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One of the fun things about my wife's car is that it has a constant readout of the miles per gallon on the dashboard. It lets you know what your miles per gallon over the last five minutes is, the mpg of your entire trip, as well as your estimated miles per gallon right at that moment.
The data it produces is really accurate. We've measured this ourselves by checking the gas mileage manually by calculating it from the odometer and gas receipts and comparing it to the data in the car.
It's often a competition between Sarah and myself to see who can get the best gas mileage over a given trip. Not only is it a bit of friendly competition, the reward for it is that we save money over the course of that trip.
For example, I managed to drive an entire three hour car trip while keeping the fuel economy average over 50 miles per gallon. I did this by utilizing lots of little tricks along the way, and doing so saved us several dollars in gas while only eating up a few more minutes of driving.
Sarah, on the other hand, managed to drive about fifteen miles while keeping the fuel economy average over sixty miles per gallon. She was aided by wind, which was blowing strongly in almost the perfect direction for her route, but it was still quite impressive. It added maybe thirty seconds to the drive but saved her about $0.50 in gas.
If this sounds like hypermiling, you'd be right. Although we don't go to the extreme measures often advocated by hardcore hypermilers, we do try out the techniques.
The real impact of doing it is that several techniques for improving our fuel economy have become completely second nature for our driving. Here are some of those techniques that you can easily translate to your own driving. They might add a minute or two to your drive, but they'll save you enough money along the way to make up for it.
Stick close to 55 miles per hour on the open road. This seems to be the sweet spot in terms of speed. If you go much faster than 55, your fuel efficiency starts to decrease. If you get much above 65, it decreases rapidly, somewhere in the realm of about 1% fuel efficiency lost for every mile per hour you're going over 65.
When going through stoplights, accelerate slowly and coast. Rather than accelerating strongly out of a light, racing up to the next light, and then hitting the brakes, instead accelerate slowly out of a light and when you see the light turning red half a block in front of you, let off the accelerator and just coast until you need to stop. This minimizes your gas usage and gets you to the stoplight with plenty of time to spare.
When going down a hill, lay off the brake. Let your car accelerate a bit naturally, then use that extra acceleration to coast for a while when you get to the bottom of the hill.
When going up a hill, lay off the accelerator. Many people hit the accelerator when going up a hill. Don't do it. Instead, let your speed go down as you're climbing the hill, then slowly bring it back up when you get to the top. Often, hills link into each other, so you'll often use the speed from the previous hill to climb the next one or get your speed back from the previous climb when going down the other side of a hill.
Things I don't recommend that you might see as gas mileage tips include rolling through stop signs and overinflating your tires. The former is simply begging to get into an accident, while the latter tactic makes it very easy to blow out a tire.
Making a few little changes to how you drive can save you a surprising amount of fuel without adding much time at all to your trip. I'll happily arrive a few minutes later if I'm saving a few bucks in gas.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


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Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin didn't play in the Seahawks' week three win over the Packers—you know the one—because of what was generally described as a "shoulder injury." The Seahawks listed Baldwin as "questionable" as late as game day. That's the injury Baldwin almost played with over there, tweeted out by Baldwin yesterday in response to a fan who asked why he had missed the Green Bay game. Questionable indeed. (Click to enlarge. Aah! Close tab!)
Fun note: Baldwin incurred that grosss injury while playing with a different gross injury:
Baldwin, who played last week despite breaking his teeth going for a diving catch against Arizona, is now battling a shoulder injury, which caused him to miss Friday's practice after being limited on Thursday.
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There were boos and hisses of course. The plot just wasn't plausible. Julianne Moore's lesbian character "Jules" has sex with a guy. Although, Mark Ruffalo's "Paul" largely resembles a bumbly, dishevelled lesbian…with a beard.
Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gently slides the emphasis off the assumption that the movie is about lesbians. Moore and Annette Bening ("Nic") star as a devoted but fraying couple but the focus is on human relationships and balancing the dynamics of love, the unseen, routine and the tension of growing apart and back together.
Jules and Nic's two kids have reached the age where they are curious about their sperm donor dad (Ruffalo), and want to make contact. The moms express support but naturally feel threatened—maybe the family and life they created for their children wasn't good enough? What if they like him better? And from the outset, they kinda do. Paul is a college drop-out, roars around on a BMW motorcycle and owns an hipster organic resto. Yes, he is way-cool.
Paul is so way-cool that Jules also falls under his charming spell and her lesbian-ness evaporates in one kiss with him. This is not a spoiler, it's in the trailer. And if you've read any review, you know that the kiss is more than a kiss, and our dear lesbian gets it on with Paul. More than once.
And this is where the gays boo and hiss, because, surely, this doesn't happen in the real world. No lesbian is gonna fall for a guy who grows perfect heirloom tomatoes, and want to have repeated afternoon sex with him AND smoke cigarettes in bed afterwards. But Jules does, in a not-so-conflicted manner.
What director and writer Cholodenko achieves is pulling the audience from the shame of an affair by spinning the rules of sexuality like a whirling dervish. Lesbians aren't supposed to sleep with guys, especially when they are in the thick of a gay relationship. With children to boot!
But it does happen. I've witnessed it. I know legions of lesbians who have suddenly turned on their heel and left our team to find love in the arms of a man. Of course, more often I hear of the opposite. The married woman who leaves her husband for the personal trainer at the gym with curves just like hers, who gives her the fawning attention that hubby failed to.
I even know a man who was married to a woman and had a child with her–who then married a guy. This stuff happens. Of course I wish all gays would stay gay and not pull an Anne Heche (who was still remarkably silly to ditch Ellen for cameraman Coley Laffoon), but, sexuality and gender, and what we knew of it is evolving so fast even us gays can't keep current.
Cholodenko's talent has always been in writing clever dialogue and she attacks this kind of raw and misunderstood material with ease. She was the creative force behind High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and directed episodes of The L Word and Six Feet Under. By casting Bening and Moore as a lesbian couple, she made the whole notion of 'lesbian couple' even more palatable to North America. We've loved Bening in Love Affair, American Beauty and Running With Scissors. Moore was a standout in The Hours, Savage Grace, A Single Man and Chloe. Yes, North America could handle them as a lesbian couple in a movie. Just as the star power of Ellen and Sharon Stone allowed in If These Walls Could Talk 2. Boundaries did a yoga stretch when Ellen and Stone rolled around under the covers in a tastefully erotic make-out scene to the hypnotic sound of Dido's Thank You.
Normally lesbians are misrepresented as man-hating gender warriors. Or glossy sex-mad non-committal types in lipstick(L Word). Feminist cut-throats. Twitchy, abused, misunderstood, fragmented childhood survivors. Wavering, experimenting, disenchanted, strong-willed, lost and unfound types.
