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Filed under: lesbian/gay
Filed under: lesbian/gay
I have written before about how important it is to go with vendors who are not just gay-friendly, but actually pro-gay. Meaning it's in their portfolio, they actively seek gay clientel, or are somehow promoting same-sex marriage and people.
I am always reading Miss Gingerbread's blog and saw her do a post on pro-gay vendors. Guess who was included and totally feels honored? Moi! I actually was giddy and did a little cheer. I then immediatly read about all the other amazing vendors.
I feel all those 'gay wedding websites' out there stink. Either the vendors are totally random or they are outdated. Sooooo I'm thinking about starting a website with wedding vendors that are cool, pro-lgbt, and are doing great work. The vendors would be screened to make sure they are 100% lgbt friendly and there would be no dues, so it would be an even playing field. I was thinking a blog-style website with interviews with the vendors, the ability for people to review the vendors, and a place that actually is up to date on good vendors for us cool gay people ;)
What do you think? Is a website dedicated to pro-gay vendors needed? What would you include? What should be avoided?
P.S How cute is this couple? They found me on the knot and hired me to do family shots. And their daughter is too sweet!
Filed under: lesbian/gay | Tags: equality, gay marriage, lesbian marriage, prop 8
I have never felt more angry than after Prop 8 passing. Thinking about it gets me all fired up and just plain pissed. Which is why I was happy to read about Dan Wentzel feeling like he's tired of being Mr. Nice Gay Guy. I let homophobic stuff slide all the time, telling myself that it's not the time/place/person/rude and to let it go. Nuhuh. No more. I'm f*cking sick of being treated like a second class citizen thankyouverymuch.
I often glance around before kissing my wife to make sure no old ladies will get offended or shocked. Forget that! I don't correct people sometimes when they ask if Natalie and I are sisters, I just say we live together if I feel even the littlest of nervous. F that!
For example, I was at a Wizard's game on Friday night because Natalie's company gave us seats. Yay! So of course they have the kiss cam, where they zoom in on heterosexual people and prompt them to kiss. I was waving my hands like a mad woman trying to get them to fouc on us- no such luck. But what got me steaming was after focusing on 9 or 10 hetro couples, they zoom in on the opposing team to try and get the basketball guys to kiss. Haha, they think, let's embarrass the opposing team by using an old gay joke. Ha! Boy's kissing! Haha!
While it pissed me off, stuff like that happens everyday. So I let it slide. But after reading the article in the Post, I'm going to write the Verizon center and try to talk to the head of the Wizards(since I know someone who knows him). I'm tired of this shit.
No one is going to stomp on this lesbian lady anymore. So be it if I'm known as the touchy bitch who can't take a homo joke. I'm sick of it. I have been the nice lesbian who let's a lot go because she's afraid of rocking the boat. But take my rights AWAY?? Now you got me pissed off. Now I see that we are in for a long and ugly fight.
I still read Wedding Bee even after it sold to E-Harmony. No more. I respected and read blogs of photographers who refuse to photograph same-sex couples. No more. I will have lots of little changes in my behavior…and maybe I can finally wake up some straight people to realize I don't want to eat your children and sodomize them. I just want to marry my damn wife legally so Nat, me and our future kids are 100% protected. Is that really so radical???
EDIT: After getting a comment about the comments on Dan's article, I went over to read a few. I think my head almost exploded in anger. THIS is why we have to fight harder than ever.
Filed under: lesbian/gay, photographers
As some of you know, I have started my own wedding photography buisness. So I joined a flickr group that encourages and helps other photographs who are starting their own wedding photography business.
Yesterday, the topic of "would you shoot a gay wedding" appeared. I followed it like a hawk knowing there was going to be some bad stuff going down. I tried to argue in a calm, rational manner. I tried to swallow the 'it's against my morals', 'it's a sin', stuff coming from a lot of photographers. Then the craziness ensued and gay people were compared to pedophiles- and I went bat shit pissed. People then tried to defend said statement by saying in other cultures, they have different ethics that become 'normal'. So gay people becoming 'normal' is like pedophilia becoming normal in some cultures.
I forgot how conservative a vast majority of wedding photographers are. Some of us are not, but a big whopping majority of wedding photographers are. In my first internship I had to deal with the photographer making jokes about the groomsmen hugging "Don't get too close there!"
So this is my call to all you amazing brides/grooms out there reading this. Ask your photographer straight up if they would photograph a gay wedding. Ask them why it isn't in their portfolio. Only do business with photographs who blatantly support gay marriage.
Filed under: lesbian/gay
Ellen and Portia De Rossi got married- and their photos rock. I love Portia's dress, that big tutu skirt is totally something I would go for. They look so happy, which of course forced me to buy a copy of People so I could "awwww" in bed next to Natalie about how cute they were. And how cute we will be. It's a whole lot of lesbian cuteness and dreams.
Plus they had their wedding at their home with a bijillion pets. Such lesbians. :)
Filed under: lesbian/gay
Ahem *clear throat* YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
Sorry about that. I just can't help but be excited that California just legalized Gay Marriage. The second state to do so, they are letting anyone, not just state residents, go to the wedding chapel. I'm considering buying a plane ticket and going to photograph the first marriages performed, but I'm photographing a wedding that weekend! So maybe the next weekend I could go and get off work.
Either way, I'm so so so thrilled.
Filed under: knottiebio, lesbian/gay | Tags: blue and brown wedding, gaywedding, lesbian, lesbian wedding, two brides, wedding
This lovely couple met online too! And the proposal was in Provincetown, where Natalie and I got my ring. *sniff* I love them already. And their photos are fab- such a lovely wedding. The little brown and blue details like the cake with dots is perfect. All pictures are from Strut Photography. And go visit Sam and Sue's knot bio for detail information.
I'm sorry for the funny photo sizing- not my doing, the photographer had it this way on his blog.
Filed under: lesbian/gay
Um, did I miss something? Like, did they spike the water supply? What is with all the same sex marriage stuff going on??
Weddingbee, a gigantic website/blog with dozens of soon-to-be-brides blogging everyday, is now having their first lesbian couple blogging.
You must go over and meet the new Miss Gingerbread. I will be reading her posts like a hawk.
