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* Artists need to apply for the residency and create a brief proposal or concept to work on.
* Open to artists working across many mediums. So far we have hosted a poet, installation artist, composer, a printmaker and several painters.
* Auckland Council regional park Artist in Residence 2012 was James Ormsby. See our website
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Warning: If your screen doesn't look like these screen-shots (for example, if you don't have an "About" tab), your version of StarChart is not up-to-date.
Whole Sky Star Chart Activity
This activity will display a map of the sky showing the position of the visible stars, some of the larger and brighter deep-sky objects (DSOs), the "classical" planets, the sun and the moon.
You may specify a location (longitude and latitude) and the time (including time zone offset from GMT) that you wish to have a plot for. Alternatively, you can get a plot which is updated once a minute showing the current sky.
You can also learn your way around the sky by using the "Locate" feature to find an object whose name you know or by using the "Identify" feature to get the name of something you see on the chart.
If you have access to a small telescope or a pair of binoculars, StarChart can provide a magnified view encompassing 7 degrees of the sky centered on a point you specify.
The latest version (identified as "Version 2.3, build 120") can be downloaded from here.
This version has been tested and confirmed to function on OLPC O/S releases through 8.2.1 and with Sugar on a Stick 0.86 (Blueberry).
Call for suggestions
Now that I have a working program, I'm interested in suggestions as to what it will take, both in additional programming and in creating documentation to use it (e.g.: suggested lesson plans), to make this a world-class tool for teaching astronomy.
Help me take this activity to the next level! Please add comments on the "discussion" page associated with this article.
Where's the source code?
This activity is coded entirely in Python. Therefore, the source for the activity is distributed as part of the .XO file and can (with any tool that understands the compressed format of .XO files, e.g.: WinZip for the PC) be extracted directly from the bundle.
Disclaimer: there will be bugs
This is the third "stable" release. It functions and has all the intended initial features buit it still may contain cosmetic bugs. Please see the bug tracking page for the list of known bugs or to report a bug.
StarChart was created by a professional programmer and amateur astronomer who likes to vacation in places far removed from his home town and appreciates the opportunity to view the sky from these places. The XO is a wonderful travel accessory for supporting this sort of thing since it is light, compact and frugal of battery power while providing a reasonably large, reasonably high resolution color display.
This Activity is intended to support the star-gazer who has no instrument better than his own eyes. It can be used as a guide to the sky overhead, as a tool for planning future observations (including observations from a different location) or as a way to reprise the look of the sky as it was at some time in the past.
The current version of this activity is "Version 2.3 (build 120) of 2010.11.28.1830 UT", which can be confirmed by using the "About" feature. See the change log page for revision history.
Before you begin
Be sure your XO has been set to the correct time-zone offset and the correct local time! The astronomical algorithms need to compute GMT (UT) and can't do that if "now" isn't the right time. (This is only an issue if you don't plan to always use "specify time". But it's still an untidy way to operate your computer.)
Installation and set-up
For best results, remove any previous version of StarChart you may have installed. Re-start X (hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace). Then, simply follow the usual procedure for downloading and installing an Extra Activity.
Once you have installed StarChart, start it and select the "When" menu tab.
Is the time (YYYY/MM/DD,HH:MM) the correct year, month, day, hour and minute for your location (it's 24-hour time -- 1:00 PM is 13:00 in that system)? Is the zone offset showing the correct hours and minutes that your locale is offset from GMT? (Hint: Eastern Standard Time in the USA is "-5:00" with respect to GMT.) If not, stop the activity and correct your time and time-zone using the Sugar control panel before proceeding.
If the time and date are correct, the chart will be displaying the sky for a location in Massachusetts, USA as of right now. If you don't happen to be in that location, you will need to enter your longitude and latitude. Click on "where" to display the controls for doing this. You should be able to get your coordinates from any good map, Google Earth or simply use the published coordinates for any relatively nearby city or town. Another possibility is from a site on the internet such as http://www.mapquest.com/atlas which provides a map with latitude and longitude information from which you can interpolate your specific coordinates.
Don't be obsessive about the precision for this: the star chart will not look noticibly different if you are wrong by one or two degrees either way in latitude or longitude. Being off 100 km won't make enough of a difference to show. But be sure you select East or West longitude and North or South latitude! Then click "Ok" so the program knows you really want to change these settings.
Now I'd recommend clicking the "Make Home" button. StarChart will save this location as your "home" position. From now on, whenever you start the activity the location will default to these coordinates.
How to read the plot
Stars are drawn (with default settings of the "What" menu tab controls) as white dots of different sizes. The brightest stars are drawn as the biggest dots; the dimmest stars are drawn as the smallest dots.
The constellations are drawn as white lines forming the stick-figures defined by the International Astronomical Union.
The sun, moon and "classical" planets are drawn as their astrological symbols and plotted much larger than they actually appear.
(I need to provide a picture that identifies each of these symbols. For now, see "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols". My symbols are close to the ones in that chart.)
Deep sky objects are plotted as areas of gray, with different "decorations", depending on the type of the object.
- A diffuse nebula (such as the one in Orion) is plotted as a gray rectangle.
- A galaxy is plotted as a gray ellipse or circle with a white border.
- A planetary nebula is plotted as a gray circle with a central white dot.
- An open cluster is plotted as a gray circle with no border.
- A globular cluster is plotted as a gray circle with a white border and a central dot.
Operating instructions
The initial display for StarChart will show the sky for your locale and the current time. (This assumes you have done the steps described above in "Installation and set-up".)
Note that there are six menu tabs: "Activity", "What", "Where", "When", "Locate" and "About". "Activity" is pretty much the same as any other activity's "Activity" tab except that StarChart does not yet support collaboration so the "Share" control is missing. Let's look at each of the other tabs in order...
The "What" menu controls
"What" lets you change the color combinations of the map and decide how many stars you want to see and if you want the constellation figures. These settings get saved, too. So if you prefer black stars on white sky you can get that combination. Let's walk through each option and see what it does to the appearance of the map.
The "Night Vision" option makes the activity's display mostly red on black. Red light doesn't affect your night vision so using this mode lets your eyes read the map and still remain sensitive enough to see the dim stars. Hint: it also helps to set the brightness of the back-light as low as you can and still read the chart to minimize the effect on your night vision.
But sometimes you will find it easier to work with a chart that's black on white like a page in a book. This mode is not good for use at night but it's fine in a classroom or in daylight. To get a black chart on a white background, set "Invert Display".
Normally, StarChart shows its map with east on the left. This may seem odd to you because a terrestrial map would show east on the right. But if you face east and hold the map so that east is near the ground, you'll discover that with a terrestrial map, north on the map is now to your south! With StarChart's mirrored map, north is north and south is south when east is down. That means what you see on your XO's screen will match what you see in the sky.
But if you find it confusing to have east on the left and west on the right, you can set "Flip L/R" and get the map to be like a terrestrial map.
Stars are grouped in imaginary figures called constellations. These represented scientific and navigational instruments, gods and goddesses, mythical and real animals and other patterns that people saw in the sky. Since drawing detailed pictures would make the chart too confusing, astronomers usually draw simple stick-figures. StarChart normally plots these standard figures. But you can turn that off and just see the stars themselves if you want -- after all, there are no lines drawn in the sky!
Stars come in different brightnesses. Astronomers call these levels of brightness "magnitudes". The brightest stars are magnitude zero (well, in a couple of cases, brighter than that); the dimmest stars that you can see without a telescope or binoculars on a really dark night will be about magnitude 6.
There are a lot more dim stars than bright ones. So if StarChart always plotted all the stars you could see, there would be so many (over 1,000!) that it would be hard for you to read the map. So there's a control (actually six of them) that lets you select how dim the stars the activity should bother to plot. StarChart defaults to plotting stars of magnitude 4 or brighter. This is a good compromise between having not enough stars to appreciate what the sky looks like and having so many that it's confusing. This brightness is about what you would see on an average night in suburban locations.
