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Kodak EasyShare M863 8.2 MP Digital Camera
The M863 is simple to use and packed with the features you need to get great looking pictures. Plus, it's pocketable and available in stylish colors with optional fun accessories-all at a price you can afford.Face detection technology For great shots of friends and family, face detection technology locates faces and automatically adjusts camera settingsDigital image stabilizationReduce blur caused by camera shake or subject movementKODAK PERFECT TOUCH TechnologyMake your pictures as vivid as the moment you took them. Print better, brighter pictures using KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology.Make better, brighter pictures Relive your memories in richer detail, Clear up dark shadows to reveal more smiles High ISOCapture the details in low light conditions and fast action situations with high ISO (up to 1600)Customize your experienceMake a statement-pocketable with stylish colors and fun accessories to choose from including bags, wrist straps, and neck straps, Selectable sound themes available Shoot video with easeRecord continuous VGA video (640 ? 480) at 15 fps with sound and on-camera editing, Video print options include 1, 4, 9, and 16-up prints Multimedia slide showTell your story your way using the multimedia slide show feature.Show off your picturesGet a good look at your pictures on the large 2.7 in. (6.9 cm) indoor/outdoor color display, Whether you shoot your pictures vertically or horizontally, view them right side up with auto picture rotation Li-Ion rechargeable batteryDon?t miss a shot with the security of in-camera charging and the power of the Li-Ion rechargeable battery*Scene modes and picture enhancing featuresCapture a great shot time after time with 20 scene and 3 color modes such as portrait, children, snow, beach, and backlight Combine up to three shots into one large picture with on-camera panorama stitch mode Easily create great shots with features such as on-camera cropping, blurry picture alert, and digital red-eye reduction Using the sound tagging feature, record names, dates, and events to go along with your pictures Internal memory plusDon't miss a shot if your memory card becomes full-switch to in-camera memory quickly, thanks to the internal memory plus feature 16 MB internal memory** and SD/SDHC card expansion slot let you start shooting right out of the box Features:


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The most important source of information for people making a day-to-day health decision, in many cases, is not a website, or even a clinician, but another person who shares the same condition. As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?….Pew Internet research shows that when someone has a mobile device connected to the internet, they are more likely to share, to forward, to create, and to consume online information, from text to photos to videos. They are more likely to participate in the online conversation about health…Just like peer to peer file sharing transformed the music industry by allowing people to share songs, peer-to-peer healthcare has the potential to transform the pursuit of health by allowing people to share what they know and connect with other people.
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This is an area I've been watching and thinking about for a while. I guess it's somewhat related to my previous post on digital illiteracy. My theory so far is this: As communities of color become the majority in the United States, and digital communications and online communities continue to play a large part in accelerating conversations, health issues which are unique to those communities will take the spotlight and shift the domestic health and wellness industry. There are already signs of this happening, but it'll be a while longer before the weak signals fuel a real shift. Any thoughts?

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A Manual of Style for Compliance
I've seen some poorly drafted compliance policies. The source of the problem is usually that they were written by lawyers, for lawyers. That is good when it comes to defending your firm against a lawsuit. But it's a bad thing if the policy does not clearly tell the employees what they can do and what they can't do.
This problem has been running through the legal industry for years. The Securities and Exchange Commission even published A Plain English Handbook: How to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents. The SEC was hoping a non-lawyer could read a corporate filing. There is still little hope of that five years later.
I don't think it's the fault of law schools. Like many young lawyers, I was taught in law school to avoid most of the archaic legalisms and to write in a manner closer to plain English.
But for most young lawyers, that writing style is discarded as they start practicing as a junior associates. You quickly realize that you need to write in way that pleases the partner or senior associate you are working for. You are in no position to tell the more senior lawyer that the contract would be better with less legalese and more plain English. You are responsible for one little piece of the transaction. Whatever you draft or edit needs to look and read like the rest. That means lots of legalese.
As you gain experience, you get more direct contact with clients and take the next step of writing to please the client. But clients don't like having their forms changed. That implies that something was wrong with the old forms. Clients generally don't want to pay for a lawyer to re-draft the form that they had already paid to have drafted years ago. They especially do not want to pay for style changes or removal of legalese.
Eventually you become senior enough that you can start making changes, but it's generally on the fringes. You may get a bespoke agreement to draft that is not based on a precedent or form. You don't have the free time to recreate the form documents to remove the legalese and adopt a more sensible legal writing style.
Ken Adams advocates a more sensible approach to contract drafting. I'm not sure when I became a fan of Ken's thoughts on contract drafting. It was probably during some wasted time arguing over whether a contract performance standard should have "reasonable efforts", "best efforts", or "commercially reasonable best efforts". I studied his approach and tried using some of his well-reasoned and well-researched approaches. But it was mostly at the fringes.
Now that I have left corporate law to join the world of compliance, there are still many useful aspects of his thoughts on contract drafting that apply to compliance. When he offered me a review copy of his latest, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, I thought it would useful to look at his style approach in the context of compliance.
There are lots of lessons in the book for compliance professionals who are tasked with drafting policies and procedures. There is the obvious lesson of not using a dollar word to do a "nickel's worth of work." Policies and procedures need to be clearly written and easy to understand. You want to avoid the problem that could lead to a law suit. You don;t want to have to rely on a lawyer for interpretation.
For compliance, you probably don't need to spend much time in Chapter 8 exploring "reasonable efforts and its variants." Here's the spoiler: U.S. courts have overwhelmingly rejected the notion that best efforts represents a more onerous standard than reasonable efforts.
Chapter 12 is full of great lessons on syntactic ambiguity that will improve your policies. While there are a few chapters that are applicable only to contracts, the bulk of the book has lessons applicable to drafting policies and procedures.
Many lawyers will disagree with some (or many) of the approaches that Ken proposes. His substantive positions are backed up by legal research and grammar expertise. It's hard to argue with facts
My biggest disagreement is on a style approach. I prefer more depth to my numbering scheme. Ken stops at the second level. You can see that approach in the layout of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Each paragraph is numbered. But with the flat numbering, concepts appear scattered. For example I would have preferred the MCSD enumeration scheme to be section 4.53, with each of the paragraphs discussing the scheme to be 4.53.1, 4.53.2, …, instead of 4.53, 4.54.
Even if you don't adopt Ken's approach you should at least learn about the substance behind the approach. You can purchase A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting from the American Bar Association.
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The Museum's artist-in-residence Toby H. Richards led a yarn-painting project for UAB's Multicultural Diversity Programs and Student Life Council to celebrate Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, as part of their College Night series. During UAB's Native American Heritage Month program in November, Richards also introduced students and faculty to Native American art through artifacts from the Museum's culture case collection.
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Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery Success Story: Terrilyn Jackson
I decided to have the surgery because I wanted to get off my blood pressure medications and... be around for my kids and grandkids.
— Terrilyn Jackson: Gastric Bypass Surgery, 2007
Turning to food for comfort, Terrilyn Jackson began overeating at about age 11. As a teenager, her weight went up and down. And after she got married, her weight increased after the birth of each of her two children.
Most of Terrilyn's meals included fried meat, potatoes or rice with gravy, corn or peas, and dessert. She was eating chips, cookies, ice cream, and other snack foods, but not very many fruits and vegetables.
