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Is she or isn't she? That's the million dollar question. Rumors have be swirling for weeks that Beyoncé may be pregnant with her second child and the singer made a huge statement about the matter with her latest Tumblr post.
Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z have been dismissing rumors that they are pregnant with their second child. From Instagram messages to her Tumblr page, Queen Bey has released subtle hints that she's not expecting, and now she is literally drinking the rumors away!
Bey's Latest Tumblr Pic Dismissing Pregnancy Rumors
While on her world tour, Beyoncé has posted numerous pictures on her Tumblr page and some even indicate that the "Single Ladies" singer isn't pregnant. On May 21, she posted a photo of a dinner menu that included tuna salad which experts say pregnant women should avoid because of the high levels of mercury.
On May 31, she posted a photo with Jay-Z sitting happily together while Bey drinks what appears to be a glass of wine. Any amount of alcohol is not allowed during pregnancy, so this photo is just another hint that Blue Ivy isn't getting a little sister or brother in the near future.
A Long Line Of Denial From Queen Bey
Rumors began running rampant after Beyoncé canceled her concert in Antwerp, Belgium in early May due to exhaustion and dehydration. However, Beyoncé & co. soon began denying the gossip.
She posted an Instagram message on May 18 that said "all I can do is laugh" at the rumors. She looked super slim at her concert in Milan May 18 and her husband Jay-Z reportedly sent an email to NYC rap station Hot 97 saying she's not pregnant.
Without coming right out and saying it, it looks like Beyoncé is really trying to tell us she isn't expecting a second child!
What do YOU think about Beyoncé's latest pregnancy denial pic? Do YOU think she is or isn't pregnant? Tell us what you think!
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Yes she is pregnant. The proof is on Mr. and Mrs. Carter tumblr, there is a picture of her performance from last night concert in Belgium. Where she is performing in her black/yellow leotard with a chubby face and a baby bump to prove it. That's the honest truth!!! I still think E! News is telling the truth. Just go and check the tumblr page for yourself.


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I can never let too much time go by before I write a post about purple!
As many of you know, my favorite colors are lavender, plum and every tint and shade in between. I'm always looking for a reason to love on purple.
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Community inclusion, not exclusion is the key to developing healthy communities. This bus shelter is a fantastic example of how to rethink the issue surrounding homelessness. Vagrancy is a crime in many U.S. cities and is often brutally enforced or at the least used to harass homeless people. Purposeful design of uncomfortable benches is not only present in the street, but in airports as well. Why do designers take issue with people sleeping in public.
I like the design and overall concept, but I do not think this bench would be practical in large US cities. Having worked in the homeless community for over 10 years in major cities in the US, I have seen fights and killings break out over much coveted spots on heating grates. There is a certain survival element over resources and I could easily see a bench like this contributing to problems within homelessness and not helping. This is particularly because there is only one bed. There are several homeless people in most city streets. If there was a way to incorporate the design into several beds, it would become much more effective.
In addition to that concern, I am wondering that these benches will increase the identification of homeless individuals - particularly in the evening. Several times I have read about homeless people being hurt, set on fire, and often killed while they sleep - simply for being homeless. Creating a high profile for them, may only hurt in a community that is not compassionate. Most large cities in the US are extremely harsh on the homeless communities within them. There would have to be a major refocus on the human psyche in the US as to what the true face of homelessness is for anything like this to work.
Education, in addition to accomodations - is what the US needs.
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Formula One racings 2014 engine regulations are already having a positive impact on the development of new road car technologies. That is according to Mercedes and Renault, suppliers of power units to eight of the 11 current F1 teams.
This season has seen F1 racing abandon its previous normally-aspirated, 2.4-litre V8 engines in favour of turbocharged, 1.6 litre V6s, paired with highly advanced Energy Recovery Systems (ERS). The new hybrid power units may use no more than 100 kilos of fuel in a race, making them around 35 percent more efficient than their 2013 predecessors.
Its already happening, said Mercedes Andy Cowell of the transfer between the companys F1 and road car projects. The regulations were specifically written to take some of the ideas that are already in the road car world, so downsizing, downspeeding and turbocharging but adding some new, interesting technologies in there such as the electric turbocharger as a specific example and those sort of projects are already being worked on.
Speaking alongside Cowell in Fridays FIA press conference in China, Renaults Rob White echoed his comments, saying: The transfers are not only specific technologies, the e-turbo being one of them, but also the fundamental alignment of the mission we have.
"Our challenge now is to race, to go as fast as we can with the given fuel allocation, which is a very, very similar mission to our road car colleagues who have to use the smallest amount of fuel to get a given mission done and thats extremely close.
And the new regulations are not only benefiting the car makers currently involved in F1 racing. They are also attracting new ones, with Japanese auto giants Honda due to return to the sport with McLaren in 2015.
One of the major reasons for our decision was the new regulations introduced this year and that the various green technologies in the new Formula One power unit, as well as the total energy management, are both very challenging and significant, said Hondas Yasuhisa Arai.
The new regulation encourages each power unit supplier to pursue the ultimate combustions efficiency and high pressure direct injections, such as many, many new technologies. Thus the challenge is to convert each unit of gasoline into energy and this is expected to be reflected on the huge production mode.
Cowell said the new engine regulations, the formulation of which began almost exactly four years ago, represented a giant leap forward, while White stressed that the impressive progress seen so far is only the beginning in terms of what can ultimately be achieved.
There will be rapid progress even during the course of this year, said White. Weve seen progress in the early races without any change to the underlying hardware. Thats something that will continue during the season. Its something that will take another step forward over the winter when we homologate a new version of the power unit for 2015.
This is another mirror-image of what happens in the big, wide world outside, where every iteration of our road car product brings with it a significant step forward in fuel consumption, which of course is the same thing for us: a step forward in performance for the same fuel flow or fuel limit.
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Sam Lowes wins his last Supersport race in Jerez, Spain,
The race at Jerez mark the final round of the BMW Motorrad factory in the Superbike World Championship.
BMW Motorrad Goldbet STK Team celebrating factory rider, Sylvain Barrier (FRA) winning the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup for the second year in succession.
Having taken third and eighth respectively in the dry session on Friday, Chaz Davies and Marco Melandri secured their place in Superpole.
Tight fight for the FIM World Superbike riders in France this weekend. Sam Lowes can wrap-up the World Supersport as he holds a 49-point advantage.
The squad and factory riders Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies return to Europe as the next races are already scheduled for this coming weekend.
After the weekend on American soil, Sykes is still the World Superbike Championship leader with a 23 point advantage over Laverty
Chaz Davies claimed second in first race of the US round of the 2013 FIM Superbike World Championship. His team-mate Marco Melandri missed the podium narrowly, finishing fourth.
The first race at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was shorten by 14 laps with two major crashes: Danny Eslick and Roger Hayden.
Sylvain Guintoli earned the World Superbike series Tissot-Superpole at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca event in California, USA
Marco Melandri (ITA) set a new best lap at the famous Californian racetrack and secured provisional pole-position with his BMW S 1000 RR
Friday qualifying at Mazda Race Laguna Seca for the World Superbike riders prepares the teams for the run for the pole tomorrow.
The FIM World Superbike riders are ready for action on the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
After a long break the famous "Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca" near Monterey hosts the 12th round of the 2013 FIM Superbike World Championship.
In the Manufacturers' classification, BMW is currently third with 354 points.
Laverty and Sofuoglu winners of the Turkish round.
Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies will start tomorrow's first ever Superbike races on Turkish soil from seventh and eighth on the third row respectively.
Chaz Davies finished seventh on the provisional third row.
Sylvain Guintoli leads the way in Qualifying 1 at the series new venue.
Turkey-bound for World Superbike Round 11
FIM Superbike World Championship makes its debut in Turkey.
