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Cam Tulloch of Belgrade, Montana has been selected as the recipient of the Hamilton Relay 2014 Deaf Community Leader Award for the state of Montana. His peers describe him as being positive, loyal and kind and a valued member of the Deaf community on a local and state level.
Cam's knowledge of accounting and finances has made him a great asset to the organizations in which he is involved. He has been the junior trustee treasurer for the Montana Association of the Deaf (MAD) since 2013. He has also been treasurer for the Gallatin Association of the Deaf (GAD) since 2009, and he served as the GAD's representative to the MAD board.
Cam is an outdoorsman which has served him well as co-chairperson for the Big Sky Recreation Association of the Deaf (BRSAD). He is also the auditor and co-chairperson for the BRSAD's Deaf Campout.
We commend Cam Tulloch for his hard work and loyalty to the Deaf community and are proud to present him with the Hamilton Relay 2014 Deaf Community Lead Award for the state of Montana.
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The eighth issue of Victory Journal, the large-format New York sports mag, uses footballs' Mario Balotelli to introduce the Heroes and Villains theme. The issue also features Lance Armstrong, Derek Jeter, the late Soviet hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov, and Ann Casey (aka Panther Girl). You can read the Casey piece here.

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Trump's social-media order isn't crazy, and it will probably work.
After becoming enraged that Twitter flagged two of his tweets as misleading, Trump is planning to sign an executive order that might compel Twitter and other social-media platforms to let him say whatever he wants.
A reported draft of the executive order appeared online.
The draft order would make social-media companies liable for what their users post. This would enable people to sue the companies for libel, defamation, and other infractions, the same way they can currently sue newspaper companies, TV networks, and other publishers.
Right now, social-media companies are protected from such liability by a law that treats the companies not as information publishers but as mere information distributors — like telephone and mail-delivery companies instead of newspaper companies.
For many reasons, social-media companies are desperate to keep their current status. It is expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to fact-check and otherwise police everything that people post. It is easier, less controversial, and often more profitable to allow people to communicate what they want.
But Twitter, Facebook, and other social-media companies already do police the content they distribute. They don't allow pornography or drug or weapons sales, for example. They don't allow broadcasts of murders. They have many other rules and policies that regulate what people can and can't post. And now, in the case of Twitter with Trump, they're getting more aggressive about policing posts they regard as "misleading."
Trump's draft order makes a clever argument that goes right at this in-between behavior. If the social-media companies are going to take responsibility for some content, the administration argues, they should take responsibility for all of it.
That's a reasonable argument.
If Facebook, for example, is going to say that it's not OK to publish one particular post, then it is implicitly saying that all other posts are OK.
Now, Trump's goal here is obviously not to get Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media companies to more aggressively police what they publish. If the companies did that, more of Trump's own tweets and posts might get flagged or deleted.
Instead, Trump's goal is to force the companies to be even more hands-off — to interfere less, and, therefore, to allow him and his supporters to post whatever they want.
Trump's contention, after all, is that the social-media companies are biased against the right. Trump is hoping his threats will cow the companies into doing even less, rather than more.
The effect of Trump's executive order itself will be limited. Trump does not have the power to single-handedly change laws or force private companies to do anything.
But …
Trump does occupy the "bully pulpit," and he does have the ability to bully the Justice Department, FCC, and Congress, perhaps enough to get them to change how they enforce the law, or even change the law itself.
Trump also has the ability to bully the social-media companies. And if Trump has demonstrated anything over the past three years, it is that he is an expert at effective bullying.
After the draft order was published, astute observers suggested that Trump's real goal here is to "work the refs" — to bully the social-media companies into cutting him more slack in the months leading up to the election, so he and his campaign and supporters can have more freedom to do and say what they want.
Judging by the speed with which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg raced to a TV camera this morning to say that Facebook would not fact-check Trump the way Twitter did, this bullying seems likely to work. —HB
Japan's experience is bad news for clubbers and gym-goers and good news for subway and bus riders.
Many countries have conquered the coronavirus, at least for now. New Zealand just discharged its last patient from the hospital. Japan is lifting its state of emergency. And so on.
Japan's success, moreover, comes despite a relatively loose lockdown and a lack of widespread testing.
Where Japan excelled has been in "contact tracing," the investigation of who each sick person came into contact with, when, and where. In addition to notifying those who have potentially been exposed, Japan quickly learned about where most infections occurred and adjusted its strategy accordingly.
As Dennis Demile reports in Science, Japan found that "most clusters originated in gyms, pubs, live music venues, karaoke rooms, and similar establishments where people gather, eat and drink, chat, sing, and work out or dance, rubbing shoulders for relatively extended periods of time." Japan built its messaging around this finding, telling its citizens to avoid the "three Cs" — closed spaces, crowds, and close contact.
Importantly, Japan also did not find any infection clusters that originated on its crowded trains. Why not? Most people ride the trains alone and therefore don't talk. And most riders now wear masks. This is good news for New York and other cities that depend on subways and other public transportation. —HB
Is it safe for me to go to work?
As states and cities reopen, a lot more people will go back to their workplaces. They'll wonder how safe they are and how to protect themselves.
To help answer these questions, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Marc Larochelle put together a draft framework for assessing and mitigating workplace risk:
Europe bans Trump's favorite coronavirus drug. The hits keep coming for the drug Trump once touted as a "game-changer" for the coronavirus — hydroxychloroquine. Europe has now banned the drug as a treatment for COVID-19 after concluding that it doesn't help and its side effects are too dangerous. The only remaining question is whether HCQ can help prevent people from catching the virus, the theory Trump himself appeared to be relying on when he announced that he himself was taking the drug. (He now says he's no longer taking it.) The results of a big study on that question are expected this summer.
Researchers think they've found an easy way to discover coronavirus outbreaks ahead of time — by testing sewage! Currently, the best way to spot coronavirus outbreaks is to test people with symptoms. The problem with this method is that it's slow and late: By the time someone has symptoms, they've already likely spread the virus to others. Happily, researchers from Yale believe they've found a better "leading indicator" of outbreaks: testing sewage sludge. In this preliminary study, the researchers conclude that virus in sewage leads positive tests of virus in people and hospitalizations by seven and three days, respectively: Virus in sewage (red line). Coronavirus cases (black line).
So far, the US has avoided the dreaded "second surge" — but keep an eye on Alabama, Texas, California, and other states. Overall, "reopening" in the US has gone better than many observers feared. Nationwide case and death counts are declining, and early-opening states like Georgia and Florida are still doing OK. There are still plenty of places to be concerned about, however, some of which have not been hit hard before. Cases in California continue to rise, for example. And in Alabama they are "surging."
The Trump White House will break tradition and not publish a forecast for the federal deficit. The combination of tax cuts, emergency spending, and lower tax revenue from the weak economy is ballooning the federal deficit. Each summer, the White House releases a "mid-session review" that includes a forecast for future deficits. The Trump administration says it won't do that this year. It claims it's because the future is too uncertain to make forecasts. Anyone believe that?
US unemployment claims soar past 40 million. Another 2.1 million Americans filed for benefits this week. Plus, Insider asked 18 top economists and lawmakers how to put the jobless back to work.
Billionaires blow it too. Carl Icahn lost nearly $2 billion in Hertz stock after the car-rental company went bust. Remember that next time you make a stock pick. (Or, better yet, don't pick stocks at all. Buy index funds. No one knows the future. Diversification is your friend.)
