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LinkedIn is the largest professional marketing site with 500 million users, and 40% of them use the platform daily. LinkedIn is still growing in popularity and remains one of the best online platforms to market your business. Here we'll discuss some ways to optimize your LinkedIn use.
Your banner image, logo, photos and messages on LinkedIn should be consistent with those you use on other social media channels and marketing materials. Consistency is important for people to readily recognize your business. Make sure you use the same colors, fonts and messaging across all your branding for LinkedIn pages as well as other online platforms like Facebook. Consider including your phone number and URL in your banner image to make them readily available. Include a call to action, taglines, and hashtags to make reading your page, gleaning content, and reaching you easy for viewers. Promote a specialized landing page with images based on your brand to incrementally promote special events, product launches, showcase something new, or to share your company culture using photos of your team.
Your Company Description
Make sure this speaks directly to your prospects. You can always include a copy of the "About" page on your website, but, also take this opportunity to speak directly to your audience and tell your story. This might include some pain points you experienced and how you overcame them. Promote your expertise and industry focus, and how your company is different from others. Be aware that Google previews up to 156 characters of your page text, so it's important that your description includes some keywords that best describe who you are and what you do.
To get the viewership you need, it's also important that you post updates to your page at least once a week. (Although, two or three times a week is better.) Make sure it's content that will draw people to your page. Always be helpful and informative in your posts, and not salesy. (80% of your content should be informative with no more than 20% selling) Remember that LinkedIn is about sharing expertise, advice, and networking.
Post things that will keep people coming back to your page, like a series of 5 to 10 tips, countdowns to "top tens," or any other topics that fit your brand. Posting a series will encourage people to come back to your next post. Plus, these posts are great ways to link back to your website to increase traffic.
Build a Following
A lot of people have difficulty with this. Try doing some cross-promotion using your other social-media pages like LinkedIn and Twitter. Add icons for these pages on your LinkedIn profile so people can find them.
Try sending out an email blast to directly invite people to follow your LinkedIn page. Also, encourage your employees to share and engage appropriate content on your page so people in their circles can find your posts as well. Even family and friends should be invited to see your content so they can share it with others.
You have the option to use sponsored content to build a following on LinkedIn. Otherwise, the best way to do this is to be consistent and invest time in building an organic following.
Engage with Your Community
Make sure that when someone comments on your page, you reply right away. Also, keep tabs on your analytics to see if what you're posting is resonating with your audience. If not, you might need to make some changes. Invite people to respond to your content and provide their opinions and feedback. Post a question on your LinkedIn company page and see who responds. Ask what they struggle with most in your industry, and how they overcame it. People love to talk about their own experiences. Build a rapport and continue to invite others to comment. (Be sure to always answer and address their comments!) This not only increases your engagement but gives you some tips on what you need to do to better your posts. Those who engage with others tend to get better readership numbers.
Showcase Pages
These are separate and different from your company pages. They are an extension of your LinkedIn company page but allow you to promote certain products and/ or events to a specific audience. For example, a company like Adobe may create a showcase page to advertise their cloud services, or Apple their newest iPhone. Think of this as a "mini-LinkedIn page" for your company product. LinkedIn allows you to create up to 10 of them. (If you'd like to include more, contact LinkedIn Customer Support and they'll help you with this.) They will appear on your company page under the "About Us" section.
Your showcase pages should have unique names to differentiate them from your company page. However, be sure to continue your branding throughout the different pages for consistency and brand recognition. Add a link to your product page so readers can learn more specifics. Just like anything else worthwhile, creating showcase pages takes time and commitment. You shouldn't set them and forget them. You must follow up just like you do with your LinkedIn company page to ensure success.
To get started, go to your company page and open up the admin tools on the top right corner and this will bring up a drop-down menu you can use.
These images indicate the showcase pages you can go to.
When you click on one of the images, you'll be taken to the showcase page.
Optimize Your Personal LinkedIn Profile
What some people forget to do is to make sure their LinkedIn profile is visible to everyone and posts are public. If not, people can't share them and they won't show up in Google searches. Go to "Edit Public Profile in URL" > "Edit visibility" and customize this according to your needs.
You should develop a headline that relays more than just your job title. Get creative and write a headline that really describes who you are. You can edit this in your profile section. What do you want to be known for? What's your industry focus? Add samples of your work to promote your experience and skills. Use a professional headshot. Posting a "selfie" will tarnish your image as a professional. Finally, link your profile to your company page. This helps people find both you and your company.
The summary is where you can really impress your viewers with your experience and know-how. Be sure to use keywords you want Google to pick up so your profile will reach as many interested parties as possible. Also, link to your company website's main page, or a page you want to highlight. Include an invitation for the types of people you want to contact you, or other calls to action such as connecting to your company website.
Make sure you keep the content of your profile up to date, including what your duties are and how you contribute to your organization. Archive information from places you've previously worked so people there can find you. If you get a promotion, be sure to include this as well.
If you need more content, add publications, certifications, languages you speak, honors, awards, and anything else that you think will appeal to your followers, that will set you apart from your competitors, and position you as an expert in your field. Similar to items in a professional resume that will draw the right people's attention.
Endorsements & Recommendations
There's a lot of confusion about the differences between these two features on LinkedIn. We'll clarify this for you:
Endorsements provide an opportunity for you to network either online or in person. Endorsements help you affirm your experience and skills with recruiters and others. When a viewer endorses you on LinkedIn, they are confirming that you have the experience you say you do. When you showcase your "Skills" on LinkedIn, others who know you can endorse them to confirm what you've posted is true. Ask reliable people to endorse your skills. You can ask them via a direct message, or you can endorse their skills on LinkedIn so they'll return the favor. Add your skills to the "Edit Profile" section.
Recommendations are different, although they fall into the same category as Endorsements because they provide social proof that you are who you say you are. This is when another LinkedIn member, such as a business partner, colleague or customer, writes a statement recognizing the good work you've done. You can solicit a recommendation from someone by navigating to their profile, select the "More" icon and the "Request a recommendation." Add a note if you like. You can even request a revision of a recommendation when they come back to you. You also have the option to approve the recommendation before it's posted to your profile.
The LinkedIn Mobile Application
The faster you respond to messages, the more opportunities and potential connections you'll gain. This is why you should consider using LinkedIn's mobile app on your smartphone. You can do most of what you can do on the desktop site with just a few exceptions. What's missing are the analytics and the LinkedIn Publisher feature. You will have to download the separate applications for groups, sales navigator, and LinkedIn Learning Recruiter. It's best to make a folder on your phone and store them here. The good news is that the LinkedIn Mobile App now allows you to upload and post videos to your profile.