Chaz Davies won the second of Sunday's races and teammate Marco Melandri (ITA) finished second and third.
In the World Supersport race, Lowes has scored probably the most important win of the season so far.
Marco Melandri qualified second on the grid with his BMW S 1000 RR in Superpole qualifying, his team-mate Chaz Davies finished seventh.
Ducati rider Ayrton Badovini earned his first series Tissot-Superpole award in the FIM World Superbike Championship on the Nurburgring.
Davies grabs first position at the very end of first qualifying
Factory rider and local hero Chaz Davies (GBR) fought for the victory in race two but had to retire for a technical issue, Marco Melandri (ITA) crossed the line in ninth.
Loris Baz wins second race over fellow Frenchman Jules Cluzel at the Silverstone circuit with red flag on final lap due to heavy rain.
Rea wins Race 1, Laverty and Camier on the podium. In the World Supersport race, Sofuoglu wins over Lowes after thrilling finale.
Neither rider for the BMW team fared well during qualifying for the World Superbike event at Silverstone.
The second day of the World Superbike Championship round at Silverstone was an emotional one as the riders paid tribute to Andrea Antonelli before Eugene Laverty earned his first-ever Tissot-Superpole.
Marco Melandri finished eighth with his BMW S 1000 RR in today's first qualifying practice while Chaz Davies was 12th.
World Supersport Qualifying 1 took place today at Silverstone under dry track conditions and warm temperatures.
The FIM Superbike World Championship is back in action for the 9th round at Silverstone along with the World Supersport riders. It will be their first outing since the tragic death of Andrea Antonelli.
BMW Motorrad Motorsport announced last week that it will withdraw from the FIM Superbike World Championship at end of season.
BMW Motorrad team will terminate its commitment in the FIM Superbike World Championship


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Talk to a friend, family member or coworker about your decision to quit and ask them to support you in your effort.
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Quitting cold turkey can work for some people; however, many find it too difficult to stick with and have more success tapering off.
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NLD is not stable...
I've been trying NLD9 extensively in a pilot project, and personally I think this distro is a disaster. The product lacks a lot of packages which are really needed (pam_mount for example is a must if you want to connect your business users to their network shares, there's no (k)vpnc,...), also multimedia support is below par (xine was stripped from the open source WMA and WMV ffmpeg decoders, there's only MP3 support in RealPlayer, no usable multimedia plug-in for Firefox, like mplayerplug-in).
And worst of all, the product still contains a lot of visible bugs, even now at this moment, six months after its original release. To name a few: the use of dead keys hang KDE applications such as Konqueror, KDEs file chooser does not use the correct charset when your locale is ISO-8858-*, USB Mass Storage Devices with FAT partitions are mounted UTF-8, making all file names with special characters written in windows garbled and the file system case sensitive, i18n support is much worse than other distro's (with latest OOo security upgrade, even several languages which were only added in Novells SP1, were removed again), RealPlayer starts copying all files in your homedir to a temporary subdirectory if you start it from the KDE menu because of a bug in RealPlayers launch script,...
On several of these issues, support has confirmed that there is indeed a problem, but there are no bug fixes more than a month after my reports, neither do I have any news wether these bugs actually will be fixed.
I'll be looking to Centos in the future, at least it won't cost anything, and will also have years of updates. With KDE 3.3, it will also solve some of the small issues related to the older KDE 3.2 in NLD, and hopefully it will also be a bit less buggy in general.
I really have the feeling that Novell has rushed out this distro to become the first one before RHEL4 and MDK Corporate 3. I cannot understand why the reviewer has such a positive review about the distro.
This guy bounces from distro
This guy bounces from distro to distro and never remains consistent with what he thinks is the best disrto. I think he just likes to hear himself talk.
take-no-logic-ally I don't
take-no-logic-ally I don't know,
but it looks carefully hand-crafted..... elle est belle.
After 90 days, the my NLD system cannot even surf the net. May be my installation is not correctly down.
How can you possibly write a review of NLD without *once* even *mentioning* Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Mandrakelinux Corporate? This is a product competing in a clearly defined and easily covered marketplace, it wouldn't have taken much effort to make at least a small mention of its competition!
Mandrake is not an enterprise
Mandrake is not an enterprise desktop? Well, they themselves thinks otherwise, and this desktop has been deployed in France by the goverment / public services.
From mandrakesoft.com:
"Mandrakesoft brings to the enterprise its renowned expertise in Desktop Linux. Now, for Office productivity, Business of all sizes can rely on ease of use, streamlined and intuitively organized software package, as well as leading applications of their kind in every field."
Mandrake is not enterprise; b
Mandrake is not enterprise; but Ubuntu *Bongo bongo* linux sure is.
Linux Novell's Linux Desktop NLD
The site says that it is an evaluation version. updates and support expire after 90 days. how dumb. who is going to reinstall an OS and all the apps and find out about a security or stability problem in 91 days that can't be fixed. Doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
Evaluation version
If you buy a license, you'll get an activation key and can use that to continue the update service for a year. You don't have to reinstall.
Also it's a full version-- just with 90 days of free updates.
review vs. production
The reviewer's using the evaluation copy; a business will buy a support contract. They want somewhere to point fingers when a problem comes up. The functionality looks good here, when will the corporate market wise up? 90% of the workforce doesn't need a full Windows+Office build on their desk, why pay for it? Try it in some call-center setting where they're doing green-screen emulation anyway, or a browser-based app where the OS underneath isn't a consideration.
How dumb
I can see your point. But, the whole distro sells for something like $48 for a one year subscription. You can dual boot it - that's built in.
You can even keep it and find an alternate "free" update service - like http://packman.links2linux.de.
It's just an article and a review, why do people have to always vote on everything?
I doesn't cost you anything to read,
Try that and you'll not be du
Try that and you'll not be dumb! You dont need to reinstall the OS, PAY a litte! Help OSS community. Linux is not Free, how can we live forward? All Linux distros are the same, you should pay for support; or donate for us to continue improving linux! Fix it yourself if you want FREE same as other distros! I you have friends that will help you, buy them free BEER and say thanks! Well.. that's maybe another form of paying.
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Thursday, May 30 2013
Greenleaf Pottery: Classes in Wheel Thrown Pottery
Classes offer firsthand experience of the entire pottery-making cycle. Beginning emphasis is placed on working with one of the fifteen potter's wheels. Beginning as well as advanced students are welcome. Sets of eight week classes are offered Tuesday or Thursday evening 6 to 9 p.m., year-round. Sign up now to reserve your place.
Call or go to the website for more information. 860-528-6090, www.greenleafpottery.net
Health & Resource Fair - Community Diabetes Engagement
1st annual health and resource fair on Thursday, May 30, 2013, from 10 a.m.-7p.m.
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Meditation Series in Trumbull
Meditation series with Lenore Pranzo, guided imagery therapist. Learn to meditate through guided imagery, a skill which can be drawn upon whenever you need to relieve your stress and anxiety. Class is held at Fairfield County Integrative Family Medicine and Healing Therapies, Trumbull, CT. For more information call (203) 445-9060 or visit www.integrativefamilypracticect.com.
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Native Inspired Art - An Exhibit by Shepaug Valley Middle School and High School Students
Expressed in many ways, art was, and still is, an intricate part of Native American's daily lives from adornment, baskets, and pottery to other every day items. It is a form of conveying their individual cultural and spiritual identities. IAIS is pleased to partner with the Shepaug Middle and High School art Departments to present a unique exhibit of Native American inspired art. Multi-Media Performance educator Michael Rivera's high school students, after researching headdress styles from a variety of Native American gorups and cultures, will sculpt their own interpretations out of mixed media. Under the guidance of art educator Donna Wright, seventh grade students will study the different designs of Native American pottery to create and decorate coiled pots from their chosen cultural region. Included in regular museum admission.