How Dave Clark, Amazon's SVP of worldwide operations, has become one of the most powerful American business executives. An Amazon lifer, he masterminds the company's pandemic response, from its controversial warehouse operations to its incredible shipping network.
The 10 strangest places people have been stuck during the pandemic. Including the Fyre Festival island, an Arctic ice floe, and inside a zoo.
For a week, YouTube was a dating site. Insider talked to the founders, investors, and first employees about YouTube's chaotic early days. They set up the platform to host dating videos, but no one submitted dating videos.
20 products and apps we swear by to fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up well rested
Elon Musk designed those fantastic spacesuits. The SpaceX founder says he worked for "three or four years" on the suits for Crew Dragon, and wanted them to look cool so they would get kids "fired up." Mission accomplished!
2 Minneapolis police officers fired over George Floyd's death had been involved in earlier violent incidents. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd's neck, had been the subject of 10 civilian complaints and involved in three police shootings. Another officer on the scene, Tou Thao, settled an excessive-force suit out of court in 2017.
YouTube parenting influencer slammed for 'rehoming' her disabled son. Myka Stauffer, who had made videos about her adopted son, is being criticized for having monetized her child, then giving him up because of his developmental and medical challenges.
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On our view that we've lost the war in Afghanistan and it's time to go home:
We've been fighting the war on crime for centuries and it still persists. We've become trapped in the sunk-cost fallacy; instead of wasting more lives and resources, we should just withdraw. Yes, it will be a tragedy for the victims of crime, but that is not decisive. "It should make us want to get out tomorrow, and not waste one more life or one more dollar on a lost cause."
Cognitive scientists call this a matter of "framing." The war frame has the features of a limited term followed by a win or a loss. But what if the war frame, promoted by hawks to stir patriotic support, is the wrong frame? What if a better frame is policing, the maintenance of a somewhat stable and just society where, within the limits of the law, people have a degree of liberty over personal and family matters, where women can go to school? If we withdraw, are we in part responsible for creating a society where uneducated religious fundamentalist hold the levers of power including the power of life and death? What if the policing effort is sustainable, with fewer US casualties of all causes in 2018 (15) than police officers who died in the line of duty in the US (106 of all causes, 55 killed)?
Our hands in Afghanistan are not innocent. We flooded the country with weapons in our "covert" campaign against the USSR-supported government, and then abandoned the country to the warlords we'd empowered. It's easy for an imperial power like us to go in and leave as we please. It's hell on the people we treat as markers on the chessboard. Perhaps you should make your case for withdrawal to them.
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Irvine, California
Regarding your photo of seat belts, I was reminding my nearly 21-year-old daughter about the fights that erupted when we first banned smoking on planes. I was explaining why we still have announcements that it is a federal crime to tamper with smoke detectors, telling her people would attempt to smoke in the restroom or light up as they exited the plane (when smoking was still allowed in the terminal). There will always be a group resistant to any change.
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Spas attract a wide range of clients from teenagers to seniors, both male and female. I put spa treatments into three rough categories: holistic, stress release, and cosmetic. Often these categories overlap; simply stated, holistic treatments are therapeutic and include various types of massage, reflexology, and hot paraffin wax treatments.
I must admit that I used to be an uninitiated spa rookie. Sitting in the waiting room, biding my time to my first massage therapy treatment, I wondered with trepidation if I'd be expected to bare all or if I'd be able to leave on a few essentials.
Perhaps you feel the same uncertainty; I have found that staff and therapists in both high-end and local spas are very client-oriented, explaining each procedure and encouraging questions. Some spas offer mini-treatment specials so you can try out various therapies. Ask to walk through the spa prior to booking an appointment–if the spa is not spotless, make a hasty retreat.
If treatment is given by a registered massage therapist (RMT), some extended health plans will cover part or all of the cost; however, not all therapists of spas are registered. Becoming an RMT takes years of rigorous training and regulations vary provincially.
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Spas attract a wide range of clients from teenagers to seniors, both male and female. I put spa treatments into three rough categories: holistic, stress release, and cosmetic. Often these categories overlap; simply stated, holistic treatments are therapeutic and include various types of massage, reflexology, and hot paraffin wax treatments.
Cosmetic care includes makeup application, manicure, pedicure, eyebrow/eyelash tinting, hair styling, waxing, and cellulite treatments. Body wraps are relaxing and benefit the skin, bringing healing and nourishing properties to the body. Exfoliation resulting from a wrap will invigorate tired skin, improving tone by removing dry, dead cells.
Blissfully Stoned
Hot stone massage is my favourite spa treatment. The massage therapist works with warm, smooth, black river-rock stones, followed by cool white marble stones, to gently ease away muscle tension. Small warm stones are placed between the toes, in the palms of the hands, and strategically on the body. A row of warm stones are placed on the chest and belly. Only by experiencing this treatment will you understand the feeling of total relaxation.
During my travels throughout North America, I have sought spa treatments in major cities and remote towns. My most memorable massage was on the beach in Mexico, under a swaying palm tree–yes, I was wearing my swimsuit. The sound of the surf accompanied a wonderful massage by a highly adept Mexican masseur.
I am currently finalizing my plans for a trip to Thailand. Thai massage, also called yoga Thai massage, originates from the time of Buddha, and is known as Nuad Phaen Boran. The therapy stretches and moves the body to align the body's energies. A Thai massage (or two) is definitely on my must-do list.
Spa treatment prices vary according to size of the facility, location, and services offered.
$50 and Under
- manicure–polish is often an optional extra
- pedicure–paraffin wax can be added (well worth the extra)
- mini massage–seated for neck and shoulders, these are also available at some airport spas
- eyebrow shape and –nice for the summer when you don't wear makeup
Around $100
Many options of massage are available (30- to 90-minute treatments):
- prenatal–to relieve back aches and stress on knees
- Swedish–to improve circulation
- lymphatic–to stimulate blood and lymphatic system
- Thai yoga, incorporating stretches
- sea salt exfoliation
- aromatherapy
- hot stone
Herbal wraps bring nourishing minerals and herbs to the entire body. The body is cocooned in a herbal or mud paste, then wrapped. You are left in a darkened room–may not be a good choice for claustrophobics.
Facial–the face is cleansed and steamed, followed by application of a toner and moisturizer.
$200 and Over
A day at the spa includes several treatments such as pedicure, manicure, aromatherapy massage, and/or steam room.


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Last week I co-hosted a baby shower for one of my closest friends. When I was deciding which treats to make my first idea was baby (miniature) cupcakes. Since the co-host is vegan I chose to make only vegan desserts for the shower. I've had some really good luck with vegan desserts in the past and it's a fun challenge to try and make a vegan dessert that tastes as delicious as one saturated with butter.
These beautiful little carrot cakes were a huge hit at the party and the consensus was that you'd never guess they were vegan.
As you can see my first attempt was not so successful. These were not only incredibly ugly, but they tasted very salty. This failure is 75% my fault since I overfilled the cupcake liners so they spread out over the top of the pan and were nearly impossible to remove. During this first attempt, I got 24 miniature cupcakes, and when I remade them and filled the liners only 2/3 full I got 30. As for the salt – I'm hesitant to say that the recipe was wrong because everything I've made from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World has been awesome, but there was a very large amount of baking soda for a less than a cup of flour.
