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Not completed business centre in Moscow. Tremendous weather...) the blue sky, blue glasses... 3 sight at this splinter in the middle of a megacity, I hope to show to people something new as much is already told... Для русских - и не возникайте, что баян, пофиг)

Special for users artdel and deviant_man) Not a bayan fully)

Or the curious burnt down building. We have managed to find there a sickle! A hammer! And a plait!) and much all another. An unusual place, though also the ashes...

So google is not doing what I want it to do.

Does anyone know of any supply stores that sell waitor/waitress goodies? Notepads? Trays? Aprons? I am looking to purchase some personal items and not in bulk.


Thoughts? Insight?

http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/07/dhamma-brothers-east-meets-west-in-deep.html

Directed by Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein, and Andrew Kukura
Freedom Behind Bars Productions

What would happen if the American prison system was based on a treatment model versus a punitive model? The administrators at the W. E. Donaldson Correctional Facility wondered what would happen if they introduced the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques to prisoners. The Vipassana program is modeled after a program in India. The administrators hoped that the Vipassana meditation program would have a calming effect on the prison population. Donaldson Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison located in the countryside southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. The facility houses about 1,500 prisoners with sentences ranging from six months to life terms. The administrators decided to offer a Vipassana retreat for prisoners who wanted to participate in the program. Participants would be required sit in silent meditation for ten days. Vipassana is the Theravada Buddhism mediation technique known as Insight meditation. Vipassana requires the mediator focus the concentrated mind on suffering, impermanence, and lack of the enduring self. The program would allow the inmates to deal with their anger and to rise above the prison culture of revenge, hatred, and retaliation.

The program was met with skepticism from prison officials and local residents. Prison officials feared that some inmates would use the program as a way to get out of being in the prison block and they would not really devote themselves fully to the program. There was also resistance to teaching Buddhist meditation techniques to predominately Christian prison population.

I found the documentary to be very interesting and inclusive of the viewpoints of prison administrators, inmates, community members, and teachers. According to the directors of the film, The Dhamma Brothers seeks to tell the story of spiritual development and the formation of a bond of brotherhood among inmates in maximum security facility. The film focuses on a select group of inmates and their search for a sense of peace and redemption.

The inmates who participated in the mediation retreat did take the program seriously and were profoundly changed. The prisoners were able to take the time in the silent retreat to explore the sensations driving their behavior. Many of the participants were able to confront their emotions and learned to forgive themselves as well as other people in their lives. Inmates continued to meet for mediation groups after they graduated from the program, but they had to discontinue meetings due to opposition from the prison chaplain in 2002. Meditation groups were able to resume meetings in 2006 when the prison administration changed. Rick Smith, an inmate serving a life sentence and who participated in the program, summed up his feelings by saying, “I thought my biggest fear was growing old in prison. I realized my biggest fear was growing old and not knowing myself.”

Review by Rekesha Spellman

Hello everyone!!

About a week ago (or was it 2 weeks ago?) I posted Part One of an order which I had just completed. Part One was dark green silk moiré. Part Two is black silk moiré.

Part Two was delayed a bit because I discovered that it was indeed humanly possible to put on even more exterior boning channels! So off came the binding. Off came the facings and the lining. Off came the exterior channels. And on went even more channels. WOOT! This one has so many channels, you can shake a stick at 'em!




I did my best to make the photos look clear. But I sat on my glasses yesterday, so things might look a wee bit fuzzy to you. My apologies in advance.

( Photos behind the cut, including a detail photo and innard photo. Come and laugh at my horrible photo skills! )

Hello everyone!!

About a week ago (or was it 2 weeks ago?) I posted Part One of an order which I had just completed. Part One was dark green silk moiré. Part Two is black silk moiré.

Part Two was delayed a bit because I discovered that it was indeed humanly possible to put on even more exterior boning channels! So off came the binding. Off came the facings and the lining. Off came the exterior channels. And on went even more channels. WOOT! This one has so many channels, you can shake a stick at 'em!




I did my best to make the photos look clear. But I sat on my glasses yesterday, so things might look a wee bit fuzzy to you. My apologies in advance.

