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Vaccine centre sparks Tory, Liberal battle
Consultant quits after accidentally sending email on behalf of Duguid
OTTAWA -- A part-time communications consultant for the International Centre for Infectious Diseases resigned Monday after he accidentally sent an email on behalf of the Liberal campaign of Winnipeg South candidate Terry Duguid from an ICID email account.
Dougald Lamont's resignation is the latest twist in a partisan battle of wills some suspect may be a factor in the shelving of an $88-million HIV pilot vaccine manufacturing facility.
Lamont issued his resignation Monday morning after he realized he'd used the wrong account to send a media notice about an event with Duguid and Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae.
Lamont, a well-known Manitoba Liberal party organizer with a private communications consulting business, had a part-time contract with ICID but also worked for Duguid's campaign. In an email apologizing for the mistake Monday, he explained he was working from a home computer that has access to both email accounts and he accidentally emailed the wrong group.
He said he resigned because he doesn't want his Liberal connections to harm ICID's ongoing relationship with Ottawa, or its federal funding agreements.
"I don't want to be an obstacle," he said.
Lamont said he doesn't think it should matter whether he does volunteer work for a political party and also works for an agency partly funded by the federal government, but he said he felt it necessary to step down because of ongoing concerns about the Liberal campaign of Duguid, ICID's former CEO.
"There has been a presumption (ICID) is a partisan organization," said Lamont. "It is not."
ICID CEO Heather Medwick was unavailable to respond to Lamont's resignation Monday.
Manitoba senior minister Vic Toews did not make himself available for an interview with the Winnipeg Free Press Monday. Instead, his office issued a written statement via email about Lamont's mistake.
"I was somewhat dismayed to see that this non-partisan, scientific organization had apparently chosen to enter the political fray by issuing a news release on behalf of the official opposition," reads the statement. "It seemed inconsistent with the very noble pursuit of science. Science is about neutral fact-finding and, in this case, the critical health and safety of Canadians. I would be disappointed if this entire episode serves to suggest to the Canadian public that there is another partisan agenda at play."
Lamont told the Free Press Monday he knows Duguid's candidacy was raised last summer as an issue for ICID's bid for the vaccine facility. The facility was to be the signature component of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, a joint venture of the federal government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Last month, the four bidders, including a consortium led by ICID, were told by the Public Health Agency of Canada their bids were not successful, but no reason has yet been given, nor an explanation of what might happen with the facility. Duguid said Monday he made the decision to resign as ICID CEO when he decided he would run in Winnipeg South. In August, he gave ICID a month's notice.
"A message got to me very quickly that I was to get out of my office immediately," said Duguid.
He says he was told if he didn't leave right away, it could jeopardize ICID's bid for the HIV-vaccine manufacturing facility. "I was out in two days," he said. At some point in January, however, ICID received a call from someone in Toews' office asking about Duguid's affiliation with ICID.
An email from Toews' office, forwarded to the Free Press, points out Duguid had not entirely severed his ICID ties. In fact, he was still on contract to work part-time on its bio-safety file.
Duguid has had the contract since last August. He did not divulge the information when he resigned, but said Monday he wasn't hiding it, either.
"I was asked to stay by the executive committee of the board," he said. "I accepted. I don't see an issue with that at all."
Last week, Toews himself noted Duguid's political and ICID ties in an email about the Free Press's coverage of the HIV facility.
"Our response to this news report and editorial will not be determined by the political aspirations of a Liberal candidate in South Winnipeg, who despite public statements to the contrary, did not sever his working relationship with ICID when he left his position as the CEO of ICID," wrote Toews.
Manitoba NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis said it shouldn't matter whether anyone from ICID was running for political office with any party.
"I thought we lived in a free and democratic society, which meant you could run for office and still hold a government job," said Wasylycia-Leis.
She said if Winnipeg and the global fight against AIDS lost out on the facility because Terry Duguid decided to run for the federal Liberals, that would be "deplorable."
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 2, 2010 A3
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"Extreme caution" safety rule requires truckers to slow down or crawl on icy roads
As Georgia faces the prospect of a winter storm this week, we also face the prospect of truck wrecks caused by violations of an important trucking safety rule. Last year, for example, a Georgia DOT spokesman was quoted saying that every major accident in Georgia's "Snowmageddon 2014" ice storm involved a tractor trailer.
The safety rule throughout the United States is that trucking companies and their drivers are required to exercise "extreme caution" in conditions adversely affecting traction and visibility.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulation 392.14 which provides that, "Extreme caution in the operation of a commercial motor vehicle shall be exercised when hazardous conditions, such as those caused by snow, ice … adversely affect visibility or traction. Speed shall be reduced when such conditions exist. If conditions become sufficiently dangerous, the operation of the commercial motor vehicle shall be discontinued and shall not be resumed until the commercial motor vehicle can be safely operated."
The practical interpretation of that rule, as expressed in the Commercial Driver's License manuals of every state with only minor variations, state:
2.6.2 – Matching Speed to the Road Surface
You can't steer or brake a vehicle unless you have traction. Traction is friction between the tires and the road. There are some road conditions that reduce traction and call for lower speeds.
