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Room in Lovely Spacious Townhouse - GREAT LOCATION (campbell) $710

$710/mo. - ALL bills are included in this price... Commuter roommate welcome to discuss a reduced price depending on frequency/duration of stay. Room Available Immediate: One smaller sized bedroom available (9'x8') in lovely spacious 3 Br 2.5 Ba townhouse w/ vaulted cathedral ceilings near downtown Campbell. The townhouse is equipped with washer/dryer, dish washer, AC/Heater, and is fully furnished (except for the room for rent). There is 1 parking spot for the room for rent (to be shared with commuter roommate, plus a ton of street parking which is never a problem), good neighbors, High-Speed Wireless Internet, and in a safe, quiet neighborhood (~4 houses down from the Campbell Police Department). If you are a pianist, I have a 7'6" semi-concert grand... The townhouse is 1 block away from the Campbell strip (Campbell Brewing Company, Katie Bloom's Irish Pub, good restaurants, Starbucks, Campbell Coffee House, Ice-cream shops, etc...), and about 6 blocks from the Pruneyard (where there's a ton of fun things to do - Rock Bottom Brewery, great restaurants, Barnes and Nobles, a movie theater, Outback Steakhouse, Ice-cream shops, Coffee Shops). Also near-by is the Campbell city park, with a creek-side jogging/biking trail leading to Lake Vesona (in Los Gatos), and the Campbell library. In the other direction up Winchester is Santana Row and the Valley Fair Mall - just a 5-10 min. drive away. There is also the Farmers Market 9-1pm every Sunday on the Campbell strip. The townhouse is located off of hwy 17. Fry's and Home Depot are also about 5 blocks away as well. I am a 30 yr old working professional in Tech, very Laid back, CLEAN, RELIABLE / RESPONSIBLE, RESPECTFUL, CONSIDERATE, NON-SMOKER, and fun. Looking for a roommate (M/F) w/ similar values. Room Availability - Immediate. If you're interested, please email me back to come and see the place!

Taking time with Bach

Culture: As her world tour reaches London's Wigmore Hall, pianist Angela Hewitt discusses the beauty of Bach with Alan Rusbridger

Flatbuyer ordered to frost over windows with a view

A professional pianist who paid £345000 for a flat with panoramic treetop views was told to frost over a floor to ceiling window because of a planning wrangle.

Room 4 Rent in Nice House 4 Gay/Bi/Str Man (fremont / union city / newark) $550

$550 Nice Unfurnished Bedroom To Rent in Newark. Great location and nice home with a friendly socialble person. Unfurnished Bedroom To Rent call 510-449-4402 for details and viewing. Serious only please. About the place and location: Nice unfurnished bedroom (12x12)to rent in a small 2 bedroom home in Newark, which is available Now. Private Room, shared bathroom. Prefer Bi/Gay/straight man. Fence in yard and patio. Parking on the street only (Very Safe). Very clean, quiet and safe neighborhood. NO Drugs and NO Smoking. 1st and last month rent required. $1100. Rent is $550.00 a month and due on the first of each month. This is a month to month rental. Perfer ar least a 3 or 6 month commitment. Must provide source of income, references, credit check.. Must be clean, reliable, and willing to share with cleaning of bathroom and kitchen. I have a small dog, so you must like animals. No other pets allowed except another small dog. House would be shared with a gay male. * Access to the following common areas: kitchen, bathroom, outside patio area · Rent includes washer/dryer, cable, wireless internet access, water, utilities · * Quiet neighborhood and quiet household (working professionals or student) · * Month-to-month term lease · * No pets, except a small dog · Contact for more information/details and time to show room. About Me: Gay man, early 40's. I do massage at home 2-3 times a month. classical pianist, and need to practice 1-2 nights a week. Very neat, clean, quiet and friendly person. I love to bike ride, go to the gym and cook so we can share the food or do our own thing.