"I decided to have the surgery because I wanted to get off my blood pressure medications and I wanted to be around for my kids and grandkids," Terrilyn explains. "I was shortening my life everyday."
Terrilyn had gastric bypass surgery in 2007. Within a year she had lost nearly 90 pounds. Terrilyn exercises on her treadmill one to one and a half hours in the morning, at least five days per week. She also stays on schedule taking her vitamins and minerals, and attends support group meetings regularly.
Terrilyn is now very portion-conscious and tries to stay away from fried foods. She eats mostly baked or grilled chicken or fish, but not a lot of beef. When eating out, she either takes at least half of her food home or orders a child-sized portion. And she makes sure she drinks her liquids. Terrilyn still has the occasional snack, but she makes better choices than she used to and stays away from vending machines.
Terrilyn can get down on the floor and play with her grandkids now, too. Before losing the weight, it hurt to get down on the floor, and she had to hold onto something to get back up. Terrilyn says it is also more comfortable to fly now. Before she had weight loss surgery, she felt that she was getting too big to sit in the seat. "I was almost to the point of needing an extender." A big milestone for her was being able to tighten the seatbelt and have extra room left.
She also has more energy. On weekends, she enjoys going places and doing things with her grandkids, such as walking around the mall. "I'm just out more, doing things. Shopping is more fun now. Before, I would get winded or tired walking around at the mall. Now I have to slow down because some people can't keep up with me anymore," Terrilyn explains.
Terrilyn says that losing the weight has also helped her look younger. "If the grandkids are with me, people think they are mine."


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HYCCT1208 HYCCT (Spelling challenge)
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Challenge Title: HYCCT
Hostess: LMcAree aka Lori
Keyword: HYCCT1208
Date: Monday, October 8st, 2012
Hi everyone and welcome to day 8!!! We're so glad you are joining us, thank you!!
My challenge to you is to use the letters HYCCT in your card or project! You can use any supply or technique, let your imagination go wild!! Please be sure to include what you used in your description!
Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing:
H - Happy Birthday, Hexagon, Heart, Heat Embossing
Y - You, Yellow, Yarn, Yoga
C - Circle, Copics, Cupcake, Cork
C - Car, Clear, CAS, Cut
T - Teal, Thank You, Tree, Twine, Thumping
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1. All Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Entries must be uploaded to the Hope You Can Cling To Gallery, with the specific challenge keyword, no later than November 7th, 2012 at 12:00 Noon Central Time to be eligible for our fabulous prizes! Post a link to your entry in this thread.
2. You may not combine challenges, but you are welcome to create multiple cards for each challenge.
3. Please remember to put in the correct keyword when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos.
4. Please package all challenge entries with an envelope, protected with a clear plastic bag and mail them to our partner at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their family. We would like for them to receive cards throughout the month of October, but we understand if you'd like to mail all your cards at once.
5. Since these cards will be used by visitors for patients, most should be blank inside, but feel free to send cards with messages of hope for the patients in addition to your challenge cards!
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(Please note - because MD Anderson is part of the State of Texas, they ask that no religious sentiments be used on cards sent to the Cancer Center)
Thank you for participating in this card drive!
Here's my H-Y-C-C-T card!
HYCCT1208 H-Y-C-C-T Tilda by muzbysmom - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
This was a fun challenge! Here is my card.
Spooky Tree-HYCCT1208 by stampingout - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Good morning everyone!!! I'm at work so I will be checking in!!
My Happy Together friends :D. I wish I could show the sparkle in my rain, but it's desperately grey and damp here - I think it was a total waste of time hanging some wash out before work.
Forgive my cheap chuckles, please. It's early, and restraint takes too much energy.
chicks rule by tessaduck - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Here is my design for the spelling challenge:
Quite a challenging challenge, Lori. I've made a long list of words, supplies and techniques to spell HYCCT. The one letter that is difficult is "Y" and I think we're going to see a lot of Yellow today.
With my long lists, now I have to see what I can pull together to make some kind of coherent card. Be back later.
Time to put my thinking cap on all day while I'm working....Looking forward to the challenge tonight.
fine.. make me think... ;-)
Fun challenge.... Here is my card. I was going to accent it with pink, but there was that letter Y:), HYCCT1208 Chic by Holstein - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
HYCCT1208 Typed Hello
For today's challenge, using items represented by the letters HYCCT -
H- Hello and Hearts
Y- Yellow
C- Candy Corn
C- Circles
T- Typewriter
I used Hero Art's My Type, and Cuttlebug's Qwerty EF for my "typewriter keys" background. Added 2 dc hearts and a double circle candy corn image.
Here's Typed Hello
Thanks Lori for a fun challenge. I got to use a new (for me) technique on my
Spelling Hen card.
I've really enjoyed these challenges and being able to keep up daily. However, tomorrow I doubt that I'll have time unless its a very easy challenge. I've also got commitments for Thursday and Friday. I'll try to catch up again by the end of the week.
These cards are so fun to look at and try to guess the representations of the letters. Thanks for asking me to make a sample for you. I had fun.
Wonderful challenge, Lori! Made me think!!!
Here's my A Little Bit Country
Loved this challenge, Lori! Here's mine: Joy to the World! HYCCT1208 by sweetnsassystamps - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Love these challenges, they made you think :p
H - honeybread
Y - yellow icing
C - cupcakes
C - copics
t - TEAL (cupcakes)
Baker HYCCT
I had to work today, so I'm a little late with my challenge card. But here it is: Candle of Hope
I'm glad you have all enjoyed the challenge!! :mrgreen: Sorry I wasn't around, work was crazy today!!!
Wowie Kazowie but this was a tricky one. But I think I mastered it!!! Here's my card:
HYCCT1208 Fall Spelling Test by octoberbabe - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
This was a tuffy!! but fun! here's my card: HYCCT Spelling Thinking of You by artystamper - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
This was a fun one! I CASE'd another card from Queen Denise's fabulous gallery. Spell Hope
Hey Lori, took me awhile to figure this one out. But I did two cards.
Cowboy Up! by naturecoastcrafter - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Cowgirl Up! by naturecoastcrafter - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Great challenge Lori!
I truly enjoyed this challenge! Cutting out the stamped hexagons is actually really soothing - just straight cuts all the way around. Here is my You Rock card. Thanks so much for this fun challenge!
This was fun once I figured out a couple of letters... :-)
Thanks for the challenge Lori!
Fun challenge, Lori! Here's mine using items to spell out "HYCCT":
HYCCT1208 - HYCCT (Spelling Challenge) by StampinAK - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Great Challenge. Thanks! Here is my card!
HYCCT1208 - HYCCT by scootsv - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
OH! MY! WORD!!!! Serious??? lol
OK, this has been on my brains since I saw it this AM on the way to the dentist... it's STILL scraping like fingernails on my chalkboard brain.... I HATE being stumped..... lol
OK, gonna go peruse my room and see what's up... it's kinda like Words with Friends... and I SUCK at that game! LOL
This challenge was FUN once I figured out the point! <G> Here's my card!
Blooming Kindness for HYCCT1208 by Soozie4Him - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Thanks for looking! :-)
Hot Diggity.... here's my card featuring a Cupcake, Yellow, Hot Pink, Tangerine and Coloring.... more deets in my write up! 8)
Cupcake Cutie
HYCCT1208 Kiss The Chef by stamp300 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Here's mine: Kiss The Chef
Whew! This was challenging for me!
