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We want to hire some professional to assess the vulnerability of our current web site.
We need to prove or disprove the following possibilities:
1. Our competitor is diverting all our new customer's email to themselves by intercepting their message sent from our web form.
2. In order for their operation to be successful they must keep me from detecting or knowing such an attack is taking place.
3. They can do so (keep this entire operation stealth) by detecting the user's ip and other rules for them to differentiate between genuine new customer and our anti-hacker engineer. such as:
1. Only intercept and redirect their email if they are from our Google Adwords account.
2. Must from a local ip.
3. Do not intercept those on my address book and those in their address book.
So that all my friends will tell me my site is not under attack.
4. Fake our SSL certificate.
Even though we are using SSL certificate, we are still not getting email from our web form while our web log clearly shows that these people been to our contact-us page.
May be I am being paranoid. But I need to prove or disprove the possibility. I need someone to replicate this situation and tell me it is possible for someone to hire a hacker to accomplish such while keeping me completely unaware.
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I spent close to an hour chatting with Zachary Levi about the National STEM Video Game Challenge, video games, his views on technology and his thoughts on digital literacies and what making video games does for teaching skills to kids. Levi is helping to drive the vanguard of a quaking paradigm shift in seeking to change the way children (and adults, of course) not just acquire and learn information but change their motivation behind seeking new knowledge of themselves and of their place in our connected world. Continue Reading "Zachary Levi Talks STEM Skills, Digital Literacies and Human-Centric Tech" »


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I have wanted to search some of the federal forest land for feral honeybees that might exist in the norther part of my state but I simply just dont have enough time to search for bees, set swarm traps, check them and so forth. I have thought of a much better way to capture feral genetics though by planting mating nucs with cells deep within sections of forest which would make mating with treated bees nearly impossible. Bees could be shaken through a queen excluder to filter out drones onto combs of brood then plant a cell and locate in isolated locations. If results only show poorly or unmated queens then you know there cant be a viable feral population. I am hoping to take one weekend soon to go up north and take some extracted combs with me to set out for robbing to see if any honeybees show up to see if there is a population to begin with. I have already spoken with the forest department and basically have permission.
Has anyone ever done anything like this or have a better idea or method for obtaining true feral genetics? I would like to keep one separate yard treatment free with a mix of genetics and breed from colonies that remain healthy the longest and so forth. I only treat in fall each year. It is this time of year I start seeing DWV, stubby bees, and so forth while other colonies have no signs of stress and still have beautiful brood patterns. Some of my best colonies are head by queens I got from "VP Queen bees" which I have propagated from heavily. I have three queens marked blue that are still kicking butt from VP qb and picked up a few virgins to keep the genetics flowing. By breeding from the best colonies I have already made a large improvement over a few years and hope to one day have a line that will not need varroa treatments, and winter at 80%. If we can keep new problems at bay, I really believe in twenty years varroa may be a isolated problem that pops up in poor colonies with poor genetics that get pinched like bad cases of chalk brood.


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Adam WeinsteinJul. 29, 2011 6:00 AM
While you were watching The Town on Blu-Ray the DC debt-ceiling drama, a lot happened in the national security sphere. In this installment: We're defenseless against default, would-be domestic terrorists do it wrong, a Russian diplomat rips red-staters, a Vets' Hall of Fame inducts...Rick Scott, a fighter jet has gremlins, and the DOD outputs an epic cyber fail.
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• Yes, going into a debt default could make America less safe. Kind of a dilemma for conservative hawks.
• A Planned Parenthood clinic was firebombed in Texas. Terrorism? Perhaps. Al Qaeda? No, because they probably know better than to use diesel in a Molotov cocktail.
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Third Platoon, Bravo Battery of the Automatic Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, light up the Zabul province night by firing illumination from their M777A2, 155 mm howitzer at suspected enemy movements from FOB Pasab, Zharay District, Zabul province, Afghanistan, July 20. (Photo by Sgt. Christopher McCann)
Tom PhilpottJul. 29, 2011 6:00 AM
Reservoir hogs: According to peer-reviewed research, factory farms may be a "significant reservoir of resistant bacteria." Yum!
Here (PDF) is a document the USDA doesn't want you to see. It's what the agency calls a "technical review"—nothing more than a USDA-contracted researcher's simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections and their link with factory animal farms. The topic is a serious one. A single antibiotic-resistant pathogen, MRSA—just one of many now circulating among Americans—now claims more lives each year than AIDS.
Back in June, the USDA put the review up on its National Agricultural Library website. Soon after, a Dow Jones story quoted a USDA official who declared it to be based on "reputed, scientific, peer-reviewed, and scholarly journals." She added that the report should not be seen as a "representation of the official position of USDA." That's fair enough—the review was designed to sum up the state of science on antibiotic resistance and factory farms, not the USDA's position on the matter.
But around the same time, the agency added an odd disclaimer to the top of the document: "This review has not been peer reviewed. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Agriculture." And last Friday, the document (original link) vanished without comment from the agency's website. The only way to see the document now is through the above-linked cached version supplied to me by the Union of Concerned Scientists. [Note, added Sept. 23, 2011: the above link originally went to a cached version, which has since disappeared; so I uploaded a PDF version).
What gives? Why is the USDA suppressing a review that assembles research from "reputed, scientific, peer-reviewed, and scholarly journals"?
Adam WeinsteinJul. 29, 2011 5:59 AM
Embattled Florida governor Rick Scott had to scuttle another one of his big plans yesterday. The plan was to create a Hall of Fame for the state's prominent military veterans—with him as an inaugural inductee.
Scott, a Navy vet (more on his service record in a sec), was joined on the list of inductees by exactly zero Medal of Honor recipients. Not Fort Lauderdale's local hero, Sandy Nininger, who died in hand-to-hand combat trying to keep the Japanese from overrunning the Philippines in 1942. Not Bud Day of Ft. Walton Beach, the "most decorated US service member since General Douglas MacArthur," who was a POW in Vietnam (and a Swift Boater during the 2004 election). Not Paul R. Smith of Tampa, who manned a machine gun to protect his company of 100 soldiers in the 2003 battle for Baghdad's airport—and who posthumously received the first Medal of Honor awarded in the Iraq war.
Who else was on the VIP list of Florida military heroes? Six former state governors who fought in the Civil War on the losing side. One, Abraham Allison, assumed office in 1865 when his predecessor realized the Confederate cause was lost and committed suicide. Allison then went into hiding, was arrested by federal troops, and served six months in prison for his role in oppressing the Sunshine State's slave population.
Kevin DrumJul. 29, 2011 5:55 AM
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Speaker of the House, addresses the nation about the debt ceiling crisis on Monday, July 25.
It's no surprise that political partisans tend not to like each other. Generally, though—with obvious and famous exceptions aside—the level of personal hostility on Capitol Hill has usually been kept down to manageable levels.
Until now. To a degree rarely seen in the past, Republican policymaking lately seems to have been driven at least as much by pure political venom as it has by ideology or interest-group pressure. House Speaker John Boehner certainly gets this. When he was trying to whip his troops into line to vote for his debt ceiling bill on Wednesday, his pitch was simple: "President Obama hates it. Harry Reid hates it. Nancy Pelosi hates it. Why would Republicans want to be on the side of President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi is beyond me." That was enough for conservative firebrand Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.). Boehner's plan wasn't perfect, he said in a Facebook post, but "the fact Pelosi, Reid and Obama hate it doggone makes it perfect enough."
