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Short blurb on TBS's Hidamari Sketch page on 22 November saying yes the fourth season will air in 2012. No world yet on in what season.
(Fourth Hidamari Sketch is scheduled to begin broadcasting in 2012. Thank you!)
No real surprise there.
The art work posted 7 October is rather nice, too bad it has the big SAMPLE stamp on it.
|2012-01-09, 15:20
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Hidamari Sketch x SP 01 - To a Harmonious World
The opening of the Specials was very... Charlotte. I know that cake motifs have been common in all media since cakes became a thing, but this being Shaft, it brought that imagery to mind. The ED, with Yuno's dream sequence, was beautiful. Shaft's been getting a lot bolder with Hidamari as the franchise goes on, all while keeping the art style consistent. I waited until I had the OP and ED on my hands to watch, because music is important to me. The new character song sung by the Hidamari Six - "Egao Circle" - is pretty good too.
The first half of ep. 1 was probably my favorite of all the segments. The gag with Hiro and Sae trying to act out the duo, everyone's ideas of what constituted a sculpture (X-Duck!) and the naming session all stood out as either great gags or little contemplative moments. In the second half, seeing Yuno try to swim was cute - slowly but surely, she's growing. Also liked Nori's comment about envisioning Nazuna full-nude. That's a dirty mind she's got there. The various sketches of Yuno were encompassing the spirit of the show as well - heartwarming, but just a little goofy.
Hidamari Sketch x SP 02 - Curtains for You, Hiro
The first segment with the curtains was a lot of fun. Since there was a lot of Yoshinoya this episode, and she steals pretty much any scene she's in. The "I'm still pure white!" exclamation was great. I wonder if, in the second half, she through the Principal was going to call her "Ushinoya". Speaking of the Principal, aside from that moment (both he and Yuno got knocked down. Ow.), his only other appearances were shaking his groove thing in the OP and surfing in episode 1. Yet they were still great. Don't mess with the principal.
The scenes at the buffet were fun. The Hidamari crew always makes even going out to eat seem like an adventure. And hey, more of the Landlady. The only person who didn't appear in these specials at all was Natsume, but the cast is plenty large as it is. Keep going forward, Hidamari, and I'll keep going with you.
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|2012-04-01, 23:13
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At least we have Vol6 of the manga coming out in late June to hold us over.
|2012-04-02, 00:01
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(I edited the thread title to clarify.)
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|2012-04-02, 04:17
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After three seasons, a load of specials and an upcoming fourth season have any of the mods considered giving this series a sub-forum?
I can just imagine a favorite character thread with everyone voting for every girl. I know I will.
|2012-04-02, 11:28
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The official line on sub-forums is here, by the way.
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I agree with the person in page 1 who said that Nazuna and Nori need more screentime in Honeycomb. They got a decent amount in SP, but I was kinda disappointed they weren't used too much in Hoshimittsu.
I'm still hyped for Honeycomb in any case I'm sure it'll be great as always.
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ANN: The talent agency Axl One has issued a notice stating that voice actress Yuko Goto (Hiro in Hidamari Sketch, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) will be going on hiatus due to poor health. According to the statement, Goto was told by a physician that she required treatment after undergoing an examination at a hospital.
Here's hoping she's soon recovered!
|2012-05-19, 12:29
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What's worse is that her hospitalization could mean the show's production gets postponed for quite some time.
Here's hoping that she makes a swift and full recovery, though from what I read about her illness (it's apparently an autoimmune disease that caused trouble to her before), it could take a while.
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Rosario+Vampire Manga
Shounen manga serialized in Jump by IKEDA Akihisa.
Synopsis from mangaupdates:
By a bizzare coincidence, Tsukune Aono has accidentally gotten himself admitted to a youkai acadamy, a school attended by monsters (youkai). Just when he thinks he'll run away from there, he meets the beautiful girl Moka and his mood turns ultra happy. However, she transforms into her true form when the rosary on her chest is taken off, she's a super vampire!
Not a bad manga. It's not exceptional or anything, but it's entertaining enough. It does have some very typical shounen moments, but the artwork is good enough to keep me reading. :heh: And the plot thickens in volume 4 and onwards.
Too bad Zombie zone doesn't work on it too often. I have a raw of vol 6 and it looks Very interesting.
ZZ is still on 3 if I remember right.
It becomes a harem by Vol 2 and I like reading about all the mythological creatures in each chapter.
I love the succubus, whatever her name was. AT LEAST SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SUCK AONO'S BLOOD. :(
I bought up to volume 8 of this series (I think I buy too much manga...) :/
To be honest, the first few volumes were rather dull and repetive. Aono gets into trouble, he pulls off Moka's rosary, super vampire saves the day. Rinse and repeat. The witch arc in volume 4 was decent though. The plot picked up around volumes 5 and 6 (especially volume 6, good stuffs), however volume 7 somehow left me somewhat disappointed. And judging from the story progression in volume 8, this series seems to be ending soon, unless the mangaka wants to drag on and write another arc.
ok so far i really like it and only read to chapter 12 because the damn has not been translated but o well gotta wait and see. By the way I heard they were going to animate this when they do i hope they stick closely to the manga especially the developing relationship between Tsukune and Moka because we know they care for each other in more than just being friends not having just drag it out like othere series do.