Aug. 11, 1942: Actress + Piano Player = New Torpedo

1942: Hedy Lamarr, once described by German actor-director Max Reinhardt as "the most beautiful woman in Europe," receives a U.S. patent for a frequency-hopping device designed to guide radio-controlled torpedoes while making them more difficult to detect in the water. Holding the patent with her is George Antheil. It's the incongruity of the patent holders with their invention, as much as the invention itself, that is remarkable. Lamarr, a Viennese-born movie actress, would eventually be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Antheil, an American avant-garde composer of orchestral music and opera, lived in Paris during the '20s and counted Ernest Hemingway and Igor Stravinsky among his friends. Not exactly the kind of folks you picture tinkering with cutting-edge weapons of war. In fact, their device was way ahead of its time. Although it was patented at the height of World War II, frequency hopping relied on electronics technology that didn't exist yet. An updated version of the Lamarr-Antheil device finally appeared on U.S. Navy ships in 1962 (three years after their patent expired), and was first used during the Cuban missile crisis. In 1942, though, Navy brass were unimpressed, dismissing the invention as too bulky to fit inside a torpedo. Antheil's arguments to the contrary were ignored, and he said later that comparing parts of the invention to the fundamental mechanism of a player piano in front of a bunch of naval officers had probably been a mistake. "'My god,' I can see them saying, 'we shall put a player piano in a torpedo.'" Lamarr and Antheil dropped the idea and turned to other things. In the end, their device was resurrected by engineers at Sylvania and proved to be one of the forerunners of spread-spectrum communications, which has applications in satellite systems and cellphone technology. Lamarr was the quintessential beauty with brains. (She was contemptuous of many of her fellow actresses: "Any girl can be glamorous," she said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.") She was mathematically gifted and became acquainted with the intricacies of modern weaponry while married to her first husband, an Austrian munitions manufacturer. Having established herself acting in German films, Lamarr came in 1937 to the United States, where she signed with Louis B. Mayer and MGM. It was Mayer who got her to change her name, from Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler to Hedy Lamarr. She enjoyed a solid career in Hollywood, although other leading ladies of the day, such as Ingrid Bergman, eclipsed her as a box-office draw. Then there was George Antheil. Aside from his provocative compositions and eccentric skills as a pianist -- his jarring technique frequently agitated his audiences, to the point where he would lay a pistol on the piano as a warning to keep quiet -- Antheil was very much a Renaissance man. He wrote widely on a variety of subjects, penning a syndicated advice column to the lovelorn and writing about endocrinology for Esquire magazine. He also published a book on the subject, Every Man His Own Detective: A Study of Glandular Endocrinology. During World War II -- which he had accurately predicted would start in Europe with the German invasion of Poland -- Antheil served as a war correspondent. It was Antheil's knowledge of endocrinology, in fact, that began the Lamarr-Antheil collaboration. Aware of his work in the field, Lamarr approached him at a Hollywood dinner party to talk about the possibility of increasing the size of her breasts. The next thing you know -- bang! -- a revolutionary torpedo-guidance system. We'll just leave it there. Source: Various

Large Room Available Sept. 7 (oakland lake merritt / grand) $460

Furnished room available in top floor 3 bedroom large Victorian apartment on east side of lake near Parkway Theater. Room mates are: 2 fluffy cats (you must like cats but not already have one) 2 males in their late 20s. One is jazz pianist and the other is a toy store manager/guitarist. Your room is 10ft. x 12ft., with closet, window. (bed, dresser, nightstand available if desired.) Apartment is large with split bathroom, huge kitchen, large living room with piano in it. Lake Merritt Bart is 20 min walk/7 minute bike ride away. Bus on the corner. Plenty of street parking. Rent is $460 + around $30-35 /utilities. Only pay half rent for September- move in Sept. 7. Half of Sept rent plus $250 deposit due Sept. 1st.

App Store Picks: MooCowMusic: Pianist

Carrying a piano around town has never been easier ? now that MooCowMusic: Pianist lets you tickle the virtual ivories on your iPhone or iPod touch. Pianist offers a complete 88-key piano keyboard, each note sampled from a real piano. And Pianist, one of the more than 800 applications now available on the new App Store, offers multi-track recording, so you can even play a duet with yourself.

- Great House, Great Roommates (saratoga) $750

The pad: The house is located in Saratoga close to the 85 and De Anza Blvd. It’s a two story, 6 bedroom house with a giant fully-equipped backyard including a 40 foot black-bottom pool, hot tub, putting green, fountain, hammock, BBQ, and beer tree*. Nothing says summer like this place. Inside, there is a large kitchen, foosball room, TV room, and a “lounge”. Infrastructure includes high speed Internet, wireless network, cable television w/ big screen TV, and of course, water, electricity, and modern plumbing. The roommates: Summed up in two words, We Rock. Is that vain? If it is, you’re right. We are 4 guys, all straight, in our mid-20s, who share the opinion that both overpriced apartments and drinking by yourself are highly overrated. We are all college grads, have jobs, and try our hardest to be responsible members of the community. During the week the house is pretty low key, normally comprised of kicking back talking, watching bad television or a movie, but on the weekends the interests of the housemates are all over the place. On any weekend you see people going backpacking, seeing concerts, partying around the bay area, trips up to San Fran, down to Santa Cruz, home brewing, soccer, playing music (there’s a dj, a guitarist, a pianist, and 4 resident air guitar experts), and of course, lounging in the beautiful south bay sun by, or in, the pool. You: In your 20’s as well (any age welcome), male or female. You are also outgoing and social and don’t mind mingling with friends after work and the weekends. There is definitely privacy inside your room, but if you prefer to be alone all the time, this place probably isn’t the best for you. If you are social, outgoing, and want to continue to experience life among good friends who share the same mind-set, don’t waste another day, contact us now, we’re excited to meet you! * It’s been planted. We’re still waiting.

Furnished All Utilities in San Francisco till the end of Summer (richmond / seacliff) $700

You have no furniture. You are a student or an intern or travelling from another country (or another state). You could stay for the Fall and Winter if you are attending school here. You are looking for a room with a bed, dresser, closet, window, carpeting, door that closes (and locks), wireless internet and satellite TV, and access to a decent bathroom (great shower!) and kitchen with all the utensils that you would need if you wanted to cook something. If you never cooked at all you would still be fine since Geary Boulevard and Clement Street have all the restaurants and stores for any taste or ethnicity. The buses run 24 hours per day to the financial district. If you are interested in natural scenery, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is ten minutes walking distance (just west of Baker Beach). Call 415 387 5252 extension 2 and leave a message with your contact info. Happy Independence Americans! (Hopefully that will mean independence from the Boosh Cheyney crime syndicate soon.) Happy Travelling Europeans! And Asians Africans Aussies and N Zealanders! This is a great apartment share with a teacher and a retired pianist who will not interfere with your privacy.