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December 17, 2010
December 4, 2010
IDXpert Label Printer Review
The Brady IDXpert has been designed for the professional. It is a thermal label printer that can stand alone and has been built to withstand the conditions of the industrial work world. It, along with its accompanying accessories is covered with a hard plastic case for protection. The IDXpert is available in both handheld and desktop versions. As an engineer, you’ll be able to label patch panels,Tiffany Pendants, cables, identify racks, bays, frames by using the variety of labels for this printer.
The printer can be used in several different ways; one by the way of “General ID” and one by the way of “DataComm &T-Block Menu”. The IDXpert will print strips for terminal block identification with choices of separator and will also give an option for auto-serial numbering. It can do this along with the usual die-cut,Return To Tiffany, self-laminating and continuous wire markers. Along with all this, heat-shrink tubing can be printed.
The font used in the IDXpert reduces confusion between numerals and letters. It is also equipped with an auto-repeat feature for duplicating text in cable markers.
The printer is equipped with complete alphanumeric so upper and lower case letters can be used in the numbers. It also has presets for barcodes 39 and 128 (along with a human readable option). The bar code height and width can be adjusted also in this printer. The preview section ensures you do not waste expensive labels when creating your barcodes. Its date and time feature is very useful for PAT Test Labelling.
Up to 95 copies can be printed of a label and up to 10 designs can be saved on the IDXpert. There is a battery state indicator and the printer requires six AA batteries or a power adaptor to be used,Tiffany Bracelets, but neither of which is supplied.
There is some very helpful technical information in the Quick Start guide. It helps the user to determine which label material is most suitable according to the type of application.
The printer contains contact springs which tell the smart-cell which menu options to use for that particular cartridge. A driver can also be installed and then the printer can be connected to a computer using a USB cable. All this allows done online is to upgrade through the web. Labels can be designed on your PC but only if the proper software is purchased,Tiffany Money Clip on sale, MarkWare.
The IDXpert comes in two different keyboards, the QWERTY or the alphabetical order keyboard. It does have a Caps Lock key to enable caps. It also includes a small selection of symbols for electrical and mathematical use. More symbols are available from an integral library.
The print area being worked is shown in the status bar. It includes the font size and other very helpful information. This piece of equipment has not had much if any complaints and is very tough and flexible.
November 13, 2010
Brokers hit out at Which
Mortgage brokers have slammed Which?’s move to offer a new mortgage advice service.,cheap tiffany
The service launches this month and is free for Which? members and families and friends. Which? says its advisers will look at every mortgage in the market, including direct-only deals,tiffanys, and will be paid on a salary basis. It will be funded by the consumer body and any procuration fees paid by lenders.
Your Mortgage Decisions director Dominik Lipnicki says Which? should stick to what it does best.
He says: "It is clearly not their expertise, their expertise is to be an independent reviewer of things,Tiffany Bracelets, not mortgage advisers. People should go to the experts."
First Action Finance head of communications Jonathan Cornell says: "I am surprised. Which? is supposed to be a consumer organisation and while I am sure it endeavours to make a profit,discount tiffany, Which? and giving advice just does not seem like a natural fit, I think there is room in the market for lots of different models and I wish them luck but I think it will be more difficult than they think."
Savills Private Finance managing director Mark Harris says: "I don’t think it will make them any money and I don’t know why they are doing it. They say it is because their members want it but we have never had anyone ring up and say they don’t know where to go to get trustworthy advice."
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Sheetz Adds Another Store in Greencastle, Pennsylvania
Sheetz today is opening another long-awaited location in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. The new store is on Buchanan Trail (U.S. Route 16) and Grindstone Road. Employees will host a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting today at 11:00 a.m.
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The new store will offer the same great fresh food items as always like the MTGo! and Shweetz Bakery lines of sandwiches, wraps, donuts and muffins, along with the signature MTO(R) line of Angus beef burgers, premium grilled chicken sandwiches, freshly made salads, French fries, onion rings and more.
