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Gov. Pat Quinn is crowing that Illinois' pile of overdue bills has dropped to $3.9 billion.
The Democrat said Monday it's the lowest since he took office in 2009. It topped out in 2010 at $9.9 billion.
But the governor's office does not count health care bills until they're past due. Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, a Republican, includes Medicaid invoices as soon as the state is billed. That takes the total backlog to $4.4 billion.
Quinn says his "tough decisions" helped draw down the backlog. He says the state "is in a stronger financial position than we were five years ago and we have more work to do."
The governor's office says the typical backlog — based on a 30-day billing standard — is about $2.2 billion.


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Five Reading Nooks for Kids
We love getting carried away to another place when we have our head buried in a book and this nest chair looks like the perfect place for that to happen. But a great reading nook can be as simple as a cushion in a corner. Here...take a look at five cozy reading nooks for children.
1 We spied this wonderful reading chair on Baby Space. Check out the rest of this 4-year-old's room here.
2 This beautiful spot is one of our favorite features of Dylan's Woodland Nursery.
3 A stair landing which might otherwise go underutilized is transformed into a quiet reading space in Soule Mama's home.
4 This cheery space looks perfect for reading (and napping!)
5 Patti got into the spirit of things by lining the walls of her children's reading nook with pages from an old book.
(Image 1: via Baby Space; other images credited in original post)

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The Facts
Candidiasis, also called thrush or moniliasis, is a yeast infection. Candida albicans is an organism that normally makes a quiet home for itself on your skin and doesn't bother anyone. We all carry this organism on our skin, in our mouth, in our gastrointestinal tract (gut), and, in the case of women, in the vagina.
Occasionally the yeast multiplies uncontrollably, causing pain and inflammation. Candidiasis may affect the skin. This includes the external surface skin and the skin of the vagina, the penis, and the mouth. Candidiasis may also infect the blood stream or internal organs such as the liver or spleen. By far the most common problems are skin, mouth and vaginal infections. It also is a common cause of diaper rash. These can be bothersome infections, but are not life threatening.
Candidiasis can kill if it reaches the bloodstream or vital organs such as the heart, but this is rare even in people with damaged immune systems and is almost unheard of in healthy people. Nevertheless, candidiasis is a constant nuisance, and sometimes a serious threat to people with AIDS and some cancer patients who lack the immune resources to fight it.
You don't catch candidiasis. The yeast is already there. A number of factors can increase the chance of the yeast growing out of control. The leading cause is overuse of antibiotics. Yeast must compete for the right to live on us with various other organisms, many of them bacteria. These bacteria, which live on the skin and in the intestine and vagina, among other places, are harmless but good at fighting off yeast. When we take antibiotics to deal with less friendly bacteria, we kill off these harmless ones as well. Yeast, which is unaffected by antibiotics, moves into the vacated spots once occupied by bacteria, and starts to grow and multiply.
Steroids and some cancer medications weaken the immune system and can allow yeast to flourish. Candida albicans infections of the mouth (known as oral thrush) most often develop in people with diseases such as cancer and AIDS. They can also develop in people with diabetes or in people who have long-term irritation resulting from dentures. Taking birth control pills increases your chances of getting vaginal candidiasis. Hot weather, poor hygiene, and tight clothing are also risk factors, as they create the ideal environment for candida.
Other conditions that tend to encourage yeast include obesity and pregnancy. Yeast generally infects intertriginous areas, that is, areas where skin contacts skin. Overweight people have more folds in their skin. They also sweat more, and Candida albicans is fond of moist skin. Pregnancy causes temporary obesity and may weaken the immune system, increasing the risk of yeast infections.
Experts disagree on the question of sexual transmission. Some research has suggested that it's very unlikely for an infected woman to give a man candidiasis. On the other hand, it's not unlikely that a man could give candidiasis back to his partner once he has it. Recent research has actually found Candida albicans in the sperm of men whose partners suffered from recurrent yeast infections. You should be aware of this possibility if a yeast infection keeps coming back.
Symptoms and Complications
A candida infection of the skin appears as a clearly defined patch of red, itchy skin, often leaking fluid. Scabs and pustules may be seen around the edge of the rash. It will usually be found in areas such as the groin, the folds of the buttocks, between the breasts, toes, or fingers, and in the navel. It may be hard to see on people with darker skin.
A vaginal yeast infection may well result in a slow leakage of a thick, white, clumpy (cottage-cheese-like) substance with no or minimal odour. The vagina may itch or burn, especially during urination or sex. Pain or discomfort during intercourse is common.
Candidal paronychia is candidiasis of the fingernails. It often strikes people whose hands are in water a lot. Sometimes it presents as a painful, red, swollen area around the fingernail. In worse cases, the fingernail may separate, revealing a discoloured white or yellow nail bed.
Oral thrush causes curd-like white patches inside the mouth, on the tongue and palate and around the lips. It may also cause cracked, red, moist areas of skin at the corners of the mouth. Thrush patches may or may not be painful.
Yeast infections of the penis are rare but may cause the tip to be red, swollen, and painful.
Making the Diagnosis
To make a diagnosis your doctor will ask about your diet and recent use of antibiotics or medications that can weaken the immune system. The doctor will also take into consideration any history of diabetes, cancer, HIV, or other chronic diseases.
Candidiasis is easy to identify. The yeast can be seen under the microscope after being scraped off the affected area. However, since yeast is normally there anyway, your doctor will want to be sure that it's candida causing the problem and not something else. The appearance of the rash may be enough.
Treatment and Prevention
Candidiasis isn't normally a dangerous disease except in rare cases when it enters the blood and spreads to vital organs of people with weakened immune systems.
For infection of the skin, your doctor can give you an antifungal cream or powder or prescribe you an antifungal pill. For vaginal yeast infections, treatment consists of antifungal medications that are administered directly into the vagina as tablets, creams, ointments, or suppositories, or administered by mouth (e.g., fluconazole*). For oral thrush, a suspension of antifungal medication can be swished in the mouth and swallowed.
For severe cases, antifungal medication taken by mouth for several days may be needed. Speak with your pharmacist - you can buy many of the creams and powder products intended for minor infections without a prescription.
Here are some hygiene tips to help prevent vaginal candidiasis:
- wipe from front to back after going to the toilet - the rectal area is full of yeast
- take baths not showers - sitting in the bath can clear yeast from the vaginal area
- dry yourself thoroughly afterwards, especially the pubic hair - use a hair dryer on low setting if you have to
- don't use soap around the vagina - soap kills the bacteria you want to keep, and has no effect on yeast
- sterilize or throw away underwear that you wore during your last infection - the washing machine isn't hot enough, you must boil them if you want to keep them. You must also replace any diaphragms or caps.
- avoid chemicals like deodorant tampons and especially vaginal douches, which serve no purpose and may cause infection
These sensible precautions may also help prevent candidiasis:
- wear loose cotton underwear
- avoid pantyhose and tight pants
- eat live yogurt, especially if you have been prescribed antibiotics or have other factors which increase your risk for yeast infections - pasteurized yogurt isn't effective. Some health food stores carry lactobacillus acidophilus pills which may help to keep yeast in check
- cut down on sugar and alcohol (yeast's favourite foods)
- consider changing "the pill" - if you've had recurring infections, talk to your doctor about changing your birth control pill and see if it helps
- make sure your partner is not infected - there's no point curing candidiasis if you're going to be re-infected
- don't ask for antibiotics if you've got a cold or the flu - the flu is caused by viruses, so taking antibiotics won't help and they might provoke candidiasis
*All medications have both common (generic) and brand names. The brand name is what a specific manufacturer calls the product (e.g., Tylenol®). The common name is the medical name for the medication (e.g., acetaminophen). A medication may have many brand names, but only one common name. This article lists medications by their common names. For information on a given medication, check our Drug Information database. For more information on brand names, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2018. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/Candidiasis