Thank you! :)
Here is my card:
This was fun - and a challenge!
Spell HYCCT by etsdas - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Fun Challenge! Here's mine
HYCCT1208 ~ Harvest Snowman by simplybeautiful - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Here's my card:
Bee Happy
thanks for a great challenge Lori-I give my affirmative "yea" - in fact I used this word as one of my letters (lol)!!
~joy to the world~
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CPU Test (cputest)
The cputest checks specific aspects of SPARC V9 processor datapath functionality.
The cputest comprises two subtests:
With the cputest file retention mode, you can control whether these files are deleted or not, so that in the event of a miscompare, you can view the contents of the files to analyze the miscompared data. The exact names of the files are displayed in the SunVTS message window whenever the files are saved, such as when there is a compression miscompare or when the file retention mode is set to save. Refer to cputest Options for more details.
Caution - Do not run the CUC subtest with the retention mode set to savefor numerous passes, otherwise the files that are saved in /tmp/sunvtscan fill the
Note - Only one instance of cputest per processor is possible.
Note - When cputest is run with other tests, it may give the error message exec'd program compress failed with code 1. This can be an indication of a failed compression program, not necessarily a failed CPU. If this occurs, stop all other tests and run cputest alone. If the message occurs again, the CPU is failing.
Note - SunVTS does not support processor sets. If processor sets are defined, you must first delete the processor sets before running SunVTS.
To reach the following dialog box, right-click on the test name in the System Map and select Test Parameter Options. If you do not see this test in the System Map, you might need to expand the collapsed groups, or your system might not include the device appropriate to this test. Refer to the SunVTS User's Guide for more details.
Specifies the number of times to loop on the selected subtests. Use the up and down arrow keys to select a value from 1 to 8192. The default varies depending on the SunVTS test mode.
Specifies which subtests to run. The choices are:
Refer to the general test description at the beginning of this chapter for subtest descriptions. If no subtest is selected, both subtests run.
Specifies the size of the CUC pattern file in KBytes. Select a value from 1 to 8192. The default varies depending on the SunVTS test mode.
Specifies whether the cputest removes the CUC pattern files or not. The choices are:
Refer to the Caution at the beginning of this chapter regarding the Save value.
Although the Test Parameter Options dialog box displays the processor affinity Bound To selection box, the processor that corresponds to this instance of the cputest is determined when the SunVTS kernel probes for devices. Therefore, switching processor affinity in this dialog box is not supported.
The following table describes how the cputest functions in the different test modes.
Both subtests are selected. The test options are fixed with the following values:
Both subtests are selectable, and all the test options are available to scale the cputest as needed.
/opt/SUNWvts/bin/cputest standard-arguments -o dev=device-name,count=count-number,test=testlist,size=file-size
Specifies the name of the device to test, for example, cpu-unit5
Defines the number of times to loop on the subtests. Use a number from 1 to 8192. The default is 200.
Specifies the size of the CUC pattern file in KBytes. Select a value from 1 to 8192. The default is 1024.
Specifies whether the cputest removes the CUC pattern files or not. The choices are:
Refer to the Caution at the beginning of this chapter regarding the Save value.
Note - 64-bit tests are located in the sparcv9 subdirectory: /opt/SUNWvts/bin/sparcv9/testname, or the relative path to which you installed SunVTS. If a test is not present in this directory, then it might be available as a 32-bit test only. For more information, see 32- and 64-Bit Tests.
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Meet Mr. Monster Stationery Category: Illustration
Design ServicesIllustration, Stationery Design
I designed these 3 critters in conjunction with brain removal inc., the paper products store I co-founded with a partner. Each monster is inspired by a texture, and I imagine them cut out of aluminium foil, pleather sofas, and exercise books.
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By Paul
Considering the popularity of smoking at the time Bewitched was in production, and the smoking habits of some of the principals, there was not much smoking on the show. There is roughly one smoking scene for every six episodes. A summary of the smoking events are as follows:
Only smoke when you drink? You're in luck.
It's the Cocktail Hour!


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In Reply to: Re: 44 or A posted by MH-JD on November 01, 2012 at 16:47:37:
4020 pistons gets you 4.25 bore... Can go to 4.625 and still be very reliable. there's a 4.5 inch piston thats fits real well also. Out of an International gas V8, don't remember exact application at this time. Have to check my notes... 5" can be done if you want to spend the money.
What kind of class/rules you looking to fit?
Will take a well built A to keep up with a mild 44. 44 is comparable to a G in size from factory HP... Just wieghs 1000-1500lbs less... 9 bolt wheels without special hubs or adapters. Easy to balance. Tough rearend will take abuse.
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He hasn't won in a year, but his two victories at Hendrick are at the 2-mile superspeedway
BROOKLYN, Mich. -- It's been a year – a very long one for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s huge fan base.
Earnhardt Jr. is back at Michigan International Speedway, where he scored his last Sprint Cup victory, on June 17, 2012. That occasion was celebrated with fervor across the breadth of Junior Nation, and the hoopla was more dramatic because it was Earnhardt Jr.'s first victory in 144 races.
There were expectations in many quarters that the breakthrough win would open the door for many more, but the series has made a full-circuit loop without the No. 88 returning to victory lane.
Now, Earnhardt Jr. arrives at Michigan's 2-mile superspeedway -- the site of his only two wins with Hendrick Motorsports -- expecting the questions that always follow his droughts -- this one a 33-race wait. He missed two races last year while recovering from a concussion.
"It's been good to be close [to winning]," he said. "But that's the difference between where we are and where we want to be. We want to win more races – multiple races in a season. We want that to be the status quo. We want that to be the norm, for that to be what's expected."
12 QUESTIONS: Earnhardt Jr. sits down with Jeff Gluck
Earnhardt Jr. began this season with two second places and five top-seven runs in the first five races. He led the points after the stop in Fontana, Calif., but his performance has trailed off since. Before finishing third last week at Pocono Raceway, his best finish in the previous eight races was ninth.
"Now when we run in the top 10, it's just another weekend, and the question becomes, what do we have to do to win?" Earnhardt Jr. said. "The perception from you guys (media) is similar to how we feel. We are like a lot of teams trying to find that.
"It's difficult to win in this sport. It's not much more for us to be able to get to that level – to be able to win more than just that off-chance."
Earnhardt Jr. is 38 and still in pursuit of his first Sprint Cup championship. He said he isn't feeling the urgency that might be associated with approaching 40.
"I feel pretty young still," he said. "I feel like I'm in good shape. I feel young in my mind. I've got good energy. I'm not burning out.
"I feel like I'm in the best opportunity of my career. There is a 'seize the moment' kind of feeling because I'm in such good equipment around such good people. I don't feel like there is a clock in the background ticking away that is annoying me or anything like that."
Although his team has performed generally better this year, Earnhardt Jr. said waiting on the next step is like a child waiting to grow.
"It's kind of like when you are a kid and you are getting taller," he said. "You are 10, 11, 12 years old, and you are wanting to be 6-foot-3 one day. You can't tell you are getting taller unless you are marking the door jamb. Otherwise, you wouldn't notice any change of height. That is kind of what it feels like when you are part of the team. You don't really notice when things get a little bit better or things get a little bit worse."