Yesterday I was at work and Robert and I were talking about the wedding. He asked if we were going to MA or Canada too. I said no, our legal rights would not change even if we did that and it sucks. So…were having this conversation while this lady is waiting for her dog's meds. And she says "We should all move to Canada". As she was walking out she let me know she had a lesbian daughter and full understood. Woah! Yeah for support!
Filed under: lesbian/gay | Tags: civilunion, gaymarriage, thinkequal
The best campaign ever. Think Equal. GENIUS! A spoof on apple a la gay marriage. Excuse me while I wipe off my drool from my keyboard.
Edit: Suffix Abuse and other people are blogging about these videos too!
Filed under: lesbian/gay
It took a post from Something Old Something New to let me know it's Freedom to Marry week! How could I miss this??
Legally, Natalie and I will not be able to get married. We could drive our butts up to MA, but none of the rights would transfer down here. So we will be registering downtown as domestic partners(ugh, I hate that phrase!). Which means we get some rights, but not nearly as many rights as Brittany Spears and the dude she married for an hour had for that hour. So that means, because we want to have children, we will have to pay $$$ to a lawyer to have some contracts drawn up to have some more, but again, not nearly all the rights married couples have.
I really really believe and pray by the time we have kids marriage will be legal. Federal marriage. So I could get social security, file joint taxes, not worry about loosing our house if one of us died and couldn't pay the taxes. I want my kids to feel safe. I want to feel safe.
To learn more about what you can do check out:
- Listen to Al Gore support full gay marriage!
- Go to a marriage equility event this week
- Check out the Human Rights Campaign(Nat worked there) and learn more about the issue
(at an HRC marriage protest)


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My first judgment was, "this tsunami is a no-show. Here it is 8:00 a.m. and I don't see any tsunami. More media hype," I mutter. It was my niece that first told me the news with a call at 7:00 that I dozed through.
"Are you evacuating?" was her message when I got up. That was after I cut off another message from the National Emergency Center. "Yeah right, selling tickets to some emergency," I mutter some more.
Looking out my window to Cowell's Beach and the ocean, things looked pretty normal, except that the Wharf was closed, which is so rare as to be impossible. Half a dozen patrol cars and fire trucks, with just as many broad shoulders turned seaward, confirmed it. Checking the web as I tossed breakfast together, I saw the Emergency Center wasn't selling tickets after all. There was a voluntary evacuation order in place for the coast. The 8.9 tsunami bad news in Japan was delivering to our beaches now, reminding that oceans don't separate the continents.
But at just after 8:00 it was a normal morning, though there seemed to be a high tide when the tables forecast a low tide. Surfers stitched the wave-slopes, zipping white trails.
And by 8:20 I froze in mid-forkful. Something was wrong with this picture. It wasn't a high tide; it was low tide, minus tide, lower than minus, no tide, no water, but lots of beach, exposed rocks, seaweed clumps glistening in the sun. I found myself doing what anybody does when confronted with the unfathomable: I pointed, stammered, explained away what I couldn't possibly know, and stared, pointed. And ate some more.
As the morning lengthened, I learned events were unfolding in the nature of a riot, where one block snoozes with library boredom, while the next is chaos. The first touch of a tsunami is not an attack, but a retreat. The first tendrils of the tsunami's reach were peeling back the shallows just then. As Jon, the Wharf Supervisor--who was one set of those broad shoulders--told me later, "I first noticed the change in the water drawing down in Collins Cove about 8:20, 8:30, then I had to go to a meeting."
Just a few blocks away at the Harbor, the riot was in play. The confines of the channel acted as a force multiplier and water was leaving en masse and taking things with it, such as boats heavier than their tie-ropes were strong. The return was determined, manic, bringing boats back and uprooting docks on the way.
Soon the kaleidoscope changed again: new picture mosaic: high tide, not low tide, super high tide; too high to be possible so soon. A few blocks away the Harbor was in scrimmage, with one destruction after another. A new malevolent surge roiled in, punching a line of boats--one by one--as if they were ejection seats.
From my breakfast view, I thought it was over, that was the tsunami, and I could brag that I saw it; another feather in the cap of beach living! And then after awhile, the submerged rocks and kelp grew visible again, the beach widened, shorebirds waded after the retreat. Even the direction of the retreat grew defined. The water didn't just go out; it exited to the southeast, not towards Steamer's Lane at the point, but to Moss Landing. The water changed quality to a panicky frantic boil and popping. It sizzled. Low-tide surf breaks popped up in formation, prancing in. Soon it was a minus tide all over again. And in another hour, or even half hour, it was high tide all over. The Harbor nearby was a destruction derby of boats, docks, debris.
The Wharf, in contrast, was entirely at ease, accommodating the heave and roil through its four thousand legs. Though this throw and retreat became a pattern repeating hour after hour into the day, not a piling was lost. The only losses were sales on a closed Wharf. Winter storming and breaking swells take a greater toll on Wharf pilings than this tsunami event. Even the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 scarcely blipped on the Wharf. The water main pipe broke, but was fixed by the next day.
But who could know what dangers loomed? The power of wave energy through water is not trifling; it is monstrous. Video clips of the Japan tsunami lumbering ashore are numbing. Tsunami power leaves physics behind and lurches on taking up dirt and morphing into a viscous tactile half-liquid half-solid invasion. Mere buildings, bridges, space, gravity do not dampen its drive. Its energy is unworldly, irrational, continuing.
The surprise of this event in Santa Cruz to me was that it was not a one-time finality, but a perpetual repeating. We received energy waves, not a wave. With each continuing hour, it seemed to me the throws of tide became more regular, until by 1:00 when I left to go to work, three complete tidal changes were occurring every hour. It's probably always like that.
Tsunami Character Flaws
Why does the water pull out first? Why not just in, like surf?
Wave energy through the ocean, whether generated by wind in the middle, or by earthquakes on the far side or the bottom, is not a straight throw. It forms into a circle or cell on a roll. The cell touches the surface and the bottom of the sea as it travel. When a cell hase an average ocean depth of 10,000 feet or so to move in, it travels very fast, 500 or more miles an hour fast. As it reaches a continent, things trip it up. The bottom trips it up, the surface lets it slope, and it slows.
