Tucker Photography 1 week 2500 hits and a few changes to be made… Banner available inside…

Only 1 week has passed and already I have made changes to the Tucker Photography Site. I’ve added a new banner to the page, not that I didn’t like the old one but I feel this one more suits my style. I’ve also added links to several new pages, one to the home page from the top of every page making navigation easier, secondly I have added a contacts page so that people can email me with questions or requests to use my work. There’s a new link on all the pages to this blog, as well as a link to my flickr account and finally a links page has been added for me to link other good photography sites, rollerblading sites and whatever else I see fit. The site is still subject to a few changes but I’m much happier with the new layout.

Here’s a screen shot of the new style what I call v2.0:

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Already the site has had over 2500 hits in its first week and I’d like to thank Rollernews.com for featuring the launch of my site on their blog only hours after it went live. Keep an eye on the site for future updates!! If you would like to link to us using the following banner you can get the code by clicking here More banners and buttons etc will be available soon.
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First Published Photograph!!!

I’ve had a passion for photography for 7 years now ever since I got my first Digital camera aged 15 with its 1.2 Mega pixels. Since I finished University I’ve had the opportunity to focus on my photography as a full time hobby. Upon moving back to Yorkshire I’ve hooked up with a few old friends which has made for some fantastic photoshoots the Poter Brothers and there amazing skills on motorbikes and Michael France and the rest of the skaters over this side of the country have made my hobby much more enjoyable. The new forund pleasure in my photography has reflected both on the quantity and the quality of my work and as a result I have just recently had a photograph published in Unity Magazine August 2006 Edition (an Internation Rollerblading Magazine). see picture below to view the photo in context.


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I’d like to thank the Editor of Unity for reqesting and publishing the picture and Michael France for hooking me up skating like a crazy fool for the shot. Hopefully this wont be the last picture of mine in a magazine and with any luck I’ll be able to get some more images for Unity in the near future. Until then I’ll keep snapping.

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Finally Benscamera.com the Tucker Photography Site goes live!!

I’ve wanted a website for my photography for years and throughout this time I have toyed with many free photo galleries, I’ve made my own html sites on free hosted sites and with ridiculously long url addresses. Finally I bagged myself a domain name www.benscamera.com and began work on putting together a few photo sets so that I could make up a portfolio. In the mean Time I used the domain name I had registered to host the World Wide Productions Skating Community Site and this blog the T-Blog. Now I have spent the weekend working on a new layout for the main page www.benscamera.com after only 20 hours of hard labour the site is now finished for release with over 110 pictures to kick off with I plann on adding more next weekend and then as and when I take them. This site will now be where you can find all my latestfinished work with some spoilers probably making it on here along with images that are good but don’t quite make the cut for the main site. Click the image below to go to the site or any of the 2 links in this paragraph.

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Heres a screenshot of the main page as it looked on release hope it goes down well!

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Discuss: ‘Stalemate brought about by deterrence is not real peace.’

Discuss: ‘Stalemate brought about by deterrence is not real peace.’

An essay By Ben Tucker B.A. Honours Politics and International Relations Lancaster University

The doctrine of nuclear deterrence is a desperate throw in a dice game for the ultimate stakes of ‘peace’, ‘freedom’ and ‘security – winner take all. But in our saner moments most of us realise there can be no winners in this game.[1]

This essay will discuss the issues surrounding the strategic concept of deterrence theory. It is suggested that the stalemate brought about from fear of massive retaliation even after a nuclear attack has been sustained, creates an artificial peace which, at best, results in proxy or limited wars in other parts of the globe and could ultimately result in global destruction. Other writers dismiss these claims quoting historical evidence which support the counter claim that nuclear deterrence can result in a sustainable, peaceful international structure based on a balance of strategic power. Those of the realist field of thought believe that deterrence is the best chance of achieving a peace in an anarchic international system. Throughout this article we shall examine the criticisms and short comings of deterrence theory, including an examination of the human aspect of nuclear decision making, which could lead to possible misinterpretation and misjudgement ultimately resulting in a nuclear exchange. To ensure a neutral discussion we shall also look at a defence of deterrence strategy concentrating upon the realist beliefs of the state acting rationally on behalf of the state as a whole and discuss the contemporary value of deterrence strategy in light of new global dangers such as terrorism.

