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Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that includes a wide array of symptoms. We do not know the cause of autism and we have no cure. Much has been learned and autism is certainly no longer viewed as a single disorder or entity. The emotional strain on a family can be substantial, particularly when resistance to an emotional or loving attachment occurs.
I have been reading more about the positive effects of surfing on some children with autism. As I am not an expert in this area I want to be careful and inform the public that autism is not my area of specialization. However, I have now read several accounts of how a child suffering from autism has a type of "awakening" after some time in the water learning how to surf.
Obviously, the surfing I am describing involves one to one work with a trained surfer who has a gift of working with children suffering autism. It is also true that by these accounts that the first part of the experience can be difficult as the child experiences a natural fear of the ocean and strangers. It might be most difficult for the parents who are watching with great doubt.
The reports indicate that after a short period of time the child with autism not only relaxes, but begins to awaken to life and the surroundings in a way not seen prior to the surfing experience. It is not known why or how this occurs, but perhaps the child's brain is literally overwhelmed with stimulation which helps to soothe and foster interaction with others in the immediate environment. One parent even described his child as being able to speak and connect in ways he thought was impossible.
Perhaps Mother Nature provides us with some treatments in her own way. The majesty of an ocean whose water fills 80% of our planet might have some answers for the brain. Maybe it is the movement, the energy, the sound, the rhythm. Even if we do not fully understand why, the fact that we have anecdotal evidence for surfing bringing some children with Autism to a new awakening is reason enough to ask more questions.


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LOS ANGELES -- UCLA Anderson School of Management will host the 2012 Latin American Business Conference on Monday May 14, 2012. The event, open to business leaders, professionals and academics, will explore the economic trends and business opportunities in Latin American countries. Experts will share insight on the region and the promising paths towards macroeconomic stability and growth.
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Jose Carlo Burga, Founder and President, Peruvian Business Council
Mario Juárez, Trade & Investment Commissioner, ProMexico
Gustavo Bernhoeft, Chief Executive Officer, Chilli Beans USA
Gonzalo Freixes, Associate Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Jose Carlo Burga is founder and president of the Peruvian Business Council, a New York based nonprofit organization committed to promoting Peru as an important investment destination in Latin America. Burga produced and led the successful Peru Investment Forum and Peru Day 2011 at the New York Stock Exchange.
Mario Juárez is an expert on foreign direct investment, export and industrial policy for every Mexican government level, including Federal, State and City working extensively in these areas for the last 18 years. After more than a decade at the state government level, he was appointed, as head of the office for Investors and Government Relations at ProMexico in Mexico City, the trade and investment agency for the Mexican Ministry of Economy and currently serves as the Trade & Investment Commissioner for ProMexico in Los Angeles.
Gustavo Bernhoeft is a Latin American retail expert. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. division of Chilli Beans, the largest eyewear retail business in Latin America that has over 400 retail locations in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Columbia and the U.S. Bernhoeft also served as Chief Executive Officer of Luminosidade, the company that spearheaded the creation of Fashion Week in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
In addition to serving as associate dean of the UCLA Anderson Executive and Fully Employed MBA programs and Global Immersion Programs, Gonzalo Freixes serves as Vice-Chair and member of the Board of Trustees of the Executive MBA Council. An award winning faculty member, he was recently named director of UCLA Anderson's field study programs. He is a lecturer in accounting and has toured numerous countries, lecturing on international business law and taxation.
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Do people go birding while inebriated? There is the blog The Drinking Bird, but what about the drinking birder? Birdchick hosts Birds and Beers but that is held in bars and the birds tend to be discussed, not seen. There is a painfully bad song called "Drunk Bird Watching" on You Tube but the only "bird" seems to be someone saying "hello" like a caged parrot. In researching this blog post I did stumble across a blog I had not heard of before entitled The Drunkbirder, but I failed to find a single post on that blog that involved over-imbibing and birding.
So, I will have to take the last refuge of a lazy blogger and report from personal experience. No, I have not birded drunk before. Sure, I have come close, after downing a few margaritas at the beach-side bar before going looking for terns at Cupsogue, or from downing a few delicious rum drinks at Pico Bonito, or after hoisting a few post-work beers before doing some birding on my way home, but I can't recall birding while actually drunk. Can you?
I don't think that birding drunk would be terribly easy, to be perfectly honest. Considering how hard it can be to focus one's eyes when drunk I imagine it would be even more difficult to focus optics. Also, the whole seeing double thing would certainly skew species counts. Now, whether or not birders may or may not partake of other, illegal substances, well, I doubt anyone is going to come out and admit it in the comments…
There are stories of speed-fueled big days floating around out there, stories that come only by word of mouth and are never written down. And, really, what is the caffeine in coffee but a speed-like stimulant? I imagine that birding while high on marijuana might lead to, ahem, interesting experiences, and I don't even want to know what type of sightings might occur when one birds on a hallucinogen (Man, did you see that fly by? I swear, it was a pterodactyl!). Steroids seem unlikely to give much of an advantage to a birder, unless one is carrying waaaaay too much gear. At high elevations chewing coca leaves is supposed to help with elevation sickness – have any birders out there tried coca leaves?
But to get back to booze and birds. If you have drank to drunkenness while birding, what did you drink? Was it fun? Was it difficult? Do you have a horror story? Would you recommend that other birders try it?
Finally, I would like to point out that many birders use cars to get to and from birding locations and want to make sure that no one thinks it would be cool to bird drunk and then drive. That's a good way to end up as road kill, which, while it might get your body a good look at a vulture, is not something we want to see happen to any of our 10,000 Birds readers!
This post was originally published on 16 March 2010, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives!
Of course I have been birding while I've been drunk. The logic is easy:
Whenever I am not asleep, I am birding.
I have been drunk while not being asleep.
The only time I can actively recall birding "under the influence" was at the famous Windhoek backpacker's "The Cardboard Box".
I hung out there a few days every few weeks to avoid getting paranoia from hiking through the African bush for days without meeting a single human soul.
They have a very nice pool area outside in the courtyard right next to the bar where beers and gin toxics …er… tonics would flow freely (but sadly not for free), and some of it would freely flow into me during the sunny afternoons while little swifts, weavers and mousebirds would either circle above or hop through the trees and cricket (the game) was on TV.
Did I mention those were good times?
However, REAL birding out in the field while drunk is something I have never done and would consider rather pointless. The drinking doesn't help the birding and the birding doesn't help the drinking.
I love to have a pina colada while I bird from my back porch. In fact, we have happy hour there in the summer – the birds feast on our feeders and I don't even have to drive home after I finish my colada!
Except for champagne toasts at weddings, I'm pretty much a teetotaler. My problem is birdwatching while driving. You know, trying to identify the hawk sitting on the streetlight or watching that heron just a bit too long as you zip by a brief river scene at 65mph. Or maybe slamming on the breaks for a wild turkey or roadrunner. I've even been know to pull out the binoculars while stopped at a red light and be brought back to reality by the honking (not by a goose) behind me. I wonder how many people have car accidents due to bird watching while driving?
