NY LAW

Gary E Rosenberg asked:


I see children standing up in cars, looking out the back window or just sitting on laps. Don’t parents know that in an accident the body of an unrestrained child becomes a projectile, bouncing around the interior of the car? A child can be thrown from the car or through a window or windshield and fatally injured, and occupants of the vehicle can be hurt by a child impacting their heads or necks. Apparently, some people still have not gotten the message.

Are car seats too expensive? Or are people just plain lazy?

There are different types of car seat, usually varying depending on the size, age or weight of the child. Remember to buy a new car seat – old car seats may not have the latest safety features or may have been compromised in an accident.

Infant car seats – only face the rear; usually used in the back seat; may be used as an infant carrier and may be attachable to a stroller.

Convertible car seats – Used in the rear; when your child gets older may change into a forward-facing car seat or even a booster seat.

Booster seats – the last step before your child can wear a regular seat belt; used with the car’s seatbelt.

It is important that you follow the manufacturer’s instructions about how to attach the car seat. Also, you always want to send in the car seat’s registration form, so you are notified if the manufacturer recalls the seat for any defect. If your child is wearing a heavy coat, make certain that the harness straps are tight. Make sure to tighten the straps when your child wears lesser outerwear (when the weather warms up). Some safety agencies recommend removing your child’s outerwear in the car, so that the child can be fastened securely into the car seat.

Do not re-use a car seat after a serious accident – one that causes severe damage to the car. Get a new one.

Common car seat mistakes:

Placing child in wrong size car seat for his weight/size;

Placing a rear-facing car seat in the front seat of the car;

Not making sure the harness is tightened correctly;

Positioning the harness chest clip incorrectly;

Not using the latch correctly.

Not just a safety issue, it’s the law. Below I summarize New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, Section 1229-c. For specific questions, consult the statute. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in this state unless:

(1) all back seat passengers under the age of four are restrained in a specially designed seat which is either permanently affixed or is affixed to such vehicle by a safety belt,

(2) all back seat passengers of such vehicle who are age four or older but under age seven are restrained in an appropriate child restraint system (+ combination lap and shoulder harness belts)

(3) all front seat passengers (a) under the age of sixteen are restrained by a safety belt; or (b) if they are under the age of four, by a specially designed seat which is either permanently affixed or affixed to such vehicle by a safety belt, or children who are age four or older but under age seven are restrained in an appropriate child restraint system (+ combination lap and shoulder harness belts)

The rule changes somewhat if: the passenger four or younger weighs more than 40 pounds, or if the car is not equipped with shoulder harness belts, or if all the lap and shoulder belts are already in use by other children in the car

No person shall operate a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by an approved safety belt. No person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the front seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by an approved safety belt.

This section shall not apply to taxis, liveries, and buses other than school buses EXCEPT no person shall operate a school bus unless all passengers under the age of four are restrained in a specially designed detachable or removable seat, or another approved restraining device.



ARCHIE

Mark Etinger asked:


City is home to one of the biggest, busiest legal communities in the world. Millions of attorneys practice their trade on the island of Manhattan, with thousands more graduating from law school each year and joining their ranks. But behind these busy men and women are the unsung heroes that make the legal professional run: New York court reporters.

What services do New York court reporters provide?

Court reporters working in New York City perform a variety of different functions for their clients, including:

Transcription of live court hearings The backbone of any courtroom legal proceeding is the written record of the event. Court reporters capture every detail of what is said by all parties and produce a flawless typed record of the resulting dialogue.

Transcription of depositions Obtaining a witnesses statement during deposition is a key element of the legal process. The deposition transcript can be used if the individual cannot appear in court, or if their story needs to be corroborated while they are under oath during trial. Court reporters attend depositions and create perfect written transcripts of the event.

Videographer services Court reporters do more than simply take good notes. Many of these trained professionals can be called upon to videotape court proceedings and depositions in order to provide a visual record of the event. Court reporters can also edit the resulting video and insert section breaks and graphics where needed.

What types of events do New York court reporters cover?

There are any number of events that can benefit from having a court reporter present, including: trials, pre-trial motions and hearings, depositions, estate planning meetings (such as will readings and probate-related matters), public speaking engagements, educational events and webcasts.

