Betty Yee represents the Bay Area on the Board of Equalization.
California will require out-of-state retailers to register with its Board of Equalization and collect "use tax" on stuff they sell to customers in the Golden State.
The new law kicks in Sept. 15, and the BOE is sending letters to 200 sellers not based in California to notify them of the change.
Though use tax has been much in the news as the state has wrestled with online giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), it's been on the books since 1935, when the out-of-state boogeyman was the Sears mail-order catalog.
Under the new law, AB 155, any retailer that has sold more than $1 million in merchandise to California consumers and has had more than $10,000 in sales referred by an affiliate in the state, must collect use tax (it's the same rate as local sales tax) and pay it to the government.
California online shoppers will start seeing the tax on their bills Sept. 15, the BOE said. But the onus is still on consumers to pay use tax if the retailer fails to charge them for it.
Rather than heckling millions of individual consumers to keep track of or guess at their use tax, California will now be able to focus its enforcement efforts on a smaller group of businesses.
Betty Yee represents the Bay Area on the Board of Equalization.
Steven E.F. Brown is web editor at the San Francisco Business Times.
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New Orleans Saints defensive back Isa Abdul-Quddus (42) knocks the ball out of the grasp of Tennessee Titans quarterback Jake Locker (10) in the second quarter of an NFL football preseason game on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. The Saints recovered the ball. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
New Orleans Saints defensive back Isa Abdul-Quddus (42) knocks the ball out of the grasp of Tennessee Titans quarterback Jake Locker (10) in the second quarter of an NFL football preseason game on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. The Saints recovered the ball. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
New Orleans Saints quarterback Sean Canfield (4) is sacked by Tennessee Titans defensive end Keyunta Dawson (75) for a four-yard loss in the first quarter of an NFL football preseason game on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Jake Locker directs a receiver as he rolls out against the New Orleans Saints in the first quarter of an NFL football preseason game on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees signs autographs before an NFL football preseason game against the Tennessee Titans, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Joe Vitt coached to the very last minute, sprinting down the field and screaming for a timeout as his team moved into scoring territory.
Meaningless preseason game? Hardly. The New Orleans Saints' interim coach gave his team everything he had in a 10-6 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night. It may have been meaningless to most, but it was full of import for Vitt, who now starts a six-week suspension for his role in the Saints' bounty scandal.
"I just told the guys it's been my honor and my pleasure and it really has been," Vitt said. " ... The only person who's dreading this more than anybody is my wife."
Vitt believes he delivers the Saints to their Sept. 9 opener against the Washington Redskins in the best shape possible. Not only are they as healthy as any Saints team he can remember, every player is on the same page following a tumultuous offseason that's brought scandal and storms and every kind of distraction imaginable.
"I'm proud of the way they went through OTAs," Vitt said. "I'm proud of the way they went through training camp. I'm proud of the way they stuck together. And this week, we got displaced yet again and we had not one man late for a meeting. Everybody came together here and got the work done that we had to get done."
That showed against the Titans. Vitt scratched 26 players, and the reserves left on the field outplayed Tennessee, which held out a few stars but played most of the regulars along with quarterback Jake Locker.
Also taking on a larger role in the game was Aaron Kromer, the next interim coach in line. He'll be New Orleans' field leader for six games and Vitt said his role against the Titans expanded quite a bit and included game management issues like replay challenges.
Though coach Sean Payton has been gone since the spring when he began serving his one-year suspension, Vitt doesn't feel the coaches have deviated from his plan one bit.
"This coaching staff has been like a board of directors," Vitt said.
Now it's Kromer's turn to take over as chairman. But first, the Saints will return home Friday and check in on their families and homes after Isaac caused flooding and damage in Louisiana. They'll have Saturday and Sunday off before gathering for a meeting Sunday night that will serve as the official start of the regular season.
Rather than rip the team apart, Brees says the situation has only made it stronger. The Saints played five preseason games this year, something that usually drives players nuts. But in retrospect Brees believes pulling the team together so early helped settle everything for the players.
"I guess in spite of everything that's going on, it was probably nice to come to camp early and hunker down and just focus on football," Brees said. "For a lot of us, we just want to get out on the field as quickly as possible. I've really watched the team come together over the last six weeks through some pretty interesting circumstances, especially as of late."
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TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - "College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. ... If you're feeling left out or passed by, you have not failed, your leaders have failed you."
- Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan
"We're a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, we're a little different. There are the songs on his iPod which I've heard on the campaign bus and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, 'I hope it's not a deal-breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC and ends with Zeppelin.'"
- Ryan
"The demographics race, we're losing badly. We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
- South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, on the dangers Republicans face if they cannot appeal to more minorities at a time when white voters are a decreasing part of the electorate.
"I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the story books I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those story books never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage."
- Ann Romney
"I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America."
- Ann Romney, on her husband
"I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love."
-Ann Romney
"I believe we have become paralyzed by our desire to be loved. ... Tonight, we choose respect over love. We are not afraid. We are taking our country back."
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
"Before I ran for district attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I know a party switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues. They never used the words Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life or a hand up? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car, and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned, we're Republicans.'"
-New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a former Democrat
"Folks, let me tell you this, (Democratic Vice President) Joe Biden disputes a lot of those facts, but Joe Biden told me that he was a good golfer. And I've played golf with Joe Biden. I can tell you that's not true."