Those from the realist train of thought believe that the international system of states is one of anarchy, deterrence theory allows for peace despite of this anarchic environment. Neo-realists, such as Kenneth Waltz, believe that states within the international system can be manipulated in one of two ways. Firstly, Waltz describes the ‘defensive ideal’[2] which is based upon the belief that if a state can assemble defensive forces of a formidably strength, any expected attacker would be unable to conquer them.[3] Although a strong defence can act as a deterrent it also allows for security if an attacker were to test ones defences. This is referred to by Waltz as a ‘defensive ideal’ simply because it is an idealistic situation, in reality impenetrable defences are simply unobtainable. The second way in which states can be manipulated is through nuclear deterrence. Deterrence can be defined as ‘the effect when a person, institution, or policy decides not to take action that otherwise would have been taken, because of the belief or strong suspicion that intolerable consequences would ensue from such action.’[4] Technology such as intercontinental ballistic missile systems mounted with nuclear warheads make nuclear weapons almost impossible to defend and if one believes the realist assumption, that states will act in the interest of self preservation, a state which possesses nuclear weapons with a second strike capability, the ability to launch a nuclear attack even after sustaining an similar attack, is unlikely to find itself under threat of attack. According to this deterrence theory, a peaceful international system can be achieved by the manipulation of states through threat of nuclear destruction, a nuclear stalemate is brought about when two or more states possess nuclear weapons and second strike capabilities are available to both states. This situation according to realists is a stable peaceful situation.

Peace can be defined simply by the Penguin Dictionary of International Relations as the ‘absence of war;’[5] this definition however can be interpreted in several ways. Kenneth Waltz is a realist theorist, who argues, in the case of nuclear weapons, the more states which possess them, the better international stability will become. Waltz’s understanding of peace assumes that since nuclear deterrence can result in the absence of war between major powers, nuclear threats can be seen to provide security and maintain peace.[6]

Those which oppose deterrence theory believe that ‘nuclear optimists who believed in nuclear deterrence theory, had not taken into account the stability- instability paradox or a proxy war.’[7] Known as nuclear pessimists[8] these theorists believe that a simple absence of war is not sufficient to deserve the title of peace. If peace cannot be understood by the absence of war as realists would claim, what is real peace? The closest explanation of this term can be found in Glen Williams’s work, ‘real peace implies much more than disarmament peace implies a sense of deep wellbeing – individually and collectively. It arises from relationships of trust, mutual acceptance and support that enable people to develop their full human potential.’[9] Although this may appear to be a very idealistic definition, peace after all is an ideal situation. Using this definition it is clear that a nuclear stalemate would not constitute peace since it relies upon the use of threat and imposition of fear to be effective. Deterrence then must be understood as the absence of war but at the same time the absence of peace, a middle ground broadly described as a non-war condition of world politics.[10]

Deterrence pessimists raise the question of proxy wars as an indicator of how nuclear deterrence fails to provide a stable peaceful environment. ‘Its been a strange sort of “peace” since August 6th 1945, when a small atomic bomb killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima we’ve seen about 150 wars fought with conventional weapons, killing some 30 million people.’[11] Such attacks highlight the fact that although proxy wars can be seen to reduce the likelihood of war between great powers, they still produce millions of casualties. Although the deaths brought about through proxy wars would probably not compare to the casualties resulting from another world war, making them appear preferable, it seems impossible to claim that nuclear deterrence creates peace in the international system. While millions of people die as an indirect result of the nuclear deterrence game fighting proxy wars funded and initiated by states suffering a nuclear stalemate we are far from a state of peace.

A common criticism of nuclear deterrence theory is also a critique of the realist assumption that states are rational actors. ‘Many believe that decisions to go to war are often the result of misperception, misunderstanding, miscalculation and errors of judgement.’[12] As John Garnett points out wars can occur by mistake. If one is convinced by this argument then the prospect of a nuclear stalemate situation becomes a scary thought. If two countries have the capabilities to destroy one another even after sustaining an initial attack and a mistake is made, then it is highly likely that both countries could face destruction. Garnett suggests there are many situations which can lead to a mistaken war and that the majority are due to lack of communication or poor intelligence between states. Poor information of an enemy’s capabilities or intentions can lead to incorrect judgements of the balance of power between states and a failure to properly recognise the risks of ones actions.[13] In such situations a nuclear stalemate environment is argued to create greater risk to survival since mistakes could be so severe, or escalate sufficient to warrant the launch of a nuclear weapon by either side.

The closest example of a near nuclear exchange resulting from misperception which involved a questionable error of judgement was the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962. During this crisis the United States and Soviet Union almost came to blows after ten years of relatively peaceful nuclear stalemate. The soviet decision to upset the nuclear balance which existed, by establishing a missile base on Cuban soil, within close proximity of America, was arguably an error in judgement on behalf of the Soviets. Jeffrey Record argues that the soviets were attempting to regain some of the lead which the United States enjoyed in technical superiority through the acquisition of a strategic base thus compensating their inferior weapons.[14] This was seen be Americans’ as an aggressive move and they responded by blockading access to Cuba and threatening invasion of the island unless construction was halted and the base removed.[15] Because of misunderstandings of the soviets intentions and miscalculation of the American response to the situation the two Superpowers almost initiated what could have easily become a nuclear war. If mistakes can lead to nuclear exchange between the worlds largest superpowers how can we be assured that states which lack the decision making process and intelligence systems of these two great powers will not decided to use their nuclear weapons. Although the Cuban Crisis did not end with the use of nuclear weapons lessons should be learned, that states will continue to take advantage of perceived opportunities despite an enemy’s use of nuclear deterrence.

