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Gold Prices
Bullish gold wagers fell 14% to 60,126 futures and options in the week to March 26, the CFTC data show. The bets are down 41% this year. Those for silver fell 77% last week to 632 contracts, the lowest since September 2007.
Gold will average $1,670 an ounce this year, down from a previous forecast of $1,680, Michael Widmer, an analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, said in a report March 26. Investors lack a reason to increase bullion holdings because "the business cycle is in the 'recovery' stage," he said.
Gold futures for June delivery rose 0.2% to $1,598.60 at 9:24 a.m. on the Comex in New York. Holdings in exchange-traded products stood at 2,449.84 metric tons on March 28, 6.9% lower in 2013.
Crude-oil holdings jumped 16% to 199,129 contracts, the biggest gain since Dec. 18. The net-long position in natural gas climbed 41% to 65,040 contracts, the highest since the data starts in 2006.
A measure of speculative positions across 11 agricultural products from wheat to coffee to cattle rose 15% to 306,279 contracts, the highest since Feb. 12.
Coffee Decline
Bullish corn bets rose 32% to 192,561, a fourth straight gain and the highest since Dec. 11. Soybean wagers jumped 12% to 112,352, the biggest gain in seven weeks. The investors trimmed their outlook for a decline in coffee to 28,769 contracts from 30,162 a week earlier.
"It's global growth at the end of the day that's keeping the bid under commodity prices," said James Paulsen, the Minneapolis-based chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management, which oversees about $325 billion of assets. "Over the next few years, I think commodities are likely to do OK. I don't know if they're the best-performing asset class. I think they're going to be a decent-performing asset class."
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Last time I blogged I filled you in on my week of birthday fun when my boyfriend came to visit and said I would update you all when I next had something exciting to say... so here we go!
I should really start writing what I do down because quite often I forget or forget the order in which it happened, so apologies in advance here.
The weather was really crappy last week. It was SO SO SO frigging cold. Cycling in -10 degrees was never something I assumed I would do but I did! There's always a silver lining of course and that came in the form of the beautiful frozen lakes near where I live. At one point, my friend and I stopped cycling just to admire its beauty and we even got to see/hear big chunks of it crack under the heat of the sun. It really was stunning.
Of course, with such cold temperatures, it did end up snowing. I love snow, I just am not ready to give up cycling yet even if the snow does look so Christmasy.
Last Saturday (October 25th) myself and a few friends took a walk out in the snow to go see the Korundi art gallery. The art was very modern and not what I expected but I did enjoy myself. At the end of our trip around the art gallery there was a live classical orchestra playing and so we had a coffee and listened to that. I say listened because we could not find a seat for us all to watch them play.
After the gallery we had a party to go to. This party was a traditional Finnish party called a sit-sit (google it). We basically had to follow loads of rules, sing songs, eat food and drink a ton of alcohol. It was great fun. I didn't take many photos in the sit-sit because we weren't supposed to and then my phone died. After the sit-sit we went to a nightclub.
The next day we decided that best hangover solution was to go on a hike in the snow. It was more of a walk than a hike but was a great cure regardless. We had a BBQ as well which was definitely needed.
For the most part of this week I didn't do very much other than go to class. However I did take many selfies, photos of the sunset/sunrise and random art so...
Yesterday (Saturday 1st of November) myself a 4 friends rented a car and decided to take a trip to Sweden! About 2 hours or so away from where I live is the border to Sweden and so of course we had to go at some point. First we drove to a place called Kemi before hitting Tornio which on the Finnish side of the border and Haparanda which is on the Swedish side.
It goes without saying that we went to Ikea. We couldn't not go to Ikea. We spent the most of our other time wandering around aimlessly and throwing ice into more ice and being amused by it. Truly it is the simple things.
And that's about it! Next week I am going to Helsinki and Tallinn (Estonia) and so there shall be a nice exciting blog next time to tell you all about it.
Emma x

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Down To The Bone - Friday @Hideaway Jazz Club
It's all about the groove, the whole groove and nothing but the groove as cult soul-jazz-funksters Down To The Bone return to Hideaway.
"DTTB bring an abundance of instrumental funky jazz that deserves its own individual merit and is a throwback to the early '80s Brit Funk era. To be commended, good stuff!!!" Soul Survivors Magazine
Down To The Bone was born in 1995 when producer Stuart Wade decided to take a track from the soul band he was in at the time, Think Twice, and remix it to give it a raw and stripped down feel. The resulting track, 'Joy Is Free', was a huge success and led to Stuart teaming up with Think Twice keyboard player, Simon Greenaway to form DTTB.
DTTB was soon a force to be reckoned with and their album "From Manhattan To Staten" reached No.2 in the National US Billboard Jazz Chart, No.3 in the Gavin Jazz chart and No 4 in the Radio and Records Jazz Chart.
With a string of radio hits in the U.S., DTTB notched up over half a million sales worldwide and continue to delight audiences with their live shows.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The First Morning I Did Not Think About You
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that is lovely. there was a point where i thought i could never get to where you are right now. but miraculously i'm slowly getting there and it feels liberating in a way...thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
EXCELLENT. And sometimes, it's so damned hard, too. Great storytelling here, too. Have a good week way across the world, there.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2011 at 12:41 AM
congratulations :) you know, you deserve better than that person whom you used to love :)ReplyDelete
well said...After all its all about to move on. hope floats...ReplyDelete
I remember a moment like that after my divorce. It's liberating!ReplyDelete
Moving on becomes considerably harder when you've loved the person in question for the past fifteen years.ReplyDelete
it does feel like doing a cold turkey.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you found me, because it led me back to your blog. Have you ever read Alain de Botton's "Essays in Love" - he talks about this feeling... anyway, great blog. Why "fickle cattle" though?ReplyDelete
love is so fickle.ReplyDelete
It's as simple as that, I guess.ReplyDelete
I imagine that, when it comes to moving on from something, we all probably think of it being like a movie scene. You see yourself eventually picking up the pieces of your life while some cheerful acoustic guitar plays in the background somewhere. Then, of course, there's that part where the sun shines on your face & you smile knowing that everything is going to be okay.
On a side note, I think I watch way too many romantic comedies.
Breaking up is always hard, no matter what the reason is. But we all know that it's only a start of a very long process. And you only really know that you're free when you have finally moved on.ReplyDelete
Well done, hun. I am happy for you =)
I know exactly what that's like! Ah! It's such a good feeling! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's experienced it.ReplyDelete
Conversations With Imaginary People
Lucky. Still waiting for my moment :(ReplyDelete
congratulations, you've finally moved on :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2011 at 8:58 AM
This was great.ReplyDelete
I remember my first break up was the same way. Day after day of moping around and then it was like a fever broke. It was done. Yes, it still hurt to think about, but I could help whether or not I was thinking about it as opposed to before when it was on my mind no matter what. Now it doesn't even hurt to think about.
Nice piece.
lovely.. really lovely.. and i'm happy for you, you were able to move on.. :)ReplyDelete
Wow. These signs of progress, however little, are always good, especially after a very sad phase. Beautifully written also. Galing, :DReplyDelete
This is heartfelt. :)ReplyDelete
Cheers for moving on!
Raising my coffee cup in honor of your moving on... Cheers!ReplyDelete
No need for theatrics for this one. After all, some of life's most beautiful moments are purely simple and profound. Let's keep the confetti cannons on standby though for some other time! Lol! :)
It reads as if this is working out for you. Nice.ReplyDelete
I like to think everything does eventually.
Good hopeful thoughts from me to you.
what a cute story.. ahaha.. I can say that i can relate with this "moving on process"... just like you, i was crying, has no appetite for almost 2 weeks after the breakup, but now, its been a month and Im am totally happy and free. I am so proud of you. ahaha..ReplyDelete
- Jpy DeeOctober 18, 2011 at 3:34 PM
in short, MOVED ON. :)ReplyDelete
i can truly relate. great post. =)ReplyDelete
That is what I call total freedom.ReplyDelete
Wonderful !ReplyDelete
I loved this :)
I know exactly what it's like! when such things knocks on me, I savor those moments that once in my life I was loved:)ReplyDelete
Btw, good thing you are able to move on.
It's a refreshing moment, realizing you've forgotten about the object of your heartache.ReplyDelete
moving on is an option... i'm glad you just did! :)ReplyDelete
We should all live for that moment. I've only had a few like it but I remember it used to thrill me.ReplyDelete
Moving on after a relationship is the hardest.... Its almost like accepting death of a love one, its very difficult...ReplyDelete
Moving on while in the relationship (i dont know if youve experienced that) is the easiest. Its just like waking up one day and u feel everything has changed.
i haven't read your blog in a while so i'm not really sure if i guess it right that you're in a heartbreak right now. sorry to hear that but i'm glad to know you've moved on.ReplyDelete
You have cool parents, like not having a curfew?! geez!
How long did it take you to move on?ReplyDelete
---moving on takes time and I guess a yummy tinola.... it's nice to know that you have move on...ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you started feeling better, but I personally still find myself unable to move on from the past. Heck, it has been close to 4 years now.ReplyDelete