Sheetz Bros. Coffeez(R), a full-service espresso and smoothie bar staffed by a trained barista is also available at the new store. Customers can order hand-made specialty coffee drinks including lattes, cappuccinos and mochas – hot, frozen or iced.
"Finding new ways to serve our customers in Pennsylvania is exciting for us,Tiffany Bracelets," says Stan Sheetz, president and CEO, Sheetz, Inc. "We have developed fun, new ways to show our devotion to our customers. We think we’ve struck a chord with our food and beverages and outstanding service that has people coming back for more every day."
This new location is the eighth Sheetz in Franklin County. Currently there is a store on Molly Pitcher Highway (U.S. Route 11) and the chain has plans to open another store in Guilford Township at the intersection of Wayne and Kriner Roads.
Sheetz is also proud of its history of giving back to the communities in which it operates. Sheetz has been a proud supporter of Special Olympics since 1992, making monetary and product contributions as well as providing event volunteers.
In keeping with this tradition, the company will make a donation to Special Olympics Pennsylvania as part of the store opening celebration.
Established in 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania,Tiffany Key Ring, Sheetz, Inc. is one of America’s fastest growing family-owned and operated convenience store chains,Tiffany Earring sale, with more than $4.5 billion in revenue for 2010 and more than 13,000 employees. The company operates more than 380 convenience locations throughout Pennsylvania,Tiffany Pendant on sale, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina. Sheetz provides an award-winning menu of MTO(R) subs, sandwiches and salads, which are ordered through unique touch-screen order point terminals. Sheetz currently ranks on the Best Places to Work list in Ohio and North Carolina and has been on that list in Pennsylvania for eight consecutive years. All Sheetz convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information, visit www.sheetz.com.
November 12, 2010
Enjoy Denver’s Magical Holiday Season
With the Rocky Mountains providing a snow-capped backdrop, along with incredible Mile High Holidays hotel rates as low as $52.80*, Denver is a magical place to be during the holiday season.
Festive parades and lighting spectacles accompany traditional holiday concerts. Santa arrives to the Rocky Mountains for a series of appearances,Tiffany Ring, while numerous outdoor events, including a new,Tiffany Necklace on sale, free downtown ice-skating rink, carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides and even a tuba concert entertain throughout the season. The Mile High City then rings in the New Year with fireworks, countdown parties, concerts, and more.
Denver boasts some of the nation’s most colorful holiday lighting shows,Tiffany Watch, with more than one million twinkling lights along the 16th St. Mall, Denver’s mile-long pedestrian promenade, as well as new-fashioned LED blubs that will illuminate the Denver City & County Building. Just down the street, 300,Tiffany Bracelets,000 lights turn historic Larimer Square into a dazzling nighttime sight.
>From the timelessness of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Stage Theatre to the wonder of floats and seasonal spirit in the 9News Parade of Lights and from holiday classics such as The Nutcracker to the beautiful glowing luminarias lining Santa Fe Boulevard, the holidays in Denver enliven the spirit.
For a complete list of events, hotel specials and shopping information, visit www.visitdenver.com or call 1-800-2DENVER. For deals on hotels, events and cultural attractions, go to www.MileHighHolidays.com.
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November 2, 2010
cheap Tiffany Bangle and Mortgage insurance rates up 70%
Insurance ; Payment protection premiums increase as more claims are made, writes Josephine Cumbo
People who have bought insurance to protect their mortgage payments if they lose their job or are unable to work are facing steep rises in the cost of their cover.
Since January, a number of leading providers of mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI), including Cardif Pinnacle, Assurant and Paymentshield have increased monthly premiums for customers – in some cases by more than 70 per cent.
MPPI is also known as accident, sickness and unemployment (ASU) insurance. It is a cheaper type of income protection that pays out for shorter periods of time – typically one to two years.
