Truck Accident Lawyers Servicing Nashville, TN

If you need a Nashville truck accident lawyer, or have been involved in a truck accident in or around the Nashville area, including Brentwood, Franklin, Lakewood, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Greenbrier, Millersville and Mt Juliet it is vital that you partner with a skilled attorney that handles Tennessee truck injury accidents. At Gordon, Elias & Seely, we fight for your rights. Also, Gordon, Elias & Seely focuses their practice on a nationwide level and constantly works with other law firms, which means that you will be hiring lawyers with further reach and deeper resources than local firms.

At Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P., which is located at 1811 Bering, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77057, we represent Nashville residents on a contingency basis which means that if there is no recovery, then you pay absolutely no fees or expenses. There are no initial, out-of-pocket expenses to you. We manage your case while you focus on recovering from serious trucking accident injuries caused by:

• Rear-End, Head-On Crashes and Jackknives
• Poor Maintenance, including Tires and Brakes
• Driver Fatigue or Drivers that Fall Asleep
• Unsecured Loads or Unsecured Cargo
• Aggressive Driving, Improper Lane Change or Speeding
• DWI / Drug Use
• Lack of Reflectors, Poor Visibility and Blind Spots
• Dangerous Roads

Many people don’t realize that, due to considerably larger insurance policies, commercial truck accidents can result in much higher cash settlements than traditional auto accidents. Which is one of the primary reasons why it is critical that you hire a law firm that focuses all of its time, energy and resources specifically with truck accident cases. So, if you have suffered serious injuries to your back or neck or burns to any portion of your body; or, worse yet, if a family member has died due to a wrongful death or has suffered a brain injury, then call 1-800-773-6770. Our phones are answered 24/7/365 by actual truck accident lawyers.

So if you have been involved in a serious truck wreck with:

• Tanker Trucks – Oilfield Trucks- Pipe Haulers- Chemical Trucks and other trucks with trailers carrying hazardous materials
• Slow Moving – Log Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Dump Trucks, Cement Trucks, Gravel Trucks and Construction Zone Trucks entering and exiting a highway construction zone, Wide-Load Convoys, Bulldozers,
• Farm Equipment and slow moving Paving Equipment
• Freight Liners, UPS, DHL, Fed-Ex, U-Haul, Mayflower and other van lines
• Shuttle Bus, Casino Buses to and from New Mexico, Vacation Bus, Tour Bus, Greyhound Buses
• Most all other 18-wheeler, Big-Rig, Flatbeds, Tractor/Trailer combinations

We will help take care of your immediate needs and work to get you the cash settlement that you deserve for your pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of wages, medical bills and other disabilities.

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Nashville Social Security Disability and SSDI Lawyer

If your Nashville, Tennessee social security disability benefits have been denied, now is the time to contact us at 800-667-5734 and start receiving the benefits that you deserve. For over 22 years, our attorneys have been helping individuals receive Social Security and SSI disability benefits entitled to them by the Federal Government.

Below are simply a few of the reasons why you should choose Nashville, TN social security disability lawyer, Gerard “Jerry” Lynch to represent you in your claim:

• We charge no fees unless we win your claim.
• With over 20 years of experience, our lawyers have represented well over 2,000 social security and disability claims, bringing an unparalleled level of experience to your case.
• Our law firm helps guide you through each step of the legal process, from initial claim through federal court appeal actions, if necessary.
• Due to our experience in the claim process, we can help calculate the appropriate benefits that you deserve.
• You are given a free consultation so that you can see if we are right firm for your case.

Gerard “Jerry” Lynch also represents disabled persons in Brentwood, Franklin, Lakewood, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Greenbrier, Millersville, Mt Juliet and other surrounding areas.

If you are ready to start receiving the social security disability benefits or supplemental security income benefits that you deserve, click here to contact us today!

For video answers to all of your social security disability questions, click here, if you speak Spanish visit our Spanish social security website at: http://www.AbogadodeSeguroSocial.com. Visit our social security disability lawyer blog.

