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As we reported earlier, Ricky Garvais may have been fired mid-program from the Golden Globes, or maybe they just told him to tone it down, and won't be asked back. However, there was other drama going on throughout the night!
Before the show, at a pre-show party, apparently there were some cat claws out. Christina Aguilera and Julianne Hough had a little tiff. The confrontation took place at a party Friday night, hosted by CAA at the Soho House in West Hollywood and was attended by some major celebs, like Julia Robers, Colin Firth, Asthon and Demi, and Ryan Seacrest. According to reports, Aguilera wasn't too happy to see her Burlesque co-star, and was right up in her face screaming at her. Onlookers said Christina even grabbed Hough, leading to a very loud and abrupt "Don't touch me!" by Hough.
It was also reported that before the two separated, Christina threatened to tank Hough's country singing career. Julianne was said to be "visibly upset" by the incident, and most attending were said to have felt bad for her. Christina's reps however describe the whole thing as "nonsense" and Julianne's reps could not be reached for comment. No one knows exactly what started it, but according to sources, Christina and Julianne did not get along well on set either.
It wasn't just the pre-parties that had drama. Al Pacino, who had to leave the Globes early to tuck in his kids, returned in time for the after party and was denied entrance according to The Hollywood Reporter. Yep, Al Pacino DENIED. THR reported that Pacino's limo was stopped by security and denied access, leaving him stranded outside the party. He was eventually allowed in, but wow… I wonder who was fired this morning for that mistake!


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Student affairs is the department or division of services and support for students at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development in the United States and abroad.[1] Outside the United States these services or departments are sometimes called "student support" or "Student Services". People who work in this field are also known as Student Affairs practitioners or Student Affairs professionals. These Student Affairs practitioners work provide services and support for students at institutions of higher education.[1]
The size and organization of a student affairs division or department may vary based on the size, type, and location of an institution. These departments are often led by a Vice President or Vice Chancellor who then reports directly to the President/Chancellor of the institution.
In the United States as early as 1992, student affairs began to see a change in the reporting structure (Barr, Desler, & Associates, p. 125). Chief student affairs officers began to shift to the Provost, the chief academic officer.
History of student affairs Edit
United StatesEdit
Student affairs beginnings have been traced back to Athenian education and universities in the Middle Ages, but is largely an American phenomenon. As the number of land-grant institutions increased, enrollment expanded, student populations began to include women, the idea of vocationalism began to influence academics and the institution's president began to be viewed as "the chief moral front" (p. 6). With these changes it became apparent that additional staff members were needed to allow the president to respond to the issues of finance and faculty recruitment.
The profession of student affairs "grew from the campus up, not from theory down" (p. 4). Early higher education in the United States was based on the Oxbridge model of education with most early institutions residential where the tutors lived in the halls with the students. These men were the precursor to student affairs professionals in the United States. Typically, they served as dean of disclipline and in loco parentis (in place of the parent). These early student affairs practitioners focus was on control of the student as opposed to modern philosophy which focuses on the development of the student as a whole, but has always connected those interested in the welfare of students with students needing assistance (p. 4).
These first student affairs professionals were the dean of women, dean of men and personnel workers. Many of the early deans came from "teaching roles in the liberal arts" (p. 8). Cowley (1937) identified the came first Dean of Men, LeBaron Russell Briggs, at Harvard University in 1890 with Adelia Johnston in 1869 at the Oberlin College as lady principal and later named Dean of Women in 1894. Alice Freeman Palmer in 1892 at the University of Chicago was the first to hold the title of Dean of Women. The position description might have read, "that officer in the administration who undertakes to assist the men students [to] achieve the utmost of which they are individually capable, through personal effort on their behalf, and through mobilizing in their behalf all the forces within the University which can be made to serve this end" (Secretarial Notes, 1928, p. 37).
The Dean of Men's position typically included discipline, but could vary depending on the institution's overall philosophy. The one thing that remained consistent was the responsibility to deal with men and help them develop to their potential (p. 9).
Deans of Women were trail blazers. Not only were women at colleges and universities a new development, but women as staff members even more new. The institutional leadership was dominated by men, but still they persevered including the founding of what is now the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 1903.
In the 1960s the student development movement, the study of the student as a whole - physical, mental and emotional, was introduced.
In December 1918 Robert Rienow, the dean of men at the University of Iowa, wrote a letter to Thomas Arkle Clark, dean of men at the University of Illinois, suggesting a meeting that is now recognized as the founding of the organization now known as NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.[2]
In 1924, May L. Cheney, who organized a teacher placement office at the University of California, Berkeley helped form the National Association of Appointment Secretaries (NAAS). That year, NAAS met for the first time and came as guests of the National Association of Deans of Women (NADW) to a convention sponsored by the Department Superintendence of the National Education Association. In 1929, forty-six NAAS members registered for the Sixth Annual Convention. NAAS became the National Association of Personnel and Placement Officers (NAPPO). The name American College Personnel Association (ACPA) was adopted in 1931. Association communication consisted of one mailed newsletter, the Personnel-O-Gram (P-O-G). In 1937, the Student Personnel Point of View statement was developed by leaders of the American Council on Education (ACE) and ACPA.
The Student Personnel Points of View, written in 1937 and 1949, further developed the area of student affairs.
In the 1970s the landscape of student affairs began to change when the voting age was lowered and 18 year olds were granted adult status in the eyes of the law. [3][4][5]
Theoretical Foundations Edit
Student Affairs Personnel or College Student Personnel (CSP) graduate programs may include classes in psychology, business, law, communication, inter and intra-personal counseling, higher education, and group dynamics. These help to form a foundation for creating relationships with students, faculty, staff and parents. CSP programs tend to be found in departments of leadership, counseling, psychology and education. Traditionally these programs have an emphasis in administration, student development theory or counseling. [3][6]
Developmental theories used in college student personnel programs include
- Chickering's Seven Vectors
- Astin's Theory of Involvement
- Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella and Osteen's Leadership Identity Development
- Gilligan's Theory of Moral Development
- Erikson's Developmental Theory of Gay Development
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
- Erikson's Theory of Human Development
- Tinto's Model of Student Retention
Student Affairs professionals Edit
People who work in the field of Student Affairs are also known as student affairs practitioners, Student Affairs staff, or university administrators. These student affairs practitioners work provide services and support for students at institutions of higher education.[1][7]
Student affairs professionals are charged with the tasks of working in the various areas or in specific services for students. Sometimes given the goal of developing programming, advising student organizations and student leaders and conducting research to meet the needs of the whole student – physical, emotional and mental. Challenges in meeting this goal include the budget, staffing of students at colleges and universities.[1][8]
Preparation for Student Affairs Edit
- Main article: Graduate assistant
Traditionally Student Affairs practitioners and College Student Personnel have completed graduate work with a complementary assistantship. An assistantship can be an entry level position, but is usually a part-time paraprofessional position with compensation including tuition waiver, professional development and a stipend. These are sometimes called Graduate assistant. A graduate program is usually two academic years of full-time study with opportunities for internship and abroad opportunities. Universities offer graduate programs sometimes called College Student Personnel, Higher Education Student Affairs, or Educational Leadership which lead to a Master of Education (M.Ed) or master of arts (M.A) degree, or Master of Science (M.S.) degree. Doctoral programs do exist for Student Affairs professionals. Programs eventually lead to a doctorate of Education (Ed.D) or philosophy (Ph.D.).[9][10]
Student Affairs areas Edit
The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration and professional associations, NASPA and ACPA, identify typical departments within a division of Student Affairs. Departments may overlap or combined into one office, especially at smaller institutions.[11] Some departments can include:
- Academic and research services
- Academic Advising the office or department aimed to provide student academic guidance relating to courses[11]
- Career Development or Career Services including employer relations, interview placement, course of study guidance and internships[11]
- Assessment and Research focused on assessment and research implementation
- Judicial Affairs sometimes called student conduct enforces community standards and campus codes of conduct, may include ethical programs/education and mediation for academic or behavioral concerns[11]
- Alumni and fundraising
- Alumni Services a department focused on graduated students and fundraising [11]
- Fund Raising and Fund Development or Development or Advancement[11]
- Campus life
- Campus Safety or Police Services, may be city law enforcement officers[11]
- College/Student Union or Student Centers, College Centers or University Centers, responsible for day-to-day operation of facility and may include food services/catering or other auxiliary services. Sometimes this building might be associated with student activities.
