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Luxurious High-Rise Studio Available for Winter Break (downtown / civic / van ness) $700

Are you looking for a great place to stay in downtown San Francisco anytime between December 20 and January 25? If so, please read this ad crefully. I am offering a luxurious studio apartment located on the 18th floor of high-rise building in downtown San Francisco. Situated perfectly in the vibrant Civic Center area, this place is just a stone's throw from City Hall, The S.F. Symphony, Opera, Ballet, and the Asian Art Museum. Not to mention the convenience of being walking distance to Union Square! BART and Muni are an easy walk from your front door. - Studio with 1 Full Bath - 450 square feet - Dishwasher - Pergo Floor - On-site laundry - Complimentary Cable TV and High-Speed Internet Service (Comcast) - Complimentary Drinking Water (Arrowhead) Rate is $700/week. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you very much.

SFRENT - Apt: 303 @ 851 OFarrell St - PET FRIENDLY (tenderloin) $1200

Building Information Building Name : O'Farrell Associates Live at the affordably priced O'Farrell Apartments, close to the Opera, Symphony, and the Civic Center government offices. Walk to the shops and movies along the Van Ness corridor. Close to public transport. Laundry, cable, elevator. 5 Blocks from Jefferson Park where your dogs can run free! Address : 851 OFarrell St San Francisco, CA, 94109 Intersection : O'Farrell St at Polk Apartment Information Info: Open House Schedule: Weds, Thurs 6-7:00pm & Sun 12pm-1pm with David! Come check out this really nice pet friendly apartment! Information about procedures, pets, and FAQ, can be quickly answered by visiting www.sfrent.net. Apply now! to get started right away with the proper application procedures. We look forward to welcoming you into your next home! (Photos are representative of units in the building.) Size : Studio Rent : $1,200.00 Unit Number : 303 Amenities : Hardwood Floor Track lighting D/W Loft (1) Building Photos Building Front Apartment Photos loft kitchen kitchenb bathroom sfrent.net 1201 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117 415-241-0100

Take a Load Off With Honda's Robo-Legs

The robotics geeks at Honda have developed an exoskeleton that is worn like shoes to support the body and protect the joints, something the automaker says could reduce injuries on assembly lines but also might help the elderly get around more easily.  The device resembles a bicycle seat joined to a pair of shoes and fits suggestively between the legs to help the user walk, crouch and stand without excessive stress on the hips, knees and ankles. Honda is testing the "walking assist device" at a vehicle assembly line in Sayama, Japan, and says robo-legs could help anyone who spends a lot of time on their feet. More than that, it could help the elderly and infirm by making it easier to get around. "This should be as easy to use as a bicycle," engineer Jun Ashihara said during a demonstration at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. "It reduces stress, and you should feel less tired." And it might be the only mobile technology that?s geekier looking than a Segway. Honda developed the gadget using technology developed for its ASIMO robotics program, perhaps best known for the vaguely humanoid robot that conducted the Detroit Symphony. To wear it, simply place the seat between your legs, step into the shoes and turn it on. "It does take some getting used to," Associated Press reporter Yuri Kageyama wrote after trying out the legs last week. "But I could sense how it supported my moves, pushing up on my bottom when I squatted and pushing at my soles to help lift my legs when I walked." Beyond serving as an ergonomic support for factory workers, Honda's third leg could have practical applications as potential replacement canes and walkers. Medical researchers have been working on walking-assistance technologies for decades. The HAL (Hybrid Assistance Limb) exoskeleton has passed the prototype phase and is available for rent in Japan. HAL can read bio-signals to anticipate the wearer?s movements, making it a potential life-transforming technology for the disabled and fodder for endless HAL 9000 allusions. In contrast to the complexity of the HAL, the Honda device?s simplicity may be its strength. It runs on two motors and weighs less than 15 pounds. The lithium-ion battery is good for two hours of crouching or walking ? an interval that matches up nicely with break times. While Honda?s third leg won?t be transforming any lives or impressing any potential love connections soon, it certainly will be a welcome, if awkwardly situated, boost to anyone who has to spend more than a minute in a crouched position. Photos and video by Honda Motor Co.

