Understanding the Steps to Take Following a Motorcycle Accident

Accidents are often a life changing and frightening event for all parties involved. Everything seems to simply stand still immediately following especially so after one which leaves severe injuries. Accidents come all on a sudden without giving you the slightest clue. The pains and suffering from the victim is often so great that they are left unable to think about anything other than their medical care and treatment let alone a road traffic accident claim. The mental trauma doesn't help matters either.

Accidents involving motorcycles are sometimes the worst. They cause both massive physical and psychological trauma and debilitating, life-changing injuries. The pain and suffering remain disabling and devastating for years not only for the injured person, but also that person's family, friends and employer. A motorcycle accident claim is one small step towards recovery.

If you or someone in your family has recently suffered injuries due to motorcycle accident, it is crucial that certain steps are taken to safeguard your motorcycle accident claim. This would involve contacting an attorney to find out what your legal rights are as well as build a case for full recovery of damages for injuries and harm. You may even be forced to file whiplash injury claims as well if the accident injuries warrant such.

No matter what, never admit to fault or for the accident. Immediately following the motorcycle accident, seek out immediate medical care if need be but keep your medical records for future reference, just in case. Try to keep track of any receipts and invoices dealing with your medical treatment and consultation fees. You'll also need evidence of any other expenses related to the accident, like repair expenses, rental vehicle costs and wages lost due to missed time from work. All of this information is very important and will play a vital role in your road traffic accident claim.

If you do decide to open a road traffic accident claim with an accident attorney, the other party's lawyers will probably try to argue the accident was at least partly due to your own negligence and you are also responsible for your own motorcycle accident injuries. Something called the doctrine of comparative negligence will likely reduce or limit your financial recovery fees if you are found to be partly at fault for your injuries.

Some areas follow a more strict comparative negligence rule in which all injured parties whose negligence is not the only proximate cause of the injuries, are eligible to recover a claim reduced by their share of fault. While an equal to or greater than rule of comparative negligence states that the injured party's fault is not a bar to recovery of fees if their negligence is not as great as the negligence of the defendant.

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Facebook is Five Years Old

Facebook is the biggest growing social networking site to date. Mark Zuckerberg founded the hugely popular social networking site while he was a university student. Over the past five years Facebook has received many investments, the first being five hundred thousand dollars from the PayPal co founder Peter Thiel. A year later Facebook got a further 12.7 million dollars in venture capital from Accel Partners as well as plenty more big investments.

Over the years all the major online companies such as Yahoo and Google have approached Facebook for a buy out. Mark Zuckerberg has always remained adamant that he did not want to sell. But on October 24, 2007 Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for 240 million dollars, which ultimately meant the company was valued at around fifteen billion dollars.

But times move on and Facebook is the largest social networking site of its kind and it is now 5 years old. Facebook will be throwing huge celebrations and is going to be giving 150 million lucky users a mystery virtual gift. Facebook is now well ahead of its competition MySpace, as they have more than 20 million more active users.

Not so long ago people used to be terrified to post pictures of themselves online, I believe that is why Facebook has risen to fame in such a short space of time, simply because they have gave people a safe way to connect with family, friends and colleagues. A vast majority of people now upload images of every part of there lives including holidays, weddings, birthdays and regular days out.

Besides from the safe aspect of Facebook, another great function they have allowed is the creation of applications. We all know MySpace suffered because of the spam and people trying to promote themselves, well Facebook gives a genuine platform that webmasters can explore. You can create some create applications using the Facebook API which have the potential to go viral and brand your business.

You can just see how fast Facebook have grown, more than fifteen million users update their Facebook status bars everyday and millions upload new pictures or leave comments. On their friends profiles.

Well I applaud Facebook for being around for so long and I hope the next five years goes just as good, although it will be a lot harder as technologies develop themselves and more competitors hit the social networking bandwagon.

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How Productive Are You?

I don't know anyone who doesn't want to be more productive. We buy time management books, go to courses, try new software, read blogs dedicated to productivity and search for the best system to help us get more done in the time we have.

Of course increasing productivity makes sense because, even if we don't always act like it, we only have a limited amount of time with a huge variety of things we would like to do with this limited resource.

This article isn't about a system or some super-special techniques.

Nothing you are going to read below is going to surprise you, and yet most of us don't do these things well, or do them so inconsistently that they lose their value. They aren't sexy, don't have a related website, and they won't cost you anything except a decision and some discipline.

The good news is they're so effective that once you develop the discipline you will have productivity gains for the rest of your life.

The Productivity Enhancers

Here are the four choices you can make to extend and enhance your productivity in any and every area of your life.

• Believing in Yourself and Your Success. While this is certainly true at the highest level - your self esteem is an important component of your success - in this case I am thinking about something more pragmatic. Have you ever had a situation where the task becomes so daunting that you aren't sure how you will ever figure it out or know if you can get it all done at all? When you are this unclear, your focus naturally moves to these negative thoughts and your confusion, frustration and overwhelm gets in the way of getting anything done; let alone large amounts of high quality work. Thankfully, the other three enhancers can help solve this one!

• Creating a Clear Purpose. As with belief, there is a big picture component to clarity of purpose. When you are clear on your life's purpose everything in your life will get better, but for now we are talking about clarity on the current situation. Do you clearly understand the problem you are facing? Do you clearly know the goal you are trying to achieve? When you get more clear, you get more focused, and as you get more focused you can get more of the right things done.

• Maintaining a Refreshed State. Have you ever noticed that stress can negatively impact your productivity? Have you ever noticed how much more effective you are after a good night's sleep or a healthy meal? In every one of these cases lies a key to greater productivity. To be more productive you must take better care of yourself. Get ample rest, eat better and exercise. All of these things will help you reduce your stress and remain refreshed and ready to tackle the work in front of you.

• Investing in Quiet Time. There are a number of forms and functions for your quiet time. You can reflect; you can pray or meditate; you can plan. Perhaps most of all, when you create quiet space in your life you can think. Thinking is something we do far too little of! When you give yourself time, space and permission to think about the things you're working on, you will generate new ideas, approaches and connections. In addition, thinking time helps you stay more refreshed and alert as well.

The Paradox

As you read these four ideas you may be thinking - these things don't give me more time - they take time.

This is so true.

Just as you must invest money to earn a return, you must also invest in yourself and your process in order to glean the best possible results. As counter-intuitive as it might sound, when you begin to invest in these activities, the resulting performance improvements will be incredible.

The Ultimate Benefits

These ideas can be applied, thinking of greater productivity in any area of life, but the best news of all is that when we decide and discipline ourselves to develop these habits, the benefits accrue in every area of our life - not just the area we were focused on when we started!

Potential Pointer: The greatest productivity improvements come from within and are a commitment to being more successful. That commitment starts with investing time in yourself, even when you think you are "too busy" to do those things.

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