Slippery Surfaces. It will take longer to stop, and it will be harder to turn without skidding, when the road is slippery. Wet roads can double stopping distance. You must drive slower to be able to stop in the same distance as on a dry road. Reduce speed by about one-third (e.g., slow from 55 to about 35 mph) on a wet road. On packed snow, reduce speed by a half, or more. If the surface is icy, reduce speed to a crawl and stop driving as soon as you can safely do so.
Identifying Slippery Surfaces. Sometimes it's hard to know if the road is slippery. Here are some signs of slippery roads:
Shaded Areas. Shady parts of the road will remain icy and slippery long after open areas have melted.
Bridges. When the temperature drops, bridges will freeze before the road will. Be especially careful when the temperature is close to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Melting Ice. Slight melting will make ice wet.
Wet ice is much more slippery than ice that is not wet.
Black Ice. Black ice is a thin layer that is clear enough that you can see the road underneath it. It makes the road look wet. Any time the temperature is below freezing and the road looks wet, watch out for black ice.
Vehicle Icing. An easy way to check for ice is to open the window and feel the front of the mirror, mirror support, or antenna. If there's ice on these, the road surface is probably starting to ice up.
Unfortunately, too often trucking companies push their drivers to stay on schedule despite ice and snow. Too often police officers working wrecks are unfamiliar with the "extreme caution" rule requiring them to slow down, and seem to think truckers are heroic in efforts to stop 80,000 tractor trailers when driving at normal highway speeds on sheets of ice. But when bad things happen, we know how to hold accountable the trucking companies that refuse to require compliance with this important safety rule.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based trial attorney practicing statewide in Georgia. A former president of the State Bar of Georgia, he is lead author of Georgia Law of Torts: Trial Preparation and Practice, a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section.
What are unintended safety consequences of cutting health insurance benefits for school bus drivers?
There is a new budget proposal pending in the legislature to cut health insurance benefits for school bus drivers in Georgia. I know that state budgets are awfully hard, and that the Governor and his team mean well. No matter what Gov. Deal's political critics may have said in the campaign, I know the man and know he is a good guy.
The rationale for cutting health insurance for 11,500 school bus drivers and cafeteria workers are part-time employees who work less than 30 hours a week, while other part-time state could not get health insurance benefits. The State Health Benefit Plan currently covers more than 630,000 state employees, teachers, other school personnel, retirees and dependents. The benefits cut could save the state more than $100 million per year. According to the Department of Community Health, the coverage for "non-certificated'' school workers ran a deficit of $135 million in fiscal 2014, and this cut would cover most of that deficit.
Key legislators have pushed back against this proposal on the ground that these employees are an "essential part of the education delivery system."
Aside from the issues of budget balancing and equity for other part-time employees, I am concerned about the potential unintended consequences for school bus safety.
School bus drivers work a few hours in the early morning and a few hours in the afternoon. It is difficult to combine that with a second part-time job. While many school bus drivers make as little as $8,000 per year, they drive a bus primarily for the health insurance benefits. According to State Rep. Bill Werkheiser (R-Glennville), "I predict if they pass it, 80 to 90 percent of the drivers in rural Georgia won't drive."
So what would happen if these poorly paid bus drivers quit due to loss of the health insurance that is their primary economic justification for driving a bus rather than taking some other minimum wage job? Who would drive school buses to transport Georgia's children to their schools? What would be the consequences for safety?
Others who are qualified and experienced to drive large vehicles such as school buses might include truck drivers. But very few of them will give up a higher income to drive a bus. Years ago, school systems hired high school students to drive school buses. Hiring inexperienced 16 to 18 year old teenagers to drive school buses was such a great idea that the practice was terminated a long time ago.
In 2010, a trainee bus driver lost control of a bus on a rural road in Carroll County. A student was ejected and killed. In 2013, a collision of two school buses in Newton County resulted in 43 people being transported to a hospital. This month in North Dakota, 2 died and 11 were injured in a crash involving a school bus at a railroad crossing. Today in Texas, 22 kids were on a school bus that crashed at Fort Worth.
We have also seen a number of cases of children injured or killed during loading and unloading of school buses. Even an experienced dump truck or log truck driver would not be experienced in supervising a bus load of children and their boarding and debarking from a bus.
If in a few months we find 2,000 Georgia school buses are driven by inexperienced trainee bus drivers, transporting perhaps 80,000 children to school and back, safety will be affected and bad things will happen.
Politics and public budgets present awfully hard choices. And choices have consequences.
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Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based, board-certified trial attorney focused on large truck and bus cases. He is a former president of the State Bar of Georgia and currently chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway and Premises Liability Section.
Georgia Jury Verdicts on a Roll in 2015
As past president of the State Bar of Georgia and a seasoned trial lawyer, I'm impressed by the recent string of jury verdicts in Georgia, two of which exceed $70 million. Several of these were won by lawyers who, like me, have attended Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College programs and closed door, members-only seminars of the AAJ Trucking Litigation Group.
Some of these verdicts will be compromised or cut in post-judgment motions and appeals, and some will be simply uncollectable. Prudent lawyers know that there is no appeal from a settlement, and big verdicts usually result from someone guessing wrong about what a jury will do. While I am too experienced to be giddy about any of this, it is true that a rising tide lifts all boats, as a history of good verdicts in a jurisdiction becomes a factor at some level in insurance companies' valuation of cases. Of course, it no sense to try a case if an insurer promptly tenders policy limits near the value of the case, or if a verdict would be just a piece of paper suitable for framing and not collectible.