- Student Activities or Student Involvement provides co-curricular programming on campus, advises campus programming, student organizations and student governance. It may include Student Activity Board, student government and student activity fee disbursement.[11]
- Leadership Programs provides leadership opportunities, may include Student Government[11]
- Community Service engage students in community service and experiential learning opportunities and Service Learning[11]
- Greek Affairs or Fraternity and Sorority Life, including advisement of governing councils, recruitment and leadership programming for new and initiated members[11]
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Multicultural Affairs provides support and programming to create an environment of respect and education. This area or depart might have specific areas to serve students of various backgrounds. Institutions may have specialized departments such as a Women's Center, technology support as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Services.
- Commuter Services or Adult Students or Non-Traditional Students, services for students living off-campus including social programs and transition for non-traditional students[11]
- International Student Services assists and supports international students, may include Study or Education Abroad[11]
- Disability Support Services include note taking, accommodations and advocacy. This office many times advocates for policies and services relating to compliance of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990[11]
- Spirituality, Faith or Religious Services usually at private institutions regardless of institution's affiliation
- Health and wellness
- Health Services provides individual medical and/or mental health care, usually includes public health education programs and counseling services[11]
- Counseling Services for students, faculty and staff, accredited counseling staff
- Wellness education focused on providing services and information on alcohol, person wellness and financial wellness.
- Housing or accommodations
- Residence Life or Housing provides housing, programming and support for on-campus residents, may include food services[11] Outside the United States this might be called accommodations or housing services.
- Dining and Food Services may be auxiliary and/or part of the College/Student Union[11]
- Off campus student services might focus on providing resources for student who live off campus and off campus housing options.
- New student enrollment and enrollment services
- Enrollment Management may include Financial Aid, Bursar and Registrar[11] As well, it can relate to all aspects of incoming students and services provided to them
- Admissions including recruiters aimed to recruit students[11]
- Student orientation and First-Year Experience provides support and programming for first-year students, usually includes orientation and may include Parent and Family Relations[11]
- Student Financial Aid assists students in financial matters including processing federal aid, payment plans and may include student employment[11]
- Sports and recreation
- Athletics usually in small institutions and/or NCAA Division III institutions[11]
- Recreation and Fitness Programs or Campus Recreation, provides recreational activities such as intramural sports, club sports and outdoor activities for promoting wellness[11]
Professional organizations Edit
Just like many professional fields Student Affairs have many organizations that unite and represent Student Affairs professions. Large organizations include National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and American College Personnel Association (ACPA).[12] NASPA members are committed to serving college students by embracing the core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and the spirit of inquiry.[12] As well, there are publications that relate to the Student Affairs field such as the Journal of College Student Development and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[13] While large organizations exists there are smaller organizations and publications that represent various smaller departments or divisions in Student Affairs. For example in Residence life, university departments have a national organization association called the Association of College and University Housing Officers - International (ACUHO-I).[14] ACUHO-I also publishes a peer-reviewed journal (The Journal of College and University Student Housing) twice a year and publishes a magazine (Talking Stick).
Criticism Edit
The field of Student Affairs has been criticized for its emphasis on formal, professional training, calling into question whether the field is theoretical or practical. Complicating this criticism is the question of the role of student development theories in student affairs practice. It is claimed that student development theories are used to "proactively identify and address student needs, design programs, develop policies, and create healthy...environments that encourage positive growth in students."[15] Yet, student affairs practices often bear little resemblance or connection to student development theories. As Paul Bloland (1979) wrote in an article in the NASPA Journal, "We have cultivated an expertise that was not requested, is not sought out, and for which there is little recognition or demand. Many entry-level and (many) seasoned professionals know little of student development theory and practice and, in fact, do not really need such expertise to meet the role expectations of their supervisors or, in too many instances, their institutions." [16]
Another debate has centered on the degree to which available postgraduate programs actually represent a distinct discipline. While the field bears a resemblance to psychology, counseling, and other general concentrations, debate and criticism of the field's major foundations are virtually nonexistent in theoretical discourse, calling into question the academic credibility of the field. As Bloland, Stamatakos, and Russell wrote, while student development theory "...has been widely distributed through the literature, in preparation programs, at workshops and conventions," academics and professionals in the field have, "...failed to exercise their critical faculties to raise questions about student development, to slow down the head-long pace of its engulfment of the field of student affairs, and to examine alternatives and opinions as they presented themselves."[17]
See alsoEdit
- Journal of College Student Development
- National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
- American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
External linksEdit
References Edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 NASPA Career in student affairs. NASPA Career in student affairs. URL accessed on 22 March 2012.
- ↑ NASPA History. NASPA. Retrieved on 2008-6-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 (2000) The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration, The History and Philosophy of Student Affairs, 2, 3–13, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- ↑ (1934a) The History of Student Residential Housing, School and Society, 40 (1040), 705–712, 758–764.
- ↑ (March 2006) American Higher Education, Second Edition: A History, 2, Palgrave Macmillan.
- ↑ (December 2009) Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- ↑ Student Affairs professionals. Student Affairs professionals. URL accessed on 22 March 2012.
- ↑ ACPA Student affairs professional goals. Student affairs professional goals.
- ↑ Student affairs educational degrees. Student affairs educational degrees. URL accessed on 22 March 2012.