Another criticism of nuclear deterrence is closely linked with the afore mentioned misperception problem. Human error or fallibility is identified as a major problem with nuclear deterrence strategy. There are many points in the decision to launch a nuclear weapon at which simple human error, or where individual judgement or assessment could result in an incorrectly informed decision to start a nuclear war. Firstly as Jeffrey record explains ‘The foundation of successful deterrence is the deterrees conviction that the deterrer means what he says.’[16] This first example allows for two human errors to be made, firstly the deterree could fail to believe the threat and mistakenly dismiss the chance of a nuclear retaliation for their desired action. Alternatively the deterrer might not convey a sufficiently convincing deterrence threat, in this case the nuclear deterrence could fail finding the deterrer under attack prompting the use of nuclear weapons as a last resort. In either case the human factor is the variable, it is this problem which belief systems theorists claim to be the problem behind nuclear weapons.[17] According to the belief systems approach human beliefs, values and opinions of rational behaviour vary between countries and cultures which supported by evidence offers a compelling argument against the existence of a nuclear stalemate.[18]

Tanya White goes further to suggest that in certain stressful situations where the stakes are large, for example crisis situations, the application of a simplified image of reality can occur within decision making circles.[19] Often considerations between a small number of options can result in the rejection of any other solution which doesn’t fit with an already established view of the situation. Failure to acknowledge other options or information can in turn result in a misinformed decision to go to war. This again is unacceptable in a nuclear stalemate situation where incorrect decisions could result in total destruction of entire states and their populations.

Although we have heard several convincing arguments which suggest nuclear deterrence is a very dangerous strategy it would be ignorant to simply dismiss deterrence as a process for preventing the breakout of war. Neo-realists, firm advocates of deterrence theory, recognise that nuclear weapons do come with various risk, however, they believe that if a state can be prevented from acting in a certain way in effect avoiding the breakout of war through threat of massive retaliation, then extended periods of peace may be sustainable. Waltz in his paper The Spread of nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better makes it clear that nuclear deterrence is not an ideal form of peace but argues it allows for the sustainable absence of war between states which possess nuclear strike capabilities. [20] Despite hearing many critiques of the process attacking its instability, history seems to supports Waltz’s claims since despite huge ideological differences total war never broke out between America and the Soviet Union, even after sixty years of open hostility.

An important counter argument worth noting is raised by advocates of deterrence theory, that is nuclear weapons cannot be un-invented and so in a world of military atomic knowledge it is preferable to have strong nuclear deterrence to ensure security from possible enemies wishing to harness this knowledge.[21] Although this is a very pessimistic argument it raises an important issue; if the entire world disarmed their nuclear capabilities it could be possible for a rogue state, individual terrorist groups, or various other actors to somehow acquire a nuclear weapon. If this happened there would be no credible nuclear deterrence to prevent the rogue actor having great power over the rest of the world. It is precisely these fears which are at the centre of most nuclear states decisions not to disarm.

So what does the future hold for the use of nuclear deterrence? Since the end of the Cold War and more recently in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks it has become apparent that the state must no longer concentrate their security efforts solely in preventing attacks from other states. The emergence of terrorism as the most prominent fear of a large amount of national leader’s world wide could have a dramatic impact upon nuclear deterrence as an ultimate security strategy. Because international terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda are vastly dispersed throughout the globe, operating in networks within both friendly and hostile countries, the credibility of nuclear deterrence could be seen to be compromised. These actors have no territorial homeland and so it can be suggested that the use of nuclear weapons would be dismissed as a possible source of retaliation to any organised attack. A similar argument might also be applied in the case of small rogue or pariah states such as North Korea. Because of the geographically small size of North Korea and its close proximity to a strategic ally of the United States, South Korea, would a North Korean attack upon America result in an equal nuclear retaliation? Even if a small enough bomb could be prepared, assuming regular nuclear warheads have the power to eliminate North Korea as well as damaging surrounding countries, would the neighbouring ally not dissuade the United States from launching? Jeffrey record dismisses these claims asserting that ‘evidence strongly suggests that credible nuclear deterrence remains effective against rogue states use of WMD’[22]

The future looks bleak for the strategic relevance of nuclear deterrence in the face of new global dangers. If rogue states can be controlled by a nuclear deterrence or stalemate situation , there is still the issue of terrorism and war by mistake, both of which become much more deadly in nuclear stalemate situations either through risk of nuclear weapons or technology theft, or through the increase risk of nuclear war. So what are the alternatives? Neo realists argue a defensive ideal would be a much better situation, deterrence pessimists argue for real peace, however both suggestions seem very difficult, almost impossible to achieve in today’s International political climate. According to Jeffrey Record’s article in Policy Analysis 2004 the only substitute for deterrence is preventative or pre-emptive war[23]. His article suggests that when faced with new dangers which cannot be dealt with under their second strike deterrence policy, the United States has seriously considered preventative war as an alternative system to protect America from catastrophic attack[24]. Exemplified by the Iraq War 2004, the preventative war strategy, works on the understanding that if an enemy or perceived threat posses an imminent danger of attack they must be prevented from doing so by force. If record is correct in his assessment, and preventative war is considered as a likely substitute for deterrence strategy, then even nuclear pessimists might agree deterrence is favourable to the alternative. An unstable stalemate which limits the breakout of total war should be favourable to a policy of attacking on the assumption that an enemy might strike first.

