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Model Sonny Turner recently posted about the lack of plus-size swimwear options. (Photo: Instagram/sonnyturner___)

Model Sonny Turner recently used her popular Instagram account to address an issue she feels many plus-size women deal with when shopping for swimwear.

In the post titled ‘THE REALITY OF SHOPPING AS A THICK/PLUS SIZE WOMAN’, the 19-year-old body positive activist muses about the problems she feels designers make when creating swimwear for plus-size women, and the truth that there are just not enough properly fitting styles out there.

“Changing rooms can be scary,” she began her post, which features Turner posing in the ill-fitting swimsuit. “I am wearing the largest size from one of the most popular high street stores,” she wrote, noting the size was 12-14 and referring to a popular shopping destination in London. “High street store bikinis do not cater for women of my body type. Majority of online stores don’t either.”

“No one gets it, so for any upcoming designers I got some [sic] tips for you,” she added, before listing a number of detailed tips for designers.

Some of her notes on proper-fitting swimwear include: “Big breasts need underwire for support for a youthful lift. We need cup sizes that correlate to bra sizes, and they need to go past DD. We need cups that actually cover more than our nipple. We need cups that bring our boobs together, so there’s not a massive gap in-between them.”

Swimwear with, “straps that aren’t so tight it’s as though as our neck is about to snap off,” “bikini bottoms that don’t give us wedgies,” “string bikinis that don’t expose our vagina lips,” and options that, “fit over our hips without dragging the neck of the costume down,” were also listed among her wishes.

Turner feels that the plus-size swimwear options currently available are extremely limited. “Believe it not not, some of us actually want a thong bikini. The whole selection doesn’t have to be highwaisted,” she wrote.

However, she admits to Yahoo Beauty that she hasn’t tried out too many brands, but that’s only because many of the plus-size options out there are prohibitively expensive. She did mention one brand of which she likes both look and price. “I got to try Curvy Kate, and their bikinis are great because sizes correlate to bra sizes and they’re supportive!”

Turner also feels that the models currently showing off plus-size swimwear for brands aren’t a realistic representation of the demographic.

“We’re gonna need you to stop using models with fake boobs that aren’t a real depiction of what the bra would look like on our real droopy ones,” she writes in her post, directly addressing swimwear designers. “It’s not fair that we can’t wear cute swimwear just because we are built differently. We deserve to walk into a store and pay £10 for a nice bikini without breaking the bank and our body confidence.”

“Bottom line is: MAKE CLOTHES FOR ALL SIZE & BODIES,” she defiantly ended the message, which received over 12,000 likes and hundreds of comments. She was initially inspired to post the pic after seeing a similar post from plus-size blogger Aliss Bonython, who also lamented the plus-size swimwear offerings.

“What inspired me the most was honestly the size of her breasts and how she wears whatever she wants so confidently,” Turner says about Bonython’s post. “I have big boobs too and I often hide them but to see a woman embrace them is amazing.”

Turner was extremely moved by how many people connected with the message behind her post.

“I was so shocked that so many women face this problem,” she says. “What was highlighted to me is that you don’t need to be plus-size to face the bikini issue. You can be slim and still feel scared in the changing room!”

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Eli Manning: Relax Regarding Slow Giants Start

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has been in the league for 14 seasons, so he’s seen just about everything there is to see when it comes to how each annual campaign unfolds.

That’s probably why despite a lackluster showing by the Giants offense last week on opening night against the Dallas Cowboys, Manning isn’t too concerned just yet.

“it’s not how you start. It’s how you finish in the NFL and I think that’s an important lesson,” he said Wednesday. “We can hopefully only get better from that first game and that’s the mindset. Just have a great week of practice, preparation, go out there, play confident in what we’re doing.”

If that sounds familiar, that’s because Manning seems to always preach that message after the team has a loss. However, his bigger point about not necessarily pushing the panic button after just one game is well taken if one looks at NFL history.

Since realignment in 2002, 108 of the 180 playoff teams (60 percent) began the year at either 1-1 or 0-2, including eight teams last season and five division champions – Atlanta (NFC South), Dallas (NFC East), Green Bay (NFC North), Kansas City (AFC West) and Seattle (NFC West).

The Giants themselves are included in that statistic. Their 2007 Super Bowl championship team, which will be honored at halftime Monday night began that year 0-2 before turning things around and capping an amazing season that no one outside of the organization likely saw coming.

Of course, Manning isn’t naïve regarding the offense’s poor play well last week and that it needs to play better.

“First game. Guys were playing fast, got some good guys out there, some new bodies,” he said. “I have to play better. I think there were some opportunities to make some plays, to get some things going, get into a rhythm and I can make some better decisions on some things.

“So, I can do my part to help us out, get things going. When the guys get off to a slow start, that’s when the leader has to step up and do their part.”

What the leader can’t do, however, is block for himself. Against the Cowboys, Manning’s offensive line struggled to provide him with a clean pocket, especially in the first half. Thanks to those struggles, the Giants were grossly outgained by the Cowboys, who were also successful in tiring out the Giants defense by halftime.

“Not a great game, not a way you want to start the season, not how we drew it up, but it’s the cards we are dealt right now,” said left guard Justin Pugh. “So, we are going to go out and get better from it.”

Pugh, who remains confident in the line’s character and determination to turn things around, has heard the outside chatter about the offensive line, but said he tried not to pay attention to it.

“At the end of the day, the people that are making the decisions are the people that are paid to know football,” he said. “They are the ones that are putting us out there, right? So, the people that are just going to watch on TV and want to make assumptions, that’s a whole other story.

“So, we got to go out there and keep handling our business and keep our nose to the grindstone. We can’t worry about the outside noise because we have games to win and we have to get ready for Detroit.”

Manning is also confident that things will click for the men up front.

“They’re going to do their job, so everybody just needs to step up their game a little bit and, again, we don’t have to go recreate anything. We just have to execute, play better football,” he said.

“We’ll bounce back. We’ll be fine. We just have to slow down. Everybody take a breath, and just run the plays the way we’ve been running them all spring and all summer,” he added.


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Befriending Anger ~ (from the Emotion Series)

September 19, 2013

“Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you to understand what you need and what you value.” Thich Nhat Hah

For seven years I regularly facilitated seminars on conflict resolution.  Most of the group participants wanted answers to problems they saw as the source of their conflict. Usually this had to do with fixing the behavior of another person.

Imagine the surprise when I asked them to reflect on a set of questions that focused almost exclusively on their own anger.

What do you believe about anger?

What is its purpose?

How do you express your anger?

How do you want others to express their anger to you?

How do you repress your anger?

Do you do anything to shut down the anger of others?

If your anger could talk, what would it say?

These were often intense and exciting conversations.  From the boisterous to the contrite, one thread ran through the hundreds of groups I listened to – the majority had never taken a deep look at the nature of their own anger.  A specialist in understanding anger, Dr. Steven Stosny, founder of Compassion Power, writes, “Most people with real anger problems think that something outside of them controls what they think and feel.”  This belief isn’t confined to those with “anger problems,” most of the people I met in these groups were trying to solve problems that were outside of their control.  This indeed is a recipe for more anger.

Psychologist Carol Tavris, called anger the “misunderstood emotion.” Anger is regularly referred to in popular culture as a “negative” emotion. Many Buddhists consider anger a “destructive” emotion, one of the kleshasmental states that cloud the mind and manifest in “unwholesome actions.”

To be sure, anger can shut down thinking and take a terrible toll on our physiology.  From petty nastiness to acts of extreme violence, anger’s manifestations are personally and collectively toxic, one of many reasons we avoid even discussing it.  But as Tavris has written “The beliefs we have about anger and the interpretation we give to the experience are as important to its understanding as anything intrinsic to the emotion itself.”