And it's not just the debt ceiling. Take cap-and-trade legislation to reduce carbon emissions. As recently as 2008, plenty of Republican leaders were for it. John McCain backed cap-and-trade, and so did Tim Pawlenty. Newt Gingrich even cut a commercial with Nancy Pelosi where he declared to the world that "our country must take action to address climate change."
But then Democrats introduced an actual cap-and-trade bill, and in the blink of an eye it got tarred as "cap-and-tax" and opposition became practically a litmus test for movement conservatives. Republicans couldn't run away fast enough. Gingrich's recent attempt to disown his own words was almost poignant, while Pawlenty's groveling has been all but cringe-inducing. "I just admitted it," he said. "I don't try to duck it, bob it, weave it, explain it away. I'm just telling you, I made a mistake."
In recent months this has metastasized into all-out war as House Republicans have bombarded a pending appropriations bill with amendments to roll back environmental rules:
Although inserting policy changes into appropriations bills is a common strategy when government is divided as it is now, no one can remember such an aggressive use of the tactic against natural resources.…The unusual breadth of the attack, explained Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), is a measure of his party's intense frustration over cumbersome environmental rules.
"Many of us think that the overregulation from EPA is at the heart of our stalled economy," Mr. Simpson said, referring to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Although inserting policy changes into appropriations bills is a common strategy when government is divided as it is now, no one can remember such an aggressive use of the tactic against natural resources.…The unusual breadth of the attack, explained Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), is a measure of his party's intense frustration over cumbersome environmental rules.
"Many of us think that the overregulation from EPA is at the heart of our stalled economy," Mr. Simpson said, referring to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Simpson's suggestion that the EPA is responsible for our parlous economic condition could hardly have been suggested seriously. It's just filler, the kind of thing that gurgles up from the recesses of a politician's mind because they have to say something when a reporter asks what's going on. Grist writer David Roberts gets closer to the truth when he points out that Republicans are even going after a Bush-era regulation that prevents the Defense Department from using fossil fuels that are dirtier than petroleum. The catch? Even the Pentagon doesn't want this rule repealed. "Repeal or exemption could hamper the department's efforts to provide better energy options to our warfighters," wrote Elizabeth King, assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs.
No matter. Republicans want it repealed anyway. Why? Ideology is probably part of it, as is fealty to coal interests. But that's not the whole story. Repealing it just because it's something Democrats like seems to be part of it too. Welcome to the modern Republican Party.
Kevin DrumJul. 29, 2011 12:29 AM
The big news tonight is that John Boehner has shelved plans to vote on his debt ceiling proposal. Why? Because he couldn't round up enough Republicans to vote for it. A hardcore rump of tea party nihilists is now treating him the same way that he's treated President Obama for the past few months: rejecting every deal offered, regardless of how good it is or how much harm rejection will do to the country.
It would be easy to shed crocodile tears about this, but there's really nothing here to gloat about. It's just undiluted bad news if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling. Whether D-Day comes on August 2nd or — thanks to better-than-expected tax receipts — a few days after that, hardly matters. We're not only headed for unprecedented fiscal chaos when it comes, but we're taking a real risk of throwing the country back into recession too. Granted, that's the Armageddon scenario, and things might not turn out that badly in the end. But I'd just as soon not take the chance. Our economy is just too fragile to risk it.
But it's possible — barely — that there's some good news here. If Boehner can't get the tea partiers in the House to support his proposal, and if Harry Reid can't find 60 votes in the Senate for his, then pretty shortly they'll figure out that there's only one way to pass something: forge a compromise that can get substantial support from both Democrats and non-tea-party Republicans. Such a compromise is almost certainly available, and all it takes to get there is for Boehner to be willing to admit the obvious: the tea partiers just aren't willing to deal, period. They want to burn the house down so they can build something better from the ashes. They're insane.
So walk away from the tea partiers. Instead, strike a deal that a hundred non-insane House Republicans and 20 or 30 non-insane Senate Republicans can support. Add that to a majority of the Democratic caucus and you're done. You've saved the country.
It won't be as a good a deal as Republicans could have gotten a month ago. What's more, it would take some guts from Boehner, who might very well be jeopardizing his speakership if he does this. But it will save the country. Surely that's still worth something?
Kevin DrumJul. 28, 2011 5:46 PM
CMS is a government agency that has long offended my OCD sensibilities because it stands for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and really ought to be called CMMS. But today I'll link to them anyway. They've completed a new projection for total national health expenditures through 2020, and it's shown in the chart on the right. The green line shows the old projection and the red line shows the new projection after passage of the 2009 healthcare reform act. Basically, they expect a one-year spike in spending growth in 2014, when most of the law takes effect, followed by slightly lower growth for most of the rest of the decade.
So how does that work out? For the decade as a whole, CMS projected an annual growth rate of 5.7% pre-reform compared to 5.8% post-reform. To put that into dollars, it means that in 2020 our total spending on healthcare will be about $40 billion higher than it would have been without healthcare reform. So what do we get for that money?
In 2014, the Affordable Care Act will greatly expand access to insurance coverage, mainly through Medicaid and new state health insurance exchanges which will facilitate the purchase of insurance. The result will be an estimated 22.9 million newly insured people.
....Out-of-pocket spending is projected to decline by 1.3 percent as the number of people with insurance coverage increases and many services formerly paid for out of pocket are now covered by insurance....The newly insured are expected to consume more prescriptions because of substantially lower out-of-pocket requirements for prescription drugs.
In 2014, the Affordable Care Act will greatly expand access to insurance coverage, mainly through Medicaid and new state health insurance exchanges which will facilitate the purchase of insurance. The result will be an estimated 22.9 million newly insured people.
....Out-of-pocket spending is projected to decline by 1.3 percent as the number of people with insurance coverage increases and many services formerly paid for out of pocket are now covered by insurance....The newly insured are expected to consume more prescriptions because of substantially lower out-of-pocket requirements for prescription drugs.
Not bad for only $40 billion! 23 million more people will be covered, out-of-pocket spending will decline, and prescription drugs will be more widely available. All for less than $2,000 per person, which is a considerable bargain.
The White House, of course, thinks that ACA will reduce costs more than CMS suggests. You can read their argument here. But even if it doesn't, CMS is projecting a mighty small price for something that's going to benefit so many.
Andy KrollJul. 28, 2011 5:18 PM
A pack of rookie House Republicans went public on Thursday with their support for House Speaker John Boehner's retooled deficit reduction bill, which would trim spending by $917 billion over ten years in exchange for a short-term debt ceiling increase. But what stuck out at the freshmen's press conference wasn't their newfound support for Boehner's bill (some had been undecided until late). It was their inability to cite real-life facts to support their positions.
First there was Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. He described the Boehner bill as a "win" for the American people, and for a country sagging under the weight of a $1.3 trillion deficit. That deficit, Kinzinger insisted, was President Obama's fault. After all, in 2007, under President George W. Bush, we had all the same corporate tax loopholes and tax rates that are in place now, and back then the deficit was only about $160 billion. Today it's more than eight times higher. And because Barack Obama is president today, that means the deficit clearly must be all his fault.