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Stewart-Haas Racing has acquired owner points for Danica Patrick's Sprint Cup team heading into 2013, but likely not enough to ensure that Patrick doesn't miss the Daytona 500.
Patrick drove the No. 10 car in 10 races last year but she will not have those points from last season. Instead, Stewart-Haas Racing has struck a deal with Robinson-Blakeney Racing to acquire the owner points from its No. 49 team.
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The No. 49 car, which was driven primarily by J.J. Yeley, was 42nd in owner points, which likely would do little to help Patrick make the Daytona 500 should she have problems in qualifying or the qualifying races. The deal, though, could possibly help her team if rain washes out qualifying for the following races at Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Patrick, who is running the full Sprint Cup schedule for the first time this year, drove the No. 10 car in 10 races last year through a partnership between Stewart-Haas and Tommy Baldwin Racing, which will keep those points (33rd overall) for its two-car organization entering 2013.
"Everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing continues to work tirelessly to ensure that all of our teams are as prepared as possible to start the 2013 season," SHR Executive Vice President Brett Frood said in a statement. "In the case of the No. 10 GoDaddy.com team, providing a foundation of points for which the team can start the year was very important.
"As optimistic as we are regarding our prospects for this year, one element we cannot control is the weather. … It's basically insurance for the first three races of the year, where provisionals are based on 2012 owner points."
The starting lineup for the Daytona 500 is set by a mix of qualifying speed and results in the two Budweiser Duel qualifying races.
The front row (the top two spots) will be set by qualifying speed on Feb. 17 with positions 3-32 determined by the top-15 finishers — not including the front-row qualifiers — from each qualifying race on Feb. 21.
Four spots then are determined by qualifying speed, six by 2012 owner points and then one spot for a past champion's provisional. If there's no past champion eligible, then another spot is awarded by 2012 owner points.
In the next two races at Phoenix and Las Vegas, the fastest 36 cars make the field on speed with the rest of the field set by 2012 owner points, with one spot available for a past champion or another by owner points.
If it rains at Phoenix or Las Vegas, the top 36 teams in 2012 owner points make the field, followed by race-winning drivers and owners from the previous year, past champions, those currently in the top 36 in owner points and then qualifying attempts from 2012.
The No. 49 Robinson-Blakeney car was 42nd in owner points overall and 43rd with 25 attempts in 2012.
"At Daytona, we know the No. 10 team needs to either qualify on speed or race its way into the Daytona 500 via a strong finish in the Budweiser Duel," Frood said.
"But if rain cancels qualifying at either Phoenix or Las Vegas, our No. 10 team will be well positioned to earn a provisional starting spot and race on Sunday."
Starting with the fourth race of the season, 2013 owner points will be used to set the field if it rains. If Patrick makes the first three races, she should be well positioned for at least the next few races.
Stewart-Haas could have swapped the points of team co-owner Tony Stewart with Patrick and have Stewart, a three-time champion, rely on a past champion's provisional if he wrecked in qualifying, but that would have impacted bonus money for the team. Also, past champion's provisionals will be limited to one for every six races attempted in 2013.
"I worked hard for my points," Stewart said a few weeks ago. "That's the confidence I have in her. I really feel like (crew chief) Tony (Gibson) and that team has done a great job with building her a great car for Daytona, and I feel like she's definitely got the talent and capability of racing her way in and hopefully just qualifying in (by speed) to where we don't have to worry about the qualifying races.
"But I think she'll do a great job on her own. We, business-wise, had to keep the points that we had for our car because of the bonus money."
Patrick was 10th-fastest in single-car runs during January testing at Daytona.


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by lcavagnolo
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This is my knockoff of the J. Crew Fiona jacket (with a slight yoke variation). I used Simplicity 3538, modifying the collar and adding sleeve bands. This hasn't had its final press yet, but trust me, the sleeves do sit properly despite the photos! I'll also be adding the pockets later this week, but had to take the pictures while the sunshine lasted this week…
Material Notes
White cotton bottom-weight, organza for sew-in interfacing, lining fabric, buttons and bias tape.
Gotta love that Michigan sun! I took this just after realizing there may not be any more this week…
Just for fun, I would've loved to have re-created the J. Crew photo shoot with my jacket, but it was just me at home with the mannequin. ;)
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Oct 18, 2008, 11.00 PMby ricespice
that's awesome! i'm dying to know how much money you saved making it yourself.
Jun 7, 2008, 11.38 PMby erogers0203
this is gorgeous! this may be the best "recreation" i've seen in a long time :)
May 13, 2008, 08.18 AMby tittabear
this is cute…i like how the ruffle goes up and around the neck…
Mar 30, 2008, 02.09 AMby apriljay79
holy crap, that is perfect!! I love it.. excellent work.
Mar 27, 2008, 06.21 AMby keelysews
LOVE this so much!! I have a simplicity pattern 3738 that I might be able to alter into something like this…thanks for the idea xxx
Mar 25, 2008, 05.34 PMby olar
What a great job you did copying this!
Mar 25, 2008, 12.02 PMby sunnilj9
I love it! Looks Fabulous!
Mar 25, 2008, 09.33 AMby sukino
Hello Michigander! What a lovely jacket! Oh, I miss everything in Lansing, the trees, the blueberries, the cherries, the most friendly people, and even the snow. :)
Mar 25, 2008, 08.37 AMby britnlind
So pretty. I would make 5 of these!!!
Mar 25, 2008, 07.09 AMby mirela
BRAVO! It is very very nice! I was looking at those J Crew jackets, so freaking expensive! Very feminine and pretty!
Mar 25, 2008, 07.05 AMby keetchick
Awesome Jacket!
Mar 25, 2008, 05.16 AMby kasia26
Very pretty jacket. I love the romantinc feel of it.
Mar 25, 2008, 04.58 AMby miss-g
Yours is so much better than the J Crew one. Really like the style, the fabric, the buttons. It perfect.
Mar 25, 2008, 02.12 AMby lybu
This jacket is really great. I love it. Nice fabric !!
Mar 25, 2008, 01.25 AMby susisonne
I love it! Looks great!
Mar 25, 2008, 01.08 AMby yoshimi
great job! I love it.
Mar 25, 2008, 01.04 AMby fashion1
Stunning! I want one :)!
Mar 25, 2008, 01.03 AMby senasews
looks great. i love it!
Mar 24, 2008, 08.26 PMby spiderlily
This is great. Good job!
Mar 24, 2008, 07.55 PMby marcy harriell | oonaballoona
WOW. i also love the way yours is more fitted at the bottom vs j crew.
Mar 24, 2008, 07.54 PMby jj1
I like yours better than the Jcrew's.
Mar 24, 2008, 06.54 PMby kimmysue
That's adorable! I just have to tell you too that I'm in the Lansing area, Dansville to be exact! Gotta love that 8 inches of snow this weekend! Where do you get your fabric? Just Joann's, or are there other places?
Mar 24, 2008, 06.35 PMby adgentry
Really nice! I love it
Mar 24, 2008, 05.31 PMby kallers
Wow. Very impressive, it looks so professional! I hope you get to use it soon.
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He's baaaack.
Mario Cristobal is returning to where it all began for him in college.
Cristobal, who has long been discussed as a potential head coach at UM should Al Golden ever leave, was fired last month as head football coach of FIU, and will be the University of Miami's new tight ends coach, according to a source close to the situation.
Cristobal played at UM from 1988 through 1992, and won two national titles there. He coached at UM as a graduate assistant from 1998 through 2000, then as an assistant from 2004 through 2006.
Brennan Carroll, who has been the tight ends coach at UM, will shift to wide receivers coach.
Cristobal, who led FIU to its only two bowl games, was dismissed from FIU on Dec. 5 after coaching there for six seasons. He finished 3-9 with the Panthers in 2012 and 27-47 overall.
Cristobal is replacing former UM wide receivers coach George McDonald, who left UM for the same position at Arkansas.
Cristobal grew up in Miami and was an offensive lineman for the Hurricanes.
He is a good recruiter and knows the area as well as anyone.
His whole family is here, and this is the place he really wanted to stay. How do you all feel about him coming back to UM?


