Tara thought that we had the most experienced personal injury attorney in Florida for the case, and after briefing him about my injuries and sending over her medical records and having an agreement he calls me at work and says that she will have to refer the case to another lawyer. He has a conflict of interest. It seems that his wife, an accountant, has had the wife of the man who caused her injury as a client for years. It’s just too small world here in this area it seems. I asked him if he could recommend at least two lawyers, and he said that he would have no trouble doing that. And he left it at that. I couldn’t believe it. I could understand the conflict of interest, so it was nice to be able to get a few more names? It didn’t seem all that strange. Well, we found out how strange it really was, when we tried to get other lawyers he referred in the area to take a look a the case. They never returned Tara’s phone calls for an appointment, and those that did, could only see her in a few months. I’d never heard of such a thing. Tara and I really didn’t want to get into having to sue our neighbors, but their insurance company wouldn’t cover her treatments, and Tara’s insurance was exhausted. This meant we were down to our 401k.
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SECURITY BREACH
I just came back from an interesting class. The topic of discussion was about the importance of security on campus. The teacher wanted to start a dialogue with all of us because of the recent security breaches. Apparently someone tried to break into a few of the classrooms after hours but they weren’t successful. The alarms sounded before they could run off with anything. They’ve taken a few people in for questioning. The school is talking about installing more security devices and hiring more law enforcement officers until the situation calms down a bit. One of the rooms was the music room! I mean, I go to that classroom just about every other day. We have lots of expensive equipment in there. There’s a $10,000 concert grand harp that the school just acquired. It would be such a huge loss if something happened to that. We worked hard doing all those fundraisers just to get that. There’s also the baby grand piano and some synthesizers and expensive drum kits. Really, there’s an entire orchestra in there so I’m not surprised they would try to target that room first. I think all of us are just going to do whatever we can to keep our eyes open. We got really lucky that the security at this school is one of the best!
Blog admin 11 Mar 2008 Comments Off
GOVERNMENT TESTING
I sat through a lecture today about the importance of diabetes monitoring. I think I’m relieved to discover I actually find all of this stuff interesting otherwise I would start to question whether I’m on the right career path or not. I’m really glad I’m not my friend right now. She’s not sure whether she wants to be a doctor or not. Her parents have the money and so they decided that she should be earning a medical degree but I really feel a person needs to follow their own natural interests and make their own decision about what they would like to do. She hasn’t told anyone in her family because she’s afraid of how they’ll react but she’s actually told me that she wants to be a vagabond. She was entirely serious. I suggested that there is a way she could satisfy both goals and also keep her parents happy if she wasn’t able to get out of medical school. She could be a traveling doctor! I also joked that we could be a team. I could be the doctor and handle all the visits and sit in on all the lectures and she could just do the traveling part!
Blog admin 06 Mar 2008 Comments Off
DRIVING ILLEGALLY
A few years ago, my brother was living in Arizona. He had an SUV that he purchased with his own money. He was driving home one night and got into a car accident that totaled his vehicle. With my parents living in Chicago and me living in New York, none of us were able to immediately come to his aid. Even after it happened, none of us could really advise him because we had never lived in Arizona and we had no idea what the laws were regarding those kinds of things. I had a friend who worked as a personal injury attorney in New York, but she was unable to take his case because she told me the laws vary from state to state. She recommended my brother to a personal injury attorney in Arizona that she was good friends with. He went to talk to this attorney, and it turned out that even though he had assured all of us that he’d had car insurance, the truth finally came out that he didn’t. We were so upset with him for lying to us, and now regardless of whose fault the accident was no attorney would be able to help him because he was driving illegally without insurance.
Blog admin 03 Mar 2008 Comments Off
ANXIETY
The coming of a new baby creates a lot of anxiety and excitement. Parents are out to creating a room for the baby and also organize things so that when the baby arrives it has the best of everything. Most of the time clothes and toys are purchased even before the birth of the baby. But once the baby is there so much attention needs to be given and things that really need to be organized get completely disorganized. The Kolcraft Baby Closet Organizer acts as a savior in such a situation. The Kolcraft Baby Closet Organizer can be set p in an existing closet within minutes. It allows one to hang clothes from the already available rod but also provides eight shelves below, which are most convenient to store baby products. It also has mesh side pockets, which may be used for baby shoes or socks that are frequently used and also for items, which need easy access. Kolcraft Baby Organizers are available in blue vinyl that could be matched with the furniture in a baby’s room. This closet organizer can be used by two children, as there is ample storage space and can be used by the child for a few years.