Here is what the plot looks like when you have asked for only the brightest of the stars. This is what the sky might look like from the middle of a large city.
And this is what the sky might look like from a mountain a long way from cities or towns on a moonless night.
The "Where" menu tab controls
This is the menu tab that lets you tell StarChart from what place on earth you would like to see the sky plotted. Usually, this would be where you are, but sometimes you might want to see what the sky looks like to someone living elsewhere.
A location on earth is specified by longitude and latitude. Longitudes go from zero to 180 degrees east or from zero to 180 degrees west. Latitudes go from zero to 90 degrees north or zero to 90 degrees south.
The StarChart activity will accept an angle as a number of degrees, including fractional degrees (like "123.45") or an angle as degrees, minutes and seconds. In this second type of angle, you must use a form like "123d27m33s". Enter longitude (be sure to select east or west) and latitude (be sure to select north or south) and click on the "Ok" button. If the new location is substantially distant from the old, the star map will look very different.
The "Make Home" button will set the selected location as your default observatory coordinates. This setting is then remembered for all future StarChart sessions.
The "When" menu tab controls
These controls let you specify the time for which you want the chart plotted.
Normally, "Now" is selected and the current year, month, day, hour and minute and the number of hours and minutes that your time-zone differs from GMT by is shown in the time and offset fields. Additionally, the time field will automatically be updated to track the current local time and the plot will automatically be recomputed once a minute. In this mode, the plot will match the current sky and will move over time the way the sky does. But you can also use these controls to specify that you want a chart for a particular time in the future or past.
Click the "Specify time" radio button, since "Now" isn't what you want anymore. Now specify the new time, beginning with the year. Time is entered as a four-digit year, a two-digit month and a two-digit day, separated by slash (/) characters, a comma (,) and then the hour and minute in 24-hour time separated by a colon (:). Example: 2008/02/20,22:00 would be 10 PM on the 20th of February, 2008. Next, if your location observes daylight time, you may need to add or subtract an hour from the time-zone offset value if the time you entered is on the "other side of the daylight time boundary". Finally, click "Ok" to get the new plot.
When you click on the "Specify time" radio button, StarChart stops the display from automatically being updated. Clicking on the "Now" radio button will set the time back to the current time and resume automatically updating the time fields and the chart.
Another time you have to use the "When" controls is to get a valid map for another place expressed in that place's local time. When you specify some place at a different longitude from your home location, you often will also need to know that place's time zone offset and set that as well. For example, to get a star chart for 8 PM on March 15th, 2008 for Hawaii, you would need to enter "156 degrees W longitude and 21 degrees N latitude" using the "Where" tools and also enter "Specify time; 2008/03/15,20:00; -10:00" using the "When" tools.
The "Locate" menu tab controls
These controls let you select an object and have it highlighted on the chart so you can tell where the object is in the sky. You can "locate" planets, stars (either by the constellation which contains the star or from a list of the brightest stars) or "deep-sky" objects.
You begin by selecting the type of object. Then you pick the object itself.
Let's start by locating the planet Venus...
The green cross marks where the object is.
Now let's try locating the planet Saturn...
But Saturn has not yet risen, so it isn't visible right now. Instead of the green cross, you get a message saying that the object you wanted is currently below your horizon.
Now let's locate a star. There are two ways to do this: you can select an object type of "Stars by Constellation" or an object type of "Brightest Stars". "Stars by Constellation" will let you locate any star in the catalog but you need to know your constellation names. "Brightest Stars" will only find 50 or so stars but these are the ones whose names you probably already know.
Here we have located Alpharatz, a star in the constellation of Andromeda.
We attempted to locate Canopus, one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. But the current location is too far north to ever see Canopus, so StarChart tells you that this object is always below the horizon.
In this example, we use "Brightest Stars" to locate Deneb.
And by selecting "Deep-Sky Objects" we located the famous Andromeda Galaxy.
The "About" menu tab
The "About" tab displays the version information for the activity and lists the URL of this documentation page.
This is an easy way to determine which version of StarChart you are using and gives a quick reminder about where to find these operating instructions.
The "Identify" feature
Now we come to a capability of the activity that isn't obvious from the menu tabs. This is the ability to identify an object which is shown on the chart by pointing the cursor at it and clicking the left mouse button.
Here, the operator has selected the star Polaris. StarChart duly notes that the object is a star and that its name is Polaris. This works for anything on the chart except the lines that form the constellation stick-figures.
But if you point to an empty part of the chart or outside the chart itself, you get this message instead.
Magnification Feature
If you right-click on a point in the whole-sky plot, StarChart will show you a view centered on that point as you would see in a seven-power telescope. This is a circular field of view seven degrees in diameter. (A pair of 7X binoculars has a field of view roughly this big.)
StarChart will show all the objects from the whole-sky plot that fit in that field and will also automatically show stars as dim as magnitude 6.7. Since any instrument which magnifies the sky will also gather more light than your eye can, using binoculars or a spy-glass therefore will let you see objects dimmer than the visual limit of 6.3.
While magnifying, StarChart will hide the controls which would have let you set the limiting brightness. StarChart also hides the "Draw Constellations" button because we don't draw the constellations in the magnified view. The magnified view also cannot tolerate changing the observer's latitude and longitude and cannot tolerate changing time, so all the controls for "Where" and "When" are hidden and the plotting time does not advance.
But you can still use "Locate" and "Identify" as you would for the whole sky plot.
Deep-sky objects are automatically enlarged seven times to appear as big in the magnified view as they would appear in your instrument.
Because stars are essentially points, their size is the same in the magnified plot as in the whole-sky plot.
Though if you ask to locate an object which might be visible in the whole-sky plot but is not visible in the magnified plot, you will get a specific error message saying "This object is not in the field of view.".
To return to the whole-sky plot again, simply right-click anywhere in the magnified plot.
Error messages
StarChart will detect errors if you make a mistake when specifying a location on the "Where" tab or a time on the "When" tab. If you enter something in the longitude or latitude that StarChart doesn't understand and click the "Apply Location" button, StarChart will display a message:
StarChart will restore the longitude and latitude settings to the default (your observatory location, if specified -- see below -- or 0,0) values. You may try again or simply click "Apply Location" again to confirm that you want to keep the good settings after all.
StarChart will also detect errors with the time and time-zone offset settings.
In this event, StarChart will reset the time to the current local time and reset the zone offset to the offset of the local time-zone.
Advanced features and tricks
Customize it
Here are some changes you can make if you are comfortable using the Terminal, can find your way around the linux file-system and can use one of the pre-installed text editor programs.
Prevent the plotting of the deep sky objects
If you find that having deep sky objects plotted is unnecessary for your purposes, you may disable this feature. Simply rename the files "dso1.py" and "dso2.py" in the StarChart directory to something else (e.g.: dso1.bak and dso2.bak). To restore the functionality, simply name the files back to dso1.py and dso2.py and start the activity again.
Disable the Magnification feature
If you do not wish to support magnification, you may disable this feature using a similar technique. The file which must be renamed is stars2.py.
For the traveler
You may temporarilly override observatory location and time-zone offset by creating a file named travel.py in the StarChart directory. This file should contain one line of Python similar to this:
data = [123.45, -67.89, +870.0]
The first number is the longitude of the place you are traveling to. The second number is the latitude of the place you are traveling to. The third number is the number of minutes different between your home time-zone and the time-zone of the place you are traveling to. Again, be careful not to mess up the punctuation marks or this file will be rejected and your home location and time-zone offset will be used instead.
When you return home, simply delete the travel.py file and StarChart will go back to its usual default location and time-zone offset.