- ↑ careers in student affairs. careers in student affairs. URL accessed on 22 March 2012.
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.18 11.19 11.20 11.21 11.22 (2003) Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession, chapter: Organizations and Functions of Student Affairs, 4, 339–357, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 About NASPA. NASPA. URL accessed on 2007-09-09.
- ↑ (May 13, 1974)Education: The Candid Chronicle. Time.
- ↑ ACUHO-I. ACUHO-I. URL accessed on 22 March 2012.
- ↑ Evans, N.J., Forney, D.S., and Guido-DiBrito, F. (1998) Student development in college: Theory, research, and practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. pp 5.
- ↑ Bloland, P.A. (1979) "Student personnel training for the chief student affairs officer: Essential or unnecessary?" NASPA Journal, 17(2), 57-62.
- ↑ Bloland, Paul, Stamatakos, Louis, Rogers, Russell, & Clearinghouse, ERIC. (1994). Reform in student affairs. Caps Press. pp 14, 11.
- Barr, M. J., Desler, M. K., & Associates (2000). The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- NASPA Standards of Professional Practice. NASPA. Retrieved on 2010-10-4.
- Basinger, J. (2003). More Power for Provosts. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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In an official statement, the band ask for some respect and privacy in the light of James Owen Sullivan aka The Rev's death.
Sad news come from the music world when the drummer of Avenged Sevenfold was found dead at his Southern California home on Monday, December 28 at around 1 P.M.. Early indication suggests James Owen Sullivan died out of natural causes but Orange County coroner is still investigating the death.
Sullivan, which goes by the stage name The Rev, was 28 by the time he died. No other detail regarding the circumstances of his death has been released, but the musician is known to have a history of drug abuse. The band has released a statement on their official site to announce the passing. "It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan," they said.
Further in the statement signed by M Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Chris, "Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time."
With Avenged Sevenfold, James Owen Sullivan attained fame through their 2005 album "City of Evil". They won a trophy of Best New Artist at 2006 MTV Video Music Awards and continued the success with an album at No. 4 of Billboard Hot 200 in 2007.
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Speedsters are the theme of this week's outfield VP with Revere and Brantley joining the crew.
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Tony Campana joins Span, Viciedo, and Murphy on VP this week
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The cashier at a store in the 300 block of Denny Way called 911 on May 5 after he confronted a shoplifter, who then pulled out a hammer and threatened to kill the cashier.
The cashier reported that the suspect entered the store around 10:30 a.m. and began browsing the aisles. The cashier noticed the suspect stuffing merchandise into his coat and pants. When the suspect exited the store without paying for the merchandise, the cashier confronted him in the parking lot.
The cashier told the shoplifter that he needed to pay for the items that he had taken from store. The suspect pulled a hammer out of an inside coat pocket and held it up in the air. The suspect then yelled, "I'll kill you!" The cashier went back inside the store and called 911.
The cashier said the suspect is a regular at the store; he will call 911 if he sees him again.
Police responded to a neighbor dispute at an apartment building in the 3200 block of 14th Avenue West at 8:10 on May 13. One of the involved neighbors had called 911 to report that his neighbor had threatened him.
The caller told dispatch he had a gun and a Concealed-Carry Weapons Permit; police dispatch advised him to put the gun away before contacting officers.
Police spoke with the caller in the parking lot. He said he was listening to music in his apartment when he heard someone pounding on his wall from next door. He said he turned down the music and walked over to his neighbor's front door and asked him to address him directly rather than banging on the wall.
He said after he started walking back to his apartment, the neighbor stepped out into the hallway and began making threatening gestures. The man said he feared for his safety, and he felt he could not get back into his apartment without being cornered in the hallway. So he drew his handgun from his pocket holster, activated the laser sight and pointed it at his neighbor before reentering his own apartment. He said he couldn't remember anything else after drawing the pistol because of adrenaline.
When police talked to the neighbor, they got a slightly different story. He said that after he banged on the wall, the music-blaster came over and pounded on his front door. When he opened the door, the man told him, "If you have a problem with me, come confront me directly." He said he said OK and closed the door.
The neighbor pounded on his door again, and when he opened the door, he saw him walking back toward his apartment. He said he stepped out of his apartment and asked, "What's your problem?"
The first man ran back toward the stairwell and was reaching his right hand into his pocket. He ducked into the stairwell behind a wall and came back out with something in his hands and was walking toward the neighbor.
The second man didn't know what his neighbor was holding, but he saw a red laser coming from it and feared it could be a Taser or a handgun. He said he put his hands above his head, turned away from his neighbor and said, "Don't do it." He then slowly walked back into his apartment.
The gun-wielding neighbor was arrested. Police took and kept his handgun, pocket holster, concealed-weapon card and magazine with 6 bullets into evidence.
He was booked into King County Jail and charged with unlawful use of a weapon to intimidate another.
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Police responded to an apartment building in the 3000 block of 14th Avenue West at 4:50 p.m. on May 4 after receiving a 911 call from the owner that one of his units had been broken into.
The owner said she'd received a call from the tenant of the burglarized apartment, stating another tenant had called her after noticing her front door had been kicked in. The tenant noticed the open door at 3:30 that day.
The tenant of the burglarized apartment was out of town. Her parents went to the apartment and spoke with responding police.
The apartment's front door had been kicked in and was damaged. The tenant's mother gave police a list of stolen items and said her daughter would be back the following day.
She said her main concern was that her daughter's car keys had been stolen, but the car was still in the parking lot. She'd tried to have the car towed, but the tow company was unable to tow it because it was locked. Police suggested blocking it with another car until it could be re-keyed.
Employees at a restaurant in the 700 block of Taylor Avenue North called 911 at 12:30 p.m. on May 5 after a woman ran into the kitchen through the open back door and grabbed an employee's purse. The woman ran back out the back door.
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Demonstrating that an old dog can learn new tricks, I'm Not Just a Comic Genius blends existential elements with hilarious comedic scenes to show a man reconnecting with life.
David (Morry Schorr) remains bitter and standoffish after his wife's death. His daughter Judith (Michele Tannen) suggests he start writing again to occupy his time and keep himself entertained.
Writer Art Shulman reveals David connecting with himself and his daughter Judith through the writing process. Shulman blends hilarious segments with poignant moments to show David evolving and loosening up.
Director Rick Shaw creates a nice energy and flow between the writing segments and the imagined outcomes, keeping the show from being too episodic. The layout of the stage makes the action slightly static however.
Schorr brings just the right amount of sarcasm and resentment to David without becoming too strident. Schorr possesses a nice, easy rapport with Tannen, enhanced by her sweet, warm character.
Jerry Weil's expressive annoyance and attitude adds some zing, particularly his spelling bee announcer oozing attitude. Karen Knotts gives her characters a slightly off-kilter but vulnerable outlook and demeanor.