Here are just a few recent Georgia jury verdicts in personal injury and wrongful death cases:
- $73 million verdict, Fulton County, Jan. 15, 2015. Gas explosion in apartment during move-in caused burns to 50% of new tenant's body. Gas line was allegedly left uncapped when gas was turned on. The defense alleged that the plaintiff accidentally opened the gas line himself in trying to light the water heater, but the jury apportioned zero fault to the plaintiff. The verdict included $17.9 million compensatory damages for injuries, lost earnings and expenses, $47.9 million in punitive damages and $7 million in attorney fees. I expect the punitive damages award may be reduced from $47.9 million to $250,000 under Georgia law.
- $72.6 million verdict, DeKalb County, Jan. 12, 2015. Child was mauled by a pit bull. The defendant defaulted and the jury awarded $36.6 million in compensatory and $36 million punitive damages. The punitive award could be reduced from $36 million to $250,000. In light of the default, I have my doubts about collectability of any significant portion of the verdict.
- $6.25 million verdict, Floyd County, Dec. 12, 2014. Motorcycle rider lost leg when ambulance that was not on an emergency run pulled out from a stop sign and hit him. Floyd County is traditionally considered a very conservative venue.
- $3.6 million verdict, Gwinnett County, Jan. 16, 2015. This verdict once again disproved Gwinnett County's old reputation for low verdicts. Neck, back and shoulder injuries to two Hispanic, non-English speaking workers with immigration and language barrier issues. A Georgia Power pickup truck, driven by an attractive, articulate engineer who was pregnant at trial, struck them in the rear. Ga Power fought liability saying plaintiffs slammed on brakes with no turn signal on, implying that they staged the wreck. The defense claimed that there were no actual injuries and all medical care was unnecessary and designed to get money in a lawsuit. Overcoming bias against non-English speaking undocumented Hispanic immigrants. The offer before trial was very low.
- $945,358.99 verdict, Gwinnett County, Dec. 17, 2014. Hispanic mom was rear ended by tractor trailer in rainy rush hour in construction zone. Trial was just to collect $25,000 underinsured motorist coverage after settlement with trucking company for $985,000. UM carrier offered only $5,000. Since verdict was for less than settlement with trucker's insurer, nothing is collected from UM carrier.
- $4.3 million verdict, reduced to $2.58 million for comparative negligence, Clayton County, Nov. 2014. Brain injury to railroad worker was struck by shrapnel fired from a makeshift "potato cannon" rigged by a supervisor. The jury found the plaintiff 39% at fault because he had helped build the potato cannon and was filming the nonsense when the device misfired.
- $3.7 million dollar verdict, Fulton County, Jan. 14, 2015. 18 year old woman was sexually molested by an anesthetist in an oral surgery practice, who made video recordings of molestations of 19 women on a hidden camera. There will be an appeal.
- $3.6 million verdict, Clayton County, Dec. 19, 2014. Negligent security claim against hotel by guest who was shot in the stomach while checking in at 2 AM. The verdict was reduced to $1.17 million after the jury apportioned the responsibility for the damages at 58 percent for the shooter, who wasn't a defendant in the suit; 32 percent on the defendant hotel owner and 10 percent on the plaintiff himself.
- $700,000 verdict, Fulton County, Dec. 2014. Woman who had lived in Chicago slipped and fractured an ankle on a patch of black ice outside an office park.
- $140,000 verdict, Bibb County State Court, Dec. 18, 2014. State Farm only offered $3,500 on "minor impact soft tissue" case, but jury awarded $140,000 to plaintiff with significant preexisting conditions.
When is the fine print too fine?
There is an old maxim that, "What big print giveth the fine print taketh away." In a case involving a used car sale, our Georgia Supreme Court this week said, "not so fast."
To make out a claim at common law for fraud, a plaintiff must show not only that he relied upon some misrepresentation, but he must show as well that his reliance was reasonable or justifiable. In the case of Raysoni v. Payless Auto Deals, LLC, 2014 WL 6090438, decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia on November 17, 2014, the question was whether reliance upon a used car salesman's representations was reasonable despite fine print disclaimers.
Mr. Raysoni went to a used car lot. He asked a salesman whether the vehicle in which he was interested had ever been in a wreck or damaged. The salesman told him it had not, and gave a Carfax report that showed no damage to the vehicle and no indication that it had been involved in any wreck. Relying on these representations, he bought the vehicle. A couple of months later, Raysoni learned that the minivan, in fact, had been in a wreck and had sustained frame damage as a result.
When he attempted to return the vehicle and rescind the purchase, the used car dealer refused. It relied upon fine print in the sales contract, which included, "NO SALESMAN VERBAL REPRESENTATION IS BINDING ON THE COMPANY," "CUSTOMER SHOULD NOTE THAT THIS VEHICLE WAS ANNOUNCED HAVING UNIBODY DAMAGE AT THE AUCTION," and "WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND CUSTOMERS SHOULD GET VEHICLE INSPECTED BY A MECHANIC OF THEIR CHOICE BEFORE MAKING THE PURCHASE."
