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Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Contested lives

Posted onSeptember 4, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We hear of such terms in specific linguistic contexts; of a “contested” divorce, or that a variable version of a testimony or evidence has been “contested”; or that the results of a certain race or game has been contested. If you drop the affix placed after the stem of the word (i.e., the suffix or the “ed”), and emphasize the first syllable, it becomes a noun; whereas, if you engage in the identical mental exercise but intone upon the second syllable, it becomes a verb. As a noun, it is normally relegated to a challenging game, a sport or perhaps some duel; […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Law: The unsolvable dilemma

Posted onAugust 4, 2017February 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most of us live linear lives. It is a characteristic of Western Civilization that the thought-processes involve a sequential, step-by-step, logical extension and advancement. Much has been said about this approach, in contrast to an “Eastern” philosophical methodology, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The ‘Why’ of life

Posted onMay 10, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Why do we do that which we do? Do other species engage in such reflective self-assessments, or do they just perform the act without positing the query? Or course, there is the antecedent question of whether the question itself is asked in the linguistic modality which we embrace; or, is there another form of a more subtle nature that other animals correlate and learn from without a long utterance ending with a grammatical interrogative? Perhaps, in the mere instinctive alteration of actions future-oriented displays the capacity of other species to “learn” from past mistakes and potential dangers […]