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Some more thoughts on the $5.39 million malpractice verdict:
I've said for a long time that one major deficiency of the medical liability system is that it delays and denies justice to those who truly have been injured by medical negligence. In this case, presuming that the verdict and award are upheld -- a big presumption -- the likelihood is that the plaintiffs will see only a small fraction of that award. According to the coverage as I understood it, the verdict was solely against the doctor -- not the hospital or her employer, though the media is notoriously imprecise in reporting that sort of detail. The medical liability insurance market in Washington is such that ER docs can't buy insurance for more than $1 Million per incident. It's just not available, not at any price, and certainly not in 2004. So the insurance company, having already expended a lot of money preparing and defending the case for trial, will pay the balance of their obligation under the policy. What does it cost to defend a case with a month-long trial? $100,000? $200,000? I don't know, but it's not cheap. Anyway, the absence of any other defendants with liability in this case -- the absence of any deep-pocket defendants, that is -- means that the plaintiffs will probably wind up with maybe 15% of the actual award (less attorney's fees). So there's justice for you.
This is assuming that Dr Dy is not independently wealthy and exercised a modicum of common sense in the disposition of her assets. It is rare for doctors to have to pay malpractice damages out of their own pockets. It's pretty easy to shield yourself from judgments: just pour all your liquid assets into your house, your retirement, and your life insurance. Most of these are not attachable. if you are lucky enough to own a vacation house or an airplane, well, that's going to be at risk unless you do some fancy legal footwork. It kind of sucks, because you may have a lot of money but can't easily access it, but it beats getting bankrupted by a huge lawsuit. (Some docs used to put their assets in their spouse's names, but it has been pointed out that the likelihood of getting divorced is a lot higher than the likelihood of getting a $5 million lawsuit!)
Another thought, which to me supports the notion that the verdict in this case may be at odds with what a reasonable medical observer might find: They went to trial. Now I have, as administrator of a large ER group, worked with a number of defense attorneys on cases being litigated. They are smart people. They make it really clear -- if there is significant risk, you do NOT proceed to trial unless you have a bullet-proof defense. I can't imagine a much more sympathetic plaintiff in this case -- young active professional, sent away from the ER, drops dead, multiple dependents. Geez, I wouldn't litigate this unless I really felt we had met the standard of care -- and felt we could show that at trial. Now maybe Dr Dy just made a bad decision and refused advice to settle, maybe her defense got shredded on cross-exam, or maybe the plaintiff's counsel set an unreasonable requirement for a settlement. Or maybe (my cynical side suggests) they presented a great defense but a jury voted with their hearts and not their minds.
Which ties into my next thought: we'll never know. A jury just made a strong statement as to the standard of care for diagnosing Aortic Dissections. Unless the case gets published, as a practicing ER doc, I have no clue how I am to incorporate this standard into my practice. What was the error that Dr Dy made that I must now avoid? How does this verdict improve American healthcare? As far as I can tell, it does not.
One sort of clinical thought: it is hard to read between the lines of the fuzzy media report, but they say that the plaintiff "collapsed at home and complained of chest pain in the ER." To me, this implies that maybe his chief complaint was syncope. Syncope is a tricky problem to work up in the ER. It's true that syncope with superimposed chest pain does send up a red flag that more investigation might be required -- though I would be more suspicious of PE than Aortic Dissection. It's for this reason that I have started sending D-Dimers on pretty much all my syncope cases that aren't obviously vagal. I have heard that a D-Dimer can be a useful screening test for Aortic Dissection as well, which makes sense based on the pathophysiology. But I think evidence to support that practice is not yet firmly established.
And one last thought, which really should have been my first thought: my heart goes out to Dr Dy. It sucks to lose a patient, or to have a case go bad unexpectedly. It sucks to get sued. It sucks to have a lawsuit hanging over your head for three years. And it sucks to lose at trial. Yes, I also feel bad for the family of the decedent, but I feel a special kinship and sympathy for the doctor, who has also suffered enormously through this process. For doctors, being sued destroys careers, destroys relationships, causes depression, substance abuse, all sorts of horrible consequences. If she's reading this, I hope you're taking care of yourself and I hope you have some family and friends to rely on in this tough time.
02 September 2007
Medical Liability Follies, Part 2
Some more thoughts on the $5.39 million malpractice verdict:
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We don't have enough evidence to really say much about the medical decision-making in this case. Maybe the doctor didn't even do a chest X-ray, just got an ECG in triage, gave him a GI cocktail, and OTD. The article said he was discharged in an hour. Which 99/100 times might have been good enough.ReplyDelete
In America, we have to order thousands of dollars of tests for the other 99, or 999, or 999,999 in order to "meet the standard of care" and not miss the one that dies.
Because if anyone dies young or unexpectedly, we obviously didn't meet the standard of care, right?
- Anonymous9/04/2007 6:52 PM
"They make it really clear -- if there is significant risk, you do NOT proceed to trial unless you have a bullet-proof defense."ReplyDelete
However, the attorneys don't call the shots, the insurer does, or as you mention the insured if they have negotiated that into their contract. And the insurer may have said - "hey, my maximum liability is $1 million, so what do I have to lose? The plaintiff won't settle for less than policy limits, so let's take our shot".
That assumes no bad faith claim will result of course.
Interestingly, scalpel contradicts himself in saying we don't know what happened, but now he's going to assume a standard of care to the nth degree. That doesn't make sense.
In my experience (take it FWIW) the advice to settle/defend is usually given by the defense counsel -- they are the ones with the strategic understanding of the dynamics of litigation to make a knowledgable recommendation. The insurer can and does weigh in with their perspective. Most policies nowadays include a consent to settle clause for the defendant, unless you are really in a shitty market for insurance, so they can't compel you to settle. They (and I, as the employer) can turn the screws a bit to "encourage" a recalcitrant doc to settle a losing case.ReplyDelete
But anyway, my point was that the attorney is the one who is going to make the best recommendation. You can proceed to trial over the objections of counsel, but it's usually not wise.
That's not my contradiction, that's the bizarre contradiction between what is considered appropriate care by the medical establishment compared with the "standard of care" created by attorneys. As shadowfax mentioned in the first post, "... the state Physician Quality Assurance Commission did review the case and found Dr Dy's care to be within the standard of care. (pity that's not admissible at trial.)"ReplyDelete
The standard emergency room treatment of GERD is to administer a GI cocktail and discharge the patient. The standard emergency room treatment of an aortic dissection is to call a cardiovascular surgeon, obtain multiple diagnostic tests, and admit the patient.
From a medical standpoint, the physician apparently gave appropriate treatment. From a legal standpoint, the physician obviously did not.
Because appropriate treatment from a legal standpoint is to never miss a one in a million diagnosis that is potentially fatal, particularly in someone who is young. That's the cost of defensive medicine in this country. A heartburn workup usually costs over $10,000 because we can't afford to miss ANY faintly-striped zebras.