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first thoughts as i read this thread, cyborgs o_o
online 6-9 pm~ i am much too civilized to join in your inquiry of women
if i could turn mysself into an android i would with out second thought so im just waiting for the day when technology can make me into the ultimate human machine
Fabulous max!
If you have a physical impairment the new technologies being developed or already coming out are wonderful and I can see where new technologies can be beneficial to all who wish to take advantage of them. Affording is a different story. That will depend on what your priorities are, possibly even who your connections are.
The dilemmas I see are subordinating an individual's free will for the intellectual conceit or contrivance of technological immortality and just that, lifespan. If everyone is capable of living for a century or greater I can't help but wonder where the food supply is going to originate and propagate to sustain this. And as for free will I suppose it might be possible to develop a scenario where no one has any. But if that happens I sure wouldn't wish to be around living a lie in this dimension. It's bad enough external forces (for lack of a better descriptor) consume most of my income (39% less buying power with today's USD than 4 years ago; yea, USA) but I feel they have no right to "own" my soul for the promise of a contrived illusion. That's not going to be surrendered freely or easily.
Law(s) of unintended Consequence: get ready! Here we come! Kicking and screaming!
MYTH: the universal language. Always question AUTHORITY.
I'm imagining in the future we could also copy our memories into another body and if we did and the body still remains a dead shell. We would have proven that man is more than just a collection of memories and experiences, that means that we have a soul?
Life is full of shit but it's the delicious part that makes it worth it.
Speaking as an actual cyborg, it's by no means as great as science fiction would have you believe. Artificial organs require almost constant supervision to ensure that they work properly, they're ridiculously expensive to both own and maintain, they're neither as compact, reliable or efficient as their natural predecessors, and good luck finding a medical insurance policy that'll completely cover installation, maintenance and replacement of the organs in question. Also, you can't go swimming with most of them.
So far, the only people who are cyborgs today became so out of necessity rather than desire to be augmented. Take me for example. I'm a type-1 diabetic with an insulin pump and a blood glucose sensor to replace the parts of my pancreas that don't work anymore. If my pump stops working for any reason, I need to contact the manufacturer and have them send me a replacement pump, and then go to the hospital so that I can have the insulin I need to stay alive until the new pump comes in the mail the next day. If my sensor stops working, I have to rely on my blood glucose monitor to see where I'm at, contact the manufacturer to make sure that I get a replacement, and hope that I don't have to be hospitalized or start having seizures because my blood sugar levels are all out of whack. I can't go swimming without having to disconnect my pump and remove my sensor first. If I don't get a regular supply of pump insertion sets, sensors, blood glucose test strips, pump refill tanks and replacement insulin, I will sicken and eventually die.
If I had the choice to be cured rather than live like I do today I would, but the manufacturers stand to make far too much money off of people like me to allow a cure for my medical condition to be developed. As a result, I will most likely end up spending the rest of my life a cyborg, paying vast sums of money I cannot afford to pay in order to stay alive. The only advantage to being a cyborg in this case is that when everything is working smoothly, I can at least live like a normal person for a time.
That said, I predict that widespread augmentation is inevitable, although a better term would be "replacement." We already have widespread technological augmentation; the only reason why our species has survived long enough to become the top dog on our little blue dot is because we were able to develop prosthetic technologies to make up for our own physical shortcomings, with the ability to upgrade them as better materials and designs were developed. Think about it; instead of having claws or sharp teeth, we have swords, knives and spears; instead of an exoskeleton or a thick hide, we have body armor; instead of a coat of fur, we have clothing and fur coats. Our entire evolutionary history has been one of technological augmentation, and we're only getting better at it. Now, we can strike at threats on other continents while staying safe at home, we are capable of flying higher than the highest-flying bird, and swimming deeper than the deepest-swimming fish, we can gather food on a scale no other species could even dream of. Now, we have machines to do much of our survival work for us, and so we squabble amongst ourselves because we have no other immediate threats. Most of our accomplishments as a species were done with little more sophisticated than Bronze Age technology. Eventually, augmentation will turn to replacement, although I don't think that we're quite mature enough as a species to use that technology properly.
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How much longer do we really need to live?
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I don't need any technology to improve my body. My genetic programming is already turning me into a being that is higher than most of you.
Delusional thinking. If it were up to me, I'd have you pumped with anti-psychotics and a nice stay in a mental asylum.
I'll answer for you Vega: been there, done that.
Are we there yet, cuz I can't wait to use the Icarus Landing system.
Life is full of shit but it's the delicious part that makes it worth it.
Part of me thinks it would be cool, part of me things people would take it way too far. Plus I'm a bit concerned about the morality of it.
The merger between man and machine is our destiny we already have cyborgs among us everyone who has a pace maker or a prosthetic limb are considered cyborgs. If you look at our technology its progressing more towards human integration, the IPAD for example requires only a hand to operate no external accessories like a joystick or a key pad are needed to operate it. Google is looking into glasses (http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/google-glass-future/) that will enhance our vision. A university professor implanted a computer chip in his arm and was able to control computers and electronics with it. (http://articles.cnn.com/1998-08-28/tech/9808_28_armchip.idg_1_chip-implants-computers-powerful-chip?_s=PM:TECH) We are currently looking into exoskeletons to enhance our strength, speed, endurance (http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/medical-robots/exoskeletons-are-on-the-march). these are just a few steps we are taking to try and improve humans as a whole, make them stronger, faster, smarter, better and while most of these technology's are not implanted in us I can almost garentee that if we could build a human heart and place it in the human body instead of relaying on organ transplants we would do it (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57457926-10391704/retired-teacher-gets-new-englands-first-total-artificial-heart-implant/). Heres a thought if you could implant a computer chip in your brain will all the knowledge you ever wanted and you could access it at your will wouldn't you take it?
^I'd want all of those, except maybe for the chip unless there is a way for us to deal with our own emotions however we want. Having too much knowledge tends to make people depressed.
I'm all for it. Given that the technology is advanced enough, it would make maintaining our bodies a lot easier. Our bodies will also be more resilient and will last longer. We might even be able to make it so that everyone becomes highly knowledgeable by 'downloading' information from a large database into our brains. Perhaps our energy efficiency could also be increased in artificial ways so that we don't use up nearly as many natural resources as we currently do.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
I believe in Nano-machine technology, and a couple of other things
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Part of me thinks it would be cool, part of me things people would take it way too far. Plus I'm a bit concerned about the morality of it.
What morality issues do you see with it?
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Improving the human body with technology for medical reasons is helpful. Something like your consciousness is put inside a data storage unit would be horrible though.
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And then we would be a bunch of lazy fucks relying on computers to work for us. I'm not totally against it, but I feel like we'd lose something big. I mean, having an athletic, truly great body takes work and skill and discipline, but just using a computer to install all that would be like taking away a huge part of a person. I'm all for prosthetic limbs for the people who need it, but there's a huge line between technological advances and laziness. I think it sounds cool but not really something to be put to actual use.
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WorkSafe shines safety spotlight on livestock farms
WorkSafe inspectors will continue their crackdown on livestock farms to monitor unsafe work practices in Victoria.
Over the past year, WorkSafe Victoria has visited more than 450 farms to highlight risks with animals and dangerous machinery.
The safety authority says deaths at agricultural businesses are far too common in Victoria.
WorkSafe's Peter Flaherty says almost half of the 1,000 serious injury claims it received over the past two years involved livestock farms.
"Certainly in terms of farmers, we think that most safety issues require very basic solutions often at little or no cost and sometimes just taking the time to think through a potential hazard makes a huge difference," he said.
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text: Fitzgerald became the first player in Butler basketball history to score 2,000 career points. He played just one season under the NCAA three-point field goal rule and set a national record for three-pointers made (158) that still stands today. The 5-9 guard averaged 5.6 three-point field goals per game in 1986-87, which was more than 270 of the 290 Division I teams that year! He set a Butler single game scoring record with 54 points against Detroit as a senior, and he established a single season scoring record (since broken) with 734 points in 1986-87. Fitzgerald, who also led Butler in assists for four consecutive seasons, finished his career with 2,019 points.


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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 17 Oct 2011
Online delivery at the Australian Museum, Sydney - my talking points for the ASTC 2011 conference.
Unfortunately the time difference, my travels and the tech have failed so I won't be joining you folks at ASTC 2011 for the Facebook belongs in mission not margin session. Here's what I would have been speaking about. If you want to see an earlier live presentation go here (I'm on at 41.20).
About the Australian Museum
The Australian Museum is one of the oldest natural history museums established in 1827. Our mission is Inspiring the exploration of nature and culture.
More here.
Why a new website?
We wanted to provide accurate and accessible information that ignites interest and enthusiasm for nature and cultures and invite our audiences to interact with us and each other, and question our information, collections and processes in an equal relationship.
More here.
Principles behind our new website
How do people use our website?
We attract around 10 million visitors a year, of these only 5% visit the front page. They are after Indigenous content and animal facts.
More here.
Why social media?
More here.
How do we manage social media at the Museum?
Initially a scattered approach managed by a small group of interested people (but mostly me!). Now we have a more managed approach.
More here.
We systematically listen to mentions of the Museum through a monitoring system (MeltWater Buzz) as well as Google alerts and media mentions. We also listen to topics that are relevant to the Museum's business.
We have seven community managers based on enthusiasm and capability and allocate one day per week to each community manager for them to monitor our Facebook and Twitter accounts. The focus is on engagement:
We promote our social media accounts as widely as possible – externally and internally via print material and ads, email signatures, entrance signs at the museum, as well as passing info back to staff – such as mentions in blogs, retweets etc.
More here.
We recognise it's about giving people a free hand. We are getting agreement that:
Case Study: Mr Blobby
More here. Chekc him out on our website; on Facebook and Twitter (@mrblobbyAM)
If you'd like to know more email me, Tweet me (@lyndakelly61) or Facebook me. Hope you have a great conference!


