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Aspirin desensitization worked great for me at first. More energy, fewer infections, my sense of smell came back. I could travel and exercise. But then I started getting hives every night at a round 7 p.m 12 hours after I take the aspirin and other maintenance medications. This as been getting worse for the past two years. Now I wake up with hives and my face swollen, and get hives, and itchy lips almost every night.
I'm worried that I might have to stop taking the aspirin but then what? I'm also trying to find any information on what to expect as far as the progression of this condition as I get older.
I also have AERD and take aspirin daily. It sounds like you need a better doctor unless you have changed from the one who said it was psychosomatic. GOOD GRIEF!!! I had a GI say that I was coughing to get attention (fired him on the spot), but my asthma dr and GP are fantastic.
I do have hives occasionally, but not often. My face itches terribly on high pollen count days, mainly trees. I usually will take an extra benadryl on those days.
The worst hives I had were on my legs. My doctor and I decided that maybe it was the fabric softener my family uses when I am not around. She told me to run the washer with just water to rinse away any residue before washing my clothes with my sensitive skin products. Maybe your hives are being caused by the fabric softener in your sheets. Do you shower before going to bed? If not, the pollen that has collected in your hair and pillow maybe triggering the hives.
Do not even consider stopping the aspirin! Your asthma will be horrible without it. Think back to the months before your desensitization. Do want your life to be like that again? Aspirin sensitivity can also cause chronic hives. There is a web site about chronic uticaria that has a low salicylate diet which discusses this issue. Talk to your doctor about it. Maybe increasing your aspirin dose back up to twice a day (aslways taken with food) will help with the hives. Aspirin sensitivity can also cause ulcerative cholitis.
I wouldn't blame the hives on taking the aspirin, but would suspect another cause or too low a dose of aspirin.
For me personally, I would much rather deal with itchy hives than asthma that totally controlled my life. I had no energy to care for my family, couldn't go to church, couldn't stand to be in stores, was sick almost constantly.... Hives would be a minor nuisance to me in comparison to the impossible asthma. Also, while the hives are uncomfortable and unsightly, the asthma is life threatening. I would chose being able to breathe.
It is my understanding the with aspirin therapy AERD will not progress. I did a lot of research on it before my desensitization. It all indicated the the disease was totally controlled by aspirin therapy.
I hope that helps some. Let me know if you have other questions. I would love to talk with your more about it.
God bless,
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I HIGHLY recommend the desensitization. Other forms of aspirin sensitivity can be controlled by diet to some degree, however the respiratory form cannot be. After it starts it is self perpetuating and frequently leads to pred dependent asthma. To my knowledge, there is no way to control asthma triggered by this disease except desensitization.
As you know, pred is terribly for you. Aspirin desensitization will greatly reduce your use of pred and all other medications you are on.
Aspirin is derived from willow bark, so it is a natural substance.
My desensitization was 17 months ago. I really feel great. It was the best descission I made. After my allergist explained some of the disease process to me and I started researching, I knew I HAD to have the treatment. The last year and a half before desensitization I was on pred about every 4 weeks and getting more frequent. I spent about two full months on pred and then another burst in the four months immediately preceding the procedure.
Before treatment I had been looking for a job. I stopped looking just prior to treatment because I was so sick so often that I couldn't expect to keep a job for very long. A job offer litterally fell into my lap 3 weeks after treatment when I had decided I should start looking for a job again (a friend who knew I had been looking for a job bumped into a mutual acquaintance whose husband was looking for someone with my skills). I have not missed a full day of work being sick. I did have mycoplasma pneumonia in July, but got over it MUCH more quickly than I had in the past with no pred, and just a few breathing treatments. I only missed about a half day through the whole illness.
My experience is that going through the desensitization will greatly reduce your symptoms, need for medication, severity and length of infections, and greatly improve quality of life over all.
The research I did made the procedure sound much worse than it was (at least for me). My GP goes to the same church as I do, and he scared people describing the procedure. It really isn't that bad. I was able to stay on medications as I had already been diagnosed. I think that helped.
Make sure that you have a well qualified doctor over seeing the procedure. My doctor did it in her office (well equipped for emergencies), but you can request to do it in a hospital if that makes you feel better. I felt better with my allergist's staff caring for me since we already had a great relationship.
I hope that helps some. It sounds like you really need the procedure. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. I will be glad to answer them. I will be praying for you.
God bless,
I do find that the aspirin desensitization doesn't mean I'm cured but I am definately lots better. I still need lots of other medications but at least now I only have one or two sinus infections a year and almost never need to take prednisone. YEAH!. Its been 12 years since my last surgery and 2.5 years since I did the desensitization.
HEHE... I was having knee pain and was referred to and orthopedic surgeon. It was so fun explaining the NSAID allergy is really a disease that has been treated and now I have to take aspirin every day. Then surgery prep! Nurse "You can't take aspirin for a week before surgery." Me, "I can't NOT take aspirin for one day." Nurse, "You have to go off the aspirin for surgery." Me, "I can't do that or I will have severe asthma. I will have my allergist send you the documentation and surgery prep protocol."
I am also still on a ton of meds, but I have been on pred once in the last year as opposed to 12 time the year before desensitization. Once I was on it for a solid two months.
More doctors really do need to be more awere of this disease and know that it can be treated since 20% of all asthmatics have it. I think about all of the patients who could be spared the long term side effects of frequent pred use. It really is sad that more patients do not have this diagnosed and treated.
