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lanailightsfl · 5 years ago

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Best Florida LED Lights Installer Companies

Outdoor living space is an essential part of the home nowadays, especially in Florida, where the weather is near perfect the whole year. Having your backyard or front yard landscaped extends your living space where you can entertain family and friends for lunch and even dinners outdoors. But it will only be possible if your landscaped area is adequately lighted.

As more and more customers find the value of an extended living area even during nighttime, the demand for lights installer companies also increased. Moving with the times, these companies have also adapted to modern lighting technology using energy-efficient LED lights instead of the traditional light bulbs. Below are five of the best LED lights installer companies you can find in Florida.

Lanai Lights started in 2006 when owner Bob Steele was looking for a way to light up his dark lanai without having to light his neighbor’s, too. He looked for products that can be used outdoors, safe, low-voltage, and durable, but no product satisfied his needs, so he made his own. This interest in improving the quality of outdoor lighting grew into the industry that is Lanai Lights today. And keeping up with the times and modern technology, Lanai Lights have also shifted from the conventional light bulbs to the energy-efficient and durable LED lights.

Check out our selection of outdoor lighting products:

· Original Captiva Model

· Palm Beach Model

· New Stylish Siesta Model

· New South Beach Model

· Sunset Strip Lighting

· Accent Lights

· Commercial Lighting

· Landscape Lighting

· Dock and Deck Lighting

Lanai Lights has been serving Fort Myers, FL, and surrounding areas for their custom outdoor lighting needs using new LED lighting, which is also energy-efficient and turtle-friendly.

Website: https://lanailights.com/

Lanai Lights has been serving Fort Myers, FL, and surrounding areas for their custom outdoor lighting needs using new LED lighting, which is also energy-efficient and turtle-friendly.

Telephone Numbers:

Tampa Bay/Lakeland Area - 813-437-4446

Orlando Area - 407-988-0479

Fort Myers/Naples Area - 239-208-0306

Port Charlotte/Bradenton Area - 941-787-5568

Palm Beach/East Coast - 954-716-8699

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/lanailights/

Having an outdoor living space that you can use day in and day out brings great benefits like longer bonding time with family and friends. Installing LED lighting by your chosen lighting company gives you this advantage of enjoying the comfort and beauty of your surroundings even at nighttime.

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ericfruits · 5 years ago

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A Seaman Or Not: Malpractice And Unsettled Law

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed the dismissal of a legal malpractice action

This legal malpractice action requires an understanding of the requirements for expert testimony under Fishman v. Brooks, 396 Mass. 643 (1986), and the duty of an attorney to properly advise a client when the law governing the client's case is unsettled.

Norris Marston (Norris) suffered a severe brain injury after an accident at his work site, an offshore light tower. His attorneys secured a $7,500 lump sum settlement under the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Act (Act), and then pursued Federal remedies, including a claim under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (2012), ultimately negotiating a $200,000 settlement. The plaintiff, Norris's conservator, believing these settlements were woefully inadequate in light of Norris's injuries, sued the defendant attorneys for malpractice. On the eve of trial, a judge of the Superior Court issued a number of rulings that led to the dismissal of all of Norris's claims against the attorneys. This appeal followed.

The client worked for a subcontractor tasked with bringing down a light tower eight miles offshore

On August 24, 2008, as Norris was cutting sections of a steel docking station attached to the light tower, the docking station came loose, striking him on the head and driving him deep into the water, where he remained for a significant period of time. Norris was diagnosed with an anoxic brain injury.

A resident of Gloucester, Norris retained local attorneys Joseph M. Orlando and Brian S. McCormick, of the firm of Orlando & Associates (collectively, attorneys). The attorneys planned to seek damages exceeding $1,000,000 against [subcontractor] Hallum and other parties under the Jones Act and related Federal statutes (collectively, Federal claims) in the United States District Court. They decided to first pursue Norris's remedies under the Act in proceedings before the DIA.

The key issue for compensation purposes was whether Norris was a "seaman."

the generous remedies provided under the Jones Act are limited to seamen.