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WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Whistleblower jailed by judges, cops he's accusing
Retired naval officer allegedly beaten and tasered
Walter Fitzpatrick
Filing a complaint about President Obama's eligibility has led retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Walter Fitzpatrick III into some very deep waters.
The 58-year-old Naval Academy graduate is now paying the price for fighting City Hall. Fitzpatrick was arrested Wednesday for missing a court date, and he now sits in jail after allegedly being beaten and tasered by Monroe County, Tenn., deputies.
"I've been told he's been beaten up pretty good, enough to require X-rays," freelance reporter J.B. Williams told WND.
Williams, a Tennessee businessman, has been following the Fitzpatrick case for two years.
Monroe County Sheriff Bill Bivens confirmed that Fitzpatrick is being held while he awaits a Dec. 1 trial.
"I can't tell you about his health, but I can say there's nothing wrong with him," Bivens told WND.
A Monroe County police officer told WND Fitzpatrick has been seen by the jail nurse.
"I'm told he was tasered repeatedly," said Williams.
Williams said Fitzpatrick has uncovered "systemic corruption" in Monroe County in the course of attempting to bring accusations regarding Barack Obama before the grand jury.
According to Williams, the FBI is currently investigating corruption in Monroe County. FBI Knoxville office special agent Gary Johnson refused to confirm or deny that an investigation is ongoing.
"There's been one death in all of this," Williams told WND.
Newly appointed GOP election commissioner Jim Miller was murdered in July, and "only" Monroe County deputies are suspects, said Williams.
Williams said backers of Fitzpatrick have collected sworn affidavits from several Monroe County residents claiming they have been physically abused by the sheriff's department.
"Everybody's clammed up now," said Williams. "They're scared to death, even folks who've given us their affidavits.
"I can say this because I'm from Tennessee," Williams continued. "Eastern Tennessee is very much of the 'Deliverance' mindset down there still, where small-town authorities feel completely free to run roughshod over anybody they want. It's a very dangerous situation down there."
As WND reported, Fitzpatrick tried unsuccessfully to place evidence about Obama's eligibility before a Monroe County grand jury in 2009. The effort led him to discover what he considers to be corruption in the county courts and sheriff's office.
For example, Fitzpatrick has asserted that state law places a two-year limit on the term of a grand-jury foreman, but Monroe County grand-jury foreman Gary Pettway has occupied the office for 27 years.
In April, Fitzpatrick attempted to execute a citizen's arrest of Pettway at the county courthouse, resulting in his own arrest for allegedly inciting a riot.
According to an AP story reprinted by the Knoxville News Sentinel, "Assistant District Attorney General James Stutts said in a previous court filing that rulings in such challenges of grand-juror qualifications show there is 'no limit on the number of two-year terms for which a foreman may be reappointed.'"
Williams claimed Fitzpatrick has never been formally charged with a crime.
"No complaint has ever been filed. … He's asked at every hearing to know his accuser, and several different judges have told him it's none of his business," said Williams.
Last Friday's court date was a hearing to determine whether Fitzpatrick could replace his legal counsel. According to Williams, Fitzpatrick submitted a written request to dismiss attorney Steven Pidgeon on Oct. 19, leading Special Circuit Judge Jon K. Blackwood to schedule an emergency hearing Oct. 22.
"Circuit Court Clerk Marty Cook said Fitzpatrick was sent notice that he was supposed to be in court Friday," Oct. 22, according to The Advocate & Democrat newspaper.
Not so, says Williams.
"They never notified Fitzpatrick" about the hearing, Williams asserted. "He found out he was wanted from newspaper reports on Monday."
"Special Circuit Judge Jon Blackwood also ordered Fitzpatrick held without bond until his Dec. 1 trial," AP reported.


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Federal regulations require that all students who have
borrowed Federal Stafford Loans while attending the IIT
Downtown Campus complete federal loan exit counseling. Our
office will be holding the following group sessions for
students who expect to graduate in the spring:
Tuesday, March 21st, 12:00 to 2:00pm in Room 590
Wednesday, March 22nd, 3:00 to 4:00pm in Room 590
In addition to the information that we are required to
provide, this session will also include information about
federal loan consolidation. Since we expect Federal Stafford
Loan interest rates to increase again on July 1, 2006, it
is important to consider consolidating, even if you have
consolidated in the past.
Please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com and let us know which
session you plan to attend.
Whether you are applying for a private loan for the first
time this academic year or you are looking to borrow additional
funds, please keep the following in mind:
Apply online with any of our preferred lenders here.
Remember to apply for the amount that you want to receive
for the full academic year (fall/spring for Kent students
and fall/winter/spring for Stuart students). Our office
will automatically certify your loan for the full academic
year and split the total loan between all terms.
Students who have already borrowed a private loan with
Access Group for the 05-06 school year may complete a loan
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Fire victim dies; boyfriend may face murder charges
LeFlore County Undersheriff Kendall Morgan confirmed Myrtly Cooper, 47, of Spiro, passed away Thursday morning at a Tulsa hospital. Cooper was the alleged victim of an assault and a house fire on Jan. 14 and has been listed in critical condition since the incident.Elec E. Cusick, 39, of Spiro, was charged with kidnapping and assault and battery by means likely to produce death in connection with Cooper's injuries. Cusick allegedly told investigators that he had beaten Cooper on the head with a wooden block until it splintered into pieces. Cusick also cut Cooper's leg behind her knee so she was unable to get up and leave him, according to investigators. Morgan said when they receive information from the Oklahoma Medical Examiners as to Cooper's cause of death, they will decide if they are going to file for murder charges against Cusick. Cusick is being held in the LeFlore County Detention Center in lieu of $150,000 bail.


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Green Turtle, Lady Elliot Island, Bundaberg, QLD
A rare colony of nesting turtles is just one of the captivating natural attractions near Bundaberg, a four hour drive north of Brisbane. This historic sugar cane city is also the southernmost gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, fringed by coral cays as well as 140km of pristine white beaches. Go diving and snorkelling on Lady Musgrave Island and Lady Elliot Islands and swim and fish from coastal national parks. Bundaberg also offers lots more traditional city drawcards, including museums, heritage buildings and lush botanic gardens.
It's a short drive from Bundaberg to Mon Repos Conservation Park, home to the largest concentration of nesting sea turtles on the east Australian mainland. Between November and March, you can join a nightly tour to see green, flatback and the endangered loggerhead turtles nest and hatch on the small beach. Mid-November to February is the best time to see female turtles laying eggs, while hatchlings usually begin to leave their nests from mid-January. In January you may glimpse both nesting adults and their newly-hatched babies, crawling to shore for their first swim.


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Rachel Newkirk wasn't expecting to have her first child at 26 weeks.
After being rushed to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola for unbearable back pain and then admitted to a room, her daughter's heartbeat stopped. Almost immediately, doctors rushed Newkirk to have an emergency C-section and found she had been bleeding internally. Born at 2 pounds and four ounces, her daughter, Addison, had to be resuscitated and was moved to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where she stayed for 74 days.
The average stay is 17 days according to Sacred Heart's website.
At the time, the Newkirks were living in Pensacola, where the Sacred Heart NICU is located. Rachel says they were very fortunate to have such exceptional care close by. Sacred Heart's NICU is the only Level III NICU in Northwest Florida and just one in 12 in the state of Florida. Families from Miramar Beach, Destin, Crestview, Panama City Beach, Jay, and Holt rely on Sacred Heart for special, specific care for babies born prematurely or critically ill.
"They have phenomenal care there," she said. "Without them here, we'd have to travel to larger cities like Atlanta or Jacksonville to find a Level III NICU."
Now, the Newkirks are Santa Rosa Beach residents and Addison � or Addy Beth as she is called � is a healthy and happy 23-month-old.
"She's normal besides the fact she's a teeny, little tot," Rachel said as Addy Beth coos in the background.
The 3rd Annual Preemie Cup honors those stories like Rachel's by raising money to help Sacred Heart continue caring for babies in the NICU. Sacred Heart's NICU accepts patients regardless of their ability to pay.
"They can't do it by themselves," Rachel said. "Not only the care, but the equipment really saves these babies' lives. It's also important because you're giving to your local hospital."
Tina Strobel started the Preemie Cup in 1998 in memory of her daughter Gus Dahl Strobel. Since then, the event has raised over $330,000 to purchase state-of-the-art equipment. The multi-tiered event consists of a paddle board race, a silent auction and finally, the Preemie Cup sailing race at Regatta Bay in Pensacola.
"It has been very rewarding to work on this event," said Kathryn Hendrix, chairwoman of the Preemie Cup. "Not only because it is dear to my heart, but it truly helps so many families."