Maritime and Jones Act Attorneys in Nashville, TN

The maritime attorneys of Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. represent injured seamen all over the United States as well as internationally. If you live in Nashville, Brentwood, Antioch, Ashland City, Lakewood, Hendersonville and Oak Hill or any other Tennessee city, call Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. to know your rights. Whether you are a deckhand, engineer, roustabout, captain, tankerman, fisherman, first mate, chief mate or hold any other position as a crewmember on a vessel, if you get hurt on the job, the Jones Act lawyers at Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. are here to help.

At Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. ,witch is located at 1811 Bering, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77057, we represent Nashville residents on a contingency basis which means that if there is no recovery, then you pay absolutely no fees or expenses. There are no initial, out-of-pocket expenses to you.

Not every personal injury lawyer understands what a maritime lawyer understands because the maritime law is quite different than standard negligence.

Because the Jones Act is a federal law, the Texas based law firm often represents injured seamen that live, work or got injured in the states of: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, New York and New Jersey. In some instances, they will associate local counsel to assist them. When this is done, you pay no additional percentage. The law firm of Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. works under what is called a complete contingency fee, i.e., if there is no recovery, then you pay absolutely no fee nor any expenses.

Maritime lawyer, Steve Gordon and Jones Act lawyer, Todd Elias are members of the Maritime Law Association and are active participants in the Maritime & Admiralty Law Section of the American Association of Justice. The maritime law firm brings over 40 years of combined trial lawyer experience to bear on each case.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) under maritime Jones Act law are set forth below:

1. Why do I need a Maritime Jones Act lawyer?

1. What is the Jones Act?

The Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. Section 30104 et seq., is a law that is still favorable to an injured worker. It applies to all persons that are involved in the maritime offshore industry or inland waterway river commerce system. It applies to the fishing, fishery, canning, shrimping, oil field, dredging, barge, tugboat, towboat, crew boat, supply boat, drill ship, platform, oil rig and other maritime offshore industries. The Jones Act allows you to actually sue your maritime employer for negligence and/or “unseaworthiness” for any injuries you suffer including, a back injury, neck injury, herniated disc, brain injury, burn injuries, hurt shoulders and knees, inhalation injuries and wrongful death claims. The fact that you can sue your employer is the major difference between the Jones Act and workers compensation claims.

2. What Is “Unseaworthiness” or “Unseaworthy”?

As indicated above, you can sue your employer for negligence or you can allege that a piece of equipment was unseaworthy and that was a cause of your injury. But what is unseaworthiness? Literally, it means that the particular piece of equipment “is not fit for its intended purpose”.

3. You can also sue under a theory of negligence.

In addition to “unseaworthiness” as a theory of recovery under the Jones Act, you can also sue the employer alleging that a crewmember was negligent and that was the cause of your injuries.

4. What is “Maintenance” and Medical “Cure”?

This is an obligation that is owed to you directly from your employer and is different from the Jones Act. Maintenance is an obligation to pay you a daily amount while you are injured and usually is an amount equal to the cost of lodging and food when you were aboard the vessel. It varies. We have seen it as low as $8.00 a day and as high as $50.00 a day. Medical “Cure” is reasonable and necessary medical care that the employer must pay you until you reach maximum medical improvement [MMI].

There are three (3) main points that Gordon, Elias & Seely, L.L.P. wants you to understand about Maintenance and Cure. First, they not only apply to injuries suffered while working but also to illness. Second, unlike the Jones Act, they should be paid regardless of fault. In this sense they are very akin to workers compensation. Third, if the employer wrongfully refuses to pay them, the maritime employer can be liable for punitive damages as well as attorneys’ fees.

5. “Comparative Negligence” Applies Under Jones Act

Another concept to understand about the Jones Act is that it applies the legal doctrine of “comparative negligence”. Under a “comparative negligence” approach, the jury hears testimony about the negligent conduct of both parties–the employer and the maritime worker. Based on the evidence, the jury will determine what the injured party’s damages are and how much should be allocated to each party. Sometimes accidents happen not just from the employers’ negligence but also from the seaman’s as well. The good thing about “comparative negligence” is, even though the jury may find a percentage of negligence on the worker, the injured worker still recovers the percentage of the jury’s monetary award that is equal to the employers’ percentage of negligence. By way of example only, if the worker is found 25% negligent and the employer is found 75% negligent and the jury awards $875,000.00, then the judgment would be that the worker recovers $656,250.00 plus costs. This is quite different than in almost all states where, if the injured person is found 51% or more negligent by the jury, the injured person would recover zero no matter how much the jury awarded for money damages.

