopulated the patients immune system appear to be protected from becoming re-infected with HIV," said Kuritzkes in a press release. By studying situations like this, scientists gain a greater understanding of how the virus functions. To paraphrase Sun Tzu and "The Art of War," only if we know our enemy and ourselves can we win the battle.
It is frustrating to be part of a community that has been affected so deeply by a disease and still see scientists struggling to find a cure. While recent attempts may not represent a cure that can affect the millions living with HIV, they do represent a significant step forward both in hope and in understanding. Modern medicine is a process of discovery that involves creativity, dedication and unexpected breakthroughs.
"My dream is to not be the man who stands before you and says 'I am cured', but to be the man who stands before you and says, 'We are cured'," said Brown on his website. Let's hope that the people leading HIV research will, through that dedication, find a cure that can help make Brown's dream a reality.


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The Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) had some bad travel karma both going to and coming back from China. Most of YOSA arrived back in San Antonio Monday night, but a few were stuck in Dallas one more night. It was so comforting to hear John Clare's voice on Texas Public Radio as I drove home from the Symphony office this afternoon! John was an "embedded" journalist on the Great Tour of China and will soon be publishing more photos and videos from the tour.
John reported today on the KPAC blog (http://kpac883.blogspot.com/) that the group's Monday boarding pass for Japan listed a boarding time of 5:20 p.m. Their Dallas boarding pass also listed a board date of Monday, but for 5:10 p.m. So, their exhausting full day of travel took exactly minus 10 minutes! John will also soon be reporting on the tour on his blog at http://classicallyhip.blogspot.com/.
On the YOSA tour blog (http://yosa49.wordpress.com/) a YOSA student name Darian reported, "Playing in front of so many people was exhilarating, and making so many people happy was right up my alley. Having had that experience was so amazing that it, in part, reminded me of the joy I can bring others through music, how much better a musician can make another's life…I loved China and I love YOSA for letting me have such an experience."
Here is a photo of YOSA performing with the Hong Kong Youth Symphony at the end of their tour.
After such a grueling tour, you'd think YOSA would take the rest of the summer off to relax and reflect on their successes. But, YOSA String Summer Music Camp begins on July 11 and runs to the 24th. For more information about camp click here:
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone at YOSA for providing such great musical experiences to San Antonio students!
The Arts at Coker Presents: Patriotic Pops Concert & Ice Cream Social
Thursday, July 1 at 7:30 pm at the Coker United Methodist Sanctuary
231 East North Loop Road, San Antonio, Texas 78216
Also at Coker UMC (and several other locations), the Cactus Pear Music Festival begins July 8 and runs to July 18. You can read more about the CPMF at http://www.cpmf.us/.
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Britney is back, b----, and she's got a hot new tune that is going to be on all the clubs' playlists in no time.
On Sunday, Spears released her new single, "Work B----," off of her upcoming eighth studio album. In the new track, produced by Spears' recent "Scream & Shout" collaborator will.i.am, the pop starlet again employs a fake British accent while she sings about how the secret to Maseratis and mansions is simply, work, b----. (Just like mom always said!)
Spears, who has been teasing her new material in recent weeks on her Twitter and Instagram accounts, was forced to push up the release of "Work B----" after a low-quality version leaked online. However, the earlier release led to early rewards. "Woke up to hear that #WORKBxxCH is number 1 in 35 countries?? What!? I am speechless," Spears tweeted on Monday. "thank u all! This is just the beginning!!"
Spears, 31, also said there was "more big news coming" Tuesday on Good Morning America.
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I'd like to take a moment to say thank you to Robert Downey Jr. Ultimately, he's the reason we're getting an Avengers movie. While it's easy to look back with 20/20 hindsight and see why he's perfect as Tony Stark, at the time he was a controversial choice and many weren't sure he could pull it off. Cut to now. The first two Iron Man movies have made over $1.2 billion dollars at the worldwide box office and Iron Man 3 is already in pre-production. Also, as a result of the first Iron Man, Marvel was able to expand their feature film library with Thor and Captain America, and now that they've been acquired by Disney, the future of comic book movies is brighter than ever. So, like I said, a big thank you to Robert Downey Jr.
Last year, when The Avengers was filming in New Mexico, I got to visit the set with a few other reporters and participate in a group interview with Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. They talked about what the film is about, how we finally get to see Tony Stark in New York City, the relationships between all the characters, improv versus sticking to the script, costume changes, working with Joss Whedon, and a lot more. Hit the jump to either read or listen to the interview.