Why Use LinkedIn Videos?
LinkedIn exclusively favors content that doesn't take you outside of their application. For this reason, you should use native LinkedIn Videos rather than ones stored on other platforms. To access this feature, you'll need to use the mobile app and follow the directions below.
If you have problems, you may need to update your LinkedIn Mobile app. Tag people, use hashtags if relevant, add posts, include talking points in your description, along with a brief overview of the video. Three minutes is an ideal for a video.
How to Use LinkedIn Videos
You can pre-record a professional video and edit it to your liking. Use videos for client testimonials or to showcase a product. Try to use videos that include closed captioning, as the videos in LinkedIn are muted by default.
Upload real-time coverage like a segment from an event you're attending. You can post a video to share more about yourself and what you do. Upload a video biography or walk around your office and feature some of your co-workers (and be sure to tag them in your video).
Post a video with tips that you believe your viewers would be interested in. This will keep them coming back for more.
It's best to have a plan for your video in advance so you're sure to focus on what you want to cover. Above all, be personable but professional with your content, appearance, and demeanor.
LinkedIn Groups
Use LinkedIn Groups to find like-minded professionals, share your experiences, and learn from theirs. It's like a virtual "coffee group" with other experts in your industry. You can post your comments, ask questions and even add photos to your group pages. Try not to sell in these groups. This will turn people off. If you can't find a group that works for you, start your own! This is a good way to build some valuable relationships, possibly get some referrals, or turn them into prospects. Again, this an opportunity to position yourself as an expert in your field. Participating in Groups isn't something you can set and forget. The more you invest in Groups, the more you'll gain.
LinkedIn Analytics
You should always monitor the data you receive from Analytics and adjust your posting schedule and content accordingly. Perhaps your posts with images are getting more feedback than others, or content you post in the morning gets more attention than those in the afternoon. Taking note of these details can help you get the most from your time and investment in LinkedIn. Check in weekly to see how your posts are performing. Another way to determine if you're getting the results you want is to "Pin" a post to the top of your page and check the analytics to see if it's being viewed by the audience you want to target. Use Analytics to set a baseline for target performance, and set some short- and long-term goals for engagement and getting people to share your posts.
Impressions, Clicks, Interactions & Engagement
These are the main measures you'll want to review in Analytics:
- Impressions are the number of times your LinkedIn updates are viewed by members. It doesn't mean people read them or clicked anything on them; just that they were viewed.
- Clicks are the number of times people clicked on your content.
- Interactions are the number of times viewers liked, shared or commented on your update.
- Engagement is the number of interactions, plus the number of clicks and followers you have, divided by the number of impressions. (The percentage of people who engaged vs. the number posts they viewed.)
The Benefits of Using LinkedIn Analytics for Your Business
The key to engaging your LinkedIn audience is to know as much as you can about them. Analytics provides this detail. You can determine the age, gender, location and more about your viewers. This will help you make the adjustments you need to get the most viewership. You can view analytics from individual posts as well, so you can see how they stand up against others, and determine what made some more successful than others. Was it a Call to Action that drew followers, or a special offer for an e-Book? Or was the success due to the type of content you included? You can adjust your future posts based on the success of previous ones.
LinkedIn Analytics provides various charts and graphs so you can easily view and interpret your data and demographics.
This example page hasn't been updated but should give you an idea of what a company analytics page might look like.
This next page highlights how you can choose what you want your graph to display.
Again, this graph is empty now but will prove very useful when it's populated. It will show your most recent posts and how people responded to them. This will be useful for developing your future content. You can sort by which post did the best and more.
That's it. But there's still more. We'll be featuring another Webinar about LinkedIn Analytics, Paid Ads and Premium Features soon. In the meantime, if you need more information about anything presented here, please contact your friendly IT services team immediately.


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SharePoint 2010: (pilot , poc) Sites, webs, contentdb's, what you should(n't) do
by mysticslayer on Oct.28, 2011, under SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation
Before I begin my blog I will thank everyone who thought this allready over and made it available thru all types of conferences worldwide.
First of all, this is my own comment about how to do work around with Sites, Webs, content database, etc. This is my own opinion based on what I've learned the last years and my based on my own experience combined with the experience from others.
So, let's start with an example which causes me to write this blog:
A mid-size company started of with a simple pilot of SharePoint 2010. This pilot was to discover how SharePoint works, and does it fit within the organization. We agreed before we started to start all over again when the company decided to go further with SharePoint. Well after an half year the company decided to go further with SharePoint, but yet the pilot environment was allready promoted to production before we could started all over again.
Allright I thought, when everything is ok, and we don't have any issues regarding the environment we can do that, because the physical as the logical architecture was future proof designed. Multiple Content Databases, multiple site collections, etc. The only thing we had to was give some servers more memory. That's all.
I had installed, configured and designed the infrastructure, so I knew that kind of issues can happen, when a pilot environment will be promoted as a production environment. I wasn't committed when others had the intranet designed with sites,templates, etc for the Pilot. But well, I've made some critical decisions in the infrastructure, but maybe I forget to mention it correctly. My bad.
In februari I was asked to go further with the environment, and we attached Reporting Services, Datawarehousing, etc. No issues there.
But now, when the point arrives we grow larger and larger, and when I checked the databases it was all good, because all databases where used. But then I saw one big problem. Yes, they didn't use the Site Collections I've made in the start, but created just sub SPWebs. Ouch, yes here we go.
So, now we have to migrate 25 GB of subwebs to one of the Site Collections I created at the start. Well. it takes days to do it well, everything you have done in the early stages are allready critical in the organization, so you can't make mistakes. Everything has to work as before when your migrated. Well convert to SPSite is one hell of task to do.
I think I've tested the migration over and over again. Used the information given by Gary Lapointe, and went further with it. Came up with more then 257 errors. Well okay, that isn't much, but it doesn't tell the errors you'll get functional. Yes functional!!
Every site, list, workflow, CQWP has to be tested. And I mean, really tested if it works as before. I can tell you, I have to replace every CQWP, some lists are getting corrupted, content types are missing, list pages are gone, pages are not behaving as they should.
So before you decide to start of with a pilot think as a production site, because it will help you a lot and other a lot. SharePoint 2010 is scalable, ensure that your sites are scalable as well. Think scalable act scalable.