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Adventure writer Craig Hill and photographer Drew Perrine trekked into the wilds of North Cascades National Park last month. In Thursday's section, Craig writes about their sojourn and we have plenty of Drew's remarkable photos. In addition, Drew will have an online photo gallery.
Waterfowl hunters should expect seasons similar to last year, based on season frameworks approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is expected to set the season dates and bag limits when it meets this weekend. We have a preview of that meeting as well.
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You might be level- headed, but are you level-hipped and level-shouldered? What do the right and left sides of your body tell about your stance if we take a sidewards glance? Are you a "posture cheater" who displays a sneaky telltale clue that gives you away when you fake standing tall?
Part 3 of our Posture series takes a look at posture from "both sides now" to figure out how you stand (Baby boomers – did you recognize that song title? Joni Mitchell was no slouch). We know where you stand–on top! Or lifted nicely once you add our tips on assessment!
For the record, that is not a peace sign K lays on A at the end of this short video, but bunny ears. Hop to it, sis!
Wonder what you missed in Parts One and Two of our posture series?
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What's Your True and Natural Posture? Part 1
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Want Picture Perfect Posture? Part 2
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In Fractured Phantoms
December 10th, 2015 |
I use the
phantom limb syndrome
as metaphor to explore my experience of home, family and relationships.
This syndrome happens when we lose part of our body. An arm or leg, and we continue to feel sensations as though the missing limb were still there. In the same way when people go missing, for a time it's as though they are still here. We experience physical sensations that are totally real in our brain centers. These alternate between pain and pleasure so that often, we can't distinguish one from the other. Over time, the differences merge into layers of ambiguity. Eventually they fade into memory.
This time that passes, we think of it as linear; hours to days, weeks to months, years. But in Fractured Phantoms, time collapses on itself. These are like spiral staircases conflated as image moments; past, present and future layered together in sensory impressions that have not yet healed. They are not real in order to become even more real; Baudrillard simulacra.
The first 14 images from this project were published in the Paris-based fine art photography journal
L'Oeil de la Photographie
. As well at this writing, Fractured Phantom is showing in a group at the
Photoplace Gallery
(scroll down). Meantime, the work has grown to 28 images as it nears completion. You can see them all
2015 was a bang-up Fourth
July 9th, 2015 |
I submitted the first 14 images from my new body of work-in-progress,
Fantômes Fracturés
(Fractured Phantoms)
, to the French photography journal L'Oeil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography) this past Monday, June 29.
They published the whole thing five days later in their
Saturday, July 4 issue
! Well,
was bang-up!
So with this project, I continue to explore how we experience the passage of time. Most of us, myself included, think of time as linear; minutes become hours, days to weeks, and months to years that will become centuries. But in
Fractured Phantoms
, time conflates into a series of image moments. These are like 100 year-old spiral staircases that collapse into single, sensory impressions, layered moments from past experiences, ones that have healed into permanent memories of home, family, loved ones, some perhaps not-so-loved ones. Each one is a construct made from things-past, seen today. Perhaps they are reflections in curved mirrors. They are intentionally not real so they can become hyper-real. They are
. They enfold our secrets and in this way, expose them.
Opening Saturday May 2; through June 20th.
March 31st, 2015 |
At the Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco
Curator Olivia Ongpin called this "…an image of instinctual beauty that, upon further investigation, reveals a melding of opposing concepts."
I had spent time in Beijing during 2000. I had never really gotten over my experience there, and finally I produced this body of work. Called Fusion, it melds oriental and occidental aesthetics using lens-based materials fused over painting. I sign each piece with my Chinese name, Han Sen.
Co-Create and Co-Ownership Agreement
February 25th, 2015 |
Model(s) Release and Co-ownership agreement between
Eric L Hansen, Photographer
And _______________________________________________________________________, Model(s).
This document describes the terms and conditions of the co-ownership agreement between Eric L Hansen, referred to hereafter as the Photographer, and ___________________________________________________________________________, referred to hereafter as the Model(s).
The Photographer represents that he and the Model(s) intend to co-create some lens-based images in a photography shoot. Because these images are co-created by the Photographer and the Model(s), the Photographer and the Model(s) agree to co-own the lens –based materials from the shoot. No money or other property consideration will change hands as a result of the shoot. The Photographer will provide the Model(s) with a link to a Dropbox file where the Model(s) may download any or all of the images.
In the spirit of co-creation and co-ownership, either the Photographer or the Model(s) may use any of these images for their own individual and separate purposes, commercial or otherwise, including but not limited to: Exhibition in fine art galleries and/or online venues, illustrations for advertising, personal promotion, or for our own or others' home or office décor.
Any revenue earned by either the Photographer or the Model(s) from any of these purposes will remain their separate and exclusive property. Neither the Photographer nor the Model(s) will have any claim on revenues earned by the other from the sale or commercial use of these images in any form in any venue.
Co-ownership does not extend to subsequently processed images where either the Photographer or the Model(s) have individually and separately enhanced the images in any way. It only applies to the un-retouched originals as shot. Any images retouched or enhanced by the Photographer or the Model(s) shall become their exclusive individual property.
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January 16th, 2015 |
How to make a living making the art you love. How to hack the system.
OK, there's no shortcut for learning how to make art, play an instrument, choreograph dance… IMHO mastering just about anything takes around 10,000 hours. That's five years working full time, longer part time. There's no known shortcut for this. Learning to make art is a journey of love, and it deserves all the time and all the heart you have to give.
But there is a shortcut to financial viability.
How many artists master their craft and still have day jobs? Maybe in 10, 15, 20 years the average artist reaches a place where they can subsist on making the art they love if they don't get discouraged or disillusioned, if they don't give up before they get there. Even then, it's often just subsistence.
If you already have your 10,000 hours or more in art practice, Shortcut intends to get you to financial viability in the next 10, 15, maybe 20 months instead of years. Do the right things, you get where you want to go. That's why it's called Shortcut.
Or, if you're an early stage emerging artist, don't wait. Start now to make your day job optional. Before you even reach 10,000 hours, you can expect to start making your living making the art you love.
I make Shortcut, in all its forms, straightforward and experiential and practical. I give short talks to groups, like Artcamp 2014. I do four-hour intensives for small groups, up to twelve. And I do one-to-one coaching. They all work.
Why? I'm an artist who decided not to starve. My day job on the way up was tenured PhD professor of Entrepreneurship at Cal State, where I founded the Minor in Entrepreneurship for students from the College of the Arts. Now I don't need my day job any more. I live happily ever after in East Nashville… where, you guessed it, I make my full time living making the art I love. And I never looked back.
"Rescheduled" R. I. P.
January 7th, 2015 |
Thank you for your entries to "Rescheduled: Show your work in this amazing East Nashville space."
my last post
, you know we had a likely date for the show of Saturday, February 21, with a likely deadline for submissions of Friday January 23. "Right now, the likely date is Saturday, February 21… The likely deadline for submissions will be Friday, January 23."
Since that post, the Home Owners Association (HOA) at our 5
and Main venue adopted an austerity budget for 2015 with no increase in the monthly Association fees for homeowners; good news for homeowners. The bad news: Over my objections, this event was not included in the 2015 budget. So likely as it was, today it's off the table.