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Transcend adds to the USB 3.0 Portable HDD mix with 25D3 series
With shockproof casing
By: Steve Dougherty | Connectivity & Communications News | Posted: Apr 16, 2010 2:08 pm
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Transcend adds to the first wave of portable USB 3.0 hard drives with its new StoreJet 25D3 series drives today.
The company designed this series with a well made case that gives a delicate look with gloss piano black finish, but is shockproof with an internal dampening system that suspends the hard drive and prevents damage from accidental drops.
The drive is designed to automatically go into sleep mode for power saving after 10 minutes of being idle. It can reach transfer rates of up to 90MB/sec according to Transcend, thanks to the implementation of USB 3.0.
Capacities start at 250GB, moving up to 320, 500 and 640GB. Transcend ships the StoreJet 25D3 series with a 3 year warranty.
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Written by Patrick Jarenwattananon from WBGO-FM
The drummer Jimmy Cobb is 84 — which, even if you didn't know his name, would signal that he's been around the jazz scene for a while. But he's been more than around: He was the drummer when Miles Davis recorded his late-'50s and early-'60s masterpieces, and then toured with Sarah Vaughan for nearly a decade. He's freelanced with just about every great of his generation. He's still touring around the world, these days often fronting the bands and recordings.
Cobb brings an international trio to New York's Village Vanguard for a week — and, for one night, welcomes trusted tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson. WBGO and NPR Music will present a live video webcast and radio broadcast of that quartet on Wednesday, August 21 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
- Jimmy Cobb, drums
- Javon Jackson, saxophone
- Tadataka Unno, piano
- Paolo Benedettini, bass


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'Dark Summer' Trailer Brings the Spooks
From Paul Solet, director of the acclaimed hit Grace, comes Dark Summer, a suspense thriller said to combine the supernatural terror of classic horrors The Shining and Poltergeist, with the tension and modern cool of Disturbia.
Check out the film's first trailer with IFC Midnight releasing in limited theaters and on VOD platforms January 9!
Keir Gilchrist (United States of Tara), Stella Maeve (Chicago PD), Maestro Harrell (The Wire, Ali), Grace Phipps (The Vampire Diaries) and Peter Stormare (Arrow, The Last Stand, Fargo) star.
"Summer is a time to relax, unwind, take a vacation, and be free. But 17 year old Daniel Austin gets none of that because his obsessive online stalking of his classmate and crush, Mona Wilson, got him put on house arrest for the whole summer. So, no cell phone, no Internet, no leaving the property, and especially no Mona. Then Daniel's single mother has to go on a long business trip, and Daniel has the place to himself.
Daniel figures out a way to piggyback onto his neighbors' wireless signal and
believing he's surfing off the grid, uses his time to check in on his friends – and Mona… But what Daniel didn't expect is for Mona to check up on him. And what she does next shakes him to his very core.
And then things start to happen. Daniel receives mysterious packages in the
mail, hears phantom noises, sees inanimate objects move, and feels a strange presence in the house…"


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I missed class the day we watched the movie and need to answer the following questions about the movie A Civil Action (with John Travolta):
Who is the plaintiff?
Who are the defendants?
Why is a lawsuit being pursued by the plaintiffs?
What does the plaintiff really want from the lawsuit?
What is the settlement agreed upon by the defendant and with whom?
Why does the continuing case, against the remaining defendants, become stronger?
What is the settlement with the remaining defendants?
Which agency concluded that both companies contaminated the wells (after the settlement)?
What was the name of the chemical involved?
Thank you so much to anyone who helps!


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Contact Armagh Visitor Information Centre (40 Upper English Street; 0044 (0) 28 3752 1800) and /or access the PDF link below to 'Armagh: Ireland's Ancient Cathedral City'. The Visitor Information Centre will be able to recommend budget accommodation available in the area.
Armagh visitors guide
Armagh accommodation
Phone: 00 44 (0) 28 3752 1800
Further information/discounts etc will be listed here as we share details of the 2018 edition of the Festival taking place from the 1-4 November 2018.


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Just a quick post to share some photos from the new LV Cruise Collection Spread starring Arizona Muse, and that combination is enough to make my heart melt! I know I've been super slack with posts lately, but I've just started Year 11 and the work load is insane - I haven't even had time to read my new Vogue or Russh yet! :( But I promise, as soon as the work load slows down - if it ever does - I'll be posting as much as possible.
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It was an absolute pleasure to work on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy with the team at Sanzaru and Kitazaru and all the other studios involved in the huge project. Check out the work below!
I worked on Marvel Powers United VR at Sanzaru Games in 2017 and the work is below! I did a few of the playable characters and a boss for the project.
Below is my 2017 work, there hasn't been a lot because of how busy I am at my new job and the change of art styles has pushed me to really focus on only my job and not personal projects.
Directly below is some of the work I did during my stay at Artillery Games. Pieces were blocked out in Zbrush, retopologized in Topogun and then hand painted in 3D Coat.
Here's my MFA thesis work, Modeled in Zbrush, textured in NDO and Photoshop to get the style I wanted.
Miniatures I made last year for an upcoming post-apocalyptic board game about haulin' and trading
Miscellaneous older miniatures I made for multiple companies over the past years.


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Believe it or not: In the Arctic, some caterpillars freeze in autumn and thaw the next spring, none the worse for wear. Tiny willows struggle so hard to grow, they're shorter than nearby tundra grass.
To keep warm, otters can have nearly a million hairs per square inch of skin. Bowhead whales burn 10,000 calories a day and can have blubber more than two feet thick.
Alaska biologist Bill Streever has collected these and many other incredible facts in his fascinating new book, "Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places."
For a year, Streever, who manages an environmental studies program, explored the science and history of cold, traveling to some of world's chilliest places.


