New Layout with a Static Home Page on Blogger

Today, I was looking at different ways to change my blog.  I came across a nice article on how to make a custom static home page in blogger.  Here is the link:
http://www.bloggertipspro.com/2012/06/creating-blogger-static-home-page.html

I already had something to this so all I had to do was make minor adjustments.  I changed up the Home tab and Resume tab.  Now my tabs are the About Me and Resume tab is the home page and the My Blog links to my blog.  I rather like this change and am glad that it was so easy to setup.

If you follow along in this tutorial / walk-through, most people should be able to complete it.  He has nice pictures and description of what to do.  I don't know the outcome for SEO or how this will apply to that.

How to fix Chrome being redirected to "payload.gosidekick.net"

Remove the iheartradio extension.

Steps to remove extensions:
1) Click the Chrome Menu (  3 dashes to the right of the Address bar.)
2) Go to Setting, a tab will open
3) Go to Extensions
4) Find the iheartradio app
5) Click the garbage can next to the app in order to remove it

If you are still experiencing these things, you can reset Chrome back to it's original settings.

Steps to reset Chrome:
1) Click the Chrome Menu (  3 dashes to the right of the Address bar.)
2) Go to Setting, a tab will open
3) Click at the very bottom "Show advanced settings..."
4) Find "Reset browser settings"

INTENSE At Home Cardio Workout Designed to Burn Fat Fast!

INTENSE At Home Cardio Workout Designed to Burn Fat Fast!

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Tips: Perform each circuit 3 total times.  For example, 3 x 1 minute walking push ups/1 minute jumping jacks/ 1 minute plank/30 second rest.  You would perform 1 minute of walking push ups, immediately followed by 1 minute of jumping jacks, immediately followed by a 1 minute plank, then rest for 30 seconds.  After the rest is up, you repeat exactly what you did above, two more times total.

• Warm up Circuit: 3 x 1 minute Running in Place/1 minute Clapping Jacks/15 second rest
• Cardio Explosion Circuit: 3 x 1 minute Tuck Jumps/1 minute Toe Touchers/1 minute Squat Twists/30 second rest
• Power Cardio Circuit: 3 x 1 Walking Push ups/1 minute Up/Down Planks/2 minutes Lunge Kicks/30 second rest
• Speed Cardio Circuit: 3 x 30 second Burpees/2 minutes  Speed Squats/1 minute Mountain Climbers/ 45 second rest
• Cardio Explosion Circuit:  3 x 1 minute Tuck Jumps/1 minute Toe Touchers/1 minute Squat Twists/30 second rest
• Speed Cardio Circuit: 3 x 2 minute  Side Shuffles/1 minute Running Zombies/30 seconds High Knees

Tuesday/Thursday

• Warm up Circuit: 3 x 1 minute Jumping Jacks/1 minute Standing Twist Crunch/15 second rest
• Power Cardio Circuit: 3 x 1 minute Spider Planks/1 minute Horizontal Jacks/1 minute (30 seconds per leg) Single-legged Squat Jumps/30 second rest
• Speed Cardio Circuit: 3 x 1 minute Squat Jacks/1 minute Butt Kickers/1 minute Broadway Shuffle/30 second rest
• Cardio Explosion Circuit: 3 x 2 minutes Line Jumps/1 minute Jumping Lunges/1 minute Kick Outs/45 second rest
• Ab Work: 3 x 100 flutter kicks/40 reverse crunches/1 minute plank/rest 45 seconds

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy --> A Lesson in Governance

GOVERNMENT

HOW DID ONE OF AMERICA’S GREAT CITIES CRASH? SOME CRAZY FACTS ABOUT DETROIT

Jul. 22, 2013 11:14am Mike Opelka

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Based on last week’s bankruptcy filing, Detroit is in dire straits. And according to comments from Governor Rick Snyder, the problem is not tough to see.

Consider some of the brutal facts about Detroit compiled by the Economic Collapse Blog:

• Unemployment in the city is almost triple what it was in 2000, and currently sits at 16.3% – more than double the national average of 7.6%.

