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Hey dog owners: Your dog off a leash is a threat to wildlife, and a threat to me. This dog here has a leash, but you let him run free. Why? This is not an OFF-LEASH AREA!
Next time, I'll blow my rape whistle.
It won't be a fun day in the park for you then, will it?
Please respect others and do right by your dog. Keep him on a leash until you get to the off-leash area.
URBAN APATHY: A Gift from our friends at Clear Channel Outdoor, Northwest Trek and [i forget which design firm]--A sad stretch of Sprague in Tacoma Washington.
One of these signs is 'distressed' on purpose. ironically making it blend in instead of break out of any norm.
ps. I hate billboards.
- - - EMAIL TO CAPTIVEYAK FROM PRESIDENT OF BAN BILLBOARD BLIGHT - - -
Thanks for sending this. I’ve been following the Tacoma situation with some interest since coming across an article a few years ago about Clear Channel’s Constitutions Matter signs.
But whether or not people think digital billboards are bad, or that the swap is a good deal, everyone ought to be concerned about the apparently subversion of public process. Since you seem familiar with what’s going on here in L.A., you probably know that the same thing happened here in 2006, when the city council approved—without any public debate—a lawsuit settlement with Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor that would have allowed them to convert 840 billboards to digital. A smaller billboard company then sued the city, and last fall a judge overturned the settlement. It’s now in the Appeals Court, but most legal observers believe that the judgment will be upheld, because there’s repeated legal precedent that cities have to follow established procedures—notification, hearings, etc.—before making these kind of decisions.
While there are differences in land use law from state to state, I suspect the same general principles may apply in Washington, and there may be a legal case for challenging the settlement on the grounds that it didn’t go through the proper public process. Unfortunately, fighting these big, litigious deep-pocketed companies in court is a daunting task.
You also may be interested to know that there’s been a drawn-out battle over digital billboards in Durham, N.C., and the city council there just voted unanimously not to allow them. I suppose that a billboard company lawsuit will be the next chapter of that story. What’s actually happening, court-wise, is that that the billboard industry keeps putting forth the argument that any limitations on billboards are unconstitutional. While various courts, including the Supreme Court, have rejected this argument and allowed restrictions, all the way up to total bans, the industry is obviously hoping that if they keep suing they may eventually get a sympathetic hearing and a ruling that commercial speech and individual speech are both fully protected.
Best,
Dennis
Dennis Hathaway
President, Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight
2700 Military Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Listen guys, I've been on this page for about 2 years. I've worked really hard, on and off of Flickr. I love wrestling shoes. I've worked summer jobs, spent birthday money, sold a bunch of valuables just to get my brother rulons. I try and try to sell on here, but I feel like I never get any offers, because I'm not havin too many legit comments. Is it because my backgrounds are different? It's because I just left for college, I left a lot of shoes at home and now have a different place I'm living. The thing is I wanna make this a business, and a big hobby. But I'm never gonna get deals because I never have any legit comments. I just wanna do deals and have fun, but for the past two years it hasn't been like that.
Why I'm becoming disillusioned with English football.
First of all, I have two footballing passions, The Fortress (above) and The Abbey.
I attended my first match at Fortress Portman Road in 1975, My first trip to the Abbey came in the 1976/77 season. I have remained loyal to both these teams ever since (not good when they both played in the same league though a few years back).
I am becoming increasingly frustrated with certain aspects of the game and inparticular those higher up the scale.
1) Those in charge are trying to make football a non contact sport and there now appears to be ruling that means you can no longer tackle, whats wrong with a good strong challenge, so long as you win the ball and do not go out to injure your opponent. Lets return to physical as well as skillful, surely these over paid prima donnas can do both?
2) That leads me into my next rant... Cheating. Managers don't like it when it costs them the game but say nothing when one of their own 'stars' does it to win them the game. Lets get rid of the cheats. If a player goes down rolling about and screaming like a little girl when they have not been touched, then jump up when the free kick has been given or the opposition player has been booked/ sent off, then they should suffer the same fate for unsporting behaviour. Feigning head injuries appears to be a big thing now.