Finding it was a jury question whether reliance upon the salesman's representations was reasonable, Justice Keith Blackwell noted for the Court:
No one should make the mistake of thinking, however, that capitalization always and necessarily renders the capitalized language conspicuous and prominent. In this case, the entirety of the fine print appears in capital letters, all in a relatively small font, rendering it difficult for the author of this opinion, among others, to read it. Moreover, the capitalized disclaimers are mixed with a hodgepodge of other seemingly unrelated, boilerplate contractual provisions—provisions about, for instance, a daily storage fee and a restocking charge for returned vehicles—all of which are capitalized and in the same small font.
Plaintiff's lawyers estimated the font size of that fine print was 5.6. I dare you to read anything in 5.6 font without a magnifying glass.
Kudos to my friends Mike Flinn of Carrollton and Charles Cork of Macon for their diligence in taking this consumer issue to the Supreme Court. While I generally refer "lemon car" cases to Mike Flinn, the judicial disapproval of obscure fine print to contradict a salesman's representations to a consumer.
The case vaguely reminds me of a one I tried in my past life as an insurance defense lawyer. In an employee dishonestly insurance claim by a car dealer, I was representing the insurance company in its own name. My chief witness was the bean-counting dweeb of a claims adjuster from central casting. And my task was to try to persuade the jury that a used car salesperson was honest despite overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. I never understood why the insurer I represented didn't just settle that case. It was not much fun to stand up and take that beating.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Airbag Defect Leads to Massive Recall
At least once a month for years, we have gotten calls from someone complaining about malfunction of an airbag in a motor vehicle collision. Usually it is a matter of an airbag not deploying in a situation in which it was never designed to deploy.
Most front airbags are designed to deploy in a direct frontal impact, and side air bags are generally designed to deploy in direct side impact. There are variations between models as to whether an oblique angle impact would cause an airbag to deploy, but generally a sideswipe collision will not activate an airbag.
Moreover, most people making those calls are upset but no one had a catastrophic injury in the wreck. The expense and difficulty of automotive product liability litigation is such that the cost-benefit analysis seldom justifies filing suit unless there is a death or catastrophic injury.
But now there is a widespread problem with airbags in a wide variety of vehicles deploying when they should not, potentially causing serious injuries to vehicle occupants.
Since 2008, there have been six rounds of recalls- the most recent involves 7.8 million vehicles, more than 100 models and 10 manufacturers, and focuses on vehicles equipped with defective airbags made by a Japanese supplier, Takata. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) urges all owners of cars listed on the recall to get their airbags fixed immediately.
"The airbags are made by Japenese supplier Takata. The bags have faulty inflators than can rupture and send metal fragments flying out. At least four people have died in accidents related to the defect. A hot climate appears to trigger airbag failures, so the recalls are considered especially urgent for people living in Florida, Hawaii, and U.S. territories."
Safety advocates say at least four people have died from the problem and there have been multiple injuries. They also say more than 20 million vehicles in the U.S. are equipped with the faulty air bags. Takata knowledge of the defect, reportedly, goes back to at least 2004 when Honda, the first manufacturer to launch a recall, received the first injury claim from an exploding "inflator" and reported it to the supplier.
The NHTSA warned people whose cars have been recalled during the past two years for faulty air bag inflators to take them to dealers right away. The inflators are made by Takata Corp., a Tokyo-based supplier of seat belts, air bags, steering wheels and other auto parts. So far, automakers have recalled about 12 million vehicles worldwide because of the problem.
"This message comes with urgency," NHTSA said in a statement. The agency has been investigating the problem since June, and has cited reports of six inflators rupturing, causing three injuries.
Passenger or driver air bags or both could be affected depending on the vehicle. Toyota issues the latest recall Monday, covering passenger air bags in 247,000 older model vehicles including the Lexus SC, Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia and Tundra.
Like many of the other recalls, the Toyota recall includes areas that have high absolute humidity – south Florida, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands to name a few. Toyota in documents posted to the NHTSA website, said the company and Takata are still trying to pinpoint the cause of the rupture and to gauge the influence of high absolute humidity.
Absolute humidity is a measurement of water vapor in the air, while relative humidity, which is commonly in weather reports, measures air moisture content relative to the air temperature.
Toyota has been testing the air bags, and it found an unusually high incidence of inflator failures along the coasts, according to spokesman John Hanson. The investigation continues and the recall could be expanded to more areas, Hanson said.
Toyota says it knows of no crashes or injuries from the cars it has recalled. Neither Toyota nor NHTSA could say exactly how far inland the recall area goes or what states it covers.
Last week, two U.S. senators questioned why the safety agency is allowing the recalls to be done on a regional basis because cars could be driven to, or people could move to the high-humidity states.
They also cited the May 27, 2009, death of 18-year-old Ashley Parham of Oklahoma City. She was driving a 2001 Honda Accord across a high school parking lot in Midwest City, Oklahoma, when it hit another car. The air bag inflated and sent shards of metal into her neck, causing her death.
"Based on NHTSA's open investigation, the agency will take appropriate action, including expanding the scope of the recall if warranted," an agency statement said.
Takata has said it recognizes the critical role that government plays in public safety, and it is supporting safety regulators.