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"Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capitalist System"
August 13, 2010
I write about major problems: the collapsing US economy, wars based on lies and deception, the police state based on "the war on terror" and other fabrications such as those orchestrated by corrupt police and prosecutors, who boost their performance reports by convicting the innocent, and so on. America is a very distressing place. The fact that so many Americans are taken in by the lies told by "their" government makes America all the more depressing.
Often, however, it is small annoyances that waste Americans' time and drive up blood pressures. One of the worst things that ever happened to Americans was the breakup of the AT&T telephone monopoly. As Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in 1981, if 150 percent of my time and energy had not been required to cure stagflation in the face of opposition from Wall Street and Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, I might have been able to prevent the destruction of the best communications service in the world, and one that was very inexpensive to customers.
The assistant attorney general in charge of the "anti-trust case" against AT&T called me to ask if Treasury had an interest in how the case was resolved. I went to Treasury Secretary Don Regan and told him that although my conservative and libertarian friends thought that the breakup of At&T was a great idea, their opinion was based entirely in ideology and that the practical effect would not be good for widows and orphans who had a blue chip stock to see them through life or for communications customers as deregulated communications would give the multiple communications corporations different interests than those of the customers. Under the regulated regime, AT&T was allowed a reasonable rate of return on its investment, and to stay out of trouble with regulators AT&T provided excellent and inexpensive service.
Secretary Regan reminded me of my memo to him detailing that Treasury was going to have a hard time getting President Reagan's economic program, directed at curing the stagflation that had wrecked President Carter's presidency, out of the Reagan administration. The budget director, David Stockman, and his chief economist, Larry Kudlow, had lined up against it following the wishes of Wall Street, and the White House Chief of Staff James Baker and his deputy Richard Darman were representatives of VP George H.W. Bush and did not want s substantial Reagan success that would again threaten the Republican Establishment's hold over the party. Baker and Darman wanted to be sure that George H. W. Bush, and not Jack Kemp, succeeded Ronald Reagan, and that required a muted Reagan success that they could claim as theirs for moderating an "extremist" program.
I told Secretary Regan that if I had another deputy assistant secretary, I could reach a reasonable conclusion whether the breakup of AT&T was sensible. He replied that he was sure that was the case, but that once I had three deputies the headlines in the Washington Post and New York Times, Business Week, Newsweek, and so on, would be: "Supply-sider builds empire at Treasury." He said it would sink me and that without me he could not get the President's economic program out of the President's administration. "Which do you want to do," he asked, "save AT&T or cure stagflation?"
Curing stagflation gave America twenty more years. Ironically, the good times started to erode when Reagan's other goal was accomplished and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990. "The end of history" resulted in India and China opening their labor markets to American capitalists, who began producing offshore with foreign labor the products that they sold to Americans. The labor costs savings pushed up corporate profits, shareholders' returns, and managerial bonuses. But it deprived Americans of middle class incomes and wrecked the balance of trade. The US income distribution and the trade deficit worsened.
Many progressives blame the worsening income distribution on the Reagan tax rate reductions, but the real cause is the offshoring of manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs, such as software engineering.
None of us in the Reagan administration foresaw jobs offshoring as the consequence of Soviet collapse. We had no idea that by bringing down the Soviet Union we would be bringing down America. During the Reagan years India was socialist and would not allow foreign corporations, had they been interested, to touch their labor force. China was communist and no foreign capital could enter the country.
However, once the Soviet Union was gone from the earth, the remaining socialist and communist regimes decided to go with the winners. They opened to Western corporations and sucked jobs out of the developed West.
But this is a different story. To get back to deregulation, nothing has worked for the consumer since deregulation. Deregulation permitted corporations to impose their costs of operation on customers without having to send them a bill. For example, corporations use voice recognition technology to keep customers from salaried customer representatives. I remember when a customer with a problem could call a utility company or bank and have the problem immediately corrected.
No more. There was an error in my phone bill today, which I had corrected without result on two previous occasions. As everyone knows by now, it takes 10-15 minutes, usually, to get a live person who can actually fix the problem. After listening to sales pitches for 12 minutes, I got a live person. Once the problem was understood, it was pronounced to be an upper level problem out of his hands. I waited another 10 minutes while he tried to reach a superior who had the code to fix the problem that the phone company had produced in my account. The entire time I listened to product advertisements.
How many times has this happened to you?
Whoever invented these artificial voice capabilities is the enemy of mankind. Whomever a customer calls–utilities, credit card companies, banks, whatever, the customer gets a voice machine. Some voice machines never tell the customer how to get a live person who can, on occasion, actually fix the problem.
In my opinion, the strategy behind the endless delays is to cause the customers to give up, slam the telephone down and play the higher incorrect bill as it is cheaper in time and frustration to correcting the problem and being billed in the correct amount. These ripoffs of the customer are produced by Wall Street pressures for higher earnings.
The frustrations, of course, multiply when one reaches an offshored service somewhere in the Third World. The incentive is to hang up and to pay the excessive bill so that phone, internet, or credit card services are not cut off
Had Don Regan and I known that the high speed Internet was in our future and that American corporations would use it to destroy the jobs traditionally filled by US university graduates, possibly we would have decided to save the regulated telephone monopoly and to deliver the economy over to stagflation.
The reason is that sooner or later something would have been done about stagflation, but nothing whatsoever has been done about offshoring. Saving the economy from offshoring would have been a greater achievement than saving the economy from stagflation. However, in my time stagflation, not offshoring, was the problem.
I regret that I did not have a crystal ball.
Deregulation proponents will say that the breakup of AT&T gave us cell phones and broadband, as if foreign regulated communication companies and state monopolies do not provide cell phone service or high speed Internet connections. I can remember attending corporate board meetings years ago at which the European members had digital cell phones with which they could call most anywhere on earth, while we Americans with our analogue cell phones could hardly connect down the street.
What deregulation did was to permit Wall Street to push the deregulated industries– phone service, airlines, trucking, and later Wall Street itself– to focus on profits and not on service. Profits were increased by curtailing service, by pushing up prices and by Wall Street creating fraudulent financial instruments, which the banksters used America's reputation to market to the gullible at home and abroad.
Consider air travel. Admit it, if you are my age you hate it. The deterioration in service over my lifetime is phenomenal. Studies in favor of airline deregulation focused on short flights between A and B and concluded that small airlines serving high density areas were more efficient because they were not regulated. What was left out of the analysis is that regulated airlines served low density areas and permitted free stopovers. For example, if one was flying from the US to Athens, Greece, the traveler could stopover in London, Paris, and Rome without additional charges. Moreover, passengers were fed hot meals even in tourist class. In those halcyon days, it was even possible to travel more comfortably in tourist class than in first class, because flights were not scheduled in keeping with full capacity. Several rows of seats might be unoccupied. It was possible to push up the arm rests on three or four center aisle seats, lay down and go to sleep.