To conclude, in answer to the question, is the stalemate situation brought about by deterrence real peace? The compelling argument posed by various authors who suggest peace is dependant upon positive attributes such as trust and mutual acceptance lead us to believe a negative policy based upon the threat of annihilation falls short of a peaceful situation. At best deterrence offers a temporary solution to prevent the outbreak of war between major powers which possess nuclear capabilities while at the same time shifting conflict and aggression in the form of proxy wars, to various parts of the world. Realists believe that nuclear deterrence is the best policy for the anarchic system in the post atomic age. On this point I must agree with realists since the atomic genie is out of the bottle it necessary to protect ones self from the possible use of nuclear weapons. Aided with intercontinental missiles, they are almost impossible to stop, therefore the best protection is the ability to strike back and to use this ability to deter a would be attacker from striking first. The likelihood of preventative war becoming a substitute policy only adds to the sense of security enjoyed in an era of nuclear balance coupled with the historical fact that war has yet to break out between nuclear powers suggests that although peace by deterrence is unobtainable the absence of war is much more preferable to the existence of war.


Bibliography

Calvocoressi, Peter, World Politics 1945-2000, (Pearson Education Limited, 2001)

Evans Graham, and Hewham, Jeffrey, The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations, (Penguin Books, 1998)

Garnett, John, The causes of war and conditions of Peace, ed. John Baylis et al, Strategy in the Contemporary World.)

Krepon, Michael, The stability-Instability Paradox, Misperception, and escalation Control in South Asia, (The Henry L. Stimson Center, May 2003)

Malik, General V P, Limited war and Escalaton Control, (Peace and Conflict, December 2004, vol. 17 #10)

Ogilvie-White, Tanya, Is there a Thoery of Nuclear Proliferation? An analysis of the contemporary Debate, (Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 1996), http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol04/41/ogilvi41.pdf

Record, Jeffrey, Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation, (Policy Analysis, July 8th, 2004, #516)

Waltz, Kenneth, More may be better, published in, Scott D. Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons a debate renewed, (W. W. Norton and Company, 2003)

Williams, Glen, The suicide pact: how to break it, (New Internationalist, March 1983, #121), http://www.newint.org/issue121/keynote.htm

The Conference of Defence Associations, CDA Standing Submission to the House of Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade Regarding Canada’s Policy on Nuclear Weapons, (The Conference of Defence Associations, Ottawa, Ontario, February 17, 1998)




[1] Glen Williams, The suicide pact: how to break it, (New Internationalist, March 1983, #121), http://www.newint.org/issue121/keynote.htm

[2] Kenneth Waltz, More may be better, published in, Scott D. Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons a debate renewed, (W. W. Norton and Company, 2003), p.5

[3] Ibid, p.5

[4] Jeffrey Record, Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation, (Policy Analysis, July 8th, 2004, #516), p.4

[5] Graham Evans and Jeffrey Hewham, The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations, (Penguin Books, 1998), p.423

[6] Waltz, Op cit, p.4

[7] General V P Malik, Limited war and Escalaton Control, (Peace and Conflict, December 2004, vol. 17 #10), p.23

[8] Michael Krepon, The stability-Instability Paradox, Misperception, and escalation Control in South Asia, (The Henry L. Stimson Center, May 2003), http://www.stimson.org/southasia/pdf/kreponmay03.pdf

[9] Williams, Op cit, http://www.newint.org/issue121/keynote.htm

[10] Evans and Hewham, Op cit, p.423

[11] Williams, Op cit, http://www.newint.org/issue121/keynote.htm

[12] John Garnett, The causes of war and conditions of Peace, ed. John Baylis et al, Strategy in the Contemporary World.), p.77

[13] Ibid, p.77

[14] Record, Op cit, p.4

[15] Peter Calvocoressi, World Politics 1945-2000, (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), p.831

[16] Record, Op cit,, p.6

[17] Tanya Ogilvie-White, Is there a Thoery of Nuclear Proliferation? An analysis of the contemporary Debate, (Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 1996), http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol04/41/ogilvi41.pdf

[18] Ibid, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol04/41/ogilvi41.pdf

[19] Ibid, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol04/41/ogilvi41.pdf

[20] Waltz, Op cit, p.5

[21] The Conference of Defence Associations, CDA Standing Submission to the House of Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade Regarding Canada’s Policy on Nuclear Weapons, (The Conference of Defence Associations, Ottawa, Ontario, February 17, 1998), http://www.cda-cdai.ca/library/nuclear.htm

[22] Record, Op cit, p.1

[23] Ibid, p.11

[24] Ibid

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A day in the life of the Potter Brothers!!