I've never done it myself, but I have heard some of those word-of-mouth stories here in NJ. A lot of the "old timers" in my birding club tell some great stories that usually involves CBCs, big days, etc. where there was much drinking involved before, during, and after the birding. This was in the 1960s-80s. A friend of mine closer to my age always tells me a story about birding with them when he was about 14 or 15 and one of the guys passing a bottle of whisky back to him in the car. I'm not saying it's responsible at all, but it makes a fun story.
There was the Virginia Rail incident, of course.
Also the latter part of the day documented here, but that was more like mildly buzzed birding.
Drunk? no
Hungover? Yes
Certainly some incidents in my younger days, when partying to 2AM and up at 5.30 to bird…
I did have some Swedish clients who were drinking beer the entire trip from about 9 AM to late night and still managed to get all the birds.
I have no direct experience, but I hear the Finns are even worse!
Koskenkorva birding!!
That's why they made up the "Big Sit". You Sit, You bird, You Drink.
But Corey, I would love to see you filling out the visitors book at Jamaica Bay in May after birding on hallucinogens. (Although I have to wonder how many people already do that, for if you read the visitors logs a Jamaica Bay there is some crazy stuff)
All the birders here in Austin are stoned.
My mother and I have a long-standing ritual where we sit in a lovely place at the end of a long day with binocs in one hand and a glass of wine (or two or three in succession) in the other. We refer to this little tradition as "moa watching".
My excellent yard list owes a lot to alcohol. Almost every night I sit out in the back yard and knock back a few until it gets dark.
It's why God gave us two hands: one hand for the bins, the other for the beers.
I've never been "drunk" while out & about birding but I have been known to carry a "hot toddy" on crisp mornings. Sitting on the porch knocking back a few with binocs in hand can also be rewarding passtime 🙂
Drunk birding: not a problem.
The thing to watch out for is drunk WRITING about birding.
While birding? No.
But after the birding, well, that's a different story. The more birders the merrier.
Back in the day when eagles were a rarity, a group of us used to toast every one we'd seen that day. We gave up that practice once the numbers started edging above 7 per day with any regularity. Now, with 30-50 eagles possible in a decent day of hawkwatching, let me just say that back then I couldn't even have imagined that.
One of the outdoor bars on the campus of Univ of Sydney has a Kookaburra which sometimes perches on the second-floor railing, unfazed, during afternoon drinking hours. It's really something holding a cold pint 4 feet from a perched kingfisher.
Done and done. Multiple times.
You see a certain school you're familiar with happens to have a Nature Preserve out back (see, no driving necessary). Getting up early is rare enough for me that after a long night of drinking (one that leads into what would no longer be defined as "night"), it's a lot more tempting to just go bird, since I have no idea when the next time I'll be up at dawn is.
And yes. It is indeed substantially more difficult than birding sober, mostly because of the slowed reflexes. I believe my best drunk bird was an American Bittern though, which certainly came as a surprise.
Hi Corey… oh yes, I've been drunk and been birding. If you search my blog you should find a report of the time back in October 1999 when Skev and I were extremely pissed on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly and twitched over to Tresco by boat to see a Yellow-billed Cuckoo… or maybe two. We had to go back the next day nursing hangovers just to be sure. I also left a beer that same year on St Agnes… well, I downed it quickly at the Turk's Head before rushing off for a White's Thrush.
I don't drink and drive but on Scilly there's always time for a beer, especially when Proper Job is on in The Atlantic Pub.
Actually, Birds and Beers has gone birding. We do a Woodcock Tailgate Party every April and we were once approached by Coon Rapids Dam who enthusiastically told us: "We totally allow beer in our parks, please come!"
Well we're going to try to combine birds, bikes & beer this summer. Three of my favorite things. As far as speed goes, there's a group big day here this May where you're asked to be there at three in the f'ing morning and keep birding till 8 pm. The ONLY way I could do that is with a pocket full of reds and a cooler full of red bull.
@ Duncan…must be a "northern hemisphere" phenomenon!! 🙂
I don't drink at all, but while birding I have been known to stagger, slur my speech, drive erratically, become easily irritated, and been inclined to vomit. Might as well be plowed.
I would need to be if you ever want to take me birdin' (or squirrelin').
You ought to try drinking and bird rehabbing. Nice off-night, no critical care birds, you're drunk and jolly, and suddenly there's a knock on the door. Standing outside is someone holding a box, and inside is a bird in a state of serious disrepair. Uh-oh.
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Middle school students will enjoy a bigger school than the one that was destroyed by the 2011 Souris River flood when Erik Ramstad Middle School opens its doors next November.
The new building, under construction along 36th Avenue and Eighth Street Northwest, will be 130,000 square feet and hold 720 students. The old Ramstad was built to hold 550 students.
Minot superintendent Mark Vollmer said the school board has decided that 720 is the ideal number for a middle school.
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The building had originally been scheduled to open in time for the start of school in August but has been delayed 60 days by a wet fall and winter snow storms.
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BJT's Former Editor Demystifies Helicopter Flying
Ever wonder what it would be like to pilot a helicopter? Then pick up the new second edition of a book from former BJT editor-in-chief R. Randall Padfield, which employs a conversational style to demystify the art and science of helicopter flying. Called Learning to Fly Helicopters, the work has been completely updated and expanded for this new edition to offer the experiences of 17 pilots, tips on how to choose a flight school and more. McGraw-Hill Education published the 520-page volume, which includes dozens of photos and a comprehensive glossary.
"While I explain how one learns to fly helicopters, one can't really learn how to fly a helicopter from any book," says Padfield. "One has to do it. My hope is that Learning to Fly Helicopters will help the reader better understand what the experience of flying a helicopter is like—the joys as well as the risks involved and how to mitigate them. I wrote it as if the reader and I were casually talking together in a coffee shop." He added that the book provides valuable information for anyone who is considering flying helicopters, whether privately or professionally, student pilots who are already in flight training and people who just want to know what it's like to fly a helicopter.
Padfield, who now serves as COO of BJT parent company AIN Publications, has accumulated some 9,000 hours of flight time, most of it in helicopters. He has flown U.S. Air Force rescue helicopters in Iceland and Alaska, offshore helicopters to North Sea oil platforms and civil helicopters in passenger operations in the Northeast.


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2012 User Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
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Based on data from 1,128 U.S. hospitals, the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides initial results that hospitals can use to compare their patient safety culture to other U.S. hospitals. In addition, the 2012 report presents results showing change over time for 650 hospitals that submitted data more than once. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and four appendixes, presenting data by hospital characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database hospitals overall and separately for the 650 trending hospitals.
Select to download print version (Part 1, PDF, 1.6 MB; Parts 2 and 3, PDF, 1.6 MB).
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a tool to help hospitals evaluate how well they had established a culture of safety in their institutions, in 2004. A database was also needed so hospitals and units in hospitals could determine how well they were doing in establishing a culture of safety in comparison to other similar hospitals or hospital units.
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report meets that need. Based on data provided voluntarily by 1,128 U.S. hospitals, the Report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to establish, improve, and maintain a culture of patient safety in their institutions.
The main report presents statistics (averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum scores and percentiles) on the patient safety culture areas or composites assessed in the survey as well as the survey items.
