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Say you’re out for a photographic stroll, taking pictures of that cool old power plant on the edge of town. Suddenly seventy security guards swarm you and demand you hand over your camera.
“What is this,” you ask yourself, “a Michael Moore movie?”
You’re sure you haven’t done anything wrong, but you don’t know whose side the law is on. Fret no more- we’ve got a list of things you can and can’t do, and it’s a lot more permissive than you might think.
Now grab your camera back from that Rent-A-Cop and let’s hit the books.
The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography*

Before we get started here, we have to point out that even though we’re smart and awesome and devastatingly attractive, we’re not lawyers. None of this should be construed as legal advice. If you have a legal issue, get in touch with a lawyer. Much of this information was gleaned from attorney Bert P. Krages‘ website, so we’ll go ahead and recommend him.
The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography
I. Anyone in a public place can take pictures of anything they want. Public places include parks, sidewalks, malls, etc. Malls? Yeah. Even though it’s technically private property, being open to the public makes it public space.
II. If you are on public property, you can take pictures of private property. If a building, for example, is visible from the sidewalk, it’s fair game.
III. If you are on private property and are asked not to take pictures, you are obligated to honor that request. This includes posted signs.
IV. Sensitive government buildings (military bases, nuclear facilities) can prohibit photography if it is deemed a threat to national security.
V. People can be photographed if they are in public (without their consent) unless they have secluded themselves and can expect a reasonable degree of privacy. Kids swimming in a fountain? Okay. Somebody entering their PIN at the ATM? Not okay.
VI. The following can almost always be photographed from public places, despite popular opinion:
• accident & fire scenes, criminal activities
• bridges & other infrastructure, transportation facilities (i.e. airports)
• industrial facilities, Superfund sites
• public utilities, residential & commercial buildings
• children, celebrities, law enforcement officers
• UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, Chuck Norris
VII. Although “security” is often given as the reason somebody doesn’t want you to take photos, it’s rarely valid. Taking a photo of a publicly visible subject does not constitute terrorism, nor does it infringe on a company’s trade secrets.
VIII. If you are challenged, you do not have to explain why you are taking pictures, nor to you have to disclose your identity (except in some cases when questioned by a law enforcement officer.)
IX. Private parties have very limited rights to detain you against your will, and can be subject to legal action if they harass you.
X. If someone tries to confiscate your camera and/or film, you don’t have to give it to them. If they take it by force or threaten you, they can be liable for things like theft and coercion. Even law enforcement officers need a court order.
What To Do If You’re Confronted
• Be respectful and polite. Use good judgement and don’t escalate the situation.
• If the person becomes combative or difficult, think about calling the police.
• Threats, detention, and taking your camera are all grounds for legal or civil actions on your part. Be sure to get the person’s name, employer, and what legal grounds they claim for their actions.
• If you don’t want to involve the authorities, go above the person’s head to their supervisor or their company’s public relations department.
• Call your local TV and radio stations and see if they want to do a story about your civil liberties.
• Put the story on the web yourself if need be.
More Resources
• We’ve condensed these facts a great deal. We recommend downloading The Photographer’s Right and keeping a couple of copies in your camera bag if you’re shooting somewhere you might expect trouble.
• Andrew Kantor has written a good article and a PDF summary of your rights, including some of the ins-and-outs of publishing your pictures.
• The Legal Handbook for Photographers is a great resource covering all aspects of photography and the law.
• Live outside the United States? Try these links for photographer’s rights in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

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Last year I replaced several windows in my house and they were the expensive double-pane energy efficient kind. But this week I got a call from the contractor complaining that his work has been completed for a whole year and I had yet to pay for them. Boy oh boy did we go 'round. Just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I proceeded to tell him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year. . that in one year the windows would pay for themselves. There was silence on the other end of the line so I just hung up and I haven't heard back. guess I must have won that silly argument.

A man was on holiday in the Caribbean and, liking the warm tropical weather, settled down for a day's sunbathing. He fell asleep, and after a whole day his legs became sunburned beyond belief.

He could hardly stand the pain.

He decided to go to the local doctor for treatment.

The doctor looked at his lobster colored legs and shook his head. "You must realize that this is only a small village medical facility," he explained.

"I've really got nothing at all to help you. However, try taking this just before bedtime..." The doctor gave him one tablet of Viagra.

Puzzled, the man asked, "I've got acute sunburn ... what's a Viagra tablet going to do?"