In my experience working for insurance companies, the adjuster makes the call, with the help of the attorney of course. But the attorney's assessment of the likelihood of winning may be secondary to other concerns.ReplyDelete
"That's not my contradiction, that's the bizarre contradiction between what is considered appropriate care by the medical establishment compared with the "standard of care" created by attorneys."ReplyDelete
Actually, it is your contradiction. Or at least your disagreement with another physician. Attorneys don't testify to the standard of care, physicians do. In fact, nothing the attorney says is evidence.
"Because appropriate treatment from a legal standpoint is to never miss a one in a million diagnosis that is potentially fatal, particularly in someone who is young."
Again with an incorrect assumption. Were this true, physicians wouldn't win nearly as often as they do. Perhaps the reason YOU practice defensive medicine is that your understanding of how the standard of care is determined and your relative risk is based on a number of false assumptions.
"Attorneys don't testify to the standard of care, physicians do."ReplyDelete
Attorneys pay physicians to testify to what the attorney wants to present to the lay jury as the standard of care. That does not make it the standard of care (a mythical creation of attorneys, not a medical concept at all).
- Anonymous9/05/2007 7:30 AM
"Attorneys pay physicians to testify to what the attorney wants to present to the lay jury as the standard of care. That does not make it the standard of care (a mythical creation of attorneys, not a medical concept at all)."ReplyDelete
Why do you believe that all expert witnesses make up their testimony to fit what they think the person paying them wants them to say? That opinion is clearly not based on any actual interaction with counsel or experts for plaintiff or the defense. Almost every attorney on either side wants an independent and honest evaluation, because if they don't get it, their case, and their expert, will be ripped up at trial. It's not pretty when that happens. I'd suggest you educate yourself more before reaching conclusions on the subject.
The standard of care is a legal concept that applies across the board in all negligence cases. However, physicians have made an even higher standard for themselves with the locality rule. How would you have us judge the negligence of physicians if not by the standard of care? Or do you just feel that a physician cannot be negligent?
How does the medical board judge you? What standard do they use?
In some cases, there are legitimate differences of opinion, and in other cases, professional "experts" exist whose willingness to testify one way or another is well-known, thus there is no "standard."ReplyDelete
That's why the defense attorney can easily find an expert to testify that care is appropriate, and the plaintiff's attorney can find someone on his list of "friendly experts" to testify otherwise.
The process really isn't as innocent as you try to paint it.
While I've never gone in front of a medical board, I have gone before a hospital quality assurance committee, which I would assume is similar. The difference?
No paid experts.
- Anonymous9/05/2007 3:11 PM
Now being up the in the great Pacific Northwest I am willing to bet you have heard of a little thing called "anchoring". That is when the ED physician sees a patient and decides the diagnosis and proceeds to collect all history and exam elements and tests to support same. It is not negligent, it just is. I would be willing to bet that any one who has worked in an ED has seen this many times, I have. Try reading some of Pat Croskerry's abstracts.ReplyDelete
We all have biases. That is the reason more women are sent home with an AMI than men. The key to overcoming it is recognizing it. I suggest you read the book "Blink". You usually can trust your gut if you recognize and overcome your bias.
Additionally until there is a standard data set that is collected on all patients with a certain presentation it will be impossible to decreases variability and increases quality. Only in healthcare!! I remain amazed that most physicians see decreasing variability as "cookbook medicine". Oh I know…your patients are different, best practices are unnecessary, standards of care impede your ability to do your job.
I am so f-ing sick of our system. It's broke. We spend more than twice as much as the next highest industrialized country. We have the shortest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rate. We have over 65 million people uninsured. Our system is so grossly fragmented that we have the best doctors, the best facilities, the best equipment and we can't get it right because everyone is so worried about getting their piece of the pie they forget the reason they entered healthcare. It's like the "Dream Team" you put them on the court on and they get beat. They are more concerned about how they look than the common goal. Don't even think about the poor patients! Think if you weren't a doctor, how would you figure out who gives the best care? You would think that given our free enterprise system it would be the guy who charges the most, well we all know that's not that's not true.
I could go on and on however that shall conclude my rant for the day.
the previous post is mine. I like this blog idea.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/05/2007 7:13 PM
Why is it broken? It has less to do with providers "forgeting the reason they entered healthcare" and more to do with.
1. liability concerns and malpractice avoidance defensive medicine costs.
2. America's unrealistic view of death and illness and willingness to torture their loved ones with futile invasive expensive care. Somewhere around 70% of the healthcare dollor is spent on 1% of the population and half of that spent in the futile last 6 months of their lives.
3. Americas demand for the best now. "I just sprained my knee I need an MRI"
4. The insurance industry both private and governmental. It insulates people from the true cost of healthcare.
5. America is is grotesquely obese, lazy, nicotine, alcohol, drug addicted when it comes to their own personal health.
- Anonymous9/06/2007 6:06 AM
"And one last thought, which really should have been my first thought: my heart goes out to Dr Dy. It sucks to lose a patient, or to have a case go bad unexpectedly. It sucks to get sued. It sucks to have a lawsuit hanging over your head for three years. And it sucks to lose at trial."ReplyDelete
Oh . . . and it sucks to die.
Why is it so hard for you doctors to accept the fact that when you make the wrong decision, it is costly. Why should patients bear the cost of your bad decisions? Regardless of the standard of care, Dy made the wrong decision--why shouldn't she pay?
- Anonymous9/06/2007 9:45 AM
It is always easy to make the right decision in retrospect. When a perfectly reasonable decision was made prospectively that turns out to be wrong should that doctsrs life be ruined?ReplyDelete
It is funny that people accuse doctor's of a "God complex" but yet want an im possible 100% perfection at a cheap price.
In my practice as an ER doc some "zebras" slipped by in impossible unpredictable circumstances. Because of that should I be run out of medicine even though I have "saved" and would continue to save hundreds or thousands in the future?
If that is your feeling then there would be no doctors left to practice because 100% perfection is not possible, and people with bad diseases die despite practice perfection.
Of course I want to do the best I can. No I don't expect blanket immunity.
"Why is it so hard for you doctors to accept the fact that when you make the wrong decision, it is costly. Why should patients bear the cost of your bad decisions? Regardless of the standard of care, Dy made the wrong decision--why shouldn't she pay?"ReplyDelete
It's OK to be "wrong." Sometimes you can do everything right and the outcome is bad. In fact, if there is no fault, if there is no negligence then the decision is not "wrong."
Negligence is generally defined in relation to "what any other reasonable doctor would have done in the same circumstance." So, hypothetically, if Dr Dy did the same tests that I would have done in the same case, and if the tests are those generally agreed to be the "right" tests, and they came back negative, and the patient goes home and dies, the care was not negligent. (We do not know this to be true in the incident case, but I am making a more general argument.)
