Hope someone got to see the lights further north. I saw one picture of aurora at Lake Superior in Marguette, MI. The KP index never got high enough to see them here - or at least not high enough to see them without a long drive north.
I'm wondering if he can sue his 1st lawyer. that Tracy person who said to the jury that he obviously had his foot on the excellerator and not on the brakes. His lawyer not only didn't believe him but told the jury basically he didn't believe him...wow!
I think there are alot of people happy for him that he will never know.
I tried stepping on the brakes with the accelerator all the way to the floor. I only "half-stepped" on the brakes, I was slowing down - and my engine is more than twice as powerful than a Camry's.
Now I don't believe that he should necessarily be in prison, but I don't believe that his throttle was stuck and he stepped on the brakes. No possible way he could have gotten to the speeds shown if he even touched the brakes - unless he was speeding to begin with.
I have a camry. I would get on the highway and put my foot on the gas... when I was up to 60 or so mph I would let up all the way on the gas pedal and it would automatically go faster and speed up.
I thought this was a cool feature when I was picking up speed entering a highway and adjusted my driving accordingly. I had no idea this was NOT supposed to happen.
I brought it in for the recall last year and my car does NOT do this accelerating on it's own any longer.
YIKES!
thats how I believe this coulda happened the guy ~
once upon a time in my mustang owning days, i had the car in for service and had a loaner. figuring what the hell, i decided to determine which vehicle function was more powerful, the brakes or the engine.
with the brake pedal on the floor i stepped on the gas. lo and behold i set off the abs sensor in the car because the front wheels turned because of the power of the engine while the rear ones skidded. if i can do that with a 130hp ford contour, it can happen with a camry, especially if the computer is causing the accelerator to engage.
in retrospect it was the e-brake i had yanked up, not the brake on the floor. my research may not be applicable to this situation, particularly with the regard i generally give to rear brakes,
We have been having issues with our fire system water pressure latley. Guess we know why now...I was on the roof lowering the flag to halfmast when I heard all the sirens this morning.
It is a really cool park actually, bears or no bears. My roommate, who is originally from California, said it is very similar to some parks out there. There are a lot of huge trees there, it almost makes it seem like a pacific northwest park.
A woman recovering after a hospital stay did not receive her prescribed blood thinner because of a transcription error, investigators say.
By WARREN WOLFE, Star Tribune
Last update: September 14, 2010 - 9:01 PM
A Duluth nursing home has been cited for neglect in the case of a woman who died of a stroke last June after the home failed to give her a drug-thinning medication for 18 days.
Lakeshore Inc. was cited for neglect of health care because of the medication error, the Minnesota Health Department said in a report Tuesday.
The woman, whose name was not made public, stayed at the nursing home for nearly a month after she was hospitalized for an infection. She had some small strokes about 10 years earlier but they stopped after she began taking the anticoagulant drug Coumadin.
When she entered the nursing home on about April 29, she had a prescription for daily doses of Coumadin and an order for tests on May 7 to ensure that the dosage was correct. The home's policy was to discontinue the drug on the day of the blood test, give the doctor the test results, then get a new order for Coumadin.
However, the doctor's order was not transcribed correctly, so there was no blood test and the drug was not resumed.
The woman was discharged from the nursing home to her assisted living apartment on May 25 and hospitalized on May 27. The nursing home did not discover the medication error until a relative called on May 28. The woman died June 4 of a stroke caused by a clot.
The woman's doctor said she could not be certain that the medication error caused the death, but "there is ... a relationship, between not receiving the drug and suffering from a stroke," the report said.
By the time a state investigator arrived at the home on June 17, it had fixed the clerical problem, changed procedures and retrained staff. Still, the home was cited "because this obviously was a very serious problem," said Stella French, who supervises the investigators.
In statement Tuesday, administrator Paul Libbon wrote, "We deeply regret this incident and will continue to work closely with our staff and regulators to assure that appropriate procedures and policies are in place to provide for the safety of our residents."
Lakeshore includes independent-living and assisted-living apartments, as well as the short-term rehabilitation center where the woman was being treated. It is owned by Ecumen, a nonprofit chain based in Shoreview.
An online ranking of nursing home quality by Medicare gives Lakeshore a below-average rating of two of five stars, although its most recent inspection in November showed no rule infractions. The two previous inspections found 17 and 14 violations, compared with a state average of eight.