Holy wrong. As this New York Times graph highlights, the deficit skyrocketed under President Bush in 2008, as the government grappled with the bursting of the housing bubble and the financial meltdown—a crisis that goes unmentioned by Kinzinger.
Moments later it was Rep. Scott Tipton's turn to bash the Democrats. "They have no plan," he said. "They have no ideas." Well, that's not quite true. President Obama has outlined any number of ideas—cutting $4 trillion over 12 years, trimming defense and non-defense spending, even shrinking entitlement programs by $650 billion—over the past few months. To say Obama has no plan nor any ideas, as the GOP insists on doing, is so wrong it's laughable.
On went the boisterous speeches, with one GOP freshman even brandishing a piece of paper with the University of Notre Dame's famous "Play Like a Champion Today" slogan on it. After a while, the assembled rookies looked hot and ready to wrap. But not before a reporter asked about the Boehner bill's sure death in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
"The Senate's gonna pass this thing!" Rep. Kinzinger yelled.
Never mind the 51 Senate Democrats and two independents who pledged to vote against it should it pass the House, or President Obama's promise to veto it. As White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's assured reporters today, Boehner's bill is "a political act that has no life beyond its existence in the House."
That didn't seem to bother Kinzinger, though, who stood there grinning alongside his fellow freshmen, all of them sweating in their suits and skirts before the biggest vote of their short political careers.
Jen QuraishiJul. 28, 2011 4:42 PM
I've been strangely entranced/repulsed by the trailers for The Rise of Planet of the Apes, the Planet of the Apes prequel which explains how those damn, dirty apes got so smart in the first place. (Hint: it involves James Franco and DNA). This movie has everything I could want: San Francisco-centric plot, science experiments gone horribly wrong, people of color speaking with British accents, and did I mention James Franco?
It got me thinking: how smart are chimps anyway? Well, pretty smart. When raised by a human, chimp babies outperform human babies of the same age in IQ tests. As adults, chimps make and use spears to hunt. They are better than humans at some memory tasks and form complex social hierarchies. A new study this week showed that not only are they smart, they stay that way throughout their lives: humans, on the other hand, suffer brain shrinkage and dementia in old age. "Understanding differences in aging between humans and other primates may help scientists figure out why human brains are susceptible to age-related dementias," said one writer of the study.
Wait a second. If chimpanzees don't get Alzheimer's and their brains don't age, why is James Franco experimenting on them in Rise of Planet of the Apes? Studying their brains makes sense, but testing would be better done on an animal that actually develops Alzheimer's like mice, wouldn't you think? At any rate, chimpanzees have recently been trumped by orangutangs as the most intelligent non-human animals. Unlike chimps, orangutangs make little hats out of leaves to wear when it rains. They're almost entirely vegetarian and are pretty peaceful, in contrast to chimps who go on the occasional murder-spree. I guess chimps are a better fit for The Rise of Planet of the Apes, since our new orangutang overlords would probably just amp up habitat conservation and institute a fruit-based currency system. That sounds about as terrifying as a manatee-led revolution. That is to say, slow and gentle and not really fit for the silver screen.
Stephanie MencimerJul. 28, 2011 2:50 PM
The Washington media was buzzing Wednesday after the leaders of the Tea Party Patriots came to town and announced that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) deserved a primary challenge, along with any other Republican who voted to raise the debt ceiling. Mark Meckler, a national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, told the Daily Beast that Boehner's deficit plan was "an embarrassment." At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Meckler declared Boehner's numbers "fake" and "phantom."
It was an interesting choice of words, since they might also describe the number of tea partiers Meckler and his co-coordinator, Jenny Beth Martin, claim to represent. In the news coverage, Tea Party Patriots has been consistently identified has having at least 3,500 local chapters, making it one of the largest tea party organizations in the country. But many of those chapters are, to use Meckler's term, phantom, which raises the question of whether the GOP House leadership should really be paying quite so much attention to the noise coming from the tea party leaders working the media circuit right now.
Last fall, the Washington Post's Amy Gardner tried to verify the TPP's numbers. She attempted to run down every one of its local chapters. Out of the 2,300 chapters TPP then claimed to have, Gardner could only identify 1,400; of those, she was only able to make contact with 647. Most had fewer than 50 members, and some consisted of a single person. That's a fraction of the 15 million people TPP's leaders often claim to represent when they're on the Hill demanding that Republicans refuse to increase the debt ceiling. Which raises the question of why, exactly, Republicans are taking them so seriously.
There are other reasons to question the wisdom of Republicans taking economic advice from national leaders of the Tea Party Patriots and other top tea partiers in the news this week. Consider the fact that before riding the tea party movement to national fame, Meckler was a high-ranking distributor for Herbalife, a company considered by many consumer groups and regulatory agencies to be a pyramid scheme. After that, he got into "affiliate marketing," an industry responsible for all of those "tiny belly" ads haunting the Internet that the FTC says are a scam. His colleague, Jenny Beth Martin, also doesn't have a great track financial record. In 2007, she and husband lost their house and ended up owing the IRS more than $500,000 in back taxes.
In print and TV interviews this week, Martin claimed that the majority of her members thought Boehner should be replaced as House speaker. The comments went viral and led to plenty of media coverage about tea party intransigence. It also prompted an outcry from tea party leaders working at the state level in the trenches, many of whom have disassociated with TPP because of displeasure with their tactics. Billie Tucker, the founder of the First Coast Tea Party and an influential tea party activist in Florida, fired off an email to Martin expressing her dismay at Martin's claim to represent the entire movement when talking about Boehner. She wrote:
Jenny Beth: Who the heck is giving you guys advice and pr help?
Calling for Boehner to resign did nothing but create more chaos in a chaotic time in our country. The media will and has run with it as if the entire tea party "membership" thinks Boehner should resign.
Jenny Beth: Who the heck is giving you guys advice and pr help?
Calling for Boehner to resign did nothing but create more chaos in a chaotic time in our country. The media will and has run with it as if the entire tea party "membership" thinks Boehner should resign.
Boehner may not be doing the best job BUT…the timing of your statement caused me to have to answer to the press for it. Next time you plan to make such a big, hairy, audacious statement, why not let us in on it beforehand so we can prepare for the attacks and maybe your highly paid PR firm could give us talking points too.
Boehner may not be doing the best job BUT…the timing of your statement caused me to have to answer to the press for it. Next time you plan to make such a big, hairy, audacious statement, why not let us in on it beforehand so we can prepare for the attacks and maybe your highly paid PR firm could give us talking points too.
Martin's comments didn't even dovetail with those of activists at a tea party rally held on the Hill yesterday during the debt ceiling negotiations. Most of the speakers, from a variety of tea party groups, were calling on the Senate to get behind the Boehner plan and also to push the speaker to call for larger cuts.
The Republicans should also not be too concerned about the saber rattling of Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, despite his landing a coveted spot on the Washington Post's op-ed page on Thursday bashing Boehner. The Tennessee-based Phillips is essentially a tea party of one. He is a prodigious blogger and occasional radio host who's advocated such things as limiting voting to property owners and warning that WASPs are on the verge of extinction.
Few of the real tea party groups in his state will work with him because they see him as an opportunist. Last February, he borrowed $50,000 from a local businessman to help front the six-figure speaking fee for Sarah Palin to headline a tea party convention he organized in Nashville. Phillips charged attendees more than $500, prompting most of the larger tea party groups and even many within the state to boycott the event.
