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Editor's note: This is the first in a three-day series examining Clostridium difficile, a potentially lethal infection gaining a foothold in San Joaquin County and across the country.
and Joe Goldeen
Record Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-day series examining Clostridium difficile, a potentially lethal infection gaining a foothold in San Joaquin County and across the country.
The thick new state report about infections at California's hospitals revealed what looked like alarming numbers for San Joaquin County.
Two of its hospitals appeared to rank among the state's worst for a deadly kind of intestinal infection that can spread via invisible spores in hospitals, nursing homes and doctors' offices, killing an estimated 14,000 to 30,000 people a year nationwide.
So why were more patients at Dameron Hospital and Lodi Memorial Hospital seemingly getting sick in 2010 and early 2011 with Clostridium difficile, an infection marked by severe diarrhea, and, in some cases, ravaged colons and death?
The reality is not so simple. The two hospitals use a more modern, sensitive test than most medical centers to check if their patients have C. difficile. Those lower rates at other hospitals may reflect the use of older kinds of tests.
A two-month Record investigation has found that current state and federal tools to diagnose and track C. difficile patients are riddled with flaws. Not only are testing methods in question, but many cases go uncounted.
To fight the spread of C. difficile, health experts say they must be able to count and track infected patients. That's a challenge they haven't solved.
Infection counts may actually increase dramatically across the country, experts say, when more medical centers embrace the new sensitive tests.
"We may find 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent more. There could even be a doubling of cases," said Dr. Cliff McDonald, a leading C. difficile expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Federal health officials are so concerned that they're rushing to finish a formula to adjust for the variation.
In San Joaquin County, seven hospitals reported 377 cases of C. difficile during the 12 months ending in March 2011, according to a state report published in January by the California Department of Public Health.
State officials have held back the public release of the latest statewide hospital C. difficile counts, concerned about a hodgepodge of testing methods. A new report will be published later this fall, a spokesman wrote in an email.
So Stockton area residents are in the dark, with no way to know whether C. difficile is a serious health problem in their community.
C. difficile, once an obscure infection, has ballooned in the United States in the past decade, now sickening nearly half a million people each year and racking up $8 billion in hospital bills.
Hospitals, patients and their families face a gargantuan task as they wrestle to control a dangerous pathogen that has outstripped even invasive MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, the most-known healthcare-associated infection.
"As a pathogen, C. diff is right up there. If it's not No. 1, it's No. 2," McDonald said.
Its growth places in stark relief a perplexing reality of 21st century medicine: Patients are being infected in the very hospitals that are charged with healing them.
Lisa McGiffert, director of Consumer Union's Safe Patient Project, says "C. diff is like Ground Zero."
Each year, Stockton surgeon Dr. Peter Tuxen treats two or three C. difficile patients with colons so damaged that he must remove the infected areas to save the patients' lives.
"When it comes to infection, you would think, after 50 years of antibiotics and 100 years of listeria, we would have solved it," Tusen said. "We haven't."
Nor have experts solved the mish-mash of tests. Without a standard measure, hospitals cannot accurately compare their C. difficile problem with other hospitals. And they might be missing cases.
In San Joaquin County, the seven general acute-care hospitals use at least three different C. difficile tests. Dameron and Lodi Memorial were the first to adopt the newer, more expensive polymerase chain reaction method, and St. Joseph's Medical Center and San Joaquin General Hospital followed last year.
The Kaiser Permanente hospital in Manteca turns to this method to confirm C. difficile in patients who have already tested positive with another test.
Kaiser uses electronic records that can pick up C. difficile cases, not only in its hospitals, but in its clinics and doctors' offices.
But most hospitals aren't part of such networks, and many cases diagnosed at doctors' offices, surgery clinics and nursing homes can fall through the reporting cracks.
CDC experts estimate that three-quarters of all C. difficile cases occur outside hospitals. Yet in California and most other states, hospitals are the only health facilities required to count them.
"I think it is enormously under-reported," said Christian John Lillis, co-founder and director of the Peggy Lillis Memorial Foundation, named for his mother, who died of the infection. The New-York-based nonprofit is devoted to C. difficile education and solutions.
C. difficile last year killed more Americans than HIV/AIDS and drunken driving combined, Lillis said. "But the data isn't even being gathered for us to understand what is to me a public health crisis."
Under California public health laws, for example, the infection is overshadowed by other communicable illnesses.
The state does not list it as a "reportable disease," a list that now includes tuberculosis, pertussis, certain MRSA cases and 81 other infectious diseases. That means local doctors are not required to report cases to Public Health Services of San Joaquin County.
In fact, the county's public health officer, Dr. Karen Furst, doesn't oversee C. difficile at all.
"I don't get involved in that area," Furst said. "The reality is that we don't deal with C. difficile here. It's not reportable."
That onus falls on the state health department, which monitors infectious diseases and health care quality. In recent years, it has stepped up its oversight of health-care-associated infections.
Today, it is charged with carrying out a 2008 law requiring nearly 400 hospitals to inform the state about their rates of infection for C. difficile, MRSA and four other types of healthcare-acquired infections.
To date, state officials have produced three reports using those numbers, most recently in August. But C. difficile rates were missing.
State officials initially said they were waiting for CDC to release its new formula to correct the problems caused by the different testing methods. CDC is expected to announce that formula at a major infection conference that begins Wednesday in San Diego.
To date, state reports suggest that cases surged in San Joaquin County in the 12 months ending with March 2011.
Area hospitals reported 377 cases during those 12 months. That's a jump from the 240 cases reported in the 15 months ending in March 2010.
But testing and reporting methods have changed since 2009, obscuring whether the number of cases here - and in the rest of the state - is rising or falling.
The state's delay in releasing new C. difficile data has made some patient advocates suspicious. They include Carole Moss, the Riverside County resident who spearheaded the 2008 reporting law after her 15-year-old son died of MRSA. Moss wonders if state officials are sitting on numbers showing that C. difficile cases in California are on the increase.
