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[Intro: Sample]
Look at this mouth, look at these eyes
Look at these ears, look at this hairline
But, why don't you think you're the father?
Because, it's been a time where I've went over to [Sheela's] house
And it's been twelve guys in there
And there's a bottle of gin, and there's things being rolled up
We all know what I'm talking about
You, first of all, are a liar
You're dumb as a box of rocks
Number four in your class? I don't think so
I have the high school transcript to prove it
Okay, well show me! I'm not trying to hear none of that
That's not putting food on Keyshawn's table
Or clothes on her back
Maury, Maury, Maury, I'd just like to say
[Verse 1: Juice]
Metaphysics, religious scripture, read the picture
Participating, hate the negative, we'll get ya
Look inside your soul, meet your maker, I suppose
In Jamaica, blowing Os, Cali niggas cutthroat
Beast Coast nigga, yeah, we've been on
Trippy motherfucker, up and down, ping-pong
Bulletproof from the roof, third eye strong
King of my own, that throne'll leave you thorny crowned
Crucify, getting shitted by your own
The universe, everywhere I roam is my home
To some, I suppose, uranium explode
Leaving kids disfigured, they meant to just a figment
I ain't acid rap, but I rap on acid
Do it for the culture, that pop shit over
Wasn't for A$AP, the radio would make me throw up
Here's the reality, I plead my insanity
I don't give a fuck if you rap niggas don't like me
Same old nigga, rubber bands and a white tee
No chain on, gold teeth, blowing Yoshi (Yoshi!)
Issa, AK, do it for the whole team
YFG, zombie niggas reign supreme
Prince my little yout, growin faster than my buzz
Last week overseas, steady getting love
Signing out, Juice man, peace, ganja, blood
[Verse 2: Erick Arc Elliot]
Got a job, got to rob, black mask, black noise
Black ball, black hoodie back on my back, boy
My axe raw, never pack gats, I pack poise
I back smack niggas 'til I'm back on the tabloids
Everything I knew 'bout jealousy and wicked niggas
We don't need no shootouts
Part of me, I'm part of poverty, the streets father me love
Hesitate to tell the truth cause only part of me was
Confident when the skoma lit
My crew move anonymous over units, assemble platoons to form a conglomerate
Blood-rushing concussions ain't nothing
You don't have to be a nigga to consume a substance
But pour us a bottle, formula is to follow
Trippy chick Love Lucy like Ricky Ricardo
Capable of crashing Internet without the intellect
Tell him fuck you to his face in case it's never indirect
See, my mother struggled, so I never loved another like her
Despite the human cycle, entice a rap revival
I've been here, my marketing plans are well off
My haters on the dick, advise for you to get off
Papa was a Rolling Stone waiting for that mobile phone
And my homies know, call my bluff
Who will hold the throne? Probably me
The prophecy is I see, it's not a dream
On the MPC, it's sending you shots to your self-esteem
[Verse 3: Meechy Darko]
When you got the juice, you got to move like the bishops do
Even if that means killing every nigga in your crew
I'm the type to screw over anyone to make a move
Paper I pursue, looking for a big head, brunette, Betty Boop
She can be black-and-white just like the cartoon, I ain't picky
No invite to the VMAs cause they knew I was gonna shoot this shit up
Like sticky fingers on the trigger and it's getting itchy
I like my sex hot, sticky, sweat dripping
Kinky, finger-licking bitches fuck with me
Yet they honor me cause of my honesty
Cause honestly, I ain't shit, I'm just being honest, B
All-red suit on Suge Knights, I'm Nino Browning
Am I my brother's keeper? No, nigga, I'm only childing
No sleep 'til Brooklyn, so I sew open my eyelids
Ha, did I mention psilocybin my stylist
The wildest Brooklyn nigga since Christopher Wallace
(Gimme the loot, gimme the loot) I need your purse and wallets
I'm smoking cookies, nigga, scout's honor
Mr. Darko
("You are not the father")
[Produced by Erick Arc Elliott]
The song could be saying that Meechy Darko had sex with a woman who soon became pregnant and blamed him; Saying that Meechy was the father. Erick mixes the intro to say "Sheela," possibly mentioning the affiliated woman. At the end Meechy says "Mr. Darko, [You are not!]." Saying that he is not the father. Though it is not known if there was actually a paternity test like they usually do in the show, Maury.
This is all speculation, of course.
For sampling information, click here.


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A five-year project to improve the lives of youth in Denver's Montbello neighborhood will kick off Feb. 16-17 with public meetings on the Evie Garrett Dennis Campus.
Community members and key leaders will gather in the community room at 4800 Telluride St. in Denver to discuss efforts to reduce youth violence to be led by the University of Colorado Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. The public is invited to attend.
Two boards will be launched at the meeting. The Key Leader Board, consisting of influential community leaders, will convene on Feb. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Community Board, a coalition of community stakeholders, will also attend the meeting with the Key Leader Board from 8:30 to 12:30 on Feb. 16.
The Community Board will continue to meet the afternoon of Feb. 16 until 4:15 p.m., and on Feb. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Breakfast and lunch will be served both days.
The CU-Boulder center will work closely with the two boards and residents of Montbello to reduce levels of youth violence among those aged 10 to 24. The project aims to reduce rates of serious violent crime and gang-related violence, in addition to rates of drug and alcohol abuse, gang participation, fighting, and bullying or being bullied in schools.
Partnering with CU-Boulder on the project are the Lowry Family Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, The Foundation for Educational Excellence, the Denver Crime Control and Prevention Commission, Denver Police Department and the Denver Safe City Office.
The project is funded by a $6.5 million cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The principal investigator on the project is Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence and a nationally recognized expert on juvenile violence and school safety. Dr. Eric Sigel, an associate professor of pediatrics at the CU School of Medicine, and fellowship director of Children's Hospital Adolescent Medicine Clinic, will serve as a co-investigator.
In addition to reducing juvenile violence, the project will work with the CU School of Medicine to train future youth violence prevention researchers in the areas of behavioral science, public health and adolescent medicine.
In the first year of the project researchers will collect baseline data in the Montbello community and in the comparison neighborhood of Northeast Park Hill. After data collection, the Montbello Community Board will create a community action plan. Montbello has more than 30,000 residents and is located northeast of I-70 and Peoria Street and south of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
The second through fifth years will involve implementing evidence-based programs and strategies chosen by the community board, monitoring the programs' implementation and evaluating impacts.
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence is part of CU-Boulder's Institute of Behavioral Science. The center provides information on the causes, consequences and prevention of youth violence in addition to conducting research and providing technical assistance.
CDC has designated CU-Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence a National Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention. For more information on the CU-Boulder center visit http://www.colorado.edu/cspv or call 303-492-1032.
Delbert Elliott, CU-Boulder, 303-735-2146
Dr. Eric Sigel, CU School of Medicine, 720-777-6133
Peter Caughey, CU-Boulder media relations, 303-492-4007
- See more at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/02/02/cu-boulder-led-effort-reduce-youth-violence-denver%E2%80%99s-montbello-neighborhood#sthash.1Gxf7FsU.dpuf

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Strangeloop necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are a dynamic tech company that, while small, is emerging as a thought leader in the web acceleration industry. We develop and sell solutions that are designed to make websites faster.
We recently launched Site Optimizer, a family of solutions that are designed to make websites dramatically faster. Site Optimizer has already been implemented by some high-profile companies, and we're getting a lot of attention in the mainstream tech media. This is the time for us to brand our solutions and hit the ground running.
The audience will be technical for the most part, but executives and marketing people will also see our materials.
While our business is high tech, we do not want something that looks overly high tech. We want something fairly simple with a modern look that is not over-the-top web 2.0.
We need three icons for our Site Optimizer products and service:
1. Site Optimizer appliance – A hardware device that physically sits in our customer's network.
2. Virtual Site Optimizer – Software that is installed on a virtual machine.
3. Site Optimizer service – A website acceleration service we provide through the "cloud" (over the internet).
We would like the icons to coordinate with the look of our site (http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com). The icons do not have to be in our colours, but they must coordinate with our colours:
Super Dark Grey: C=68 M=49 Y=62 K=55
Dark Grey: C=68 M=49 Y=61 K=31
Light Grey: C=52 M=35 Y=45 K=4
Blue: C=76 M=49 Y=0 K=62
Light Blue: C=52 M=33 Y=0 K=0
Orange: C=0 M=66 Y=87 K=0
** Please note that the images that we are looking for are icons and NOT buttons. We'd like to use these icons in both print and web. Take a look at our website and what we currently have in our product heading for more info. http://strangeloopnetworks.com/products/