Conventioneers in a Seattle hotel elevator. Large women, large hair, lots of perfume. Beauty products? Excited talk about plenary sessions and breakouts. Later, the hollow clack of three-ring binders in the hotel lounge, brightly colored cocktails with fruit swizzles.
The morning newspaper nearby contemplates continuing joblessness. A lull, then someone quotes the philosopher of the times, Tony Robbins, recently legitimized from infomercial to network star. There is a brief moment of optimism amid the quiet despair.
Amtrak train from Seattle to Vancouver. Young couple boards and immediately plugs in, tunes out. Laptop, smart phone. They do not make eye contact with anyone. Like many of their generation, they do not engage with anyone older than themselves in case a stranger might have something interesting to say. For four hours, they consume, and are consumed by, their technology. If they look out the window once, I do not catch it. They miss the snow-capped mountains in the distance, miss the sea lions sunning on rocks, miss the fishing trawlers coming back with the day's catch. They don't hear the rhythmic chuck, chuck, chuck of the train rocking the tracks, or the conductor making small talk. They do not hear the young girl a few rows behind them who, when it was announced we were leaving the United States and entering Canada, asks loudly: "Mommy, why are we leaving Earth?"
They make me feel sad. I doubt they will grow old together.
Canada is pleasantly different, yet comfortably the same. There is worry over whether the housing bubble in Vancouver will pop. A debate over registration of "long guns," and fevered talk about taxes. Canadians of all political stripes appear just as adept at obfuscation as American politicians. They have just agreed on a new compromised, combined federal and local sales tax and they have named it, comically, the HST, or "Harmonized Sales Tax," proving that euphemistic excess has no geographic boundaries. It is so harmonized, more than 80 percent of British Columbians opposed it. So, they laugh, then head across the border to the United States to buy school clothes.
In need of preemptive medicine, we consult the truth-keeper of Vancouver, the coffee barrista. She suggests the corner clinic, and we are forced to face the evil, much-castigated Canadian health system. We are third in line, and see the doctor within 15 minutes. A doctor does a quick history, makes an assessment. A call back to a U.S. doctor elicits a suggestion to avoid rich seafood. Canadian doctor looks insulted. You cannot come to Vancouver and NOT eat seafood, he says. There is a record run of sockeye salmon. You must try it.
For $110 we get good medical and culinary advice.
Later, on the evening news, a man tells how he made an appointment for an MRI and couldn't get in for almost a year. Instead, he paid $800 himself, got the MRI and discovered a brain injury that might have killed him. Two days, two realities.
Canadians are hard workers, but a television host joked that British Columbians are different, known to knock off on Fridays to go fishing or kayaking. I notice one of the top-selling books at a Vancouver bookstore is called "The Four-Hour Workweek."
Canadians we met were honest and forthright, but even their revered Mounties have scandals that make our Metro Gang Strike Force look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Even Dudley Do-Right does wrong sometimes.
Sunrise rides my bumper toward Desolation Sound, past Cougar Smith Road and across Blubber Bay. On a charter boat on the sound, our captain pulls up a trap crawling with spot prawns and rips their heads off for our dining pleasure. Few Americans visited last year. This year was better, but not much. No money. Not in the United States, not in Canada. So, like everyone we met, he was willing to bargain, and he was getting by.
In October he will dock the boat, pack his guitar and go to Mexico for four months. A wise man once told him that if you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. He is my Tony Robbins.
At a wilderness resort, where seals play beneath our deck, the owner warns that hikers here may encounter bears and cougars. He says in a strong German accent that if a cougar approaches, "You must attack zem and zurprise zem. But if zey vant to get you, zey vill."
I'm not sure if it's a good strategy on cougars, but I think it's a good strategy for life: Attack it vigorously and forcefully, surprise it before it surprises you, but if it wants to get you, it will.
Another day on the road, another lesson. And a reminder that it's good to leave Earth every once in a while.
Very cool indeed. I wish I had to go when I was up there. Looks awesome. We had restrooms on the outside at the top of 225 over looking the top of the IDS too. Way cool.
So will his first act in office be to find out where the MN executive branch bunker is hidden, in case he needs to use it?
:wink: Sorry, that just seemed to be the biggest thing in his political career that's stood out to me. I know it was probably mostly media hype.