3) Footballers that complain about having too many games in a season and yet when they do get a break, they and their team will jet off all around the world to play in a lucrative match. In several cases now they are so sheltered they are becoming more distant to the genuine fans.
4) Get rid of them 'snoods' , wear a thermal vest and long johns instead. (and if I had my way i'd make all footballers wear the same colour boots).
5) Us the long suffering supporters;
We pay our money, sometimes an extortionate amount to turn up to cheer on our teams. We don't expect to be entertained, though just occaisionally it would be nice :)
What do we get? We are critised if dare to open our mouths and disagree with the manager's decision. The manager will tell all those that paid their money that HE knows more about football than the 30,000 who tried to point out he'd made a mistake, very rarely is there an apology.
When the team are playing poorly it is the fans who are critised for not getting behind their teams. Sorry but we do, there comes a point though when nothing the fans do will lift the team. I don't agreeing with booing individuals but I can understand why.
Even in our case at the fortress the local press and a former footballer of the club has had a go at the fans, both of which have probably never had to pay to get into the matches and both of whom are treated to free half time refreshments and well looked after.
Today, Roy hodgson has done himself no favours at all by critising those loyal Liverpool fans who have had to put up with alot recently. Those same fans will then be critised by the club if they chose to stay away from future games and attendances drop.
How nice would it be if a football club turned around and said "sorry you've had to endure rubbish this season we will refund a percentage of your entrance fee".
6) Television coverage; All I want to do is to turn up and watch a game, possibly talk about the game on the walk home and be done. We don't need every kick, sneeze and spit analized by former one time 'average' footballers sitting in a studio with 20 different camera angles. No wonder the referees union won't talk to the press when every decision they make is dissected by the studio in super slo-mo just to prove that the ref got it wrong. We know officials make mistakes, but some we wouldn't even have noticed in the past without the advent of cameras in every corner. Also why don't the studio guests stand up and say "oi, 'so and so' you cheated" instead of saying "there was intent or possible mearest of touches".ITV commentators are possibly the worst for 'buying' rubbish decisions and believing the cheats! ITV, they are CHEATING! (Maybe you should commentate on WWE wrestling instead, right up your street).
7) The european competitions, can we go back to the old style knockout competitions please instead of 'Champions league' etc. Surely Champions means just that and not several other teams from the same leagues.
8) Giving Qatar the world cup finals in 2022, surely this is an 'own goal' by those doddering old fools considering the World cup is largely sponsored by alchohol companies and that country strickly forbids the drinking of such things.
Rant over and I will be out at the weekend supporting my teams come rain, sleet or snow, like many hundreds of thousands more up and down the country, and good luck to your teams, unless they are up against either Cambridge United or Ipswich Town ;-)
these signs puzzle many a rider on the mbta... someone did a good job with their rant stickers.
(they're serious about the hazard, btw; I got my heel caught in one the other day and it really stung!)
I finally figured out what is wrong with some of my cotton lawn: It is NOT LAWN. Grrr! Shaukat.co.uk are passing off satin weave cotton as lawn. It pills! They have this huge section of "Italian lawn", out of which only some are plain weave! I have just emailed them asking for a refund or replacement. Their customer service is questionable, so I'm not sure it will work out.
Somebody please confirm that satin weave fabrics cannot be referred to as lawn?
For reference...
1 - Cotton blend from Lillestrøm Sysenter
2-3 - Cotton voile
4 - Imperial Batiste X-mas
5 - Kaufman Cambridge cotton lawn red
6-7 - Cotton voile
8 - Imperial Batiste navy
9 - Cotton voile
10 - Kaufman Savannah lawn
11 - Kaufman Cambridge cotton lawn dusty pink
12 - Loose weave voile, not sure of origin
2-11 are from fabric.com.