The point is that unpredictable outcomes occur. A bad outcome is not always indicative of bad care, and in fact, most bad outcomes are due to natural disease and patient factors, rather than suboptimal care.
And we are very aware of the cost - the human cost - when the outcome is bad. They say "you're not a real doctor till you've killed a few patients," and by that they mean that till you see someone die because of (or in spite of) your efforts, you don't fully understand the burden of responsibility that comes with the white coat. What doctors object to is being blamed automatically for the outcome, when our ability to influence it is limited at best.
- Anonymous10/19/2007 1:44 AM
What is wrong with the system is that no-one has pointed out the obvious fact.ReplyDelete
THE DOCTOR DID NOT KILL THE PATIENT Without any treatment the patient would have died anyway
So why is the doctor subjected to a process which virtually equates her actions(or lack of them) to actually killing the patient. The family of the patient should be grateful that there there was even a Doctor there - 'cos their actions can only push us down the road of there being no Doctors at all. Who you gonna sue then?
- Anonymous10/19/2007 7:21 AM
What is the point of having a state quality assurance board if their assessment of the case isn't admissable as evidence? Seems like they would be just as high a quality assessor of the standard of care as any hired guns either side could put up in front of a jury.ReplyDelete


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Last week I tried to connect the need for moderation with the Holidays, celebrations, exercise and the Globesity Epidemic and said there's reasons to make this a personal and family Quest, immediately. Let's start, right!
Before New Year, you can mitigate the "damage" of holiday parties, so there's less "need" for New Year Resolutions or for being behind the 8-ball with lots of holiday weight gain. You want a better outcome, right!
Last week I showed numbers that almost ALL of humanity is getting seriously fat, as a species. You can read additional stats here, and at Global Obesity Statistics.
More nations in perspective — some new:
Worst — American Samoa. 94% of population is obese
Kiribati is at 82% overweight.
French Polynesia – 75% overweight
Saudi Arabia — 74% overweight
Panama — 67.5%
United States — 66.9% of us are overweight
Germany — 66.5% are fat
Egypt — 66%
Kuwait — 64% overweight
Bosnia and Herzegovina — 63%
New Zealand — 62.7% overweight
Malta — 62.3%
Israel — 61.9% fat
Croatia — 61.4%
Bahrain and the United Kingdom — 61% overweight
Australia — 60.8%
Macedonia and Barbados — 60.4% fat
Seychelles — 60.1%
Chile — 59.7% overweight
Canada — 59.1%
Italy — 57.4% fat
Spain — 55%
Brazil — 54.7% overweight
France — 46.5%
China — 41.1% fat
India — 37.5% overweight
Japan — less than 30% are overweight
Laos and Ghana — Best
Where does this leave us and why?
What I've learned in researching this over the years is that knowledge and behavioral choices count!
The French are, I believe, keeping their weight down successfully because overweight is so taboo there. Women are savvy about eating healthfully on small amounts of food, so much so that it is an art form, especially necessary in the upper classes.
Contrary to being "good" numbers, even though at the bottom rankings, those of China and India are huge wake-up calls to the governments of those countries. The numbers of overweight people in those statistics are massive (and would be enough for whole country populations, elsewhere). Their future health care will bankrupt them. Nutrition education; farming practices for healthy food for everyone; return to heritage foods and meals; not too many empty, deleterious carbs (like white rice, grain flours or sugar) is necessary to instigate as progressive, immediate change.
The Campbell studies in China point out a massive problem, and as affluence arrives, it will only be greater. And, with the massive pollution plaguing the land, more obesity will happen as individual bodies try to cellularly protect themselves from the toxins, by using "fat" to segregate them. Pollution causes tissue pH acidity — the cause of disease. This is a massive problem in the making.
India has begun to have an out-of-control, huge diabetes problem, even though the obesity stats are not as bad as many countries. It's a crisis for the country and is almost exclusively caused by rampant sugar use from candies and desserts, from upwardly-mobile Indians getting better paychecks. Losing this affluent class would be an economic blow, so educate them. Only if they are healthy people as the spearhead of all your economic hopes can you have a future!
The Samoans have had representation from several individuals on The Biggest Loser, because their culture lauds big bodies — possibly as an acknowledgment of famines or long sea journeys in the past, where only the fat and fit survived. This may be a version of Wilson Syndrome OR of the Thrifty Gene Theory.
Wilson's Syndrome is discounted by some, but that's self-serving, when the accuracy of blood tests for thyroid hormones is seriously questioned by just as qualified practitioners! And, when people are treated for Wilsons and FEEL better and can lose weight better, that counts, more than anything!
Groups most at risk for Wilson's Syndrome are those who have experienced repeated episodes of famine. These groups include: Jews, Russians, Scots, Welsh, Irish and Native Americans. And, if your ethnicity combines several of these, become much more aware of what Wilson's is all about! Regardless of ethnicity, 80% of victims are female. Anyone can get Wilson's. Read more about the work of Dr. Broda Barnes, too. (I think you'll find reference in my archive.)
Stress is at the Core of the obesity problems in many countries, and with this huge economic downturn, and personal finances in decline, I expect a lot more obesity and a lot more diabetes to surface. Stress makes more adrenaline hormone and that affects how much insulin hormone we are dealing with!
It doesn't matter if the stressor is war — as it was in Central Europe (like the numbers from Bosnia, Croatia etc.,) or famine or lack of food or less nutritious food (for the Native Americans).
The work of Dr. Barry Sears, PhD and his Zone Diet Program, along with the work of Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD and his pH Alkaline systems are central, as is understanding your ethnically optimal diet, which can be elucidated somewhat in the work of Dr. Peter D'Adamo, ND.
Countries are putting forth their most beautiful young people as "typical" and that's before the statistics just claim them as more victims. There are barely any countries that are doing a decent job, citizen by citizen. Most are either thin because they're poor and / or malnourished, rather than successfully managing their normal, healthy weight themselves.
Even those beautiful Scandinavians are not exempt.
So, that's the reason to laud those who are doing the needed steps for health.
Among those, I include the Okinawans on traditional dietary foods (they are the main reason the Japanese stats look so good).
And, I include the Native Americans who have embraced a return to their ancestral foods and meals, eschewing the modern foods which were killing them from amazing rates of diabetes and heart disease. Those tribes include the Pima Tribe — highest in diabetes, worldwide (50+% of tribe members).
Native Americans and Alaska First Nations who have embraced modern foods have at least double the diabetes incidence of other Americans!
Most cultures with large numbers of fat people also tend to NOT be good at distinguishing when they start on the obesity path themselves. This is a scientific fact borne out in statements by participants in The Biggest Loser.
And, we know that people "start" getting fat, on a cellular level, with aberrations of metabolism etc. beginning 7 years before one starts to "look" fat.
