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Fixtures provide efficient security lighting
The SE3 Series offers security lighting for walkways, entrances and in many other applications. Providing perimeter cutoff, the reflector controls light precisely, directing it downward and to the sides of the fixture. The extra-wide cutoff distribution controls glare and reduces the number of fixtures needed by permitting maximum spacing between luminaires. A variety of lamp choices and wattages are offered in Uni-Form pulse start metal-halide, metal-halide, high-pressure sodium and fluorescent. Ruud Lighting
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Cord reels are designed for heavy-duty sites
The 8400 Series Cord Reels offer cable capacity up to 50 feet in an ultra-compact design. They precisely and conveniently store, pay out and automatically rewind cable without interrupting the flow of electrical power, enabling it to be employed with moving machinery, as well as by users as they travel from one workstation to the next. A built-in ratchet allows users to safely lock the high-visibility yellow cable at any desired length. A wide range of cord reel designs are available. McGill
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Floodlight provides effective light control
The HB 101 floodlight features a bullet design and a large glare shield for more effective light control. It can be customized in the field by adding a hood, visor or guard to achieve the desired landscape lighting effect. The floodlight is made of durable one-piece die cast construction with a rugged mounting arm. It accepts 150W PAR 38 lamp maximum. RAB Electric Mfg.
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Low voltage tester provides non-contact detection
A non-contact voltage tester for efficient, safe voltage detection has been added to the manufacturer's line of test instruments. The Low Volt Circuit Alert provides non-contact detection of 12V to 90V AC, the largest range available in a non-contact low volt tester. Gardner Bender
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Luminaire adds stylish design element to interior architecture
The Venza steel luminaire is a visually distinctive lighting solution for today's office environment. It comes in white and a natural steel color finish with a choice of seven colored translucent end caps. Options include a low profile version, with one or two T5 HO or T8 lamps. Ledalite
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Rotary hammer features 6A motor
This Model 5383-21 -inch SDS rotary hammer combines a compact design with a 6A motor. The tool bores 5/32-inch to -inch anchor holes and has a variable speed switch with reverse, hammer with rotation and rotation only operating modes. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.
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Low profile, compact fluorescent offers bright light
The Mercmaster III low profile compact fluorescent is a corrosion-resistant lighting fixture rated for hazardous locations. It promises the efficiency and long life of an instant-start, white light fluorescent, along with the high-lumen output of a HID over a wider temperature range. Appleton
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Personal warning light provides high light output
The Model PWL is a combined personal warning flasher and flashlight that provides 1 hours of continuous operation. Two separate buttons switch either the red flashing 3-inch section of nine LED warning lamps or the end projected flashlight. Lumastrobe
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Industrial ceiling fans save energy in winter
Industrial ceiling fans help manufacturing plants and warehouses save energy by reclaiming heat trapped at the ceiling and circulating it to the floor. The Vista fan is designed with three, 56-inch metal blades rotating at 300 rpm to force warm air downward. Regency Ceiling Fans
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Fish tape center offers users 20% longer length tapes
The Fish Tape Center features Silver Speedway stainless steel and Speedway flat steel fish tapes that offer users 20% longer length than traditional tapes. These 60-foot, 120-foot and 240-foot fish tapes feature a rust-resistant, high quality tempered -inch stainless steel tape. Klein Tools
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Cable management system offers high capacity
The Rox Gland M63 combines the convenience of the traditional gland technique with a unique, adaptable Multidiameter technology. The result is an improved capacity and functionality for cost-effective installation in cabinets and other enclosures. It features the capability of routing preterminated cable through the gland without removing their connectors. The gland minimizes the hole opening and maximizes cable quantity. It also allows the user to add additional cables for future expansion. Roxtec Inc.
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Fax loggers monitor temperature and humidity
The FX420 Fax Logger is a temperature and humidity fax logger that sends data via fax or e-mail. The logger plugs into any standard phone outlet and can monitor temperature ranges from 0 to 100 F and humidity ranges from 0 to 95% RH. It is suitable for monitoring remote site electronic equipment rooms. Dickson Co.
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The wife of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich attended a Chicago hearing to hear oral arguments in her husband's appeal.
Patti Blagojevich showed up at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday morning as lawyers prepared to argue for and against tossing the ex-governor's corruption convictions.
She took a seat in a front row and hugged one of her husband's defense attorneys. Several FBI agents and prosecutors who investigated her husband sat nearby.
Convicts typically aren't permitted to attend such hearings and the two-term governor wasn't present. The 56-year-old remains in a Colorado prison serving a 14-year sentence.
Rod Blagojevich's lawyers are hoping to at least win a reduction in the Chicago Democrat's sentence, which is one of the longest ever imposed for political corruption in Illinois.