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(So, I wrote this at the end of NaNoWriMo in 2013. It's a crossover because Sophie was a character from my story. It's not the best piece of writing ever, but I like the dialogue)
The first thing Sophie saw when she walked outside was the box. Thinking about it, she wasn't sure that box really was the correct word. Certainly, what was standing in the snow was box-shaped, but it was human-sized, unlike anything she had ever seen before. Although she had no particular interest in it, she wanted very much to learn what was inside it.
It seemed to have doors, in the front. Sophie walked up to them instinctively to knock, but thought better of it. First, she should investigate this strange thing. She was well aware that she should move on, but this wouldn't take very long, and there was no one around to judge her anyway. The hour was too early and the morning too cold for any sensible person.
Walking all around it, Sophie observed panelled sides, all of them painted a royal blue, though judging by its hue it might have once been darker. The box, however, seemed otherwise undamaged; the paint was not cracked or scratched, and the panels still perfectly smooth. Along the top there was writing, tight and curiously packed. She strained her eyes against the falling snow. Police… public call… box. It made absolutely no sense. Well, at least someone had possessed the good sense to label it a box, she thought dryly.
As she came back around to the front, Sophie decided to examine the door once again. There was a white panel on it, which held an inscription of some sort. She examined this briefly, but it too raised more questions than it answered. What was this thing, and what was it doing out here? The tiny keyhole wouldn't fit any key she had ever seen, so Sophie decided that the wisest course of action would be to knock.
"Hello?" She didn't expect an answer, but someone had to be behind the appearance of this strange thing.
The door opened abruptly, and a tall man popped his head out. "Did somebody call? Oh, hello there. Been a while since I've seen anyone."
He was, first and foremost, extremely skinny. The pants and shirt he wore — both of an unknown style and fabric to Sophie — seemed to simultaneously hang off him and be a perfect fit. It was immensely confusing, so she decided to simply ignore it. His face was very angular, matching the rest of him rather nicely. His hair, on the other hand, looked so unruly as to be at odds with his head. It stuck out at a great many angles, such that no two strands were parallel. Sophie's gaze did not linger there however. It was rude to stare.
"Who are you?" she asked, aware that she seemed impolite. This whole situation was too strange for niceties, however, and Sophie was aware that she should be on her way. "And what is this strange box?"
"Me? Oh, I'm nobody. Just a simple man and his box." His voice was a little strained, and he was talking very quickly. "Sorry to bother you, I'd best be getting back inside—"
"It's a rather small box, isn't it?" Sophie wasn't an idiot, and she knew the signs when someone was trying to get rid of her. "What are you doing in there?"
He laughed rather suddenly, catching her off guard. "Knitting, actually. I'd show you, but it's a bit out of reach from here."
"Out of reach? How can it be out of reach? That box is tiny." Sophie should know. She had walked all round it.
"Oh, there I go again, saying things I shouldn't. Listen, I have things to be getting on with, and I would really rather not be chatting about the TARDIS to someone I don't even know." He began to close the door rather quickly, and Sophie impulsively stuck her foot in the gap.
"TARDIS? Is that what this thing is called?"
"Um…" He seemed to be a little lost for words. "Yes."
"Huh." Sophie didn't know what else to say, but she filled the silence with something anyway. "I don't mean to bother you, but I haven't ever seen something like this before. How do you fit?"
"Fit? Easily."
As if that explained anything. "May I come in?"
"Well, I don't suppose it'll do any harm." The strange man opened the door once again, a wry smile on his face. "And here I was, simply settling down for a bit of quiet."
Sophie shook her head and had her first look inside the box — the TARDIS. She very nearly passed out with shock.
It was, simply put, enormous. The inside was at least ten — no, twenty — times bigger than the outside led you to believe. How was it done? Her first thought was mirrors, but such an effect couldn't just be done like that. The man walked inside and her hunch was confirmed. It was as if space itself had been stretched, to accommodate the insides of this thing. How that had happened was unfathomable.
In the centre of the space was a six sided metal thing, with controls all round it, such that she had never seen before. From the centre of that rose a clear round pillar, with a bubbling green liquid inside it. The whole space was completely surreal, so much so that Sophie had to pinch herself to make absolutely sure that she wasn't dreaming. She was not, which only served to make the whole thing seem that much more absurd.
"What do you think?" asked the man, a knowing smile on his face.
"It's…" She struggled to find the right words, and put them in the right order. "…bigger inside, on the." And failed. Sophie shook her head. "Wow."
"Wow is right." The man grinned widely, exposing rows of perfect teeth. "My name's the Doctor, by the way."
"Doctor? What kind of doctor are you?"
Another laugh, no more expected than the first. "Not the kind you're used to, I'm sure. It's what I call myself. A nickname, if you will."
"Then what's your real name?"
"That's not important. Who are you, anyway? I like to know who I've let into my TARDIS, after all."
"Oh, of course." Sophie blushed. "Where are my manners? My name is Sophie, pleased to meet you." She held out a hand, just as she had been taught to do. Why, her parents would have skinned her alive for such an affront to a person.
The Doctor took her hand and shook it rather tentatively. His grip was a little weak, but his hands were warm. "Glad to have met you, Sophie. Welcome aboard."
"You do ask a lot of questions, don't you? Though I suppose I invite them. This, my dear, is far more than simply a box. It moves, too."
Did it? Sophie had enough presence of mind not to ask another question. She simply couldn't seem to help it, but if it fazed him she would try to stop. Who was this man? This enigmatic, eccentric and completely intriguing man. She had to know more.
"Time And Relative Dimension In Space. TARDIS. It's an acronym, you see."
If Sophie had known what an acronym was, she surely would have replied. Instead, she continued to drink in the experience, and kept her mouth well shut. What wonders the universe held, indeed! If only her mother, or even her father, could see her now! What would they say to her, to find her with a strange man inside his moving blue 'police public call box'? Probably nothing good, so Sophie did not try and imagine it.
"What's wrong with you? Cat got your tongue?"
"Cat got my what?" Sophie sighed. "It's a lot to take in."
"I'll say." The Doctor smiled. "You're doing very well not to panic, though."
"Am I?" Another question. Those seemed to be the only things she could articulate at the moment. "I think the panic is waiting to burst out later." Might as well be truthful.
"Really? You humans are funny creatures, aren't you?"
"Us humans?" There she went again. "What are you, then? Some kind of alien?" It was a rhetorical question. She wasn't actually expecting an answer.
"Yes, actually." Well, she'd gotten one anyway. Who was this person? Not human? That was completely and utterly absurd.
"I don't believe you."
"Of course you don't. I just showed you a box that's bigger on the inside—" There was that expression again, said correctly this time. "—and you won't believe that I'm an alien. You know that thing I said about loving humans? I think I take it back. You people have such tiny minds sometimes."
"Watch your tongue, sir! I will not stand for slander like that." Sophie sighed, and then remembered that he hadn't said anything about loving humans. She decided to let it slide. "Well, let's say for a moment you do come from somewhere alien. Why would you look like a human?"
"Oh, you lot really do think that you're the centre of the universe, don't you? Well, let's call it evolution. The human form is quite a good one after all, isn't it? Although I will say that it may be you who look like us." He shook his head and flopped down on a chair. "Honestly, the things you people come up with."
"You can be a rude alien, can't you?" Sophie smiled despite herself. "Though I don't believe it's on purpose."
"Certainly not. Manners of a saint, usually. Better, actually. Met a couple of saints. Terrible table manners, never seemed to wash. Anyway, what are you doing aboard the TARDIS?"
Having a look around, it seemed, although there was something else about this place which tugged at the mind. "You let me in, and I'm naturally curious." Sophie smiled. It wasn't entirely her fault. "This place is fascinating, and quite beautiful, in its own way. How does it all work?"
"It would take rather a lot too much explanation to tell you that." The Doctor's grin was growing wider by the second. "If you were a great deal more clever, I might attempt to tell you."
More clever? Sophie frowned.
The Doctor scratched his head. "Actually, it's just that you'd need a physics degree just to get your head around even half of this stuff."
"What's physics… oh, never mind. It's a beautiful machine, anyway."
"Oh, I think she'll like that."
"Who will?" Was there a woman here somewhere, in one of the corridors which lead out of here?
"Um…" The Doctor bit his lip. "The TARDIS."
"The… the box?" Now this was really getting crazy.
"Yeah. She's sentient."
Wow. This was a lot to take in. "Let me get this straight. The box is a woman?"
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Connecting and Building Relations
SACC-SD hosts a variety of events during the year with the purpose of creating business opportunities and strengthen relations between Swedish and American companies. Our events provide considerable networking opportunities and are a perfect forum for your company to increase its visibility through SACC-SD's vast network.
SACC-SD also host recurring social activities for our members every year, where we celebrate Swedish traditions such as Valborg and a crayfish party.
Business Events
Golf Tournament
Green Connections
With our focus Clean Technology, SACC - San Diego hosts the annual industry conference Green Connections.
This is our flagship event and our way of contributing to the development in both Sweden and San Diego.
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By Olivia Schwartz
We already know the about the risk of cancer that firefighters face, and there are two ways we can reduce our exposure; avoid it, or remove it. These 10 tips can help all firefighters take precautionary steps to better their health before, during and after the call.
- Start the conversation.
- Tell your primary care doctor how many years you have been a career or volunteer firefighter.
- Mary Reid, the Director of Cancer Screening and Survivor-ship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute shares, "That clues your provider that if you have a cough and breathing difficulties, it might not be due to a lung infection – you could be at risk for lung cancer."
- Tell your primary care doctor how many years you have been a career or volunteer firefighter.
- Find out if you're eligible for Roswell Park's lung cancer screening Program, which is designed to detect lung cancer during its early stages, when it is most curable.1
- Talk to your chief and fellow firefighters about the issue of cancer in the fire service. What do they know? What don't they know? These conversations allow you to learn from one another, resulting in a safer team and department.
- Research cancer in the fire service & share the info with your peers.
- You can learn more information at: notinourhouse.com
- Be healthy.
- Exercise and eat right.
- Regular physical activity and proper diet can prevent or help manage a wide range of health problems including: diabetes, depression, and certain types of cancer. In addition, it improves muscle strength and boosts endurance, giving you more energy.2
- Schedule an annual physical examination with your doctor.
- The exam should include: a respiratory test to detect changes in your lung function and blood tests to detect any early-stage blood cancers like leukemia or changes in kidney function.
- Pay attention to changes in your body.
- Don't disregard warning signs which may include: changes in how you breathe, a change in your urinary habits (especially blood in your urine), and any pain that doesn't go away. 3
- Exercise and eat right.
- Train Safely
- It is critical for trainees to train with safe equipment. According to the study, Firefighters' Multiple Exposure Assessment in Practice, by training with a modern simulator vs. a conventional simulator you are reducing possible exposure by 7-fold.4
- Use an effective, realistic training too, while reducing unnecessary risks commonly found in traditional training methods with the ATTACK Digital Fire Training System.
- This new technology enables firefighters to train in countless locations and situations in a safe environment to ensure your trainees are prepared to handle any real fire situation.5
- Wear PPE to avoid direct dermal contact.
- The Department of Homeland Security, North Carolina State University and LION have been working on ways to reduce the potential for chronic dermal exposures to toxic substances on the fireground without affecting comfort of the turnout gear. Check out LION's booth at FDIC #1322 to see the results!6
- Wear SCBA through all stages of the fire, including overhaul.7
- At the Fire Scene.
- Remove as much of the bulk contamination as possible while still at the fire scene by performing gross decon.
- Wipe soot from your head, neck, jaw, throat, underarms, and hands using wet wipes or soap immediately after the fire. 6
- You can reference the video Heathy in Healthy Out on the Not in Our House resource page.
- At the Firehouse.
- Change your clothes.
- Ensure all gear is properly cleaned, repaired and maintained according to NFPA's 1851 standards.
- Use a verified ISP such as TotalCare® to clean your gear after EVERY fire. TotalCare uses Ozone cleaning technology that disinfects your gear by 99.99%.8
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/our-toxic-homes/404722/
- https://www.roswellpark.org/cancertalk/201707/how-firefighters-can-reduce-cancer-risk
- https://www.healthline.com/health/5-benefits-healthy-habits#boosts-energy
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378427412011691
- http://bullex.com/product/attack/
- https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/R-Tech_Smoke-Particulate-Resistant-Structural-Turnout-Ensemble-FactSheet_171006-508.pdf
- https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/Personal-protective-equipment-ppe/articles/1658839-8-ways-to-protect-against-cancer-with-PPE/
- http://www.lionprotects.com/totalcare-services


