As a web designer/developer, search engine optimization specialist, and website manager and supervisor for my clients, I’ve tracked many of the websites I’ve created with Google Analytics, an enormously useful tool for monitoring sources, interests, and visitor preferences. Every day after checking my email, I spend a generous part of my morning analyzing their reports…
Category: Legal Law
Sex Offenders In Your Neighborhood: Would You Prefer Residential Restrictions Or GPS Monitoring?
My experience with sex offender residency laws is limited to the laws of Miami-Dade County, FL and the cities within that county’s limits. Each state, city and community will have developed different laws and therefore have different experiences with the application of those laws. So please don’t take my finding as set in stone. I…
Importing Mezcal from Oaxaca to the US and Elsewhere: First Steps
He’s considering starting his own brand of the Mexican spirit, mezcal, but has some doubts about the project’s viability in this now-booming market for tequila’s lesser-known cousin. Alternatively, he just has a bit of trouble understanding all the steps he needs to take or has as options. You want to be part of the boom;…
Working at height – How to develop a rescue plan
Rescue plans do not have to be complex. Employers must implement a rescue plan that includes procedures to: Prevention of prolonged suspension Perform rescue and treatment as quickly as possible. Identification of signs and symptoms of suspension trauma Management’s responsibility for safety must carefully consider the methodology for rescuing a downed operative. Such considerations could…
The SAT is six weeks away: start hyperventilating
Take a huge, deep breath, and then exhale as quickly as possible. Then repeat the process until you feel dizzy and fall over. So, you’ll hit your head and form a blood clot in your brain. Then, you’ll miraculously transform into a megasavant, just like Rain Man. So, you’ll get a 10,000 on your SAT….
Instagram Marketing Tips For Your Business
Millions of people around the world now use Instagram. Instagram has made it easier to take photos and share them with friends and many people enjoy doing it. In addition to networking, you can use Instagram in a more efficient way for marketing. Instagram is a great promotional tool that you can use to promote…
The untrained mechanic
If you’ve been through the manufacturer and dealer challenge with a lemon-colored vehicle, you’ve probably wondered why they didn’t just fix the problem and let you get on with your life. You didn’t start your day thinking, how can I make the manufacturer or this %$%^$& dealership pay? You would be happy for them to…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Assuming all appropriate criteria are met, an employee with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) may request a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) from their employer. This is a modification to some aspect of the job that will allow the employee to perform the essential job functions more effectively, despite the impairments caused…
Western ideas of work and leisure
In “The Western Idea of Work and Leisure: Traditions, Transformations, and the Future,” Charles Sylvester highlights the changing conception of work and leisure by pointing to Plato’s and Aristotle’s notions in classical Greek thought, the Judeo-Christian view, and the views of Locke and Marx. A general objection can be made against all of these views…
Do LSAT scores determine success in your first year (1L year) in law school?
Test prep companies and the LSAC (Law School Admissions Council) point to a remarkable statistic when people question the effectiveness of the LSAT. That stat? High performance on the LSAT is strongly correlated with success in the first year (year 1L) of law school. Of course, as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once said: “There are…