Your help is needed in Burma. My uncle is involved in an organization called Project Enlighten. Please see his e-mail below and consider making a donation that will actually get to the people who need it in Burma.

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Hi, Many of you know that I work to support Project Enlighten, run by Asad Rahman from the Klamath Hotshots and the Free Burma Rangers, run by Dave Eubank, former 1st SF Group and 2/75th Ranger. Both are NGO’s doing important work in Burma, Laos and Cambodia. The cyclone that devastated Burma will claim almost 100,000 lives. More will be lost as a result of the ineptness, uncaring, and totalitarian Myanmar government than the immediate impacts of the cyclone.It is impossible for most of a donation given to a legitimate organization allowed into Myanmar to not end up in the pocket of some corrupt government official. Those allowed into Myanmar must use the official exchange rate to convert foreign currency into local currency. The official rate is about 6.8 MMK to 1 USD. The unofficial street rate is about 1100 MMK to 1 USD. That means some government thug(s) is pocketing 1093.2 MMK for every 6.8 that gets to anyone in need. The ultimate arbitrage!

We have an amazing team that’s committed to making sure every dollar gets where it can do some good. No overhead costs (NONE), and as much transparency as humanly possible given the nightmarish chaos that is Burma right now. (http://www.abitsu.org/) has some up to date video and news if interested. Magnify anything you saw or experienced in Hurricane Katrina by several levels of destruction, misery and suffering. That’s what’s occurring now in Burma on a countrywide scale.Please consider making a donation through Project Enlighten as our team works to save lives in Burma. (http://www.projectenlighten.com/donate.html). You can read our emergency action plan if interested to see how we intend to circumvent red tape and deliver aid where it is needed, to the people who need it most.Project Enlighten is a registered 501 (c) (3), Non Government, Non-Profit Organization, in the United States of America. Your donations are fully tax-deductible.Thanks for your consideration.

Take care,

Mark

I could not have asked for a more perfect night. The Laws of Attraction were at work and have been since we started 9 Ether less than one year ago. The weather was perfect, the audience was perfect, the band was perfect, the spoken word was perfect, the DJs were perfect, the lighting, the cocktail waitress, the dancing, geez I guess I can go on and on. Thank you everyone for showing up. We will have more pictures posted later, but for now, enjoy! Peace.

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Michael D. Muse
nin\ether CEO and Designer
mdmuse@9etherclothing.com

Communicating Consciousness through Clothing

Denver, CO. September 21, 2007- As the Autumn Equinox sets the earth in line with the sun, the season change also marks the preface of an inspiring vision for ultimate awareness with the launch of nin\ether clothing. This premier clothing line will be introduced to the public on Friday October 5 from 8pm to 2am at Vinyl on the Rooftop, located at 1082 Broadway in Denver’s SoCo District. This exciting event is open to the public and admission is $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the African Well Fund (www.AfricanWellFund.org.)

Designs by Michael Muse and Robbie Maestas adorn basics like tees, tanks and yoga pants. A politically charged piece depicts back-to-back figures—soldier to rebel—armed and blindfolded above the message: eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Other pieces, such as “life music,” feature imagery symbolic of the harmonious union of just that: life and music. Swallows, bare-limbed trees, and other organics seem to explode from the mouth of a graphic sax.

“Our clothes are our medium for spreading a message of kindness, a message of transcendence above all the negative energy in the world. Our clothes will let the people share our message.”

The above statement is taken from the company’s mantra, which affirms nin\ether’s commitment to communicating a vision of conscious living. The premier line of clothing was created in true mindfulness of the nine superior levels of human consciousness: courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace, and enlightenment. Each level holds distinctive significance in achieving superior consciousness, reflected in the company’s logo as a repetition of the circle, symbol of life. Ether is derivative of the Greek word aether, meaning “upper air,” or “pure, fresh air,” thought to be necessary as a transmission medium to propagate energy waves.

All tees and tanks currently exhibit designs screen-printed on American Apparel and Alternative Apparel garments. Within the yoga line, nin\ether clothing includes yoga pants made from 100% organic cotton, which they intend to integrate as their primary choice of fabric. This selection follows suite in revealing their values as a life-conscious company.

The nin\ether clothing launch party will feature The Charles Cooper Quartet: hip hop/ jazz musicians from Columbus, Ohio, as well as Pete Moss spinning house. Additional top artists have signed on to help promote the message of mindfulness, including DJ Ben A, with Cheech on the Congas, DJ Mu$a, and spoken word by Denver poet, Isis. The event is anticipated to be the spark that will ignite inspiration in all to move forward with fashion, in aspiration of enlightenment.