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Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan. However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]
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We aired our interview with Lorri Unumb from Autism Speaks this past Sunday, however, we weren’t able to cover everything that we wanted to. You see Lorri was extremely gracious to move her schedule around to allow us the opportunity to pre-record our interview with her last week for our Sunday show. Originally the plan [...]
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Is your family (or are your kids) Red Dye #40 free (did you know that stuff is a derivative of coal)? Here’s an interesting recipe that allows you to make Red Velvet Cake / Cupcakes and you’ll never guess how this Mom got the red naturally …… she used beets! Beets in cake? Hey, she [...]
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On Sunday June 6th we discussed the raging debate over Autism Insurance. It’s a battle raging in the courts, classrooms, therapy centers, doctors offices, legislator’s offices ….. and living rooms across this country, including right here in Michigan. The battle is being fought by parents on two fronts. On the first front is the push [...]
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We’re surrounded by technology and it’s becoming even more ingrained in every little facet of our day (at least that’s what my Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, 7 email accounts, Ipod, Droid, GPS and Laptop would lead me to believe) . Between texting, pinging, poking, facebooking, emailing, calling, posting, tweeting, buzzing and favoriting [...]
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This weekend on The My Great Kid Radio show we’ll be talking about Autism Insurance from two angles: Autism Insurance Lawsuits – Blue Cross Blue Shield has suffered two significant losses in the past year concerning their mistreatment of children with Autism. This weekend we’ll be talking to the lawyer that beat them in those [...]
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Insurance News – Blue Cross to Pay $125,000 in Ground-Breaking Settlement for Autism Care It’s not getting much (any?) attention anywhere in the media but yesterday the ground shifted in the Autism Insurance battle that’s been battling for years in states across this country. When you buy insurance you buy it to protect yourself from [...]
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This week in our interview with Robert Siciliano we discussed the wide spread threat of Identity theft. During the interview we covered a variety of topics including : Why Credit Cards are a safer alternative to Debt Cards How your fax machine and copiers could be sneakily stealing your identity without your knowing it The one [...]
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Evidently having four product recalls in 6 months isn’t a good thing – “The matter of a series of Tylenol recalls has been referred to the Food and Drug Administration’s crime division, an FDA official told lawmakers Thursday.” and the child’s recall, it turns out it was because of “…some of the products could contain [...]
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No Long Term Benefit To Delaying Vaccines, Study Finds Hmmmm, what’s this….. a study looking at the effects of vaccines? That’s an interesting finding ….. They report in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics that children who were vaccinated following the recommended immunization schedule exhibited better verbal skills, had higher IQs and were less [...]
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It was just a staircase. Not really anything special. White walls, blue berber carpeting, a basic three way light at the top and a single handrail. But somehow ….. it got to me. We moved recently and I was surprised to realize that it’s the thing I was going to miss the most. Evidently without [...]
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Phoebe Prince Jon Carmichael Jaheem Herrera Yeardley Love Charles Walker-Hoover All children bullied to death. Phoebe Prince and Yeardley Love are probably two names that you recognize quickly and easily. But they represent a fraction of the children that are being bullied in this country. While politicians are hurriedly trying to get out in front [...]
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What IS a gentleman in the modern age? You see, I don’t think that was as hard a question to answer in the past as it might be today. Carey Grant, surely the picture of a gentleman. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Two great (and helpful) articles that I ran across this morning: Dr. Dean Ornish: How to Transform Your Lifestyle and Your Life (Part One) Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Simple Steps to Cure IBS
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It’s amazing how much technology (even going back to the good ol’ lightbulb) changes not only our lives but our bodies. It’s even more fascinating though how adaptive our bodies are (whether we realize it or not). How Your Tech Could Be Resting Your Internal Clock
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How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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