- Ohio Governor John Kasich
The Republican convention is a chance for Mitt Romney to prove that he is not "a plutocrat married to a known equestrian."
- Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, on how Romney needs to show that he is not out of touch with the needs of the middle class,
"We are not better off than we were four years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker or campaign ad can change that. Mr. President, I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012."
- Mia Love, mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah
(Compiled by David Lindsey; Editing by Leslie Adler)
Policy differences aside, President Obama says he admires Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his family life, personal discipline and outward practice of his Mormon faith.
"He strikes me as somebody who is very disciplined. And I think that that is a quality that obviously contributed to his success as a private equity guy," Obama said in an interview with TIME magazine ahead of the Democratic National Convention next week.
"I think he takes his faith very seriously. And as somebody who takes my Christian faith seriously, I appreciate that he seems to walk the walk and not just be talking the talk when it comes to his participation in his church," he said.
The personal praise for Romney - and rare mention of his religious practice - goes beyond what Obama has publicly offered heretofore on the campaign trail. He regularly refers to his rival as a patriotic family man, even though he vehemently disagrees with his policies.
"This isn't a matter of who is more patriotic or who is more empathetic towards people or who is nicer," Obama said later in the TIME interview. "It's a hard-headed assessment of what makes our economy grow. And the facts are on my side in this argument. The question is whether while we're still digging ourselves out of this hole that we found ourselves in, that the facts will win the day."
The Obama campaign has said it would not make an issue of Romney's Mormonism during the lead up to the November election - a pledge which it so far has appeared to keep.
"We've said that's not fair game," senior Obama strategist David Axelrod said of both candidates' personal religious views in an interview with CNN earlier this year.
Security researchers claim business users could ignore advice to disable plug-ins over app stability fears.
By Caroline Donnelly, 30 Aug 2012 at 16:44
Security researchers have urged users to disable internet browser Java plug-ins, despite concerns about the impact it will have on their line-of-business applications.
As reported by IT Pro earlier this week, the US government has urged internet users to switch off Java in their web browsers following the discovery of two Oracle Java 7 zero-day vulnerabilities.
The issue is understood to affect web browsers that use the Java 7 plug-in, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.
Removing Java from computers eliminates the attack surface, but it will break browser-based apps.
The bugs allow Java applets to carry out arbitrary operating system commands without permission, which could allow vulnerable systems to be infected with malware.
Despite this, IT security experts claim some enterprise users might be tempted to ignore the US government?s advice because of the disruption it could cause to their business.
For instance, Ziv Mador, director of security research at Trustwave SpiderLabs, said companies that use browser-based Java apps would experience problems.
?Removing Java from computers eliminates the attack surface, but it is used in line-of-business and consumer applications and will clearly break [them].
?[It] is an issue administrators will need to take into account before they act on this [advice],? he added.
This is a view backed by Rik Ferguson, director of security research at anti-virus vendor Trend Micro, who said this could put some users off disabling Java.
?Some users, depending on who their security vendor is, might feel confident enough in its ability to detect every single variant of malware [this could expose them to], which is, perhaps, not that sensible,? said Ferguson.
?There are some workarounds, though, most of which are pretty clunky,? he added.
For instance, IT administrations could tell staff to use a different browser, such as Google Chrome, to run their business applications in and another for general internet use.
?It means having two separate browsers and relying on users to maintain that policy for as long as that alert?s in place, which is why it?s a bit clunky,? he explained.
?The simplest solution would be for Oracle to release a patch, especially as this is a vulnerability that is affecting so many different platforms.
Meanwhile, Tal Be?ery, web research team leader at security vendor Imperva, said it is ?nearly impossible? for IT administrators to disable a single software component on every machine they are responsible for.
?The current case of disabling Java components is no different,? he said.
?Individual users should turn off Java 7 browser plug-ins and only enable them [for] trusted sites, such as [those hosting] Java-powered line of business applications.?
Pressure is growing on Oracle to patch the vulnerabilities ahead of its next Java 7 update, which is due in October, following claims that a Polish IT security research team alerted the software giant to the problem back in April.
MSNBC's Tamron Hall speaks with Jesse Shaffer, who is working with others to rescue people trapped by floods in their Louisiana homes.
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Updated at 6:57 p.m. ET: A Louisiana father-and-son team is being credited with rescuing dozens of people in the low-lying Plaquemines Parish on Wednesday as Isaac made its way inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
?There was a family of five on a trailer with about one foot left before they were to go under, and they were screaming away,? Jesse Shaffer Jr. of Braithwaite?told MSNBC's Tamron Hall.
?I?ve seen about 60 rescues today and that?s including about 30 animals,? he said.
Across the Gulf Coast, residents abandoned their homes, with some heading to evacuation centers to ride out the storm. Others weren't as fortunate. The cyclone, downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday afternoon, threatened to flood towns in Louisiana and Mississippi with more rain and storm surges.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents were ordered to evacuate, but only half left before Isaac made landfall late Tuesday. At least 118 people were rescued in Plaquemines, including 25 trapped on their roofs, authorities said.
Shaffer was among a tireless crew to save several residents in the east bank,?Nungesser told The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
Levees in the east bank are just over 8 feet high, while storm surges have been estimated as high as 14 feet.?The Mississippi River cuts the parish in two as it flows to the Gulf of Mexico. One rescue included a woman and her 5-month-old baby, both plucked from a rooftop, Nungesser said.
