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/ Studio in great location. Free laundry, heating & gas. Cat ok. (berkeley) $1050

Charming studio apartment in the heart of Berkeley's Northbrae neighborhood. Monterey Market (better than Berkeley Bowl!), Cafe Roma, and Hopkins shops right outside your front door. Running track and pool just up the street. Five blocks from N. Berkeley BART station and a very short walk/bike ride to the Gourmet Ghetto and Solano Ave. shops/restaurants. Bus goes directly to Cal campus. Studio located at 1515 Hopkins Street. The studio is newly painted with new carpet. The unit has a walk-in closet, separate eat-in kitchen, and a shared backyard. There are no shared walls with the other units in this 5-unit 1940s condominium building. Easy street parking is available. FREE Laundry. Heating, Gas, Water and Trash ALL included in rent. Cat OK. SORRY No Cosignors. Available immediately. Rent: $1050/month. Security deposit: $2100. 12-month lease. Please e-mail with questions or for appointment.

Fall SPECIAL! Gorgeous OCEAN VIEW HOME on the Oregon Coast! (Yachats, Central Oregon Coast) $195 2bd

NEW LUXURIOUS OCEAN VIEW HOME Location: Yachats, OR Fall and Winter Special! Book two+ more nights and get an extra night for FREE!Visit our website to see more photos & check availability www.thespindrifthouse.com The Spindrift House in lovely Yachats, Oregon, is newly available for rent; now’s the time to book for fall and winter getaways! The Spindrift is on the ocean side of the road and just a short walk down to the beautiful Pacific. Take walks or jogs, watch for whales, scout for sea life, beach comb, make sandcastles, fly kites, or just sit & relax on the big sandy beach. Or, drive just a bit & enjoy more beaches, sea lions, clamming, ocean fishing tours, sand dunes, cute towns, aquariums & museums, hiking trails, or lighthouses along the Central Oregon coast. Up to 6 people can stay in two plus bedrooms on different floors (king, queen, full) with two & a half modern baths, and a gourmet kitchen: hickory cupboards, granite counter-tops and stainless steel appliances make your cooking and dining an extra treat! This new 3-story ocean view house has lots of other amenities, too, including: heated marble bathroom floors, cathedral ceilings, regionally made blown glass lights, original tile, a 2nd story deck with an amazing view, WiFi, a wine refrigerator, a grill, cable TV with a dvd, new laundry facilities, loads of natural light from floor to ceiling windows facing the ocean, a wet bar on each floor, a two-person Jacuzzi tub in the master bath, and more! Stay at the Spindrift and vacation in luxury on the Central Oregon Coast! InformationContact Informationinfo@thespindrifthouse.comKate702.349.2543Pricing and AvailabilityRental Rate: $195.00 per dayDeposit: Visa CardTaxes: 13.5%Cleaning Fees: $75Availability: www.thespindrifthouse.comOther Information: Best way to make a reservation is to email:info@thespindrifthouse.comPayment Methods: Visa, MasterCard, AmexLinksVisit Our Web Site!FeaturesBedrooms: 2Property Type: HouseBathrooms: 2.5Sleeps: 6Parking Spaces: 3Square Footage: 1850AttributesAppliancesGrill/BBQFull RefrigeratorDishwasherMicrowaveStoveAll new Stainless AppliancesWine ChillerCompactorElectronicsTVDVD PlayerStereoAlarm ClocksCableWi-FiFurnishingsAir ConditioningPatioPorch/LanaiWater ViewLinens ProvidedBalconyPowered by vFlyer.comVFLYER ID: 1722084Photo GalleryPowered by vFlyer.comVFLYER ID: 1722084 nating the stress of running one of the country's most powerful mafia crime families Magaddino fully trusted Freddie The Wolf Randaccio since he was known to be a loyal Magaddino supporter coming up from a soldier in the 1930s and 40's promoted to Capo in the 1940s and overseer of local and Southern Ontario rackets By the mid 1950's he was Underboss with the top Buffalo area Capos reporting to him and by the early 1960s all the Capos in the Buffalo crime family were reporting directly to Al joined the Crusaders in 1983 and went on to become their General Manager a position he held with the club for 12 years During that time he saw 27 players receive scholarships to US Colleges 13 players graduate and go on to the NHL or other pro leagues and an additional 19 players further their education while playing hockey at the University of Alberta or NAIT Al was named the Alberta scout for the Vancouver Canucks in 1988 and his efforts helped to promote a number of AJHL players to th had led his crime family for basically 40 years by 1960 so he began to slow down and prepare for semi-retirement By the mid 1950's powerful and influential Buffalo mafiosi 's riff Sweet Angel is an early demo version of song Angel It features metronome and the beginning of the tape is blurred Bleeding Heart is a jam based on the old blues song that appears on in December 1985 but never played a game for the Oilers From 1986 through till his retirement in 1999 Eakin played in The rotisserie baseball and fantasy sports league portion of the business developed into one of the three largest fantasy businesses on the web The company in addition to building its own games built games for Yahoo! AltaVista Lycos CNN/SI fastball com Fox Sports and The Sporting News among others The company was sold to The Sporting News in 2002 The island has a number of relatively large residences on it However it is not connected by any bridge and is only accessible by boat 44222369