Wesleyan Potters "Celebrations" Show
Gallery/Shop is featuring unique handcrafted gifts for spring and Wesleyan Potters "Celebrations" Show: May 8th – June 16th.
Come celebrate with us during regular gallery hours, at Wesleyan Potters Gallery/Shop, 350 S. Main St, Route 17, Middletown, CT!
Gallery Hours: Wed -Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10-4 and Sunday Noon-4
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Discover 19th Century Inventions at New Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum Exhibit
Victorian era gadgets, technologies and breakthroughs will be on display at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum beginning April 17th through October 6, 2013. What Is It? Technologies and Discoveries of the Victorian Era will engage student and adult audiences in the exploration of mid-to-late 19th century inventions and discoveries in many diverse areas including communication, transportation, manufacturing, medicine, food and recreation.
Visitors will view cutting-edge Victorian Era technology that were precursors of some of today's technologies, including telegraphs, dictaphones, gas lighting and early examples of telephones, burglar alarms, stock tickers and much more. They will discover items we still see today, from board games to food such as condensed milk and breakfast cocoa. Artifacts on display include loans from Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum and the Museum of American Finance, New York City, among others.
The What Is It? exhibit is curated by Raechel Guest. Guest is a Smith College graduate with a Master's Degree in Collection Management from the prestigious Winterthur Museum. Professor Steven Lubar, a history of technology expert, serves as a special advisor. Professor Lubar is Professor of the Departments of American Studies, History, and History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.
The exhibit is made possible thanks to a grant from the Connecticut Humanities (CTH), a non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities that funds, creates and collaborates on hundreds of cultural programs across Connecticut each year. CTH brings together people of all ages and backgrounds to express, share and explore ideas in thoughtful and productive ways. From local discussion groups to major exhibitions on important historical events, CTH programs engage, enlighten and educate. Learn more by visiting www.cthumanities.org.
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum's 2013 cultural and educational programs are made possible by generous funding from the LMMM Distinguished Benefactors: The Xerox Foundation, Klaff's, Mrs. Cynthia C. Brown and The Maurice Goodman Foundation. The Museum's Education Program is made possible in part by a generous donation from AT&T.
Tours for the museum and exhibit are offered Wednesdays through Sundays, at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.
Steam Punk: Nature and Machine At The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
Steampunk Art that has influenced everything from product design to fashion to fine art will be on display at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum's this spring. This design movement features a neo-vintage twist on 19th century industrialized looks and Victorian decorative motifs. Steampunk: Nature & Machine, will open on April 25th with a reception from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and runs until June 15th. This is the first exhibit dedicated to Steampunk art in Fairfield County.
According to IBM's "Social Sentiment Index", which measures what's trending on social networks and blogs, 2013 is set to be the year Steampunk surges as a mass-market aesthetic. The Museum's exhibit will feature art by renowned Steampunk artists, Bruce Rosenbaum, Leslie Mueller and Katie Shima and co-curated by Rosenbaum and Museum trustee Gail Ingis-Claus.
- Bruce Rosenbaum has been dubbed the Steampunk evangelist and guru by Wired Magazine. His artwork has been on exhibition consistently throughout the Northeastern United States, including the Charles River Museum of Industry, Wooster Street Social Club, The Mark Twain House and Shelburne Museum. Rosenbaum has collaborated with many well-known and emerging Steampunk artists and created the unofficial Steampunk artists guild Steampuffin. His design business and home, a retro-future refurbished house, have been featured in Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post, NPR and on MTV, A&E, Discovery and HGTV. Rosenbaum lives in Sharon, Massachusetts.
- Leslie Mueller is an award-winning art director and artist. She is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Asia, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Africa, Japan and Germany. Mueller's artwork has been published in House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Southern Living, Manhattan Arts Int'l and Art Business News magazines and is part of the United States "Art in the Embassies" program. Mueller began her studies at the age of thirteen at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. She is a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut.
- Katie Shima is an artist and architectural designer based in New York City. She has had exhibitions, installations, and performances at the Charles Bank Gallery, Bridge Gallery, Devotion Gallery, Clocktower Gallery, Barnard College, The Tank, SoHo 20, among others. Shima is a founding member of the electronic noise art group Loud Objects. Residencies with the Loud Objects include Art On Air in New York and Det Jyske Kunstakademi in Aarhus, Denmark. She is currently working as an architectural designer at Situ Studio. Shima received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College and a Master's in Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum's 2013 cultural and educational programs are made possible by generous funding from the LMMM Distinguished Benefactors: The Xerox Foundation, Klaff's, Mrs. Cynthia C. Brown and The Maurice Goodman Foundation. The Museum's Education Program is made possible in part by a generous donation from AT&T.
Tours for the museum and exhibit are offered Wednesdays through Sundays, at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.
Hear What's In The Heart - A Shoemaker's Tale
Middletown native and actor Steve Scionti will bring his one man show, Hear What's in the Heart: A Shoemaker's Tale to Middletown's Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater, for an extended engagement. The new draft of the play is co-written and directed by Tony Award-winner Anthony Crivello, who recently completed a run on Broadway of Clifford Odet's Golden Boy.
SHU Media Exchange
Join us as we welcome industry professionals, students, and the public to discuss the expansion of Connecticut's "Creative Corridor" as well as the growth of the industry in our state and the education and opportunities that come with that development.
A panel of industry professionals will address topics related to media and host a brief question and answer session for attendees. Following the forum, guests are invited to engage in inspiring conversation at a post-event reception.
Have your business cards ready and make sure to utilize this exclusive networking opportunity. Make industry contacts, find highly qualified job candidates and interns, or even meet potential future employers.
An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library: a performance by Andrew Beccone
An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library will feature Reanimation Library founder, Andrew Beccone, performing a set of short readings made up entirely of excerpts from the library's holdings. The readings are paired with projected images from Reanimation Library's image archive. Sequenced, unmediated fragments of found text and an accompanying stream of decontextualized images will provide a personalized, fractured, and incomplete portrait of the wide-ranging attitudes, ideologies, and visual systems contained within the collection. This free, public performance is in the casual, intimate environment of Franklin Street Works' upstairs gallery, Thursday, May 30 from 6:30 – 8:00pm.
Beccone's performance is one of eight exhibition programs Franklin Street Works organized for the art space's current group exhibition Strange Invitation, which includes a Reanimation Library branch featuring dozens of locally sourced books and artworks by Brooklyn based artist Pradeep Dalal. The performance takes place in the Reanimation Library FSW branch (upstairs gallery) and lends a first-hand, experiential perspective on the library's role as a generative source for making new artworks from the collection.
According to Beccone, these performances provide a platform to focus on texts found in the library's collection, explaining, "I started doing readings from texts found in the library because I've become increasingly interested in and engaged with the language in the collection. A lot of the information in the library is very dry, and unlikely to have ever been read aloud. Most of it was not intended to be, but I have started unearthing small fragments - from a sentence to a few paragraphs - that strike me as particularly unusual. The Incomplete Portrait is a kind of way to let the library speak for itself."
Eastern Connecticut Symphony January Concert
The Eastern Connecticut Symphony concert series begins the New Year on Saturday, January 11, 2014, at 8 PM at the


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2014 Toyota Corolla Review and Prices
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The 2014 Toyota Corolla is the best car for you if you want the all-new version of a dependable compact sedan trying to shed its image as unexciting basic transportation.
The 2014 Corolla kicks off the 11th design generation of one of the world's best-selling cars. Toyota says the redesign aims to "challenge the preconceptions about Corolla." It starts with a major increase in wheelbase and continues with bolder styling that incorporates the first use of advanced LED headlamps as standard equipment in the compact class. Interior materials are upgraded. The engine remains a modest four-cylinder, but to improve fuel economy, most 2014 Corolla models get a continuously variable transmission CVT) in lieu of a conventional automatic. And added to the line is an Eco edition that rates 42 mpg in highway driving with the CVT, tops among cars that aren't hybrids or electrics.