Shaffer, 25, his 53-year-old father, Jesse Shaffer Sr., and two other men headed out on boats to reach residents trapped or stranded by the rising water, The Times-Picayune reported.
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?I was watching the water all day yesterday and then we got the surge around 1 and 1:30 last night,? the younger Shaffer told MSNBC. He launched his boat from a service road and headed into this submerged community before dawn.
Joshua Brockhaus, an electrician who lives in the flooded area between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, also helped rescue neighbors in his boat. "I'm getting text messages from all over asking for help," Brockhaus told the AP. ?"I'm dropping my dogs off, and I'm going back out there."
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A downgraded Isaac floods coastal communities and forces new evacuations, but levees still hold.
?Not used to evacuating? In Houma, La., Doug Bourg was busy making sure families streaming into the Houma Municipal Auditorium, the official evacuation center for Terrebonne Parish, had the latest information on Isaac.
?At the moment, we have 194 people here at the center,? Bourg told NBC News. Bourg, an administrative assistant to the Terrebonne Parish president, said each family was advised to bring enough food for at least 72 hours.
Dominica Knight, a 23-year-old mother of two, spent the evening at the center.
"I have kids and they both have asthma," she told The Associated Press, as she held her 11-month-old baby in one arm while holding onto her 2-year-old with her free hand. She said she didn't want to be without electricity or away from emergency assistance with Isaac near.
?I'm not used to evacuating," she told the AP.
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Sandbagging efforts Faced with pelting rain, winds and rising water, Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner led a sandbagging effort in his community to build a last-minute extra line of defense, he told the Times-Picayune.?Members of the National Guard were expected to?assist in the effort.
At the zoo, remembering Katrina Seven years ago, when Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, former Audubon Zoo worker Dan Maloney was sleeping next to the reptile house, First Coast News reported. Creepy perhaps, but it was the highest ground in the zoo.
He and a staff of 15 zookeepers ended up living at the zoo for two months, caring for the animals even as food supplies dwindled. Ultimately, he is proud of saying, only four animals died. Two were otters, the BBC reported at the time; an alligator also escaped, although at the time Maloney was confident the alligator would return.
As Hurricane Isaac ripped through the city on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, Maloney, who now works at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Mississippi, hoped for the best and recalled, with some fondness, earlier efforts. The zoo employees organized armed patrols, First Coast News reported, and built their own shower.
"The animals can't go so we have to stay,? Maloney told First Coast News. ?That's how it works. That's the job we signed up to do and that was our mission to make sure they came through it okay.?
Abuzz in Isaac?s wake Hurricane Isaac held Floridian Ismay Williams captive in her own home ? not because of flooding or power outages but because it moved a small colony of bees into her home.
"I have intimidating problems with them. I'm scared they will sting you," Williams told NBC-2 in southwest Florida. "I wouldn't want 60,000 bees to get angry with me."
And so Keith Councell, a homegrown bee keeper from the area, checked out her home. He sealed a hole the bees were using as an entryway, making sure they could only exit.
In Cape Coral, Fla., Richard Chapelle found 10,000 honeybees lounging on the grass in his backyard, brought there, apparently, by wind and rain from the storm.
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With desktop PC cases, as with many other technology products, little changes can make big differences. The Thermaltake Overseer RX-I , for example, is astonishingly similar in appearance to the company's Editors' Choice award?winning Chaser MK-I and Armor Revo Snow Edition, but makes a few key departures that keep it from being quite as ideal as they are for your next gaming computer build. Its slightly lower price will appeal to those for whom every penny counts, but we'd recommend shelling out just a bit more money to get a noticeable increase in usability.
Thermaltake has gotten the aesthetics of the Overseer RX-I unquestionably right. The company has applied an attractive, scaly-looking design to the ornamental edges of the all-black case, imbuing it with the stylish yet charmingly creepy vibe of the titular extraterrestrial from the Alien movies. Circular mesh on the top and front panels and just the barest hints of blue accents along the 5.25-inch bay covers make the Overseer subtly striking visually, and a partially windowed side panel with a hexagonal fan grille give the case a bit of additional enthusiast flash.
The inside of the Overseer RX-I offers pretty much everything you might need for a full-scale build and nothing you don't, just as the Chaser and Armor Revo do. A large hole cut into the motherboard tray simplifies the process of adding an aftermarket CPU cooler, five grommeted channels make for worry-free routing of cables and wires into the plentiful space beneath the motherboard (and two more on the rear panel, located below a 120mm exhaust fan, are ideal for snaking liquid cooling piping into and out of the case), and there's ample room for installing even ultra-long video cards like the AMD Radeon HD 6990 or the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690. In the drive well you'll find three 5.25-inch external bays, one 3.5-inch external bay (really a modified 5.25-inch one), and five internal 3.5-inch bays that use removable trays for holding the drives.
On the top panel of the Overseer RX-I you'll find the front-panel ports, a solid selection that includes two USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, and one eSATA, plus the usual headphone and microphone jacks. Also present there is an external bay there for loading in hot-swappable 2.5- or 3.5-inch drives, so you can add to your storage capabilities without having to first open up your computer.