Weekly______Wonderful 1BR Apartment (San Francisco, CA (hayes valley)) $770

Spacious, clean, furnished one bedroom apartment for weekly rental. Fully furnished with modern furnishings in an 1880's Victorian house. Convenient location, nestled between the Hayes Valley and Mission neighborhoods, just steps to the Opera house and Symphony. $770 per week, in house washer/dryer, cable TV, wireless DSL, & local phone. Let me know if you are interested!

IBM Lotus preps small biz software appliance

Domino, Symphony, idiot-proofing It's pandemonium out there. Cats are living with dogs. There's chocolate in my peanut butter. Software units are selling servers and calling them appliances.?

/Week, Beautiful 2Br Apartment (downtown / civic / van ness) $1050

Gorgeous two bedroom apartment in a classic Victorian home. Fully furnished with everything you'll need for your stay. Tall ceilings, beautiful dark wood hardwood floors, completely furnished and fully equipped kitchen. Nice patio, top floor, lots of light. Feels like a home. Wonderful location, a short stroll to shops, restaurants and cafes, a couple blocks to grocery stores, nature mart, etc. Symphony and Opera House just a 10 minute walk. $1,050/week, $150/night prorated + one time $80 house cleaning this is a non-smoking apartment thank you

1 Bedroom Apt. @ The Symphony Towers w/ Parking (downtown / civic / van ness) $2500 1bd

Brand New 1 Bedroom Apartment in the Symphony Towers with view facing Courtyard The apartment is Stainless appliances, Soapstone bathroom counter, Hardwood and carpet flooring, and a in unit washer/dryer. Symphony Towers offers a community BBQ grill on the Roof Deck overlooking breathtaking views of the "City". Enjoy the conveience of being steps away from a daily workout at "Crunch" Fitness, San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, the Asian Art Museum, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, or a nice night out at the Movies. Located in the heart of San Francisco's main artery to public transportation, the Symphony Towers is an ideal location for work and play. The Biggest Asset included in this Package is...."Parking". The Studio will not be available until December although I will be accepting applications and if interested feel free to email me. Please NO Pets Or Smokers. Keywords: Symphony Towers, Infinity, Rincon, Watermark, Hawthorn, Parking, High Rise, Hi End, Views, Convience, Walking, Public Transportation, Studio, Miele, Security, Secure, Private, Privacy, Safe,and Rarly Available

Studio Apt. "Awesome View" @ Symphony Towers w/Parking (downtown / civic / van ness) $2000

Brand New Upper Floor Studio Apartment in the Symphony Towers wth "Awesome" view facing City Hall. Studio is furnished with Hi End Miele appliances, Hardwood floors, Soapstone bathroom counter, and a in unit washer/dryer. Symphony Towers offers a community BBQ grill on the Roof Deck overlooking breathtaking views of the "City". Enjoy the conveience of being steps away from a daily workout at "Crunch" Fitness, San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, the Asian Art Museum, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, or a nice night out at the Movies. Located in the heart of San Francisco's main artery to public transportation, the Symphony Towers is an ideal location for work and play. The Biggest Asset included in this Package is...."Parking". The Studio will not be available until December although I will be accepting applications and if interested feel free to email me. Please NO Pets Or Smokers. Keywords: Symphony Towers, Infinity, Rincon, Watermark, Hawthorn, Parking, High Rise, Hi End, Views, Convience, Walking, Public Transportation, Studio, Miele, Security, Secure, Private, Privacy, Safe,and Rarly Available

Per Week, Sunny Apartment (hayes valley) $770 1bd

Sunny and Spacious furnished one bedroom apartment for weekly sublet. Nicely furnished with modern furnishings in an 1880's Victorian house. Convenient Hayes Valley location, just steps to the Opera house and Symphony. Rate is $770/ week, two week minimum, includes utilities, cable TV, wireless DSL, & local phone. Let me know your dates of interest and I can respond with more pictures and information.