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During the proceedings, Hallum and the two third-party Federal court defendants raised the specter of the possible preclusion of the Jones Act claims due to the actions and positions taken at the DIA. Attorney McCormick addressed this defense in his mediation memorandum.

A one-day mediation session was held on October 17, 2011. Attorney Orlando advised Norris that if he did not take the final offer, he would lose at trial. Accordingly, Norris accepted $200,000 plus Farm Family's waiver of its $18,666.52 workers' compensation lien in full settlement of his claims against all the Federal court defendants (Federal settlement). Within days, Norris retained new counsel. A petition for the appointment of a conservator on behalf of Norris was filed in the Probate and Family Court, and Norris's brother, Jonathan Marston, was appointed. The conservator sought to intervene and reopen the Federal case on behalf of Norris. His efforts were unsuccessful.

Then came the malpractice claim, which the trial court dismissed

The absence of an expert opinion on fair settlement value was not fatal to the conservator's legal malpractice case. Fishman teaches that while expert testimony on reasonable settlement value is admissible in this type of action, it is not required to establish the cause and extent of the client's damages...

The trial judge concluded that while the lump sum agreement was a final adjudication of Norris's claim under the Act, it did not finally adjudicate the issue of Norris's status as a nonmaritime employee for purposes of future Jones Act claims. The conservator, with support from his expert witness, maintains that the agreement to accept a lump sum settlement in the DIA proceeding resulted in a "final adjudication" that potentially precluded Norris's subsequent Jones Act claims. Cf. Martin v. Ring, 401 Mass. 59, 60 (1987). We conclude that, in the context of this case, it was error to reach the question whether the workers' compensation settlement had preclusive effect on the Jones Act claim. In fact, this was an issue that was not settled at the time of these proceedings. And it is the unsettled state of the law that is pertinent in assessing any negligence on the part of the attorneys.

Thus

Given the unsettled state of the law, the attorneys had the duty to fully disclose the potential consequences to Norris before recommending that he accept the Massachusetts settlement. See Williams v. Ely, 423 Mass. 467, 476-477 (1996). Contrary to the trial judge's assertion, the preclusive bar had been raised in the Federal proceedings. The attorneys' failure to alert Norris to the uncertainty deprived him of the opportunity to assess the risk and was an actionable basis of negligence.

(Mike Frisch)

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2019/06/the-massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-this-legal-malpractice-action-requires-an-understanding-of-the-requirements-for-exp.html

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lanailightsblog-blog · 6 years ago

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twentysomethinginorlando · 8 years ago

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Gasparilla: the Invasion of Tampa Bay

New Post has been published on https://twentysomethinginorlando.com/gasparilla-invasion-tampa-bay/

Gasparilla: the Invasion of Tampa Bay

Every January, the tide brings a strange sighting to the Tampa Bay: a fully rigged Pirate ship sailing into port known as the Jose Gasparilla. The ship is named for José Gaspar, a legendary pirate who commanded the Gulf of Mexico and Spanish Main back in ye old days of pirates. Whether he was a real historical figure or merely folklore is debated, but since 1904 Tampa has been throwing a huge pirate themed festival and parade in his honor during which the Mayor surrenders the city to the pirates. Despite living in Florida for four years now, I had never heard of it until about a month prior when I was told to request the day off.

Rewind a few months. I like costuming and cosplay. I can’t sew to save my life, but I have some very talented friends and I’m good at putting things together. Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party had snuck up on us, and I realized we didn’t have the time or money to put together the costumes we really wanted. While I could have done Korra for the fourth year in a row, it felt time to change it up. Jay already had a pretty good pirate outfit from his Renaissance Fair days, so that meant we could invest most of our available funds into mine, and thus our pirate outfits were born. When the pictures popped up on Facebook, they attracted the attention of some of our friends, Robert and Victoria, who are really into pirating and costuming, and they invited us out to pillage and plunder with them in Tampa.