Riotous comedy sequences, nice wordplay, and fine acting make I'm Not Just a Comic Genius entertaining and enlightening.
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Let me preface by saying that I'm not sure what my stance is on the death penalty and I'm not here to support or argue against it.
I'd like to know if in states like Texas, where there is the death penalty, if you are responsible for a design that collapses and kills people, could you be punished by death?
Read up on the story about the California guy who was an architect/contractor and homeowner. He designed a fireplace that ended up causing fire and a firefighter died in the house and civil and criminal charges were brought against him. As an architect knowingly doing something that results in loss of life could result in very serious charges. As far as death penalty, I'm not sure!
This link might help you understand your risk:
In the circumstances you describe, I doubt the collapse of a building would meet the standards for "murder" -- more likely "manslaughter arising from negligence"
NO. Death penalty is for first degree murder. The court would have to prove that the architect had intent and premeditation to kill people.
and if the building collapses the engineer would probably be the one responsible
if the architect was this guy then maybe...
The death penalty is just another archaic relic people just can't shake. I would be embarrassed to live in a place that still allowed it.
With that aside, no... it's ridiculous to impose such a penalty, even for the most backwater parts of the USA bible-belt. I feel that given the multitude of hands in a project that any criminal charges from professional negligence would be split among the guilty parties. Also, would not the jurisdiction which approved the permit take a piece of the responsibility pie?
No. It isn't premeditated.
And I have worked on two construction defect cases involving deaths directly attributable to construction (there have been others like fires that are more quasi-related like lack of draftstops or egress issues as contributing factors).
Both the directly attributable ones were residential handrails overlooking the living room attached with finish nails. The owners leaned too hard against them and fell to their deaths.
Lots of injury ones too... Decks in particular seem to be issues. I don't think anyone has even lost their license over these and no criminal charges that I know of.
Civil suits are the normal punishment for professional malfeasance.
Some time ago a local architect designed a house with a door opening into a basement stair without a landing. A child in the house opened the door into the grandfather, who was near the top of the stairs, and down he went to his death. It was been said that the architect's lifetime wages were garnished to pay the civil penalty.
Interesting to note that the local building department that reviewed and approved the plans for compliance with code was exempt from liability.
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Founded in 1956, Aristocrat is a California-based recreational vehicle maker that would greatly expand to several manufacturing outlets to cope with popularity. Aristocrat initial growth was attributed to a small luxury travel trailer called the Lo-Liner designed to be mobile but compact enough to store in a garage. Aristocrat was best known for creating a wide array of travel trailers but also produced truck campers that were discontinued after the 1978 model year. Aristocrat production of travel trailers ended in 1981 but the company would briefly resume ultimately unsuccessful in the late 1980s as a Class A motorhome builder.Read more Read less
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Closing Sales on Weddings
by Bill Hansen
One of my favorite memories is time spent with some of Miamis leading attorneys, business leaders and politicians while serving them lunch in my early days as the caterer to the Miami Club. I recall the story from one veteran attorney and partner in a major law firm about the three arguments that he had when he tried a case before the Florida Supreme Court. He talked about:
The argument that I planned to make while flying to Tallahassee, the one that I actually made, and the one I wish Id given afterwards, while thinking through the days proceedings on the flight back to Miami.
We all have thought the same after giving a talk or sitting with a bridal couple who is undecided or who never called back. Was it something we said? Or, perhaps, was it something that was left unsaid?
Todays bridal couples are extremely knowledgeable. But most really need a lot of coaching from us, so we can help them turn their dreams into reality. One exception: the bride I met with last night had everything down in black and white, from her welcome drink with food coloring in the bottom of the flute, to the brand of scotch and cigars to be served to the men at the end of the night. But she is the exception, not the rule. I think youll agree with me that lots of couples come in, and when we ask whether theyd like a buffet, seated-served or food stations, we get a blank stare!
Great salespeople ask the right questions at the right time, keep their mouths shut, listen and take copious notes. Thats why theyre great and why they close more sales than other salespeople who start talking and never stop.
I recently read "Power Questions" by Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas, which revealed 337 essential questions to help us succeed at work and in life. Many deal with sales scenarios and can be applied to our profession as we consult with starry-eyed couples who are planning one of the biggest days of their lives.
Using the book questions as a stimulus, here are some questions that you may want to ask while meeting with wedding couples and discussing proposals. Their answers to each of these questions will help you identify things that they will not tell you if you ask them directly - all you need to do is listen, and listen between the lines.
1. What would you like to know about our catering firm?
2. Why did you decide to meet with us?
3. What is of high importance and what is of lesser importance for services such as food, venue, bar service, music, décor, photography, etc.?
4. Are there particular areas that you would like to discuss today?
5. What do you want your guests to say about your wedding and reception?
6. In deciding which catering firm to use, whats most important to you?
7. What aspects do you like about us, our firm and our proposal? I sense that you have some hesitation. Can you help me to understand what is behind that?
8. What aspects concern you?
9. Who will be making the final catering decision? Is there anyone else who I need to meet with?
10. From your perspective, what is the next step?
Obviously, there are hundreds more questions, but these are great starters, and I guarantee if you ask them of your clients and listen intently (and between the lines), you will considerably improve your closing percentages, as well as sooner eliminate those couples who are not for you.
For more thought-provoking questions, Id suggest you read the book "Power Questions" by Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas.


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ShoreTel's John Combs checks in on ShoreTel's growth plans, its channel vision, and why the most dangerous competitor in the unified communications space isn't named Cisco, Avaya or Nortel.
Need For Speed: Google To Trial 100x Faster BroadbandGoogle is planning a test of high-speed broadband with the goal of better fiber networks and killer app development.
Juniper, Cisco Mount Up For MWC With New Infrastructure ProductsA face-off at Mobile World Congress: Juniper with three products out of Project Falcon, Cisco with the fruits of its Starent Networks acquisition.
4G Forces: AT&T Goes With Ericsson, Alcatel-LucentAT&T says the deal with Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent for the new LTE network will also help improve its current 3G performance.
Riverbed Debuts High-End WAN ApplianceSteelhead 7050 is targeted for high-end data centers, says company.
Cisco Offers Taste Of Tandberg Product Road MapCisco will look to preserve channel structure of Tandberg, create new architecture for launching video products.
Vyatta Execs See Goldmine In Network VirtualizationThe open-source networking vendor's channel continues to expand in line with its addressable market, says CEO.
Cisco Unites Multiple Data Centers With VirtualizationCisco is preparing several new technologies aimed at helping customers connect multiple data centers into a logical data center to improve disaster recovery, virtualization and performance.
Agito's Latest Release Promises Business VoIP Calls Over 3GNetworking startup strives for seamless extension of office PBX to mobile devices.
A Network Round-TripMicrosoft Network Monitor 3.3 and Visual Roundtrip Analyzer are nice tools for monitoring network activity.