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Bat Genocide
By David Quammen
On the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, stands a low brick structure equipped with ventilation scrubbers and surrounded by a tall chain-link fence: the Tight Isolation Building of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC), a federal research facility devoted to combating wildlife diseases. Inside, a cinder block corridor circuits the Animal Isolation Wing, passing a series of well-sealed experiment rooms, each visible through a thick window. One room is furnished with sawdust and burrowlike pipes to approximate the habitat for prairie dogs involved in a vaccine trial against Yersinia pestis, the organism that causes plague. In another room zebra finches in birdcages are playing a role in research toward a vaccine for West Nile virus. Two rooms are darkened, for the comfort of hibernating bats. The first contains normal animals of the species Myotis lucifugus, commonly called little brown bats. They are the controls. The second dark room houses little browns exposed to Geomyces destructans, a filamentous white fungus of unknown origin that first appeared among North American bats in 2006. In just four years, it has hit hibernating bat populations in New York, Vermont, and a growing list of other states and Canadian provinces more lethally than Yersinia pestis hit the peasants of medieval France.
David S. Blehert, a microbiologist at NWHC, leads the laboratory study of this nefarious fungus. He enters the second dark room wearing Tyvek coveralls, rubber boots, latex gloves, a red-filtered headlamp, and a respirator. Moving quietly to avoid rousing the animals, he approaches a large glass-fronted cabinet in which sits a small, screened cage of bats. The cabinet is a florist's refrigerator, adopted by Blehert because hibernating bats, like cut lilies, do best at low temperatures and high humidity. Blehert peers into the cooler, checking the bats for evidence of fungal growth around their muzzles or on their wings. White fuzz on the snout, which looks like rime on the beard of a skier, is a signal that the bat may be infected; it's also the source of the label "white-nose syndrome" for this affliction.
No sign of change, Blehert tells me back in the locker room. No mortalities so far, and no visible fungus. But the experiment is still in an early stage.
How does this fungus kill the bats? "That we don't know," he says. "It is, I believe, the first disease ever characterized specifically targeting a hibernating animal." So its mode of lethality may be different from anything science has ever seen. And that's only one of the unknowns.
The fungus itself seems to be new to North America. Its presence was first documented—but not yet recognized—in a photograph taken in February 2006 at Howes Cave, west of Albany, New York. A year later, people began to report something peculiar: little brown bats flying outside nearby caves during daylight in the midst of winter. A little brown bat is a tiny creature, smaller than a human thumb, and dependent on its two grams of stored fat to keep it alive through the cold season. Hibernation is essential to making its energy resources last; a single arousal can cost it a month's worth of fat. When a crew from New York's Department of Environmental Conservation made their routine annual inspection of Hailes Cave, another hibernaculum nearby, they found thousands of dead bats, scattered all over the cave, in various stages of deliquescence and decay. "It was carnage," according to Al Hicks, a mammal specialist with the department.
Since then, the problem has spread quickly and far. Biologists estimate that a million or more animals were lost in three years, with populations at some sites eliminated. Six species have the disease, one of which had been declared endangered long before white-nose syndrome: the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Three others are at very high risk, including the gray bat (Myotis grisescens), also endangered. Great progress was made within recent decades in restoring gray bat populations. "We've put enormous effort in this," says Merlin Tuttle, founder of Bat Conservation International. "It could now be unraveled in just a few years."
It's hard to foresee where Geomyces destructans might stop, short of infecting every population of hibernating bats in North America. Harder still is to say what, if anything, can be done to mitigate the destruction.
Hibernation—that's a crucial piece of the problem. Fungi generally don't cause severe disease in warm-blooded creatures (nobody dies of athlete's foot) because high body temperatures aren't conducive to runaway fungal growth. Hibernation, on the other hand, entails lowering of body temperature along with other parameters of metabolism, such as breathing rate and heart rate. Of the 45 bat species resident in the United States and Canada, about two dozen hibernate. They congregate in caves, mine shafts, and even buildings, each hibernaculum chosen according to species-specific requirements of temperature range and humidity. Little brown bats prefer temperatures between 40° and 45°F and humidity around 90 percent. Those conditions are also optimal for Geomyces destructans, as David Blehert has discovered while working to grow it in his lab.
But a fungus needs nutrition as well as a comfortable environment. It takes its food from other creatures. Ordinarily, the immune system of any mammal will work to fight off a fungal parasite. Not necessarily, though, if the mammal is hibernating. Work done in the lab of Tom Kunz, a bat researcher at Boston University, suggests that a side effect of hibernation—when a bat dials down its metabolism—might be suppression of its immune responses. Marianne Moore, a biologist in Kunz's lab, wonders whether that immune suppression, amid the cool temperatures, is what allows Geomyces destructans to bloom so aggressively on wintering bats. (Humans aren't susceptible.) This newest addition to the Geomyces genus seems to have found its way to the one group of mammals least capable of defending against it.
Found its way—from where? No one knows. The same fungus has been seen on bats in Europe, but there it hasn't caused any noticeable disruptions or deaths. In other words, the fungus is present but not the syndrome. White-nose syndrome means not just fungus-frosted snout fur but also corrosive white lesions on the wings of the bat and untimely arousal from hibernation, possibly because the white stuff is irritating, stifling, or itchy. The wing lesions impair flight; the untimely arousal costs bats their fat reserves, exposing them to starvation or freezing, whether or not they emerge from the cave in a desperate, futile search for food. At what point, and why, does an annoying fungal infection develop into full-blown white-nose syndrome? Again, nobody knows.
Bats don't fly across the Atlantic, so if Geomyces destructans reached Howes Cave from Europe, it was probably carried there by a human—a tourist with dirty shoes, maybe, or a caver in fungus-flecked coveralls. Seen in that light, it's just the latest in a long list of devastating invasive species. A century ago the culprit was another fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, better known as chestnut blight. Before it arrived, American hardwood forests were full of tall, stately chestnuts, but by 1940 those trees were virtually gone.
"This is the chestnut blight of bats," Jim Kennedy says, as we drive toward Hubbard's Cave, a gray bat hibernaculum in central Tennessee. Kennedy is a biologist and a caver, employed by Bat Conservation International. His job involves teaching other biologists and cavers how to census bat populations in hibernacula with minimal disruption and, in the process, to chart the spread of white-nose syndrome. He thinks like an ecologist, concerned not just for bats but for the ecosystems in which they participate—living caves, forests, farmlands. By one estimate, the million bats lost so far to white-nose syndrome would be consuming about 700 tons of insects a year. "We may see big, big changes," Kennedy adds. "There's no predicting."
Beyond the unsolved riddles of the disease itself is another: What might America look like without any hibernating bats?
Hubbard's Cave, which the Nature Conservancy owns, is naturally concealed at the end of a mountain road. A stream descends through a wooded gulch, then cascades into a sinkhole, along the bottom edge of which are three cave entrances opening deep within the cavitied limestone. All are blocked with huge steel gates that allow bats to fly in and out but exclude unauthorized human visitors. We climb down an aluminum ladder into the sinkhole. Then our host from the Nature Conservancy unlocks a panel at the bottom of one gate, and eight of us—bat counters and others—wiggle through. Every item with us, including my waterproof notebook, will be bagged in plastic when we exit and later disinfected. If the fungus lives in this cave, Jim Kennedy and his colleagues won't carry it into the next.
We explore the several passageways amid thousands of roosting gray bats, not one of which—so far as anyone can see—has a whitened nose. There is no ragout of dead bats on the floor. We have arrived before the fungus. But Kennedy isn't sanguine. "It's not if it gets here. It's when it gets here. We're bracing ourselves for that," he says. "This cave alone has half a million bats."
While Kennedy and the others work, I linger before an astounding sight. On the tan limestone wall of one chamber, lit dimly by the ricochet of our headlamps, hangs a single thick mass of gray fur. It's a cozy, inert aggregate of living bat bodies, clinging two-deep, three-deep, and cheek by jowl with one another, their little clawed feet hooked to the porous vertical rock. They form a solid, irregular patch, as big as a living room carpet. This single patch, I'm told, might encompass 300,000 bats. It resembles a buffalo robe. It resembles a huge, dark amoeba. It puts me in mind of a giant Rorschach blot, testing our visions of the future.
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It's never a good thing to be responsible for a turnover that led to the winning goal in overtime in a Stanley Cup final.
It's even worse when you have to dwell on the critical mistake for two days in between games.
But that was the plight of New York Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi after his unfortunate gaffe enabled Kings winger Justin Williams to get the puck and fire a shot past Henrik Lundvist to beat the Rangers 3-2 in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday at Staples Center.
Girardi then had to endure 48 hours of second-guessing and mental distress waiting out Saturday's Game 2 and a chance to finally redeem himself.
His teammates offered plenty of support and tried to put the situation in perspective.
"That's a tough bounce. It just happened that that was the overtime goal that the bounce happened," Rangers center Brad Richards said. "We got a bounce on the second goal that went off their 'D' men in the net."
Richards also pointed out it's easy sometimes to get caught up in one individual play while forgetting about the team's poor play throughout third period that put the Rangers in such a vulnerable position.
"We didn't give ourselves a good enough chance in the third period," Richards said. "Who knows where the overtime would have went? But those things happen."