As usual, I'm offering two ways to get the interview: you can either click here for the audio or the full transcript is below. The Avengers opens May 4.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: Can you believe this shit? Tony and Cap side-by-side here?
Question: I notice you are wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt.
DOWNEY JR.: Not bad huh? (Shows off the arc reactor on his chest.) I'll keep lit up for you clowns. (Shouts to on-set producer.) Does Props want to turn this off to save the battery?
(Light goes off.)
CHRIS EVANS: They just did.
So who is the "good man" that was "dating a cellist"?
DOWNEY JR.: Yeah, who was that?
EVANS: I heard that was something we can't touch.
DOWNEY JR.: Yeah, that's right. We were just briefed. (In Tropic Thunder voice.) But somebody's gonna die!
EVANS: Is that it? Great.
DOWNEY JR.: It is all they care about.
We have heard a little bit about what the movie is about, but can you both, in your own words, talk about the story and what it's about, or what you're allowed to say?
EVANS: Sure. It's about these superheroes coming together. It's the initial formation of the team, The Avengers. (whispers to RDJ) Does everybody know that Loki's the bad guy?
DOWNEY JR.: Yeah, they told us not to talk about it.
EVANS: But we were allowed to talk about that.
We interviewed Tom (Hiddleston) yesterday, so we know.
EVANS: Right, so Loki's in it!
DOWNEY JR.: He used to date a cellist. In Asgard.
EVANS: He's our threat.
DOWNEY JR.: Here's what I think it's about: I remember at Comic Con, a season or two ago, that there was all this promise of… you know, this is hugely ambitious. God bless them, but DC have tried to do this before, and Marvel said, "We're going to do it," but saying they are going to do it and formulating a way to do it correctly, which I think is where JW ("Jay Dub" – Joss Whedon) came in heavily, so I think it is just a really good story that could have been done a hundred ways wrong. I think you will be – I'll go out on a limb – pleased and surprised at how not predictable it is.
Why is there the location change? We have seen Tony Stark in California for so long, but now we know he is going to be in New York – we've seen his new apartment – and you guys are obviously going to be spending some time on the Helicarrier, so do you know the background to why he's in New York, and how they get on the Helicarrier?
EVANS: Well, it takes place in New York. We're pretty much in New York for the duration of the film. It's not like we are shooting in Albuquerque for the exteriors.
DOWNEY JR.: Which means, of course, that Tony has some project there.
We were talking yesterday to Chris (Hemsworth) about some of the egos on the team, and who each character might get along with, and who they might not get along with. Can you both talk about each of your characters and who they might be able to relate to? Maybe Tony and Bruce (Banner) are a little more intelligent and can relate on that level, and maybe Tony and Thor have some big egos so may clash at some point.
DOWNEY JR.: Yeah, I just don't… speaking like Tony now… I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. And have trippy brothers and all that sort of stuff. Whereas we (indicating Evans) have something that I think is a multi-faceted relationship.
EVANS: It's layered.
DOWNEY JR.: It's layered. Why is it layered?
EVANS: It's got depth.
DOWNEY JR.: Yes. Where does the depth come from?
EVANS: I think they are both heroes in their own right. Tony is a little bit more flash, and he's got charisma oozing out of him, and he likes the spotlight, and I think Cap might be a little bit more reserved in his desire to be front and center, but they are both, at their core, heroes, if you know what I mean. Even if Tony is flash and hot-shit, he is still a hero. He is still a good man. I think it just takes the duration of the film for them to see eye-to-eye and to see that in one another.
Does Tony see Captain America as an anachronism?
DOWNEY JR.: Well, here's the thing: I was just sitting here thinking that it seems to me that this is the logical progression from the lessons Tony learns from, and with, War Machine in Iron Man 2, it seems that they are picked up, except now there is this extra added layer of it being connected to the Stark legacy, so it's almost like dealing with Frankenstein, but Frankenstein has lessons that you actually haven't learned yet. So it's really easy to just be like, "Oh my God, you have bolts on your neck!" and Joss, while not being silly… I give Cap quite a bit of guff in the movie.
DOWNEY JR.: But I think it was probably the toughest relationship to really find the right arc for. You are catching us in one of the transition points, that we are shooting here today. Usually we wouldn't be hashing out a problem together, we would be more on the verge of demonstrating the differences in our moral psychology.