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Paul Kei Matsuda
Member of the Month
pmatsuda [at] asu [dot] edu
Prof. Matsuda: I was born and raised in
Prof. Matsuda: This is no secret, but what drives my work is not the desire to succeed for its own sake or to publish for tenure and promotion. Instead, I do what I do because I see various language-related problems that need to be addressed, and I see research and scholarship as a way of addressing at least some of those problems. To me, the immediate outcomes that people tend to focus on—such as publications, tenure and professional recognition—are means to an end; they can enhance the credibility of my work and make it easier for me to accomplish my ultimate goal—which is to create a better environment for L2 learners (and their teachers).
Prof. Matsuda: Having taught and mentored NES and NNES graduate students who are studying at various institutions and in various countries, I've come to see that what I believe about NES and NNES professionals in general also apply to graduate students: What matters is not whether someone is NES or NNES; instead, we need to see graduate students in terms of various factors—not only in terms of their language and writing proficiency levels (which can be an issue for both NES and NNES graduate students) but also their intellectual capacity, their breadth of knowledge, their involvement in various professional activities, and their commitment to the profession and to their students.
Prof. Matsuda: How do we balance career with family? That's a good question—and a tough one to answer. I can only speak for myself, but I don't feel I have found equilibrium, and I suspect that's how most of the dual-career parents feel. (If not, I'd love to hear their answers to this question.)


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Mesut Ozil always seems like a nice chap, doesn't he? Clean cut, polite, professional… regardless of who you support, Arsenal's Assist King is clearly the type of friend your mum wanted you to have as a kid.
However, the clip above appears to suggest the German World Cup winner may have a naughty streak.
The footage - which has just emerged online - shows players heading back down the tunnel for half-time, during Arsenal's game at Norwich in November. You can see a clearly irritated Ozil heading back to the dressing room muttering something. Something which appears to be:
"Their defence is "f*****g s**t".
READ MORE: Mesut Ozil's best assist yet
Ozil had scored against the Canaries' defence just minutes before, so quite what had annoyed him, we cannot be sure.
However, the game eventually ended 1-1 - so if this WAS what Ozil said, he might have felt a little silly at full-time.
Either way, as this chap says…


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Soleil Paints
Queen Soleil paints daily
she was taught his famous brush stroke
bleeding feathers of
topaz gold n' daylilies
© Ellen Wilson
Fabric of Our Lives
Spinning puffy white clouds
on Earth's barbed skeleton
snow climbs towards kite blue sky
spun sugar in bits and bolls
Cumulus is in style now
© Ellen Wilson
Sugar Doll
Sugar doll's growing
in a field of yellow stars
Fiesta's red passion
hides in loud lime stripes
soon thump sugar baby awake
© Ellen Wilson
Lunar's Games
Majestic Lunar
perches in a sea of black
she plays connect the dots and
hide n' seek, and reads her daily scope
she glows pale where dark mysteries shine
© Ellen Wilson
Here is a link to some of my other tanka poems.
Over in the Garden, Kerry introduced us to Dr Hisashi Nakamura.
His Thoughts on Tanka
~Hisashi Nakamura~
How I came to write tanka in English.
"I began to write tanka in English around 2005 after reading Japanese classical tanka quite extensively. I had never dreamed of writing tanka in a foreign language although I started writing free verses in Japanese when I was in my high teens. I tried to write tanka in English because of a unique combination of circumstances."
Kerry: Our challenge today, is to explore the tanka form as presented here by Dr Nakamura. There is no limit to the number of tanka you may write, and you may also share older examples of tanka you have written, if you prefer. Dr Nakamura has shown great interest in our writing group and a link to this prompt will be forwarded to him, so he can pay us a visit in the Imaginary Garden.
I just love this form and look forward to writing more! Thank you Dr. Nakamura!
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First: I'm sorry, but I have some muscles. Yes, I am girl, but I was also endowed with those contracting fibers that allow for movement and also for me to be a B.A. (not bachelor of arts, though I am that too.) I have muscles and I'm not going to apologize for them. Except, I guess, in the first line where I said– well nevermind! I got muscles.
I say all of this because, at my current place of employment, there was a certain "re-imaging" going on. Which basically means that we put on a fresh coat of paint, refinished some woodwork, got a few (actually a lot of) new TVs, and (finally) all new tables, booths, and chairs.
What this meant for the staff is that someone had to move all this stuff. You can bet it was going to be us. Now, this was a volunteer basis job for little extra cash. I thought, "I like cash." Also, I didn't think at all about the lifting… because I can lift.
Refresher, does this look like a girl who can move a few things around? Well, just– look, support me in my story!
Anyway, the other girls and I noticed a pattern where one of us girls would go for something to carry and suddenly a man would show up offering unnecessary assistance or to suggest that we go grab something a bit lighter. Like a cushion. A cushion. (To be fair, someone had to carry the cushions and they were rather large and awkward, but still!)
And let me just say, I really appreciate the considerate effort behind such suggestions and offerings of help. I'm not that arrogant. I'm glad chivalry still lives…
HOWEVER. Isn't it funny that I only got hurt at times when the guys were trying to help me???
- Girls: great at communication. They would tell me when we were putting something down and where we were going for the most part.
- Guys: manhandle the furniture and figure that their buffness is covering everything.
Newsflash: I need to know what your plan is for putting this wooden thing in the truck.
The first thing that happened was that when I beast-lifted a small booth all by myself (it's not hard if you get the angles right and support with your hips and legs) it was taken rather abruptly from me by my manager when I brought it to the truck.
I said, "Hey, wait, where are you–?"
Basically my forearm got a decent-looking scrape because he figured I couldn't hold the thing much longer (I could have held it much longer).
The girls said they saw it exactly the same way. I was totally fine until he tried to grab it.
I was carrying this very heavy booth (at an angle which I later discovered with one of my girls was completely unnecessary and made the whole operation 10x harder) with one of the hired guys.
Anyway, when we handed off the booth, ~no surprise~ it got jarred somehow and hit my left hand pretty hard. Enough to put a thumbnail-wide line of a blood blister on the inside of my palm.
I should say that I already had a scratch there healing. I cut myself on a knife… I burned myself on a skillet… Nope. Ok, it was a Sunday and that morning during my shower I had scratched myself somehow opening a shampoo bottle.
The shame. I know.
Well, I had hydrogen-peroxided the daylights out of that son of a gun, so it was on the road to healing, but now it's still there (Today is the Friday after.) because some man hit it with a booth trying to help and turned it into a blood-blister.
Well that's basically it. Women can do some stuff. Dudes need to communicate.


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New contributor, Sonja Hagemann, started created her first prayer flag on September 11, 2011.
She continues to make them as time allows and has made them into a take-along project after painting the background fabric.
Sonja loves to paint on fabric and here are some of her first efforts. The backgrounds are old sheets colored with paints and inks and sometimes shiny glitter that catches the light. The flags are strung on torn selvages of her hand painted fabrics and knotted together. Sonja states "Hope seems to be the word that surfaces first for me."
"what a great way to start a new year!"


