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This is the multi-handset cordless phone that provides superior reception and voice clarity as well as easy set up. Its audio provides crisp, clear voice quality without the static and echo that plague inferior models. All the unit's functions are easily programmed via clear, onscreen instructions as opposed to models that require users to enter confusing codes or squint at miniscule displays. The phone system's DECT 6.0 technology provides static-free calls up to 155' away from the base station, far superior to models that drop calls beyond 100'. The two-line digital answering machine/charging base has a large, easy-to-read LCD for caller ID (requires subscription), and can synch with up to four Bluetooth devices, enabling cell phone calls to be placed and received using any handset. It supports up to 12 handsets (one included; additional handsets sold separately). The cordless handset features a 20-number autodial memory, an illuminated keypad, and an intercom function. Handset battery provides up to seven hours of talk time on a full charge. Base: 4" L x 9 3/4" W x 8 3/4" H. (3 3/4 lbs.)
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(23 of 23 customers found this review helpful)
lacks the basics
By MG
from Windsor, CT
The phone does not display date and time. It does not display caller ID for more than a fraction of a second, so if you aren't sitting right at the phone when it rings, you don't know who's calling. I have one phone line but the default display is Line 1, Line 2, and CL. You have to push way too many buttons to do anything. The buttons are not easy to push, they have a lot of resistance. Everyone raves that the phone even works, which shows how low our expectations are. I am very disappointed that the basic things are missing.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: At Hammacher Schlemmer, our goal is your complete satisfaction. Our reputation for quality and service has been earned over generations of satisfied customers. Since 1848, we have held our product offerings and customer service to the highest standards - as should you. You should never expect to be any less than delighted with a purchase from Hammacher Schlemmer, because we stand behind our products with an unconditional lifetime guarantee of satisfaction. If you are ever disappointed with a product - for any reason - we request that you return it to us. Please call our 24-hour customer service hotline at 1-800-321-1484 and one of our representatives will be happy to assist you.
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(7 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
Great phone set
By GranmaKK
from Palo Alto, CA
This is probably more phone than we need for our home use (lots of bells and whistles), but we were tired of buying lesser systems that didn't last. So far, this is an impressive system that was relatively easy to set up and works well.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
A few problems.
By Gramdoc
from Gainesville,FL
The "soft keys," including the menu selection and call log, are not particularly easy to fathom. My previous phone provided much easier access to the call log and when using the AT&T answering system there is no message light indicator on the phone.
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: Thank you for your comments. This phone has an answering machine tone that beeps every 10 seconds to let you know of new messages. This alert is off by default but can be turned on (see instructions in manual). With voicemail services, a small envelope icon should appear.
(6 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
A GREAT phone and wonderful reception
By Becky the flower girl
from Frankfort, Indiana
Had purchased an expensive phone system for my hearing-impaired father, but when he passed and I brought it home and used it, I was quite disappointed with it. Not good range, very unclear for others to hear me, etc. I am SO happy with your phone so far and look forward to many good years of clear phone conversations on it.
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
very disappointed
By Max
from Longport, nj
i charged the handset for 24 hours, spoke on it for 20 min, a few hours later it had no charge. I could not set up other handsets, even after I unplugged all other house phones as suggested. Directions say to keep it in charger when not in use,
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: Thank you for your comments. We sincerely apologize that this item did not meet your expectations. The Hammacher Schlemmer Institute conducts rigorous, unbiased testing to find the best products within a category and found this phone to be the clearest and easiest to set up. For proper charging, make sure to charge before first use for 16 continuous hours. Also, ensure the phone is properly in the cradle. The charge light will be lit when charging. We value your complete satisfaction and ask that you contact our customer service team at 1-800-321-1484 if they can assist you with returning or exchanging this product.
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
have no complaints so far
By SS the phoner
from Brooklyn, NY
I just bought this phone. So, it didn't go through the time test yet. So far, it works to our satisfaction. We needed a phone for my wife working from home. She has a lot of conference calls throughout a day and needs a clear sound when the phone is on speaker. This model has better sound than our previous phone, even though I was reluctant to buy AT&T brand. At this point I do not have any cons to mention.