3 Guys + 2 Bikes + 1 Camera =

Thanks To Paul and Chris for their Skills on the bikes!!!

Chris Potter rides a Kawasaki z1000

All Photographs are copyrighted by Ben Tucker, benscamera and worldwideproductions please seek permission before reproducing or using these pictures elsewhere.

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New update Bunny Watch Pictures and Videos of the Babies now almost 4 weeks old

The baby bunnies are almost reaching the crucial 4 week point at which most baby rabbits begin to really start weaning from their milk onto food as their main dietary substance. Most websites and books tend to agree that between 4-6 weeks is a very difficult time for baby rabbits which are not raised by their mother, because they are not able to eat cecotrope (I think that’s how its spelt) which their mothers produce giving them good bacteria . This helps to build up their immune system so that they can handle weaning onto stable foods easier. Now we have supplemented out cute little rabbits with a couple of replacements which help to do the same job (Colostrum and KMR mentioned in a previous post) so we are hopeful that the 4 babies will adapt to eating solid food ok and we pray that ours are not unfortunate as many other litters are.

Don’t Worry There’s Pics and Videos Below the Update ;)

The rabbits have already been eating some solid food since the first couple of weeks the Black Rabbit Bunny F has been eating some of the hay in the cage and since over a week ago he began eating a little bit of dandelion leaf. It was difficult for him to chew but he was persistent and we continued to put in fresh washed leaves (because of the heat they were going off quite quickly) and sure enough he and soon after the rest of the bunny rabbits began to eat whole leaves and now grass as well. Over the last few days in fact the babies have really been having a decent sized portion of grass and leaves each day between them as well as occasionally eating the new hay we have placed in the cage

They are still having quite a bit of milk I’d say averaging about 50-60ml a feed between them, which has surprised us since we had read that once they begin to eat solid food their milk consumption can drop to about 4ml each a day. However they don’t yet seem to be taking to the water, we can’t watch them all day but it doesn’t seem to be going down and we haven’t noticed them drinking from it either.

Well the 4 baby rabbits still remain alive and well and here the pictures and video’s as promised from over the last week or so enjoy…

And the Videos:

6th of July 2 Weeks Old Download Here 7MB

13th July 3 Weeks Old Download Here 6MB

15th July 3 Weeks Old Download Here 5MB

17th July 3 1/2 Weeks Old Download Here 6MB

17th July 3 1/2 Weeks Old Part 2 Download Here 3MB

As you can see from the recent pictures and videos the babies are really coming along strong, handling them is not a problem at all in fact they really seem to like it when they are cupped in our hands they get really settled. They are feeding much stronger and taking much more milk as well as eating dandelion leaves. and now they are down to only 2 feeds a day about 12 hours apart (normally 6:30am and 6:30pm) and at 4 weeks old we are keeping our fingers crossed they survive this crucial period. Thanks again for reading and we hope you’ll come back and check on the bunnies again.

**Stay Tuned To Bunny Watch**

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Download Your Free MP3 TV Theme Tunes Classics from the 80′s and 90′s you must remember

Update: Anyone looking for the transformers theme tune check here for my new post

Here is a list I have made of 20 classic TV show theme tunes and 50 classic cartoon theme tunes in mp3 format for you to sample or Download for free . TV theme tunes are ace they bring back so many memories from your childhood its unreal and its amazing how quickly you remember the words form some of those old favorites. Now I know there are a lot of resources out there for acquiring and listening to classic TV theme tunes, and I bet a lot of the shows are even on youtube by now but regardless here’s some of my favorite TV shows and Cartoons from the vast collection of TV theme tunes I have.

20 Classic TV Shows Theme Tunes You Must Remember

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3rd Rock From The Sun

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A-Team

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Happy Days

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50 Classic Cartoon Theme Tunes You Must Remember

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Bananaman

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Button Moon

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Captain Planet Theme

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Captain Planet Ending

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Centurions

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Chipmunks

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Clarissa Explains It All

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Count Ducula

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Count Ducula Ending

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Danger Mouse

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Darkwing Duck

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Back in 2006 MP3s and MP3 players weren’t as popular as they’ve become now with 2007′s MP3s. Now as we approach 2008 the 2008 Olympic Games will probably be played on many MP3 players worldwide.

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Rabbits feed like crazy on new mixture of Baby formula, KMR and Colostrum!

Today has been a great day for the bunnies so far, after seeing their feeding drop quite a lot yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to find that the babies first went through a 25ml bottle sucking it dry then i filled up another bottle (since one of the babies hadn’t even been fed by this point) and they continued to have another 10ml of feed. On top of this 2 of the Babies Bunny’s B and F both had some dandelion leaf today. We’re still not sure if this will be digestible by them but It was one of the things suggested for weaning and they seem to be quite interested in nibbling on it. The leaves are taking quite a bit of crewing for the babies and they often have to eat for about 40 seconds before they can break a piece off into their mouths but still anything is better than nothing just be patient.