Cholodenko gave us two smart and snappy talkers with Jules and Nic. Their kisses were natural, their lives believable. Their hurts very real. And I'm sure, somewhere, somehow, two lesbians have had their relationship tested by the emergence of the sperm donor years later. Peculiar things happen, but the gravity of The Kids Are All Right was in how their knotted lives braided together, unravelled, and then knotted back again, even tighter.
The challenges the couple faces are not brand new to humanity. They are a constant thread in all our lives. We can identify bits of ourselves in the lovers. We have flashbacks of previous partners. We make mental note of how not to act.
Jules: "Go easy on the wine, hon, it's daytime."
Nic: "Okay, same goes for the micromanaging."
They gently bicker, cry down to their collarbones, love each other immensely and push and pull until Jules voices, "Marriage is hard. Two people, year after year. Sometimes you stop seeing the other person."
And this is the significant line I pulled from the movie. There's always one. In September I read an article on empty nesters, and how the separation and divorce rate skyrockets when all the kids are out of the house. The family unit that was so distracted with maintaining the homeostasis of four or five people, slows down and concentrates on two. The writer offered advice, to conquer that transformation from chaotic family life to the return of "the couple" that it all began with. "Keep yourself interesting and interested."
Jules' character hit the bull's eye on the failure of so many relationships. We stop seeing each other. And even though it was a far stretch that Jules fell for Paul and his tomatoes, viewers can see the obvious. He showed interest, he saw her. This is where affairs ignite. Are they wrong? Yes. But, they can happen when the connective threads pull apart and someone else makes us feel desirable and alive.
The movie broaches even larger concepts of forgiveness and resolve–and that resurrecting a wobbly house is possible. It's about how we find our 'tribe' and keep that sacred unit safe. It's done with sharp humour and a startling grip on emotional response (intensely portrayed by Bening at Paul's dinner table with the family).
What could have been a potentially fluffy, fictional romp turned into an intelligent snapshot of all our lives and how we handle emotional distance, restlessness and curiosity.
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Somebody Turned Off That Cloud: The PSN Is Still Down with No End in Sight
Day 6, the PSN (Playstation Network) is still down and no end in sight! Millions of customers are locked out of the Cloud (so to speak). Sony admits that this massive interruption of all that "some of us hold dear" is the result of hackers.
Because customers do online gaming, Netflix, Web browsing, Chat, Blue-Ray movie watching, community stuff, etc. — All using PSN — I'm very much tempted to soapbox the evils of being too dependent on the Cloud (of the see-there-I-told-you-so variety).
However, my interest in the Playstation 3 is not just as gaming station but as a parallel computer. The PS3 just happens to host one of the nicest multicore setups out there for under $500 — namely, the Cell processor.
Actually, desktop computers still haven't caught up to the capability of the Cell. The CBE is a heterogeneneous multicore chip. It is a heterogeneous architecture because it consists of two different types of processors; Power Processor Element (PPE) and a Synergistic Processor Element (SPE). The CBE has 1 PPE and 8 PPEs, 1 high speed memory controller, 1 high bandwidth element interconnect bus, and high speed memory and I/O interfaces all integrated on-chip. This makes it kind-of-a hybird 9 core processor. Figure 1 shows an overview of the CBE processor.
Most of the common CMPs have homogeneous (i.e., same instruction set) processor. The processors on the CBE have two different instruction sets. Although each of the processor elements has been optimized for certain types of operations, both types of elements can be used for general purpose computing.
The first element in the Cell processor is a 64-bit Power PC processor. This element complies fully with the 64-bit Power PC architecture and can execute either 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems and applications.
The second type of processor element is the SPE (Synergistic Processor Element). The SPEs have been optimized for running SIMD applications. Although there are several commercial scientific uses of the CBE, its most common use is as the processor for Sony's Playstation 3.
The Playstation 3 is a flexible device and use to come with the ready to install Linux. Currently, there is Fedora and Yellow Dog distributions of Linux for the CBE. The low cost of the Playstation 3 (PS3) brings heterogeneous multicore application development into reach of virtually any software developer.
The PPE element and the can be programmed using the standard GNU gcc compiler. There is a CBE SDK available for download from IBM that includes tools necessary to compile the SPE code. Basically, the SPE code is compiled separately and then linked with the PPE code to form a single execution unit. The PPE and SPEs act cooperatively with both bringing specialties to the table. Typically The SPEs use the PPE to run the operating system code and in most applications the main or top-level thread. The PPE uses the SPE's as the applications high performance work horse. The SPE's have good support for SIMD operations, compute intensive applications and vector type operations. SPEs are directly accessible. The PPE is a CMT, it is a dual thread processor.
So in the right configuration, we can have logical processors available in a CBE configuration. The heterogeneous architecture also makes for some interesting design choices. While standard POSIX threads (pthreads) and process management can be used with the PPE element, the SPE has to be programmed using the thread library that's available as part of the CBE SDK. The good news is the SPE thread calls are designed to be compatible with pthreads and require no learning curve for developers that are familiar with the pthread library.
The PPE accesses memory differently than the SPEs. Although there is only a single memory flow controller, the CBE avoids the normal single bus bottleneck potentials because the SPE each have their own local memory. Figure 2 shows the memory configurations for the PPE and the SPE.
The SPE configuration is where most of the savings come in. The SPE has a three level memory access. It uses its local store, registers files and DMA transfers to main memory. This three-tier memory architecture allows programmers to schedule simultaneous data and code transfers. The CBE processor can support up to 128 simultaneous transfers between the SPE local stores and main storage. Although the SPE is optimized for SIMD type operations, the PPE has support for parallel Vector/SIMD operations as well.
The CBE is a good example of a multicore that must be directly addressed in order to get the maximum performance from it. The standard Linux system calls can see the dual threads of the PPE but is not fully aware of the SPE. The developer must explicitly develop and compile code that works with the SPEs and then that code must be linked with the code from the PPE. At that point, Linux will know how to handle the 8 SPE processors. The heterogeneous architecture of the CBE also provides exciting design choices for the developer that is willing to dig a little deeper into the possibilities.
An SPE consists of a synergistic processor unit (SPU) designed to accelerate a wide range of workloads providing an efficient data-parallel architecture and the synergistic memory flow controller (MFC) providing coherent data transfers to and from system memory. The SPU does not access main memory directly, but rather must issue DMA commands to MFC. The communication between the SPU and the PPU is through the interconnect bus (EIB).