Mixed Messages

 In the complex challenge of understanding our emotions, we often return to our childhood roots.  Science is still unable to trace the source of any emotion so we surmise that somewhere in our howling cries as infants and toddlers; the norms for labeling anger were established. This is the only world we knew. These experiences formed our models for feeling ourselves in the world.  Here the separation between thinking and feeling began to take shape.

 The kids we played with brought their own rules and behaviors – conflict often resulted. It too, was labeled.  It’s likely that our caretakers shared not only their own unexamined beliefs about anger but set an emotional tone for how we handled our own nascent understanding of this uncomfortable feeling.

We learned that anger was a reliable – albeit sloppy way – that we could get what we want.  We discovered that anger was the underlying current in the household.  We were taught that “tempers” were inherited and that’s why we were always upset.  It was implied that our parents or caregivers were too difficult, fragile or threatening to approach with our own anger.   We learned to subvert our feelings because the environment just did not feel safe enough to divulge our truths.

Consequently, few of us learned the honest and healthy expression of getting our needs met. Instead we learned covert and often manipulative strategies that have habituated into adult feelings and behaviors.  In his Mindful Magazine article, Cooling the Raging Fires, Dr Jeffrey Brantley writes, “ What we are experiencing and calling “anger” is actually a complex and unfolding series of mental and physical events designed to help us deal with a possible threat or the experience of hurt or pain.”

The mixed signals from the cultures we live in complicate our own ability to reconcile with emotions as challenging as anger.  While not necessarily causal, unexpressed, unhealed anger can take many forms (gun violence, domestic abuse, rape, suicide).

Anger in most workplaces is pervasive, covert and mostly unmanaged.  Work-related bullying is one place that unresolved anger finds an outlet.  Employee disengagement is another.  Although there are many emotions (disappointment, mistrust, sadness, anxiety, frustration, hopelessness) that contribute to the growing number of disengaged workers, anger is surely at the top of the list.

Anger’s Faces

 Anger’s powerful physiological response can terrify us and turn us on. Our limbic response to an emotional trigger (internal or external), activates every muscle in our body.  Strong hormones are released that can make us feel out of control and exhilarated.  It’s easy to see how anger, in its many forms, can become habituated and subconsciously subverted.

Some us learn to use anger to mitigate other emotional responses.  We get angry, when we’re really anxious. We let anger pump us up to be more confident and less fearful. We jolt ourselves out of depression by jump starting anger.  We try to ease physical pain with anger.  We try to borrow from the energy of anger to motivate ourselves when we can’t find our natural rhythm.

Because the natural function of emotions is to tell us that we are not getting our needs met, we learn to substitute other emotions that feel safer and act as a “cover” for anger. These cover emotions usually don’t get to the heart of what we really need, but provide an outlet for the energy that must be released.

  • Fear.  Fear’s common but for many it is uncomfortable and even debilitating.  In Buddhist psychology “anger and fear are considered in many ways to be the same mind state, just in different forms. Anger is the out flowing expressive energized form and fear is the held in, frozen, imploding form.” They are both attempts to control the uncontrollable.
  • Hurt.  Because most hurts are old wounds and triggers to old, unresolved pain, anger can offer some relief in its diversion.
  • Shame.  Envy. Jealousy. Embarrassment. Though these emotions can manifest very diverse behaviors, they’re all a cover for our sense of vulnerability. They mask core beliefs of our I am not enough-ness. They’re often conditioned through toxic cultural introjections.
  • Guilt.  Understandably, many people see no value in feelings of guilt.  Like shame, envy and jealousy, guilt is learned and ingrained through religious, institutional and family dogma.  One of the “moral” emotions, we can also learn to use it to self-motivate when we’re not living by our chosen values.  However, because guilt can be so intolerable, anger can often feel more acceptable.
  • Sadness. Grief. Most grief counselors will agree that anger is a big part of the grieving process.  The pain of sadness and grief can be so overwhelming that anger can feel like an enlivened choice to an otherwise gloomy state.

Unless we face the underlying pain that anger is shielding, these forms of self-protection will never satisfy our deeper needs. Anger can be an attractive elixir to the powerlessness we feel.  Anger can be a cheap source of power to some, but can never erase the pain that drives it.

Anger’s Context

 All anger has a source or root.  Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg, creator of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process believes that “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” Rosenberg contends that anger has much deeper and embedded roots within our social and political context.   In Rosenberg’s model, anger is often an outcome of systems (governments, institutions, organizations) that regulate human affairs through a process of domination.

In his book, The Powers that Be, theologian Walter Wink refers to these dominate systems as being ones in which a few people control the many to their own advantage.  Building on Wink’s work, Rosenberg adds that in dominant systems you have to train people to think in ways that self-suppress so they fit into the system.    He asserts that being able to liberate ourselves from anger is in a sense liberating ourselves from dominant systems.

Meeting our anger on neutral ground can be a life-changing, or as Marshall Rosenberg calls it, life-serving experience.  Anger, the “enemy” that we have been taught to emulate, avoid, loathe and repress has a deeper value if we are willing to explore. In 10 Steps that Transform Anger into Compassionate Connection, the authors write, “Every minute, every one of us is alive with needs and values seeking expression.”

To change our relationship to our anger we must first, get to know it more intimately. We must be wiling to trace its roots – wherever it takes us.  And most important we must observe patiently as anger tells its stories with an open and compassionate heart. If we can do this, we can taste a little more freedom with every experience.

Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment, subscribe, share, like and tweet this article. It’s appreciated.

Louise Altman, Partner, Intentional Communication Consultants

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Related articles: Talking Emotional Literacy, Emotional Mindfulness: What Anger, Vulnerability & Despair Can Teach Us, The Emotions Series – Impatience and Frustration

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  1. September 21, 2013 9:31 am

    Dear Louise

    This is a superb post, reflecting your deep experience working with human conflict. It makes me want to sit right down and work on responding to the questions.

    What seems most profound is this turn we can make from externalizing the source of the problem to engaging our own inquiry — an act of “befriending” that at its core is another path toward liberation.

    Beautifully done, and thank you.

    • September 22, 2013 4:18 pm

      Hi Dan,

      So pleased that you appreciated this article. This massive topic always eludes me. Because we constantly struggle with our over internalization and externalization of the source – and because it is an emotion to which we are often so averse. The brillant Joanna Macy points out that there are well established norms in the culture to keep us from having “difficult” conversations – whole topics that are off limits and quickly shut down.

      The questions always provoked fascinating and often deep responses. And often so illuminating to hear the responses of others. In the process the “sting” of publicly discussing something as personal and complex as anger, dissolving as more layers are revealed.

      I’ve never been in the camp of labeling emotions as destructive or negative and anger, of all of those emotions, often has very old and deep stories to tell.

      Thanks again,

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Rachel Gunn explores the indigenization of Hollywood genres, specifically the adaptation of the horror genre in a Canadian contest. Conflicts of nation intersect with those of gender as Gunn discusses the ways in which both John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps (2000) and David Cronenberg’s film Dead Ringers (1988) invert the traditionally masculine horror genre by interrogating the concept of the monstrous feminine. Gunn compares the films’ relationships to the Hollywood genre films from which they stem to the relationship between Canada and America as both the films and the nation are often perceived as similar to their monolithic cultural counterparts, but as Gunn argues, they differ in important ways.


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Use of Honest Broker Creation of a Data Set

An honest broker is an individual who has access to the desired data by virtue of his or her Hospital responsibilities and who is not involved as a listed researcher on the respective research study.

  • The honest broker accesses the desired medical record information and provides the researcher with de-identified data or a limited data set.
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An honest broker can provide a firewall between the investigator and subjects' identifiable information. For example, an honest broker could generate or receive a dataset and then strip out subject identifiers so that the data was no longer readily identifiable. They could either create a de-identified data set or a limited data set.