God bless and please stay in touch.
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If it doesn't happen, however, there's always Christmas — the most wonderful time of the year. And the Christmas shopping season got off to a brisk start this year not on Black Friday, but instead Thanksgiving Thursday.
Workers at retail establishments across the nation threatened to strike or call in sick if forced to work on Thanksgiving. Despite the threats of walk-outs, doors at big box stores were open as promised, offering Americans with nothing better to do on Thanksgiving night the chance to purchase another flat-screen television for 40 percent off.
I was watching one of the morning news shows Thursday morning, and a so-called retail expert revealed that one-third of all advertised Black Friday bargains had been offered at a cheaper price earlier in the year. It makes waiting around in line for an hour or more seem kind of pointless.
While all the gluttons for punishment were elbowing their way toward the last Furby or Wii U on Thursday night, I was stringing lights on a Christmas tree at the urging of my wife. She stated a few weeks back she wanted to decorate our house on Thanksgiving night, but I didn't put much stock into it and thought she'd probably forget.
She did not forget, as it turns out. So, with my belly full of turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and green bean casserole, I made several laps around our living room Christmas tree, occasionally cussing at knots and tangles. Frankly, I was just glad I wasn't in the Black Friday, or Thanksgiving Thursday, melee.
Nothing about being among hordes of people hungry for a bargain appeals to me. I'd rather pay a few bucks more and have the store to myself. I'm a curmudgeon, and I'm also claustrophobic, which makes Black Friday sales akin to my worst nightmare.
A few years ago I did attempt to become part of the phenomenon. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, was having problems with her laptop. Black Friday sales were approaching, and I thought I would be a good boyfriend and buy her a new laptop.
A big box store was offering them for $300 on Black Friday, and it seemed like a good deal to me. Even better, the sale was good for in-store and Internet shopping, so if I didn't want to stand in line, I could purchase it online.
I was living in Birmingham at the time and sleepily drove back home from my folks' house so I could get mentally prepared to purchase this computer at a rock-bottom price. I drank coffee, took brisk walks around the house and did what I could to stay awake until 3 a.m. rolled around.
I was tired, so I decided to try the Internet route. The only problem was I had dial-up at my house; dial-up so slow it wouldn't even access the page.
"#$!#!" I thought to myself. It was then I knew I would have to stand in line.
The only big box store of this particular variety (in a relatively safe part of town) was about 20 minutes north, so I hopped in my car and headed out. It was also about 20 degrees that particular evening.
This particular store was right off the interstate, giving me an opportunity to survey the crowd. The line out front stretched from one end of the shopping center to the next.
Needless to say, I kept driving. I loved my then-girlfriend/now-wife, but standing in line in the 20-degree cold to purchase a laptop seemed crazy to me. It wasn't a matter of love at that point; it was just common sense.
However, I hate not accomplishing a mission, so I drove to my nearby workplace to which I had a key. The workplace also had faster Internet, so I knew poor technology would no longer be an impediment to my quest.
I accessed the website without problems, found the computer, hit "add to basket" and entered my credit card number. After hitting "submit," I was taken to a white screen of nothingness. The website had frozen up and I was left with the quandary of, "Did my purchase go through? If I hit 'refresh,' will I purchase it twice?"
I hit refresh anyway and was then taken to a screen that said, "Sorry, this product is no longer available."
"$#@!," I said to myself.
At this point, the store and the quest had its hooks deep in my psyche. I was going to buy a computer, darn it, even if it cost $100 more. So what did I do? I bought a computer that cost $100 more.
The good thing is, she really appreciated the gesture and the laptop has guided us through many an adventure, from buying our first home to directions to a vacation destination. It was a wise buy, despite the calamities involved.
It was my first and only experience with anything related to Black Friday, and I have not had a hankering to replicate it.
I suppose, however, if they ever make a Furby that can happily and accurately string tangled lights on a Christmas tree, I'll be the first in line.
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You know you're getting old when you start using the same sort of "kids these days" rants with your children that your parents threw your way long ago.
I caught myself doing this recently when I was lecturing my kids about how lucky they were to not have to get off their duffs every time they wanted to change the channel on TV. I had to explain to them how, back in those Non-Digital Dark Ages of the 1970s, their Grandpa used me as his remote control. I also lamented to my kids that we only had 4 or 5 channels "on the dial" from which to choose in the Chicagoland area. It was at that point my daughter asked me what "on the dial" meant.
Kids these days!
But that got me thinking about some of the other things that today's digital generation will never experience or have to worry about thanks to the modern information revolution. Here are ten things I came up with.
1) Taking a typing class.
It used to be hard to learn how to type. Many people (especially men) never bothered. These days, kids teach themselves and many are experts before they've reached middle school. They don't need classes to master the task. They'll laugh that we did.
2) Paying bills by writing countless checks.
I am down to paying just one or two bills per month with paper checks. Our kids won't understand why we ever spent so much time writing and mailing checks to pay bills when everything can be paid electronically.
3) Buying an expensive set of encyclopedias.
Today's youth can't remember a time when their moms and dads shelled out over $1,500 for a set of Encyclopedia Britannica or, for that matter, a time when Microsoft Microsoft sold its Encarta encyclopedia on compact disks for $50.