A panel of hospital infection experts and others has advised the department on its infection reporting.
The panel's subcommittee on C. difficile is "currently on hiatus," according to the state's website. In an email, state spokesman Ralph Montano said that after the state's first public report on C. difficile rates, "There has not been a need for a subcommittee to be reactivated."
The CHCF Center for Health Reporting (centerforhealthreporting.org) is an independent news organization. It is based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and funded by the non-profit California HealthCare Foundation.
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I would assume the pose of the holograph will be the same exact pose as the figure as to reduce the amount of modeling time on the designer's part.
they gotta slap some piece of trash in to 'justify' the price hike. And we ALL know it is coming
Mini holos make more sense than commtechs, force files and freeze frames. At least the mini holos make for a nicer presentation when displayed loose with the figure.Force files and FF's always end up in the garbage....commtechs too!
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the anti-semitic efforts of a powerful politico (Boris Karloff), Rothschild moves in the best European social circles. He is ultimately knighted for his services to the English crown, which include the financing of the Duke of Wellington's battle against Napoleon at Waterloo. This being a Hollywood picture, the political and financial intrigues have to be offset by romance--in this case the love affair between Rothschild's daughter (Loretta Young) and a handsome military officer (Robert Young). The final scene was photographed in the newly perfected three-strip Technicolor process, though for many years the TV distributors either removed this sequence or reprinted it in black and white. Designed in part as an attack against the burgeoning anti-semitism movement in Hitler's Germany, House of Rothschild was ironically exploited by Nazi functionary Joseph Goebbels, who redubbed and re-edited the film to serve as anti-Jewish propaganda!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 411 diseños de 79 diseñadores freelance.
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With SmartShake everything is kept in the shaker, you dont need any extra bags or containers.
The design of Smart Shake is designed to be flexible so that it easily fits in your bag, and that it is leak-proof.
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Athletes, body builders and those wishing to lose weight. People that want to take care of ther body.
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The US job market sputtered again in March as hiring slowed sharply, hundreds of thousands of Americans gave up job searches, and the percentage of Americans participating in the labor force fell to its lowest level since 1979, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Employers added only 88,000 jobs last month, just one-third of job gains in February and the fewest since June, when the economy struggled through the financial crisis in Europe. The unemployment rate slipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in February, but the decline was primarily the result of nearly 500,000 Americans giving up looking for work — a sign that the US economy is still not growing fast enough to reemploy the millions who lost jobs in the last recession.
Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate — the percentage of working-age Americans employed or looking for jobs — fell to 63.3 percent, the lowest rate since May 1979.
"It's almost like we're trying to start an engine, where we think it's revving up and it loses momentum again," said Nigel Gault, chief economist with IHS Global Insight, a Lexington forecasting firm. "It's not catching, and it's definitely not firing on all cylinders."
The weakness in the labor market was viewed by analysts and investors as a setback after several months of solid job gains, including in February, when employers added nearly 270,000 jobs. The Dow Jones industrial average fell by as much as 171 points after the March statistics were released, but rebounded to regain all but 41 points, closing at 14,565.
The disappointing employment report also makes it likely the Federal Reserve will continue its policies to keep mortgage and other interest rates near record lows to accelerate job growth by encouraging businesses and consumers to borrow and spend, analysts said. Earlier this month, with the economy showing signs of improvement, several Fed policy makers suggested that the time was approaching for the central bank to begin letting interest rates rise.
But speaking at a forum in Boston Friday, Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said, "a more aggressive response to persistently high unemployment rates is warranted." Continued stimulus, he said, "is an appropriate response to labor market scarring."
While the nation has been steadily adding jobs for more than three years, the growth has not been strong enough to absorb new workers entering the labor market and reemploy those who lost jobs in the last recession. Long-term unemployment remains near all time highs. Last month, some 4.5 million Americans were jobless for more than six months — nearly 40 percent of all unemployed.
Philip Swagel, an economist at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, called long-term unemployment "the most disconcerting thing about the labor market today."
"If we don't have a stronger recovery soon," he said, "we will have a generation of people whose job prospects are permanently damaged."
Roger Ahlfeld of Framingham has been hunting for a job for almost two years and burning through savings. A former human resources executive at Uno restaurants, where he worked for 16 years, he said employers appear to be insisting on hiring people with very specific skills. For example, he has an advanced degree in hotel and restaurant management, but was told by one prospective employer that they wanted to hire a person with strictly hotel experience.
"Companies are thinking they can be extremely choosey," he said.
Economists said the anemic hiring in March does not appear to signal a broader slowdown ahead. The length of the workweek, for example, increased slightly in March, a sign that companies are continuing to see demand for their products and services.
In addition, revisions to data in January and February showed the nation added 61,000 more jobs in those two months than initially estimated.
Sophia Koropeckyj, managing director at Moody's Analytics, a forecasting firm in West Chester, Pa., said it is important to look at more than one month when assessing the economy. Data can swing sharply from month to month and are frequently revised.
So far this year, the economy has created an average of 150,000 jobs a month, a slight acceleration from previous months. But, she added, "It's really not enough to get the labor market moving. . . . We need to see more than 200,000 jobs a month, but that's not going to happen for awhile."
Economists said cold, snowy weather in March might have contributed to the weak job growth. For example, building material and garden supply stores, which typically see business pick up as spring approaches, shed 10,000 workers last month, according to the Labor Department.
But even as the winter finally passes, the economy faces more headwinds, economists said. The effects of the automatic federal budget cuts should begin to be felt in April, they said.
"We'll have to see whether the private sector will be strong enough to withstand what the federal government will bring down on the economy," Koropeckyj said. "The economy will be taking a hit, and maybe this is the beginning."Taryn Luna can be reached at email@example.com. Megan Woolhouse can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Judge Tosses Out Wiretapping Charges Against Motorcyclist Who Filmed Cop With Helmet Cam
from the good-news dept
Thankfully, in that case in Maryland, a judge has tossed out the wiretapping claims pointing out that there was no expectation of privacy out in public.
"Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted with the power of the state are ultimately accountable to the public," the judge wrote. "When we exercise that power in public fora, we should not expect our actions to be shielded from public observation."This seems so obvious that it's troubling it needed to even go this far.


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A criminal investigation is under way after a city of Lakeland external audit linked $183,000 in suspected fraudulent claims to a Summit Consulting, LLC claims adjuster, officials said.
LAKELAND | A criminal investigation is under way after a city of Lakeland external audit linked $183,000 in suspected fraudulent claims to a Summit Consulting, LLC claims adjuster, officials said.
The Summit employee had been processing Lakeland's automobile and liability claims from the city's risk management offices since 2005.
City officials said Friday auditors began to dig deeper when an external claim file could not be found during the yearly audit process, even though a claimant had been paid. Further investigation showed that a number of checks had been written and made payable to various names similar to the name of the Summit employee, they said.
Summit Consulting administrators were notified, and a forensic audit was formally initiated on Feb. 25 with the firm Crowe Horwath LLP, Summit has worked closely with city administrators during the process.
The name of the claims adjuster has not been released.
The $183,000 in questionable claims were identified from checking records dating from 2008 through this year. A review is still under way to see whether more false claims could have been processed between 2005 and 2008.
The forensic audit will include an explanation of how faulty claims were likely processed and how fraudulent checks were able to be issued.
The city also is reviewing historical safeguards used with third-party administrators to determine whether additional stringent accounting standards could help minimize and detect fraudulent activity, officials said.
City lawyer Tim McCausland said Summit agreed to cover all losses and expenses that may have occurred, and to pay for the forensic audit. "Fortunately, we have a solid and responsible vendor," he said. "The system worked the way it's supposed to work."
Mayor Gow Fields agreed. "I think this is a demonstration that the checks and balances did work. And where we could see opportunities to make improvements, they have now been put in place. Summit has been a stellar vendor. They stepped up right away."
Representatives for both the city and Summit Consulting, LLC, declined to name the claims adjuster, who is no longer working out of the city's risk management department offices.
"It's our policy not to discuss employment issues," said Summit spokesman Chris Goetcheus. "Summit has a long-standing partnership with the city of Lakeland and values its relationship greatly. We are working closely with the city and law enforcement to address this important matter."
Fields said the city's contract with Summit remains intact.
The discovery of such a breach is unusual, McCausland said. "This doesn't happen to the city very often. The government is just very tightly controlled from a financial standpoint," he said. "We have annual audits; we have internal auditors that are constantly testing transactions; it is just unusual in our world that something like this would happen."
The Crowe Horwath audit is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
The case has been referred to the Lakeland Police Department for investigation while auditors continue to check over claims records.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - My mom Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in My mom Goto page 1, 2 Next Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Family View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message s.cJoined: 18 May 2006Posts: 1Location: Japan Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: My mom I have six people in my family including me, my parents, my grandparents and younger brother. I had lived with them but last year, I started living by myself near my university. Now, I understand how family is very important for me. I miss them when I am alone in my apartment. Last Sunday, my mother came to my apartment and we ate lunch together. When she was about to go home, we cried because we miss each other. I would like to go back my hometown soon. Back to top iswritingJoined: 11 Apr 2006Posts: 491Location: Japan Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: I live alone too,so I understand youre feeling When I come back home,I think family is important!!Youre family is wonderful aren't you? Back to top isreadingJoined: 27 Sep 2004Posts: 78Location: Sendai, Japan Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: Hi Ⅰ have oldbrother and youngsister We are are good friend . We often go shopping and park with my pet Back to top Emiko0503Joined: 24 Apr 2006Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: I also love my family. My mother is very warm and kind.When I stay with her,I always be too depend on her.I aspire to greatness of my mother.I want to be my mother. How about you Back to top lmspJoined: 17 Jul 2006Posts: 21 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: My mom There are five people's in my house!My Mum,my Dad,my uncle's,and me.So I have a big family!Now,I learning grade five,So I'm very busy! But,my Mum is very kind for me.When I fall the study hard,she help me,arouse for me!When school is over,I'm to go home,and feel hungry,she shall cooked nice cake's for me.When I shall sick,she hold in my arm to hospital! I love my Mum! Back to top junko1025Joined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 10 Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: I love my mother too!! My mother is bright , kind and hard. But I respect my mother. when I came to college, I was homesick. Then I was encouraged by my mother on the telephon. I think MOther is wonderful ! Back to top dodgerob79Joined: 05 Dec 2006Posts: 2 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: I feel the same way. I always look forward to the holidays. Rob ______________________________________ article directory article robot time management - for women Back to top RogerlzJoined: 30 Nov 2006Posts: 216Location: Costa Rica Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: I thing that is very sat when you have to leave your home, you will always miss the food that the mothers cook, and if you hadn't learned to cook this food you will never eat that again. I leave my hause for 1 week, because I had a discusion with my mother and I went to a friend hose, and everything was so different. I didn't eat the same things that I eat in my house, and all the custums of my friend's family was very different and I couldn't adapt to them.... Thanks God I'm in my house whith my mother cooking me!!!! I hope your gays will go back to yours home soon!!!! _________________ Back to top dodgerob79Joined: 05 Dec 2006Posts: 2 Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: I woudln't mind being home either and we only live about 1/2 an hour away. Tina ______________________________________ article directory article robot time management - for women Back to top sayu0816Joined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 41 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: Hi☆ I live another place with my family , too! I sometimes miss my family・・・ Back to top CaronCaronJoined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 15 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: Mother My mother works every day,but she looks happy during working becouse she likes children very much.I 'm also happy to see such her. Back to top tosJoined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 16 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: My mom is very strong and she sticks to her principles. Because of it, I was brought up with having strong belief. I respect her from bottom of my heart Back to top minmiJoined: 25 Sep 2006Posts: 29 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: I love my mom very much!!!! She is so warmth,kindness for me!!!! I also live in alone,so I'm pretty sad. I want to see her soon!!! 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Selling your home for the highest price and in the quickest time
This is undeniably every seller's goal, yet with volatile micro and macro-economic factors such as interest rate hikes and municipal developments it is not a simple task. Or is it?
