Insightful Vision of Students Today
By TLS | October 26, 2007
Most people who know me have heard me rant about the state of education in America. This subject can be volatile. On the one hand many teachers are doing their best, but just don’t feel that students care or respect the educational system. On the other hand many students feel the system is outdated and irrelevant. It’s not that they don’t respect education or that they don’t want to learn. It’s simply the fact that our archaic system fails them in today’s world.
Check out this video on YouTube. It is very thought provoking. What are we to do to help our children succeed in the future? How can we change the system so we don’t fail them?
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SEO for Law Sites and Attorneys
By TLS | October 25, 2007
I have been spending a lot of time lately working on improving the search engine optimization (SEO) for Las Vegas Attorney site Sprenzlaw.com. It has been very rewarding, because I have been able to see the results. The site has several first page listings on Google and Yahoo for relevant keyword phrases.
The site has been online for a few years, so that helps. I reworked the code because the original code was full of errors and was not W3C compliant (I admit, I wrote the original code, too). Fixing that alone made the site much better and cleaner. Next I reworked it so that the site’s design and content was contolled dynamically using a series of include files. This has made it much easier to maintain. Rather than needing to change each page of the site I can now make changes to one or two files.
Finally, I reworked the page content to emphasize the keywords relevant to the areas of practice for the attorney. The goal is to make his site the (as in theeeee) online destination for anyone looking for a Las Vegas, NV attorney.
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To Sell or Not to Sell
By TLS | October 21, 2007
What’s the deal? Our house in Utah still has not sold. We have had lots of interest over the last 4 1/2 months, including two bonafide offers that both fell through during mortgage financing. Needless to say this is very frustrating and a bit depressing.
We are now going to try to do a lease option agreement. We have someone interested, but it would require that we stay on the hook for the payments for another 60 days before the agreement would go into affect. Let’s hope this works out.
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Soldier Suicide: An Army of One
By TLS | August 16, 2007
I’m probably going to sound like a bleeding heart liberal in this post, but what can I say? This is ridiculous. The Kansas City Star reported today that suicides by soldiers reached it’s highest rate in 26 years. Ninety nine soldiers deaths were officially ruled suicides in 2006. The news story said:
“The report found depression and hopelessness drove troops to commit suicide.”
It also pointed out that:
“A soldier was more likely to attempt suicide if he or she had served more than one tour in a war zone, but it did not measure how much that risk increased with each deployment.”
I’m sorry, but I’m sure the war is getting old to our troops. My military friends tell me it’s frustrating, because they feel like their hands are tied and they can’t do their job to the best of their abilities due to all the rules, oversight, political correctness, and media all over the place. That plus the fact that there appears to be major lack of leadership from the top.
Amazingly, News Limited, citing the same report, states that:
“Among soldiers who killed themselves in 2006, 27 were in Iraq and three were in Afghanistan.”
Plus, it said that:
“The army also recorded 948 serious suicide attempts which required hospitalisation or evacuation as well as two deaths with unclear causes still under investigation.”
The suicide rate is well above the rate of suicides for the general population. It appears to me that this is a major problem. There is obviously more stress and pressure and other factors associated with military (especially active combat) service than what most people deal with day to day, so I suppose this kind of thing can be expected to a point.
However, when the rate is at its highest in 26 years, something needs to be done. I suspect that it may help alleviate the depression and hopelessness if the troops were to feel like they had a workable plan and an inspiring leader.
I hope the next Administration can better the situation.
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Feels Like Home
By TLS | August 10, 2007
We’ve been in Vegas for two months now and it feels like home. We are starting to know our way around, the house is comfortable, and we’ve started making friends. It’s great to have Kevin & Melissa around. Work is good. No complaints.
The kids will start school in a few weeks. They found out who their teachers are this week.
Now if we could just sell our house in Utah!!! It’s no fun having to pay two mortgages.
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