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Anyone who has been to Las Vegas in the last decade has probably made a point to watch the amazing water show at the Bellagio. Set your watch for it, or you'll miss it. The owners of this renovated Hollywood backyard can enjoy a similar spectacle, albeit on a smaller scale, any time they like.
A few taps on the screen of a portable Crestron touchpanel starts the aqua ballet in their own 45-by-15-foot swimming pool, which features cannons that fire water 50 feet into the air. "It's the largest residential system of its kind," says Patrick Martinez, senior systems designer at DSI Entertainment Systemsin Los Angeles, Calif. He and his team of custom electronics pros programmed the controls that choreograph the operation of a variety of jets, fountains and pumps to create the Bellagio-style water show. Colored LED lighting was incorporated into 10 different water scenes, each of which can be engaged by touching the appropriate button on the Crestron touchpanel. Of course, the pool is also designed for swimming, and again, the Crestron system is there to lend a hand. DSI connected a Badu SwimJet System to the Crestron processor so a command from the touchpanel activates jets to create a current in excess of 5,000 gallons of water per minute. The effect is akin to running on a treadmill, but by stroking in place in the water.
Although music usually doesn't accompany the dancing water—or the water treadmill—the owners can add a song to their water show or workout by using the touchpanel to access their Crestron whole-house music system. A special page on the touchpanel displays icons represent the available A/V sources: Apple TV, DirecTV, Blu-ray Disc player, XM Radio and ReQuest music server. The owners touch the icon they want, and the music plays through a combination of 20 Sonance and James Loudspeaker speakers. If guests will be hanging around the pool, the owners can turn off the speakers by the patio temporarily, either via the touchpanel or wall-mounted Niles volume controls. Should the party move to the cabana, they can play the music in this area only, keeping the speakers in the rest of the yard silent.
The cabana is also home to a 23-inch SunBrite all-weather TV and a 19-inch NuVision TV. Jacks that DSI installed into the wall of the cabana link the displays to a wide assortment of video components, including three Blu-ray players and two DirecTV receivers. Again, the owners touch the appropriate icon on the Crestron touchpanel and the video is delivered over high-speed cabling to the TV.
This same wiring backbone ties the inside and the outside of the house together. From the touchpanel in the cabana the owners can operate anything inside the house, including the security system, lighting system, and heating and cooling system; likewise, from any of 15 panels inside the house, they can control everything outside. And when they want to control the inside and outside at the same time, global scenes like small party and big party set the lights and music throughout the property.
With features like these, the backyard has become a popular spot for the owners to entertain, but their primary reason for the upgrade, says Martinez, was to create a fun environment for their grandkids. "They wanted them to visit often, and this was one way to accomplish that."Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
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Having been around deserts and chocolate for a long time now, I've come across a lot of people that it wouldn't hurt them to lose a few pounds if you know what I mean. Most of them are aware, looking for that magical pill or method that will take care of the problem. Nothing new here. So what's prompted me to write a post about it? I'll tell you in one word: Redotex.
I've heard a LOT of peoples weight loss solutions over the years – most just sound like a waste of money. When I looked up Redotex, I couldn't believe anyone would even think about trying a product like this! To start, it's not even legal in the US – fortunately the FDA banned it some time ago. That should be an immediate warning sign. Currently it's only sold as a prescription drug in Mexico, but it appears you can still buy it online from some shady looking sources. Take a quick look at the ingredients and it only gets worse: Antidepressants, Laxatives, Stimulants & more. There's so much crap in it, who knows what it'll do. I think the problem is that it does yield results – how could it not? The risk however is massive. Ok I suppose that's enough ranting – I really just wanted to make a point to stress to people to really research something before consuming it – just like the saying goes, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.
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Last night, we attempted Putricide 25H. During one of the attempts, I was targeted by the orange gas cloud and was a fairly good distance away. I started kiting and suddenly, half the raid is dead. Apparently, it reached me and exploded on me. But I was too far away for it to catch up to me so quickly, unless it wasn't slowed.