"Not a thing for the sunburn," the doctor replied, "but it will keep the sheets off your legs."

  The patient and the drunk
>
>
> An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests,
>the last of which had left his bodily systems extremely upset. Upon
>making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he figured that the
>latest episode was just that, so he stayed put.
>
> Suddenly, however, he filled his bed with diarrhea and was
>embarrassed beyond his ability to remain rational.
> In a complete loss of composure, he jumped out of bed, gathered up
>the bed sheets, and threw them out the hospital window.
>
> A drunk was walking by the hospital when the sheets landed on him.
>The drunk started yelling, cursing, and swinging his arms violently in an
>attempt to free himself of the sheets. He ended up with the soiled sheets
>in a tangled pile at his feet.
>
> As the drunk stood there, staring down at the sheets, a hospital
>security guard who had witnessed the entire incident, walked up to him
>and asked,
>
> "What the heck is going on?"
>
> The drunk, still staring down at the sheets, replied,
>
> "I think I just beat the shit out of a ghost."
>

  HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT (new 2003 version):

She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN.

She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.

She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.

She is not DUMB - She is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

She has not BEEN AROUND - She is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION.

She is not an AIRHEAD - She is REALITY IMPAIRED.

She does not get DRUNK or TIPSY - She gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED

She does not have BREAST IMPLANTS - She is SURGICALLY ENHANCED.

She does not NAG YOU - She becomes VERBALLY REPETITIVE.

She is not a SLUT - She is SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED.

She does not have MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS - She is PECTORALLY SUPERIOR.

She is not a TWO-BIT WHORE - She is a LOW COST PROVIDER.


   What do Viagra and Disney World have in common?
Both make you wait for hours for a two or three minute ride.     



   Truth About Barney

1) Start with the given:

CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2) Change all U's to V's (which is proper Latin anyway):

CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3) Extract all Roman Numerals:

C V V L D I V

4) Convert into Arabic values:

100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5) Add all the numbers:

666

Thus, Barney is Satan.      



   WHY TRICK OR TREATING IS BETTER THAN SEX


You are guaranteed to get at least a little something in the sack.


If you get tired, you can wait 10 minutes and go at it again.


The uglier you look, the easier it is to get some.


You don't have to compliment the person who gives you some.


It's O.K. when the person you're with fantasizes you're someone else, because you are.


Twenty years from now you'll still enjoy candy.


If you don't like what you get, you can always go next door.


It doesn't matter if the kids hear you moaning and groaning.


Less guilt the morning after.

AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON WHY TRICK OR TREATING IS BETTER THAN SEX----

YOU CAN DO THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!


  A man and a woman, who have never met before, find themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train.

Although initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, the two are tired and fall asleep quickly -- he in the upper bunk and she in the lower.

At 2:00 a.m., he leans over and gently wakes the woman, saying, "Ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I'm awfully cold."

"I have a better idea," she replies. "Just for tonight, let's pretend that we're married."

"Wow! That's a great idea!!" he exclaims.

"Good," she replies. "Get your own fucking blanket."

A man and a woman were having drinks when they got into an argument about who enjoyed sex more.

The man said, "Men obviously enjoy sex more than women. Why do you think we're so obsessed with getting laid?"

"That doesn't prove anything," the woman countered. "Think about this: when your ear itches and you put your finger in it and wiggle it around, then pull it out, which feels better: your ear or your finger?"

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Mei Sheng (pronounced may-shun) made his entrance into the world on August 19, 2003 at 1:14 p.m. (PT). He is the first male to be delivered by mother Bai Yun as well as being the second cub to be born at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station.
Read more about Mei Sheng.




Hua Mei (pronounced hwa-may) made her entrance into the world on August 21, 1999, and instantly captured the hearts of animal lovers worldwide. She has the destinction of being the first giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo.
Read all about Hua Mei




Bai Yun (pronounced by-yoon), a female giant panda, was born at China's Wolong Nature Reserve on September 7, 1991. She was raised by her mother, Dong Dong. She is the mother of Hua Mei. Bai Yun means "white cloud" in Chinese. More about Bai Yun




Gao Gao (pronounced gow-gow and meaning "big big") is the newest member of our giant panda family, arriving at the San Diego Zoo in January 2003. The wild-born adult male panda came to the San Diego Zoo from China's Wolong Nature Reserve. Read about Gao Gao's background.
His arrival and pictures - Click here
His debut and pictures - Click here



Meet Mei Sheng | Birth Announcement | Naming Announcement | Exam Photo Gallery | Mei Sheng's Milestones  
  
Watch the Mei Sheng Timeline
Mei Sheng (May-Shun) made his entrance into the world on August 19, 2003 at 1:14 p.m. (PT). He is the first male to be delivered by mother Bai Yun as well as being the second cub to be born at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station. Bai Yun's first cub is, of course, the beloved Hua Mei, who was born in August 1999.