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By bj
from FL
1. The volume on base and handsets need to be louder.2. There should be a light on the handset to let you know which line you are on. It is a 2 line phone. This helps to let you know that you have hung up the phone and not just switched the lines over. Which can happen. Instead you have to go look at the base phone to make sure the lines are hung up.
I would buy this again
By John
from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Found this product easy to install and not that difficult to negotiate.Service was great and delivery was super fast.
I would buy this product again.
By Bet
from Viera, FL
We are happy with the phones. It was some difficult to set up because it was so different from our last ones, but now that it is done, it works great.
Great reception but very difficult to us
By Jim
from SF bay area
Returning phone as it has great reception range on the cordless handsets but as a phone, very difficult to use.
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When the housing market bounces upward, Ellis Act evictions tend to hit long-term tenants whose monthly payments, protected by rent control, are a comparative bargain. Even if they've submitted every payment on time and upheld every lease obligation for 20 years, these renters can find themselves in the bind of being forced out.
And they don't just lose their homes; often they lose their community. San Francisco has become so expensive that many Ellis Act victims are tossed out of this city for good.
Enacted in 1986, the state law allows a landlord to stop renting units, evict all tenants, and sell the building for another purpose. Originally construed as a way for landlords to "go out of business" and move into their properties, the Ellis Act instead gained notoriety as a driving force behind a wave of evictions that slammed San Francisco during the tech boom of the late 90s. Between 1986 and 1995, just 29 Ellis evictions were filed with the San Francisco Rent Board; in the 1999-2000 fiscal year alone, that number ballooned to a staggering 440.
Under the current tech heyday, there are indications that Ellis Act evictions are gaining fresh momentum. The San Francisco Rent Board recorded 81 this past fiscal year, more than double that of the previous year, and there appears to be an upward trend.
Buildings cleared via the Ellis Act are typically repackaged as tenancies-in-common (TIC), where several buyers jointly purchase a multi-unit residence and each occupy one unit. Realtors often market TICs as a path to homeownership for moderate-income individuals, creating an incentive for buyers to enter into risky, high-interest shared mortgages in hopes of later converting to condos with more attractive financing.
The divide between TIC owners and renters came into sharp focus at a contentious Jan. 28 hearing, when a Board of Supervisors committee met to consider legislation that would allow some 2,000 TIC units to immediately convert to condos without having to wait their turn in a requisite lottery system.
One TIC owner said he was financially burdened, but had only entered into the arrangement because "I wanted to stay here and raise my family, but we couldn't afford a single family home." Yet tenants brought their own set of concerns to the table, saying the temptation to create TICs was putting a major dent in the city's finite stock of rent-controlled units — the single greatest source of affordable housing in San Francisco.
"My feeling is, let's stop doing TICs," Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a tenants right activist with the Housing Rights Committee, told the Guardian following the hearing. "The city has to just start making sure that the condos that are built are the kind of thing [TIC buyers] can afford. Instead, we cannibalize our rental stock? That's a reasonable way? You evict one group of people to house another: How does that make sense?"
The grueling five-hour hearing illustrated the sad fact that San Franciscans in a slightly better economic position were being pitted against economically disadvantaged renters. The two groups were bitterly divided, and all seemed weary, furious, and frustrated by their housing situations.
The condo-conversion legislation, co-sponsored by Sups. Scott Wiener and Mark Farrell, did not move forward that day. Instead, Board President David Chiu made a motion to table the discussion until Feb. 25, to provide time for "an intensive negotiation process." Chiu, who rents his home, added: "While I myself would like to become a homeowner someday ... I do not support the legislation in its current form."
Sup. Jane Kim sought to appeal to the tenants as well as the TIC owners. "It's very tragic that we have set up a situation where [TICs and renters] are pitted against one another," she said. She hinted at what a possible alternative to might look like. "We should be looking at a ban of scale," she said. "If we allow 1,800 potential units to go thru this year, are we willing to do a freeze for the next 8 to 10 years?"
It's unclear what will happen in the next few weeks, but if this legislation makes it back to the full board in some form, the swing votes are expected to be Sups. London Breed, Malia Cohen and Norman Yee.