When you're adapting a recipe for full-size cupcakes to miniature you don't usually have to make any alterations other than shortening the baking time, but you will want to make sure any add-ins aren't too large. This recipe calls for raisins and walnuts so I chopped the nuts very finely and went to the trouble of cutting all of the raisins in half. I also used the finest shredding size available on my box grater for the carrots. There is a great entry on Baking Bites about converting cupcake recipes.
Baby Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Yield: 12 cupcakes or 30 baby cupcakes
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup soy yogurt (plain or vanilla)
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup finely grated carrots
- 1/4 cup of chopped walnuts ( I used pecans)
- 1/4 cup raisins
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, mix together sugar, vegetable oil, yogurt, and vanilla. Sift in the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices) and mix until smooth. Fold in carrots, walnuts, and raisins.
3. Spray the cupcake liners with nonstick baking spray. Fill the liners two-thirds full (don't overfill! See photos above). Bake for 26 to 28 minutes (for full size) or 20 minutes (for mini), until a toothpick inserted through the center of one comes out clean.
4. Once fully cooled, top generously with cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a double batch and I ended up with a little leftover. I don't think a single batch would have been enough though.
- 1/2 cup margarine, softened (not all margarine is vegan so if you're making these for a vegan friend check the list of ingredients)
- 1/2 cup vegan cream cheese, softened
- 4 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Food coloring – optional
Cream together margarine and cream cheese until just combined. Use a handheld mixer to whip while adding the confectioners' sugar in 1/2 cup batches. Mix until smooth and creamy, then mix in vanilla. Keep tightly covered and refrigerated until ready to use.
I used a pastry bag with a large star tip to pipe the frosting on. It makes the process of frosting the cupcake go very quickly.


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Home-purchase loans on the rise in Southern Nevada
March 3, 2017 - 7:01 pm
Updated March 4, 2017 - 8:37 am
Mortgage lenders may not be as slap-happy as they used to be, giving money to basically anyone who wanted a house.
But in the past few years, with the economy mending and the housing market pulling itself out of the dumps, they've opened the vaults wider and wider.
More than 36,000 home-purchase loans were issued in the Las Vegas area last year, up 8.5 percent from 2015 and the third consecutive annual increase, according to housing tracker Attom Data Solutions.
Nationally, almost 2.8 million purchase loans were issued last year, down 1.5 percent.
Las Vegas was a poster child for the housing craze and crash, and mortgage lending here collapsed with the economy, dropping from almost 81,000 purchase loans in 2006 to about 24,800 in 2013 — a 69 percent plunge.
Lending fell sharply in other cities as well, but nationally, the drop from a decade ago wasn't as severe as in Las Vegas. U.S. home-purchase loans fell from 4.1 million in 2006 to a low of 1.9 million in 2011, down 53 percent, according to Attom's figures.
Mortgage lending wasn't the only thing that got pummeled harder in Southern Nevada than in other metro areas after the economy tanked. Unemployment, underwater borrowers, foreclosures, bankruptcy filings — however bad it was during the recession, odds are it was even worse here.
The housing market still grapples with lingering problems from the recession but has regained its footing in recent years, with higher home prices, increased construction, big drops in repos and upside-down mortgages, and, as Attom's findings show, an upswing in lending.
Las Vegas might still be bruised from the housing bust, but at least it doesn't need a full body cast anymore.
Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. leased the land under The Orleans for years, but now it's shelled out tens of millions to own the pavement.
Boyd recently exercised an option in its ground lease and bought the 77-acre stretch of property underneath the resort for $43 million.
The sale, by The Tiberti Co., closed Feb. 14, Clark County records show.
The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., opened in 1996, and county records indicate it has had a ground lease since it was built. Boyd acquired the off-Strip hotel in 2004 as part of its $1.3 billion acquisition of Coast Casinos.
Boyd Chief Financial Officer Josh Hirsberg recently told analysts that the company had the opportunity to buy the land at "an attractive price," according to a transcript of the call, and the purchase "just converted a piece of land that was being rented to one that we now own."
Boyd spokesman David Strow declined to elaborate on the reasons for the purchase beyond what Hirsberg said. He also declined to disclose Boyd's former rental rate.
Efforts to get comment from Tiberti were unsuccessful.
Another week, another round of real estate reports. Here's a look at one:
Las Vegas' mortgage-delinquency rate fell last year but still ended 2016 above the national average. According to CoreLogic, payments were at least 90 days late on 3.29 percent of mortgages in the Las Vegas area in December, down from 4.53 percent a year earlier.
Nationally, the rate was 2.64 percent in December, down from 3.27 percent.
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To know SEO Services first of all we must have the knowledge about SEO and what does it stands for?
SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a web page from search engines. SEO targets unpaid traffic rather than the direct traffic or paid traffic.
SEO services are the search engine optimization services which are aimed to increase visibility and ultimately biotic search traffic to websites. SEO services help any company to succeed in search engine optimization with the aim to increase your revenue. These are often provided by agencies or freelancers who are experts in all aspects of SEO.
Search engines account for about 93 percent of all site traffic. You must be indexed on major search engines and rated highly if you want your website to be found. Here are some more Google and search engine-related facts:
- Seventy-five percent of searchers never get past the first page of search engine results (SERPs)
- Every day, Google handles approximately 5.8 billion searches.
- Every year, Google handles about 2 trillion searches.
- Position 1 in search results has a click-through rate of 19.3 percent, while position 2 has a click-through rate of 10.57 percent.
- Every year, 16-20% of all searches are for the first time.
- Mobile devices account for 60% of all Google searches.
- Google controls 95 percent of the mobile search engine market.
What does an SEO service cover?
To get more organic traffic we must follow the process of an SEO strategy.
A good SEO company should typically include the following in their SEO promises. Here are some steps to create an SEO strategy.
Step 1: Create a list of keywords
Keyword research is usually the first step of any SEO strategy. Start typing keywords into Google's search field, and it will populate a list of suggestions.
There are two types of keywords: long tail keywords and short tail keywords. Long tail keywords tend to be less competitive than short tail keywords.
Step 2: Analyze Google's first page
Ok, now you found a handful of keywords.
This is the time to see who had already ranked for those keywords.
To do that, you must type one of the keywords that you found into Google.
Step 3: Create something different or better.
This is the time to create super high- quality content.
If it comes to SEO content you must think about two options:
Option 1: Either you create something different.
Option 2: Or you can create something better.
Sometimes you want to create something bigger and better than what is out there.
But sometimes you are better off with content which is completely different and unique
For example: if you published an ultimate guide to mobile optimization. And because my content stood out, it got a ton of shares so, if you want to create something that is already ranking on the first page of Google?
Step 4: Add a hook.
If you want to improve your search engine rankings you need to figure out why people link to specific pieces of content and include hooks in your content.
Step 5: Optimize for on-page SEO
This step is all about keyword-optimizing your content for SEO. It involves aligning page-specific elements like headings, content, and internal links with keywords.
Step 6: Optimize for search intent.
You can publish content with search intent in mind right out of the gate. Most of the content ranking for "SEO audit" listed out non-technical steps so include simple strategies that anyone can use and this search intend optimization help post to crack the first page of google within a few days.