Diet — portions and access to fresh vegetables and fruit as diet basis; enough fresh water daily; moderate exercise and stress reduction techniques are the key to solving this Globesity Epidemic.
More, next time.
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Broaden Financial Innovation Capabilities to Include CUs, WOCCU Urges G-20 Subgroup
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April 30, 2010
MADISON, Wis. — Leaders from the Group of 20 (G-20) nations would like to see the global poor receive greater access to financial services through safe and sound modes of service delivery administered worldwide. World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) has been invited to comment on the G-20's proposal to assure that credit unions are effectively represented and empowered to help fulfill the committee's recommendations.
The G-20 at its 2009 Pittsburgh Summit appointed the Access Through Innovation sub-group of its Financial Inclusion Expert Group to examine and recommend new methodologies to provide the world's poor with financial services. The sub-group's co-chairs have asked for WOCCU's input on the draft Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion, a plan that the organization's members do not believe fully enables credit unions to effectively fulfill this mission, according to Dave Grace, WOCCU vice president of association services.
"After consulting with our members, we believe the draft principles don't go far enough to ensure that credit unions worldwide can access critical payment systems, card networks, central bank lending facilities and deposit insurance systems to offer innovative and inclusive products," said Grace. "WOCCU's work to expand access to financial services by providing reloadable debit cards, ATMs and mobile banking services to credit unions would be significantly streamlined if credit unions could access these core central banking services."
In an April 28 letter to sub-group co-chairs Paul Flanagan, general manager of the Australian Treasury's international finance division, and Luis Mansur, deputy head of Banco Central do Brasil's external debt and international relations department, Grace stressed several changes to the proposed nine principles, which focus on technology, education and responsible oversight as ways to increase consumer access to financial services. WOCCU's recommendations better articulate the opportunity for credit unions to participate in providing these services.
In the letter, WOCCU recommends that principle two, which focuses on diversity of products, also contain the following clarification to promote diversity of institutional types and credit union involvement (recommendation in Italics): "Implement policy approaches that provide incentives for sustainable financial access through various types of financial institutions, and usage of a broad range of services (savings, credit, payments and transfers, insurance)."
WOCCU also advocates for the inclusion of a tenth principle, outlined as follows:
Equality: Allow all prudentially supervised institutions to directly access payment systems, lender-of-last-resort facilities, deposit insurance and card networks, which will enable both banking and non-banking financial institutions to offer a broad set of services to the financially excluded.
"The addition of this principle will ensure that non-banking financial institutions, which often are the primary providers of services to the financially excluded, can offer safe and sound services comparable to those offered by the banking sector," the letter explained. "Today, one-third of credit unions globally have direct access to payment systems and less than half have access to deposit insurance systems. Without such access, innovations will be limited, costs will be higher and depositor security will be sub-optimal."
In meetings last month with the Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland, a WOCCU delegation put forward a similar agenda. The Access Through Innovation sub-group will present the final Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion for consideration by the G-20 ministers of finance when they meet June 25-27 in Toronto.
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New York Fashion Week kicks off the spring collections tomorrow, but let's take a step back and talk fall. While coats, boots, and berry red lips hit the runways last February, the season actually starts in two weeks. So which runway beauty trends do we recommend you try in real life? Our suggestions, above!
We already supplied you with a list of our favorite mattifying top coats—so whether your style swings ladylike and grown up a la The Row, or edgy, dark, and urban like Alexander Wang, ditch the shine.
And we're not talking fancy ones. Anything black will work! They were leather at Valentino, knit at Nina Ricci, and tulle at Balenciaga, wrapped around braids, updos, and sleek side-parts respectively.
Shocking? Yes. So we tried to ease you into it by warning you six months ago. Smudge some brown eyeliner around your lashline or don a particularly bright lip and skip mascara for a day. It might sound crazy, but it actually feels freeing.
It's time to break out the hot rollers! Use them to score ringlets like those seen at Marc by Marc Jacobs or the soft, fluffy waves on display at Diane von Furstenburg. Backcomb the bounce for the kind of mega-volume on display at Bottega Veneta and Rick Owens!
You can stop saying "glowy" for a second—nails aren't the only thing going matte for autumn. Give your illuminator a rest and reach for a contouring powder or rich blush instead. Look no further than Dolce & Gabbana, Thakoon, and Jean Paul Gaultier for proof that matte skin needn't mean a lack of dimension. (Stay tuned for a round-up of the best mattifying makeup next week!)
Sure, we'll take any excuse to emulate Drew Barrymore circa 1992. But added validation from designers like Thakoon, Phillip Lim, and J.W. Anderson can't hurt. If your search for brown lipstick turns frustrating, reach for an eyeliner instead. At Lim's show, makeup artist Francelle Daly used Nars' Eyeliner Pencil ($22) in Mambo.
From the burgundy nail polish at Billy Reid (Essie's ($8) Berry Hard) to the purply wine-stained lips at Marni, Louis Vuitton, and Lanvin and the coppery red, smoky eyes Pat McGrath painted on the models at Gucci—rich red reigned supreme.


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Carrying nearly one ton of trash and excess equipment, along with personal items belonging to the returning Expedition One crew, the Leonardo cargo carrier was detached from its port on the International Space Station early this morning and gently placed back in Discovery's payload bay by Mission Specialist Andy Thomas.
After crewmate Paul Richards released the 16 bolts and associated latches holding the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to its Common Berthing Mechanism port, Thomas received a "go" to begin moving the module with the shuttle's 50-foot-long robotic arm about 4:40 a.m. CST. About 90 minutes later, at 6:08 a.m., the Italian-built module was securely latched back in its its cargo bay cradle, ready for return to Earth.
Leonardo's unberthing occurred about four hours later than originally scheduled, due in part to a leaky vacuum access hose used to depressurize the small vestibule between Unity and Leonardo. The hatches between the two modules were closed and the vestibule was depressurized, but after a 15 minute leak check period, ground controllers noted pressure in the vestibule was not at expected levels. Expedition Two flight engineer Jim Voss reported he had found – and tightened – a loose fitting on one of those hoses. The crew was then asked to repeat the depressurization procedure, a process that takes approximately 45 minutes, to verify good seals between the modules. With that action complete, Thomas was given a go to proceed with the unberthing of Leonardo.
Also overnight, Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Jim Kelly verified the performance of Discovery's general purpose computers. Ground analysis indicated that Saturday morning's quick power-up of two of those computers would not affect their performance, but flight controllers elected to perform the on-orbit procedure to validate the software load.
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Cee Lo Green's Las Vegas revue 'Cee Lo Green Is Loberace' has been postponed until 2013. The entertainer had to rescheduled his residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino so he can focus on judging contestants on 'The Voice.'