The leading edge of a wave coming ashore is underwater, not above. At first it is invisible. The cell moves forward as its perimeter cranks downward, and back. It takes things with it, like the water. That's why you will find it harder to swim or paddle to shore as a swell approaches. As the cell of traveling energy runs out of room on the bottom, it lifts. The cell rolls on in the air until it cannot hold the water, and the water falls forward. We have surf in Santa Cruz. And for a surfing wave, this energy sighs out on the beach, finally, to slide back.
A tsunami keeps rolling. The metaphor becomes not so much a rolling cell, but a military tank tread. In the water, the tread circles. As it reaches the slope of land, it climbs. As it reaches the beach, it lumbers on. The energy tread brings along the water with it, and can lift objects in suspension beyond common sense: buildings, bridges, vehicles, more.
This seems to be the area's first tsunami evacuation order/warning, but not the first tsunami warning we ever experienced. Wharf Supervisor Jon Bombaci recalls a dozen or so in his twenty years or more working on the Wharf. I remember a warning in February last year for a tsunami that raised things a foot or so, but caused no special damage. Walking the levee at that moment, I remember the wave and water character at the harbor entrance taking on that same panicky-frantic surface sub-boil that I noticed with this event. It's as if the energy seeks to leap out of its element.
The largest tsunami in any local memory is described by Robert Stagnaro at Gilda's Restaurant. He tells of a "fourteen foot tidal wave" on April 1st in 1946. The water's first retreat to a minus tide showed bare sand all the way to Gilda's at the center of the half-mile long Wharf. Nothing or next to nothing was known about tidal waves in that period and the strange withdrawing of the surf zone so far proved fatally attractive to a few people, he says, who wandered to its edge. The ensuing lurch of the returning tidal throw caught them in final surprise. That surge lifted moored boats above their anchor lengths and deposited them on the beach, or even Beach Street. "That was our first ever experience with a tidal wave," he recounts.
"Did it break over the Wharf?" I asked of him in the interview several years ago about the 1946 event.
"No. It did not break over the Wharf. We thought a tidal wave would be a breaking wave, but it's not. It's just a rise in the water."
I asked him if his father or his grandfather, Cottardo Stagnaro, ever talked about a tidal wave in their family's 100-plus years of history in this area. "No. No, never talked about a tidal wave."
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Pantry Design Rules — the Do's and Don'ts of Pantry Design | Homeowner Guide | Kitchen Remodeling in Lincoln, Nebraska
Pantry Perfect
The "Can't Go Wrong" Pantry Design Rules
Jon Lo, MFA, Senior Designer
What is a Butler's Pantry?
ince 1900 the meaning of the word "pantry" has changed. Today it means a place where food is stored, and usually refers to one or more cabinets or a closet adjacent to the kitchen.
In the late Victorian age the room where food was stored was the "larder". The pantry was a serving area located between the kitchen and dining room. Often it was not much more than a wide hallway equipped with ample countertop space and, commonly, a sink. Typically the butler would fetch the cooked food from the kitchen, dividing it into serving portions, arrange it on dishware invitingly, then serve it. The pantry usually had swinging doors at both ends which helped keep kitchen noise, heat and odors away from the diners.
With the simplification of house design that occurred during the Arts & Crafts period of the early 20th century, the butler's pantry was largely eliminated and replaced with built-in cabinetry inside the dining room for storing dinnerware, linens, glassware and silverware — all the things formerly stored in the pantry. Improvements in cooking technology, such as the natural gas or electric cookstove made isolation of the kitchen from the dining area much less important to dining comfort.
Today the tendency is to call any walk-through pantry a "butler's" pantry, but this term is not strictly correct unless it includes a counter-height set-up and serving area, and possibly a small sink. In a modern household, the serving area makes a convenient landing zone for loading groceries into the pantries — at least until you finally get around to hiring a butler.
very kitchen needs a pantry. Whatever the size of your kitchen, it should include a convenient place to store groceries, and this critical storage requires careful thought and planning. It should be large enough to hold at least a week's worth or groceries, and close enough to the food preparation area to be easily accessed.
While size does matter, simplicity, organization and the right location are usually more important than size alone. A well-designed small pantry will usually provide better, more convenient and more functional storage than a poorly designed large pantry.
Convenience, Visibility, Accessibility
Convenience, accessibility and visibility are the key attributes of a great pantry.
A pantry is convenient if it is located at or near the area where food is prepared. It does not necessarily have to be in the kitchen, but it should be in an adjacent area. A pantry with good visibility and accessibility is one in which everything in the pantry is immediately visible and easily reached and removed without moving anything else out of the way.
The Iron Rules of Storage
Creating a great pantry requires closely adhering to the three Iron Rules of Storage. If the rules are followed, any storage is almost always convenient and easy to use.
Here are the rules:
(1) Items should be stored where they are first used.
(2) Size storage to the things being stored.
(3) Store items in a single layer with no item hidden behind or beneath another.
The rules apply to any storage, but particularly to kitchen storage, and even more particularly to pantry storage.
If storage is sized to the things being stored, it is easier to implement Rule 3, and little space is wasted. Shelves should be just deep enough to store one row of items, and high enough so that the items just fit. There should be no wasted space. Shelves should be adjustable so as storage requirements change the shelf heights can be changed.
The goal to strive for in pantry design is "at a glance visibility". Everything stored should be immediately visible. It should not be necessary to move something out of the way in order to see what's behind or beneath it. There should never be anything behind or underneath anything else. Obviously, this is an ideal that few pantries actually achieve, but the closer the pantry design is to this ideal, the more useful and convenient the pantry will be.
The Basic Pantries
Pantries come in three basic configurations: reach-in, pull-out, and walk-in. All have advantages and drawbacks.
The reach-in pantry is the usually the most convenient, the pull-out pantry the least convenient, but a boon to small kitchens with no wall space to spare. The walk-in pantry holds the most, but since it is often removed from centers of kitchen activity, it is best used as a remote, second pantry.
A kitchen can have two, even three pantries. We commonly design kitchens for large families or make-everything-from-scratch cooks to include a near pantry that holds small quantities of supplies most often used, and one or more remote pantries that hold bulk supplies and large quantities. The near pantry is re-supplied from the remote pantry periodically as consumables are used up. This can be a multi-step process as the middle pantry is restocked every month or so from the cold room or very remote pantry in the basement, and the near pantry is restocked weekly from the middle pantry.