Who would you say is the heart of the team?
DOWNEY JR.: (Points to Evans.)
EVANS: See, I was going to say him. I was genuinely going to say him. I think without him, we don't work.
DOWNEY JR.: Not this time. I told them to write it that way!
EVANS: I think without Tony, we don't work. He really is the glue in the family. He is the fire, the thing that keeps you coming back. I think, at least for this movie, Cap's struggling with finding his footing in this modern day – he's a fish out of water. He's a little more uncomfortable in his own skin than he normally might be, and he's not hitting the ground running without the charisma and the leadership and the character that Tony Stark is.
DOWNEY JR.: Well, maybe you're right, if you put it that way. Okay. But I think that's the other thing too. What Joss, Kevin (Feige) and the creative team has been able to do, is make it so that nothing is predictably definitive. I remember that one of my earliest concerns with this was, "Haven't we done this, 'it's a bunch of superheroes together but they're a dysfunctional family' thing before?" But it has transcended that in a lot of ways. Obviously there is only one person whose name is Captain, and if you have a squad of people, there is a time where we need his prowess in terms of things that require actual strategy and military stuff, in what is essentially a war that we are trying to avert, of sorts. So I think that that's really valuable.
Robert, you were known as a bit of a tinkerer on the set of the first two Iron Man movies, so have you been tinkering on this? Are you guys adjusting things each day or are you sticking to the script more?
EVANS: We did some tinkering today. It's so great. Downey is renowned for being able to work on the fly, and so is Joss. They are both very good – they have incredible instincts – so if something does need to change, their anchor is so solid. You feel safe to try what's on the page and to try other stuff, because if you have these guys guiding you in your exploration, you can unearth some really interesting things.
DOWNEY JR.: Yeah, but for the most part, particularly once we got to the final edition of the storyline and the script that came from that, it wasn't broke, so it's not like we had to fix things. And I think some part of me, between the Sherlock movies, and with some of the Iron Man movies, I feel like more of a producer – no-one asked me to – which is tough when you are getting your make-up done and they aren't paying you to be a producer, but with this, it is a bit of a relief – it's nice when the car drives all by itself.
Is there a through-line for Tony in this movie? Is there an arc that you think will be picked up in Iron Man 3 or will there be ramifications from this that will be picked up in that movie?
DOWNEY JR.: Sure. Yeah. Someone's going to have to figure that out! (laughs)
Is there something either of you do in this film that perhaps you haven't done in your solo films that excites you that you're getting to do it now?
EVANS: Working with Robert DOWNEY JR.
DOWNEY JR.: And for me, just getting to work with myself again is just a treat. This time, it's just me and me. Christ! What do you get to do? You get to do some crazy fucking shit.
EVANS: I mean it when I said it: Robert Downey Jr. I look around sometimes and… I don't know. Doing Captain America was strange because you're the only superhero, so it's like you're looking around at others, but here, the first day you came to set and there's (Chris) Hemsworth in his cape, and Downey's got the armor on, and you're wearing the costume…
DOWNEY JR.: You're not going to change when Captain America does huge business are you?
EVANS: I'm already changing. (Jokes) You've got two more minutes and I'm fucking out of here! Where's my water?! No, It's been great. On a personal career level – not necessarily rooted in exploring stuff as an actor – but just personally, just the stuff I have been able to do on this movie, to date, this has been the most geeked out that I have felt on a movie set. I literally come sometimes and get truly, truly excited about coming to work, and that's a good feeling.
What is it like to have Joss as both the writer and director on set?
DOWNEY JR.: Why are you asking questions about Joss? We're sitting here! (laughs) Here's the nice thing: I'm changing too. I'm looking at the back nine, I'm a little more mellow. (laughs) I don't need to tear up the sides and throw them against the wall to say, "I bet we can improve this." I'll just say, "I bet we can improve this." But I might do that on Iron Man 3 just because I am used to doing it.
But the nice thing is that Joss is really quick and incredibly responsible to what his job requirements are to the letter, so we can say… for example, there is a scene at the end that unites Thor and Cap and Tony, and it needed to say a lot and it needed to also not just be one line but it couldn't be two pages, so he said, "Give me a second," and it's not like, "Let's hash this out together," because, as I said, I'm getting better, but I wouldn't mind just pulling out the pen and, "Let's just spit-ball till lunch," and then we would come in with the right thing to shoot. But instead, it wound up being four lines which included all or us, and he gave us, I think, three pages of options. So the guy is really just kind of a machine, but it feels organic.