Finally bought and read volume 10. Apparently, the author does want to drag on the series. Volume 10 is the last volume of the first arc, and the author is continuing with the 2nd arc as we speak.
The only good thing I can think of is that when the anime comes out next year, it probably won't deviate much from the manga since there's already a complete arc for them to animate. Unless they really really want a different ending.
As for the first arc of the manga, it was pretty decent. Nothing too fancy but it is as complete as a story arc can get. I can only guess what the author is planning for the 2nd arc.
so did Tsukune fix his 'problem'?
How about this, did his sister find out?
I thought the series was also decent in the beginning but it started to get good when you know what hapeens to the main character. I'm hoping the manga-ka will get rid of the the "monster of the week" and end up putting more story arc.
I just recently looked up the first three volums, I didn't get that attached to it since it really appeard to lack plot. But now when you all say that the plot thickens I'm more interested to see how things go. Somehow though, I can imagine that I wouldn't mind this made into an anime, it would suit it. However so far it lacks explanation to such an extent that I've almost given up on finding one. In the beginning the "randomness" was all over the place. But well I'll try to read up further, since apperently it gets better...
BTW V4 has been translated and it appears the group is starting on R+V II which already has the 4th girl from the Anime that I am not familiar with.
The first major story has ended. The mangaka has started on a sequel, which is basically a second major arc.
It is not a sequel per se; R+V's new arc is only named Season II because the series had to switch magazines when Monthly Shonen Jump was put out of service and thankfully replaced by Jump Square SQ. S2 simply picks up where S1 left off; I doubt we'll even see mention of S2 anywhere in the volumes as it is of no consquence to the publishing/printing companies...
Oh, and, btw, according to SimonSays.com, the following titles have just been licensed by Viz:
=X is this series still running? Just curious. Very light but kinda nice.
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The sign reads: "If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years." […]
In his waiting room, Cassell also has provided his patients with photocopies of a health-care timeline produced by Republican leaders that outlines "major provisions" in the health-care package. The doctor put a sign above the stack of copies that reads: "This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it."
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AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUsby Ryan Smith on September 23, 2009 9:00 AM EST
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One aspect AMD was specifically looking to improve in Cypress over RV770 was idle power usage. The load power usage for RV770 was fine at 160W for the HD4870, but that power usage wasn't dropping by a great deal when idle – it fell by less than half to 90W. Later BIOS revisions managed to knock a few more watts off of this, but it wasn't a significant change, and even later designs like RV790 still had limits to their idling abilities by only being able to go down to 60W at idle.
As a consequence, AMD went about designing the Cypress with a much, much lower target in mind. Their goal was to get idle power down to 30W, 1/3rd that of RV770. What they got was even better: they came in past that target by 10%, hitting a final idle power of 27W. As a result the Cypress can idle at 30% of the power as RV770, or as compared to Cypress's load power of 188W, some 14% of its load power.
Accomplishing this kind of dramatic reduction in idle power usage required several changes. Key among them has been the installation of additional power regulating circuitry on the board, and additional die space on Cypress assigned to power regulation. Notably, all of these changes were accomplished without the use of power-gating to shut down unused portions of the chip, something that's common on CPUs. Instead all of these changes have been achieved through more exhaustive clock-gating (that is, reducing power consumption by reducing clock speeds), something GPUs have been doing for some time now.
The use of clock-gating is quickly evident when we discuss the idle/2D clock speeds of the 5870, which is 150mhz for the core, and 300mhz for the memory . The idle clock speeds here are significantly lower than the 4870 (550/900), which in the case of the core is the source of its power savings as compared to the 4870. As tweakers who have attempted to manually reduce the idle clocks on RV770 based cards for further power savings have noticed, RV770 actually loses stability in most situations if its core clock drops too low. With the Cypress this has been rectified, enabling it to hit these lower core speeds.
Even bigger however are the enhancements to Cypress's memory controller, which allow it to utilize a number of power-saving tricks with GDDR5 RAM, along with other features that we'll get to in a bit. With RV770's memory controller, it was not capable of taking advantage of very many of GDDR5's advanced features besides the higher bandwidth abilities. Lacking this full bag of tricks, RV770 and its derivatives were unable to reduce the memory clock speed, which is why the 4870 and other products had such high memory clock speeds even at idle. In turn this limited the reduction in power consumption attained by idling GDDR5 modules.