Should you buy a 2014 Toyota Corolla or wait for the 2015 Toyota Corolla? Little reason to wait: the 2014 Corolla introduces the design and major equipment that'll carry this car for several years. The 2015 Corolla's styling and powertrains won't change, and Toyota is highly unlikely to alter more than a color choice or perhaps shuffle a feature or two among trim levels. It is quite likely, however, to charge more for the 2015 Corolla.
2014 Toyota Corolla Changes back to top
Styling: Styling of the 2014 Toyota Corolla is radically different, if not totally original. Chiseled sheetmetal replaces blandly rounded forms. But the stretched-back headlamps, exaggerated grille opening, blistered fenders, elevated beltline, and tall tail are elements found on any number of competing compact sedans.
More significant is the longer wheelbase – the distance between the front and rear axles. It's 3.9 inches longer than on the 2009-2013-generation Corolla. But the new car's body length grows just 2.6 inches. The result is less sheetmetal "overhang" front and rear and proportions that are more athletic, though not quite as sporty as those of rivals like the Ford Focus and Mazda 3.
At 106.3 inches, however, the 2014 Corolla's wheelbase is the second longest in the class, exceed by that of the Dodge Dart by just a fraction of an inch. That change increases rear legroom a substantial 5.1 inches, correcting a deficiency of the outgoing Corolla. Rear-passenger accommodations benefit further from a flatter floor, thinner front seatbacks, and thicker seat padding.
The new styling brings a lower roofline that decreases headroom, by a half inch in the front seat at .8 inches in the rear. But overall, this is among the roomiest passenger compartments in the class.
A new dashboard is part of the 2014 redesign. It stresses a horizontal arrangement of the central "stack" of audio and climate controls. Retained are simple, round main gauges ringed in chrome-like plastic but trendy piano-black and metallic-look plastic trim is employed. And a central screen to serve the available navigation system and other features is incorporated. Improved sound deadening reduces intrusion from road, wind, and mechanical noise.
The 2014 Corolla lineup returns a base version called the L, a volume-selling midline trim called LE, and a sporty-flavored model called the S. Added for 2014 is the fuel-economy-tuned LE Eco model. It answers gas-sipping editions of rivals such as the Chevrolet Cruze Eco and Ford Focus SE SFE (Super Fuel Economy). Also added are Plus and Premium trims for all but the L model.
All 2014 Corollas have color-keyed door handles and outside mirrors. The Corolla S is visually distinguished by a more aggressive blackout grille treatment, a color-keyed rear spoiler. It comes with 16-inch steel wheels with wheel covers but is available with unique 17-inch alloys in combination with upgraded suspension tuning. The S also replaces the other models' three-gauge main instrument cluster with a tachometer and speedometer flanking a 3.5-inch information-display screen.
LE models have 16-inch wheels in a choice of aluminum or steel with wheel covers. The 2014 Corolla LE Eco shares with the S the color-keyed spoiler as well as strategically placed underbody panels designed to improve airflow and reduce fuel consumption. Eco Plus and Premium versions get a chrome strip along the exterior window sills. Eco versions have low-rolling-resistance tires on 15-inch wheels or available 16-inch aerodynamic alloy wheels.
Mechanical: Although much of the engineering is fresh, the 2014 Corolla remains very conventional mechanically. There's no hybrid, as in the competing Honda Civic or Volkswagen Jetta, and no all-electric model, like the Focus Electric. The Cruze and Jetta also offer diesel engines, while the Subaru Impreza has standard all-wheel drive.
The 2014 Corolla retains front-wheel drive, matching most cars in this class. It also reprises a torsion-beam rear axle, a less costly but less sophisticated alternative to the independent rear suspension found on such competitors as the Focus, Civic, Hyundai Elantra, and Jetta. The 2014 Corolla S model is available with four-wheel disc brakes but other Corolla grades retain rear drum brakes.
L, LE, and S versions of the 2014 Corolla reprise a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine with output unchanged at 132 horsepower and 128 pound-feet of torque (think of torque as the ingredient that gets a vehicle moving, horsepower as the force that keeps it moving).
Test drives were unavailable in time for this review, but 132 horsepower and 128 pound-feet of torque is slightly below the norm for base four-cylinders in the class, suggesting Corolla won't break out of its standing as one of the slower-accelerating compacts.
The 2014 Corolla LE Eco also has a 1.8-liter four, but it's equipped with special valvetrain technology Toyota calls Valvematic. The automaker says Valematic contributes to a 5-percent improvement in fuel economy, as well as a slight increase in horsepower. Output for the LE Eco is 140 horsepower and 126 pound-feet of torque.
The 2014 Corolla LE, S, and Eco models are equipped with a continuously variable transmission (CVT), leaving behind last year's conventional four-speed automatic. The L and S grades also offer a six-speed manual transmission, with the L again available with the four-speed automatic.
The Impreza and Nissan Sentra also use CVTs, which do the work of an automatic transmission but with an internal belt-and-pulley arrangement rather than a set of defined gear ratios. The intent is to more precisely match engine speed to acceleration and thereby cut fuel consumption. CVTs, by their nature, often allow engines to rev to a high speed while actual vehicle speed catches up, resulting in exaggerated engine noise and, in certain circumstances, lazy throttle response.
Toyota says Corolla's CVT is designed to counteract these faults by simulating seven "gears," or shift points, during acceleration. It calls its transmission the CVTi-S (i for intelligent, S for shift), and equips the Corolla S model with steering-wheel paddles for added gear-ratio control. The Corolla Eco models have an "Eco mode" control that maximizes fuel economy by remapping throttle and shift programs.
The S model also gets a "Sport" CVT mode that sharpens "shift" points and firms up the car's electric power-steering response. Eco models have an "Eco" CVT mode designed to reduce fuel consumption by leavening throttle inputs and dialing back the air-conditioning system
Corolla has traditionally been among the softest-riding compact cars – and among the least-sporty to drive. Toyota says the 2014 model's structure is stiffer than its precedessor's, allowing improved suspension tuning for a "more engaging, better handling" car. It does stress Corolla is still optimized for ride comfort while noting the S model's suspension tuning is intended to impart more responsive driving characteristics.
Features: The 2014 Corolla roster of features is competitive but far from class-leading, omitting leather upholstery and such safety adjuncts as blind-spot monitoring and gee-whiz technology like self-parking available on selected rivals.
But the new Corolla does offer as standard or optional the amenities most compact buyers actually expect, including Bluetooth wireless connectivity, rearview camera, and a navigation system.
The 2014 Corolla can claim bragging rights as first-in-class with LED (light-emitting diode) lowbeam headlamps as standard equipment. Teamed with LED daytime running lights, every 2014 Corolla has them. Typically associated with premium-class cars, LED lighting is clearer and cooler than conventional lighting systems – even xenon systems -- and also consumes far less energy, which automakers regard as a fuel-saving advantage.
Other features standard on all 2014 Corollas include a 60/40 split fold-down rear seat, power door locks with automatic-locking, power windows with driver's-side one-touch up/down, and air conditioning with pollen filter.
Increasing numbers of compact cars are available with leather upholstery, but Toyota offers the 2014 Corolla with fabric upholstery or, depending on model, its "SofTex" material. SofTex is a synthetic covering with some of the suppleness and durability of leather but at less cost. Some Corolla models will come with a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
Other available 2014 Corolla features include Toyota's Smart Key System with pushbutton ignition and remote locking/unlocking on front doors and trunk. Automatic climate control with pollen filter, a tilt/telescopic three-spoke steering wheel with audio controls, and SofTex-trimmed heated front seats also are available.