We had two separate crafting nights working on the outfits beforehand, and there are still supplies strewn all over my house. Sword belts, painted toy guns, a flag, earrings, you name it, and we probably made it. By we, I mean mostly them. My contribution was a hand-drawn map that I don’t think ever left the house. Jay’s pirate has a name, and a very elaborate backstory, so I came up with one for my pirate that would fit in with his.

Turns out Robert’s pirate also has a backstory, and the two of them concocted a story about how two captains and two first mates were sailing under the same flag. (No, really, this was a two hour process.) My pirate’s name is Seraphina and once upon a time she was a mermaid before she became entangled with Captain Bartholomew Grimm. I’m extremely happy I told Victoria this because she came up with this amazing mermaid makeup that I would have never known how to do and made me some seashell and octopus accessories.

The four of us stayed up entirely too late the night before to get up at an hour that should not be permitted on a Saturday and piled into the car to make the hour plus drive to Tampa.

Everything was smooth sailing until we got closer to the bay where streets were closed and traffic was tight. We made our way to the hotel where friends of Robert and Victoria were staying in a room with a harbor view so we could wait for the ship to sail in. We had a crew of nine in total, all decked out to nines, or I guess pieces of eight in this case. I made friends with a gentleman who said he answered to Captain (his real name is Aaron), and runs a blog of his own called Urban Scallywag. We spent about an hour in the room staring out at the bay watching different types of boats cruising around, everything from tiny little motor boats to huge yachts that could crush the motor boats. Finally our waiting paid off as the Jose Gasparilla, the world’s only fully rigged pirate ship, sailed into view. We were too far for a good look but she boasts three masts with full sails and no engine to power her. At 147 feet long, she’s mighty impressive.

The ship pulling into the bay. Photo by Urban Scallywag.

We headed down for the disembarking. Duffy stayed in the safety of the hotel room to hang out with another girl’s Eeyore pillow pet because I was afraid he’d get beer spilled on him. I thought we were actually going to watch the ship dock but I guess we weren’t fast enough, by the time we were down there the crew was already coming off.

The crews coming off the ships. Photo by Urban Scallywag.

Gasparilla is a whole lot like Mardi Gras. You get handed lots of swag, or get swag thrown at you, and if you’re a girl in a pirate outfit, you get a lot more. They had everything from beads to eyepatches to doubloons. The crew coming off the ship has limited edition items that you can apparently only get from them, like collectors’ coins stamped with the year and the date. So Victoria took up one spot, and I took up another, and the guys sort of hung back behind me. I got a decent amount of beads, a couple of coins, coins on a necklace and a light-up eye patch. I was heartbroken when the kid next to me got the rubber duck, but I suppose that was to be expected. Victoria did better than I did, but this was where we learned my years of playing Ultimate Frisbee paid off, I’m actually really good at snatching things flying out of midair. This skill would continue to pay off as we moved to the parade route.

Another float. Photo by Urban Scallywag.

A parade float. Photo by Urban Scallywag.

Robert and Victoria.

We had to cross a bridge and walk a few blocks in order to get to the parade route. I kept ending up in the front, which was a terrible plan seeing as I had no idea where I was actually going. But we eventually figured it out, and found a spot behind a row of people who were sitting down. So we waited, but it wasn’t more than half an hour before the floats started rolling through. A series of cop cars came first, followed by the Budweiser Clydesdales which I was ecstatic to see. They had been appearing in Orlando and I hadn’t been able to go see them. (I just like horses, and I miss the days when they were at SeaWorld.) Then came the actual floats. Some of them were almost as impressive as Disney floats, some of them not so much. My favorites were the people who looked like they were having fun. Almost every single person was throwing beads or coins or something of that nature. The other girls in our group made their way to the front of the fence over time while I hung back for the most part, talking with the guys and commentating.

I was still happy to leap for anything that came my way, which got more and more challenging as the day went on. There were guys on either side of our group that were well over six feet tall, and it was an overcast, chilly day so my hands stopped working as well over time. I know what you’re thinking: Florida doesn’t get cold. But when you’re used to seventy-plus degrees year round, the low sixties is incredibly cold, especially when you’re wearing a sleeveless corset with a skirt. I actually wound up with both Robert’s coat and Aaron’s vest before it was all said and done. Jay was colder than I was and fighting a cold so taking his was out of the question.