Step 7: Focus on content design.
The design might be the most underrated part of content marketing. The great content design does not have to break the bank. In fact, here are four types of visual content that are super easy to pull off. They are graphs and charts, screenshots and pictures, Blog post banners and graphics and visualization and these four things help a designer to make this concept easy and to understand.
Step 8: Build links to your page.
Now, it's time to actively build links to your content. In the field of search engine optimization, link building describes actions and aims to increase the number and quality of inbound links to a webpage with the goal of increasing the search engine rankings of that page or website.
Step 9: Improve and update your content.
To increase the effectiveness of your SEO efforts and boost your search engine traffic, you can just update your old content and give yourself improved fresh scores. When you tell Google your content is new, you'll get a spike in traffic that will make the tiny amount of work required well worth it. Updating your content provides a lot of different benefits.
Reasons why SEO services are important?
SEO can help your brand stand above others as a trustworthy company and further improve the user's experience with your brand and website. Followings are the reasons why SEO services are important:
- Visibility and rankings: when searching for a service or product online, users are more likely to choose one of the top five suggestions that the search engine shows them. SEO helps you rank higher in search results and garner more visibility online, making potential customers more likely to click over to your site and convert.
- Web-traffic: To put it simply -if potential customers can't find your website, sales opportunities are being missed. SEO increases your organic search engine traffic in turn increasing the number of visitors your page sees each day. This directly correlates to an increase in sales because the more relevant people that see your site, the more likely you are to sell to them.
- Trustworthy: The better your SEO score is, the higher you'll appear on search engines like google and Bing. While ranking higher on google is appealing to all brands because on increased visibility a secondhand benefit is the trust you gain with potential customers. Users tend to defer to the recommendations that a search engine generates, so having a higher position for the keywords a user is searching for, in turn, solidifies your product or service as trustworthy in the user's mind.
- User experience: A well-optimized website clearly communicates what product or services is being offered, how to obtain it and build to the user's experience, search engines like google and bing are able to easily pull the information they need to then relay to users. If a user struggles to navigate your site, chances are that search engines do as well.
- Growth: There's no doubt about it, SEO is the key growth of your brand. As we mentioned above, the higher you rank on search engines for a variety of high-volume keywords, the more organic web traffic your site will receive. People are also more likely to then share your brand across other social platforms like Facebook or Instagram through search engines.
Finally, we come to know that SEO services are an important consideration to help optimize a website for search engines. Keyword, content, domain and social media are important areas to be analyzed. So, visibility and rankings, web-traffic, trust-worthy, user experience and growth are the reasons why SEO services are important.


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Radio National's AM presenter, Sabra Lane, recently was brought to tears by ABC colleague Samantha Hawley's report of a surrogate child abandoned in Ukraine. Three-year-old Bridget (pictured above, via the ABC) whose twin brother died at birth, is afflicted with congenital abnormalities that suggest her life will be marked by developmental delays and low-level deficits. These were too much for the California-based couple who contracted the pregnancy, then abandoned the surrogacy and left the "parentless" Bridget to languish in an orphanage that likely represents the only sort of home she is ever likely to know.
I'm not about to presuppose the particular circumstances or 'triggers' that reduced Ms Lane to an inconsolable state, but I'd hazard a guess that human compassion and its bedfellow, empathy, played a role in prompting her tears. In the wake of such a distressing story it would be easy to get lost in a debate about the disturbing surrogacy industry, now experiencing a boom driven in part by the purported 'human right' of the LGBTQI+ community to overcome the limits of biology and produce children.
What really interests me, however, is a deeper question that references the current Abortion Bill before the NSW parliament. One must ask oneself what differentiates the plight of Bridget, who at least has had the opportunity to taste both the sweetness and bitterness of life, with those lives that would be legally extinguished in late-term pregnancy under the terms of the bill, now facing concerted opposition in the upper house. Many children born prematurely, from 26 weeks onward, survive to live fruitful lives. So the notion of a viable individual life cannot be in question here. Would the termination at 32 weeks of an unborn-but-viable child with the same conditions as Bridget elicit the same compassion from Ms Lane and the noisy feminists who are most vocal on this issue?
The ubiquitous Jane "Rent a Quote" Caro that same afternoon on The Drum was heard to parrot the feminist raison d'etre for unrestricted abortion: a women's complete autonomy over her body is the most fundamental human right. It is a right, however, that seemingly doesn't extend to the late-term Bridgets of this world. The notion of complete and unfettered autonomy over one's body is a myth. One does not have ultimate autonomy over the ageing process, the onset of menopause or the beating of one's heart — the list of things over which humans have no control whatsoever goes on and on. The 'complete autonomy' mantra is a socially constructed fallacy that exists superficially against underlying and immutable biological realities. One of those realities is pregnancy.
What should not be questioned as 'a fundamental human right' is protection from violence and death inflicted on a defenceless and voiceless unborn late-term child. One might regard regard respect for this principle as a basic marker of the compassion (or otherwise) of a society.
Increasingly, feminists weaponise pregnancy, and where they choose to point the barrel depends on the political objective of the moment. When lobbying for everything from workplace reforms to the provision of welfare and adequate healthcare, pregnancy is a blessing and the most precious gift a woman can bring to this world. Fittingly, we are often reminded of the trauma that is associated with miscarriage, especially in late-term, and as a society we are asked to extend our deepest sympathies when such misfortunes occur. Yet, in the following breath, we are apt to be told it is a woman's prerogative to terminate a child's life in as circumstances and preference dictate. The difference between exalting a pregnancy and terminating it appears to be the convenience or otherwise an in-utero life represents to the parents.
It would seem that what is actually in play here is the insatiable appetite of feminists to demand power and privilege under the false auspice of "fundamental human rights", all wrapped up in a generational narcissism that is happy to sacrifice a human life on the altar of privilege. The process that results in pregnancies is a biological reality blind to the social constructs of feminist cant and inconsistency. Reproduction is quintessentially binary, something that leftist social engineers struggle to accept and which is manifested in their insistence that men should have no say in a partner's 'right' to abort. The binding of male and female sex cells generates an entirely new and unique whole.
The resultant child is a vulnerable being, utterly reliant on parents for its survival throughout early childhood. Removing responsibility in a callous and expedient manner to care for a new life, as occurs with abortion beyond 22 weeks, is essentially a trashing of a universal biological pact, the same pact that allowed the aborting mother to exist in the first place.
Perhaps the last word should go to Ukrainian paediatric nurse Marina Boyko, who visits Bridget four times every week and has taken it upon herself to look after the child's best interests. Asked what she thought of Bridget's plight, she had this to say: "You can't judge a child as soon as it is born … if I met the Americans I would tell them that they have an amazing daughter … for me she is the best, most beautiful, most joyous, most intelligent child that can ever exist.
"I simply love her — I can't say anything more."
Those pressuring the NSW upper house to pass the abortion bill, which enshrines amongst its other outrages the "right" to abort if the foetus is not the wished-for gender, might want to let Nurse Boyko's words sink in.


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While 10 people submitted letters of interest by the close of the application period Friday, Gary "Brit" Rose, the first person to apply, since has withdrawn his name from consideration.
Rose, who ran unsuccessfully in 2009 for one of two seats on the board, issued a statement saying he "heard through the grapevine" that some candidates were "persuaded" to apply for the vacant seat by current board members.