Blade Network Technologies Challenges Cisco With Unified FabricThe company introduced its Unified FabricArchitecture, which aims to consolidate Ethernet, InfiniBand, and storage networking into a single fabric while challenging Cisco for networking dominance in the virtual data center.
Channel Applauds Avaya-Nortel Swiftness, Now Real Work BeginsAttendees at Catalyst Telecom's Avaya-Nortel roadmap roadshow were cautiously optimistic about prospects.
Staying Out Of It: Juniper Moves J-Partner Summit To MayAnnual Juniper partner confab was previously scheduled for same week as HP and Cisco partner conferences.
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Vyatta Marketing Chief Exits CompanySpokesperson confirms Dave Roberts has left open-source networking vendor.
Google Nexus One Improvements Include 3G ConnectivityThe update is being rolled out to Nexus One users over the next week, according to Google.
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D-Link's Tidd: We're Way More Than 'The Guys With The $99 Router'New D-Link North America president sets out to fix the way D-Link markets and brands its portfolio and how it rewards loyal channel partners.
Carrier Upgrades Help Juniper To Solid Q4Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson says to expect growth in all of Juniper's channels this year.
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Although it has in the past voiced its opposition to anti-Semitism, the Australian Labor Party yesterday rejected a proposal that it endorse a resolution advocating that Jews, as such, be represented at the peace conference.
The resolution had also demanded that the Labor Party, which is holding its triennial conference in Canberra, condemn the inhuman treatment of Jews and other oppressed peoples in Europe and voice its opposition to racial discrimination. An emergency meeting of the Australian Zionist Federation has been called for Monday to discuss the Labor Party's action.


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Layered Vegetarian Egg Bake
Serving Size: 6
Not only is this brunch dish easy to make, but it's stacked high with layers of flavors.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray baking dish with nonstick spray. In a large bowl, mix together 1/3 cup sour cream, 3/4 cup cheese, hashbrowns, sun dried tomatoes, onion, black pepper and garlic powder. Spread half of this mixture on the bottom of the pan.
- Put the kale and chopped artichokes in the middle of a towel and roll up, then wring all of the water out. (This is a crucial step so that the egg bake doesn't become soggy. Over a cup of water came out the vegetables for me!) Add these vegetables to a bowl and stir in minced garlic. Distribute over the top of the first layer. Top with remaining potato mixture, pushing down lightly.
- Whisk remaining 2 tablespoons sour cream and milk together in a bowl, then add in eggs, salt and pepper. Whisk until lightly beaten, so all yolks are broken up. Pour over the top of layered mixture, then top with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake for about 35 minutes, until middle is not runny (test with a toothpick). Let sit for 5 minutes, then cut and serve.
- Leftovers will last for 3 days in refrigerator.
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Free training for building managers to report energy use
City offering workshops, help line
April 16, 2014 (MINNEAPOLIS) Owners and managers of commercial buildings 50,000 square feet and larger are invited to free workshops April 24 and May 6. These workshops will include information about the new energy reporting ordinance, help with reporting energy use through Energy Star Portfolio Manager, and put building owners and managers in touch with resources to make improvements. While managers of buildings between 50,000 and 100,000 square feet are not required to report their buildings' energy and water use until June 1, 2015, they can learn how to do the reporting now and get a head start on tracking. Measuring energy use helps building owners understand and compare their energy use while finding ways to save energy and money.
The free workshops are being offered by the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) through assistance from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Space is limited. Register now at http://buildingdisclosure-mpls.mncee.org.
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· For buildings 50,000-100,000 square feet, a program of retired professionals can help managers gather and input data and walk through the sign-up process for Portfolio Manager. The Minnesota Retiree Environmental Technical Assistance Program also helps building owners and managers examine energy use and recommends energy efficiency improvements.
· The City is also launching new Web resources and a help line.
The Commercial Building Rating and Disclosure ordinance is being phased in over three years. Starting this year, buildings 100,000 square feet and larger will annually report energy and water use data through Energy Star Portfolio Manager by June 1. Starting in 2015, buildings from 50,000 to 100,000 square feet will annually report energy and water use data.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings consume more than 70 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. Buildings can be made 30 percent to 50 percent more energy efficient, but many property owners and managers don't know how well or poorly their buildings use energy or how their building's energy performance compares to similar buildings. Also, consumers have no way to compare the energy performance of buildings they hope to buy or rent.
The City expects that benchmarking – along with numerous rebates and financial and technical assistance programs available to businesses – will spur retrofitting activity throughout Minneapolis. While building owners are under no obligation to make energy efficiency improvements to their properties, most owners who already benchmark their buildings voluntarily take advantage of their new knowledge to make improvements to reduce their energy costs.
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How to Fix The Tort System
This should be a triumphant moment for Thomas A. Gottschalk. As the executive vice-president for law and public policy at General Motors Corp. (GM ), he has devoted his long career to battling plaintiffs' lawyers. So you might think Gottschalk would be thrilled about the recently passed Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), the biggest federal tort reform of his 62-year lifetime. Guess again. "CAFA will not eliminate many class actions," predicts the steely former litigator. "It was a modest procedural step."
That's the verdict of most of Gottschalk's longtime allies -- from the generals to the ground troops -- in America's tort war. They portray the U.S. legal system as a dire economic threat that jacks up the price of cars, drives obstetricians out of work, and effectively taxes all Americans' standard of living. Truly tackling these problems, many business leaders believe, requires a whole lot more than CAFA -- or anything else on Washington's agenda. In fact, they find inspiration overseas. Gottschalk, for example, wants to borrow an idea from Britain, where the losers of lawsuits pay for the winners' expenses. Other self-described tort reformers want to reduce the role of juries, whack big damage awards, and truly reshape American justice. "The whole tort reform debate in this country is pathetic," grouses Philip K. Howard, founder of the New York legal policy group Common Good.
That's about the only point that all sides agree on. Plaintiffs' lawyers, union leaders, and consumer advocates accuse Howard, Gottschalk & Co. of polluting the policy dialogue with bogus numbers and misleading anecdotes. They offer a radically different view of reality. Citing Vioxx, Enron, Firestone, WorldCom, and other recent scandals, the business community's opponents argue with equal passion that now is no time to be loosening the restraints on executive misbehavior by eviscerating the role of the courts. "Corporate America wants immunity from misdeeds through tort reform," charges Frederick M. Baron, ex-President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).
Is either side right? How bad is the American legal system? What's the best way to fix it? These issues, for the first time in years, are squarely on the table. Now that CAFA is on the books, Bush wants to move on to medical malpractice litigation, the asbestos mess, and beyond. The stakes transcend the narrow-sounding issue of tort law -- the body of precedents governing personal injuries. The mislabeled "tort reform" debate also touches on antitrust, consumer protection, employment, environmental, and securities law. These all play a key role in determining the safety guidelines for cars, doctors, drugs, food, and construction sites. The cost-benefit choices we make in this arena influence the design of children's toys, the content of 10-Ks, how often office workers must view sexual harassment prevention videos, the amount of money given to asbestos victims, and countless other unique features of U.S. society.