And here are some tips that will make using StarChart easier:
- Use Alt+Enter to switch to full-screen mode after you have set up "What", "Where" and "When". This will hide the menus and make the chart somewhat larger. It's especially helpful when you want to use the Night Vision color scheme as the menus are still being drawn in the white-on-black default colors.
- You can turn your XO into a red-light flashlight by setting both "Night Vision" and "Invert Display" then switching to full-screen mode.
- After locating an object you may find having the green cross still visible on the chart to be annoying. You can make StarChart stop showing the highlighting cross by selecting the "Where" tab and clicking on "Ok" without making any changes. (Experiment: there are other actions which will make the cross go away, too. Can you find them? What do they have in common?)
Revision history
Plese see the change-log page.
Reporting bugs
To report a bug or to see what bugs have been reported and/or fixed, please go to the bug tracking page.
Activity Summary
|Math and Science
|Activity group:
|Short description:
|Whole Sky Star Chart Activity
|This activity will display a plot of the stars, planets and some deep-sky objects which are visible for a specified location on Earth at a specified time.
|Repository URL:
|Available languages:
|English, Spanish
|Available languages (codes):
|en, es
|Pootle URL:
|Related projects:
|URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle
|Last tested version number:
|The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested.
|7.1.2 (656), 8.1.0 (703), 8.1.1 (708), 8.2.0 (767), 8.2.1
|Development status:
|5. Production-stable
|Ready for testing (development has progressed to the point where testers should try it out):
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|http://www.wa1gsf.net/downloads/XO/StarChart-14.xo +
|Activity genre
|Math and Science +
|Activity group
|Activities/Peru +
|Activity version
|14 +
|Available languages
|English +, and Spanish +
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Amazing Out-of-the-Ordinary Refrigerator Designs
I've griped about my tiny under-counter fridge in the past, so I'll spare you my litany of complaints today. Suffice it to say; while a regular old Frigidaire would set my heart to palpitating with desire, these dreamboats have me positively swooning!
Before you get your hopes up, let me just say that most of these are prototypes. Still, it's fun to see where the future of refrigeration could be heading—after all, pretty much everything in our kitchens starts out as a prototype before being put into production! Fingers crossed, we could be seeing some of these in our local appliance stores in the next several years….
1. Meneghini is the Lamborghini of refrigerators. These coolers are actually already available for purchase—if you've got 5 figures to spend on a fridge, that is. If not, check out their refrigerators anyway—it's truly inspiring to see how beautiful a humble appliance can be.
2. The Flatshare Modular Fridge won Electrolux's Design Lab Competition back in 2008. The idea is that it's perfect for roommates sharing a kitchen. Imagine: no more "did someone drink my milk?"
3. I heart this SSamsung by GRO Design freestanding fridge prototype so much! Why aren't more refrigerators designed to be cool pieces of furniture instead of being hidden behind cabinet panels?
4. The Celcius is another design competition winner, and like the Electrolux, it's modular as well (I'm sensing a theme…). Besides being great for roommates, a modular fridge would be perfect for those who seek to purchase only the refrigeration they need—plus you could add on if your family grows!
5. The future is now! Ok, so there's nothing new about the candy-coated Smeg refrigerator, but I love them and they continue to be a fun, modern, and small-space-friendly choice. Plus, you can actually purchase one (and still afford your mortgage)!
Would you buy a modular fridge if one actually came on the market?
Image Credits: Krunker, Robey's UK, GRO Design, Elite Choice, SMEG USA


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PROPHETSTOWN – The Prophetstown United Methodist Women will serve its annual fall luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 19 in the church's fellowship hall, 200 W. Second St.
The menu consists of hot beef and chicken casseroles, salads, bread, desserts, coffee and tea.
An express lane will be offered for those with a limited lunch hour, and a carry-out lane will be available.
The 250 tickets for the meal are sold in advance only. Contact any circle member or Betty Dennis, ticket chairman, at 815-537-2906. Leave a name, phone number and the number of tickets needed. The tickets can be picked up at the door.
The cost is $7 for adults, $2.50 for children 3 to 10 and free for children younger than 3.


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OMCA Galleries
"History is made up of individual stories that tell us about who we are and how we are connected to each other, and provides important lessons for the future. OMCA brings these stories to life and invites you to share yours, too." —Kelly McKinley, Deputy Director
There's nothing static about the new Gallery of California History, and for good reason: California—multilayered and ever evolving—has no single storyline, no fixed narrative. Millions of individuals and their unique stories have shaped how we perceive California, and OMCA's Gallery of California History reflects this diversity throughout its many installations. The story begins with its indigenous people and continues through to today with the increasing influx of people from all over the world.
"Coming to California" is the Gallery's overarching theme, emphasizing the profound impact of the state's successive waves of immigration. Explorations of Californians' varied ethnicities, relationships with the environment, global connections, and dreams and aspirations also run through the 30,000-square-foot Gallery in interactive presentations that showcase more than 2,200 artifacts, works of art, photographs, and ethnographic materials. California has always been a place of great diversity, and there have always been new people coming who have changed the culture. Whether your family has been here for generations or you arrived two weeks ago, the idea of coming to California resonates—because 'coming to California' is both a geographic idea and a metaphorical one.
Artifacts in the Gallery have been carefully selected from over 1.7 million items in OMCA's collection that represent California's history and cultures from the era before Europeans arrived to the 21st century. The strength of the collections are in photography; California native baskets and other material; California Gold Rush era artifacts; and material that relates to California technology, agriculture, business and labor, domestic life, and significant events such as World War II. Recent acquisitions help us tell the stories of many ethnic and cultural groups, recent immigrants, the counterculture, and gay culture.
Before the Other People Came
Explore seven different geographic regions of California as contemporary Native People describe the histories of their ancestors, their relationships to the land and each other, and the innovative practices that they crafted to live in each dynamic natural environment.
The Spanish Take This Land
Unpack the "baggage" of the Spanish settlers—religious beliefs, government, language, pastoral agriculture, and social structures brought to make California a Spanish place.
Coming for Gold
Discover the intersection of different cultures, languages, ambitions, and experiences of the Gold Rush era.
Seeking the Good Life
Explore the modern metropolis of Los Angeles in the early 20th century and the stories of the people and initiatives that helped "keep the good life going."
Creative Hollywood
Explore the story of the visionary talents who elevated moviemaking to an exciting new art form. This interactive exhibit invites you to gain firsthand filmmaking experience with opportunities to design costumes, create animation, and add sound effects to movies. If you've ever wondered if you have what it takes to become the next Walt Disney, Edith Head, or Steven Spielberg, here's your chance to find out!
Forces of Change
Discover display boxes created by a variety of Californians that lived here through the 1960s to 1975, a period of increasing political turmoil, identity politics, and the growth of a significant counterculture. Explore individual stories and multiple identities from environmentalist surfers, anti-war Chicanos, conservative women, Black Panthers, and hippies, among others.
California: To Be Continued…
Consider the breakthroughs, trends, and stereotypes that have defined California over the past 35 years. Featuring interactive elements—such as a modeled Silicon Valley garage where you can explore recent advances in high tech, and Negotiating the Border where you are invited to examine immigration from a variety of perspectives—the Gallery invites you to explore and share your thoughts. Influencing the World? explores how California has been the birthplace of countless ideas that have had global reverberations, from computer animation to Burning Man to the Edible Schoolyard. And, what better way to contemplate California's recent past than in a hot tub! Visitors are encouraged to enter OMCA's new (waterless) hot tub lounge, complete with an umbrella, towels, and flip-flops, and soak up the Golden State's unique cultural contributions.