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U.S. Shifts Drone Command to Legal Ground
The White House moves to shift the lethal drone program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the military, leaving it subject to international laws of war. Julian Barnes reports.
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Here are the latest Association News
Inside The ISAF Training Resources - Kiteboarding
The ISAF Beginners Guide to Kiteboarding sets out some useful knowledge to reference as part of your learning. Once the basics are mastered, practice is not only great fun but very progressive. Go fly a kite and enjoy the ride!
In this week's Inside The ISAF Training Resources Kristin Boese, Technical expert for the ISAF Beginners Guide to Kiteboarding, nine time World Champion Kiter and KB4Girls Founder tells us what area of kiting face found most exciting and why.
"Getting new people into the sport is simply sharing some of the fun that kiteboarding gives me. While mastering the waterstart, meaning the step that actually gets a new kiter up on the board and riding, is the most challenging part of it all it also is the most rewarding one."
"That moment of first planing over the water and mastering kite and board is so elevating and seeing the big smiles in the faces of the students is priceless and super rewarding."
"I remember my first riding experience really well and it is what really got me addicted. It now is a part that I love teaching, especially because there are a lot of little tips and tricks that can make it so much easier for any student to master it."
The ISAF Beginners Guide to Kiteboarding can be purchased directly from the new online shop publications area
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Parley for the Oceans addresses major threats towards our oceans, the most important ecosystem of our planet.
We believe the power for change lies in the hands of the consumer – given we all have a choice – and the power to shape this new consumer mindset lies in the hands of the creative industries.
Artists, musicians, actors, filmmakers, fashion designers, journalists, architects, product inventors, and scientists have the tools to mold the reality we live in and to develop alternative business models and ecologically sensible products to give us earthlings an alternative choice, an everyday option to change something.
To succeed, we need to find ways to synchronize the economic system of humankind with the ecosystem of nature. And make environmental protection fiscally lucrative for pacesetting major companies.
Parley has been created to accelerate a process of change that is already in progress. No other big movement in the history of humankind has developed faster than the environmental cause. We want to make sure we are fast enough to meet the ultimate deadline and turn the ship around before we lose a treasure we have only just started to explore and still don't fully understand: the fantastic blue universe beneath us — The Oceans.
Captain Paul Watson
Millions of sharks end up on prestigious restaurant tables as shark fin soup. Whale sanctuaries get looted for exclusive dog food. More fish are eaten by house cats than by seals while hundreds of miles of drift nets vacuum clean the sea. Anything wrong with that? After all, there are plenty of fish in the sea and the supermarkets are stacked, right?
Not for long, if we believe the scientists. 2048 seems to be the overall accepted deadline for the collapse of all commercial fisheries, already by 2025 all the coral reef ecosystems in the world will be gone. Leading environmentalists see the end of most sea life happening within the next 6–16 years.
Diminishment of biodiversity in our Ocean is the single greatest threat to the survival of humanity. With diminishment of species in the oceans comes diminishment of the quality of life for humanity. What are the causes of this continuing mass extinction and imminent threat to our collective survival?
Human over-population and over-consumption of resources are the primary threats and they bring chemical, oil, noise and plastic pollution with them. Global warming, oceanic acidification, over-fishing, agricultural run-off...
The threats are many, but so are the solutions.
Dianna Cohen
Everything starts with inspiration. Therefore every Parley is a curated gathering with a dedicated topic, presented by Parley Speakers to a carefully selected audience. The talks are meant to give an overview of the State of the Oceans in general, to present a specific cause, and to get the support for a related initiative or project.
Once there is serious interest to support the cause and to start a collaboration or to join an already existing project or initiative, the Parley team will help to get the process going by developing an individual idea or concept, connecting to potential partners, and moderating the collaboration process from idea to finalization of an agreement.
The signature on an agreement is the kick-off for the actual collaboration process. The Parley team supports the collaborators by translating needs and ideas to each partner, managing expectations and keeping the partners on track with a realistic roadmap. It sounds simple, but the success of a collaboration lies in its implementation.
Fabien Cousteau
The first Parley was hosted by artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel at his Palazzo Chupi in New York. A select group of guests came together with the shared mission of sounding the alarm on the importance of protecting the world's oceans. The aim of the discussions was to brainstorm how the creative industries could lend support to and cooperate with leading global non for profit organizations, in order to raise awareness and fund operations.
Parley in Berlin addressed the rapidly growing threat of plastic waste in our oceans and raised discussions on solutions for retrieving the waste and recycling it into new products. Influential creative figures from across multiple industries—spanning art, film, music, and fashion to product design, architecture, technology and science—came together, along with ocean sentinels who dedicate their lives to the protection and conservation of the oceans.
Parley "Oceans. Climate. Life." was held at the United Nations, on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Climate Change convened by the President of the General Assembly. It aimed to raise awareness on critical conversations leading up to COP21 in Paris, where the international community is expected to deliver a new, ambitious agreement to protect present and future generations from the negative impacts of human activity on the planet—and on the oceans.
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Allendale, NJ, 18 July 2013 – Lonza's long-time distribution partner, KODA has completed the acquisition of E.W. Kaufmann, a provider to the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) markets. Lonza Materials Protection customers will now benefit from a new, broader distribution arrangement with the KODA Distribution Group in the United States.
Lonza Materials Protection provides antimicrobials and preservatives to help protect CASE products as well as lubricants and metalworking fluids from fungi, bacteria and other contaminants. Key Lonza brands sold into these markets include:
"We are pleased that KODA has expanded its distribution network to encompass E.W. Kaufmann," said Julie Gallucci, Head of NAFTA for Lonza Materials Protection. "All five companies within the KODA Group offer our shared customers deep technical expertise and market knowledge, making them an excellent partner."
Under the newly expanded scope of the KODA Group, E.W. Kaufmann will represent Lonza in the CASE market in the Northeast, while another KODA company, Monson, will only represent Lonza in the metalworking fluid markets throughout the U.S. Monson will transition their Lonza CASE accounts to E.W. Kaufmann as of September 1.
The five member companies of the KODA Distribution Group and their respective markets and territories include the following: P.T. Hutchins – CASE West Coast; Ribelin – CASE Southwest and Southeast; GMZ – CASE Ohio Valley/Midwest; Monson – MWF all of U.S.; and E.W. Kaufmann – CASE Northeast.


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Setting Up a Good Tax Recordkeeping System
Do you want to know the secret to making sure you claim every deduction you're entitled to? To saving money when you have a tax preparer do your tax return? To surviving a CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) audit unscathed? Sure you do! Luckily, the answer is simple. Keep good records. That's all there is to it, really.
When dealing with the CRA, the burden of proof is on you to support the deductions and credits you have claimed. The CRA is by law considered correct unless you can prove otherwise. Keeping good tax records is imperative so you can support your numbers.
If you are reporting rental or self-employment income and expenses you have a greater onus than the "average Joe" in keeping good and detailed records.
Setting up your recordkeeping system
The number-one reason why people end up paying more tax than they have to is that they keep lousy records. While taming the paper tiger is no mean feat, here are some helpful suggestions to make your tax organization and preparation tasks much easier.
Save all the tax slips, receipts, and records you think you might be able to use. It's much more difficult to recover documents that have been thrown away than to toss out whatever unnecessary paper you have left after your tax return is complete.
A handy way to organize your tax information is in an accordion file — pick one up at any office supply store. You should have one accordion file for each tax year.
Label each section of the accordion file by tax category — say, the different types of income you earn and the various tax deductions and credits you will be claiming. Use the categories listed on the tax form you will be completing.
As you receive information throughout the year, sort them into the proper category and store them. When it comes time to file your tax return, all you have to do is take out the information and report the various types of income and claim the appropriate tax deductions and tax credits.
Keep a copy of the tax return you filed for that year in the accordion file, and when you receive your Notice of Assessment put it in the file as well. Everything will be organized and all in one place. You'll sleep better!
Dealing with missing information slips and receipts
For many types of income you earn you will be sent information slips, commonly called T-slips, that document the income received and that must be reported on your income tax return. This includes slips such as T4s (reporting employment income), T5s (reporting investment income), and slips from the government (Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan, and Employment Insurance). You should receive these slips by the end of February in the year following the year in which you received the income. However, T3 slips (reporting trust income, such as from mutual funds) are often not available until after the end of March.
If you are missing any slips, call the issuer for a new one. In the case of government-issued slips, you can request many of them online.
With respect to reporting income such as capital gains, rental income, and self-employment income, it's up to you to calculate your income and report it on your tax return because no tax slips will be sent to you.
Giving the CRA your best estimate
If you are "slipless," or perhaps did not receive a specific T3, T4, or T5 or other tax slip you were expecting, contact the CRA — they also receive a copy of the slip from your employer or financial institution. If it's your T4 that's missing, use your pay stubs to assist you in reporting your employment income and any tax credits or deductions for your CPP contributions, EI premiums, and union dues. Finally, don't forget to report the income taxes withheld by your employer! Attach a note to your return stating you were unable to obtain your slip and have summarized the estimated amounts. Give the name and address of the person or organization that should have issued the slip.
Coping with missing receipts
Receipts for some deductions, such as RRSP contributions, charitable donations, and medical expenses, must be attached to your tax return when it is filed (assuming you're paper filing your return). If these receipts are not included with your return, processing will be delayed and your deductions may be disallowed.
If a receipt is missing, call the person or organization responsible for issuing it to obtain another copy. Even if you cannot get another copy before the April 30 (or June 15) filing deadline, file your return on time. You can forward the receipt to the CRA when it does finally arrive. Alternatively, you can simply leave the deduction off your tax return and file an adjustment when you receive the receipt. (Form T1ADJ is used to request an adjustment to a personal tax return.)
Knowing what to do when the dog really did eat your tax records
Your worst nightmare has come to life — you're being audited! And to top it off, Sparky has eaten some of your tax receipts. Does this mean you'll lose out on all your legitimate tax deductions? Not necessarily. The CRA does understand that these situations can occur, and will give you the benefit of the doubt (sometimes) when you can show reasonable support for the income, deductions, and credits reported on your return.
If the CRA does come calling and you simply don't have the records you need to support your tax deductions, you can still prove your claims were legitimate. It may take you some time to reconstruct records, but when you consider the alternatives (additional tax, interest, and penalties on disallowed deductions from an audit), the time you spend will be well worth it.
Reporting self-employment income and expenses
The CRA requires every person who is carrying on a business — meaning anyone who is self-employed — to keep books and records pertaining to the business and especially the calculation of the net income subject to tax each year. You have to keep the information in case the CRA asks to see it in the future.
Make sure you keep all source documents pertaining to your tax return. When deciding what type of document to keep, consider this: what will best verify your tax records? The stronger the evidence, the less likely it is that your tax records will be rejected by the CRA.
With respect to expenses, the original bill is best — the CRA will not always accept cancelled cheques and credit card statements as support for an expense.
Knowing how long to keep your tax records
One of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to doing taxes is, "How long do I have to keep my records and receipts?" The answer, according to the CRA, is six years. The books and records must be kept in Canada at your residence or place of business. These books and records must be made available to the CRA should it ask to see them.
If a particular tax year is under objection or appeal, keep your books and records on hand until the objection or appeal has been resolved and the time for filing a further appeal has expired. It would be a shame to throw out your books and records only to have legitimate tax deductions denied down the road.