Cardif Pinnacle said that the price rise was a direct result of more people making claims on their insurance in 2009, as the recession hit and more people found themselves out of work.
Assurant has also raised its premiums for some customers, citing "exceptional" volumes of claims over the past 24 months. One policyholder,cheap Tiffany Bangle, a former company director, complained to Assurant after his premiums rose from pound(s)82.50 to pound(s)143 per month – a 74 per cent increase.
This wave of increases comes just six months after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) intervened last year to force insurers to rebate millions of customers who had faced premiuim increases on their payment protection insurance policies in 2009.
The FSA was concerned that insurers had not been clear or fair enough about their right to increase premiums. Insurers were required to tighten their policy paperwork and small print before notifying customers of any further rate changes.
Consumer group Which? says that while consumers are receiving refunds, the regulator "must come down hard on any who continue to put the squeeze on their policyholders by hiking premiums."
But the FSA has since clarified that the "onus was on the business to decide what is fair".
"We are not specific about what is fair in terms of a change to premium but if a firm said they were getting increased claims that would be a valid reason for increasing premiums," says an FSA spokesman. "If customers are not happy with the premium increase and think it unfair,Tiffany Bracelet, they can cancel the policy."
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) agrees with the FSA that insurers need to be able to show that any premium increases are "proportionate" to any increase in their claims costs. But policyholders who are unhappy with premium increases that have come into effect this year are advised not to cancel a policy too quickly,tiffany bracelets, as they may find it hard to buy new like-for-like cover.
Some insurers have tightened terms recently,tiffany necklaces, by increasing qualifying periods – the amount of time a person has to be off work before they can make a claim – from 30 to 60 days. Individuals whose health has worsened will also find it harder to obtain equivalent cover, as will those working in sectors that pose a greater risk of redundancy.
"In my view people working for Cadbury’s, airlines, the construction industry and financial services sector should stick with their existing policy," says Bob Cook, of Platinum Financial Consulting, the independent financial advisers.
"Better quality products may emerge at a more reasonable premium later in the year. If that coincides with the start of a recovery in the job market, that may be a much better time to review your options."
Insurers have until the end of June to refund premium increases made in 2009.
Case study
Higher premiums for reduced benefits
Clare Mullen, an air stewardess from Glasgow, was angered when her insurer, Assurant, tried to raise the premiums for her MPPI policy by 82 per cent last year – and thinks that any future rises would be "grossly unfair".
The 51-year-old was paying pound(s)41 a month to cover pound(s)1,100 a month but was notified that her premiums were about to rise to pound(s)75 per month. "I couldn’t afford the increase, but I couldn’t afford not to have a safety net either," she says. "So I reduced my cover to pound(s)650 a month but the premium still rose to pound(s)44.
"My insurer has not reinstated my cover to where I was before the premium rise, in spite of the FSA’s intervention, so I am paying more, but for half the cover – which isn’t fair or adequate," she adds.
Ms Mullen says that any further increase would force her to give up her insurance. "I would find it hard to get a new policy because I am in a high risk sector, both for redundancy and accidents," she explains. "I don’t think that it is fair of insurers to penalise existing customers like this, especially ones who have paid over many years in good faith."
November 1, 2010
discount tiffany and Look in the right places and see Tiffany windows
Answer Man, you surely know the answer to this: Is Rochester home to any Tiffany windows? There must be some on Pill Hill or at Mayowood, right? — Tiffany’s Friend, Hillary
Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Rochester is the best-known place in town for Tiffany glass. The three-sided window above the altar, picturing Jesus blessing children, was given to the church in 1904 by Edith Graham Mayo, wife of Dr. Charlie, and her brother. There are other Tiffany panes in the church as well.
Therefore, you’d think Dr. Charlie and Edith’s house, Mayowood mansion, would have some Tiffany glass, but alas, it doesn’t, says a staffer at the History Center of Olmsted County.