Shaukat actually did answer my email after a few days, saying things like "we've had no issues with this fabric". I had to tell them a few times "Satin weave is not lawn" and I think they got it, but who knows. I cannot buy this fabric from them again.
I was really excited to find out, I got this book in the mail today! :D Yay! Now I will have something to read on the plane! Which is..Tuesday. :) So excuse my absence, between the 27th and 7th.
Also, I'm sorry for the HUGE upload today. I just had (have) a lot of pictures to put up, and I still am editing and organizing other ones! So yeah, I just want to say sorry for the massive upload, please don't hate me!
Annnnnnd, I'm thinking about a print giveaway. They seem to be a lot of work, but hey I have to say thank you somehow. :) Anyways, I was just thinking about it, so comment and let me know what you think!
Uusimman Lightroom CC:n android-version kamera tekee aika nättejä maisemakuvia (osin vielä kokeiluvaiheessa) olevassa HDR-moodissa, vai mitä ootte mieltä näistä?
An unnamed feminine hygiene product company (they don't even deserve any form of advertisement) claims that their packaging makes no sound when being opened. I'd heard about and seen this before, and always ridiculed it for being the dumbest marketing ploy ever.
Why is it the dumbest marketing ploy ever? Just think about it: Pads, being what they are, probably would never be opened anywhere but in a bathroom. Do you ever see any girls changing their pads in a lecture hall? In a library? In a movie theater? (I hope not.) WHERE would it be necessary to avoid making any sound? In a public restroom, when there's someone in the stall next to you? You would most likely be in the women's restroom, where everyone will get/gets/used to get their periods. WHO do you need to hide this from? Even in the event that you're one of those women who feel embarrassed about acknowledging the menstrual cycle in any way around men, you wouldn't have to worry about it. So WHY would the average Jane, neither superspy nor female ninja, need a Quietest Pouch?
I bought a pack the other day because they were on sale and therefore the cheapest option within reason (i.e., without getting into the range of diapers and/or unreliable pieces of paper). The packaging, as you can see, is made of somewhat gauzy (gauze-y?) material. So I opened it up—and announced to everyone on Flickr that I am currently on my period; oh well—and guess what?
IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PAD-PACKAGING THAT I'VE EVER OPENED.
The End.
read this:
Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of my Ranger Regiment.
Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the cutting edge of battle by land, sea, or air, I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move further, faster, and fight harder than any other soldier. Never shall I fail my comrades. I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong, and morally straight and I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.
Gallantly will I show the world that I am a specially selected and well trained soldier. My courtesy to superior officers, neatness of dress, and care of equipment shall set the example for others to follow.
Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might.
Surrender is not a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country.
Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.
Rangers lead the way
and now feel as though... we should make our presidents follow this creed. I mean really, it's sad what they do nowadays. but anyway, I'd just really like them to obey that completely, and risk impeachment if they don't it'd sure fix up our country fast, and putin would not have his hand on top in our country.
rant over.
credit to cyre precision for multicam. duh.
taken in a mystical cave somewhere in Thailand. It's in english and it readable if you pick the largest view
Model/Muah: Rant
Earring & frame panties by: Oracles Arise Clothier / Rant
Photo/©: Travis Haight Photography
Portland, OR
Here's some previously unreleased Rant for ya :)
Model/muah: Rant
Photo/©: Travis Haight Photography
Portland, OR
It's Back to School today. But with no students for a couple of days.
I have to have a RANT NOW in CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE I AM SHOUTING. IF YOU HAVE SEXUAL CONTENT IN YOUR PHOTOSTREAM DON'T COMMENT OR FAVOURITE MY PHOTOS. I AM A TEACHER & I HAVE A DUTY OF CARE TO MY STUDENTS WHO MAY SEE YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE I HAVE A CHANCE TO BLOCK YOU. SO STOP IT.
Thrifted skirt, Old tee shirt from Nasty Landfill shop, three necklaces made by me, 'Payless' shoes
Photos belong to Dollzone and Ringdoll.