Perhaps the best benefit of regulated air travel for passengers was that airlines had spare airliners. If one airplane had mechanical problems that could not be fixed within a reasonable time, a standby airliner was rolled out to enable passengers to meet their connections and designations. With deregulation, customer service is not important. The bottom line has eliminated spare airliners.
With deregulated airlines, Wall Street calls the tune. If your flight has a mechanical problem, you are stuck where you are unless you have some sort of privileged status that can bump passengers from later fully booked flights. "Studies" that focus only on discounted ticket price omit major costs of deregulation and thereby wrongly conclude that deregulation has benefited the consumer.
When trucking was regulated, truckers would stop to provide roadside assistant to stranded travelers. Today, with deregulated trucking, every minute counts toward the bottom line. Not only do truckers no longer stop to aid stranded travelers, they travel at excessive speeds that endanger automobile drivers. Trucks have expanded in size, weight and speed. Trucks raise the stress level on interstate highway drivers and destroy, at taxpayers expense, the roads on which they travel.
Conservatives and especially libertarians romanticize "free market unregulated capitalism." They regard it as the best of all economic orders. However, with deregulated capitalism, every decision is a bottom-line decision that screws everyone except the shareholders and management.
In America today there is no longer a connection between profits and the welfare of the people. Unregulated greed has destroyed the capitalist system, which now distributes excessive rewards to the few at the expense of the many.
If Marx and Lenin were alive today, the extraordinary greed with which Wall Street has infected capitalism would provide Marx and Lenin with a better case than they had in the 19th and early 20th centuries.


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Vanilla Ice Accepts Plea Deal in Florida Theft Case
April 2nd, 2015 at 5:18 pm by MarkTags: florida, law, lawyers, robert van winkle, theft, vanilla ice
Back in February, Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle was arrested and charged for the theft of a pool heater, a few bicycles and other items from a Florida home. He first claimed that the items were curbside, however, later changed his story that it was all a misunderstanding. Doesn't take a psychic to see where this trail leads. Though, if he needed a psychic, he could steal a smart phone and get SMS Readings from one. Yeah, that's a thing. Psychic readings over text. If I was as rich/famous/whatever-Vanilla-Ice-is I'd probably start my day with one, just to avoid getting into lawsuits.
Back on topic, unfortunately, I believe this was the same kind of rationalization which led him a to a guilty verdict for plagiarism in a case brought forward by David Bowie and Queen back in the 80's… Today, Mr. Ice Van Winkle accepted a plea deal that allows him to make $1,300 in restitution to the victims of his theft and perform 100 hours of Community Service with Habitat for Humanity — and stay out of jail. Must be nice being a celebrity…
Now that he's out of hot water he has a TV show or something where it's basically Pimp My Ride, but it's people's houses instead. I guess building houses for 100 hours was long enough to get addicted to it, because he's taken to it like a fish to water. And he's more buff than I remember. It's worth a watch. Imagine Jersey Shore, Pimp My Ride, and any given HGTV show all rolled into one and you're pretty much watching it already.
Who would have ever imagined Vanilla Ice, of all people, making something that would last longer than a few weeks (ha ha ice burn)? And it's all because he couldn't keep his hands off of other peoples' things.


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I keep getting asked the same questions about doll making and unfortunately I don't have time to answer them, so i collected all the info i have here. If you have really specific questions(ei: My silicone isn't setting up, why?) feel free to ask.
There is no magic bullet answer for making BJDs except to say "TRY." Learned by doing. It's the only way you're going to improve.
Important! The biggest misconception people have is that making their own doll will be cheaper to get what they want. It's not. It's about the same price in total. Unless you're really passionate about art and have a great track record for getting huge projects done, you're probably better off just saving your money slowly and buying a company doll you really like. Making a doll is time consuming and requires engineering skills as well as art skills. Anyone can do it, but not instantly. It will take time, heart, and hard work no matter what level of artist you are.
1. How do I make a doll?
Noah's doll tutorial
This is a really, really good place to start.
2. What do you sculpt your dolls in?
Depending on the doll I use paperclay, super sculpey, or apoxie sculpt. Pop those names into google and you will find a variety of places that sell them. Each clay has a different hardness, durability, work time, curing process, and weight. I suggest giving them each a chance to see which one you like. Paperclay dolls are weak and don't take a lot of strain. Super Sculpey is strong but brittle and will break under compression over time. Apoxie sculpt is very hard, durable, but has a short work time of 1-2 hours and cures over night.
3. Where can I get silicone/resins from?
Smooth-on.com Alumilite.com Polytek.com bity.com these are all stateside companies. I have no idea what is/isn't available in other countries. I suggest getting a kit from smooth on or alumilite to get you started. they all have tons of tutorials on mold making and casting. Again, each resin and silicone has it's own properties.
4. Will you make a tutorial on this?
Here are the videos I've made on youtube
Here are the ones on Deviantart
In the past few months the requests have started to get more and more demanding and rude. I like to be helpful and provide information for people… but I don't have to supply the information. I think the message that really sticks in my mind is someone who said they absolutely hate my dolls but they want me to teach them how to make dolls anyway. :/ I'm sorry. I'm not trying to keep the information from you… the information is already out there. You just have to spend some time researching. There are some great sculpting and casting books out there as well. Look for them.
Making a BJD means teaching yourself a variety of skills and then applying them to doll making.
5. How do I make a mold?
Dan Perez Workshop's basics on molding in silicone.
Vivicore's casting/building tutorial.
6. How do I make the doll hollow?
Build the limbs over straws. For the body, you can use either aluminum foil(and pull it out later) or make a 3d box out of chipboard. I have a video on that if you look at my youtube channel. it's Making a BJD 01 i think.
7. Where can I get more information/help?
The Joint is a BJD-creation forum run by several accomplished artists. they're all very helpful and wonderful. Join it.
8. Where do I get ball-joints from?
This is a tricky one. The easy answer is that anything spherical can generally be used as a joint. When I first started working on dolls I literally went to every single craft, toy and hardware store in town gathering as many spherical things as I could. The more perfect your sphere the better your joint will move.