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CLINTON — Police arrested an 18-year-old Denham Springs man accused of posting threatening messages against Silliman Institute on his Twitter account, Police Chief Fred Dunn said Tuesday.
Dunn said Kyle Blackburn, of La. 16, was booked at the East Feliciana Parish Jail on one count of terrorizing Monday after his arrest by Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies and State Police.
Blackburn's bail was set at $125,000.
The police chief said he and other officers, wearing plain clothes, were stationed at the Clinton school until Blackburn was apprehended, but the school did not institute a lockdown of its classrooms.
Dunn said Blackburn was a student at Central Private School in Central and the Central Private headmaster notified Silliman's principal of the alleged threats Sunday night.
Dunn said Blackburn got into an altercation during a Central Private-Silliman basketball game several weeks ago and subsequently was banned from going back to the Clinton campus.
The police chief said the Twitter postings included language indicating he planned to come back to Silliman and the school "had one day to get it straight."
Dunn said he and officials of both schools considered the postings a credible threat.


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VocalBooth™ panels are stacked and sealed into a large plywood crate. Items in stock can be delivered within 48h, depending on stock availability and on your location, and be installed by yourself or by Dolphin. We provide a shipping quote when the customer let us know their address contact details. The shipping quote depends upon the size of the booth in question and your location. We can deliver to anywhere in Europe, as we are the VocalBooth.com™ European distrubtor. For more info, please contact our sales team on 0844 815 0888.
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Two able bodied persons can install a 4' x 4' Silver Series VocalBooth™ in under an hour. There are no tedious small parts to assemble and the only tool you will need is a screwdriver for putting on the doorknob. Our design is uncomplicated and the written directions are straightforward. Window and doors are preinstalled within the panels. Our Gold Series™ VocalBooths™ take a little more time and some of our larger VocalBooths™ may need a cordless drill.
Our double-wall designed Platinum Series™ will take slightly more time because of the second interior wall. The Diamond Series™ is available in either our Gold or Platinum design and is just as easy to construct.
What sizes are available?
Our Silver Series™ is available in 4' x 4' only. The Gold and Platinum Series™ are available from 4' x 4' and up to 16' x 16' and are expandable at a later date if desired. Our Diamond Series™ is available in four sizes, 3 Carat (approximate volume of a 4' x 4'), 5 Carat (approximate volume of 5' x 5'), 10 Carat (approximate volume of 6' x 6') and 14 Carat (approximate volume of 7' x 7'). Custom sizes are also available.
What type of customizations can I add to a VocalBooth™?
In addition to our standard VocalBooths™ which include lighting, cable ports, active ventilation, wall-to-wall acoustic gray foam or acoustic fabric interior we offer many additional options. All windows are optional. Wall window sizes are either 3' x 3' or 3' x 6' (must have an 8' wall). Door widows are available in either 1' x 2' or 2' x 2.5'.
We offer many optional exterior colors. You can change the color of your interior with either different colored Auralex Foam or a fabric wrapped interior. For easy mobility and floor separation we can add a caster wheel base. You may also opt for a beautiful hardwood floor. We also offer height extension or height reduction to your specs.
If you are in need of wall mounts for monitors or other devices we can provide this to your specifications. If you would like your ventilation ceiling mounted rather than wall mounted there is no charge. For even more quiet ventilation we offer our vent silencer upgrade for low volume recordings. We are more than happy to build custom booths to your exact specifications. Additional fees apply for most of our upgrade options. If you're a voice over artist, please also check our custom packages already in stock - they might be perfect for you!
What are VocalBooths™ made of?
VocalBooths™ are fully enclosed rooms which include wall, floor and ceiling panels. Our main components are ¾" OSB with exterior 1/8" acoustic fabric. Depending on which series you go with the interior will differ. The Silver Series™ wall construction is 1/8" acoustic fabric, ¾" OSB and 2" acoustic foam. The Gold Series™ is 1/8" acoustic fabric, ¾" OSB, ½" sound board and 2" acoustic foam. The double-wall designed Platinum Series™ is 1/8" acoustic fabric, ¾" OSB, ½" sound board, 2" acoustic foam, ¾" OSB and 1/8" acoustic fabric. Our Diamond Series™ is available in either our Gold or Platinum Series construction.
We use the highest quality materials in our manufacturing. Our layering process of OSB board and sound deadening board is overall better than a single layer MDF board system. We prefer our OSB layering to MDF due to its sound attenuation properties and its high resistance to warping, cracking and breakage during transport and assembly. The Gold, Platinum and Diamond Series use a solid wood double sealed door compared to the Silver Series foam core single sealed door. Silver and Gold Series windows are double paned and the Platinum triple paned.
How soundproof is a VocalBooth™?
The best way to understand sound reduction is to determine how you will use your new VocalBooth™. For recording in our Silver and Gold Series VocalBooths™, most if not all environmental noise outside your building (with windows and doors closed) will not read on your tracks.
Though the Silver and Gold Series™ are both a single-wall design the Gold Series™ has an increased sound reduction. Most ambient office noise (40db to 50db) should not read on your tracks as well as speaker monitors kept in this decibel range. For use as practice rooms, loud singing and shouting is heavily muffled. Drums and amplified instruments are greatly subdued. With your studio doors and windows closed, other rooms and other tenants should not hear acoustic instruments and loud vocals from inside your VocalBooth™.
For our Platinum Series™, sound reduction performance is enhanced over the Silver and Gold Series™ and allows louder monitoring. The Diamond Series™ is available in either the Gold or Platinum Series. Please contact a VocalBooth.com™ representative to help you identify your critical needs and to ensure a perfect solution.
Why do some competitors post higher decibel reduction numbers?
It is difficult to accurately compare products on the market based on posted decibel reduction numbers because results can vary greatly based on the methodology of testing. Basically what it comes down to is that location of testing sites will differ and therefore provide different results.
The law of diminishing returns apply on single-wall and double-wall sound enclosure systems. Once your seals are solid, an increase in wall thickness does not substantially increase sound reduction. Also, there are no lightweight "high tech" materials that make a substantial difference. Solid mass and decoupled walls with airspace between them are the best solution.
We pride ourselves in providing the best product in our class with professional results internationally. What we can guarantee is that we use the highest rated sound reduction materials in the manufacturing of VocalBooths™ while at the same time keeping mobility and affordability in mind.
How do microphone cables and electric lines enter a VocalBooth™?
The cable ports, which are 3 ½" ports in the wall, allow cables into the VocalBooth™. Once your lines that you desire our placed, seal the cable port with the acoustic foam provided. Additional cable ports can be installed at no extra charge.
Can I change window and door placement later on? Yes, all panels are interchangeable for each series as long as there is a panel with the same width. Our unique modular design allows you to decide where the door, window and vent panels go when you assemble. At any time you can choose to have your window panel on the left or the right side. When ordering you must determine which side your door swings open—where the hinges are placed on the left or right side. This feature can be only changed by repurchasing a door.
Where can I can see a VocalBooth™?
We have customers throughout the US and overseas. Unfortunately to view one of our VocalBooths™ would be overly imposing on them. But our sales team is ready and willing to discuss with you the best solution for your application.
What tools will I need to set up my VocalBooth™?
VocalBooth.com™ products are constructed for simple assembly. The only required tools are a Phillips head screw driver and a razor blade for opening the crate and unpacking materials. For a speedier set up we find that our customers may use a power screw driver but this is not required. Instructions are strait forward and allow for easy assembly.
How much does a VocalBooth™ weigh?
The weight of your VocalBooth™ is obviously determined by its size. You can calculate approximately the weight of your VocalBooth™ by the type and number of panels. A standard panel is 4' x 8'. Smaller sized VocalBooths™ such as a 6' x 6' will have a 4' and a 2' wide panel to make up a 6' wall. You can divide the weight listed below for these standard panels accordingly.
A blank 4' x 8' panel weighs approximately 75 lbs. A panel with a window will also weigh approximately 75 lbs. The door panel will weigh approximately 160 - 200 lbs. (Moving the door panel will need the help of more than one person for installation.) The floor and ceiling are considered blank panels and weight determined by size.
What type of warranty do you offer?
Any defects in materials or workmanship will be repaired or replaced at the VocalBooth™ factory within one year from date of purchase. This warranty does not cover damage that results from misuse, mishandling, abuse, vandalism, alteration, or lack of reasonable care. Any alterations to VocalBooth™ products without written consent from VocalBooth.com, Inc nullify this warranty.
All sound rooms are for indoor use only and are not 100% soundproof. Sound rooms are modular, non-permanent, stand-alone structures without electrical wiring. Compliance with local and national building codes is purchaser's responsibility. VocalBooth™ use non-toxic water based paints. Touch up paint may be necessary. All panels and parts are standard sized building materials. Most tolerance levels rated at 1/4". Sound rooms will not withstand human weight or storage above ceiling. Vocalbooth.com Inc. will not compensate for assembly or time loss due to non-booth usage. For further info contact us via this form or call us at 0844 815 0888.
Can I get replacement parts?
You may simply contact your sales team directly to request replacement parts. Depending on the reason for replacement and/or the part requested a fee may be charged.
If you have a question not listed here please contact us using our contact form or call us at 0844 815 0888