The Sin City revue was inspired by the showmanship of the late flamboyant piano king Liberace. According to Planet Hollywood, the show will take fans on a musical ride through the colorful decades of music from Prince to Blue Magic to The Rolling Stones.
In a press release, Cee Lo Green explained why he had to reschedule the show:
It's always been a dream of mine to be among the great music legends who have had a Las Vegas residency and I was very much looking forward to launching Loberace this year. But as we move into the third season of 'The Voice,' with my dedicated commitment to the filming schedule and love for my role on the show, I will need to postpone the opening of 'Loberace' to early 2013. Most importantly, to all my fans who have already purchased tickets, please accept my sincerest apology and I hope you can still join me in Vegas next year, so I can properly and finally introduce you to my brainchild."
The 'Cee Lo Green Is Loberace' show will begin on Feb. 27, 2013, and run through April 13. Fans holding tickets for the postponed shows can exchange them or ask for a refund. Tickets for the new 2013 concerts will go on sale on August 1.
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One of the most interesting things about doing research, whether we are doing it for our work or as a hobby, is that if you really want to be good at it you have to be able to suspend your own perceptions. I have been doing an incredible amount of research for both my job and my own genealogical interest, and I keep stumbling over this fact.
At my job, the last few weeks have been very challenging at my corporate client. They are an extremely complex corporation with a nearly 75 year history. Because there are so many locations, divisions, and departments, it's very challenging to be able to know when each place will be celebrating an anniversary (there's no single place this information has been retained to; the Archives do not hold typical 'business' material).
Well, a person in a position of authority 'remembered' that a major location was started in 1982, making 2012 its 30th anniversary! Oh no! We almost missed it! Everyone scramble to find information to put something together for an upcoming show in March! Uh, wait a minute. I wasn't able to find any corroborating information that the location was started in 1982. As a matter of fact, after a very, very lengthy research day, I uncovered that the Grand Opening didn't happen until 1989. "But I was there in 1987!" someone says. Uh huh, you were. But business transactions didn't start, and you didn't let your stockholders know business was being transacted, until 1988 with the opening in 1989. Genealogists, does any of this sound familiar? (Oh, by the way, mad props, i.e., thanks, go to Dwayne at the Town & Country Public Library in Elburn for being an ultra-awesome Reference Librarian!!)
What people remember, and what actually can be proven, are often two very different things. And this brings me back to my lovely Stellas. I'm an exceedingly open minded person. The fact that Stella and Pipa, as they were known, might've had a relationship that went beyond just friends leapt to my mind when I found out they were buried in the same crypt in the Mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles County, CA. Why would they do this unless they had an intimate relationship?
Well, I contacted the Calvary Cemetery to see what they could tell me about Stella Piper. All they were able to give me were her DOB and DOD along with the name of her cousin who made the arrangements, Frank Seifert. I asked if there was anything else, and the nice young lady who answered the phone told me that the name of the mortuary that had delivered her remains to the cemetery was called Goodbody Mortuary in San Diego. (Not kidding) So, I looked up Goodbody and, sure enough, they're still in business and thriving! A call to Goodbody's (heh) and Chris Ebert was kind enough to let me know that they can't give out any information due to privacy laws. However, he can confirm information, so I explained what I'm most interested in finding out: was Stella Piper a widow?
Huh?! So, here's where I had to suspend my perceptions. When I started looking into Stella Piper a few weeks ago, I thought I'd find her only in California (bad assumption #1). When I found someone in OHIO with the same birth year, she was MARRIED WITH CHILDREN (bad assumption #2). So, kicking myself for falling into the 'lazy' habit of making assumptions about the person I'm looking for, and thankful that I found several people who were willing to provide enough information to help me refocus.
I have to wait until Monday to get the information from Goodbody's because they're very busy (a good and bad thing), and I'll be waiting not so patiently. I still am trying to locate someone of the Random Act of Kindness sort in San Diego who would be willing to go to San Diego County to pull the ginormous Probate file for my great grand-aunt Estella. (Major hint, hint) ;-)
The Stella's are waiting patiently to have their story told.
19 January 2012
Thankful Thursday - A Step for the Stellas
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Great post and a great reminder to not jump to conclusions right away about a person or family. Follow the paper trail.ReplyDelete
My great-grandparents are buried at Calvary Cemetery, small world!ReplyDelete
Good luck in unraveling the mystery. I hope you find a San Diego helper!
Have you tried "ask a librarian" - possibly the could find an obituary for you that may give you the additional information you seek.ReplyDelete
We have to step back and try and look at things as if they are new to us sometimes. I hope your info arrives soon :-)ReplyDelete
So excited to hear if you've heard anything! Stella update please!!ReplyDelete
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Hekmati's parents recently recorded this video, trying to humanize their son and weeping for his return. There's nothing happy here; just the sad stress of parents terrified for their son. It's a reminder that Hekmati's fate remains in the hands of the Iranian government.
Hekmati's parents and the U.S. government have denied that Hekmati was a spy. The Iranian government, however, has even labeled work Hekmati did to help develop software for war video game company Kuma Games as proof that he was trying to help topple the Iranian regime.
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Complete these three requirements:
- 1. Show how to orient a map. Find three landmarks on the map
- 2. Explain how a compass works.
- 3. Draw a map of your neighborhood. Label the streets and plot the route you take to get to a place that you often visit.
Academics Pin Requirements
Earn the Map and Compass belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- 1. Define cartography.
- 2. Make a poster showing 10 map symbols and their meaning.
- 3. Read a book or story about a famous explorer or navigator. Tell your den or family what you learned.
- 4. Make a simple compass with a magnet and pin.
- 5. Explain the difference between latitude and longitude and show them on a map or globe.
- 6. Draw a compass rose for a map. Label north, south, east, and west.
- 7. Study a blank map of the United States of America. Label your state, and the states that share its boundary lines.
- 8. In the field, show how to take a compass bearing and how to follow it.
- 9. Show how to measure distances, using a scale on a map legend.
- 10. Measure your pace. Then layout a simple compass course for your den to try.
- 11. Using a road map, determine how many miles it is between two major cities or familiar destinations.
- 12. Explain what the different map colors can mean on a map.
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DUBAI, U.A.E., 2nd October 2012: Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, celebrated its first Airbus A380 arrival in Melbourne on Tuesday followed by its first A380 service between the Victorian capital and Auckland.
The A380, operating as EK406, one of the three daily Emirates flights to Melbourne, departs Dubai at 1010hrs (local time) and arrives in Melbourne at 0535hrs the following day. The flight continues to Auckland, departing Melbourne at 0710hrs and arriving in Auckland at 1345hrs. The return flight, EK407, departs Auckland at 1850hrs, arriving in Melbourne at 1950hrs, before leaving for Dubai at 2125hrs arriving at 0525hrs the next day.