The most famous Tiffany window in southeastern Minnesota is in Winona, in the glorious Prairie School-ish Winona National Bank building. There’s also an 1896 Tiffany window at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona.
If you’re aware of other Tiffany windows in the Rochester region, pass along the tip.
For years, I’ve heard that Olmsted County has had the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the United States. I’d like to know why that is. — Kathleen
Olmsted County is one of the most intensely medically studied counties in the world because of Mayo’s invaluable recordkeeping. Mayo researchers have been studying MS in the county since 1905, and this data has been a rich resource for people tracking the disease.
A study was published in 1991 that reported 162 people with MS in the county, which had a population of about 100,000 at that time; that led to the conclusion that Olmsted had one of the highest prevalence rates in the country, but variables include the quality of data here. That report also noted that incidence rates of MS were available for only about a dozen places worldwide, Rochester/Olmsted among them.
About 400,000 Americans have MS, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, but because symptoms can be hard to detect and data requirements are variable, reliable numbers are elusive.
So to say Olmsted has the highest rate in the U.S. of A. is a bit like saying the Answer Man is the smartest homo sapien in the universe — might be true, but there are a lot of undiscovered places out there.
Answer Man, does the DM&E Railroad still exist? Isn’t it the Canadian Pacific now?
Dear All-Knowing Answer Man, how did the MPCA monitor the toxicity of the fumes and smoke that billowed into the sky and caused the evacuation of St. Charles? — Leon Smith, Rochester
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency along with the city of Rochester’s Chemical Assessment Team had monitors at the site immediately after the fire at North Star Foods was reported to measure the amount of ammonia in the air. A network of handheld devices monitored the situation and produced information that led to the evacuation,discount tiffany, says Cathy Rofshus,cheap Tiffany Watche, public information officer for the agency.
About 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of ammonia were inside the plant before the fire, and all but 9,000 pounds were released,Tiffany Bangle, MPCA has reported.
The agency also monitored water quality in the Whitewater River after the St. Charles wastewater treatment facility was overwhelmed by water used to battle the fire. That resulted in a significant fish kill in the river’s south fork but apparently didn’t upset the trout fishing in Whitewater State Park on the trout opener last Saturday.
The Answer Man monitors the truth every Friday in the Post-Bulletin, plus has a new daily Truth Item on the P-B’s front page. Send questions to P.O. Box 6118,tiffany bracelets, Rochester, MN 55903 or answerman@postbulletin.com.
October 15, 2010
The Met’s high-tech Ring debuts, with pivoting planks
In the first part of Richard Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen," the god Wotan uses his sister-in-law as collateral for a new home. In a similar fit of recklessness, the Metropolitan Opera has bet its own house on a new "Ring." The production by Robert Lepage, which will roll out over the next two years and serve the Met for many more (unless it bankrupts the company first),tiffany Pendants, begins with a whiz-bang but verveless Das Rheingold, in which miracles of stagecraft alternate with long stretches of standing around, waiting for the computer-guided set to trundle into place. On opening night, it clanked and stalled,tiffany, but those technical faults will be fixed more easily than the production’s conceptual emptiness. Lepage has spent years–and a reported $16 million of the Met’s money–figuring out how to get light and steel and acrobats to behave the way he wants them to. He seems to have given far less thought to why the characters behave the way they do.
The "Ring" story covers generations of mortals, while the gods endure. A "Ring" production plows through casts, but the one constant in this iteration will be the set, a massive apparatus made of parallel swiveling beams that arrange themselves in various architectural and anthropomorphic forms, animated with digital projections. This sometimes works so well that gadgetry becomes character. In the opening scene of Das Rheingold, the beams oscillate to form the rippling surface of the Rhine. Then they tilt vertically and glow aquatic blue to become the depths, where three suspended maidens exhale projected bubbles as they sing. ¬Another turn of the machine,tiffany bangles, another projected image, and the maidens come to rest on the river’s pebbled bed, where every flick of their mermaid tails causes a graceful slippage of stones. A wizard who knows how to space out his tricks, Lepage one-ups the Rhine scene with the descent to Nibelheim, in which Wotan and his sidekick, Loge–or rather, their aerialist stunt doubles–descend a staircase that twists in midair like a Möbius strip.