Blog admin 20 Feb 2008 Comments Off
VARIOUS GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES
Security is a term, which is mostly, related to the various government related functionaries. However in this hi-tech world security can be of various types. Of all the security problems that one faces, home security is the prime one. Home security is the one, which is breached quite frequently. Apart from giving us shelter our sweet home is also the one stop destination of our valuables as well as our important private accessories. Thus, if this security is breached then one will bear a heavy loss. For this purpose home security systems are the solutions, which are now being increasingly used by people aware of it. Wireless home security systems are a kind of security system, which has found much prevalence and usage. As the name suggests wireless home security system means the various accessories that safeguard your house are based on wireless technology. Burglar alarms, movement detector alarms etc. and many more are some of the wireless home security options that provide you efficient and useful security settings. Many wireless home security systems are also based on network-based security. In other words you can control the security of your house through wireless connection. Devoid from hassles of wired security problems wireless home security has proved really effective and useful.
Blog admin 19 Feb 2008 Comments Off
YOUNGER CITIZENS
A lot of young people are facing the problem of hair loss nowadays. Hair loss can be due to many causes. However, pollution has become the main cause for hair loss in the younger as well as the older generation. Someone’s hair loss treatment plans should always include proper maintenance of the hair and preventing it from pollution. One should always wear a cap when going out in the sun to save the hair from the harmful effect of the U-V rays. The hair should also be washed thoroughly after a long journey. To prevent hair loss, one should have a regulated diet and have lots of leafy and green vegetables that boost the metabolism process. In addition to these one can also try a lot of age-old home remedies. There are a lot of homemade recipes made from milk, cream eggs, Neem leaves etc that are easily available in the home. These home remedies are not only very effective but they also cut down the chances of any side effects to almost zero. One can also try the various prescription drugs that are prescribed by a qualified doctor. Although quite effective, these drugs cause some or the other side effects and so they have to be taken in a limited quantity.
Blog admin 19 Feb 2008 Comments Off
CAREER IN POLITICS
My high school is sponsoring a career day; only seniors can participate in this event, but I think that this is fair. Why would any underclassmen need to go along on a typical day of work with somebody from the career that they are interested in pursuing? Anyways, I am interested in pursuing a career as an eye surgeon; so naturally, I am going to be assigned to one of the fee eye surgeons that are participating in this career day. What will happen is that basically, I am going to get to go along with this eye surgeon on a typical day of work. I do not know if I am going to be able to witness a real eye surgery performed by him, but regardless, this experience will be priceless and will definitely motivate me to be an eye surgeon in the future. If I do witness an eye surgery, then a Lasik eye surgery would most likely be performed. Modern surgeons very rarely use physical cutting utensils; lasers are the way of the future for delicate surgical procedures. The best part of this career day is that it is completely free. My school is sponsoring everything from transportation to lunch. They told me that I would be better as a politician. I actually agree with that.
Blog admin 18 Feb 2008 Comments Off
GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
My mother was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and it was really a shock to our whole family. It seemed that they had detected it early enough, and that a lot of damage had not yet been done. As of now, she is avoiding insulin, and has been able to get by using a healthy diet and a steady exercise routine. She is also considering gastric bypass surgery to help her lose weight. She pointed out several celebrities that had recently undergone the surgery and had seen success with it. The celebrity argument did not win my dad over, but he agreed to look into it further. When my mom found a recent study that showed a significant percentage of those with diabetes that had the surgery were no longer considered diabetic, my dad was more intrigued. He contacted the insurance company, and found out that they would help pay for a large portion of the surgery and other medical expenses related to it. That really helped him look at gastric bypass surgery in a better light. Not that it would be cheaper, but the fact that even the insurance company saw the obvious positive effects it could have on my mom’s health and the fact that they would likely avoid other medical costs down the line if they covered the surgery now.
Blog admin 08 Feb 2008 Comments Off
MICHIGAN ECONOMY
Personal Injury Attorney in Michigan is having a tough time with economy right now. This state is filled with Personal Injury Attorney in Michigan everywhere you look, go, on television commercials. With so many Personal Injury Attorney in Michigan it is really hard for attorney that specify in personal injury to find a job. Unfortunately Tom is one of the people that is going through this problem. He decided he will move because this specific area of the field is what he does best. Tom has been looking for many states to move to he is not really sure about what state though. Of course he did a lot of research before he is going to move to see what states have higher needs for Personal Injury Attorney in Michigan and what state has too many of them such as the state he is living in now. Finally have 3 months of researching he found a state that is high demand of what he loves to do and that state was Kentucky. He thought about how it might be boring there because it seems like a dead state. Then he figured even living in a dead state. It won’t be dead to him if he is doing what he is doing and making money with what he loves to do.
Blog admin 05 Feb 2008 Comments Off