Since each SPE has its own memory management unit (MMU), this means that it can execute independently from the PPE. But that independence has limits. The SPUs are primarily for optimized for data manipulation and calculation. Initially Sony promoted the PS3 using the fact that Linux could be installed on it, which is the initial reason why Tracey and I purchased several and added them to our Pantheon cluster — Lots of parallel processing power for the buck. After thousands of users (Universities, researchers, small companies, etc.) purchased PS3s to take advantage of the Cell Processor under Linux, Sony decides to take Linux capability away from the users by fiat with a decree something like: "The next time you log in to PSN, Linux capability will be removed. If you need to keep Linux, then do not log into PSN".
While it's not certain whether this latest attack is the result of angry hackers who feel jilted, several of PSN's previous problems were the result of angry jilted hackers. All we can hope is that Sony finds a way to quickly (well, it's too late for quickly), perhaps effectively resolve this issue with the PSN and it's community.
The power of the Cell multicore processor and the PSN are tangible examples of the impending Cloud although Sony does not market it as such. Nevertheless, the PSN is slowly being positioned as a gaming/entertainment component of the Cloud. For one, I cannot get my Socom4 groove on until somebody turns the Cloud back on. Yep, Sony admits to turning the Cloud off (or at least their portion of the Cloud). So after this weekend's purchase of Socom4, we're all dressed up with no Cloud to go to.


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Sparkly star stuffIt's humbling to think that every living thing that has ever existed in the universe or ever will is made of the same stuff as we are - very basic atoms formed in the core of hot stars billions of years ago and set on their interstellar journey when those stars exploded. Your fingers, your circulatory system, your brain, they're all so much stellar debris, combining and recombining in an infinite number of ways, creating life before our own existence and far beyond it into the future. Puts everything into perspective, doesn't it? Now whether or not you have that extra piece of cake doesn't seem to make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things, does it? That's right. We're your enablers. Thank us later. With cake.
Celebrate our friendly neighborhood star stuff with this Solar Orbit Necklace. Its 21" length features not only the Sun and all the planets (including the one that got voted off the island), but also our Moon and the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And there's a little star shaped charm hanging off the 3" extender, like a comet. For those who are about to complain that the beads are not to scale, here's the deal: we wanted you to be able to lift your head despite the asteroids in the belt being visible. We think that's a fair trade-off.
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- Dimensions: 21" total chain length; 1" across Sun, 1/2" Jupiter, 1/3" Pluto
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Guys I just want to thank you for all your help with the input you have been giving us about the 4G bags.
On another note concerning our USED/DEMO kites for sale that we have on our www.epickites.com site. I am posting this so you get a better understanding of our operations and demo/used kite availability and sales.
From time to time I have demo kites that can be made available at a discount. I post these opportunities on the forum, facebook and the EPIC website. Due to the big interest people have, this equipment moves fast (usually within 1 to 6 days, this stock is depleted), and is first come first served. When I post something on facebook or any forums or on our web site they are gone in no time. From time to time it's very hard for us to keep up our web site. For example we had an incident this weekend where someone wanted to buy a Screamer 14 but it had been sold the day before. The site had not been updated (even though we do this as quickly as possible) so we had to tell him that we were sold out. Needless to say he was upset, and informed us that the site was still showing availability. He got angry and accused us of tricking people. Our web staff does not work on the weekends, so updates would not be applied until Monday morning. This transaction occurred late Friday. While we love to make these discounts available to people, please understand that there are very limited quantities and we make every effort to provide this information as quickly and accurately as possible. We very much appreciate your understanding.
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We left fairly early and headed across the Mississippi into St Louis. John was driving so occupied myself taking too many pictures so that I wouldn't have to think about the traffic. I was surprised at how far out you could see the Gateway Arch.
There were very few people visiting the park today. The combination of heat, the threat of rain and the fact that most kids are back in school already worked in our favor.
We decided to take the tram to the top. There was no line and we got a car to ourselves. This was a very good thing. The tram cars are very small. Because of the shape of the arch they are a combination elevator - ferris wheel.
The observation area at the top is designed to hold over 100! If there had been 100 people up there you wouldn't have been able to see anything but the person next to you.
This is the Historic Old Courthouse.
Barges moving down river and a Casino barge in the background.
We toured The Museum of Westward Expansion. This was a sod house display. Can you imagine living in a house like this?
Then we headed down to the riverfront for a 1 hr boat tour. What a disappointment! There were only about 20 of us on the boat and you really didn't get to see much. Not nearly as much fun as a the tour I took on the St Lawrence.
I was facinated with the architecture of the Eads bridge. Completed in 1874 it was refurbished in 2003.
After lunch we headed to Confluence State Park. To reach the point where the Missouri and the Mississippi join you have to drive several miles down a gravel road through cornfields.
When we finally got to the park we were surprised to find a concrete sidewalk leading right down to the river. We were the only ones there and we just enjoyed the quiet. We should have packed a picnic!
When we finally got to the park we were surprised to find a concrete sidewalk leading right down to the river. We were the only ones there and we just enjoyed the quiet. We should have packed a picnic!
I've only seen the Mississippi once before, when we went to Tunica, MS. Both times I expected to be mightily impressed with the river and both times I was disappointed. I guess growing up in NY with our rivers has spoiled me. There was very little river traffic and both rivers, though peaceful in the park, were lacking somehow.
Thunderstorms rolled through this afternoon and evening. The hotel lost power for awhile. Tomorrow we'll be heading to Branson. I'm not sure whether or not I'll have internet access there.


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Reg called more balanced than Wired
Letter Our recent story on government data mining in Singapore drew a letter form Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, which is involved in the project.
Says Dave:
I have just been passed your article in The Register on Singapore's RAHS project, which is slightly more balanced that the Wired article, from which I assume you drew your material.
Just for the record, I agree with more or less everything you say about data mining in terms of its effectiveness when compared to human beings with experience. The aspects of RAHS for which I was responsible assume that humans are the primary interpreters both at the raw data, and large pattern, levels, but also that technology can be used to augment their decision making capability. It's very easy to pick up on the original TIA project in the US (massive data mining) and forget that there was a parallel project (Genoa II), which assumed data mining was not the solution. I worked on that project, and took the ideas across to Singapore's RAHS.
Technology can augment, but not replace, human decision makers. If you looked elsewhere on the blog you would have seen both a response to Wired, and also more recently a summary of the differences between computer and human cognitive processes.
It is to the great credit of the Singapore Government that they have taken an approach based on diversity. Yes, they have data mining (but not TIA) capability from Petersen and others. They also have systems (from ourselves and others) that take a very different approach. Our software is being used (to take one example) to create living oral histories with indigenous people, based on the ideas of emergence (from complexity theory), avoiding crude categorisation or the static nature of many an oral history. It allows people to see patterns, to determine (as I demonstrated in Singapore) nuanced aspects of a government's intent.