EVANS: That's a great way to put it. He's just so good as a writer – he's amazing. The banter is so witty – it's not like when sometimes it may have a witty pay-off line, but the set-up is obvious, like, "You set 'em up and I'll knock 'em down." His set-up lines are seamless, they work, they're right, so when this great exchange happens, you are like, "Man, that is so clever." If, for whatever reason, it doesn't work, he can come up with a new exchange just like that.
DOWNEY JR.: I hear he likes to dance.
EVANS: He does boogie. On the weekends, he is like, "We're going to go dancing," and I'm like, "You're going dancing?"
DOWNEY JR.: I don't know why you don't invite me to your parties.
EVANS: I didn't get invited to go dancing. And you weren't in town when Scarlett and I went. You missed it, and that was a good one.
DOWNEY JR.: Oh that's right.
How does Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye fit into the dynamic between the two of you, because he seems more like the company man, the soldier, but we haven't seen him yet, so how does he fit into the dynamic between you?
DOWNEY JR.: Well, he is a S.H.I.E.L.D. guy but he has his own interesting arc in this, and so, not to give it away, he is largely doing his own thing. I think with some of these things, there is a lot of stuff going on and it all makes sense, and then once in a while, we all are together in one place. And if it can all make sense that when we are all together in one place, it's not like, "How did that happen? It's like they all did a photo-shoot in the middle of the movie." But somehow or other, it does.
We know there's a new Cap suit, so can you talk about some of the new features?
EVANS: Yeah, it's great.
Is there a new Iron Man suit too?
DOWNEY JR.: I think so. I don't know, I am wearing tracking dots.
EVANS: I can pee freely now, which is great.
DOWNEY JR.: Cap's new suit, by I.P. Freely!
EVANS: Literally, it is a world of relief. The suit itself is fantastic – it's much more…
DOWNEY JR.: That's Alex Byrne. Great costumer.
EVANS: Yeah, she's something else. But it's great. It makes action sequences a lot easier: the last one was very utilitarian, so everything seems like it has a purpose but it's very difficult to move in. The cowl is tricky on this one. In the initial Cap film, it was just a helmet, but this one looks much more like the comic book. It looks amazing, but is a little toasty in there. But it all looks great.
Chris, can you talk about the fact you are playing Cap again when no-one has seen the first movie yet? You haven't really had any feedback yet.
EVANS: Yeah, I don't know what to do to make it better, damn it! It's tricky, it's true. You would love to get some feedback, to see what works and what didn't.
DOWNEY JR.: You want the pay-off.
EVANS: Yeah.
DOWNEY JR.: This is good for your humility.
EVANS: It is, believe me. Every day. Every day. It's tricky, you know what I mean? It's… I can't think of a clever analogy… (shouts out) Joss!
DOWNEY JR.: (as Joss) "I have three pages and all of them seem to fit in with the flow of the conversation. Great. Well, you fucking write it!"
Tony Stark's past is connected with Captain America's in a way, with his father being involved, so does that dynamic come up in this movie?
DOWNEY JR.: Could you imagine if you met your long-lost brother that was your dad's favorite, and all of a sudden, he is in town? He doesn't really want to hang out, but there's business. It's so annoying.
EVANS: There is a lot of meat on the bone there. There's a lot to chew on, and hopefully it's enough to last even into sequels. It's a complex thing and there really are a lot of layers to it.
Who first gets to shout, "Avengers Assemble!"?
DOWNEY JR.: Most of those things, like people saying something at the same time as they realize it, or all those things – I think there is a pass where they are all omitted, like you're not allowed to say them, and then if they happen… Does someone say, "Avengers Assemble!"?
EVANS: I don't know.
We know that Tom has scenes with each of you, so Loki has scenes with each of the Avengers in an individual setting, so could you talk about your interaction with Loki?
EVANS: Well, I haven't filmed my scene yet.
DOWNEY JR.: Me neither.
EVANS: But based on the character that he played in Thor…
DOWNEY JR.: Why don't we have Joss tell us how we are going to feel when we are done shooting it?
There is a big Hulk cardboard cut-out on the set, so how are you guys working with the Hulk? Are you using the cut-out?
EVANS: We have had a couple of scenes with Ruffalo doing the motion capture stuff, so when they do that, they put him up, standing on a table for the scene. Then sometimes they bring out that cardboard cut-out for special effects to take textures and things like that.