Navigation is available in conjunction with Toyota's Display Audio with Navigation and Entune system. Entune links with smartphone-accessed Web applications to enable Internet radio and various information and entertainment services.
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Base-price range for the 2014 Toyota Corolla is $17,610-$22,100. This range keeps 2014 Corolla in the heart of the compact-class market. Some competitors offer slightly less expense entry-level models, but the top-line 2014 Corolla will remain well below the near-$30,000 level of the top gas-powered Focus and Jetta models.
(Estimated base prices in this review include the manufacturer's mandatory destination fee. Toyota's fee for factory-distributed 2014 Corollas is $810. Toyotas in some Southeastern and Gulf states are distributed independently and may carry different destination charges.)
Base price for the 2014 Toyota Corolla L is $17,610 with manual transmission and $18,210 with the four-speed automatic.
The best selling 2014 Corolla model will again be the LE version and its 2014 base price is $19,110, including the CVT. To the L model, the LE adds as standard equipment a rearview backup monitor, automatic climate control, cruise control, keyless remote locks, and Entune audio with the 6.1-inch screen.
Toyota has grouped popular options to create two new trim levels for the LE and S lines. They're called Plus and Premium. Within the LE grade, the LE Plus includes 16-inch alloy wheels and fog lamps and is priced at $19,510. The LE Premium adds to that the Softex upholstery and is priced at $21,210.
The 2014 Corolla S adds to the LE models the unique exterior and interior trim, including the sports seats. Base price for the 2014 Corolla S is $19,810, including the CVT. Toyota pegs the S Plus as the version available with the six-speed manual transmission and prices it at $22,110. It treats the manual-transmission S Plus as a single-configuration model and includes the 17-inch alloys, a power moonroof, Entune Premium Audio with navigation, and pushbutton ignition.
The 2014 Corolla S Plus with the CVT is priced from $20,510. Both S Plus versions add the 17-inch alloy wheels and rear disc brakes. At $21,210, the S Premium has the CVT and adds Softex .
Base price for the 2014 Corolla LE Eco is $19,510. It includes the high-fuel-economy engine and CVT tuning, plus the aerodynamic tweaks. At $20,210, the LE Eco Plus has the 16 inch aero alloys, fog lights, and the exterior chrome strip. To that, the LE Eco Premium adds Softex and a base price of $20,910.
The 2014 Corolla L and is not available with options, but key extra-cost items for the other Corolla models include the power moonroof, at $850. Corollas equipped with the moonroof are eligible for the Driver's Convenience Package. Priced at $1,510, the package consists primarily of the Entune Premium Audio with navigation. This encompasses a stereo-system upgrade and a USB port.
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EPA fuel-economy ratings for the 2014 Toyota Corolla remain among the best in the class, though that's evidence in part of Toyota's conservative approach to horsepower and acceleration for its compact sedan.
The 2014 Corolla L and S models with the six-speed manual transmission rate 28/37/31 mpg city/highway/combined. With the four-speed automatic transmission, the 2014 Corolla L rates 27/36/31 mpg.
Equipped with the CVT, 2014 Corolla L, LE, and S models rate 29/38/32 mpg. The highway rating drops to 37 mpg on S Plus and S Premium models with the CVT, a decrease Toyota attributes to the heaver, larger 17-inch alloy wheels.
The 2014 Corolla LE Eco also carries two fuel-economy ratings, depending on wheels and tires. In standard configuration, with low-rolling-resistance 15-inch tires on steel wheels, it rates 30/42/35 mpg city/highway/combined. The Eco Plus and Premium editions have 16-inch alloys wheels and rate a still-impressive 30/40/34 mpg.
By comparison, the 2013 Corolla came with a five-speed manual transmission or a four-speed automatic. With the manual it rated 27/34/30 mpg city/highway/combined and with the automatic, 26/34/29.
2014 Toyota Corolla Release Date back to top
The 2014 Toyota Corolla went on sale in late August, 2013.
What's next for the 2014 Toyota Corolla back to top
With the 2014 redesign, Toyota keeps Corolla relevant yet conventional enough to satisfy buyers seeking good basic transportation, not automotive adventure. The formula should maintain the 2014 Corolla as one of America's most popular cars and second to the Honda Civic in compact-class sales.
A future gas-electric hybrid version is possible, although Toyota's clearest focus on alternative-powertrain vehicles lies with the Prius. That's the most identifiable and best selling hybrid in the world and Toyota has expanded its lineup to include a plug-in hybrid, the Prius v station wagon, and the downsized Prius c four-door.
Note that while Corolla enters its 11th design generation exclusively as a four-door sedan, a related wagon continues as the Toyota Matrix. The current Matrix shares the 10th-generation Corolla's chassis but uses a different, taller wagon body and is available with all-wheel drive. The Matrix has not been a big seller and its future is dim. Toyota likely will retire it within a few years of the 11th-generation Corolla's launch.
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Chevrolet Cruze: Among Corolla's newer competitors, Cruze most closely follows the Toyota's path of less-than-flamboyant styling and conservative driving manners. That's been its ticket to strong sales and should continue for model-year 2014. Joining returning four-cylinder gas engines during model-year 2013 was a turbodiesel four with 151 horsepower and a robust 264 pound-feet of torque. It rated 27/46/33 mpg city/highway combined, but started at $25,695. Most 2014 Cruze models should again come with a gas engine of about 138 horsepower but a choice of 148 or 125 pound-feet of torque. Fuel-economy ratings should again range from 22/35/27 mpg with automatic transmission to a high of 28/42/33 for the manual-transmission Eco model. Estimated base-price range for non-diesel 2014 Cruzes is $18,500-$22,300.
Honda Civic: Critics assailed Honda's redesigned 2012 Civic for its cheap-feeling interior and failure to stay at the front of the class for styling or powertrain. Honda's remarkably rapid response was a 2013 Civic with revised styling and an upgraded cabin – but no powertrain changes. The 2014 Civic should again offer plenty to like, including a comfortable and extremely spacious cabin, refined driving manners, and Honda's strong reputation for reliability and resale value. Civic's most relevant Corolla competitor will be its mainstream sedan, which should return for model-year 2014 with around 140 horsepower, 128 pound-feet of torque, and ratings of 28/39/32 mpg with automatic transmission (29/41/33 for the extra-economical HF model). A 2014 Civic highlight will again be the gas-electric hybrid sedan, which should rate 44/44/44 mpg, but start at a relatively pricey $25,000.
Hyundai Elantra: This sedan from the ambitious South Korean carmaker became a sort a compact-class game-changer upon its model-year 2011 redesign. Hyundai proved small-car shoppers would be turned on by a sexy body, aggressive pricing, and generous standard equipment. Two-door coupe and four-door hatchback body styles are available, but the sedan is Corolla's most direct Elantra competitor. It should again rate around 28/38/32 mpg, regardless of transmission or trim level. Those attributes tend to mask Elantra's prosaic road manners and middling acceleration, but that doesn't stop it from running third in the compact-class sales race. The 2014 Elantra could get some styling tweaks and a few new features, but Hyundai won't alter its basic look or the dimensions that give it a fairly roomy interior.


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Ear clasps broke and retention strip keeps detaching from helmet. Shoddy.
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Great helmet for racing
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
The Giro Air Attack is more popular, I see that helmet everywhere, and the aero Specialized Evade can be had at any local bike shop. But those helmets have really polarizing looks and ventilation on steep gradients can be an issue (particularly for the Giro).
The Course helmet, like the Evade and Air Attack, is designed as an aero helmet suitable for road racing. It just doesn't look it, which isn't a bad thing--the Course looks rather like a compact regular road helmet but with an unusual vent scheme. Where most aero helmets present a smooth surface to the wind to limit drag, the Course is designed to simply let air straight through. So superior ventilation is what makes the helmet aero. Exactly how many watts you'll save at race speed I cannot say. But the wind noise is definitely less, suggesting that the helmet is producing less drag meaning that more of your energy is pushing you forward. Or, put another way, Garneau has come across a clever solution to helmet aerodynamics that is unique and seems to really work.