In other words, the Overseer RX-I is not hurting for features. But what it lacks is the minute attention to detail that will matter to more serious DIYers. The filter for the front-panel 200mm intake fan is hourglass shaped and difficult to remove from and replace in its position on the inside of the front panel. Given how easily these filters can get choked with dust, simple removal of them for cleaning is essential, and this one is unusually frustrating. The top panel is inelegant in a different way. The cover for both the hot-swappable drive bay and the front panel ports is integrated into it, so when you take off the panel you expose them, making damage or contamination that much more likely. Worse, because the power and reset buttons are likewise on the top panel, you'll need to disconnect the wires connecting them to the main body of the case itself before you can fully remove the top panel?an annoyance that shouldn't be necessary.
It's also worth mentioning that the Overseer RX-I is a little smaller than the Chaser (21.1 by 8.7 by 22.8 inches, HWD, versus 22.4 by 9.3 by 22.9 inches). This is somewhat to be expected given the case's lower price, but you'll really notice it when you're working around the top edges of the motherboard you're using; with more than an extra inch of space in the Chaser, working in that case is more comfortable and pleasing, whereas the Overseer RX-I is more on the cramped side.
Even so, the Thermaltake Overseer RX-I is a worthy case that's ready and able to house a powerful system. But the extra perks and conveniences built into the Chaser MK-I and the Armor Revo Snow Edition help those models make the process even more enjoyable and effortless, and they're definitely worth the extra $20 or $30 or so you'll need to pay to get them. If, however, you really must draw the line at $140 for a case, the Overseer RX-1 is a fine way to go.
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Real estate is a competitive business, which means agents have to compete for their clients. Just as they work to find their next client (that they hope will turn into repeat business and a positive testimonial), you need to work to find the right real estate agent (one that you feel comfortable with to guide you through the whole process of buying or selling a home). How do you choose with so many to pick from? As with any selection process, there?s a few steps you can take to quickly narrow down your options. So take the time now to find the right person and you could prevent a lot of hassles down the road.
What agent to find
Finding an experienced agent who specializes in green real estate and in your particular area is ideal because they?ll have the right mix of experience and knowledge to assist with your specific situation.
Of those three factors?experience, green homes and location specialization?you might get lucky and find someone with all three. If not, you?ll have to weigh the relative importance of each.
How to find an agent
Referrals are always best. Ask friends and family if they know someone that they?d recommend. If you?re lucky enough to get referred to a green home specialist from someone you trust, your task finding an agent could be a short one.
You can turn to the web for quick results. The National Association of Green Agents and Brokers maintains an online directory of green real estate agents in Canada. If a search on your area pulls up any listings, you can then start looking through those agents? websites.
It?s a good idea to run a search on Google for ?green real estate agents <your location>? (without the brackets: i.e. green real estate agents Calgary or green real estate agents Ontario). How high these agents? websites rank is not necessarily an indicator of the agent?s experience, popularity or number of homes sold, but is an indicator of their popularity on the Internet, and that fact alone means a lot in terms of how much visibility your home will get when listed.
You might not have any luck finding someone who specializes in green homes or in your specific area, so you?ll need to take your search further afield. If in your search you come across a great agent, but who doesn?t specialize in what you?re looking for, don?t hesitate to ask for a referral to one who does. You can also ask around at local agencies to come up with a list of agents? names.
Alternatively, if you have the time, Elizabeth Weintraub, Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate, recommends tracking for sale signs in the neighbourhood to see when they go up and when they?re sold. You could also attend open houses to see agents in action and meet them in a casual environment rather than interviewing them.
Assessing an agent
Go through agents? marketing materials, websites and interview them, keeping an eye out to determine whether the agent is puffing themselves up or not. Do they really have the experience they claim to have?
A look through their websites might help you discover the answer. See how many listings they have. If they do have a lot, look for the fine print to see whether those are actually their own listings or if they belong to other agents in the office. Also check to see if they advertise on other home listing websites, which would increase the visibility of your home for sale.
An agent with a high traffic website is akin to an agent who advertises a lot in print. The more visible they are, the more visibility your home will get when for sale. It?s also possible that if they?re a highly visible agent, however, they?re really busy and don?t have much time for you. They may have an assistant who will do most of the work, which isn?t necessarily a bad thing if the assistant is knowledgeable enough.
Assessing how much an agent knows and how much experience they have doesn?t always equate to the same thing. According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, ?A freshly-licensed REALTOR can do a wonderful job and will have up-to-date training; those in the business longer bring more practical experience.?
Clarifying their qualifications
A?REALTOR?? and a ?real estate agent? are not the same thing. The former are real estate agents licensed by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). A REALTOR? is a real estate agent, but a real estate agent who is not a member of CREA is not a REALTOR?. To be a member in CREA means that the agent is committed to the REALTOR? Code of ethics. REALTORs are also the only legitimate people who can list your property for sale on MLS?.
The Real Estate Institute of Canada (REIC) maintains its own set of designations and accreditations. If you see the FRI designation beside an agent?s name, you?ll know that they?re accredited by REIC. Any person holding a Real Estate Institute of Canada designation is bound by a strict code of ethics,? according to the REIC website. ?Further, REIC members are encouraged to demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning.
The FRI (Fellow of the Real Estate Institute) designation is considered by REIC to be the gold standard for real estate sales. This designation means that, at a minimum, the agent has at least five years of licensed real estate sales or marketing experience and has taken a few courses and gone through an interview process. Though it can set agents apart, there?s a lot of difference in experience between an agent with five years of experience and one with 35 years of experience. These designations help, but in the end you just have to make the call yourself.
Interviewing an agent
If you get a positive impression based on an agent?s marketing materials, proceed to call them up for an interview.