The Gasparilla parade literally lasted a solid three to four hours, and there was plenty of trading spots along the fence and chatting with strangers next to us. Some random girls one group down from us saw me miss a big bead catch and came over to put five or six around my neck, which I didn’t understand but was very sweet. Some of the parade marchers were trading bigger favors for alcohol from the crowd. Several of the floats were firing mini cannons that made me jump a foot in the air the first time I heard one.

A parade float. Photo by Urban Scallywag.

Photo by Urban Scallywag.

One of the cannons was actually blasting out coins, or maybe they just timed their throws to make it seem that way. I made my way up to the fence at one point to try a turn at getting things handed to me rather than thrown. If you’re not looking, those beads get dangerous after a while, especially when they throw them in a big bunch instead of individually. Poor Aaron actually took one in the side of the head and his ear was bright red for the next half hour or so. I wasn’t as good at drawing attention to myself as the other girls in our group and I gave up after a little while, going back to find the captains (Jay, Robert and Aaron) arguing the logistics of there now being three of them. My favorite moment of the whole day came from this.

Robert: See, if anything be happenin’ to me, you be answerin’ to him!

He pointed at Jay.

Robert: If anything happened to him, you’d be answerin’ to me! And if anything happened to the both of us, you be answerin’ to her!

He pointed at me and Jay laughed. The beauty of having your first mate be a former mermaid, there’s this whole lore about being able to sing and lure men to their doom and stir up storms. Aaron looked at me and back to them.

Aaron: Aye, but that be why I’ve been befriendin’ her!

Admittedly, he wasn’t wrong. I spent more time talking to him than I did the rest of the new crew.

Jay, Aaron and Robert.

The parade wrapped up sometime after five, Jay and I actually missed the end of it because I gave in and went to use the port-a-potty. My skirt was actually three skirts layered together, and without exaggeration must have weighed twelve pounds. Fitting those skirts inside was no easy task, let me tell you. We went back to find our crew and began the long slow march back to the hotel in the thick of the crowds. Jay and I led the way with everyone else trailing behind, but the giant pirate flag made it easy for us to regroup. It was after six by the time we got up to the room thanks to the long wait for the elevators. It was about that time that Jay and I realized we hadn’t really eaten anything since breakfast. We’d never actually been near the food stands to look at getting anything. Room service was ordered, but we somehow missed out on that. Jay took the arm chair and I settled for laying on the floor because sitting up in the corset and keeping my back straight was just too much work. I don’t know how long it was before Robert and Jay headed to get the car. Victoria and I waited a little bit before we headed down to the lobby for them to pick us up. They left the box of all our gear and swag for me to bring, but it was heavier than I anticipated so Aaron was nice enough to carry it down.

We loaded everything up, said our good-byes, and I would have slept the whole way home if not for the stop at the McDonald’s drive through.

Later, Jay and I went through the piles of loot, and were pleasantly surprised with how much booty we actually managed to pilfer. We wound up with several of the Gasparilla collectors coins, a necklace medallion and tons of beads. That was the good news. The bad news was the belt on my corset was broken, an earring was missing and someone who was not me had blisters. Combat boots for the win!

Jay, Me, Victoria, and Robert.

All in all, we had a very successful day of pillaging and plundering Tampa Bay. Gasparilla is a lot of fun, whether you want to dress up as a pirate or not. Dressing up will help you get more loot, and possibly your picture taken. It reminds me of what little I’ve seen of tailgating at a Tennessee football game: drinking, waiting, yelling and more drinking. This was also the day I learned that marijuana smells like skunk! (This was explained to me after the third time I asked if anyone else smelled a skunk.) This is NOT a place meant to be family friendly. The weekend before they have another festival for children, so if you have little ones I would advise going to check that one out.

Gasparilla is something that must be experienced to truly know what you’re getting yourself into. I’m sure our crew will be there again next year in one form or another. Drink up me hearties, yo ho!

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