Featured History Collections
The Ohlone Basket Project
The Ohlone Basket Project
The Native Californian basket collection at the Oakland Museum of California encompasses approximately 2,500 baskets from nearly all of the geographic and cultural regions of the state, including more than 50 tribal groups. However, this celebrated collection was missing one quintessential aspect of California's Native American heritage—Ohlone basketry. Ohlone baskets are rare, with only a few dozen known to exist worldwide. Their scarceness is partly due to the tribe's practice of burning one's personal possessions upon death, as well as the radical culture change brought about in the Bay Area by the missionaries and early settlers. In 2010, OMCA commissioned Ohlone artist, basket weaver, and scholar Linda Yamane to create a very rare Ohlone basket to enhance the Museum's Native American collection. This basket was the first of its kind to be made in more than 250 years, and serves as the sole Ohlone basket represented in OMCA's collection.
Yamane, a renowned Ohlone basket weaver who specializes in ancient Ohlone traditions, is a Rumsien Ohlone of the Native people of the Monterey area. The Rumsien Ohlone are closely related to the tribes that first inhabited the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including what is now Oakland. Linda Yamane has spent several years researching and recreating the traditional Ohlone basketry style; and she and her students are the only authentic Ohlone weavers alive today.
In an effort to preserve the heritage of the Ohlone people, OMCA documented Yamane's creative process over the years it took to complete the Ohlone Basket Project. Visit us here for videos unveiling the ancient rituals of Ohlone basket weaving techniques, from the collection of willow sticks and sedge roots to the hand grinding of olivella shell beads to attach to the coiled basket's surface.
The Ohlone Basket Project is made possible by generous support from the Oakland Museum Women's Board.
American Indian Collections
American Indian Collections
The California Indian collections contain everyday and ceremonial objects, including thousands of baskets from hundreds of Native cultural groups across the state. Charles Wilcomb, the founding director of the History Department, began the collection in the early 20th century with a particular focus on the tribes of the Central Valley and Northwest and Northeast of the state.
The California Indian collections include amazing feathered baskets from the Pomo and Wintu, extremely fine basket hats from the Hupa and Karok, and magnificent ornaments made from shell, beads, seeds, and feathers used in Native dance. Collections also include Southwestern Indian pottery, weaving, and silver jewelry; and Pacific Northwest carvings, boxes and clothing. Some artifacts are the only examples of their kind remaining in the world.
The California Ethnographic Collection at OMCA is subject to the rules of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Museum is advised on repatriation matters by its permanent Native Council representing the main tribal regions of the state.
Asia and Pacific Collections
Asia and Pacific Collections
The Asia and Pacific collections represent the close relationship of California to the Pacific Rim, through exploration, trade, immigration, and tourism.
The Pacific collection of ethnographic artifacts is one of the oldest in the Museum. It is based on approximately 220 private collections, the most notable being the John Rabe Collection. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Oakland dentist John Rabe traveled throughout the Pacific, gathering materials from Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Pacific collections include fans, fly whisks, chiefly regalia, canoes, paddles, clubs, masks, and tools, and textiles such as batiks, tapa cloth, and rare Maori cloaks. The Asian collections are not as extensive, but contain spectacular pieces, such as a purple silk and gold military uniform of a Manchu imperial prince and the red lacquer armor of a Tokugawa samurai. Holdings also include clothing and domestic and business artifacts from twentieth-century immigrant families, such as the Domoto, Lum, Uchida, and Chinn families.
Documentary Photography
Documentary Photography
The Museum's extensive photographic collections document the history of California and the West from the 1840s to the present, and include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cyanotypes, glass plate negatives, black and white prints and negatives, lantern slides, color prints, home movies, and videos. Notable among them is the Andrew J. Russell Collection, which includes hundreds of rare glass plate negatives and photographs documenting the exploration of the West and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Gabriel Moulin Collection, Moses Cohen Collection, and Oakland Tribune Collection form the largest and most comprehensive photographic record of the history and cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1890s to the 1990s. The recent acquisition of the Herrington-Olson and Stone & Stecatti Collections document the history of 20th century architecture in California.
The Tribune Collection
The Tribune Collection
From its pioneering days in the late 19th century, through the Pulitzer Prize-winning work during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Tribune has maintained a remarkable tradition of excellence in photojournalism. The Tribune collection is a major source for historical documentation of the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s. It is rich in images of protests at UC Berkeley, including the Free Speech Movement, the antiwar movement during the Vietnam war, and People's Park.
In 1995, the Oakland Tribune newspaper donated to the Oakland Museum of California its collection of news negatives and photographs, also known as its photo "morgue." The collection, with about 3,000 negatives and a million photographs, documents the history of the Bay Area and California from the early part of the century through the 1990s. Copies of these images can be purchased from the Museum. For more information, e-mail email@example.com.
The Andrew J. Russell Collection
The Andrew J. Russell Collection
In the decade following the Civil War, photographic artists were trailblazers as well as photographers, often accompanying government parties as they surveyed Western lands. Unique among this group, Andrew J. Russell (1830–1902) was assigned to document construction of the first transcontinental railroad as it stretched westward across the continent in the late 1860s. Russell's photographs capture the majestic scale of Western lands, its native people, rough boom towns, and the gritty enterprise of railroad building. Through widely circulated albums and inexpensive stereo views, Russell gave the world a glimpse of the West, helping to create a visual identity for a place already endowed with mythic qualities.
In the late 1960s, the Oakland Museum of California acquired more than 600 original collodion "wet plate" negatives taken by Russell a century earlier, the largest intact group by a major 19th century photographer. The Museum offers exhibition prints from copy negatives struck from Russell's original glass negatives. For more information, e-mail email@example.com.
Domestic Furnishings
Domestic furnishings
The Oakland Museum of California holds substantial collections of everyday and elite household furnishings, telling a story of making and claiming homes in California. The core of the collection is the Wilcomb Collection. In the early 20th century, founding curator Charles Wilcomb brought together early American ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, and spinning wheels—showing the everyday lives of many early American settlers. Since then, the Museum has aquired an entire kitchen from an 1850s house in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a World War II housing unit for workers at the Hunter's Point shipyards. Decorative arts include over a thousand early 20th century design drawings, molds, and select silver pieces from the San Francisco firm Shreve and Co. A highlight of the furniture collections are Herman Miller Consortium pieces by Charles Eames, showcasing mid-century modern style in the state.
Ephemera in many forms—labels, menus, brochures, pamphlets, receipts, paper dolls, coloring books, sheet music, dress patterns—illustrates the ordinary in our lives. Road maps, postcards, letters, and business cards of yesterday are often thrown away. The Grafton T. Brown Collection has some of the stones used by this prominent 19th-century African American lithographer, as well as the graphics he created and his business card. The Boardman Collection of maps includes early surveyors' tools. The Del Monte Collection includes can and crate labels and photographs of this food corporation from the early 20th century. Posters from World War I and World War II, San Francisco Rock concerts, and movies give insight into 20th century life. Representational titles from our collection of 19th- and 20th- century periodicals include: Godey's Lady's Book, The Wave, The Wasp, The Delineator, Sunset, Vogue, Life, Look, Silver Screen, and Family Circle.
Tools and Technology
Tools and Technology
The Oakland Museum of California's extensive collections of tools and technology show how people across the state have worked to make a living, and document a history of innovation. Beginning with the History Department's founding curator, Charles Wilcomb, the museum has collected early agricultural implements and rare mining equipment from the Gold Rush. A highlight of this collection is a complete 1870s assay office from Nevada City, used for both California gold and Nevada silver. Artisan tools document skills of the 19th century, including those of cobblers, tinsmiths, blacksmiths, tinkers, coopers, and cabinet makers. The twentieth century found Californians expanding into new fields, and the collections explore these endeavors, from early automobiles to the oil business, Hollywood, the defense industry, and high tech.