The easiest thing to do is get wooden balls and beads and cut the holes into the slots used for joint movement(there's a tutorial on the shape and how to make simple molds for more joints in my deviant art tutorials linked above). Ball bearings are also wonderful, but you'll have to make molds of them and then press your material into the molds.
Pulkifee and I also have released 3d modeled spheres available for print on Shapeways.com You can find my store here, once i remember where her store is I'll update with another link to it! These balls are pretty expensive, I know. I'm sorry. 3d printing is very expensive but a really useful tool.
9. Will you sell me/give me your junk casts?
No. I sell bits and bobs when I sell them. Please don't ask me for them. When/if I DO have broken bits(which are usually NOT dolls or faces), I sell them on my etsy shop.
10. How do I get my doll cast by someone else? How do I set up for that?
I really suggest casting your doll yourself before going this route as it's very expensive and if the original is not extremely sturdy it can be damaged in the molding process. However, you can talk to Grace at Jpopdolls.net for information on pro-casting.
11. How much do you pay for your individual pro-casts?
More than you think. The initial investment is large. If I sold off my entire stock in one go I would make a good profit, however I've never done that. I usually sell enough dolls that I can pay off the order without taking out a loan. Over the course of several years I will probably be able to sell off the remaining stock but there's no guarantee. The doll market is very fickle.
I go with pro-casting not because it's cheaper, but because it's a more consistent, professional quality in a larger quantity than I can produce myself(I can only produce maybe 5 dolls a month on my own). I'm sure if I made doll making my only job(I am employed as a 3d modeler for video games) I could possibly produce the same quality and quantity. However, making my rent every month would become a crap shoot, I would no longer have health insurance, and I'd be pulling 16 hour days/6 day work weeks. For sake of sanity, i keep my day job which I thankfully generally enjoy.
Good luck!
This stuff isn't that hard, but it does require a lot of work on your part and a willingness to make mistakes and move past them.
do you use paperclay of apoxie sculpt. which one is better. i know you cast the dolls in resin but if you use paperclay is it weak of strong
Where do you buy your wigs/hair for the BJDs? Its super gorgeous!
Hi my name is Erika, I had a quick question, I am making a double joingted doll out of porcelain. When it is done in the kiln do you have any reconmomdations about how I should 'blush' the doll so-to-speak?
Blushing is just inhancing the natural color of the doll with watery acrylic paints. Which is fine for oven baked clays. But I do not know how to go about it with porcelain…I don't want to glaze the entire piece to make it look glossy. I just want a realistic look…
If you don't know thats fine :) It's seams like not to many people are framiliar with porcelain haha I love what you do so much! That's for the youtube videos! <3
I just wanted to let you know how grateful I am for the information that you share. I am new to bjd and especially love your creations, Delta and Gamma are my favorites. I hope to be able to afford one soon, ( hope you don't run out of those two). I plan on making one of those my very first bjd.
Hi, if I were going to only make one doll could I just seal the paperclay with a sealant or would it be better just to cast the doll? Thank you.
I'm sorry for bothering you but is it possible to spray paint dolls you have made out of super sculpty? Also, Your dolls are amazingly beautiful!
What do you use for the eyes? Thanks!
Based off your tutorials, I am thinking about making a faceplate for my dolls, would that be alright?
Thanks so much! *looks up eyes and gives hugs.*
I stumbled upon you site through a friend linking to
your mini machinas. (So cute!) I have been thinking about making
my own doll for a long time but more seriously the last year, i have yet to go through all links, videos and so on but i want to thank you so much for sharing you info and insight, it is rare and i appreciate that you have given so much of your time to try and help us that are just starting out! Many, many thanks! <3
Ahhh nooo your link to Noah's tutorial is broken! (And Google's all like "lol Noah's ark right?" )
As a side note, your work is gorgeous *o* I just discovered you today and I am in love~!
Hello miss Batchix! I know you probably get this alot but which pro-casters do you recomend? I've heard of people using bobobie I think & Dollshe and you mentioned Jpop dolls. It seems bobobie & Jpop have a wide variety of colors (which is what I'm looking for). I'm also going to try my hand at casting myself first! Thank you for all the info you share & for making such awesome dolls!
Thank you so much for all the information on your site! I've been so enjoying going through it and learning as all the doll classes in my area take place while I'm at work. Your willingness to share your expertise with others is generous and much appreciated!
Hello Miss, I had a quick question I was hoping you could help me out with: When you cast a paperclay doll in resin, do you have to coat it in something? It seems like it might stick.
Your dolls are absolutely gorgeous by the by, and it's so nice to see a big fancy doll maker like yourself actually responding to people! c;
So, I've been working on a super-tiny doll in paperclay. The eyes are proving the hardest part — not the sculpting, but making sure they are hollowed and sealed, and sanded nicely. I had originally done it be setting beads into the head while sculpting it, and that worked well, but with the sealant I'm worried that the eyewells have shrunk a bit. Have you any suggestions?
I am both saddened and sickened by what I read, the I don't like your dolls, and give me your parts thing! Please don't hold that against the normals lol. Your work is just amazing! My question is, are there dolls that are sculpted in clay that you don't have to cast, can I sculpt a doll out of polymer clay and that doll be my bjd, or does the rest of the process HAVE to be completed? I hope that makes sense. Thank you again you're an angel for sharing!
I just wanted to leave a little note of appreciation for you here! I've been reading your tips and watching your youtube videos for two years now, and without all the time a dedication you put into teaching I wouldn't have learned even half of what I know now.
It was in fact my little sister showing me your sculpting tutorial (she's a huge transformers fan and consequently loves your machina dolls) that really got me interested in the mechanics of bjd making in the first place.
It's my dream to someday have my own line of fantasy themed ball jointed dolls, and it's heartwarming to know that a one person army can make that happen. I'm determined to learn how to resin cast my paperclay creations this year and, again, I appreciate the wealth of information you've collected on the subject. Keep doing what you do and being amazing!
Hi Batchix!
I'd like to cast myself my bjd dolls but I don't undestand how resin I have to use.I'd like to know the name so I can buy it on the web.May you help me please??
Thank you for your precious help and tricks!!
In Italy I don't found this brand :/ but I hope to found it on the web! Thanks a lot !!
Firstly, I love your dolls; they are absolutely gorgeous and I'm saving up for one :D Can't wait!
Anyways, I have a question:
What method do you use to put on your dolls' hair? Do you use the wig method or is there a more permanent way of doing this?
Rather, what would you recommend and how?