The CHOP Research Institute policy Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information for Research defines an honest broker and their role in research.

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Additional protections for confidential information:
The honest broker can add a layer of protection to enhance the confidentiality of subjects' data and specimens. This typically involves prospectively collected data and specimens. For example, an honest broker could encrypt data and specimens so that the researchers are no longer able to identify the individuals from whom they were obtained.

However, employing an honest broker is a decision that should be made with great care; it can prevent an investigator from being able to re-identify individual subject's data/specimens. There have been many studies where the use of an honest broker has prevented the investigator from going back to the subject or their records for additional data or to recruit subjects to participate in a new study.

An honest broker is often best used to code data specimens that are provided by an investigator or a registry/repository to recipients. By removing all links to individually identifiable data, the honest broker can facilitate secondary uses of data/specimens.

Converting identifiable data into data/specimens that are not readily identifiable:
When the research involves existing specimens - from clinical care or prior research - using an honest broker can alter the regulatory category of the research by providing the investigator with data and biospecimens that are not readily identifiable. This makes the secondary use of the data/specimens not human subjects research and therefore, without requirements for prior IRB review and approval. If an investigator strips out the identifiers themselves, the research would require a determination of exemption.

If the data provided by the honest broker contains dates or zip codes then the data set is considered a limited data set/biospecimens. The data provider and the data recipient must enter into a data use agreement before the data/specimens are shared. At CHOP, this does not require IRB review or approval. However, there are institutions whose requirements exceed those put forth in regulation.


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Smartphones has become a necessity for people these days. They are highly intelligent, and can perform just as many things as a desktop computer. Hence, it is important to understand the forensics concepts and challenges that mobile brings. With a wide variety of operating systems and models of phones being available in the market, CASA is an expert-level course that takes its students in an in-depth look of how forensics can be done on them.

In collaboration with Temasek Polytechnic, the Cellebrite Advanced Smartphone Analysis (CASA) course was offered to students from Temasek Polytechnic at a subsidized cost. Representing the diploma and ISACA, year 3 students Andy Chua and Chan Jian Hao from the Diploma in Digital Forensics attended the four-day course at Cliftons Singapore.

Within the four days of training, many useful concepts like ‘SQLite structure on mobile’, ‘Mobile artefacts recovery’ and ‘Smartphone Cloud Analysis’ on mobile forensics were covered. By the end of the course, Jian Hao and Andy has learnt how to perform acquisition and forensics analysis on iOS, Android, and Windows devices using the Cellebrite UFED. Many interesting case studies and sample devices were available during the course, and we even had the opportunity to crack the passwords on our own mobile devices.

As technology and security evolves, it is also important for forensics practitioners to stay updated. With courses like CASA, it will certainly be helpful in preparing students for the future.

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Capturing Dance: Exploring Movement with Computer Vision

A series of studies for choreography using the Kinect to explore movement in three-dimensions, movement over time and movement through distortion, as well as new modes of interaction between dancers and musicians.

Computational Cameras,The Nature of Code

We've created a series of software "tools" for capturing and manipulating Kinect footage of a live dancer through sound and gesture cues.

With these tools, we've produced a set of pre-recorded videos that explore each of these tools in a short choreographic "study." Each study touches upon a different aspect of using visual imagery to underline and transform the live dance performance.

We've also begun to experiment with manipulating the abstracted, kinect imagery through sound as a way of visualizing the interaction between musician and dancer.

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We would like to show the videos alongside a live installation that allows viewers to interact with the tools we've created so they can experience some of the effects for themselves.

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Obama + Winning = So what should Michelle wear to the inauguration ball?

Michelle Obama will go to at least 10 society balls within one night to mark Barack Obama’s inauguration. But what will she wear? Its been talked about alot in the US, especially after the controversy of the dress she wore on his election day, and now there’s plenty of articles disscussing what she should/could wear. She’s known for wearing a number of local designers work, but will she stick to it for this?

Two of the most interesting articles I’ve seen are:
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Traffic Rank

2,824,914 most visited website in the World
Traffic Rank is provided by Alexa

Visitors Localization

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Registering country code top level domains (ccTLD) can prevent potential competitors from taking advantage of your primary domain reputation. It is also one of the ways to improve country specific SEO and performance. (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-without-boarders-a-guide-to-international-seo-nick-paterman/60092/)

We have located images with missing ALT attribute.
Number of images: 31
Missing alt tag: 17

List of images with missing ALT attributes:

  • http://www.bizmerlin.com/images/google-play.png
  • images/arrow.gif (3 locations)
  • images/clients_logo/amzn.png
  • images/clients_logo/biz_logo.png
  • images/clients_logo/box.png
  • images/clients_logo/hcentive.png
  • images/clients_logo/logo_akg.png
  • images/clients_logo/logo_nlt.jpg
  • images/clients_logo/logo_patac.jpg
  • images/clients_logo/logo_msd.png
  • images/clients_logo/logo_nst.png
  • images/clients_logo/nestle_logo.png
  • images/clients_logo/macrotechies_logo.png
  • images/clients_logo/logocxc.png
  • ../images/logo.gif
The "alt" attribute provides a text equivalent for the image. If the browser cannot display an image the alt description will be given in its place. Furthermore, some visitors cannot see images as they might be blind in which the alt tag provides a valuable image description. Finally, search engines utilize the alt attribute for image search indexing. (www.w3.org/QA/Tips/altAttribute)

We have found following title:

"Business Management Software, Office ERP, Project and Task Tracking, Time & Expense Tracking, Appraisals, Assets, Calendars - BizMerlin"

Length: 135 characters

Warning: The title is 135 characters long. The title should not exceed 80 characters.

The <TITLE> element provides a short piece of text describing the document. The title is very important as it shows in the window title bars, bookmarks and search results. Title should be between 60 to 80 characters long. (www.w3.org/QA/Tips/good-titles)

Description Metatag

We have found following description:

"BizMerlin is a complete business management software platform. You can manage your sales, projects, company calendar, tasks, timesheets, expenses, appraisals and business assets."

Length: 179 characters

Warning: The description is 179 characters long. The optimal description should not exceed 160 characters (http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description).

The description attribute should provide a concise explanation of a Web page's content. Also, the description is often displayed on search engine results and can indirectly affect page ranking. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element#The_description_attribute)

Keywords Metatag

We have found 8 keywords:
  • business management software
  • office erp
  • project management
  • timesheets
  • timecards
  • appraisals
  • expenses reports
  • assets
    Length: 121 characters
    The keywords attribute was utilized by search engines to provide more accurate search results. Due to the over usage and spamming the keywords attribute has been phased out and is no longer relevant. Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in web search ranking.

    Text to HTML Ratio

    The Text to HTML ratio is 24.82%
    Original content is by far the single most important element to search engines. Low Text to HTML ratio indicates little content for search engines to index. We consider it to be good practice to have a Text to HTML ratio of at least 10% and ideal above 20%

    Keyword Density & Consistency

    Consistent Keywords % Density # Count T Title D Desc. H <H> A ALT B
    management software1.08%411---
    business management1.08%411---
    expense management0.81%3-----
    project management0.81%3-----
    time tracking0.81%3-----
    business management software0.81%311---
    complete business management0.54%2-1---
    management software platform0.54%2-1---
    reward employees fairly0.27%1-----
    get real time0.27%1-----

    Warning: Keywords density of above 5% migh have negative impact on search engine listing

    Keywords density and consistency are notable factors for optimal page SEO. Preferred keywords should have higher keywords density indicating their importance. Optimally, preferred keywords should also be consistently utilized in multiple essential areas of the page such as title, description meta tag, h1 through h6 headings, alt image attributes, backlinks and internal links anchor text. Keyword density of above 6% can indicate that the word or a phrase appears too many time in the content.