If an agent claims to have expertise selling green homes or selling in a particular area, ask them about those transactions and for references to those clients.
Ask specific questions about the market for your home. Weintraub recommends getting the details on important numbers like median prices, days on market and inventory. If their response offers little specifics and a lot of generalities, it could very easily point to a lack of knowledge and/or experience.
To assure a fast sale you?ll want to ask agents about their marketing plans and how they?ve sold homes like yours in the past. Also, feel free to ask them details about how they operate, what their fees are, how negotiable they are, etc. CREA states, ?A good REALTOR? makes forms available to you before you are required to sign them. Ask to see agency disclosure, listing agreement, seller disclosure.?
It?s always possible that things may not work out between you and your agent, so ask about the terms of the listing agreement and whether you can cancel it.
Call up an agent?s references up and ask them what their experience with the agent was like. If the response was negative, don?t hesitate to keep on looking. There are plenty of agents out there eager for your business. If all sounds good to you at this point you can enter an agreement with the agent and move on to selling or buying your home.
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? When Thomas Edison tested the first light bulb in 1879, he could never have imagined that his invention could one day contribute to a global obesity epidemic. Electric light allows us to work, rest and play at all hours of the day, and a paper published this week in Bioessays suggests that this might have serious consequences for our health and for our waistlines.
Daily or "circadian" rhythms including the sleep wake cycle, and rhythms in hormone release are controlled by a molecular clock that is present in every cell of the human body. This human clock has its own inbuilt, default rhythm of almost exactly 24 hours that allows it to stay finely tuned to the daily cycle generated by the rotation of Earth. This beautiful symmetry between the human clock and the daily cycle of Earth's rotation is disrupted by exposure to artificial light cycles, and by irregular meal, work and sleep times. This mismatch between the natural circadian rhythms of our bodies and the environment is called "circadian desynchrony."
The paper, by Dr. Cathy Wyse, working in the chronobiology research group at the University of Aberdeen, focuses on how the human clock struggles to stay in tune with the irregular meal, sleep and work schedules of the developed world, and how this might influence health and even cause obesity.
"Electric light allowed humans to override an ancient synchronization between the rhythm of the human clock and the environment, and over the last century, daily rhythms in meal, sleep and working times have gradually disappeared from our lives," said Wyse. "The human clock struggles to remain tuned to our highly irregular lifestyles, and I believe that this causes metabolic and other health problems, and makes us more likely to become obese."
"Studies in microbes, plants and animals have shown that synchronization of the internal clock with environmental rhythms is important for health and survival, and it is highly likely that this is true in humans as well."
The human clock is controlled by our genes, and the research also suggests that some people may be more at risk of the effects of circadian desynchrony than others. For example, humans originating from Equatorial regions may have clocks that are very regular, which might be more sensitive to the effects of circadian desynchrony.
Shiftwork, artificial light and the 24-hour lifestyle of the developed world mean that circadian desynchrony is now an inevitable part of 21st century life. Nevertheless, we can help to maintain healthy circadian rhythms by keeping regular meal times, uninterrupted night-time sleep in complete darkness, and by getting plenty of sunlight during daylight hours.
Dr. Wyse believes that circadian desynchrony affects human health by disrupting the systems in the brain that regulate metabolism, leading to an increased likelihood of developing obesity and diabetes.
"The reason for the relatively sudden increase in global obesity in the developed world seems to be more complicated than simply just diet and physical activity. There are other factors involved, and circadian desynchrony is one that deserves further attention."
"Our 24-hour society has come at the high price of circadian desynchrony," concluded Wyse. "There are many factors driving mankind towards obesity but disrupted circadian rhythms should be considered alongside the usual suspects of diet and exercise."
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Contact: Caroline Perry cperry@seas.harvard.edu 617-496-1351 Harvard University
In the creeping plant's tendrils, researchers discover a biological mechanism for coiling and stumble upon an unusual type of spring
Cambridge, Mass. - August 30, 2012 Captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, researchers at Harvard University have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.
Instead of unwinding to a flat ribbon under stress, as an untwisted coil normally would, the cucumber's tendrils actually coil further. Understanding this counterintuitive behavior required a combination of head scratching, physical modeling, mathematical modeling, and cell biologynot to mention a large quantity of silicone.
The result, published in the August 31 issue of Science, describes the mechanism by which coiling occurs in the cucumber plant and suggests a new type of bio-inspired twistless spring.
Led by principal investigator L. Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Professor of Physics at Harvard, and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, the researchers were motivated by simple curiosity about the natural world.
"Nature has solved all kinds of energetic and mechanical problems, doing it very slowly and really getting it right," says lead author Sharon Gerbode, a former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS who has now advanced to a faculty position in the physics department at Harvey Mudd College. "But few people have studied biological mechanisms from the point of view of a physicist or an engineer. We barely had to scratch the surface with this question about the cucumberhow does it coil? What could be a simpler question? And what we actually found was this new kind of spring that no one had characterized before."
Well known to botanists and gardeners, the coiling tendrils of climbing plants like cucumbers, sweet peas, and grape vines allow the plants to hoist themselves up towards sunlight and secure themselves tightly to existing structures like trees or trellises. Yet the biological and physical mechanism of this coiling, at the level of the plant's cells and tissues, has remained a mystery.
A cucumber tendril begins as a straight stem that elongates until it finds something to latch onto. Then, secured at both ends, it forms a left-handed helix and a right-handed helix, joined at the center by a "perversion"Charles Darwin's strikingly Victorian term for the point at which the coiling changes direction.