To be clear, an aero helmet won't guarantee that you'll be a winner in a race or dramatically increase your speed. If you're a commuter who simply wants to get somewhere fast, this kind of helmet won't increase your speed enough to justify the cost. Speed is dependent on too many factors, though aerodynamics is an important part of how fast you can go. But if you're in a race in a breakaway and putting out 250 watts, if a helmet reduces drag by 10 watts then it'll take someone chasing you 260 watts just to keep you from riding away. To catch you, chasers will have to work harder still. That's where all the aero stuff really comes into its own--it pushes your competitors closer to their limits and wears them out just a bit sooner. The difference in speed may seem negligible, but people will feel the difference in effort. If you race, there really aren't any disadvantages to this helmet--looks, weight, ventilation, or aerodynamics.
Travis Woodruff
comfy, well vented, & understated looks.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This helmet fits great and stays put. The frontal vents do an excellent job of pulling in plenty of airflow to keep things cool. Also, in an era of loud, obnoxious looking helmets, I really like the simple and clean design, especially with the white color option. It's tail has a more rounded profile which ought to help in the aero department when you've got your head down, suffering like a dog (and the tail of the helmet up) in the winds. Though it's noted to be recommend for road usage, it's equally well suited for XC mountain bike application.
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holds your glasses well, too.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Fits my head, straps feel minimalistic, retention dial is easy to find, and my sunglasses go easily into the vents as long as I flip them upside down (which is the best way to do it, anyway, so the lenses don't hang down into your field of vision).
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Team Europcar the Course helmet at the Tour Down Under in 100 degree heat!!
Great aero helmet
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used this helmet in 90 degree days and it cools as well as a Giro Aeron but is much quieter. If less wind noise means smoother air flow, it must be doing the job aerodynamically but I have no way to measure this directly. It fits great and the light on the back is reassuring in the evening.
Comfy helmet that's aero ?
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I really like this helmet. Apparently it is quite aero for a road helmet (I have no way of testing that myself), but it vents well and is more than sufficiently adjustable. I'm not sure what else I would expect from a helmet. :)


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Twigs & Trees with Rhonda: What Page in the Census?
Finding your ancestor in the census pages can sometimes test the most patient of genealogists. The biggest hurdle is generally what page number they were referring to. You will see how this can easily become a little more difficult than you could have imagined. |
The Later Years
For the 1880, 1900 and 1920 soundex, it is usually pretty straight forward to find your ancestors. The cards used to extract the information asked for volume, E.D., sheet and line numbers. The volume number is the least important of these four numbers. The E.D. is generally the most important, as the counties were divided into enumeration districts (E.D.) and larger cities could even possibly have 10-15 EDs of their own. The sheet number actually has a sheet A and B. You can usually tell which it will be by seeing what the line number is. Line numbers 1-50 will be found on the A sheet, and line numbers 51-100 will be found on the B sheet.
Of course, just because you have now figured out how to locate folks using these soundex cards, the 1910 uses a completely different system. First a word about the 1910 Miracode. This is a computer printout as opposed to the hand written cards found in the 1880, 1900 and 1920 soundex cards. And to challenge you a little further, unlike the hand written cards, the miracode cards have no headings. So you really need to know what the various columns are for. As far as the clues to locating your ancestor in the actual census page, there are three numbers along the top of each miracode entry. The first is the volume number, followed by the ED number, and then the visitation number. The visitation number is found to the right of the names of the individuals enumerated on the actual census pages. So, once you locate the correct Enumeration District, you would then scan the visitation column until you come to the appropriate number, and that should be your ancestor.
The Early Years
The hardest indexes to pin down your ancestor with are the printed book ones or the CD-ROM ones. The reason these are so difficult is that there were a number of different page numbers on the earlier census records. The 1790-1870 censuses often had page numbers for each specific town, and then a hand written page number done in some black crayon. And just to make it even more interesting, there was often a stamped number as well. Some indexers would use the black crayon number. Others would use the stamped number.
So when you are using the printed or CD-ROM census indexes, you will want to see what numbers seem to make the most sense. One note of caution about the stamped numbers, they were often the page number for two pages. So if you locate the correct stamped page and your ancestor does not appear to be listed, be sure to look at the following page before assuming that the individual is not there.
In Conclusion
Indexes to the U.S. federal census records are a mainstay to our research. They are not without their problems though. You will want to be on the alert for the possibility of multiple pages numbers. There may be times when the only approach is a line-by-line search.
Rhonda R. McClure is a professional genealogist specializing in celebrity trees and computerized genealogy. She has been involved in online genealogy for fifteen years. She is the author of the award-winning The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy, now in its second edition. She is the author of four how-to guides on Family Tree Maker. In late 2001, she wrote The Genealogist's Computer Companion. She is a contributing editor to Biography Magazine with her "Celebrity Roots" column and a contributing writer to The History Channel Magazine. Her latest book is Finding Your Famous and Infamous Ancestors. She may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com | | | Help | | | About Us | | | Terms of Service | | | PRIVACY |


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Topic Overview
What is scabies?
Scabies is a condition of very itchy skin caused by tiny mites that burrow into your skin. See a picture of scabies.
Scabies can affect people of all ages and from all incomes and social levels. Even people who keep themselves very clean can get scabies.
How is scabies spread?
Scabies mites spread by close contact with someone who has scabies. Scabies can also be spread by sharing towels, bed sheets, and other personal belongings.
Scabies often affects several family members at the same time. You can spread it to another person before you have symptoms.
What are the symptoms?
Scabies causes severe itching that is usually worse at night. Small children and older adults tend to have the worst itching. Children typically have worse skin reactions.
If this is the first time you have had scabies, it may be several weeks before you have itching and skin sores. But if you have had it before, symptoms will probably start in a few days.
How is scabies diagnosed?
A doctor will suspect scabies based on your symptoms. Scabies is especially likely if you have had close contact with other people who have had similar symptoms.
Sometimes a doctor confirms a diagnosis by looking for signs of mites on a sample of your skin. The doctor gently scrapes some dry skin from an affected area and then looks at it under a microscope. This test is not painful for most people.
How is it treated?
Scabies will not go away on its own. You need to use a special cream or lotion that a doctor prescribes. In severe cases, your doctor may also give you pills to take.
Some scabies medicines are not safe for children, older adults, and women who are pregnant or breast-feeding. To avoid dangerous side effects, be sure to follow your doctor's instructions carefully.
If you have scabies, you and anyone you have close contact with must all be treated at the same time. This keeps the mites from being passed back and forth from person to person. You must also carefully wash all clothes, towels, and bedding.
After treatment, the itching usually lasts another 2 to 4 weeks. It will take your body that long to get over the allergic reaction caused by the mites. If you still have symptoms after 4 weeks, you may need another treatment.
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Scabies is caused by the miteSarcoptes scabiei. Scabies mites are attracted to the warmth and smell of humans. Female mites burrow into the skin, creating small, threadlike tunnels that you can sometimes see. The mites lay eggs and leave feces in these tunnels.
How scabies is spread1
- Scabies usually is spread by close, intimate contact, such as sleeping in the same bed with or touching someone who has scabies. The scabies mite cannot fly or jump, and it moves very slowly.
- Scabies mites can live up to 36 hours without a human host. During this time, the mites may spread to other people. Mites usually spread through skin-to-skin contact. But they can also spread from contact with clothing, bed linens, and other household and personal items.
- A mite burrows very quickly under the skin, especially in areas where it is rough or wrinkled, such as the elbows, knuckles, and knees. Touching or scratching an area that is infested with mites can spread them to other parts of the body.