New protections were enacted following the late-90s frenzy to discourage real-estate speculators from using the Ellis Act to turn a profit on the backs of vulnerable seniors or disabled tenants. Yet a new wave of investors has discovered they can persuade tenants to leave voluntarily, simply by offering buyouts while simultaneously wielding the threat of an Ellis Act eviction. "The process got more sophisticated," explains San Francisco Rent Board Deputy Director Robert Collins.
Once a tenant has accepted a check in lieu of eviction, rent-controlled units can be converted to market rate, or refurbished and sold as pricey condos, without the legal hindrances of an eviction blemish. Buyouts aren't recorded with the Rent Board, and the agency has no real guidance for residents faced with this particular dilemma. "We don't have the true number on buyouts," says Mecca. "We don't know how many people have left due to intimidation."
Identity-wise, renters impacted by the Ellis Act defy categorization. A contingent of monolingual Chinese residents rallied outside City Hall recently to oppose legislation they believed would give rise to evictions; in the Mission, many targeted tenants are Latinos who primarily speak Spanish. From working immigrants, to aging queer activists, to disabled seniors, to idealists banding together in collective houses, the affected tenants do have one thing in common. When landlords or real-estate speculators perceive that their homes are more valuable unoccupied, their lives are susceptible to being upended by forces beyond their control.
The upshot of San Francisco's affordability crisis is a cultural blow for a city traditionally regarded as tolerant, forward thinking, and progressive. In the words of Rose Eger, a musician who faces an Ellis Act eviction from her apartment of 19 years, "it changes the face of who San Francisco is.
Out of the Castro
You can't get much more Castro than Jeremy Mykaels. The 62-year old moved to the neighborhood in the early 1970s, fleeing raids at gay bars in Denver. He played in a rock band, worked at the old Jaguar Books, watched the rise of Harvey Milk, saw the neighborhood transform and made it his home.
He's lived in a modest apartment on Noe Street for 17 years, and for the past 11 has been living with AIDS. Rent control has made it possible for Mykaels, who survives on disability payments, to remain in this city, in his community, close to the doctors at Davis Hospital who, he believes, have saved his life.
And now he's going to have to leave.
In the spring of 2011, his longtime landlords sold the building to a real-estate investment group based in Union City — and the new owners immediately sought to get rid of all the tenants. Two renters fled, knowing what was coming; Mykaels stuck around. In September of 2012, he was served with an eviction notice, filed under the state's Ellis Act.
He's a senior, he's disabled, his friends are mostly dead and his life is in his community — but none of that matters. The Ellis Act has no exceptions.
Mykaels spent a fair amount of his life savings fixing up his place. The walls are beige, decorated with nice art. Dickens the cat, who is chocolate brown but looks black, wanders in and out of the small bedroom. Mykaels has been happy there and never wanted to leave; "this," he told me, "is where I thought I would live the rest of my life."
There's no place in the Castro, or even the rest of the city, where he can afford to move. Small studios start at $2,500 a month, which would eat up all of his income. There is, quite literally, nowhere left for him to go.
"A lot of my friends have died, or moved to Palm Springs," he said. "But this is where my doctors are and where I'm comfortable. I'm not going to find a support system like this anywhere else in the world."
Mykaels is the face of San Francisco, 2013, a resident who is not part of the mayor's grand vision for bringing development and high-paying jobs into the city. As far as City Hall is concerned, he's collateral damage, someone whose life will have to be upended in the name of progress.
But Mykaels isn't going easily. The former web designer has created a site — ellishurtsseniors.org [1]— that lists not only his address (460 Noe) and the names of the new owners (Cuong Mai, William H. Young and John H. Du) but the addresses of dozens of other properties that are facing Ellis Act evictions. His message to potential buyers: Boycott.
"Do not buy properties where seniors or the disabled have been evicted for profit by real estate speculators using the Ellis Act," the website states.
Mykaels is a demon researcher — his site is a guide to 31 properties with 94 units where seniors or disabled people are being evicted [2] under the Ellis Act. In some cases, individuals or couples are filing the eviction papers, but at least 14 properties are owned by corporations or trusts.
Mai told me that he knew a disabled senior was living in the building when he and his two partners bought it, but he said his plan all along was to evict all the tenants and turn the three-unit place into a single-family house. He said he hasn't decided yet whether to sell building; "I might decide to live there myself." (Of course, if he wanted to live there himself, he wouldn't need the Ellis Act.)