    No frames detected.
    It is not recommended to use frames or iframes because they can cause problems for search engines. It is best to avoid frames and inline frames whenever possible (searchenginewatch.com/article/2064573/Search-Engines-and-Frames). If frames must be utilized consider <noframes> tag. (www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noframes.asp).

    No flash detected.
    Flash and other reach-media technologies should primarily be utilized for decorative purposes. This makes your site more search engine friendly and improves accessibility (support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72746#1).

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    • 0

    • 1

      • Welcome to Bizmerlin
    • 6

      • Resource Planning
      • Project Management
      • Sales Management
      • Blog
      • Resources
      • Our Clients
    • 0

    • 0

    The
 to
 tags are used to define HTML headings. The
 tag should hold the title describing the content of a specific page therefore only one h1 tag is needed per page. There can be any number of h2 - h6 tags but they should be added in order of importance (www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp).

    The <!DOCTYPE> declaration tells the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in. It is good practice to always add the <!DOCTYPE> declaration to the HTML documents, so that the browser knows what type of document to expect. (www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_DOCTYPE.asp)

    Character Encoding

    UTF-8 (Unicode)
    Covers: Worldwide
    To display an HTML page correctly, the browser must know what character-set to use (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML).

    Declared Language: None
    Language Attribute: en (English)
    The HTML "lang" attributes and language metatag define the base language to be used for displaying text and characters on a Website.

    W3C Markup Validation

    Status: FAILED [58 errors, 2 warning(s)]
    It is good practice to use valid HTML/XHTML markup as it ensures that the search engines can read the website correctly as well as it improves cross browser compatibility (W3C Markup Validation Service).

    Deprecated HTML elements

    Good, no deprecated elements found.
    A deprecated element is one that has been outdated by newer constructs. Deprecated elements may become obsolete in future versions of HTML so it is recommended not to use them. (webdesign.about.com/od/htmltags/a/bltags_deprctag.htm)

    Nested HTML Tables

    Yes, nested tables detected.
    In general it is not recommended to use nested tables or to utilize tables for page layout. Nested tables are known to cause performance issues due to increased HTML size and rendering time. It is better to use CSS layout instead.

    Web Analytics

    No web anlytics tools found.
    Web Analytics Tools collect and measure information about visitor activity on a website. Well interpreted web traffic data is invaluable in determining a successfully web strategy and assessing the effectiveness of a website. At a minimum, we recommend to utilize at least one web analytics tool.

    A robots.txt file restricts access to search engine robots that crawl the web. (www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html)

    XML Sitemap

    Found following XML sitemap(s):
    Sitemaps inform search engines about pages available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL. XML sitemap should help search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. (http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html)

    The Favicon is a small icon associated with a website. The Favicon is important because it is displayed next to the website's URL in the address bar of the browser as well as in bookmarks and shortcuts. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon)

    Could not locate print-friendly CSS.
    Print-friendly pages are designed to fit on an 8.5"x11" or A4 sheet and usually include only the content of the page, along with source information. (webdesign.about.com/od/printerfriendly/a/aa041403a.htm)

    W3C CSS Validation

    Status: FAILED [34 error(s)]
    It is recommended to use valid CSS to ensure that the website displays correctly. (W3C CSS Validation Service).

    Page Rank

    PR: 2 out of 10 (Below Average)
    PageRank is Google's measure of the importance of a page. It is based on complex algorithmes evaluating page content, authority, keyword density, back links, traffic, demand and more. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank)

    Indexed Pages

    Estimated number of pages indexed by Google™: 256
    Estimated number of pages indexed by Bing™: 738
    The higher number of indexed pages the more content search engines can index, which increases overall value of the website. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing)

    Domain Age

    Your domain was registerd for the first time: 2 years, 1 month, 13 days ago.
    Age of the domain is one of the many signals that search engines utilize for ranking. Brand new domains generally have more difficult time to rank high for the first few months. (http://www.coconutheadphones.com/does-domain-agematter)

    Domain Expiration

    Your domain expires in: 7 years, 10 months, 17 days.
    Domain expiration far in to the future is considered a good practice as it promotes confidence in your website, decreases chances of losing domain and in certain cases might help with search engine ranking. (https://www.hover.com/blog/three-reasons-to-renew-your-domain-names-for-five-years/)

    IP Canonicalization

    No, your site's IP does not redirect to bizmerlin.com.
    Some web spiders index websites using IP as well as domain name which can cause duplicate content if there is no IP Canonicalization. (www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization)

    URL Canonicalization

    No, the www.bizmerlin.com and bizmerlin.com do not resolve to the same URL.
    Domain name with WWW and without can be considered as different pages causing duplicate content for search engines. (www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization)

    Page Speed

    Google Page Speed score: 64% (Average)
    Rq. Requests Hst. Hosts LT Load time Html Img Images JS JavaScript CSS F Flash O Other PS Page Size
    8575.01s91.95 KB1.21 MB899.02 KB26.88 KB0 B17.18 KB2.22 MB

    Avoid landing page redirects
    Your page has no redirects. Learn more about avoiding landing page redirects.
      Enable compression
      You have compression enabled. Learn more about enabling compression.
        Leverage browser caching
        Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.
          Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:
          Reduce server response time
          Your server responded quickly. Learn more about server response time optimization.
            Minify CSS
            Compacting CSS code can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse times.
              Minify CSS for the following resources to reduce their size by 1.2KiB (19% reduction).
              Minify HTML
              Compacting HTML code, including any inline JavaScript and CSS contained in it, can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse times.
                Minify HTML for the following resources to reduce their size by 584B (11% reduction).
                Minify JavaScript
                Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time.
                  Minify JavaScript for the following resources to reduce their size by 4.8KiB (9% reduction).
                  Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
                  Optimize images
                  Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.
                    Optimize the following images to reduce their size by 160.4KiB (16% reduction).
                    Prioritize visible content
                    You have the above-the-fold content properly prioritized. Learn more about prioritizing visible content.

                      PageSpeed analyzes webpages and evaluates its performance while providing suggestions on reducing page load times. Google is now incorporating website speed in search ranking (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/site-speed)

                      Server Information

                      Server IP:
                      Server Location:
                      US CALIFORNIA, Carlsbad

                      Name Server 1:
                      ns1.bluehost.com (
                      Name Server 2:
                      ns2.bluehost.com (
                      Your server's IP address and location have minor impact on the country specific SEO. It is recommend to host the website in the country where the number of vistors is desired to be the highest. Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU)

                      Safe Browsing

                      Yes - This site is not currently listed as suspicious.
                      Safe Browsing is a service provided by Google that enables applications to check URLs against Google's constantly updated lists of suspected phishing and malware pages. If your site is marked as unsafe see our guide on how to fix websites blocked by google safe browsing

                      Directory Browsing

                      Great, your server has directory browsing disabled.
                      Protect Webserver directories from unwanted browsing. To enhance security, directory browsing should be disabled unless you have a specific reason to enable it. If you enable directory browsing, make sure that you only enable it on the particular directory or directories that you want to share. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731109)

                      Whois Privacy

                      Administrative Contact:
                      Technical Contact:
                      Whois Privacy is a service that prevents domain owner contact information from being displayed in the publicly available Whois records. This can help to cut down on unwanted spam but utilizing Whois privacy should be evaluated against business model and branding strategy.

                      Server Signature

                      Good, your server does not provide version information.
                      Attackers can utilize server signature versioning information to their advantage therefore it is recommended to disable it when possible. (Disable server signature for Apache or IIS).