Interesting, but a little overbroad. Not everyone can afford the internet. Not everyone wants or can afford a smartphone. Or a $100 a month "unlimited" use phone plan. Or a digital camera. And while kids may be able to learn on their own how to "type," I don't think they will be learning how to touch-type without taking classes. Two-finger, two-thumb, or hunt and peck typing is not effficient and is not the skill set employers want to see in those they hire.
I still use a rotary phone and pay less than $40 a month for it; have at least $850 more per year available for essentials because I don't have a cellphone or internet at home–and thus no need to be constantly "connected" or constantly contacted by people I really don't want to hear from at all hours of the day; pay my bills by check; enjoy the CDs and DVDs I buy/own; and still refer to information in my 40 year old encyclopedia set from time to time. Oh yes, I also use the phone book when I need to find the number of the place I want to call.
Kids will be lost when the internet goes down and the cell towers quit working. The old ways still work and still work well.
People will still use all of the things you mention, to some extent, but they won't make as much sense to kids growing up right now.
For example, $40 a month for phone service on a rotary phone? You can get a cell phone with unlimited minutes for that price. Same function as the phone at your house, but it travels with you. Sure, there are some advantages to hard-line phones, especially in the event of an extreme home emergency, but these are overall trumped by the mobility of cell phones. You can make calls when the power goes out and my cell phone has died, but I can easily get emergency help when I crash my car on an empty road.
Paying by check costs you envelopes, stamps, and whatever your bank is charging you for those checks, so online is cheaper in all respects, not to mention faster. CDs and DVDs are increasingly becoming more expensive than their exclusively digital counterparts (although I'll admit, it's difficult for me to accept it and stop buying DVDs of my favorite movies). Every volume of the Encyclopedia set in my home can be condensed into a few GB of info on my computer, if that, or simply pulled up online. On top of that, it's easily searchable and only takes up negligible digital "space", which is why these books have been relegated to the garage. They're there when we need them. For the most part, we don't.
People can and will choose to do things in the way that's most comfortable to them. There's nothing wrong with that. But as technology changes, the old way of doing things becomes relatively expensive and I for one love to save a buck (or time or space) whenever I can.
I'd also mention that most of the kids I know type correctly, but I'd agree that they probably had to get at least some instruction to do so. I learned in college and used a program to do so. The people I typically see typing improperly are those around my father's age that only took up using computers regularly within the past few years. He's on it more than I am, but refuses to learn the proper method, even though he knows it would save him time in the long run.
When there is more than one person in a household, dumping landline means having more than one cellphone if both are to have the ability to make/receive calls whenever they wish. I'm not aware of any cell plan with unlimited calls for $40 a month. $50 maybe, but not $40. Even if there is a $40 a month plan, that goes to $80 for two people to have access. And if I dropped long distance access from the landline, I'd be paying about $33 a month. Again, I save money by not having a cellphone, and having the ability to be "unreachable" when I'm away from home is worth its weight in gold.
My checks are free, so the only "extra" I'm paying is for envelopes and stamps. I trust the postal service to deliver my payments more than I trust any computer or electronic delivery method. The value of a paper trail of checks, returned check images complete with endorsement information, and the peace of mind that comes with not having to worry if some computer has done its job more than makes up for the cost of stamps and envelopes.
I, too, like to save a buck. I enjoy many aspects of technology. But an over-reliance on it is an invitation to disaster.
My grandkids go to my mother's house (she's 90) and she has a trimline wall phone, a VCR and a Hi-Fi turntable. My kids think its a museum.
When I was younger, I had to go to the library and spend time researching anything I was interested in. Now its at my finger tips. I wonder if kids will ever hang out at the library like we did. I have a collection of 45 rpm records from the sixties. My grandkids don't understand what they are at all.
I talk to my grandkids about the "old days" and what it was like. (they are six, seven and ten). While they are amazed that I had black-and-white TV, non-mobile phones, and sets of encyclopedias, what freaks them out is NO video games. My six-year old grandson actually asked me what we did with out Wii if we didn't have video games.
And there on your cover photo is item #11. Kids will not have to "dial" a phone number, nor will they have to maintain a phone book of frequently dialed numbers [unless they're worried about losing their phones - but that never happens, does it?]
They may think of phone numbers the way we think of IP addresses. Most cell calls I make are from my Contacts list, not dialed at all.
Same here. We're already moving into the next stage, where you simply give your phone a voice-command to call someone whom it identifies for you based off of call history/contacts list.
I don't know, I like buying games from the store like Gamestop and a ton of kids do too. It's mostly the physical aspect if holding something that you purchased, I think that is a feeling that won't die easily.
Fun list. Not sure all of these changes are for the better (which, I guess, makes me old). Still, I'd love to see a list of 10 ways technology has improved the quality of life for our children.
#12: Read a novel.
Ask your kids when the last time was — if ever — they read a novel. Something about the medium just no longer works in the age of fast-paced, real time digital multimedia.
Oh how ignorant you sound. And depressingly aged at that, many of you as well. I am a 23 year old who can proudly say that I have read countless novels, just as my 13 yr old brother. Statistically literacy has sky rocketed since your "good old days." While 70% percent of middle-schoolers admit to reading more than ten books a day, 44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child. So in stark contrast to all of these begrudged middle aged first world sob stories, the world, as well the technology in it, are improving.