New York court reporters utilize top technology

More and more, court reporting is moving into the digital age, especially in bigger metropolitan areas such as New York City. Now, court reporters can produce a transcript and email it around the world with the touch of a mouse. Also, depositions and court records can be fully searched in seconds for key words and phrases – making what was once a laborious task for paralegals a breeze.

And that is just the beginning. Court reporters can also provide real-time transcripts beamed across cyberspace using online meeting software and other webcast technology.

These tools have taken the tried-and-true skills of professional court reporters and moved them into the digital age in order to improve communication between parties and make the information available to more people much faster. Court Reporter availability Many court reporters work on their own, as independent contractors. Their availability varies according to their own schedules. New York court reporting services, however, employ a large number of qualified court reporters so that there will be a greater chance someone is available to meet the client’s request, even if it is on short notice. Where can New York court reporters be found? As mentioned above, the majority of court reporting work in New York State goes on within the five boroughs of Manhattan. There are, however, thousands of court reporters available elsewhere in the state – from Long Island all the way north to Buffalo. Court reporting services will be able to locate quality reporters in almost any area of New York.



Eddie

Gail Metcalf asked:


Some employers are questioning whether they should be the sole financers of their workers benefits. A consumer guide when a loved one dies leaving a grieving family. The fact is that even the most reputable company makes mistakes that can be difficult to get corrected. If someone tries to sue you or you need attorney’s services, the normal cost of an attorney is prohibititive. Prepaid legal plans provide legal advice and still save money over prepaid legal search. When you initially contact a law office for information ask to speak directly to an attorney.

This plan is better because we are actually providing the content. Have you ever wanted legal advice on a credit matter? Have you ever wanted legal assistance on a civil matter? If someone else’s person or property was injured as a result of the accident you should plead. However legal fees insurance is also available for after the event claims such as litigation loss.

Prepaid legal plans have these services and they could be yours for $15 to $26 per month charged to your credit. Have you ever needed to have your will prepared or needed to update a signed contract of any kind recently? Have you learned all you need to know before deciding whether to join a prepaid legal plan for small businesses? The fact is that most legal matters are settled prior to actual trial.

However legal opinions are reversed, vacated or significantly modified etc. There are many routine legal tasks that can be undertaken without the full participation of an attorney. There are many practical reasons to ask the advice of a lawyer that you may not have considered. Even today in a very sorry condition.

There are many different prepaid legal plans to choose from. Prepaid legal plans are a great way to go for less-complex legal issues. With a prepaid legal service plan the customer pays a fixed amount in advance each month. Although it is not wise to rush through calls and risk misunderstanding the callers needs. Prepaid legal plans and the way in which people become members of the plan is extremely important.

Depending on which plan you have paid for, there are many different subjects and fields of law. There are many other ways criminals can compromise your personal information. If you have a claim against a creditor and expect to win damages, an attorney might take your case.

It has been held that a lawyer may not participate in a lawyer referral service program. Some employers are offering other benefits such as prepaid legal plans property-casualty insurance. A consumer without charge under an awards loyalty or promotional program. Some employers argue that they can provide only so much by way of benefits and that at some point they become prohibitive. Some employers also offer a prepaid legal program, so if your employer is one, the benefits should be considered.



Diana

Christina Brown asked:


Lawyers play a very important role when you go in for any legal contract, be it for any purpose. Some might structured settlement are quite a good investing option and upon reading the advantages definitely you will go in for them. However, some legal aspects need to be tackled as well. Especially at the time of selling the structured settlement, it becomes necessary for us to take the help of a solicitor because your application for selling is determined by the judge. He will review the case in order to determine that upon selling the structured settlement, will you be benefited from it or not. The legal adviser will tell you how to put down the things and easily get the selling structured settlements request approved.

Judges usually approves the request. However, if they appear to be non-genuine one then he denies it as well. This complete procedure takes about two months. Once you get the approval, it becomes necessary for you find the company who is willing to purchase. Get a legal contract made with the help of a solicitor and take his advice on the matter before singing and documents. He will look for your interest at this point of time. He will see that you receive fair terms and are flexible for getting the payment for your settlement.

Further, at the time of selling structured annuity settlement they help you in negotiating the deal by telling you on how to discount the present value (at this time of recession or high inflation rates, one need to be careful). To know more about the benefits of hiring a lawyer for handling legal issues for structured settlement, visit prosperitypartners.com



Harry

Todd asked:


Salsa is a internationally popular dance style that has it’s roots in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. The Word Salsa translates as the world for sauce and also can-notes a spicy flavor hence the sensual aesthetic of the dance.