Meantime, many of you know I just wrapped my own solo exhibition,
Blood Rescue
, at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, Tennessee. This show marked the completion of a project I began four years ago. I used Kickstarter to raise funding to produce the show, and there were various other things that went together to make for a successful exhibition. The show was 80% sold before it opened. Right now, I am in middle of a major order fulfillment and shipping process.
I learned a lot from this experience. And I have some ideas about how we could produce something like it, only with a group show. I need a little time to recover from the Blood Rescue experience and get back to making art again. But then, I'm determined to put together something that will be better than what got cut from the HOA budget. For example, I think our show should be 80% sold before it opens; and so on.
So if you like, stay tuned. I'll email you when it looks like something's going to break. And then, let's see what we can do!
Blood Rescue Closing Reception
December 22nd, 2014 |
Blood Rescue
losing Reception
, Sunday afternoon January 4, from 2-4 PM, at the Customs
House Museum
, 200 South Second St., Clarksville, TN.
Join this event
here on
for free admission to the Museum!
This work was sponsored directly by 99 wonderful
Kickstarter Blood Rescue
campaign supporters whose names are inscribed on the Blood Rescue Banner Roll. Without your support this exhibition would not have been possible. Thanks to you, the show was 80% sold before it opened!
Legends Bank
provided additional sponsorship. In case you missed the video story, you can see it
So in a good way, I am experiencing a kind of Blood Rescue winter solstice; the fourth season drawing to a close in this, the deep of winter.
Blood Rescue began as an impulse a little over four years ago. During that time, my relationship to horses changed forever. Now every time I even
a horse, something in my heart resonates, an involuntary empathic response. I
you. We've shared life together since the beginning of our time here 35,000 years ago. We built a country together, this USA we call home. So we celebrate you, with National Day of the Horse, with
Blood Rescue,
all the rescue ranches. We love and honor you, this is
Rescheduled Show your work!
November 18th, 2014 |
In this amazing East Nashville space
Holiday stuff going on has created enough scheduling conflicts that we have to reschedule. December 13th just won't work for a lot of key people. The final deal breaker? I have to be in Clarksville all day on December 13th for a National Day of the Horse celebration. Yeeesh!
Now here's the good news:
This is an amazing opportunity to introduce your art to a new audience of collectors, so we're going to reschedule. Right now, the likely date is Saturday, February 21. And the event will be bigger and better. You have more time to get your work together to submit.
Fifth and Main on the top floor, it's in East Nashville.
501 Main Street, Nashville, TN 37206
Because this is a relatively new building owned largely by creative professionals, it's a great opportunity to sell work. It is definitely a great opportunity to show up for a super party, hang out, and chat up potential collectors. This is the crowd that helped rank Nashville the number two destination city nationwide for recent college graduates; the entrepreneur creative class.
Selected artists are invited to party as my guests. This means you get to hang out with me and the Poet in our loft, as well as attend the party. Our loft is your break room.
In two parts, there will be a happy hour from 4-6 with the art, of course, and a wine tasting. Then at 6, the party begins: Live music, food and a general good time! Altogether, this runs from 4-10 in the same amazing space.
If you want to submit your work early, you can. Email up to five JPG's to:
Name your JPG's with your first initial, last name, and image number. So for example, E_Hansen_1, E_Hansen_2, and so on. Your JPG's should be no bigger than 750 KB.
Also please attach a brief (250 words) bio; also the sizes of your pieces. Everything you enter needs to be wired and ready to hang. No glass please, and no sawtooth hangers. If your piece is something on canvas with a stretcher so we can hang it by the stretcher with a single nail, that's OK; for you, wired to hang is optional.
And for questions about anything, email me: email@example.com
The likely deadline for submissions will be Friday, January 23. Jurors TBA. I'll be making all this official with an announcement around mid-December. Stay tuned!
Note to Vickery Eckhoff
October 22nd, 2014 |
Hi Vickery:
I am an artist, and I work towards public awareness of the SAFE Act. I have learned that when we frame the issue as animal rights versus rancher's rights, we lose every time. But when we frame the issue as public health versus rancher's rights, we win sometimes, maybe even most of the time. So I am steering all my work in that direction.
In late 2012, I had begun a series of 21st century cave drawings called
Blood Rescue
to explore our relationship to the horse, from the beginnings at Lascaux and Chauvet through now; and how it has changed over 30,000 years. Right in the middle of that, the EU horsemeat scandal broke and the SAFE act was introduced into Congress.
You see, the major occupational hazard for artists, we fall in love with our models; and I had fallen in love with these 22 horse rescues. In an instant, February of 2013, I became an equine rescue advocate.
Blood Rescue
has taken on a whole new meaning. It opens this November at the Customs House Museum in Clarkesville, TN, 22 pieces, as the anchor exhibition for a museum wide event called
Season of the Equus
. 32,000 square feet of art museum space will be devoted entirely to equine art. This will be the largest art museum exhibition of its kind in recent memory. I am using it to promote the SAFE act.
Maybe it's because I'm an artist, but I believe that a powerful visual experience can change minds, move hearts, and cause people like me to get involved.
Well, this is a long story, but Vickery; doing what you do… I think you understand the depth of my support for you efforts. Please let me know what I can do to encourage and publicize your efforts. I have a pretty large and growing audience for my weekly blog posts. Let me know.
Supporters, Believers, and Friends: Celebrate!
October 5th, 2014 |
Supporters, Believers, and Friends: Thanks to you,
Blood Rescue
will anchor
Season of the Equine
, the largest museum exhibition of equine art in recent memory, four galleries in 32,000 square feet. This show opens at the Customs House Museum on Thursday, November 13.
In addition to my
Blood Rescue
project in the main gallery, there will be three more exhibitions:
My Kingdom For A Horse
The Horse As Muse
: Members of the American Acdemy of Equine Art, and Anthony Scarlati's
Rediscovering the Horse
; plus more.
Here's the Museum contact information:
Customs House Museum
200 S. 2nd Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
And we do have some events planned!
Opening Reception
: Thursday, November 13 from 5PM-7PM. I'll be there to hang out and say hello to all of you who show up.
Gallery Talk
: On Thursday, November 20th at 12 Noon, I will give a gallery talk at the Museum. You all are invited to that, it's free.
National Day of the Horse
: Saturday, December 13, from 10AM to 5PM. Congress established this national Day ten years ago to celebrate the horse's contribution to building this nation. On this Saturday, the museum is open from 10-5. Stay tuned for more details about the celebration. But let me say, if any of you want to share a stretch limo ride up to Clarksville, I'm in; maybe dinner dutch afterwards in Nashville?
Closing Reception
: On Sunday afternoon, January 4, 2015 I am planning a closing reception at the Museum. This will be a special time to celebrate the work that we've done to raise the public's awareness, and to consider what's next. Plan to show up and bring your ideas. Let's talk.
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Junior Taylor Bonner ( Old Bridge, NJ / Old Bridge) recorded a hat trick as the Red Hawks registered their first season-opening win in five years. MSU last won its opener in 2004 when it downed Villa Julie College, 11-2 at Sprague Field.