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Back from the dead: CompUSA assets snapped up by TigerDirect
CompUSA will live on, thanks to a deal with electronics marketer Systemax. Systemax, which owns popular computer parts reseller (and CompUSA competitor) TigerDirect, announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the CompUSA brand, trademarks, and e-commerce business. It also plans to acquire select assets and retail stores from the company, and says that it expects to close various parts of the deal throughout the first quarter of the year. "We believe the value of the CompUSA brand remains very high. The company has a long legacy of value pricing, service and customer loyalty among consumers nationwide," said Systemax CEO Richard Leeds in a statement. "We view this acquisition as a strong complementary business to our TigerDirect operation." The announcement comes exactly a month after CompUSA announced that it had been sold to restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group to close the remainder of its 103 stores. At the time, Gordon Brothers Group said that it planned to sell select stores in key markets in addition to CompUSA.com and the company's tech service business, and it was widely rumored that TigerDirect would swoop in to buy those assets. Retail stores that weren't in the process of being sold were closed just after the holidays. TigerDirect has been a popular stop online for computer enthusiasts looking for a good deal for many years, but has been growing its brick-and-mortar presence as of late. TigerDirect already operates 11 retail stores in several states and one in Canada; Systemax says that it is currently looking at up to 16 CompUSA locations in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, which it says will be integrated into TigerDirect's existing retail environment. CompUSA.com, on the other hand, will continue to operate under its own name, but under Systemax's ownership once the agreement is closed. Systemax expects the direct costs of the acquisition to come to about $30 million, not counting legal fees, inventory, and other expenses. Although the purchase will mean plenty of changes for CompUSA's stores, website, and brand, it's strangely comforting to know that it will go on under new ownership. Ars Technica


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Telecommunication Equipment for Telephone Companies, Cable TV Companies, Internet Service Providers. Pricing is typically a fraction of purchasing new directly from the manufacturer.
TruePulse carries Fujitsu Flashwave and Nortel Optera /Ciena equipment in-stock. We can often ship same-day to meet emergency requirements.
TruePulse provides a broad range of systems including voice switching (Class 5), data routers & switches, access (DLC), optical transport (DWDM, SONET ADMs, DCS), DSL, DSLAMs and CMTS.
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Manufacturer Lucent
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text: I photographed Dan Savage for the March 28, 2011 issue of Time Magazine. Dan is a sex columnist (Savage Love), and the founder of the It Gets Better YouTube campaign supporting bullied gay teens. Thank you to Marie Tobias at Time for working with me on this assignment. It was a lot of fun to think through the lighting for a Black-and-White portrait for a change. There aren't many assignments for B&W these days, and it really does take a different lighting approach than working with color. This is my favorite image, as well as the one running in the magazine.


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I'm about to sell my entire autograph collection but am stumped on a value for this poster. Could anyone please help me? I started it back at Celebration III in 2005 but never carried on after that. It has some slight edge-wear but wouldn't be seen once framed.
Signatures are:
Anthony Daniels - C3P0
Jeremy Bulloch - Captain Colton
Steve Sansweet - Lucasfilm Fanboy
Matt Sloan - Plo Koon
Matthew Wood - General Grievous
Olive Levi - Senator Fema Baab
Sandi Finlay - Sly Moore


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Are you pretty set on cooking everything a day in advance? If not, an overnight cook will allow you to finish up on the morning of the party. Then you can just FTC the finished roast for up to 4 hours, and pull it apart just before serving. That 4-hour FTC time is also a little insurance time, in the event your roast doesn't come to temp in time. The beauty of pulled pork is that you can cook it low and slow, go turbo, or even a combination of the two, all in a way that works with your timing. If you don't FTC at all, you'll be good. If you FTC for an hour, you'll be good. It's pretty forgiving.
As far as other cooks, ABT's are always a hit at our place. They are a little labor intensive, though. You can always assemble them the night before, and then plan to cook them about an hour before the party.
Wings are another option to cook about an hour before the party. The added benefit of both items is that you can use similar temps from your pork roast low-and-slow. If you take the butt off a couple hours before the party, you could immediately put the ABT's and/or wings on, and be good to go.
LBGE since June 2012
Omaha, NE
+1 on a re-heat in a hot water bath. A crock pot at full temp can be a great way to heat in the water bath ahead of time (leave plenty of time) and is a great holding and serving vessel.Hibby said:In my experience, putting the pork in ziplock bags after it has been pulled and sauced and sucking all the air out before sealing followed by heating the ziplock bags in a pan of simmering water will yield you the closest representation of fresh. As for the appetizers the day before? Never have had luck getting them to come anywhere near 'fresh' but hopefully someone else will chime in here shortly to recommend something. A microwave is not the friend of meat.


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Establishment of the Lobo Orensanz Endowed Fund for Student Support
Jose Maria (Lobo) Orensanz: 1945-2015
It is with profound sadness that we write to tell that our dear friend and colleague, Lobo Orensanz, died at his home in Puerto Madryn, Argentina on January 5, 2015. If any solace can be found in this tragic news it is to know that Lobo was packing a van for a field trip with his wonderful wife Ana Parma and other family to savor the natural history of their Patagonian coast….that was what Lobo loved so much, and he died anticipating another expedition of science and joy that marked his character and his life.
TODAY: Seminar with Andre Punt
4:30 pm, Fishery Sciences Auditorium
Is it easier to manage marine mammals than fisheries? Tails of successes
Uncertainty in fisheries management is pervasive. It has often been stated that "counting fish is like counting trees, except trees don't move and you can see them". Managers of fisheries and commercial and aboriginal whaling both aim to achieve a balance between conservation and utilization.
This Thursday: Seminar with Andre Punt
Is it easier to manage marine mammals than fisheries? Tails of successes
Thursday, 4:30 pm, Fishery Sciences Auditorium
Uncertainty in fisheries management is pervasive. It has often been stated that "counting fish is like counting trees, except trees don't move and you can see them". Managers of fisheries and commercial and aboriginal whaling both aim to achieve a balance between conservation and utilization.
Sarah Stienessen Final Exam
Sarah will be presenting her PhD dissertation entitled:
Information transfer, heterogeneity, and local environmental effects on emergent group patterns defining fish schools: perspectives from different scales of observation.
WHEN: Friday, January 9th at 12:00 PM
All are welcome to attend.Read more
Deadline: January 20, 2015
The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS; http://fish.washington.edu) at the University of Washington (UW) seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor who will complement the diversity of research and education on aquatic systems and processes in SAFS, and enhance the work on the ecology and conservation of estuarine and nearshore marine ecosystems.
Amy Yahnke Final Exam
Amy Yahnke will be presenting her dissertation entitled:
Amphibian Exposure to Aquatic Herbicides: Ecological Interactions with Invasive Plant Management
WHEN: Friday, December 5th at 1:00 PM
All are welcome to attend.Read more
Juliana Houghton Final Exam
Juliana will be presenting her MS thesis entitled:
The relationship between vessel traffic and noise levels received by killer whales and an evaluation of compliance with vessel regulations
WHEN: Thursday, December 4th at 11:30 AM
All are welcome to attend.Read more
Carl Ostberg Final Exam
Carl Ostberg will be presenting his PhD dissertation entitled:
Genomic Consequences of Hybridization between Rainbow and yellowstone Cutthroat Trout.
WHEN: Monday, December 1st at 3:30 PM
All are welcome to attend.Read more
Claire Olson Final Exam
Claire Olson will be presenting her MS thesis entitled:
DNA methylation variation in gametes and larvae of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas.
WHEN: Wednesday, November 19th at 2:00 PM
All are welcome to attend.Read more
TODAY! Seminar with Ed Farley
Salmon Ocean Ecology Research at Auke Bay Laboratories
This presentation will highlight the current salmon ocean ecology research activities that Auke Bay Laboratories scientists are participating in within the Gulf of Alaska eastern Bering Sea. These highlights include: connecting early marine ecology of pink salmon in southeastern Alaska to future forecasts of adult returns; understanding how varying ocean conditions during summer in the eastern Gulf of Alaska may impact survival of Columbia River Chinook; connecting climate variability in the eastern Bering Sea to juvenile Bristol Bay growth and overwinter survival; linking ocean conditions in the northern Bering Sea to Yukon River Chinook salmon distribution and growth as well as juvenile Chinook salmon abundance to future returns to the Yukon River; connecting 'real time' climate data and ocean conditions to run timing of adult Yukon River Chinook salmon.


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60 seconds on the hunt for value in UK dividends
As the demand for UK dividends grows we look at why investors need to be brave in order to generate income higher than the market average.
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Unstructured Learning Time
The UK equity market is seen as an income generator and everybody wants income. But when everybody wants something, it becomes expensive.
The number of stocks in the UK market that yield more than the market itself is now at 30-year lows.
High yield only for the few
The dividend yield for the UK market as a whole looks reasonable, but that is being elevated by a handful of very, very high yielding stocks. The rest of the market on average tends to yield a much lower level.
This makes it harder for income fund managers to find good ideas, which should focus income funds to look at some of the bigger companies, where fund managers have to be braver. This is where we are focusing today to generate income for our clients.