According to Craig Hutchison of Engel & Völkers Southern Africa, a correctly priced home will always sell. "Property will forever be a good investment; though the demand may drop from time to time, house prices will increase over the long term without fail. The trick comes in understanding the current market influencers and area specific trends well enough to place a market-related price on a home. This requires an educated and objective approach to property"
According to Craig the simple fact of the matter is that buyers purchase homes by comparison, and if a property is over-priced compared to other properties in the same league, the chances of selling are slim. Just by putting yourself in the shoes of the buyer will assist you in gaining the right perspective on the selling process.
So how, with so many factors influencing the market, can a home-owner ensure that they price their property to sell? The answer: Work with a trustworthy and qualified estate agent. Property IQ and market savvy are part and parcel of a property sales advisor's credentials. It takes experience, research, objectivity and a lot of leg-work to properly price a home, so enrolling the expertise of a trained property professional is probably the best advice. Far from leaving it up to the agent to get the right price though, it is imperative that you have a hands-on involvement in the process in terms of knowing what is being done to get the right price.
The pricing process:
The pricing process is summed up in a document called a CMA or Comparative Market Analysis which will give you a comprehensive overview of the recent and current market trends in your area and how your property relates to these activities.
Here are some of the key factors your estate agent will look at in order to determine the market related price of your home:
Properties recently sold. Looking at similar properties sold in your area over the last six or so months will give a good indication of both the current rate of price increase as well as a indicated true market price as properties currently being sold will most likely show slightly inflated figures. It is important that your agent takes into consideration the price the properties were sold at, not marketed at as the difference between the two could be vast.
Properties currently on the market. It goes without saying that a comparison needs to be done with properties currently on the market as these are the very same properties potential buyers will view just before or after they view yours. Buyers tend to shop around in the area they desire to live in and will tend to choose the best value for money to meet their needs, so there is very little point in setting a price that is higher than competing properties of similar value. Be careful of looking at current property advertisements to try and gauge a price for your property as homes always sell for less than the advertised price.
Your property. Once an analysis has been done on properties recently sold in the area and properties currently for sale, your agent will do a breakdown of your property along the same criteria which will afford you a clear indication of where your local market is at and in which price bracket your property should fall. A good agent will include in this analysis the positive and negative selling points of your home and will advise you on how you could improve its value, as well as inform you of elements that may bring down its price. Proximity to arterial roots, accessibility to amenities, noise levels and structural soundness are but a few of the many factors trained specialists will be able to identify and properly analyze for you.
The final step is to decide on a single price at which to market your property. "There is a very simple rule that will assist in defining a property's selling price." Says Craig "Set a price that is above the recent market indicators (analysis of properties recently sold), and a price which is below that of competing properties to ensure a quick sale (properties currently on the market)."
In a property market where buyers are highly informed and increasingly hands-on in the buying process, it is imperative the houses are priced right and that sellers are equally engage, involved and enlightened.
"The negative effects of over-pricing simply aren't worth the risk" says Craig, "the end result is that the property is sold for under its value and in a protracted period of time. A correctly priced property in the current market sells in 2 – 6 weeks at market value, while a property, which market perception has been damaged through overpricing, could take up to 4 months to sell at under market value. Today's buyers can tell value for money and reject anything less – outright. They form negative perceptions of houses that are on the market for a long time and quickly write off 'unstable' investments'".
It's good to know then, that as the market stabilizes there are estate agencies of repute in your back yard who have highly trained specialists ready to employ their expertise and experience to assist homeowners in understanding current trends in order to align with the market to ensure that they sell their homes at the best possible price and in the fastest possible time!


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Width: 19" / 48.5 cmLength: 76" / 193 cm
Yarn: One skein SweetGeorgia Yarns Merino Silk Lace (765 yds / 700 m per 3 ½ oz /100 g skein; 50% Merino Wool, 50% Silk) in Glacier
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy says he's hanging up his "Dancing With the Stars" shoes.
The widely proclaimed "bad boy of ballroom" (though he believes that moniker makes no sense) and most recent "DWTS" champ made the announcement Tuesday on "The View."
"I'm done dancing [on] 'Dancing With the Stars,'" the 34-year-old said. "I feel like it's time."
"It's an amazing thing and I'm blessed. I feel very honored. Like I said, I look like a lot of things but inside I'm genuinely happy and I love this experience."


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Being an owl is tough. In their mysterious, mostly nocturnal world, about 80 percent of our resident juvenile great-horned, barred and screech owls will die in their first year trying to learn their territory and how to hunt for themselves. Larger owls will eat a number of them.
I love their big eyes, upright stance and silent flight. I hope to shoot all 200 species of them with my camera. On the walls of our downstairs bathroom are a couple dozen of them that I photographed from the Amazon to Zimbabwe.
One of my favorites is Africa's huge and unusual Pel's fishing owl. It sits with tilted head on a low branch barely above the water, listening for fish to dive on at night. Next to a brown fishing owl from India is a gorgeous, immaculately white snowy owl, the amazing Arctic species that's invading our region this winter.
Their phenomenal irruption, dominated by darker-marked juveniles and females, now affords us a special opportunity to observe them without having to venture north to the tundra. They've been seen recently at the Worcester Airport and in the Sturbridge Christmas Count area.
While the winter of 2013-14 may go down as one of the biggest irruptions ever, it probably won't top the mega-flight of 1926-27. Over a thousand snowy owls were reported in New England then, and almost 300 just in Massachusetts.
