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Adding Acoustic Ceiling Tiles to my Home Video Production... Jun 26, 2017

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Adding Acoustic Ceiling Tiles to my Home Video Production...

So important, and So Easy...1, 2, 3, DONE

One of the biggest issues when recording audio at a home studio is extraneous noise, and when we begin our recording careers, we often grossly underestimate the importance of room acoustics…

And we assume, at least I did, that just because we have a nice condenser mic and expensive studio monitors, great sound comes automatically.

But the truth is…the acoustics of your room have more-to-do with sound quality…

Than perhaps anything else your studio….anything.

So rather than face months of frustration trying to figure out what you're doing wrong…you might as well get this stuff handled right now.

Which is why in this post, I will walk you step by step through the entire process of designing an effective acoustic tile design, drop creation, and sound dampening, in my DIY "sound and noise destroys!"

Enjoy!

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Here's How To Get Your Smithsonian Discount Jun 24, 2017

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Here's How To Get Your Smithsonian Discount!

$20 Off Ticket Price, Through 8/31/17

The entire discount is passed along to you by generosity of Smithsonian Associates. Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31.

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Spend a night at the National Museum of American History, Air & Space, and Natural History! Jun 22, 2017

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Spend a night at the National Museum of American History, Air & Space, and Natural History

Here's How, and Why...

Watch and enjoy...ALSO...news flash!

Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31.

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Taylor Vogelzang Piano Recital Jun 22, 2017

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Taylor Vogelzang Piano Recital

GWDC 2017 Recital

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#118 Smithsonian Sleepovers, Since 2008, Night At The Museum Jun 21, 2017

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Smithsonian Sleepovers, Since 2008, Night At The Museum

FLASH NEWS:

I've received so many emails from you all about the Smithsonian content and how much you enjoy it. Smithsonian is thrilled, too, and is giving you an exclusive offer.

"Please know that I'm not doing this for payment. The entire discount is passed along to you by generosity of Smithsonian Associates. Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31."

Smithsonian Sleepovers, yes, that's right! Sleepovers at the Smithsonian Museums. Kids and their grown-up companions can attend a Smithsonian Sleepover. The American History Museum, Natural History Museum, or the Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.

Smithsonian Associates presents customized nighttime experiences for groups and families with children ages 8–14 in sleepover events at the National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery. Kids and their chaperones can choose their adventure, whether it is sleeping beneath a 50-foot whale, spending the night at the home of the Star-Spangled Banner or among portraits of people who have shaped the nation. They will experience the museums in a whole new way during a night of fun that features tours, games, crafts and more.

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#117 Face to Face with Dr Cindy Otto, Founder of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center Jun 19, 2017

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Face to Face with Dr Cindy Otto, Founder of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center

Smithsonian Associates & The Not Old Better Show Art of Living Series

Opened on September 11, 2012, the Penn Vet Working Dog Center serves as a national research and development center for detection dogs.

With the United States national security under constant threat from attacks, detection dogs are still the best tool that we have to detect and mitigate potential threats. Search dogs are also critical for the detection of victims of natural and man-made disasters.

As pioneer in the working dog field, Dr Cindy Otto's goal is to increase collaborative research and the application of the newest scientific findings and veterinary expertise to optimize the performance of lifesaving detection dogs.

Meet Dr Otto face to face.

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#116 Marshall Tucker Band Interview, Doug Gray, Lead Singer Jun 13, 2017

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Marshall Tucker Band Interview, Doug Gray, Lead Singer

The Not Old Better Show, Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. My guest today, Doug Gray, frontman, lead singer for the Marshall Tucker Band, is part of Rock & Roll legend, aristocracy, and good man, US Army vet all rolled into one.

Now, at age 68, nearly 45 years since first taking the highway, Doug Gray is loving life, the music, and the fans, as the guiding force, leader, mastermind, master-of ceremonies and lead-singer for the Marshall Tucker Band. The Marshall Tucker Band, formed in the early 1970s and, in the early-to-mid-1970s, they played a string of show as opening act for The Allman Brothers Band, another rock and roll legend. Both groups, incidentally, became famous for their jazzy solos, blues-rock and extended jams.

"Heard It In a Love Song," which, of course, you're listening to now, is one of the Marshall Tucker Band's most recognizable hits, and a song that took Gray, as lead singer, is a Southern Rock classic, and reached #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart."

Doug Gray, a U.S. Army, loves the settings of small intimate theaters, like Tally Ho, where the Marshall Tucker Band will be performing Thursday, June 15, 2017.

In recent years, the Marshall Tucker Band has been paid "a whole lot of respect" by younger generations of musicians, despite not having had a hit in years.