Image: Detroit Free Press

• If you call a cop almost anywhere in America, the wait is an average of 11 minutes. In the Motor City, you’ll wait almost an hour (58 min average response time).
• Almost 80,000 homes sit abandoned — many have been vandalized or are being used by a host various drug addicts.
• In the first three months of 2013, it was estimated that as many as 40% of the city’s street lights were not working.

Once the 4th largest city in America, Detroit is now down 63%. Since 1950, more people have left Detroit than currently live there. To be specific, at one point Detroit had 1.8 million people — today, the estimate is around 700,000. To wrap your head around that fact, consider that more than 1.1 million people left Detroit. In other words, the entire population of Dallas would have to get up and move away, leaving a ghost town.

Why did the people leave? Jobs. In 1950, Detroit was a manufacturing machine and employed nearly 300,000 people. Today, that number is closer to 25,000.

Image: Zero Hedge

As a consequence of losing both huge numbers of manufacturing jobs and people, Detroit has spent the past six decades heading towards the fiscal issues that forced the city to file for bankruptcy protection.

And think about this: Murder rates are higher than normal in the city and Detroit regularly finds itself atop or near the top of the list of “America’s most dangerous cities.”

There’s more, lots more in the file of disturbing facts about Detroit. Review these nuggets:

• Of the remaining population, one report says almost of Detroiters are “functionally illiterate.”
• The city owes money to more than 100,000 creditors.
• One estimate says the city’s unfunded liabilities now approach $20 billion or 25,000 per remaining resident.
• The city has an unsustainable ratio of workers to retirees (who are owed some very generous benefits for decades) – approximately 10,000 workers and 20,000 retirees.
• The murder rate is 11 times higher than in NYC, and violent crime happens in the city at a level more than five times the national average.

Why didn’t we see this coming?

Well, some people did. In 2011, financial analyst Meredith Whitney predicted much of the meltdown – and was criticized for it.

And in 2009, Steven Crowder showed what life was like on the streets of the once-proud city.

To see more of the 25 facts about Detroit, visit the Economic Collapse Blog.

Follow Mike Opelka on Twitter – @stuntbrain

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/detroit-how-did-one-of-americas-great-cities-crash/

Jeff Thomas Personal Bio

Today, I added My Profile to the blog and also wrote a Personal Bio.  I thought about "Me in 30 Seconds" and other ways to introduce myself.  There is obviously more to a person than a 75 word description.  Here is the short of what to do.

List your name, your profession, your interests, your family and anything else that can capture you in 4-5 sentences in no more than 2 paragraphs.  This is the opportunity to describe what you do, not bullet point it.  This isn't exactly how I work - I was referenced yesterday as the "bullet point man."  After about a half-hour of research and thinking of myself this is what I put together:

Jeff Thomas is a Business Systems Analyst at Ceridian from Salt Lake City, Utah.  He is currently working in the Healthcare Benefits Administration configuring client's open enrollment.
In his spare time, Jeff spends time playing with his family - a loving wife and 3 children, following politics, learning new hobbies, and playing video games.  You can contact me at Twitter below or at Jeff.WThomas@gmail.com.

Other steps for the Jeff Thomas SEO Project.
I have changed my post title to be the webpage title.
I have change the H2 to wrap around the post title as well.

Add 10 Years to Your Life

The 4 Quests by Jane McGonigal which is now on Netflix under the following:

TEDTalks: Life Hack: "Jane McGonigal: The Game That Can Give You 10 Extra Years of Life"

1) Pick one --> Walk 3 steps or raise your hands above your head
+1 Physical Resilience

2) Pick one --> Snap your fingers exactly 50 times or count backwards from 100 by 7 (100, 93, 86...)
+1 Mental Resilience

3) Pick one --> If inside look outside a window, if outside look inside a window. Or look up a YouTube or Google image of your favorite baby animal.
+1 Emotional Resilience

4) Pick one --> Shake someone's hand for 6 seconds or Send someone a quick thank you by text, email, Facebook, or twitter.
+1 Social Resilience

Regularly boosting these 4 resiliences will expand your life span by +10 years.

Post Title to be the Page Title and Author

Today, I looked up a way to change how the Title of your blog to first show the Post Title instead of the Blog Title.

Blogger SEO help

Also, I changed my profile of the Author from Jeff to Jeff Thomas.  Both of these things should help with the SEO Project.