Reach-in Pantries
The ideal reach-in pantry is shallow. Deep pantries hold more, but all the stuff in the back is not immediately visible and not easy to reach. The maximum practical depth of a fixed pantry shelf is 16" (14" is better). If you happen to have more depth, the temptation is great to build deeper shelves on the theory that while you may not use the back few inches for primary storage, it does not hurt to have it for stuff you don't use as often. Right?.
"Store items in a single layer with no item hidden behind or beneath another"
Anything deeper than 16" requires a roll-out tray or a pull-out pantry. For cans and bottles, even 16" is too deep. Eight inches is the more useful maximum. The ideal overall depth of a reach-in pantry with shelves is 24". This allows 16" storage shelves inside the pantry, and 8" of can and bottle storage in the door of the pantry. All shelves should be adjustable.
The best reach-in configuration we have found is the "bat-wing" pantry (see illustration). Besides being the ultimate in storage convenience, it is relatively inexpensive to build. With the doors fully open everything in the pantry is displayed and easily reached. It does not require extensive pull-out hardware, which, because it must be able to hold a lot of weight, must be heavy-duty and can be costly. But, it does require heavy-duty hinges to hold the weight of the door without sagging. On a full height pantry we typically use four heavy hinges on each door. These will easily hold the weight of the door and the 100 lbs. of cans and bottles stored in the door.
If the pantry shelves are deeper than 16", then it is better to convert them to trays mounted on glides so they can be pulled out. Roll-out trays have the advantage of making everything in the pantry accessible, even the stuff at the vary back of the tray. But, above eye-level, it is difficult to see what's on the tray. For this reason, roll-out trays are usually used for the bottom 2/3rds of the pantry, then lazy susans above eye-level. A lazy susan turntable brings anything at the back of the pantry to the front where it can be seen at the flick of the wrist. The trade off is, however, that a round turntable stores only about 2/3rds the amount of a rectangular shelf.
Roll-out trays require full-extension, heavy duty glides, and these are fairly expensive. You always have to open both pantry doors to to get the clearance required to roll the trays out. And, typically the trays are not adjustable, although there is hardware available that provides limited height adjustment.
Pull-out Pantry Units
A pullout pantry is a reach-in pantry turned on end and inserted into a cabinet. A door panel is attached to the front. The pantry operates like a very large drawer. If it is accessible and viewable from both sides, it can be as much as 24" wide. If accessible from just one side, the 16" depth limit applies.
A pull-out pantry is not as convenient to use as a bat-wing-style reach-in pantry. In order to get to the items stored, you must first extend the pantry, then push it back into place when you are done. It is generally more expensive to build per square foot of storage because it requires elaborate, heavy duty hardware. But in small kitchens where space is at a premium, it may be the only pantry solution that provides anything like enough storage space.
Like roll-out trays, a pull-out unit is not practical for anything above eye level. The individual shelves inside the pull-out can be made adjustable, which greatly increases the flexibility of the pantry. It is important to use gliding hardware that prevents the pantry from being slammed. This may dislodge items in the pantry which can jam the mechanism.
Walk-In Pantry
A walk-in pantry is usually a small room, essentially a closet for storing food, separate from but adjacent to the kitchen, called a "larder" in the old days. For many homeowners a walk-in is the dream pantry that calls up visions of canning garden vegetables and making preserves. But, it is not as useful as you might think.
A walk-in is great for storing large quantities of foodstuffs, especially items in bulk packaging, but because it is usually remotely located, it can be inconvenient to use for daily food storage. For that reason many kitchens with walk-in pantries also include a smaller, more convenient pantry inside the kitchen that is re stocked periodically from the larder.
Walk-Through Pantry
The primary purpose of a walk-in pantry is storage. The principle purpose of a walk-through pantry, on the other hand, is usually getting from one place to another. It is first a hall-way or passage, and only secondarily a storage place.
Dual Pantries Solve Complex Storage Issues
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This kitchen was once much larger, but a previous owner had taken some space to create a first floor powder room.
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To get enough pantry, a too-small breakfast nook was converted to pantry storage and coffee-bar. A second walk-past pantry was created by building-in a tall cabinet alongside the stairs leading to the basement. Space for this pantry was gotten by sealing 16" from the back of the powder room and relocating the toilet.
This design violates one of the cardinal rules of pantry perfection: The pantry and refrigerator should be near each other. We wanted to put the refrigerator in the new pantry, but the owner preferred to keep the existing large windows. His instructions were gently but firmly put as something like: "Leave the damn windows alone!" But, the solution works; did not require major, and expensive, structural surgery; and gives the homeowners enough convenient food storage for two weeks. Not every pantry design solution can be absolutely perfect, but an imperfect solution can still be made tow work well.
Aisle Space
Typical is a pantry/mudroom that you pass through on your way from the kitchen to the garage or back door. Often in old houses, it is a converted porch. Groceries can be unloaded just as soon as you wipe your feet, which is very handy. But it is important that the main function of a mudroom not be compromised. It needs space for stowing coats, boots and other outer wear, including a bench for putting on and taking off shoes, as well as a minimum of 36" of walking aisle — 42 to 48" is better. Any storage that encroaches on this space should be moved somewhere else.
A lot of valuable real estate in a walk-in or walk-through pantry is used for a walking rather than storage. The temptation is great to minimize aisle space to maximize storage space. This is usually a mistake. The minimum walkway or aisle width should be 36". You'll see why the first time you truck in a bunch of groceries to unload. Narrow aisles make it a knee and elbow knocking affair. In a walk-through pantry, 36" is also the absolute minimum, 42" is better and 48" is better still. A 48" aisle allows two people to pass each other without someone turning sideways. (For much more on passageway widths, see
The 31 Kitchen Design Rules
Deep shelves in a walk-in or walk-through pantry are no more useful than deep shelves in a reach-in pantry. The maximum depth of storage shelves is 16" no matter where they are located, and 14" is better. Depths as narrow as 10" will work for general storage, and as little as 6" for cans and bottles. If one wall of a walk-in pantry could be used for deeper shelves, resist the temptation or install roll-out baskets or bins.Shelving above eye level should be stepped back. The shelf just above eye level should be no deeper than 14" and the one above that just 12". The one above that 10", and so on. This step back allows you to better see what's on these upper shelves.