DOWNEY JR.: I tried to have that in my contract for every scene, and there was some sort of passive rebellion.
Is Mark Ruffalo rampaging around all the time? Or is he mellow when you guys are in meetings and such?
DOWNEY JR.: Well, he's on a lot of growth hormones right now.
Well, because in the comics the Hulk, sometimes he's completely out of control, sometimes he does mellow out, people find a way to mellow him out so he can be with the group.
EVANS: Well, you will have to wait and see how we figure out how to be with the Hulk.
DOWNEY JR.: I think Ruffalo was really the right guy at the right time with the right canvas. It's strange to me because the Hulk, out of all the Marvel characters, has been the toughest nut to crack, for some reason. Maybe it's because the long history of the TV show, and that is so engrained that they got it right. If you go back and look at the old TV series, you're like, "I was crazy about this," and it has merit. But I think, again, what the creative team, and Joss and Mark, largely did, was bring something that feels new about it but is also much more like you remember it.
A fun event in the comics, that I know a lot of fans are excited about, is what happens when Thor's hammer hits Cap's shield. Is that something that might be explored in the movie?
EVANS: I don't want to give anything away.
DOWNEY JR.: Oh God, I want to know.
EVANS: There are a lot of characters that have to interact, so I am sure that Joss is going to explore all kinds of possibilities.
DOWNEY JR.: I can tell you that there is a sequence where Black Widow and Iron Man both get stuck inside her suit, and for certain shots, they had to use a wide-angle lens. That's probably the one thing I have never gotten to do before. (laughs)
How is it for Captain America to wake up in the present day, where there is a dude in an iron suit flying about the place, where there's another dude who grows into this giant green monster, so how does he acclimate to that, and not only that, but to work with these people and become a team with these people?
EVANS: Sure. That is one piece of the puzzle, just waking up and there just being the evolutions in technology and things like that, the fact that there are cellphones and the internet and computers and all of this – that's one piece of the puzzle. But I think the real stuff that he struggles with is the changes in society, between the morals and values and the way people interact, and the things that matter, and I think that is why he struggles with Tony at first, because I think Tony is the epitome of modern: he's flash, he's current, he's hip, he's "now", and Cap is kind of stuck in this old mentality and this old way, so even though the Quinjet and all the technology that S.H.I.E.L.D. has, and Tony's suit, does blow his mind, I think the stuff that he's at odds with is more about the way people interact and the current state of people's communal values.
Is it possible to fit everything that people want to see into one Avengers movie? Isn't there just too much that people will be expecting and wanting to see to fit into one two-hour movie? Or do you think there will be stuff to save for the second movie?
EVANS: I think that it's a well that will keep on giving. This film certainly will have no fat. There is so much stuff.
DOWNEY JR.: Exactly. And the thing too is that it's about not so much what to put in it, but what to omit – not so that maybe we can do it later – but I think those were some of the biggest, smartest choices were the things that aren't in it.
For more from our Avengers set visit:
35 Things to Know About The Avengers from our Set Visit; Plus a Two-Part Video Blog Recap and 8 New Images
Mark Ruffalo The Avengers Set Visit Interview
Chris Hemsworth The Avengers Set Visit Interview
Tom Hiddleston The Avengers Set Visit Interview
Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson The Avengers Set Visit Interview
Clark Gregg The Avengers Set Visit Interview
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige The Avengers Set Visit Interview


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BlackBerry Earnings Show Signs of Stabilization Under New CEO
Finally, some good news for BlackBerry. The Canadian smartphone maker reported its earnings results for the first-quarter for fiscal year 2015 on Thursday.
To the surprise of many analysts, the company managed to report a small profit — $23 million (or $0.04 a share), thanks to accounting adjustments under GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles). Take those adjustments — which were non-cash changes — out of the equation, and the company reported a loss of $60 million or $0.11 a share) for the quarter.
Still, even if you view BlackBerry's earnings as a net loss rather than a profit, the company is showing signs of a turnaround. CEO John Chen, who took over BlackBerry seven months ago, is effectively stemming the pattern of losses in revenue, handset sales and market perception that have plagued the beleaguered company for the past few years.