6. When Must I file Suit?

The Statute of Limitations in a Jones Act claim is three (3) years from the date of injury. A Jones Act lawsuit must be filed within three (3) years of the injury date or it is barred by the Statute of Limitations.

As you can see, a maritime claim is a very specialized area and should only be handled by lawyers who know what to do.

Controversial Church Sets Up Shop in Nashville

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The Master of the Blues

Despite a claim of having written over five thousand songs, Dicky Williams’ recorded works have been somewhat sporadic since

his debut in 1960 but, like London buses, if you wait long enough, two will arrive together. With a country-orientated album

waiting in the wings and a blues project with the Ken Massey Group nearing completion, Dicky Williams is set to be back in a big

way.

Born in Snow Hill, North Carolina, on January 6, 1938, Dicky Williams told In The Basement of his early years as a singer and

piano player… I was singing professionally in the US Army but I actually started singing when I was about six or seven years old –

my mother taught me to sing country & western. When I got in the army, they needed some musicians to entertain. I couldn’t play

then and I really couldn’t sing that well but I raised my hand anyway. And they said, Mister Williams, can you play and I said, yes

sir. I lied! My father played a little piano but he was no expert and I couldn’t play a note. I had a friend of mine called Dalton, from

Chicago. He said, they hired you but you can’t play and I said, I know but you can, so you’re going to have to teach me. So I

learned to play Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino and then I graduated to Blue Monday, also by Fats Domino. As I went on tour around

Germany – we started off in Nuremberg – I learned how to play Got A Woman by Ray Charles. Those three songs I took all over

Europe! Fats Domino and Ray Charles were definitely my influences and Dalton was a good teacher. I tried to get away with a few

things but he wouldn¹t let me. Even so, when I started playing piano, I could only use two fingers – but I graduated to three!

Dicky laughed as he reminisced about his piano-playing acumen but it was sufficient to inspire him to begin songwriting. I was

learning to play the piano one weekend, that’s when I started and, over the years, I’ve written many, many songs. I’ve written over

five thousand.

His spell in the US Army over, Dicky Williams settled in Washington DC where he met producer, Bill Boskent, who was looking to

engage a piano player and was not bothered by Dicky¹s limited prowess. Bill Boskent was Lloyd Price’s manager, he advised. I

was about twenty years old I guess. They were getting ready to record Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price. He hadn’t hit for a year or so, so

they needed him a new record. Bill said, how would you like to meet Lloyd? I said, I’d like to meet Lloyd, so they said, come on and

see how we do this. So I said, okay, because it was an interesting experience for me and I went and looked at that and I made a

suggestion. I said, well, folks have been doing one-horn things, two-horn things all the time, I think you should put more horns in.

They said, how many, three or four? I said no, let’s do something different, I think you should put about ten! Everybody thought I

was crazy – I felt crazy myself at that stage. Everybody thought I was out of my head but Bill asked if we could do that. He said, wait,

hear what he’s saying. So they listened and they said, well, let’s see if we can get Ray Charles’ band. And they got Ray Charles’

band and they got the Raelets to do the background. That’s how Stagger Lee came out that way.

Dicky continued: It was working with Bill as a piano player, that’s what took me from two to three fingers. I said, I can’t play your

stuff. He said, just go and do the best you can. And as I played, I sang. He said, can you sing this song and I said, I can sing it

better than I can play it. And he gave me another song to sing and I sang it. He said, why didn’t you tell me you were a singer rather

than hanging there doing nothing. I want to produce a record [on you]. The result was a novelty track which Boskent had penned,

entitled Tee Na Na and which appeared on Johnny Vincent’s, Jackson, Mississippi-based Vin label in 1960. Of the flip side, What

Makes You Think, Dicky said: You know what, I don’t even remember that song. I definitely didn’t write it.

Mention has been made in the introductory paragraph of limited product release and, with Dicky’s career little documented, digging

for facts has not always been carried out on fertile ground. Further work, dating from 1974 and again under Johnny Vincent’s

umbrella – on the Ace label – appeared on the UK Westside 2-cd set, Curiosities, issued in 2000 (and reviewed in issue #19).