Appendixes A and B present breakouts of the data by hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status, ownership and control, region) and respondent characteristics (hospital work area/unit, staff position, interaction with patients). Appendixes C and D show trends over time for the 650 hospitals that administered the survey and submitted data more than once. The average percent positive scores are shown for the composites and items, broken down by hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status, ownership and control) and respondent characteristics (hospital work area/unit, staff position, interaction with patients).
Another round of voluntary data collection is planned to update the database with results from additional hospitals. Select for Hospital Comparative Database Submission Information.
Executive Summary
Purpose and Use of This Report
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Survey Administration Statistics
Chapter 3. Characteristics of Participating Hospitals
Chapter 4. Characteristics of Respondents
Chapter 5. Overall Results
Chapter 6. Comparing Your Results
Chapter 7. Trending: Comparing Results Over Time
Chapter 8. What's Next? Action Planning for Improvement
Notes: Description of Data Cleaning and Calculations
List of Tables
List of Charts
Appendix A: Overall Results by Hospital Characteristics
Appendix B: Overall Results by Respondent Characteristics
Appendix C: Trending Results by Hospital Characteristics
Appendix D: Trending Results by Respondent Characteristics
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My wife and I are considering getting a puppy for our son, who really seems to love small dogs and often asks us whether we'll ever have one. While we haven't made up our minds yet on this decision, I did take a few moments to ask a few of my pet-owning friends if they had any advice about how to reduce the costs of acquiring and caring for a pet without skimping on the quality of care. Here's what they suggested.
Visit a shelter to pick out your pet.
Yes, you have to be more selective when visiting a shelter because some of the animals have been mistreated and may not react well to children (or adults). However, if you visit a hand full of shelters, you'll often find many wonderful pets that will fit your needs well. There are a lot of reasons that pets wind up at shelters, and neglect/abuse is just one of them.
Donate $100 to the shelter.
Check out their programs first, but quite often, a $100 donation will ensure that you get a pet that has already had vaccinations and has already been spayed or neutered. These procedures can cost hundreds of dollars if you take your pet in to a vet to have it done later.
Don't skimp on food.
A fifty pound bag of Ol' Roy might be a cheap way to feed the pet, but it will result in long-term health issues that will be expensive to treat. Instead, research what kinds of food are most appropriate for your pet and be willing to spend a little more to get good food. This will help to keep your pet healthier, happier, and active for a lot longer. One of my friends doesn't even feed her dog traditional "dog food," but has studied what raw foods their diet should consist of and feeds the dog those items.
Buy that food in bulk.
Once you figure out the best food for your pet, don't hesitate to buy it in bulk and store it somewhere out of the pet's reach. Depending on what you choose as the optimum food, you may find it at your local warehouse store or you may find a bulk seller in your area.
Groom the pet yourself.
Taking your pet to a pet salon might be an easy way to get the pet clean, but almost everything done there can be done quite quickly at home and a lot cheaper. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and clean your pet yourself.
Know their routine.
Pay attention to your pet. If the pet's routine starts to change, that's a sign that there's some sort of medical issue coming down the pipe. If you notice it now, it's often easy to treat with a dietary change or something else that's simple. If you wait until it's disastrous, it can be very expensive.
Hit the library.
If you have a new pet, learn about it. Learn what things it needs. Learn about some of the basics of caring for that pet, as well as signs for the most common ailments and how to treat them. Learn how to train your pet in the skills that it will need – and put in the time to train the pet yourself.
Treat simple things, like fleas, ticks, and heartworm, yourself.
This involves understanding your pet's health (the tips above), but if you've actually invested the time to know how to properly care for the pet, then you'll know what simple ailments you can treat yourself instead of paying a vet to treat. It's much less expensive to order the treatment yourself than to consult a vet for the most common ailments.
Keep the water bowl full.
If you notice the water bowl for your pet is low, fill it, and keep an eye on the bowl throughout the day. Appropriate amounts of water is perhaps the best insurance for a pet's long term health. The exception to this is when you're housetraining a puppy, in which case you need to stick to a strict watering schedule. Too much water for a puppy can result in accidents and a big setback in training.
Check Craigslist for supplies.
Need a pet carrier, a leash, or a food bowl? People on Craigslist are often selling this stuff for a pittance (and sometimes it's free on ). When you need reusable supplies like this, heading straight to the store is a sure way to spend more than you probably need to.
The best thing you can do for any pet, however, is to show the pet love. Just like humans, most pets thrive on being loved by others. So, go ahead and give that big, slobbery dog a vigorous petting and stroke the cat until it begins to purr.


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UPDATED: Colleagues Condemn National Review Writer For "Appalling" Race-Talk "Screed"
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Commentators across the ideological spectrum are denouncing National Review writer John Derbyshire for an essay he wrote recommending that parents tell their children to be wary of black people. This includes Derbyshire's colleagues at National Review, one of whom has called for Derbyshire to be fired.
Derbyshire's essay was published April 5 on the website Taki's Magazine. The New York Observer soon took note of the fact that Derbyshire's recommendations include warnings to "[a]void concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally" and to "[s]tay out of heavily black neighborhoods." The recommendations also include these assertions about black people's intelligence:
The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. "Life is an IQ test."
Liberal sites like Gawker and Think Progress published posts criticizing Derbyshire, and The Atlantic Wire compiled an extensive list of Derbyshire's previous racially inflammatory writings. (Last year, Derbyshire said that he was "on the same page" as Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who allegedly killed 69 people in a rampage inspired by Islamophobia and other bigotry.)
Writers for the conservative Washington Free Beacon expressed disapproval as well.
Derbyshire's essay has also drawn fire from other National Review writers. For instance, senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru tweeted that he doesn't want to be associated with "someone who publishes" what Derbyshire wrote:
Editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg wrote that he found Derbyshire's piece "fundamentally indefensible and offensive" and that he wished Derbyshire hadn't written it:
Josh Barro, who has contributed writing to National Review, published a piece at Forbes.com titled "Why National Review Must Fire John Derbyshire." Barro described what Derbyshire wrote as "specifically urging white people to engage" in "profiling, among various other racist nonsense."
Finally, editor Rich Lowry weighed in on National Review's blog The Corner. In a one-sentence post titled "Derb's Screed," Lowry wrote:
Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb's appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.
It's unclear whether that means that Derbyshire will face further sanctions, or whether universal disgust will have to suffice.
UPDATE: On April 7, Lowry announced that National Review is parting ways with Derbyshire:
Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he's a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream," or any one of his "Straggler" columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we'd never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It's a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.
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Nine sacks in two games. That's a lot.
That's the second-worst mark in the NFL right now. The Dolphins are getting quarterback Ryan Tannehill hit way too often so far this year. And it's one reason the quarterback is nursing a shoulder issue that had him missing part of practice on both Tuesday and Wednesday -- although the club was only required to report Tannehill's limitation on Wednesday.
Nine sacks is what the Dolphins have given up. The team has also given up 18 hurries.
So it's the offensive line, right?
Well, right. But not totally right.
Each member of the Dolphins offensive line has thus far given up at least half a sack this year.