Last July Phillips tried again to host a tea party convention, this time in Las Vegas at the Palazzo Hotel. The event was first postponed to October and unltimately canceled entirely for lack of interest. Last week, the hotel sued Tea Party Nation for stiffing the hotel on more than $500,000 for the unused rooms he booked. Phillips, you could say, knows something about not paying the bills, but that doesn't necessarily make him the kind of expert the GOP ought to be making policy around.
All of this is not to say there might not be a tea party movement out there poised to seek retribution should Republicans should they raise the debt ceiling. It's just that these particular folks you see on Fox News threatening to primary Boehner don't necessarily represent them.
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Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has inspired millions by bringing together "virtual choirs," singers from many countries spliced together on video. Now, for the first time ever, he creates the experience in real time, as 32 singers from around the world Skype in to join an onstage choir (assembled from three local colleges) for an epic performance of Whitacre's "Cloudburst," based on a poem by Octavio Paz.
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Today our shelter at HAWS is filled with dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, turtles and guinea pigs. Tomorrow…who knows?!
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Also amazing is when we have a handful of long-term residents. We don't have a time limit for the animals staying at HAWS – the right home will come in, and we want to give every pet that chance.
Kane, a black Lab mix, and Kenya, a Pit Bull, have been part of the HAWS roster since this summer. Both dogs have special circumstances and will need to be adopted by just the right owners…but we're committed to finding those homes. In the meantime, our Mod Squad™ volunteers are working daily with Kane and Kenya to ensure they have great manners and are ready when their new loving homes become a reality.
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The attorney for a Rancho Cucamonga land developer charged in a sweeping San Bernardino County corruption case said Friday he will oppose a push by prosecutors to have the state Supreme Court reinstate bribery charges against his client.
"We are very opposed to the state's strategy of delay," said Stephen Larson, who represents developer Jeff Burum. "There are critical issues involving the statute of limitations and evidentiary and other problems with the grand jury indictment that need to be addressed in the trial court."
Burum is accused of conspiring with three former county officials to secure a $102million legal settlement from the county in exchange for bribes. Also charged are former county Supervisor Paul Biane, former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin, and Mark Kirk, former chief of staff for Supervisor Gary Ovitt.
All four defendants deny any wrongdoing.
Prosecutors allege Burum and Erwin used strong-arm tactics such as extortion, threats and bribes to persuade the county officials to approve the landmark settlement with Burum's investor group, Colonies Partners LP, in November 2006.
The settlement ended a four-year legal battle over who was responsible for construction of a flood-control basin on Colonies' 434-acre parcel in Upland where the investor group was bankrolling a sprawling residential and commercial development.
On Monday, the state Attorney General's Office, which is jointly prosecuting the case with the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office, sent the petition to the state's highest court via an overnight courier.
The petition seeks the high court's review of the 4th District Court of Appeal's unpublished Oct. 31 decision, which rejected prosecutors' request to reinstate the four bribery charges against Burum initially dismissed by San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Brian McCarville.
The state appellate court also reinstated a charge of misappropriation of public funds against Burum but dismissed a conflict-of-interest charge McCarville initially let stand. In addition, the appellate court reinstated a charge of misappropriation of public funds against Biane, Kirk, and Erwin initially dismissed by McCarville.
District attorney's spokesman Christopher Lee said in an email Friday that it would be inappropriate for his office to comment on a pending case.
Larson said he doesn't believe there is any need for the state Supreme Court to review the case.
"Further delay in this case only adds to the prejudice being suffered by Mr. Burum," Larson said.
Attorneys for the other defendants are likely to join Larson in his opposition.
Erwin's attorney, Rajan Maline, said Friday that that is his intention.
"I don't think that there's any merit to their petition," Maline said. "The consensus is we want to get back to the trial court and we want to vindicate our clients, and we can't do that if the prosecution keeps appealing."
The criminal proceedings remain suspended until the Supreme Court decides whether it will grant the prosecutors' petition, which will likely occur within the next 60 days, defense attorneys say.
Reach Joe via email, call him at 909-386-3874, or find him on Twitter @SBCountyNow.


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Mayors outraged by vice president's snub
Original post made by Jeb Bing, editor of the Pleasanton Weekly, on Jul 10, 2009
Hosterman sits on a number of the U.S. Mayors conference committees that support Obama and Democratic Party platforms and positions. Thrilled by the election of a Democratic, big-city oriented president who's already created a new White House Office of Urban Affairs, she felt the administration's decision to boycott the mayors' conference came as a bracing rebuke. The timing couldn't have been worse with many mayors disappointed already by concerns that their cities are being short-changed on receiving stimulus funds for transportation and housing. Along with mayors and representatives from other Tri-Valley cities, including Livermore and Dublin, Hosterman has traveled to Washington, D.C. to seek funds for local projects. Mayors from the larger cities, including Democratic strongholds of Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, told Hosterman and others at the convention that they are facing the most troubling economic times since the Great Depression. They had looked forward to meeting with the Obama team to develop programs and approaches that would enable all cities to provide and maintain services for their residents.
Hosterman said this was the first time in 77 years that a president's team has not joined the mayors at their conference and said the snub sets a dangerous precedent. The mayors' meeting is a magnet for any organization or agency that has a beef, including unions, and that by honoring a demand by the International Association of Firefighters not to participate in the meeting, the president and Biden have left themselves open to demands by other groups that will now add the mayors' conference to their list of where to be most effective in raising their protests. Because of the economic downturn, the city of Pleasanton has made painful decisions in order to balance its budget while continuing to provide services to many who have lost their jobs and are in danger of losing their homes. The Pleasanton school district is being forced to lay off valued employees. Neighboring cities are facing the same difficulties. This was not a convention the administration should have snubbed, Hosterman said, and there are many disappointed mayors and city councils around the country that had hoped to hear positive news from the mayors' meeting with the Obama group.
Hosterman said the mayors' outrage reached Washington almost immediately and Obama since has sent invitations to her and other mayors to travel to the capital for a special meeting with the administration. She said she won't ask taxpayers who paid for her Providence trip to foot the bill again for a "make up" dialogue. She hopes the president will personally meet with the mayors next year.
Even without Biden and his entourage, Hosterman found the mayors' meeting productive, especially in its workshops and programs on issues of prime concern to Pleasanton, including energy conservation, green building, climate control and cost-cutting measures. Hosterman, the City Council and City Manager Nelson Fialho spend increasing amounts of their time making sure the municipal budget stays balanced while maintaining basic quality of life measures. Already 950 mayors, including Hosterman, have signed onto the "Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement," which pledges that they will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their cities by 2012.
After the conference closed, Hosterman and several other mayors took up an offer by Cicilline to tour Providence and provide a bit of help on a park being built at one of the city's new urban renewal projects. That "bit of help" had the mayors carting dirt, sand and more to various parts of the park while Hosterman, dressed in a new pantsuit and wearing heels, shoveled mulch into the wheelbarrows. Just wish I had been there with a camera!
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2009 at 1:04 pm
The Ultimate Entitlement Program: Public Official.
Give me a break, Hosterman, stop puffing yourself up - you're not that important. You're not. You may think of yourself more highly than you ought to, but you shouldn't have made the trip and wasted the money WE DON'T HAVE this year, not next. Why do you feel the need to be "honored"?