"It's easy to create one of these twistless springs with a telephone cord," says Gerbode, "and they're annoying. But with the phone cord, you can pull on both ends and it will straighten out into a flat ribbon. What's strange about the cucumber tendril is that if you pull on the ends, it actually overwinds, adding more turns to both helices."
To explore the mechanism for this behavior, Gerbode and her Harvard colleagues took a closer look at the cells and tissue types inside the tendril.
A fibrous ribbon, made of thread-like cells called gelatinous fiber (g-fiber) cells, runs the length of each tendril. Two cell layers thick, this ribbon appears to provide the force required for the tendril to form a helix without the benefit of muscles. If the cells on one side of such a ribbon were to contract, the researchers thought, it would force the ribbon to curve and coil.
Gerbode and her coauthor Joshua Puzey (Ph.D. '12), who was studying organismic and evolutionary biology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at the time, tried to reconstruct this fiber ribbon with a silicone model. They stretched a sheet of elastic silicone, secured the ends, and then spread a thin layer of silicone caulk across its surface. When the caulk cured, they cut a thin strip off the model, held both ends, and watched it coil into a pair of perfect helices. When they pulled on both ends, however, it simply unraveled and lay flat, adding no extra coils as they had hoped.
"This is when I spent a lot of time pulling on telephone cords," Gerbode admits.
The clue, as it turns out, was inside the g-fiber cells. These cells have been studied extensively in trees; they have the ability to shrink or elongate, thanks to a special type of architecture in the cell wall.
"What we think may be happening is that the inner cell layer of the tendril has more lignin in it, which is a sort of glue that gives cell walls stiffness and holds together the cellulose microfibrils, which are like rebar in the cells," explains Puzey. "We thought this stiffness must be related to the coiling somehow."
To test this idea, Gerbode and Puzey glued a fabric ribbon to one side of their silicone model and a copper wire to the other side. At last, the silicone strip formed a pair of helices that overwound, just like the cucumber tendril.
The structure they stumbled upon is a spring made of two joined, opposite-handed helices whose bending stiffness is higher than their twisting stiffness. In other words, to form this specific structure, the materials involved have to make it easier for the ribbon to twist axially than to change its curvature. Through mathematical models developed by Mahadevan and coauthor Andrew McCormick (a physics graduate student in GSAS), the team was able to fully understand the parameters and synthesize a simple principle for the design of these springs.
The final stage in the research was to address the biological implications. By extracting the fiber ribbon from a cucumber tendril, Mahadevan's group had already noticed that moisture was playing a role in the spring's behavior. As the extracted ribbon dried out, its stiffness increased and it coiled more tightly. Lignin is also known to be hydrophobic, repelling water. What's more, Mahadevan's team measured the mechanical response of young tendrils and older ones, finding that the older tendrils put up much more resistance to pulling, a fact that they explained using a combination of theory and computer simulations.
Though the group has not yet explored these findings from an evolutionary perspective, they hypothesize that the mature coil structure allows the climbing plants just the right amount of structural flexibility.
"You want the plant to make a nice strong, secure connection, but you also don't want it to be too stiff or to snap," explains Gerbode. "You want it to have a little bit of flexibility so that if the wind blows or an animal brushes past it, it doesn't break. So one possibility is that this overwinding allows the plant to easily accommodate small motions, but then if something really serious happens it can get very stiff and protect itself."
To further study the evolutionary significance of the tendril's morphology, researchers would have to study the coils in numerous species and attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of that characteristic. Mahadevan suggests that such a project could provide important ecological insights.
"The advantage of using a tendril is that the plant saves on complex machinery to build structural supports such as trunks and branches," Mahadevan says. "The disadvantage is that it must depend on other species to build these supports. Thus, tendrils are an adaptation that is likely to develop only in regions replete with vegetation that can provide supports and where competition for resources is intense.
"The real question remains this: how difficult is it to evolve such tendril-like solutions?"
Now that nature has done the hard work, though, Mahadevan suggests that the benefits of understanding cucumber coils might be useful in technologybut hastens to add that this work was driven by pure curiosity, not with an end product in mind.
"This is likely to be useful anywhere we need a spring with a tunable mechanical response," he says.
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This work was supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, and the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard. The researchers are now pursuing a patent on the technology, through the Wyss Institute.
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In the creeping plant's tendrils, researchers discover a biological mechanism for coiling and stumble upon an unusual type of spring
Cambridge, Mass. - August 30, 2012 Captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, researchers at Harvard University have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.
Instead of unwinding to a flat ribbon under stress, as an untwisted coil normally would, the cucumber's tendrils actually coil further. Understanding this counterintuitive behavior required a combination of head scratching, physical modeling, mathematical modeling, and cell biologynot to mention a large quantity of silicone.
The result, published in the August 31 issue of Science, describes the mechanism by which coiling occurs in the cucumber plant and suggests a new type of bio-inspired twistless spring.
Led by principal investigator L. Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Professor of Physics at Harvard, and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, the researchers were motivated by simple curiosity about the natural world.
"Nature has solved all kinds of energetic and mechanical problems, doing it very slowly and really getting it right," says lead author Sharon Gerbode, a former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS who has now advanced to a faculty position in the physics department at Harvey Mudd College. "But few people have studied biological mechanisms from the point of view of a physicist or an engineer. We barely had to scratch the surface with this question about the cucumberhow does it coil? What could be a simpler question? And what we actually found was this new kind of spring that no one had characterized before."