Meaning "Born in the USA" and "Beautiful Life," Mei Sheng has become an instant favorite of panda lovers worldwide, as they have followed his progress from his first week via the Panda Cam. Though he and Hua Mei share the same mother, it was not immediately known who was his father, as mother Bai Yun had mated with male Gao Gao during her estrus period, and was also artificially inseminated with frozen sperm from Shi Shi, who is Hua Mei's sire and now lives in China.

In November 2003, genetics researchers from CRES determined the cub's father to be Gao Gao. The much-anticipated result became available after separate DNA tests were conducted with the use of the cub's hair and saliva, which were obtained by the Zoo's veterinary staff during weekly exams. DNA from Bai Yun, the cub's mother, and Shi Shi, sire of the Zoo's female panda Hua Mei, was taken from blood, while Gao Gao's DNA was from a cell culture.

Just like his older half-sister Hua Mei, Mei Sheng has become a media darling and has been closely followed and documented through the Panda Cam, as well as through videos and photographs taken during his weekly physical exams.

100 things about me
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that are true about you.
3. Whatever you don't bold are false


01. When I was younger I made some bad decisions
02. I don't watch much TV these days
03. I love psychodelic mushrooms
04. I love sleeping
05. I have loads of books
06. I once slept in a toilet
07. I love playing video games
08. I adore marijuana
09. I watch porn movies
10. I watch them with my father
11. I like sharks :!:
12. I love spiders, I think they're adorable, especially the ones with bright colours on their backs
13. I was born without hair and I still have no hair
14. I like George Bush
15. Some People are cool
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year
17. I have jacuzzi and a Porsche
18. I have a lot to learn
19. I carry my knife everywhere with myself
20. I'm really really smart
21. I've never broken someone's bones
22. I have a secret
23. I hate snow
24. I drink only milk
25. Punk rock rules
26. I hate Bill Gates! (who doesn't?)
27. I love Chinese food
28. I would hate to be famous
29. I am not a morning person
30. I wear glasses
31. I don't need glasses, except sunglasses
32. I have potential in what??
33. I'm pure Japanese
34. My legs are two different sizes i refuse to believe my legs are identical..
35. I have a twin
36. I wear a padded bra
37. I can ramble on about absolutely nothing
38. I'm left-handed
39. I hate llamas, but I'm one of them
40. I don't like horror movies
41. I suck at climbing, but I love it anyway
42. People hate me usually
43. I love pop music
44. I hardly ever go to bed before midnight
45. I hate parking fines
46. I know national anthem of my country by heart
47. I know more than two languages
48. I spend too much time on the computer
49. I often want to throw out the computer in a window
50. I live on a ground floor
51. I don't like chocolate
52. I'd like to be more original
53. I've lied
54. Cocks are my favorite birds
55. I want to conquer the world
56. I wonder what happens when you die
57. I've read all books about Harry Potter
58. Eat your dog!
59. I love to exercise
60. I hate chemistry with a passion
61. I love to write
62. I like changes
63. I hate going to class
64. I am afraid to die
65. I hate dish washing
66. My hair is long, brown, and incredibly curly
67. My nails are nine inch long
68. My favorite color is black
69. I like to sleep on the floor
70. I am hopeless at cooking
71. I sucked my thumb when I was little.
72. I should be doing something else rather than writing this
73. I am online a lot, but not in MSN
74. I hate government
75. I don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend
76. I'm too nice for my own good.
77. I love to read, I read as much as I can
78. I don't trust newspapers
79. I like debating
80. I live in a vagon
81. I clean my room once a month
82. I'm scared of american fast food
83. I have a third eye
84. I love Mozambique
85. I don't trust any religion
86. I used to play with barbies because all the other girls were doing it
87. I wanted to be a super hero when I was little.
88. I like listening to wind chimes
89. I'm very disorganized
90. My hair is long and straight
91. I earn a lot
92. I don't like spicy food
93. I keep a diary
94. I can't do cartwheels
95. I am very lazy
96. I'm sarcastic
97. I think my hair is annoying
98. I'm very sensitive
99. I love being "ab-normal"
100. My left eye is violet and my right eye is a light blue.