I seriously hope someone in office can start lowering our taxes. I've seen numerous reports stating we're in the top percentage of highest taxed residents, through sales, income and property tax. It's getting harder to convince people that living in the state is worth it :frown:
speaking of.... we got a donation from some old lady at my store the other day, some old fur coat that has Daytons tags on it, from way back in the day!
The eclipse will start just after midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, with the main event starting at 1:30 a.m. ET and lasting until 5:30 a.m., when the moon reappears.
On a different news topic, I love that justice is served. I always believed he was innocent. http://www.twincities.com/ci_15683277
I think there are alot of people happy for him that he will never know.
Now I don't believe that he should necessarily be in prison, but I don't believe that his throttle was stuck and he stepped on the brakes. No possible way he could have gotten to the speeds shown if he even touched the brakes - unless he was speeding to begin with.
My 2 cents, and I'm outta here!
I thought this was a cool feature when I was picking up speed entering a highway and adjusted my driving accordingly. I had no idea this was NOT supposed to happen.
I brought it in for the recall last year and my car does NOT do this accelerating on it's own any longer.
YIKES!
thats how I believe this coulda happened the guy ~
with the brake pedal on the floor i stepped on the gas. lo and behold i set off the abs sensor in the car because the front wheels turned because of the power of the engine while the rear ones skidded. if i can do that with a 130hp ford contour, it can happen with a camry, especially if the computer is causing the accelerator to engage.
check these 'devine interventions' out
CRAZY!
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? oh yah, devine intervention....
http://www.comcast.net/video/car-parks-on-church-roof/1013206486
http://www.comcast.net/video/rosary-factor-in-mans-survival/1581221458
way cool!
The people in that area needed some good news today, after someone killed a year-old collared and ribboned research bear named Sarah yesterday.
It is a really cool park actually, bears or no bears. My roommate, who is originally from California, said it is very similar to some parks out there. There are a lot of huge trees there, it almost makes it seem like a pacific northwest park.
I didn't hear you mention it.
Go to bathroom #17 or 18
(however, I'm sure you want to see all of these).
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/just-dreaming/staticslideshowpm.aspx?cp-documentid=25358304>1=32023#q=The%20World%27s%2018%20Strangest%20Bathrooms%3A%20Columbia%20Tower%20
Duluth nursing home cited after death from stroke
A woman recovering after a hospital stay did not receive her prescribed blood thinner because of a transcription error, investigators say.
By WARREN WOLFE, Star Tribune
Last update: September 14, 2010 - 9:01 PM
A Duluth nursing home has been cited for neglect in the case of a woman who died of a stroke last June after the home failed to give her a drug-thinning medication for 18 days.
Lakeshore Inc. was cited for neglect of health care because of the medication error, the Minnesota Health Department said in a report Tuesday.
The woman, whose name was not made public, stayed at the nursing home for nearly a month after she was hospitalized for an infection. She had some small strokes about 10 years earlier but they stopped after she began taking the anticoagulant drug Coumadin.
When she entered the nursing home on about April 29, she had a prescription for daily doses of Coumadin and an order for tests on May 7 to ensure that the dosage was correct. The home's policy was to discontinue the drug on the day of the blood test, give the doctor the test results, then get a new order for Coumadin.
However, the doctor's order was not transcribed correctly, so there was no blood test and the drug was not resumed.
The woman was discharged from the nursing home to her assisted living apartment on May 25 and hospitalized on May 27. The nursing home did not discover the medication error until a relative called on May 28. The woman died June 4 of a stroke caused by a clot.
The woman's doctor said she could not be certain that the medication error caused the death, but "there is ... a relationship, between not receiving the drug and suffering from a stroke," the report said.
By the time a state investigator arrived at the home on June 17, it had fixed the clerical problem, changed procedures and retrained staff. Still, the home was cited "because this obviously was a very serious problem," said Stella French, who supervises the investigators.
In statement Tuesday, administrator Paul Libbon wrote, "We deeply regret this incident and will continue to work closely with our staff and regulators to assure that appropriate procedures and policies are in place to provide for the safety of our residents."
Lakeshore includes independent-living and assisted-living apartments, as well as the short-term rehabilitation center where the woman was being treated. It is owned by Ecumen, a nonprofit chain based in Shoreview.