"Takata identified two processes that, taken together, could have resulted in elevated moisture levels in the propellant. Elevates propellant moisture levels, when coupled with thermal cycling in automoviles, could cause the propellant density to decline over time and such a decline in density could lead to overly energetic combustion during deployment of the air bag."
However, Takata's claims that the problem was confined to problems of one particular propellant machine that compressed a powder mixture into a tablet, during a brief, discrete period of time, have proven to be false.
Takata also claimed that no manufacturer other than Honda would be affected even though the propellant chemistry had been used in over 100 million airbags over the previous decade. Takata claimed Honda's inflator design was not significantly similar to that of other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for which Takata supplied airbags. Takata reported to the NHTSA that a small number of bags, produced for another unidentified manufacturer during that time could not be defective because they had a different production process and better control systems.
In a statement made on February 19, 2010 Takata upheld that the problem had been fixed due to its "continuous improvement policy," involving "numerous process improvements during this period, many of which improved the quality of the propellant and the inflators and enhanced the consistency of inflator performance."
Faulty recordkeeping and poor recall notification procedures are other factors advancing the death and injury count. In numerous reports to NHTSA, Honda identified different impediments to identifying the correct recall population, ranging from confusion over which components and processes were confirmed as being within regulation, to a failure to trace defective airbags used as replacement parts.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Autumn Stirs Sweet Memories
As our mornings turn cooler and trees change from green to yellow and orange, memories of the sights, smells and pleasures of autumns past come flooding back.
Memories of sights, colors and smells can stir our emotions and a deep, instinctive level.
When I see trees changing colors and the first frost on a meadow, I go back in time to autumns in the forests and fields of Lookout Mountain where we lived and Shinbone Valley where I went to school as a child.
The smells of new mown grass, burning leaves and hot cider stir memories of playing pickup football with other little boys in the end zone of the rural high school where my father was principal. That town, which could have been the model for the fictional Mayberry, had both a red light and a high school back then.
Smells of autumn also bring back sweet, and sometimes bittersweet, memories of high school football games and the excitement of fall weekends during college.
Once when coaching my son's youth soccer team just before sundown in the last game of the fall season, trying to restrain our boys from running up the score too much, I looked across the field toward a line of brightly colored autumnal trees illuminated by the setting sun.
At that moment I felt a flash of epiphany, a peaceful feeling that, "It just never gets any better than this."
Memory is a fascinating thing. While memories of color and smells may stay with us for life, fortunately most of us can't remember physical pain. Otherwise, no woman would have a second child and the human race would have died out long ago. We can remember our reactions to physical pain, but can't reproduce the sensation of pain in our minds. On the other hand, we can recall and relive emotional pain decades ago as if it were yesterday.
As we move through the fall toward Thanksgiving next month, let's all pause to remember the good things and count the blessings of treasured moments of ordinary life.
The Importance of Creativity
Most folks think of creativity in terms of art and music. But creativity is important to breaking new ground in any field.
Ancient people viewed creativity solely as divine inspiration. That is still as important as ever. But by modern times creativity was viewed as a form of human intelligence that bridges the gap between routine productive talent and the vision to develop something new.
Creativity requires the ability to approach problems with both solid knowledge and a fresh eye, combining old principles in new ways. Creativity can be highly productive if it is accompanied by hard work and perseverance.
Creativity is not the same thing as IQ. The world is full of people with high IQ scores who are not creative and those with average IQ who are. Combine IQ, creativity and grit, and you really have something.
You may know of Atlantans whose creativity and perseverance made them billionaires. Sara Blakely got a creative idea for footless pantyhose, added bulge-hiding undergarments, and built Spanx from scratch within a few years. Ted Turner creatively combined unrelated elements to build a little billboard company into a cable TV empire.
Creative approaches to service abound. Millard Fuller combined old tools in new ways to launch Habitat for Humanity, which has built 800,000 homes for the poor. Gary Haugen conceived a way to enlist lawyers to combat human trafficking; now International Justice Ministry is working in many developing countries.
College degrees are not essential to creative genius. You know of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerburg leaving college to start Microsoft, Apple and Facebook. Elizabeth Holmes was 19 when she got an idea for a new way to make blood tests cheaper, easier and painless. She left school to start Thernos and is a billionaire at 30.
In law, most work is just competent use of familiar tools. When I defended cases for insurance companies, it was routine work that built a base of experience.
But sometimes we have to get creative:
- An equipment distributor substituted a defective knockoff for a workstage sold with a forklift to a family business, killing the founder's son. Georgia law barred suit against sellers. We figured out how to base a wrongful death case on the Fair Business Practices Act due to deceptive acts, classifying a forklift as an "office supply.
- When a child was injured in a condominium pool, the condo association's insurer was unmotivated to negotiate because it did not see that its insured had valuable assets to protect. We figured out how to levy on the condo association itself, then make pro rata assessments against unit owners. The insurer then settled quickly
- When a child was injured in a condominium pool, the condo association's insurer was unmotivated to negotiate because it did not see that its insured had valuable assets to protect. We figured out how to levy on the condo association itself, then make pro rata assessments against unit owners. The insurer then settled quickly.
