Gold background with black text on the top and bottom. A solid-black logo is in the center designed to emulate the Wonder Woman logo. The logo consists of a large W with three lines stylized as wings on either side and a stylized bird with a crown on the top of the center peak of the W.

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The mustache has a long history, falling in and out of fashion throughout the decades. By the early 2000s, the mustache had lost popularity, but in 2003, two friends in Australia decided to bring it back, enlisting 30 men to join them in growing mustaches. Thus Movember was born. Movember occurs every November, where mustaches are grown around the world to bring awareness to men’s health issues. In recent years, over 5 million people have participated in the month long event, and the Movember Foundation has helped fund over 1,200 men’s health projects. 

The global reach of mustache day demonstrates the mustache’s continuing prevalence in society. Mustache day is celebrated in a variety of ways around the world, including national and international holidays for both natural and fake mustaches. In the United States, Oakland, California's Mustache day began on June 18, 1972, when Oakland A’s owner Charles Finley paid coaches and players a $300 bonus to grow out their mustaches and allowed all fans with mustaches into the park for free that day. Another notable publication of group mustache day is commercial corporation Jellyvision's 2007 mustache celebration in Chicago.

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WIN Home Inspection (WIN) is a home inspection business franchise network started in 1993 in Seattle, Washington. The 2011 annual WIN Home Inspection Business Conference was hosted in Newport Beach, California by the WIN Home Inspection South Sound franchise. These buttons were produced for the event, presumably as ice-breakers to facilitate networking between conference attendees.

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The Meetles are a Classic Rock tribute band based in New York City. Founded in 2007 out of a Beatles Meetup group, the Meetles not only pay tribute to the legendary rock band, but all Classic Rock from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. They are most often found playing underground for Music Under New York (MUNY), but also play aboveground in Central Park during the summer. The band members include Naomi and Eric Paulin, Eric Gordon, Rob Golterman, and Barry Blitstein. They are often joined by guest musicians, including Ringo Starr’s producer Mark Hudson. The Meetles are widely lauded to be “New York's most fun Beatles tribute band."

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On February 17, 2003 tragedy struck club dancers in Chicago when a bouncer pepper-sprayed a group of fighting patrons in the overcrowded E-2 nightclub. The result was a panic-driven stampede that left 21 people dead and more than 50 injured. Initial legal investigation of the events leading up to the tragedy was handled at the city-level and focused on the liability of the club owners in the deaths. Club owners had been repeatedly advised by the city that the building was not up to code and kept in business without addressing health and safety violations, notably failing to set safe occupancy limits and, in some accounts, failing to provide patrons with access to emergency exits. The training of club bouncers was also investigated, and local leaders were quoted drawing attention to the quality of training for emergency responders. Chicagoans continued to be critical of the results of the city-level investigation in its aftermath. Surviving family of the deceased were quoted as expressing a lack of closure in their grief. This button reflects the calls for a Federal investigation that emerged from the local tragedy.

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“Put Orange in your OR” was an advertisement slogan of CareFusion, a San Diego-based business that designed and manufactured devices for medical use. The slogan markets electric hair clippers and a skin preparation cream called ChloraPrep Hi-Lite Orange that the company once manufactured and sold to hospitals for use in pre-surgical hair removal. Hair removal is not frequently called for or practiced by surgery teams according to medical guidelines for infection prevention. However, hair is removed as part of medical treatment when the hair presents a physical barrier to surgery. Clippers are used for this rather than close-shaving razors that can break the skin and raise the risk of post-surgical infection.

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Factory outlet stores are a type of discount store, or a store than sells retail goods at a low price. Appliance Factory Outlet is a trademark of A&A Quality Appliance Inc, which is a Colorado-based household appliance retailer that serves customers in the United States.

The “free disposal” refers to a sales promotion incentivizing customers to buy a dishwasher by including an additional item of value with purchase. The disposal may refer to a device called a waste disposal unit or garburator device that is commonly installed on kitchen sinks to pulverize solid food waste. Or, it may refer to the service some appliance stores provide of disposing of non-working appliances at the time of installing a replacement. In either case, it is an example of commercial approaches to systematizing solid-waste management and the marketing of refuse disposal goods and services.

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The slang term ‘nerd’ has uncertain origins, but several different theories exist. Its first printed appearance was in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo, and is used depicting an odd and serious-looking creature. It is possible that Dr. Seuss made this word up, but it could be that he derived it from Mortimer Snerd, a popular ventriloquist’s dummy invented by Edgar Bergen. Snerd was a country bumpkin with a tiresome and dull personality. 

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A maximum wage is an established rate, set either by collective bargaining or law, that specifies the highest allowable amount of pay for labor.

In the United States, there is a federal minimum wage, or lowest rate at which employers can compensate employees for labor. There is no federal maximum wage, however. Calls for a federal maximum wage, or a “de facto” maximum wage, where tax policy imposes a limit on how much income can be taken in, go at least as far back as the turn of the 20th century. Proponents of a maximum wage cite that the advantage of maximum wage legislation is in its efficacy in addressing extreme differentials in income distribution and inequitable stratification of wealth.

Fanged bats in folklore are often symbols of blood-sucking. The image on the button may be an allusion to economic vampirism, an exploitative practice in which one party predatorily drains resources without recompense, with the implication that unchecked wealth imposes a drain on a vital economy.

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Since 1998, annual Avon Walks for Breast Cancer are community fundraising events that have been put on by the Avon Foundation, a charity run by global cosmetics corporation Avon Cosmetics. The foundation’s mission is to address problems that particularly, although not exclusively, affect women including breast cancer and domestic violence. Breast cancer is currently the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, a non-profit that tracks breast cancer, there are about 4 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, and current projections show that women have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime.

Breast walks take place in various locales, and bring together breast cancer survivors, their loved ones, and other affected parties in community. Participants walk together along a set course, often wearing pink clothes, accessories, or ribbons to indicate their cause. Events sometimes include ceremonial speeches and generate publicity for the cause in local media. The money raised by Avon goes to cancer research and clinical practices, with an emphasis on regular mammograms, clinical breast exams and a continuing search for a breast cancer cure.