The Green Glue Revolution.

Green Glue has caused a revolution in the Soundproofing Industry. It is an extremely effective visco-elastic dampening compound that is placed between 2 layers of drywall providing a dampening barrier as well as a very effective isolator. The dampening effect of the Green Glue actually prevents structure borne sound transmission, which in turn prevents unwanted noise flanking. Green Glue is used in a sandwich between 2 layers of a rigid material such as to layers of drywall or MDF and drywall or even Homasote and drywall. Green Glue can offer up to 100 times the dampening of a single layer of ½” drywall. This is important to know when dealing with Impact noise from above. The greater dampening there is in the structure and the wallboard, the more effectively Impac View the rest of this article

Ethics and Morality: The Morality Pendelum

During the month of June 2007, a nationwide telephone poll of Americans between the ages of 17 and 29 was conducted by the New York Times, CBS News and MTV. The poll's unsurprising conclusion is that young Americans are "leaning left." Also in June, a special report released by two liberal groups ("Media Matters for America" and "Campaign for America's Future") declared that the majority of Americans hold "progressive" positions on a broad range of issues. The report concluded that independent, nonpartisan polling data from the last 20 years debunk the conventional wisdom that most Americans agree with a conservative agenda.

As might be expected, both sets of data have strong political implications. The "leaning left" poll indicates that young Americans pref View the rest of this article

Soundproofing a Home Theater

In today's hurried world, most people don't have the time or money to waste taking the entire family to the movies (up to $50 to $60 per shot) so why not build out a Home Theater in your garage, basement, or spare bedroom? The construction and soundproofing of a Home Theater is much the same as building a soundproof music studio in your home. The only major difference is that with a Home Theater, you are less concerned with sound coming into the Theater than you would be if you were doing recording or voice-overs.
The most effective method for building your Home Theater is to actually construct a room within a room. Basically this means framing out new walls within the existing room. This is a lot simpler than it sounds. If you possess tool skills and are better w View the rest of this article

Green Glue Soundproofing on outside walls and sheathing

If you’re re-siding or re-constructing the outside walls of your house, it would be a great idea to double up on the plywood sheathing and add a layer of the Green Glue damping compound between the layers of sheathing. The Green Glue would damp the sheathing and stop the transmission of traffic or other outdoor noises from entering your home. This would also preclude you from having to soundproof the inside walls especially if you home has plaster walls. Plaster is not a very good soundproofing material, so if you have already soundproofed the sheathing on the outer walls there is no need to disturb the inside plaster of drywall walled walls.
Once you have removed the old siding or shingles from the outer walls of the house, you should be left with a plywood sh View the rest of this article

“Are we ready?” Five Questions to Ask Your Hospital Before Disaster Strikes

Chlorine gas leaks after a train-car derailment. Radiation contaminates the community when an industrial accident occurs. A levy breaks, washing through every refinery and industrial plant and polluting all the water. Terrorists attack. Pandemic flu strikes.
When large numbers of people in your community are very sick, the last thing you want is for your hospital to be incapacitated as well. In America, any hospital or emergency room is considered a “first receiver.” That is, in the event of any kind of a healthcare disaster or mass casualty event, they would be the first to receive patients. Therefore, hospitals must be able to work as health care providers and, to some degree, as hazardous materials (hazmat) operators. But setting up hazmat operations can c View the rest of this article

Directory Submission for SEO

With the rise in popularity of search engines as a channel for consumers and businesses to seek information, service providers and retailers; companies are now looking towards search engine optimization as a low risk, high return investment. Marketing through search engines provides two opportunities for businesses: paid search / pay-per-click (PPC) or Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Search Engine Placement. With many offerings, and little cohesion the search engine marketing industry is open to much criticism through the lack of knowledge that buyers have of the industry. The purpose of directory submission is somewhat different from how a layman may interpret it. Yes, it provides direct traffic throug View the rest of this article

Complete Software Outsourcing Project on Schedule

In areas of China and the Asia Pacific, most of software outsourcing projects are accounted at a fixed rate, and this contract mode brings a mistaken concept to firms that it will cause inconvenience but have no effect on project investment because of this project delay. In fact, any delay of project not only causes inconvenience but also affect operation and benefit of firms. If a new business can't be put out into marker by reasons of not ready for its software or information related, and others occupy the opportunity, how it will affect the firm. Or a project is developed for simplify internal workflow and improve work efficiency, then delays of the project will prolong the operational choke point and increase operational costs. All these affect a lot on benefits View the rest of this article