The KMR. I bet a few of you are wondering how the KMR went with the young baby rabbits well at first last night when we mixed the formula with water (as the guidelines suggest, however we did have to estimate for their weight since we had no scales) the babies did not seem to warm to the taste often drinking a little then moving away but still continuing to drink a little at a time just not sucking the teat as they sometimes do. When we tried them with normal milk (baby milk stage 1 still) they had a little more and seemed to accept it better. This morning I prepared normal stage 1 baby milk with about half a tsp on powder KMR to 25ml of baby milk, although this is quite a bit under the recommended amount of KMR I think trying to get them used to it is much preferred than stick them straight onto it. They seemed to love the new mix as I have already mentioned taking about 35ml between them in this mornings feed and really seeming to enjoy it.

9 hours later… Ok since I started to write this post (and forgot to post it to the blog we received another package. This time the mail man brough Kitten Colostrum 90g which is apparently one of the main things in a mothers natural milk which helps small baby mammals develop their immune systems. Although this is not essential we recommend getting hold of some if your circumstances and budget permit (from what Sara said its quite hard to come by). On the final 2 feeds of the evening we made a mixture of regular stage one baby milk 40ml, 1tsp KMR and 1tsp Colostrum and the bunnies had had no trouble accepting the mixture and have in fact been very eager with the bottle and lively in between feeds so all signs are good.

I think tomorrow we are going to try to drop them down to 3 feeds maximum with the milk once in the morning again in the evening when Sara returns home from work and again before bed at about 11pm, we need to do this so that when I start my new job next week the rabbits will hopefully be alright when I am gone and my Mother should be checking in occasionally to see if they are ok. Hopefully I will be able to grab some more pictures tomorrow since I think the little baby rabbits are really growing quite a lot recently (at least it seems that way to me). and I’m sure youall wont mind a few more snaps of the little critters.

We remain hopeful that the babies are doing quite well and we hope they continue to eat and stay fit and strong just a little while longer while they build up their natural defences. Thanks again for visiting…

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Bunny’s hit the hay!

Today has been quite an odd day for the bunnies, After a really good feed last yesterday afternoon I wasn’t surprised to find that the rabbits weren’t very hungry at 2am when I tried again to give them some milk between them they managed about 10ml and I let them settle down to go to sleep. When I first fed them this morning I expect that they would be quite hungry and have a lot of milk to I prepared about 30ml of milk for them only to find that there was just under 20ml left after they were all done with the bottle. This was quite odd I though 2 feedings of about 10ml when they had been having almost that each the past few days. Anyways I have proceeded to keep trying them with milk every couple of hours and every now and again one of them will really take to the teat and get its fill.

When I just went to feed them about half an hour ago I noticed that Bunny F was nibbling on the hay in the nest, we thought we had seen him doing this before but it was only very small amounts before which we simply dismissed but now it was quite clear he was eating some of the hay. This must be a good sign, I’ve read that they don’t usually wean onto solid food until well into the third week and we are just approaching that stage now. Perhaps the bunnies are catching up with their natural growth rate and beginning to develop as normal, at any rate I’m seeing this as a good sign. Once I had given each of the babies a go with the bottle (again they did not take very much) I again heard the sound of one of the little rabbits chewing on hay, only this time when i went closer i found that all of them were having a little nibble. It might seem like small progress to some but I’m hopeful that this means they are going to have a good go at the weaning process.

The KMR has arrived this afternoon, I haven’t yet tested It with the babies we plan to do this later this evening and I’ll post again later to let you know how that goes, if anyone is interested we got the KMR milk from MPM Products Limited (www.mpmproducts.co.uk) a UK supplier of the Kitten Milk Rplacer.

Another little thing. It may have just been a freak co-incidence but I saw one of the little baby bunnies go to the toilet outside the nest before scampering back inside again. again only a minor detail but I was quite impressed they were potty trained already :) . I’m pleased to announce that all the babies despite not feeding very much from the bottle today are very active and have been exploring the cage an awful lot, looking over the edge and at their surroundings.

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Beginners guide to the paint brush tool in Photoshop. A simple tutorial on how to change brush packs.

This is a simple tutorial on the basics of using and changing brush backs or brush sets in Adobe Photoshop. Aimed at beginners, this tutorial is probably common knowledge to many Photoshop users but I feel so many people are missing out on the true power and potential of the paint brush tool in Photoshop.

I used Photoshop for almost a year and felt quite comfortable with most of the features and felt I had an adequate working knowledge of the program. It was not until I read some online tutorial (which featured a brush pack) that I discovered the real potential behind this brushes in Photoshop. Brushes can be change and manipulated in so many ways as well as featuring the ability to load up preset brush packs (which are readily downloadable on the internet for free in many places.) which are mind blowing in their content compared to the standard supplied brush sets. The tutorial Itself will consist of simple step on how to change your brush packs from their default settings and how to revert back (I thought this would be a good idea since It can be quite confusing if you just want the original brushes back). I will also run through briefly at the end where you put your new brush packs that you acquire and how to make them active in Photoshop so that you can use them. After This you will find a list of resources where you can download and sample new brush packs from the internet and begin uncovering the new power of Photoshop brushes.