Jeb, Don't worry about missing out. We can hear your claps for Hosterman far and wide and I'm sure they rang out on the East Coast as well.
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Jul 10, 2009 at 1:14 pm
our downtown has become a ghost town because jennifer spends all her time out of town.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm
But James, I have to because I am SOOOOO important!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2009 at 1:17 pm
At LEAST I didn't quit my job first! I let PTown foot the bill for my travels!!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I am not a supporter of our present mayor but I have speak out because I can't believe the blind support the bloggers is showing to the existing administration. How blind can you be! The fact that the current administration did this just shows that they have their own agenda. So stop dumping on our mayor - this is bigger issue than you can see.
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 10, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Why would the VP want to speak with Plutonia's mayor? Isn't she after all the person that holds a wild bird captive? go take a leap mayor...you got what you deserved!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 10, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Obama should come here and personally apologize. That'd be rad. Remember when Clinton landed by helicopter at PMS for a Labor Day speech at the Fairgrounds?
So much for showing leadership, Biden. Honor the unions, but the rest of us be damned.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 11, 2009 at 11:57 am
Hosterman is just another "tic" among the "political" many who sees herself "important enough to be considered "snubbed". Give me a break. Most in this town have been ignoring her and her agenda. But given our local media here (Bing can you hear me?) you'd never know that!
a resident of Vineyard Avenue
on Jul 11, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Boy, I wonder if the "slap" the U.S. mayors received will translate into some positive action at home? While Jeb has been known to embelish a story or two with a pinch of drama, if this one is accurate you've got to ask yourself a question.
Would Mayor Hosterman ever have the nerve to cross "her" picketing firefighter's or police here in P-town? Cities all over California are in trouble due to the outrageous retirement packages these (greedy?)union reps ask for and receive-Vallejo went bankrupt as I recall-because the "candidate" then elected official loves the support they receive from these vocal/active voter/supporters.
Rarely it seems do these mayors stand up for the taxpayers, Mayor Hosterman included given past experience.
Let's hope that the mayor returns with a little more backbone than she left with.
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 12, 2009 at 10:12 am
Hosterman had no business using OUR money for another of her infamous boondoggles. No matter what happened, right or wrong, she should not have been there. She does nothing for this town yet thinks it is just fine to tramp all over the country at our expense. Jennifer, go play with your bird. You give a whole new meaning to the term "bird brained".
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 13, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Both Joe and Jennifer have no place in office. Name one thing that either has done of value. I hope she enjoyed her trip at our espense. Maybe Pleasanton will wake up before the next election.
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 14, 2009 at 10:27 pm
In case you are not paying attention, Pleasanton is weathering our economic storm pretty well. New storefronts downtown directly counter the charge that main street is a ghost town. Federal stimulus funds are going to those who lobby for the funds. So, why can't Pleasanton be at the table?
Keep up the good work Jennifer. Naysayers seem to show up on the anonymous blogs.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 24, 2009 at 12:31 pm
This sounds like the case of a pebble stopping the entire train. In what world does a mayor not know how to determine a true picket line from a bunch of people holding signs? If there is incompetence at the level of entering a building – how can we believe that REALLY HARD decisions are being handled any differently?
a resident of Canyon Oaks
on Nov 30, 2010 at 6:14 am
Sounds like a bunch of Tea Party sour grapes going on. I think Jenny won 4 times over the mediocore, angry, opponents she has faced. By the way, who is paying for the Lin's lawsuit? Kay, Karla, Cindy, maybe little "ridge dwelling" Stevie. Who is next? You go Jennifer, knowing that you were probably the best mayor Pleasanton has had.
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a resident of Ironwood
on Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 am
It is very evident from recent heated council meetings or workshops that there is a bitter part of our population that continues to express themselves in ways unbecoming of an adult. The other side of the coin is that is what a democratic society is all about. I support Mayor Hosterman fully & appreciate her efforts to protect our citizens.
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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
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John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, was eventually published as well. A Confederacy of Dunces won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Went in to checkerboard my 2 hives this weekend and found them almost out of stores--less than 10 lbs each. They are both full of bees and the Italian hive has been cranking out brood and flying all winter. The "Sunkist, I think" hive hasn't flown as much and hasn't had many orientation flights but seems healthy. Both seemed to have plenty of stores last fall.
I suspect that with our fairly warm winter with lots of flying days and most days and nights allowing for a lot of activity inside the hive, they just used up a lot. They also seem to be in full brood rearing mode from the number of bees and coverage in the hive, although I didn't pull frames to verify that.
Yesterday I put a top feeder on one and a gallon baggie on the other, but realized that both feeders were going to require opening the hive every few days and replenishing. Plus there is a limit to how fast they can take them and I think I need to get their stores replenished quickly.
So this morning I mixed up a 10 lb batch of 1.5/1 syrup, added 2 lbs. of my honey, a pinch of sea salt and the tea from brewing 3 Chamomile teabags (per Gunther Hauk), a dash of vitamin C for acidity. I had pulled the empty bottom boxes from both hives, so I took each frame and sprinkled dry sugar into the cells on one side till they were about half full. Working over a big cookie sheet, I laid the frame down and began pouring the syrup all over it, rubbing lightly with my hand to help the syrup get into the cells. Then I sprinkled more sugar over it and worked that in too. When I was finished, the cells were full of a semi-solid mix of sugar and syrup. The sugar kept the syrup from running out of the cells, and the syrup moistened the sugar. I did 12 frames (6 for each of my 8-frame boxes). Then I turned them over and filled the other side the same way. (It might have worked as well or better to have just wet the sugar with the syrup and rubbed it into the cells?) I ended up using about 30 lbs. of sugar. I then placed 6 full frames and 2 empty drawn frames in a medium and put one on each of the 2 hives.
Our weather is supposed to be in the 60's and 70's for the next 3 days, but with thunderstorms, then dropping to 45 highs for the following week. Since there isn't any forage yet, I figure (hope) that the bees will use that warm time to move the mixture down into the hive wherever they want it. I'm going to check in a week or so depending on weather, and if they have moved some of it down, I'll finish checkerboarding.
I considered that I might be creating a moisture/condensation problem with that many uncapped stores, but I have a cloth quilt, then foam insulation, then a folded mylar emergency blanket under the lid of each hive--the cloth wicks the condensation and keeps it from dripping on the brood.
I just kind of made this up as I went, but hopefully it will keep them from starving!


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As the climate warms, moss growth dramatically spreads on the continent's peninsula.
The Flight Size
February 5, 2014|
The metabolic intensity of powered flight seems to have caused some bird genomes to shrink.
February 5, 2014|
The metabolic intensity of powered flight seems to have caused some bird genomes to shrink.
February 3, 2014|
Twin macaques are the first primates born whose genomes were edited using CRISPR technology.
February 2, 2014|
Without microglia to pluck off unwanted synapses in early life, mouse brains develop with weaker connections, leading to altered social behavior.
February 1, 2014|
Me, Myself, and Why, RedDevil 4, Neanderthal Man, and Science from Sight to Insight
February 1, 2014|
February 2014's selection of notable quotes
January 31, 2014|
Stimulus-triggered pluripotency; antioxidants speed lung tumor growth; the importance of seminal vesicles; how a plant pathogen jumps hosts
January 30, 2014|
Two studies demonstrate the extent of Neanderthal DNA that persists in modern human genomes.