So instead of saying "The Iranian Government says X, has Y intent, and will do Z", you represent multiple fragments of public domain material about the Iranian Government as a fitness landscape, in which the unmovable aspects are visible, but the places where there is likely to be an opportunity for change, normally hidden by crude stereotyping, become visible. Such material allows senior decision makers to go from the "big picture" to the "raw data" without disintermediation, and to make better, more nuanced decisions as a result. It also allows them to see the same landscape from different cultural perspectives. At no stage does it attempt to predict a terrorist outrage. That (as you say) is beyond technology in the main.
The knee jerk reaction of Poindexter-TIA-massive data mining-privacy etc. may make for a better story, but it is far from reality.
We won't take issue with you Dave, except over the scurrilous implication that another tech journal could be less biased that this one. ®


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(CNN) -- The special effects exploded too early while Michael Jackson filmed a Pepsi commercial in 1984 and his hair caught on fire, causing burns to his scalp.
Michael Jackson is seen about one month after he was burned filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984.
Jackson blamed that incident for his addiction to pain medication, which was "initially prescribed to cede excruciating pain that I was suffering after recent reconstructive surgery on my scalp," he said in 1993 in a video statement.
Whether through fire, scalding liquid, electricity or other source, burns are extraordinarily painful, said Dr. Peter Grossman, of the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, California, who did not treat Jackson.
Anyone whose head gets burned should go to a hospital immediately, Grossman said, especially because burns are "progressive and dynamic."
"If your hair catches on fire and you put it out and everything looks okay, you have to realize that the burn injury may change over the next 24 to 72 hours," he said. Watch more on Jackson's accident while filming the commercial »
The burn victim also may develop a chronic infection around the hair follicles because the pores from which hair would grow are seared shut, Grossman said.
Baldness is a characteristic consequence of third-degree scalp burns, which indicates the skin has burned down to the fat layer, Grossman said.
But sometimes, because of the good blood supply in the scalp, the deeper cells can help regenerate some of the surface skin, and hair can grow back, Grossman said. This may happen with some second-degree burns, which only injure the top layers of the skin.
Treatment for burn injuries depends on the severity of the burn, experts say.
Once the burn has cooled, health care professionals will clean the wound and remove all nonhealthy tissue in a process called debridement, Grossman said. This may be accomplished by scrubbing, but if the burn is deep enough, the unhealthy tissue must be shaved away, he said.
If skin needs to be shaved or cut away, usually the burn victim will require a skin graft to cover the defect, he said. Without a graft, the healing usually takes a lot longer and scar tissue is more noticeable.
The graft of skin often comes from another part of the patient's own body -- for example, the thigh -- as long as there a sufficient area of nonburned skin for use. The place where that skin came from, called the "donor site," often causes a lot of pain, but heals within two to three weeks, said Jill Sproul, nurse manager at the Burn Center of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, who did not treat Jackson.
The amount of pain that people experience when burned on the scalp varies from person to person, and some may need more pain medications than others, but generally the pain stops when the wounds have healed, Grossman said. This usually takes one to three weeks, depending on the treatment that the patient underwent, he said.
"For most people who have some type of treatment, the most intense pain usually is gone within a few weeks," he said, adding that if the patient had no treatment and the wound healed on its own, there may be prolonged pain.
Some people have small sensory nerves that get trapped in scar tissue, and may experience prolonged periods of pain, he said.
As for what type of pain medications are appropriate, that depends on the physician and the patient's needs, Grossman said.
This may range from Tylenol or ibuprofen to narcotic pain medications, said Dr. Marianne Cinat, director of the University of California, Irvine, Regional Burn Center.
Some burn centers may also give patients anti-anxiety drugs such as Valium, depending on individual needs, Sproul said.
Patients who receive massive amounts of powerful painkillers at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's Burn Center are weaned off them, Sproul said.
Most burn patients do not get addicted to pain medications, Cinat and Sproul said.
"The ones that do usually come in with some preexisting problem, whether it was street drugs, alcohol or some type of preexisting addiction," Sproul said, based on her experience at burn centers.
There are other symptoms that tend to occur with burns, such as itching, for many months after a burn injury, Grossman and Sproul said. Painkillers would not be given for itching, Sproul said.
Among health care professionals there is greater awareness of pain management now than 25 years ago, when Jackson was burned, Sproul said.
Today, in burn centers, higher doses of pain medications can be given, and there is a greater variety of painkillers available than even two decades ago, when Sproul started out in the field, she said.
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Brazil's astonishing collapse in the face of what can only be called a German blitz in the World Cup semifinal Tuesday has stunned fans around the world.
To be sure, Brazil played without their team captain, who was barred after two yellow cards in earlier matches, and without their star striker, injured in an earlier game.
But the 7-1 defeat of a world soccer power on its home turf -- the first such loss in decades -- seems destined to join the infamous list of sports blowouts known to just about everybody.
Here are five to compare with:
Secretariat buries the opposition in the Belmont Stakes, running away with the race by 31 lengths.
The New York Mets, led by Casey Stengel finish their first year with a record of 40-120, 60.5 games out of first place.
Steffi Graf beats Natasha Zvereva 6–0, 6–0 in only 32 minutes in the French Open final. It was the shortest Grand Slam final ever.
Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the league's championship game.
The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3 on Aug. 22, in a game the Orioles led for the first three innings. It was the first time a professional baseball team scored 30 runs since the Chicago Colts defeated Louisville, 36-7, in 1897.
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It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity
Research ››› ››› JULIE MILLICAN
Beyond the echelon of widely known conservative radio hosts with national audiences lies a vast network of lesser-known syndicated and regional radio hosts who have become key components of an echo chamber for conservative talking points and falsehoods. Like their better-known counterparts, these syndicated and regional radio hosts have played active roles this election season in promoting falsehoods and smears in an all-out effort to foment hate and distrust among their listeners for President-elect Barack Obama. While the hosts vary in the degree of vitriol they spew and in their ratio of rebuttable falsehoods to unbridled smears, Media Matters for America and Colorado Media Matters have identified common themes that many, if not all, have promoted over the past year.


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Why is the National Art Centre hosting an event organized by the Islamic Regime Embassy?0 comments - published on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
As many of us are aware the Islamic Regime Embassy in Ottawa is organizing a "cultural event" called Iran the Land of Glory, which is to take place at the National Art Centre, in Ottawa on June 4th.
Given that the National Art Centre is a partially government funded entity it is extremely concerning that the National Art Centre has agreed to host an event organized by the Islamic Regime Embassy.