Three singles spanned the gap, as Dicky recalled when the titles were put to him. Firstly, Heartache Hill, a Pledge release… That

came kind of early, ‘61 I think. That song was sent to me from Nashville but I can’t remember the man’s name at this present time.

Another single, That’s Where True Love Began c/w Oh Dreamy Me, appeared on Metro, billed as Dicky (Piano) Williams & the

Wisermen. That was between 60 and 63, I think, probably nearer 63. The Wisermen were two gentlemen who used to sing with

the Clovers. They said, you need some background on that song and I said, okay come and go with me. And they got another guy,

a third guy, called Chester. Dicky was unable to date a further outing, Ride The Wind but it debuted the label, Backfire, his own

imprint, which he has subsequently revived on two further occasions. I re-recorded that song since, he stated. (It saw release in

1986.)

Dicky also turned his hand to production in the sixties, most notably working for some five years in Washington DC studios with

Ruby Johnson, a fellow North Carolina native, on her work for V-Tone and Never Duncan’s Nebs label. Ruby was born in Virginia

Beach, he remembered. That¹s where I first met her and began training her. She was working there in a restaurant at the weekend

and she was doing peoples’ hair on the week days. She could sing well but she was afraid to record. She said, I can’t record that

well. I said, I’ll teach you. I worked with her on everything she did until we got to Memphis and Stax Records and I wrote most of

her material as well. Never Duncan, he’s deceased now. I also produced Winfield Parker. I produced a record on him called They

Call Me Mister Clean [for Ru-Jac].

1974, found Dicky back on wax in his own right with Two Women, a soul-dripping plodder with organ, guitar and brass support as

our man tells the tale of being torn between his wife and his woman, both oh-so-good that making a choice is an impossibility. Ace

wanted that record, said Dicky. I didn’t have the money to manufacture it myself and Ace said they would manufacture all I needed. I

said, well, this record will probably sell a million copies if you’re going to press them. So [Ace boss, Johnny Vincent] said, okay, let

me have it, so I let him have it – and the record was very successful. As well as the driving flip, You Got A Good Thing Goin’, Dicky

dropped three further sides off under the deal with Ace: Waiting In The Gas Line, Holiday Inn and I’ll Be Standing By but releases

were put on hold due to the age-old difference of opinion between artist and record company over financial matters. It’s not only

Johnny, Johnny was a nice guy, Dicky remembered. I really loved him, I met him personally, I shook his hand. Johnny’s not the

only one. I’ve never got paid from no record company. So, when possible, I’ve always put the records out myself. I’ve said to my

wife, maybe somewhere down the road somebody might be fair but I’ve never got paid. I just can’t blame Johnny.

The spirited I’ll Be Standing By did actually see the light of day, coupled with Black Woman, on the Shirbam label. I didn’t know that,

said Dicky, but if that came out it would have been around 1978. [The record label states 1975.] My problem is that I record the

songs but I don¹t have enough money to keep up with them. I can’t really blame anyone, because everybody’s trying to make

money the best and the quickest way they can. And I’m blessed that anything I put my voice on seems to sell.

Waiting In The Gas Line, complete with string sweetening and Holiday Inn, with strong echo-y femme support (sounding like it was

recorded in the inn’s bathroom!) explored themes that would recur in Dicky’s work over a decade later, …Gas Line in particular

painting a picture through double entendres. Put to him that maybe the lyrics were a little rude, Dicky replied: I think maybe that was

a little ahead of time, although not in the sense that, at that time, there really was a gas line in America. But nobody would accept

that record for what it was saying. When I write I try to keep up with the times. And I’ve written a song since then called Pain In The

Gas Lane that I haven¹t released yet but I think it’s going to be on one of my CDs. Nowadays lyrics are getting very explicit but I write

about what I hear people talking about and, of course, it’s what sells. Take my song, Come Back Pussy [a lyrically graphic slow

blues, issued on the 1989 CMC album, In Your Face and subsequently on 45], they put it out one day and it hit the next. They were

having a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, when I first heard that, I didn’t even know it was out. In fact I had said, don’t put that out, I

wrote it just for fun. They said, okay but when I went home, next thing I heard the record was out. They called me from Birmingham

and said, we want you to come down and perform your new hit. I said, what hit? They said, Come Back Pussy. I said, how much

are you going to pay me? They said, if you come down here and sing just that one song, we’ll give you fifteen hundred dollars. I

said, I’m on my way!