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We offer modular products within a wide range from S to XXL for maximum customer benefit. Under the umbrella of the EMCO Group, we develop and produce customized Traveling-column and portal milling machines with a wide range milling head program and diverse options of EMCO MECOF in Italy and CNC turning and milling centers with numerous automation possibilities. We offer ideal conditions for CNC training with the Concept machines with software solutions and courseware.
Since 1947 EMCO develops and builds machine tools in Hallein near Salzburg. The EMCO Group - part of the family-run Kuhn Holding - is a network of top suppliers from the machine tool industry with the headquarter in Hallein, 6 production sites and sales offices in Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, USA and China.
As part of the family business Kuhn, the EMCO Group is a reliable and fair employer for 800 employees, providing a stable working environment with many opportunities for development. "Education" is here developed as a product and sold and lived alike every day on the job. As an innovative manufacturer of high-tech products, daily learning and improving is required for all employees.


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365 Day Black and White Challenge - Day 67
Day 67- 365 Day B&W Photo Challenge - Walking in front of the "CU in Denver" advertisement in front of the University of Colorado Denver Campus building.
If you aren't following my Facebook page I post up an album for the challenge and you can catch up on images in the 365 Day B&W Photo Album.
Follow me on Instagram as well and you can see my daily image through my Instagram Stories.
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There's few things worse than a glass of flat Coke. OH WAIT, a glass of Pepsi is far worse. But anyway! An incredibly bored person wanted to find out exactly when Coke went flat so he timed it.
His method, which is completely unscientific, was to pour a glass of Coke and then count the bubbles that existed. After 34 minutes, only 6 bubbles were left. I personally think Coke stays good for at least two hours (it's heavily carbonated yo!) so I call shenanigans on this guy. Someone get Mythbusters on this. [BuzzFeed]
You can keep up with Casey Chan, the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.


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Sunday marked two years since San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow was critically injured in an attack after a Los Angeles Dodgers game in 2011, and Stow's family wrote this week about marking the unfortunate anniversary.
Stow, a Santa Cruz-area paramedic and father of two, was attacked by two men outside Dodger Stadium after the Giants' opening day game on March 31, 2011.
He suffered a severe head injury and remains in a rehabilitation facility. His family has been updating his recovery on a website, www.support4bryanstow.com, and made their most recent post on Monday.
"Yesterday was a very emotional day," the family wrote. "March 31, 2011 our lives were forever changed. We find it hard to believe that two years has gone by ... it feels like a lifetime ago."
They wrote, "We look at Bryan and see how much he's overcome in those two years. He amazes us daily and even though he doesn't see how far he's come, we do.
"The obstacles Bryan and our family face now are so different than what we faced before, but they're still there and we will get through them together," the family wrote. "We still don't know how things will be in the next two years but we do know this -- No matter what, Bryan has us by his side every step of the way."
Stow has received widespread support from the community as well as the Giants, whose third base coach played a series of concerts in January that raised nearly $75,000 to go toward Stow's medical bills.
The two men arrested for Stow's beating, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, await trial in Los Angeles.