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Mount Hood - Portland

PORTLAND I LOVE YOU. Dave and I met when we were 14 years old. We completely disagree about what he was wearing the first time we spoke in 10th grade. I swear it was blue pants and a Hawaiian shirt. It was 1991’ish so it would make sense based on fashion trends of that time, but he claims he didn’t own blue pants. I’ve let it go though – kinda. These days we disagree about other memories. For example, the time he almost killed us driving to Ocean City, Maryland because his sandal got caught on the brake pedal. (That happened and there were witnesses […]

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Eat Pray Drink Tour 2016

Happy freaking birthday. June of 2016 was one of the best and worst months I’ve had in quite some time. The month started with me leaving the job I held for the past five years which was closely followed by a big birthday of an age in which we will not speak of and then a small injury on my hand. Now I know that these 3 actions are clearly just first world problems but as they occurred simultaneously, it felt like being punched in the gut. I tried to smile through it all and pretend like it was the best thing that could have happened […]

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My favorite spring things

Ah Spring! A time of renewal. The time of year when we peel away the layers and expose what’s underneath. We rush to the gym, obsessively clean, and breathe the fresh air until allergies take over. The past few months have been rainy. Perhaps symbolic of washing away the old and ringing in the new. Summer is right around the corner so before it is too late I wanted to share some of my favorite finds this spring!

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My Household Inventory

For the past two years I’ve been obsessively keeping a household inventory on a spreadsheet. The list contains every product we use in our household from face soap to toilet paper. It includes vitamins, beauty products, cleaners, paper products, and every filter it takes to keep our household running. I can tell you how much we use it every product in a 30 day span and I’m very proud of that. It helps with budgeting and it also helps me see when were being excessive.

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High School Friends

It was you who pushed me out of my comfort zone. Eagerly I went from a broken pre-teen to a hopeful pre-adult. I’m sorry I spent so much time trying to rush high school. I wish I would have savored more moments because you all turned out to be such amazing people. It would be nice to have more memories. The memories I do have, I treasure. Right now I would give anything for a 3rd Base hoagie and one more climb up the rocks at Altmiller.

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Middle School Friends

NKOTB Tickets

Most of you I’m proud to say I’m still friends with today. The transition from an awkward adolescent to a hyper teen was made possible because of you. There isn’t a day that passes where I don’t think of you. You taught me what it felt like to be included. During this time, I left the guarded gates of Catholic School and ventured into the scary unknown of public education. I wasn’t the only one. There were quite a few of us who were making the middle school jump to the brave new world of regular clothes and secular teachers. Gone were the Friday masses, Holy Days of obligation, and small class sizes.

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Cinema 4D Tutorial

Outside of my normal studio (Local Universe) I have been joining Adrian’s Cinema 4D application tutorials. He goes through step by step some simple and very effect tools in which to create objects, lighting and general application interface basics. The first tutorial was to to create a bottle and be able to put water inside. The … More Cinema 4D Tutorial

  Below is a trailer for the film FLYSPY. It is a short film directed by award-winning Dan Smith. I had the opportunity to work alongside the team making this short film, of which I produced the storyboards, in the storyboard team. <iframe src=”; width=”500″ height=”281″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>

Smint Poster

I have put together some screen shots showing the process I went through on designing and making my poster for the Smint competition. To begin (above screenshot), I went to download plug-ins for the energy brushes in use in Photoshop. I sourced these at Once I had chosen the brush I liked, I arrange … More Smint Poster

Smint designs unveiling

  Here are my three initial designs. Something bold, bright and bursting with freshness! Feel free to comment on any critical advice to improve please! Or if you don’t like it then why not? what works best? what product on the poster works best? remember I can only post off one design.

Tutor feedback

Ricardo and I had a great chat about the Smint Poster competition, and my designs for my entries. Turns out I am going down the wrong route! We discussed about what the brief is actually asking me to do and he helped me realise the mistakes I had made and how to actually approach this … More Tutor feedback

Smint Poster

So, I’m going for the, Facebook based, Smint Poster Competition after Adrian Beasley presented it to the class on Tuesday, and these are the first few designs I’ve come up with. I based my designs around what I would see at a glance when walking around London, especially underground. I went for the diagonal design to … More Smint Poster


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Finding Beauty

After the lecture on Elements of Design and finding beauty in our locations, with Ricardo, I chose to look more specifically at the architecture of Liverpool Street Station. I took notice at the roof structure of the station, due to the complexity and simplicity of the structure. Straight beams intersecting with each other supporting a … More Finding Beauty

Concrete Figures

For a final outcome I have chosen to develop my concrete zoo even further. By making into a reality. Taking the research and try outs I had done using the origami, then using that style and creating digital ones; I have used the shapes I created and made templates. To make these animals, I had … More Concrete Figures

Moving Image

Dissertation Class For my dissertation class, Studio 24 ‘Words In Space’, we had a film session. For my dissertation I am proposing a question of whether the language and artwork in comic books are illustrative or a form of graphic design. Therefore, the films we watched were of great interest to me. Each film was … More Moving Image

Visual Narrative

Foreword As a lead on from the visual metaphor workshop, I took my digital collage and put them to one side. I have decided to take a more illustrative/drawing approach to the next step of development. I have also decided to now just focus on one text, which is, Ann Vickers: Southampton Zoo.   Illustration Getting … More Visual Narrative


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monday and thursday mornings

9.30-12, $160/ month (silver- $3/gramm)

rent a bench:

$160/month, 1 afternoon (1-5 pm), just for those who took at least 1 month of class.

private lessons

$60/person for 2 people/hour

make your own wedding band”.

$475/ 5 hours plus material

bachelorette party class

3 hours, including cake, champagne, snacks and silver.

special classes (will be announced)

precious metal clay

setting stones

other occasions

-mothers day

-valentines day

-holiday gifts

-mother-daughter time

-summer camps

sunday classes (will be announced)

10-1, $75

4 responses to “CLASS SCHEDULE

  1. bonnie myer

    hello jane, i have three of your gold stacking rings which i love; one with rubies; i would love to sign up for classes in the late summer, early fall if you are planning on having them; thank you bonnie myer

  2. barbara Jarvis

    Hi- I am interested in learning more about your Thursday evening class. I have never made jewelry but very interested in learning to make silver jewelry. Thanks, Barb

  3. Annie Hayden

    I am interested in your jewelry classes on Thursday mornings. Wondering if there is availability?

    • hi annie.
      thats great. we just had the first class yesterday but you can join next week and then just pay for 3 sessions this month ($120)…sorry i don’t check my blog all the time but i hope you can still join….let me know via email (…i hope i can welcome you soon.
      best, jane

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Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

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Flynn’s girlfriend, January, is missing, he was the last to see her, and nothing is adding up. Flynn has a secret of his own, which I found a slight bit predictable.

There are not any slow or dull parts in this book. The characters and plot are well developed.

I did not have any ah-ha moments but it did not lose my interest.

This made an interesting read, I read it in one evening. Certainly not my favorite, but a good story nonetheless.

Available for pre-order at Amazon.

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Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to January Gray and January Gray Reviews with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

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Tag Archives: hearing

No cotton swabs!

For my first post in so many years I thought I would give a “tip” I learned while working with Nola Aronson’s Advanced Audiology. No cotton swabs! You know the ones that are like little sticks with cotton on the tip. … Continue reading

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Welcome, Baby Dylan!

Hiii!! Sorry for the brief hiatus. I was busy giving birth and caring for a newborn baby, lol!!!

So yes, the baby is finally here!!! It’s a boy and Mr S and I named him Dylan Gabriel Wai-Zhun Soong. He weighed a decent 3.32kg when he was born, hahaha! No wonder I felt like my tummy was about to explode towards the end of my pregnancy. And those stretch marks…!! 😱 I only had very few when I had Naomi but when I was carrying Dylan, they just popped up every week in my last trimester. Oh well, they are my proud battle scars!

One thing you get a lot when people know you’re pregnant with your second one is that they’ll tell you it’ll be a lot easier with the second one. Some make it sound like the baby will slide out of you just like that!