With Cypress AMD has implemented nearly the entire suite of GDDR5's power saving features, allowing them to reduce the power usage of the memory controller and the GDDR5 modules themselves. As with the improvements to the core clock, key among the improvement in memory power usage is the ability to go to much lower memory clock speeds, using fast GDDR5 link re-training to quickly switch the memory clock speed and voltage without inducing glitches. AMD is also now using GDDR5's low power strobe mode, which in turn allows the memory controller to save power by turning off the clock data recovery mechanism. When discussing the matter with AMD, they compared these changes to putting the memory modules and memory controller into a GDDR3-like mode, which is a fair description of how GDDR5 behaves when its high-speed features are not enabled.
Finally, AMD was able to find yet more power savings for Crossfire configurations, and as a result the slave card(s) in a Crossfire configuration can use even less power. The value given to us for an idling slave card is 20W, which is a product of the fact that the slave cards go completely unused when the system is idling. In this state slave cards are still capable of instantaneously ramping up for full-load use, although conceivably AMD could go even lower still by powering down the slave cards entirely at a cost of this ability.
On the opposite side of the ability to achieve such low idle power usage is the need to manage load power usage, which was also overhauled for the Cypress. As a reminder, TDP is not an absolute maximum, rather it's a maximum based on what's believed to be the highest reasonable load the card will ever experience. As a result it's possible in extreme circumstances for the card to need power beyond what its TDP is rated for, which is a problem.
That problem reared its head a lot for the RV770 in particular, with the rise in popularity of stress testing programs like FurMark and OCCT. Although stress testers on the CPU side are nothing new, FurMark and OCCT heralded a new generation of GPU stress testers that were extremely effective in generating a maximum load. Unfortunately for RV770, the maximum possible load and the TDP are pretty far apart, which becomes a problem since the VRMs used in a card only need to be spec'd to meet the TDP of a card plus some safety room. They don't need to be able to meet whatever the true maximum load of a card can be, as it should never happen.
Why is this? AMD believes that the instruction streams generated by OCCT and FurMark are entirely unrealistic. They try to hit everything at once, and this is something that they don't believe a game or even a GPGPU application would ever do. For this reason these programs are held in low regard by AMD, and in our discussions with them they referred to them as "power viruses", a term that's normally associated with malware. We don't agree with the terminology, but in our testing we can't disagree with AMD about the realism of their load – we can't find anything that generates the same kind of loads as OCCT and FurMark.
Regardless of what AMD wants to call these stress testers, there was a real problem when they were run on RV770. The overcurrent situation they created was too much for the VRMs on many cards, and as a failsafe these cards would shut down to protect the VRMs. At a user level shutting down like this isn't a very helpful failsafe mode. At a hardware level shutting down like this isn't enough to protect the VRMs in all situations. Ultimately these programs were capable of permanently damaging RV770 cards, and AMD needed to do something about it. For RV770 they could use the drivers to throttle these programs; until Catalyst 9.8 they detected the program by name, and since 9.8 they detect the ratio of texture to ALU instructions (Ed: We're told NVIDIA throttles similarly, but we don't have a good control for testing this statement). This keeps RV770 safe, but it wasn't good enough. It's a hardware problem, the solution needs to be in hardware, particularly if anyone really did write a power virus in the future that the drivers couldn't stop, in an attempt to break cards on a wide scale.
This brings us to Cypress. For Cypress, AMD has implemented a hardware solution to the VRM problem, by dedicating a very small portion of Cypress's die to a monitoring chip. In this case the job of the monitor is to continually monitor the VRMs for dangerous conditions. Should the VRMs end up in a critical state, the monitor will immediately throttle back the card by one PowerPlay level. The card will continue operating at this level until the VRMs are back to safe levels, at which point the monitor will allow the card to go back to the requested performance level. In the case of a stressful program, this can continue to go back and forth as the VRMs permit.
By implementing this at the hardware level, Cypress cards are fully protected against all possible overcurrent situations, so that it's not possible for any program (OCCT, FurMark, or otherwise) to damage the hardware by generating too high of a load. This also means that the protections at the driver level are not needed, and we've confirmed with AMD that the 5870 is allowed to run to the point where it maxes out or where overcurrent protection kicks in.
On that note, because card manufacturers can use different VRMs, it's very likely that we're going to see some separation in performance on FurMark and OCCT based on the quality of the VRMs. The cheapest cards with the cheapest VRMs will need to throttle the most, while luxury cards with better VRMs would need to throttle little, if at all. This should make little difference in stock performance on real games and applications (since as we covered earlier, we can't find anything that pushes a card to excess) but it will likely make itself apparent in overclocking. Overclocked cards - particularly those with voltage modifications – may hit throttle situations in normal applications, which means the VRMs will make a difference here. It also means that overclockers need to keep an eye on clock speeds, as the card shutting down is no longer a tell-tale sign that you're pushing it too hard.
Finally, while we're discussing the monitoring chip, we may as well talk about the rest of its features. Along with monitoring the GPU, it also is a PWM controller. This means that the PWM controller is no longer a separate part that card builders add themselves, and as such we won't be seeing any cards using a 2pin fixed speed fan to save money on the PWM controller. All Cypress cards (and presumably, all derivatives) will have the ability to use a 4pin fan built-in.