Lepage’s choreographic virtuosity does not extend to humans. He is fortunate to have such a musically confident cast, because he leaves his singers physically stranded. The lecherous Alberich chases the Rhine maidens upstage, then has to pivot 180 degrees to inform the audience of his frustration. Fricka stands and frowns. Wotan stands and slouches, desperately gripping his spear. Everyone seems to be expecting the set to do another stunt. Surely it must be an illusion, but James Levine even seems to slow the beat now and then, to let the machinery catch up.
The atmosphere of torpor makes the occasional manic bursts all the more bizarre. Suddenly, the exquisite harmonic swirl thins,tiffany bracelets, the moral vapors part, and a moment of rampant silliness is revealed. The goddess Freia makes her entrance by tobogganing–head first, belly down–along a ramp and vanishing into a ditch before popping up to sing: "Help!" On several occasions, Loge, the dangerous and darting god of fire, retreats up the same steel slope that Freia descended so the audience can see the flames dancing digitally at his feet. The play of light looks hot, fierce, and fast; Richard Croft, climbing backward, can’t help but make the nimble fire god seem tentative and slow. You get the feeling that Lepage would have preferred a virtual singer.
This is not a case of an arrogant director foisting a new narrative onto old music (no trench coats, no Hitler). Instead, Lepage tempers his innovations with such respect for Wagner that he leaves an interpretive void at the opera’s core. Maybe that’s exactly what the Met wants: an attractive, neutral vessel in which to decant the score. On opening night, the company filled it three-quarters full. James Levine, making a comeback from back surgery and plunging into his 40th grueling year of conducting at the Met, led a limpid, liquescent performance. His touch was evident not just in the smooth pour of orchestral sound or in the fearsome rattle of the giants’ tread, but in the Rhine maidens’ opening trio, the sort of intimate ensemble that Levine likes to buff until it becomes an object of bejeweled splendor.
As Wotan, Bryn Terfel tries mightily to radiate divine majesty, despite the bionic breastplate and metalhead locks that make him look like Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2. He is not the only cast member to do battle with a costume. The giants, Fasolt and Fafner, clump around in outfits apparently scavenged from Planet of the Apes, Stephanie Blythe sings Fricka in a frog-green prom dress, and Loge prances in gold overalls with glowing bulbs in his palms. This is the bold new "Ring"?
The ever-professional Terfel focused on Wotan’s difficulties rather than his own. His aerodynamic bass-baritone glided through thick orchestral currents without ever veering into a bellow. His is a Wotan in his prime, petty of spirit and none too bright, but powerful of voice and will. The rest of the cast dropped hints of potential splendor. As the run rolls on, Blythe will surely juice her supernova mezzo-soprano with more Wagnerian indignation, and Croft will relax into a Loge who not only is conniving and clever but also truly enjoys his skill in handling the plot’s joystick. The charismatic Eric Owens already endows the cartoonish role of Alberich with at least two and a half dimensions, and he may yet shave off a few more ragged ends of caricature.
The Met has come to rely on technology, and the season opener was beamed live to rain-dampened audiences in Times Square and on Lincoln Center’s plaza. It’s too bad, then, that the production was still so buggy that the opera’s final apotheosis–the gods’ march over a rainbow into Valhalla–didn’t happen at all. That glitch, too, will be repaired, but the worry remains that the Met,tiffany jewlery, like Wotan, has mortgaged its destiny for a property full of dazzle and ¬disappointment.
Lord of The Internet Rings
It didn’t take long, sitting with an enthralled audience and watching the saga of the cloistered jerk who betrayed those around him and ended up unfathomably rich and influential, to understand why it has been hailed as a masterpiece.