The high level financial stats:
BlackBerry's cash and investment balance is now at $3.1 billion at the end of Q1 2014, up from $2.7 billion the prior quarter
Adjusted gross margin is 48%, compared to 43% in Q4 2014
Recognized revenue on 1.6 million BlackBerry phones
2.6 million phones sold to customers; 1 million had previously been recognized/shipped in previous quarters
Revenue of $966 million, down from $3.07 billion a year ago
Focus in the U.S. is on enterprise
During the company's earnings call, Chen made it clear that moving forward, the company's core focus is on the enterprise and "regulated industries." BlackBerry devices are still popular with consumers outside of the United States, including Indonesia, but in North America, the focus is decidedly on the enterprise and services.
Last year, Chen announced a partnership with Foxconn to deliver a new handset for the Indonesian market. That handset, the BlackBerry Z3, launched last month in Indonesia. It will be arriving in Vietnam and India in the coming weeks.
The phone is manufactured and designed by Foxconn and Foxconn also handles the inventory. BlackBerry's margin on each device is approximately 10%.
Chen says that for the hardware business to be profitable, he thinks the company needs to sell about 10 million devices a year. The company sold 2.6 million devices in Q1, but only recognized revenue on 1.6 million, as a result of poor inventory calculations and prior write-downs in previous quarters. If the company can continue to shift that many devices per quarter (assuming it has exhausted its old backchannel inventory), the company should be able to break even on hardware.
But Chen made it increasingly clear that the company is less interested in hardware. Instead, he sees the biggest growth opportunities in the mobile device management (MDM) space. BlackBerry has managed to make moves to gain momentum back against its competitors such as GOOD and Mobile Iron, according to Chen.
The company issued 1.2 million EZ Pass licenses for BES10, its MDM program that manages BlackBerry and non-BlackBerry devices, in the quarter. EZ Pass is a program that lets businesses trade in old BlackBerry OS or competitor MDM licenses in exchange for free management on BlackBerry's platform.
The free access will eventually turn into a paid model for devices, and Chen hopes to use EZ Pass and the BES10 ecosystem to upsell more services. BES12, the successor to BES10, is due later in the year.
As for consumer BlackBerry fans? The company is shifting its focus away from native BlackBerry development and leveraging the fact that BlackBerry 10 is compatible with many Android applications. On Wednesday, the company announced that it will ship its phones with Amazon's Appstore this fall in conjunction with BlackBerry 10.3.
The goal there is twofold. Firstly, it helps fix the application gaps that still exist in the BlackBerry platform. Apps such as Instagram, Netflix and Candy Crush will be available on BlackBerry devices.
Secondly, according to Chen, it will relieve BlackBerry from having to focus on efforts of the consumer side of the business, allowing it to work on creating "native" solutions for the enterprise and productivity.
But can it work?
As Chen noted on the earnings call, there is still a lot of work left to be done to "fix" BlackBerry. It's also increasingly clear that the new BlackBerry that emerges from these turnaround strategies will be a different company than the one that existed even four years ago.
Although it's important to laud Chen for his work thus far, it's worth questioning the end goal of his strategy. In past interviews, he has remained committed to the hardware market, seeing it as a necessary hook for the enterprise, but the volume of devices the company is moving each quarter has to be a concern. At some point, it's worth asking if the effort in devices is worth the result.
It's worth noting that although BlackBerry reported a paper profit, the company is still losing money. Its losses are falling fast, but the company is not yet in a position where it can claim to be fully profitable.
Still, Chen should be congratulated for accomplishing what Palm was unable to do: transition its business into something sustainable. Even if that means the resulting company is smaller and more focused, at least BlackBerry is showing signs of staying in business.
BlackBerry stock was up $0.92 (about 11%) to $9.20 at the time of this writing.


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In her Glamour Women of the Year interview with Katie Couric (video after jump), Michelle Obama was strong and on-message, giving some of the best advice we've heard (and Katie Couric does a Fran Drescher impression at 15 minutes).
Look, no one expects a hard-hitting interview for the Women of the Year feature - it's meant to be a tribute and an informational Q&A. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but giggle when Katie said - and I paraphrase - "You invited young girls from the D.C. public schools to meet with strong female role models at the White House: Why did you do that?" (Also inadvertently goofy was, upon asking Obama the standard "who would you choose to have dinner with?" Couric added, sympathetically, "it is a hard question, I must say." )
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"we have to remember that it's usually women who handle healthcare decisions." One very interesting moment, I thought, was when Couric added, "You must have learned a lot about this in your previous life as a hospital administrator," and Obama replied, "I've learned a lot in my life as a mom." Message received! When Couric, referencing the scrutiny applied to Obama's appearance, led with, "Do you ever want to say to people, 'Get a life?'" Obama's denial was swift: "Oh no," she said. "It's part of the job." (Since we're on the topic, the First Lady looked lovely and her hair was very, very tall.)