Oh how ignorant you sound. And depressingly aged at that, many of you as well. I am a 23 year old who can proudly say that I read countless novels, just as my 13 yr old brother does too. Statistically literacy has sky rocketed since your "good old days." While 70% percent of middle-schoolers admit to reading more than ten books a year, 44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child. So in stark contrast to all of these begrudged middle aged first world sob stories, the world, as well the technology in it, are improving.
How about #11 (or #12 if you take comments into account)
Kids will wonder why we ever bought magazines like Forbes. Why kill the trees for something that can be obtained instantly on-line on their phone, tablet or laptop? For that matter why have "professional" writers? Any and every one of us can be one.
The only thing constant is change.
Cell phone overage charges are no joke. They're as bad as long-distance charges for those folks too poor to afford an unlimited talk monthly plan.
Of course, since the kids are mostly texting, I suppose all you need is an unlimited texting plan.
As for being without the internet, if you don't have a smartphone (an expensive proposition: $200-$800 for the phone; $1000 or more annually in phone bills), you're pretty much at the mercy of free wi-fi providers, which are rarely ubiquitous, or good and reliable, whenever you want your connected fix away from home.
I await the day when we _can_ take high-speed connectivity for granted wherever we are, but that's probably more than a generation away. (Yes, I mean at least 25 years or more.)
Funny, I was just talking about those things.
My son saw a stack tape cassettes that I still had and getting rid of. He asked me what they were. LOL
My twin nephews (12yrs old) asked me what that crank was in my old 1994 Sidekick Suzuki.
"Its how we roll down the windows."
They grew up w/newer vehicles. LOL
Remembering the good old days when somehow we have managed to handle those wonderful pre-cursor conveniences pleasantly but now could hardly be seen. Everything is digitalized to zeros and ones but there is one thing that the younger generation will envy that the older retirees are privelege to do when opening their e-mails -the VOICE COMMAND mode which is done by opening their mouth in requesting their grandchildren to sign-in and open up their emails.
This reminds me of the automatic dishwasher of the fifties – "Kids, do the dishes before you go out"
Anyone besides me find something odd in the picture with this article? The rotary dial phone starts with zero! All rotary dial phones I'm familiar with start with 1. Turns out this is a picture of a phone from Sweden—where zero was the first number on the dial. Apparently the only country in the world to use that system.
This list makes me feel like a dinosaur. And a mean mom.
My kids don't have cell phones or unlimited internet. We still use the movie store, I don't want to give them the ability to sit on thier duffs whenever they want and stream endless hours of TV/Movies. We only have 5 stations. They start research in encyclopedias and write letters and mail them.
I don't want them to get the idea that they don't need to leave their home for anything, and I feel that society has accepted that in this digital era we live in. One is able to socialize online, order food, find information. And as much as it (technology) is convenient, it lacks many requirements of their predecessors; manners in the library, waiting your turn to use the phone; having to play/read/use your imagination while waiting for your favorite show to come on, knowing how to spell so you can write a letter, or search in a dictionary/encyclopedia.
I love Technology, but let's not forget the fundamental teachings that are intertwined in the "old school" way of doing things. Our kids need more within them than to be tech-savvy.
You forgot GPS navigation and Google Maps/Mapquest. Generation Y will never understand what its like to read handwritten directions stating "make a left by the red barn, but if you hit the Denny's you've gone too far," or to follow someone only to end up losing them in traffic. The Bubble Boy episode of Seinfeld has been made obsolete by technology!
Pen pals…
They just call them friends now and instead of just having one that it takes months to exchange two letters with, they have hundreds and talk to them all the time. The world has clearly changed.
And where the hell did they learn to speak German and French while I wasn't paying attention? Kids these days!
I always enjoy a well written article or blog post that looks at today's technology and compares where we are today with how it was in "the good old days". Of course the comparisons are never 100% accurate; there are always exception (not everyone has internet, smart phones, or are highly tech savvy). But the overall spirit of the discussion is to show how far we have come in such a relatively short period of time. To call out an author because he choose to couch his discussion around the pretext of what our kids will never experience and then expect that every statement must apply to all kids around the world is missing the point of the article.
Learn to think in broad terms and consider the amazing place our world is in today. We are not perfect, we continue to have our faults and need to correct a lot of flaws. But in the past two decades we have accomplished more than in the previous eight. Marvel at what we have; look forward to the future; and continue look fondly at the past.
Tell me about it! I'm always telling my 12-year-old how amazing it is to live "in this day and age." And just last night, my wife wondered out loud how the Oregon Ducks got their nickname. Roughly 1.5 seconds later I had the answer. After a moment I commented, "You know, 10 years ago I wouldn't have even known how to begin looking for that information."


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Non-Linux FOSS: Seashore
As Linux users, we tend to take programs like GIMP for granted. Thankfully, as of version 2.8.2, GIMP is available as a native application for OS X! Because everyone reading this most likely is familiar with how awesome GIMP is for photo editing, it's worth mentioning there is another open-source photo-editing application for OS X named Seashore.
Seashore is an application written in the native OS X Cocoa language, so it clearly looks like a native application when running (Figure 1). Although OS X users no longer have to install X11 in order to take advantage of GIMP, Seashore is a powerful image editor in its own right, and because it's open source, it's well worth the effort to try it out! You can download Seashore at http://seashore.sourceforge.net. The native version of GIMP is available at http://www.gimp.org/downloads.
Figure 1. Based on the interface alone, it's obvious Seashore is a native OS X application.
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How's your year going so far? Yes I know, you're ready for winter to end, but other than that?