Mai said he "felt bad about the whole situation," and he had offered to buy Mykaels out. The offer, however, wouldn't have covered more than a few months of market rent anyplace else in the Castro.
By law, Mykaels can stay in his apartment until September. If he can't stave off the eviction by then, San Francisco will lose another longtime member of the city community.
Dark days in the Inner Sunset
The living room in Rose and Willie Eger's Inner Sunset apartment is where Rose composes her songs and Willie unwinds after playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Faded Beatles memorabilia and 45 records adorn the walls, and a prominently displayed poster of Jimi Hendrix looms above a row of guitar cases and an expansive record collection.
It's a little worn and drafty, but the couple has called this 10th Ave. apartment home for 19 years. Now their lives are about to change. On Jan. 5, all the tenants in their eight-unit building received notice that an Ellis Act eviction proceeding had been filed against them.
"The music that I do is about social and political things," explains Rose, dressed from head-to-toe in hot pink with a gray braid swinging down her back. Determined to derive inspiration from this whole eviction nightmare, she's composing a song that plays with the phrase "tenants-in-common."
Cindy Huff, the Egers' upstairs neighbor, says she began worrying about the prospect of eviction when the property changed hands last summer. Realtor Elba Borgen, described as a "serial evictor" in online news stories because she's used the Ellis Act to clear several other properties, purchased the apartment building last August, through a limited liability corporation. The notice of eviction landed in the mailbox less than six months later. (Borgen did not return Guardian calls seeking comment.)
"With the [average] rent being three times what most of us pay, there's no way we can stay in the city," Huff says. "The only option we would have is to move out of San Francisco." She retired last year following a 33-year stint with UCSF's human resources department. Now, facing the prospect of moving when she and her partner are on fixed incomes, she's scouring job listings for part-time work.
The initial notice stated that every tenant had to vacate within 120 days, but several residents are working with advocates from the Housing Rights Committee in hopes of qualifying for extensions. Huff and the Egers are all in their fifties, but some tenants are seniors—including a 90-year-old Cuban woman who lives with her daughter, and has Alzheimer's disease.
Willie works two days a week, and Rose is doing her best to get by with earnings from musical gigs. Both originally from New York City, they've lived in the city 35 years. When they first moved to the Sunset, it resembled something more like a working-class neighborhood, where families could raise kids. The recent tech boom has ushered in a transformation, one that Rose believes "changes the face of who San Francisco is." Willie doesn't mince words about the mess this eviction has landed them in. "I call it 'Scam-Francisco,'" he says.
The trio recently joined tenant advocates in visiting Sup. Norman Yee, their district supervisor, to tell their stories. Yee, who is expected to be one of the swing votes on an upcoming debate about condo-conversion legislation vehemently opposed by tenant activists, reportedly listened politely but didn't say much.
As for what the next few months have in store for the Egers? "I can't really visualize the outcome," Rose says. "I can only visualize the day-to-day fight. And that's scary."
Fighting for a home in the Mission
Eleven years ago, Olga Pizarro fell in love with Ocean Beach. A native of Peru who was living in Canada, she visited the Bay Area, saw the water and decided she would never leave.
Fast forward to today and she's built a home in the Mission, renting a small room in a basement flat on Folsom Street. The 55-year-old has lived in the building for eight years; polio has left her wearing a leg brace and she can't climb stairs very well, but she still rides her bike to work at the Golden Gate Regional Center. She's a sociologist by training; the walls in her room are lined with bookshelves, with hundreds of books in Spanish and English.
The place isn't fancy, and it needs work, but it's hard to find a ground-floor apartment in the Mission that's affordable on a nonprofit worker's salary. Since 2011, when she moved in, she and her three housemates have been protected by rent control. And Pizarro's been happy; "I love the neighborhood," she told me.
The letter warning of a pending eviction arrived Jan. 16. A new owner of the building wants to turn the place into tenancies in common and is prepared to throw everyone out under the Ellis Act. There's no place else in town for Pizarro to go.
"I've looked and looked," she said. "The cheapest places are $2,500 a month or more. Maybe I'll have to move out of the city."