January 28, 2014|
Analysis of a 7,000-year-old human genome suggests that Mesolithic people had relatively dark skin and had begun to evolve pathogen resistance characteristic of modern Europeans.
January 27, 2014|
DNA sequencing study reveals a new river dolphin species in South America.
January 24, 2014|
Mistimed sleep disrupts human transcriptome; canine tumor genome; de novo Drosophila genes; UVA light lowers blood pressure; aquatic microfauna fight frog-killing fungus


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LOMA LINDA -- Flickering candles lit the night on New Year's Eve for little lives lost in 2012.
About 100 families and friends of children who have died participated in the 13th annual Lights for Little Lives Memorial Walk.
The memorial included the candle lighting and name reading, as well as a dove release symbolic of a heavenly journey. During the dove release, the 20 children lost in the Connecticut shooting were remembered by Chaplain Tim Evans.
"This event has turned out to be a tremendous blessing for parents and families who are looking to keep the name of their kids alive even though the children have died," Evans said. "It's an honor for the Unforgettables to plan it."
The walk left from the Ronald McDonald House parking lot and continued down Anderson Street to the Campus Hill Church.
The event also recognized those who work to heal, rescue and save children.
Reach Michel via email, find her on Twitter @michelnolan, or call her at 909-386-3859.


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I'm a second-year beekeeper in Central Texas. It's been really warm this fall with temps in the 80s, although there's not much in the way of nectar right now. Today (Tuesday 12/4/12) I went to harvest some honey. The honey that I had separated from the main hive with the bee escape was gone (eaten? moved? robbed?), and there were still a fair quantity of bees in the super; upon close inspection, one of the little arms on the bee escape was bent and the little workers could move back across it. This was all disappointing, but the strangest thing happened after I closed up the hive.
Bees were calm and not defensive while I was at the hive inspecting, and they didn't follow me back to the house (about 500 feet away). But after about ten minutes or so, I noticed the courtyard outside the house was FULL of bees flying about in a very agitated way, with quite a number of them dive bombing the glass doors as if trying to get in the house. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
Thanks for any insight you may have.


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The act of completely messing up a file, 3d model, text formatting or any other item by converting a document or file from one type to another.
When I finally found a file type that the program would accept, the model was so wonkverted that it looked like a three legged gnome whose head had suddenly exploded.
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Sheriff: Facebook Unfriending Primary Motive In Double Murder Case
JOHNSON COUNTY, Tenn. - An escalating family squabble that ended in two deaths may have culminated with someone being "unfriended" on Facebook.
That is coming from investigators about the deaths of Billy Payne Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth. They were found dead in their Doe Valley home last week.
It was the question on the minds of many: what could prompt anyone to brutally kill the young couple inside their home in the presence of their little baby? Now investigators believe that question could be answered.
Marvin Potter, Jr.and Jamie Lynn Curd are each charged with first degree murder. Both have ties to a girl named Jenelle Potter.
According to Assistant District Attorney Matthew Roark, she is Marvin Potter Jr.'s daughter and Curd's ex-girlfriend. The sheriff says it was her online relationship with the victims that started the whole controversy. "That's her life, evidently, from what we've gathered from this investigation. She used a computer to communicate with all these people," said Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece.
According to Sheriff Reece, when Payne and Hayworth blocked and removed Janelle Potter as a friend on Facebook she didn't take it lightly. "Everything was fine until they blocked her. That's when the harassment started," said Reece.
The sheriff said it came in the form of phone calls and online messages. We checked and the victims in this case weren't the only ones alleging harassment. At least two court documents claim Jenelle Potter was harassing them on Facebook.
We're told the suspects in the murder have a history of standing up for Jenelle Potter. "Mr. Curd is Mr. Payne's cousin. Apparently, there was some tension as to who was taking which side in those harassment cases," said Matthew Roark, Johnson County's assistant district attorney.
Roark told us Curd testified on Potter's behalf on one of those harassment cases. We're told her parents supported her as well.
"Once you removed Jenelle, you had to deal with her parents. They picked up and took it there with her, so you were dealing with the entire family," said Reece.
Which is why investigators are now collecting the online conversations as evidence and are pointing to a computer as the source of a gruesome murder.
We did contact Jenelle Potter at her home and spoke with her mother. Both refused to talk to us and wouldn't give us the name of their attorney.


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Built-in Silent System Offers Privacy and Aids Multi-Track Recording
The proprietary Yamaha Grand Silent System adds a versatile new dimension to the DC1S. With the touch of a button, you can prevent the hammers from striking the strings, while generating real-time digital piano reproduction through headphones. Using 30 m...
Built-in Silent System Offers Privacy and Aids Multi-Track Recording
The proprietary Yamaha Grand Silent System adds a versatile new dimension to the DC1S. With the touch of a button, you can prevent the hammers from striking the strings, while generating real-time digital piano reproduction through headphones. Using 30 megabytes of memory, the digital piano even recreates the harmonic resonance that results from incremental use of the sustain pedal.
Silent System™
The Silent System also offers the perfect solution to multi-track recording, allowing you to record orchestral tracks from the DC1S keyboard, via the internal XG tone generator, without hearing the sound of the piano.
Quick Escape™ Mechanism
An exclusive Quick Escape action mechanism automatically compensates for hammer stroke variations, maintaining a natural touch and response in both Silent and conventional modes. In playing and recording a special dual-position shutter allows hammer sensors to deliver optimal performance in either normal or Silent modes.
Unparalleled Triumph of Technology and Tradition
The new DC1S offers more capabilities than ever before — from built-in digital accompaniment to computer connectivity — in addition to the uncompromising quality and world-standard performance of a Yamaha acoustic piano.
XG Internal Tone Generator
The sophisticated new tone generation module gives you instant access to a full spectrum of instrumental accompaniment. It's built right into the new Disklavier control unit, so you can easily record the sounds of other instruments or play back fully orchestrated piano/ensemble concerts through the Disklavier and your own amplified speakers. You can even adjust the balance between piano and ensemble volume to get exactly the mix you want.
A Major Advance in Digital Music Technology
Yamaha's new XG format extends General MIDI standards to include nearly 700 instrumental and percussion voices, with enhanced control and CD-quality sound. It's also designed to take advantage of future Yamaha advances, so your state-of-the-art Disklavier today will still be state-of-the-art tomorrow.
Versatile Playback Functions
Search and select functions make it easy to find the music you want to hear. You can control the volume to suit the occasion, adjust the tempo without affecting the pitch, change the key to play or sing along, and repeat any song or passage. With L/R recorded disks, you can even listen to the left or right hand part alone, or play one hand while the piano plays the other!
Keyboard-Integrated Recording
Using an advanced system of fiber-optic sensors, Disklavier pianos can capture any player's performance right from the keyboard itself. The internal Memory Disk lets you record and playback compositions using record and playback compositions using the instrument's own flash memory, or record onto standard 3.5" 2DD or 2HD floppy disks for unlimited capacity and easy portability. L/R dual recording lets you record left and right parts independently or simultaneously.
Personal Computer Interface
With a simple cable connection, now you can link the magic of your Disklavier piano to the power of your personal computer. You can store and edit performances on your computer's hard drive or other media, play the Disklavier XG from your PC, download music files from the Internet, or take advantage of today's advanced software for 'desktop music' and computer-aided composition.