Tort reform, then, is more than simply an economic policy debate. It's also about justice -- the ultimate values issue. How people feel about the subject directly depends on how they feel about things like individual responsibility and the public obligations of private companies. Do they attach more blame to McDonald's Corp. (MCD ) for making fattening hamburgers -- or to obese teenagers for eating them? "The debate is really about what kind of culture we want to have in America," says Cornell University law professor Douglas A. Kyser. "A lot of deep political issues get discussed through tort law language."
Problem is, much of the discussion has been distorted by hyperbole from both sides. Despite the alarmism from Corporate America, most of the big verdicts that become urban legends are reduced on appeal. Nor is there authoritative evidence that plaintiffs' lawyers are weighing down the economy. This is, in part, because there are no reliable aggregate data about the system. America's network of federal, state, and local tribunals is sprawling and undigitized. Nobody knows how many cases are filed each year or how they turn out -- especially since the vast majority are settled out of court. So any macroeconomic conclusions are speculative. When Bush claims that the annual "litigation tax" in America is $246 billion, it's a guess.
To the extent that reliable data do exist, they show no signs of broad systemic breakdown. The latest statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis indicate that legal services accounted for less than 1.5% of gross domestic product in 2003 -- a slightly lower share than in 1990. That means the legal industry has lagged the overall economy. Such slow growth suggests that lawyers are not reaping a bonanza from winning -- and defending -- big corporate cases. Moreover, the strong productivity gains in recent years undercut the argument that rapacious plaintiff lawyers are strangling growth.
Does this mean there's no case against the tort system? Not at all. Just that the strongest evidence of plaintiffs' lawyer misconduct doesn't rest on broad economic data. Rather, the real crisis lies in the proliferation of specific types of bogus cases -- ones in which nobody has been injured, no malfeasance has occurred, or regulators have already taken care of the problem. Despite their claims of being selfless safety advocates, plaintiffs' attorneys in 2005 are analogous to chief executives in 1999: Most of the players are making an honest living. But an unacceptably high percentage of them are stretching the rules.
BusinessWeek's four-part solution to the problem is based on a set of pragmatic principles, with some parallels to those being used to clean up Corporate America. Like CEOs, lawyers should, first of all, be paid for performance. They shouldn't be allowed to take home multimillion-dollar paychecks if clients get pennies. Second, they shouldn't be able to cash in when they're merely piling on to government crackdowns. Third: When attorneys break the rules, the punishment should sting. These days, lawyers who file frivolous suits barely get their wrists slapped. These simple reforms would eliminate the most abusive cases while preserving the rights of victims. In the rare cases where they did not go far enough, such as asbestos, a far more radical change -- exiting the courts altogether -- may work better.
Surprisingly, the excesses in America's legal system grew out of the country's commitment to free markets and individualism. Modern tort law began with the unprecedented wave of injuries spawned by the Industrial Revolution. A century ago, when a worker lost his arm in a mill or a consumer got poisoned by canned food, he was generally out of luck, as were his dependents. Few people bought insurance back then, and the courts frowned on personal injury suits. The families of the young women who perished in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Building fire in 1911, to take one classic case, collected wrongful death payments of just $75 apiece -- despite rotten fire hoses, locked escape doors, and other signs of clear negligence.
Starting in the early decades of the 20th century, in piecemeal fashion, U.S. legislators and judges began tearing down the barriers that protected companies against lawsuits. Until 1916, for example, consumers could only sue the distributors that sold defective products, not the manufacturers. That changed when the wooden wheel on Donald C. MacPherson's 1910 Buick Runabout collapsed. In a landmark opinion, New York state court judge Benjamin Cardozo held that Buick Motor Co. owed a duty to the end user -- triggering the first of many big bangs in corporate liability. The progressives and New Dealers who championed the expansion of tort liability "wanted to create social insurance for the many misfortunes of life, including accidental injury, disability, and unemployment," says Robert W. Gordon, a professor at Yale Law School.
After World War II, tort law received a boost from economists -- something that would probably come as a surprise to many businesspeople today. A new generation of scholars such as Guido Calabresi and Richard A. Posner (both now federal judges) started writing law review articles packed with dense equations. They argued that the tort system should be more than simply a method of compensating the victims of misfortune. Instead, it should be a free-market tool for preventing accidents in the first place. In the real world, this usually meant hiking the liability on manufacturers, giving them a financial incentive to improve the safety of their products. The economic theory essentially held that the most socially efficient outcome would be achieved when the cost of the safety improvements matched the cost of being sued.
The result is one of those exceptional American institutions that sometimes causes the rest of the industrialized world to rub its eyes in wonder: A tort system that functions as both an insurance mechanism and as a form of decentralized regulation. Loud-mouthed, Lear-jetting, billboard-advertising plaintiffs' attorneys have been officially deputized to serve as private-sector adjuncts to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and a wealth of other federal and state agencies. "Europeans would be extremely nervous with this kind of arrangement," observes Michael Greve, a German-born tort reform expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
What do they do in Germany, Belgium, or France when sport-utility vehicles roll over? For starters, the victim's medical expenses are covered by nationalized health care. And lost wages are largely picked up by employers or the government. So nobody needs to go to court to be made whole -- and punitive damages aren't allowed. It's basically a no-fault system that renders plaintiffs' lawyers irrelevant, eliminating most of the expensive features of the U.S. adversarial system, such as pretrial discovery.
That probably sounds great to many in Corporate America. But built into the Western European system is an even greater degree of regulation. Instead of offloading responsibilities to plaintiffs' lawyers, bureaucrats and administrative judges do all the work. "You can substitute for tort law by having more extensive social insurance and relying on regulators to a greater extent," says Mark Geistfeld, an expert in comparative jurisprudence at New York University School of Law. "But it's not like the cost disappears; it just becomes part of the tax base."
That's why comparisons between the U.S. and other countries are misleading. Britain, Germany, and Japan all have fewer lawyers per capita than America -- a fact critics of the U.S. love to cite. But these countries don't ask their attorneys to engage in business regulation, and they have more restricted notions of individual rights. As a result, tort changes that call for importing a big idea from overseas miss the larger context. Making courtroom losers pay their opponents' legal expenses only works in Britain because it is part of a larger whole that also includes nationalized health insurance.