Shelving can be solid or open wire grid. Solid shelving eliminates risk of small items falling down between the grids, but reduces visibility. It also tends to accumulate dust and debris, and needs to be cleaned more often. Accordingly, the surface should be Melamine™ or some other very cleanable material.
Coated or stainless wire shelving does not collect dust and debris, which simply falls through to the floor. It does not work, however, for small items, like spice containers, that can fall through the grid. It's easy to clean. A little Windex® and a paper towel are all it takes. The drawback is that wire shelving often looks out of place in a period kitchen.
To get the look we want, we often build our own wire shelves out of a wire that fits the period, stretched on a wood frame. Woven wire cloth, for example, such as the venerable hardware cloth, has been around for over a century, and works for almost any historic period. We especially like open wire shelving for high shelves because you can see through the wire to get a better view of what's stored on the shelves.
Location, Location, Location
As important to convenience, functionality and efficiency as the careful design of a pantry is its location in relation to the other elements in the kitchen. A well-designed pantry put in the wrong place impairs the efficiency of the cook.
Ideally, a near pantry should be placed within a few steps of the area where food is prepared. The general rules is not more than 48", although this dimension is somewhat flexible.
Snack and Beverage Centers
In addition to being storage places, both the refrigerator and pantry are snack and beverage centers in households with children. Access to between-meal knacks without entering the main part of the kitchen reduces kitchen traffic and possible interference with the meal preparation and clean-up processes. If at all possible, the pantry and refrigerator should be located on an edge of the kitchen that can be reached without traversing the kitchen proper.
Refrigerator Placement
The very best designed and organized pantry is of only marginal use if it is not conveniently located. This means, according to Iron Rule 1, near where the stuff in the pantry is going to be used. This is usually the food preparation area of the kitchen. Many kitchen design books make a big deal of locating the pantry right next to the prep area. But, few kitchens are so gigantic that a trip to the pantry is an overnight excursion. Locating it reasonably close to the prep area is usually enough, and being flexible about location also makes it easier to take into account some other important factors affecting placement.
Multiple Pantries for a Large Kitchen
Many kitchen designs locate a tall pantry and refrigerator at opposite ends of the room.From a purely aesthetic point of view this is good design because the height and bulk of these two large features balance each other. But, from a practical point of view it is better to place cold storage (refrigerator) fairly close to dry storage (pantry) so that multiple trips are not required to gather the ingredients for a meal.
This is a large, gourmet kitchen for an everything-from-scratch cook that we built in 2008. Food storage is located along one wall adjacent to the main walkway from the house to the family room, patio and pool. This location allows snack and beverage seekers to fetch items from the the refrigerator or pantries without crossing the main part of the kitchen, which already has enough traffic. It is unavoidably in the pathway to the garage and basement.
The refrigerator is flanked by two base cabinets that form the "landing zones" for both pantries and refrigerator. Landing zones provide a convenient place to set bags of groceries while they are unloaded. Each landing zone has its own light, and overhead recessed lighting illuminates the entire area.
The cabinets in the rest of the kitchen are natural hickory. The cabinets in the pantry area were painted eggshell to make a visual distinction between pantry area and main kitchen. Pantries are floor to ceiling bat-wing style reach-in pantries with adjustable shelves that hold a two week's worth of provisions for this family of five.
Many kitchen designs locate a tall pantry and refrigerator at opposite ends of the room.From a purely aesthetic point of view this is good design because the height and bulk of these two large features balance each other. But, from a practical point of view it is better to place cold storage (refrigerator) fairly close to dry storage (pantry) so that multiple trips are not required to gather the ingredients for a meal.
Landing Zones
Every pantry should include or be adjacent to a countertop-height landing zone. The landing zone is a place to set bags of groceries while they are being loaded into the pantry. The National Kitchen and Bath Association, which has developed guidelines for just about everything in a kitchen, does not have a guideline for the size of a pantry landing zone, but for refrigerators it recommends a landing zone 15" wide on the handle side of the refrigerator or across from the refrigerator, but not more than 48" away. For more on the basic kitchen design guidelines, see
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Pantry Perfect Lighting
Very often overlooked, but extremely important, is pantry lighting. Especially for reach-in pantries, which tend to be dark holes in the wall, the ability to see what's in the pantry depends to a great extents on how well it is lit.
Adequately lighting a pantry can be a problem. The usual solution is the install a recessed light in the ceiling in front of the pantry and call it good. The usual solution doesn't work. The top few shelves are well lit, but the illumination decreases toward the floor until the bottom shelves require a spelunker's helmet (or flashlight) to find anything.
The ideal lighting illuminates the contents of every shelf evenly. This is hard to do effectively. What we do, that works fairly well, is to install an LED light strip down the two front corners of the pantry cabinet. In this location they are out of sight, and, at 2.9 lumens per linear foot, the strips illuminate each shelf quite well. So the shelves don't pinch the lights, the front corners of the shelves are clipped. If more light is wanted, install them in the back corners as well — we have never found this to be necessary, however.
The "Can't Go Wrong" Rules for the Perfect Pantry
So, after considerable discussion we arrive at some specific rules for pantry design to supplement the "Iron Rules of Storage", that, if followed, will almost certainly result in the perfect pantry. f it's unavoidable, any of these rules can be bent or broken, but the further you stray from the rules, the less serviceable your pantry is likely to be.
Guideline 1: Pantry Location
Locate the pantry within 48" of the food preparation area of the kitchen.
Locate the refrigerator (cold storage) and pantries (dry storage) together.
Locate the refrigerator and pantries at the edge of the kitchen so that snack and beverage seekers can get what they need without crossing into the working parts of the kitchen.
If you have more than one pantry, locate at least one of them (the "near" pantry) within 48" of the food prep area.
The 48" dimension is flexible. Locate the pantry as close as you can to the food preparation area, but if you need to go over the 48" rule so the rest of the kitchen works better, go ahead.
Designers are tempted to place large pantries and refrigerators at opposite ends of a kitchen for aesthetic balance. This sort of placement requires the cook to walk to opposite ends of the kitchen to gather supplies for a meal, and should be avoided.
If the refrigerator and pantries cannot be placed at the periphery of the kitchen, a separate snack and beverage center should be considered.
Guideline 2: Pantry Shelves
The maximum depth of a stationary storage shelf is 16" (14" is better).