So I finally got caught up in the "we're discontinuing all our heads!!!1!!" craziness, as both Dollzone and Ringdoll are dropping a lot of their molds. DZ Moment-Ji is actually on my WL right now (it is! go look!!) and RD Spencer is just a doll I've always liked and wouldn't mind owning.
RD announced their discontinuation a week or so ago, and since I wanted a closed-mouth head for Joker, I thought I'd order both at once (then I had a mild panic over which head since I didn't think Norman light looked enough like Dark to work. Then I decided I didn't care.) and be done with it, except between Ringdoll (who I'd prefer to order from) and MOC neither of them had both sculpts listed. :\\
Then, when Dollzone also announced the discontinuation, I thought I'd order from DDE or MOC and just do a long layaway that way I could pay them off slowly. Same GD thing. Neither dealer has all three DZ heads. Moment-Ji and Ro I want to see if either of them can pull off John Constantine, Marlin I just like.
I'm going to look into Alice Collections and Jeeryama on Ebay now, I've bought from both of them in the past, but not layaway and no dolls from Alice. And I kinda need layaway if I'm buying five freaking heads especially so close to the Iple EID and IOS Chaos head I just bought. urgh.
Also I'm disappointed because Doll Chateau Fergus won't fit on a Dollshe body - he's the head I really wanted for Joker. Because that would be amazing.
And he needs a second head, because the other three have them. :|
Type: Space heavy fighter-bomber
Crew: 1
Length/wingspan: 28 studs/22 studs
Engine(s): 1 Tiren Broad T-34 ion engine
Speed:
Service ceiling: Unlimited
Range:
Weaponry: 4x 0.7in laser cannons and 4 hard points capable of numerous weapons (though usually 4x 2.5 in laser cannons)
The T-57 Stalker is Ranter Tec’s winning entry in the HBC (Heavy Bomber Challenge) issued by the Trynin military as a direct response to the Boeing B-100 Boomerang. Technically the T-57 is fighter-bomber, not a heavy bomber. This break in the rules didn’t matter to the Trynin military who saw great potential in the versatile, heavily armored, single pilot, “heavy” fighter-bomber.
The T-57 was created immediately after the Trynin military issued the HBC and went from schematics to prototype in six month time. It was the first official entry in the HBC but was the last to go through military trials due to problems with the weight and engines. It took the T-57 almost two more years to go into mass production.
When the first T-57 squadrons were first flown in 2076 during the battle of [], they saw little success which was mainly due to their operators not correctly arming the T-57s. For the next year the T-57s would only claim two warships and only a hundred fighter-craft, with a loss of over seven-hundred T-57s. It wasn’t until [general] armed the T-57s with three inch beam cannons did they become success.
The T-57 is heavily armored with eight inch trendmite armor on the sides a two inch coating on the body. It does however lack a shield generator.
The Tiren Broad T-34 ion engines provide the T-57 with over [] pounds of thrust but its heavy armor plating reduce its top speed to [] mph. The broad emplacement (thus the name) of the engines across the whole rear end allows the T-57 to maneuver efficiently but again, its weight reduces its maneuverability. Although it does have two anti-gravity generators to allow atmospheric flight and increase its maneuverability. It also features an experimental magnetic thrust vectoring system to boost maneuverability and speed.
Most anti-aircraft T-57s are armed with the normal four .7 inch laser cannons in the nose and four 2.5 laser cannons in the roots. This gave the T-57 enough stopping power to down a small transport if necessary, and a light enough airframe to maneuver correctly and maintain high enough speeds.
Many of the bomber variants were armed with two .7 inch laser cannons in the upper nose, two 1 inch plasma cannons in the lower nose, and two 3 inch beam cannons in the roots. This arrangement of weapons gave the T-57 almost as much firepower as the Boeing B-100 Boomerang but greatly hinders the maneuverability and speed.