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More detailed information about stringed instruments and the history of violin making.
Eric Blot, the expert of Cremona and Italian violin making
Couesnon: The third defining element in modern violin making in Mirecourt
Corilon violins: Violin makers and master violin makers in Munich
The bow makers of Markneukirchen: Knopf, Pfretzschner, Rau
Daniele Scolari and the second generation of the new art of violin-making in Cremona
The end of the great instrument-making companies in Mirecourt
Ernst Heinrich Roth - a rediscovered master
SALE Fine viola by Ferdinand Kugler, Vienna, 1973
This fine Viennese master viola by Ferdinand Kugler was especially made for Prof. Günter Szkokan (violist of Vienna Philharmonics) from whose estate this viola comes. This beautiful viola is a younger instrument with a typical Viennese appearance, that features a convenient body length of 40.95 cm and is especially recommendable for demanding musicians. The original label indicates that the instrumnent was made 1973, it is the viola named "Iterum Illata" which was especially made for Prof. Szkokan. A beautiful rounded model and the characteristically shaped ff-holes, the beautiful scroll, edgework and the trich and very glossy, deep dark red colored oil varnish clearly confirm its provenance from an elegant Vienesse atelier. Maple with exceptionally beautiful flames was chosen for the two-piece back of this attractive instrument. This viola is offered ready to play, with a convincing sound that is both warm and precise, mature, lyrical, well-balanced and precise. We offer the matching silver mounted viola bow by E. L. Herrmannthat was selected by Prof. Szkokan for this viola separately for purchase.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
piggie in a blanket bento
This bento lunch consists of a pig in a blanket, pretzels, cheddar cheese (cut in flower shapes) and a silicone cup of strawberries and blueberries.
The cute little bottle with a bunny lid holds ketchup.
The pig in a blanket was a big flop! My girl just tore off all the breading and ate the hot dog plain. She didn't like the crescent roll barging in on her hot dog one bit. ;-)
In other news, there will be some fun changes coming to my blog soon. I apologize in advance if things look a little wonky in a few days. The end result will be worth it! :)
Also, if you haven't seen yet, "another lunch" is now on Facebook! Please join me over there and share with your friends too, if you are so inclined! The more the merrier! :)
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- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
I love your cute little avatar picture! :)
Lunch looks delicious! Too bad she didn't like the cresent :( Kidlet would do the opposite and eat the bread off lol
- June 23, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, Jenn! That little avatar is a hint of all the cuteness soon to come! :) (squeeee! I'm so excited!)
Ha! Yes, I think your vegetarian kid and my carnivorous girl would get along great. Yin and yang. LOL
- June 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Queen of Harrisonville said... [Reply to comment]
Oooh! I remember you posted a few days ago about where to purchase the tiny animal bottles...can you link again for the slow procrastinator mamas like me :o)
- June 23, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- CMS said... [Reply to comment]
I have been blog-stalking for 2 weeks now. I have a shopping cart on J-list all ready to go. I drove an hour away from a laptop lunchbox (kinda not liking those lids) and wanted to tell you, I found the sassy box in the baby section at Target today for 5.99!! They had pink and blue- we got blue for the big boy.
I LOVE your ideas and am really excited about trying them out this summer before I head back to teaching in the fall (then I will be packing lunches every day... which seems like a chore...). Somehow doing it and being at home seems like a joy.
I LOVE your blog!
- June 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- chobensa said... [Reply to comment]
I think you could easily make a business out of providing boxes, picks and accoutrement!!
- June 23, 2010 at 9:26 PM
- Kristen said... [Reply to comment]
That little bunny bottle is just TOO cute!
Looking forward to seeing what changes you have in store for your blog!
- June 23, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
You guys are so great! :)
Queen of Harrisonville - if you click on the Jlist banner over there in the right margin -->
and enter "sauce bottles" in their search box you will get all the little bottle options they have in stock. I don't think they have these specific ones right now. They do that the cute apple lid ones that are adorable too. :)
If you really have your heart set on these ones you could look at ebay (search "bento sauce bottle). :)
- June 23, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Mommyof2girlz said... [Reply to comment]
I used to love making pigs in a blanket..and so did the girls. Why did I stop? Thanks for the reminder and the bento looks yummy as always :)
- June 24, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Veronica Lee said... [Reply to comment]
Yummy and very cute too.
Hi! Stopping by from MBC. Love your blog.
Have a nice day!
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As the presidential elections makes its steady march through the primaries, the viability of candidates take on a quantifiable momentum, producing breakthrough campaign activity both tragic and triumphant. Today, the Ustream community witnessed both extremes of the spectrum, live and in the moment.
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James Woodard dropped in 24 points as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane ran past the Tulane Green Wave 70-49 in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Tournament at the Don Haskins Center.
Rashad Smith tallied 13 points and seven rebounds and D'Andre Wright chipped in 10 for the second-seeded Golden Hurricane (19-12), who await the victor between Old Dominion and Middle Tennessee in the semifinals.
Jay Hook netted 21 points before fouling out and Jonathan Stark added 14 points for seventh-seed Tulane (17-16). Tre Drye cleared 12 boards as well.
The first half was more competitive than the final score might indicate, with Tulsa leading by a modest 33-29 edge at the break. The Golden Hurricane hit on 50 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, while Tulane turned in a 45.5 percent effort.
It was in the second half that the game got out of hand, with Tulsa doubling up Tulane in field goals in the period (12-6).
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Rodgers calls for Liverpool to show their steel
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has called on his players to find their steely side in order to cut out the inconsistencies which have dogged their season.
In the last three matches the Reds have surprisingly lost at home to Aston Villa, hammered Fulham 4-0 and then capitulated at Stoke having been a goal up.
Instead of being within touching distance of the top four, which was the main aim this season, Liverpool are 10th and looking an increasingly distant eight points back.
The lack of bite was a concern at the Britannia Stadium, where the Merseysiders invariably have a bad time having failed to win there since the Potters promotion to the Barclays Premier League, and Rodgers admits they have to toughen up physically and mentally.
"If you are going to affect the top of the league, which is what we want to do in years to come, you have to have more steel than that," said the Reds boss.
"But if you concede goals like that it is going to be difficult to win games anywhere.
"Every game is learning. We learned after the Villa performance and responded well against Fulham and I am sure we will get a reaction on Sunday.
"But we want to be more consistent than that. We can't be reacting al the time.
"You have to create your own mentality that keeps you consistently getting results and that is something we are working on to achieve.
"As a group, we work on all aspects of the game, tactically, physically and mentally.
"You cannot play at top club without all those aspects. It comes from within and especially when you go away from home.
"But we will stay very much together as a group. We are all disappointed with the Stoke defeat but we'll regroup for the weekend."
Liverpool will face a different kind of battle on Sunday when they head to struggling QPR, who are scrapping for their top-flight survival.
"It will be a difficult game against QPR, who are fighting for their lives, but it is never an easy ground to go to," added Rodgers.
"They will want to react after losing on Boxing Day but my only concentration is on ourselves."
Defender Jose Enrique admitted the players should have done better at the Britannia Stadium, especially after being gifted a goal in the opening minute with their first penalty for 32 games.
"We need more experience and need to show more character in these type of games," he told liverpoolfc.com.
"You can see we have quality players and we have a good squad but we need to fight for every point we play for if we want to be in the top four.
"We have to get a winning mentality going and we have to show what we are all about.
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Moscow has condemned a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Estonia that called the Soviet air attack on Nazi-held Tallinn in 1944 an act of "foreign occupation," the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
"It is regrettable that American diplomats in Tallinn are once again conniving in the attempts by certain powers in the Baltic States to distort the historic truth and set the Russian and Estonian people at loggerheads," the ministry said in a statement.
Russia's reaction came after the U.S. Embassy in Estonia issued a statement on March 9 announcing a ceremony commemorating the 1944 Soviet bombing of Tallinn that called the attack "tragic both in its devastating loss of life and its military inefficacy."
Over 300 Soviet bombers raided Tallinn on March 9, 1944 in an attempt to destroy the Nazi forces occupying the city. However, the bombing mainly claimed the lives of civilians, killing over 500 people and injuring almost 700.
The attack, seen by many Estonians as an act of Russian aggression, remains one of the most controversial issues in the history of the World War II.
The U.S. statement also said the bombing failed to "break the spirit of the Estonian people," a phrase that Moscow views with "condemnation and outrage."
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Partnow: Immigration reform: Now we're getting somewhere
