By Angel David
This small town saw the arrival of this young girl back in 1984, and she brimmed with great dreams of becoming a runner that will compete in the Olympics one day. Her greenish brown eyes saw through everything in just four short years. Back in 1988, she won sixth place during the Olympics in Seoul, Korea specifically in the 3,000 meter run. Finally last December, this world class athlete saw her graduation from this local school. As the princess of American middle distance running at a tender age of 23, this lady was easily able to scoop a nice deal with a shoe manufacturing company to endorse their brand for three years.
But for this young Delaware native, staying where she is right now is her priority. While doing her usual workouts, she goes around the environs of her campus. Against her own finish line, this 110 pound, 5 foot 6 runner’s feet could barely hit the ground. Whenever people would chase her for her autograph, she realizes that she is not so much into the idea of fame. She gets troubled when people give her special treatment being the self effacing young lady that she is who believes that she is just a normal person.
As normal as she is, she is certainly not average. She was the first lady to ever become an Olympian in their town. She has impressively obtained four US collegiate titles and more than that, she is a proud member of seven world record relay teams. At school, she was the one responsible for her team’s eight individual NCAA championship title wins and that’s not all for they were also able to bag 14 Big East championship titles. She has achieved honors even in major awards.
Going beyond the life of competing in collegiate sports events now, she and her running coach are already planning out her promising career in running. She realizes that with this huge change comes a ton of mental adjustments. Only people who have gone through such experiences can truly grasp this. She pressures her own self to be a great runner and this is why she feels a ton of pressure. She truly fears getting some injuries while she is still bound by the contract that will run for three years with the famous shoe firm. She’s become more anxious now than during the days that she competed in collegiate competitions thanks to a lot of people’s greater expectations from her.
A lot of people want to know how the local women’s track team would fare now that she’s gone. She assured people that this great team will still move forward. She truly holds her privacy dear with the pressure, notoriety and responsibilities all around her. Even within their home, her parents and siblings all had to adjust to the fact that they are now recognized to be related to her. Thanks to her parents being laid back, they were more of encouraging rather than pushy.
With her stardom comes the positive trait which is the company she keeps. The elite individuals in the sporting world just happen to be friends and these are the ones that we would just simply be happy to watch on television. She name drops, not pretentiously, but with genuine affection and concern for those with whom she shares this common link. For instance, as she came back this June from Hawaii after going on tour with another runner, she shares that the last time she saw him was during the Olympic Games. She was happy being with him for those days and talk about their Olympics experiences and just have fun.
While she shares that she’s got so much time, her list of stuff to do hasn’t shrunk one bit. Beyond her daily practices, she also finds herself busy as a public icon, getting involved in various track meets, banquets, photo sessions, features and other similar activities. Proving that she is generous with her time and talent, she will also be a volunteer at the local school’s track team as assistant coach to help them emulate her success
She also wishes that she can volunteer in one of their local hospitals in honor of the medical career she has placed in the back burner. That may help the former psychology and premed major decide whether to continue with medicine once she’s finished running professionally. How does she perceive her life in the near future? While she reveals that she would love to become a mother and wife that will only be after her successful career as a runner is established. She says she wants to reach her goals and do what she wants to do first.
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Employment Lawyer in London
By Chris Paines
I am an
employment lawyer in London. I have seen in recent years that the number of laws coming from European Directives has fundamentally changed employment law for a solicitor in London and for workers and employers. What makes employment law so different from other areas of law is that it is something that affects most people at some time. It is also the area of law that is probably the most complex and the most frequently changing type of law. Consider for example three important areas of employment law: the Working Time Directive, rest breaks and paid annual Leave. These three areas alone affect every single one of us and employment lawyers in London represent three sectors: the employee, the employer and trade unions.
The first issue; the Working Time Directive is one of the most contentious issues facing our government. It is also one of the most contentious and pernicious issues facing workers, particularly those on part-time contracts. That is why you need the protection of a good employment law solicitor in London. Under this legislation an employer cannot compel employees to work more than 48 hours per week over a 17 week period. That is unless the worker has agreed to do so in writing.
Related to the Working Time Directive is the issue of compulsory rest breaks which all adult workers are entitled to. This means at least 20 minutes uninterrupted rest for every 6 hours of working time. Employment law solicitors in London are inundated with cases each year by companies defending their right to make businesses competitive against these provisions. Only with the knowledge of employment solicitors in London can companies and individuals work through the constant sea of regulations that are part of our highly integrated business life.
Finally, paid annual leave is something that all workers should be entitled to. As from April 2009 all workers are entitled to 28 days paid leave annually (up from the previous 20 days). Again, we as employment lawyers in London welcome this law and try to take on all parties views when the law is considered. In considering these three issues for example we as London employment law solicitors consider employers facing problems at work, employees wanting to keep on the right side of employment law, as well as trade unions looking for legal services which will help their members and themselves.
Harold Benjamin Solicitors; specialist employment lawyers in London, can be contacted for any of your queries of assistance needed about employment law in London.
Author is an employment lawyer in London. He is practicing as an employment law solicitor for past more than 3 years and wants to share his views on employment law in London.
Everyday Routine Can Bore Doctors
By Erasmo Arthurs
A doctor decides to swap his medical practice for a corporate office. His practice, though thriving, was too boring to suit him. He felt like all he was anymore was a doctor who listened and occasionally talked. The high cost of malpractice coverage forced his group of associated physicians to cease offering particular services such as obstetrics, surgery and treating complicated medical issues. His practice had turned into little more than a stopping point for the patient ultimately destined for a specialist.
This physician has since entered the corporate world as a medical development director of a large pharmaceutical manufacturer. Many bored physicians have found their desired challenge in the corporate world and more are following this example. The physicians who have become affiliated with corporations are fatigued by the trials of private practice, the prevalence of governmental and insurance-related meddling in medical matters, the political atmosphere in academia and the necessity of drumming up research money. There is one city that is eager to improve employee health and the safety of their products which is quick to hire such disenchanted doctors. While many doctors stay involved in the medical world with drug research or occupational health, the corporate world seems to have more to offer many of them than the medical world.
The compensation offered by the municipality can rival that of private practice. Some of the perks to being a corporate doctor include a 9 to 5 work schedule, travel, malpractice insurance paid by the company, time off given for studies or teaching, and a complete benefit package that’s quite competitive with private practice income.
Still, corporate physicians make up less than two percent of the entire physician population in the United States. Thousands of occupational medicine physicians are in charge of not only employee health but also industrial and product safety. This is not to say that all doctors involved in the corporate world work full time, there are over 10,000 doctors working part time in these types of roles. Insurance company medical underwriters, insurance company claim consultants and the pharmaceutical field employ thousands more doctors who have tired of private practice.
The evolving career of a certain chief medical director for a huge insurance company is a similar story for many corporate doctors. One doctor, already working in a private practice, took a job as occupational physician for a restaurant chain in order to make some extra money. What he didn’t realize is how hard he would work during this part time job, performing exams on food handlers at a rate of up to 60 patients in an hour! Later on, he became a medical director for several film studios and, with hesitance, he surrendered his medical practice. He found with the medical director job, he could do much more with the patient care because they weren’t worried about making the payment.
Many private physicians see themselves as automatons faced with ever-increasing obstacles in their quest for a viable business. They were seen as no better than a school nurse for a company. However, due to the change in laws, as well as attitudes, concerning occupational and product safety, corporate physicians have gains a greater respectability and involvement. The director of medicine at a large New York telecommunications firm states that achieving a new level of respect has been gratifying.
New physicians at the start of their careers can do really well in the corporate world. Older doctors can usually afford to sacrifice gross and net income for the benefits of corporate medicine. These corporate physicians stand behind their decision because the benefits that come along with the job are so much better than in private practice. Many of my peers, in the earlier years of private practice, considered occupational medicine a rather foolish choice for anyone to make. In one doctor’s opinion, many of those who did not make the switch are now envious of those who did.
Most of the corporate doctors who are pulling in the largest incomes are those who chose to give up their stethoscopes. One such example is a 78 year old multimillionaire physician who never actually practiced medicine. That doctor’s first million dollars, which he generated while he was still a medical student, was the direct result of the revival of his father’s laid up drug business. After his graduation from medical school he purchased a surplus army field hospital and set it up in Ural Mountain area of the famine stricken Soviet Union. It was there that he realized food, and not medicine, was what the people needed more than anything, so he brought grain to Russia and made those trade contacts the foundation of his lifelong career.
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This lady arrived in 1984 here in this small town, confident that she can become a world class runner and a competitor in the Olympics. Within four short years, her greenish brown eyes were able to capture everything. She was able to attain sixth place in the Seoul Korea Olympics held in 1988 for the women’s 3,000 meter run. And last December, this world class runner finally graduated from school. With her achievements and only at 23, this princess of American middle distance running also got herself a 3 year contract to endorse a popular shoe company. 
