In contrast to the suede silhouettes in the 24K Collection that we featured last week, the PUMA x UNDFTD 24K Mid (Mirror Gold) is extremely limited and will only be sold in UNDFTD stores, with 24 pairs available at the Tokyo location, 24 pairs at the La Brea L.A. store, and an additional 24 pairs split up between the other three Undefeated U.S. locations. With the price of gold reaching an all time high the PUMA x Undefeated 24K Mid is sure to also be in high demand. The shoe features mirror gold leather, matching midsole stitching and a perforated formstrip. In addition to the material upgrade the shoe also has a studded Undefeated “five strikes” logo piercing through the outer collar. Undefeated logos are also on the insole and on a double-sided metal hangtag, along side the PUMA logos.
Release date is Saturday, February 7th, 2009, so get your metal detectors fired up!
Feel so blessed to be part of the experience of being at the birth of my nephew Selassie Shamess McKernan born on April 16th @ 6:21am.
Why buy organic cotton?
• Conventional cotton uses 25% of the world’s insecticides. Regular cotton also uses 10% of the world’s pesticides.
• Organic cotton not only doesn’t use pesticides, but it uses a lot less water because organic cotton is a rotation crop. When crops are rotated the soil maintains its nutrients and is better able to hold water in. Mass irrigation happens on regular cotton and uses 3,000 cubic meters more of water per acre to grow than organic cotton.
• Currently, only 0.5% of the cotton market is organic.
Featured in this photo is Sweetskins... super cute and comfortable organic cotton clothing made in the USA.
Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, the 44-year-old miner stuffs a wad of coca leaves into his mouth to brace himself for the inevitable hunger and fatigue. For 30 days each month Apaza toils, without pay, deep inside this mine dug down under a glacier above the world's highest town, La Rinconada. For 30 days he faces the dangers that have killed many of his fellow miners—explosives, toxic gases, tunnel collapses—to extract the gold that the world demands. Apaza does all this, without pay, so that he can make it to today, the 31st day, when he and his fellow miners are given a single shift, four hours or maybe a little more, to haul out and keep as much rock as their weary shoulders can bear. Under the ancient lottery system that still prevails in the high Andes, known as the cachorreo, this is what passes for a paycheck: a sack of rocks that may contain a small fortune in gold or, far more often, very little at all.
Apaza is still waiting for a stroke of luck. "Maybe today will be the big one," he says, flashing a smile that reveals a single gold tooth. To improve his odds, the miner has already made his "payment to the Earth": a bottle of pisco, the local liquor, placed near the mouth of the mine; a few coca leaves slipped under a rock; and, several months back, a rooster sacrificed by a shaman on the sacred mountaintop. Now, heading into the tunnel, he mumbles a prayer in his native Quechua language to the deity who rules the mountain and all the gold within.
Jewel Of The I does not use metals that contain nickel.
Unexplained skin irritations occur in millions of Americans, and for many, the culprit is an allergy to nickel.
Lisa Garner, M.D., a dermatologist on the medical staff, said that only real treatment is to avoid contact with items that contain nickel. The problem is that it can be found in so many metals. Fortunately, nickel test kits are now available for purchase online
that can detect the substance in anything from jewelry to belt buckles.
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