"So I already know this would be a waste of my time …," Rose stated. "It is sad that this is a political stunt and should never be. I have decided that this will be my last time for running" for the school board.
The remaining nine applicants, in the order which they applied, are:
Ken Leach — Leach, of Oakville, served one term on the Board of Education, from 2005 until 2008, including one year as board president. Leach and his wife, Diana, have two children who will attend Oakville Senior High School and Oakville Middle School next school year.
Leach wrote in his application that, if appointed to the vacant board seat, he would not seek a full term next year.
"My motivation of volunteering is simply to serve — as asked — and try to help bridge the vacancy into a good transition for the new board members elected in 2012," he wrote. "If it is the board's preference, I would serve to the best of my ability and always keep in mind that I am representing the community and will do so with respect and integrity … My goal would be to assist the board in any way that I am able, and to provide supervision of conducted procedures and decisions being made for and by the Mehlville School District and its community."
David Wessel — Wessel, of Oakville, is employed as senior information technology manager-engineering at Enterprise Holdings Inc. He vied unsuccessfully for one of three open seats on the board this year. He was fourth-highest vote-getter out of nine candidates in the April election.
Wessel and his wife, Tracy, have a son who attends the John Cary Early Childhood Center and a daughter who eventually will attend the center.
"As a parent with young children I have a vested interest in the success of the education provided to our students. This is one of the most powerful motivating factors in my life and will guide me to do the best that I can in service to the district and our children," Wessel wrote in his application. "I do not have prior school board experience, however, my life experiences in education, fiscal discipline and my motivation to work hard, will allow me to provide immediate value and I believe will make me an excellent member of the Mehlville school board. My desire to serve will not cease in the next election cycle and I am not looking for a short-term involvement."
Michael Gindler — Gindler, of Oakville, is employed by the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District assistant accounting manager. He has served on the school district's Finance Committee since its inception in 2008 and is the committee's vice president.
Gindler's wife, Franchesca, ran unsuccessfully for the school board in April. They have two daughters who attend Oakville Elementary School.
"I believe I am well informed on the issues that are important to this community as they relate to the school district," Gindler wrote in his application. "Financial strains have forced families, businesses and organizations such as the Mehlville School District to make difficult decisions.
"I recognize this fact, and I would be mindful of it when fulfilling my duties as director on the Board of Education should that opportunity be awarded to me. I consider myself a financial conservative and an advocate for public education."
Greg Frigerio — Frigerio, of Concord, worked in construction for 30 years and most recently co-owned a construction company. He is a founding member of the Mehlville Community Taxpayers Association, a group that formed last year to oppose the district's Proposition C, a proposed 88-cent tax-rate increase that voters defeated in November.
Frigerio has an adult son and a daughter in college.
"There are many issues that are important to the district and the Board of Education. In my opinion, the most important issue is returning credibility and respect to the board and showing 'the boss' — our taxpayers — that the board, administration and faculty are all committed to the job at hand," Frigerio wrote in his application. "The boss has suffered more in the last several years than the three parties mentioned. The boss has had to pay their employees and fund their capital investments while still suffering the effects of the bad economy. The boss works 2,080 hours per year or is retired and has no other income besides Social Security. You get the picture.
"… I believe I can bring that confidence back to the board because I have been and still am one of 'the bosses."'
Timothy Champion — Champion, of Oakville, has been the head women's soccer coach at St. Louis University for the past 15 years. He previously was an elementary and middle school teacher in the Ritenour and Affton school districts. He has a son who attends Bernard Middle School.
"As a member of the Mehlville school board I would place a priority on maintaining and improving the academic integrity of the district," Champion wrote in his application. "I would also like to see more emphasis put on preparing our students for university study. Additional gifted programs and college preparation course that would benefit our students should become a priority.
"We as a school district should look first and foremost at how we can best serve the students in our community and provide the best possible educational setting within the parameters of the district budget."
Marea Kluth-Hoppe — Kluth-Hoppe, of Concord, is a community volunteer and small-business proprietor. She and her husband, Ray Hoppe, have a grown daughter.
Kluth-Hoppe served one term on the Board of Education, from 2002 until 2005, including one year as board secretary. She ran unsuccessfully for the board in 2005, 2008 and last April.
"There are many important decisions that need to be made in a difficult economic environment, while maintaining a quality education for the children and meeting the state mandated educational requirements," Kluth-Hoppe wrote in her application. "… I believe that my varied experiences of personal education; professional work skills; community volunteer experiences and my knowledge of the Mehlville School District and knowledge of educational practices and mandates will benefit the Board of Education; the Mehlville School District; the staff; students and families; and the community."
Fred Padberg — Padberg, of Lemay, is the founder and president of Padberg Graphic Design Studio. He also is the president of Padberg Properties of St. Louis. He served in the military from 1960 until 1963 and attended Washington University.
Padberg has four adult children and seven grandchildren. He wrote in his application that he has served on a number of parent-teacher organizations and was president of the Home and School organization of Our Lady of Sorrows in south St. Louis.
Aaron Hilmer — Hilmer, of Oakville, is a self-employed plumber. He is the chairman of the Mehlville Fire Protection Dis-
trict Board of Directors. Hilmer was elected to the board in 2005 and was re-elected to a second six-year term in April.
In his application, Hilmer criticized the board for seeking tax-rate increases in 2006 and last year when the public had "little to no trust in the financial acumen or past stewardship" of the board.
"I will bring sorely needed credibility" to the board, Hilmer wrote. "… Trust will not be regained with circus-stunt 'public engagements' and doctored-up phone surveys. Trust will only be regained slowly through proven results and a stellar track record. I have both.
"… As a director, I would work with the (board) and (soon-to-be Superintendent Eric) Knost to clearly articulate what is expected of him as we work together to regain the public's trust and make Mehlville the destination district in St. Louis County.
"I have more experience and have more proven results in the area of public government reform and public labor law than any other applicant for this position."
Ronald Fedorchak — Fedorchak, of Oakville, earned a master's degree in business administration in 2005 from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He and his wife, Micki, have three daughters who attend Oakville Senior High School, Bernard Middle School and Blades Elementary School.
Fedorchak recently served on a committee led by Assistant Superintendent-Curriculum Connie Hurst-Bayless on the future of the district's Strings program.
If appointed to the Board of Education, Fedorchak wrote in his application that "the issues I want to address are teachers' salaries and requirements, facilities and funding. I want our teachers to be paid among the best in Missouri. Great pay is the way to draw great talent … Our standards should be high but only if we reward the best.
"… I have attended events at Rockwood Summit, Eureka, Lindbergh and Parkway South and have seen what they offer their students. We need to address this soon.
"Their (junior varsity) fields outshine our best varsity fields. Our plays are performed in basements. They perform in professional theaters. In my opinion we need a third high school in the district. This issue is something I would love to explore. Lastly, balancing the budget and looking for alternative funding sources would be my last issue. Tax levies will not pass. We will need to fund programs in new ways."


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Jupiter's Legacy, based on comic books of the same name, takes a grittier twist on the classic hero adventure. Following a group of ageing superheroes who form a collective called "The Union," the show flits from the alternate present in which superheroes are norm as protectors to the 1930s exploring the treacherous adventure which led to the Union's inception. Each episode offers an in depth exploration of different main cast members while simultaneously propelling the action forward at an exciting pace in both the past and present.
