Miss USA 2009

Kristen Dalton, the reigning Miss North Carolina USA, A woman with ties to Cabarrus County has been crowned Miss USA. She beat out 50 other pageant queens in the event televised live from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.























Dalton told reporters Saturday night that winning the pageant "feels really natural."

Classic Movies for Me

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." Movies listed here are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but I believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.

Here are some stills:.

Friends







Pretty Woman



Roman Holiday

Notting.Hill



It Happenned One Night


The Graduate


The Shawshank Redemption

Do you know types of workplace accidents

It is a common phenomenon that employees do not know their legal rights or the type of compensation for which they may be eligible after they have a workplace accident. Worse than this, have been involved in a workplace accident and not even know it! So we can see that it is extremely important to have an understanding about labor law.

Here, we’ll examine some of the common mishaps and injuries that happen on the job and provide you with some information that will help in pursuing legal counsel and collecting a fair and just settlement from your employer.

You may have experienced a workplace accident if:

·You’ve been involved in a trauma disaster while on location. This could include: construction, assembly work, or operating heavy machinery, especially if your employer did not provide standard training.

·You’ve had a muscle strain or fracture due to your work in: Shipping and receiving, loading and unloading at a warehouse or lifting of heavy objects, especially if your employer did not provide proper safety equipment.

·You’ve had pain due to carpel tunnel or chronic back pain caused from not receiving proper breaks.

·You’ve had a slip and fall or trip incident due to an unsafe work environment. (Over 1/3 of all workplace accidents are slip and fall accidents!)

·You’ve had prolonged exposure to a harmful or hazardous material or chemical, resulting in respiratory or breathing problems.

·You’ve been injured because you were not provided with adequate safety and protective clothing, goggles, gloves, helmets, harnesses, etc.

If you can relate to any of the above workplace incidents, then it may be in your best interest to consult with an attorney who specializes in these types of workplace accidents. It’s important to have someone on your side that will help you navigate through the insurance and state claims that you’ll need to file.

Sweepstakes

Unlike regular sweepstakes, in which you have to wait until the giveaway ends and a winner is drawn before you know whether you will receive a prize or not, in instant win sweepstakes, you will know the result as soon as your entry goes through.

After your entry, if you are an instant winner, the winning message will pop immediately on your computer screen. Comparing with the regular sweepstakes, the instant win sweepstakes can keep the entrants’ high enthusiasms and a lot of people think they prefer this kind of sweepstakes, which can make them feel more excited.

Besides, many insnsnstant win sweepstakes let entrants play games before they find out whether they've won or not. But in fact, entrants’ performances in the game will hardly affect the result of whether they will win or not. The games are only exist to make the sweepstakes funnier and more exciting. So you can skip the game if you like, which won’t affect your choice of winning.

As for how the instant win sweepstakes run, usually the sponsors will pick a random winning time for each prize and the first person who enter the sweepstakes after that time has pass will win the prize. Last but not least, be sure to read the rules carefully, which may help you get the idea about how to enter such sweepstakes better.

U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division Collects Over $185 Million in 2008

The U.S. Department of labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced in a press release its enforcement data for Fiscal Year 2008. In FY 2008, WHD recouped back wage worth of $185,287 for 228,645 workers, which is a decrease compared to $220,613,703 for 341,624 workers in FY 2007.

The WHD didn’t mention the figure of FY 2007. Instead, WHD note that the statistic is a 40 percent increase over the FY 2001. The press release notes: “Since FY 2001, WHD has recouped more than $1.4 billion back wages for over two million workers.

The administrator for the Wage and Hour Division, Alexander J. Passantino, offers this statistics in order to ask for more funds to increase enforcement measures. He thinks that the stronger and stronger enforcement results are the effective prove that the comprehensive approach is working. WHD has urged more funds in the president’s FU 09 budge to hire additional investigators.

Dog Bite Injury

Nowadays, as more and more people keep pets, some problems are brought to people’s life. For example, dog bites have become a very common form of injury. You should not be careless about dog bites. The result caused by dog bites may be very serious, permanent disfigurement and psychological trauma, to name a few. Even worse, they may result in death.

The law that governs the dog bites varies in different state. Typically states recognize a common law cause of action, creating liability for owners who know their dogs are dangers. Some statutes that can create liability are passed by many states.

In this kind of cases, people may be injured by dogs without being bitten. If they are injured in the following situation, they also have the right to recover damages from a dog owner: injured by the claws of dogs, dog knocking people ove, dogs upsetting bicycles.

If there is people around you are bitten by a dog, you should do as follows:

Finding the owner
The first important thing after the injury is you make clear whose the dog is. If the owner doesn’t admit their dog hurt you, don’t argue with them.

Identifying the dog
Once you were bitten by a dog, you should know whether the dog has rabies. If it did, you should receive appreciate vaccines. Never sign papers or make record statements.

It is possible that the dog owner or their insurance company will persuade you to make statement about what happened. In most cases, their purpose is to avoid their liability for your injuries. In order to protect your own rights, you need to find a lawyer to help you if they approach you.

Asking doctors for help
Wound bitten by dogs can be easily infected if you don’t handle it carefully? Infection can occur even with scrapes and abrasions. An infected wound can result in a worse scar, and may also cause serious complications and side effects. Also, if you wait to get treatment it may not be possible to suture your wounds, increasing the severity of scarring and possibility complicating your recovery.