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Tired of church as you've known it? Thirsty for a fresh look at Christian faith? American singer/songwriter and author Tyler Blanski was, too. So he set out on a Holy Pilgrimage to rediscover the saints, stars, and beauty of Christianity for the twenty-first century. Rich with deep application for living in the modern world, When Donkeys Talk is an invitation to become enchanted again with Christ and his world.
Tyler reminds us that God works in unexpected, unusual, and miraculous ways and that he inhabits and speaks through the wondrous world he has made. Blanski redefines "magical" to help us see that the world is guided by a hand greater than science and materialism. Using scripture, the wisdom of the church fathers, and respected theologians and Christian thinkers from centuries past, as well as a creative and humorous narrative, you will find the wonder of our ancient faith still alive and well.
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Sep 21, 2011
(Machias, ME) The Clippers earned another conference win today moving to 4-0 on the year. Kris Wignes led the scoring on the day with two goals. Other goal scorers included Devon Whitbeck, Tyler Pelletier and Deven Pendexter. Franck Zeba assisted two goals and Stefan Zalucky added another assist. In goal Luis Herrera and Corey Hodgkins combined for the shutout as the Clippers held NMCC to only three shots on the day. The Clippers cruised to a 5-0 victory and look forward to homecoming weekend where they will face Eastern Maine Community College this Saturday.


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Scouts BSA Requirements
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The Boy Scout Requirements book is available at your local council service center or wherever Scouting merchandise is sold. Visit www.scoutstuff.org to find a list of Scouting retailers near you. It is also available online at scouting.org.
Many of the pages at MeritBadge.Org include the text of these requirements:
- See the Advancement Policies and Category:Boy Scout requirements for much more.
- Boy Scout Joining Requirements
- Tenderfoot Rank Requirements
- Second Class Rank Requirements
- First Class Rank Requirements
- Alternate Requirements for the First Three Ranks
- Star Rank Requirements
- Life Rank Requirements
- Eagle Rank Requirements
- Eagle Scout Rank - Alternate Requirements
- Eagle Palms
- Selecting Leadership Service Projects
- Introduction to Merit Badges
- Merit Badge Requirements
- Merit Badge Library
- Boardsailing BSA
- BSA Lifeguard
- Den Chief Service Award
- 50-Miler Award
- Firem'n Chit
- Historic Trails Award
- Interpreter Strip
- Kayaking BSA
- Leave No Trace
- Lifesaving and Meritorious Action Awards
- Mile Swim BSA
- Paul Bunyan Woodsman
- Religious Emblems
- Scuba BSA
- Snorkeling BSA
- Totin' Chip
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Chris Paul Hits The Ground Running With New Jordan Brand Signature Shoes
December 18, 2009: Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, has officially unveiled the third signature basketball shoe from all-star guard Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets. A special limited edition Jordan CP3.III will launch in select retailers on Dec. 26, with a nationwide launch scheduled for Jan. 2, 2010. MSRP for both is $118.
Jordan Brand will support with print, online and experiential marketing. Other members of Team Jordan include Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Mike Bibby, Ray Allen, CC Sabathia and Derek Jeter.
Paul, who has been wearing the new shoes in games, followed a tradition established with his first two signature shoes by putting symbols and elements on the shoe that represent his personal life. Previous symbols included a 61 for his 61-point game in high school, which in turn was a tribute to his grandfather, who passed away at the age of 61; and markings representing his love of bowling. The new shoe includes such elements as multi-color specks that represent the confetti from Mardi Gras. The colors on different styles of CP3.III are also part of New Orleans and my life: purple and gold are for Mardi Gras, there are the home colors of the Hornets.
The CP3.III also contains design elements intended to offer maximum support and cushion impact for the wearer while extending the life of the shoe. "We're constantly working to develop new technologies that complement Chris's advancement in the game of basketball," Jason Mayden, Jordan Brand senior footwear designer, said in a statement. "The performance elements incorporated in the Jordan CP3.III will only enhance his explosive, agile and fast style of play."
Paul spoke with NYSportsJournalism.com about the CP3.III shoe, the rebuilding of New Orleans and other aspects of his life.
NYSportsJournalism: Your Jordan Brand shoes are known for the images and symbols from your personal life. What can we find on the new CP3.III shoes?
Chris Paul: On the bottom are honeycombs, which represent the New Orleans Hornets,. There are crests on the shoe for New Orleans, which is also called Crescent City. If you look at the shoe, is looks as if there are just different design elements, but they actually are pieces from my life. There's a special "family crest" graphic with details representing my mother, father, brother and grandfather. One of the hexagons features my father's initials (also "CP") surrounded by the number 28, which is how long parents have been married. There also are multi-color specks that represent the confetti from Mardi Gras. The colors on different styles of CP3.III are also part of New Orleans and my life: purple and gold are for Mardi Gras, there are the home colors of the Hornets, that type of imagery.
NYSJ: Will you be doing marketing support?
Paul: yes, there will be several elements: online, print . . . I'm wearing the shoes now so people get to see them.
NYSJ: Why should fans be excited about the shoes?
Paul: I'm excited about the shoes. I'm honored to be part of Jordan Brand. Anyone who goes out and gets the shoes, I really appreciate that. You'll not only get a quality shoe but you'll learn more about me and the person I am.
NYSJ: And they'll become better point guards?
Paul: (Laughs) I can't guarantee that!
NYSJ: Do fans still respond to athletes as endorsers? If people see Chris Paul in his new Jordan Brand CP3.III shoes will they go out and buy them?
Paul: I hope they do. But they also have to be high-quality shoes, which these are.
NYSJ: Would you like to be a guest puppet in the marketing from Nike with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James?
Paul: Nah. I'm good without that.
NYSJ: New Orleans has come a long way from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but there is still a lot of work to do. What are you and the Hornets doing to re-energize the community and get tourists coming back?
Paul: We are doing a lot of different things. I am working with my CP3 Foundation to do a lot of things in the community. During Thanksgiving, my teammate David West and I took 100 kids to Toys 'R' Us and gave them each $100 and allowed them to pick out gifts for them and their friends. The city of New Orleans is one big family. It's all about helping each other and supporting each other.
NYSJ: Have you seen The Princess and The Frog, which takes place in New Orleans about 100 years ago?
Paul: I haven't had the opportunity, but it seems like a really good movie.
NYSJ: What do you think about the NFL's New Orleans Saints?
Paul: I'm excited for them. They have a really good shot at going all the way.
NYSJ: What do you think about the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, which will be in Cowboys Stadium and could see 100,000 people in attendance?
Paul: It's going to be crazy!
NYSJ: What's it like when Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand guys get together? Is there one-upmanship showing off your signature shoes?
Paul: We all get together during the summer and talk and check out the shoes before the season starts. It's like a big Jordan party.