Check our SPECIAL for our Beautiful Ocean Front Home! (Yachats, Central Oregon Coast) $160 2bd

Ocean Front Yachats Charmer - Fall Special!Location: Yachats Oregon - Ocean FrontFALL SPECIAL! BOOK TWO+ NIGHTS GET AN EXTRA NIGHT FOR FREE! Check our website for availability: www.beyondtheseahouse.com This comfortable oceanfront beach house sleeps up to six. Featuring awesome panoramic views of the Pacific from the living/dining area, kitchen and master bedroom, and cable tv with dvd player, laundry, and stereo. Sit inside in front of the cozy brick fireplace or outside on the full-width deck, and enjoy the waves crashing on the rocky shoreline below. At low tide, the tidal pools are amazing!Easy rocky beach access, and it’s just a short walk to the 804 Walking Trail to miles of sandy beach. There’s shopping and quaint restaurants in the artsy little town of Yachats.Our house has two bedrooms: a master with king bed and private bath, and second with a queen bed. There is also a queen hide-a-bed in the living room. Fully equipped kitchen, cable TV, DVD player, laundry and stereo are just a few of this home’s amenities. InformationContact Informationinfo@beyondtheseahouse.comKate 702.349.2543Pricing and AvailabilityRental Rate: $160.00 per dayTaxes: 13.5%Cleaning Fees: 50$Availability: Check our website www.beyondtheseahouse.comPayment Methods: Visa, MasterCard, AmexProperty Location 1209 Ocean View DriveYachats, Oregon 97498Linksbeyondtheseahouse.comFeaturesBedrooms: 2Property Type: Beach Front HomeBathrooms: 2Sleeps: Six (6)Parking Spaces: Two (2)AttributesAppliancesGrill/BBQFull RefrigeratorWasher/DryerDishwasherMicrowaveStoveElectronicsTVDVD PlayerStereoAlarm ClocksCableFurnishingsFireplaceWater ViewLinens ProvidedDeck Powered by vFlyer.com & Sweethomesrentals.com VFLYER ID: 1687551Photo GalleryFrom The DeckPowered by vFlyer.comVFLYER ID: 1687551 the evidence suggests that they almost never referred back to their manuscript sources let alone tried to resolve any problems in those sources The well-known Sam Gruneisen 1963 San Diego Chargers 1940s 1941 American Football League American football American football positions Biography Bud Whitehead Center (American football) Charlie McNeil the birds of prey rather than reciprocating this hatred suggest that they love the lambs--in part because there is nothing tastier best known for being one of the most successful managers in English football history whilst managing his only team in the South and East Separating the city from the Syrian Steppe it has provided its inhabitants with a variety of cereals vegetables and fruits for thousands of years While human settlements in the area date back to ancient times an uncontrolled development of the area took place throughout the past decades The increasing food demand by the rapidly growing population of the capital At this moment an Arab happens upon the discussion and cracks his whip laughing cheerfully He declares the fondness of Arabs for jackals and the Arabs bring out the carcass of a camel that had died in the night The jackals begin to feast on it uncontrollably and the Arab whips several of them as they tear at the flesh of the carcass until the European interferes The Arab agrees to stop and the story ends 18348216