Breeding about a thousand miles north of the closest forests, snowy owls normally inhabit the tree-less barrens, where caribou and ptarmigan, rough-legged hawks, Arctic fox, wolves, musk ox and jaegers roam. They breed and hunt in vast open spaces where the sun hardly goes down in summer. Their diurnal behavior and spectacular plumage make them conspicuous and irresistibly photogenic.
In summer, they may eat Arctic hares, nesting shorebirds and their eggs. In winter, they sometimes fly out on to the ice floes to eat puffins, dovekies, razorbills and murres — and even scavenge on polar bear seal kills.
Irruptions are periodic and unpredictable, generally coming when collared and brown lemmings, their two primary Arctic prey, crash in numbers — or when the snowy owl population just gets too high. You could compare their forced migration to humans desperately leaving Ireland during the potato famine.
With a surprising explosion of lemmings this past year, the snowy owl population surged, too. There just may be too many owls competing with each other up north. Something abnormal may be happening in the Arctic, though, too, as we've now had an unprecedented three consecutive irruption years. They've been great entertainment for bird-watchers, but very stressful for the snowy owl population.
Facing food shortages at home, the snowy owls are forced to venture far south, looking for familiar, tree-less open habitat with sufficient prey to sustain them. That means in our region descending on tundra-like coastal beaches at Plum Island, Salisbury or airports where gulls, ducks, voles and rats can sustain them. Tough, opportunistic and desperately hungry, though, one snowy owl in Rhode Island recently killed a barn owl for his dinner.
The Boston Harbor islands and Logan Airport are now the epicenter for their southerly migration. Deemed a risk to planes, snowies are live-trapped, banded and relocated to other areas in the state. It's not surprising to see a dozen or more at Logan now, and over the years, about 500 of them have been removed from there
Four-pound snowy owls are the heavyweights of the owl family in North America. They need the additional mass to help withstand the Arctic cold. Great gray owls, which also may migrate south this year, may look bigger, but they don't have the snowy's muscle. Our imposing great-horned owls, by comparison, are middleweights.
There are two other rare northern owls on the bathroom wall that could show up in our region, too, this winter: the little boreal owl and the northern hawk owl. The latter has a long tail and falcon-like profile.
The bathroom hawk owl was photographed in 1981 at Payson Park in Portland, Maine. When I first heard about it on the local birders' hotline, I didn't bother to make the trip, knowing from experience that hawk owls typically stay only a day or so before moving on. Many a birder has gone looking for a reported sighting only to find it having disappeared.
I was intrigued, though, to learn that the following weekend, it was still being reported. I had to make the trek to see this unusually cooperative rarity.
Pulling into the park just after dawn, I needed only minutes to find the diurnal predator perched high in the open, actively hunting. Other Maine birders were already there as well, some having seen it several times the previous week. One told me the surprising reason this hawk owl hadn't moved on.
"Two retired lady school teachers have been going to the pet store every morning, buying mice there, and releasing them here in the park. This owl is staying because he knows he's got a good thing." We all laughed, grateful to those special two ladies.
Many winters back in Fairbanks, Alaska, there was a funny story in the newspaper about hawk owls. With snow piled up high on both sides, the main highway was like a canyon. Several drivers on it called police to report two crazy people up on the snow mounds casting fishing rods.
Turns out they were wildlife biologists tagging northern hawk owls. They'd approach a perched hawk owl on a telephone pole, and cast a mouse attached to the fishing line under its pole.
As the hawk owl dove in to catch the quickly retrieved mouse, the biologist's partner would net it with a long-handled fishing net.
The snowies being banded and relocated here this winter deserve our tender care and appreciation. They've come so far — and still have a long, tough journey ahead of them.
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10 Getaways Under $200 a Night
In theory I am a travel-aholic. I sit at my desk in my tiny apartment wishing I could take luxurious trips. I plan for hours fictional vacations that I know I can't afford. A few months ago I stumbled across a site called Airbnb and everything changed. Wait, vacation can be affordable?
This is in no way an endorsement for Airbnb, I'm simply a huge fan! I've always been wary of Couch Surfing and to be honest I like my privacy while on vacation. Airbnb offers shared rooms, but why share a room when you can rent an entire home or apartment for yourself? There are tons of places on the cheap all over the world. Seen here are a few of my favorites from across the globe. All for under $200 a night! I can't imagine paying for a hotel room ever again.
It was difficult picking only 10 vacation rentals for under $200. They have so many to choose from! Maybe you could all continue the list in the comments section. What are your favorite rentals, Airbnb or not, for under $200 a night?
• Mission Loft - San Francisco, CA - $175 p/night
• Boat & Breakfast - Bainbridge Island, WA - $125 p/night
• Montmartre With Garden - Paris, France - $199 p/night
• Wonderful Loft - Rome, Italy - $120 p/night
• South Beach Gem - Miami, FL - $78 p/night
• Quietness in the Centre - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - $158 p/night
• Beautiful Hollywood Hills Bungalow - Los Angeles, CA - $180 p/night
• Luxury Beachfront Holiday Homes - Phuket, Thailand - $185 p/night
• City Centre - Copenhagen, Denmark - $175 p/night
• Casa Selva - San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua - $130 p/night
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Apple patents flexible, curved iPhone
Apple has been granted a patent for a brand new mobile phone design. The document, which was first filed in 2011, has now been officially granted to the American manufacturer.
The patent allows for a smartphone with a flexible, curved design and iPhone with virtual buttons. The images attached to the document show a curved iPhone with a wraparound display, giving it extra surface area to allow for up to five apps per row.
It also suggests that this upcoming curved iPhone would have multiple cameras to track your face and adjust the display accordingly.
The patent also indicates that Apple plans to ditch its physical buttons in the future – a landmark decision for the firm.
It also raises questions as to whether the company plans to bring its fingerprint scanner into upcoming handsets or if it is ditching it. The feature in the iPhone 5S is housed behind the home button and it is unclear where else the scanner could be placed.