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- In the left menu, click on Billing.
- To add a new card, click on Edit in the top right of the credit card image.
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Why, when the computer locks up or freezes, do all our network connections drop? Think about it. Everything stops. AIM, downloads, peer-to-peer transfers, etc. This can be a problem, since many download sites generate a unique, one-time use URL to prevent file leaching. If you're 99% done and your computer locks up, the connection drops and you've gotta download the entire file again. Why must we even reconnect?
Idea: a "black box" approach. Just a little box that sits between your Ethernet port and the wall/wifi. It runs an extremely minimal embedded OS, highly stable, no moving parts, etc. When you init a download, it's going thru the box. If your computer stops accepting bits, the box keeps the download running and caches it until you can reboot or whatever. Maybe noone would buy something like that. Combine the gadget with an external hard disk as a really neat extra feature.


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Spicy Rice Noodles Soup (เส้นเล็กต้มยำ)
I love all sort of noodles but if I have to choose one of my favorite noodles, it would probably be thin rice noodles (เส้นเล็ก). I love the slippery smooth texture ,the ability to absorb flavors and the subtle taste of rice flour. Whether it is a stir try, dried, or soup, thin rice noodles never fail to delight me.
Today I prepared the noodles soup from scratch and I recommended you to do so. But if you don' t feel like making the stock, you could certainly use canned chicken broth. But the homemade noodles soup does add a lot of depth to the dish. So just do it. It makes you feel very chef-y.
The typical toppings of the dish are pork balls, fish balls, shrimp ball, minced pork, pork slices but you could play with anything you want-- you can try chicken, seafood, soft boiled eggs, char siew, fried tofu, etc.
I hope you give this noodles recipe a try soon. It does take time to make but the whole process is pretty simple and I guarantee that this tasty bowl of noodles has all the flavors you 're looking for in a Thai noodles dish. It 's spicy, sweet, tangy and salty with lots of slurpy slippery noodles.
Below is my Spicy Rice Noodles Soup (เส้นเล็กต้มยำ, Sen Lek Tom Yum) recipe.
thin rice noodles
fish balls, shrimp ball
some bean sprout
fried wonton
for the stock
500 grams chicken bone
2,500 ml. water
30 black peppercorns
4 whole Thai pickled garlic bulbs (กระเทียมดอง)
4 tablespoon pickled garlic brine (นํ้ากระเทียมดอง)
3 cilantro roots (รากผักชี)
1/2 stalk celery, cut into small pieces
1/3 daikon, peeled cut into thick pieces
1. Wrap cilantro roots, pickled garlic bulbs and black peppercorns in a cheesecloth. Place it with the rest of stock ingredients in a pot, simmer for 3 hours. Scoop off any brown foam and fat that show up on the surface.
2. Then season with
2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon rock sugar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon light soy sauce (ซีอิ้วขาว)
3. Remove from heat.
4. For the toppings, I made seasoned minced pork (หมูบะช่อ) and tender pork slices (หมูนุ่ม).
150 grams minced pork
1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1/3 teaspoon baking soda (optional)
250 grams pork butt, cut into bite size pieces
1 and 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/4 tablespoon Thai light soy sauce
1/8 teaspoon sugar
5. For the tender pork slices, marinate the pork butt with oyster sauce, Thai light soy sauce and sugar, cover and let sit in the fridge overnight or at least 2-3 hours. Bring the pork out of the fridge and cook it in boiling water, set Aside.
6. Mix the minced pork with light soy sauce and baking soda, let sit for 20 minutes. Cook the minced pork in boiling water, set aside.
7. Fry wontons and boil the fish balls and shrimp balls.
Now is my favorite-- season the noodles soup!
8. Here is what I added to the noodles soup.
3 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 and 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
1/2 tablespoon chili powder (พริกป่น)
1 and 1/2 teaspoon fried-garlic
3/4 teaspoon Thai roasted chili paste (นํ้าพริกเผา)
2 heap teaspoon roasted crushed peanuts
9. Add 150 ml. of the soup to the serving bowl.
10. Parboil the bean sprouts and cook the noodles according to package direction, drain well, place in the bowl with your choices of toppings. Serve immediately.
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This looks so spicy but super awesome! Thank you for the recipe. I love your photograph style.ReplyDelete
Thank you Nippon Nin. Try this out and please let me know if you like it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2013 at 5:17 AM
pretty damn good thai style spicy noodle..ReplyDelete
Never had a soup noodle with peanut before..
sounds a great idea!
btw i would love it even more with a goodness of tangy tamarind taste....
Thank you for stopping by. I never add tamarind concentrate to this noodle bowl, sounds interesting!


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The largest and most prestigious Kickboxing Tournament in the world today. It is a tournament run by an elected volunteer committee in support of The Irish Society of Protection of Children. All profits relating ot the event are donated to ISPCC annually. www.ispcc.ie.
It is an official WAKO World Cup and a founding member of the Kickboxing World Series.
We hosts competitive matches in the following WAKO Kickboxing Disciplines
Point Fighting
Light Contact
Full Contact
K1 Rules
Musical Forms
Registration opens 1st October 2018.
Registration is restricted to the first 4,000 competitors, so early booking of athletes is strongly advised.
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I thought, seeing as I mentioned it in my last post, that I would show off some of the cheap-cheap-cheap vintage material I picked up in the closing down material shop. As a whole the patterns have proved controversial! None of it was any more than £1.50 a metre though, and the older it was, the more the shop assistant discounted it.
The material above is a kind of olive green colour, which I'm not sure you can see from the picture. I bought about a million metres of it, so I'm going to have to think of some good things to make with it. As my good friend John pointed out, it is a little bit 1980s Air Asia, but I think it has a bit of a 1940s feel to it, so think I might try and think about a low backed dress, which I think will suit it quite well. Otherwise, some tops with interesting necklines perhaps. I'm always terrified to start though, in case I ruin the material with some mistake or other.
The stripey material was originally a bit of a whim with a chance of pyjamas, but actually I think it might make a nice high waisted skirt for the summer. I'm not so concerned about wasting it, as it isn't in the best condition, so I think that is most likely to happen!
In other news today, Bristol has become a wild media circus in preparation for the Sky News Leaders Debate tonight. I have never seen so many helicopters. It's what I imagine living in Washington or some such place is like. It's quite exciting really. I went down to the Arnolfini after an impromptu burger and fries picnic with Ben to see what was going on, but all I saw were some well-armed policemen and a police boat.