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MickP necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Everyday Electrics.
We are a new Electrical and IT Contractors based in Dublin Ireland. We will deliver electrical and IT solutions to the domestic and commercial markets. We are looking to step up to another level and we are seeking your help. As you know the economic climate isn't great at present but we are seeking to overcome it and become a leading player in the market.
We are a one stop shop for cabling requirements people may have. From electrical, AV, voice and data to optical fibre. Installations of flat screens and surround sound etc... But at present we are honing in mainly on the average Joe soap. ie the public.
Mainly domestic and also the commercial, but not as much.
We are seekeing to provide electrical sevices to the public. Rewiring of houses to installations of zoned music etc..... People are not really buying new houses at present, instead they are renovating their houses and we see a major potential in that sector.
Looking to develop a funky leaflet that will be distributed on a large scale to homes in Dublin and Ireland. The last thing people want coming through the door is a leaflet, so I need it to stand out from a standard one. People generally just throw it in the bin as soon as it commes in the door. So do your best guys . I know you will produce something eyecatching. Maybe add in some graphics to jazz it up. You are free to be creative as much as possible. No holds barred really!! Look forward to your input and designs. :-)
Literature for Leaflet. I hope to use some of this on a van sign later on and also business cards.
Everyday Electrics
House Rewiring specialists. (in large writing) Funky etc...
Electric showers
Extra Sockets, Down lights, Garden lights. (energy efficient)
Security Lighting
TV and SAT points
Phone and networks points. (home/office Cat5e and Cat6 cabling)
Intercom and Video phone. (see who is at the door before answering.)
Audio visual: Zoned music , Flat screen, Speakers, HD and speaker cabling installations
No job too big or small! All work is guaranteed and is carried out by qualified electricians. Fully insured and ECSSA approved
Phone +353 (0)87 9177201
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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In my post "First there was Yahoo Groups" I promised an audit as a starting point for building a team or project "information architecture." I've had both on-line and face-to-face conversations with readers offering that email with distribution lists is still the best option for short-term teams. I'll try and respond to some of those points below.
Disclaimer: This is not an overview of the full space of available tools. These are questions to ask as you think about the design of your team's portal architecture.
- Who are the participants? Key to this is whether they are all inside your organization or not. This matters first because it determines whether or not they will have access to platforms provided by your organization. For example, are they included under your Microsoft Sharepoint license? Are they allowed to make design changes to a Sharepoint site you set up? What happens if you leave the group? Will the group lose access to the site?
- What tools do you have access to? Will your company allow company work to sit on external servers (e.g., Google Sites)? Will your company allow non-company work to sit on their servers (e.g., you have access to Sharepoint and/or Basecamp, can you put your grad-school team's work on the company servers)?
- Cost. If you are using a fee-based tool, who pays? Is it your account and you can bring others in as you choose (see my concern about what happens if you leave the team)? Is it by the team member or by the project?
- Who do you want to be able to redesign the site? Different wikis have different features around how you can free up or close down permissions.
- What capabilities do you need for your site?
- File storage
- Versioning of files
- File syncing – systems that are passive are more likely to be up to date as the system is managing the uploading of the most current version. Right now I'm running several team projects via Google Sites, but I have yet to enact the part that would manage syncing. This means that team members have to remember to upload the current versions of the files to the site.
- Notification of changes to the materials on the site – I may wish email dead for moving information in collaborations, but it's perfect for being notified when new work has been done, or a question has been asked.
- Threaded discussions
- To-do lists
- Gnatt-charts
- Calendars
- Personal blogs. Socialtext keeps team members up to date by having members blog about the work they are doing. Think of this as stopping by a team member's office and saying "what's up?" This gives needed unstructured visualization into member's work, and helps the rest of the team coordinate.
- How long-term is this team? Are any learning curve issues acceptable given a longer view?
- Ease of design. I'm having good luck with modular/Lego-like sites. Google Sites, Facebook, web-versions of Blogger, WordPress, etc. don't assume you have a personal website, know how to program, etc.
Why not just use email with a distribution list? Besides the issues raised in my Kill Email post, who maintains the distribution list? With a portal strategy people are having to go look at the portal and are actively involved in their own account maintenance. How do you know that your version of the file is really the latest version? You may have a date on the file you have, but your spam filter may have eaten the version that came after (I speak from experience). Discussions around the material are piecemeal and may be distracting to other work you're trying to do. You don't have control (or even awareness) of how the material looks to other parties (do they read from the top down, bottom up, or via Gmail and so in a full conversation?) How much email do your team members get a day – will they even see yours? When they are ready to work on the project, do they have the skills to track down all the different related emails that have come through since they last took action? Email is asynchronous with little control over permanence of the materials. You're relying on the skills and attention of your team members, and that may or may not be a good idea.
Yes, there are start up costs to a "portal" versus email approach. But I've gotten it down to about 15 minutes per Google Site. In a following post I'll describe the basic format I'm using and talk about plusses and minuses.
What have I forgotten in this audit? I see this as a starting list, please help us build it out.


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Psychic Jams
August 2014
Kasper Opstrup cracks open the Third Mind and gets into the vibe with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Matmos, Jennifer Walshe, Tomomi Adachi, Kouhei Matsunaga and more
As a kid I used to spend the long days of summer staring intensely at a glass placed in front of me across the table. In my mind's eye, the glass would move back and forth across the tabletop, fly through the room and smash against the wall, as if poltergeists had descended upon the house. But it wouldn't be poltergeists at play. It would be me, unlocking my hidden telekinetic potential. Inspired partly by the film and partly by one too many Stephen King novels from the local library, I wanted to develop my ability to change the world by will alone – the occult power par excellence – in the hope of escaping boredom. Soon, I imagined, I would succeed in transmuting my mind into a short wave radio of grey matter, enabling me to participate in a community of fellow enthusiasts through the ether. Only later did I realise that these acts, had they been successful, would be indistinguishable from magic or some other very advanced technology.
We live in an age where the algorithmic feedback systems we surround ourselves with have reached a level of complexity beyond our understanding. Since the wild utopian hopes for the age of the internet are now in retreat, this unfathomable, technological structure that surrounds us, yet is invisible, adds to the general mystification of the world. This might add to why an interest in the occult and the psychedelic has seen a pronounced increase in recent years. Not only are MDMA, LSD and other drugs regaining a foothold in the psychiatric communities, but Fortean topics have also been embraced by publishers such as Strange Attractor Press in the UK or Edda in Sweden.
This tendency was clear at the recent Here To Go 2014 symposium on art, counter-culture and the esoteric in Trondheim, Norway (which ran for the second time from 30–31 May as a thread at the Meta.Morf biennale). Consisting of a day of performances plus a day of talks, it brought together artists and writers like Z'EV, Vicki Bennett and Carl Abrahamsson, all of whom have connections with the occultural underground of the 1980s. The various juxtapositions of sounds, performances and talks during the event examined the growing intersection between modern art and contemporary esotericism while drawing the outline of a contemporary occultural movement, standing with one foot in the world of electronic music and one foot in the shadows.
Cultural experiments with psi powers and ESP have a long cultural history passed down to us from the 1960s and conspiratorial projects such as MK Ultra where occult methods became the object of military research and psychedelic investigations. A fairly recent example from the world of electronic music is Matmos's 2012 EP The Ganzfeld Experiments. This saw them delve into a psychic territory already partly mapped by a string of psychonauts reaching back beyond the occult revival of the 1960s with its mixture of religion and sexuality to an anti-tradition that arguably can be traced to the Marquis de Sade, the heresies of the Brethren of the Free Spirit and beyond. One of the threads running through these histories is a quest for total, untrammelled freedom and, at its most extreme, to transgress even one's bodily confines.
This anti-tradition includes a string of iconoclasts (like Alexander Trocchi, William S Burroughs, the surrealists, the dadaists and Alfred Jarry) who wanted to expand the limits of freedom by exploring and expanding the human mind. This was seen as a first step towards a revolution in the head that would – by creating a new type of wo/man – result in a total overthrow of society. Their revolution would be an inner insurrection against past conditioning that would create new social relations; a way of relating to the world that would generate new ways of living.
Due to their efforts to bring all information into the open, the emancipation of wo/mankind from all limitations was as much an occult quest as it was political. Instead of turning the world upside down, these psychonauts wanted to turn it inside out. Thus, they chose culture as their battleground. Their weapons were absurd poetry, cut-ups, détournements, sound and media experiments carried out across the traditional genres of music, film, art, literature, and so on. Instead of the old occult dictum of 'as above, so below', theirs could more fittingly have been 'as inside, so outside'. Often, this inner freedom corresponded to a type of undogmatic anarcho-communism with mystic overtones, reminiscent of the early church. "Do as you will/this world's a fiction/and is made up of contradiction", as William Blake wrote in "The Everlasting Gospel".
A ganzfeld experiment is a way to expand consciousness in a non-chemical way. The subject of the experiment places half a ping-pong ball over each eye and stares into a red light, wearing headphones blasting static and white noise. The idea is that you enter a receptive state resembling hypnagogia, where experiments of a telepathic nature can take place. Matmos used the experiment to attempt to project the concept of their album into the mind of volunteers whose experiences and visions were recorded and used as scores, as literal directions, or as found sounds.
As such, the experiment is a type of empirical research into altered states of consciousness, similar to, for example, John C Lilly's sensory deprivation tanks, iconically used by a young William Hurt in Ken Russell's film Altered States (1980), or the dreamachine as made for Brion Gysin by Ian Sommerville. Both Gysin and his longtime friend and collaborator William Burroughs fit easily into the trajectory of the occult revival of the 1960s. Involving cut-ups and scrying methods, their psychic experiments with tape recorders were intimately connected to attempts at making a mind revolution meant to provoke a step forward in human evolution. It was a way of hacking the brain and changing the code. Using the dreamachine, a variety of symbols, crosses and spirals appears on the eyelid after a few minutes, as the light interruptions – at a rate of 8–13 flicks per second – synch with the brain's alpha rhythms. The pulsating light stimulates the optic nerve and alters the brain's electrical oscillations. In effect, it makes us dream while we are awake, causing individuals to see colours, visions or even entire three-dimensional landscapes with their eyes closed, enabling us to empirically experience what can be perceived as psychic phenomena, whether it is a matter of faulty source monitoring (like the sense of déjà vu) or not.
The following Matmos album, 2013's The Marriage Of True Minds, delved even deeper into this territory where the occult becomes a system to explain the inexplicable and know the unknowable. The title hints at a wedding not unlike what Burroughs and Gysin referred to as a "third mind". During their most intense period of collaboration, they wanted to liberate thoughts from linear sentence structures and create new modes of expression by cutting into the present to let the future leak out. In their coauthored book, The Third Mind (1965), they claimed that no two minds ever come together without creating a third, intangible force, which may be likened to a superior mind. This psychic symbiosis makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Another example is the telepathic concerts made in 2013 by vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe, who collaborated with the sound poet Tomomi Adachi under the moniker The People's United Telepathic Improvisation Front (PUTIF). Their method was to improvise from an agreed start and end time and then afterwards mix the recordings, opening it up for aleatory sound clashes, counterpoints and harmonies.
Ideas about a third, collaborative mind greatly influenced the trajectory of industrial music and the barrage of groups who consumed William Burroughs's seminal essay, "Electronic Revolution", from Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Psychic TV, Current 93 and so on, up to contemporary descendants like Cyclobe, Raagnagrok and English Heretic. The ideas also found a certain resonance on the free improv and jazz scenes. Several of the musicians bassist William Parker interviewed in his 2011 book Conversations talk about their music in profoundly mystical terms: they talk about "the creator" who might manifest in improvisation, about collective intelligence and the magical moment where a musician becomes a medium channelling energies of ecstatic enthusiasm, embodying one of Aleister Crowley's definitions of magic(k). It can be argued that by stepping outside one self, one makes space for the god within, and that sound is a key instrument for this displacement. This idea of a creator fits with some of Burroughs's wilder tape recorder theories (as discussed in his 1975 book of expanded interviews, The Job) where a third tape recorder becomes indistinguishable from God.
In Burroughs's analysis, control is a virus consisting of words and images. These help to condition our behaviour, but they can also be turned against themselves. Burroughs's techniques of cut-up and playback, famously used to shut down the Moka Bar in London, were ways of organising already existing materials so they became laden with new meaning. To give an example about the use of playback, a first tape recorder plays recordings of the target and/or the immediate environment. A second tape player portrays a kind of transgression, something inadmissible or inaccessible, involving the target who is being cut into the recording while a third recording reacts to the second recording in a regulating way. An edited mix of the three recordings played together is then played back to the target(s) who will react unconsciously due to what Burroughs called "waking suggestion", a term borrowed from occult writer Dion Fortune's classic Psychic Self-Defense.
What Gysin and Burroughs made was a magical-activist system. Systemic thoughts drawn from Western esotericism and its use of the Qabalah are also conspicuous in, for example, the output of John Zorn, who writes in his anthology on music, magic and mysticism, Arcana V, that taking on and tapping in to the challenge of the unknowable might be the only way to retain our inner born humanity. Indeed, a historical study shows that music is and has been a powerful agent for self-transformation, the healing of body and soul and awakening the spirit. But as much as it empowers, it can enslave and force people to conform. The relation between music, matter and the mind oscillates between the collective and the individual: it seeds a homogenising tendency where the many become one; simultaneously, music encourages a new type of diversification where the individual feels strengthened.
In this semi-mystical worldview, everything is vibrational and interconnected; the whole universe is one single quantum waveform. Not only does this align concrete matter with sounds, frequencies, and rhythms; it also, essentially, turns music into a technology. Like all technologies, it is double-edged: it is part of matter but it holds a promise about an escape from matter. Playing the right frequencies or hitting the right rhythm become acts of magic able to manipulate matter in subtle ways by working directly on molecular structures while they, simultaneously, as a virus or meme, can carry certain types of behaviour or mutations or provide an out-of-body experience. In this perspective, sounds, rhythms and movements become systems for communicating directly with the invisible.
The same ideas about music's connectedness to not only the world of the mind unleashed, but also to the type of imagined communities regardless of location I longed for as a child, can be found in the self-described psychic jams captured by Kouhei Matsunaga on his Flying Swimming label. These jams form part of a network that taps into experiments with telepathy, mind expansion and the creation of a third mind. An example can be taken from the forthcoming third album in his Compositions series. Some of these jams are made by recording simultaneously with collaborators across the world, each performing in their respective studio. This makes it possible to create, in the words of Kouhei Matsunaga, "tiny, delicate, dense movements on tiny objects" and microdrum together with Rashad Becker in Berlin or with Ghédalia Tazàrtes in Paris in another type of time-space continuum, a third mindspace where it is no longer necessary to come together.
Exactly this type of creative occultism drives the hidden current in much experimental music: sound is treated not only as a powerful vessel for the proliferation of ideas and enthusiasms but as a concrete matter that can be part of psychedelic experiments to expand and make the mind manifest. Since the occult is preoccupied with creation, transformation, mutation and evolution while being haunted by ghostly apparitions from the past, it is connected to a political dreaming; but it is a politics based on revelation. Fundamentally, it is connected to a messianic feeling of living in the End Times and standing at a crossroads: one direction leads to mass extinction and the other towards an unknown future where music might help catapult us out of our bodies, or heighten our psionic powers to make the impossible possible.
It ties into old dreams about leaving the planet and the body behind in order to go "Astro Travellin" like Quasimoto. Just as the popular imaginary since the 1960s has been haunted by fantasies about space flight, there is an imaginary in this type of music that is interested in creating trances and other altered states. These are supposed to enable us to become bodies of light, capable of migrating through space, an idea that recurs in the collaborations between Gysin and Burroughs and can be traced back to the common task (space migration) postulated by Nikolai Fedorov and the Russian Cosmists in the early 20th century. We are truly "here to go" and these type of affects can be found abundantly in a whole range of musics, from The Sun Ra Arkestra to Hawkwind, Stockhausen or Drexciya.
The construction of these vibratory ecologies can be construed as being, in part, an attempt at cultural engineering concerned with the production of both a new age and a new wo/man to inhabit it. It tries to inject occult ideas haunting the intersection between free improvisation and electronics/mutant techno/bass music into the mainstream to create new affects to influence future behaviour. As such, it is gateway music. It wants to achieve an expanded consciousness, uniting not only the performers themselves but also performers and their audience through an awareness, a third mind that will prepare us for the experimental exploration of inner and outer space. It is a promise, that we are not necessarily doomed to suffer planetary disaster and ecological catastrophe; we might yet leave our problems behind instead of solving them.