If you haven't heard about this yet, back on April 3rd 1988, the
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#1.) Every car would have a computer in it, and be able to drive itself. Cars have had computer systems for years . . . and there are self-parking cars, as well as the Google Car that drives itself.
#2.) Computer navigation systems for driving . . . similar to GPS.
#3.) Video chat systems . . . like Skype.
#4.) A, quote, "personal portable computer about the size of a three-by-five card" . . . which sounds a lot like a smartphone.
#5.) Schools with satellite campuses connected over computer networks . . . and computer screens for walls. Most colleges offer long-distance and online courses now . . . and wall-mounted "Smart boards" are part of many classrooms.
Now here are three predictions the experts MISSED on 25 years ago.
#1.) Robot cooks and maids. They thought those would hit the market in the late 1990s and be common by now. Other than Roomba vacuum cleaners, we're still waiting.
#2.) Hover cars. Experts said that magnetism would be used to lift cars off the road for a smoother ride . . . That hasn't happened, but apparently the technology is expected to be ready soon.
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WHERE HE STANDS: Jeff Gordon remained in first place for the fourth consecutive week after Talladega. He leads second-ranked Matt Kenseth by three points and third-ranked Kyle Busch by four points.
KANSAS RECORD: 16 career starts, 2 wins, 9 top-5s, 11 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: First in 2001 and 2002. Finished 13th in this race last year and was third in the fall Chase race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Even though he had a rough race at Talladega, so did most of his closest challengers. That's why Gordon remains atop the standings. And now he and the rest of the circuit race under the lights for the first time this Saturday at Kansas. Here's Gordon's thoughts on the race: "There's something about Kansas that really suits my driving style - even after the repave a few years ago that created some new challenges. Even with the new surface, the groove has widened out the last few races. It's a smooth track that's very fast, and I love the transitions and how you transfer from the flatter straightaways into those banked corners. I'm really excited about this weekend because this team has been strong on mile-and-a-half tracks this year."
LOOKING BACK: Gordon led just one lap and was involved in a crash with just over 30 laps remaining at Talladega, ultimately leaving him with a 39th-place finish, his worst thus far this season as well as the first time he's finished lower than 13th in the 2014 season.
ETC.: Gordon has completed 99.1 percent (4,180) of the 4,220 total laps contested in 16 career starts at Kansas. His average start there is 13.8 and average finish is an impressive 10.6. He has two DNF's there.
20 MATT KENSETH, Toyota
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: For the fifth consecutive week, Matt Kenseth remained in second place in the Sprint Cup standings. He trails points leader Jeff Gordon by just three points and leads third-ranked Kyle Busch by only one point.
KANSAS RECORD: 16 career starts, 2 wins, 6 top-5s, 9 top-10s, 2 poles. Best career finish: First in fall 2012 and spring 2013. Finished first in this race last year and was 11th in last fall's Chase race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Like points leader Jeff Gordon, Kenseth continues to look for his first win of the season. At this time last season, Kenseth already had three wins. He has an outstanding record at Kansas, which enhances his chances to get that first "W" of the 2014 season.
LOOKING BACK: Like a number of drivers, Kenseth was involved in a late crash at Talladega, relegating him to a disappointing 37th-place finish. Here's his thoughts on what happened: "Really unfortunate - everyone on this team did a great job this week. I thought we had a pretty fast car, but we just couldn't get going there on restarts. Just tried to get that lane moving and Brad (Keselowski, who caused the wreck that knocked out Kenseth) was getting that lane up towards the front. We were trying to get up there and get back to safety and we just didn't make it."
ETC.: Kenseth has completed 94.9 percent (4,006) of the 4,220 total laps contested in 16 career starts at Kansas. His average start there is 12.5 and his average finish is 14.6. He has two DNFs there.
18 KYLE BUSCH, Toyota
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: After gaining two places and improving from sixth to fourth, Kyle Busch gained yet another position after Talladega, moving into third. He trails points leader Jeff Gordon by just four points, is one point behind second-ranked Matt Kenseth and leads Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who are tied for fourth-place, by 15 points.
KANSAS RECORD: 13 career starts, 0 win, 0 top-5s, 2 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: Seventh in 2006. Finished 38th in this race last year and was 34th in the fall Chase race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Busch has struggled throughout his career at Kansas, and continues to be mystified by the place. Of course, four DNFs in 13 starts hasn't helped. Last Friday (May 4) was Busch's birthday. Does he feel a belated birthday present is in store for him at Kansas? "I think anyone who knows me or has followed me knows that it doesn't matter if it's my birthday or whatever it is. I love to win and love to be able to add to the trophy case. That's what we do, what it's all about, and the focus each week. I think you do learn over the years that you can't win them all, but that sure doesn't stop us from trying. Winning is huge for our sponsors, too. It's what drives all of us to get better each week."
LOOKING BACK: Even though he finished 12th at Talladega, Busch was able to climb one place in the standings because so many other drivers - including Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth - were involved in wrecks that ended their races early.
ETC.: Busch has completed just 85.4 percent (2,921) of the 3,419 total laps contested in 13 career starts at Kansas. His average start there is 16.5 and average finish is 23.3. He has four DNFs there.
99 CARL EDWARDS, Ford
Team: Roush Fenway Racing


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Out of the three seniors on the Chickasha softball team, Madison Snyder is the only player who has been with the Chickasha varsity program all four years of her high school softball career.