Montclair State fell behind 1-0 4:42 in to the game as the Greyhounds Jesse Peterson scored on an unassisted tally. Montclair would tie the game up five minutes later as Meixner collected the first of his scores with 5:25 to go off an assist from Mario Passafiume ( Boonton, NJ / Mountain Lakes) as the game was tied 1-1 heading into the second period.
In that second period, Bonner began MSU's run with a man-up goal 79 seconds in and Vic DeMaio's (Vernon, NJ / Vernon Township) scored just over two minutes later gave Montclair a 3-1 lead. Mike Corsetto ( Kinnelon, NJ / Kinnelon) picked up the assists on both tallies. Passafiume made it a three-goal advantage with 7:08 to play and then the Tylers, Meth and Meixner each netted goal in that order as Montclair moved out in front 6-1 with 1:22 to play before halftime. Bonner scored again with 27 ticks remaining to cap off a 6-0 period for MSU as the Red Hawks went into the locker room ahead 7-1.
The run continued in the second half as senior John Schiavone ( Montclair, NJ / Montclair) and Matthew Prongay ( Edison, NJ / Edison) scored 43 seconds apart in the first minute of play. Meixner would score once more and Meth twice to finish off the run as Montclair led 12-1 with 10:01 to play in the third quarter.
Senior goalkeeper Thomas Bowers ( Hamburg, NJ / Pope John XXIII) stopped 13 shots for MSU which outshot the Greyhounds 50-28 in the contest. Corsetto finished with three assists while defenseman Patrick Ferry ( Clifton, NJ / Clifton) registered two assists.
MSU won an amazing 22-of-26 faceoff attempts, including 11-of-12 performances by both Schiavone and Rober Glander ( Vernon, NJ / Vernon Township). Bonner and Glander shared top honors for Montclair with seven ground balls apiece.The Red Hawks return to action next Saturday, February 28 as they host Hartwick College at Sprague Field beginning at 1:00 pm.


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The concept of reincarnation has fascinated me since I was a teenager and I have to admit, the idea of it on the surface sounds like a bizarre idea. But so does the idea of an afterlife at all, at least to me. AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ or Reincarnation . . . describes the connection between … Continue reading
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Are pigs and/or hippos related to whales?
Ok, ok, I know, another blog on whales but what can I say, I love whales. But anyway… Jessica Theodor, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary, and her colleague Jonathan Geisler, associate professor at Georgia Southern University were disputing a study that created a different family tree … Continue reading
Blue whales bigger than dinosaurs?
Most people would say that dinosaurs were the biggest creatures to walk the Earth. A few of the biggest dinosaurs might have been longer than the Blue Whale, but they didn't compare to the actual body size of the Blue Whale. At up to 110 ft in length and 200 tons or more in weight, it's … Continue reading
Did whales have legs?
I've always figured whales had legs, dividing them between land and sea. And last year, findings from a new in-depth study — published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology — helped me fill in that evolutionary gap between the enormous sea mammals of today and their (possibly) amphibious ancestors. See, the study was an ultra-rare, 40-million-year-old specimen that "nearly … Continue reading
What happens when we die?
Now I know what you may be thinking but this is NOT a blog about the after-life, heaven and hell, reincarnation or any other kind of mumbo-jumbo like that. This question is posed towards what happens as we die, you know, scientifically speaking if you will. See, I feel that too much is unknown about what dying feels like or what, … Continue reading
What's the fastest animal in the world?
Kingdom Animalia or the animal kingdom, is a broad kingdom containing many species belonging to different classes. You may have wondered, just like myself, from time to time just what great speed means in the animal world? Mostly, it aids the process of hunting for prey, but that does not always have to be the case. Birds, … Continue reading
Is Michael Jackson's BAD a better album than Thriller?
In my opinion, Michael Jackson's album Thriller was a tough act for even the King of Pop to follow. The album's 38 million plus copies sold, along with seven top-10 hits, and seven Grammy awards created a lot of pressure on the pop star when he was working on his 1987 album Bad. However, 25-years after-the-fact, with the reissuing of Bad just … Continue reading


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Tips for visualizing very faint bands in agarose gels? - (The PCR ain't going to get better, so the gel must!) (Apr/28/2010 )
Hi All
I am working with some VERY difficult template in a multiplex PCR (6 primer pairs, with products from 125-495 bp in size). I have spent A LOT of time optimizing conditions -- I think they're as good as they're going to get. My difficult template is bat feces, and I'm trying to amplify insect DNA for dietary studies.
Anyway, like I said -- I don't think my PCR's are going to get much better. I find that I sometimes have VERY faint bands -- whether this is due to the presence of inhibitors, low template quality, or amplification of non-target insect DNA is still up in the air. (It probably is all three.) I often find myself inspecting photos of my gels with extreme magnification and meticulousness, because sometimes my bands are so faint that they could be easily overlooked.
I'm making my gels with TBE, 2% agarose, and Invitrogen SYBR safe stain. I usually use small wells and load 5ul product from a 20ul reaction. What can I do to improve the visualization of weak product? Would you more experience folks suggest increasing the amount of product I load? The amount of stain included in the gel? A different buffer? Should I switch to EtBr? (This would cause some hazardous waste issues to arise because our lab doesn't use EtBr anymore.) Post-staining the gel? (Has not been very successful for me so far.) Downloading all files to my computer and manipulating the files in photoshop to somehow better visualize the results?
I'll be grateful for any tips you all can suggest.
(P.S. If you want I can include files of the gel pics to demonstrate just how weak the bands are.)
KimWG on Apr 28 2010, 08:10 PM said:
That would have been my first idea, to increase the volume of PCR product, to have more DNA on the gel...at least worth a try.
Reducing the "background noise" of stain, though I've no idea if it's a problem with SYBR. This can be also done with some of the gel documentation software, by changing camera chip sensitivity, playing with brightness, contrast, shutter speed, digitise borders...
And getting rid of inhibitors with a different DNA extraction method, or additional washing steps, if you didn't try out already, might be an idea. Some kits are especially for feces DNA extraction...
Reducing the amount of template DNA in PCR to reduce inhibitors might also be possible, if the latter won't work.
Yes, I'd agree with loading more sample to the wells (as long as this doesn't mean you don't have enough to use for other purposes you had in mind).
I guess you're already using quite a high exposure time?
And as long as the bands can all be seen normally (even if faint), enhancing them on your computer should be easy if you wanted to.
Also, narrow wells filled with sample are better than wide wells with the same volume.
You could try silver staining the gels, or switching to PAGE gels and silver staining those gels. Silver stains are far more sensitive than other stains.
A flat bed laser scanning gel imager might produce better results, such as the Typhoon imagers.
You could also try Agilent or Caliper microchannel gel running systems, such as the Bioanalyzer.
Thanks for your suggestions all -- I will be trying them out shortly. I've been running 20ul reactions in order to economize but I may double that in order to increase the amount loaded. I'm not familiar with silver staining, I will definitely look into it.
I have found that thinner gels give better resolution. Also, don't forget to wash your tray, comb, etc... after every run, it cuts down on background stain considerably (i do post stain with EtBr).
Has anyone here tried the SYBR Green I and/or SYBR Gold for staining gels? According to the Invitrogen website both are more sensitive that EtBr and the SYBR Safe stain. (More expensive, too, go figure!)