Pizarro's building is owned by Wai Ahead, LLC, a San Francisco partnership registered to Carol Wai and Sean Lundy. I couldn't reach Wai or Lundy, but their attorney, Robert Sheppard, had plenty to say. "San Francisco is going the way of New York," he told me. "Manhattan is full of co-ops that used to be rentals, and lower-income people are moving to Brooklyn and Queens. That's happening here with Oakland and further out." He argued that TICs, like co-ops, provide home-ownership opportunities for former renters.
Sheppard, who for years represented tenants in eviction cases, said the Ellis Act is law, and America is a capitalist country, and "as long as there is a private housing market, there will be shifts of people as the housing market shifts." He agreed that it's not good for lower-income people to lose their homes, but "the poor will always be hurt by a changing economy. It's called evolution."
Pizarro told me she's shocked at how expensive housing has become in the Mission. "It's gotten so gentrified," she said. "People show up in their BMWs. It's starting to feel very isolated."
She's fighting the eviction. "I didn't intend it to be this way," she explained. "I just want to live here." Lacking any family in the area, the Mission has become her community — "and I'm frustrated by the violence of how expensive it is."
Affordability goes out of style
Hester Michael is a fashion designer, and her home doubles as a project space for creating patterns, sewing custom clothing, weaving cloth, and painting. She's lived in her Outer Sunset two-bedroom unit for almost two decades, but now she faces an Ellis Act eviction. Michael says she initially received notice last June. The timing was awful -– that same month, her husband passed away after a long battle with terminal illness.
"I've been here 25 years. My friends are here, and my business. I don't know where else to go, or what else to do," she says. "I just couldn't picture myself anywhere else."
Michael rents the upstairs unit of a split single-family home, a kind of residence that normally isn't protected by rent control. Yet she leased the property in 1994, getting in under the wire before that exemption took effect. Since she pays below-market-rate rent in a home that could be sold vacant for top dollar, a target was essentially inscribed on her back when the property changed hands in 2004. That's about when her long battle with the landlords began, she says.
From the get-go, her landlords indicated that she should look for a new place, Michael says, yet she chose to remain. The years that followed brought things falling into disrepair, she says, and a string of events that caused her feel intimidated and to fear eviction. Finally, she consulted with tenant advocates and hired an attorney. A complaint filed in superior court alleges that the property owners "harassed and retaliated [Michael] when she complained about the defective and dangerous conditions ...telling [her] to move out of the property if she did not like the dangerous conditions thereat ... repeatedly making improper entries into [the] property, and wrongfully accusing [her] of causing problems."
Records show that Angela Ng serves as attorney in fact for the property owner, Ringo Chung Wai Lee. Steven Adair MacDonald, an attorney who represents both landlords and tenants in San Francisco housing disputes, represents the owners. "An owner of a single family home where the rent is controlled and a fraction of market has virtually no other choice but to terminate the tenancy," MacDonald said when the Guardian reached him by phone. "They've got to empty it, and the only way to empty it is the Ellis Act."
While Michael received an extension that allows her to remain until June 5, she fears her custom sewing business, Hester's Designs, will suffer if she has to move. There's the issue of space. "I have so much stuff in this house," she says. And most of her clients are currently located close by, so she doesn't know where her business would come from if she had to relocate. "A lot of my clients don't have cars," she says, "so if I live in some suburb in the East Bay, forget it. I'll lose my business."
The prospect of eviction has created a major dilemma for Michael, who first moved to San Francisco in 1987. While moving to the East Bay seems untenable, she says renting in San Francisco feels out of reach. "People are renting out small, tiny bedrooms for the same price as I pay here," she says. With a wry laugh, she adds: "I don't think there's any vacant apartments in San Francisco -– unless you're a tech dude and make seven grand a month."
[1] http://www.ellishurtsseniors.org/
[2] http://www.ellishurtsseniors.org/properties-boycott.html


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The Witch of Tremont Row, 1900
As you can see, this is a cabinet card photograph of "Zoe Stouadenewich, Witch of Tremont Row. L. B. Walker, Manager." The photograph is by Elmer Chickering (fl. 1885–1915; see his Wikipedia page here).
As you can see below, on the back of the card we are told that "Duplicates of the picture [are available] at any time" from "The Original Chickering Photographic Studio": "Elmer Chickering, 21 West Street, Boston, Mass." So, when you are in Boston, just pop down to West Street if you want one.