So, I went into the birthing suite with the expectation that it’s gonna be so much easier this time. But goshhhh, was I wrong! I certainly dilated a lot faster but still, the baby wasn’t in a good position so we waited a good 12 hours since I went into the hospital before he finally came out and greeted me with his sepet eyes, lol!!! Also went through the whole epidural and suction ordeal ‘cos he didn’t turn and wasn’t coming down the birth canal as smoothly as expected.

Anyway, the important thing is that he’s out, lol! And he’s a healthy baby! That’s all that matters.

Dylan newborn

Welcome, little one!!!

Naomi meets Dylan

Naomi was quite pleased to meet didi for the very first time.

Dylan and I were stuck in the hospital for extra three days this time as the baby had jaundice and his bilirubin levels didn’t go down as quickly as expected so he had to undergo phototherapy. 😣 The wait to be discharged was horrible each day. We were let down again and again and poor bubba had to undergo the heel prick test each day! He also didn’t bleed easily so they had to really squeeze the blood out of him for the tests. It was so heartbreaking to watch 💔

Now that he’s finally home, I kinda wish he would sleep like he did on that very first night he was born, hahahaha!! This little fellow just doesn’t sleep well at night and it’s driving us nuts. Plus we have a demanding toddler in our hands as well now. You can imagine the chaos we get in the house, huh?

But still, this is the memory we will create as a family together. So, I still wouldn’t change a thing.

Dylan 1

Dylan 2

Dylan 3

Dylan 2 Weeks Old

Dylan 2 Weeks Old 2

Dylan's Feet

We love you, Dylan! Thank you for coming to us and being a part of our family. Praise be to God!

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Interior decor & photography enthusiast.

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Mortgage Slaves

Ramsey Su writes something intelligent about the “foreclosure crisis:

If the intent is to help homeowners, then foreclosure is undoubtedly the best solution. Household balance sheets have been destroyed by taking on too much debt via the purchase of inflated assets. With so little savings, a household with negative equity almost implies negative net worth. Walking away from the mortgage immediately repairs the balance sheet.

Credit may be damaged, but homeowners can rebuild it. And by renting something they can afford, instead of the McMansion they cannot, homeowners are most likely to have some money left over each month that they can save toward a down payment on a house they can eventually afford.

via Why Be a Nation of Mortgage Slaves? –

Read the whole thing. Foreclosed poperties will be sold. Foreclosure does give “homeowners” a path to actually becoming real homeowners in the future. I have some worry about “blighted neighborhoods”, but that seems preferable to locking people into permanent jeapordy.

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Mantra Magazine Art Feature!

I’m so excited & honored to find my hand painted mantra cards featured in this national magazine, Mantra Magazine! Click here to ORDER your set! This issue features more than 75 of the… Continue reading

Holiday Ornaments & VT Made Potpourri

My new line of Holiday Ornaments are now available at Aromed  choose from a wide selection of handmade wooden ornaments to marbled glass ornaments! If you live afar you can order via etsy by… Continue reading

NEW Holiday Designs!

My NEW Holiday Designs are now available in greeting cards & journals, click here to order

Hello Fall

Here are my newest creations, available on my etsy , click photo for link.

New Directions & New Styles

As we welcome the upcoming fall season here in VT. I wanted to share some of my latest pieces. New Geo patterns, Color Block Washes and Illustrations.

Art from the heart

Day 1 of “Art From The Heart”.. This week has been an emotional roller coaster! Most of you know about my close friend, Erika Martin Smith and her baby Rowan have been the… Continue reading

New Floral watercolor works in progress

New works in progress, feeling the need for a little softness and calming vibes in this crazy world.

New design ideas & New Journal

My heart is so heavy with all the hate in this world, and it makes it even harder to explain this crazy world to our kids..we must lead by example and stop hating… Continue reading

New Art….We Rise

Here’s my latest piece in my new series, this one goes out to all the mama’s raising multiple kiddos and trying to manifest your visions and dreams through chaos….”We Rise” “We Rise”….Original on… Continue reading

New Series

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When it comes to new music I’m not the hippest cat on the scene.  I rely heavily on my brother to introduce me to anything interesting out there, which he dutifully does for me every year.  But one newer band that I did find out about before he’s yearly ‘Best of…” CD is Mumford & Sons.  In the last year and half or so, I’ve probably listened to their album Sigh No More over a hundred times.   I love it.  I love the folksy sound, the beautiful harmonies, the passion, and the energy.  Their next album, Babel, comes out on September 24th, and it thankfully looks to be more of the same.  I for one will be right there waiting to buy it on day one.

And by there, I mean here at my computer.  I’ll probably just download it from Amazon.

Here’s one of the new songs:

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This week is the week for the Beebe church of Christ VBS.  So if you’re looking to pack the kids off somewhere for an hour and a half or so, we start at 7:00 pm.  It’s a fun superhero theme this year.  Of course it isn’t just for kids.  One neat thing that we do is offer some really interesting classes for adults.  Tonight’s was a great talk on Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  Although, if you can’t make it to the live version, we will have the lessons posted on our website.  Look under sermons.

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Low EMF Sauna: A Welcome Alternative for a Home Sauna

You love to visit the spa or get away on vacation to take advantage of the pleasant, healing properties of a sauna. The problem is you have to take time out of your day to make an appointment, not to mention vacations are far and few between. Installing a low EMF far infrared sauna in your own home can provide you with all of the benefits of a sauna, an investment that will repay you with many rewards over the years.

Bring the Sauna to Your Own Backyard

When you make the decision to install a sauna at home, you will have the pleasure of stepping into your warm haven at any time you please. Whether you want a good soak first thing in the morning or the moment you walk in the door from work, your sauna will give you something to look forward to every day. You’ll find that it will offer you many benefits as you sweat out the toxins that accumulate in your bloodstream on a daily basis.

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Simple Tips on How to Find the Best Far-Infrared Sauna Reviews

With the many infrared sauna brands coming out, it can be difficult to find the product that best meets your needs. Therefore, it is important to consider several critical factors to ensure that you are making a worthwhile investment. To increase your knowledge, read reviews for any products you may consider purchasing.

The expression “needle in a haystack” comes to mind when trying to find the best far infrared sauna reviews among the countless product reviews online. But there are certain tricks you can use to narrow down your search.

Stay Away From Sponsored Reviews

By its very nature, sponsored reviews are tasked to focus only on one thing – the brand of infrared sauna that’s spending big bucks on these paid sponsorships. Read more from this article:

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Employ a Variety of Colors to Maximize and Enhance Far-Infrared Sauna Benefits

Chromotherapy is an alternative form of treatment that utilizes colors to treat various conditions and afflictions. It is often used as a complement to other forms of treatments and therapies. In today’s age, chromotherapy is also used to augment far infrared sauna benefits.

By infusing your sauna with different colors of the visible light spectrum, your sessions will enhance your health and well-being. Each color imparts a therapeutic effect that resonates mentally and physically. Understanding the influence of each color will certainly help you to gain the most from your home far-infrared sauna.

The color of energy, red stimulates the parts of the body associated with energy. It increases your pulse rate and activates your muscles, all to the benefit of your heart. It’s good for fighting fatigue and colds, as well as for increasing blood circulation. Red can also stimulate various organs and senses if used for shorter periods.

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Canada – Increases in the compulsory CPP contribution rate were followed by decreases in the private savings research finds

In recent years, there has been a strong push to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Ontario has already set out a plan to create an additional mandatory provincial program mirroring the CPP called the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), which is slated for implementation on January 1, 2017. Yet the debate about expanding compulsory public pensions has largely overlooked important consequences for private savings, and thus may have overstated the benefits of such a policy move.