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pinguin - Monday, September 28, 2009 - linkIt IS a hard launch as obviously a few cards are available. That consumers rip them off one's hand is another problem...
Anyway I'll wait until the 5650: 4850 performance w/o PCIe connector + DX11: I'm coming! What else do I need to show off to my friends still staying with rebranded G92 chips!! Reply
jabroni619 - Friday, September 25, 2009 - linkI guess it is, it was even better still when I decided to come home a bit early and UPS got there 2 hours sooner than they usually do. Playing through Crysis Warhead once more "The way it's meant to be played" on an ATI card though.
Also included was a Dirt 2 code to be activated on steam, which I nearly threw out! Now I just have to wait for the game to be released. Reply
camylarde - Thursday, September 24, 2009 - linkLol. I was horrified, when i heard that my precious badminton racquet purchased on my friends address in england was "delivered" to the front door, waiting for him all day on the doorstep.
if the card is gonna wait for you in a similar fashion, may i get to know where do you live to... erm... be there when you open the box and celebrate with you?
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SiliconDoc - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkI'm not certain how you saw any available then, looks from 3 different states didn't show that.
Heck they weren't even active at 8 am, nor later than that. I guess you "got the only one" that wasn't Autonotify when arriving. Reply
The0ne - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkThis is the last piece of hardware I've been waiting for before I build my i7 system. Now I think it's a ok time for enthusiast to start building again but on a cheaper budget with better performance :) no more of these 200-300 MB and stuff lol Reply
gwolfman - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkI agree. Full bit-streaming support! Yeaz! Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - linkThey should have given the option for 5870 to have triple DVI rather than single DVI + Dual DP. :( Reply


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First stop was at Red Cloud, Nebraska- the home of the author Willa Cather. Red Cloud is a pretty little quaint town with many historical buildings, several of which relate to some of the writings of Willa Cather. Her book, My Antonia was set around some of the homes and people of Red Cloud. We toured her original home and drove around the tour to see more of the historical buildings. I had never been to the little town and it was treat, especially to be taken back in time in our minds at least.
|Willa Cather home
|Cather historical marker
|Me in front of her home
|Historical old home of Willa Cather's writings
|Beautiful old red brick building, Red Cloud, Ne.
|Old bank block, Willa scratched her initials in the outside wall
|Quaint church in Red Cloud, Ne.
The Homestead National Monument near Beatrice, Nebraska was our next stop on our exploring Nebraska some if it's great sites. For anyone interested in history and especially for those with ties to ancestors who may have settled on the plains or other areas of the country who offered homestead land, this is a fun place to visit and learn more about early settlement. All four pages of the original Homestead Act of 1862 are on display at the monument right now and through the end of May in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act. What an awesome experience to have been able to view this historical document in its entirety! I was absolutely thrilled to see it in person and be so close to the actual signature of Abraham Lincoln. The display is such that visitors can get quite up close to the document as it is shown behind glass as a unit. It is under armed guard, a rather strange experience to see in the small museum. We were able to get close enough to take semi-descent photos but as NO FLASH or tripods were allowed, there is a rather bad glass reflection from other display lights and the display is dimly lit for preservation purposes, it is hard to get excellent quality photos. None the less, we did get some photos and loved seeing the document. The Homestead monument also offers a great museum and several displays for everyone to learn more about that period in history. A really nice outdoor learning center, theater with learning films and two excellent gift shops in both buildings at the monument makes this a very worth while historical place to visit even during the times that the original document is not there. I can't wait to go back and spend some time there. Take along some extra fun money as they offer very nice books on history, genealogy, Nebraska, quilts and more! Enjoy a few of the photos that we took when we visited the Homestead National Monument last week!
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|Signature of Abraham Lincoln
|Shows how the Homestead Act document is displayed
|Copy of original poster
A few of our own family Homestead Documents are shown here to give you an idea of what some of the pages look like when you are able to find your own family documents online. I've included a couple pages from about three different people's document folders so you can see the variety of papers that may appear in your ancestors papers. Most packets will contain around 15 pages or more of document pages for each person who applied for a Homestead. Fold3 is slowly adding the documents to its database and about half of Nebraska is available at this time. The Fold 3 database of Homestead records is FREE through May. Be sure to check back often if you are searching for your ancestor's records as new documents are being added daily. Copies of these documents are NOT available at the Homestead National Monument so do not make the trip there under the assumption that they house those records.
Many of my personal families did settle and take homestead land in Nebraska so I have been lucky to get several of the documents. What a thrill to read how our ancestors attained and settled their land!
The fun of discovering your ancestor in Homestead Records is hard to describe, one gets a warm feeling of closeness to those who came before. My cousin and I really had a wonderful time touring the Homestead National Monument and other historical sites in Nebraska while spending
quality time together, it was another grand genealogy outing!