I have not been able to discover much at all about Zoe Stouadenewich. Another photograph of her appears in the McGown collection of 2540 theatrical photographs of circus and vaudeville acts, where it is catalogued here) as "Stouadenewich, Miss Zoe, The Kindergarden Co., 12.23.1889" [i.e., 23 December 1889]. (Her photo is in Box 45, folder 11 of this collection.)
I have found a couple of newspaper references to "The Kindergarden Co." in action giving "theatrical entertainments" in 1886 thanks to http://www.fultonhistory.com. The first reference, recorded in The Fulton Times, was "at the opera house … before small audiences … The actresses were each good in their respective parts, while the songs and duets were mostly new and well rendered." The second, in The New York Dramatic Mirror, simply records that the company was in Buffalo NY.
A bit of digging online reveals that L. B. Walker was manager of the Nickelodeon, aka the Nickelodeon Musee and Parlor Theatre, 51–53 Hanover Street, Boston (which was established 1894). In 1900 the City Council granted a licence to "LB Walker (referred July 17), for a license for the Nickelodeon, for vaudeville entertainments and exhibition of freaks, at 51–53 Hanover St." Also, The New York Clipper (8 May 1901): 239, informs us that Walker was presenting "The Fat Woman's Bicycle Race … including six of the most ponderous riders in the world." So, Walker was a vaudeville manager of freaks, fat ladies, and witches!
Tremont Row had been the home of photographers (in the 1840s Josiah Johnson Hawes opened Boston's first photography studio there) and artists (the New England Art Union had its home at No. 38 in the 1850s, and Charles Hubbard kept a studio there from 1848 to 1856). By the late nineteenth century, through to the early twentieth century, numerous vaudeville and burlesque theaters made their home in the area—which (according to this site) eventually attracted the attention of Boston's vice squad and after WW2 the whole area was flattened and redeveloped into a series of municipal government buildings!
Bringing this meagre amount of information together: it seems likely that Zoe was—from a young age—an actress, singer and vaudeville entertainer; that she was a member of a small theatre company that toured upstate NY in the late 1880s and a decade later had settled in an area of Boston thick with vaudeville theatres and entertainers.
We can assume that she adopted the moniker "The Witch of Tremont Row" for much the same reason as "la Sorcière Isoline"—"Le Voyante Musicienne" [The Witch Isoline—The Musical Visionary], who sang and told fortunes, or, as one of her promotional cards put it, she would reveal one's "Destinée; Consils sur Héritages, Procès, Successions, Mariages, etc." [Destiny; Inheritance, Lawsuits, Successions, Marriages, etc.]. For my two posts on Isoline see here and here.
The photograph does not contain the sort of witchy paraphernalia that we might expect today, but neither do the photographs of la sorcière Isoline. My attention was, however, captured by the above wishbone brooch.
The wishbone is symbolic of good luck and has been popular since the Victorian period. I have seen many silver and gold wishbone brooches, but they also came in gilded brass, either plain, or covered in seed-pearls, garnet, obsidian and other semi-precious stones, set with a large central stone, or combined other symbols or motifs. Below are a handful of examples from the Victorian/Edwardian period onwards (NB, below right, wishbone with citrine, seed-pearls, etc). Unfortunately, it is not clear what symbol or stone has been added to Zöe's wishbone. (Shape-wise, the closest match is the brass and citrine brooch—available for only USD34.00 here.)
Wishbone brooches were popular as memento or Mizpah jewellery. As this site says, "Since [the Victorian/Edwardian period] was an era of great exploration and travel over vast distances, many pieces of Mizpah jewellery was made": so we find examples with national symbols attached, as above left (clover-leaf for Ireland, map of Australia and Koala for Australia, thistle for Scotland).
The message is, then, good luck from/in Ireland/Scotland/Australia etc. Like convict love tokens (see here), these pieces of jewelry carry a message of affection for or from loved ones who have been left behind. In more recent times, below, we get cheap tourist memento pins which carry a similar but uch more superficial message, and usually in a more literal way "[good luck from] Plymouth" or "Edinburgh". Others (as above, bottom left) have unrelated symbols, such as a banjo, which may mean something like "good luck playing the banjo"!