Comprehensive Utility Functions
A wide variety of supporting features — including formatting, copying, titling and conversion functions — are built into the DC1S, providing exceptional flexibility, convenience and control. A proprietary Self-Maintenance system provides automatic calibration, keeping your instrument in factory-fresh adjustment for maximum playback sensitivity.
Easy Operational Control
Despite its technological sophistication, Disklavier operation is simple and intuitive. A large, multi-function LCD panel displays settings, menus and operational guidance. And the majority of functions can be accessed both at the control unit and via remote control.
Treat Your Ears to the Ultimate in Musical Fidelity
The vast library of Yamaha PianoSoft™ disks offers prerecorded concerts by many of the world's most popular and respected pianists, performed with truly remarkable precision — complete with exact key and pedal movement — right on the piano itself. PianoSoft Plus™ ensemble disks augment this acoustic performance with the rich realism of digital orchestration, through the internal tone generator and simple connection to your own amplified speakers.
Explore New Creative Horizons
Students, teachers and developing artists have rapidly come to appreciate the advantages of Disklavier 'piano plus' versatility. Its direct recording and playback capabilities, along with features like dual left and right-hand recording and playback, help make learning more effective...and more fun! There's even a built-in metronome to help you keep the beat.
Polished Ebony
Yamaha Servicebond™ Assurance Program
The Yamaha Servicebond Assurance Program is provided to the customer, without additional charge, 3-8 months after delivery of their piano. This service is a thorough check up and adjustment procedure to "rejuvenate" a piano after play-in and acclimation to its new environment. After 3-8 months or so of settling and becoming acclimatized, the piano will receive the benefit of a service visit to return it to the conditions specified by the manufacturer.
|PianoSoft Collection
|An extensive collection of pre-recorded music (3 1/2" diskette) featuring a wide variety of music categories and well-known performers are now available for the Disklavier. Visit Yamaha MusicSoft.com This is a unique new website where you can purchase and/or download software for the Yamaha Disklavier or call Music Dispatch (800) 637-2852
|Now you can extend the power of your Yamaha Disklavier™ or Disklavier GranTouch™ piano. Ideal for commercial applications, the new EMK1 upgrade kit from Yamaha provides sixteen times the standard internal Disklavier memory capacity, along with a convenient built-in clock/timer, to give you an expanded range of programming options and extended playback performance
|Piano Style Foot Switch
|Foot Switch
|Volume Foot Controller
Audio & Video
|Speed-sensing, single-beam optical sensors; dual key/hammer locations; 16-note polyphonic
|Sustain and Shift (Soft) has Incremental, position-sensing optical sensors; Sostenuto has On/Off sensor
|Self-calibrating, long-stroke, key-end solenoids 16-note polyphonic.
|3.5" 2DD (720KB) or 2HD (1.44MD) floppy disk
|Memory Disk
|Flash memory (approximately equal to the memory capacity of a 2HD floppy disk
|Main Display
|24-character X 2-line LCD; Song # Indicator: 7-segment, 2-digit LED
|Function Indicators
|LEDs; Switches: Power, Host Select (MIDI, PC1, PC2, Mac)
|MIDI (In/Out), Audio Output (R, L/Mono), To Host (Serial Port), To Piano
|Dimensions (W x H x D)
|316 x 60 x 209 mm (12 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 8 1/4")
|2.0 kg (4.4 lbs.)
|Advanced Wave Memory 2 (AWM2)
|32-note maximum
|Ensemble Parts
|Voice Module Modes
|Normal Voices
|Drum Voices
|21 kits (total)
|Set at A=440, tunable +/-50 cents in 1-cent steps, with power-off memory
|30-400 beats per minute
|Time Signatures
|1/4, 2/4. 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 8/4, 9/4
|Audible (tick, on/off), visual (LEDs)
|Other Equipment
|Main switch, foot controller connector
|Power Source
|Local AC current
|11 levels (0 to -10) with power-off memory
|50% to +20% in 1% steps
|+/-24 semitones (2 octaves) in 1-semitone steps
|alancing volume of ensemble voices and piano
|Repeat(Functions only with remote control)
|Disk, song, random, segment A to B, segment A to
|Song Select
|Rev/Fwd, song by song; numerical selection
|Music Search
|Rev/Fwd, with or without sound; direct by time or measure
|L/R Part Select, Pedal Cancel, Pedal Count-In
|16 (including 2 for piano);
|L/R Dual Recording
|Separate L/R or assignable split point
|1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/12, 1/16 of a quarter note (rhythm track only)
|Copy, sort, delete, type convert (SMF, E-SEQ, earlier Disklavier), time format convert
|Format, copy, type convert
|Title Entry
|64 characters maximum on disk; 32 characters maximum on song
|Dimensions (L x W x H)
|161 x 149 x 101 cm (5'3" x 59" x 40")
Songs are played back at the wrong tempo or in the wrong key.
Disklavier / Silent Piano / Hybrid Piano – Removing "Ghost" Files from USB Thumb Drives Using a Mac / Apple Computer
Disklavier, Silent Piano and Hybrid Piano: Removing "Ghost" Files from USB Thumb Drives Using a Mac / Apple Computer


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The Placemakers complex in Kerikeri, one of the Far North's largest retail properties, will go under the hammer early next month as part of Bayleys' last big Total Property auction for the year.
With a long-term lease to the Fletcher Building subsidiary with built-in rental increases, the Kerikeri property is among the strongest offerings of over 100 commercial and industrial properties for sale nationwide in the portfolio, says David Bayley, the executive director of Bayleys Real Estate, who is marketing the property with Chester Rendell and Alan Broadbent of Bayleys' Kerikeri office.
"The sale represents a good opportunity to secure a prime investment property in an affluent provincial growth area with a 12-year lease to one of New Zealand's largest and most recognised companies which has a strong history of business performance," Bayley says.
The 3360sq m hardware and building supplies store, on a large land holding of 2.2917ha at 26 Mill Lane, Kerikeri, will go up for sale in Bayleys' central Auckland auction rooms on December 5.
The property comprises a stand-alone, large-format retail store, built in the mid-2000s, with a lease to Fletcher Distribution Limited, trading as Placemakers.
In addition to the Placemakers building and 6766sq m of surrounding yards, there is a three-bedroom 202sq m house and vacant land at the rear of the property.
The existing Placemakers lease commenced in 2006 and runs until 2018, with four rights of renewal through until 2041. It is currently producing net annual rental income of $546,695.
Bayley says a feature of the lease which will appeal to investors is the guaranteed rental income growth from three-yearly rental adjustments based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index.
The rent is also reviewed to market at each of the four lease renewal periods and cannot be less than the existing rent or greater than the annual rent payable in the previous 12 months plus 10 per cent.
Bayley says the residential dwelling and the 1.24ha block of vacant land at the back of the property also represent added-value opportunities for investors.
"The land allows for future expansion of the Placemakers complex or further development of the site, while the house offers an opportunity for additional rental income."
The Placemakers building has a main retail area of 1312sq m specialising in the sale of home improvement products; a timber drive-through area of 1493sq m; offices and amenities totalling 415sq m; and a 140sq m canopy.
Rendell says the building has been solidly constructed of tilt-slab concrete and steel.
The property is on the fringe of the Kerikeri township, about 1km from the town centre within the greater Mill Lane industrial area.