My dad used to tell me to run out for passes so he could throw me the football. "Run that gool 'ole s pattern" he'd say just like i would imagine rodger dodger would say... some times i would catch the ball, sometimes not.
I had a dog named missy when i was a kid. She was born a few months before me. She was a poodle.
  Missy had a mommy that was also a poodle and her name was suzy. Suzy got run over by a car when i was in first grade. I saw her in the street. Suzy was an all white poodle.
   That was when we lived on westcreek drive and i was growing so fast that my grandma ( majo ) used to cut the toes out of my sneakers so i could wear them longer. But that was when papaw used to smoke and I tried to put out one of his smokes with my foot and burned my toe.
   I remember that...
Dad was gone all the time when I was really young. He would be gone for 6 months, then he would come home for 2 weeks and then gone again for another 6 months straight. The air force called them "arc lites"... I really didn't care what they were called, I just knew my dad was gone a lot. Dad got out of the air force when the war was over. We never could go by the memorial in Washington D.C. when we would visit... it was to devastating for my dad. Dad would look at the wall and he knew too many people that were written up there.
   I remember that...
Dad would return home from the war and bring me Ultraman stuff ( www.deviantart.com/view/163887… ) cause ultraman was the coolest ! This was way before speed racer .
   I remember that...
I used to be mommys little helper... we would go to the store and I would help her pick stuff out. This one time mom took me to the store and I was sitting in the cart... I was almost 3 yrs old... mom would read all the labels of the stuff to me so that I could learn to understand and talk better... and maybe also because dad was gone so much she needed her little man to talk to ... but this lady came up to mom and said, "don't you know that he can't understand a word your saying?"...and with that I replied," my mom is teaching me to be a good consumer!" that lady turned white as a ghost and ran away. That was in california.
   I remember that...
I was born in Bigspring Texas in the year 1966, a great year for mustangs, my Dad used to have a white 66 mustang convertable and it was cool. One day I was riding my bike like I always did in the summer. It was a nice warm day and my mom and dad were out watching me ride up and down the streets on base. The streets on base were not very busy so I could ride all I wanted .I was showing off or simply not paying attention or something and I ran into the back of my dads 66 mustang. I wasn't hurt. My bike was still very cool.
    I remember that...
I heard a few years ago that the hospitol I was born in has been torn down... thats kind of a strange feeling.
    One day we made some grape kool-aid and drank it all day long. That same day we made cherry jell-o and ate it all up. It was a hot summer day, the kind of days when popsicles ruled, one of those days that we would play in the sprinkler in the yard and get cold so we would lay out on the side walk to warm up. Then it was time to get back in the sprinkler. We got a slip 'n slide one year... that year we were the bomb... only then they didn't call it the bomb, but we were cool...
    I remember that...

My grandad ( Jim Rayburne ) was the mayor of Alvarado, Texas for I think it was 10 years. Everyone who knew him said he was the best. My third cousin was Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. They named a lake in Texas after my cousin , and if you visit Paris, Texas you can see a museum dedicated to Sam.  My grandmothers maiden name was Hanks, which is my middle name. My grandmothers first cousin was Nancy Hanks who was Abe Lincolns mother. Such a political past I have . Some folks have told me that I could win an election based on family alone. But who wants to run and become a politition ? Maybe Jesse Ventura can help me. Me and Jesse Venture take on the world... ha ha ha ...
     Everyone would remember that...

One of the fondest memories I have of my grandad was that he was always trying to please me or help me do anything I wanted to do even if it wasn't what my parents would want. Really, I think because it's not what my parents wanted. He never meant any harm... we went fishing one time when I was 3 or 4 years old . On the farm there were several fish tanks we could choose. He would fish , I would fish, and then he would prepare the fish he caught. I wanted the fish eyes because I thought they were neat. What young kid didn't think they were neat. So, you guessed it , I went home with a pocket full of fish eyes. When I got home and took off all my super dirty clothes, the fisheyes just weren't the same...
     I remember that my mom wasn't thrilled...
Kinda like the time I brought home a squirrels tail so mom could make me a coon skin cap. ( only this would be squirrel skin ). I brought home the tail and put it in a box in the garage for safe keeping. Humm, great plan. The next time I looked at the tail it had started to rot and bugs were all over it. Another great plan gone bad.
      I think I caught that before mom did.