Written by Tresca Mallon
In just eight episodes, we are introduced to a plethora of characters making up the Union, past and present. Firstly we have the original six members. Sheldon AKA Utopian (Josh Duhamel), establishes himself as a multifaceted and flawed protagonist. The golden child in his family in the 1930s and leader of the Union, he sees the world it black and white and is unable to deviate from his self-imposed code. This makes him an indomitable and at times unbearable morally upstanding figure in the lives of his friends and family. His brother Walter AKA Brainwave (Ben Daniels), is, on one hand, Sheldon's pragmatic older brother and on the other a bitter understudy to his impressive sibling. For much of the season he acts as a sounding board for Sheldon's more intense personality, however, in the penultimate episode we get an insight into the fissures of tension between the brothers and the disparities in their world-views. Then there is Grace AKA Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb). In the 1930s she was a hot-headed, liberated journalist. In the present, despite being a badass superhero, she seems to have gained her powers and lost her voice. Her agency is robbed by her duty to her country, the Union and her family. While towards the end of the season, she asserts herself against her husband Sheldon, she still fades somewhat into the background. George AKA Skyfox (Mike Lanter), Sheldon's best friend in the 1930s, is a charismatic posh-boy with a vulnerable side. He is a second brother to Sheldon and has an unexplained frosty relationship with Walter. He is mysteriously absent in the present, with allusions to his breaking away from the Union and becoming a supervillain. We are teased the entire season as to whether he will be the series lead antagonist. Fitz Small AKA The Flare (Mike Wade) formerly worked in Sheldon's father's factory in the 1930s. He is in a wheelchair in the present with allusions to an unexplained accident in his younger life. There is an acknowledgment of the difference in his circumstances as a black man in America in the 1930s, however, it does not define his character. The final member of the original six is Richard Conrad AKA Blue-Bolt (David Julian Hirsch) who we are only briefly introduced to in the last two episodes as a shipwrecked neonatal surgeon. He is queer-coded which is inkeeping with the comics canon. His storyline is left wide open for development in season two.
Then we have the new generation. The Utopian and Lady Liberty's children, Brandon AKA Paragon (Andrew Horton) who struggles to live up to his father's legacy and Chloe (Elena Kampouris) who is an addict and has distanced herself from the superhero life and her overbearing parents. While neither character is particularly likeable, Chloe at least has layers and in episode four we get a further explanation into her addiction and the motivations behind her behaviour. She also has some electric action sequences. However, her constant hostility begins to wear as the season progresses. Brandon, touted as the inheritor of his father's powers and position, is beyond dull. Horton's flat performance is blatantly obvious beside the multifaceted offerings of his castmates. His swooping fringe, frequent shirtlessness and angsty personality is somewhat dated as a tv lead, reminiscent of the protagonists in the early noughties such as Tom Welling in Smallville. Conversely, Hutch played by Ian Quinlan is an absorbing anti-hero who provides a layered performance as a petty thief with daddy issues. His relationship with Chloe develops both of their characters nicely. However, his storyline is sidelined with a criminally small amount of screentime and isn't seemingly relevant to the main plot. We are introduced to The Flare's daughter, Petra AKA The Flare II (Tenika Davis), unfortunately beyond her proximity to her father and a scene with Brandon which was more about his character development, we don't get to know much about her. Finally, in the last two episodes we are introduced to Walter's estranged daughter Raikou (Anna Akana), who is a contract killer at odds with everything the Union stands for. Her introduction is a refreshing change of pace, despite appearing only briefly.
Sex, drugs, suicide and ethical grey areas, mean that Jupiter's Legacy is aimed squarely at a late-teen and adult audience. This also allows examination of themes that are usually obfuscated by innuendo in mainstream superhero productions. Given the anti-capitalist source material, it is unsurprising that Jupiter's Legacy is very politically aware. A running theme is that "lethal force without due process is not justice" which is particularly relevant with the string of killings by police in the USA that have recently brought into the spotlight. This ethical question becomes a cornerstone of the series as the characters grapple with the complications that accompany the Union's strict code.
The period moments from the 1930s flashbacks are a highlight of the series. The make-up, costumes and production design envelope us in depression era America and the mutual devastation and desperation of the time. Additionally, the superhero costumes are wonderfully camp and the decision to keep classic comic book costumes is in keeping with the traditional ethos of the Union. The vivid colours and individual details in the heroes' suits make facets of their alter egos shine through visually. Contrasting these costumes with civilian clothing and every-day life in the present humanises some of the characters. Especially Sheldon and Grace, who are softened by an insight into their domestic life and the day-to-day of their marriage.
Jupiter's Legacy suffers somewhat from an overload of prominent characters. Despite almost every individual offering enticing room for development, we are left without truly knowing many of the characters in-depth. This does however, leave the series primed for further exploration. While a slight narrowing of focus is necessary, Jupiter's Legacy is one of the most exciting TV offerings so far this year. Squeezing an intense amount of action into eight episodes, with a fantastic focus on world building. Ending with a twist that was perfectly set-up and yet satisfyingly shocking, leaves the door open for the series to go in an exciting new direction in season two.


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I've spent a lot of time researching the harmful effects of wifi radiation lately.
Almost always, the recommendation at the end of these articles is to turn your router off or use a router guard.
I'd never heard of a wifi router guard until I started doing my research on how to protect my family and house from wifi radiation.
So that's where I'm starting this article. The beginning. First we'll start by learning what wifi router guards are, how they work, and why the work.
Next we'll take a look at some good options on the market and cover some other common questions, including is wifi safe?
In a Hurry? Here is the Best Router Cover on the Market
Large WiFi Router Guard Cover
Blocks about 90% of EMF radiation from router, allowing your router to still work properly while protecting from a majority of radiation
High quality, USA-made metal mesh acts as a Faraday cage
Large enough at 12 inches long x 11 7/8 inches high x 5 1/2 inches wide to fit most standard Wifi routers
What is a Wifi Router Guard?
A wifi router guard blocks and shields everyone in your home from most of the electromagnetic radiation (EMF) your Wifi router emits 24 hours a day.
These guards require no assembly.
All you have to do is to unplug your router, place it in the guard, feed the cords through the small hole in the back of the Wifi router guard, and plug them back in so it reboots and you are good to go.
The most complicated thing about using a router guard is making sure the guard box is large enough to fits.
How does a router guard box work?
A router guard is a small Faraday cage. The concept of Faraday cages is nothing new. Faraday cages have been around since the time of, well, Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836. You probably have a Faraday cage in your home already. Every microwave is a Faraday cage!
A Faraday cage is constructed of mesh of a highly conductive metal, usually copper. When the pulsating EMF generated by your wireless internet comes in contact with the metal mesh of your router box, tiny amounts of electrical current dissipate it so most of the EMF radiation your router generates is shielded from your family.
Your Wifi router guard, of course, doesn't block all of the radiation generated. If it did, you wouldn't get a signal. Wifi router guard boxes attenuate EMF radiation but they don't completely block it.
About 90 percent of EMF is absorbed by the mesh.
Why Should I have a Wifi Router Guard?
To understand why you need a Wifi router guard, you need to know a little about radio frequency radiation.
Wifi routers emit radio frequency (RF) radiation. Having Wifi is like having a little radio station broadcasting the Internet into your home.