This zone comprises a compact grouping of predominantly industrial buildings ranging from lower-cost workshops to larger, more modern complexes, the Placemakers complex being the biggest.
The building occupies just over a hectare on the front half of the site.
Rendell says Kerikeri is the fastest growing area in the Far North with a 10 per cent population increase between the 2001 and 2006 census to 5856, with further growth since then. Kerikeri has a good range of predominantly local, and some national, businesses which service the area's major industries of horticulture, tourism, retail, wood product manufacture and construction.
"There's an active building market in the Bay of Islands driven by both the growing permanent population and holiday home-owners, particularly from Auckland and overseas, who are constructing very elaborate houses in a number of instances.
"Placemakers has a strong focus on the building trade as well as the DIY market and is well positioned to service the construction sector in the region," says Rendell.


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It's your last chance to hear the full DROPKICK MURPHYS record-release set from Tuesday -- when they celebrated their new Signed and Sealed in Blood by blasting through an hour-long set from McGreevys on Boylston Street. WFNX.com was there to capture the spectacle -- free show by Murphys live at their own bar? Mayhem! -- and tonight at 6 pm they'll be streaming the set in its entirety.
Photo by @amc3576 via Instagram
The boys are back in town.
The day after dropping their biggest album to date, Signed and Sealed in Blood -- expected to debut in the top 5 on the Billboard chart -- Boston's fifth major sports team, DROPKICK MURPHYS, opened up their hometown watering hole, McGreevys, to the public for an hour-long singalong.
Austin duo DEEP TIME (F/K/A Yellow Fever) released an excellent record last month, a debut self-titled LP via Hardly Art. And today, they dropped a new video for their track "Gold Rush" (watch it below) wherein a couple dressed in makeshift bedsheet ghost costumes get bored of creeping around a cemetery, so they abandon the dark vibes and headstones and run to the beach for blue skies and sunshine, playing a game of volleyball as palm trees and a ferris wheel loom in the distance.
EARTHQUAKE PARTY's minimalistic punk spirit surfaces once again in the band's new official video for "Pretty Little Hand". The track -- which is currently up for "Song of the Year" in our annual Best Music Poll -- is from their 5-minute-long 3-track tape Vs Pizza, self-released earlier this year.
In the March 30th issue of the Phoenix, I profiled Brooklyn's Friends -- discussing the band's ability to write songs about sociopolitical topics in subtle ways. "It's easy to fall for
Friends without ever picking up on their politics," I wrote. "The group's glam-pop
'80s-New-York-inspired jams themselves are catchy as hell."
DUSTIN WONG, formerly of the noisy Baltimore art rock band Ponytail, is releasing his sophomore solo LP on February 21, Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads. His solo jams are laid-back and intricate; Wong uses an array of pedals to loop, layer, and
distort experimental tones and textures, making huge
hypnotizing soundscapes.
Merry christmas from Mary Lou Lord: she just uploaded the full 45-minute video file -- complete with classic Billy Ruane intro -- of a legendary Cambridge gig by ELLIOTT SMITH. (It was #14 on our list of the 40 Greatest Boston Concerts of All Time.) This one comes from January 8, 1998 -- about a month after the theatrical release of Boston's national anthem, Good Will Hunting, introduced the world to "Miss Misery," but still two months before he played it at the Oscars.
We don't have to remind you how much we love to party with DOM. We invited them to play our SXSW party, they jumped on stage at our Best Music Poll Awards party, and then they destroyed Lansdowne Street in the middle of our Clambake. And we're kind of blown away by their upcoming Family of Love EP, which unveils five new songs you probably haven't seen 'em play live yet.
For twenty minutes on Thursday night, my friend Akhil and I rounded the perimeter of the Scoot Inn looking for a way in. It was 1:30 a.m., the venue was at capacity and Talib Kwali was performing inside. We had just seen Beach Fossils fans almost tear down an outdoor stage tent at Shangri-La, we were drunk and we really wanted to see some hip-hop.
Boston's new indie-pop darlings NAKED ON ROLLER SKATES celebrated the release of the band's debut EP on Saturday, February 12 at Great Scott. Thanks to merch cohort, Erica Truncale, there was even a pair of old school roller skates in attendance. Naked On Roller Skates is Leesa Coyne (vocals, guitar), Kelly Davidson (bass), Travis Richter (lead guitar) and Randall Creasi (drums).
Well, they may or may not get rich with this reunion, but last night, the recently-reunited Dismemberment Plan played their television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and, well, anyone who was concerned about how they'd sound at next week's (officiall sold out) Paradise show can probably stop worrying.
In his dispatch from the potentially doomed All Asia earlier this week, Barry Thompson writes:
During their appropriately thunderous performance, guitarist/singer dude Matt Reppucci commanded onlookers to yoink a CD out of a nearby suitcase.
Here's the Old E doing two crowd-pleasin' tunes, "Dead Vulture Hurricane" and "Between Wind and Water" at that Allston apartment mentioned in the story we ran this week.
READ: "Down in the folk trenches with the Old Edison"
"Between Wind and Water"
We're fairly certain none of them actually live there (except maybe Liam?).
Since we here at the Phoenix only take our social cues from Jay-Z, we would
like to make it known that we on to the next one. So long to 2010 and
the mounds of year end lists showering praise on Kanye West (as if he
needed his ego stroked any further). In fact, we're so over 2010 that
we've already turned to our crystal ball and our go-to illegal file
sharing sites, and are prepared to go out on an asinine limb to declare Album of the Year for 2011.
Things I did not expect to hear at the Superchunk show: a heartfelt tribute to Buffalo Tom. Sure enough, though, Mac McCaughan was up there talking about how back in the 90s, Superchunk had aspired to a "Buffalo Tom-like intensity." With all due respect to the (underrated) BuffTom, I'd say they surpassed that particular yardstick long ago.


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Matt Kime: 1974 Chevy 3500Posted in Ultimate Adventure: 2011 on November 1, 2011 Comment (0)
Driver: Matt Kime
Co-Driver: Ben Brewer
Stomping Grounds: Yucca Valley, CA
To be invited on the Ultimate Adventure once is an incredible opportunity for most diehard wheelers. To receive a second invitation and actually agree to come back is downright insanity! Fortunately the memories of mud, heat, giant bugs, and grueling wheeling and road days were long gone (or maybe repressed) in Matt Kime's mind and we got to spend another week with one of the nicest and most dedicated wheelers on the planet. This year Matt convinced his longtime friend and fellow wrenching buddy Ben Brewer to co-drive in the big green Hulk. And while minor heating issues kept appearing throughout the trip, nothing kept the Chevy or the guys' positive attitudes down for long—and don't forget they drove it 4,000 miles from California and back!
- Engine: 5.3L Gen III Vortec
- Transmission: TH400, B&M shift kit
- Transfer Case: Stak 3-speed
- Front Axle: Dana 60, ARB Air Locker, 35-spline Yukon axleshafts, 5.13 gears
- Rear Axle: Shaved 14-bolt, Detroit Locker, Offroad Design disc brake conversion, 5.13 gears
- Springs & Such: Offroad Design 4-link conversion front with King coilovers, custom rear springs with King shocks
- Tires & Wheels: 41x14 Iroks on 17x9 Spyderlocks
- Steering: High steer with PSC Motorsports hydraulic assist
- Custom boat-sides, bed, bumpers, and cage; Warn M12000 winch