I'm thinking of making 4 ball jointed dolls, the only thing is I never made one before. I'm worried about the cost of making them though, do you know much would it roughly cost to make them in paperclay? I have a very limited income (aka how much I can get from my dad without him saying give up you're costing too much). And any other tips would be helpful and appreciated! Btw I've only been working with clay for a year so I'm pretty inexperienced:-/
Thank you so much! I can't wait to get started! And I have one more question, is it possible to make a BJD out of Sculpy/oven bake clay? Cuz all I see is paperclay dolls and I'm more used to Sculpy .
Where did you get the wig used in your Dark Elf pics? Looks awesome :D
Hi, I'm just wondering if you had a particular suggestion for which specific resin/silicone to use for molding and casting?
I've been going through Allumite and Smooth-On, but there are so many choices and I have no idea what I should be looking for in terms of hardness or flexibility or what any of their numbered terms mean, and whenever I try to look up what type of resin is a good choice for BJDs, Google takes me to a bunch of recasting sites…
Please help!
Hello! Thank you so much for all the info, it's fantastic!
I've started recently making my first bjd, and I was interested in casting it in resin at some point. However I'm kinda lost at the materials part. I don't understand how does the silicone weight translate to volume! Would 1lbs of silicone be enough to do a full mold of a smallish bjd? (around 25cm tall) Or should I get more? @_@ Again, thank you so much! Have a nice day!
Hi, this FAQ is absolutely fascinating, and cleared up a bunch of questions I had! Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge =)
One thing I'm stuck on however is the different kinds of resins – very opaque ones vs very translucent ones. What's going on there? What brands do translucent resins?
I am so glad I found this page. I have two questions. So I am wanting to make my own dolls to sell and ( I have been doing research but some of the answers I am looking for are hard to find) I was wanting for them to be quite durable as I was hoping to sell them to younger folk, so I was wondering if there are materials that would be best for this? Also I was wondering if there was a way I didn't have to make too many 'molds' and I could use one over and over again to make a 'cast' for the permanent doll that I plan on painting to sell? I apologize for the long questions and sorry if they don't make much sense but any information you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Just a question, are you still making dolls? And hi from 2016 :)
Thank you for this! I'm midway into sculpting my first doll, and have realized I want to be continue on from just sculpting. I found other info articles, but none as comprehensive and encouraging as your's-all the links are so useful, and they're helping me keep in mind the various needs for mold making while I'm sculpting.
I'm so excited to have found this. It's been uplifting to read that I came to similar processes as you have. Next is learning all about resins, but being Australian means I need to actually put in the ground work and find out the right kind that I can source locally. Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for this, I have been a fan for a long time, but never thought to check any FAQs. You're so sweet to share all this information. It's just amazing to see.
Hello! I was curious to see if there's any way that I can sculpt my doll out of paper clay, and then once it's dry go over it with apoxy (the putty); is that possible? Or will I have to seal it beforehand to go along that route? Or is it just a bad idea all together?XD
I've made a doll using La doll Premier clay and cast it into resin before. Now I'm making a new body, but this time I want to make the mold using a pressure tank. My concern is that the clay, which seems like a paper clay though it is strong, might break under pressure in the tank. tank. If you have experience with this I'd like your advice as to whether or not I can use this type of clay in pressure molding.


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To your left is Kensei Robo, in his original costume. Jeff described him as "a robot cowboy who is also a katana master." Looking at the picture, you can kind of grasp what he's going for... but it doesn't really capture the "sword saint" part of the character, now does it?
And those gears. HATE THEM!
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Robot: This part pretty much stayed the same, though I changed the colors a bit, deleted those horrible gears, and use different (but still biggie-sized) robot gauntlets.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by Republican-led states that were seeking to defund Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide women's reproductive health services.
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Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito — dissented and would have heard the challenges brought by Kansas and Louisiana.
But notably, two other conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, did not. They were joined by the court's four liberals.
The court's decision not to decide strongly suggests that a majority of justices, led by Roberts, would like to keep a low profile this term. In the aftermath of the explosive and divisive Kavanaugh confirmation hearings this fall, and with two new justices on the court in less than a year, Roberts and most of the other justices have gone out of their way to paint the court as a nonpartisan, apolitical institution.
"It's an incredibly important thing for the court to guard — is this reputation of being fair, of being impartial, of being neutral, and not being simply an extension of the terribly polarized political process and environment that we live in," Justice Elena Kagan said in October.
And last month, Chief Justice Roberts issued an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump for angry remarks that dismissed a lower court decision by an "Obama Judge" as a "disgrace."
Roberts then issued a statement declaring, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."
The justices' decision to stay out of the Medicaid issue goes back to discredited videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials inappropriately looking to sell fetal parts. Despite evidence showing the videos had been edited, some states then enacted laws that removed Planned Parenthood from their list of qualified Medicaid providers for other women's health services.
Planned Parenthood, which says that only 3 percent of the services it provides are abortions, then sued, along with other similarly affected organizations.
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reportedin 2015:
"[T]his 3 percent statistic has many critics, who point out, for example, that it doesn't explain how much of Planned Parenthood's revenue comes from abortion. Others note that the figure counts services provided, not patients served — and some patients receive more than one service from the organization. That means more than 3 percent of patients receive abortions (PolitiFact [that] week estimated the figure at around 12 percent, for example)."
Planned Parenthood contended in this case the states were singling them out for disfavored treatment because they separately provide constitutionally protected abortion services.
The court's decision Monday to stay out of the issue for now leaves in place a conflict in lower court decisions. It lets stand decisions in five federal appeals courts that have ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood and other women's health service providers, and one appeals court that has ruled the other way.
Six remaining circuits — most of them in geographical areas dominated by Democrats — have not ruled on the issue; presumably most, if not all of, the states in those circuits have not enacted a ban on Medicaid funding for women's health service providers if those organizations also provide separate and privately funded abortion services.
Some 70 million Americans are on Medicaid, Justice Thomas observed in his dissent. The court, he said, should have heard the case and resolved the legal conflict.
"So what explains the court's refusal to do its job here?" Thomas asked in the written dissent joined by Gorsuch and Alito. "I suspect that some" of those health service providers challenging their removal "are named Planned Parenthood."
But, he added, "some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty."
Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, praised the decision in a statement:
"We are pleased that lower court rulings protecting patients remain in place. Every person has a fundamental right to health care, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn. As a doctor, I have seen what's at stake when people cannot access the care they need, and when politics gets in the way of people making their own health care choices. We won't stop fighting for every patient who relies on Planned Parenthood for life-saving, life-changing care."