On a young team, such experience can prove valuable both on and off the diamond. With the Lady Chicks vying for the state title that narrowly eluded them last year, it helps to have someone who has experienced many good and bad times in the program's recent history.
Playing in the post-season is always tough on the players, this is when the upper-classmen are expected to step up and keep the team thinking positive. Snyder is confident she can step up and be a leader for her team.
"We all just have to stay positive and not let each other get down," Snyder said.
Snyder started playing as most baseball and softball players do in the wee ranks of t-ball and progressing through little league.
"I started playing t-ball, then I moved into baseball since kid pitch," she said. "And when I could no longer play baseball, I went on to softball."
Her teammates may have changed slightly since she began her time with the Chickasha varsity team, but through it all Snyder said she's had the invaluable support of family.
"My dad has always pushed me to be better, and he's always been there to help me if I needed it," Snyder said.
Over the summer, Snyder impressed on the mound as part of a three-pronged pitching rotation that included usual starter Kelsi Gore and Keely Cauthen. When she wasn't hurling one in there, Snyder played a different role at first base, where she expects to spend a lot of time this season.
"I feel like I can do a lot more at first base than pitching, but I love pitching too," Snyder said.
When the season starts on Aug. 12, the Lady Chicks will have about two months to reach their championship dream. Snyder is very confident her Chicks will take it all this year.
"I'm pretty confident in my team, and I'm really happy with the way things are going right now," Snyder said.
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Here is a Kickstarter project we like
Each and every VIDDY is screenprinted and die-cut by hand in the UK and is available in 4 colours; Green, Black, Blue or Red.
VIDDY comes as a kit and the main pieces you'll need simply pop out so you'll go from flat pack to working camera in around half an hour!
Stickers and split pins are used to build the main body and you just need a small drop of glue to construct the film advance knobs.
There's no sharps, virtually no glue, and no mess.
Each VIDDY kit comes with everything you'll need to complete the camera, including a reclaimed medium format spool, a precision laser-cut pinhole, a red light-proof window, split pins, a sticker sheet and clear illustrated instructions alongside an easy to follow how-to video.
It's simple, educational, fully functional and takes great photographs. But most importantly, it's fun!
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As photographer we deal with PDF files in one form or another several times a day. We're either creating PDF's or converting them. Here is an online resource that allows everyone to create or convert PDF files for FREE online.
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Greg Heisler Talks Photography as a Career and Having 'True' Style
The advice given in this video by Gregory Heisler is so dead on it should be required viewing
Gregory Heisler from Maine Media Workshops + College on Vimeo.
As much information as we're able to pull in through the Internet, there is one thing that can never be obtained through words or pictures on a screen: experience. Through time and experience, information turns to knowledge, and we begin to wrap our heads around the complicated concepts that baffled us in the beginning.
One phenomenal example of a man who has accrued more experience than most is renowned portrait photographer Gregory Heisler, and in the interview above with Maine Media Workshops + College, he shares valuable insight and advice for photographers both young and old.
Heisler starts off with a funny, profound and very relatable event that took place when he was a young photography student in college. From there, he goes on to share some valuable pieces of knowledge he's gained throughout his career, covering everything from business to 'true' style in that concise and focused manner all his own.
At five-and-a-half minutes long, it's a quick watch that will enrich your day and, quite possibly, your career as a photographer. Be sure to give it a watch or toss it in your queue so you don't miss out.
Tags: Photo, Photography, Photo Assistant, PhotoAssistant, Photo Assistants
This is a Kickstarter campaign we like.
One of the neat things about smartphones is the fact that when gadgets are designed to be used with them, those devices can make use of the phone's sensors and other electronics instead of incorporating their own.
This, of course, means that those devices can thus be smaller and cheaper than would otherwise be possible. The Elephant Steady is a new motorized iPhone camera-stabilizing rig, that takes this approach.
Tags: Kickstarter, iPhone, Video, Elephant stabalizer, Photo, Photo Assistant, PhotoAssistant, Photo Assistants, Photographer
The iXY with Lightning connector features a matched pair of ½ inch condenser capsules arranged in a stacked X-Y configuration, with on-board high-fidelity analogue to digital conversion. This ensures accurate, immersive and true to life stereo recordings.The iXY with Lightning connector provides broadcast quality audio in your pocket, everywhere. Perfect for meetings, reporting, recording music and used on-camera you won't leave home without it.Interchangeable rubber mounting clamps are supplied to suit both iPhone 5/5s and 5c, which also provide shock mounting and help to minimise vibration transferring to the microphone capsules. A foam windshield for outdoor recording and protective storage pouch are also included. The RØDEGrip mount is optionally available for mounting the iXY and iPhone on a camera or microphone stand, and a "deadcat" windshield for high wind conditions will be available shortly.RØDE Rec also recently received an update to increase compatibility and stability on the iOS 7 platform and are available to download in the App Store.Visit www.ixymic.com for more information
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Mr. Bailey, would you swear in front of the Queen?
No, if you're going to accept the Queen you have to accept the tradition. You know, I've got nothing against monarchy. I think there are too many hangers-on, but that's also a cliché thing to say. I doubt she'd be too shocked. She's been around; she's not stupid.
You recently took the official photo for her 88th birthday.
Yes and I think she looks incredible for 88. I had never photographed her before.
Why not?