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When one considers the lyrical and vernal Quartet No 1, a work so clear in utterance as to conceal the great artistry that informs its composition, and the emotionally resigned, anguished and deathly Quartet No 15, one can scarcely believe they are by the same composer. But, as with Beethoven, so vast and complete was Shostakovich's range as an artist that he was able to express the full gamut of human emotion, and do so with that rare artistic gift – the detached yet sympathetic observation of the artist, not his personal participation in the event. However different these two quartets appear, they share one characteristic which marks them out as being, again in Beethovenian fashion, typical of the composer: their directness of utterance.
As with the music of all truly great composers, the more one discovers the more there is to discover, and even in such an overtly simple piece as Shostakovich's Quartet No 1, Op 49, the artistry behind it is worthy of comment. The composer said that 'in composing my First Quartet I visualized childhood scenes, somewhat naive and bright moods associated with spring'. The impetus for this is not hard to find: on 10 May 1938 his son Maxim had been born, and the Quartet was begun on 30 May; apart from the composer's natural personal joy in fatherhood, his Symphony No 5 had received its triumphantly successful first performance the previous November, and with that event his rehabilitation within Soviet music – after the enormous pressure following the condemnation of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1936 – seemed assured. For once, this most sensitive artist appears to have been at ease with the world.
The String Quartet No 1 in C major is in four movements and begins at once with a mellifluous theme on the cello, under a counter-theme on the first violin, the other instruments providing simple C major harmony. If we think that this may be the beginning of a neoclassical movement, the composer has several surprises for us. The first is that this exposition presents subject and counter-subject at the same time; the second is that the second subject proper, given to the first violin after a long-held note, is in the key of B flat, all the more unexpected for being heralded by a repeated G on the viola (classically, one would expect the second subject to be in G); and the third is that the recapitulation adds a beat to the bar length, making the time-signature 4/4. Nor is the recapitulation at all regular; here it is more a question of feel, mood, or suggestion, rather than any literal restatement. A gentle return to 3/4 for the magical coda, in which the thematic material wafts away as soft underfeathers on a gentle breeze, ends the movement.
The second movement, Moderato, is not so much a theme with variations as a series of different settings of the same theme, which is clearly folk-based and – in great contrast to the fuller texture of much of the first movement – given at first to unaccompanied viola. There is one way in which both first and second movements are related, and that is in pulse: both are marked Moderato, crotchet = 80. Shostakovich avoids a feeling of sameness about these movements by making the first in 3/4 and the second in 4/4, as well as contrasting them in texture and key-relationships – particularly a heart-stopping modulation to E major. The varied settings of the theme in some ways, therefore, presage the great passacaglias in later works – the first time the theme appears it is ten bars in length, as in many of Shostakovich's succeeding passacaglias – but its length is maintained in proportion to the first movement, and, like the first, its ending, a gentle pizzicato resonating chord of A minor, is equally magical.
A tone colour missing from the second movement is that of muted strings, but this is reserved for the following scherzo, Allegro molto, which is muted throughout, a characteristic this movement shares with the scherzos in some of Shostakovich's later quartets. Here, the tonality is C sharp minor, and the music echoes the gossamer character of the first movement's coda in its fleet and almost understated manner, and the solo viola texture of the second subject recalls the second movement's exposition. In addition, this scherzo is in 3/4 and takes the thirds of the first movement coda a stage further, as well as alluding to the thematic material of the opening movement. Almost by stealth, therefore, Shostakovich is demonstrating a further organic unity in the work; even the gently rocking central section, in F sharp minor, derives from the cello's accompanimental figure for the first movement's second subject. The recapitulation of the scherzo shows the material in yet another light, as does the vanishing coda.
The nature of the finale is particularly interesting. The original manuscript of the Quartet is lost, but a piano score survives which originally places this movement first, and the first movement last. It is easy to see why Shostakovich reversed the order: the first movement ends quietly, which emotionally – not to say politically – would have ended this positive work on a less convincing note. The original first movement ends as if it were a finale, and as much of the material of the three movements so far discussed is so clearly related, the decision did not require much thought. The implications for this change of order, however, are that unity of material is to be further found in the finale, and that this finale carries, relatively, the most weight in the work. In the light of Shostakovich's later string quartet development, this decision was particularly significant – and doubtless, in part, instinctive.