The height between shelves should be 16"-18" for bulk storage, 12"-14" for general storage, and 6"-8" for bottles and cans. Shelving should be adjustable in a minimum of 2" increments.
Shelves higher than eye level should be stepped back so contents can be viewed easily without a step stool or ladder.
Any pantry more than 16" deep needs pullout trays. drawers or turntables so the items stored at the back can be seen and reached.
If possible, shelves above eye level should be coated wire or open grid wood to make it possible to view items on the shelf from below.
Where storing some items behind others is unavoidable, use lazy susans where possible to bring items in back to the front where they can be seen.
Guideline 3: Pantry Walk Aisles
The minimum walk aisle in a walk-in or walk-through pantry is 36", 42" is better for a two-cook kitchen.
A 42" walk aisle allows two people to slide past each other.
A walk aisle 48" wide is recommended for two people to pass each other without turning sideways.
A walk aisle 60" wide is recommended for wheelchair access.
Guideline 4: Pantry Landing Areas
A pantry should be adjacent to a countertop-height landing area at least 15" wide to facilitate unloading groceries.
A countertop across a work aisle, but not more than 48" from the pantry, can serve as a convenient landing area.
If the pantry is a "batwing" style cabinet, landing areas to the side of the cabinet can be blocked by the open doors. In this case a landing area across the aisle from the pantry is preferred.
If there is no room for exterior landing zones, a pull-out shelf built into the pantry can serve as a less convenient landing zone.
Guideline 5: Pantry Lighting
Install adequate lighting so every shelf of a reach-in pantry is clearly illuminated.
A pullout pantry unit can be illuminated by general room lighting and usually does not need additional lighting.
Any sort of recessed pantry needs its own lighting. Overhead room lighting will not sufficiently illuminate a recessed pantry.
The best solution we have found is to install an LED light strip down the two front corners of the pantry cabinet. In this location they are out of sight, and, at 2.9 lumens per linear foot, the strips illuminate each shelf quite well. So the shelves don't pinch the lights, the front corners of the shelves need to be clipped
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Mr. Kenneth Lamar Robinson, 70, of Dalton went to be with the Lord on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at Hamilton Medical Center after a long illness.
He was the son of the late Washington Lee Robinson and Annie Lou Pendley Robinson and was preceded in death by his sister, Carol Whiteside.
Kenneth worked for World Carpets and retired after 25 years due to a disablilty.
He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Robinson of Dalton; son and daughter-in-law, Josh and Jennifer Robinson of Dalton; daughter and son-in-law, Barbie and Brian Marsh of Dalton; grandchildren, Paxton Robinson, Anzley Robinson, Nicholas Michael and Elizabeth Michael; sister, Mary Lou Smith of Dalton; brother-in-law, Jim Howell of Dalton; special friends, Kathy Miller, Brandon Darnell, Libby Dillard and Ignacio "Nacho" Cervantes; nieces and nephews.
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I felt in honorable company and only lament that there were not more nurses present-both as panelists and as participants. It was refreshing to experience "the other side" of health care, but I believe nurses have so much to offer on the basis of our education and experience in the nursing profession. We should be leading the way in presenting healthcare topics to reporters and other folks in the print media.
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Eid Al-Adha, known as the Festival of Sacrifice, is the most important holiday in the Islamic calendar. Here are recipes for Moroccan dishes traditionally prepared during this special time.
1. Mrouzia
2. Mechoui - Roasted Leg of Lamb or Shoulder
3. Gueddid - Moroccan Dried Meat
4. Express Khlii - Mquila Rbatia
This express method of preparing the Moroccan preserved meat known as khlii (or khlea) is said to have originated in Salé, the sister city of Rabat. While the traditional method of making khlii involves marinating strips of fresh meat, drying them in the sun, and then cooking them in fat and oil, the Mquila Rbatia version avoids the drying process.
5. Herbel - Wheat Soup with Milk
This porridge like soup is a traditional Eid breakfast in many families. It's quite easy to prepare, but you'll need to allow overnight soaking of the wheat berries. Honey, butter and orange flower water can be added to taste.
6. Slow Roasted Lamb Spareribs
This is an easy, delicious way to prepare slabs of lamb spareribs. The meat is coated with a butter, herb and spice mixture, and then slow-roasted in the oven to buttery tenderness. The optional basting with honey at the end of cooking adds sticky, finger-licking sweetness. Serve the spareribs with salt and cumin for dipping.
7. Beef or Lamb Feet with Chickpeas, Raisins and Wheat
This traditional Moroccan dish calls for beef feet or lamb feet, a cut of meat referred to as kour3ine in Moroccan Arabic, and which Moroccans will have on hand at eid time. It includes the hoof and lowermost portion of the leg. Goat feet may also be used.
Beef and lamb feet have relatively little meat but the tendons, fat and connective tissue around the joints are flavorful thickeners for the sauce.