Well known to botanists and gardeners, the coiling tendrils of climbing plants like cucumbers, sweet peas, and grape vines allow the plants to hoist themselves up towards sunlight and secure themselves tightly to existing structures like trees or trellises. Yet the biological and physical mechanism of this coiling, at the level of the plant's cells and tissues, has remained a mystery.
A cucumber tendril begins as a straight stem that elongates until it finds something to latch onto. Then, secured at both ends, it forms a left-handed helix and a right-handed helix, joined at the center by a "perversion"Charles Darwin's strikingly Victorian term for the point at which the coiling changes direction.
"It's easy to create one of these twistless springs with a telephone cord," says Gerbode, "and they're annoying. But with the phone cord, you can pull on both ends and it will straighten out into a flat ribbon. What's strange about the cucumber tendril is that if you pull on the ends, it actually overwinds, adding more turns to both helices."
To explore the mechanism for this behavior, Gerbode and her Harvard colleagues took a closer look at the cells and tissue types inside the tendril.
A fibrous ribbon, made of thread-like cells called gelatinous fiber (g-fiber) cells, runs the length of each tendril. Two cell layers thick, this ribbon appears to provide the force required for the tendril to form a helix without the benefit of muscles. If the cells on one side of such a ribbon were to contract, the researchers thought, it would force the ribbon to curve and coil.
Gerbode and her coauthor Joshua Puzey (Ph.D. '12), who was studying organismic and evolutionary biology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at the time, tried to reconstruct this fiber ribbon with a silicone model. They stretched a sheet of elastic silicone, secured the ends, and then spread a thin layer of silicone caulk across its surface. When the caulk cured, they cut a thin strip off the model, held both ends, and watched it coil into a pair of perfect helices. When they pulled on both ends, however, it simply unraveled and lay flat, adding no extra coils as they had hoped.
"This is when I spent a lot of time pulling on telephone cords," Gerbode admits.
The clue, as it turns out, was inside the g-fiber cells. These cells have been studied extensively in trees; they have the ability to shrink or elongate, thanks to a special type of architecture in the cell wall.
"What we think may be happening is that the inner cell layer of the tendril has more lignin in it, which is a sort of glue that gives cell walls stiffness and holds together the cellulose microfibrils, which are like rebar in the cells," explains Puzey. "We thought this stiffness must be related to the coiling somehow."
To test this idea, Gerbode and Puzey glued a fabric ribbon to one side of their silicone model and a copper wire to the other side. At last, the silicone strip formed a pair of helices that overwound, just like the cucumber tendril.
The structure they stumbled upon is a spring made of two joined, opposite-handed helices whose bending stiffness is higher than their twisting stiffness. In other words, to form this specific structure, the materials involved have to make it easier for the ribbon to twist axially than to change its curvature. Through mathematical models developed by Mahadevan and coauthor Andrew McCormick (a physics graduate student in GSAS), the team was able to fully understand the parameters and synthesize a simple principle for the design of these springs.
The final stage in the research was to address the biological implications. By extracting the fiber ribbon from a cucumber tendril, Mahadevan's group had already noticed that moisture was playing a role in the spring's behavior. As the extracted ribbon dried out, its stiffness increased and it coiled more tightly. Lignin is also known to be hydrophobic, repelling water. What's more, Mahadevan's team measured the mechanical response of young tendrils and older ones, finding that the older tendrils put up much more resistance to pulling, a fact that they explained using a combination of theory and computer simulations.
Though the group has not yet explored these findings from an evolutionary perspective, they hypothesize that the mature coil structure allows the climbing plants just the right amount of structural flexibility.
"You want the plant to make a nice strong, secure connection, but you also don't want it to be too stiff or to snap," explains Gerbode. "You want it to have a little bit of flexibility so that if the wind blows or an animal brushes past it, it doesn't break. So one possibility is that this overwinding allows the plant to easily accommodate small motions, but then if something really serious happens it can get very stiff and protect itself."
To further study the evolutionary significance of the tendril's morphology, researchers would have to study the coils in numerous species and attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of that characteristic. Mahadevan suggests that such a project could provide important ecological insights.
"The advantage of using a tendril is that the plant saves on complex machinery to build structural supports such as trunks and branches," Mahadevan says. "The disadvantage is that it must depend on other species to build these supports. Thus, tendrils are an adaptation that is likely to develop only in regions replete with vegetation that can provide supports and where competition for resources is intense.
"The real question remains this: how difficult is it to evolve such tendril-like solutions?"
Now that nature has done the hard work, though, Mahadevan suggests that the benefits of understanding cucumber coils might be useful in technologybut hastens to add that this work was driven by pure curiosity, not with an end product in mind.
"This is likely to be useful anywhere we need a spring with a tunable mechanical response," he says.
###
This work was supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, and the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard. The researchers are now pursuing a patent on the technology, through the Wyss Institute.
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I'm in love with both the Gem Crush and Magnetic colors already!
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An unmanned rocket turned night into day early Thursday (Aug. 30) as two heavily armored NASA spacecraft finally launched into orbit study Earth's harsh radiation belts after a week of delays.
The twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes launched at 4:05 a.m. EDT (0805 GMT) today from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lighting up the predawn sky as it soared into space atop an unmanned United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The liftoff had been planned for Aug. 23, but it was pushed back two days due to technical glitches, and then another five days to avoid foul weather from Tropical Storm Isaac.