LT Jonathan Martin has yielded one.
LG Richie Incognito has yielded half a sack.
C Mike Pouncey has yielded half a sack.
RG John Jerry has yielded a sack.
And RT Tyson Clabo has given up three sacks.
Clabo and Martin lead the Dolphins with six hurries allowed each. John Jerry has yielded five hurries by my count.
But it doesn't end there.
As tight ends and running backs also have pass protection duties for the Dolphins, they also are responsible for giving up hits on Tannehill.
Running backs Lamar Miller and Daniel Thomas each has allowed a sack on Tannehill. Oh yeah, and Tannehill is also responsible on getting hit occasionally when he holds the ball too long.
One sack the Dolphins gave up is probably being charged to a blocker but I put it on Tannehill. He held the ball too long. He basically got himself sacked in my book. So one sack allowed for him.
"Yeah, I had one in the game where I had all day," Tannehill said Wednesday. "We repped the play in practice several times and obviously it played out well in practice, it didn't play out so well in the game and I didn't have the right reaction to get rid of the ball and that is what it comes down to. The offensive line did a great job giving me all day to throw, it just a matter of getting the ball out."
Now that his right shoulder is dinged, Tannehill might be wise to get the ball out quicker. And yes, the Dolphins have to tighten up the protection of their quarterback.
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Record Powerball JackpotNovember 28th, 2012 by flanews
The largest jackpot in Powerball history is up for grabs. Tonight someone could win half a billion dollars and as Whitney Ray tells us, the numbers that will determine the winner will be drawn right here in Florida.
Some select their own lucky numbers, others leave fate up to the computers. But everyone buying a Powerball Ticket has a plan to spend all that cash.
"Buy a house you know, some land you know, spread it amongst my people," said William Cooks who bought a ticket Wednesday.
"Help my church and help my family," said Hester Copeland.
The Powerball jackpot is at a record high. More than half a billion dollars is on the line, and one lucky ticketholder may become the country's next multi-millionaire.
"Hope I'm the only one who wins, oh the money," said Katrina Wyche.
As news of the record jackpot spread the gamblers lined up to buy their two dollar ticket and face the one in 175 million odds.
And the winning numbers will be selected right here at the Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee, behind those closed doors, under tight security.
Inside, the balls took a test spin in the lottery machines just hours before the big drawing. The entire country is focused on Florida to see who will win.
"It was very important for us when we had the opportunity to competitively bid to get Powerball here at the Florida Lottery Headquarters. We wanted to showcase Florida to the nation," said Florida Cynthia O'Connell, Secretary of the Florida Lottery.
And if no one wins Wednesday night, then Florida will take center stage again. Another drawing would be held Saturday, and the jackpot would be even higher.
Powerball tickets were selling at a pace of more than 86-hundred a minute in Florida today. In the eight weeks it took to build the 500 million dollar jackpot 45 million dollars have been raised for education.
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Susan E. Thompson died at the scene of the crash on International Speedway Boulevard near Oleander Avenue, police said.
A South Daytona woman riding a bicycle in a Daytona Beach neighborhood early Wednesday was struck and killed by a vehicle that did not stop, police said.
Daytona Beach police said Susan E. Thompson, 22, died at the scene of the crash that occurred at East International Speedway Boulevard near Oleander Avenue.
Police have arrested Robert Thomas Johnson, 24, of Deltona, and charged him with leaving the scene of an accident involving death, spokesman Jimmie Flynt said in a release. Johnson was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $20,000 bail Wednesday night.
Police responded to the crash scene at 2:15 a.m., Flynt said. Johnson's vehicle was found in the 600 block of Marion Street in Daytona Beach about 5 p.m.
Traffic homicide investigators said Thompson was riding her bicycle westbound in the outside lane of International Speedway Boulevard when she was struck by a vehicle's right front corner. The vehicle was also westbound in the outside lane of the boulevard, police said.
The collision ejected Thompson from the white bicycle, police said.


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By Edith Bellinghausen
Last week's Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Kauffman Stadium, home to the Kansas City Royals. The stadium was designed by Charles Deaton with Kivett & Meyers, and opened in 1973 alongside Arrowhead Stadium (home of the Kansas City Chiefs football team) as the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex. The construction of Kauffman and Arrowhead marked a move away from the multi-use stadium typology popular at the time and allowed each team to maximize stadium-based revenue streams. Other single-use stadiums built during the 1960s and 1970s still in use include Dodger Stadium (1962; Los Angeles) and Angel Stadium (1966; Anaheim). But almost all of the multi-use (so-called "cookie cutter") stadiums have been demolished, including Shea Stadium (1964; New York), Veterans Stadium (1971; Philadelphia), Three Rivers Stadium (1970; Pittsburgh), and Busch Memorial Stadium (1966; St. Louis). The iconic Houston Astrodome, featured on the cover of Ana Mod's Building Houston Modern and once called "the eighth wonder of the world", sits in limbo as owners and city officials decide its fate. The stadium was designed by Hermon Lloyd & W.B. Morgan, with Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson and structural engineer Walter P. Moore, and opened in 1965 as the world's first multi-use domed stadium. The last game was played there in 1999.
Sports, as a construct, is built upon tradition and the glory of past achievements. However, the places where these glories unfold are often not treated with the same reverence. Historic stadiums and arenas -- irrespective of demonstrated historic, architectural and cultural significance -- are regularly demolished to make way for the construction of new facilities, often at the public's expense. With the exception of pockets of local activism, such as seen in the cases of Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena (lost), Boston's Fenway Park (saved) and Houston's Astrodome (status tbd), there has been no concerted effort or policy established to address this issue, despite public outcry and criticism of these events by the sporting community itself.
Team owners seek to maximize profits, and sell local communities on the benefits of a new stadium. In turn state governments and municipalities often take exceptional measures to retain sports teams, offering economic incentives in the form of tax breaks and access to public funds for new construction. This has led to favorable conditions for team owners who view their existing facilities as a liability. With government and corporate interests supporting new developments proposed by team owners, and back-room deals completed before projects are publicly announced, the voice of opposition often comes after the fact, and from those far removed from the decision-making process.
Fans are harmed by the loss of a place that has special meaning to them. In a broader sense, members of the community are impaired by the loss of city funds redirected from social programs to stadium construction. It is these stakeholders, who often have little political clout, who suffer the most. When public monies are used to fund construction, infrastructure, and demolition of the old sites, the direct impact on individuals in the community includes reduced municipal services, higher taxes, and increased cost to attend games in a new facility. In addition, tearing down the old stadiums results in high financial costs associated with demolition (often borne by the city), loss of embodied energy, and the negative environmental impact of construction waste materials on already stressed landfills.
At the start of the 21st century, 83 percent of North America's major professional sports franchises (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) were playing in new facilities, constructing new facilities, or pushing the public to fund the construction of new facilities. Out of the 30 major league baseball teams, 14 have constructed new stadiums since 2000. In almost every case the new stadium replaced an existing stadium, and public funds were applied towards construction. Add to this the unknown number of teams considering new facilities. Alarmingly, what was once a shelf life of 30 to 40 years or more has been reduced to mere teens and less, as reflected in Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Riccardi's 2003 declaration that the then fifteen-year-old Skydome was "obsolete". While that stadium was spared following the purchase of the team by Rogers Communications, how many others will soon face the wrecking ball?