During the end of the Agronomic war the T-57 began to operate more and more as a fighter craft. This was due to the massive amounts of real fighters lost in battle and the arrival of the U-2 Bomber.
The T-57s destroyed twenty-seven warships and over twenty-thousand fighter-craft during the Agronomic War. Today T-57s are the hottest fighter-craft on the market and all but the U.E.C (United Earth Confederation) have at least one squad of T-57s.
here we goo.
first off. lets just say. im nether team niley or nelena. im really team no one o.O im tean jonas, means they can date whoever as long as there happy.
second off: im not trying to say "you cant support niley" "your just mad because selena got nick" uh no. support who you like. good for you. if you like that couple, like that couple. but theres a far line from lieing and making up B.S.
third. im just really sick of this whole niley and nelena thing. honestly who cares? but somehow today on twitter, 'niley' blew up.
i guess liam didnt comment on when someone said "niley is true love"
first off, wth.
if someone said that to me, and i was in liams shoes, id keep my mouth shut too. because honestly. id be mad.
maybe niley and nelena will somehow get back together. but i highly doubt it.
its unhealthy for all of them. to just go back and back, and doing the same stuff over.
i was really happy when nick was in london, he got to meet new people, new girls, and he seemed happy.
miam seems happy.
selena seems happy.
let them be happy.
NOW. alot has changed sense, niley 06-07.
alot has changed sense nelena '08.
even if niley had a little thing in 2009. and nelena had a little thing at the beginning of this year.
miley has changed, selena has changed, nick has changed. its called growing up.
miley isnt that little girl anymore.
selena isnt known just for wowp anymore.
nick is now one of the worlds biggest young super stars.
then today, some "friend" or someone of mileys said miam broke up.
for one, no ones ever heard of this girl.
and she could of just made it up. but people believe it.
and if they did break up, it was probably because mileys away.
dosent mean shell run back to nick.
miley dosent seem to have intrest in nick, shes someone new (not in bad/hate way) she can find alot of guys. and nick can find alot of girls.
same with selena.
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it just makes me mad sometimes.
no hate to the nelena/niley people. not all of you all like that.
have hope.
PICKLES!!!!
taken tonight i normally don't see her in the summer
and the reason i haven't even uploaded photos is my mobile broadband is RUBBISH and i cannot even load pages with photos as i will use "alot" of data
so for example if i look at the bbc news website thats too much info for my mobile broadband to handle apparently
home broadband i think yes?!
ho partecipato, con questo disegno 100 x 50, alla mostra New Rant numero 3, all'interno della 2 giorni di concerti denominata Tafuzzy Days.
Il mio anno inizia oggi.
The only shot of the day, mainly made to show Sainsbury's how much extra parsley stalk their supplier adds to the bag to make the weight up. Grass as well?!
Maybe I'll comment on this one day to them: have had the same, if not worse with stalks added to coriander bags. I thought I was buying flat-leaf parsley... Rant over.
Naked Fat Rave is a collective of several high-profile comic-book artists who have banded together to share a booth at Comic-Con. It's also the booth that Andy asked me to target in order to purchase some original art of his fave Marvel character.
Normally, it's a pretty simple transaction. I've got paper, the artist has ink. I've got money, he's got talent. And so on. I've become pretty good at brokering the deal.
However, I have only dealt with the folks in Artists Alley, one at a time. It seems that by banding together, the artists have consolidated their power, to the point where each feels free to create arbitrary "rules" for how the sketches will be produced, and who is worthy to receive them.
First come, first served is apparently no longer an option.
Some of the artists would only do headshot sketches, and one would only do caricatures of the requester AS a superhero character. I'm not calling any of the artists out, or naming any names (yet) but it seems like some of them were taking perverse pleasure in this process - if the artist wanted a person to cluck like a chicken to receive art, they had that kind of power.