- When a truck towing an intermodal container freight trailer killed several people, the truck's $1 million insurance was inadequate. Combining motor carrier and maritime laws in a new way, we pulled in the intermodal shipping and logistics companies. A judge denied motions to dismiss and we have a trial date set.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Paralyzed Man Can Walk Again Thanks to Cell Transplant
Over years of representing clients with spinal cord injuries resulting in paraplegia or quadriplegia, I seize upon any new development that offers hope for improving the quality of their lives and function.
For several years I have seen articles about the use of stem cells to mend damaged spinal cords. One of the most promising ideas has been the use of olfactory nerve stem cells from the patient's own nose.
Now there is a report of this idea moving from animal research to clinical implementation with a human patient. The effect on our representation of paralyzed clients is that we have a new item of potential medical expense to seek that provides hope from recovery.
A Polish paralyzed man is able to walk again after a new therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.
Derek Fidyka, 40, was paralyzed from the chest down when he was stabbed repeatedly in the back in a knife attack in 2010. Thanks to a pioneering therapy, he can now walk using a frame. The treatment, a world first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland who worked with scientists in London.
He said walking with the support of a walker was "an incredible feeling", adding: "When you can't feel almost half your body you are helpless, but when it starts coming back it's like you were born again.
Professor Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at University College London Institute of Neurology, led the London research team. He said what had been achieved was "more impressive than man walking on the moon."
The treatment used olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) that are specialist cells that form part of the sense of smell. OECs act as pathway cells that enable nerve fibers in the olfactory system to be continually renewed. In the first two operations, surgeons removed one of the patient's olfactory bulbs and grew the cells in culture.
Two weeks later they transplanted the OECs into the spinal cord, which has been cut through in the knife attach apart from a thin strip of scar tissue on the right. They had just a drop of material to work with- about 500,000 cells.
About 100 micro-injections of OECs were made above and below the injury. Four thin strips of nerve tissue were taken from the patient's ankle and placed across an 8mm (0.3 inch) gap on the left side of the cord.
The scientists believe the OECs provided a pathway to enable fibers above and below the injury to reconnect, using the nerve grafts to bridge the gap in the cord.
Before the treatment, Mr. Fidyka had been paralyzed for nearly two years and had shown no sign of recovery despite many months of intensive physiotherapy. He has also been going through an exercise program for five hours per day, five days a week. Fidyka first notices that the treatment had been successful after about three months when his left thigh began to put on muscle.
Six months after surgery, Fidyka was able to take his first tentative steps along parallel bars, using leg braces and the support of a physiotherapist. Two years after the treatment, he can now walk outside the rehabilitation center using a frame. He has also recovered some bladder and bowel sensation and sexual function.
Dr. Pawel Tabakow, consultant neurosurgeon at Wroclaw University Hospital, who led the Polish research team, said "It's amazing to see how regeneration of the spinal cord, something that was though impossible for many years, is becoming a reality."
This has not yet been approved by regulatory agencies in the US, but it is an advance that gives hope for the future.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
3D Printing Is Latest Advance in Vertebra Replacement
Since 1992, I have watched with great interest the development of 3D printing. When I first read about the concept at the dawn of the Internet, I was fascinated with the futuristic example of downloading the digital design for a replacement part for a sailboat in the middle of the ocean, and printing the part thousands of miles from port. It took a while for the technology and economic feasibility to catch up with the idea. Now my nephew in New York City is doing very well selling industrial 3D printers to companies around the world. This week a 3D printer was delivered to the International Space Station in order to demonstrate the feasibility of printing spare parts for spacecraft, not just in earth orbit but on future voyages to Mars and beyond.
In the medical context, doctors and scientists have worked to implement custom-printed materials into the medical world for the past several years we have seen for a while 3D printing of artificial hands and other bony structures.
The first spinal procedure using a 3D-printed vertebra replaced the second vertebra in a 12 year old boy's neck. The boy had cancer, which was discovered after a traumatic soccer injury. After the procedure, the patient's head was framed with pins and will remain that way for three months. Dr. Liu Zhongjun, the surgeon who performed the procedure, said the customized 3D printing technology made the disc replacement stronger and more convenient than other procedureNow comes new of another big advancement has come in recent weeks. Surgeons in China performed the first spinal disc replacement implanting a three-dimensional printed vertebra, according to a CNTV report.
The 3D printing technology uses digital models of a patient's anatomy to construct a "printed", customizable implant made out of almost any material. While 3D printing isn't exactly new, using 3D printing to create an orthopedic device could make these expensive items more readily available for the general public.
In June, French spine surgeon Vincent Fiere, MD, performed the first spine surgery using spine device company Medicrea's customized spine cages created with a 3D printer. The company's UniD ALIF customized cage is made with polyetherketoneketone and printed to reproduce the anatomical details of the patient's vertebral plates. When the procedure was performed, the 3D printing technology and applications were still patent-pending.
It has been estimated that the 3D printing market for healthcare alone with generate more than $4 billion by 2018, according to Information Week. The 3D printed medical costs models could also reduce surgical time, which is significant when average surgery costs $100 per minute.