Due to the limited diplomatic relations between Canada and Iran there is nothing prohibiting the Regime from having this event, but the fact that it is taking place at a government funded entity gives the illusion that both the National Art Centre and the Canadian Government are supporting this event.
I would urge Canadians to not only not attend this event, which is being organized by one of the worst dictatorship regime's in the world, but also to perhaps consider not attending any future events held at the National Art Centre to show dissatisfaction with any entity that will cater to the Islamic Regime, especially on Canadian soil.
The Islamic Regime is no longer a danger which only concerns the Iranian people. A Regime that supports international terrorism, has denied the Holocaust, has threatened the existence of Israel and is in pursuit of nuclear weapons is a danger to the International Community as a whole.
The Regime has also tried on numerous occasions to infiltrate and influence Canadian entities by threatening the National Archives, to prevent them from showing the film Iranium, or by attempting to infiltrate the RCMP Outreach Program. The Canadian Government however has always taken a strong stand against the Regime both internationally and in Canada.
I urge the Canadian Government to once again show its support for the Iranian people by preventing the Regime from having events in Government funded entities. I also urge all Canadians to voice their concern both to the National Art Centre and the Canadian Government in regards to any events being organized by a dictatorship regime which has no respect for life, liberty and culture.
Please view the following video which was created by an Iranian/Canadian activist in protest to this event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYy1ru23txo
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Islamic Regime is Organizing a "Cultural Event" at the National Art Centre in Ottawa0 comments - published on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The Islamic Regime of Iran is at it again, attempting to organize a "cultural event" at the National Art Centre in Ottawa on June 4th 2011. The Regime has been known to organize so called culltural events every so often in order to mask its true nature, and hide behind culture. This is an attempt to move the focus of Canadians and the Canadian Government away from the human rights violations, recent waive of mass executions, rape and torture in prisons and the general illegitimacy of the Regime in Iran.
This event is being organized by the Cultural Centre of Iran which is affiliated with the Islamic Regime Embassy in Ottawa. It is concerning to see that once again the Regime is attempting to show its influence and power in Canada.
I urge all freedom loving activists to write to the National Art Centre and voice your concerns over this "cultural event" organized by the Regime.
Rosemary Thompson, Director of Communications and Public Affairs of NAC (613) 947-7000
Peter Herrndorf, CEO and President of NAC (613) 947-7000
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Or you can send an email from this page: http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/contact/index.cfm
We may have to organize a protest but I am hoping it won't come to that and the National Art Centre will cancel the event. Please call and send emails as soon as you can, and circulate this as wide as possible, especially to our friends in Ottawa.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Execution of Two Brothers in Iran-Habibollah Latifi may be Next!0 comments - published on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Last night two young brothers Abdollah (29) and Mohammad (27) were executed by the Islamic Regime in the city of Isfehan. Two brothers had been arrested in March of 2010 and "convicted" after mock trials without defence lawyers on charges of "involvement with anti revolutionary groups", "armed opposition" and being a "mohareb" (enemy of God).
Last night thousands of activists awaited by their phones, TV's and computers waiting to see whether the executions would be carried out. Thousands of activists had come together on facebook and twitter, circulating news about the brothers, writing to the authorities and hoping that the executions would be halted.
Around 7am Isfehan time the Fatehi brother's mother went inside the prison and was able to visit them one last time, although the prison guards refused to take the handcuffs off of Abdollah and Mohammad so that they could hug their mother one last time before executions. Moments after she came out of the prison two ambulances were seen going inside the prison, and the family was told to collect the bodies of the two brothers from the morgue.
While many of us are grieving the murder of two young political activists we are also faced with the immanent possibility of more executions, starting with the possible execution of Habibollah Latifi which may be carried out as early as tomorrow.
For those who may not remember Mr. Latifi is a 29 year old Kurdish activist who was "convicted" of being a "Mohareb" and "membership in the Kurdish opposition group PJAK" after being subjected to severe torture and going through the usual three minute mock trial.
Mr. Latifi's execution had been scheduled for last December, however thanks to worldwide international campaign, as well the a major protest in front of the prison in Sanandaj, the authorities did not carry out the execution and sent it back to court for "confirmation"
According to various reports the death sentence against Mr. Latifi has once again been confirmed and has been sent to the branch carrying out sentences to be executed. There have been a number of reports suggesting the execution may be carried out tomorrow (May 18th 2011). In any event it is clear that the risk of execution of Mr. Latifi is imminent and I call on all activists and organizations who took part in the campaign of Fatehi brothers to also do what they can to stop the execution of Mr. Latifi.
Mass executions by the Regime have always signaled Regime's fear and despair from the people. We have seen this in 1981, summer of 1988 and most recently after the June 2009 [s]elections. When the Regime feels threatened and weak it kills, it kills in order to bring fear and terror to the heart of the people. In order to make sure people are too afraid to rise up. In the past few months once again we have seen a similar pattern of almost daily executions in Iran, which can only signal the terror of the Regime from the people.
One can only hope that people of Iran will come to realize their strength, and the Regime's fear from them. People of Iran are strong, and the Regime has gotten extremely weak, especially in the past two years, making the overthrow of the Islamic Regime a real possibility. I hope that through this tragedy and perhaps others to come we do not lose sight of this reality.
I certainly hope the recent executions by the Regime have opened the eyes of many who choose to only focus on human rights issues, ignoring the broader and the more real issue which is regime change in Iran.
In the hopes of a day when the Islamic Regime will be overthrown by the Iranian people and we will see a free, secular and democratic Iran.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Mohammad and Abdollah Fatehi on the brink of Execution in Iran0 comments - published on Monday, May 16, 2011
According to news reports from Committee of Human Rights Reporters two brothers Mohammad (27) and Abdollah (29) who are currently being held in the intelligence service section of the Isfehan Prison are scheduled to be executed tomorow morning.
These brothers are political prisoners and were subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture in order to force confessions from them. According to a statement from their father, their lawyer was not allowed to be present during the" trial", after which they were "convicted" of communicating with opposition groups, armed opposition and being a "mohareb" (enemy of God).
The family of the Fatehi brothers have urged all human rights organizations and activists to do what ever in their power to stop the execution of Mohammad and Abdullah.
I am hopeful that people of Isfehan will rise up and stop the execution of these two brothers the same way people of Sanandaj stopped the execution of Habibollah Latifi in December of 2010.
Please circulate and do what you can to get the word out as much as possible. We only have a few hours, so let's do what we can.