Then we have the added factor of the artists' wives, some of whom act as their business managers. Again, I'm not ready to tell the full story just yet, but in my opinion, the fewer people involved in the deal, the better. As a literal patron of the arts, I had better results dealing directly with individual artists, that's all I'm saying.
el error y la equivocación postraron sus garras sobre mis realidades actuadas, el engaño fue más que suficiente para hacerme creer un cazador.. nunca conté con que el ser sólo un tercio de un pasado "yo" me debilitaría hasta las creencias más superfluas; éste sería el fin.. como mínimo.
error & mistake put their claws on my acted reality, lies were more than enough to believe myself a hunter.. i didn´t count that being just a third part of my former "self" would weak me to my most superfluous beliefs.. this would be the end.. at least.
I bought a mesh skybox a while back (like, a month or two ago) and the guy who made it didn't mention ANYWHERE that the outside of the thing was completely damn transparent, so you can see inside from outside but not outside from the inside. I decided to use it anyway because I had it at about 1000m altitude and figured no one would be around to creep on me, since I regularly work on skins while naked and/or bald.
Well over the past few weeks I keep noticing more and more other skyboxes and platforms around the same altitude but on my neighbors parcels. So, I figured it was time for a new skybox and a new location for it (I've since moved the new one to a different altitude where so far no one else resides).
I also got this cute (and rare!) hot pink beanbag chair from The Arcade the other day so I put this one and the other one (pattern 2?) down in my new place. I was just bored messing with the poses and my emoter HUD and took this pic.
But yeah, I really wish the guy who made the other skybox would've had even a hint or anything in the description about it being transparent from the outside. And since it was all I guess on the same texture map rather than multiple surfaces, I couldn't change it (left a two-star review about it). And I really wish people would consider others privacy not only when making a skybox but also when chosing an altitude for their own. D:< If someone else is already near you, please try to go higher or lower to avoid each other ;o
I wouldn't complain if we had designated areas or something and couldn't help it but this is above my store, where I own the land and so do the people around me with their own stores or buildings, rather than rent skybox space. ;o They have every choice in the matter to my knowledge.
While I'm ranting.....
And since I have every reason to believe that the same will happen with the newly established video service....
People, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE accurately label, tag, filter and flag your content.
Recently in my contacts and in the Camera finder page (Go look. I'll wait.).. there has been very very very graphic pictures. I'm not referring to nudity or even erotic images. I'm talking about explicit images of sex acts.
If you want to post porn, good for you. Set the Safety Level to restricted so that those under 18 can't see it. By flagging explicit images as restricted, it will leave the choice to view them to the individual users. So long as they are over 18 and don't live in a country where such content is prohibited.
By leaving them marked safe (the system default) you take away the choice. You force the material on everyone whether or not they want to or should see it. It appears in public places within the site (such as on the camera finder page), which makes it difficult to avoid.
If I do a search for "facial" and have Safe Search turned off, I have a reasonable expectation that I will get porn. If I have Safe Search turned on and I'm randomly cruising the Camera Finder, checking Recent Uploads, or have my Flickr Home Screen up, I shouldn't stumble across it or see it.
I have young family members that use Flickr. Exposing minors to sexually explicit material is a prosecutable crime in many places. By not correctly setting the safety level on your photos, you risk your Flickr account getting deleted and worse..
You can find out more about content filters, and safety levels here.
Just trying out the first 12 shots on a Rollie using a combination of 'sunny sixteen' and the inbuilt metering.
The bloke in the booth was going to kick me out.."terrorist threat mate"
....what a 40 year old anglosaxon with a seven year old in tow, using a 1960's Rollieflex...your avin a larf mate.
"Could be a smokescreen"
LMFAO and went into town to take some pictures.
Rollieflex 3.5f planar, fuji 160NS
This is the funniest Sh!t you have ever heard. Stan has the fully recorded version, but we laughed for a good 30 minutes. The wife was basically saying how all day I was checking out hot ass on the beach, but all of a sudden when I was drunk and ready to go home, I was telling her how much I love her. CLASSIC!! My reputation preceeds me.