"It was a wonderful event, a very smooth countdown," NASA launch manager Tim Dunn said after the launch, adding that the Atlas 5 gave NASA's newest science satellites "a great ride."
"We're all thrilled. Just excited as can be," Dunn added.
After a 60-day commissioning period on orbit, the new radiation-tracking spacecraft will begin the science phase of their two-year mission, which aims to help scientists understand how Earth's two doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts affect our planet's space weather.
Such information could have considerable practical applications, researchers said, since extreme space weather can knock out satellites and disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids.
"RBSP will be able to predict the extremes and the dynamic conditions of space weather," Mona Kessel, program scientist for the $686 million mission at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., told reporters in a prelaunch briefing on Aug. 20. [Launch Photos: NASA's Radiation Probes Blast Off]
Mysterious radiation belts
The twin solar-powered probes will ply the Van Allen belts, where trillions of high-energy charged particles from the sun have been trapped by Earth's magnetic field. These fast-moving particles can damage satellites and potentially pose a threat to orbiting astronauts.
To deal with this harsh radiation environment, critical components on each RBSP spacecraft are shielded by 0.33 inches (8.5 millimeters) of aluminum.
The inner Van Allen belt usually extends from the top of Earth's atmosphere to about 4,000 miles up (6,437 kilometers), while the outer one runs from around 8,000 to more than 26,000 miles above our planet (12,874 to 41,842 km). The belts are dynamic, however, and can expand greatly during solar storms.
Though the two belts were discovered in 1958, they remain mysterious today. For example, the belts sometimes react quite differently to seemingly similar solar outbursts, for reasons scientists don't yet understand.
The RBSP team hopes the twin probes can help researchers get to the bottom of such puzzles.
"RBSP was designed to answer the questions of how these radiation belts are responding," said mission deputy project scientist Nicola Fox, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
Working together
The nearly identical RBSP spacecraft are about 6 feet wide by 4 feet tall (1.8 by 1.2 meters), though their span increases to 10.5 feet (3.2 m) with their solar panels deployed. Each weighs roughly 1,400 pounds (635 kilograms).
The probes will fly in formation through the Van Allen belts on highly elliptical orbits, mapping out the regions' magnetic fields and charged particle density with their eight science instruments.
"We need eight because we're measuring across this huge [particle] energy range," said Harlan Spence of the University of New Hampshire, one of the mission's principal investigators.
And launching two spacecraft rather than one is not redundant, either, scientists said. The probes' observations will allow researchers to determine whether differences in radiation levels inside the belts reflect changes across space or time.
Together, the RBSP spacecraft will precisely track how the Van Allen belts ebb and flow over time. This information ? combined with observations from sun-watching spacecraft like NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ?could greatly improve scientists' space weather forecasts down the road, researchers said.
RBSP's measurements could also have more immediate benefits, they added.
The probes' observations "will be delivered in near real time to users all over the world, so that those users can use the space weather data to protect sensitive ground-based as well as space-based assets," said Michael Luther, deputy associate administrator for programs for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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Homeschooling has many advantages for a kid?s education. One of the vital obvious is that it permits you, the guardian, to tailor a selected schooling geared in direction of your child?s specific needs. It additionally permits you to educate in a method that fits your child ? as everyone knows, completely different folks learn higher in several ways. While you decide to homeschool it is very important keep in mind that in addition to being a dad or mum, you are actually taking over the position of a teacher. That is, after all, not a duty to be taken flippantly, and you must make each effort to be one of the best instructor you possibly can be.
Everyone has had the expertise of having both a good and bad teacher. If you happen to cease and give it some thought, I am going to suppose you may notice some things that your good teacher?s had in common. A very powerful is that they have been genuinely occupied with their topic areas. Nothing makes a teacher higher then enthusiasm for a subject. I think you will additionally notice that most of the dangerous lecturers you had didn?t appear notably interested within the topic they were teaching. It is for that reason that it is essential that you just create a homeschooling experience that pursuits both you and your child.
While your child?s education ought to come initially when making a homeschooling curriculum, you shouldn?t be shy to think about your personal training as well. When looking at issues to review particularly subject areas, take into consideration issues that interested you in those areas that you simply did not get to discover as a lot as you liked to if you have been in school.
It cannot be understated how beneficial an expertise it is to learn along with your child. You will be strengthening a family bond, and your shared interest and excitement in a topic will make sure that your little one retains the information. A way to do that is to know the balance between rigidness and flexibility in a homeschooling curriculum.
A certain quantity of formalness is required in a common curriculum: you need to have set objectives and timelines during which certain things should be learned. However within these timelines, you may have numerous flexibility, and it?s best to use it to your advantage. When learning literature, for instance, understand that the aim is to read and study good literature, not necessarily to learn a specific book. So as a substitute of learning a ?commonplace? novel that you have already learn, take into account an e-book that?s new to you as well. With each you and your youngster interested in the e-book, the expertise of studying it collectively will probably be enjoyable for both of you, as you?ll each be excited concerning the outcome.
This concept needn?t be applied solely to literature, think of things in science or music, for instance, that you have all the time needed to study about. In the event you just remember to are interested within the subjects as effectively, your little one will sense your enthusiasm and develop into more drawn into the topic, making certain a much more worthwhile academic experience.
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