As an immigration attorney I see firsthand how our current patchwork of mismanaged and broken immigration laws tears families apart and hurts businesses. But the recent focus on immigration reform has given me hope and optimism, tempered by realism. The public is demanding a plan that includes a humane road forward for our undocumented friends and community members. The Senate's bipartisan set of principles demonstrates that lawmakers from both parties can come together to frame a solution that works for undocumented immigrants, businesses, families – indeed for all of America.
However, the single-minded focus on border enforcement is still a problem, especially since a recent report shows that border enforcement benchmarks from the 2006, 2007 and 2010 Senate bills have been met. We can't just throw money and resources at the border; we must demand that Congress puts in place clear and reasonable enforcement goals.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Mel Watt was so wrong, and he's glad about that.
The North Carolina Democrat looked out the window of his office. It has a spectacular view of the U.S. Capitol and the trees that flank the platform where Barack Obama will take the oath of office on Tuesday.
It's a setting he couldn't imagine as recently as a few months ago, when after six decades of life he still thought that a black man couldn't be elected president.
"I think people in my generation who came through my set of experiences could not have foreseen this," Watt said. "It has the impact of shaping your vision of what your country is capable of. And part of my vision was we weren't capable of taking this step yet as a country."
The 63-year-old, nine-term congressman is practically gleeful about being wrong.
Watt said that as a boy, he could see the stars through the tin roof of the home near Charlotte where he grew up with two older brothers and their young mother. Underfoot, the ground showed through the wooden floor. To use the toilet, they had to go outside.
Away from home, restrooms and drinking fountains and schools drew a line between "colored" and "white."
One of his first jobs was shining the penny loafers that college students wore with bright white socks in a barbershop in Davidson, a college town that's part of his congressional district now.
"I couldn't get my hair cut during the day," he said of the shop, which was owned by his black uncle but for white customers only until after hours, when the shades were drawn. "Had to get it cut at night."
Watt arrived in 1963 at the first integrated school he ever attended. Three students assigned to share his dorm room at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill were gone by the end of the first day, in pursuit of roommates whose skin was the same color as theirs.
"I never spent the night with any of them," he recalled, then and now grateful for the eventual arrival of Marvin Mood, a white student from New Jersey who'd been pre-screened for his views on living with a black roommate.
"It wasn't a big deal for him, but for me, it took guts for him to do that."
At the time, Barack Obama was 2.
Their paths crossed in 1990, but Watt first got to know Obama when the Illinois senator arrived in Washington in 2005, the year Watt became the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
As a student at Harvard Law School, Obama had supported Democrat Harvey Gantt's 1990 Senate campaign, which was run by Watt, by then a Yale-educated civil rights attorney.
In a close race, Gantt lost to incumbent Republican Sen. Jesse Helms.
The outcome was heartbreaking for Gantt, a longtime Charlotte mayor, and it forever influenced how Watt looked at other African-Americans' political prospects.
Fifteen years later, though, Watt was struck by his first conversation with Obama in Washington.
"It was obvious to me that he had a sense of history, that he knew he was standing on a lot of people's shoulders," Watt recalled. "As I tried to talk to him about him, when we first met, he was talking to me about me and the fact I had managed Harvey Gantt's campaign."
As Obama weighed a presidential bid, he sought out Watt in a phone call.
The younger man had lots of questions: Is this doable? Would it be worth doing whether he won or lost? Was there value-added even though Gantt lost that campaign so many years ago?
He doesn't recall most of his answers to Obama, but his public comments later are clear. Watt didn't endorse Obama initially, and instead threw his support behind a fellow North Carolinian, former Sen. John Edwards. When he was asked during Obama's general election race against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whether a black man could win North Carolina, Watt repeatedly referred to Gantt's defeat by Helms, the conservative stalwart who died in 2008.
At the end of the day, he recalled, none of the undecided voters had broken for Gantt, and Helms had won.
"It colors your perception of what you are capable of and what your country is capable of, and what's possible," Watt said. "And the great thing is Barack wasn't burdened by any of that.
"It wasn't likely I was going to jump up one day and say, 'I think I'll run for president of the United States.' You just don't do that. And if someone else does it, you say, 'I think I better stick with John Edwards; he has a better chance.' "
Watt laughed out loud.
"I am so glad I was wrong," he said. "Our nation is better off that I was wrong. I'm big enough to admit when I was wrong. I love admitting when I'm wrong."
During one of the worst economic crises of the nation's history, Watt's brimming with hope. He's hopeful that Obama can make progress turning around the economy, putting the country on a path toward energy independence, providing health care and building peace.
This hope, like his doubt, he said, comes, too, from his past.
"All of this shapes my experience. It enables me to imagine a brighter horizon," he said. "Maybe that's why I'm so optimistic now. I didn't have the benefit of all of this a year ago."
The view outside his window is spectacular.
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Quinn has been whittling a backlog of more than 2,500 cases that accumulated during the administration of now-imprisoned Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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The LED revolution is engulfing the entire lighting industry, and in 2013 it looks set to hit the commercial office sector. Kuldeep Vali of Concord at Havells-Sylvania explains how changes to legislation and design will bring LEDs into the workplace
The way a lighting scheme is designed for an office environment depends on a few important factors: energy efficiency, regulation compliance and meeting the minimum wattage per square metre. All this – and within an aesthetic luminaire. Certainly, one of the main drivers to energy efficiency within lighting is new legislation.
The October 2010 revision of Part L2A of the Building Regulations requires an average efficiency for an office building (excluding emergency lighting) of no less than 55 luminaire lumens per circuit watt. With so many different lamp technologies available it is often hard to know which one is the best option. At the moment, it is not always LED. The marketplace is waiting for manufacturers to develop affordable solutions that meet all requirements.
LED is not currently the right choice for all office lighting for two very simple reasons. Firstly, to deliver the light output specified by the regulations, you need to drive the LEDs hard, which means that achieving the required energy savings can prove difficult. The other is that the capital cost of the LED fittings may not give you the payback required. In many cases, fluorescent is still the most viable option.
Alternative lamp types can work just as well as LED and an example of this is at One London Square. The 5,100m office space in Guildford, Surrey, underwent a complete refurbishment and achieved a BREEAM rating of excellent. The building was refurbished using recycled and energy efficient materials wherever possible. The most notable lighting product used on the installation was the Concord Officelyte Concave Linear Low profile, a fluorescent luminaire. Specifically designed for office-lighting applications, the luminaire achieves a Light Output Ratio of 90 per cent and at One London Square the luminaire is averaging 400 lux at under 6W/m. This shows that LED is not currently always needed to meet energy targets.
However, during 2013 this will start to change and LEDs will become more applicable for office environments just as they have within display lighting. Office lighting is where display lighting was two-years ago in terms of LEDs. In display lighting LED is well established and provides huge energy savings for end-users. Over the last few years, a lot of work has been put into the colour rendering of LEDs to create the right effect for display-lighting requirements and is now the equivalent of halogen in many cases. It is also able to provide end-users with the necessary energy savings and pay back.
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Johnny Cupcakes recently made a post on Emptees regarding some very very very similar looking items being released by Pastry, a brand owned by Vanessa and Vangela Simmons. Some of you might recognize the Simmons girls if you watch Run's House on MTV – they are the daughters of Rap legend Reverend Run of Run DMC.Â
Johnny posted the following message:
"Last Spring I was alerted by a customer who happened to work at a popular mall sportswear store. This customer of mine caught a glimpse of his manager's catalog which had various items that were being released in the near future at all of their mall locations. One of the items in this companies catalog was a "Make Pastry Not War" t-shirt. Not only was it a very similar slogan, but it had the same EXACT placement, font, EVEN A CUPCAKE in the center of the t-shirt. This was no coincidence. Weeks later my inbox was flooded with furious Johnny Cupcakes customers who saw this same catalog with the 'Pastry' design in it. I could of made a big deal about it online, making everyone else aware of it. Instead, I decided not to be a cry baby and post it all over the internet, so I sought out a different route. I decided to contact my trademark attorney, who then contacted the owners of Pastry / Pastry Kicks. We got in touch with the President of a certain mall chain-store who ended up declining the order of all 'Make Pastry Not War' t-shirts."
"Recently I've received several e-mails from confused and upset customers of mine. Now, 2 other designs have appeared on their website. You be the judge…"
Johnny caught them on this once before last year, with the Make Cupcakes Not War tee. It looks like the girls didn't learn from their previous mistake. The new Pastry tees are too similar – way too similar. It is so shameful that they are doing such blatant rip offs of an already established brand. Shame. On. YOU!
Here is the information that you need if you want to voice your concern to Pastry. Let them know this is wrong and lame in every way.Â
Customer service toll free NumberÂ
Mon-Fri 9AM-6PM. Sat 10AM-5PM (ET).
Here are a few emails of Pastry representatives:


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My DH and I are going to be visiting my parents for the week after Labor Day. They live in Sheridan WY and there's not a whole lot to do there after checking out the local shops and playing a round or 2 of golf.
Then it dawned on me - take a quilting project to work on! My Mom has a sewing machine set up in her computer room (she doesn't sew much any more, but keeps it available just in case).
So, rather than sitting up in the kitchen around the table gabbing, we can sit in the computer room and I can stitch away while we get caught up! Tonite I "kitted up" a baby quilt that will use a fairly simple pattern so I don't have to concentrate totally while sewing and gabbing and am ready to go! WooHoo - I've never had a "quilting" vacation before! :-D


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What to Wear if You Have an Apple-Shaped Figure
Apple-shaped women are fuller around the middle. If they gain weight, it shows up around their belly and upper body. They're usually larger-breasted and their upper arms and shoulders are broader, too. Their legs tend to be thin and their butts tend to be flat.
As an apple, you want to emphasize your strong points (your bust and legs) while camouflaging your weaker ones (your midsection), keeping it all in balance. Since the idea is to draw the eye toward those parts of your body that shine and away from those that don't, you want to show off your great legs.
You can wear patterns, just follow these guidelines. Any large pattern is going to draw attention, so don't wear a large pattern on top. Wear a small, subtle pattern on top, or save the patterns for the bottom. A great print skirt with a solid sweater set is a great way to express yourself while also flattering your figure.
If you have a fuller chest area (and are comfortable accentuating this area), draw attention to it. Doing so keeps straying eyes from your midsection. Wear a sexy V-neck. (Ooh la la!)
Wear bras that support your bust. And any straps on your tops should be wide enough to cover your bra straps.
If, like most apples, you have great legs, short skirts are in order. If you're in the office, the shortest your skirt should be is just above the knee. If you're going out for a night on the town, go a little higher!
A-line skirts also work with your figure. Since they flare out from the waist, A-line skirts offer balance and proportion to your upper half.
If you don't have much of a backside, and you want to give the illusion that you do, wear pants with back pockets. Your jeans should have a rise lower than your natural, wider waist. Don't wear pants with pleated fronts, as that only makes your middle look larger.
Don't wear pants that are too tight, even if you have good legs, because that makes your top seem extra large. Remember, while you want to emphasize your better attributes, the challenge is to do so while also keeping your overall look in balance.
Go for longer jackets. Your jackets should be on the long side, never ending at waist level. Make sure they come down to your hips to create a long, lean line right over your waist and tummy area. And opt for single- breasted jackets that you can keep unbuttoned. A double-breasted blazer that needs to be buttoned to look right only makes you look larger on top.
Opt for drop waists. A dress or top with a drop waist (that narrows down at the point of your hips instead of your true waist) bypasses any constricting fabric around the tummy area and makes your torso appear longer and leaner overall.
This ilustration shows an outfit appropriate for an apple-shaped woman. It hides the problem areas and accentuates the positive features.
If you're an apple with great legs, you can get away with anything on the bottom, even knits. As far as your top goes, stay with materials that offer more structure, like a straight cut cotton blouse, or something blousy like silk. Both of these camouflage the midsection. You want to avoid tight knits on top because they cling and accentuate this area.


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Bluebird Gardens vintage cookbooks for sale, new cookbooks, vintage cookie cutters, vintage aprons, handmade and personalized services.
If there is something you like but it isn't offered in your choice of color, let me know and I will be glad to work with you to get it made in your custom colors.
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Opening statements in Walker trial
After a lengthy jury selection process, 10 women and two men were seated to hear the case against Calvin Walker, of Walker's Electric Company, where the Bob Rawls with the U.S. Attorney Office for the Eastern District of Texas will try to convince them that Walker defrauded taxpayers by falsifying invoices and requests for payment submitted to the district for payment.
"This case is about greed," Rawls told the jury. "It is a violation of the public trust and theft of public funds."
Rawls explained that Walker won the contract to do the maintenance work with a built in 10 percent mark-up to cover his profit for the district in 2006 and then went onto do other jobs in excess of that contract, allthewhile operating under his original agreement with the district. Rawls said Walker cut and pasted documents together to falsify invoices and then claimed he paid the price submitted for the items on the invoices.
"He submitted over $2 million invoices that were completely made up," Rawls said. "Fake material invoices - literally cut and pasted from electrical supply company records."
Rawls said then Walker would submit checks to the district as proof of his payment for the items and take the 10 percent mark-up in addition to the inflated profits.
But Walker's attorney, Dick DeGuerin said his client isn't a criminal mastermind. Instead, he is just a guy with "a high school diploma and a trade school education." DeGuerin said Walker was a bad bookkeeper and used "The Walker Method" of accounting. He explained that Walker would write checks that he never intended to cash and use those to document the cost or expected amount he would have to receive to cover expenses for a job. Then he would void out hose checks and send them to an accountant to help keep track of his income.
During the first day of testimony, the head of the technology department for one of Walker's largest suppliers, Summit Electrical Supply, laid the predicate for how the prosecution claims it will show Walker falsified records.
The next witness to take the stand was the district's head of purchasing, Naomi Lawrence-Lee, who explained the bidding and payment process used by BISD.
The trial continues Tuesday and is expected to take more than two-weeks to complete. Be sure to check back with The Examiner as we update throughout each day of the trial.


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Today's NaPoWriMo prompt is a poem inspired by, or in the form of, a recipe! It can be a recipe for something real, like your grandmother's lemon chiffon cake, or for something imaginary, like a love potion or a spell. The quote was is by Bob Spitz for B about Julia Child'sand her cooking for the A to Z Challenge.
"The cooking was invigorating, joyous. For Julia, the cooking fulfilled the promises that Le Cordon Bleu had made but never kept. Where Le Cordon Bleu always remained rooted in the dogma of French cuisine, Julia strove to infuse its rigors with new possibilities and pleasures. It must have felt liberating for her to deconstruct Carême and Escoffier, respecting the traditions and technique while correcting the oversight. "To her," as a noted food writer indicated, "French culinary tradition was a frontier, not a religion." If a legendary recipe could be improved upon, then let the gods beware."
― Bob Spitz, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Recipes we shared,
How to make it through the day;
Standing up for those–
Requiring a healing—
Touch: letting yourself let go.
Is there a recipe,
A formulation for life?
Mixing ingredients,
Brown sugar, eggs, vanilla.
Soda or powder to rise.
Bakings a pastime,
In the kitchen with great-grandma,
Then with my grandma.
Later baking confections,
With my Mom and her methods.
One starts to know what,
Each person loves best,
Correctly; knowing —
Small portions grow bigger; the —
Scent of cinnamon inhaled.
On some occasions,
A person needs to bake sweet cookies.
Decadent brownies,
During the holidays with,
Rich chocolate icing too.
Baking has taught me,
Life's no slice of mouth-watering —
Chocolate cake, but there —
Are times when a recipe,
Is what gets you through.
Endorphins, sugar,
A wretched day can be healed.
There's a tomorrow,
Chocolate means it's looking up,
One more day you can get through.
©Mandibelle16. (2017) All Rights Reserved.


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Santa to arrive by fire truck for Tahoe City Rotary Santa Party
TAHOE CITY, Calif. – The Rotary Club of Tahoe City invites the North Lake Tahoe community to its 13th annual Santa's Party, Sunday, Dec. 9, noon-4 p.m. Santa will arrive at Granlibakken Ski Hill on his fire truck!All children preschool to 9-years-old are invited for a day of free sledding (snow permitting) and play at the Tahoe City Rotary Club's Santa's Family Play Day. Talk to Santa and receive a free gift. Hot chocolate, cider, cookies and hot dogs will be served.North Tahoe High School Jazz Band will be playing Christmas music and Christmas caroling. Sleds provided by Granlibakken.Tahoe City Rotary thanks Safeway, Save Mart, Sierra Sun, Tahoe Truckee Lumber, The Store … Copies & More!, Geared for Games, Granlibakken Ski Area, and Wholesale Resort Association.For more info, call Roger Peterson 530-546-3193.


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How to Choose the Right Materials and Tools for Scrapbooking
If you want your scrapbooks to stand the ravages of time — and that's the whole point of scrapbooking, isn't it? — you need to choose your materials and tools carefully. The following list offers advice on picking the materials that will enhance your efforts:
Skip the magnetic albums and page protectors made with vinyl or acetate components, because items made of those materials stick to, discolor, and deteriorate photos. Select safe page protectors made of polyester (Mylar), polypropylene, or polyethylene.
Pick the right album for the right project. For instance, if you like moving things around, use a post-bound or strap-hinge album. Each of these albums enables you to change the order of your pages. You have a wide variety of albums to choose from, so read labels carefully, and look for overall quality.
Try removable or repositionable adhesives so you can move elements around without damaging them, but remember that even these adhesives become permanent within various time periods.
No matter what, choose papers that are acid-free, lignin-free, and buffered. Buffered means they include alkaline substances that neutralize acids the paper may come in contact with.
For success at every cutting job, keep a paper trimmer and an assortment of scissors at hand, including straight, decorative, and detail scissors. Cutting templates also are helpful.
Buying stickers made by the same manufacturer helps you achieve unity and consistency in an album.
Choose wood- or acrylic-mounted stamps and inking pads with pigment-based inks.
Always use a pigment-based ink pen that is light-fast, fade-resistant, and waterproof for journaling.


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Mykki Blanco "Wavvy" (2012)
The big San Francisco Pride Parade 2013 may still be a few days away - Sunday, June 30th - but in the San Francisco Bay Area - similarly to other major metropolitan areas like New York City - the Pride celebrations are all weekend long with the Pride Weekend kicking into gear Thursday, today June 27th, with a bunch of parties and events including the Flamboyant Specimens at the Project Lab, Faetopia - the Pop-Up Queer Arts Festival at Noe and Market in the old Tower Records space, plus the talented rapper Mykki Blanco (pic left, video above) at the Mezzanine in San Francisco all happening later today. In fact Bay Area Pride 2013 celebrations began last night (Wednesday) in Oakland's Uptown district where Telegraph Ave near 19th was blocked off to traffic for the Hella Oakland Street Party: Gay Marriage Rally & Celebration - organized by the promoters of the long running, popular, (and ingeniously titled) Hella Gay Oakland party at the Uptown club in that same block. Note that the same proud promoters of the award winning "Oakland queer dance party" will be throwing their big Hella Gay party at the Uptown on Saturday which they are billing as "Beat the BART" and the "Dyke March Afterparty."


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Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is a Democratic American politician, currently serving as U.S. Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district. The district includes many of Seattle's northern suburbs in King, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties. Inslee and his wife Trudi were high school sweethearts and have been married since August 27, 1972. They have three sons, Jack, Connor, and Joe, and live on Bainbridge Island.
Born in Seattle, he graduated from Seattle's Ingraham High School and the University of Washington (B.A., Economics) and Willamette University College of Law. After practicing law for ten years in Selah, a suburb of Yakima, Inslee ran for the Washington House of Representatives in 1988 after the state legislature undermined a school bond that he had worked to pass after years of failure. Inslee was elected and served until 1992, when he ran for and was elected to the United States Congress representing Washington's 4th Congressional District in the central part of the state, a rural, agricultural-based constituency. In Congress Inslee passed the Yakima River Enhancement Act, a bill long held up in Congress by brokering a breakthrough with irrigators and wildlife advocates. He also helped to open Japanese markets to American apples, and fund and oversee the nation's biggest nuclear waste site at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington. He lost his bid for re-election in the Republican Revolution of 1994 in a rematch against his 1992 opponent, Richard "Doc" Hastings, a defeat often attributed in large part to his vote for the 1994 federal ban on semi-automatic firearms.
Inslee moved to Bainbridge Island, and briefly resumed the practice of law before running for governor in 1996 and losing in the primary to Gary Locke. President Bill Clinton subsequently appointed him regional director for the Department of Health and Human Services, a position he left to run again for Congress in 1998, this time in the 1st congressional district against two-term incumbent Rick White. His campaign attracted national attention when he became the first Democratic candidate to air television ads attacking his opponent, and the Republican congressional leadership, for the impeachment of President Clinton. Inslee won with 49.8% of the vote to White's 44.1%; his success was aided by the conservative third party candidacy of Bruce Craswell, husband of 1996 GOP gubernatorial nominee Ellen Craswell.


