Airling Paradox - Ride With Us

The first video has Chris "Mecca" Stipanovich discussing the equipment that he uses to record, produce and edit the music  that he creates.

In the above video, Mecca works on the recording and editing the chorus for the Airling Paradox song, "Ride With Us."

This next video shows me rehearsing and then finally recording my verses for the track, Ride With Us.



This final video shows the finished product which is the song, Ride With Us. In about two hours, Mecca and I wrote, recorded and edited this track to build up hype for our upcoming self-titled album, Airling Paradox.

Car Crash at the corner of Kiester and Harmony

There was a two car crash at the intersection of Kiester and Harmony in Slippery Rock, Pa. Monday around 4 p.m.

The crash was between a Dodge Ram pick-up truck and a Mazda sedan. Pennsylvania State Police were on the scene along with an ambulance. The truck was being towed away as we passed and police were talking to the driver of the Mazda.

Ron Solo Video: A Day at the Movie Store

Drug Testing: Necessary for Employers or Infringement on Workers

The topic of drug testing in the workplace brings up several different debates on why or why not employers should test employees.

Some of the main views from the opposing view is that it is a violation of the worker's civil rights. A main talking point that people have is that drug testing is mainly used to pick out people who use cannabis because other harder drugs that are tested for easily dissipate from the system and cannabis is something that can stay in a person's system for several weeks after they use it.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says that drug testing, no matter how random it is, is still a direct invasion of privacy and the rights of the person being tested. The ACLU discusses how the methods of drug testing often force employees to submit urine samples in front of an observer to watch for tampering, which can be very embarrassing and is a direct invasion of privacy. 

The ACLU also brings up the possibility of problems with errors in testing and the amount of non drug related details that can be found in urinalysis. 

There are two sides to every story and with this issue, you must look at both sides. Many people who oppose drug testing say it's an invasion of privacy but employers feel that drug use is a major issue to have at the workplace.

Some people believe that drug testing is a necessary means to stop illegal drug use in the U.S. and say that nearly 1/3 of all jobs in the U.S. are using drug testing. 

A main backing for the supporters of drug testing in the workplace is that the Supreme Court has ruled that drug testing is constitutional in both the public and private job sectors.

The logic behind upholding that drug testing is constitutional comes from the doctrine "employment at will". This states that an employee or employer can terminate a contract for any reason unless a contract says differently. 

Overall, drug testing is something that employers will use because they want to be able to check to see if their employees are using illegal substances and should use certain guidelines and ask themselves certain questions of how their drug testing policy will be. 

Education is Important to Canada, Geoffrey Canada

They say you can never forget where you come from.

Geoffrey Canada surely didn't. The Harlem native, born January 13, 1952, returned home in 1983 to help underprivileged children in Harlem.

He first started working with the Rheedlen Institute's Truancy Prevention Program, which was geared on children between five and 12 years old who were abused.

Canada was named President of Rheedlen in 1990 and expanded the program and renamed it the Harlem's Children Zone. The program covered 97 blocks and offered tutoring, recreational skills and community outreach programs.

The program has continued to expand throughout the past several years and in 1997 was up to 11 sites throughout Manhattan and in 2009, President Obama chose to copy 20 sites off of the Harlem Children's Zone foundation throughout the U.S.

In 2011, Canada was named one of Time's Top 100 people for his work with the Harlem Children's Zone.

Canada at the 7th Annual Common Sense Media Awards

More information on the 60-year-old Harvard graduate can be found on Biography's website.

Information for this article was found on Harlem's Children Zone's website, Time, Biography, and The New York Times. 


These sites were chosen because they are either, major news outlets that are reputable or sites directly associated with Geoffrey Canada so the information on the site should be correct and up-to-date.