Throwing out big chunks of the U.S. system, therefore, isn't a grand solution. Sure, it's theoretically possible to eliminate punitive damages or adopt other European-style reforms without bringing aboard their entire social safety net. But it almost certainly wouldn't end there. One way or another, the American public will demand that the Firestones and Enrons of the world be held accountable for tire blow-outs and financial blowups. Radical reductions in corporate liability would undercut the accountability of genuinely bad actors. It wouldn't take long before the public would cry out for more regulation. This is one reason why the AEI's Greve thinks it could be foolhardy for medical-device makers to lobby for broad legal immunity for products approved by the FDA. "As soon as the agency made a mistake and 14 people died, there would be hysteria, and the whole approval process would be shut down," he predicts. "You need a sensible mix of public and private enforcement."
The right way to reform the U.S. tort system is not to put most plaintiffs' lawyers on the streets but to ensure that they do a better job at their two key roles: compensating victims and deterring corporate wrongdoing. The crisis is not that ambulance chasers are wrecking the economy, but that too many entrepreneurial personal-injury attorneys have found illegitimate ways to earn money. Tort reformers aren't directly attacking this problem. Instead of cracking down on exploitative lawyers, the critics often try to solve the problem by punishing their clients. For instance, the White House's main idea for reducing the cost of medical malpractice litigation is to place an arbitrary $250,000 ceiling on pain-and-suffering recoveries, which would hurt the most severely injured malpractice victims, such as those blinded or paralyzed. That would also shortchange blue-collar workers, the elderly, and others who couldn't receive big compensation for lost earnings.
This is the wrong approach. The big mistake of the last century was not excessive compassion. The fact that America offers the most compensation worldwide for intangible emotional injuries is a tribute to the country's best humanitarian impulses. In retrospect, the thing that the legal theorists overlooked was that tort law would become a big business. Invited to become private corporate cops, way too many plaintiffs' attorneys crashed the party. The challenge now is to weed out the parasites without compromising fundamental values. Here's how:
1. Pay for Performance
This fix would eliminate a big chunk of the most abusive cases. The main target would be cases like a 1996 false advertising suit against Intel Corp. (INTC ), which awarded 500,000 people the right to claim a $50 discount off a new microprocessor. Only 150, or 0.0003%, took advantage of the offer. The plaintiffs' lawyers, meanwhile, walked off with nearly $1.5 million. Hundreds of similar tales could be told. The Intel case highlights the single most scandalous thing about the American tort system: the low percentage of people who truly benefit from class actions. The problem is not confined to the notorious episodes, like Intel, in which people are awarded coupons. Many alleged "victims" don't even bother to collect hard cash. A still unpublished study by James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas, professors from Duke University and Vanderbilt University law schools, indicates that even sophisticated institutional investors claim less than 30% of the money they could get from securities-fraud class actions.
It's no mystery why this happens. Defendants want to keep redemption rates low -- and many plaintiffs' lawyers don't care. Their fees are set when deals are signed and pegged to a high theoretical number of claimants. Judges, meanwhile, are way too busy to bird-dog settled disputes. This distorted set of incentives produces unintelligible award notices buried deep in newspapers, burdensome forms to fill out, and short claim periods.
Solution: Reverse the economics of class-action settlements. Plaintiffs' lawyers should be paid after victims collect their money -- not before. This would have two benefits. First, it would make them more aggressive about getting the word out to class members. Second, and more important, it would filter out a high percentage of the system's silliest claims. One of the main reasons people don't bother to collect class-action benefits is that they don't perceive any injury in the first place. And if people don't think they've been hurt, it's often a strong sign that the case isn't worth bringing.
A little-noticed provision of the recent Class Action Fairness Act instituted this pay-for-performance rule for coupon settlements, which account for approximately 10% of all class settlements. The reform now needs to be extended to the much broader world of cases in which people get cash or goods in kind -- like toasters or tires.
An equally important move would target cases that require almost no work. Consider the dozens of suits filed against Christie's International PLC and Sotheby's Holdings Inc. (BID ) for price-fixing in 2000. Because the U.S. Justice Dept. dug out plentiful evidence of a joint conspiracy to prop up the sales commissions that the two premier auction houses charged clients, the private filings were slam dunks. While the plaintiffs' lawyers helped distribute money to victims, they did not deserve their typical 33% share of the take. So U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of Manhattan came up with a creative plan: forcing plaintiffs' lawyers to bid for the job in a reverse auction. The firm that promised to give the biggest sum to the victims won. This is one of the best ways ever devised to ensure that the tort system effectively fulfills its compensation function. More judges should follow Kaplan's lead.
2. Penalties That Sting
The Christie's-Sotheby's story raises a point often overlooked: The players in the best position to resolve the problem are often judges, not legislators. Judges can figure out when attorneys in their courtrooms are acting in bad faith. In contrast, politicians can only police the system from afar by rewriting laws, which always produces unintended consequences.
One fix: Give judges stronger tools to punish renegade lawyers. Before 1993, it was mandatory for judges to impose sanctions such as public censures, fines, or orders to pay for the other side's legal expenses on lawyers who filed frivolous lawsuits. Then the Civil Rules Advisory Committee (CRAC), an obscure branch of the courts, made penalties optional. This needs to be reversed, either by the CRAC or by Congress.
Simply rewriting the rules only solves part of this problem, though. An equally important step is for judges to rise to the challenge and use their disciplinary powers. For too long, a cozy, protect-the-guild mentality has protected exploitative attorneys from serious punishment. So the cost of filing baseless harassment lawsuits has never approached the rewards of cashing in on them. The tough regime should apply on both sides of the bar. Judges have also been far too relaxed about punishing defense attorneys who destroy documents -- a tactic that's every bit as serious as filing frivolous cases.
3. Curb the Duplication
The third reform targets one of Corporate America's biggest complaints: duplicative litigation. This problem arises in a wide variety of settings. Think of the lawsuits involving cigarettes, Vioxx, or the Windows operating system. The companies at the center of the storms -- Philip Morris (now Altria Group (MO )), Merck (MRK ), and Microsoft, (MSFT ) respectively -- each faced administrative inquiries, individual cases, and class actions filed by private lawyers, state attorneys general, and federal regulators.
The U.S. system encourages this type of overlapping enforcement -- and it's O.K. if every player contributes something unique to the ultimate solution. But that isn't always the case. After the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it was investigating alleged suspension problems with Dodge Durango trucks, plaintiffs' lawyers filed five class actions asking the company to recall the vehicles. Chrysler voluntarily agreed to do so -- and then had to spend money fighting tort lawyers claiming credit for the move. Three of the cases have been dismissed.
Corporate America's preferred solution to the duplication problem is so-called preemption -- getting Congress to declare that agency approval of, say, a particular drug blocks subsequent private litigation. That would be fine if agencies had perfect foresight. But as the Vioxx episode proves, they don't. "When you preempt, you make a decision about future cases for all time," says D. Bruce Hoffman, formerly deputy director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission and now in private practice. Winning preemption "should be a very steep hill [for companies] to climb."