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Public Library: An American Commons
Photographs by Robert Dawson on view in the San Francisco Main Library, Jewett Gallery, April 9 - June 12, 2011
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - T.S. Elliot
Public Library: An American Commons is an exhibition and photographic survey of public libraries throughout the U.S. by San Francisco-based photographer Robert Dawson. There are more than 17,000 public libraries in this country. Since Dawson began the project in 1994 he has photographed hundreds of libraries in 16 states. From Alaska to Florida and from New England to California, the photographs show a vibrant, essential yet vulnerable system.
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Another photograph shows a library from New Orleans, La., damaged in 2007 by Hurricane Katrina; this library remains closed and patrons must check their books out of a nearby trailer. A third example shows a library in a trailer in Death Valley National Park. This serves as the only library for hundreds of miles. The roof is shaded to lessen the intense summer heat of one of the hottest places in the world. While each library has its own unique set of needs, the nationwide system of local libraries constitutes an important part of a healthy society. In the 19th century there was a strong correlation between the public library movement and the movement for public education.
People understood that the future of democracy was contingent on an educated citizenry and that every citizen should have the right of free access to community-owned resources. These ideas coalesced into today's public libraries which function as a system of non-commercial centers that help us define what we value and what we share.
This exhibition comes at an important time for the San Francisco Public Library which celebrates National Library Week from April 11-15 and the 15th anniversary of the Main Library which opened April 18, 1996. 2011 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library who help make exhibitions and many of their related programs possible.
Related Programs:
Artist Talk with Robert Dawson
April 12, 6 p.m., Koret Auditorium, Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
Gallery Walkthrough with Photographer Robert Dawson
Photographer Robert Dawson and photo curator/historian, Ellen Manchester, will lead an informal tour and discussion of Dawson's photographs in the exhibition.
May 7, 6 p.m., Jewett Gallery, Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
From Carnegie to Koolhaas: Robert Dawson's photographs of Public Libraries: Artist talk with Robert Dawson
From highlighting historic Carnegie libraries to exploring contemporary architecture such as the Rem Koolhaas-designed Seattle Public Library, Dawson's photographs depict a diverse range of library architecture throughout the U.S.
May 14, 3 p.m., Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch Library, 451 Jersey St., San Francisco.
Carnegie to Contemporary: Building San Francisco Public Libraries
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All programs at the Library are Free.
Note to editors: High resolution images of the photographs in this exhibition are available. Robert Dawson is also available for interviews.


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May 19, 2009 -- Placing bone marrow cells directly into a heart that is lacking blood flow significantly improves angina symptoms, heart function, and a patient's quality of life, a study shows.
Jan van Ramshorst, MD, of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and colleagues say bone marrow cell therapy may be a beneficial treatment for patients with chronic myocardial ischemia, a condition that results in long-term, reduced blood flow to certain areas of the heart.
Their study is published in the May 20 edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study included 50 patients, mostly men about 64 years old, whose symptoms did not respond to conventional treatments. At the start of the study, each participant underwent a procedure to have bone marrow removed from the hip. Then, the participants randomly received either eight bone marrow cell injections or a placebo solution directly into the affected heart muscle.
Three months later, tests to evaluate heart function and blood flow revealed that the participants who received the bone marrow cells had modest improvements in blood flow to the heart muscle and in overall heart function. Specifically, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart showed that bone marrow cell therapy led to improvements in the left ventricle's ability to pump with each contraction. (This measurement is called left ventricular ejection fraction, or LVEF.)
Those who received the bone marrow cell injections also had:
- Better scores on quality-of-life tests three and six months later
- Improvements in the ability to exercise on a stationary bicycle
A handful of studies have also looked at the effect of bone marrow cell therapy in similar groups of patients and found the therapy to be "safe and feasible," according to background information in the journal report. Other, smaller studies evaluating the effect of this treatment on patients with ischemic heart disease have had varying results.
The current study is the first randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to link bone marrow cell therapy improvements in angina symptoms and left ventricle function with a "significant improvement" in the flow of blood to the heart muscle. It is not yet clear whether these improvements will translate into better survival for the treated patients.


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Affirming their commitment to promote sustainable development in the Philippines, ASSIST, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), European Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (ECCP) and the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR) signed a memorandum of agreement for the Green Financing project last April 12, 2012 at the DBP Executive Lounge.
Green Financing aims to support environment-friendly processes and systems such as cleaner production, waste minimization, resource conservation, and energy efficiency. For this project, DBP earmarked 20.6B for industries and local government units to use on green initiatives.
DBP Program Development Head Vice President Paul Lazaro welcomed the attendees, after which ASSIST Managing Director Sreeni Narayanan, EMB-DENR Director Atty. Juan Miguel Cuna ECCP President Hubert D' Aboville and ADFIAP Secretary General Octavio Peralta signed the partnership agreement.
In his closing remarks, DBP President and CEO Francisco F. Del Rosario Jr. commended the partners for their collaborative effort especially in this effort for sustainable development.