Bigger medical device companies are also getting into the 3D printing game. Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Synthes recently partnered with Tissue Regeneration Systems to develop 3D printing technologies as part of Johnson & Johnson's long-term strategy to grow the company. The partners are working on implants for the large bone segmental defect treatment in trauma and orthopedic oncology. Johnson & Johnson is also putting more funding behind research and development collaborations after investing nearly $1.8 billion in research and development last year.
In a healthcare market that prizes quality outcomes for lower costs, technology such as computer navigation comes with a high price tag whereas 3D printing could become a relatively economical investment. However, it will still be awhile until we can expect hospitals across the nation to house something like a 3D printer capable of printing medical devices.
Most hospitals don't currently have the technology or the staff to be able to implement this new type of technology. Even advancements with the most promising clinical outcomes take years to really become the standard of care.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
New App Guards Against Texting and Driving
If you are the parent of a teenage driver, the idea of your "invulnerable" teen texting while driving may be among your greatest fears. Now "there's an app for that."
Although texting and driving is not illegal in all states yet, it certainly is a dangerous activity anywhere you go especially on touchscreen phones that require more attention to hit the correct key. There are currently 43 states that ban text messaging for all drivers. Of the 7 states without an all driver texting ban, 4 prohibit text messaging by novice drivers. While some drivers can resist the urge to use their phone while behind the wheel, it is not always so easy for some. An app called SafeCell makes it easier to stop texting while driving by offering a cash-equivalent rewards at many retailers.
SafeCell also takes the guesswork out of complying with calling and texting laws that can vary by state, county and city by pushing current cell phone use laws to your phone using GPS and a proprietary database of all the cell phone use and texting laws. This means in addition to earning rewards you can avoid getting a ticket for a local law you didn't know about.
When the app detect that you are traveling over five miles per hour and in a zone with applicable distracted driving laws it will disable phone, texting, and email capabilities. If you need to make an emergency call you can click the "Place Emergency Call button" to interrupt the app. While using the app you have the option of sending an auto text message to people who call or text stating that, "The person you are trying to reach is driving and will receive your message upon reaching their destination."
The rewards accrue for every mile driven while obeying any applicable laws. If there are no laws in effect, but you practice safe driving you will still earn rewards. Not obeying laws while driving will take points from your rewards. If you need to use your phone or are a passenger you can pause or stop the app, but no reward points will be earned during this time.
500 miles logged equals $5 in rewards available for redemption at more than 300 retailers including Apple, Amazon, Cabela's, Macy's and many more. The rewards are issued in $5 increments and max out at $250 a year.
In addition to keeping you in line with the law and giving rewards, SafeCell creates driving logs for parents or employers to use in monitoring their kids or employees' driving habits. These detailed trip reports provide added incentive to obey the law and safety concerns regarding cell phone use while driving.
The app is currently available for Apple and Android devices.
Ken Shigley is an Atlanta-based personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer. He is past president of the State Bar of Georgia, chair-elect of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section, and a board certified civil trial attorney of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.


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Around the Museum grounds
Written on May 27, 2014
There have been several other projects taking place out of the roundhouse this last month including the moving and cocooning of the first class Pullman we received from Grand Junction a few months ago. The Challenger Box car is now moved in line with the other 4 standard gauge box cars, completing the car moves to Continue Reading »
Uintah Combine Car No. 50
Written on May 27, 2014
Due to the man hours needed to finish the new Railroading Now: Colorado Railroad Workers 1970 to Today (on display in the Museum's main building), little progress has been made on Uintah Combine No. 50. Here are several pictures from stall 5 and of the new display.
D&RGW Coach No. 284
Written on May 27, 2014
One side of D&RGW Coach No. 284 is nearly stripped for its new paint job. We will prime the car with Arbitron epoxy and paint with urethane paint. Then immediately finish with clear coat (the same as the D&RGW Business Car B-8). This will hopefully negate all the problems with UV and pealing.
Museum Rider Car Project
Written on May 27, 2014
The first rider car is nearing completion and receiving some finishing touches.


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The museum of Ethnology.
The museum of ethnology is around 8 kilometers from the city center in the Cau Giay district, but it´s really interesting and worth the detour.
It´s dedicated to all the minority groups of Vietnam and shows you the diversity of the nation in a pretty interesting way.
You have an indoor museum aswell as an outdoor section where you have several traditional minority houses build.
Be ware that the museum is a big hit with vietnamese schools and it can quite often be packed with hundreds of chool kids who all want to say hello to you and shake your hand.
Quite charming and funny, but also very noisy.- Arts and Culture
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My favourite museum in Hanoi
This museum really paints a great picture of the lives of the 54 ethnic groups. You can learn about their rituals (like funerals) and see their clothing and crafts. Outside, are the beautiful gardens with traditional housing styles. When I was there, I talked to some local children on a field trip. They were thrilled to practise their English and tell me more about their culture.
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Understanding Vietnam
The Museum of Ethnology is really worth a visit if you are interested in understanding the Vietnamese people. They are a collection of many many ethnic groups and their history of defending their independence as a nation, while preserving so much in these separate streams of ethnically diverse and rich culture - is pretty interesting. There's a lot of info on these tribal differences and on cultural aspects such as , traditional dress, weaving, conical hat making and funeral rituals.
