A Tiburon real estate broker has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges stemming from a $5 million refinancing loan on his home, the Internal Revenue Service reported.
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A special presentation with Angelo Servino, Owner of Servino Ristorante, & Maestro Robert Ashens.

Menu, wine, and singers will be announced soon.

Opera, Dinner with wine pairing
$85 all inclusive
For reservations, please call 415.435.2676
email: servinoperanight@gmail.com

http://www.servino.com

9 Main Street, Tiburon, Ca 94920, Tel: 415 435 2676 www.servino.com

A crew films a scene for “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” staring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen. In this scene Kidman storms away from Owen and gets into a car before the director yells “cut.” The filming took place in China Camp Village in Marin County’s China Camp State Park on April 27.

Read the Marinscope article for more information: http://bit.ly/mkztjn

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The movie “Win Win” starring Paul Giamatti starts friday april 29 at the Tiburon Playhouse Theatre.

Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures

See the Official “Win Win” website at Fox Searchlight>>

See information and movie trailers at IMDB>>

Tiburon Playhouse Theatre
40 Main Street, Tiburon, CA 94920
website:  http://www.cinemawest.com/tib.html
(415) 435-1234

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The 2011 Opening Day on the Bay will be held Sunday May 1, 2011

View the TibTV Opening Day page or at www.openingdayonthebay.com

Tiburon, California “Opening Day on the Bay” Information:

Corinthian Yacht Club:  Opening Day on the Bay page >>

San Francisco, California “Opening Day on the Bay” Information:

P.I.C.Y.A. (Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association)

Newspaper Articles:

Bay Crossings: “It’s Opening Day on the Bay!”

Photos:
TibTV: Opening Day on the Bay 2009 (90 photos at picasa)

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Videos:
TibTV: Opening Day on the Bay 2009 (13 video playlist at youtube)

Andy Gellepis, the manager for Frank Howard Allen Realtors in Mill Valley,California exposes the oftentimes misleading “zestimates” created by Zillow.com, and reveals why Zillow’s algorithms for guestimating a homes values should not be relied upon here in Marin County.

“Zillow is an automated valuation model (AVM) that determines residential property values using county tax records It has proven to be very inaccurate in Marin County. Zillow claims on their website to have a margin of error of 12.5%. In Marin, Zillow is much further off. For example, I took my companies last 20 sales (from our two Mill Valley offices) which ranged from Sausalito to Novato with selling prices from $299,000 to $3,000,000. The variance from Zestimate to sale price was off on average over 22%, with several off by 50% or more. One property had a Zestimate of $1,000,000 and it closed for $1,500,000 (a 50% variance). Another property had a rent zestimate of $6,950, which subsequently rented for $18,000 per month. A Mill Valley property is about to close for $1,825,000 with a zestimate of $1,416,000. This same property previously sold for $2,200,000 in 2007.

The problem with Zillow and other AVM’s are that many tech savvy buyers are using these sites, and in some cases using zestimates, to determine their offer price. In the first example above for the $1,500,000 property, one buyer offered $1,400,000 initially (expecting to negotiate) and the second buyer using the zestimate offered $1,100,000. The second buyer was not even remotely close to fair market value (FMV), and consequently the sellers negotiated the sale with the first buyer. Property values are determined by comparable sales which are then synthesized and analyzed by experienced agents to determine the best price given current market conditions. It is a combination of intuition and analytics that seasoned agents use to determine FMV. AVM’s do not consider condition, major improvements, views, lot utility and overall desirability. AVM’s take an overall price-per-foot including lot value, based on tax records which are not always accurate, and assign a value. This is way too simplistic in areas like Marin. In Marin, we have lot values assessed between $1 and $3 million is some cases. There is no way the AVM’s can factor that into their valuation.

Get in touch with your local real estate expert for accurate assessments of local values. A local realtor can give the inside scoop on the desirability of a neighborhood, quality of the schools, microclimates, traffic patterns and ultimately, the overall value of a desired property.”

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After litigation, legal rulings, political maneuvers and a thicket of red tape spanning three decades, a Tiburon landowner appears headed for the finish line with an environmental report that paves the way for up to 43 homes on a 110-acre Paradise Drive tract.
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Moon Express Deploys CrowdOptic to Enhance Launch and Tracking of Lunar Lander

San Francisco, CA (April 19 2011) -Moon Express Inc., a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company, and CrowdOptic, a revolutionary new technology that places text “captions” on objects in real time while they’re in motion, today announced that Moon Express has deployed CrowdOptic to enhance the launch and tracking of its lunar lander technology tests carried on the Airship Eureka. 

The CrowdOptic application, currently available on the iPhone, will allow spectators at the live launches of Moon Express Moon missions to view the ascent of the rocket through their camera viewer along with descriptive captions describing the ascent in progress, captions such as “Moon Express Launch at altitude 500 meters.” The captions will update in real time as the rocket blazes upward and photos taken of the rocket will include the captions, enhancing their value for sharing with friends and posting to online social networks. 

“We are pleased that live spectators at our launch will be able to experience a (rocket) launch in this new way, visually enhanced by technology that provides every spectator with the same up- to-the-moment status updates that we see through our own communications equipment,” said Dr. Robert Richards, CEO at Moon Express. “With CrowdOptic, every spectator can receive a picture of our rocket the moment it breaks a launch milestone.” 

“I cannot think of a more spectacular venue to debut our technology than this one, in support of a team that is quite literally shooting for the Moon,” said Jon Fisher, CEO of CrowdOptic. “It is a privilege to work with the MoonEx team, to help advance this important development in commercial space.” Moon Express is utilizing the Eureka Airship, owned and operated by Airship Ventures, Inc., to test a new mini-radar system that is essential to the company’s mission to build and launch spacecraft capable of completing explorations on the Moon. 

At the first successful Airship launch of the mini-radar system completed April 9, 2011, CrowdOptic successfully tracked and tagged the airship with altitude information during the live launch, performing the feat from the spectator gallery on the tarmac of Moffett Field, part of the NASA Ames Research Center, without prior integration with Moon Express systems, purely through its own proprietary software on native cell phone platforms. “We demonstrated today that our software can track and tag any moving object and can be set up virtually on the fly,” said Fisher. 

About Moon Express
Inspired by new White House policies supporting increased government partnership with the commercial space sector, Moon Express, Inc. was formed as a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company to establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit. Moon Express emerged quickly onto the commercial space scene in October when announced by NASA as one of six U.S. companies selected for its “ILDD” commercial lunar data program. Moon Express received further notoriety when announced by the X PRIZE Foundation as a new contender in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. For more information about team Moon Express, Inc., please visit www.moonexpress.com. 

About CrowdOptic
CrowdOptic is a geo-location and events-based photo sharing company. 

CrowdOptic is developing useful and innovative ways for people to connect and engage with events. Our proprietary technology enables people watching an event to simply point their smartphone at a moving object and have information broadcast back to them, thereby enhancing the experience. 

CrowdOptic is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, CA, and co-founded by [Tiburon] entrepreneur Jon Fisher. For more information, visit www.crowdoptic.com. 

Press Contacts:

Daven Maharaj
Moon Express
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media@moonexpress.com

Danielle Cole
CrowdOptic
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