An online ranking of nursing home quality by Medicare gives Lakeshore a below-average rating of two of five stars, although its most recent inspection in November showed no rule infractions. The two previous inspections found 17 and 14 violations, compared with a state average of eight.
funny article in todays "other" paper
Conventioneers in a Seattle hotel elevator. Large women, large hair, lots of perfume. Beauty products? Excited talk about plenary sessions and breakouts. Later, the hollow clack of three-ring binders in the hotel lounge, brightly colored cocktails with fruit swizzles.
The morning newspaper nearby contemplates continuing joblessness. A lull, then someone quotes the philosopher of the times, Tony Robbins, recently legitimized from infomercial to network star. There is a brief moment of optimism amid the quiet despair.
Amtrak train from Seattle to Vancouver. Young couple boards and immediately plugs in, tunes out. Laptop, smart phone. They do not make eye contact with anyone. Like many of their generation, they do not engage with anyone older than themselves in case a stranger might have something interesting to say. For four hours, they consume, and are consumed by, their technology. If they look out the window once, I do not catch it. They miss the snow-capped mountains in the distance, miss the sea lions sunning on rocks, miss the fishing trawlers coming back with the day's catch. They don't hear the rhythmic chuck, chuck, chuck of the train rocking the tracks, or the conductor making small talk. They do not hear the young girl a few rows behind them who, when it was announced we were leaving the United States and entering Canada, asks loudly: "Mommy, why are we leaving Earth?"
They make me feel sad. I doubt they will grow old together.
Canada is pleasantly different, yet comfortably the same. There is worry over whether the housing bubble in Vancouver will pop. A debate over registration of "long guns," and fevered talk about taxes. Canadians of all political stripes appear just as adept at obfuscation as American politicians. They have just agreed on a new compromised, combined federal and local sales tax and they have named it, comically, the HST, or "Harmonized Sales Tax," proving that euphemistic excess has no geographic boundaries. It is so harmonized, more than 80 percent of British Columbians opposed it. So, they laugh, then head across the border to the United States to buy school clothes.
In need of preemptive medicine, we consult the truth-keeper of Vancouver, the coffee barrista. She suggests the corner clinic, and we are forced to face the evil, much-castigated Canadian health system. We are third in line, and see the doctor within 15 minutes. A doctor does a quick history, makes an assessment. A call back to a U.S. doctor elicits a suggestion to avoid rich seafood. Canadian doctor looks insulted. You cannot come to Vancouver and NOT eat seafood, he says. There is a record run of sockeye salmon. You must try it.
For $110 we get good medical and culinary advice.
Later, on the evening news, a man tells how he made an appointment for an MRI and couldn't get in for almost a year. Instead, he paid $800 himself, got the MRI and discovered a brain injury that might have killed him. Two days, two realities.
Canadians are hard workers, but a television host joked that British Columbians are different, known to knock off on Fridays to go fishing or kayaking. I notice one of the top-selling books at a Vancouver bookstore is called "The Four-Hour Workweek."
Canadians we met were honest and forthright, but even their revered Mounties have scandals that make our Metro Gang Strike Force look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Even Dudley Do-Right does wrong sometimes.
Sunrise rides my bumper toward Desolation Sound, past Cougar Smith Road and across Blubber Bay. On a charter boat on the sound, our captain pulls up a trap crawling with spot prawns and rips their heads off for our dining pleasure. Few Americans visited last year. This year was better, but not much. No money. Not in the United States, not in Canada. So, like everyone we met, he was willing to bargain, and he was getting by.
In October he will dock the boat, pack his guitar and go to Mexico for four months. A wise man once told him that if you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. He is my Tony Robbins.
At a wilderness resort, where seals play beneath our deck, the owner warns that hikers here may encounter bears and cougars. He says in a strong German accent that if a cougar approaches, "You must attack zem and zurprise zem. But if zey vant to get you, zey vill."
I'm not sure if it's a good strategy on cougars, but I think it's a good strategy for life: Attack it vigorously and forcefully, surprise it before it surprises you, but if it wants to get you, it will.
Another day on the road, another lesson. And a reminder that it's good to leave Earth every once in a while.
WOW~
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2010/12/08/emmer-concedes-in-governors-race/
:wink: Sorry, that just seemed to be the biggest thing in his political career that's stood out to me. I know it was probably mostly media hype.
I seriously hope someone in office can start lowering our taxes. I've seen numerous reports stating we're in the top percentage of highest taxed residents, through sales, income and property tax. It's getting harder to convince people that living in the state is worth it :frown: