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11-11-11

FreelancersOffice.com — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:33:11 +0000

Today is the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, of the eleventh year into the 2000′s.

11-11-11

It is also a full moon, just starting to wane, the official full moon was yesterday. (11-10-11)

Seems like it should be some kind of significant event day, don’t it?

Austin Topamax Lawsuit – O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath

FreelancersOffice.com — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:33:58 +0000

Between January 2007 and December 2010 there were approximately 32.3 million prescriptions dispensed for topiramate, better known as Topamax and generic anticonvulsant products used to treat epileptic patients that have certain kinds of seizures. In addition to certain kinds of epileptic seizures, topiramate has been used to help prevent migraine headaches (but not to treat migraine pain of headaches that do occur), and even for what are called off-label uses. Off-label means the treatment of conditions that the drug has not been approved for the treatment of – some of which might not be considered a serious condition.

When topiramate was released it was classified as a Pregnancy Category C drug, which means that in laboratory animal testing it showed a potential risk to fetuses. After examining human data collected after the drug’s release it has been reclassified by the FDA to a Pregnancy Category D drug – a drug that has shown a positive risk to the fetus when the drug is taken by pregnant women. This newfound evidence of possible birth defects has been the basis for Topamax lawsuit cases seeking to assist parents whose children were harmed by the use of Topamax during pregnancy.

When Topamax is taken by pregnant women during the first trimester, a period when many do not yet realize they are pregnant, it can result in an increased risk for the development of a cleft palate in infants. This defect is not the fault of the mother, who as stated many times does not realize they are pregnant at the time the defect might occur, and were likely never made aware of the potential dangers of taking the prescription drug Topamax while pregnant.

If you took Topomax while pregnant, and your child was born with a cleft palate, the law offices of O’Hanlon, McCollom, & Demerath would like for you to consider contacting them to find out if they can help you with your product liability claim.

Contact information:

O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath
Personal Injury Lawyers
808 West Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

Phone: 512-494-9949

Note that the FDA advised that in some cases the use of topiramate by pregnant women could be acceptable despite the risks, so it will be necessary to consider all factors when determining if there is a viable liability claim. If you are pregnant and taking topiramate you should have been referred by your healthcare provider to the North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry, if not ask your healthcare provider for information on how to enroll. The registry is established to collect information on the safety of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.

Post sponsored by O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath

Personal Injury Law Firm in Austin Texas

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:34:18 +0000

O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath is a personal injury law firm located in Austin, Texas. Their attorneys provide representation to people involved in legal issues, specializing in representation of clients that have been injured from the negligence of a third party or automobile accidents.

Located in Austin, Texas, the law firm of O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath provides initial consultations free of charge all across the state of Texas so that the client is able to meet with them at a time and location that is most comfortable for the client.

If you live in Texas and require legal assistance from an Austin personal injury lawyer after an automobile accident or have been the victim of injury due to the negligence of a third party then O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath would like for you to consider contacting them at:

O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath
Personal Injury Lawyers
808 West Avenue, Austin, TX. 78701
512-494-9949

They will help you arrange to meet with one of their lawyers to discuss legal representation in your personal injury or automotive accident case.

This post has been sponsored by
O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath
of Austin Texas

Fashion Jewelery from Holsted Jewelers

FreelancersOffice.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:12:47 +0000

Holsted Jewelers would like to invite you to visit their website and take a look at their wide selection of fashion jewelery that is not available in any retail store. Holsted Jewelers has committed themselves to providing you with jewelery that will cause the recipient to go “WOW!”, and believes that when you see their jewelery for yourself that is exactly what you will say.

By buying more when you shop, you save more with their ‘set savings’ deals, and with so many matched pieces created by their jewelers, you will want to create a customized jewelery collection just for you or that lucky recipient.

For over 37 years Holsted Jewelers has been providing their customers with quality fashionable jewelery, so if you are as much of a jewelery lover as my mom was, and have not yet seen their site, I would encourage you to stop by and take a closer look at what they have.

I have power tools

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:18:07 +0000

I am going to be working on the office this week. I got a bunch of work done on it, but decided that I had to get myself a few things before I could do much more.

Trip to town yesterday after my dad had a physical therapy appointment brought home some power tools. A router bench, a table saw, a box of router bits and a tool bag deal with a skilsaw, sander and drill in it. Now I get to set myself up a nice workshop and start making fancy shelving and stuff for my office and the rest of the house.

Office move stalled because of flu

FreelancersOffice.com — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:41:45 +0000

I’ve had the flu for the past few days, so my office move has been stalled because of it. I am hoping that today is the last day of feeling like I was drug backward through a flooded rat hole, but not sure if I am going to feel much better tomorrow or not.

Working on finishing office move

FreelancersOffice.com — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:48:28 +0000

Even though my gut hurts like hell today, I have decided to dedicate most of this morning to getting my office move finished off so I can get things set up and organized in the other room. I have been working toward the goal of having my office set up at the head of the basement stairs and leading down into the library part of the office at the base of the stairs.

So, today will be spent getting the room where the basement stairs is at emptied out and moving things to get ready to do any painting touch-ups that may be needed before I start working on building the desks for my office in there.

The incurable disease of writing

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:18:27 +0000

“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing and it becomes chronic in their sick minds” — Juvenal (AD 60-130)

Being a freelancer is not like working in a normal 9-5 job. Here it is 6:37 a.m. and I have been at work for a little over an hour. I expect to work until I sleep tonight, somewhere between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. for a total work day of roughly 14 to 16 hours – give or take a little time because of pausing to eat and other necessities.

I probably put between 10 and 12 hours into working in given day, and some days I end up working straight through to the next day for more in the line of 20 to 24 hours of work. It is not the life for anyone that wants to have a life.

But, I do love my work, and I know that I could as easily stop breathing as I could stop writing. Sure I can give writing up for a little while, but I start to turn funny colors and go all sweaty, lunging for the nearest pencil and notebook like a drowning man lunging for a life preserver.

If you are not as addicted to writing, then the career of a freelance writer might not be something you would want to pursue. I write not because I have to, not because I want to, not even because I love to, I write for all of those reasons and more.

Freelancer

FreelancersOffice.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:18:26 +0000

The word freelancer has been traced to the literary work Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ((Wikipedia.org
knight picture courtesy of Woodsy)), who used the word to describe a “medieval mercenary warrior.”

The Google ‘define:’ search shows Wikipedia describing freelancer as:

“A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. The word’s etymology derives from the medieval term for a mercenary, a “free lance,” which literally described a knight who was not attached to any particular lord, and could be hired for a given task.”

So, the definition of a freelancer would be someone who works without being under contract, selling their service to those who would pay the price they ask. The word freelancer has evolved into being primarily used to define writers that work for a variety of publishers dependent on where they can earn a decent wage for their labor.

The Freelancer’s Office is my online working office for my freelance work as a writer. This is my office in all of its virtual messiness and all of its eclectic chaos that is the nature of working as a freelancer.