Everyone is exposed to small amounts of radio frequency radiation nearly all the time. If you are able to pick up a station on your radio, that's because your radio is tuned into ambient RF radiation. The amount of RF radiation your radio — or your body — absorbs depends on three things, the power of the transmitter, your distance from the source of the RF radiation, and the frequency of the radio waves.
Routers don't generate a lot of power. Wireless routers consume between 2 and 20 watts, the average around 6 watts. That's less power than a light bulb, but you are exposed to it 24 hours a day. By comparison, AM radio stations generate –a maximum of 50 kilowatts of power and FM radio stations generate up to 80 kilowatts, but they are much farther away.
Distance Matters
The amount of energy your body absorbs from any radiofrequency source is inversely proportional to the square of your distance from that radiofrequency source. You can think of RF radiation as spreading out in a circle from the transmitter. The farther the radiofrequency radiation goes out, the more territory it has to cover.
The area of a circle is computed by multiplying pi times the square of the radius of the circle, so radiofrequency energy falls off with the square of the distance from the transmitter. To help with wifi router radiation safe distance, consider:
When you are twice as far away from the transmitter, your body receive one-fourth as much radiation.
When you are three times as far away from the transmitter, your body receives one-ninth as much radiation.
And the amount of energy your body receives from RF radiation depends on the frequency of the radiation. The higher the frequency, the greater the amount of radiation your body absorbs.
An AM radio station broadcasts at a frequency measured in kilohertz (kHz), thousands of pulses per second. An FM station broadcasts at a frequency measured in megahertz (mHz), millions of pulses per second.
But your wireless internet broadcasts at a frequency measured in gigahertz (gHz), billions of pulses per second, over a million times the frequency of the lowest possible AM frequencies.
The combination of 24-hour-a-day exposure, close proximity to the transmitter, and extremely high frequency makes RF radiation a significant factor in your health.
Things to Look for When Choosing Router Protection
- Effectiveness
- Ease of Use
- Full Coverage
The basic principle of Faraday cages is that they use metal to block electromagnetic fields. The protection should always incorporates metal into its design. Classical Faraday cages are constructed from copper, but copper tends to tarnish. Many protectors use stainless steel. Fabric for Wifi protection may incorporate steel and nickel along with cotton for flexibility.
An effective radiation shield for your router is never a total radiation shield. Completely shielding your router would block all of its signal and make it useless.
Router protection attenuates radiation, it doesn't eliminate it.
Any protection that blocks 90 percent of radiation will reduce the range of your signal, but there are no products on the market that reduce range more than 50 percent. Wifi protection never affects speed, only range.
Ease of use
No option should require anything more difficult than unplugging, replugging, and rebooting your modem, and most guards don't even require that. You do, however, have to be sure you get the right size to fit.
Full coverage of the router
If you get the right size, you will have optimal attenuation of your its radiation. You may be concerned about leakage of radiation at the back where cables pass out. Just buy a larger router guard and move it so it's entirely behind mesh.
How Much Radiation Does a Router Shield Block?
They should block at least 90 percent.
Here's another way to understand that figure: If you stand very close to a router, you may receive as much as 3000 microwatts per square meter in radiofrequency radiation, 100 times the safe dosage of radiofrequency for constant exposure.
But if you block 90 percent of the radiofrequency radiation output, and you stay at least 1 meter (approximately three feet) away from your it, you will get no more than 30 microwatts per square meter of radiation, which has no effects on your body or the bodies of your children and pets.
Even with protection, you should avoid direct contact with your router for more than six minutes at a time.
The Best Wifi Router Covers and Guards
Everything we recommend:
Large WiFi Router Guard Cover | TitanRF Faraday Fabric Kit | SIGNAL TAMER™ - RF Shielding Pouch |
If you're interested in purchasing a cover for Wifi router EMF protection, you're in the right place. We're going to look at the top options, including using faraday fabric if you want to DIY this a little.
1. Large WiFi Router Guard Cover (Top Pick)
My top choice is the Large WiFi Router Guard Cover from Amazon. This high quality, USA-made metal mesh acts as a Faraday cage blocking about 90% so that your router still works but reduces your EMF exposure significantly.
This large router guard consists of a base and a removable open metal mesh cage that slips into it. At 12 inches long x 11 7/8 inches high x 5 1/2 inches wide it fits most standard Wifi routers.
This is an easy to use option. Just take off the cage that rests on top of the base, slip in your box, still plugged in, feed the connection cable and power cord out the side, place the metal cage back onto the base and you have instant protection.
2. TitanRF Faraday Fabric (Budget Pick)
When you are looking for an inexpensive material not just for shielding your router but also for general EMF protection, TitanRF Faraday Fabric is an excellent choice. Also a great option if you have a one that doesn't fit the normal 12 x 9 x 4 inches.
This fabric comes in a cut that is about 1.2 square yards, 44 inches wide by 36 inches long.
You can wrap it around any model to make a Faraday pouch.
But you can also use this product to protect all of your electronic devices against damage from EMF pulses (which can occur during thunderstorms, not just during military operations) and to create a space free of electronic intrusions.
Just cut and sew enough of this fabric to create an EMF-protective tent and you can block EMF pulses and cell phone Bluetooth, GPS, and RFID signals from coming into the protected space.
Or make a smaller protected space that keeps about 90 percent of your router's radiation from going out.
TitanRF fabric is not intended for elegant household design. Every piece of cloth comes with a roll of a special kind of duct tape to hold it in place in lieu of cutting and sewing fabric.
Since the fabric is imbedded with copper and nickel, you may need heavy shears and stronger needles for cutting and sewing.
But for low-cost RF radiation protection, TitanRF fabric is a great buy.
3. Signal Tamer – RF Shielding Pouch for Wi-Fi Routers
As we mentioned earlier, a Faraday cage doesn't have to be a box. Sometimes it can be a pouch. The Signal Tamer RF Shielding Pouch for Wifi Routers is constructed of shielding cloth that also blocks over 90 percent of Wifi radiation with minimal effects on signal.
There is no need to unplug the power cable or the Internet connection.
There is no interruption of service. Just cover it with the cloth, making a pouch of dimensions you choose, and you have Wifi radiation protection in seconds.
The advantage of a shielding pouch over a shielding cage is accommodating antennas and larger routers. If antennas won't fold down so you can be put your it in a metal mesh box, you can just put the entire setup in the pouch.
The cloth is long enough to accommodate the next generation of the Apple time capsule or a d-link dir-868l wireless ac1750 dual band gigabit cloud router. For a 10-1/2 inch Comcast you may need the larger, 20 x 24 inch version of this product.
This shielding cloth product has no effect on the speed of your connection or how much data you can upload or download.
However, it will reduce the range of your Wifi coverage about 50 percent to about 20 feet — and if you are concerned about establishing Wifi-free safe zones for children and pets, that may be exactly what you want.
How Does RF Radiation Affect my Health?
When RF radiation is absorbed by living tissues, it is transformed to heat. It's possible to put this principle to use in treating disease. Radiofrequency probes can be used to heat and kill cancer cells. Cardiovascular surgeons can use radiofrequency to remove dysfunctional heart tissue.
But it's also possible to get burns from uncontrolled exposure to radiofrequency radiation. People who wander too close to some radar installations can get severe burns through their bodies, as they are literally microwaved.