This Museum also provides a moving insight into the extreme hardship of the people in recent history and explains a lot about their resilience, ingenuity and enterprising capacity. This is a people who have suffered some terrible extremes and it's worth appreciating at least some of it, especially as it has been relatively recent (up to mid-70's).
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Learn about different ethnic groups
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is well worth a visit because of the amount of visual and tactile information provided on the various ethnic groups that make up the country of Vietnam. The displays particularly, the houses of the different ethnic groups can be entered and explored at your leisure.
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Seeing Diverse Culture - All in 1
If you have the time, it is worthwhile visiting the museum of ethnology. It gives u an overview of the different ethnic groups living in Vietnam. There is also open air "houses" of some of these ethnic groups.
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One of the best in Vietnam
This is one of the best museums in Vietnam, yet alone Hanoi but is somewhat inconveniently located in the western suburbs of the city. If you're interested in learning more about the 54 ethnic minorities populating Vietnam's hinterlands, make the jaunt out to this sprawling compound (go by cab or moto). Vietnam's different ethnic groups, their history, and customs are explained in photos, videos, and displays of clothing and daily implements. Be sure to check out Mr Pham Dang Uy's bicycle - loaded down with some 800 wooden and bamboo fish traps! Also check out a display on Christians including Father Christmas pushing a bicycle.
But, the best part of this museum lies outside in its grounds as it's here you'll find some fine examples of minority group housing. These include the towering peak of a thatched Banhar communal home, an Ede longhouse, and other houses from the Cham, Viet, Hmong, Hanhi, Yao and Tay people. You can visit inside each one which are decked out with traditional implements used for cooking and such like. A wonderful museum that shouldn't be missed.
Open: 8.30am-5.30pm every day except Mondays. Admission: 25,000 VND.- Museum Visits
Museum of Ethnology
We decided to take the local bus rather than a taxi. Get hotel to write down name of museum in Vietnamese or go to the museum's website and click on Viet rather than English! It is totally different to English. Go to the square at the north end of Hoan Kiem Lake and get no 14 bus. Set fee of 3000 dong per person - conductor will take money and give you a ticket. Show him your destination so he can tell you when to get off.
Takes about half an hour. You travel along narrow roads to the south of West Lake, then the bus does a left turn, followed almost immediately by a right turn into a wide boulevard. Stop is about 400m along. You then have to cross two lanes of traffice, cross median strip and cross two more lanes! Back track to the T junction and head south about 500m to the museum (on left). You can't miss it. Entry is 25,000.
I enjoyed the description of the tribes that make up the country, and the displays of all the different costumes worn by them. Then out the back is a life sized display of different types of houses of many tribes in Vietnam.
There is also a cafe with reasonable meals which supports disadvantaged youth.- Museum Visits
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unmissable Museum of Ethnology
One of the best places I went to in Hanoi. I truly recommend this place. This museum is in an open area and will provide you an excellent glimpse of the different ethnic minorities of Vietnam. The ethnic houses are amazing and you'll quickly notice that each one is different from the other. It's very interesting! The museum also features arts, objects and rituals of Vietnam. Entry to the museum costs VDN20,000. It took me about 2-3 hours to go around the museum.
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Vietnam Museum of Ethology
Visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethology where you can see and learn a lot about Vietnam as a nation and of its people, ethnics and minorities.
At the time of my visit there was bonus exhibition by the photographer Jean-Marie Duchange of The Central Highlands of Vietnam in the 1950s. That was fascinating.- Museum Visits
Museum of Ethnology
This museum exhibits the traditional cultures of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. It preserves the unique cultural identities of every ethnic group which is considered a priority in a country that is experiencing rapid social and economic change on all fronts.
Each section is organized neatly using varied presentational techniques (maps, photographs, showcases with objects, videos and reconstructions)
This seems to be most interesting museum in Hanoi.
Pictured here is a Vietnamese style of grave in the old days.- Museum Visits
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Hill tribes
Unfortuately it was raining that day so we did not visit the outdoor exhebition, but still worth going there. Very well done, even for non-ethnology-enthusiasts! ca. 70.000 Dong from city centre by cab each way.
Wonderful museum
Vietnam museum of ethnology is one of my favorite museum. It has 2 sections, trong dong house and outsie. This museum illustrate the artifact of 54 ethnic Vietnamese groups.
To support the tourist, all the information on museum is translated into three language: vietnamese, English and France.
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Cham House
After exiting the museum building, this is one of the first Ethnic house groups you'll come to in the museums grounds. Around 127,000 live in Vietnam's central regions and they form the core of the Muslim communities in both Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Turner Field, Atlanta, Georgia
ATLANTA -- Aaron Harang realizes his struggles in 2013 were a sign to some that he no longer could be a winning pitcher.
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2nd | R Doumit singled to right, E Gattis scored, C Johnson to third. | 0 | 1 | |
2nd | A Simmons doubled to deep left, C Johnson scored, R Doumit to third. | 0 | 2 | |
4th | N Schierholtz doubled to deep right, A Rizzo and S Castro scored. | 2 | 2 | |
4th | E Gattis homered to left (437 feet). | 2 | 3 | |
7th | J Heyward homered to right (413 feet), D Uggla scored. | 2 | 5 | |
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Attendance | 26,151 (53% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:54 |
Weather | 74 degrees, partly cloudy |
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