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The Vancouver Whitecaps arrived in Arizona on Tuesday, where they'll work out and play friendlies over a 10-day period at the Grande Sports World complex.
It's an isolated location without much in the way of entertainment or amenities, but you won't hear any of the players grumbling too much – on the record, at least.
But even those who'll take a poke at the complex's remote locale – it takes the better part of an hour to reach from downtown Phoenix – can see the merits in going to a place where there's little in the way of distractions.
"A little bit too long there and you'll go crazy for sure," attacker Omar Salgado said with a laugh after a training session at the University of British Columbia on Monday, before departing. "But 10 days are great there. We're there to concentrate on football, and that's it."
When it comes to Salgado specifically, just getting a chance to take part training fully with his teammates is the main priority. He didn't play a minute last season after dealing with an initial foot fracture in June 2012 and a re-fracture in spring 2013.
The first-overall pick in the 2011 SuperDraft, the 20-year-old took part in training sessions late last season, but the club opted not to rush him back too soon.
Because of his injury woes, the Texas native's career has yet to really take off – he's played just seven times in MLS over the past two seasons – but now the once scrawny teenager has filled into his 6-foot-4 frame and looks more a man than a boy.
- Get the latest Whitecaps news at WhitecapsFC.com
Salgado was drafted as a forward and now has the build of a target man, but he still maintains the mobility that prompted then head coach Martin Rennie to experiment with the player as a left winger with some success in 2012.
New coach Carl Robinson has stated he's happy to play Salgado in either role – centrally or as a winger – and it's likely the Welsh tactician will use preseason to try him in both roles.
"I guess he'll just plug me in wherever he needs me," Salgado said. "It depends on the game, our rivals. I'm willing to play wherever he wants me."
Martin MacMahon covers the Vancouver Whitecaps for MLSsoccer.com.


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In order to give some colour to the current market risk environment, we offer a set of analytics that are designed to help bring that concept to life.
We are talking here about risk in its broadest sense, one that also captures the notion of uncertainty, where outcomes are largely unknown and where the distribution from which they are drawn is at best extremely difficult to predict.
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The Beaufort County Council sent back a Bluffton Parkway realignment plan to the committee that voted it down last week, delaying a decision before the full body until at least April 22.
Chairman Paul Sommerville said during Monday's meeting that discussions among council members over the weekend prompted the move to return the realignment to the public facilities committee to run down the legal issues among developers and clarify right-of-way donations.
"No, we are not ducking the issue," he said. "There are so many moving parts, and we're going to put them all on the table."
The public facilities committee voted against a realignment pitched by the town of Bluffton last Monday in a 4-3 vote that included a "yes" from Sommerville, who isn't on the committee but serves as an ex-officio member as chairman of the Council.
The project, included among a list of infrastructure works funded through a 2006 sales-tax referendum, adds a new 2.5-mile road connecting the northern intersection of Buckwalter and Bluffton Parkways with Buck Island Road, creating a straight shot that avoids the curved southern leg of Bluffton Parkway wrapping around Pinecrest before dead-ending at Buckwalter Parkway. Bluffton's plan would shift the new intersection at Bluffton and Buckwalter parkways about 350 feet north while softening the curve.
The county's original plan received environmental approval from the state in 2008, but the town came forward in 2011 arguing its design would allow for more developable plots, improve safety and save millions in right-of-way costs with promised donations from landowner John Reed, who was threatening to sue over a past agreement with the town that set an approximate route and gave him some latitude over its placement, though some council members want an independent legal opinion on the matter.
The latest cost estimate from engineering consultant Florence & Hutcheson concludes the town's alignment would cost $4.3 million less than the county's $26.3 million plan, largely because of right-of-way donations valued at $5.7 million.
But Councilman Jerry Stewart of Sun City and Councilwoman Cynthia Bensch of Bluffton challenged the right-of-way costs at last week's meeting, insisting on an appraisal, and they bristled over Reed's insistence on the town's route as a condition of donating the land.
It's still an open question whether the county will ultimately go through with the project at all, said Vice Chairman Stu Rodman, but the town paid $100,000 to evaluate the new route and its wishes should be honored, he added.
"I think we ought to approve this, but I think we ought to do it in a way where there are no open issues," he said.
Chief among those issues: Agreements between Reed and Grande Oaks developer Doug Robertson over three access roads for nearby neighborhoods to the parkway, which would have to go through Reed's land from Robertson's tract. The rights for one, opposite Innovation Drive, are now in town hands, but council wants to see agreements guaranteeing the land for the other two will go to Bluffton upon a successful realignment vote, Sommerville said.
But Sommerville said after the meeting that he also wants it clear that approval of the route doesn't commit the county to paying for those roads.
"There's some sense on council that we're being snookered on this," Sommerville said. "I want to make it pellucidly clear that isn't the case."
He said he also wants a legal opinion on whether the roadway's inclusion in the 2006 referendum obliges the county to build the project at some point, which is still years away.
Bluffton-area Councilman Tabor Vaux, who was previously on the fence, said he now supports the town's alignment after a meeting with Mayor Lisa Sulka assured him spats between developers are resolved and the route is better for commercial growth.
"The town should have some say," he said. "I was wrong for saying they came in the fourth quarter."
The public facilities committee meets April 15. The full council meets the following Monday.
Sommerville said the committee can reverse the previous vote that effectively withheld its endorsement of the realignment.


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Knicks stay hot thanks to Smith, beat Bobcats
New York, NY – J.R. Smith was sensational yet again, reaching the 30-point plateau for the third straight game with a season-high 37, and the New York Knicks rolled to their seventh straight win with a 111-102 triumph over the Charlotte Bobcats at Madison Square Garden.
Attacking the basket all night, Smith became the first Knick ever to score at least 30 in three straight games off the bench. Averaging 26.4 points per game over New York's season-long winning streak, Smith connected on 12-of-18 from the field and was a near perfect 11-for-12 from the free throw line.
Carmelo Anthony was also pretty good, chipping in 32 points and 11 rebounds in the victory.
The Bobcats, currently sporting the league's worst record, received 35 points and seven boards from Gerald Henderson. Kemba Walker added 16 points with eight assists in the setback.
New York made it a one-sided contest early, jumping out to a 22-point lead before the end of the first quarter. With suffocating defense, the Knicks scored 13 points off six Charlotte turnovers and their hot 3-point shooting carried throughout the first half, converting 9-of-12 from long distance.
"It was a tough night, they play really well," said Walker. "They made shots, they made a lot of threes in the first half. They got out to a big lead and we could just never get over the hump."
Anthony had 17 points in the first half, but the performance was overshadowed by Smith, who is currently riding the greatest stretch of his career.
With most of his baskets coming inside the paint, Smith had 23 points on 9- of-11 shooting before halftime. He attempted just two 3-pointers, making both, and the Knicks took a commanding 69-47 edge into the break.
"J.R.'s playing so complete right now and it's nice to see," said Knicks coach Mike Woodson.
The Bobcats trailed by as many as 30 at one point, but after whittling their deficit down to 14 late in the third, they found themselves down by just seven, 102-95, following a 19-6 run with 2:03 to play.
Smith, though, ended any thought of a comeback a minute later, driving hard baseline and softly floating in a finger roll to put the contest out of reach.
"My coach and my teammates, they've been telling me to drive the ball all season," said Smith. "Its just finally clicked."
Henderson scored 21 of his points in the second half to help propel the Bobcats back into the game. He finished 15-of-17 from the free throw line.
Game Notes
The last player to score 30 off the bench in three consecutive games was Milwaukee's Ricky Pierce, who last accomplished the feat between Mar. 24- Mar.27, 1990 ... Smith has five 30-point games in March ... New York's record moved to 45-26. The last time it was 19 games over .500 was on April 18, 2000 ... The Knicks' Tyson Chandler sat for a ninth straight game with a neck injury.


