tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599865769198981522024-03-13T07:41:43.407-07:00Shadow MusingsPersonal images from SecondLifeShadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-33312261881046225082013-10-14T20:23:00.000-07:002013-10-14T20:30:34.101-07:00Timeless<div align="center">
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Lost In Time v1<br />
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Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-71145413651674435582013-10-14T20:10:00.001-07:002013-10-14T20:24:57.844-07:00Shadow and Mika<div align="center">
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Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-68471501180830285412013-10-14T20:00:00.000-07:002013-10-14T20:03:23.754-07:00Desert Nights<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rJnejtP1vEs/UcAtU5RvGiI/AAAAAAAAOF4/3IcreWUD9T8/s1600/escape.png"><br />
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tastes like sin. like cigarettes and bourbon and cotton candy, searing deep inside of me...you steal</div>
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my breath with silken touches, gossamer brushes of your lips over mine, and i am helpless. </div>
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Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-36951683988035517412013-06-28T07:14:00.000-07:002013-06-28T07:14:01.745-07:00Let Your Voice Be Heard<div id="letter-contents">
<i>"Dear Members of Congress,</i><br />
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<i>We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States.</i><br />
<i>The Washington Post and the Guardian recently published reports based on information provided by an intelligence contractor showing how the NSA and the FBI are gaining broad access to data collected by nine of the leading U.S. Internet companies and sharing this information with foreign governments. As reported, the U.S. government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization.</i><br />
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<i>Leaked reports also published by the Guardian and confirmed by the Administration reveal that the NSA is also abusing a controversial section of the PATRIOT Act to collect the call records of millions of Verizon customers. The data collected by the NSA includes every call made, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other "identifying information" for millions of Verizon customers, including entirely domestic calls, regardless of whether those customers have ever been suspected of a crime. The Wall Street Journal has reported that other major carriers, including AT&T and Sprint, are subject to similar secret orders.</i><br />
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<i>This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously, guard against unreasonable searches and seizures, and protect their right to privacy.</i><br />
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<i>We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly:</i><br />
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<li><i>Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court;</i></li>
<li><i>Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance;</i></li>
<li><i>Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance.</i></li>
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<i>Thank you for your attention to this matter."</i><br />
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~Letter to Congress from Stop Watching Us<br />
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<br />Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-29914173572241170912013-05-29T22:51:00.001-07:002013-05-29T22:51:21.196-07:00SLKowloon<div style="text-align: center;">"<i>Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration.</i><br />
<i>If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.</i>”<br />
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Encounters with Tropical Nature and Culture</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">One of the greatest pleasures in SL is to find a new place you have never been and be able to immerse yourself in the experience that the builder intended. I have been traveling lately, exploring new places and here are a few shots taken while visiting SL Kowloon. </div></div><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">arrival in Kowloon</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">street food..maybe?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">booklovers paradise...hundreds of volumes and hot tea!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">must have been there too late, all i saw was the handprint</span><br />
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</div>Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-15649961444022550082013-05-25T20:28:00.002-07:002013-05-25T20:28:48.365-07:00Be The Light<div style="text-align: center;">
"Some days just pass by and<br />
Some days are unforgettable<br />
We can’t choose the reason why<br />
But we can choose what to do from the day after<br />
So with that hope, with that determination<br />
Let’s make tomorrow a brighter and better day"</div>
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Shadowedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04427728327227195303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259986576919898152.post-36276857078744427692013-05-24T15:38:00.002-07:002013-05-24T15:38:56.305-07:00New BeginningsI am officially the world's worst blogger when it comes to maintaining my own store blog. Seriously - this blog had not been updated in about a year, so I decided to go with the flow and embrace the fact that I suck at keeping an online store presence outside of SL's marketplace. In the spirit of one door closing and making way for a new door to open, I decided to use this blog space to showcase some of my favorite images from Second Life.<br />
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In contrast to the 'what you see is what you get' style used in our other blog, <a href="http://slfreebiehunters.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SL Freebie Hunters</a>, these images are my own creations. SL photography is one of my favorite past times and it is extremely rare to have a Freebie Hunter's post where I have enough time to take more artistic images rather than working on a time line to get images up before an event ends. That more artistic side will be able to spread its wings here instead.<br />
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I hope you enjoy my visions of SL.<br />
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