ASSIST Executive Director Murali, Group Executive Matthias Wichmann, Group Associate Mahnaz Zanganeh and Projects and Grants Management Associate Melba Tutor were also present..
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Famous Psychic Sylvia Browne Dies
Famous psychic Sylvia Browne has died at the age of 77.
Browne and her skills were featured on major TV shows of the 1990s, like 'Montel,' 'Larry King Live' and 'Unsolved Mysteries.' Her specialty? Psychic detective work, which found her aiding several missing person cases but not always to accurate results.
Browne's record as a seer was certainly stained. A recent psychic snafu saw her claim that Amanda Berry, who was missing since 2003, was dead. Berry was one of the women held captive by Ariel Castro in his Ohio home, and she eventually turned up alive. Browne attributed it to a mistake.
Her son Chris confirmed that Browne died in the morning (Nov. 20) in San Jose, Calif. She was surrounded by friends and family when she succumbed. See her obituary here.
We can't help but wonder: Did Browne forecast her own death, since she was a psychic? Her career sort of begs that question.
PopCrush sends our best out to Browne's loved ones in this difficult time.


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Tunisia has a rich fusion of 700 miles of golden beaches, premier golfing courses, luscious green parks and a unique cuisine mixed with over 3,000 years of history. Famed as the Star Wars location, the 'Golden South' Sahara Desert offers camel-riding, quad biking, ancient cities and monumental sites.
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The Djerba island romances visitors with miles of unspoilt coastline, warm waters and its long hot summers. Admire the beauty and history of the 15th Century Borj el Kebir fortress or visit The Ghriba synagogue; the holiest Jewish Building in North Africa. An ideal location to discover southern Tunisia, this fabulous destination tempts visitors with luxury golf courses, desert safaris and the colourful festival of Ulysses in August.
Hammamet, the "Tunisian Saint Tropez", is a popular tourist destination and offers relaxing beaches, clear waters and fashionable boutiques set against the backdrop of orange and lemon groves. Admire stunning views of the harbour from the Kasbah or explore the Medina (old town) with its colourful Souks and dominating Mosques.
Kantaoui, Sousse & Monastir
Tunisian costal resorts sharing miles of golden beaches, picturesque harbours and elegant terraced restaurants: the ancient city Sousse is filled with historical sights and character; the modern Port El Kantaoui is rich in Andalucian charm; Monastir has a small Medina and old Ribat; Skanes is popular with golfers.
Tunisia's captivating capital Tunis is surrounded by the northern Belvédère hills and southern Sidi Bel Hassen hills. Experience the Tunisian culture in the Medina (old town) home to colourful Souks and craftsmen. A must see includes the Bardo Museum with its world-class mosaic collections.
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Brussels, 6 July 2012
Emissions trading: Commission clears temporary free allowances for power plants in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania
The European Commission today authorised requests from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania for a continued free allocation of EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) allowances to their power sectors beyond this year. The Commission has taken these decisions under provisions which allow certain Member States exemptions from the general rule that, from 2013 onwards, the power sector must buy all its allowances at auctions or in the market. The Commission has already approved applications from Cyprus, Estonia and Lithuania.
Free allocation for power plants to fall annually
Under the revised EU ETS Directive1 adopted in 2009, 10 Member States were given the possibility to request temporary exemptions from the rule that full auctioning of EU ETS allowances will apply from 2013 in the power sector. In September 2011 eight2 of these Member States submitted applications for temporary free allocations. The Commission is obliged to assess these in accordance with the rules and conditions laid down in the Directive.
Following some modifications to the applications from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania, the Commission has today accepted them. In May the Commission authorised requests from Cyprus, Estonia and Lithuania (see MEMO/12/350).
In total, more than 268 million allowances will be allocated for free to power plants in these six countries in the period 2013 to 2019. The number will be reduced each year, reaching zero in 2020 (see Annex). The Member States will put in place strict monitoring and enforcement rules to ensure that the economic value of free allowances is at least mirrored, if not exceeded, by a corresponding amount of investments in modernising their electricity generation.
The decisions are without prejudice to a forthcoming state aid assessment by the Commission.
The Commission may reject an application or any aspect thereof but has the option to approve applications tacitly. For reasons of legal certainty the Commission adopts a decision on each application even if the applications are approved in their entirety.
Next steps
The assessments of the Hungarian and Polish applications are pending and will be concluded soon.
The temporary free allocation of allowances represents a major derogation from the general rule laid down in the revised EU ETS legislation that there should be no free allocation for power plants. For this reason, the European Parliament and Council made temporary free allocation subject to several conditions:
More information on transitional free allocation for power generators can be found at:
See also MEMO/12/531 (questions & answers)
Number of allowances to be allocated for free to power plants by Member State and year
Directive 2009/29/EC
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Romania submitted applications for temporary free allocation. Malta and Latvia were also eligible but did not submit applications.
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Treating scars these days might be something that is hard for people to do because of the fact that there are types of scars that are hard to get rid of. There are also tons of scar treatment options that people could check out.