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As an artist in the 1980s, RISK pushed the limits of graffiti and gained notoriety not only for his unique style but for being one of the first writers in Southern California to paint freight trains and freeway overpasses. RISK was responsible for importing New York's Wild Style of graffiti to Los Angeles and combining it with his own aesthetic of lettering to create something entirely new. At the peak of his career he took graffiti from the streets into the galleries and recently played a major role in MOCA's groundbreaking Art in the Streets exhibition, which brought mainstream recognition to graffiti as a serious art medium. With a career spanning more than 30 years, RISK is continually evolving and pushing his personal limits as an artist. His story is a true testament that all artists must strive to break boundaries, and that anything can be accomplished if you are willing to take a risk.
What inspired you as a teenager to pick up a spray can and paint on walls?
Stealing bikes – BMX bikes. Because I used to be into BMX and we used to… Well, I don't know if that inspired me, but it was the first time I encountered spray-paint, and I was addicted to the smell right off. I always loved spray-paint and after that I made haunted houses and anything with spray paint I'd get. So then when I found out there was an art form with spray-paint I went right to it.
What artists were you looking up to at the time?
Wow, at that time? I think anybody from New York because there was no graffiti art so to speak here. And I was drawing on my desk and I'd write "Surf" and draw waves. And this kid from New York just transferred over and he was like, "Oh, what do you write?" And I'm like, "Huh?" And he's like "What do you write?" And I'm like, "I don't know, 'Merry Christmas,' 'Happy Halloween.'" And he's like, "What?" And I'm like, "I write all kinds of stuff." I thought he was try to say like what do you draw, you know? And he's like, "The letters." And I'm like, "Yeah, 'Merry Christmas.' 'Happy Halloween.' 'Surf.' 'Wipeout.'" And he's like, "Nah, when you write," and he showed me pictures of New York trains. And I was like, "Wow, that shit's cool." And that day I went and stole a can of red and white, and I came back to the high school and I did a SURF piece that said SURF, and that was 30 years ago, and I've been painting ever since. I was addicted.
How did you go from the name SURF to the name RISK?
I got busted at Union High with a guy named Scott Jonkey (aka OOPS). We got busted stealing paint. They took us into school in handcuffs at lunchtime. Super embarrassing. So I knew that they were going to find out I was SURF because they already suspected me. But I thought I was pretty slick because I'd write CAJUN in my books as a fake name. So when they said, "Oh, you're 'Surf,'" I was like, "Nah, I wish I was. That guy's up," you know? "I'm Cajun." But I knew they were going to find out, so I needed a new name, so a friend of mine wrote, CHANCE, and I thought that was the coolest name every because you know, oh, he takes chances and this and that. So that night I'm looking for a name and I looked up and there was a board game that said, "Risk." And I was like, that's it. And that's how I picked it.
Your style was heavily inspired by the New York Wild Style and obviously it's motivated by your friend from New York. That was my question. What motivated you to incorporate that style?
Well, originally the guy who actually showed me what graffiti art was, I don't even know who he is. I think he wrote A-TRAIN or something. He disappeared, as quick as he came to school he left. But shortly after that I saw Subway Art and I was fascinated with it. But shortly after that I met a guy from New York. Although he would like people to think he taught me to write I was writing before I met him and I'll be writing long after him. He wound up being a complete fraud. He told us he was SON ONE from Subway Art as well as a ton of other bullshit. He was clearly better than us at the time but the truth always comes out in the wash…
What were the major differences in the style between the New York and LA graffiti?
Now or then?
I don't know…I think that back then there was not as much of a difference as now because everyone was emulating New York. Everyone wanted to be New York so they were just clearly better. Their style was just clearly better at the time. It was just the same thing but just better. But I think what changed was our use of color, you know. The LA guys had way more vibrant crazy colors and color schemes going on.
What about the difference between your style and the style that was going on in East LA at that time?
East LA was more of a block style derivative of gang writing and Chicano writing, Pachucas back from the probably 40s or something, you know? So their stuff was a lot more block style. My stuff was a lot more organic. I was kind of like, melting pot, you know, because I was influenced by New York and I was hanging out in East LA and it just kind of morphed so my stuff is just more organic.
Yeah. I'm heavy on the aesthetic of letters and architectural letters and weights and balances, which a lot of East Side writers are and the Chicanos, its all about weights and balances, so I think I molded that with New York style.
You were one of the first known LA writers to paint subway cars in New York back in 1988. How were you accepted with the New York graffiti community?
Uh, (laughing) I think when I first got there they were like, "You want to paint trains?" and I was like, "Yeah." And they were like, "Alright, yeah right." And I was like, "Nah, I want to paint," and they were like, "It's over, you missed it." And I'm like, "What do you mean?" And they were like, "They buff it, there's the vandal squad, their hot, they know where we live. You missed it!" I'm like, "I'm doin' it." And they were like, "Alright, do it." So I was just doing it, I was out bombing. So eventually they were like, "Alright, you don't know what you're doing. Let us take you," and it was like REAS, VEN GHOST, KET, you know. Those guys took me to the yards and the lay-ups and I was just on fire, like a fever, and I just kept wanting to go, and they're like, "Damn, you're serious," and I was like, "Yeah, I'm serious." So they were real cool after that. They had a lot of walls up in the beginning, but after that they were cool and they took me out and I just bombed and then I was well received in New York, I made a lot of longtime friends I still have there.
And was it ever an issue that there was a well-respected RISK based out of New York?
No, not really, I knew about him, I found out about him later, he was in FC, and I had met WEST earlier. And he told me, I have a friend who writes "Risk," and I was like, "Yeah?" and you know nothing ever happened. And I talked to that guy on email a couple times.
I think it was a different age too where there's no Internet, there's no way to do the research; there's probably more than two anyway.
Oh, yeah.
You kind of paved the way for graffiti artists being accepted in the art world back in the 80s. And how did you make that leap from a street artist to showing in the galleries?
Well, it was really weird for me because back in the 80s I did a lot of commercial stuff. I was in Hollywood, so they are filming movies everywhere you look; so you'd walk up and you'd get gigs doing set design and stuff like that. So I got thrown into the Hollywood scene real quick but what I did was, I wrote RISK. So when Playboy hired me, they were like, "We want you to do graffiti, this graffiti stuff's cool. Write 'Playboy' or draw a rabbit or something." I'm like, "No, I'm writing RISK." You gotta keep it real," especially back then everything was about keeping it real. So long story short, when I did whatever I did, Chili Peppers, Budweiser, MTV, anything, I always wrote RISK. In the Michael Jackson video I wrote RISK. So I never had a problem. I think that I got notoriety as RISK, I guess, is what I'm saying.
Yeah, you built your name; you used that corporate money and the corporate jobs to elevate your name, not their name.
So when people wanted me for galleries and stuff, they knew it was going to be RISK. My stuff never changed. I still write those four letters. A lot of my gallery work still says RISK. That's what I like doing, you know.
Do you feel like graffiti works in a gallery setting?
Yes. A hundred percent. Like a lot of people say, "Oh, its not made for galleries." People say "Graffiti should not have any boundaries, so it doesn't work in a gallery." I think it's completely opposite. I think that when you're in a gallery, you have the option to destroy all boundaries. That's where you can go crazy, in a gallery. You can do stuff you can't do on the streets, you can add stuff to your pieces. So I look at it different. I think graffiti is totally good in a gallery. The only problem would be if certain people who haven't paid dues did gallery work.
There lies a problem: when someone doesn't know graffiti and they just lump all graffiti artists together, like, "Oh, that's cool. That kid does graffiti. I want to buy some graffiti." You know, that's the problem. And that's just like with anything else, you know.
Do you approach a gallery piece differently than you would approach a work on the street?
Yes and no. It all depends. When I do my pieces or my letters, they're just like I'm going to do them on the street. But when I approach the gallery stuff its more painterly…a lot. I'm not hesitant to take out a brush. You know, on the street you build up something, and in the gallery I tear it down; like I destruct a lot of my stuff, and I buff it and destroy a lot of it, pull it down, so it looks like its beat up or faded or worn, like it would on a street. So I do approach the stuff the same as far as letters, but it's the complete opposite as far as the finished product, I guess.
Why did you wait until 2008 to have your first solo show, "26"?
You know, I sold to collectors since the beginning, and I sold canvases and I participated in a few little groups shows and stuff like that, but I never had a solo show because I always thought something's gonna tell me when its time, when I wanna do it. I'll know when I know. I just knew. Everything just lined up; twenty six, you know, 26 letters in the alphabet; I was writing 26 years at the time. It just made sense, you know. So that was it.
You played a big role in MOCA's highly attended Art in the Streets exhibit, which was the biggest show in the museum's history. What were your thoughts on the show?
I thought it was awesome, I mean that show was a highlight for me in my graffiti career. And that's the thing about graffiti, it just keeps going. There's no limits. It's always exciting, but MOCA was just awesome to me. Just having visited the museum a million times as a spectator and then running around there in the wee hours of the night at four in the morning for two weeks straight, having just an open playground in that museum was just awesome. Especially because I respected everyone in that show so much, so every time you walk through you see something new, and it was like, "Wow that's crazy. I never saw that before." There's so much stuff you don't even think about, you know. On the side of those Keith Haring pieces, there were PRAY tags carved into them. There's so much stuff people didn't even see, didn't even know about.
My favorite pieces were the address books with people's phone numbers and little sketchbooks with drawings in them. There were so many cool, little things you'd never see, like, you know what I mean… Like BASQUIAT's phone number, or whatever it was, I was like… Crazy stuff you'd never expect to be out there.
Every time you walk through there, especially when it's the middle of the night and its all quiet and you're like super-tired and not focused and you just focus on something and you're like, "What the fuck is that?" Like, "No way. It's a PRAY tag," and they didn't even know it was there because if they did, there would be a big sign saying, "PRAY Tag." But it was just so cool.
Do you feel like the graffiti artists in the show were properly represented? And do you feel like there was anybody left out of that show?
That's a rough question. Everyone says they should have had X, Y, and Z in that show, but the problem with that show is that show is for gallery artists. So these people who weren't in the show aren't gallery artists. So there are a lot of people who deserve to be in the show, but they weren't gallery artists. So that's kinda why. And also, as far as LA's concerned, it wasn't an LA show. People think all these guys from LA should have been in the show. It wasn't an LA show; they only had a couple guys from LA. Some of the guys from LA were crying about the show but they were the same guys like, "I don't want to do a fucking gallery." And then it comes and they're all mad they're not in it. There are always people that should have been in a show, for sure, but I don't know the politics or the reasoning, or just the space, you know. Yeah, I'd like to see some other people in there but…
…You didn't curate the show. At the end of the day it's up the curator.
And there are reasons for everything.
It seems like a lot of street artists make the transition into doing gallery work a lot faster than graffiti artists. What are your thoughts on this?
Let me be politically correct… I think the street artists get the attention of the mainstream a lot quicker. And it's easier for people to relate to them. Therefore, they get into galleries a lot quicker. I think a lot of them are hipsters too, so they're in that scene. So I think that's it, you know.
I mean, do you think there's something about their art that makes it more relatable?
Yeah, you know, graffiti was invented for us. It wasn't for anybody else. We had this secret style of writing and wild-style, that was for us to read, not the public. Their stuff is billboards, mini billboards and wheat paste. Directly for the public.
Basically advertising for the public.
Yeah so like, the public is looking right at it, they see it, they either get it or don't get it, or whatever they feel, they feel it right then. Graffiti, people had to look at it for years and wonder what it is, wonder who did it, wonder how it was done. It's the mystique, whereas street art you don't wonder. Someone came up and put a poster up.
To me it seems like you hit em with the repetition of the same image a million times, you have an emotion towards that image now. It's built in, and then it's already on a piece of paper. You know what I mean, so it's okay, lets take this piece of paper, we'll put it in a frame now.
Yeah, it's like an advertisement. It does its job.
Graffiti, everyone wants to do a different piece all the time, you know, so your piece is always different. So people are like, "Oh, I like that guy who did that thing there. I like that guy who did that thing there." They don't know it's the same person. But with that street artists they are like, "Oh, the guy who does the one-handed Mickey Mouse, I like that one." They can relate right away to that.
You've been doing graffiti since the 80s and have had almost a 30-year career. What keeps you motivated and how do you continue to evolve as an artist?
You know, painting to me is kind of like a chronological calendar. I'm the worst with times, dates, stuff like that. I often forget how old I am, my kids' birthdays, stuff like that; but if I look at a painting, I could tell you exactly where I was, who I was with, and what was going on in my life. So I paint – without sounding corny at all – to know I'm alive. That's something I do that keeps me going. I don't think I'll ever stop. I think if I stop, when I stop, I'll be dead, you know? So, my art's going to obviously change, I guess, but it will always be some form of art.
What is your process from conceptualization to the creation of a finished piece?
I get a lot of ideas when I'm sleeping. I have these dreams and I see stuff, and I wake up and I want to paint it. I just see the piece.
And do you go directly into painting?
[RISK's daughter walks in.] And this is one of my biggest inspirations right here. [Daughter says, 'Daddy.'] And when I paint with her, it's always fun. That's some of her work right there.
So you start with an idea; do you go straight into painting? Do you do a sketch?
It's always different. Sometimes… when I'm doing those large murals I have a color pattern in mind. And you know Heal the Bay thing? It was basically a conceptual color palette: pollution, the sky, and water. That's as much as I thought about that and then I just went and did it. Like a graffiti piece, I still sketch sometimes, do outlines, you know?
Lets talk about your Beautifully Destroyed series: focusing on painting random objects in public spaces.