Link to original article in Farsi
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
In Memory of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydariyan, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhooli and Mehdi Eslamiyan0 comments - published on Monday, May 09, 2011
Today we mark the one year anniversary of Farzad Kamangar's execution by the Islamic Regime. On that dark day the Islamic Regime executed Mr. Kamangar who was a peace loving teacher and activist as well as four other Ali Heydariyan, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhool and Mehdi Eslamiyan.
While a year has passed we have not forgotten Mr. Kamangar and what he stood for, and we continue to move on the same path for a free, secular and democratic Iran.
While a year later I am still deeply saddened by this tragedy I am also hopeful and encouraged to see that the fight against the Islamic Regime is becoming bigger and stronger every day.
My thoughts and condolences are with the families and loved ones of Mr. Kamangar, Heydariyan, Vakili, Eslamiyan and Ms. Alamhooli.
In hopes of a free Iran where innocent young people will not be executed for "political crimes"
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Trita Parsi NOT Attending the "Iran in Context Conference" in Ottawa0 comments - published on Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Dear Friends,
As many of you may have already heard Trita Parsi had been invited to speak at the "Iran in Context Conference" in Ottawa which is organized by Canada International Council and scheduled for May 5th. Upon hearing this news a campaign was started by prominent Iranian activists in Canada and the United States to expose Mr. Parsi and his agenda for lobbying for the Islamic Regime.
Following an eloquently written open letter by Dr. Arash Irandoost, which was signed by a number of prominent Iranian and non Iranian activists, and an op-ed in the National Post co-authored by Kenneth Timmerman and myself, Canada International Council announced that Mr. Parsi would not be speaking at the conference due to "family and health reasons."
This is another clear example of how coming together and working in a unified fashion towards a common goal can be very effective. We have managed to keep Mr. Parsi from coming to Canada and lobbying for the Islamic Regime, at least for the time being. We need to keep vigilant and continue to work together in order to keep the voice of the real Iranian opposition strong.
I want to send my sincere thanks to everyone who was involved in this campaign, Dr. Irandoost for being the pioneer in this campaign and writing the letter, everyone who signed and helped circulate it, Mr. Timmerman for co-authoring the op-ed and everyone behind the scenes who helped with editing and publication, as well as other activists and organizations who wrote to the Canada International Council about their concerns in regards to the conference.
Congratulations on job well done.
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This is one of my favorite magazines. It's called Our State and each month it is filled unique articles and gorgeous photos about the people, places and most importantly the food you can find here in North Carolina. I spotted this month's issue at the checkout stand at the Harris Teeter yesterday and tossed it in with the rest of my groceries without really reading what was on the cover. I saw the picture of the layered cake and figured it would be an issue that I would enjoy. So last night, after cutting a new batch of fabric squares for the my next Rag Quilt (my newest crafting obsession, might as well ride it out before it passes), I sat down for a few minutes to look at my new magazine.
That gorgeous cake on the cover wasn't anything close to what I thought it was. That is a shot of a Maple Syrup and Country Ham Cake. Mmmm hmmm. What do you think? Could you eat this? Could you serve this at your next party? This is served with a Red Eye Gravy Drizzle!!!
Or, how about this one. It's called The Nabs Cake. Now, for everyone who wonders what the heck a "Nab" is, let me educate you much as I needed to be educated once upon a time. From what I can tell, and it's actually my daughter who informed me, "Nabs" are Southern slang for those orange cheese and peanut butter crackers that you have probably been giving to your kids as a snack all these years. My daughter was babysitting and the Mom she was sitting for told her that when the kids got hungry to just give them a pack of "Nabs" and something to drink. Well, the babysitter called me later in a panic to ask me what "Nabs" were. Heck if I know! You better just ask the kids and let them tell you. The kind we always buy are the Lance Toastchee crackers. I wonder though if they are called Nabs all around the South or just here in North Carolina? Anybody out there familiar with "Nabs"?
The Pimento Cheese Cake (cough, cough, gag, gag,) :) Okay, enough said. I can't even go here.
The Krispy Creme Cake Now, if calories were not such an unwelcome yet important part of my world, this might be a possibility.
And now for the grand finale, I give you The Pepsi "N" Peanuts Cake. I can't say that I am not intrigued and would love a bite before I plunged ahead and made a whole cake. Did you know Pepsi was invented in North Carolina?
I love how creative each of these cakes are and I also love how they identify which ingredients used are from North Carolina. Need something unusual to take to that Superbowl party this year? Any one of these just might be the ticket!
All of these recipes are available on the Our State North Carolina magazine website. Just click on any of the cake names here and you will be linked to the recipes. Bon appetite y'all!


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Are you overly ambitious? You might want to thank your dad for that.
According to a new study, your pop's role in your household can influence your work ethic.
In the study, researchers questioned women to find out who did what in their homes growing up. Those who had dads who were doing less traditional male things, like household chores that involve cooking and cleaning, were more likely to aspire to work outside the home. So if you see that your dad treats your mom like an equal, you're more likely to believe that you can do anything dudes can do.
As someone who grew up with a father who did some of the cooking and cleaning, I can attest to this. I am overly ambitious and such an overachiever it's disgusting. When I was in college, I spent every semester interning. It was shoot for the stars or nothing.
Anyway, I'd say seeing my dad treat my mom with such respect and putting her on his level, dividing the household work, let me believe that women and men can be equal.
How far I could go was never once clouded by the fact I was a woman. Anything guys can do, girls can do...better. Heh.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, White House officials said Thursday.
The plan would involve screening youths in Honduras, one of the world's most violent nations, to determine whether they qualify for refugee status. Similar in-country screening programs were set up in East Asia after the Vietnam War and in Haiti in the 1990s.
The officials cautioned that no final decision on the matter has been made and said the proposal is among a range of ideas the White House is considering. The officials briefed reporters ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting Friday with Central American leaders on the condition they not be identified by name.
The United Nations has been pushing the U.S. to treat children arriving at the southern border from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as refugees displaced by armed conflict. The trio of nations has become one of the most violent regions in the world in recent years, with swathes of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.
Since last fall, the U.S. has seen a dramatic increase in the number of migrants from these three countries arriving at the southern border, particularly children traveling without any adult guardian.
Since Oct. 1, more than 16,000 unaccompanied children from Honduras have been caught crossing the Mexican border illegally. At the same time, more than 30,300 Hondurans traveling as families have also been arrested.
The U.S. has resisted calling the situation a refugee crisis, though Obama and top officials have called it a "humanitarian crisis."
It is unclear what would happen to children and families who have already made the dangerous trek to the United States if the refugee plan is implemented. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has repeatedly said that there is no free pass for immigrants who come to the United States illegally and that those who are caught crossing the border would be sent home.