Gospel according to Antony and the Johnsons

Antony and the Johnsons/ LSOBarbican, London EC2Antony Hegarty isn't what you'd call the complete performer, I think it's fair to say, though he is in fine voice - and what a voice, crystalline and plaintive, filling the sedate Barbican Hall tonight. But no, he could be in his own bedsit - the light off, singing in the dark. Yes, the dark! He is performing - you can just about see the odd flailing arm - but he's lost in himself, as though he's just got back from an unsuccessful night out and is consoling himself with a couple of weepy ballads before bed. The audience, after giving him a rapturous welcome, is reverent and watchful. No one thinks it odd that Antony is singing in the dark. He is the one. Behind him, the London Symphony Orchestra (and a small handful of Johnsons) labour studiously in their own little pools of light. Antony, large and ungainly (but hardly the Elephant Man - let's see him for goodness sake!), is wearing something long and diaphanous over his day clothes. Are those tracksuit bottoms? 'I got kissed by a turtle dove ... ' he sings, his hands enacting some private torment. Your heart goes out to him.We're three songs in before a chink of grey dawn appears. He stands merely shadowed now, black hair parted, his skin pallid, his expression effortful as he glides into 'Cripple and the Starfish', a majestic and poignant anthem about the unhelpful blindness of love in an abusive relationship. It's about having your fingers cut off and them growing again, like a starfish. It's about coming back for more. The strings are a little busier, the woodwind twiddling with menace. It's quite beautiful.The crowd, having sat through two unfamiliar works (this concert is one of a handful of autumn dates in which the band are previewing their third studio album, The Crying Light, due next January), responds with the sort of wildness you reserve for having something to be wild about. Antony, more at home now - or perhaps still at home, but in the glow of an open fridge - sings a flawless 'For Today I Am a Boy' from his flawless I Am a Bird Now album, his hands stroking the air. Apart from a murmured 'thank you' he is silent between songs, which ebb and flow with their own mini-dramas. Visually, you might want for more. Antony - alabaster in the half-light, like a statue of one of the bulkier Greek goddesses - is full of grace, but I'm afraid not in a physical way. My eyes roam the stage for novelty: the bass players banging their instruments during a rare tribal passage; the conductor shutting someone up with a sudden gesture. I did wonder how much of Hegarty's austere, visceral quality would survive the might of the London Symphony Orchestra tonight - or rather the arrangements of New York boy-wonder composer Nico Muhly, whose esoteric atonal 'soundscapes' (he has a day job working for Philip Glass) have been skittering round my iPod this week. 'He paints the sky with his work,' Hegarty has said, though I was still dimly expecting tapes of running bath water or someone frying eggs in a strong wind. There is the odd drone (at one point effectively reducing the three chords of a lovely new song, 'Another World', to one) but the orchestra is restrained joy itself. 'I fell in love with a dead boy,' Antony sings, with understandable concern, his arms reaching for the clouds, dry ice drifting like mist over a wet lawn.For most of us, Antony Hegarty swooped out of nowhere when he won the Mercury Prize in 2005 for the Bird album - descending from heaven itself, it seemed, judging by the terms in which his startling, tremulous vocal style (lauded to the skies as 'ethereal', 'sublime', 'transcendent') came to be described. Was this the 'Gay Messiah' as prophesied by Rufus Wainwright, 'reborn from 1970s porn'? He didn't quite fit the bill. He's not Freddie Mercury, or indeed Rufus, who cheerfully ends his own shows looking like he's stepped out of an Ann Summers window display.He is compelling, though: an androgynous, goth-haired, gentle man-boy giant who arrived with a starry siblinghood of disciples - Wainwright himself, Lou Reed ('When I first heard Antony I knew I was in the presence of an angel'), Björk, Boy George, arty pranksters Devendra Banhart and Yoko Ono all smitten collaborators. His sexual mystery and stoic aura of suffering, his New York drag-punk apprenticeship (though he was born in Chichester, West Sussex), his homage to fallen Warholian sirens Divine and Candy Darling, seemed calculated to excite an adoring gay following. But the Church of Antony is broader than that. His intimate, radiant songs may be autobiographical, with their cross-gender issues and talk of guilt or pain or hopes of growing up to be a beautiful woman ('I feel the power in me'), but they also speak more generally of struggle, suggest less specific sorts of hope. They have the core self-belief of devotional music - psalm-like sometimes, but more often gospelly and soulful, capturing the spirit of Nina Simone (Antony's big heroine), her jazzy vocal dips, her dignity; even, somehow, her moral authority. If Hegarty is not the light, he seems at least to have seen it. For his encore he finds his tongue and an endearing sense of humour to tell us the rambling story of a New York transvestite prostitute who used to throw tins of catfood at passing cars, but who drowned in the Hudson River. Antony named his band for her (she was called Marsha P Johnson) and wrote her a song, which he now sings. 'River of sorrow, don't swallow this time ... ' Now that is sublime.? 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