Dicky reactivated the Backfire label in 1978 and 1986 for the albums, Triple Dyn-O-Mite and Red Negligee, White Whiskey & Blue

Lights respectively. They were recorded in Washington DC, in a studio called Rodell in Georgetown, he said. There was also a

single issued on Sirco in 1984 coupling Touching You and Trying To Make It – That was also recorded in Washington DC. Dicky

continued: As a matter of fact, I have a new recording right now that I haven¹t released yet, of Red Negligee, White Whiskey and

Blue Lights and that’s going to be my country & western album. When I had that before, at that time that was the only country &

western song on that album but, what I’ve done since then – my wife has badgered me so much! – I’ve gone ahead and I’ve

finished a [full] country & western album.

The original 1986 Red Negligee… album included the song In The Same Motel, although it had been issued the same year on a

Backfire 45 and an album of the same name was mooted, according to the label, but not issued. In The Same Motel must have the

unique distinction of appearing on four labels in the same guise and in short order. Our man is in room 103 and he realizes the

pleasurable screams coming from room 104 belong to his lady. (Ah but what is he doing there in the first place!?) A simple but

effective song, structure-wise, both the Bad and Gold Thumb labels – They belonged to some gentlemen out of Georgia. – also

promoted it as an A-side, while the Ichiban-distributed CMC label coupled it with the aforementioned Come Back Pussy. The

accompanying CMC album, In Your Face, also included Fat Girls, which had been issued on a Gold Thumb single and is driven

along by the Midnight Passion Band, including Dicky’s cousins, Pye Williams and Phil Williams on guitar and bass respectively –

They are both deceased now. – and Dicky himself on keyboards. (To add to the label complications, the Red Negligee… album

appeared on Bad as well as Backfire!)

A second album was delivered for CMC – Dicky was unable to advise just what the letters CMC stood for – in 1991. The downtempo

I Want You For Breakfast – quite subtle when compared with the likes of Marvin Sease and Chuck Roberson who had emerged by

that time – was chosen as both a 45 and album (title), while the latter also boasted more of Dicky’s stories in the intense Lost My

Woman To A Woman and the warm slow, Letter From A Soldier. You Hurt The Wrong Man continued the overall southern flavor of

the set but sadly, this time around, the Midnight Passion Band were missing and programming was the order of the day, resulting

in much of the effectiveness being lost. Not so, however, with the Full Grown Man album, which arrived some four years later on

the main Ichiban (Blues) label. Very much worth the wait, along the way we find the impassioned soul ballad, I Live To Love You,

the horn-supported, downtempo Beer Drinkin’ Man, Fall Out Of Love, with those country overtones and a pounding Stronger.

Certainly his most well-rounded outing, Full Grown Man should have finally ensured the name of Dicky Williams was up there with

the best of them but, clearly, Ichiban failed to market the album as well as they should have. Dicky concurred. I agree but they were

having financial troubles and some of the people were leaving. Same problems as ever I guess.

Undeterred, Dicky returned a year later with a new venture, Where Would I Be…Without My Woman???, on Bald Eagle, which,

among the fifteen tracks, revisited In The Same Motel and I Want You For Breakfast and, with the gently rolling She Jingled My Bells,

ensured some more tongue-in-cheek fun. Bald Eagle, that was my label, he said. That’s what I do. I cut these records and I know

they are good records and I have to go and make enough money so I can keep on feeding my wife, because she’s such a beautiful

person and she’s with me in all the things that I do. So I have to earn enough to keep a nice place to live and keep a car in the

drive, so I go ahead and I put it out. I make enough to sustain my bills for a year or so and then I go and cut some more and do the

same thing all over again.

When he is not recording, Dicky is ever the performer and would be an ideal shoe-in at some of the European soul-blues festivals.

I’d really like to come back to Europe if they would have me, he said. I was last there in 96, in Paris, at Le Meridien. That was a

great venue.