Yeah, Beautifully Destroyed came to me because I'm at the age now where I'm a professional artist and I support myself and my kids with my art, and I take it very seriously. And I really wanted to evaluate it, you know, I just wanted to really dig into it and dig deep and see what got me ticking. Why did I like graffiti? What was it about graffiti that was so inspirational? Why did I paint graffiti for 30 years? You know, I've oil painted, I've done all kinds of other stuff too but nothing stuck. So the most exciting moment I can remember is driving down the freeway the next morning after doing an illegal piece, and as you creep up on that piece, you see the color…boom!…and it hits you. And that was it. And then I really thought about it and I was like, "I'm driving, 70, 55 mph, whatever, I can't really read that piece. It was that splash of color. That's what got me, that splash of color was the exciting thing. So I wondered if I could achieve that without doing an image or letters." So I did the color palettes, just splashes of color, and I did, I liked it, I was like, "Wow, that's great. I get it." Then I started thinking about it a little more, and I said, you know what, "I love letters, the aesthetic letters and the architectural letters." I'm like, "What is it that I love about it?" and I loved the architectural letters, you know, the weights and balances in the structure. So that's why a lot of the line work comes in, you know the architectural lines. And to me, the bubbles, the reason I do them is because the most elementary form of graffiti is the bubble background. These are just the outline of it. The bubbles and the bubble background, was like the most iconic part of graffiti to me, so if you strip that all the way down it's just going to be the surface – you know, how the bubbles lay on top of each other and stuff like that. So when I encompassed those two things, it's the most stripped-down, raw form of graffiti, yet it's the stuff that got me motivated and pumped. So that's how Beautifully Destroyed came about. Then I wanted to paint totally mundane objects – like a house, or a car or newspaper signs, or stops signs or newspaper machines, stuff like that – to see what emotion you could evoke painting an object and what people think about it. It was cool. People would get it and they get as pumped up as they do off of graffiti so I was like, "Wow, I could paint these murals without images or letters and evoke emotion." So then when you start thinking about that, you go, "Okay, well what can I really do with this, like maybe I could go to skid row, these places that really need uplifting, and brighten em up."
So I went to Miami, this year I didn't go to Wynwood at Art Basel; I went to (Miami's) Skid Row and painted some of these Beautifully Destroyed pieces, and it was awesome. The week I was there, watching all the homeless tents gravitate toward the piece and move there, and then talking to the people, and having them sit out there playing the harmonica, they were just so much happier over that week; and when I talked to a lot of the people and became friends with a lot of the homeless guys, and they were like, "Man, thank you so much for decking out my house; you pimped my house." And its cool, you know, it worked. It did what I wanted it to do. It evoked emotion and that particular mural made people happy. That's why I'm going to skid rows and dilapidated areas and doing these blocks of color. And not only skid rows but places you just wouldn't expect it, like a newspaper machine, stuff like that. So that was the concept.
What was the reaction from Art Basel?
Really positive, and it really surprised me because I really didn't think it was going to be positive. I was really expecting people to be like, "Well, what's he gonna do? It's a backdrop." Because if you look at it in a photo, it looks like a backdrop; it looks like a typical backdrop we do on graffiti and you're ready for the piece, but what people don't really get about those pieces is that there's so many layers, that's like 50 layers, to get those pieces. And when you go up to the piece, its all dots, its not just a fade, its not just a two-color fade. Those murals, like the one at Crazy Gideon's, started out fluorescent orange and pink, and it came out magenta and dark purple. And that's from 50 layers – layers of tints, lacquers, and stuff like that. And then you throw in the metal flake and a lot of California lifestyle, custom culture stuff like lacquers and tints and flakes and stuff like that. So those murals are made for people to stand in front of and evoke emotion but you really have to be there to get it because I don't think they translate on photo. Because when you see it in person, you can look into it and you can see layers, but in a photo you can't really tell.
Becomes two-dimensional.
You received a scholarship to Pasadena Art Center, as well as to study fine art at USC. How did this affect your artwork, and would you recommend formal training for someone interested in the arts?
Yes, I recommend formal training one hundred percent. It's awesome. I was too immature and young and stubborn when I got the scholarship to Art Center. They had me doing figure drawing and I was like, "I don't want to; I'm never gonna do this." And they were like, "Just do it." And I was like, "I hate it." I was close-minded, so I was doing stuff to piss them off, like doing figure drawing in graffiti colors – like all my figure drawings were in pastels and chalk, and the people looked like Martians. And I thought I was being really funny, but they didn't care because they were just working on the shading. I was just stupid. I was too immature, so later I went to SC and it was awesome for me because luckily I was already pretty well known in graffiti. At that time, I was one of a few guys that were consistently on the freeways with legible pieces that said RISK. and at the same time I did "Eye on LA" with Chuck Woolery or whatever that guy was. And I had a little TV exposure and I had traveled around the world and did that world competition, so my art teachers knew that that was my path. So rather than going to school and having them help you find your way, they already knew that's what I was gonna do. They knew I was all about graffiti, and I was very lucky because they would assign the class a project and then they would come to me and say, "Stay after class," and they would assign me a different project based upon what I do. A lot of kids were pissed off, saying, "I'm a graffiti artist. He can do graffiti, why can't I?" And the teachers were harsh; they were like, "Because you're not a graffiti artist. He's a graffiti artist." The teachers were just ruthless. But they were really cool to me and they really helped me. I don't know how it happens, but you get out of school years later and you realize what you learn and you don't realize you learned it there. You don't realize it at the time, but years later, you say, "Oh, yeah, I guess…"
So how did that help with the evolution of your artwork?
It opened doors. I pushed a lot of boundaries in graffiti, whether it be getting way too complicated or getting way too simple. I guess I just don't have any boundaries in what I'm gonna do. And I realized I could apply graffiti aesthetics to any other form of art. I made a piece at SC called "The Art of Plumbing," and I made it with all plumbing fixtures and pipes, but it was all based upon graffiti. I guess it showed me that graffiti is not just a spray can on a wall. You could mix things with it, mixed media, I guess it just opened my mind up that there's more going on than just an aerosol can in the world.
We got a little tour of the workspace you're constructing. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Yeah, I'm building a 2,400 square foot machine shop, where we'll be actually building sculptures and frames, and doing some metal work and fabricating a lot of the actual canvases. When I say fabricating the actual canvases, you know, a lot of my gallery work. You know because with graffiti you are out in the urban setting and painting on a lot of these different surfaces and that's kind of what makes it cool to me, so I'm working a lot on painting on these things as my canvas; so lately I've been working on a lot of license plates, but I want to work on canvases made out of steel, cement, or glass, or whatnot. So that's gonna help me do that. And then the other studio I'm building is actually for all the paint work, and that's 1,500 square feet, and that's gonna be a full paint studio with all different kinds of paints and applications. I'm really excited about it. And I made it all out of reclaimed stuff – like the whole thing is old railroad bridges or shipping containers, or streetlights and stuff like that.
And you bought an online paint store?
Yeah, we found a store that went out of business and we bought it online. Some hardware store in Jersey, and we just bought the whole paint department.
You were involved with the early beginnings of street wear with the launch of your brand Third Rail with Dante. What motivated you to put your designs onto clothing?
Third Rail was actually for galleries. We were showing art in galleries and calling it Third Rail, and we wanted to pull in Volkswagen or a refrigerator door, and it was gonna be called Third Rail. So we started that. Long story short, if a canvas sells for $10,000, you are going to sell very few, and we needed to make money; so we decided to print some of the artwork on t-shirts to sell, and that's what I did. And eventually I met some guy from Japan, who wanted to buy some clothes, and he gave me this order that was $30,000 worth of clothes, and to me at the time it was like $3 million. And it took me well over a year to make it because I was printing the stuff on the pinball machine. I thought that was normal and he laughed. But this old Japanese guy taught me as I went and he mentored me into the clothing game without telling me I was a total screw-up and I didn't know what I was doing. So he'd come every couple months to see how I was doing, and he would tell me to go see a silk screener and an embroiderer, and within a year, I got it. I went and designed some stuff for Guess and Warner Brothers and traded for some samples and had a little clothing line going. Kiyoshi was the guy who did the clothing with me and we went to Japan one time, and he told me I outgrew him, and I told him he made me, and he just dumped me, changed his phone number and just left because he wanted me to go. And that was awesome, but that's how it happened.
Now you have a lot of street brands that are going for that graffiti aesthetic but they don't have that background, but at the time, you were like I'm the artist and I'm going to do the brand.
Third Rail was made for graffiti artists by graffiti artists. We didn't believe in Fat Cap and all that stuff with the markers and stuff. No graffiti artist wears a can on markers; we were doing everything illegal. Any real graffiti artist doesn't want to advertise that he's a graffiti artist. So I hated those companies. Third Rail was against all that stuff; we just wanted to make stuff that was cool. So we didn't have markers, spray cans, or any of that stuff on our clothes.
How long did the brand last and why did it dissolve?
I sold my portion of the company about five years ago. We did a huge license deal with a guy who became terminally ill, and we got the brand back, but I was at a crossroads, sitting there saying I have the brand, this is what I do, I could keep going with the brand, or, I've made enough money, I could just be an artist. I thought I made enough money, I thought I had enough money saved. And then after four kids, a couple cars, and all the dumb stuff – not the kids, the cars – I didn't have enough money and I had to depend on art. I decided I didn't want to do it; I just wanted to become an artist. So I just hung up the towel and just wanted to be an artist. And it's funny because I'm talking to them right now and they want me to take the brand back, and I said that I can be the front guy for the brand, but I'm not going to do it 24/7 anymore. So if that happens I might do it, like do a license deal with them and head design some pieces and have a team design around that.
Los Angeles has been cracking down on graffiti and has claimed to be enforcing the "Mural Moratorium," which was a cease in mural permits back in 2007. What are you thoughts on this, and what can be done to stop it?
It's total bullshit. That whole "Mural Moratorium," Trutanich totally has a personal agenda against graffiti artists and they hide behind facts with this "Mural Moratorium." Its pretty funny because they said I couldn't write Risk, no one can have more than 3 percent text, write their name repetitively, or more than 3 times, etc etc….So I do this huge abstract mural with no letters at all just a wash of color and minimal architectural shapes and lines, etc…and they say its not a legal mural because its not decipherable ? So now they're saying there is no abstract art legal in LA? pretty crazy that they continuously use tax payers time and money to fight this bullshit fight against artists. Its constantly getting exposed, yet they keep digging and manipulating for their personal agenda. And yes, they did come against some of the billboard guys because I think they had to, but until people brought up the fact, they didn't go after those guys; it was just targeting us. I think you can only fool the public so long before the public realizes this is bullshit. It is slowly changing and they're making progress, and I guess Trutanich has his own issues right now. He got caught, he's not as squeaky clean as he likes to portray. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for us, I think he's backed off because he has his own issues to deal with. That whole "Mural Moratorium" is just so unfair, man, because you have to get a permit, and if you ask, "When's the last time they gave a permit?" They never gave a permit. You can get a permit and do a mural, but you can't get a permit if you do graffiti. If you do it with aerosol, they're not gonna give you a permit.
I had three lawyers for a while during MOCA, and I had detectives calling me and harassing me; they would email me, they would text me. Even after my lawyer said, "Don't call him," they called me. My lawyer had to give an official threat saying, "Listen, this is harassment. We are going to go to court," and that's all because of one person, you know.
What do you think pushed him to take this stance against graffiti?
When I first had that debate/conversation with him on the radio, he made a statement that all forms of graffiti are negative and have no value or substance. There's no redeeming quality in any form of graffiti. And I was like, "No." So I went on the radio and he goes, "Okay, I guess you're going to say what you do is pretty." And I'm like, "No, I'm not here to ask amnesty of leniency on anyone who breaks the law. You should prosecute them to the fullest. That's your job; that's what you do. I understand the risk of what I do. If you arrest me for doing illegal graffiti, I'm not going to cry about it. But you can't lump all graffiti artists as gang members or taggers, because that's just not true." And he says, "You're pissing on the turf, you're marking your territory," and I'm like, "That's not true at all." So my whole purpose of that debate was to make him say there are all different forms of graffiti and not all graffiti is bad, because that's like saying every hardware store is selling to vandals. So if you spray-paint on your car you're…So I'm like okay, let's go arrest all the NASCAR drivers because they're promoting people that drive fast and kill people. It was just illogical. So he reluctantly said, "Okay, I see what you are doing is positive," and this and that, and he shook my hand, told me we would work together in the future, and then I never heard from him again. But I think it all comes down to education. My whole plight was to educate the public on different forms of graffiti, whether it be graffiti, tagging, or aerosol art. I just want people to know there's a difference. Just like anything, there are good apples and bad apples. Not all graffiti artists are terrible and not all graffiti artists are great.
What newer artists are you inspired by?
I'm inspired by so many people, its not anyone in particular per say; it's just I might see a piece and just love it and I don't know who did that piece. I'm inspired by so much. I'm inspired by my daughters, that inspires me – not so much the finished product, but watching them do it is awesome; it's the most raw form. When they stand back and say, "I need to add this color," that's awesome to me. That inspires me, you know?
What direction can you see your artwork going in the future?
That's a hard question because I never thought my artwork would become as stripped-down as it has become. I've always strived to go more complex, so I don't know where my art will go.
What's in the future for Risk?
Just a lot more painting.