Many country bands have begun to cover the band's tunes.

And that has put this band back in demand, even as Gray now stands as the only original member remaining with the group.

The Marshall Tucker Band will be performing live at the Tally Ho Theater, June 15, 2017, but we've got Doug Gray today on The Not Old Better Show.

Click HERE for tickets and more information: TallyHo Theater.

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#115 Women In Science, 250 Years, Interview with Grace Costantino Jun 06, 2017

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Women In Science, 250 Years, Interview with Grace Costantino

Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series

Grace Costantino began her career at the Smithsonian Libraries in 2008 as a Digital Services Intern, working to help develop the Smithsonian Research Online Repository. From August 2008-January 2012, she served as a BHL Librarian at the Smithsonian Library.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates partnership program, our guest today, Grace Costantino is one of the new breed of federal government employee: young, digitally savvy, and excited about her work. Grace Costantino is also an award winning leader among her peers, teaching, tutoring, and communicating in support of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Grace Costantino is truly talented, and it's a pleasure to hear from her.

Ms Costantino will be speaking at the Smithsonian Associates program, titled The Rise of Women In Science: 250 Years of Trailblazers, along with Wayne State University science historian, Marsha Richmond, July 10, at the Ripley Center, Washington DC, and we'll have links up to Grace Costantino's impressive bio, her web sites, her books and articles, etc., but she's here with us today. As all Not Old Better audience are trailblazers, on our path's to reinvention, we're interested in and committed to learning and other's who have blazed trails. Certainly, Grace Costantino is a trailblazer, and you'll love this interview. Join me in welcoming today via SKYPE to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Art Of Living series, Grace Costantino.

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#114 Mike German, FBI Undercover, Thinking Like a Terrorist May 31, 2017

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Mike German, FBI Undercover, Thinking Like a Terrorist

Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series

Mike German served sixteen years as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he specialized in domestic terrorism and covert operations. His undercover work against white supremacist skinhead groups, and right-wing militias, disrupted planned acts of terrorism and led to multiple criminal convictions. He served as a counterterrorism instructor at the FBI National Academy before leaving the FBI in June of 2004.

German lectures frequently on counterterrorism and intelligence matters, and his commentary has appeared in the National Law Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Miami Herald. German is a contributor to the conference report "Law vs. War: Competing Approaches to Fighting Terrorism," published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. Now living in the Mid-Atlantic region, he is a private consultant, an adjunct professor at the National Defense University, and a Senior Fellow with Globalsecurity.org.

To survive undercover as an FBI agent, it is not enough to simply dress like a terrorist or act like a white supremacist, you have to think like them. Mike German, a former FBI agent, did just that by figuring out what makes terrorists tick, infiltrating their ranks, learning what they want and how they plan to achieve it, and winning their trust. It was a harrowing ride, but in the end he exposed their criminal activity without losing his life. In fact, he was able to write a book about his experience, Thinking Like a Terrorist, and his story inspired the recent movie, Imperium.

Mike German is our guest today on The Not Old Better Show, and German shares the hard lessons he learned as an undercover agent with a clear-eyed assessment of the threats we may or may not face, how to fight them, and how to preserve our core values in the process. German is a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.

My thanks to the ADL and their excellent report on "Music and the Sounds of Hate," including the song, "Rock Against Communism."

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#113 Dr Lexi Lord, Interview, Doctor's Orders May 30, 2017

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Dr Lexi Lord, Interview, Doctor's Orders

Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series

Alexandra, "Lexi," Lord, chair and curator of the division of medicine and science at the Smithsonian American History Museum, explores the medical and public health advances of the '20s and places them in a cultural context. In the previous decade

World War I shaped new discoveries in medicine, and examinations of drafted soldiers revealed that the men defending our country were not as strong and healthy as once perceived. As a result, public health became a matter of national security.

With the postwar population shift from rural areas to urban centers, improved health and sanitation for both types of communities became a concern. Poorer, less populated parts of the country were often in desperate need of health and hygiene essentials, including indoor plumbing and running water. Cities were experiencing public health problems due to overcrowding, prompting initiatives and policies to reduce infant and childhood mortality, as well as to control infectious diseases.

The new freedoms offered by urban life also lead to a shift in social behaviors, and in response, the U.S. Public Health Service launched the first national sexual education campaign, now the longest-running one of its kind in the country.

The 1920s also saw a push for the professionalization of doctors and nurses, an increase in the number of school nurses, and breakthroughs in treating diseases, like diabetes, that once were considered a death sentence—and was the decade in which a new, hopeful trust in medicine placed its practitioners in high public regard.

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