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2015 Volkswagen Golf R: Frankfurt Auto Show
What Is It?
The 2015 Volkswagen Golf R may have been unveiled back in August, but that doesn't make us want one any less. There's a beautiful white Mk7 Golf R on the floor at the Frankfurt Auto Show, and we're itching to slip behind the wheel.
As the nearest VW fanatic will tell you, Mk7 refers to the seventh-generation Golf platform, which means that the 2015 Golf R is a generation ahead of the last Golf R we drove. So what's changed from the 2013 model that charmed us so? Above all, the reborn Golf R is faster. A lot faster. One of our few complaints about the outgoing 256-horsepower iteration was that it could barely out-sprint a GTI. With a whopping 296 hp under the hood and less weight to bear, the 2015 Golf R shouldn't have that problem. Plus, the new engine's meaty 280 lb-ft of torque is available from 1,800 rpm all the way past 5,000 rpm, so there should be some serious shove whenever you hit the gas.
As ever, the Golf R will come standard with an all-wheel-drive system that gives it superior cornering skills, but the new car is said to be considerably more athletic thanks to the lighter, tighter Mk7 chassis. Inside, the R benefits from grippy leather sport seats as well as the new Golf's general upgrades, including a more driver-centric cockpit with a control panel that curves toward you like in a sports car.
In short, the R remains the ultimate Golf. And from what we've seen so far, it's never been more desirable.
How Much?
The old Golf R started around $35,000, and we can't imagine the improved Mk7 version will be any cheaper. We'd put the base price somewhere between $35,000 and $40,000, with loaded versions easily cresting $40,000.
When Can You Get It?
This is the burning question. We know the R initially won't be available when the new Golf arrives on our shores in 2014, but it will inevitably join the lineup. The exact date, however, is anyone's guess, because VW isn't talking. We predict that VW will give the GTI a year to get established, making the first stateside Golf R a 2016 model arriving in the 2015 calendar year. Zoinks! That's a long time to wait.
Add It to Your Shopping List Because...
You want one of the best combinations of performance and refinement that $40,000 can buy. For some, the R will always be "just a Golf," but you know better. Dollar for dollar and feature for feature, the 2015 Volkswagen Golf R figures to be among the most rewarding cars on the road.
Other Cars to Consider
BMW 3 Series -- If you can find a 3 Series for Golf R money, that's a great problem to have, but the 328i is down on power -- and the 335i is likely up on price.
Ford Focus ST -- It's technically more of a GTI competitor, but the front-wheel-drive Focus ST's alluring cocktail of speed and affordability is hard to ignore.
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class -- The CLA won't keep up with the Golf R unless you spring for the AMG version, but it's even more civilized.
Used BMW 135i -- The 1 Series coupe is supposed to be old news now that its 2 Series successor is on deck, but that means you can get a great deal on a lightly used 135i with its 300-hp turbocharged inline 6-cylinder.


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Devious Scam In Which The Check They Send You Clears
There's a really devious scam going around worth mentioning because of one compelling tactic the scammers use.
My dad received a letter the other day "informing" him that he was the lucky winner of some unclaimed prize money. Below is the letter he received.
They sent him a check for $1,940 dollars and told him that all he needs to do to claim the prize money is deposit the check and send back a portion of that money for processing fees and identification purposes.
My dad's first thought (which I imagine yours is as well) was, Oh! This must be a scam. They expect me to deposit their check and then send them a check from my bank account. After a few days, their check won't clear and they'll have my money.
For laughs, my dad decided to call the guy up to see what sort of crazy explanation he would provide. His answer caught my dad off-guard. He told him to wait till the check clears before sending them a check.
Huh? Wait a minute. So they want me to wait till the check clears? Doesn't that mean the money is fully in my account? What if I never send them a check? I could just keep the money. If this is a scam, how are they making money?
Calling the Better Business Bureau provided the answer. They told my dad under no circumstances should he deposit that check. Yes, the check will clear, but probably because it was written by another victim defrauded by this same scam. Later when the scam is discovered by that victim, my dad would be liable for depositing a fraudelent check.
What's really makes this scam compelling and likely to sucker a lot of people into falling for it is the mistaken belief that once a check clears, the money is in the clear. It's not.
In any case, if you receive such a scam letter, the proper authorities to report it to is not the FBI but the Postal Inspectors, the law enforcement wing of the United States Postal Service (and the subject of a really cheesy movie, The Inspectors starring Louis Gosset Jr.).
I would suggest warning your family members who are prone to such scams. Especially those who consistently fall for those PayPal emails and keep opening up pictures of Anna Kournikova sent via email.