I wouldn't photograph anybody if they only give you five minutes. I don't care who it is. I don't care if God phoned me up and said, "I want a picture, I've only got five minutes." I'd say, "Well, work some of your magic and make it longer!" Even though I'm actually quicker than most and I usually get bored before they get bored.
What kind of people are the most difficult to photograph?
Lots of politicians are so full of themselves. Sports people too a bit. But actors are the most difficult because you never know who you're photographing. They could be Hamlet or Lassie. But the fewer people they come with, the more interesting they usually are. Johnny Depp came with nobody so I knew it was going to be all right. Jack Nicholson never came with anybody, but Jack's different because I've known him for so long.
You once said Jack Nicholson is the smartest actor because he knows something nobody else does. What is it that he knows?
I don't fucking know. If I knew, I'd be as smart as him. (Laughs)
One of the things that fascinated me when I met him was his grin and the sparkle in his eye when he talked about women.
Yeah, with Viagra. He's the first person that told me about Viagra.
When was that?
Oh, years ago. Before everyone knew about it! (Laughs)
When you know someone very well like you do Jack Nicholson is it easier to take a great portrait of them?
It depends. It's one of those abstract things. We had a difficult bloke this week, what was he called? Van Morris or somebody… He was so grumpy. But I loved him being grumpy because I could use his grumpiness. I got a great grumpy picture out of him. If I see another picture of a rock 'n' roller against some graffiti… It drives you mad, the same old picture! Can't they ever think of something different to do? So I don't mind people that are difficult. I quite like that. It amuses me because there is always a way around it. I mean, no one could be more difficult than Van whatever he's called, Van Morrison.
It seems pointless to have your picture taken if you're not going to cooperate though.
Well he left really happy, Van Morrison. But it is kind of pointless to come here if you're not going to help me. They might not like the picture, but one day they will. One day that's what they're going to look like – whether they look like that or not. Medici said to Michelangelo, "That sculpture doesn't look like me." Michelangelo said, "Listen, you'll be dead in 20 years, but this will be around for 2,000 years. So, that's what you look like!" You could say that a bit with photography.
Does it often happen that people aren't happy with their portrait, but then years later change their mind?
Yeah. 10 years later usually. We had one recently, I won't mention his name, I shot him 30 years ago and he said, "I hate the picture." But his wife bought one for him as a birthday present recently. (Laughs) 30 years later and come get the picture.
Are celebrities more difficult nowadays than they were 30 or 40 years ago?
Well, I avoid celebrities. I'm not really interested in people that come with PR. That's probably why I can't work in America, because I don't take all that bullshit. I don't know how people like Bruce Weber manage, because it would drive me mad. All these silly people who don't know anything that come with celebrities and try to tell you what to do. It's madness! They brought it on themselves, the magazines. They should have been stricter. They should have said, "No, we're not showing you. We're doing the interview and that's that." But instead they pander to them and in the end they end up owning you. Those magazines are owned by the celebrities, really.
You don't strike me as the type to pander to anyone.
I never really read what people write about me, but the comments people made when doing this exhibition recently at the National Portrait Gallery are so stupid. "Oh, Bailey panders to these people." I don't pander to anybody. I just do the picture I do. I don't care who it is. And I won't do pictures if people want approval. It has always seemed stupid to me that they ask you to do something and then want to sort of tell you how to do it. What madness!
What about magazines?
In fact, the magazines only get one image. If they don't like it, then either I say to them, "I have another one," or else, "Forget it, don't publish it."
Does that limit the number of magazines you work with today?
I don't work for American Vogue anymore, for example. I'm great mates with Anna, I've known her for years, but it's not a question of friendship. It's just that I don't do what she wants and she doesn't do what I want.
Is it impossible for you to collaborate with people that are not exactly on your wavelength?
They're not even allowed to come on the set when I shoot, not the art director or the stylist or anyone. I've always been a bit like that. I remember British Vogue blackmailed photographers in the early days to get them to do what they wanted. They would say, "Well if you don't sign a contract, you can't work for us." And since there was nobody else to work for in England at that moment, you didn't really have an option. So I'm not very fond of the business people at Condé Nast. I've got nothing against the editors and the people that work there, but I think that the business people are less than… modern. (Laughs) I don't know where they're coming from! It's like leftover from a bygone age.
It's surprising that so much politics are involved in an industry that's supposed to be so creative.
Well Vogue will destroy itself if it goes on like that because everything that's run by accountants eventually vanishes up its own ass. The only reason I did fashion in the first place was because I thought, "If I'm going to do photography my way, the only way to be creative and get paid is to do fashion." So I stopped doing it in the '80s when I started directing more and more commercials.
How do you pick the people that you take portraits of?
I'm only interested in what I'm interested in.The rest just sort of happened that way. I mean, I knew Mick before he was anybody really, when he was still at the London School of Economics. So that's another accident in my life, that Mick happened to be a good mate.
You seem to have had all kinds of accidents happen to you. Didn't Freddie Mercury stick his tongue down your throat during the 1985 Live Aid concert?
Yeah he did. Him and Terry Richardson's father, they're the only two men who've managed to get their tongues in my mouth! (Laughs)
How many have tried?
Oh, lots. Once I was just in the club and I said, "Who is this old fuck who keeps buying me scotch and sodas?" And they said, "Oh, that's Francis Bacon." (Laughs) I didn't know who Francis Bacon was! But I always took it as a compliment. These silly people that say, "Oh, I was sexually assaulted because somebody grabbed my ass in a gay club." What are you doing in a gay club?