Photo (above): Three Rivers Stadium, 1980. Credit: Western Pennsylvania Historical Society
Sports are an inherent and important characteristic of American life. They are part of our societal DNA. Why else would sports be the recipient of so much emotional and economic investment on the part of the fans, owners, and municipalities? And yet stadiums – the sites that witness the great accomplishments of sports – are allowed to be demolished, despite the demonstrated significance and attachment of meaning to these places.
There are over 2400 major sports facilities in the United States. Few are recognized by the preservation community at large, including the National Park Service, who oversees the National Register of Historic Places, and the city preservation commissions empowered to designate local landmarks. The physical representations of our national pastimes are seemingly overlooked. Many sites meet the criteria for significance, so there are clearly other factors involved. Does preservation consider sports populist ephemera, or are the pressures of politics and economic development too great? How will the stadiums of the modern era be allowed to take on the patina of significance if they, too, are not protected in some way?
Our problem is twofold. First, strong economic interests and perceived benefits favor new construction over preservation, resulting in unnecessary demolition and wasteful spending. Secondly, preservation is failing to pay attention to this ongoing demolition of historic stadiums and arenas in a broad, proactive and organized way.
The second problem is essentially an opportunity. This author acknowledges the complicated nature of economic issues related to sports, and does not posit that conservation is always the answer. But rather than ignore the problem, preservation is in a strong position to begin defining the process of addressing it. There is a need to organize and become proactive if we seek to force change in this area. If preservation can begin to preemptively work with stakeholders to view these properties as economic assets rather than economic liabilities, helping to maximize financial and social benefits, the odds that a few stadiums will be saved along the way become much greater.
Edith Bellinghausen holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation, and served as the Docomomo US intern until May of this year. She explores sports and preservation in her thesis Rehab vs. Rebuild: The Role of Preservation in the Stadium Debate.


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Nebraska police chief recommends 2 officers be fired after in-custody death
A Omaha, Nebraska police chief is recommending that two officers who were involved in a death that occurred while the person was in police custody be terminated.
Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer made the announcement on Friday during a press conference.
The incident occurred on Monday when a man was subjected to being struck by a Taser by Omaha police, according to Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine.
Kleine said the use of the Taser "raised some serious question."
Kleine declined to elaborate after reviewing dashcam video of the incident outside the convenience store early Monday morning.
The Omaha Police Department has identified the officers on scene Monday during the in-custody death of Zachary N. Bearheels:
• Jennifer Strudl, a 3-year, 2 month officer assigned to the Uniform Patrol Bureau, Southwest Precinct
• Makyla Mead, a 4-year, 10 month officer assigned to the Uniform Patrol, Southwest Precinct
• Scotty Payne, a 4-year, 10 month officer assigned to the Uniform Patrol, Southwest Precinct
• Ryan McClarty, a 1 year, 11 month officer assigned to the Uniform Patrol, Southwest Precinct
They were placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
Kleine said Thursday he's waiting on an autopsy report before deciding how to proceed in the case.


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1. The Kansas comparative fault statute requires the weighing of the causal negligence, if any, of all parties whose conduct brought about the harm and the consequent imposition of individual liability for damages based upon the proportionate fault of each party to the occurrence.
2. Where the comparative negligence of the parties in any such action is an issue, the jury shall return special verdicts or, in the absence of a jury, the court shall make special findings determining the percentage of negligence attributable to each of the parties and determining the total amount of damages sustained by each of the claimants, and the entry of judgment shall be made by the court. No general verdict shall be returned by the jury.
3. Negligence is the lack of ordinary care. It is the failure of a person to do something that an ordinary person would do, or the act of a person in doing something that an ordinary person would not do, measured by all the circumstances then existing.
4. A party is at fault when he or she is negligent and that negligence caused or contributed to the event which brought about the injury or damages for which a claim is made.
5. Under K.S.A. 60-258a(c), on motion of any party against whom any claim is asserted for negligence resulting in death, personal injury, property damage or economic loss, any other person whose causal negligence is claimed to have contributed to such death, personal injury, property damage, or economic loss, shall be joined as an additional party to the action.
6. Harmless error is error which does not prejudice the substantial rights of a party. It affords no basis for reversal of a judgment and must be disregarded.
7. Under K.S.A. 60-452, evidence that a person has, in compromise or from humanitarian motives, furnished or offered or promised to furnish money or any other thing, act, or service to another who has sustained or claims to have sustained loss or damage is inadmissible to prove his or her liability for the loss or damage of any part of it.
8. The doctrine of curative admissibility allows a party to present otherwise inadmissible evidence on an evidentiary point where an opponent has opened the door by introducing similarly inadmissible evidence on the same point.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; WARREN M. WILBERT, judge. Opinion filed August 25, 2006. Affirmed.
Jeffrey L. Carmichael, Cameron V. Michaud, and Richard A. Kear, of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, of Wichita, for appellants.
Terry L. Mann, David S. Wooding, and Roger E. McClellan, of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, LLP, of Wichita, for appellee Kimberlee A. McKay, M.D.
Amy S. Lemley, Brooke Bennett Aziere, James D. Oliver, and Holly A. Dyer, of Foulston Siefkin, LLP, of Wichita, for appellee/cross-appellant Chang Sup Yoon, M.D.
Steven C. Day and Chris S. Cole, of Woodward, Hernandez, Roth & Day, L.L.C., of Wichita, for appellee Wesley Medical Center, L.L.C.
Before MALONE, P.J., HILL, J., and BRAZIL, S.J.
HILL, J.: This is a medical malpractice appeal. We consider three issues: whether a trial court can legally instruct a jury that they can attribute fault to a nurse who is not a party to the lawsuit instead of the defendant medical center; whether settlement evidence was improperly submitted to the jury; and, finally, whether a proposed jury instruction that details restrictions placed upon doctors practicing medicine under a temporary education license should have been given.
We make three rulings. First, while it violates the statute to substitute nonparties for parties in making a fault determination, under the facts of this case, we hold that the trial court's error was harmless because all of the jury instructions, taken as a whole, along with comments of counsel eliminated any possible confusion in the jury, and we see no prejudice to the substantial rights of the plaintiffs arising from the error. Second, our review of the record reveals that no settlement evidence was actually submitted to the jury. Finally, the proposed instruction was inapplicable because the doctor was actually practicing under a temporary postgraduate permit authorized by a different statute than that quoted in the proposed instruction. Accordingly, we affirm. Because we affirm, we will not consider the cross-appeal.
This lawsuit arose from the birth of Michael Lee Haley at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita on November 20, 2000. Michael was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy. When Michael was delivered by Cesarean section, he was described as limp, unresponsive, and blue. Soon after delivery, Michael was resuscitated, intubated, and transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit.