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Get Happy: Colorful Furniture & Accessories
My apartment is a full-on color explosion — I can't keep a consistent color scheme simply because I love every color too much! To me, a happy home is a colorful home. From accessories to furniture, color is key!
If color were a religion, I would convert. Nothing makes me happy & keeps me more sane than surrounding myself with color. Surprising touches of green or red make for such a refreshing atmosphere!
• Superior Servers from Ladies & Gentelmen
• Loveseat from South of Market
• Soji Series from Unomatudo
• Amorphous Nesting Tables from Anthropologie
• Unfold Pendant Lamp from A+R
• Mason Bell Jar Pendant Lamp from Earth Sea Warrior
• Remix Desk from Matter
• Raymond Loewy Desk from Treadway Galleries
• Blanket Chair from Sit & Read
• Paper Collector from Creatables
Images: As linked above.


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CHICAGO (AP) It took a while for Kyle Lohse to get comfortable on a cold and soggy day at Wrigley Field. Once he got into a groove, the Milwaukee Brewers were well on their way to another victory.
Lohse pitched seven effective innings for his first win in three weeks, and Milwaukee beat the sloppy Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Friday.
''Kyle was a little bit off those first few innings and then he got it going again late,'' Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. ''Probably in the last inning had his best stuff and command.''
Lohse allowed three runs and seven hits as NL Central-leading Milwaukee won for the fifth time in six games. He retired his last 13 batters in his first win since April 23 against San Diego, ending a streak of three starts without a decision.
''It was a weird early going for me. I couldn't get command really much of anything,'' Lohse said. ''But you've been around long enough you figure out how to grind through it and figure out what you need to do physically to get your body in the right spot to make pitches.''
Jean Segura had three hits and two RBIs for Milwaukee, which improved to an NL-best 13-5 on the road. Elian Herrera doubled twice in a spot start in right field for Ryan Braun, who got the day off as he makes his way back from a right oblique strain.
Darwin Barney hit a two-run homer and Junior Lake had a solo shot for the Cubs, who have lost three straight and 10 of 12. Jeff Samardzija lasted five innings after getting off to a slow start, but is winless in his last 15 games dating to last season.
''Obviously, I want to win,'' Samardzija said. ''Being a starting pitcher, you have a big say as to how the game turns out. Obviously if my record isn't what I want it to be I need to do a better job.''
Milwaukee jumped on Samardzija for two runs in each of the first two innings, taking advantage of several early miscues by the Cubs.
Segura singled with one out in the first, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Jonathan Lucroy's base hit. Lucroy advanced when Lake mishandled his single to left and scored when Lyle Overbay reached on shortstop Starlin Castro's throwing error.
It was Castro's second error in three games and No. 7 in 40 games this season. The 24-year-old Castro had a career-low 22 errors in 159 games last season.
Segura added a two-run single in the second as Milwaukee opened a 4-0 lead. Welington Castillo had a costly passed ball that allowed the runners to move up to second and third before Segura hit a liner into center field.
Samardzija (0-4) allowed two earned runs and six hits in his shortest start of the season. His ERA increased from 1.45 to 1.62.
''He didn't have his best stuff today but he grinded out through five,'' manager Rick Renteria said. ''We had a couple plays that maybe extended his innings.''
Barney connected in the second and Lake went deep in the third, but that was it for Chicago against Lohse (5-1). The veteran right-hander struck out two and walked one while improving to 6-6 in 21 career starts against the Cubs.
Will Smith tossed a perfect eighth for Milwaukee and Francisco Rodriguez finished for his major league-best 17th save in 18 chances. It was Rodriguez's first outing since he allowed three runs in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh.
''I was itching to go yesterday. It didn't work out,'' he said. ''But as long as I get an opportunity to go out there and pitch, there's a better chance that I am going to do better than I did three days ago.''
Braun was activated from the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday and played three straight games against the Pirates. Roenicke decided to rest the 2011 NL MVP for the series opener against the lowly Cubs.
Braun, who is batting .316 with six homers and 18 RBIs in 25 games, did not make a rehab start before he rejoined the team.
''You're going on what the player tells you. If he comes out and feels it again, you're in trouble,'' Roenicke said. ''So that's why we try to take it easy so we're really protecting ourselves throwing him right out there and something happens and he's right back on the DL again.''
NOTES: It rained for much of the morning in Chicago, and the gametime temperature was 38 degrees. ... Brewers RHP Matt Garza (2-3, 4.98 ERA) is scheduled to face RHP Edwin Jackson (2-3, 4.56 ERA) on Saturday. It will be Garza's first game at Wrigley Field since he was traded from the Cubs to the Rangers last July. ... Roenicke said he hopes Carlos Gomez will be able to play Saturday. The center fielder is nursing a sore back while serving a three-game suspension for his role in a benches-clearing brawl April 20 in Pittsburgh.
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Example: If I want threads on threesomes, I might enter three* because people often spell it as 'threesum(s)' or 'threesome'. I could also try *somes or *sums, but have found using the most common terms/spelling first usually produces the best results.
a) Find threads with At least 1 Replies (so I don't get threads no one has answered)
b) Find Posts from Any Date and Newer (unless I'm looking for a specific thread that I know started in the past three months/year/etc.
c) Search in Forum(s) How To (if I'm looking for info/advice, but your choice will be dictated by what you're looking for, and All Forums will pull up everything)
d) I leave the rest of the fields on the default/pre-selected options


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Thermaltake Level 10 Mouse Review
Most of you have heard of the fascinating mouse from Thermaltake with inspiration from the BMW subsidiary DesignworksUSA: the Level 10 M mouse. It's been a big name through the holidays and has shown up on quite a few forum contest threads including here at OCC, and now it's about time we dig into the hype. Let us start with the concept. The Level 10 chassis was a hit among gamers looking for expensive and top performance professional gaming equipment. By taking the success of the Level 10 chassis and moving it to gaming peripherals, the Level 10 M Gaming Mouse was born. It is the first of the Level 10 gaming peripheral product line aimed to extend the Level 10 experience with direct interaction of users. From the start, Thermaltake wanted a design partner standing for the same innovative thinking and revolutionary approach in design and thus partnered with DesignworksUSA, a BMW subsidiary. This partnership is the reason you may have heard it deemed the "BMW" mouse. DesignworksUSA will continue to provide support as the eSports Level 10 product range expands, so be prepared to see more Level 10 peripherals out this year (or maybe at CES?).
With the concepts and business out of the way, we can dive into what we're really here to discuss: the Level 10 M Gaming Mouse itself. It is available in four colors to fit your fancy, and with seven color lighting options you can really make this mouse yours. Following a somewhat minimal styling of the Cyborg RAT mice, the Level 10 M has two adjustment points to set the mouse to you, rather than the other way around. The mouse can move vertically in the rear and also tilt left and right (5 degrees each way). I've never had a RAT or an adjustable mouse, so my experience should be an interesting one. I'm excited to see what all the hype is about, and without further ado, let's get on with the review.
Closer Look:
The box in its entirety expresses high class and expense. It's like an actual BMW itself – you get what you pay for. Hopefully, the quality inside the box is just as good as the box itself, because a lot of work went into designing this packaging. The front sports the mouse on end in almost a glamor pose, as if it were a pretty lady or a sexy man modeling a new outfit. "Level 10 M Gaming Mouse" is written on the box with great emphasis on the M, followed by the bold words "Born to be seen". This phrase is a bit cocky in my opinion, but perhaps they are just words of confidence.
Spinning the box around to the back side you can read about six of the main features of the mouse including ventilation, dynamic coloring, laser sensor, 3D steering, and the aluminum base. Some close up images are in place to represent each feature followed by the true mission statement of the Level 10 Mouse. The sides of the box are used to further tell the story of the mouse and rationalize the design concept.