The origins of salsa start in cuba when African rhythms came to the new world through slave trade in the form of the rumba. The sounds of these ancient times were used to call forth various Gods. Slaves were forced to convert to Christianity but managed to preserve their heritage by using code words to refer to their own Gods. In Cuba, African drum rhythms blended with the cuban official music and dance of Danzon. A style known as the Cuban son emerged and we now start to hear the claves play a central part of afro-cuban music.

Radio Broadcasting came to Cuba in 1922 along with Americans seeking to escape prohibition laws. This exposed a large population of westerners to cuban son and for the first time, afro-carribean music became popular in america. Renamed the Rumba, the music and dancing begin to appear in American salons in the 1930s and is still a popular style today among ballroom dancers. The rumba in many ways looks like a slower version of salsa. It’s got some of the footwork elements, the cuban hip motion, and arm styling.

Even with the Danzon (which has its origins in English social dancing), you can see the beginnings of the basic back and forward break of the basic time step.

In the early 1900s a cuban composer named Orestes Lopez wrote a Danzon piece called Mambo. In 1943, a famous band leader and a friend of Lopez named Perez Prado began to call his own brand of music “Mambo” meaning “conversation with the Gods”. The African influence is clear from the name. Perez’s Mambo was a more upbeat version of the Cuban music that contained big brass and drum sound to it. The story goes that he came up with a dance to go with his Mambo music and introduced the Mambo dance at La Tropicana night-club in Havana in the year 1943. Prado Perez took tour in the United states in 1951 and Mambo became a craze and Perez became known as the famed Mambo King.

The mambo dance first appeared in the United States in New York’s Park Plaza Ballroom – a favorite hangout of enthusiastic dancers from Spanish Harlem. However, the real breakthrough for the Mambo came when it gained its excitement in 1947 at the Palladium which was located in downtown Manhattan. The Palladium opened its doors as a club for whites only. However business was poor and so a Spanish music promoter named Federico Purgani was able to persuade the club owner to book latin music. He agreed but for Sunday matinees only. It opened its doors to Puerto Ricans and Cubans and became a rare spot where whites, blacks, and latinos could come together. From the doors of the palladium, the music and dance style known as the Mambo took America by storm. The palladium era were the glory days of Mambo and the nights were filled with the rhythms of the three Mambo Kings Tito Rodriguez, Tito Puete and Machito. Both of the Tito’s brought a Puerto Rican influence to mambo music and also their fusion of jazz into the Afro-Cuban sound added another wonderful layer of complexity paving the way for a new flavor of latin music that would be later called “Salsa”.

Palladium Mambo and cha-cha was the progenitor of Salsa but is still quite different. It had a lot more open work and the dancers dance on all different beats. There was no dancing on1 or on2 and there was no formalized technique. Dancers of different backgrounds such as ballroom, tap, jazz and swing all danced the mambo a their own way.

May 1966 marked the end of the palladium era as the nightclub closed its doors and the big 3 found their new home inside The Corso. Mambo music was played almost every night of week and it was here that a young Puerto Rican man named Eddie Torres learned how to dance the mambo by watching the dancers in the club. By this time, The mambo had already evolved into a slot dance and the cross body lead was there.

The 1970s gave rise to merengae, early forms of hip hop, disco and the hustle. Which was cool, okay kind of, well, i guess it’s not as bad as boy bands.

Among other aficionados, Eddie Torres kept mambo alive by teaching the dance and standardizing the break step on the 2 and the 6. Torres began to dance on 2 when June Laberta explained music theory to him. Tito Puente Also confirmed to Torres that dancing on 2 was a marriage with the music because the break step synchronizes with the accented slap of the conga drum.

1973 A Puerto Rican named Izzy Sanabria launched a TV show called “Salsa” along with Latin NY Magazine and in 1975, Latin NY Magazine hosted it’s first ever Salsa Awards. Coverage of this event by the N.Y. Times, News-week and Time magazine generated worldwide interest in what seemed to be a new form of music. Some musicians protested the term “salsa” complaining that Izzy was merely putting a new label on Cuban music but in many ways, it was new and had evolved to something unique in its own right.