It's like going to the pool and complaining that you got wet.
True, if you don't get your ass grabbed, there's probably something wrong with you. Take it as an enjoyment! If you don't like it, don't go to gay clubs! Fucking idiots. I mean, when I was at school I had teachers try to kiss me all the time, so don't tell me. It's all bullshit. If you can't handle that, then how are you going to get through the rest of life? How are you going to cross the road?
Have you always had a bit of a temper?
Well, that's a funny story… During the war we got bombed and our flat was so destroyed that we had to move to the countryside. One time two boys said to me, "Would you like a blackberry?" and I said, "Yeah." So they gave me a blackberry. And they said, "Do you want another one?" I said, "Yeah, it was nice." And they gave me another one and said, "Did you like that?" I said, "Yes." And they said, "Well, we peed on those." So when they had gone I set fire to their fucking field. (Laughs)
How old were you?
About five. Five and a half maybe.
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Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting. - Video Below -
In yet another way of feeding on the insecurities of amateure photographers in order to separate them from their money,...a group of researchers from MIT and Cornell University want your next lighting rig to be autonomous and airborne. On display this August at the Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging, they've actually developed a drone that automatically and dynamically lights a subject (living or otherwise) for a photographer while he or she focuses on getting the shot.
Announced earlier today through the MIT News website, the prototype the researchers have ready for demonstration focuses on providing perfect rim lighting and a proof of concept using a difficult to produce effect.
Using a continuous light source, a flash and a laser rangefinder, the flying assistant sets itself up based on the position of the subject as well as what the photographer is seeing through the camera, making sure the lighting is always "picture perfect", if you will.
Using the system is extremely straight-forward. First, the photographer tells the drone what side they want the rim light to come from. Then, once the little helicopter is in position, the photographer indicates in the desired rim width they want by typing in a percentage of the current width.
From that moment on, the drone will handle everything else automatically. If the subject moves and the rim width changes, the drone will move. If the photographer moves, the drone uses a 20-images-per-second feed from the photographers camera to adjust its position accordingly.
No moving lights back and forth, the lights move for you.
The long term goal here is to allow photographers to use a whole fleet of drones in their work, never having to set up another light again. Just indicate the desired effect, and your little Sky Net lighting system gets to work creating that effect and then maintaining it automatically until you move on to the next setup.
And while that autonomous lighting future is still a ways away, Ravi Ramamoorthi, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, tells MIT that he believes the system is definitely doable given the rapid advance of the necessary technologies.
Tags: Drone, Photo, Photography, Photographer, Photo Assistant, studio lighting, Rim Light
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas A. Edison
that says it all
Photographer John Hornbeck couldn't find a camera app for his phone that came anywhere close to the high-contrast, black-and-white photographs he makes with his camera, and he wasn't interested in "having to purchase a bunch of add-ons." Hornbeck, who earns money from his photography but also works in the software industry, decided to collaborate with a friend to build an app that would come close to reproducing his style.
After they finished the app, Contrast by Hornbeck, the photographer used it for a few months before he and the developer decided to "push it out to the public and see if there would be any interest from others." There has been.
Hornbeck has promoted the app—it's available for free—via his social media channels, and others have shared it. "I know at least a couple of respected photographers who use it and have told others about it, so it's just word of mouth and people playing around," he says. The downloads number "in the thousands," and several hundred images on Instagram are tagged with the #contrast by hornbeck hashtag.
The biggest thing this app offers that others don't, Hornbeck says, is simplicity. Photographers can use it to make high-contrast, black-and-white shots. "That's all it does and we have no plans to really change that."
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Nikon D810 vs Canon 5D Mark III Video TestLenses used :- Nikkor 24-70 2.8 Canon 24-70 2.8Note :- No editing is done. Both Camera are set on Same ISO-Aperture-Shutter Speed - Standard Style & Used same quality of Lenses . * No Atomos Ninja -2 or Atomos Samurai or Blade or No any other External Video Recorder are used. Its All In camera Video Footages.
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Any photographer who says he's not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar. - Helmut Newton
"The Camera does not lie, Post Production and Publishers do". - James-ism 09/06/2013
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. - Booker T. Washington
"Papa, ... Music is your love, but Photography is your Religion." - Joya D. Hall-Sullivan | Age 10
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon - 1984
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
"Any photographer who says he's not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar." - Helmut Newton
"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth." - Annie Leibovitz
"When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track." - Weegee
" The camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." - Orson Welles
"Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already." - Helmut Newton
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. " - Nikola Tesla
"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable." - Richard Avedon
"The first 10 000 shots are the worst." - Helmut Newton
"If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography." – Edward Weston
"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man." - Edward Weston
"If you want reality take the bus." - David LaChapelle
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams
"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist." - Robert Mapplethorpe
" Great photography is always on the edge of failure." - Garry Winogrand
"I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal." - Horst P. Horst
"Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work." - William Klein
"Avedon claims to have been the best photographer in the '60s - bullshit - Bob Richardson was - despite or because of being insane and strung out on drugs, I managed to do photographs that are considered iconic - being known as the 'photographer's photographer' means I lead and they follow - I'm broke and they are rich." - Bob Richardson
"If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success" - Will Smith
"Either take the lead or follow behind, just stay the fuck out of my way." - James Sullivan