- After burrowing under the skin, a female mite lays 10 to 25 eggs before she dies. The eggs hatch into larvae 2 to 3 days later. These larvae move to the skin's surface and become adults within about 14 to 17 days. This cycle continues until the mites are killed.
The scabies mite that infests humans does not live on dogs or other pets. And animal-transmitted scabies mites do not survive or reproduce on humans. But they can live long enough on humans to cause itchy hives or raised bumps that last a few days.
Contagious and incubation periods
Scabies is contagious. If you have scabies, you can spread mites to other people before and after you have symptoms, for as long as you remain infested and untreated. After your first infestation, several weeks may pass before you have symptoms. You are contagious during this time, which is known as the incubation period.
If you ever become infested with mites again, it will likely take only 2 or 3 days for you to notice symptoms.
If you have scabies, you will likely have itching and irritated skin that gets worse until the mites are killed.
- Itching usually starts first. It often becomes noticeable at night or after bathing and is sometimes mistaken for dry skin. Itching is caused by an allergic reaction to the scabies mite. Sometimes the itching is very intense, especially in small children and older adults.
- Irritated skin often appears as a rash and skin sores that look like tiny curving tracks. These symptoms are a result of the mite tunneling under the upper layers of the skin. Sometimes you can see a small blister or the mite itself, which looks like a tiny black dot, at the end of a burrow. The tracks may be difficult to see after you scratch the area. Babies may only have red and inflamed skin, sometimes with small sores that are like blisters.
Symptoms are most likely to develop:
- Between the fingers and on the palm side of the wrists.
- On the outside surfaces of the elbows and in the armpits.
- Around the waistline and navel.
- On the buttocks.
- Around the nipples, bra line, and the sides of the breasts (in women).
- On the genitals (in men).
In babies and small children, itching and skin irritation may also occur:
- Around or on the scalp, neck, and face.
- On the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Often the first symptom noticed in a baby is in these areas and is a series of tiny sores that are like blisters (vesicles).
Other problems
Skin sores, called secondary lesions, can develop later in the course of the condition. Problems may include:
- Scratches, sometimes covered by a crust. Scratching the scabies burrows can irritate and break open the skin.
- Red, dry, scaly, irritated areas of skin.
- Nodular scabies. These are small reddish brown raised areas (nodules). The nodules may develop in covered areas such as the armpits, groin, buttocks, scrotum, and penis. The nodules itch and may persist for weeks or months after scabies has been cured.
Babies and older adults are especially at risk for these lesions because they may not be treated right away. Early symptoms in babies and older adults are more likely to be missed or mistaken for another condition.
What Happens
First-time infestation
The first time you are infested with the scabies mite, itching may not begin for several weeks. During this time, you are contagious but may not know that you are carrying scabies mites.
In the first few weeks of scabies infestation, the body develops sensitivity to the mites, their eggs, and their feces. After your body has become sensitized, an allergic reaction is triggered, causing itching. With treatment, the scabies mites die and the itching gradually goes away over a period of days to weeks. Usually a doctor will tell you it is safe for your child to return to school after treatment is completed and the medicine has been washed from the skin. Treatment takes 1 to 3 days depending on the medicine used.
If all of the scabies eggs are not killed by the first treatment, they may hatch and cause symptoms again. Without treatment, the mites reproduce and cause more sores and more itching. Scabies will not go away on its own. Only animal-transmitted scabies will go away without treatment.
Repeat infestation
If you have had scabies and are infested with the mites again, itching will begin almost immediately. The allergic sensitivity developed during the previous exposure triggers an immediate reaction to the mites. Treatment is usually required to kill the mites and eggs. In rare cases, a person's allergic reaction will kill the scabies.
The most common complication of scabies is a bacterial skin infection, such as impetigo. This most often occurs when the skin has been scratched raw. Hair follicles may also become infected (folliculitis). Antibiotics may be needed to treat a bacterial skin infection.
The skin can become thick, red, and scaly or shiny from persistent scratching.
In rare cases, crusted (Norwegian) scabies, a severe form of scabies, develops. Usually, this type of scabies is most common in people who have weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV. People with crusted scabies may have extreme infestations with tens of thousands of mite. In otherwise healthy people, an infestation is usually limited to about 10 or 15 mites.2
What Increases Your Risk
The following groups of people are at higher risk of exposure to scabies mites:
- Sexually active young adults. Close skin-to-skin contact (not specifically sexual intercourse) makes transmission of the scabies mites more likely.
- People who live or work in institutions such as nursing homes, homes for the developmentally disabled, and prisons.
- People who live in crowded conditions.
- Children from developing countries.
People who have weakened immune systems, such as from HIV, and those who are unable to communicate about their physical symptoms are at risk for developing severe, difficult-to-treat cases of scabies, particularly crusted (Norwegian) scabies.
When To Call a Doctor
Call your doctor if:
- Family members suddenly develop severe nighttime itching that does not go away in 3 to 4 days.
- You develop serious side effects from any product used to treat scabies.
- Itching lasts longer than 4 weeks after treatment. (After successful treatment, itching will usually last for 2 to 4 weeks as a result of the allergic reaction to previous mite bites.)
- You have signs of a skin infection. These may include:
- Increased pain, swelling, heat, redness, or tenderness.
- Red streaks extending away from the affected area.
- Continued discharge of pus.
- Fever of 100°F (37.8°C) or higher with no other cause.
Watchful Waiting
Do not wait more than 3 to 4 days to seek medical help if you think you have scabies. The infestation and symptoms will not go away without treatment. The longer you wait to seek care, the more likely you are to spread the mites to other people.
If you are sure that a case of scabies is related to a similar condition spread by animals (sarcoptic mange), it may be appropriate to wait as long as a week. The mites that cause this type of scabies cannot live on human skin for more than a few days, so the human infestation should go away on its own without treatment. The animal, though, must be treated by a veterinarian.
Who To See
The following health professionals can diagnose and treat scabies:
- Local health department staff
- Family medicine doctor or internist
- Nurse practitioner
- Physician assistant
- Pediatrician
- Dermatologist
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
Exams and Tests
Usually, your doctor can diagnose scabies if you have:
- Severe itching, especially at night.
- A rash, sometimes with skin sores. These may look like tiny curving tracks. Sometimes you may have a small blister or see a tiny black dot at one end of the track. In babies, the tracks may look more like red and inflamed skin, sometimes with small sores that are like blisters. Your doctor will check your skin for redness, sores, scratches, raw areas, or scabs that are typical of scabies infestation.
- Other family members or people you are physically close with who are also itching or who have recently been diagnosed with scabies.
Sometimes you may need one of the following tests to confirm the diagnosis:
- Skin scrapings. Your doctor collects material from the itchy area by applying a drop of mineral oil or other liquid to the skin and then scraping the area with a scalpel. He or she then examines the scrapings under a microscope to look for scabies mites, eggs, egg casings, or feces. This is the most common test used to diagnose scabies.
- Needle extraction of the mite. The doctor may use a needle to remove a mite from the burrow. The mite is placed on a slide and examined under a microscope.
- Ink test or ink burrow test. Your doctor strokes a washable felt-tip pen across the itchy areas. The surface ink is wiped off with water or an alcohol swab. Any burrows present will absorb the ink and be seen as a dark line.
- Skin biopsy/punch biopsy. A skin sample (punch biopsy or shave biopsy) may be helpful in diagnosing difficult-to-diagnose conditions. Skin biopsy is rarely used.
Treatment Overview
If you suspect that you have scabies, see your doctor as soon as possible for treatment. Delaying treatment increases the risk that the scabies mites will spread to other people. Scabies will not go away on its own.
- Scabies can only be cured with prescription creams, lotions, or pills. Nonprescription medicines are not strong enough to kill the mites.