Towards the end of the interview, Couric read a few questions from Glamour readers - things about "juggling," "having it all," and, yes, dating. These spontaneous answers were the interview's highlight. On the subject of keeping sane, Obama said this: "I put my kids first and myself a really close second. One thing I've learned from watching male role models is that they don't hesitate to invest in themselves."
But best of all was her answer to the question on "how you landed such a good guy." "Did you know that Mr. O. was a great catch," asks the reader, "and what advice can you give a 26-year-old young professional" about how to land her own? Not shockingly, Obama says the POTUS "was special in terns of his honesty, his sincerity, his compassion for other people...cute's good, but cute only lasts for so long." And then this, which should really just replace the dating portion of Self-Help:
Look at how the guy treats his mother, what he says about women, how he acts with children he doesn't know. And more importantly how does he treat you? When you're dating a man, you should always feel good...you should never feel less than...you should never doubt yourself, you shouldn't be in a relationship with someone who doesn't make you completely happy or make you feel whole. And if you're in (such a) relationship, don't get married, and find that person who brings you complete and utter joy.


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Body of Coretta Scott King laid to rest
Presidents, preachers, performers join farewells at funeral
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The body of Coretta Scott King was laid to rest Tuesday night after a funeral attended by presidents, poets and graying veterans of the civil rights movement she helped lead after her husband's assassination.
President Bush and three of his predecessors -- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and his father, George H.W. Bush -- praised King for picking up the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s banner when he was killed in 1968.
"She endured the saddest of human cruelties with the greatest of grace," the elder Bush told mourners at the 10,000-seat New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where the youngest of the Kings' four children, Bernice, is a minister.
"By her steadfast determination, she helped to grind away falsehoods and ignorance that had too long been used to divide our society." (Watch the elder Bush praise a 'purposeful life' -- 0:37)
The six-hour service was capped by a eulogy from Bernice King, who was 5 when her father was assassinated.
"Thank you, mother, for your incredible example of Christ-like love and obedience. We're going to miss you," she said.
Flags at federal facilities flew at half-staff to honor King, a tribute bestowed Monday by the current president, who said he brought the "sympathy of our nation" to the funeral.
"We knew her husband only as a young man," Bush said. "But we knew Mrs. King in all the seasons of her life, and there was grace and beauty in every season."
King, 78, died January 30 at a clinic in Mexico, where she had sought alternative treatment for advanced ovarian cancer. She had suffered a severe stroke and a mild heart attack in August. (Full story)
More than 115,000 people filed past King's open coffin Monday during a public viewing at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband and his father had preached. The historic church is part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. (Read what mourners said about her)
More than 40,000 others viewed her body as it lay in repose in the rotunda of the Georgia Capitol, the first woman and the first African-American given such an honor. (Gallery)
After Tuesday's funeral, a hearse brought her coffin to the King Center, which she founded to continue her husband's legacy. His body lies in a marble crypt at the center, and her body will be kept in a temporary tomb at the facility until a permanent one can be built alongside his.
Political edge
The service Tuesday featured tributes from political leaders, longtime friends and celebrities, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Edward Kennedy; poet Maya Angelou; singer Stevie Wonder; and Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson, onetime lieutenants of the slain civil rights leader.
Parts of the service had a political edge as well, with pointed reminders of King's advocacy of nonviolence and occasional jabs at the nearly three-year-old war in Iraq.
Noting the praise showered on King by the many leaders present, Lowery said, "Will words become deeds that meet needs?"
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," he said in a boisterous, rhyming oration. "But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here -- millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."
Lowery's remarks and other barbs were met with bursts of applause. President Bush stood and embraced Lowery with a smile at the end of his comments.
Carter said the support of King and other civil rights figures in 1976 "legitimized a Southern governor as an acceptable candidate for president."
"The efforts of Martin and Coretta have changed America," he said, noting "they were not appreciated even at the highest level of government."
"It was difficult for them personally, with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping," he said.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin harkened back to King's training as a singer. She said King had joined a heavenly "freedom choir" of figures without whom, she said, she never could have become Atlanta's first black, female mayor.
"The last stanza and the highest note of Coretta King's freedom song remains to be sung," she said. "She's gathered us here today from all walks of life and all persuasions to lift our voices in songs of freedom, equality, social and economic justice."