Students for Life of America, an anti-abortion-rights group, focused on Planned Parenthood's role in abortions, though, again, Medicaid funds cannot be used to fund abortions. SFLA's Kristan Hawkin said in a statement of her own:
"Taxation without representation lives on today in a decision by a majority on the court that ignores the wishes of state leaders who no longer want to be coerced into funding abortion. Abortion is not healthcare, and women's needs are better met by real, full-service medical locations, not abortion vendors. This is a legitimate question and a missed opportunity — whether abortion vendors have a right to taxpayer monies."
NPR's William Conlon and Sarah McCammon contributed to this report. contributed to this story
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D.C. Leaders Invoke MLK in March for Statehood
Activists pushing statehood for the District of Columbia hope to use the upcoming 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic March on Washington to draw parallels between King's vision for equality and their own push for democracy.
At 9 a.m. Saturday, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and other statehood supporters will rally at the D.C. War Memorial, 900 Independence Ave. SW, to promote full civil rights for D.C. residents before marching to the Lincoln Memorial to join the larger, national celebration.
District Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who worked as a volunteer and march organizer in 1963, will be among the speakers. Norton said Thursday that she learned a lesson 50 years ago "not to let a national march come to D.C. about people's rights and allow them to march around D.C. statehood, over D.C. statehood, or avoid D.C. statehood, as was the case in 1963."
At the time, residents had just won the right to vote for president, but they had no home rule government, no mayor and no city council. Those things have changed, but D.C. still has no voting representation in Congress and no budget autonomy.
"The average American does not know even one of those facts of life for D.C. residents," Norton said.
More than 100 groups have signed on to participate in the rally, including civic and service organizations, church groups, labor unions and university alumni organizations. The list includes the Humans Rights Campaign, the NAACP and the local chapter of the National Action Network.
Organizers chose the 47-foot-tall, domed memorial — the one structure on the National Mall dedicated to D.C. residents — for symbolic reasons. Inscribed with the names of the 26,000 Washingtonians who served in World War I, the memorial represents the "hypocrisy that District residents continue to endure," Gray said during a Wednesday news conference.
"We send our relatives, our friends, our sons, our daughters, our grandchildren off to fight wars in far-away places, and yet they come home and continue to be denied full democracy here in the District of Columbia," Gray said.
"Everyone feels outraged and everyone feels passionate about this issue, but we now want people to recommit to sign up again and to really join this movement in a meaningful way to have their voices heard," said Kimberly Perry, executive director of DC Vote.
Gray's office and DC Vote worked together to plan the rally. They invited the public to Freedom Plaza, in downtown D.C., on Thursday afternoon to decorate signs aimed at raising awareness among the national crowd.
Equally important is the effort to energize residents to lobby Congress for pending statehood bills.
"The District can't wage a massive ad campaign — even a whole city couldn't do that," Norton said. "It's a prime opportunity for the District to make itself heard on the issues affecting its own rights."
Norton has introduced the perennial New Columbia Admissions Act as her first bill of the 113th Congress. She is also sponsoring two bills that provide different approaches to congressional representation for the District's 632,000 residents.
"This is not just a commemoration but a continuation of Dr. King's work," D.C. shadow Sen. Michael D. Brown said Thursday. Brown, a purely symbolic member of the Senate with no voting power, hopes the mass crowds gathered to honor the civil rights leader take notice: "Oh my God, this is the nation's capital, and there's no democracy here!"
Congress has given D.C. hope for budget freedom this year. They took no action against a budget autonomy referendum approved by D.C. voters in April. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed a bill sponsored by Chairman Darrell Issa, D-Calif., that includes key elements of budget autonomy, and Senate appropriators incorporated budget autonomy language endorsed by President Barack Obama into the District's spending bill.
Those hoping "New Columbia" will become the 51st state took heart when Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., tweeted that his committee would hold a hearing on D.C. statehood this fall and when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., co-sponsored a statehood bill in June.
Advocates hope the march can garner support by drawing publicity to an issue that flies under the radar. In a 2005 survey conducted for DC Vote, 82 percent of adults said they did not know that D.C. did not have equal representation in Congress. The survey polled a national randomized sample of 1,007 adults and was conducted by KRC Results.
"A big problem you have in getting support is just letting people know about the problem that's here," Brown said. He said the rally is the "perfect venue" for raising awareness.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is located parallel to the D.C. War Memorial, where Saturday's D.C. rally will take place.
King's legacy "continues to energize our fight for full representation," Gray said.


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It's only Tuesday, but it has not been the best week for former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Just a day after reports that the FBI discovered nearly 14,900 emails that Clinton should have turned over as work-related emails to the State Department (she turned over 30,000 and marked the rest as private), the Associated Press reported on Tuesday afternoon that, in an analysis of 154 private individuals that Clinton met while secretary of state, 85 of them were at least one-time donors to the Clinton Foundation, an international health charity organization — if true, that means that around 55% of her meetings with non-government and non-foreign officials were with Clinton Foundation donors.
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But short of one truly horrific example, and a particularly immature staffer in Doug Band, there's not a lot of scandal involving the Clinton Foundation. (The example, reported last year to surprisingly little fanfare, involves a murky Canadian financier named Frank Giustra, a leading figure in a sale of a uranium company, Uranium One, that won approvals from State and numerous other US agencies. The deal, ultimately, handed over rights of one-fifth of US uranium reserves first to Kazakh and then to Russian control).
By and large, the Clinton Foundation a charity that leverages the Clinton family's name and experience toward better global health outcomes. In that sense, it's no different, really, than the Carter Center or any other private-public effort that a former US president undertakes.
In politics, though, especially in the crucible of US election-year politics less than 80 days from a presidential election, reality is less important than perception. And Clinton most certainly has a perception problem with the Clinton Foundation and the idea that it's become a pay-for-play racket. Moreover, the Clinton Foundation gets generally great marks from charity scorecard watchdogs like Charity Watch. Despite the phony statistics of right-wing news media, the Clinton Foundation spends an admirably 88% of donations on programming.
But the most especially ridiculous aspect of the latest uproar over the Clinton Foundation is that one of those 85 individuals that Clinton met is Muhammad Yunus, the former head of Grameen Bank. Frankly, it would have been diplomatic malpractice not for Clinton to have met Yunus during her time at State, when Yunus was increasingly under attack from his own government.