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- Chemical peels may also be one of those great options that could help get rid of the scars. It is somewhat similar to dermabrasion because people would also have to suffer from the burning of the skin and would then result to skin peeling. This simply means that the only people who could take advantage of this are those who do not leave their homes or those who are willing to go on leave to try out this procedure.
- Laser resurfacing should also be on top of the list and this process just makes use of laser that helps diminish the appearance of scars. This is not the best treatment for scars though since this could only be used in specific types of scars. It is important to seek advice from doctors so as they would provide the best solutions to treat scars.
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Management experts knock Obama
After the HealthCare.gov debacle first exploded three months ago, President Barack Obama pleaded for people to cut him a little slack: "I wanted to go in and fix it myself, but I don't write code."
At his year-end news conference recently, he struck a different tone: "Since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up."
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"We screwed it up" is not exactly the same thing as "I screwed it up." Even so, those two quotes are mileposts on one of 2013's biggest stories: Obama's bumpy graduate-level education in management theory.
( Also on POLITICO: Full health care policy coverage)
A glitchy website and a wave of canceled plans gave Obama the worst headlines of his presidency in 2013, but at year's end a range of management experts interviewed by POLITICO said a central question tended to get lost in the partisan firefight: To what extent do Obamacare's early problems reflect the limitations, in experience and intellectual interest, of its namesake?
The heart of the issue, many of these people say, is that Obama and his inner circle had scant executive experience prior to arriving in the West Wing, and dim appreciation of the myriad ways the federal bureaucracy can frustrate an ambitious president. And above all, they had little apparent interest in the kind of organizational and motivational concepts that typically are the preoccupation of the most celebrated modern managers.
"No one asked you to write code or be a technical expert, but the expectation is you can set up a process," said Kellogg School of Management professor Daniel Diermeier. "Companies do it every day."
( Also on POLITICO: Official who led HealthCare.gov rollout steps down)
The critiques from these experts also raise a broader issue: Historically, the presidency is a political office, or, at its best, what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a position of moral leadership."
Just two modern presidents came to the office identified primarily with large-scale organizational achievements: Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II and Herbert Hoover for leading European famine relief after World War I. Hoover's failure, in particular, damaged the notion that effective managers necessarily make effective presidents.
It is also a fact, however, that Obama came to office with less executive experience — precisely none — than any president since Gerald Ford.
( PHOTOS: Obamacare online glitches: 25 great quotes)
For nearly five years, this dearth didn't seem to matter much. He responded with cool self-confidence during his first weeks in office, in the midst of a financial meltdown, continuing George W. Bush's bank bailout and then passing his own $787 billion stimulus package. The raid that killed Osama bin Laden may not have been, as Vice President Joe Biden said, the most "audacious plan" in 500 years. But it certainly did not suggest, as the Obamacare rollout did, a president squinting Elmer Fudd-like to understand what was happening — and not happening — in the bowels of his own government about his most important domestic initiative.
"Where we're seeing these costs are with the largest policy processes in the administration," said John Hudak, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. "So it's easier to sort of smooth over or tuck away some of the small-ball managerial failures, but this is a really big one and one that requires a lot of managerial expertise and it just wasn't there and it's not there in the White House."
Part of the process that was initially missing — and that came up repeatedly both in conversations with experts and in the broader public discourse — was the appointment of someone to play a "systems integrator" role, someone who could have had their hands in the guts of the website project day to day. Jeff Zients's nomination to lead the website rescue effort, coming a few weeks into October, looked intended to close that gap.
( Also on POLITICO: 2014 look ahead: 6 White House aides to watch)
"Bringing those pieces together is at least half of the project, if not more than half of the project," said Elizabeth G. Pontikes, an associate professor of organizations and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The website has undoubtedly improved since its troubled launch on Oct. 1, and the White House has been working hard on a campaign to promote success stories pegged to the Wednesday kickoff of many Americans' new insurance plans — a sign of optimism about the project and its management in the new year.
And the reporting on the run-up to implementation doesn't suggest that the root cause was West Wing indifference or laziness. "The way I am attacking this is the way I attacked a lot of problems at the national security staff," chief of staff Denis McDonough told The New York Times last summer about preparation for the rollout. He was said to be running war rooms filled with two dozen squad members and zealously distributing countdown calendars for the project.
( Also on POLITICO: Health plans scramble to finalize Obamacare enrollments)
"History will judge the president's management by the millions of Americans who got quality, affordable health care for the first time, didn't have to worry about going bankrupt because someone in their family gets sick or never had to worry about being discriminated against for having a pre-existing condition — all thanks to the Affordable Care Act," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest in an email.
But there is a difference between having meetings and knowing which questions to ask. There's also a difference between inviting concerns to be raised and creating a climate where people involved in the project actually feel they can raise those concerns.