In February 2003, Michael, through his parents, Kasey and Rick Haley (collectively referred to as "the Haleys") filed a petition against Michael P. Brown, M.D., who suggested that Kasey should be induced into labor at 38 weeks; Kimberlee A. McKay, M.D., who was a first-year resident in the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita obstetrics and gynecology program; Teresa M. Craddock, M.D., Brown's partner, who performed the Cesarean section; Tiffany A. VonWald, M.D., who was a second-year resident who assisted at the Cesarean procedure; and Chang Sup Yoon, M.D., who administered a spinal block and acted as the anesthesiologist during the surgery.
Prior to trial, the plaintiffs dismissed Dr. Craddock and Dr. VonWald and reached a confidential settlement with Dr. Brown. The claims against the remaining defendants proceeded to trial. After a 9 week trial, the jury returned a finding that none of the remaining defendants were at fault. Additional facts will be presented with each appellate issue.
The Haleys argue that the trial court's action of substituting, in the jury instructions and verdict form, the name of Amely Louise Betzen, a nurse who worked at Wesley Medical Center and not a party to the lawsuit, for the Wesley Medical Center, a named defendant, violated K.S.A. 60-258a. They also claim that the district court erred in allowing evidence to be admitted regarding their settlement with Dr. Brown. Finally, the Haleys argue that their proposed instruction that said: "The temporary education license shall confer upon the holder the right and privilege to practice medicine and surgery and shall obligate the holder to comply with all requirements of such license" was necessary in order to ensure that the jury was not confused regarding Dr. McKay's responsibilities and potential for liability due to a comment made by her attorney during opening statement. We will address these issues in that order, setting out first the appropriate standard of review for each.
Substitution of Nurse's Name for Medical Center
During the jury instruction conference, the trial court stated that it had deleted Wesley Medical Center from the appropriate instruction as a party to whom the jury could assign fault and substituted Nurse Betzen as a party to whom fault could be assigned. The plaintiffs objected on the grounds that Nurse Betzen was not a party. The trial court responded by stating that if Nurse Betzen was assigned fault, then another instruction that advised that Wesley Medical Center was liable for its employees' actions would be applicable. Consistent with this ruling, the trial court did not list Wesley Medical Center as a party to which fault could be assigned on the verdict form given to the jury.
This substitution was not done at the request of any party on the record. We note that in the parties' proposed jury instructions, Wesley Medical Center listed its own name on the comparative fault instruction and verdict form and did not list the name of the nurse.
Standard of Review
The Haleys argue that the trial court's substitution action violated K.S.A. 60-258a. Because the resolution of this issue involves the interpretation of a statute, this court exercises unlimited review. See generally Cooper v. Werholtz, 277 Kan. 250, 252, 83 P.3d 1212 (2004) (stating that appellate courts have unlimited review over issues involving statutory interpretation).
This issue forces us to deal with the fundamental nature of comparative fault jurisprudence in Kansas. Our comparative fault statute requires the "weighing of the causal negligence, if any, of all parties whose conduct brought about the harm, and the consequent imposition of individual liability for damages based upon the proportionate fault of each party to the occurrence." (Emphasis added.) Arredondo v. Duckwall Stores, Inc., 227 Kan. 842, 844-45, 610 P.2d 1107 (1980).
The applicable statute states:
"Where the comparative negligence of the parties in any such action is an issue, the jury shall return special verdicts, or in the absence of a jury, the court shall make special findings, determining the percentage of negligence attributable to each of the parties, and determining the total amount of damages sustained by each of the claimants, and the entry of judgment shall be made by the court. No general verdict shall be returned by the jury." K.S.A. 60-258a(b).
A plain reading of K.S.A. 60-258a(b) indicates that the jury should make a comparative fault determination for each party to the lawsuit. While Nurse Betzen was a person whose conduct was considered while determining Wesley Medical Center's liability, Nurse Betzen was not a party. Since Wesley Medical Center was a party to the lawsuit, the trial court's decision to exclude Wesley Medical Center from the special verdict form and the jury instruction explaining to whom fault could be attributed was erroneous.
It appears the trial court thought negligence is synonymous with fault. That is incorrect. The classic definition of negligence is:
"Negligence is the lack of ordinary care . . . . It is the failure of a person to do something that an ordinary person would do, or the act of a person in doing something that an ordinary person would not do, measured by all the circumstances then existing." Beck v. Kansas Adult Authority, 241 Kan. 13, 33, 735 P.2d 222 (1987).
In contrast, the concept of fault consists of both negligence and causation: "A party is at fault when he or she is negligent and his negligence caused or contributed to the event which brought about the injury or damages for which a claim is made." Sharples v. Roberts, 249 Kan. 286, 295, 816 P.2d 390 (1991).
If Wesley Medical Center or one of the other defendants believed that Nurse Betzen's fault should be considered, they could have made her a party. The comparative fault statute calls for such a joinder:
"(c) On motion of any party against whom any claim is asserted for negligence resulting in death, personal injury, property damage or economic loss, any other person whose causal negligence is claimed to have contributed to such death, personal injury, property damage or economic loss, shall be joined as an additional party to the action." (Emphasis added.) K.S.A. 60 -258a(c).
The comparative fault statutory scheme is simple. The plaintiff can choose the parties she wishes to sue, and the defendants can bring in others if they are considered to be at fault. The court has no authority to pick the parties.
This substitution by the trial court also eliminated from the jury's consideration the negligence of any other Wesley Medical Center employee. The Haleys argued this in their reply brief, stating that one of their experts (Dr. Beth Alexander) mentioned the staff of Wesley Medical Center:
"[T]he staff of Wesley failed to anticipate and adequately notify the physician staff responsible for Kasey's care and delivery as she developed more ominous signs of difficulty with her labor and the fetus not tolerating labor. [T]hey failed to adequately monitor this infant during the period of time preceding delivery from the time she was moved form the labor room through delivery. They failed to accelerate or notify people who had the ability to accelerate or notify people who had the ability to accelerate more urgent action to get this child delivered." (Emphasis added.)
Furthermore, by substituting a nonparty for a party, the court was replacing an artificial being, a corporate medical center, with a more sympathetic figure–a nurse. We see why Wesley Medical Center did not object to this procedure.
Having said all this, we do consider the error harmless because of the circumstances of this trial. When the jury instructions are read together and the underlying facts are considered, it appears that the jury was properly instructed and any error is deemed harmless.
Jury Instruction No. 8 stated:
"Wesley Medical Center is a corporation and can act only through its officers and employees. The negligence of an officer or employee acting within the scope of his or her employment is the negligence of the corporation.
"The nurses who provided care to plaintiff at Wesley Medical Center are employees of Wesley Medical Center."
The claims instruction, Jury Instruction No. 14, set forth the Haleys' contentions and the defendants' denials. One of the Haleys' contentions stated: "Defendant Wesley Medical Center through Nurse Amely Betzen was negligent as set forth below." All of the Haleys' contentions regarding Wesley Medical Center involved alleged errors committed by Nurse Betzen. Instruction No. 14 informed the jury that Wesley Medical Center was the defendant involved in the case and that it was Nurse Betzen's actions that were the sole basis of the claims against Wesley Medical Center.