What was originally of African Cuban origin had found a home in America and adopted by the Latino community of New York. Innovations made by Puerto Rican musicians such as Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe transformed Afro-Cuban based music to a unique New York Latin Music. Modern salsa is something that was evolved here through the fusion of different cultural influences making what some might consider a home grown American phenomenon.

In the 1980s Eddie Torres began to formalize mambo 0n2 and made it something professional dancers could learn by standardizing the basic time step and teaching a repertoire of moves that had names to them. We now call the dance salsa since the term salsa has become internationally accepted to refer to music of African-Cuban origin as well as New York’s Latin music and their dances. Moving salsa education out of the street and into the studio made it much easier for students of the dance to learn spins and as result, the salsa today emphasizes more partner-work and closed position dancing. This is also attributed to the popularity of the hustle in the latino community during and their incorporation the partner-work into salsa, so I guess some good did come out of the disco days after all. Formalizing salsa made the dance much more marketable because it meant it could be taught in a class. Now Studios all around the world offer salsa classes and has become one the most popular social dance styles. There are people dancing salsa in London, Taiwan, Korea, India, even japan.

So in a nutshell, africans were brought over to cuba as a result of the slave trade. Their music blended with that of the cubans and a marriage between the clave and african drums was now formed. Mambo came along much thanks to Perez Parado who took it to america, he introduced the big band sound by adding brass instruments and Americans loved it and so began the glory days of mambo, innovation by New York’s puerto rican musicians added a element of jazz and the sound of the pianos. The music was transformed into what Izzy Sanabria labeled as salsa.

Pereze Parado spiced up Danzon and taught a new more energetic dance called the mambo. The mambo came to the U.S. and incorporated elements of ballroom, swing, jazz, and tap while preserving it’s latin steps. In the 70s, the influence of the partner-work aspect of the hustle left it’s mark on the mambo and was brought off the street and into the studio in the 1980s by Eddie Torres and was now called the salsa.

The history tells a story of a style of dance that is really a fusion of many different cultures and the dance continues to evolve this way today, with the newer generation mixing in components of hip-hop, belly dancing, and adding lifts and aerial moves from ballroom and swing. So now that you know the awesome rich kick ass history of salsa dancing, you’ll be able to go out and dance as a informed individual but more than just filling your head with knowledge and turning you into a salsa brainiac, I hope that this short article has help you gain a new appreciation of our awesome spicy saucy dance known as salsa! Thanks for reading



Phyllis

jim wilson asked:


Personal Injuries and accidents can happen anywhere, anytime if you are situated in a busy New York City. The NY City is emerging as a breeding ground for various types of accidents which take place on regular basis.

Several types of auto accidents which result in personal injuries are as given below:-



Car accidents

Motorcycle accidents

Truck accidents

Bus accidents

Airplane accidents

Train accidents.



 

Personal Injury Law is the legal term which deals with the damage incurred upon the victim by the negligence or willful actions of some individual or authority. You could become a victim of personal injury while at your workplace, auto accidents, or due to medical negligence by some medical authority/individuals. You can also become a victim of serious personal injury if you are involved in some slip and fall accidents which can happen due to non-maintenance of pedestrian sidewalks, or it can be a result of a pedestrian accident.

Your Personal injury can have detrimental effect on your health. If you become a victim personal injury, then you must contact your personal injury lawyer. If your injury was incurred upon you by the negligence or unsafe conditions provided by some individual or authority, then you are eligible for personal injury compensation. You should speak to your injury lawyer who will help you receive justice and compensation for your injuries.

There have been several instances where people who have suffer personal injuries, do not receive any justice or help. It is important to contact an experiences NY accident law firm,if you are seeking for justice. Your personal injury claim will cover your medical expenses, loss of work, and your physical as well as mental trauma you have gone through. Your personal injury claim will help you recover from your injures both physically as well as psychologically.

There are several complications which can arise as a result of personal injury. The party at fault will hire experienced defense lawyers who will try their best to devoid your right of personal injury claim. Further, it is observed that insurance companies indulge in unfair business practices to nullify genuine claims made by personal injury victims. Seeking the legal help of your New York injury lawyer will help you get justice and compensation for your injuries.

Some accidents can have detrimental effect on your health and physical wellbeing. You must contact a personal injury law firm to seek justice and compensation for your injuries. Your injury lawyer will guide you best course of action and will fight your case to ensure that justice is delivered to the injured.



Virginia