Townhouse (richmond / point / annex) $1050 1bd

Tony Bowles | 415 730-5113 677 26th Street, Richmond, CA Spotless newly remodeled townhouse on a corner lot. Living space has hardwood oak floors throughout (except kitchen). Quiet neighborhood near Bart. 1BR/1BA Townhouse $1,050/month Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Sq Footage 1,200 Parking 1 dedicated Pet Policy No pets Deposit $1,250 DESCRIPTION Immediate availability General Features - Protected by 24 hour ADT security services for fire, burglary and medical - Separate utility metering - Turn of the century light fixtures - Ample electrical outlets troughout - Mini-blinds throughout the house Kitchen: - Garbage disposal - New Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer - Vintage O'Keefe and Merritt 4 burner range with stove with the Grill-a-Vator/broiler, Salt and Pepper Shakers and Hideaway Shelf - New dishwasher - Custom made tulipwood cabinetry - New stylish linoleum flooring with coved splash board - Original ceramic counter tops Bedroom: - 12ft x 14ft - Single closet Living-room: - 12ft x 20ft - Attached breakfast/dining nook - Pegged oak plank flooring Bathroom: - Original 1940s tiling - Antique light fixture Hallway linen closet Laundry-room: - Stacked combination washer/dryer - Large gas water heater Large Single Car Garage: - 10ft x 18ft - Automatic door opener Large yard - Landscaped front - Side of lot with extensive sunflower planting - Backyard Garden and patio - Fruit trees include apple, Meier lemon and passionfruit see additional photos below RENTAL FEATURES Central heat Hardwood floor Living room Breakfast nook Dishwasher Refrigerator Stove/Oven Microwave Washer Dryer Laundry area - inside Balcony, Deck, or Patio Yard COMMUNITY FEATURES Garage parking Laundry on-site Secured entry LEASE TERMS First months rent plus one month security/damage deposit. One year lease. No smoking. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Renter contact info: Tony Bowles 415 730-5113 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Sep 14, 2008, 8:37pm PDT

Raymond Scott: The First 100 Years

Irwin Chusid, journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist," (wiki) wrote the following essay to mark the centennial of composer Raymond Scott for Boing Boing. Portrait of Raymond Scott above by Drew Friedman. (Click image for full size.) His merry melodies have propelled the antics of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Animaniacs, and Bart Simpson. His recordings underscore the body-fluid fetishism of Ren & Stimpy. Yet Raymond Scott, who was born in Brooklyn 100 years ago today, never wrote a note for a cartoon in his life. Scott's popular 1930s faux-jazz novelties were festooned with titles like "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," "Celebration on the Planet Mars," and "New Year's Eve in a Haunted House." When Warner Bros. purchased Scott's publishing in 1943, their music director Carl Stalling began seasoning his cartoon scores with Scott's sonic spice. In hundreds of these anarchic shorts, Stalling sampled over a dozen Scott titles, with "Powerhouse" echoing behind countless cat-chase-mouse sequences and ominous assembly lines. Since forever, Scott's quirky musical motifs have become genetically encoded in every earthling. Not that it mattered to Scott. He didn't care about cartoons. He cared about machines -- whether they had a pulse or not. His demanding perfectionism was legendary. He rehearsed his sidemen to the point of exhaustion and resentment -- and insulted them if they failed to meet the maestro's standards. Drummer Johnny Williams (father of composer John Williams) told an interviewer: "We were machines, only we had names." Since Scott couldn't hire the perfect musicians, he built them. From the 1940s thru the 1970s, Scott, whose recording studios doubled as science labs, worked increasingly with home-built techno sound generators. He's one of the great overlooked pioneers of electronica, with US patents to prove it. His 1963 Soothing Sounds for Baby series of repetitive, high-tech nap-inducers set the template for ambient music. In 1970, Motown founder Berry Gordy was so impressed with Scott's Electronium, an analog console that composed by artificial intelligence, that he commissioned a unit. Two years later, Gordy hired Scott at Motown-L.A., where the mad scientist toiled until 1977. Scott called the Electronium an "instantaneous composition-performance machine." You twisted dials and twirled knobs to set preferences, got a tape rolling, hit "GO," then walked away while the device "composed." It's ironic that the Patron Saint of Control Freaks, who demanded total submission from his talented human recruits, eventually hardwired the perfect sideman -- and got himself a collaborator with a mind of its own. Decades earlier, Scott demolished a discriminatory barrier by hiring the first interracial band in network radio history. In a segregated industry, he was offered the job of Music Director by CBS in 1942. Scott demanded the right to hire the best players regardless of color. The network balked. Scott refused to stand down, and eventually prevailed, bringing on board Ben Webster, Charlie Shavers, Cozy Cole and other black jazz heavyweights. In the 1950s, he worked with a young Columbia grad named Robert Moog, later inventor of an eponymous synthesizer. They got along well. "Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology," Moog attested, "and in the forefront of using it commercially as a musician." Scott's son, Stan Warnow, is directing a documentary about his father. In a poignant second-generation encounter, Warnow recently filmed an interview with John Williams during which they discussed their dads. "I grew up hearing Scott's music," Williams told Warnow. "My father played drums with his band, so the music was very much in my head and in the musical atmosphere of our home. I remember those magical musicians performing their alchemy. Raymond Scott has an important place in American music." Scott suffered a debilitating stroke in 1987, which left him unable to work or speak. He died in 1994, just as his music was undergoing a revival. His compositions have since been covered or sampled by Gorillaz, Kronos Quartet, Devo, J Dilla, They Might Be Giants, Madlib, El-P, Don Byron, Soul Coughing, and others. Lately it seems that 20% of student animation projects on YouTube contain unauthorized soundtracks by Scott (whose heirs encourage Creative Commons use). To mark the centennial, the Scott Archives commissioned a portrait by caricaturist (and Scott fan) Drew Friedman. Limited edition prints signed by the artist, Drew Friedman, are available at RaymondScott.com. -- Irwin Chusid. Drew Friedman portrait of Raymond Scott | Raymond Scott site | Raymond Scott blog | Stan Warnow's documentary-in-progress of Raymond Scott...