Pulling away the outer sleeve of the box is like opening a rather expensive gift. The inside has flaps sealed with a sticker as an exclusive package. You really feel like you are opening something special. The sticker is pulled away without damage and the inside reveals a little more. At this point I would usually tell you to keep reading to even get to see the mouse, but I couldn't wait – you get a sneak peek this time.
BAM! Open up the box and the mouse is right in your face. It's held tightly in place with some zip-ties so you'll have to break out the scissors to fully unleash the beast. It reminds me much of Christmas as a kid where all the best toys were bound tightly to their cardboard packaging and having to nag dad to break it free with his knife. Even in the box, the mouse looks pretty hardcore. Now, while I find the scissors to open it up, you can read ahead without me.
There's quite a bit more stuff hiding in the box, visible once the mouse is removed. Inside I found a nice little carry bag, what appears to be an overgrown thumb screw (which is actually the tool to adjust the mouse), and a little quick start guide. The mouse has a nice Velcro tie holding the braided cable together, and the end is capped with a nice rubber-coated USB capped end. The level of "First Class" on the plane has been satisfied with the additional garnishes beyond the tiny cup of coke and warm cookie is the steak and potatoes – the Level 10 M.


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AT&T Expects Record Smartphone Sales in 4Q
|Thursday, 08 December 2011
AT&T Expects Record Smartphone Sales in 4Q
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Stephens, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, today announced that AT&T* is on track to break its single-quarter record for smartphone sales.
Speaking at the UBS 39th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York, Stephens said that AT&T sold about 6 million smartphones in the first two months of the fourth quarter. Because December is traditionally one of the strongest sales months, AT&T now expects to break the previous single-quarter smartphone record of 6.1 million.
AT&T's strong smartphone sales in part reflect a higher number of handset upgrades from customers who were waiting for the launch of a new iPhone. AT&T previously announced that it activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S' in the first five days the device was available. AT&T said iPhone 4S sales remain strong. Only on AT&T's network can iPhone 4S users download three times faster and talk and surf at the same time.
Stephens also said today that AT&T will turn up additional 4G LTE markets, including New York City, this month, and expects to cover 70 million people with its LTE network by year-end 2011, consistent with its previously announced plans.
The webcast of Stephens' presentation will be available for replay on the AT&T Investor Relations website until Dec. 30, 2011.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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Fan controls don't measure up
The fan controls at an airport terminal had never been reviewed, and needed to be updated with variable frequency drives.
During a recent inspection of the HVAC systems for a 1-million-sq-ft airport terminal, the exp U.S. Services team noticed the installation of inlet vanes on about 35 of the variable air volume (VAV) air handlers. This seemed particularly odd because the fans were only about 10 years old.
When the engineering team inquired about the installation, the client indicated it was a cost issue and that at the installation time the inlet vanes were a cheaper control method than variable frequency drives (VFDs). It seems that a proper design review by the CxA would have addressed this issue, and perhaps suggested a lifecycle cost analysis (LCCA) to show the actual operating costs of using the inlet vane controls versus VFD controls.
The recommendation: replace the inlet vanes with VFDs. Although a moderately costly option, the annual savings are 2,360,000 kWh and $127,000. As a bonus, the state is offering incentives of about $160,000, so the effective payback is around 3.7 years.
Terrence Malloy is project manager for the energy solutions group at exp US Services Inc. He focuses on energy conservation, retro-commissioning, and renewable energy systems.
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William Lucas hospitalized, listed in fair condition
At approximately 5:06 p.m. Saturday, the Mexico Public Safety Department responded to the area of Highway 15 (North Western Street) near Pearson in reference to a pedestrian who was hit by a car.
Responding personnel found that William Lucas, 39, of Mexico, had attempted to cross Highway 15 on foot when he was struck by a 1996 Ford truck driven northbound by Mary Treat, 54, of Paris. Lucas was transported to AMC by Audrain Ambulance District and was later flown to University Hospital where he is currently admitted and listed as being in fair condition, according to the MPSD.


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A good night's sleep is hard to find. However, Alistair Hughes, managing director of Savoir Beds, believes he has a royal remedy for your sleep problems in the "Royal Bed."
The Royal Bed, which was unveiled at London's Kensington Palace, is truly fit for royalty. The series consists of only 60 limited-edition mattresses that are made of Mongolian cashmere wool, curled Latin American horsetails and enough woven silk to stretch from New York to Miami and make the return trip.


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Originally published in the New York Times in 2007
I CLIMBED the steps to my apartment that night, buzzed on old Italian wine and the kind of emotional spark I hadn't felt with a man in way too long. Musing over whether I had the nerve to jump back into the romantic world again, I stepped into the bathroom to discover, courtesy of my bare feet, that my hand-knotted Persian rug was soaked.
My toilet -- an antique pull-chain contraption with a water box perched five feet above -- had separated from the wall earlier in the evening, causing the pipes to leak with each flush. This was not the kind of situation I could deal with at 2:30 in the morning, so I sopped up the mess and resolved not to flush until the problem could be fixed.
Around 11 a.m., Mr. Plumber -- a good-looking man of Puerto Rican descent (as I would later discover), and probably a decade my junior -- trudged up the steps.
''My savior!'' I cried.
He was not impressed with his hero's reception.
He offered no eye contact.
He asked to see the bathroom.
I led him to it, where he examined the fragile copper pipes that, Vesuvius-like, spouted water all about when the toilet flushed. ''Oh, man!'' he exclaimed, slapping his palm against the wall. Clearly, working on a museum piece of a toilet was not his idea of a good time. ''Miss, this is an old toilet.''
''Yes, I know,'' I said. I didn't want to hear that he was going to get me a new one from Home Depot.
Looking up, he asked: ''Who built that water tank for you? It's beautiful.''
I gazed at the perfectly dovetailed Siberian-pine water box. ''My old boyfriend.''
I saw him register the ''old'' on boyfriend. ''Why did you let him go?'' he asked. ''Someone makes you something like that, you keep him.''
This was a guy used to having his heart broken instead of the other way around, I noted. I live in a railroad apartment, a string of open rooms, so my whole life is exposed to anyone who enters. About to head out to buy supplies, he saw my wall of wine and flinched. ''Miss, you drink a lot or what?''
''I'm a wine writer,'' I replied.
His eyes bulged, and he let out a snort of laughter. ''I know people drink wine,'' he said, ''but what's there to write about?''
''Their stories,'' I said.
He shook his head dismissively, but I could tell he was intrigued. He found it even funnier when I told him that my 170 bottles weren't nearly enough. I would feel comfortable with about 1,500.
He then scanned the disorder that marks my living room and study. ''You some sort of artist girl?'' he asked. ''I mean, you know, an artist does her own thing, and I'm looking around here and, you know, the lamps, the colors, that crazy desk you work at. You do your own thing.'' He walked over to a few watercolors on the wall, ''You do these?''
''See? I was right.'' He was so pleased with himself.
Over the next three hours, the inquisitive plumber soldered, anchored, cursed, talked to himself, patched, made a complete mess, ruined my best towels and traipsed plaster over my floorboards and rugs. Taking breaks from the toilet drama, he ventured out to check up on me to see if I was still pounding the computer keyboard, look over the wines again and find other evidence of the work the ''old'' boyfriend had done.
''Did he make your desk?''
Another rueful shake of his head. I knew exactly what he was thinking.
''Look at that,'' he said, noting the curvy shape of one of the desk flanks. ''You have to take him back.'' He toured the rooms, pointing. ''He do this?'' he asked, gesturing at the ornate iron welding on one window.
''He rebuild your floors? Did he build those shelves the wines are on?''
I nodded.
''And you let him go? Why did you let him go?''