The administration would also have to outline what the refugee proposal would mean for Honduran immigrants already in the United States. In 1999, the U.S. government granted Temporary Protective Status to Hondurans living in the country illegally in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. The status has been renewed several times since then, and according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about 60,000 Honduran living in the United States have received the protective status.
Immigrants from El Salvador received the protection in 2001 and USCIS says about 202,000 Salvadorans remain the U.S. under TPS.
Newly arriving immigrants from countries granted TPS are not eligible for the protection from deportation. TPS is used from time to time by the government to stop deportations to specific countries when authorities deem it is unsafe to return immigrants.
The New York Times first reported that the White House was considering the refugee program for young people in Honduras.
Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell contributed to this report. Follow Josh Lederman at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP and Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC


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Andy Boyle is principal specialist and IDE concept owner at Nokia.
As a company with innovation wired deep in its DNA, it should come as no surprise that Nokia has decided to take a close look at how task management might make its engineers work even smarter.
Tasktop Technologies provides Eclipse-based integration that bridges developers' coding tools with application life-cycle management technologies used for project management and collaboration. The key benefit is to make it easier for engineers to switch between programming tasks by showing only the code relevant to a specific task. For a developer returning to a task, the task-focused interface answers the question "Now where was I?" Tasktop is commercial software based on the open source Mylyn project.
Nokia's Tasktop Deployment project has two components: A development component that integrates Tasktop and Nokia's Eclipse-based Carbide integrated development environment, and Tasktop connectors to Danube's ScrumWorks Pro and the software configuration management tools used by Nokia engineers. The deployment process takes the product of the Tasktop development component and deploys it in a way that maximizes adoption of the software. We use the Agile Scrum process to manage development and deployment, letting us respond to lessons learned along the way.
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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor
Photos courtesy of Les Degustateurs
Tom Leahy didn't know how he had come to own a bottle of 1985 Lucas Riesling from the Finger Lakes. It had slumbered in his cellar for years, though he had no memory of it as a purchase or gift. It was just there, hanging out among some of the most highly sought White Burgundies, and aged Vouvrays, and vintage Champagne. Leahy might have considered it to be like a Dan Brown book on a shelf filled with Steinbeck. Who could blame him?
Nor did Leahy know what to expect when he chose to feature the Finger Lakes bottle in a blind setting for his tasting group. Les Degustateurs is made up of 18 men in the Chicago area; its name translates to "the tasters." That is an accurate description. Leahy's fellow wine lovers were not the type to only drink first-growth Bordeaux, though one flight planned on this occasion featured two Lafites and two bottles from Petrus. No, this is a discerning group that delights in exploring wines blind and tasting treasures from around the world. The members combine a munificence with a thoughtfulness in selecting bottles from their respective cellars. Predictability was boring.
But even with that open-minded background, Les Degustateurs would not have had much experience with the Finger Lakes.
Putting the flights together for the upcoming meal and tasting, Leahy was hoping to create a flight of five whites from 1984. But he was short. The 1985 Lucas was as close as he could come, and he harbored some misgivings. He was concerned about the age.
Then he thought, "What the hell?" It would be a new experience -- if the wine was alive. If it was dead, it was only one bottle, and it would follow a flight that included a '96 Dom and a '98 Dom. No one would complain.
The opening flight of Dom had shown beautifully at Cyrano, a French restaurant in the city, with the '98 showing more age than the still-precocious '96. Chef Didier Durand's opening two courses were a harbinger of what was to come, a dynamite evening of food that included foie gras terrine with fig compote; wild mushroom cappuccino with parmesan tuile; crispy veal sweetbreads with chestnut confetti; and grilled duck breast with confit of leg and root vegetables au gratin.
The only question, really, was how this unusual Finger Lakes Riesling would show in its group, which was now on the table.
Leahy watched as his fellow tasters moved carefully through the flight of these five wines:
- Chateau Montelena 1984 Chardonnay, Napa
- Olivier Leflaive 1984 Meursault, Burgundy
- Peter Michael 2002 Chardonnay Ma Belle Fille
- Marc Bredif 1984 Vouvray
- Lucas Vineyards 1985 Riesling
It was clear, simply from the reaction of the assembled group, that the Lucas was not corked or cooked. Leahy eventually stopped monitoring the others and set about to taste the wines himself.
There was the class of Leflaive, no surprise. The Vouvray was fascinating, a reminder of the Loire's versatility. But then... the Lucas.
What a shock! Leahy glanced around, smiling to himself, It's alive! He found it crisp and impressive and he could hardly wait to hear what the rest of Les Degustateurs would guess this wine to be.
Not even Leahy could have known that this was likely one of the last few bottles, if not the last bottle, of the Lucas 1985 Riesling still in existence. And who would have worried about it, anyway? It was probably $8 on release, crafted by Ruth Lucas, and in the mid-1990s Lucas herself ordered the new winemaker to dispose of most of the library wines. No one expected those wines to age with grace, and no one cared!
When the group had drained much of the five bottles, each member announced a score. If Leahy was shocked with the wine's vitality, he might have been more surprised now: The Lucas won its flight.
Before the wines were revealed, each member offered a guess as to what they had just tasted. Most of the 12 correctly guessed that they had just tasted a riesling. Several guessed it was a mature Vouvray, associating its scents and flavors with the previous wine in the flight. Manfred, known in the group as the resident German wine expert, offered a very specific appraisal.
"Mature riesling from the Rhine," he said.
Someone else chimed in, "It has a surprising crispness to it."
Several settled on Germany. No one correctly guessed the Lucas Riesling's home region.
Finally, when the wine was revealed, a curious murmur rose above the room. The bottle circled the table. What followed were the familiar palpations of a group of wine enthusiasts examining a heretofore unknown gem.
"Tell the winemaker this wine is supposed to age seven years, not 25!" Manfred exclaimed. "Its longevity is truly remarkable."
Tom Leahy was kind enough to send the photos and his notes to Lucas' current winemaker Jeff Houck -- the same man who was asked by Ruth Lucas to get rid of the old library stock that once contained more of the 1985 Riesling.
"What a true surprise," Houck said. "I would not have expected much, to be honest."
Houck is a modest man but a hard-working winemaker with plans to taste more library wines soon. Lucas' library does not contain the artifacts of the 1980s, the deep roots of Finger Lakes winemaking history. But it goes back for much of a decade, and Houck will build upon that. Soon Lucas will host a vertical tasting of cabernet franc. And why not? It is unrealistic to expect each bottle to stand up in the manner that this rare bottle of riesling did. But how can we know if we don't attempt to find out?