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Liberty News
Dave Edwards launches Spiritual Emphasis Week
Pastor Dave Edwards kicked off Spiritual Emphasis Week at Liberty University's Wednesday convocation by challenging students to ask the "dangerous" question of what God wants from their lives.
"Some of us need to re-awaken our spiritual life because it's easy for us to just think of life in terms of ourselves," Edwards said. "The way we do that is by answering the question, 'What does God want from you? How long has it been since you let that question cut through every area of your life?'"
Spiritual Emphasis Week, which takes place near the beginning of each semester, is meant to give non-Christian students an introduction to the gospel as well as encourage student-believers. Edwards will be speaking at Campus Church services throughout the week and at Friday's convocation.
Edwards, a self-described "itinerant postmodern pastor," was saved at the age of 9 and called to the ministry at 16. He began his speaking career at nursing homes, Sunday school classes and rescue missions in his hometown of Oklahoma City, Okla.
Edwards now travels full time speaking more than 500 times a year to more than 250,000 students and young adults. He uses a combination of Biblical truths and humor in his ministry to encourage Christ-centered lifestyles.
In Wednesday's message, Edwards examined the principles of Jesus' life, or "a life that works." Edwards began by sharing an experience he once had after taking his car to a mechanic for repairs. When Edwards went to check on his car, he only wanted to know if it worked.
"I had this moment of clarity – that question is not just something we ask about something that is broken that is now fixed, but 'Does it work?' is the question we have to ask about the spiritual condition of our life. Does it work?" Edwards said.
Edwards told students that in order to have a life that works, they needed to live as Jesus did. He urged them not to get discouraged by thinking that this is an unrealistic goal, because Christians can have effective spiritual lives by living out Biblical principles.
Lives that "work" are always controlled by the interests of God instead of selfish interests and are always committed to involvement in the lives of others, he said. Lives that work are consumed with the idea of bringing glory to God.
Edwards read from Philippians 2:3-4 to emphasize this message: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Edwards is the author of 14 books, including "20 Things You Should Read," "Everything Twentys," "The Complete Evangelism Guidebook" and "Life." Has also written a tract called "How to Make Life All Good."


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Home Prices Drop in January – BTW it's April
The past few days the news has been filled with stories about how home prices dropped in January.
"S.F, US home prices in free fall" reads one headline.
"Twin Cities Home Prices Suffer 20% Plunge" proclaims another.
"Home Prices Down 14% year over year" announces yet another.
Talk about 'yesterday's' news!
In January George Bush was President and it was snowing in many parts of the country.
Thousands of homes have been sold since January and Obama's Stimulus Plan has been passed.
I understand that it takes time to compile data, but January's home values are not very relevant to today's market.