Today on TokyoMango

Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a newly found stack of Occupation-era letters written by an American woman in 1940s Japan; a robot that will help you find cool t-shirts at Uniqlo; and a guitarist from a famous heavy metal band who now lives in Japan. I also celebrated my blog's two-year anniversary and revisited some of my first blog posts ever. ( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)...

Demons Possess Pandemonium

SF/fantasy author Daryl Gregory told SCI FI Wire that his novel Pandemonium takes place in an alternate America where "demonic possession" has been frequently but randomly occurring since the 1940s.

Private bedroom & bath in Berkeley, dogs considered (berkeley) $950

We are looking for the right housemate to share our fantastic 3 bedroom 2 bath house in South Berkeley. Although we do not have a dog, we love having them around and the house is dog ready, with a doggy door and big backyard, so well a behaved dog with references will be considered. We are looking for someone who is easy-going, respectful, and responsible to share this home with us. Although we are two very busy girls (both 2nd year MFA students at Mills) we like to relax at home when we can, and enjoy all the comforts the house has to offer, like cooking dinner in our large, open kitchen; BBQing and enjoying the sun in our well kept, spacious backyard (yard maintenance included in rent), complete with easy to use grill, fire pit, outdoor speakers and fruit trees; or just surrendering to laziness in our living room. The house is a 1940s split-level, located in the Lorin District of Berkeley, only a 10 minute walk to the Ashby Arts District and BART station. The house is equipped with high efficiency washer/dryer and some storage space is available. The vacant room is about 150 square feet and is on the downstairs level of the house, complete with private bathroom. Rent is $950/month, plus 1/3 utilities. Off street parking in the driveway available for $50/month. Available October 1st. We love everything about this house from location to design to character and are looking for a third person to love it too, so please email if you're interested. Thanks! Kate & Katy

Letters: For and against carbon credits

Letters: Polly Toynbee's comparison of carbon credits (Comment, August 16) with 1940s rationing is a false one