'She uplifted people'
Former President Clinton, who traveled with the current president aboard Air Force One to Atlanta, received a rousing ovation when introduced.
In his remarks, Clinton challenged those present to carry on the Kings' legacy, just as he said Mrs. King did for her husband.
"What really matters if you believe all this stuff we've been saying is, what are we going to do with the rest of our lives?" he said.
Angelou recalled King as a friend who would call her on her birthday, April 4, the date her husband was assassinated.
"She uplifted people and causes," Angelou told CNN on Tuesday. "I would be kind of down in the dumps and refusing to have a party because Dr. King was assassinated on my birthday."
"She'd call me up and say, 'Girrrrl' ... when we were well into our 70s she'd say, 'The sun is shining outside' ... and before you know it, we'd both be laughing, or at least I'd be in a better mood." (Watch Angelou and Sharpton discuss how King affected them -- 6:21)
Funeral-goers were met outside the church by a protest by members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The Topeka, Kansas-based congregation is known for its anti-gay stands and frequently pickets the funerals of people supportive of gay rights, as Mrs. King was.
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BRIDGEPORT -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a local activist against the city and the police officer who arrested him while protesting in front of Mayor Bill Finch's home.
Cecil Young was charged with breach of peace and violating the city's noise ordinance in the Feb. 23, 2009, incident in which he used a bullhorn to protest outside the mayor's home while Finch's wife and 3-year-old child were there.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer issued a summary judgment last week, ending Young's suit against Officer Victor Rodriguez.
"I'm the mayor of our state's largest city, but first and foremost, I'm a husband and father," Finch said in a prepared statement Monday. "I'm well aware that healthy and heated public discourse comes with the territory of being a public servant. And I welcome it.
"But protecting my wife and kids is my top priority. Thanks to Judge Meyer for ensuring that the safety and security of kids and families, in the privacy of their own homes, is protected."
Young alleged that his First Amendment right to free speech was violated when he was arrested outside Finch's Crown Street home.
Young was protesting his dismissal as a city Department of Health employee, and claimed he was fired for speaking out about a lack of action regarding sewage and other unsanitary conditions at the P.T. Barnum Apartments.
New Haven attorney John R. Williams represented Young in the case, which was heard in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport.
"But I also spoke to the judge myself," Young said. "I was terminated after 27 years because I spoke out about contaminated dirt piles. Don't I deserve better than that?"
Young had sought unspecified damages and a trial by judge.
City officials said earlier that Young was terminated because he had missed several days of work without giving notice or providing a proper medical excuse.
Young has two related court cases pending, one in state Superior Court in Bridgeport and the other in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
On the recent federal court decision on his arrest, Young said his arm was injured by handcuffs and that he was held in custody for five hours.
"A state judge had already dismissed this suit; that's why I took it to federal court," Young said.
"I'm very disappointed that a federal judge would rule against me for doing the same thing people do outside of the White House and abortion clinics.
"I was on the sidewalk, I was exercising my right to free speech. What did I do wrong?"
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Less than a day before it was scheduled to go on sale, Nvidia has pushed back the launch date of its Shield gaming device until July.
The delay is due to an unspecified "mechanical issue" that just came to light, Jason Paul, director of the project, wrote in a blog post on Nvidia's website.
"Some final quality-assurance testing has just turned up a mechanical issue that we're not happy with," he wrote. "So, while we announced last week that Shield will go on sale this Thursday, we've taken the hard decision to delay shipping until next month."
Nvidia is "working around the clock" with its supplier to correct the problem and offered apologies to customers who had preordered Shield and were expecting to have it in their hands by the weekend.
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If an employer dismisses an employee on suspicion of age discrimination, that in itself is not age discrimination, an Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.
A front-of-house manager at the Bristol Hippodrome Theatre was dismissed and won his case for unfair dismissal because statutory dismissal procedures had not been followed.
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The Employment Tribunal had found that front-of-house manager Mr G Hussain had been dismissed partially because Live Nation managers thought he found being managed by younger female staff difficult.
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"An unjustified or unreasoned belief that the claimant himself has ageist tendencies may render a dismissal unfair, but it does not begin to justify an inference that he has been dismissed by reason of his age," said the EAT's ruling. "We agree with [Live Nation] that were it otherwise, no employer could safely deal with a suspected discriminator for fear that they would be found to be discriminating."
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