People who are exposed to lower amounts of RF radiation from radar and repeater stations may hear clicking noises as the tissues inside their heads are heated by pulsed radiation so these tissues expand and contract.
It's not going to give you visible burns. If you hear clicking sounds inside your head, they aren't due to it. But that doesn't that the levels of radiofrequency you receive from your router have no effects at all.
Wifi radiofrequency radiation may increase your body temperature 0.1 to 2.0 ° C (about 0.2 to 3.6 ° F) if you are close enough. When your cells are heated, their enzymes work faster.
That's a major problem for dividing cells. Enzymes don't do their job at the right time, so cells are created with defective DNA. And when there are DNA errors, the cell may be dysfunctional, it may be removed by the immune system along with some surrounding healthy cells, or it may become cancerous.
Of course, the more dividing cells there are in the body, the greater the damage that can be done by heat. That's why it is so important for pregnant women, infants, and small children to be shielded from excessive radiofrequency radiation.
Symptoms similar to ADHD. The firing of neurons in the brain depends on the movement of calcium in and out of cells. The processes that move calcium so brain cells "light up" in an orderly fashion can be disrupted by the frequencies used for Wifi.
The 29 experts who wrote the Bioinitiative Report state that children who spend extended periods of time within 3 meters (about 10 feet) of a router are at increased risk for this kind of disruption.
5G routers and mobile hotspots connected to 5G expose everyone in the home to about 250,000 times as much radiation as 4G and 3G routers.
Laboratory experiments show that exposure to this type of radiation has some of the same effects on the brain as consuming too much sugar does. Radiofrequency radiation from wireless internet increases the formation of free radicals of oxygen in the brain, which in turn increases the sensation of anxiety regardless of external events.
This does not mean that if you have an unshielded router in your home, everyone in the family will suffer a generalized anxiety disorder. But it does mean that general levels of anxiety, insomnia, and feeling out of sorts will tend to increase until radiofrequency radiation exposure is reduced.
Learning problems
Constant exposure to radiofrequency radiation makes it harder for rats to find their way out of a maze. No scientist is going to drop people into a maze to find out if radiofrequency radiation makes it harder for them to find their way out, but the implication seems to be that the kind of radiation your wireless internet puts out probably interferes with learning abilities.
This effect has been observed at frequencies of 900 megahertz and higher. It is due to the effects of increased heat in the brain, not radiation's causing chemical changes in the brain.
Alzheimer's disease
Still more laboratory experiments find that exposure to EMF from wireless internet increases brain activity in mice that have a brain condition analogous to Alzheimer's disease. At first glance, that would seem to be a good thing, right? But there's a major problem.
Increasing brain activity without restoring cognitive abilities is often disastrous in people who have Alzheimer's disease.
People get just better enough to wander away. Or their ability to perceive the world around them increases just enough to cause them to become argumentative and combative with caretakers. Increased "activity" is not usually desirable for Alzheimer's patients.
There is no clear evidence that wireless internet exposure causes Alzheimer's, but that may be because people who are old enough today to have the disease have not had lifetime exposure.
The official line on Wifi and cancer is it's "possibly carcinogenic." Not everyone whose home has wireles internet is going to develop cancer. But the risk of cancer, which is a disease caused by errors in the division of cells, seems to be higher for people exposed to Wifi. Scientists note that these DNA errors accumulate in both the brain and the heart.
Male infertility
Sperm exposed to Wifi radiation lose their "swimming ability." Men who are constantly exposed to Wifi radiation continue to produce sperm, but those sperm are disoriented and do not reach their destination.
An Italian study found that spending four hours within one meter (3 feet) or either a router or a laptop computer exposed sperm to enough EMF to become inactive. A man's body is constantly producing more sperm, but optimal fertility requires either Wifi radiation shielding or spending at least 48 hours away from Wifi before sex with the intention of pregnancy.
Safe levels of exposure
Radiation experts set the maximum safe exposure to radiofrequency radiation at 30 microwatts per square meter of body surface. If you have unprotected Wifi, there are many places in your house where your exposure is only 30 microwatts per square meter or even less.
But a study published in the Bioinitiative Report found that spending more than about six minutes within a meter (3 feet) of a router or other Wifi source will expose you to up to 3000 microwatts per square meter, 100 times the safe level of radiofrequency radiation. And your exposure will be much greater if your Wifi is 5G.
So does this mean you need to yank its connections and smash it with a sledgehammer?
Of course not!
Let's find out how to make it safer in your home!
Wifi router guard FAQs
Q. How can I make my own Wifi router guard?
A. The simplest way to make your own Wifi router guard is to wrap it in TitanRF fabric? Here are the steps:
- Measure your its length, height, and width.
- Then do a little math to figure out how big a piece of TitanRF fabric you will need to wrap your router's top, sides, and bottom. You will need a piece of fabric that is twice the width of your router plus twice the height of your router wide, and twice the length of your router plus twice the height of your router long. For instance, if it measures 12 inches long, 9 inches wide, and 4 inches tall, the absolute minimum dimensions of cloth you will need to cover it will be 24 plus 8 or 32 inches long and 18 plus 8 or 26 inches wide. TitanRF fabric comes in squares larger than this, so you won't usually have to worry about taping fabric together. (Never solder TitanRF fabric, you will burn the cotton fiber holding it together.)
- Then just wrap your router in the cloth, taping the cloth around any cables r cords.
Welding stainless steel is a specialized skill, so we don't recommend you try to make a box-style Faraday cage for your router unless you are very familiar with welding.
Q. How can I protect myself from my Wifi router without using a router cover?
A. There are several simple ways you can shield yourself from EMF from your router while still enjoying the freedom of a wireless Internet connection.
One approach is simply to turn your it off when you are not using the Internet. If you live alone, this is probably a workable solution. And if you have children who spend too much time on the Internet or whose Internet use you want to supervise, simply turning it off both takes care of Internet access and reduces exposure to radiofrequency radiation.
You may still want to use a locking feature to limit your children's access to the Internet.
Distance matters.
Placing wireless routers as far as possible from sleeping room reduces the impact on our health. We should maintain it for children and pets too.
The amount of radiation your body receives falls off exponentially the farther you are located away from your router. Simply keeping the it 12 feet away instead of 3 feet away reduces your radiation exposure by a factor of 16.
You can limit radiation exposure by not adopting 5G as soon as it is available, or at least not until you have a guard. The higher the frequency, the greater the radiation exposure.
But the surest way to limit your exposure to Wifi radiation is to use Ethernet instead of a wireless modem: No modem, very limited radiofrequency radiation.
Q. How far from a Wifi router is safe?
A. The greatest-danger zone for routers is the first meter (about the first three feet) from the device. If you can simply stay a meter away from a it all the time, except when you are turning it off, turning it on, are adjusting it, you will eliminate about half of your risk of biological damage from the device. Ideally, you need to be about 20 feet or more (6 meters or more) to reduce health risk. But as far as you can go and still get an acceptable signal is always ideal.
Finishing Up
In a 5G world, router guards are essential for maintaining good health. And in apartment living situations, placing protection around your router is simply being a good neighbor. Options exist for every budget and every interior design. There is no reason you need to expose yourself, your family, your pets, and your neighbors to unhealthy levels of radiofrequency radiation.