The finale, therefore, is a sonata-style structure, akin to the sonatina form perfected by Tchaikovsky, but as with many of Shostakovich's sonata movements, his deployment of tonality is both unusual and logical. Thus, the tonal regions through which this movement moves are related to the tonic C, with E flat and C sharp minor exerting strong passing influences, while the light, main theme is firmly based on C. As the work moves to its close the music reasserts C in a sturdy passage that would not have been out of place in a late eighteenth-century score, but which is nonetheless pure Shostakovich – even in what might at first appear to be the simplest of his compositions one can discern a creative genius at work.
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Gatway wrote:In my opinion, I repeat the WC for Lisnard in an insult for the intelligence , and for example an insult for Gasquet ( and i'm not french and neither Gasquet's fan ), but there are several french players better than Lisnard, without no doubt .
Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why you are so naughty with JR Lisnard...
Eric49 wrote:Are the qualifying draws out yet? Hope so
Thanks man. Schalken plays Luczak I see Good luck to Luczak (and his fan(s) here). I didn't know Koubek was allowed to play matches again after his drug 'problems'.PatatRiek wrote:Eric49 wrote:Are the qualifying draws out yet? Hope so
yeah ...... is out
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One of the most powerful and versatile bass amps Fender has ever created, the Super Bassman is a stadium-level 300-watt tube head designed for the biggest shows and the largest stages, with enormous Fender bass sound and sparkling vintage Fender looks. Perfect for stage and studio alike, its dual-channel design uses modern technology to maximize classic technology, with classic Fender '60s "blackface" styling and a wealth of innovative features on the front and rear panels.
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I was looking for a new all tube head. I've played all tube amps all my gigging life — since 1977- & I've owned SVT's, Bassman 300PRO, Mesa, Ashdown-etc, MANY tube amps. Was looking at the Ampeg SVT-VR & then a few people on Talkbass.com recommended this FENDER SUPER BASSMAN. I respected these particular TB forum members' views as I knew they'd owned MANY all tube amps & knew about the tone & power of 300w tube amps. When these guys put the Super Bassman on my lookout I asked them if it sounded as good as the SVT-VR as I knew that amp loved its warm lush tone.
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It's SO LUSH sounding. SO punchy. SO powerful & sounds fantastic at ANY level.
I don't play stadiums, I'm just a weekend warrior- weddings, corporate functions, pubs etc & this amp just DOES IT ALL SO WELL. Being able to switch between clean & drive - and SUCH a GREAT drive channel- is SO GOOD I now leave my OD pedals at home. The drive channel can of course be set to a clean tone, enabling you the VINTAGE channel AND drive channel to be differing shades of a clean tone.
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|Model Name:
|Super Bassman®, 120V, Black
|Model Number:
|Bassman® PRO
|Amplifier Type:
|Vintage - VOL, BASS (pull DEEP), MID, TREBLE (pull BRIGHT); Overdrive - GAIN, BLEND, VOL, BASS (pull DEEP), MID FREQ, MID LVL, TREBLE (pull BRIGHT); MASTER (pull MUTE)
|300 Watts
|Effects Loop:
|Boucle d'effets (sortie préampli / entrée ampli de puissance)
|Two - (1/4", Input 2 is at -6dB)
|Line Out:
|Sortie XLR avec contrôle du volume, Ground lift et sélecteur d'équalisation "Pre-Post".
|Speaker Jack:
|Jack externe pour haut-parleurs
|Two - (Vintage, Overdrive)
|Rectification avec pont de diodes
|Cabinet Material:
|Construction multi-plis Meranti 7 plis, 5/8"
|Pilot Light Jewel:
|Red LED Jewel
|Poignées avec ressorts ultra résistants.
|Front Panel:
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|Groove Tubes® - (2 x 12AX7), (1 x 12AX7 + 1 x 12AT7 Power Amp)
|Power Tubes:
|Groove Tubes® - (6 x 6550)
|Unique Features:
|Speaker Output 'Mute' for silent recording and Fender Automatic Bias for output tube monitoring/adjustment
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|Boutons de type Blackface™
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Welcome to SoNET Systems, the home of quality business software development and IT managed services. SoNET Systems is an IT services company committed to providing high quality software development, IT consulting, support and training to our customers.