They had me at the mesmerizing first scene, when the repulsive nerd is mocked by a comely, slender young lady he’s trying to woo. Bitter about women, he returns to his dark lair in a crimson fury of revenge.
It unfolds with mythic sweep,tiffany Pendants, telling the most compelling story of all, the one I cover every day in politics: What happens when the powerless become powerful and the powerful become powerless?
This is a drama about quarrels over riches,tiffany bracelets, social hierarchy, envy, theft and the consequence of deceit — a world upended where the vassals suddenly become lords and the lords suddenly lose their magic.
The beauty who rejects the gnome at the start is furious when he turns around and betrays her, humiliating her before the world. And the giant brothers looming over the action justifiably feel they’ve provided the keys to the castle and want their reward. One is more trusting than the other, but both go berserk, feeling they’ve been swindled after entering into a legitimate business compact.
The antisocial nerd, surrounded by his army of slaving minions, has been holed up making something so revolutionary and magical that it turns him into a force that could conquer the world.
The towering brothers battle to get what they claim is their fair share of the glittering wealth that flows from the obsessive gnome’s genius designs.
The gnome, remarkably, invents a way to hurl yourself through space and meet up with somebody at the other end.
All of these mythic twists and turns in "Das Rheingold" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York were a revelation to me. I’d never seen the Ring cycle. I didn’t even know what it was about. I loved everything about Peter Gelb’s $16 million production: the shape-shifting, high-tech stage, the mermaid sopranos dangling from wires, the magnetic Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who plays Wotan, the weak ruler of the gods who tries to renege after bartering his gorgeous sister-in-law for construction of a gorgeous castle. (The moral of the story: Never mess with your contractor, the contractor always wins.)
But as I watched the opera, my mind kept flashing to the "The Social Network," another dazzling drama about quarrels over riches, social hierarchy, envy, theft and the consequences of deceit. A Sony executive called "The Social Network," the David Fincher-Aaron Sorkin movie about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his circle of ex-friends and partners, "the first really modern movie." Yet the strikingly similar themes in Wagner’s feudal "Das Rheingold" — the Ring cycle is based on the medieval German epic poem "Das Nibelungenlied," which some experts say helped inspire J. R. R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" — underscore how little human drama changes through the ages.
We are always fighting about social status, identity, money, power,tiffany necklaces, turf, control, lust and love. We are always trying to get even, get more and climb higher. And we are always trying to cross the bridge to Valhalla.
W. P. Ker defined the heroic epic as "the defense of a narrow place, against odds." And that can just as well sum up the modern epic of the antihero Mark Zuckerberg.
In "Das Rheingold," the dwarf Alberich is mocked and rejected by the Rhinemaidens. "Fury and longing/ fierce and forceful/ surge through my spirit," Alberich sings.
Thwarted in lust, stewing in rage, the gnome turns to greed and vengeance. He steals the Rhinemaidens’ gold, returns to his sulfurous, subterranean cavern and forges a gold ring that "would give unbounded power and wealth."
He uses the ring to enslave the other dwarves, "the Nibelungs’ nocturnal race," and forge and weld more gold trinkets,tiffany money clips, as well as a magic helmet that can make him invisible and teleport him through space.
"No one can see me/ though he search for me/ yet I am everywhere/ hidden from sight," Alberich says, in a perfect description of the elusive Zuckerberg and Internet users in general.
Then, in a mantra that could belong to Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg, Alberich warns the gods: "Beware!/ For when once you men/ serve my might/ the dwarf will take his pleasure/ with your pretty women/ who scorn his wooing,/ though love does not smile upon him."
The 1854 Wagner libretto has ornate language like "the soft zephyrs’ breeze." The 2010 Sorkin screenplay has snappy,tiffany earrings, syncopated language about Python Web servers and Pix firewall emulators.