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Welcome to Airlie Beach MYaura Bed and Breakfast, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef the Whitsunday Islands. MYaura Bed and Breakfast is perched above Airlie Beach Village, with fantastic seaviews out to the Coral Sea, Hayman and Hook Island. Just a 7 minute walk to the cafes, restaurants, shops, waterfront and lagoon.
Myaura was purpose built with your comfort and privacy in mind. The guest level is on a separate level to the main house, all guest rooms have a large deck with an outdoor setting to enjoy the view and sea breeze, and leads to the beautiful pool for soaking up the sun. Each room has been decorated in a different style, Nautical, Harmony and Australiana.
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President and CEO, DURECT
James E. Brown, D.V.M., co-founded DURECT in 1998 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since June of that year. DURECT is a publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical company with two late-stage products in development. The first of these is REMOXY®, an abuse-deterrent formulation of oxycodone for the treatment of chronic pain, in development by Pfizer. The second is POSIDUR™ a controlled release formulation of bupivacaine for the treatment of post-operative pain. DURECT has a number of earlier stage programs as well as two commercial product lines, the ALZET® osmotic mini-pump and LACTEL® Absorbable Polymers
Prior to founding DURECT, Dr. Brown worked at ALZA Corporation as Vice President of Biopharmaceutical and Implant Research and Development. Prior working at ALZA, Dr. Brown held various positions at Syntex Corporation including Director of Business Development, Director of Joint Ventures for Discovery Research, and Program Director for Syntex Research and Development. He began his career in the biopharmaceutical industry working at SYVA, a medical diagnostics company. He has served on a number of boards including St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California.
Dr. Brown holds a B.A. from San Jose State University and a D.V.M. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) from the University of California, Davis where he also conducted post-graduate work in pharmacology and toxicology.


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The FBI is playing a significant role in the investigation into the death of a New York City woman in Istanbul while on a solo vacation, a U.S. congressman said Monday.
Rep. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent, said U.S. investigators were invited by Turkish authorities to assist as they try to find out what happened to Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two who disappeared Jan. 21. Her body was found 12 days later, near the remnants of the city's ancient walls. Police said she had suffered a fatal blow to the head.
Prosecutors in Istanbul got a court order Monday for authorities to take blood and DNA samples from 21 people already questioned in the death, according to Turkish state media.
Meanwhile, her family was working out how to return her body to the U.S.
"Our No. 1 priority right now is bringing Sarai home," said Grimm, who accompanied Sierra's parents, Betzaida and Dennis Jimenez, as they spoke to the media at the home of a family friend on New York's Staten Island.
Sierra's husband, Steven, is in Istanbul, where he traveled last week to help in the search. He intends to accompany her body back to New York, but the family is still determining how to fund the transport. Their church and friends are working to raise money to help defray the costs.
Turkish authorities finished an autopsy Monday on Sierra and gave DNA samples from it to a crime lab, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. After that, Istanbul prosecutors got the court order but did not identify the possible suspects, the agency reported.
On Monday, police with sniffer dogs were scouring the area where the body was found for clues, it said. The Milliyet newspaper said the forensic lab will examine samples from Sierra's fingernails as well as hair and other samples from a blanket found near her body. It said some nail scrapings suggest she may have tried to fight off at least one attacker.
Sarai Sierra made her first trip overseas alone after her childhood friend, Magdalena Rodriguez, backed out. At Monday's news conference in New York, Rodriguez fought back tears as she said she wished she had not changed her plans.
"I wasn't working at the time and I didn't have the money to go," she explained.
Family and friends described Sierra as a devoted mother to her 9- and 11-year-old sons who volunteered at their school and worked part time so she would be available for them after school. "Every time I saw her, she was always with her family," said another longtime friend, Dulce Arroyo.
Arroyo ran across Sierra on a shopping trip two days before she left the U.S. and said traveling alone didn't appear to be a frightening prospect. Her friend was looking forward to an exciting adventure and spent most of their conversation talking about the murals and architecture she planned to photograph.
"She was perfectly OK with taking this trip on her own," Arroyo added. "She was thrilled."
Dennis Jimenez said Sierra tried to calm any fears by emphasizing that she'd be in regular contact via video calls and text messages.
"I didn't want her to go, but she wanted to go," he said. "Turkey was a land rich in architecture and ancient history, and she was very fascinated by that."
He added that she shared her photos online and checked in frequently. "You could tell that she was happy," he said.
Grimm said Turkish police still have hours of video footage to review as they piece together Sierra's last movements. A special unit of Turkish police set up to find Sierra have an image of her at Galata Bridge, which spans Istanbul's Golden Horn waterway and where she went on her last day to take photos.
The trip also included preplanned excursions to Amsterdam and Munich.
Betzaida Jimenez said her two grandsons do not know what had happened to their mother. They only know their father went to get her after her vacation.
"We're going to talk about that when he gets back," she said.
She recalled hugging her daughter before she departed and praying together for a safe journey.
"Just the thought that I'll never be able to hug her again," she said, pausing to compose herself. "We just didn't think a tragedy like this was going to happen."
Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.


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