Emirates has been serving Melbourne since 1996 and the introduction of the A380 – which includes Private Suites and Shower Spas in First Class, flat-bed seats, all with aisle access, in Business Class and generous seating on the main deck in Economy Class - increases Melbourne's capacity on the Dubai and Auckland sectors by more than 500 seats per day.
The launch marks the start of an exciting period of growth for Emirates in Australia, with non-stop flights to Adelaide starting on 1st November followed by a third daily flight to Perth from 1st December, while the recently announced Global Aviation Partnership with Qantas - pending regulatory approval – will enable travellers to enjoy seamless connectivity across the Emirates and Qantas networks, along with a number of other benefits.
Passengers in all classes can enjoy Emirates' award-winning 'ice' Digital Widescreen, the industry's most sophisticated video and audio system, offering 1,400 channels of on-demand entertainment - the largest selection of programming in the sky.
Emirates currently has 25 A380s in service which now fly to Amsterdam, Auckland, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, London Heathrow, Melbourne, Manchester, Munich, New York JFK, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Toronto, Tokyo from its Dubai Hub. Additional A380 destinations that are set to launch this year include Singapore and Moscow (both from 1 December 2012).


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by Josh Wirtanen
Sorcery was first announced at E3 way back in 2010. Since then, it's been an easy title to forget about, considering the fact that it seems like it's always disappearing, only to re-emerge a few months down the road at some trade show or gaming event. Well, it's getting close to that vague "Spring of 2012" release date, so it's probably time to dig it up again and see how it's doing.
Now, part of the reason the title went dark for a while was that the developers at The Workshop weren't quite happy with the version they showed us way back in 2010. There have since been numerous tweaks and refinements, bringing the game more in line with the original creative vision. It's always good when a developer decides to delay a game to make it better rather than release a rushed project that hits a specific time slot yet falls short of its true potential. And so far, it's looking like Sorcery will be worth the wait.
The game was originally announced as a title that would make use of the PS Move controller, and, as such, this is a motion-controlled introduction to the fine art of spellcasting. Back in 2010, one of the touted features was the one-to-one movement, which made the game's protagonist move his wand in the same way the player moved the PS Move controller. Considering this was a pre-Skyward Sword world, it was impressive indeed back then. But with the almost two years that have passed since then, it's going to take more than one-to-one wandplay to impress us. Sorcery, though, has some other tricks up its sleeve.
With the focus on motion controls—and the title of the game simply being Sorcery—the spell-based combat is obviously front and center here. However, the developers didn't want the motion control aspect to limit the amount of creativity players were allowed. As such, Sorcery will allow you to use several basic spells and combine them in various ways. One example we've seen was creating a line of fire on the ground, then pushing a whirlwind through that fire to make it into a spinning vortex of flames and destruction. Another interesting twist (literally) added by the motion controls is the ability to put some curve into the trajectories of your projectile-based spells by twisting your wrist in different ways.
We don't know a whole lot about the story yet, but it sounds like the game's protagonist is a teenage boy with "humble farm boy beginnings" who, over the course of the game, becomes a powerful wizard who must do battle against the Nightmare Queen. The game's environment is said to be rather large, taking place in a land called the Faerie Kingdom. (Though, don't expect a Skyrim contender here. It sounds like players will get an experience closer in length to a Call of Duty story than a full-on Elder Scrolls experience.)
In some recent footage, we've seen evidence of talking animals that will accompany you on your journey. And speaking of animals, the 2010 gameplay demo showcased the ability of the protagonist to transform into a rat, and we were promised there would be other animals to transform into as well. Hopefully this is a gameplay element that hasn't been left on the cutting room floor (we haven't heard any mention of it lately), as it looks like it could create some pretty cool gameplay scenarios.
As far as visual aesthetic, Sorcery doesn't go for the more realistic look of an Elder Scrolls title or the fun, cartoony look of a Legend of Zelda game. Instead, it seeks to strike a balance between the two. The game's world is definitely filled with detail and darkness, but this doesn't come at the expense of color. Several of the enemies we've seen in gameplay footage have actually been brightly colored and less "sinister" than the types of critters we're accustomed to seeing in more mature fantasy titles. Even the troll featured in the game's recent trailer, while still looking fierce and strong enough to tear the protagonist to pieces, has facial features that are exaggerated to the point of being slightly cartoony.
From the footage we've seen, it looks like an art style that simply works for the title. It shouldn't alienate the motion control crowd (stereotypically put into the "casual" segment of the gaming audience), while it's not annoyingly cartoony as to scare off the more hardcore audience that the PS3 typically aims for. However, by not isolating one specific segment of the gaming public, might Sorcery have the unfortunate fate of not appealing to anyone?
Only time will tell. Either way, though, we're onboard so far. If Sorcery can manage to strike that perfect balance between core and casual—a precarious balance indeed—it could be one of 2012's early PS3 exclusive hits, and all the more reason for on-the-fence consumers to finally pick up a Move.
Josh Wirtanen
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A few weeks ago, Diane was looking for a recipe for a clear sugar glaze she could use on strawberries. We found her one that is simple and should work. But we must warn Diane: Be very careful when you make this recipe. This glaze gets very, very hot. Keep it away from kids, pets and anyone who is accident prone.
Onto a less fraught request, Marsha in Los Angeles writes:
"There used to be a restaurant in Long Beach called the Rib Factory. They served the best BBQ'd beans with their rib dinners. We used to drive down there from Venice just to eat there. We were sad when they closed. Any chance anybody out there has their bean recipe? I remember that they had pieces of the barbecued pork in them as well as the beans."
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Basic Hard Candy Clear Glaze
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 1 cup water
In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine sugar, corn syrup and water.
Heat to 300-310 degrees, or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads.
Remove from heat, and use immediately on fruit of choice.
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Why Qiaodan Is Taking a Shot at Michael Jordan
Chinese sportswear maker Qiaodan, facing a lawsuit from Michael Jordan alleging it illegally profited from his name, has responded by countersuing. Stan Abrams, an intellectual property lawyer, explains what Qiaodan expects to gain from retaliation.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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So, not having checked Google books yet, I crossed my fingers and entered "Harvey Werley Carr" + "Elizabeth Wilson Walker" (this rarely ever works). Lo, and behold! Top of the list is a free, full view, pdf book titled History of Walker Family, 1775-1916, by Minerva A. Carr Muir, published in 1916. Well, what have we here? The link takes me to an early page of the book that is largely blank, except, centered in the middle, is the following:
Quickly, I downloaded the file before it disappeared, and settled down to read. Who is this Minerva? She is the youngest child of Grandfather Harvey and Grandmother Elizabeth, baby sister to my Grandfather Hueston. The first thing she taught me is that I have been spelling Grandfather's name wrong! It isn't Houston, like the city, it is Hueston, his grandmother's maiden name. The book was "Began in December, 1892, finished in March, 1899, in her 60th year".