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Merida's expense account isn't the worst of it
I don't know what to make of a school board member who exceeds a $5,000 expense budget by $7,427.87. She couldn't possibly do it by accident, so what was Denver's Andrea Merida thinking? That no one would care? That she was somehow entitled to it?
Her stunningly contemptuous attitude toward the expense limit simply doesn't fit into any normal political calculation. Here is a woman who truly marches to her own drummer.
Even so, squandering $7,427.87 of district money is relatively small potatoes compared to misleading district parents about the quality of certain schools. In a recent oped in The Denver Post, she and fellow board member Jeanne Kaplan argued that "the data are clear that neighborhood middle schools are exceeding the growth expectations of the Denver Plan. These schools are actually performing better than the district average, including all the newer schools."
Well, maybe not. As Alexander Ooms responded over at EducationNews Colorado, "Traditional middle schools in Denver are lagging the district average for academic growth, not leading it. And more often than not, their students graduate 8th grade lacking the basic skills necessary to be successful in high school and beyond."
Ooms' entire analysis is well worth reading, as he cites chapter and verse in terms of test scores for Denver's traditional middle schools.
Incidentally, Merida and Kaplan's happy talk about Denver's middle schools contrasts sharply with a message Merida published just a few days earlier on her blog in which she questioned the district's graduation figures and concluded with the following impassioned claim: "This status quo has to stop. The spin machine has to stop. Anyone that tells you we're on the right track is lying to you, and most of all, is lying to our kids. Denver's kids need us to model the good behavior of telling the truth. We owe Denver's kids that much, at least."
If we're going to "model the good behavior of telling the truth," maybe we could start with the district's traditional middle schools.


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And by VHS they mean digital. Problem?
Yes, it's 2012 and this horror anthology is pretending that each non-VHS-recorded tale of terror you see on screen has somehow been uploaded to a computer and then transferred back onto VHS tape (even Skype exchanges preserved for evil posterity) so that a gang of young, analog-fixated, mustache-creep tape thieves can break into a dark old spookyhouse and find a huge cache of the vintage format in a room where a decomposing dead man sits facing multiple TV monitors. Then those crime-bros sit and watch the tapes and record themselves doing so. Fix that in your brain for a minute. They are tape robbers who are taping themselves robbing tapes. LOOK, IT COULD TOO HAPPEN THAT WAY.
Now shake it out. Forget the premise. It's idiotic. But everything else? Kind of great. Five stories from filmmakers like Ti West (House of The Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead), Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes The Stairs) and an inventive collective known as Radio Silence (their short Mountain Devil Prank Fails Horribly has a respectable near-2 million hits on YouTube), all of them visually based on the tech-social moment we live in now, where even mundane nothingness finds itself recorded and shared with the entire internet. That means it all looks like an excellently, intentionally garbled mess and feels as off-the-cuff as each short's atmospheric, dialogue-is-for-old-people chatter sounds. Feel that headache coming on...
There's a tightly knit group of inarticulate, sub-Girls Gone Wild opportunists who stumble across a black-tongued lady who resents their inherently disrespectful stance toward all women. There's a young couple on a road trip whose money is stolen and toothbrushes are toilet-grossed in the night as a precursor to an even greater motel intrusion. There's some broad daylight, post-Cabin In The Woods-ing as a mysterious digital forest-thing gets in the way of weekend getaway chillwaves. There are little dwarf ghosts causing a paranormal activity (or are there?) and an old-school haunted house on Halloween -- the kind with floating chairs, terror-basements and hallways full of grabby arms.
Like horror should, the scares bloom out of the everyday anxiety of bad relationships, moral laxity, male privilege causing specific deafness to the word "no," closet homosexuality, presumption of the right to party without boundaries and, of course, The Devil just deciding to bring you some pain. And also like horror should, the payoffs involve really awesome stabbing and gouging of everybody, everywhere.
Best of all, the impressive, shoestring-budget shocks are more than fresh tweaks of traditionalist slasher/stalker/succubus stories. They also come formally packaged in visually expressive approaches that shove the already dull cliches of found footage horror out of the way to make room for moments that approach the avant garde. Seriously. It's enough to make you want to give them a pass for the silly retro marketing gimmick. Or just go ahead and allow them to redefine what VHS means entirely.
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The Great American Seafood Cook-Off III America's finest chefs showcase their seafood-preparation skills in THE GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOK-OFF III. In 2010, 14 accomplished and up-and-coming chefs from throughout the United States gathered in New Orleans to compete in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off. The event emphasizes the importance of cooking with local, domestic seafood and encourages the use of products from sustainable fisheries. D
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Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "U-Pick Tomatoes" Learn how to pick the best tomatoes, and preparing them for a bountiful summer meal. Tomato Herb Salad; Fresh Tomato Parmesan Sauce with Grilled Shrimp. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Helsinki and Tallinn: Baltic Sisters" Rick explores the capitals of Finland and Estonia to sample each country's history, art and distinct love of life. In Helsinki, he finds a neoclassical old town, modern flair for design and steamy saunas. Tallinn offers medieval charms and new-found prosperity.G
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Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday's New York Times under the headline, "My Medical Choice." She writes that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.
Jolie said that after genetic testing she learned she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene and had an 87 percent chance of getting the disease herself.
She said she has kept the process private so far, but wrote about it with hopes of helping other women.
"I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made," Jolie writes. "My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
Phone and email messages left by The Associated Press late Monday night seeking comment from Jolie representatives were not immediately returned.
She is anything but private in the details she provides, giving a description of the procedures.
"My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a 'nipple delay,'" she writes, "which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area."
She then describes the major surgery two weeks later where breast tissue was removed, saying it felt "like a scene out of a science-fiction film," then writes that nine weeks later she had a third surgery to reconstruct the breasts and receive implants."
Many women have chosen preventive mastectomy since genetic screening for breast cancer was developed, but the move and public announcement is unprecedented from a star so young and widely known as Jolie.
She briefly addresses the effects of the surgery on the idealized sexuality and iconic womanhood that have fueled her fame.
"I do not feel any less of a woman," Jolie writes. "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."
She also wrote that Brad Pitt, her partner of eight years, was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Southern California for "every minute of the surgeries."
Bertrand, Jolie's mother, died in January 2007. She had small roles in the movies "Lookin' to Get Out" in 1982 and "The Man Who Loved Women" in 1983. She raised Jolie and her brother after divorcing their father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, when Jolie was a toddler.
Jolie has appeared in dozens of films including 2010's "The Tourist" and "Salt," the "Tomb Raider" films and 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," for which she won an Oscar.
But she has appeared more often in the news in recent years for her relationship with Pitt and her charitable work with refugees as a United Nations ambassador.
Meanwhile, CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin announced Tuesday that she has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy.
Sambolin, who anchors CNN's "Early Start" morning show, talked about her condition on the show Tuesday while discussing Jolie's decision.


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A Yarmouth family is hoping to see their prized Christmas decorations again after a real-life Grinch allegedly stole them overnight.
A Yarmouth family is hoping to see their prized Christmas decorations again after a real-life Grinch allegedly stole them overnight.
Susan and Michael Robinson woke up this morning, only to see about $1,000 worth of their inflatable outdoor Christmas decorations were missing from their Old Town House Road home.
"I wish they would think about who they're stealing from," Susan Robinson said in a phone interview today. "They stole from all my grandkids and my kids."
Since they moved there in 1996, the Robinsons have decorated their yard with large elaborate inflatable figures, including Mickey Mouse wearing a Santa Claus suit, Santa Claus lying on a hammock and a merry-go-round.
Each year the couple decorates the yard along with their children and 10 grandchildren, ranging in age from a year old to 12, Susan Robinson said.
"Every year we do this," Susan Robinson said. "They didn't just rip apart ornaments, they ripped apart a tradition."
After noticing the missing decorations at about 8:30 this morning, the Robinsons called Yarmouth and Barnstable police, Michael Robinson said. They filled out an online police report.
However, Susan Robinson said she is more interested in getting their Christmas decorations back than in finding the culprit.
"I'm not out to get anybody or to prosecute anybody," Susan Robinson said. "It's a tradition and I just want them back."


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All About: Lava Stone Countertops
Are you thinking about renovating your kitchen? Doing research on countertop materials? If so, then our Countertop Spotlight series will help you. Today we look at lava stone countertops:
Material: Lava Stone
Origin: A new type of countertop material, volcanic lava stone is extracted by hand from open-air quarries (usually in Auvergne, France), then cut into slabs, glazed with enamel, and fired in a kiln at 1300 degrees. During cooling a smooth crackled finish develops, which is the signature look of lava stone countertops.
Finish types: Shiny or matte ultra smooth crackled finish.
Pros: Non-porous; highly resistant to stains, scratches, shock, and temperature changes; low maintenance; durable; each slab is completely unique; available in a wide variety of colors; can be made seamless.
Cons: Very expensive; currently only produced in France (Pyrolave is the primary manufacturer); since it's a newer product its longevity hasn't been tested;
Installation: Professional installation highly recommended. Available prefabricated or custom. 6-7 week lead time for orders.
Price range: $260+ per square foot, most of which is due to the high cost of shipping.
Kitchn Reader Reviews:
The colors of lavastone (French Pyrolave) can't be beat, but as it turns out, lavastone is one of the few materials *more* expensive than quartz! - shawnamuffin
I think the cost is something in the order of over $300/sf. That took it off my list right away! However, a French house in the U.K. magazine Homes & Gardens (Sept. edition) had many, many feet of it, making me wonder if it is significantly cheaper in France. They used it as a bath surround as well as bathroom counter. It's a nice way to add colour. - MonikaOn
Lava is beautiful...goes by the name Pyrolave. I just installed one in a custom color a couple of weeks ago and have sold quite a few over the years. They are imported from France and are a bloody fortune, but they have a very beautiful crackled texture and come in any color, including neutrals. It wears like iron, no issues at all with staining or scratching. - SusiqOn
Other 'Countertop Spotlight' Posts
• All About: Stainless Steel Countertops
• All About: Butcher Block Countertops
• All About: Quartz Countertops
• All About: Granite Countertops
• All About: Synthetic Solid Surface Countertops
(Images: 1. Couleur Lave via Kitchen Installation; 2. For Residential Pros; 3. Home Portfolio; 4-5. Pyrolave)


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What Caused Hillary's Blood Clot?
North Shore LIJ Neurosurgeon Chair Dr. Raj Narayan and WSJ's Tom Burton discuss the blood clot for which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized and what may have caused it. Photo: AP
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Clip In Fall
Postby Straight_Silver » Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:59 pm
All seemed well in the world till my left foot came unclipped on the up stroke? and I kicked my front wheel.
I then fell sideways.
I fell onto my left hand side with cuts on my arms and a bit of gravel rash on my arm and leg.
Also my helmet took a bit of a knock and has some cracks.
I want to say thank you to the two cyclist (if you are on here) who stopped to see if I was all right. Also my faith in humanity was restored slightly with the number of pedestrians that checked if I was ok.
As I am new to clip ins I am a bit cornered. I am not sure what I did wrong exactly except maybe twist my foot out. One minute all was well then my foot came free and wham! I have read a lot about people stacking at lights but not this. I am thinking that for commuting I should move to pedals with just tow clips?
Also my front right break is jammed against the side of the wheel I will get my LBS to have a look at it I guess.
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:56 pm
Don't give up on them - it is provably just a one off. The brakes might have just turned a bit on their mount. The LBS can check it for you.
Hope you mend quickly.
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Postby Straight_Silver » Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:11 pm
Thanks I hope so to.