Gallery: Measuring the History of Electricity

: Photo: mtowber/flickrThe invention of the electric meter made it possible to bill customers for electricity, creating the incentive to build out the nation's first network for moving electrons. The Grid, the system of dumb, buzzing wires that allows power to move across the country, is so important, it topped the National Academy of Engineering's top 20 triumphs of the 20th century. This gallery tours the history -- and future -- of making you pay for juice. Some time within the next few years, you're likely to get a new type of so-called "smart meter" that will mark the first real upgrade to electrical billing since your grandparents were born. Until the 1870s, electrical power wasn't used for much aside from telegraphs and telephones. But after the Edison's improvement of the incandescent light bulb, power was suddenly much more useful. The problem was, the few metering systems that tinkerers had built up until that time didn't actually work. So Edison resorted to a low-tech method: He charged for electricity on a per-lamp basis. In modern business model terms, Edison was giving away the blades to sell the razor. He would not have received venture capital for that idea. : Photo: Great Beyond/Flickr Throughout the 1880s, various inventors thought hard about the problem of how to measure the flow of electrons through time. Edison himself tried a two-electrode chemical system in which your charge was determined by how much zinc moved from one electrode to another. Workers actually had to weigh the electrodes to determine the price you paid. Elihu Thomson developed a walking-beam meter that functioned quite like toy dunking birds (left). The heating and cooling of alcohol inside a pair of bottles caused a periodic liquid exchange that caused the bottles to rock back and forth. And that mechanical motion is what the meter measured. It was an excellent hack, but it couldn't scale. : Image: Library of Congress By 1888, a major, long-lasting dispute within the power industry was on the verge of getting settled. Edison had been promoting the use of direct-current power, despite the difficulty that the technology encountered transmitting electricity over long distances and changing the voltage. Both problems limited the uses of electricity. George Westinghouse, meanwhile, purchased a patent for a transformer that could increase the voltage of alternating-current power. With a working transformer, his company, Westinghouse Electric, was able to send power over long distances, allowing for larger, centralized power-generating stations. These stations could power factories as well as your great-grandfather's school reading lamp. But they needed to bill for it. And that's where Westinghouse employee Oliver Shallenberger came in. His design (left) paved the way for Westinghouse to purchase a patent from Nikola Tesla for an improved AC system. The modern electrical grid was about to take root. : Photo: Library of Congress With early success fueling investment in the electrical sector, a variety of new technologies began to converge to create the standard model for electrical generation and distribution in the United States. Through the 1890s, various iterations of the induction watt-hour meter were becoming standard technology. These meters measure the number of rotations that a metal disk makes in response to magnetic flux within the meter. The amount of power is proportional to the speed of the disk's revolution, so the meter can accurately measure a range of energy usage levels. In most places, this is still how your company knows how much power your home or business is drawing. Meanwhile, transmission-line technologists were steadily upping the voltage of the power lines running from ever-large power plants, like this one, to increasingly large cities filled with more and more electricity users. The higher the voltage, the better the quality of transmission over distance. By the 1920s, the percentage of two-thirds of American homes had electricity, and three-quarters of factories used electricity to power their motors. : Image: Edison Electric Institute During the Great Depression, the government began to regulate private utilities and push for getting electricity to rural areas far from urban centers through agencies like the Rural Electrification Administration and Tennessee Valley Authority. The Edison Electric Institute Bulletin had a special issue in 1942 on "entering the seventh decade of electric power." By this time, almost all Americans had access to cheap and reliable electric power, but many could remember a time when they didn't. The horsepower available to factory workers had increased from about 3 in 1914 to 6.5 in 1942, with most of the increase coming from purchased electrical power. As one professor chillingly put it, engineering advances had made 6 billion "manpower" available to the country, "equivalent to 50 slaves for each man, woman, and child." : Photo: Library of CongressWith most of the metering and transmission infrastructure in place, all electrical companies had to do was make as much power as cheaply as possible. And that's all they did. Innovation in transmission and metering largely stopped. This 1940s meter technician would probably understand most meters in use today. Most capital investment went to building power plants that could exploit the nation's ready source of cheap energy: coal. In 1949, only 84 million tons of coal wer used for electrical power production. By 1970, coal consumption by the power industry had nearly quadrupled to 320 million tons per year. Last year, American utilities burned about 1.05 billion tons of coal to make electricity. : Photo: Slightlynorth/flickrThe golden age of cheap power came to an end some time in the last decade. Coal, which made electricity cheap and abundant, also happens to generate massive amounts of carbon dioxide, which is the greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. It's widely expected that the next president will sign a law that will tax carbon dioxide emissions, as is already the case in many places around the world. The specter of energy regulation and rising natural gas, coal and petroleum prices has raised interest in new emission-free technologies like wind turbines and solar power. But the adoption of these technologies isn't as simple as it sounds. Both wind and solar -- which are abundant and clean -- will require substantial changes to the nation's transmission and billing systems. Wind and solar, unlike coal, do not produce power at the same rate at all times. If they are adopted at scale, the grid infrastructure and the meters like this one will have to be much more flexible than what we built 100 years ago. Power generation has been centralized since the very early days of the industry, but now, wind and solar open the possibility to generate power right on or near your home. But to make economic sense, we need meters and grid tie-ins that can easily accomplish this type of "reverse billing". : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.comSo, we find ourselves in a new era of electric meter innovation. A host of companies is trying to find just the right mix of features that will satisfy utilities and provide consumers with more flexibility in how they make, buy and use power. Like everything else in the internet age, electricity-billing systems are about to make the transition from a centralized, one-way mode of operation to two-way systems that are connected to the internet. In addition to the back-end differences, the next generation of meters has received a facelift that will let consumers see their energy usage in near real-time. Of course, people have been talking about "smart meters" for years. But after years of delayed rollouts, utilities finally appear ready to scale them up. This electronic meter from Tendril is slated for a massive rollout with five major utilities that the company says will reach 2 million homes.