But the passions that drive humans stay remarkably constant, whether it’s a magic ring being forged or a magic code being written.
October 14, 2010
Cufflinks add dressed-up touch
Ralph Eady insisted the guy needed cufflinks.
After all, it was a French cuff dress shirt, said Eady, namesake of Ralph’s Menswear at 736 E. 36th St. North.
"A man’s not really dressed up until he’s in a French cuff shirt," he said. And, assuming you’re not going to negate the point of French cuffs by rolling them up like you’re about to start sand-bagging, you’ll need cufflinks.
Jamison Shaffer knows that,tiffany necklaces, too. Sorting himself somewhere between preppy-casual and business casual, he doesn’t get to wear cufflinks as much as he’d like, he said — probably once every three weeks.
"For as seldom as I wear them, I have more pairs than I should," he said, guessing he had "13 to 18 pairs."
But the intent to sport them is there, he maintained. His rather international collection includes a pair of "hot" and "cold" water faucet-shaped links, as well as a pair of chess pieces, English Union Jacks, French fleur de lis and Guinness beer bottle caps from Ireland.
Eady keeps his collection on display near the store’s register,tiffany watches, and almost every one cost $30 or less. Like a pair of green-mosaic circles on gold, a black-and-white checkerboard, a topaz-colored stone and silver ones with mother-of-pearl.
At Deco to Disco, 1508 E. 15th St., owner Jennifer Taylor showed us vintage ones,tiffany bracelets, including a fan-shaped silver pair made in Siam. Raking a finger through an assortment that also included old tie clips, Taylor plucked a pair of shiny gold cufflinks from the 1970s with an Aquarius
sign on each. Others included small, hammered silver arrowheads (or aces, if you have poker vision), lapis from the ’70s and jade from the ’50s.
Department stores, of course, have them — gold and black-enamel ones by Stafford at JCPenney; silver ones by Roundtree & York, as well as Kenneth Cole, at Dillard’s; and more Kenneth Cole and Donald Trump at Macy’s — most about $30 or $40, if not less.
And at Target, we spied a pair of silver ones by Merona with blue glass for less than $20.
Sizes do matter
When we were at Ralph’s Menswear, 736 E. 36th St. North, looking for cuGinks recently, we took stock of the wide variety of sizes owner Ralph Eady offers.
"I have shirts up to 22 1/2 in the neck," he said, pointing to a sign on a shelf. Here’s what it read:
Shoes sizes from 7 1/2 to 15; casual shirts and jogging sets, sizes large-6X; suits 36 through 62; dress shirts 14 1/2 -22 1/2 ; and jeans 32-54.
Our favorite when we were there: A black bamboo mau cap by Kangol ($40). Also liked the tropic enfield cap ($44) and bamboo clery one ($40), both by Kangol.
For more, call Ralph’s at 425-3933.
Deco to Disco closing
"So you heard the news, huh?" said Jennifer Taylor, owner of vintage shop Deco to Disco at 1508 E. 15th St.
We hadn’t — simply came by to look at her fabulous collection of old cufflinks. The "news" she was referring to was that she was closing shop Feb. 15.
For years, Deco to Disco has been one of Tulsa’s favorite purveyors of apparel, accessories and giftables from, as the name suggests, the 1920s through ’70s, as well as the ’80s. Whether you had a Halloween shindig,tiffany rings, costume party or were simply looking for a cool piece to work into your contemporary wardrobe,tiffany money clips, Deco to Disco was — wait, they haven’t shuttered yet — is a treasure trove of fun, funky finds.
Taylor’s not taking all of the shop’s stock with her, though, she said. Now until it closes the day after Valentine’s, Deco to Disco is oRering 50 percent oR everything in the store — including the cool pair of silver car-shaped cufflinks we bought for just $6.
For more, stop by and bid bon voyage, or call 592-2070.
Jason Ashley Wright 581-8483 jason.wright@tulsaworld.com