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SoNET exhibits at UK Welfare to Work Conference
Monday 5th March 2012
Following an excellent response to SoNET's iJob software in Australia and many happy customers, SoNET were thrilled to exhibit at the Welfare to Work UK Conference and Exhibition in Manchester from June 30 to July 1 of this year. The Conference, run by the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion (CESI) is the premier event for employment and skills. SoNET exhibited the innovative iJob software, companion products and range of IT services to the attendees, as well as running a raffle – prizes included a Netbook, Hard drive and iPod Nano. We are pleased to report an excellent response to the software in the UK, particularly from those who had a first-hand chance to try the software or experienced a comprehensive demonstration. CESI is the UK's leading not-for-profit company dedicated to tackling disadvantage and promoting social justice. It works with the government, the public sector, interest groups and business to develop policy and strategy and to implement ideas.
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National Disability Services (NDS) hosted a two-day event (5-6 September 2011) at the Hilton Sydney to help equip providers of disability employment services acquire knowledge and strategies to assist them to succeed in this demanding environment. SoNET was excited to exhibit the iJob software application and the range of IT services we offer. Conference attendees were encouraged to trial the software and enter our raffle, with the chance to win a Netbook, Hard drive or iPod Nano. The innovative iJob software is able to support and automate the business of Jobs Services Australia (JSA) and DES providers, creating new efficiencies and quality outcomes for their clients. The NDS is the national industry association for disability services, representing 700 non-government organisations, which collectively operate several thousand services for Australians with all types of disabilities


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Henry Stern's career in public service has spanned fifty years of New York City politics. A native New Yorker, Stern attended public schools in upper Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950. He entered City College at 15 and graduated in 1954. At CCNY, he was vice president of the student government, managing editor of the newspaper Observation Post, and president of the Young Liberals. He then attended Harvard Law School where he was president of the Harvard Law Record, the student newspaper.
In 1957, Stern began his career in government as a law clerk for New York State Supreme Court Justice Matthew M. Levy.
In January 1962, Stern was appointed Secretary of the Borough of Manhattan by Borough President Edward R. Dudley, who President Truman had previously appointed the first African-American Ambassador in United States history. Stern continued in this position under Borough President Constance Baker Motley, the first woman elected to that office, and later, by appointment of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the first African-American woman to serve on the federal bench.
In 1966, Stern joined Mayor Lindsay's administration as Executive Director of the New York City Parks Department by appointment of Commissioner Thomas Hoving. After a year at Parks, Stern moved to Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello's office, where he served as Assistant City Administrator. In 1969, Bess Myerson, Lindsay's newly appointed commissioner of Consumer Affairs, appointed Stern her first deputy. Four years later, he continued in the post under Myerson's successor, Betty Furness.
In 1973, and again in 1977, Stern was elected City Councilman-at-large from Manhattan, as a candidate of the Liberal Party—the last member of that party to be elected to public office. In the Council, he introduced smoke-free and gay rights bills which were passed years later. A law he sponsored that was passed requires that photographs of any building be submitted before a demolition permit is granted by the City.
On February 14, 1983, after nine years in the Council, Stern was appointed New York City Parks Commissioner by Mayor Edward I. Koch. In 1989, Stern founded the Historic House Trust, which unified 23 historic houses across the city to better insure their preservation, and the City Parks Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that builds public-private partnerships to care for and grow green spaces and conduct recreation programs. He also founded the Natural Resources Group, an environmental guardianship team of park employees.
After seven years in the Koch administration, at the end of the Mayor's term, Stern was selected by his former colleague in the Council, Robert F. Wagner Jr., to be President of Citizens Union, the city's oldest extant good government organization. In 1991, while at Citizens Union, he formed 7A (American Association for the Advancement and Appreciation of Animals in Art and Architecture), which conducts safaris to view the most beautiful local examples of animal sculpture in architecture. Stern and current NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe are co-top dogs of 7A.