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Today I have some very simple nail art inspired by @juliajor to share with you!
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What do you guys think about this nail art? Let me know in the comments!
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CHEESE – the original
BREAKFAST SAUSAGE – scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage and cheese
CHEESEBURGER – sautéed ground beef, onions, cheese, ketchup , mustard and a pickle
PEPPERONI SAUSAGE PIZZA – pepperoni, ground sausage, cheese and pizza sauce
HAWAIIAN PIZZA – Canadian bacon, pineapple, cheese and pizza sauce
HAM AND CHEESE – ham and cheese
SPICY SAUSAGE – spicy sausage and cheese
SPINACH MUSHROOM – sautéed spinach and mushrooms, onions, garlic and feta cheese
MISSION ZOMBIE DOG – bacon-wrapped hot dog, sautéed onions, jalapenos and cheese
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September 21, 2015
Zucchini's Crafty Weekend
Zucchini's Crafty Weekend was the last event that I had to cover for the Boyne Valley Food Series and what a way to end it! I had never heard about Zucchinis which is only up the road from me in Navan. They have been in business for ten years so I blame himself more seeing as he grew up around here!
We visited on Sunday afternoon with the SnuggleMonkey in tow. It's clear that it is a regular venue for a lot of families and I can see why. It's comfortable, there is loads of space and the Sunday menu is extremely good value. There is also loads of parking close by so no need to bring a buggy as you wouldn't get it up the stairs anyway!
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