Right now, in addition to the country & western album, Dicky is busy completing his collaboration with guitarist, Ken Massey,

expected to be billed with the title of Salt And Pepper as by Dicky Williams & the Ken Massey group. (Massey describes the choice

of Salt & Pepper¹ as ³…a play on the current dialogue – diatribe! – in the blues community of black versus blue-eyed blues.), [note:

subsequent to this article going to press, CDS Records has decided to entitle the release I’m Back Again] That’s blues

because some of my friends and his wanted me to do some blues, Dicky advised. This album is going to be one of my greatest

albums. I was introduced to Ken by another great friend of mine, a terrific young man by the name of Billy Dee. He called me, he

said, I’ve got a guy I want you to meet, he loves the Lord just like you do. And I had just done my country & western album and he

said, well this guy can do anything. He’s a great musician, I think you’d work well together. So he introduced me to him and we’ve

been getting along just like two peas in a pod. I’m pretty sure we’ll complete in the next three to four months. We’re not rushing

and you can’t rush Ken because he won’t let you rush him. He’s so efficient at what he does and he wants everything to be just

right. He’s just that way and I’m glad he is.

American Idol’s Kat Mcphee to Play Pregnant Hippie in New Film

The beauteous Katherine McPhee is having a busy year with the release of her self-titled debut album and her inclusion in her first independent feature film. It was earlier reported that the 23-year old runner-up on season five of American Idol will be part of the movie, The Last Caller, in which McPhee plays a self-obsessed and down on her luck woman who is searching for love. The Last Caller is scheduled to commence filming in New York this fall, under the collaborative efforts of Hilary Shor of Hit and Rub Productions and Nicholas Cokas (McPhee’s boyfriend) of Zenith Film Group.

More recently, Katherine McPhee has also joined the cast of a new comedy from Columbia Pictures and Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions. In the still untitled movie, McPhee will portray the part of a pregnant hippie student who also happens to be a member of the saddest, sorriest, most pathetic sorority on campus. The film, which begins production on July 23, revolves around an ex-Playboy bunny who gets booted out of her quarters at the Playboy mansion and is forced to become house mother to the geekiest campus sorority.

Anna Faris, a veteran of all four Scary Movies, plays the newly evicted former Playboy bunny in a cast that also includes Rumer Willis (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis), Dana Goodman (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo) and Kat Dennings (The 40 Year Old Virgin).

Prior to her two upcoming movie projects, Katherine McPhee’s big screen exposure had previously been limited to a brief appearance in the 2006 biopic, Crazy, based on the life of Hank Garland, a legendary guitar player who rose to fame in Nashville in the 1950s. The American Idol alum also did a cameo on the ABC series, Ugly Betty, as well as theatrical turns on Annie Get Your Gun, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and You Are Here.

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Dancing With the Stars Champ Drew Lachey to Host New Dance Show

Former 98 Degrees boy band member Drew Lachey, who recently emerged victorious in the second season of Dancing with the Stars, will be again appearing on stage, as he is now the host of a new Dancing with the Stars spin off. Entitled Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, the six-week-long series will be airing this winter on ABC. Open auditions for the new reality series started this month.

On the new show, Dancing with the Stars judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba will be pit against each other to show off their choreographic prowess. Right now, the two are on the hunt for talented amateur dancers and singers in the open auditions held in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville.

After the contestants are chosen, they split into teams with Bruno or Carrie Ann to compete in song in dance to eventually form “the ultimate dance team.” Audiences at home will be given the chance to choose which performers will stay and who will leave in the live, hour-long reality series.

Dancing with the Stars airs its new season on Monday, September 24, with celebrities such as billionaire Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner Mark Cuban, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Josie Maran and iconic Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton appearing on the show.

For the first time in the show’s history, this season’s Dancing with the Stars will features 12 celebrities competing for the title. Six men and six women comprise the largest cast on the show to date. The first week will feature a showdown between the men and women, as the women’s performances will be aired on September 24, while the men will perform the following night, Tuesday, September 25.

Grammy Award-winning country music icon Dolly Parton will also appear on the show to perform on the results show on Wednesday, September 26, kicking off three straight nights of Dancing With the Stars’ first week.