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Public Health Statement for Mirex and Chlordecone
August 1995
CAS#: 2385-85-5 (Mirex), 143-50-0 (Chlordecone)
This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for mirex and chlordecone. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQs™, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737.
This statement was prepared to give you information about mirex and chlordecone and to emphasize the human health effects that may result from exposure to them. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified 1,408 hazardous waste sites as the most serious in the nation. These sites make up the National Priorities List (NPL) and are the sites targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Mirex has been found in at least 7 of the sites on the NPL. Chlordecone has been found at 2 of the sites on the NPL. However, neither mirex or chlordecone are on EPA's list of target chemicals and the number of NPL sites evaluated for mirex and chlordecone is not known. As EPA evaluates more sites, the number of sites at which mirex and chlordecone are found may increase. This information is important because exposure to mirex and chlordecone may cause harmful health effects and because these sites are potential or actual sources of human exposure to mirex and chlordecone.
When a substance is released from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. This release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking substances containing the substance or by skin contact with it.
If you are exposed to substances such as mirex and chlordecone, many factors will determine whether harmful health effects will occur and what the type and severity of those health effects will be. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), the route or pathway (breathing, eating, drinking, or skin contact) by which you are exposed, the other chemicals to which you are exposed, and your individual characteristics such as age, sex, nutritional status, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.
1.1 What are mirex and chlordecone?
Mirex and chlordecone are two separate synthetic insecticides that have similar chemical structures. They do not occur naturally in the environment. Mirex is a snow-white crystalline solid and chlordecone is a tan-white crystalline solid. Both compounds are odorless and neither burns easily.
Mirex and chlordecone are no longer made or used in the United States. Mirex and chlordecone were most commonly used in the 1960s and 1970s. Mirex was used as a pesticide to control fire ants mostly in the southeastern part of the United States. It was also used extensively as a flame retardant additive under the trade name Dechlorane in plastics, rubber, paint, paper, and electrical goods from 1959 to 1972 because it does burn easily. Chlordecone was used to control insects that attacked bananas, citrus trees with no fruits, tobacco, and ornamental shrubs. It was also used in household products such as ant and roach traps. Chlordecone is also known by its trade name Kepone . All registered products containing mirex and chlordecone were canceled in the United States between 1977 and 1978.
1.2 What happens to mirex and cholordecone when they enter the environment?
Mirex and chlordecone contaminated water and soil while they were being manufactured and used in the 1960s and 1970s. These substances can still enter surface water through runoff of contaminated soil at facilities that once manufactured these chemicals or by seeping from waste disposal sites. Mirex and chlordecone do not evaporate to any great extent into the air. They also do not dissolve easily in water. Most of the mirex and chlordecone in water attaches to soil particles suspended in the water or to sediment. When they bind to soil particles in water, they can travel long distances. Both compounds bind strongly to soil. Because they are not likely to move through the soil, very little will get into underground water. Mirex and chlordecone can stay in soil, water, and sediment for years. Both compounds are slowly broken down in soil, water, and sediment. Mirex is broken down more quickly than chlordecone. Mirex is broken down to photomirex, which can also cause harmful health effects. Photomirex is even more poisonous than mirex. It is produced when sunlight reacts with mirex in water or in the air. Fish or animals that live in waters that contain mirex or chlordecone, or that eat other animals contaminated with mirex or chlordecone, can build up these substances in their bodies. The amounts of mirex and chlordecone in their bodies may be several times greater than the amount in their prey or in the surrounding water.
1.3 How might I be exposed to mirex and cholordecone?
Most people are exposed to very low levels of mirex and chlordecone. The most likely way for people in the general population to be exposed to mirex or chlordecone is by eating food, particularly fish, taken from contaminated areas. Currently, three states (Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania) have issued a warning to the public that fish may contain mirex. This warning applies mostly to fish caught in Lake Ontario. The state of Virginia has also issued a warning to the public about possible chlordecone contamination in fish and shellfish caught in the lower 113 miles of the James River. This contamination was caused when chlordecone was manufactured in one factory in Hopewell, Virginia, polluting the James River. People who live in areas where these compounds were used or made have higher levels in their tissues. Mirex was found in the milk of women who live in these areas, so nursing infants could be exposed. People who live near hazardous waste sites may be exposed to mirex or chlordecone by touching or eating contaminated soil that is on unwashed hands, food containers, or food itself, since these compounds bind to soil particles. Because mirex and chlordecone do not dissolve easily in water or evaporate easily in air, people are not likely to be exposed to them by drinking water or by inhaling air. Since mirex and chlordecone are no longer produced, the only people likely to be exposed through their work are those involved in the cleanup and removal of contaminated soils and sediments.
Mirex and chlordecone do not occur naturally in the environment. Although mirex is not usually found in the air, it was detected at very low levels of up to 10 parts of mirex per quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) parts of air in air samples from southern Ontario, Canada. Surface water concentrations of mirex ranged from 0.06 to 2.6 parts mirex per one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) parts of water in the Niagara River between 1981 and 1983. More recent monitoring data from 1987 show that mirex concentrations are decreasing in the surface waters of the Great Lakes to about 0.022 parts per trillion (ppt). In the mid-1980s, mirex was found in sediments of Lake Ontario at levels ranging from 6.4 parts per billion (ppb) to 38 ppb. Nationwide, the average level of mirex in fish was less than 4 ppb in 1986. However, fish from Lake Ontario had levels as high as 225 ppb. Chlordecone was found in surface water samples from the James River estuary at levels less than 10 ppt in 1977. More recent data were not available. In 1978, chlordecone was detected in sediments from the James River below its production site at concentrations of less than one part chlordecone in one million parts of sediment. In 1981, chlordecone was found in clams from the James River at levels ranging from 60 to 140 ppb.
1.4 How can mirex and cholordecone enter and leave my body?
Studies in animals show that mirex can be taken into your bloodstream when you breathe in cigarette smoke containing mirex or eat food contaminated with mirex. We do not know if mirex can pass through your skin and enter your body after you touch it. Mirex passes from the stomach and intestines of animals into their blood. We do not know how much passes from the stomach and intestines of people into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream, mirex is carried to many parts of the body where it is stored, mainly in fat. Mirex is not broken down in the body. Mirex that is not stored leaves the body unchanged mainly in the feces. Very little leaves the body in the urine. Most of the mirex that is swallowed leaves the body in feces within two days. However, the mirex that enters the bloodstream and is stored in fat leaves the body very slowly. This process can take from several weeks to months. Mirex can also enter breast milk from the bloodstream of nursing mothers who have been exposed.
Animal studies show that chlordecone can pass into your blood when you eat food contaminated with it. Animal data show that only a small amount of chlordecone can pass through the skin into the bloodstream. We do not know if or how much chlordecone can pass from your lungs into your blood when you breathe it in. Like mirex, once chlordecone is taken up by your body, it is carried by the blood throughout the body and is stored for a long time. Unlike mirex, chlordecone is found mainly in the liver. Chlordecone is broken down to chlordecone alcohol, which is a less harmful product. Chlordecone and its breakdown product slowly leave the body through the feces. This process can take from several weeks to months. Very little chlordecone leaves the body in the urine. Chlordecone has also been found in saliva and human milk.
1.5 How can mirex and cholordecone affect my health?
We do not know how mirex directly affects the health of people. However, animal studies have shown that eating mirex can cause harmful effects on the stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys. Eating mirex can also cause harmful effects on the eyes, thyroid, nervous system, and reproductive system. Since these effects occur in animals, they may also occur in people. Animals that eat large amounts of mirex for a relatively short time can develop diarrhea. In animals, short-term exposure (14 days or less) to low and high levels of mirex and intermediate exposure (15–364 days) to low levels can harm the liver. Trembling, tiredness, and weakness can also occur after short-term exposure to large amounts of mirex. Younger animals are more sensitive to these effects on the nervous system. Intermediate exposures to low levels of mirex caused tiredness, and exposure to higher levels caused extreme excitability. Long-term (365 days or more) exposure to low levels of mirex caused harm to the kidneys. Short-term and intermediate exposures to moderately low levels of mirex did not harm kidneys. Exposure to sufficient amounts of mirex may cause cataracts in animals if they are exposed before or soon after birth. We do not know whether human infants may also develop cataracts; it is not likely that mirex will cause cataracts in adults. Short-term, low-level exposure to mirex may harm reproduction and development in rodents. High-level exposures may result in miscarriage.
Studies in workers exposed (intermediate- or long-term) to chlordecone have shown harmful effects on the liver, the nervous system, and reproductive systems. Workers exposed to high levels of chlordecone during its manufacture experienced trembling, irritability, blurry vision, and headaches. Studies in rats have shown that pretreatment with some anticonvulsants or antidepressants increases the seriousness of the tremors associated with chlordecone exposure. Therefore, people being treated with these drugs for epilepsy or depression may also experience more serious tremors if they are exposed to chlordecone. Male workers experienced some harmful reproductive effects. However, there was no evidence that the ability to father children was affected. Some workers exposed to high levels of chlordecone developed skin rashes and enlarged livers. Animal studies show effects similar to those seen in humans. In addition, long-term exposure to small amounts of chlordecone caused kidney effects in animals. It is possible exposure to high concentrations of chlordecone for a long time may also hurt people's kidneys. Animal studies show harmful effects on the ability of female animals to reproduce. We do not know if similar effects occur in exposed women. Animal studies show that chlordecone harms the offspring of exposed animals. We do not know if similar harmful developmental effects will occur in people. However, it is possible that if parents are exposed to enough chlordecone, their children's development may be harmed. Very young and very old people may be especially sensitive to chlordecone.
We do not know for sure whether either mirex or chlordecone causes cancer in humans. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that mirex and chlordecone may reasonably be expected to be carcinogens. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that mirex and chlordecone are possibly carcinogenic to humans. The EPA has not classified mirex or chlordecone as to carcinogenicity. In rodents, mirex causes liver, adrenal, and blood cancer. Chlordecone also causes liver cancer in rodents, but because of problems with these animal studies, more information is necessary to be sure.
1.6 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to mirex and cholordecone?
There are medical tests to determine whether you have been exposed to mirex. Levels of mirex can be measured in blood, feces, fat, or milk. The tests are not done in routine medical examinations. However, doctors can collect tissue and body fluid samples and send them to university medical centers or medical laboratories where the tests can be performed. The tests are specific for mirex exposure. Since mirex is stored in your body for a long time and slowly excreted, the tests can detect mirex for a long time after exposure has stopped. However, the tests are unsatisfactory indicators of the amount of mirex to which you have been exposed. This is because a long time may have passed since you were exposed and you cannot be sure how much mirex may have left your body by the time the test is performed. The tests also cannot be used to predict whether you will experience any potential health effects or harmful changes following exposure.
There are medical tests to determine whether you have been exposed to chlordecone and/or its breakdown product, chlordecone alcohol. Levels of chlordecone and/or chlordecone alcohol can be measured in blood, saliva, feces, or bile. Chlordecone levels in blood are the best indicator of exposure to chlordecone. Since chlordecone remains in the blood for a long time, the test is useful for a long time after exposure has stopped. Chlordecone can be detected in saliva only within the first 24 hours after exposure; therefore, this test has limited use. Blood levels of chlordecone are a good reflection of total body content of chlordecone. However, the test is an unsatisfactory indicator of the amount of chlordecone to which you have been exposed because you cannot be sure how much chlordecone left your body between the time you were exposed and the time the test is performed. These tests cannot predict how your health may be affected after exposure. The tests are not done in routine medical examinations, but doctors can collect body fluid samples and send them to a university medical center or a medical laboratory for analysis.
1.7 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
The federal government has made regulations to protect individuals from the possible health effects of mirex and chlordecone. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that the average workroom air levels of chlordecone should not exceed 50 parts per trillion (ppt) over an 8-hour period. EPA suggests that taking into your body each day an amount equal to 200 picograms (pg) of mirex per kilogram (kg) of your body weight is not likely to cause any significant (noncancer) harmful health effects. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that concentrations of mirex below 100 ppt in fish and other foods are not likely to harm people who eat these foods. EPA has set a limit of 1 ppt in surface waters to protect aquatic life from the harmful effects of mirex. FDA has determined that concentrations of chlordecone below 400 ppt in fish, crabs, and shellfish are not likely to harm people who eat these foods.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1995. Toxicological profile for mirex and cholordecone. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop S102-1
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO · 888-232-6348 (TTY)
Email: Contact CDC-INFO
ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
- Page last reviewed: January 21, 2015
- Page last updated: January 21, 2015
- Content source: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