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Postby Sydguy » Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:14 pm
Second clip in whilst hanging onto a pole, clip out and repeat a thousand time. Easy and safe way to get used to the action.
Glad to hear people helped out. Keep riding.
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Postby sb944 » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:09 pm
Also, you'll build up a more solid balance and be able to make some mistakes and not cause an accident soon enough.
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Postby Straight_Silver » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:41 pm
Sydguy wrote:Hit LBS explain stack and get bike checked over, especially if forks are carbin
Yes the forks are carbon I will get them to check
sb944 wrote:Sometimes you get a noise, but aren't really clipped in, and don't notice for a few spins until your foot comes loose. You get used to hearing for "the click" before thinking you are definitely in, and giving a little trial pull up when you aren't sure.
Just to clarify when the pedal is at the very top give an extra tug to make sure you are locked in?
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No video, that I know of , so cannot demonstrate the technique...
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Postby boss » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:48 am
The times when this happens, there is definitely distinguishable difference in feel when you clip in. You get a noise, but the way you clip in feels different.
Having said that, it only took a few weeks of getting used to clips and I haven't had the problem since.
Personally, I've been riding clips for 3-4 months now and have only had two clip stacks. Both were completely avoidable, not your typical 'forget to clip out at the traffic lights'. First time I came down a hill, then turned a corner and headed up a particularly steep hill... in top gear. Couldn't pedal and was scared to downshift, tipped over. The second time I was messing about and did an endo, but again was in too high a gear to pedal away, tipped over.
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RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Postby Scarfy96 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:59 am
sogood wrote:Good recommendations above. To add one, check your pedal motion. Some people have a habit of rotating their foot out or in at a certain angle within the pedal cycle. This may have just touched on the limit of pedal float, leading to those very occasional accidental clip out. It's always a good idea to ensure the cleat is adjusted so that the range of natural foot movement is well contained within its float range. Otherwise I agree with others that the most likely is an incorrectly clipped in foot. Learn to recognise the sound of proper clipping in and test.
This was my first thought also.
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Postby brentono » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:16 pm
sogood wrote:... check your pedal motion. Some people have a habit of rotating their foot out or in at a certain angle within the pedal cycle...
Fixed gear (<70") can teach you how to pedal.
Hope you went "Pro" and laughed when it happened.
Get back on the horse.
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Postby JohnJoyner » Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:28 pm
I often do this after taking off & I plan to stand & put a bit of effort in. On your upstroke give a pull just to make sure you're properly clipped in. A few times I have thought I was clipped in & my foot came out, which is why I quite often to the little double check.
But definitely stick with it... And yes, falls are part & parcel early on...
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Postby Straight_Silver » Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:27 pm
Went to the doctors and I have a bit of soft tissue damage but I should be right as rain and hopefully on the bike in no time. Once my lbs gives it the once over.
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Straight_Silver wrote:Also my helmet took a bit of a knock and has some cracks.
Buy a new helmet and bin the old one.
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A third season of Hayate no Gotoku! has been confirmed via twitter by its manga creator, Hata Kenjirou. The new anime season will come after the movie, planned later this year.
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[On another note, the constant change in studio/staff suggests that Shogakukkan isn't so concerned about the handling of the property beyond profit generation. They're just hiring any capable studio that happens to be available during the desired timeframe]
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Anyway, I can see this to be the case here. SynergySP's attempt at making it into a kid's show, J.C.Staff's trying to appeal more to the late night audience, while profitable, haven't been all that successful to be better than the other. It's clear that the franchise while can generate enough to make a decent amount, isn't that much of a hit to warranty much care to the story (considering that the continuity between the two series s flimsy as it is) and that their trying to milk it as fast as they can (J.C.Staff is already in charge of many successful that I'm certain would take more priority for the studio to get out first)
I'm too sure what this might mean for the anime, if t would simply be a service to the anime watchers, or if there's going to be some serious effort put here. Ultimately, Hayate owns a bit of power as cross-media franchise, so maybe all what it needs to do is simply sell well everywhere ...
My expectation/speculation for this season:
-It wont be a faithful adaption. Or at least, it wont adapt the material from the manga as is. I expect they will take the more famous portion parts of the manga, or the most anticipated arc, and make a series around it.
-The designs of the characters will be ''updated'' to reflect on the manga's current art style for better or for worse
-There will be less focus on forth wall comedy, and might even downplay the comedy in most cases
-Nakagawa Koutarou is still going to be the composer lol :P
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After thinking about it I agree it's pretty much going to be the Greece Arc along with a bit of fluff. They'll have to cut a ton of stand alone and fluff chapters out, but unless they have 52 episodes (they won't) they can either adapt the Greece Arc or a whole stack of pretty funny chapters that don't go anywhere and that's not a hard choice to make.
I'm just curious to see who's going to be doing the third season. I'm assuming Mangrove just because it sounds like they want to tie it in with the movie and it would be weird to have two different animation styles in the same year. With Mangrove doing it then they can throw in an advertisement for season three in the movie credits and be like "See more awesome Hayate animation from these guys!"
There was also a considerable delay between season announcements this time. Maybe J.C. Staff just had too much stuff on their plate and Kodansha took the license to a new studio to get it out faster.
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There's a thread about this already? Wow.
Anyway, as much as I'd like to see the Greece arc I kinda hope some of the the less important chapters can get animated too. The series really thrives on those, I think, more than plot. Season 2 kinda fell flat for me. :/ (They skipped my Risa chapter and my persimmons chapter dammit)
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I just know they're going to skip some of my favorites chapters in the whole series this time around, but from what I can see, they can't not do Golden Week, because there isn't enough material from where Season 2 ended to make anything but a 13 episode season before reaching the start of the Greece arc. And the Greece Arc is huge, so if they're going to do it, it's going to take up most of the season by itself. There's really no way around it except to do a 52 episode season, and that's pretty near impossible.
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