Increasing compulsory savings can have the unintended consequence of reducing the amount that households save privately. Households who are content with their balance between current consumption and saving for the future might respond to increased mandatory savings by reducing voluntary savings, maintaining their overall consumption-saving balance. This means that if governments mandate higher CPP or ORPP contributions, Canadians may simply reduce their private savings in vehicles such as RRSPs and TFSAs. In the end, there will be a reshuffling of retirement savings, with more money going to forced savings and less to voluntary savings.

This study empirically examines the extent to which historical increases to CPP contributions affected the private savings of Canadian households. The data used accounts for the saving patterns and demographics of Canadian households for select years from 1986 to 2008, spanning a substantial increase to the CPP contribution rate. The analysis focuses on important changes made to the CPP between 1996 and 2004, when the total contribution rate rose from 5.6 percent to 9.9 percent of insurable earnings as part of reforms to improve the program’s long term outlook.

The results show that past increases in the compulsory CPP contribution rate were followed by decreases in the private savings rate of Canadian households. This drop in private savings is not explained by changing interest rates or shifts in demographics such as age, income, or home ownership. Specifically, the results associate a 0.895 percentage point drop in the private savings rate of the average Canadian household with each percentage point increase in the total CPP contribution rate, holding other factors constant.

The benefits of increasing the CPP or enacting the ORPP must be weighed against the loss in flexibility and choice offered by private savings vehicles such as RRSPs and TFSAs. For instance, voluntary vehicles like RRSPs can be used for buying a home, obtaining skills training, withdrawing in case of a terminal illness, or fully transferring assets to a beneficiary upon death.

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How to Use Facebook for Recruiting

By Lorena Roberts on January 8, 2018

Posting jobs on can get you a variety of applicants. Some good and some bad. But you might get tired of sifting through applications that aren’t necessarily qualified for the job you posted. You might feel like you’re wasting more time evaluating applicants than you are being productive. Which is why it’s important that you recruit smart. One of the best ways to recruit for jobs is through social media. Not only does it give you insight into the kind of person you are considering hiring, but you can be much more picky about who you are considering for the job!

Facebook is one of the most convenient ways for employers to recruit. You can find out so much about a person through their likes, comments, posts, and pictures. Not to mention that people tend to trust companies more when they have an active social media.

Facebook has a pretty even age and gender distribution, and about five new profiles are created every second. It continues to be the most active social media, so by recruiting through Facebook, you’re giving yourself the best options there are to fill the job you’re looking to fill.

Did you know….?

There’s a “jobs” tab on Facebook in the US and Canada, where employers can post a job and interested applicants can send their information to you via messenger in an instant. Use your company’s Facebook page to post open jobs and a link to the application. Applicants will see your job post on Facebook as “bold” and will allow them to feel a more personal connection with you and the company.

Facebook recruiting allows anyone to recruit for you — it’s the most cost-effective way to actively seek out candidates for your opening.

Use location services to find groups with common interests:

Posting a job opening for a graphic designer in a graphic design group will bring you lots of applicants with the background you’re looking for. Half the battle is advertising the job opportunity in a place that the perfect candidate will find it!

If you’re looking for “new blood” and “fresh ideas” and you think a recent graduate may be the perfect fit, advertise through the “University Class of 20XX” to advertise your job posting! Make sure your post is public so it can be shared from person to person.

Get your current employees involved…

The more active your company is on social media, the more trusting applicants tend to be. If you can post a video of “a day at the office” and tag employees, the more likely it is for you to get applicants who are drawn to that kind of work environment and personal interaction.

Friends of current employees, or applicants that have mutual friends with your employees, might also be good people to recruit. There’s one reference you won’t have to check and then double check :)

Employee referrals build the community of your company. The more people you have working together who have good relationships with each other, the more likely it is that your company will be more productive and just a happier place to be in general.

Check into your applicants by checking out their public profile:

When a person makes part of their life public, it’s to your benefit to see what kinds of things they post about themselves. You probably don’t want someone who works for you and represents your company to have bad online behavior. Maybe they’ve posted about previous employers negatively. Maybe they’re openly racist and publish offense material. Or maybe they post inappropriate photos of themselves and their friends intoxicated or partying.

Recruiting through Facebook might not be your first idea when it comes to finding the perfect person for your company. But there are many things about Facebook that you, as an employer, could use to your advantage! It’s cost-effective, efficient, and very easy to do. Once you post a job listing, don’t stop there! The more you post, the more attention you’ll draw to your page and to your company. That means more eyes will see your posting – giving it the potential to be shared among hundreds of people.

Think of your Facebook page for your company as you would your personal, professional Facebook page. You want to create an awareness and identity of your company just as you do for yourself. The more photos albums of what it’s like to work at your company, the more positive people will view you! You want to tell the public a story and leave them wondering what kind of people work at this company? Do they always have this much fun?!

Before you know it, more people will reach out about your recent job posting than you ever thought possible. The power of a few simple clicks can instantly solve the empty cubicle in your office. Happy recruiting!

By Lorena Roberts

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University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Lorena graduated from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a BA in Honors Psychology. She is currently interviewing for PhD School Psychology graduate programs across the country and hopes to research early math curriculum and instruction. Along with writing for Uloop, Lorena is a preschool teacher, K-12 substitute teacher, and math tutor. She enjoys taking her Whippet mix, Gio, to the dog park and drinking hot chocolate in front of Netflix. She's known for her strong opinions, busy schedule, and obsession with cute dogs. If you want to reach her, email her at

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How wonderful it is to look at each creature and notice the amount of expertise shown in each one.

I often think to myself. . . what kind of power could create such magnificent creatures?

The power of the Holy Spirit. . . . . amazing indeed!


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The Great Judge Dredd Megazine Catch Up, Part 4: The Graphic Novel Reprints

Well, we’re here at last. In this final entry for the series – and longest entry in the blog by far – I’ll be going through every damn floppy in my possession that comes bagged with all copies of the Megazine these days. Interestingly enough, I discovered that they’ve included these reprints for quite some time after buying a limited printing copy of Megazine 211 recently. The difference then was that the reprints would be inside the Megazine itself, doubling its length from the 64 pages it comes in today. The advantage of that method was that it would be printed in the same large size, whereas these floppies are slightly smaller, condensed versions of strips. The paper stock’s also thinner, meaning there’s much more noticeable bleeding of inks from the other side of a page.

It’s great that they’re included though, and they’re just a fantastic idea in general I think, giving readers a look at strips that they may have missed, particularly since the majority of these will probably never see the light of day in a proper collection, since there’s not exactly any demand for them.

Before I go, note that I’ve listed all of these in alphabetical order, instead of by their accompanied Megazine number, to make for easier reading. What issue of the Meg they were released with is still there though, as are the respective areas of first publication, hopefully letting those of you looking to pick a particular one up find the copy of the Megazine or 2000AD you’re looking for. Also note that, once again, the pictures aren’t mine, but property of their respective owners whom I’ve always linked.

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Learn to use library’s online tools

BizCollectionMedJosephine Community Libraries is offering a workshop to help members of the business community access online resources at 5:30 pm on Thursday, October 8 in the Ben Bones Room of the Grants Pass branch, 200 NW C Street. The Business Resource Workshop is free, but space is limited, and a spot can be reserved by calling the Grants Pass branch at 541-476-0571 or sending an email to info@josephinelibrary.org.

The presentation will include a brief introduction to the library’s online resources, which include the Business Collection, the Small Business Resource Center, Business Insights: Global, and Business Economics and Theory. Those attending will have the opportunity see a demonstration of how the searchable collections work and ask questions. Online resources include sample business plans and a range of magazine and scholarly articles on topics such as marketing, management, and consumer relations. Anyone with a free library card can access the databases online—click here for more information.

“Libraries excel at delivering information and helping people find the answers to questions,” JCLI Program Manager Patricia Snyder said. “Answers can translate to economic power.”