In 1994, Stern was reappointed parks commissioner by Mayor Giuliani, and remained in that position for eight years. As commissioner, Stern was credited with improving the cleanliness and safety of New York City's 1,700 parks and playgrounds. Most notably, Central Park was substantially restored, in partnership with the Central Park Conservancy, which raised over three hundred million dollars in public funds, the largest such private gift in City history.
He also acquired several thousand acres of additional parkland for the city, most coming from other agencies, created over 2,000 "Greenstreets" at traffic intersections, and erected 2,500 historic signs and 800 yardarms for city park flagpoles. Over his 15 years as Parks Commissioner, Stern built over a billion dollars worth of park improvements as part of the capital construction programs of Mayors Koch and Giuliani.
Stern is most proud of the hundreds of young people he brought into public service by actively recruiting college seniors. Many went on to distinguished careers in public service, including former NYC Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler, current NYC Environmental Protection Commissioner Caswell Holloway, and Bradley Tusk, former Deputy Governor of Illinois.
After Stern retired from government at the close of the Giuliani Administration, Mayor Bloomberg appointed him to the board of directors of the Hudson River Park Trust. He is also a director of the Battery Park Conservancy and the Greenbelt Conservancy. In addition, Stern is an advisory board member of The Greenwich (CT) Tree Conservancy and has served as a trustee of Trees New York for the past 25 years.
Stern has received several honors in recognition of his environmental protection efforts, including the National Audubon Society Lifetime Achievement Award and the City Club Earthling Award for Environmental Excellence.
In 2000, Stern was granted an honorary doctorate by City College. He is a past president of the City College Alumni Association and is a recipient of the John H. Finley Medal, the Association's highest honor, and the Townsend Harris Medal.
In February 2002, Stern, along with Alan M. Moss, former first deputy parks commissioner, co-founded New York Civic to promote good government and advocate for political reform in New York City and New York State. Since then, Stern has written nearly 750 articles on public policy, a number of which have been reprinted in The Huffington Post, New York Post, New York Sun, and various other publications. His articles, which generally are published twice a week, are subscribed to by an email list of over 12,000 readers.
In March 2010, Stern joined forces with former Mayor Koch and Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey to found New York Uprising, a nonpartisan, independent coalition aimed at putting an end to corruption in Albany and restoring the public's faith in government. Among the trustees of New York Uprising are many of the City and State's most esteemed former elected and appointed officials.
In the last election cycle, New York Uprising successfully lobbied the majority of the state legislature and candidates for statewide office, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, to sign a pledge that they would pass historic legislation creating a nonpartisan redistricting commission, support a stronger ethics code, and enact budgetary reform. It remains to be seen to what extent these pledges will be honored.


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We were in the garden having lunch and everyone was taking pictures of each other, laughing and stepping in on each other's shots. I started shooting Helmut, pretending that I was him.
He yelled a lot when shooting, so I mimicked him: "Helmut! That's it! Don't Move! Francois, POWDER! , Katia, HAIR! " Everyone started joining in, telling him to arch his back or find his light. He was actually a really good model! He liked being teased. He just loved having fun. He wanted work to be fun. He wanted life to be fun.
I shot with a Pentax Auto 110 that I had bought in Japan. It was a complete ultra-miniature SLR system. fully automatic with no user-settable adjustments.
It was a perfect camera to travel with as a model. I could buy 110 film in any airport and every drugstore in the world could develop it in an hour. He was wild about it. June shot this pic of Helmut and I with that camera. He called it The Dwarf appealing totally to how he worked- his equipment being as pared down as possible. He found amateur cameras more innovative than professional. I think my Pentax appealed to him so much because Helmut really and truly was a reportage photographer at heart. He was the Weegee of the fashion world- a visual shark. He was brilliant at capturing those lurking shadows so full of subtext and pathos that were blatantly hiding within the seemingly superficial.
His point of view was the rabbit hole. He left it up to the viewer to fall down it as deeply as they wanted to go.
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As a Fashion Historian, I greatly appreciate this first hand account of what Helmut Newton was like. I had the privilege of working with him a few times as a model, back in the Seventies and found him to be full of fun and mischief. Tara's account is most informative. Thank you for providing Helmut and Tara's fans and friends with this interesting story.