What to tell him? Finally I said, ''I really didn't have a choice in the matter.''
He reacted as if he'd been told of a death. ''I am very sorry,'' he said.
He and I both saw the love, the attention and the thought that had gone into every piece of construction in my apartment. ''I'm sorry, too,'' I said.
''Sorry, miss. Sorry I asked.''
He went back to his work, taking a break from time to time to talk. This romance thing was bugging him. ''I don't have luck with girls,'' he complained. ''There was one, she was old, about 48, down in Puerto Rico.''
Gee, I thought, how old does he think I am?
''She made money,'' he said. ''She was a teacher. We were talking about 9/11. 'I was down there,' I told her. 'I could have been killed.' Do you know what she said? She said: 'It was a good thing the towers went down. America learned a lesson.' I couldn't look at her after she said that. I can't deal with crazy stuff like that.''
''My old girlfriend?'' he continued. ''A few months ago, she rang the doorbell and said: 'I haven't seen you in a long time. I want you.' We have sex. After, she walks around my apartment as if she owns the place and tells me what I can and can't do and the way it's going to be. Women just like to control you. That was it. I threw her out. Good riddance.'' Then he gave me advice: ''Don't control your man.''
Thanks, I thought, I'll remember that.
He replaced the sputtering, leaking copper pipe with gleaming new metal. The dusky smell of solder filled the apartment. He cemented the porcelain bowl back into place, saying, ''This was never put in right.''
''Yes, I know. Sewer gas always leaked out of it.''
''It sure did,'' he said. ''It stank in there.''
It's odd how few people ever noticed those fumes. It was the old boyfriend who first identified the occasional smell from the faulty installation -- one of the few things he didn't fix before he left.
''The toilet is in!'' my plumber said. ''It won't smell anymore or move when you sit on it. Go ahead. Push it. You can't budge it.''
When I first met the ex, he challenged me in a manner of flirting more appropriate of a 16-year-old than a man of 32. ''Punch my stomach,'' he said to me. ''It's like iron. Go ahead. Hard. It won't budge. You can't hurt me. Go ahead.''
He and I luxuriated in love for 11 years, yet the ending was quick. Returning home from visiting vineyards in Sicily, I spent hours on the plane crying. I was prepared to tell my own Mr. Fix-It that there was something terribly wrong between us and I wanted us right again. Our relationship needed the attention he gave to the apartment. As it turned out, he felt the same wrongness but had another solution.
He carried my bags up the five flights and then, once inside, led me to the plain pine bench he had made for me. There, as if I were already sitting shiva, he told me he had to leave.
Leave? But I just got home. What do you mean, leave?
Over the years during which he had turned my chicken coop into a palace, I had told him: ''You're like a cat marking property. If you leave, how can another man ever be in this apartment?''
Mr. Plumber sensed this. I wondered if by repairing my bathroom so thoroughly he was trying to show that my old love wasn't the only one who could fix what was broken. Maybe there was someone else who could fix things with me instead of for me. It was a lesson worth listening to. I thought I owed him for that and for fixing my leak. ''What kind of wine do you like?'' I asked, getting a big fat idea.
''I don't know, but I like them cold. Which ones do you drink cold?''
''White or pink.'' I was about to tell him that some light reds as well can take the chill, but it seemed superfluous.
He had so little sense of wine; would he really appreciate the quirkier wines I had to offer? At the same time, I would feel guilty if I were to hand off a few of the boring samples that wineries often send to me.
I had this crazy notion that if I offered him the right wines I could change his luck with women. Obviously, I had to give him some good stuff.
AFTER three hours of getting to know this man, of seeing how observant he was, of listening to his commentary on race, women, politics and what it meant to be Puerto Rican, of hearing about how he didn't really speak Spanish but spoke just enough to pick up girls, I knew enough to make my choices.
I started with a California chardonnay and told him to drink it with someone who liked the obvious, explaining that such a woman ultimately was not for him.
Next I chose a Spanish albari?''Open this one with someone who has potential for the long term,'' I said. ''If she likes it, it means she's a thinker who won't try to control you. You should consider her for a next date and maybe more.''
Finally I handed him a half-bottle of moscato d'Asti. ''This one is for when you want her to fall in love with you, O.K.?''
He was my new best friend. ''This one?'' he asked. ''The sweet one?''
''Yes! It's sweet without being too sweet.'' I was starting to believe my own spin.
''Miss, I can't believe you're doing this,'' he said, beaming. ''Man, these are lucky charms.''
As he left, I finally asked for his name.
''Juan,'' he said, pumping my hand.
''Alice,'' I said.
''And the sweet one, that's the one? Even the shape of the bottle is sexy.''
''Yes, that's the one.''
''What did your old boyfriend drink, the one who did all of the work?''
I told him that would have to wait for the next plumbing emergency, because it was a long story. But after he left, I went to my computer and e-mailed the man from the night before with whom I drank the piney and somewhat faded 1977 Monsanto Chianti.
No longer should my apartment have to serve as a museum piece of my old, broken love. It was time to let in someone new.


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|WoW Screenshot Manager Changelog
Legend: + = added | - = removed | * = fixed | # = changed/improved
v0.9.1 - 10.10.2006 - 13:50 GMT+1
- removed Ads (Banners)
# updated Runtime Engine (general performance/stability improvements)
v0.9.0 - 26.12.2005 - 23:27 GMT+1
+ finally added FTP Upload for images
- removed old contact info
* fixed some links (banner, update-check, screenshot upload)
# improved and updated some parts of the code
# changed Homepage Link (www.bl4cksh33p.de)
# fixed and extended some Tooltips
+ added EasterEgg
+ added Special Thanks and Credits
+ added new contact options on About screen
# minor enhancement of Folder Info
+ added "Number of Images in this Folder" as replacement for the old (annoying) MsgBox
+ added new program icon (an Orc)
# improved Change-Log
+ added "Select All Images"-Button
+ added "Convert Images" Feature
# updated IrfanView from 3.92 to 3.95
# changed Setup (new and smaller)
v0.8.1 - Get Folder Info Fix + mini Browser:
+ added first implementation of mini Browser
# increased WoWSM window size for better browsing
# changed "Get Folder Info" Message if no Files exist in a folder (no longer tells you there are no images, it says files instead)
* fixed "Get Folder Info" error if you checked an empty folder - WoWSM should no longer be stuck
+ added workaround (small pause at the beginning) to fix "nil value" errors on fast computers
* fixed Tooltip of "Set as Wallpaper"-Button
+ added "Get Folder Info"
+ added "Get Image Info"
+ added "Usage Hints"
* fixed some typos
+ added "create .ZIP-File" Feature
+ added new Listview of Images ("Switch View"-Button)
- removed "General Settings"-Button
+ added doubleleftclick on List-/Thumbnailview to show image
# changed defaultview to Listview (not Thumbnailview anymore)
# updated some info on the About-Screen (new URL, xFire username)
+ added PayPal Donate-Button
* fixed minor issues with copy/move/delete Buttons
- removed the (sometimes annoying) message that tells how many images have been added to the list (want it back? tell me!)
# changed, added and rearranged some GUI elements
+ added link to the official Homepage to the Setup
v0.71 - HOTFIX:
* fixed Print-Button (Appearance and Tooltip)
* fixed TGA to JPG conversion (no quality loss now, really!)
# improved TGA to JPG conversion (JPG Images have no quality loss now!)
* fixed a very minor issue in "Please Wait" messages
# minor improvement to "Searching for Folders" message
+ added Print-Feature
# improved Setup (added Shortcut options)
# minor improvement to moving TGA files to _TGA Backup-Folder
# very minor improvement of "Set as Wallpaper" Feature
+ first public release with all basic functions (create/delete folders, copy/move/delete images, set as wallpaper)