This workshop is offered as part of the Expanding Opportunities Program, which has been funded by the Oregon State Library through the federal Library Services and Technology Act. The grant-funded program explores how to help those running or starting a business learn about library resources. The program’s other areas of focus include helping people improve their employability and connect with education resources.

For more information, contact JCLI Program Manager Patricia Snyder, 541-476-0571 extension 111, or psnyder@josephinelibrary.org.


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Tripped Breakers: Causes and Solutions

Circuit breakers tripping are a common occurrence at home. While hopefully not too common, tripped breakers can indicate anything from a blown fuse to a ground fault. Circuit breakers ‘trip’, or shut off power to an area when one of these dangerous events occurs. The nature of the problem will likely depend on whether or not resetting the breaker works. Often, the breaker will continue to trip after you have reset it and used the device or outlet that initiated the trip. A short circuit or overloaded circuit are often the primary causes of tripped breakers. Here is a look at some of the causes and solutions for a tripped breaker.

Overloaded Circuit

When the circuit is trying to support a higher electrical load than it is capable of supporting, it will overload. An excessive amount of current running through the breaker will ‘break the circuit’ as a preventative measure to protect the circuit from overheating. Most of the time, a circuit overload is induced from having too many devices plugged into one outlet or multiple outlets running on one circuit. To address overloaded circuits and prevent them from occurring, be sure to relocate high power consuming items, such as heaters, lamps, and hair dryers to to different circuit. Avoid plugging in and using multiple devices on a single circuit. Loose connections can also cause overloads. Shut off the power and inspect outlets for loose wires. Also, check the electrical panel box for a loose hot wire running to the breaker. Tightening these connections should resolve the problem. If not, you may have a more serious problem.

Short Circuits

A short circuit is a more serious cause of a tripped breaker. This occurs when the hot wire comes into contact with another hot wire or neutral wire. If there is a break in the wire in the circuit, a short can also occur. The problem with short circuits is that they could be caused by a device plugged into an outlet or by your home wiring itself. If you suspect that a device plugged into an outlet is the causes, shut off power and inspect the cords of the device for damage. Next, check the outlet itself for damage or a burning smell. Open the outlet to expose the wires and inspect the insulation on the wires for damage and ensure that a black and white wire are not touching. Continue to repeat this process for all outlets on the circuit. If you cannot find the problem, the problem may be a ground fault.

Ground Faults

A ground fault is essentially the same problem as a short circuit except the hot wire comes into contact with the bare copper ground wire or the metal outlet box. Like a short circuit, you should inspect all outlets on the circuit until you locate the problem. Ground faults, like shorts, can be hard to diagnose. The best thing to do is shut off lights, unplug everything from the outlets, reset the breaker, and take notice if it trips immediately. If this happens, the problem may be in the wiring–in the switches or outlets. If it does not trip, the short may be located in something plugged into the outlet. In this case, plug everything back into the outlet until you’ve determined the responsible device and have it repaired or replaced. If you are still uncertain or suspect a more serious problem, call a professional electrician.


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Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite!

July 22, 2011

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite is one of the many mantras I have picked up from other writers over the years.  During the past ten days, I have been finding out just how hard a task that is.  Having rewritten the first chapter of Obsidian Fields time and time again, I have finally settled on a version which I am happy with – for now.  There are so many ways to say the same thing.  It’s choosing the right words that counts.  As a poet, I appreciate the importance and weight given to every word in a line.  As a prose writer, the enormity of the task can be overwhelming.

As with any task, the secret is to break it down into small manageable chunks.  This is where the technique of setting targets comes in useful, as long as they are S.M.A.R.T of course i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable/Agreed, Relevant and Timebound.

When I started the M.A. project, time was a major concern.  Achieving 20,000 words in the space of two months seemed to me to be a big ask.  Having broken it down into a daily quota of one thousand, it doesn’t seem so daunting.  My current rate is about an hour per page to produce five pages of poetic prose per day.  I begin the next day by rereading and editing before continuing with the story.  This process is similar to the PERL-cycle: Planning, Executing, Reflecting and Learning but still a long way off from the challenge of writing a novel in a month, as some writers challenge themselves to do in November each year.

I have learned the importance of making time in the week for activities that are not writing related so as to approach the keyboard afresh each morning.  Not as easy as it sounds when writing is such a pleasure.  Nevertheless, one becomes stiff after hours in front of a computer screen, so I have taken up swimming  again in order to maintain a work/life balance.  The advantage of this physical exercise is that it begins with an ‘s’.  According to Julia Cameron, activities which begin with this letter are ways of ‘filling the well’.  In other words ‘artist dates.’

On Wednesday evening this week, I attended a reading by the Vane Women at Darlington Arts’ Centre.  One of their members read a story about a group of elderly people getting together to save their local swimming pool.  Each character was given a nickname appropriate to their swimming style. The story was a surreal delight.  I dread to think what  my name would be!  Judith, jellyfish – perhaps?

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    No matter how many times I edit a piece i still find mistakes. i bought a KIndle and I’m over the moon with it. I’ve never read so much in the last 6 weeks. But I’ve found many errors in books written by well known authors. So my conclusion is do your best but don’t worry if a few gets through

    • I know what you mean about editing, Mary. It helps to have someone else read over things as they often spot errors etc. that the author does not. Although I don’t have a kindle, I’ve been reading online via and have found e-books to be full of errors also.
      The difference I find with reading from a screen is that I read more slowly, taking more notice of the spelling and syntax.
      The problem I’ve found lately is that the downloads aren’t always available when I want to access them. Can’t beat a book in the hand!

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A Much Needed Perez

The Gathering

Listened to Bethel Church’s podcast last night and Bill Johnson shared about a significant event this coming April. In his Resistance, Persistence, and Breakthrough sermon, he disclosed how Lou Engle had a prophetic dream last December. In this dream, God told him to lay his hands on Bill so him and the Bethel Church family can receive a double portion of Azusa Street revival that produced at least 600 million souls.

Bill shared about how Bob Jones also prophesied in the past about one billion souls coming to God. Another prophet also spoke that after 100 years, there will be another Azusa Street revival with a double portion of anointing. This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival.

As a result, they are renting a big coliseum for this gathering this April. There will be prayer and fasting. The whole Bethel church and their Bible School will head to Pasadena, CA not just to commemorate this anniversary but to receive what God has for them.

A Holy Envy

There were still a lot of details in the podcast but my heart was set to that mandate God is giving them. I thought in my heart, “how about us Lord? When will You use my people for the harvest of souls in Your kingdom.”

I have been writing a book about Revival in the Philippines and this involves 12 years of research, prayer and allowing God to form this call in me. I know and I know deep within my heart and soul that God is using our people in the last day outpouring. This is written all over our history as a nation (more details in the book). We have a call to bring the gospel to the Middle East. We have a destiny to usher in revival in this region.

So things like this gathering in Pasadena, breaks me. Because if there’s one thing I desire, it’s to see His glory come on earth.

Selfish Prayer

Selfish as it may seem but my knees were on the floor when the podcast ended.  I asked God to give the Philippines a Perez. In Genesis 38: 29, we can see that Perez and Zerah were twins inside Tamar’s womb. The later was supposedly the oldest (whom the covenant blessing should be passed on), but Perez stuck his hand out in the air to get that blessing. The midwife tied a scarlet thread in his arm signifying that he came in first because he broke through.

And this is my selfish prayer: like Jacob, this anointing may not be our birthright but I want the Philippines to be a Perez sticking her hand in the heavenly realms screaming, “I  want this Lord! I want this portion. I want this glory. Use our people for this mandate God.”

Do we have the right resources and strategy? No. Do we have the people ready to do it? No.

But can He change a nation in a day? Can He do whatever pleases Him? Can He do the impossible? The answer in all these is yes. So I am here willing and ready to receive every possibility! Because I am a Jacob generation. I am a Filipino. I am Perez!

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