Furthermore, we think that any possible confusion about this was eliminated for the jury when the following exchange occurred during Wesley Medical Center's closing argument:
"MR. MICHAUD: Objection, Your Honor. The nurse is not a defendant in this case and she's not going to be held liable personally.
"MR. DAY: The point is well taken, Your Honor. I will rephrase.
"THE COURT: Okay.
"MR. DAY: For a nurse who is being blamed, a hospital will be held liable for the conduct. Make no mistake about that. I represent Wesley. Wesley has been sued on the basis of a nurse's conduct. Nurse Amely Betzen is whose conduct I am defending."
When the entire record is considered, it is clear that the Haleys' claim against Wesley Medical Center was based solely on Nurse Betzen's conduct. Betzen was the nurse responsible for caring for Kasey and reporting problems. The Haleys have not pointed to any other Wesley Medical Center employee by name that erred in the delivery process. Vague generalizations about "the staff" are insufficient to support their argument. Harmless error is error which does not prejudice the substantial rights of a party. It affords no basis for reversal of a judgment and must be disregarded. Smith v. Printup, 262 Kan. 587, 603, 938 P.2d 1261 (1997). We consider this error to be harmless, considering all of the facts and circumstances.
No Settlement Evidence Given to Jury
During Kasey's direct examination, her attorney asked some questions regarding various equipment that would assist in caring for Michael. Kasey was asked what she paid for the equipment she had already obtained and what the price was of the equipment she had not yet obtained. Kasey testified that she had not been able to get a handicapped car seat, which would cost at least $1,700, and that she was currently using a normal car seat that she bought at Wal-Mart. She went on to state that a "stander" would help Michael stand and that it would cost at least $2,500. Kasey stated that she had not purchased a stander because she could not afford it. No objection was made concerning any of this testimony.
Sometime later, outside the presence of the jury, Wesley Medical Center's attorney argued that the issue of poverty was not a proper argument and that by offering this evidence the Haleys opened the door to allow the admission of evidence regarding the money the Haleys would be receiving from the settlement with Dr. Brown. An attorney for Dr. Yoon also joined in support of this argument.
Eventually, the trial court permitted, during her cross-examination, a mention of a change of circumstances for the Haleys:
"Q: Mrs. Haley, you recall giving testimony yesterday to the effect that there were certain devices for Michael's care that you had not been able to afford to purchase. Do you recall that testimony?
. . . .
"A: Yes, I do.
"Q: Mrs. Haley, there has been a change in circumstances which will make it possible to purchase such equipment for Michael in the near future, is that not correct?
"A: Yes."
That is all of the settlement testimony complained about by the Haleys.
Ordinarily such questions on the admission of evidence are matters of judicial discretion:
"[T]he admission of evidence lies within the sound discretion of the trial court. An appellate court's standard of review regarding a trial court's admission of evidence is abuse of discretion. [Citation omitted.] An abuse of discretion must be shown by the party attacking the evidentiary ruling, and 'exists only when no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the district court.' [Citation omitted.]" Garrett v. Read, 278 Kan. 662, 667, 102 P.3d 436 (2004).
But when exclusionary rules are involved, the existence of such an exclusionary rule is a question of law, which is entitled to de novo review. But if an exclusionary rule did not prohibit the introduction of this evidence, then the abuse of discretion standard would apply. See generally Griffin v. Suzuki Motor Corp., 280 Kan. 447, 451, 124 P.3d 57 (2005) (finding that whether statute excluded certain evidence was question of law and that district court did not have discretion to admit evidence if statute prohibited admission).
The Haleys argue that admission of this evidence violated the rule excluding evidence that a plaintiff has settled with another defendant. We reject this argument.
First we examine the statutes. K.S.A. 60-452 states:
"Evidence that a person has, in compromise or from humanitarian motives furnished or offered or promised to furnish money, or any other thing, act or service to another who has sustained or claims to have sustained loss or damage, is inadmissible to prove his or her liability for the loss or damage of any part of it."
Then, K.S.A. 60-453 provides: "Evidence that a person has accepted or offered or promised to accept a sum of money or any other thing, act or service in satisfaction of a claim, is inadmissible to prove the invalidity of the claim or any part of it." While these exclusionary rules do generally prevent the admission of evidence regarding settlements to prove the liability of a party, the statutes did not affect the testimony at issue in this case.
These rules prohibit the admission of evidence of settlement to prove or disprove liability. Even if the evidence here is considered to be evidence of a settlement, it was not offered by the defendants to prove the invalidity of any part of the Haleys' claim. Instead, the evidence was admitted for the limited purpose of curing any prejudice that might have resulted from any improper evidence of poverty presented earlier by Kasey.
Next we examine the cases that concern settlement evidence, Ratterree v. Bartlett, 238 Kan. 11, 707 P.2d 1063 (1985), and Lytle v. Stearns, 250 Kan. 783, 830 P.2d 1197 (1992). Both generally support the proposition that evidence of a settlement should be precluded in situations similar to the present case. But an examination of the facts of both reveals that they are not pertinent to this case.
In Ratterree, the court announced the applicable rule for "Mary Carter" type settlements:
"When a settlement agreement is entered into between the plaintiff and one or more, but not all, alleged defendant tortfeasors, the parties entering into such agreement shall promptly inform the court in which the action is pending and the other parties to the action of the existence of the agreement and its terms. If the action is tried to a jury and a defendant who is a party to the agreement is a witness, the court shall, upon motion of a party, disclose the existence and content of the agreement to the jury unless the court finds in its discretion such disclosure to the jury will create substantial danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the issues, or of misleading the jury." 238 Kan. at 29.
Later, this rule was clarified in Lytle:
"The Ratterree rule is broad enough to include any confidential settlement in any tort action involving multiple defendants when the settling defendant is a witness and either remains a party to the action or retains some financial interest in the litigation." 250 Kan. at 791.
Having said that, the facts in Lytle revealed that the settling defendants at issue received a full release and did not retain any financial interest in the litigation. It was therefore error for the trial court to admit evidence of settlement with such facts. See 250 Kan. at 791-92.
We believe the rule announced in Ratterree and further discussed in Lytle does not apply in this case. It is undisputed that Dr. Brown was dismissed from the action and that he did not retain any financial interest in the case. Accordingly, the rule set forth in Ratterree could not be used to admit evidence regarding the settlement with Dr. Brown.
The testimony admitted here was not evidence of the settlement with Dr. Brown. The only thing the jury learned from the testimony was that a change of circumstances had occurred that would now allow the Haleys to purchase the medical equipment that she once said they could not afford. No mention was made of Dr. Brown or even that the "change of circumstances" was money the Haleys would receive from a settlement. Additionally, no further elaboration or discussion was requested by Wesley Medical Center's attorney on this point. Thus, evidence of a settlement was not expressly presented to the jury, unlike the authorities cited by the Haleys.
The cases cited by the Haleys simply do not apply here. This case is far different. In those cases, the jury was informed that a settlement had been reached between the parties to the lawsuit. In this case, the jury was not informed that the Haleys' ability to purchase the necessary equipment was based on a settlement that had been reached with Dr. Brown. The allowance of this limited inquiry by the district court did not constitute an abuse of discretion.