Have you tried increasing the number of cycles in the PCR?
What method are you using to extract the DNA from the fecal samples? We've had good luck extracting DNA for use as PCR template from mouse and human fecal samples using the ExtractMaster fecal DNA extraction kit from Epicentre.
Together with my previous posters I think you could probably optimise the DNA extraction and therefore reduce background. But it is difficult to detect the DNA of the prey in droppings. How old were your samples when they were collected? I had the experience that the insect DNA degrades rapidly which is probably causing your problems. Bat feces is usually not a too bad template (bad but there are worse things to get DNA out from).
You are using a six primer multiplex....would it be possible to "split" into two multiplex PCRs, so you can modify the conditions for the primers better and improve the yield? Or is ther a possibility for a nested approach (like unspecific primers for your gene first for 5 - 15 cycles, cleanup, and then multiplexing)?
For better visualising: loading the whole 20µL on the gel might help or longer staining times. Small combs, thin gels, and not too much stain to reduce the background.
HomeBrew on Apr 29 2010, 03:10 AM said:
What method are you using to extract the DNA from the fecal samples? We've had good luck extracting DNA for use as PCR template from mouse and human fecal samples using the ExtractMaster fecal DNA extraction kit from Epicentre.
Thanks for the tip. I have tried the Qiagen and Zymo stool kits, but with limited success. The Qiagen kit *does* work for some samples that just won't amplify with anything else (inhibitors) but since it is designed for use with much more feces than I generally have to play with (they want about 200 mg; my bats weigh about 4 mg, so that's a pretty big dump for a pretty tiny bat) I've been reluctant to use it. I've consistently had the best results with the Qiagen DNEasy kit, and/or the Omega Insect DNA kit. I've also been able to get DNA to amplify with the Epicentre plant kit (insects have lots of polysaccharides, as do plants) at times, so I will definitely check it out.


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Kennedy loses court attempt to stop trial
THE SUPREME Court has dismissed by four to one an attempt by businessman Jim Kennedy to stop his trial over alleged corrupt payments for land rezoning.
Mr Kennedy, Queensway Quay, Gibraltar, denies charges of making corrupt payments to politicians relating to rezoning motions voted on by Dublin County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council concerning lands in Carrickmines.
The charges relate to the attempted rezoning of lands owned by Jackson Way Properties at Carrickmines, Dublin, in 1992 and the successful rezoning of part of these lands in 1997. Last July, Mr Justice John Hedigan dismissed the application by Mr Kennedy to halt the trial and he appealed that decision to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the Chief Justice, Ms Justice Susan Denham, Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell and Mr Justice Frank Clarke all dismissed the appeal, while Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman dissented on grounds of inexcusable delay in the prosecution.
Mr Kennedy had argued that his trial should be prohibited on grounds including alleged inexcusable delay before charges were brought against him. He also argued the State was not entitled to wait to charge him until a key witness, Frank Dunlop, had been "effectively gentrified" for the purposes of the trial. Mr Dunlop, a former government press secretary, was sentenced in May 2009 to two years in prison after pleading guilty to corruption. In October 2010, Mr Kennedy was charged with corruption after he attended the High Court to oppose a bid by the Criminal Assets Bureau to seize some of the Carrickmines lands. The Chief Justice said that while there was a delay in bringing the charges against Mr Kennedy, the reasons given by the Director of Public Prosecutions for that delay, including unavailability of key witnesses such as Mr Dunlop to give evidence, were reasonable.
The delay had not prejudiced Mr Kennedy in a way that would justify prohibiting his trial, she said.
She also dismissed Mr Kennedy's claim that Mr Justice Hedigan displayed bias towards him in remarks made after inspecting documents over which the DPP has claimed privilege.
Mr Justice Hedigan had said, while he had seen documents highly prejudicial to Mr Kennedy, that those were tangential to any issue in Mr Kennedy's proceedings.
In his judgment, Mr Justice Nial Fennelly said he did not think Mr Justice Hedigan's remarks could be interpreted as exhibiting bias.
Mr Justice Frank Clarke said that while he agreed the appeal should be dismissed, he differed from the Chief Justice in finding a partial, but not a complete, explanation for the lapse of time. While accepting there was a need to improve the DPP's position by ensuring Mr Dunlop had been convicted before proceeding, Mr Justice Clarke said he was not satisfied that explanation went far enough to explain a five-year lapse.
In his dissenting judgment, Mr Justice Hardiman said he believed the appeal should be allowed on grounds including the delay. In his view, the decision not to charge Mr Kennedy until after Mr Dunlop's trial "was not the real or actual reason" for the delay but was rather "a ploy to gain tactical advantage and nothing more".


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Last Halo 2 Xbox Live player signs off
Microsoft had tried to shutdown the original Xbox Live servers, but a couple of Halo 2 stalwarts had refused to log off! I guess Microsoft couldn't turn the servers off, or wouldn't, while people were still connected? No matter: the last Halo 2 Xbox Live player has signed off. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Read More
This Is What Is Holding Up Halo 2 for Vista
Want Halo 2 for Vista? The ESRB doesn't want you to have it and the image after the jump is is why. Prepare to cry. Read More
Halo 2 For Vista Delayed
As if anyone out there right now is even remotely interested in Halo 2 considering that the Halo 3 beta is in full-effect. Microsoft has now come out saying that Halo 2 for Windows Vista has been pushed back from May 18th to June 8th. It will be overpriced, it will feature a map editor, and people will still buy it. Did I mention it's also a catalyst to improving Vista sales considering… Read More
Cruncharcade: Frag Time
While early summer is typically that time when video game releases slow down a bit, this year a few notable titles are showing up (plus there a couple of games that might have slipped through the cracks) This week we look at the games that will have you lock 'n loading as you face off in some high intensity shooters. We're also finally starting to see what Vista means for gamers… Read More
Halo 2 vs. Halo 3
http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=19593 Halo 3 is almost upon us. OK, not really because September 25 is a long ways away. Some of you lucky fanboys are playing the Beta, so your thirst is somewhat quenched. Is Halo 3 that much better than Halo 2? Here's a video comparing the multi-player game play for both versions in HD! Frag away! Read More
Halo 2 Hits The 5 Million Mark
You know your game is a smash hit when millions of people purchase your game, but what about when millions of people go out of their way to play that game online? That's called a huge success and Bungie certainly deserves some credit. Yesterday, the 5 millionth player logged on to XBL to play Halo 2. Since its release two-and-a-half years ago, Halo 2 has seen enormous success and growth… Read More
Halo 2 Windows Vista Edition "Drops" on May 22
Quick heads up for the many gamers out there: The Windows Vista edition of Halo 2 ships on May 22, despite what we said earlier. It seems there's been a slight delay to address some last minute technical issues. You'll be able to play against Xbox owners on Live and against fellow Windows users for free. There's also a map editor. Neat. Now bring on the third installment… Read More
Microsoft Launching Games For Windows Live, Halo 2 May 8th
Though Vista is great and all and quite the improvement over XP, it still has a lot of issues with certain programs and hardware. Hence why Microsoft is taking awhile to roll out its Games For Windows Live service. Luckily, the time is almost upon us. Microsoft will be releasing Games For Windows Live for Vista owners come May 8th. The service will allow gamers to easily play against each other… Read More


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I'm so glad to be starting a new week and that my son survived his near drowning without any complications and our new pup is adjusting well so I think she'll keep us, though she just might be the first dog ever to be frightened of a 7 pound cat.