A better solution is a package of more modest reforms. The first one would be eliminating punitive damages for injuries caused by products that have been approved by regulators. The long and involved process of winning over the FDA or NHTSA should, at a minimum, insulate managers from claims that they deserve huge financial penalties for wantonly disregarding the public good (unless executives lied to bureaucrats). A second idea is giving judges explicit authority to reject class actions that duplicate ongoing regulatory initiatives. That will require a mechanism for ensuring that judges find out whether an agency is reviewing issues raised in class actions -- something that's missing now. The committee that sets rules for civil litigation, or Congress, needs to fix these problems.
4. Exiting the Tort System
These three changes would solve many of the tort system's genuine problems, but not all of them. There are rare issues that need to be removed from the courts -- with all of their elaborate procedural rules -- and directed into specialized administrative tribunals. One of them, clearly, is asbestos. Aggressive plaintiffs' lawyers are overloading the judiciary with thousands of dubious cases that don't even involve sick people. Congress' plan to create a trust fund to handle this problem makes sense.
Asbestos is the easy case. The tougher one is medical malpractice. Evidence of massive systemic malfunction is starting to accumulate. Only about 2% of the people who are genuinely injured even bother to file lawsuits, according to most studies. When people do go to court, only 40% of every dollar spent on litigation goes to victims. Then there's the spreading damage to doctors. For some specialists, medical malpractice premiums can eat up between 20% and 50% of annual income. That's why neurosurgeons are avoiding trauma cases and orthopedic surgeons are eliminating emergency room calls.
The steady drumbeat of problems has prompted many physicians, lawyers, and politicians to support the idea of special health courts. They would have dedicated judges, a panel of neutral experts, and medically trained staff. Because pretrial discovery would be limited, the cost of filing cases would decline. The theory is that this would induce more injured people to make claims, and that they would get their money faster.
But there's a big trade-off -- no emotional or punitive damages. To ensure consistency, health court awards would be based on a European-style damages schedule. In Britain, for example, damages paid for quadriplegia range from $311,000 to $387,000, depending on a patient's residual movement, depression, pain, and age. What's more, victims won't get to tell their story to a jury. That worries consumer advocates, who fear that the health-care industry would find a way to control these courts. "The jury is the only unit of government that is nonpartisan and not elected. It doesn't have to answer to anybody," says Barry Boughton, a lawyer with Public Citizen.
That's a powerful objection. Before reengineering American justice, we should get more information about the problem and experiment with some modest steps. One would be giving juries considering emotional damages guidance about what other juries have done in similar cases. Studies have shown that this would cut down on the unpredictable verdicts that torment doctors and insurers. Another step: publicizing data on how often doctors have been sued for malpractice or disciplined by their states' medical boards.
These moves do not go as far as advocates like Common Good's Howard would like. But they surpass anything on the table. There is, ultimately, no perfect way to balance the interests of everybody who has a stake in the medical malpractice debate -- or any of the other broad issues subsumed under the tort reform banner. Any rule changes that protect doctors or drugmakers, by definition, would limit the rights of some victims. The guiding principle for tort reform should be to target bad lawsuits as narrowly as possible. That's the only way to balance the enormous values at stake.
|Corrections and Clarifications In "How to fix the tort system" (Cover Story, Mar. 14), we miscalculated the percentage of eligible people who took advantage of a class-action judgment against Intel Corp. (INTC ): 150 of 500,000 is 0.03% (not 0.0003%).
By Mike France
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Have You Tried: Anchovies?by Toby Amidor in Have You Tried, June 18, 2012
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that anchovies are chock full of nutritional goodness. Now is the perfect time to give these small fish a first or second chance.
What Are Anchovies?
These small, silvery fish are members of the herring family. They are about 1 to 4 inches in length and have been eaten around the world for thousands of years. These fish taste pretty fishy and salty—which can make them overwhelming if you don't know how to balance their flavor. Anchovies also have a fifth taste, called umami, a savory taste found in foods high in the amino acid glutamate.
Anchovies are typically filleted, salt-cured and canned in oil. They can be found in the canned tuna and salmon section at your grocery store. Canned anchovies can be stored for up to 1 year in a cool, dry place. Once opened, store in the refrigerator in a sealed container covered with oil for up to 2 months. To decrease its saltiness, soak in cool water for about 20-30 minutes, drain and pat dry with a paper towel.


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Senior guard Luke Martinez topped the 20-point mark for the second-straight night with 21 and senior forward Leonard Washington added another double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead the University of Wyoming men's basketball team to a dominant 71-51 victory over South Dakota on Thursday night. The Cowboys led by 15 at halftime and nailed 12 threes in the game to improve to 2-0 in the Global Sports Hoops Showcase and 3-0 on the season.
"I think this was our best complete game of the year, including the Canada [summer] trip because everybody we used off the bench gave us something positive," Wyoming head coach Larry Shyatt said. "That's not to say we didn't have mistakes, but our focus was important. I thought even the group that was in there at the end maintained their focus."
Martinez went 7-of-9 beyond the arc to tie for the second-best performance in UW single-game history and third in Arena-Auditorium history, while Washington claimed his second double-double this season and added three assists and a block. Sophomore forward Larry Nance Jr. posted a career-high 12 points and six rebounds, while sophomore guard Riley Grabau notched a career-high six assists and has yet to turn the ball over this season.
Wyoming shot 45 percent (26-of-57) from the field to go with a season-high 48 percent (12-of-25) from three, while USD hit 30 percent (16-of-53) and 31 percent (5-of-16). The Pokes outrebounded the Coyotes by one, 38-37 and had an 18-7 advantage in assists.
"When you can make 12 threes and guard like we did tonight, holding them to 30 percent from the field and 31 percent from three, instead of a 10-point game you can stretch it out to 20 plus and that's what we were able to do tonight," Shyatt said.
The Cowboys got off to a quick 10-0 lead thanks to a 6-of-7 start from the field, including two treys from Martinez. South Dakota pulled within four at the five minute mark, but another three from Martinez and a Nance dunk quickly pushed the advantage back to double digits midway through the half. Washington would score nine of UW's next 11 points to keep the advantage around 10 and put the Cowboys ahead 35-20 at halftime.
Washington posted 10 points and four rebounds in the first half, while Martinez added nine points and Cooke had five rebounds. Wyoming shot 44 percent from the field (12-of-27) and beyond the arc (4-of-9) in the first half, while holding South Dakota to 25 percent (7-of-28) and 30 percent (3-of-10). UW earned a slim 20-19 advantage in rebounds, but forced 12 turnovers and committed just nine.
Back-to-back treys from Martinez and Washington got Wyoming rolling early in the second half, and the Pokes never looked back. South Dakota could only get as close at 13 in the half, as Martinez scored 12 points in the half and Washington added seven points and seven rebounds. The Cowboys led by as many as 24 with just over four minutes left.
Wyoming concludes the Global Sports Hoops Showcase against Southern on Friday at 8 p.m. in the Arena-Auditorium.