Changing Bush Packs In Photoshop

Ok So you want to change your brush pack. Start up Photoshop and open a new blank document.

Step 1: Click on the Paint Brush tool in Photoshop on the toolbar. (see Image A)

Step 2: Click the small downwards pointing arrow next to your brush to open the brush menu allowing you to choose different brushes from that set and change their basic settings (hardness and size). This is also the place where you will access your brush packs from.

Step 3: Click the small arrow which points right just next to the box which lists the size of the brush illustrated on Image B. This opens this list of your current loaded brush packs and from here you can select which pack you want to load.

Step 4: Simple click the pack the you want to load up I chose the Stars brush pack which is not a default set for Photoshop and so you probably will not have this one try Special Effect Brushes that’s a fun pack.

Step 5: When you select your chosen brush pack you will be faced with a dialog box that prompts: Replace current brushes with the brushes from [brushpackname], and the options ok, cancel, Append. This just confirms you want to apply the new brushes and it is very easy to switch back so feel safe to click ok.

Step 6: Thats It your new brushes are installed all you need to do is select a brush preset from the new set and your ready to begin youing them. (While most new brush packs meant for regular painting some are designed for one click patterns please check the brush with a single click first before painting with it to see which type it is both have a different effect, experiment and enjoy.)

Getting back to basics!

Getting back those basic brushes that we all know and love couldn’t be any easier. Using the same technique as to change brushes open your brush window, click the right pointing small arrow and select Basic Brushes. This will return your brush pack back to their default setting (note: you will have to select a brush from that back to activate the brushes otherwise your last selected brush will remain). See below Image E for how to change back to basic brush pack.

Ok I get the idea where can I download more brushes?

There’s tons of cool sites out there that offer brush packs to download so googling brush pack should bring up quite a few results but here’s some of the sites that offer brush packs what you can check out first:

  1. Deviant Art – Offer a great extensive range of cool brush packs submitted by users definitely recommended for people wanting some funky brush packs.
  2. In Obscuro – Nela Dunato’s personal showcase of brush packs some excellent work there.
  3. Flock – Flock is a breakthrough in digital resources. Flock is one file, containing over 300 files inside. Flock contains 153 Fonts, that self install, 158 brush packs for Photoshop 7 and up, self install, and over 50 additional packs for Photoshop 7 and up. This is the one file that every digital, graphic, and web designer needs. And best of all it’s free.

If you offer a selection of brush packs to download please feel free to leave a link to your site in the comments section below and ones I really like will be added to this list later.

So I have downloaded these brush packs now what do I do?

Most brush packs are hosted as .zip files (for those of you unfamiliar with this format it is an achieve that can be opened with several programs winzip being the most commonly used we however suggest 7-zip a great free ware program that will do the job.) once unzipped you are left with a file that ends with .abr extension, this is the brush pack file and provided you have Photoshop installed it should look like Image F (CS2 anyways any lower versions the image may differ). this file then needs to be copied into the correct directory in your Photoshop program files. for CS2 users that should be located at: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Brushes (Providing C: is your main drive) for Photo Shop 7 Users I believe the address is: C:Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/Presets/Brushes (however I don’t have that version so cannot confirm this) just add that address to the address bar in your folder window and paste the .abr file. Once this is complete you will need to close and re-start Photoshop (if you have it running otherwise just open it) for the brushes to be found by Photoshop and they are then ready to add using the technique listed above.

I hope this basic tutorial has been of help to some of you and comment / feedback are always welcome.


As technology continues to expand art projects for children will have to change, and soon children’s arts and crafts will include the use of things like Photoshop and children’s versions of such art programs. Parents would do well to learn these programs so kids art programs won’t baffle them.

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Another little update Bunny F feeding frenzy plus more pics from today!

Oh My God Bunny F Was hungry, I just got through feeding them and they were all quite happy to received at least a couple of ml but Bunny F who had previously seemed to struggle with the transition between the pipette and the new Lactol teated bottle (not rejecting but finding it harder than the others to feed from) got the idea of the teat and the technique down quite well murdering about 7ml which finished off the 20ml bottle I had prepared for them (slightly smaller amount that usual but I thought they wouldn’t have been very hungry).

The all seem to be much more settled now just minutes after the feed and will hopefully curl up and go to sleep quite soon, regardless I might offer them another small (15-20ml) feed before I go to sleep at about 3am. The babies have grown much more fur of their own in the past few days as you may have noticed on yesterdays pictures, Bunny F who has always been quite hairy has got much thicker fur now and has developed a little brown beard under his chin, and the rest are now almost covered with a couple still sporting bald head I’m hopeful that they will be growing quite a lot over the coming week or so and I plan to take plenty of photographs to chart their progress.