What followed was a chronicle written by a woman intensely proud of her family. Her narrative gave me a view of the kind of people I can claim as ancestors.
Amelia (Forsythe) Walker: "After Mr. Walker died, in Ireland, his widow, Amelia Forsythe, with her three sons and two daughters, emigrated from the north of Dublin, Ireland, bordering on Scotland, to America, in 1775…Being of enterprising Protestant parentage, she purchased a farm on the Juniatta River, in Mifflin County, Pa….They were accompanied thither by their cousins, Henry Buchanan … Henry and his wife became the grandparents of President James Buchanan."
William Walker and Margaret Elliott: "This good old grandmother, Margaret Elliott Walker, was known as the 'Lady Bountiful'…She was a loving friend to the poor and needy…Every corner expected to break bread at her board and she never questioned whether he had come from palace or prison….It is no fiction to say they lived happily together, and are now treading the golden streets hand in hand."
Harvey Werley Carr and Elizabeth Wilson Walker: "The names of Uncle Harvey and Aunt Betsey Carr…were widely known … Possessed of simple and frugal habits, coupled with a long life of industry, they acquired, solely by their own exertions, a large amount of this world's goods. What others wasted in luxury and pride they husbanded and with sound and discriminating judgment invested in property. The world knew much of their public career and generous hearts."
Minerva Carr Muir: "Minerva Muir was known to her nieces and nephews by the name of Aunt Ninnie. Every one of them knew they would always find a warm welcome when they came to see Aunt Ninnie, and there was scarcely a meal she did not set an extra plate at the table so that if one of them came the place (w)ould be ready." (I wonder who wrote this?)
The pages are full of the children of each generation. There are stories of the good and the bad. Grandfather Harvey suffered beatings at the hands of his aunt and uncle after his mother died and he went to live with them. Uncle John Madison Carr was a brave Civil War soldier.
It is almost as if I can hear Aunt Minerva's voice telling the pages, an intimate sharing of our history across time on a rainy Wednesday afternoon. I know it all needs research, but she has left quite a trail for me to follow. I've read about "miracles" in genealogy—help from beyond the veil, as the book says. I think this was one of them.
And thank you, Google books,


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The staff members put the same care and attention into handcrafting other sweets, including cheesecakes, chocolate-coated s'mores, and cake truffles, to name a few. And they carry the ever-popular cake pops—spherical bites of cake that are mounted on sticks and made an example to cakes planning rebellion.


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Document re-ranking by generality in bio-medical information retrieval. (Springer http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11581062_28, 2005)YAN, X., LI, X. and SONG, D., 2005. Document re-ranking by generality in bio-medical information retrieval. In: A. NGU, M. KITSUREGAWA, E. NEUHOLD, J.-Y. CHUNG and Q. SHENG. Eds. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005: 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, New York, NY, USA, November 20-22, 2005; Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. pp. 376-389.Document ranking is well known to be a crucial process in information retrieval (IR). It presents retrieved documents in an order of their estimated degrees of relevance to query. Traditional document rank- ing methods ...


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South Dakota Native To Perform On NBC's "The Winner Is"
Being from a state where the entire population is comparable to the city of San Francisco means when national attention arrives, it's actually a big deal. South Dakota is living in high times with basketball players (Colton Iverson, Mike Miller & Nate Wolters) and basketball entertainers (the Crevier family from Elkton) gaining notoriety.
The next South Dakota splash has nothing to do with basketball. A Burbank native will perform on a new game show broadcast by NBC Television on Thursday July 11. Douglas Roegiers is among six singers that will compete on a show called "The Winner Is" for a $1 million prize. Roegiers currently performs with a 9-piece swing band and is known as "The Crooner". Roegiers now lives in North Hollywood, CA so don't confuse the little town east of Vermillion with the suburb of Los Angeles.
Premise-wise according to Sioux Falls NBC affiliate KDLT, the show mixes singing competition with the strategy of a game show. The show premiers at 8 pm Thursday night.


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Congressional delegations from Mississippi and Arkansas want the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work with them to allow hunting over a rolled rice fields.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Congressional delegations from Mississippi and Arkansas want the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work with them to allow hunting over a rolled rice fields.
Lawmakers said federal and state wildlife agencies are calling hunting over rolled rice fields illegal field baiting.
Cochran said citing hunters is "a case of federal agencies working at cross purposes, leaving farmers and hunters in a bind."
The legislation backed by U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, both R-Miss., died in the past Congress. U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., whose district is the largest rice producer in the state, tells The Commercial Appeal that he will introduce the bill this year.
Duck hunting season ends this month in Mississippi and Arkansas.
The legislation also makes it legal to shoot coots and cranes over rolled fields.
Herbert Hartwell Huddleston III of Leland, Miss., said he used to lease out some of his land in Bolivar and Washington counties to winter duck hunters. When wildlife officers told the hunters they couldn't hunt over manipulated rice stubble, the hunters asked for their money back.
Memphis-based Ducks Unlimited CEO H. Dale Hall said the clarification is long overdue.
"This issue has arisen in previous years in regard to rice fields and has again resurfaced," he said, referring to second "volunteer" rice crops coming up after an initial summer harvest.
"Ducks Unlimited believes there needs to be very clear regulations and guidance for hunters and law enforcement to follow. Ducks Unlimited believes that if a crop has been harvested, farmers, landowners or hunters should be able to follow normal agricultural practices to prepare fields for subsequent growing seasons and also hunt migratory waterfowl in those fields," Hall said.
Thomas E. Moorman, director of Science and Public Policy for Ducks Unlimited's Southern region, said a million of acres of rice are grown in the Lower Mississippi Valley along a major flight path for migratory ducks and geese.
Moorman said the second growth in rice — called "ratoon" — is often not worth the cost to harvest.
If it is harvested, there's no problem hunting over it. If it's rolled flat to rot in the field through the winter that can be interpreted as baiting, he said.
He said the burden is always on the hunter to determine whether he or she is hunting legally.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife spokesman Brent Lawrence said most citations for field baiting are made by state and local enforcement officials with "an incredibly small percentage" resulting in federal charges under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Said Wicker: "Many Mississippi landowners traditionally lease farmland to sportsmen after the land has been harvested, but some of these leases have had to be returned because of Fish and Wildlife Service requirements, costing farmers and sportsmen."


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Coding Error Turns Trendnet Safety Cams Into Spy Cams
What exactly happened here? In early January a blog called Console Cowboys reported an interesting discovery about Trendnet's security cameras. While the video feed was nominally password-protected, this blogger found that appending a specific code to the camera's IP address bypassed the password requirement, throwing the video feed wide open.
The Threat Is Real
The Console Cowboys post offers detailed instructions for finding and hacking Trendnet cameras. Just to confirm that the threat is real, I followed the instructions. I searched the Shodan website for the realm "netcam" and checked the first ten IP addresses that turned up. Four were non-existent or offline. The rest asked for a username and password. I canceled the password request and appended the special code to the IP in the address bar.