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Hannah Montana and Dad Keep Busy

Things have been going pretty great for 14-year-old Miley Cyrus who not only is a daughter of an established country singer, but is also an established young actress-turned-pop-singer herself. Not only does she have her own hit television series courtesy of the Disney Channel, but she also has a couple of hit selling records up her sleeve. However, all this success has prevented her from having breaks. As of now, Miley is getting ready to head her “Best of Both Worlds” tour, where she is to perform both as herself and as Hannah Montana from the hit Disney TV series. Lottery systems have been set to help fans receive a fair shot at getting seats to the show. A lot of her other concerts have been sold out all around North America.

Following his daughter’s success, Billy Ray Cyrus has also released an album of his own this year, entitled Home At Last, which debuted at third place on the Billboard Country chart. Also hitting the road on October and November, he is set to promote his album around America, with destinations such as Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Indiana.

Aside from entertainment, the father-daughter team from Nashville, Tennessee likes to give back to their community, as BuddyTV previously reported. Miley recently teamed up with Make a Wish Foundation to make plans of meeting a young fan who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Like his daughter, Billy Ray also engaged in helping others when he recorded a PSA for Lee National Denim Day. The fundraiser, which aims to help fight breast cancer, will be held on October 5.

“We’re not only talking about awareness, we’re talking about a possible cure, at least one that can be effective in some way,” Billy Ray said in a conversation with People magazine. “So it was a no-brainer when they called and asked me if I wanted to participate.”

Activities don’t stop there as Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus are set to be presenters at the Creative Arts Emmys, which will be broadcast on E! Entertainment Television on September 15. Other presenters include presenters include Kristen Bell, America Ferrera, and Seth Green. The event will be hosted by comic Carlos Mencia.

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Suicide Risk High in Women With Breast Implants

Women who get breast implants are three times more likely to commit suicide. The risk increases the longer the implants are kept.

This was revealed by Drs. Loren Lipworth and Joseph K. McLaughlin who said the suicides were not caused by silicone toxicity but underlying psychological problems. Their findings were published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery.

The subjects were 3,527 Swedish women who had breast implants for an average of 19 years. The risk of suicide went up 10 years after surgery and continued to rise after 20 or more years. The women were also three times more likely to have drug or alcohol problems and were more likely to be involved in an accident or injury as a result of these problems.

“What our data suggests to us is there is a subset of women choosing to get cosmetic breast implants who have psychiatric illness prior to implantation. This results in a high risk of unnatural cause of death – suicide and deaths related to alcohol dependence and drug abuse,” said Lipworth, an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lipworth’s study is not the first to confirm the breast implant – suicide link. Dr. Louise A. Brinton, chief of the hormonal and reproductive epidemiology branch of the US National Cancer Institute, had established this link earlier and remains baffled why this happens.

“There could be a host of explanations. It could be these women have unrealistic expectations about how implants are going to change their lives. There could be complications of breast implants that affect the quality of life. Or there could be underlying personality predispositions that lead both to seeking implants and suicide. We can’t tell which, although anecdotal evidence points to the third possibility,” he told WebMD.

Atlanta plastic surgeon Dr. Foad Nahai, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, said breast augmentation normally results in improved self-esteem if it is done for the right reasons. However, he admits that not all plastic surgeons take time to screen patients properly. This view is shared by Dr. David B. Sarwer, associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Human Appearance.

“Plastic surgeons need to do a better job of screening patients for psychological illnesses. My colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and I have recently reviewed these findings, and we argue that plastic surgeons should evaluate the psychological status of all patients. If they encounter a patient in psychiatric treatment or with a history of psychiatric hospitalization, they should insist that those patients get a mental health consultation prior to surgery,” Sarwer said.

“If a woman is getting breast implants to save a marriage or if they want to attract more men when they go into a singles bar, this isn’t going to work. But if a woman is doing it for herself, for her self-esteem, and wants to look better in her clothes, we are seeing someone who is doing it for the right reasons,” Nahai added.

The new study is another blow to breasts implants that have been linked to a host of medical problems. To avoid complications, switch to other non-invasive means of breast enhancement. One of these is the Clevastin Natural Breast Enlargement System. When used as directed, this product will give you as natural lift without the need for expensive surgery. Check out http://www.clevastin.com for details.

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