Here’s a few more pictures I captured today of the Bunny’s I’ll leave you with that while I finish up and feed the babies one late time before bed

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Just a quick update…

Its 1am and the bunnies are exploring! I don’t know what to do with them. They were fed only an hour and a half ago and 3 out of the 4 had a decent serving, surely they cant want more milk already?? Maybe they are not cosy enough anymore. As you might have read on yesterdays update I had been on the mothers old cage and taken more of the fur she had pulled out (almost all what was left) and made the bunnies a new nest, Needless to say they absolutely loved it and seemed to sleep so well after feedings in it but only 1 day later the nest was soaked with pee from the bunnies and the nest ruined. I’m not sure what the suggested course of action is when babies pee in the nest but we have tried to clean up what wet hay we could and replace with new hay. This has obviously reduced the amount of mother fur in the nest.

Bunny F seems the most active this evening and he’s in and out of that nest loads, I’m just a little worried that if he continues he may get cold and I also dont want him to loose his way in the night like one of the previous bunnies that has since passed away. I guess all I can do is try to give them a little more milk see if thats what they are after if that doesn’t work I’m not sure how to calm them down, we’re pretty much all out of mothers fur so I am going to see if we can trim a little off her while a stroke her tomorrow all being well (I’ll let you all know how that goes…) Sara has ordered her new milk not quite sure what deal she managed to pick up but its definitely the KMR stuff and I’ll let you know how that goes down with the rabbits and if its successful I’ll pass on any links I have on where to get it.

That’s It for now

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Bunny Watch The Latest News!

Time for an update, and I’m sure you’ll all be glad to hear that the baby rabbits are coming along great. as you could probably see by the pictures I took and posted yesterday the bunnies have grown quite a lot in the 8 days we have had them and they have all now go used to opening their eye’s and are becoming very active and strong. We have continued to feed them on baby milk, however we have switch to cow and gate brand now, since it claims to be closer to mother milk than the rest (this could be completely wrong and might make no difference but the babies seem to enjoy it). They are now taking upto 6/7 ml a feed now which is a huge improvement since the first week and they are seeming to be progressing quite normally according to most websites which say they should be drinking about 22-27ml a day by week 2-3.

We did have 1 major break through with the feeding however. We heard from a friend of a friend who knew a vet that there was some special milk out there which was designed for baby rabbits and which was very close to a mother rabbits milk, the name of the milk is KMR (although it is meant for kittens is is suitable for baby rabbits ) and despite our search to several large petshops to find It we have currently been unsuccessful in acquiring some. We did however manage to find a Lactol Feeding Set which contains a small bottle with a screw on teat (exactly what we had been looking for) the set comes with 3 spare teats and is perfect for the bunnies in size and after cutting off the end of the rubber teat the baby rabbits have really started feeding much much better. I think the pipette was ok for the first couple of days but it relied upon us dropping the milk into their mouths where as with the teat they can suck the milk at their own pace, I would recommend this set to anyone trying to raise orphan bunny rabbits.

The new bottle and teat has really speeded up feeding time and coupled with their growth has had a noticeable effect of the rabbits, they seem to love it and are really relaxing more when feeding but at the same time taking in much more at their own pace. We have made another nest right next to the original nest after finding that their old nest was a little damp from their urine. and I got some more of mother fur to line the new nest and we have made it so that they can (if they wish) get between the 2. We would hope that they would use the old nest as a toilet but I think its hoping a bit much at this stage but who knows…

The bunnies are coming along fantastically and we have managed to find some of that bunny replacement milk by KMR on a UK based online pet store and are planning on purchasing some for delivery next week. Will keep you posted with any more developments and any more pictures if the opportunity arises.

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21 Images of the 4 remaining 2 week old baby orphan Rabbits

Thought I would Make This a Picture Blog Entry and then post an update on the bunnies progress over the last 2 days later tonight so here is 21 Picture of the 4 remaining orphan Bunny Rabbits:

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Some of My Photo’s Make Main Page of RollerNews.com :)

Ok so some pictures from a photo shoot I did made it into the Rollernews.com  Blog :) . An article was posted about my photographs by David Durrenberger aka Koubis who posts in the Rollernews blog, the url to the main page was given to me by my good friend Grif just pointing out that the images had made it onto the front page. Needless to say I was complimented that David had really liked my photo’s enough to post them on the Rollernews site, He found them in my gallery on flickr so i was completely unawear he was going to make an article about them. Its always a nice surprise to see when your work is appreciated and since the article was posted the some of the images have had over 600 views in only a few days :) if you want to read the article about my pictures on rollernews.com click here To see the full Photo Set on Flickr click here or view them in the rest of the post (click the images to enlarge them).

True Mizu Sequence

Top Soul To Mute Top Soul

Fishbrain

Backside Royale Backslide Christ

Backside Royale

Great Big Thanks To David Durrenberger whos artwork will be online soon at http://koubis.online.fr/

and to RollerNews.com for featuring the article and sending so many visitors to my gallery everyone should visit those 2 sites!!

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