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Carrie Underwood has a somewhat inexplicable reputation as an ice queen, something she vehemently denies. And she may well have proved it by warming a lot of hearts with a huge charitable gesture.
The 'American Idol' alum and Checotah, Okla. native donated a whopping $1 million — yes, million — to relief efforts following the devastating tornadoes in her home state.
Oklahoma, particularly areas around Oklahoma City, suffered at least 24 deaths, including children, and massive destruction to homes and businesses following several F5 twisters.
"I have watched the devastation in my home state of Oklahoma over the past several days with great sadness," Underwood said in a press release (via News OK). "With the help of my fans who attended my concerts over the past year, we can offer the Red Cross a little extra help in comforting those affected by the recent tornadoes."
The $1 million donation was derived from Underwood's concert proceeds from her now awkwardly titled Blown Away tour. This wasn't the first time she gave away a big chunk of concert change, either — earlier in her tour she dropped coin on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
The Red Cross, obviously, couldn't be more thrilled.
"The impact of the tornadoes in Oklahoma and the Midwest was devastating and the road to recovery will be long for many families," the organization said in a statement. "Through the generosity of Carrie, the American Red Cross can quickly respond with shelter, food and comfort now, and with lasting help as they move toward recovery."
Doesn't sound like sociopath behavior, now does it?


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Money Saving Lawn and Garden Tips
Everyone wants to have the best lawn and garden in the neighborhood, but you don't have to spend the most money to do it. Planning ahead and making a few simple changes can help you cut costs.
Here are a few money-saving lawn and garden tips to try this year:
- Know what you're going to plant ahead of time. You'll be less likely to make spur-of-the-moment plant purchases on plants you don't end up using.
- Seeds are less expensive than buying starter plants. Buy seeds early and start them in a pot, so you can transplant them in the ground when it's time for planting. Remember to collect seeds from your garden to use for next year.
- Use coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable scraps, and waste from last year's garden to make your own compost. It's an easy way to cut back on waste and save money on fertilizer.
- Trade plants with your gardening friends. Ask a neighbor if you can take a clipping from his overgrown strawberry patch and offer plants of your own.
- Growing your own produce is cheaper than buying from the store, and homegrown usually tastes better too.
- Use mulch to discourage weeds from growing and to hold in moisture. You won't have to water plants in mulch as often.
- Disposable containers can often be used again. There are also many items such as egg cartons that can be used as seed starters.
- Your lawn and garden equipment will often be your biggest investment. Make sure to provide proper care so they last longer. Perform minor tune-ups such as replacing filters and changing oil, and clean and store them properly at the end of the gardening season.
- Check the garden section of the local library for cheap, homemade alternatives to store-bought pest controls. For example, aphids can be controlled with a few drops of dish soap in a squirt bottle full of water.
- If you can't afford your own garden, join a community garden. You can meet other gardeners and save money by sharing seeds, tips and gardening tools.


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Leslie Westbrook: Photographing Bethany Arceneaux rescue a surprising, emotional experience
Friday morning, as I was driving to the the Mall of Acadiana to take photos of their Christmas decorations, I got a call from the office to head out to Duson where family members of missing mother Bethany Arceneaux were combing a rural road looking for any sign of her and the man who abducted her.
When I arrived, the search seemed to be wrapping up; most of the family members were packing up to go search in the alleged captor's hometown, Leonville. I hung around after they left and chatted with Eric Narcisse, a co-worker and relative of Arceneaux, a TV10 reporter and a man who lived nearby who was volunteering his time and four-wheeler to help look for the missing woman.
A new group of Arceneaux's family members soon showed up with more four-wheelers, and we talked with them about the situation. I decided to do a little exploring in the nearby woods and walked right into a hornet's nest. A couple of the searchers were stung as well, and we all found some tobacco to help suck the poison out. I thought that was going to be the highlight of the assignment, and I was preparing to head back to the office with photos of guys on four-wheelers and of family members talking to media.
The neighborhood volunteer with whom we had spoken earlier rode back up and told the family members that he was going to go check out a vacant house tucked away in an area of overgrowth just up the road. They all caravaned up to the driveway of the house while permission to search was sought from the property owner. Once it was OK'd, Eric and I walked on foot up to the house behind the four-wheelers. As we approached, I heard someone start yelling, "They're in there! They're in there!" I immediately wondered, "What now?" I didn't know whether to move in closer to see if I could see inside the house or move away to safety. A split-second later, the sound of gunshots answered that question for me. Eric and I turned and ran back to the road — about 50 yards away.
As I got back to the road I saw a few people walking up, and I yelled for them to call 911. They told me they were the police. They were officers who I believe had been searching in another part of the rural neighborhood. I told them there had been gunshots and that the woman and man they were looking for were in the house.
I got back to my car, knelt down low, and started shooting photos of the scene. Before I knew it, Bethany — stabbed and bloody, but alive — was safe at the road with the rest of us. The resident volunteer had driven her out to safety after the family's confrontation with her captor.
When I'm in a high-stress, high-adrenaline situation like that, I'm not thinking about anything but shooting photos of the most interesting thing happening. Editing photos comes later. It's always better to have photos you never use than to miss an opportunity to capture an image you'll never get a second chance at. So, I photographed Bethany in her uncle's arms as he gently, but quickly, carried her to his vehicle. They took off, and I hung around to shoot a little more video and a few photos of the SWAT members surrounding the house.
Soon, more police arrived and told us to leave the scene, which I expected. I drove out of there and back to the office. I knew what I had shot, and I also knew that I wouldn't be the one to decide whether or not the photos of Bethany would ever be published. My editor came over and looked through the photos with me, took printouts of those emotional images to discuss with other editors, and it was decided that they would run.
Honestly, I was a little nervous about them going public so soon. We had no idea if Bethany's injuries were life-threatening or what her current condition was. We later found out that she was sitting up and talking at the hospital, which was a huge relief.
Not only was she OK, but now the photos could definitively tell a story that I hope our audience will get: Domestic violence is horrible, period. I've seen so many cases where domestic violence leads to a much worse outcome for the victim. Discussions and actions are absolutely necessary to put an end to it. If these images help fuel that discussion, then I'm confident that I've done my job fairly and ethically. Fortunately for Bethany, she had the support of a large, loving family that went looking for her, found her and brought her home safely.
Leslie Westbrook is a staff photographer for The Daily Advertiser.