- Most creams or lotions are applied to the entire body from the neck down. On infants, the medicine is also applied to the scalp, face, and neck, taking care to avoid the area around the mouth and eyes. The medicine usually is left on for 8 to 14 hours and then washed off.
- Children can usually return to day care or school after treatment is completed and the medicine has been washed off. Treatment takes 1 to 3 days depending on the medicine used.
- In some cases, the doctor may prescribe ivermectin pills to treat the scabies.
- Your doctor may recommend that you be examined 2 weeks and 4 weeks after completing treatment, to ensure that the scabies has cleared up.
- Persistent nodular scabies may be treated with injections of steroids into the nodules. In rare cases, coal tar products are applied to the nodules.
You will likely continue to itch for days to weeks after the mites are killed. This itching is caused by an ongoing allergic reaction to the mite bites. Your doctor may recommend antihistamines (such as Benadryl), steroid creams, and, in severe cases, steroid pills to help relieve itching. The allergic reaction will usually disappear gradually.
Who else should be treated?
Anyone who has had close physical contact with a person who is infested with scabies should be treated. This may include several members of the same household, including anyone who has prolonged skin-to-skin contact (sleeping, bathing, or holding hands) with the infected person.
Not having close skin-to-skin contact with someone who has scabies or with their personal items (such as clothes, towels, and brushes) will help you avoid getting scabies. People who have scabies are encouraged to use care to prevent spreading the mites to others.
Home Treatment
All people in the household who have had close skin-to-skin contact with a scabies-affected person during the past month must be treated. This usually includes everyone in the home, even if they don't have symptoms. (Symptoms can take 4 to 6 weeks to develop after a person is infested.)
It is important to treat the bedding and clothing of the affected person to destroy any live scabies mites as soon as prescription treatment begins.
Nonprescription medicine for scabies mites
There is no over-the-counter medicine that can cure a scabies infestation. Over-the-counter lice medicines are not strong enough to kill scabies mites. If you think you have scabies, do not use nonprescription products before seeing your doctor, because doing so could make it hard to diagnose your condition.
Nonprescription medicine for itching
You can use one of the following over-the-counter medicines to help relieve itching from scabies:
- Oral antihistamines (such as Benadryl). These medicines will not interfere with the diagnosis or treatment of scabies. Don't give antihistamines to your child unless you've checked with the doctor first.
- Corticosteroid creams (such as hydrocortisone cream). This type of medicine may make the scabies sores look different and make it harder for your doctor to diagnose the problem. Only use this medicine after your doctor has seen and diagnosed your condition.
Prescription permethrin (Elimite) cream or lotion is the most commonly used medicine to treat scabies. Unlike the more toxic lindane, permethrin is considered safe for infants as young as 2 months old.
- Only permethrin, crotamiton, and sulfur ointment are considered safe for treating children younger than age 2.
- Lindane is sometimes used as a secondary treatment for a defined group of people. It must only be used as a single application exactly as directed. Lindane is not recommended for babies, older adults, anyone who weighs less than 110 lb (49.9 kg), or people who have a weakened immune system.3 Lindane should also not be used for people who have widespread dermatitis or women who are pregnant or breast-feeding.4 Lindane shampoo and lotion are not available in California for treating lice or scabies.5
- In some cases, the doctor may prescribe ivermectin pills to treat scabies.
- Crusted (Norwegian) scabies (rare) often requires multiple treatments, sometimes with more than one medicine.
- Steroid creams, antihistamines (such as Benadryl), and, in severe cases, steroid pills can be used to relieve itching. But they do not kill scabies mites. Don't give antihistamines to your child unless you've checked with the doctor first.
- Persistent nodular scabies may be treated with injections of steroids into the nodules or (rarely) with coal tar products applied to the skin.
Most creams or lotions are applied to the entire body from the neck down. On infants, the medicine is also applied to the scalp, face, and neck, taking care to avoid the area around the mouth and eyes. The medicine usually is left on for 8 to 14 hours and then washed off.
Nonprescription medicines are not strong enough to kill the scabies mites.
Medication Choices
Prescription medicines used to treat scabies include:
- Permethrin cream 5% (Elimite), a standard first treatment for scabies. It usually cures scabies infestation after the first application.
- Ivermectin, which comes as pills. In the United States, treating scabies with ivermectin is an unlabeled use of the medicine. Ivermectin does not work as well as permethrin but is effective against scabies mites.6, 7
- Lindane 1%, which must be used exactly as directed to avoid dangerous side effects. Lindane is only used if your scabies persists after trying other medicines or you are unable to use other treatments.8
- Sulfur ointment (precipitated sulfur) 5% to 10%, a milder and less effective medicine than permethrin or lindane, is sometimes used to treat infants and pregnant or breast-feeding women.
- Crotamiton 10% (Eurax), which is not often used to treat scabies because it does not dependably kill all the mites and their eggs.
You may also need to take an antibiotic if you get a secondary skin infection.
What To Think About
When used correctly, lindane is considered a safe and effective treatment for scabies. With incorrect use or overuse, though, lindane can be dangerous and can permanently damage the central nervous system. If your doctor prescribes lindane to treat scabies, make sure you receive, understand, and follow detailed instructions for using it correctly.
Scabies treatment can fail:
- When the medicine is not applied properly. Carefully follow instructions for using scabies medicines.
- If the medicine does not kill the scabies eggs. When the eggs hatch, a new infestation begins.
- When other members of the affected person's household are not treated.
Surgery is not an appropriate treatment for scabies.
Other Treatment
There is no other treatment for scabies at this time.
Other Places To Get Help
American Academy of Dermatology | |
P.O. Box 4014 | |
Schaumburg, IL 60618-4014 | |
Phone: | 1-866-503-SKIN (1-866-503-7546) toll-free (847) 240-1280 |
Fax: | (847) 240-1859 |
E-mail: | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Web Address: | www.aad.org |
The American Academy of Dermatology provides information about the care of skin, hair, and nails. You can find a dermatologist in your area by calling 1-888-462-DERM (1-888-462-3376). |
American Social Health Association | |
P.O. Box 13827 | |
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 | |
Phone: | 1-800-227-8922 (919) 361-8400 |
Fax: | (919) 361-8425 |
E-mail: | email@example.com (general information) |
Web Address: | www.ashastd.org |
The mission of the American Social Health Association is to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities, with a focus on preventing sexually transmitted diseases and their harmful consequences. |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Division of Parasitic Diseases | |
1600 Clifton Road | |
Atlanta, GA 30333 | |
Phone: | 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) |
E-mail: | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Web Address: | www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd |
The Division of Parasitic Diseases is a branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its mission is to prevent and control parasitic diseases throughout the world. Its Web site provides information and updates on parasitic diseases. |
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- Mathieu ME, Wilson BB (2005). Scabies. In GL Mandell et al., eds., Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practices of Infectious Diseases, 6th ed., chap. 292, pp. 3304–3307. Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2003). FDA issues health advisory regarding labeling changes for lindane products. FDA Talk Paper T03-19. Available online: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2003/ANS01205.html.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2006). Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2006. MMWR, 55(RR-11): 79–80.
- Stone SP, et al. (2008). Scabies, other mites, and pediculosis. In K Wolff et al., eds., Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 7th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2029–2037. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical.
- Johnstone P, Strong M (2008). Scabies, search date October 2007. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.
- Strong M, Johnstone PW (2007). Interventions for treating scabies. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (3).
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2003). FDA Public Health Advisory: Safety of Topical Lindane Products for the Treatment of Scabies and Lice. Available online: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/lindane/lindanePHA.htm.
Author | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS |
Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
Primary Medical Reviewer | Michael J. Sexton, MD - Pediatrics |
Specialist Medical Reviewer | Alexander H. Murray, MD, FRCPC - Dermatology |
Last Updated | March 30, 2009 |
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Author: Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS
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