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"Stop Online Piracy Act" (modified version of Senate's "PROTECT IP Act") introduced in House Judiciary Committee; panic ensues
The House version of the long-controversial "PROTECT IP" Act, known in Goodlatte-land as the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (full text of the bill available here) was introduced today to widespread
acclaim panic.
For relatively balanced coverage of the new bill, visit The Hill.
For more... colorful commentary, check out Ars Technica ("House Takes Senate's Bad Internet Censorship Bill and Makes It Worse"), Daily Kos ("The End of Twitter and YouTube, Redux"), or for some kinder words about the legislation, the official website of the Screen Actors' Guild ("Joint Statement from SAG, AFM, AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, and IBT Regarding Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261)").
And once you've had a chance to digest all of this, head on over to the official LAW OF FASHION LinkedIn group to share your thoughts.


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B.B. King
Bow down to the King of the Blues.
Throughout B.B. King's fifty-year career of new influences, collaboration and incessant touring, the blues have been his home. He came up in a time of racial divide, uniting us with music that served as a reminder—we all have the blues.
Riley "B.B." King has been called the "King of the Blues" and "Ambassador of the Blues." Indeed, he has reigned across the decades as the genre's most recognizable and influential artist.
His half-century of success owes much to his hard work as a touring musician who consistently logged between 200 and 300 shows a year. Through it all he has remained faithful to the blues while keeping abreast of contemporary trends and deftly incorporating other favored forms—jazz and pop, for instance—into his musical overview. Much like such colleagues and contemporaries as Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, B.B. King managed to change with the times while adhering to his blues roots.
As a guitarist, King is best-known for his single-note solos, played on a hollow body Gibson guitar. King's unique tone is velvety and regal, with a discernible sting. He's known for his trilling vibrato, wicked string bends and a judicious approach that makes every note count. Back in the early days, King nicknamed his guitar "Lucille," as if it were a woman with whom he was having a dialogue. In fact, King regards his guitar as an extension of his voice (and vice versa). "The minute I stop singing orally," King has noted, "I start to sing by playing Lucille."
There have been many Lucilles over the years, and Gibson has even marketed a namesake model with King's approval. King selected the name in the mid-Fifties after rescuing his guitar from a nightclub fire started by two men arguing over a woman. Her name? Lucille.
King doesn't play chords or slide; instead, he bends individual strings till the notes seem to cry. His style reflects his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and coming of age in Memphis. Seminal early influences included such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker (whose "Stormy Monday," King has said, is "what really started me to play the blues"), Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and Bukka White. A cousin of King's, White schooled the fledgling guitarist in the idiom when he moved to Memphis. King also admired jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart. Horns have played a big part in King's music, and he has successfully combined jazz and blues in a big-band context.
"I've always felt that there's nothing wrong with listening to and trying to learn more," King has said. "You just can't stay in the same groove all the time." This willingness to explore and grow explains King's popularity across five decades in a wide variety of venues, from funky juke joints to posh Las Vegas lounges.
More than any other musician of the postwar era, King brought the blues from the margins to the mainstream. His influence on a generation of rock and blues guitarists—including Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and Stevie Ray Vaughan—has been inestimable. "We don't play rock and roll," he said in 1957. "Our music is blues, straight from the Delta." Yet without formally crossing into rock and roll, King forged an awareness of blues within the rock realm, particularly in the Sixties and Seventies.
Born on a cotton plantation in tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925, King moved to Memphis, Tennessee in his early twenties with the intention of making his living playing the blues. He landed a regular spot as a deejay and performer on radio station WDIA, where he became known as the Beale Street Blues Boy (hence, "B.B."). King also built a reputation as a hot guitarist at the Beale Street blues clubs, performing with a loose-knit group known as the Beale Streeters. This group included vocalist Bobby Blue Bland, a longtime peer and collaborator.
King began recording in 1949 and signed with West Coast record man Jules Bihari a year later. He would record prolifically for the Bihari brothers' labels—RPM, Kent and Crown—through 1962. King's first hit, "Three O'Clock Blues," topped the rhythm & blues chart for five weeks in 1952. Other classics cut by King in the Fifties include "Sweet Black Angel," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "You Know I Love You," "Please Love Me" and "You Upset Me Baby."
Dissatisfied with royalty rates and songwriting credits, King signed with ABC-Paramount in the early Sixties, when his contract with the Biharis expired. At that time, ABC was cultivating a stable of black artists that included Ray Charles, Lloyd Price and Fats Domino. They paired King with an arranger, and his studio records took on a more polished, sophisticated and eclectic tone. Pushing the blues in new directions, King was rewarded with such breakthrough hits as "The Thrill Is Gone," which featured his soulful voice and guitar over a backdrop of strings. He also cut raw, energetic concert LPs—Live at the Regal (1965) and Live at Cook County Jail (1971)—that are now classics of the genre.
Live at the Regal, recorded before a lively crowd at a black Chicago nightspot of longstanding, is the perfect match between performer and audience, with the latter's enthusiasm fueling the former's fire. Other highlights of his lengthy tenure at ABC include a pair of mid-Seventies live albums with Bobby Blue Bland and Midnight Believer, a jazzy collaboration with the Crusaders. Blues purists treasure such back-to-the-roots efforts as Lucille Talks Back (1975) and Blues 'n' Jazz (1983). Favorites of rock fans include Indianola Mississippi Seeds (1970), which found King joined by Leon Russell, Joe Walsh and Carole King; B.B. King in London (1971), made with a host of British rock musicians; and Riding With the King (2000), a collaboration with Eric Clapton. King won Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Blues Recording for Live at the Apollo (1991) and Blues Summit (1993).
Through it all, King has toured as prolifically as any performer in history. The road has been him home since the mid-Fifties. He reportedly performed three hundred forty two shows one year, and he would average more than two hundred shows annually even into his seventies. Each June he sets aside a few weeks for himself, going back to Indianola for what he calls "the Mississippi Homecoming."
At the start of his career, King's reach didn't extend beyond the network of clubs and juke joints known as the chitlin' circuit. Somewhat prophetically he noted, "We don't play for white people...I'm not saying we won't play for whites, because I don't know what the future holds. Records are funny. You aim them for the colored market, then suddenly the white folks like them, then wham, you've got whites at your dances."
Sure enough, in the mid-Sixties, King's hard work, musical genius, affable persona and revered stature among rock icons broadened his base of support to include a new audience of white listeners who tuned into the blues and stuck with King for the long haul. King came to the attention of yet another generation of younger listeners when he recorded "When Love Comes to Town" in 1988 with U2 for their Rattle and Hum album and movie.
"B.B. King's achievement has been to take the primordial music he heard as a kid, mix and match it with a bewildering variety of other music, and bring it all into the digital age," Colin Escott wrote in his essay for the King of the Blues box set. "There will probably never be another musical journey comparable to [King's]."
The final word belongs to King himself, testifying on the healing quality of the genre he embodies. "I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper," King has said. "Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues."
Inductee: B.B. King (guitar, vocals; born September 16, 1925, died May 14, 2015)