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Thursday, January 02, 2014PSW Staff 01/02/14 03:46 PM,Although it is one of the premier dining and entertainment establishments in the upscale resort villages of the Hamptons, Dockers Waterside went without a fully-integrated professional sound system until only recently. The attractions that draw vacationers, weekenders, and residents to Dockers Waterside include regular live music, two outdoor "living rooms," three bars, scores of tables that overlook the bay, and, of course, five-star cuisine. Taylor Sound of Holtsville, New York dramatically improved the sound system with a cost-effective and comprehensive… View this story
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013PSW Staff 07/03/13 01:51 PM,Located near Grand Central Terminal, in New York City's Midtown East neighborhood, Vitae is a classy, upscale restaurant featuring a "New American" menu. Designed by architect Niels Guldager of New York interior design firm Studio CMP, Vitae draws on the history of Midtown while bearing a strong contemporary identity that includes sound and acoustics as important design elements. "Bad sound can ruin an otherwise perfect restaurant environment," explains Guldager. "I want the right background music level and clarity so people… View this story
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Thursday, February 21, 2013PSW Staff 02/21/13 04:30 PM,The new Kitchen & Bar Van Rijn adjoins the famous Escape Club on Amsterdam's fashionable Rembrandtplein, and is owned by entrepreneurs Ton and Dick Poppes. Recently opened, the restaurant is laid out similar to a grand café, with a terrace and upstairs area. Inspired by the beauty and the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn, guests can enjoy authentic Dutch cuisine in a cosmopolitan atmosphere with open kitchen and sound reinforcement from RCF. The Poppes tapped 24/7 Audio, a locally based… View this story
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Friday, December 21, 2012PSW Staff 12/21/12 10:40 AM,When veteran restaurateur Casey Staker conceived of Zest Kitchen and Bar, located in Salt Lake City, he knew it had to have a great sound system – and he also knew that he had to have ultimate control over the performance and volume of that sound system. Local A/V integration firm Performance Audio obliged, using a Symetrix Jupiter 8 processor to dial in Zest's fidelity and a Symetrix ARC-WEB to provide custom control of all relevant parameters directly from Staker's… View this story
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Monday, October 29, 2012PSW Staff 10/29/12 08:16 PM,New York is the city that never sleeps, and the tiny island of Manhattan has never been able to contain the city's buzz. New York's newest peripheral gem is Long Island City. Just a subway stop away in Queens, this aging warehouse district is now abuzz with nightlife, eateries, and fashionable hotels. The Z Hotel is a prime example: within months of its grand opening, the hotel boasts a 90 per cent occupancy. This former factory has been redesigned from… View this story
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Monday, June 04, 2012PSW Staff 06/04/12 08:31 AM,Muzak, a Mood Media company, is excited to announce that Muzak has partnered with the famous Café Sevilla Spanish Restaurant and Night Club to transform the audio/video experience at the newly relocated Gaslamp Quarter location in San Diego. With the new location offering three floors of dining and live entertainment, Muzak consulted with Café Sevilla management and ACM Architects to design and install a fully integrated audio/video system that would deliver an unforgettable sensory experience for each area of the… View this story
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Friday, May 11, 2012PSW Staff 05/11/12 09:32 AM,CP Sound has completed a full sound system installation at an upmarket Mexican restaurant in London's Soho district. The brainchild of Will Ricker (who heads up Ricker Restaurants), top New York nightlife designer Serge Becker was brought in to create the interior of this two-in-one operation. With a fully featured DJ booth set downstairs in the 95-cover basement restaurant lounge, Becker specified RCF sound reinforcement throughout, based on his positive experiences with the brand in various locations in New York… View this story
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012PSW Staff 03/14/12 02:08 PM,Aura Restaurant & Lounge recently opened in Philadelphia and placed itself at the vanguard of the city's hip and happening night life. Aura hired Pro Systems from nearby Cherry Hill, New Jersey to breathe fire into its sound reinforcement system, and they responded by providing Aura with an unfalteringly stable Symetrix Solus 8, a processor that's heavy on fidelity and possessed of a deep musical soul. "We've been installing Symetrix processors of various types for several years now, and we… View this story
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Monday, June 27, 2011PSW Staff 06/27/11 07:15 AM, 0 CommentsFor more than a decade, the Chesapeake Inn has been a favorite spot for celebrating weddings, graduations and other memorable events, its breathtaking, windswept views of the Bay a backdrop for good food, good friends and good times. But the Inn's waterfront location presented an ongoing challenge to their ability to be good neighbors, with the sound reflecting off the water resulting in some complaints from homes in the area. The multi-room facility includes an outdoor deck and Tiki Bar,… View this story
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011PSW Staff 06/14/11 04:45 AM, 0 CommentsWhen the upscale Hotel Jerome and restaurant Silver Queen, both located in Aspen, approached Colorado-based A/V designer and integrator Halcyon Productions with woes of ailing and difficult-to-control sound systems, co-owner Heath Manning prescribed Ashly Audio's ne24.24M modular DSP together with the incredibly easy-to-use WR-5 wall mount remote control. The cost-effective units sound great and provide an appropriately simple level of control for the often harried staff of both establishments. "User control is a critical issue in the commercial atmosphere of… View this story
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by daligula
Playa Del Carmen...
After sewing three T-Shirts for my 'significant-something' I ended up with three long and narrow stripes of jersey fabric long enough for a T-shirt, but so narrow it was useless… and then I had this idea of creating a color block top!
I love the results so much that I decided to share this project =)
I hope the instructions are clear, since it's the first time I'm sharing something.
- Jersey in three different colors. I used three stripes 1m long and about 45 cm wide.
- Aprox 1m of elastic, 1cm wide.
- Aprox 60 cm of narrow twill tape. You can use stripes of self fabric, though.
- Thread in colors similar to the fabric… or use a contrasting thread if you want.
Sep 28, 2011, 04.51 AMby daligula
Thank you girls! =)
Sep 27, 2011, 06.32 PMby elisana
thank you!!!
Sep 27, 2011, 04.14 AMby Justine of Sew Country Chick
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As we've been talking about all morning, the long-awaited 5th season of the television series, Mad Men, which premieres on AMC this coming Sunday. The show's not-so-long ago but seems-so-long-ago atmosphere is incredibly lush and is made whole through historical plot points and esthetic details. The masterful finishing touch of any theatrical or filmed period production is: the music. The Music of Mad Men is the music of the pre-1970s 20th century. Smokey American standards, bopping sock-hop dance hits, doo-wop, rock and roll and the music of the British invasion.


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(NECN: Alison King) - The much anticipated first poll is out in the Boston Mayor's race and what does it tell us?
With 40-percent undecided, it tells us a couple of things. Number one, that most Boston residents are more focused on vacations and the heat wave than they are the Mayor's race and number two, that just about any candidate could still win.
That being said, Boston City Councilor John Connolly, with 12 percent, will take his front runner position.
"What I was really happy about in this poll was that we had strong support across the entire city, in every neighborhood," he said.
Connolly's support may be broad, but Marty Walsh's is deep. With 11 percent, the Dorchester State Representative is number two in the poll.
"Since this race started, we knocked on 100,000 doors, we've had 162 events around the city since I started and it's nice to see it, but it's a news day today," Walsh said.
With a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent, the so-called top tier could also include number four, City Councilor Rob Consalvo, with 8 percent and number three, Suffolk County D.A. Dan Conley with 9 percent. As the leader in the money race, Conley began running the first TV ad of the race this week.
Perhaps most surprising is the fact that none of the minority candidates made the top half.
At 4 percent in the poll, Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo, who starts running a TV ad on Spanish speaking stations Thursday, dismisses the notion that some minority candidates will need to drop out for one to make traction.