What Drowning Really Looks Like: My 8 year olds Near Drowning Experience
(Eco's 6th birthday pool party 2012)
Drowning is silent and often goes unnoticed by those within arms length of the victim. I know because on Monday my son almost became one of the 4000 annual drowning victims in the United States. That's on average 10 people die on unintentional drowning a day, which means about 40 people have died since my son's near drowning, 40!
So everybody understands this can happen to anyone even to me the over protective pool mom,whose kids are usually the only ones in the pool with life vests on.
So what was different about Monday?
It was their first real swim lesson, I wanted them to be more comfortable in the pool and well everyone should know how to swim, right?. The kids all wanted to stay in the pools after their lesson and practice what they had just learned and I felt pretty okay about it, it was the shallow end and on either side sitting were TWO lifeguards and I was within feet where they were.
So what happened?
My son managed to drift just far enough that he wasn't able to keep his head up. The water was 3ft 9inches to be exact, my son is 48 inches tall. He could touch the bottom and the top of his head was still above water which made it harder to realize he was in trouble. His oldest sister was standing right next to him and was actually able to grab his hand but not able to lift his head above the water or even pull him back to the edge of the pool during the near drowning.
I had called to her early on in the drowning to give him a little help, he was just a few seconds under at that point, then the seconds just seem to add up and fly by (it wasn't slow motion like in the movies) he went from dunking his face in the water to full blown drowning in under a minute.
I call out to his sister I think I might be having trouble, I remember feeling like I didn't want to over react I called out again after I could see his long hair floating on the waters surface, I knew he couldn't hold his breathe that long, so this time I yelled out he's drowning, that over reacting thought flew out the window as I screamed over and over he's drowning. I found myself fully clothed in the pool lifting his helpless body up making sure his face was above water.
Lifeguards where are you?
They jumped in after I was in the pool, after I had lifted my sons head above the water, after I had called out that he was drowning, after they should have already helped.
Most drowning victims don't yell or wave their arms to alert someone that they are in trouble. They are in a state of shock, and are often silent.
We pulled his limp body out of the water he was breathing, coughing, gasping for air and vomiting. I knew this was bad, I knew this wasn't a kid that just swallowed to much water this was a boy who was within seconds of being pulled out of that pool dead. But he wasn't dead.
What do you do after someone near drowns?
I had no idea! All I knew was my son was gasping for air and vomiting, my phone was in my pocket at the time so I had no way to call 911, should I call 911? I didn't know what the protocol was and the lifeguards just kept telling him he was okay and didn't offer to call for an ambulance or doctor so was it really that serious?
Yes near drowning is really that serious!
Call 911 no matter what!
But since I didn't know that and nobody seemed to want to offer that advice I grabbed all 4 of my kids we loaded into the minivan and I drove frantically to the hospital as my son complained he could see, his vision was blurry, he was scarred and I was going straight to the ER no matter what to find out the answers I needed about what to do after a near drowning.
Holy Cow! I was overwhelmed at this point still in a state of shock that this happened to me, to one of my kids and at the same time I didn't want to leave his side or the hospital until they could tell me he was okay, that he was one of the lucky ones.
It one takes seconds for for a day at the pool, lake, ocean or river to turn tragic.
I'm thankful for that mom instinct everyone whose experienced it talks about, it kicks in and you feel like superwoman flying through the air and having the strength of a thousand men and conquering any obstacle. Saving my son didn't make me a hero like the Doctor told him I was or well I didn't feel like one, hero's are firefighter and those special human beings that don't think twice to helping a complete stranger. I felt more like a selfish mom who in no way was going to let my son die at 8 years old, and in no way was I going to let his little sister go back home to an empty room that she shares with her brother, and there was no way he was going to miss out on third grade , or learning to play baseball and there was no no way I was letting him go, not yet. I'm not a hero I'm his mom and that's my job to keep him safe the best I can.
Drowning is scary, drowning is life changing, drowning can be prevented.
My son describes what happened very simply, he went under the water, his feet were touching the bottom and he tried to jump back up but couldn't. He felt his sister grab his arm, he saw the lifeguards talking to each other, he felt like some one was holding both his arms down under the water, his body was heavy and he felt the water go into his lungs. He thought he was going to die.
Everyone keeps saying get him right back in to the pool so he doesn't develop a fear of water. He is not afraid of the pool but wants to take a couple months before going back and I'm going to respect that.
Summer break has just begun for many and I hope that through our story others will become aware of what drowning looks like or well doesn't look like (movies have it all wrong) and help make this a safer summer for all.
( Even though my son was not rescued by the Lifeguards on duty we still have great respect for those who do their job well,
especially the ones that I have watch on several occasions rescue distressed swimmers)
especially the ones that I have watch on several occasions rescue distressed swimmers)
Summertime Fun: Chasing Fireflies
How to catch a firefly
Supplies needed:
butterfly net and a glass jar with lid
butterfly net and a glass jar with lid
Tho find these wonderful little glowing bugs which are found in marshes or in wet, wooded areas where their larvae have
abundant sources of food you must set out at dusk.
The firefly larvae or better known as the glow worm feed on snails and slugs and emerge out or
hibernation in spring, with that info we found a large number of firefly in the wooded fields where we had been collecting snails earlier in the week.
The fireflies didn't come out until 10-20 minutes after sunset, so just before it's officially dark outside you'll start to see their twinkling lights.
Fireflies are fairly easy to catch, they're slow fliers and glow intermittingly. We found using a simply
butterfly net will work perfect and have a glass jar with a lid on hand so the kiddos can get a close look
at this amazing insect.
Some adult fireflies also eat other insects. Some eat pollen and other flower parts, and some probably do
not eat anything at all and do not last more than a few days in the jar.
I recommend keeping your fireflies for a no more than 48 hours giving the kids a chance to study and watch then flicker on the nightstand and then letting them go.
Our firefly outing was so much fun, especially with this being my kids first time ever seeing them in their natural habitat, even Echo (our dog) managed to catch three.... I mean eat three.
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Happy Sunday!Finally starting to feel like summer and having all four kiddos home makes me really happy.
WW :: Flower Power
It's just keeps raining so I guess June showers bring pretty flowers!
Wildflower daisies are my summertime favorite. I'm not much of a fresh cut flower gal, last thing I want is
a dozen long stem roses (though they smell divine) but I prefer finding something beautiful growing wild in a field and picked by my kiddos
to top it off they last up to 2 weeks and look absolutely breathtaking on my kitchen table!
a dozen long stem roses (though they smell divine) but I prefer finding something beautiful growing wild in a field and picked by my kiddos
to top it off they last up to 2 weeks and look absolutely breathtaking on my kitchen table!
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{SH} Sundays #34
When it rains it keeps raining here looking forward
to the end of school and hopefully a summer full of sunshine and bike rides.
to the end of school and hopefully a summer full of sunshine and bike rides.
Loving the endless supply of daisy wildflowers, spring time in NY.
the kiddos were surprised my knots held up them.
My little kitchen helper making her first batch of cheese crackers with Mommy.
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