Four sites simply returned "404 not found," but the other two gave me access to live video feed from webcams. One was a busy office with a timestamp two hours ahead of Pacific Time. A quick IP-address lookup identified its location as Nashville. From the other cam I got a view of a thermometer in Minneapolis somewhere. So, in my quick sample of ten possible addresses, two represented active cameras with unprotected video feeds.
Protect Yourself
If indeed your home has one of the problem cameras installed, surf to Trendnet's download page and see if new firmware for your particular camera is available. The company hopes to have updates for all models within a day or two. Don't turn it back on until you've obtained the update for your camera.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
I was so excited last week to receive a package I have been waiting for for about three months! I ordered a ton of phantom crystals (130 to be exact) for the wedding (going with a crystal theme). In their fully loaded box, they were all lined up, pristinely wrapped and each one had to be meticulously undressed. I cleaned them all up (with goo gone to remove tape) but still need to bathe them of their old energy and give them a new life. Hosanna told me a glass bowl of water in the sun should do the trick. Happy to hear that I won't need to rinse them in the East River!
Two deliveries arriving at once is overwhelmingly exhilarating—when you've waited so long. I opened the second box that encased this odd rock ball...
Yes my geode is here!
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My all day adventure, with Hawaii Forest and Trail, began with meeting my tour guide Taj as in Taj Mahal. Taj has an extensive background in geology and science and is extremely knowledgeable about all things Hawaii. Taj taught us about the extensive history, legends, and myths that surround this mystical island. Taj is actually from North Carolina, but has been in Hawaii for 6 years, so it is pretty impressive that he is so ingrained in the culture. We began the journey in a large, comfortable, air conditioned van and after picking up a few more people, headed towards the volcanoes. Hawaii is comprised of 5 volcanoes. On the tour, we learned about three of the volcanoes: Mauna Loa (long mountain), Mauna Kea (white mountain), and Mauna Kilauea (spewing mountain). It was so interesting to learn how the island was formed!
The first stop on the tour was Kaumana Caves. The cave actually goes under a volcano! It is very cool and spooky, but fun. The cave consists of stalactites and hardened lava, and was very surreal. On our way to Hawaii Volcano National Park, we stopped for lunch, which the company graciously provides. When I booked my excursion, they gave me a variety of sandwiches to choose from for lunch. The lunch comes with chips and a cookie all prepared by "Buns in the Sun". I had the tuna sandwich, after a lunch break we continued on our way.
The first stop inside the park is Halema'uma'u Crater, where during the day, we saw steam coming from the crater, but at night, Taj told us we would be fortunate enough to see lava! Unfortunately, we did not get to be anywhere near the lava, nor do we get to actually see lava flow. The next stop took us to Kilaue Iki where we got to see a closer inspection of a crater spewing steam and hardened lava. You can actually hike to it and it is only 2.5 miles, however, we did not get to partake in that on this tour. I was quite disappointed that that was not part of the tour.
Then it is on to Devil's Throat which is a crater so big that you cannot see the bottom; you also cannot get too close because of the sudden cracks in the fissures along the edge. While there, we didn't get to walk around and check out the lava and explore the wonderful rocks and other creations that is created when a volcano erupts. As the night winds down, we head to the beach located within the park to enjoy dinner and enjoy the magnificent view. For dinner I choose the portabello quinoa instead of the vegetable quinoa and it was delish! As promised, around twilight we headed back to the first crater to view the lava spewing which in and of itself was the best part of the tour.
So, in the end, it was a good expedition, with Hawaii Forest and Trail, if you want minimal trekking, a great history lesson and you are in awe of all things Hawaii. If you want something a little more adventurous and active, like myself, I would suggest looking for a hike that actually takes you into a crater for the up close feeling.


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Short review: These naughty old boys won't need Viagra after they see the young gloryhole they're about to fuck! They may just have a heart attack while doing it, but it's the cool way to die!
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While out to dinner with a bunch of foodie friends, the conversation, not surprisingly, turned to favorite restaurants. When someone threw out Not Your Favorite Joe's, I gasped. How could he name a chain restaurant with the multitude of family and owner-run restaurants in the area?
"Not Your Favorite Joe's is different. Trust me," he insisted.
So I did, and we went to the only one in the area, located on Fall River Ave. in Seekonk, across from Sam's Club and on the opposite corner from TGI Fridays. The manager greeted and seated us, asking if it was our first time and then explaining some of their reasons for not being average.
Food is cooked to order. Substitutions are graciously honored. They are part of a growing trend of "allergy-friendly" restaurants. Their menu is constantly changing. Need anything? Just ask.
A waitperson came to the table with the most delicious, warm bread, enhanced by freshly prepared at the table oil with garlic and cheese. We easily could have made a meal out of it, but were warned to pace ourselves for what was to come.
Joyce ordered a crab cake BLT, a huge crab cake filled with crab, served on a toasted roll with country bacon, lettuce, tomato, arugula and Tabasco aioli and, except for the standard french fry side, the most out-of-the-ordinary selections, including butternut squash couscous, sautéed green beans, grilled asparagus, jasmine rice pilaf and – her choice – cheesy polenta. She reluctantly gave me some of her large portion, thinking I didn't like polenta. It was out of this world and my choice when we return. And we will return.
I ordered the most delicious, spicy Smokehouse Jambalaya I have ever tasted…and that includes in New Orleans. Andouille sausage, tasso ham, spicy linguica, shredded chicken, shrimp, veggies and rice were all simmered in a Cajun-spiced tomato broth. The luncheon portion ($12.99) was huge, and I took half of it home for the next day. Dinner portion is $16.99 and would feed an army.
Did I mention they made all their sauces, salad dressings and soups in house?
I took home a menu and checked dozens of reasons to return, including items listed under Joe's Creations and Joe's Favorites that are unique to the restaurant. The Rosemary skewered scallops is the most expensive dinner item at $19.99, followed by the Farmhouse Sirloin at $18.99 and the Vietnamese salmon at $17.99. Most of the other dinners offer lower lunch prices, including "Anything But Average Meatloaf" at $11.99. It is stuffed with fresh mozzarella cheese plus roasted corn, carrot and green bean confetti and served with mashed potatoes and gravy.
Joe's also serves a variety of stone-hearth pizzas ranging from $8.50 to $11.99 and a chance to create your own from over 24 items. Soups, burgers, wraps and creative salads (How about Ahi tuna and almond crusted goat cheese?) round out an eclectic menu more creative than what you will find in many upscale restaurants.
They have a full bar and do family-style catering. Tell them you are a first-time customer and they'll give you a discount. They'll also give you discounts for your second and third times. Go online at www.nyaj.come and make reservations, or call them at (508) 343-5637.