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Q I recently got back from San Diego to Oakland on Interstate 5, and I can't count the number of times I had to disengage my cruise control to slow down as one truck passed another. It got me to thinking that millions of gallons of gas would be saved if there were either three lanes in each direction or passing lanes every few miles through the Central Valley.
There is plenty of room to add a third lane, and it may have been contemplated at one time. Your take on the matter?
Jeff Franzen
A Widening I-5 should be one of the state's top priorities, considering the amount of truck traffic and the fact that it's California's main north-south route. Caltrans is widening I-5 in the Stockton area to four lanes in each direction and that could be done in two years. But nothing is planned for many years south of there, so forget the cruise control.
Highway 99 is bring improved, but not I-5.
Meanwhile, here's a warning about I-5 south of Kern County and into L.A., where the four-lane freeway is down to three lanes each way in several spots.
Q Have you already heard about the road bypass lane on I-5 at the Grapevine? We were returning home from Palm Desert when we encountered a big problem. Caltrans was doing construction and made a road bypass out of the fast lane. As we approached the area, there were signs saying, "Don't change lanes, stay in your lane."
I wish we had moved out of the fast lane. All of the cars driving in the fast lane had to enter this bypass lane, where we crawled along stop-and-go at 10 mph while we watched cars in the two regular lanes speed by us. This went on for miles. There was no way to get out of this bypass once you were in it.
Finally we merged back with the two other lanes but a little further down the freeway there was another bypass. As soon as I saw the signs I immediately changed lanes, as did most other cars that had been stuck in the first bypass.
I just want readers to be aware of this situation so that the same thing doesn't happen to them.
Rosemary Siegfried, Jorge Rivera and many more
A The so-called bypass lanes are temporary. Caltrans has a couple of major paving projects underway on I-5 and wants to keep three lanes available in each direction. To do so means taking one southbound lane and converting it into a northbound lane, and vice versa. One project is on a 15-mile stretch of the Golden State Freeway between Vista Del Lago Road and the Kern County line through November. More work will last for two years in Los Angeles County.
Q Northbound Shoreline Boulevard has been turned into a gridlocked quagmire by the proletarians making their morning march to Google Archipelago. Would the benevolent Google be willing to focus some energy on developing a traffic solution using existing infrastructure that would provide salvation to us all?
Eric Windes
Mountain View
A A bunch of ideas are being considered, most aimed at reducing the number of vehicles jamming up this area. The city just re-timed signals and will install a more advanced signal coordination plan in two to three years. This would include improving the timing of the lights at the Shoreline Boulevard/Highway 101 interchange.
Then after Labor Day the city will repave sections of Shoreline.
But the big effort is a few years away and will be aimed at coaxing solo drivers out of their cars. The city and various companies will be promoting shuttles, transit, ride-sharing and bicycling from the downtown transit center used by buses, light rail and Caltrain. This will include a dedicated corridor for shuttles and bicyclists. Until then, Google on.
Q What is going on with the exit at Bascom Avenue and I-880? It gets to be joke with some co-workers who get on at Bascom to keep score of how many signs are knocked down each day.
They should fill that small area with sand so when folks miss the curve they drive into sand and stop, rather than across oncoming traffic entering the highway and into a fence and sometimes the yard of the people who live there.
Ronda Brigham
San Jose
A A badly needed concrete barrier is coming to all the Bascom ramps to prevent cross-median crashes. Construction could begin next fall.
Follow Gary Richards at Twitter.com/mrroadshow, look for him at Facebook.com/mr.roadshow or contact him at email@example.com or 408-920-5335.


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|MLBPA/MLB News Release
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association today released the annual public report from the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program's Independent Program Administrator. The Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program calls for a public report to be issued by Dec. 1 of each year.
The accompanying report from the Independent Program Administrator, Jeffrey M. Anderson, M.D., covers the period from the beginning of the 2011-12 offseason through the end of Major League Baseball's 2012 postseason.


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I was recently reached out by architect Brandon Shigeta to design a set of numbers to be used on the newly designed office space for the Intertrend office in Long Beach, California. It was an honor to have my artwork on one of the oldest buildings in long beach also known as the Psychic Temple. Take a look at the history this building has is pretty amazing click here to read more.
I will be taking part in a one of the largest group shows I have ever been in. The show titled "Jug Life" A new contemporary still life will be on view here in San Francisco from May 22-June28 at the Park Life Gallery.
Well CHINO has officially opened its doors in Hong Kong. Its crazy to think that ten years ago when I first met Erik Idos (head chef at Chino) we were both living in San Francisco finishing up school and getting ready to enter the real world of and making a career out of what we set out to do. I can say that it feels great when projects like this come along especially when they take place on the other side of the globe. Congrats again to Erik and Tracy in pulling this off. Here are a few pics of the completed wall followed by some progress pics.
Well I know I have been MIA for quite some time and by the looks of this blog it really appears that way. Due to the updated website I lost a a few of my recent posts and I will try to recover those.
As mentioned before due to my crazy schedule and being a somewhat new father I find it hard to find time to sit down and write out my current situations. However I still receive emails asking questions so that is what drives me to keep it up the best I can.
I am currently on vacation right now and have been away from the computer and social media but have an hour to chill so I'm trying out a new feature on my phone which updates to my site. Let's see how this works!
Thank you again for checking in from time to time and keeping up with my creative process.
Sorry for living on a plane and in the studio for the past two months but as always I have been a little busy and with the convinence of Instagram these days I forget to update my own blog. Here are some process shots along with a detiail shot (taken by Brandon Shigeta) of what I was up to in Taiwan. For those of you who didnt know I was taking part in POW! WOW! which has made it way back to Asia. I worked along side RONE on this piece and it actully almost didnt happen due to the harsh rain we were faced with but mother nature had our back and we pulled it off in the end. Please follow POW!WOW!TAIWAN for way more content than I can even began to explain. I also included a video that the dean of the college we painted at produced which I thought was pretty cool. Thank you city of Taipei for another awesome expierence and I hope to be back again!
I just wrapped up another project with ACE hotel in Palm Springs, California. We did a print release with ARKITIP last year and when they reached out to offer me the mural project I was more than happy to accept the offer. You can read a little interview I did with them here that goes into detail on the design and choice of colors used for the piece. Enjoy.
This is the last week for the HIGHMATH show at Slow Cluture Gallery. If you or anyone you know will be in the Los Angeles area this weekend tell them to swing on by. This gallery is fairly new and is run by a group of young friends who all happen to be amazing artists as well. Click on the image below to read a an inteveiew held by Arkitip.
Here is a sneak peek at the Italy project I am working on. Set to release this week.
Aaron De La Cruz for 55DSL + Birkenstock, Curated by Arkitip from The Arkitip Chronicles on Vimeo.
I just got back fom Italy and have been suffering from one of my worse cases of jet lag. On top of that I was hit with a cold and then got my boys sick. No rest as I am now getting ready for pow wow in a few days then a show in LA at the end of the month. Currently working on some sketches for a tshirt design for a project in Taiwan in March.
Well actually the hundreds is but this is pretty awesome too. I was recently invited by long time friend Luis Ruano to The Hundreds Headquarters in Los Angeles to paint a mural in their new media office. It was a quick trip and usually I would have posted this earlier however I knew that they would do a better job at it then I. You can read and see more images by clicking HERE. Enjoy the video below.
I will have two prints available in the next week or so. These are both 1 of 1 large scale (22X30") giclee prints on high quality water color paper with hand torn edges. Please email or join my mailing list to find out the drop date.
Well its about thirty minutes til the new year and Im here talking to you all. I want to share with you all a picture of the last piece I painted this year just hours ago. Along with that I want to ask you all a question about your thoughts on these blog entries I have been so bad at keeping up to date with. I originally started this as a way to document my process and share with you all what I do on a daily/weekly basis. As time has passed and Instagram has been a more useful vehicle I find it much easier to just snap a pic and call it a day. However if you find that these entries are useful to you please let me know (by sending me an email) and I will do my best to get back on the ball. Happy New Year!
Here is a preview for the upcoming show at Benny Gold. More info coming soon!
In just a few weeks I will be participating in a group show with some heavy hitters. Im actually blown away by this line up and can't wait to see my work hanging along side these other artists. If you or someone you know would like to attend the opening for this show email firstname.lastname@example.com to RSVP. Hope to see you there!
Sooooooooo I have been trying to get this video from my computer, to my phone, to my IG page (uuuugggghhhh) and I cant seem to figure it out. I guess I will just have to share here in the meantime. This is a project that I have been working on for the past year or so and cant wait to release it.
GOING AROUND from Aaron De La Cruz on Vimeo.
Just want to say thank you to everyone who purchased or helped spread the word about the "Enough Already" print which sold out in just two days! For those of you interested in knowing the back story behind the piece you can watch the video below. Enjoy.