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The family-photo realm has seen a lot of change in the last several years. An amazing number of people use the Web to display their family photographs, and take advantage of new software with applications for genealogists. Incredible as it may sound, Americans will have an estimated 95 billion images on their computers by the end of 2005.
This week, instead of focusing on identification, I want to share some new products, Web sites and trends that will influence not only your photographic habits, but also what you do with your heritage images.
Here in the Northeast, creating heritage albums of family photographs and genealogical information isn't as popular as in other parts of the country. But industry growth suggests that New Englanders will be getting into the hobby in the future. According to the Hobby Industry Association, what began as a $200 million business in 1997 skyrocketed to $1.4 billion in January 2002. With new products and trends continually popping up, scrapbooking shows no signs of slowing down. Digital imaging is even transforming scrapbooks from paper creations to computer creations you can share with family all over the world.
Digital cameras
Have you joined the digital picture-taking revolution yet? There's no reason not to invest in a digital camera: Prices are affordable, and there are models for novices as well as professional photographers. Digital cameras let you preview your photographs as you take them, so you can delete less-than-perfect ones immediately and try again. Plus, you don't have to buy film because all images are stored on a memory card. Read reviews, such as those on Steve's DigiCams, before you buy, so you'll end up with a camera that suits your needs and skill level. If you want to copy old photographs, make sure the camera has a zoom lens capable of getting close enough.
Photo-organizing software
If you have a new Mac, then you should have iPhoto, which ships (or is free) with all OS X models. But if you have a PC, you'll want to invest in one of the photo-organizing packages on the market. There are plenty of choices. One top-rated package is Lifescape Solutions' Picasa, which automatically searches your hard drive for image files in a variety of formats—regardless of whether you scanned them or downloaded them from a memory card or CD—and organizes them into folders. E-mailing images and ordering prints are simple tasks. A nice feature for genealogists is the option to add keywords, which makes searching for all photographs of a particular person or family a snap.
Photo-editing software
My last column mentioned one woman's efforts to improve the quality of a damaged family picture. You, too, can make your family photos picture perfect with photo-editing software. I'd recommend using a version of Microsoft's Picture It! or a program offered by Adobe.
The features that were once available only in professional packages are now standard in photo-editing programs for beginners. Adobe's Photoshop 7.0 has a steep learning curve and is very expensive for the average user, but the new, easier-to-use Photoshop Elements package offers some of the same features. Picture It! comes in an edition easy enough for novice editors, but Microsoft also offers Picture It! Digital Image Pro 7.0, which has more sophisticated options. You'll never have to worry about taking a bad picture again—drop out or add details, get rid of red eye or even sharpen the focus of blurry images. It's all possible with photo-editing software. Keep in mind that it will take some time to learn these programs. Read reviews in computer magazines, so you buy a product that matches your computer expertise.
New Web sites
Finding out when a photographer was in business is easy if you can locate him or her in a city directory. But wouldn't it be helpful to find that information on the Web? Fraser Dunford is adding new data to his Finding Photographers Web site that enables researchers to find working dates for those elusive family photographers.
If you have Irish roots and are looking for family photos, then check out Otherdays.com. This site has images and other materials that researchers will find useful. Sign up for the newsletter to keep up with changes to the site.
This column offers just a brief overview of what's happening in the world of family photographs. I'd love to hear from you about sites or products you've found useful. Please e-mail me at email@example.com. For an upcoming column on photo success stories, I'd also like to know how old photographs have influenced your research or changed your life. I can't wait to hear about your successes!


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We all found love
I created 12 w/e retreats for Gays, Lesbians, Mormons and Fundamentalists to find out they could love each other without agreeing with each other.
Each retreat, about half the participants were repeaters. About 80 different people participated over the 12 retreats: 35 Gays & Lesbians, 25 Mormons, 7 or 8 Fundamentalists about 15 people just wanted to come because it sounded cool.
Each retreat, things would get quiet and safe Saturday night (after being rather contentious Friday night and Saturday). The first retreat, Sat. nite, a gay guy described what it was like that his family wished he had never existed. He cried. It was quiet awhile. Then a Mormon guy described that he had begun grieving for the pointless of his life--all 4 of his adult children want nothing to do with the LDS Church, and Heaven to a Mormon is not an individual promise, it is a family experience. These men stood and embraced each other. Sunday, nobody would go home and those 2 men and their "spouses" exchanged phone numbers and had dinners together and did things together for months.
Maybe the 8th retreat, that Mormon man was present when a gay guy who'd driven to Washington State from San Fran shared with us that he was attracted to teenage boys who were easy pickups because of emotional estrangement, and that the only sex that worked for him was rough sex. Most of us were startled and dumbfounded by this. He began to sob at the bankruptcy of his life. That Mormon guy put his arm around him to give comfort. On the drive home Sunday night, this guy asked, "Nathan, what the hell is the point of these retreats?" "The POINT?? The point is what you did Saturday night! You were totally put off and offended by that man's lifestyle, but you extended love and comfort to his pain! Is there some greater "point" to anything?"
Maybe the 5th retreat, when things got safe Saturday night, an octagenarian who'd come for her 2nd retreat announced, "I want to use the safety of this group to say in public a thing I have never spoken of. When I was about 7 yrs old, my mother was very psychotic and she smothered me with a pillow. She wrapped me in a sheet and buried me in a shallow grave. My dad came home just then and pulled me out and gave me CPR. You know that "Being of LIght" some folks say they saw? I saw him and he said I'd have to go back. You can imaging I didn't much want to. When my father revived me, he told me that if anyone ever heard about this thing, we'd never see our mother again. And I was to NEVER speak of it, and I was to just forget it ever happened. And I did. Until last month when my guru was urging me be freer with my anger and wanted me to scream and shout. Since he had a small office, he gave me a pillow to put over my face while I screamed. Wow!! That brought back memories!!"
Maybe the 4th retreat, this young mother described a loving relationship she'd had with a gay roommate--then came home one day to find the police there. He'd committed suicide. She was so angry with him that they'd been so close but he wouldn't share whatever was going on. So she refused to read his suicide note. And hadn't grieved his death. Too angry. So she, and we, grieved his death. Then she returned the 6th retreat and said she'd found his mother who still had the note, so they sat and read it together and grieved him again.
Several stories like that. I changed from a homophobic, active Mormon to a former Mormon, sometime Sufi "dancer", Sri Chin Moy meditator, Methodist, etc with several gay friends.
A few years ago, my brother backed out of a backpack trip we'd planned. I really wanted to go. I asked my wife what my gay friend, Roscoe, would think if i asked him to go backpacking (there's a rude joke goes along with here) and she urged me to just call. I did, we had a great time!