Mystery Donor Gives $1.5 Million For Shelter – In Memory Of “Ace”

06 Friday Jan 2012

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I know an asshole with lots of money who wastes it on malicious litigation rather than helping out the animals they claim to care about. Why not get over your douchebaggery and help those who can’t help themselves? With what you’ve spent in Court over the last couple of years you could have saved thousands of animals from the gas chamber. Unbelievable and disgusting.

Mystery Donor Gives $1.5 Million For Shelter – In Memory Of “Ace”
by Sharon Seltzer

An animal rescue group in Detroit received the kind of news that every nonprofit organization longs to hear. An anonymous donor is giving them $1.5 million so they can build the city’s first no-kill animal shelter, in honor of a dog they tried to save.

Detroit Dog Rescue (DDR) was founded only nine months ago by TV producer Monica Martino and hip-hop artist Daniel (Hush) Carlisle, but the group gained national attention for trying to stop Detroit Animal Control from euthanizing an emaciated Pit bull dog that wandered into an Ace Hardware store in early November.

When DDR heard about the dog, aptly named Ace, they raced to the hardware store trying to beat Animal Control to the scene. They knew Animal Control had the authority to euthanize 100 percent of the stray Pit bull dogs seized in the city. Unfortunately officials had already arrived.

DDR tried to have Ace released from the pound and even got a temporary restraining order to keep him alive during a five day holding period, so his owners could be located. Thousands of supporters, including those from Care2 rallied for Ace to be freed.

Ultimately DDR was unsuccessful in its efforts and Ace was euthanized on November 10, but the group found a friend in their mystery donor.

Carlisle said news of the gift started with a phone call from a California woman. She explained that she is a “fellow dog rescuer” who is suffering from a life-threatening illness. Then she said she was turning over $1.5 million in stock options to the non-profit rescue group.

“She just kind of nonchalantly, very humbly, just rambled off very quickly, ‘I just want you to know that we’re going to do this very fast and it’s just going to be a quick transfer of stocks to you guys. You should have the million dollars overnight,’” Carlisle said. “And I was like, ‘Excuse me? Did you just say a million dollars?’”

Carlisle said the woman wished to remain anonymous.

”This donation is just the beginning,” Martino said in a statement. “While Hush and I were working on the streets of Detroit, we saw firsthand the true scope and scale of the stray dog situation. This problem in Detroit is an epidemic and the system that is in place to control it is broken. The first step is to build a no-kill shelter.”

Detroit Dog Rescue estimates there are 50,000 homeless dogs in Detroit.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/mystery-donor-gives-1-5-million-for-shelter-in-memory-of-ace.html#ixzz1ii7gPzZE

 

Who is interested in being tattooed with the traditional japanese tebori method (by hand)?

29 Thursday Dec 2011

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We are considering hosting some traditional tebori tattooers soon and would like to get an idea how many of you are interested in being tattooed with this method.

Tebori (手彫り) is traditional Japanese hand tattooing. Many artists praise it for its ability to create subtle gradations of tone that are difficult to achieve with a machine. adds:

The word Tebori comes from te meaning ‘hand’ and hori or horu, ‘to carve, sculpt or inscribe.’ The word used to describe the technique of tattooing that arose in the late 18th and early 19th century in Japan, with the appearance of professional tattoo artists in the capital city of Edo.
Steel needles, usually of greater diameter and steeper shoulder than those used in the West, are arranged in rows, singly or stacked, and are tied to a long handle of bamboo. This tool is held in the right hand, with the fingers of the left used to spread the skin to be tattooed.
The shaft of the tebori tool rests on the thumb of the left hand and the needles inserted by the force of forward movement of the right arm of the tattoo artist. Unlike many other forms of hand-tattooing in Asia such as tatau or moko, no assistants are required for tebori.

If you are interested please use the form below to let us know your level of interest, what you are thinking you would like to have tattooed and any questions or feedback you may have. We will keep you posted.

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