Returning to Zöe, it is quite possible that she is wearing a good luck charm from her homeland. With a name like Stouadenewich she could be from many places in Europe: Germany, Norway or Sweden: Stauden being "perennial" in German and Staden being "town" or "city" in Norwegian and Swedish. Then again, it could be a more general good luck charm—appropriate for a witch—or it could just be decorative. Certainly, Zöe herself is quite attractive and the wishbone looks lovely on her.
[And if anyone claims—as they have previously about Isoline—that Zöe is a man in drag, I will scream. Although this site is called sexy witch, not every woman on it who is not eye-poppingly gorgeous is a man in drag!]
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Overlay Hitachi Interactive Plasma Display PXDUO-65P over 65'' Panasonic Plasma Display and convert it into full featured interactive Whiteboard with complete mouse functionality. Supported 65" Panasonic Plasma Displays include TH-65PF10, TH-65PF11, and TH-65PF12.
Design and deliver intuitive presentations with easy-to-use function buttons on the overlay screen to create new pages, activate the pen tool, and access StarBoard Software features. Mark up web sites, documents, and multi-media files with digital inks to demonstrate your point and capture any feedback. Subsequently, save all your work for later reference, review, or reuse.
The interactive overlay uses Hitachi's DUO infrared technology to create a fast and accurate touch response that allows for two users to interact at the same time. The Starboard PXDUO is easy to install and calibrates cutting-edge Infrared Technology to eliminate the need for a projector while reducing cost and maintenance hassle.
Plasma Transformation: The intuitively designed Plasma Digitizer fits over the 65'' Panasonic Plasma Display and transforms it into an interactive multi-touch screen with complete mouse functionality. With your fingers, stylus, or electronic pen, you can control computer applications, navigate Web sites, and write notes on the display.
Function Button: The 16 function buttons make it easier for you to present intuitively. You can create a new page, mark up web sites and documents/files with digital inks to illustrate your point, activate the pen tool, and other StarBoard Software shortcuts with 14 customizable function buttons.
Infrared Technology: The Hitachi PXDUO-65P uses infrared technology that allows two users to interact simultaneously with the board. The infrared technology facilitates instant and accurate touch response.
Electronic Pen: The ergonomically electronic pen is easy to handle and suggests swift and accurate interaction with the touch-enabled board. The pen can be used to annotate, inscribe notes, or edit images with three interactive, customizable buttons.
Incorporated Starboard Software Suite: Hitachi PXDUO-50P enables rich user experience with complete Starboard Software Suite. It brings following features:
- User Friendly Toolbar to arrange and save tools to fit your specific needs according to students, specific subjects, or other criterion.
- Import Microsoft Office files (PowerPoint, Word, or Excel), PDF, JPEG, and other formats directly into StarBoard and bring them to life with digital inks, spotlight tools, and other interactive features.
- Increase comprehension of your lessons and illustrate content with a vibrant palette of digital inks, from translucent highlighter to colorful 3D. Mark-up and annotate documents, applications, images, and videos.
- Engage students in cooperative learning, allow two students to write and interact on a lesson/presentation at the same.
- Snap handwritten notes into neat text and search what you wrote in Google™ to pull and present images, articles, and relevant content to further exemplify key spots.
- StarBoard resources include over 5,000 curriculum relevant images and background templates, an online resource center, community forum, and many more. Visit Educator Portal.
- Get high quality educational resources of Cambridge University Press with Hitachi technology to take your courses, presentations, and lectures to a new level.
|Manufacturer Part No.
|65'' diagonal
|Function Buttons
|Weight (lbs)
|Power supply
|AAA Alkaline
|2-screen Compressed Copying
|Digitizing Technology
|Infrared Image Sensor System
|Intel Pentium 4, 1.8GHz or higher
|Operating Systems
|Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/ Vista / 7 (32 bit), latest service pack must be applied (Tablet PC, 64 bit, and Server Edition are currently not supported), Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 latest service pack must be applied
|1GB or higher
|Hard Disk
|600 MB or more available space
|Approx. 500 lpi (Coordinates)
|1 year warranty
|Terms and Conditions may apply


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Behind the Seams: Exhibiting and Conserving Fashion and Textiles
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Phone: 513-721-ARTS
Address: 953 Eden Park Drive
Website: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.com