The testimony at issue here is more properly classified as evidence of a collateral source of recovery. Evidence of a collateral source is also generally inadmissible. Zak v. Riffel, 34 Kan. App. 2d 93, 107, 115 P.3d 165 (2005). But the defendants argue that the testimony was admissible on two different grounds. First, the defendants argue that evidence of the Haleys' ability to purchase the necessary medical equipment for Michael was admissible for impeachment purposes. The basis for this argument is the assumption that Kasey Haley was untruthful when she stated that she could not afford the medical equipment necessary for Michael. The facts do not support this claim.
The two pieces of equipment that Kasey testified that she had not obtained were a handicapped car seat and a stander. Kasey was not asked and did not offer any explanation why she had not purchased the car seat. Instead, she gave the cost of the item and only stated that she had not yet obtained one. It is clear that Kasey was never asked and did not comment on her future ability to afford the stander. Instead, she was only asked why she had not purchased one at that point. Since it is undisputed that the Haleys had not received the settlement proceeds from Dr. Brown at the time the questions were asked, no evidence exists showing that Kasey was untruthful in claiming that she could not afford the stander. Thus, evidence of a collateral source was not proper to impeach Kasey.
The second ground for the admission of this evidence, according to the defendants, is under the curative admissibility doctrine. In McKissick v. Frye, 255 Kan. 566, 578-79, 876 P.2d 1371 (1994), the court explained the curative admissibility doctrine:
"The doctrine of curative admissibility allows a party to present otherwise inadmissible evidence on an evidentiary point where an opponent has 'opened the door' by introducing similarly inadmissible evidence on the same point.
". . . Kansas courts follow the rule that if one party offers an inadmissible fact into evidence, the other party may introduce a similar inadmissible fact 'whenever it is needed for removing an unfair prejudice which might otherwise have ensued from the original evidence.' [Citation omitted.] If the evidence is admissible, the doctrine of curative admissibility does not apply."
It appears the district court here changed its mind regarding the best method of negating any prejudice that resulted from Kasey's testimony regarding her inability to pay for the stander. The court originally had decided that a jury instruction that informed the jury to decide the case without sympathy or prejudice was the best method. But the court later determined that allowing defense counsel to pose a very narrow question to Kasey was the best method. This decision fell within the discretion of the trial court. We do not find this to be an abuse of the trial court's discretion. The court's application of the curative admissibility doctrine was proper.
The Haleys' proposed a jury instruction that stated: "The temporary education license shall confer upon the holder the right and privilege to practice medicine and surgery and shall obligate the holder to comply with all requirements of such license." The basis for this instruction was K.S.A. 65-28,123(c), which contains identical language. It was refused by the trial court. They offered this instruction in response to a comment made by Dr. McKay's attorney during opening statement:
"Mr. Carmichael, in his opening statement, said that Dr. McKay was a doctor fully licensed to practice medicine. That's not true. She had a temporary permit during her first year to practice under the supervision of an attending physician."
The Haleys argue that the instruction was necessary in order to ensure that the jury was not confused regarding Dr. McKay's responsibilities and potential for liability due to the comment made by Dr. McKay's attorney during his opening statement.
We are not persuaded by this argument. Dr. McKay was not practicing under a temporary education license under K.S.A. 65-28,123. Instead, she was practicing under a temporary postgraduate permit under K.S.A. 65-2811. That statute provides:
"(a) The board may issue a temporary permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts to any person who has made proper application for a license by endorsement, has the required qualifications for such license and has paid the prescribed fees, and such permit, when issued, shall authorize the person receiving the permit to practice within the limits of the permit until the license is issued or denied by the board, but no more than one such temporary permit shall be issued to any one person without the approval of 2/3 of the members of the board.
"(b) The board may issue a postgraduate permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts to any person who is engaged in a full time, approved postgraduate training program; has made proper application for such postgraduate permit upon forms approved by the board; meets all qualifications of licensure, except the examinations required under K.S.A. 65-2873 and amendments thereto and postgraduate training, as required by this act; has paid the prescribed fees established by the board for such postgraduate permit; has passed such examinations in the basic and clinical sciences approved under rules and regulations adopted by the board; and, if the person is a graduate of a foreign medical school, has passed an examination given by the educational commission for foreign medical graduates.
"(c) The postgraduate permit issued under subsection (b) shall authorize the person receiving the permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts in the postgraduate training program while continuously so engaged but shall not authorize the person receiving the permit to engage in the private practice of the healing arts.
"(d) A postgraduate permit issued under subsection (b) shall be canceled if:
(1) The holder thereof ceases to be engaged in the postgraduate training program; or
(2) the holder thereof has engaged in the practice of the healing arts outside of the postgraduate training program."
This statute clearly indicates that a doctor who receives a temporary permit under this law must practice within the postgraduate training program. While the statute does not indicate that a doctor who has received a permit under this section must practice under the supervision of an attending physician, it appears such a requirement was part of the postgraduate training program in which Dr. McKay was involved. She testified regarding the limitations that she believed applied to first-year residents, such as herself, when practicing in the residency program. The Haleys have not presented any evidence indicating that Dr. McKay was not required to practice under the supervision of an attending physician. Accordingly, the Haleys have not proven that Dr. McKay's attorney's statement was inaccurate. Therefore, there was no need for their proposed instruction, and there was no error because the court failed to give it to the jury.


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In 2010, after drilling into the Antarctic, a team of scientists from all over the world discovered that 50 million years ago Antarctica was covered, not with ice, but with a lush tropical rainforest. Their paper, published this month, can be found here.
The study of sediment cores, along Antarctica's east coast, revealed fossilized pollens that had come from a near-tropical forest that had once covered the now frigid content, today.
These scientists conjecture that the significantly higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, 50 million years ago, lead to the much higher temperatures which allowed for such a forest to exist on Antarctica. Compared to today's estimated global average of Atmospheric CO2 levels at 395 parts per million (PPM), scientists believe that at the time of Antarctica's rainforest, CO2 levels were over a thousand PPM.
Another part of why Antarctica's climate was so different over fifty million years ago may be because of the warm water currents which are said to have flowed around the continent at that time. When the currents shifted and colder currents replaced the warmer, Antarctica's climate may also have shifted.
This research gives us a more robust knowledge-base of the natural processes inherent in climate change. As we learn more about how climate change may have affected the antarctic in the past, we will have a better idea of what to expect from climate change into the future.
Friday, August 17, 2012
A Tropical Antarctic
3 comments:
- Allison said...
This may be a stupid question, but was Antarctica in the same location at the time of the tropic climate?
- August 18, 2012 at 12:01 PM
- J Olesen said...
Nasa was drilling under the ice in Antarctica and at 600 feet below the surface they found what appears to be a new type of fish. http://youtu.be/tWq2bukeBp0
- September 15, 2012 at 7:16 AM
- J Olesen said...
Nasa was drilling under the ice in Antarctica and at 600 feet below the surface they found what appears to be a new type of fish. http://youtu.be/tWq2bukeBp0
- September 15, 2012 at 7:16 AM
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