Arroyo said, "I'm not in the business of telling people who can or who shouldn't run and I think anyone who would like to run should run."
The poll does give Arroyo something to crow about: The highest favorability rating of any candidate at 51 percent.
Suffolk pollster David Paleologos doesn't think the bottom half is necessarily a bad place to be.
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---- — DANVERS — Yesterday was the first day of school in town, but for 1,057 high-school students, it was the first day in a newly renovated, mostly complete $71 million Danvers High building.
"The new high school is like a completely different world," said senior Allie Walsh. "When I saw the new lobby, I didn't think it would ever look like this."
Walsh likes the openness of a new soaring lobby that connects the library, the cafeteria and the main entrance and serves as central meeting place for students. It also provides access to a main corridor that runs the length of the building.
Over the past three years, crews from Bacon Construction renovated the entire high school. The project was designed by architects from DiNisco Design Partnership and was overseen by Construction Monitoring Services, the Department of Public Works, and town and school officials.
"Overall, it's a beautiful building," Town Manager Wayne Marquis told selectmen Tuesday night.
It's the largest project the town has ever undertaken. During the two-phase project, crews gutted and renovated the field house and the 1960s academic wing, built a new science wing along Cabot Road, created a new front entrance and facade, and built new central administration offices, among other things.
The project not only created new spaces for students but added some subtle touches, as well.
The seal of the Danvers Falcon now greets students at the front entrance, thanks to a gift from the Class of 1963, the high school's first graduating class. An electronic sign board flashes messages along Cabot Road, thanks to a gift from the Class of 1985. Curved lights in the ceiling of the new front lobby remind one of clouds. There are "smart" televisions set into wood-paneled walls. The new cafeteria off the front lobby has the feel of a food court.
The town seal is visible on the terrazzo flooring outside the main office.
"It's worth it to see their faces; it's really worth it," said Danvers High Principal and Assistant Superintendent Sue Ambrozavitch of the students' reactions to the building.
Students said they were thankful the project was done, and done so well.
Senior Ryan Chasse began his high school career in the former Dunn Wing of Danvers High, a 1970s building that acted as swing space while half the high school was renovated. Students had to navigate a hodgepodge of old and new spaces and corridors to go to class. That wing was eventually torn down.
"It's been a big transition these last three years," Chasse said. "I think it's absolutely gorgeous; it's one of the nicest schools I've ever been to. Everything is easily accessible, student wing, teachers wing, classes. Everything is very good; I like it a lot."
Chasse likes the new cafeteria, entrance and student cafe in the lobby.
"We walk into school, and it's like a hotel every morning," he said.
Senior James Nestor also appreciates being in a modern school instead of the old Dunn Wing.
"It feels more like a community than the last one," Nestor said.
Senior Jonathan Davis appreciates the new cafeteria with open seating, televisions on the wall, high-top tables and charging stations for electronics.
"Beautiful, big, spacious, easy to get around," said teacher Mike Powers, who as a former selectman helped oversee the construction as a member of the town's Design/Construction Advisory Committee.
Superintendent Lisa Dana said there are still some punch-list items to finish up, including hydroseeding of a new lawn.
A formal opening ceremony is planned for late October.
Staff writer Ethan Forman can be reached at 978-338-2673, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at @DanverSalemNews.


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Servings: 10 pops
Prep Time: 9 hours 30 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Difficulty: Easy
2/3 cup turbinado sugar
2/3 cup water
4 cups fresh raspberries
1 cup plain yogurt (nonfat)
2 tablespoons lime juice
In a small saucepan, make a simple syrup by stirring together the water and sugar and cooking over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and allow to cool in the refrigerator until cold (about 1 hour).
In a food processor, add raspberries and puree until smooth. Pour raspberry puree into a fine mesh strainer placed over a large bowl with a pour spout. Using the back of a spoon, press the puree through the strainer into the bowl – leaving the seeds in the strainer. Discard seeds.
Add the yogurt, lime juice and cold simple syrup to the raspberry puree and whisk to combine.
Divide mixture among a 10 capacity ice pop mold. Top with the mold cover and insert ice pop sticks.
Freeze overnight or until pops are firm.
For easy removal, dip the bottom of the ice mold in hot water for a few seconds to loosen the pops. Remove pops from mold and serve.
No ice pop molds? Use small paper cups. Line paper cups on a small baking sheet and fill with mixture. Cover with film wrap and place in the freezer. When pops are partially frozen, insert one ice pop stick into the center of each cup. Return to freezer until firm.
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A man who told police he was driving in Gloucester because he got lost on a trip from Fitchburg to Chelsea was civilly cited for marijuana possession after police who stopped him for driving unusually slowly with an outed taillight, smelled marijuana in his vehicle.
The driver admitted to smoking a "blunt" in the vehicle while driving in Fitchburg. He and a passenger voluntarily surrendered a bag containing "several" grams of marijuana.
Police said the driver passed a "brief" roadside test to check for impairment and was sent on his way with a civil citation for marijuana possession and a verbal warning for the non-functional taillight.
Police responded after receiving complaints about parents smoking and littering cigarette butts near the Mill Condos at 33 Maplewood Ave. when dropping their children at the bus stop.
Officers asked those parents Thursday morning to stay away from the condos while smoking, and the parents complied.
Firefighters believe a fire in that area last winter was sparked by a stray cigarette butt that had not been completely stamped out before it was discarded.
Two tractor-trailer trucks became "intertwined" on East Main Street Thursday about 9:30 a.m., after a truck turned incorrectly and struck a parked tractor trailer unit, according to police. Tally's responded and was able to untangle the two vehicles and, while both were damaged, drivers were able to drive away.
State police issued a citation for an improper lane change as part of a response to a two-vehicle accident on the Blackburn Circle just after noon Thursday.
State police said no one involved was transported to a hospital, and that both drivers live in Gloucester. At least one vehicle was towed from the scene.
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The DragonFly SA PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) from MSA that complies fully with NFPA-1982, 1998 Edition--a standard that requires stand-alone PASS devices to activate automatically. In addition, the standard requires two jumps into pre-alarm volume and a two-step deactivation. A specially designed tethered key attaches to a jump seat, locker or vehicle interior. When the wearer leaves for the hazardous area, the key snaps off, activating the DragonFly SA PASS.


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