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Jamie Riddell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 136 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
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Never before has technology changed so quickly and so powerfully. From web 2.0 to the current trend of social media, the digital landscape as we know it is changing on a daily basis. For brands and their agencies there is barely enough time to manage the daily changes with the major social networks leaving no time to plan for the 'next big thing'. This is where we come in.
Digital Tomorrow Today is a new UK based consultancy founded by Jamie Riddell & Katherine Jerman, successful founders of Cheeze, one of the UK's most recognizable and successful Digital Agencies. (http://bit.ly/chz99designs)
The new consultancy is headed up by Jamie Riddell who has built a reputation as being one of the leading practical thinkers on future technology and how it can work for brands. (http://bit.ly/thisiswhatido)
The new consultancy looks to continue the trend for looking 'over the horizon' to see what is coming and to translate that into workable information for brands and or agencies (that represents brands.)
The global consultancy will be in three distinct parts, an open blog which will cover emerging technologies or trends (mobile, apps, consoles, social networks) ; a membership side which will go into greater depth about these changes and how brands can harness them, plus bespoke consultancy for defined projects.
International, medium to large brands and digital agencies looking to gain a stream of knowledge to grow their businesses.
Businesses that can afford a premium service (400 GBP/month membership), consultancy fees in the tens of thousands.
Large brands (P&G etc.) will usually have their own resource/department so we don't need to worry too much about them. We do not want to be targeting small businesses, this is a premium product.
The outcome will be the defining logo which will set the tone for the site and all brand communications.
We need a brand identity to include the company name and an iconic logo. The domain name http://www.digitaltomorrowtoday.com can be used if you can make it work.
This needs to be a bespoke design, no stock images or clip art.
We will be active in all channels so the logo will need to work on large scale (A4 prints, powerpoint/keynote presentations) to business cards and stand alone logos to work with social network avatar spaces.
As much of our profile will be social network based, we need to ensure the logo can work independently of the company name which may not be as clear in a standard avatar window.
The brand needs to demonstrate 'over the horizon' viewing, lay person speaking, quality, credibility and confidence.This businesses will always be looking forward so I think we should not be focusing too much on 'elements' like mobile 'phones as they will date us quickly.
This is a startup with a very strong heritage, it is independent of any previous company or partner so we need to show strength and confidence as we are.
If you imagined this logo was an independent film maker you would see at the start of a movie, that would be a good place to think for quality and credibility.
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Game On
The Harvard men's hockey looks to hand No. 3 Yale its first home loss as the Ivy League rivals face off Friday for the second time in 2010-11 and the 233rd time overall. The puck drops at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn.
Game Notes (PDF)
ECAC Hockey Live Scoreboard
Vote for Hobey - Alex Killorn
Follow From Home
GoCrimson.com provides links to pay-per-view live video and free live statistics from from YaleBulldogs.com. WHRB-FM 95.3 and WHRB.org offer live audio with Brendan Roche and Raafi Alidina on the call.
Behind the Bench
Former Crimson captain, NCAA Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player and 13-year National Hockey League veteran Ted Donato '91 is in his seventh season as The Robert D. Ziff '88 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Ice Hockey. He owns a 95-105-20 record, three ECAC title-game appearances and two NCAA tournament bids.
Last Weekend
A Danny Biega (Montreal, Que.) hat trick led the Crimson (4-16-0, 3-12 ECAC Hockey, 0-6-0 Ivy League) to a 6-2 home win against Colgate Friday night. Harvard scored twice in each period and once in the final minute of each frame.
Five other players recorded multiple points and Ryan Carroll (Hackensack, N.J.) logged 27 saves for Harvard, which took control with four straight goals after Colgate scored first. Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Sweden), Alex Killorn (Montreal, Que.) and Conor Morrison (London, Ont.) also scored. Chris Huxley(Weymouth, Mass.) had three assists.
Goaltender Andy Iles made 33 saves as Cornell survived with a 2-1 win Saturday. Iles stopped Harvard's last 22 shots after Fallstrom scored to tie the game in the first period. The Big Red withstood three Harvard power plays in the third period. The Crimson outshot Cornell, 11-3 in the third period and 34-20 overall.
Delay of Game
Harvard's game scheduled for Wednesday night at Brown was postponed due to heavy snow in the Northeast. It will be made up Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
Leading the Crimson
Alex Killorn's highlight-reel goal against Colgate was his team-leading seventh tally of the season. Michael Biega (Montreal, Que.) registered two assists against the Raiders. Biega leads Harvard with 10 helpers and, with 16 points, shares the team scoring lead with Killorn.
Offensive Behavior
Harvard's six goals Friday were one more than it had totaled in its previous four games and two more than it had scored in any game this season. The Crimson had not registered six goals in a game since blowing out Quinnipiac, 11-0, to open an ECAC quarterfinal series March 14, 2008.
Special Forces
Harvard killed all three of Colgate's power plays Friday and Cornell's first man-advantage chance Saturday to extend its streak of successful penalty kills to 20. The Big Red, however, scored a power-play goal to end the Crimson's streak. Cornell also held Harvard scoreless on its own four power plays to snap the Crimson's run of three straight games with a power-play tally.
Busy Crimson
Harvard is in the midst of stretches of four games in 11 days and seven games in 20 days. Only two of those seven games were at home.
Close Calls
Harvard has lost seven games by a single goal and another game by two goals with one coming on an empty net. Four of the Crimson's last six league games have been one-goal losses.
Hall of Famer
Bob McManama '73 will be Harvard's 10th inductee to the Beanpot Hall of Fame when he is honored between semifinal games of the 59th annual tournament Monday. McManama totaled eight points on three goals and five assists in six Beanpot games, including two final appearances.
Scouting the Bulldogs
Then-No. 1 Yale (17-4-0, 11-3-0, 5-1-0) suffered a weekend sweep on its visit to New York's Capital District last weekend, falling to No. 13 Union, 3-2, and No. 10 Rensselaer, 5-2. The losses were the Bulldogs' second and third in the last five games following a 15-1-0 start. Yale, however, still ranks first in the PairWise ranking and leads the nation in scoring offense (4.52 goals per game) and scoring margin (+2.29 goals per game). The Bulldogs are 12-0-0 at home.
Broc Little leads the Bulldogs with 13 goals and shares the team lead with 27 points, alongside Brian O'Neill (12-15-27) and assists leader Andrew Miller (5-22-27). Ryan Rondeau has posted a 16-3-0 record with a .924 and 2.02 goals-against average.
Inspiration for Innovation
The Harvard-Yale rivalry was the impetus for one of the great innovations in hockey history. In their March 7, 1923 game against Yale, Harvard coach William H. Claflin '15 and captain George Owen '23 implemented the practice of changing entire lines of three forwards at a time. The tactic, which became known as the line change, helped the Crimson defeat the Bulldogs, 2-1, in overtime.
Jan. 8 at Bright Hockey Center
No. 1 Yale scored twice on power plays to defeat Harvard, 4-2, in front of a sellout crowd. Danny Biega scored both Crimson goals, cutting Yale leads to 2-1 in the second period and 4-2 in the third. Carroll made 35 saves, as the Bulldogs held a 39-31 advantage in shots.
Harvard vs. Yale Series History
Harvard leads the all-time series, 137-76-19. The teams first met Feb. 26, 1900, a 5-4 Elis win in New York City. In 1913, six weeks after voting to make hockey a "major sport," the Harvard Athletic Committee voted to award a varsity letter to any Harvard player who had ever skated against Yale.
Ryan Carroll made 35 saves and Ryan Grimshaw (Rochester, N.Y.) had two assists in a 3-2 home win last season. Yale came out on top when the squads reconvened Feb. 6 at Ingalls Rink, pulling away to a 6-3 win with four third-period goals. A different player scored each of the game's nine goals, and Carroll made 41 saves.
College Classics
The 111-year-old Harvard-Yale rivalry is one of college hockey's oldest and tied as its 11th-most-contested. Only two pairs of Eastern rivals have faced off more often. Here are the top 25 rivalries in terms of games played:
284 Michigan-Michigan State
282 Minnesota-North Dakota
277 Colorado College-Denver
257 Michigan-Minnesota
261 Michigan Tech-Minnesota
256 Minnesota-Wisconsin
254 Denver-North Dakota
253 Boston College-Boston University
249 Colorado College-Minnesota
237 Michigan Tech-North Dakota
232 Harvard-Yale
221 Colorado College-North Dakota
218 Michigan-Michigan Tech
216 Boston College-Northeastern
216 Michigan Tech-Minnesota Duluth
214 Minnesota-Minnesota Duluth
211 Denver-Michigan Tech
209 Minnesota Duluth-North Dakota
207 Boston University-Northeastern
195 Dartmouth-Yale
192 Dartmouth-Harvard
188 Dartmouth-Princeton
186 Clarkson-St. Lawrence
Top of the [Blue] Line
Danny Biega leads all defensemen and ranks ninth among all skaters with six goals in ECAC Hockey play. He has totaled 14 points in league games to tie Rensselaer's Nick Bailen (5-9-14) for the league lead in defenseman scoring. Biega is tied for seventh in league scoring among all players.
With six goals and nine assists overall, Biega averages 0.75 points per game, tying him for 15th nationally among defensemen.
Hat Trick Fact
Danny Biega became the first Harvard defenseman to record a hat trick since current New York Islander Dylan Reese '07 scored three times in a 5-2 home win against Yale March 2, 2007 in the opening game of the ECAC playoffs.
Career Highs
In addition to Danny Biega's career highs for points and goals against Colgate, Chris Huxley set career bests with three assists and three points, and Marshall Everson (Edina, Minn.) registered his first two-assist game. Conor Morrison and Michael Biega (Montreal, Que.) matched their career highs in assists with two each.
On the Board
John Caldwell (Charlestown, Mass.) assisted on Alex Fallstrom's goal against Colgate for his first collegiate point.


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We are still going to be out at Sherman from 15 to 19 of June, however the demo will be for the Wainman board line as well as the boards from Shinn.
A big Wainman demo will be coming end of July beginning of August where you can see the new kites from Wainman and special guests.....
We will have a big BBQ and keg for the big demo later in the summer. And shwag as always..
Any questions, please feel free to give me a ring or email.
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