( Photos behind the cut, including a detail photo and innard photo. Come and laugh at my horrible photo skills! )

Those of you who saw my recent post will be pleased to know that I finally got off my ass and properly explored the old Yorkshire Brewery yesterday. ( Over 30 photos under these cuts )

Looking out from the top of the silos over onto the brewery tower and the partially collapsed stables:


( The adventure continues... )

http://cuteoverload.com/2009/07/12/god-bless-the-internet/

http://cuteoverload.com/?p=29359

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found on 3rd and 's' streets in sac. i hit a sign, and when i got out to retrieve it, this was on the ground nearby. its a toolbox lid or something. the back says 'made in germany'. EDITED location. it was found in 95818. i am now in 43214.

http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/07/camille-jones-barking-up-wrong-tree.html

Tommy Boy

Review by Brittany Shoot

Both myself and sokkmonkey are huge fans of a band named ROME.
Their music softly murmured it's way into both our hearts when I first posted about my discovery of them, not long before he and I began our romance.
Their previous album Masse, Mensch, Material will always remind me of that first visit with him. The photo shoot at the Armory in San Francisco; our arms entwined in an embrace for the camera, while our hearts nearly beat out of our chests. The subtle roughness of his wool uniform through my silk blouse and on my skin, the glint of his medals and the way the brim of his hat made his blue eyes smolder even more on that June afternoon.
*der sigh*
Recently they released another album, after a supposed disbanding. Well, I'm happy to say they are back and what they have given us is even more astonishingly beautiful than anything I've heard from the neofolk/martial music world in a long time. Not since Death In June has anyone hit that sweet spot. And yes, while they do borrow a lot of elements from Death In June, they are able to separate themselves just enough from what came before, to make it something completely fresh and uniquely their own.
The first four tracks on their Myspace player are from the new release, Flowers From Exile.
I urge you to listen if you've never heard them before:

Saw Duran Duran tonight with my buds Alexi and Joel. Got to hang out at the OC Fair before the show. Never been to the fair before and it was fun. Got to see some animals at the petting zoo, see glass blowers do their glass blowin' thang and ate fair food.

This was the second time I've seen Duran Duran and they put on a great show. The boys sounded wonderful and looked youthful. The whole place was dancin' and hopin'. They even played an Arcadia song and did a whole James Bond theme gag with Simon coming out in full tuxedo before going into "A View To A Kill". Great setlist. My only complaint is that they didn't play "Hungry Like The Wolf". Wass up wit dat?!? Later gators.

Setlist:

WILD BOYS
HOLD BACK THE RAIN
NITE-RUNNER
NOTORIOUS
I DON’T WANT YOUR LOVE
SAVE A PRAYER
RED CARPET MASSACRE
ELECTION DAY
TEMPTED
COME UNDONE
WHITE LINES
LE FREAK
DO YOU BELIEVE IN SHAME
ORDINARY WORLD
SKIN TRADE
SUNRISE
RIO
BOND MEDLEY/ A VIEW TO A KILL
PLANET EARTH
GIRLS ON FILM

http://cuteoverload.com/2009/07/11/this-just-in-guinea-pigs-mowing-watermelon-slices/

http://cuteoverload.com/?p=29353

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Welcome to my "I can't believe the veterinarian charged me that much" Sale! :)

I have two pieces, both built for this size:
bust 32-35 (A, B, and C cups)
underbust 26-29
waist 23-27 (23-26 unless you're pretty experienced at tightlacing)
high hip 32-34
underbust to waist 7-9
(all measurements in inches!)


The first: an overbust design in Russian (yes, really! it was a gift from my brother after a vacation) silk/rayon and gold dupioni. It's a lovely turquoise blue brocade with a good shimmer quality, and it has a coutil strength layer and a tan twill lining with fashion fabric facings. Double-stitched seams, lots and lots of spiral and spring steel bones, triple-reinforced 2 part grommets, twill waist tape, silk bindings, modesty placket, and matching grosgrain laces. And look at that sassy-fabulous shape it gives! :) Worn for 15 minutes for photos only.



The second: a tightlacing underbust design in black cotton faille. It's interlined with coutil and lined in twill, and can withstand some mega tightlacing. As many bones as I could fit in it (only about a 1/4" gap between them), sandwiched in coutil external casings, topstitched in black thread. It's all about the contrast here. (Thanks, Tanya, for the advice on this one!) Triple-stitched seams, triple-reinforced 2 part grommets, twill waist tape, cotton binding, modesty placket, matching white lacing strings. The entire piece is 100% cotton for maximum skin breathing! Laced to 22" as pictured. Worn for 15 minutes for photos only.



Retail for both, semi-custom is $350. Accepting best reasonable offer. Please be kind and keep in mine all of the time, energy, and material costs that went into these, folks. Please email offers to info(at)angelafriedman(dot)com . Shipping is $15USD domestic, $20 to Canada, contact me for international. (Usually $40 Europe) And I can ship as early as Monday!

Other photos are ( under the cut )

http://cuteoverload.com/2009/07/11/happy-birfday-tai-shan/

http://cuteoverload.com/?p=29348

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