By 2011, Bangladesh's increasingly autocratic and corrupt leader, Sheikh Hasina, had expelled Yunus and fully expropriated Grameen Bank. Though the Bangladeshi government once tried to accuse Yunus himself of embezzlement, it eventually ousted him from Grameen on the basis that, then at age 72, he exceeded the retirement age. Continue reading Muhummad Yunus is exactly the person Clinton should have been meeting


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Tylenol and Codeine
Tylenol and Codeine Overview
Acetaminophen/codeine is a prescription medication used to treat mild to moderately severe pain. It is a single medication containing two drugs, acetaminophen and codeine. Acetaminophen/codeine belongs to a group of drugs called analgesics, which helps stop the spread of pain signals from the brain to the body.
This medication comes in tablet and oral (by mouth) solution forms and may be taken up to 6 times a day as needed, with or without food.
Common side effects of acetaminophen/codeine include dizziness, lightheadedness, and shortness of breath.
Acetaminophen/codeine can also cause drowsiness. Do not drive or operate heavy machinery until you know how this medication will affect you. Alcohol may intensify this side effect.
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Uses of Tylenol and Codeine
Acetaminophen/codeine is a prescription medication used to treat mild to moderately severe pain.
This medication may be prescribed for other uses. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
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Tylenol and Codeine Drug Class
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Side Effects of Tylenol and Codeine
Serious side effects have been reported with acetaminophen/codeine. See "Drug Precautions" section.
Common side effects of acetaminophen/codeine include:
- dizziness
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- shortness of breath
- drowsiness
- nausea
- vomiting
- constipation
This is not a complete list of acetaminophen/codeine side effects. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Tylenol and Codeine Interactions
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your doctor if you take or use:
- alcohol
- tranquilizers such as chlordiazepoxide
- general anesthetics such as phenobarbital (Donnatal), alprazolam (Xanax), and clonazepam (Klonopin)
- central nervous system (CNS) depressants such as zolpidem (Ambien) or eszopiclone (Lunesta)
- other narcotic analgesics such as morphine (MS Contin), oxycodone (Oxycontin), or methadone (Dolophine)
- other medications containing acetaminophen
- antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem), venlafaxine (Effexor), or citalopram (Celexa)
This is not a complete list of acetaminophen/codeine drug interactions. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Tylenol and Codeine Precautions
Serious side effects have been reported with acetaminophen/codeine including:
- liver toxicity. This may occur with excessive use of acetaminophen (greater than 4 grams per day or with alcohol use/abuse). Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have some or all of the following symptoms of liver toxicity:
- diaphoresis (abnormally high amount of sweating)
- general malaise (feeling of discomfort)
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- increased tolerance and physical dependence. Acetaminophen/codeine is also a high-risk medication for addiction.
- Tolerance - the need for increasing doses of this medication to maintain pain relief (without signs of worsening disease)
- Physical dependence - when withdrawal symptoms occur after suddenly stopping this medication
- Addiction - abnormal or compulsive use of substance for non-medical needs
- respiratory depression. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have difficulty of breathing while taking this medication. Alcohol may intensify this side effect.
- ultra-rapid metabolizers. Some individuals convert codeine into its active form, morphine, more rapidly and completely than other people.
- This results in higher-than-expected morphine levels.
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- serious skin reactions. Symptoms may include skin reddening, rash, blisters, and the upper surface of the skin may become separated from the lower layers. This can occur even if you have taken acetaminophen in the past without any problems. If you develop any skin rash or reaction while using a medication containing acetaminophen, including this medication, stop the medication and seek medical attention immediately. If you have had a serious skin reaction with acetaminophen, do not take it or any products containing acetaminophen again. Doing so could cause you to have another serious skin reaction.
Acetaminophen/codeine can cause dizziness. Do not drive or operate heavy machinery until you know how acetaminophen/codeine affects you. Alcohol may intensify this side effect.
Do not take acetaminophen/codeine if you are allergic to acetaminophen, codeine, sulfite, or to any other ingredients within this medication.
Tylenol and Codeine Food Interactions
Medicines can interact with certain foods. In some cases, this may be harmful and your doctor may advise you to avoid certain foods. In the case of acetaminophen/codeine, there are no specific foods that you must exclude from your diet when receiving acetaminophen/codeine.
Alcohol may intensify some of the side effects of this medication.
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Before taking digoxin, tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions. Especially tell your doctor if you:
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- have or have had stomach or bowel (intestinal) problems
- have a history of alcohol or drug use, dependence, or abuse
- have a history of lung or thyroid disease
- have a history or urethral stricture, or narrowing of the urethra (tube that carries urine out of the body)
- have or will soon have surgery
- are pregnant or breastfeeding
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
Tylenol and Codeine and Pregnancy
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
The FDA categorizes medications based on safety for use during pregnancy. Five categories - A, B, C, D, and X, are used to classify the possible risks to an unborn baby when a medication is taken during pregnancy.
Acetaminophen/codeine falls into category C. This medication may be given to a pregnant woman if her healthcare provider believes that its benefits to the pregnant woman outweigh any possible risks to her unborn baby.
It is not known if acetaminophen/codeine will harm your unborn baby.
Tylenol and Codeine and Lactation
Tell your doctor if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
The active ingredient in acetaminophen/codeine is excreted in human breast milk. The effect of acetaminophen/codeine on the nursing infant is not known.
Mothers using codeine should be told about when to seek immediate medical care and how to identify the signs and symptoms of infant toxicity, such as drowsiness or sedation, difficulty breastfeeding, breathing difficulties, and decreased tone, in their baby.
Tylenol and Codeine Usage
Take acetaminophen/codeine exactly as prescribed.
Acetaminophen/codeine comes in tablet and oral (by mouth) solution forms.
Acetaminophen/codeine is usually taken up to 6 times a day as needed for pain.
It can be taken with or without food.
If you miss a dose, take the missed dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and take your next dose at the regular time. Do not take two doses of acetaminophen/codeine at the same time.
Tylenol and Codeine Dosage
Take acetaminophen/codeine exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully.
Dosing is determined by amount of pain and a patient's response to the medication. Maximum dosage should not exceed 4 grams (4000 mg) of acetaminophen.
Tylenol and Codeine Overdose
If you take too much acetaminophen/codeine, call your healthcare provider or local Poison Control Center, or seek emergency medical attention right away.
Other Requirements
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- Shake suspension well before use.
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Tylenol and Codeine FDA Warning
Acetaminophen has been associated with cases of acute liver failure, at times resulting in liver transplant and death. Most of the cases of liver injury are associated with the use of acetaminophen at doses that exceed 4000 milligrams (4 grams) per day, and often involve more than one acetaminophen-containing product.