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by Jorg M. Unger
The pictures in glass that are created by Hermann Ritterswürden are strikingly different than much of the work found in his native Bavaria. Many of his pieces are reminiscent of puppets and include pieces of flotsam and jetsam that he has found on the shores and mud flats of the German North Sea coast.
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Five Things Homebuyers and Sellers Should Know About Credits
After months of searching for the perfect home, writing multiple offers, and dealing with sellers who won't budge on price, you've finally got a contract on the perfect home. It took you and the seller weeks of negotiations and several rounds of offers to get there. But, you have a deal at last.
Or do you?
Too often, getting a signed contract and putting your money into escrow is simply the beginning of what can become yet another round of negotiations. Here are five things every home buyer and seller should know about last-minute credits.
Usually, your real estate contract provides for a property inspection. As part of your inspections contingency, you may have a general property inspection performed. Depending upon the property and the issues, you might also have a specific type of inspection for the sewer line, pool or roof. Also, depending on which part of the country you live in, it may be important to have a termite or mold inspection.
These inspections can bring to light issues that the buyer couldn't possibly have known about before writing an offer and signing the contract. Once inspected, the buyer may still be interested in pursuing the sale. But given the needed repairs that have come to light, the buyer will probably want to re-negotiate the price by asking for credits or cash off the purchase price, usually up to 3 percent, per most lenders. To come up with a reasonable figure, the buyer or seller will often get two to three bids and use the average of them combined.
Other times, you and the seller might agree to have the work done prior to the close of escrow. Or the seller may require that the credit be given directly to a contractor for the purpose of performing the specific, required work and nothing else.
These agreements help protect the seller because many times, a buyer asks for credits just to help offset the closing costs — and never intends to do the repair work. It also protects the seller in the event that initial estimates for needed work turn out to have been overstated.
For example, a property inspection performed on a San Jose, Calif., condo during escrow uncovered that water was leaking from the condo's master bathroom into the unit below. Two different estimates calculated that the needed repairs would involve ripping out and replacing bathroom tiles at a cost between $8,000 and $10,000. The sellers gave the buyers an $8,000 credit. After moving in, the buyers had the leak permanently fixed — with a $200 caulking job.
Many times, the buyer may concede to the seller on purchase price after a long road of negotiation. The buyer might do this knowing that they can come back to the seller during the property inspection contingency and ask for an additional concession. The buyer may even feel empowered now that they're in contract, had their loan approved, completed a series of inspections and are just weeks away from closing. The seller isn't going to go back to the drawing board over a few more dollars, right?
Maybe. If it's a strong buyer's market, there's a good chance you can pull it off. If it's more of a neutral or a seller's market, the seller may feel they actually have you by the strings. They're assuming that you're the one who, having invested all this time and money on inspections and an appraisal, isn't going to walk away over a few dollars.
Bottom line: Using property inspection just to get the price down comes with risks. And then there's that karma thing: Doing this to a seller may come back to bite you when you're the one trying to sell.
The goal is to avoid any further negotiations once you're in contract, because they're not going to be in your favor.
If you know the roof is near the end of its life or the furnace breaks from time to time, let it be known up front via your disclosure statements or even verbally communicated through your real estate agent.
Depending on local custom and the market, you might even go as far as having your own property inspection done before listing the home. This way, you can iron out or repair any outstanding items or, at the minimum, make the inspection report available to buyers. When the buyers are making their offer, they can come up with a final price knowing what they're getting. For more on this topic, read "Get a Property Inspection Before You List."
If you have an inspection report or are otherwise assured your property is in great shape, you could even ask for an "as-is" clause in the contract. Though it's not necessarily enforceable, it will send a strong message to the buyers that you aren't open to more negotiation; that the property has been inspected; and that you've done all you can to make its condition known to the buyer.
You should also leave some additional room for negotiation when you're in escrow. Always assume the buyer will ask for minor repair work; they nearly always do. If you leave some cushion for yourself, you'll feel better about the deal and you'll have protected yourself against the inevitable. Conversely, the last thing you want is to be blindsided by a buyer asking for a few thousand dollars credit — just when you think the deal is finally done.
Brendon DeSimone is a Realtor® and real estate expert based in San Francisco and New York. He is a contributor to Zillow Blog, has collaborated on multiple real estate books and is often quoted by major media outlets. Follow Brendon on Twitter.
Note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or position of Zillow.


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Back when Sun Microsystems was setting, some of the programmers who had been involved with the popular and well-known open source MySQL database started a fork of the project called MariaDB.
The new project was led and named by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of MySQL and one of the founders of the eponymous company that Sun acquired. After leaving Sun, he formed a company in his native Finland -- Monty Program AB -- to host development of MariaDB and made an open offer of employment to any MySQL committer. As a result, a formidable corps of developers gathered at Monty Program.
[ Also on InfoWorld: MariaDB steps out from MySQL's shadow | Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld's Technology: Open Source newsletter. ]
They've been working hard, though you might not know it. MariaDB has been upstaged by Oracle's continuing development and marketing of MySQL itself, which was acquired with the rest of Sun's assets. All the same, their labors have paid off. In a comparison of six open source databases -- including MySQL -- Network World found MariaDB to be the preferred choice. Monty told me that MariaDB included the equivalent of 30 person-years of development over MySQL, and the Monty Program has certainly proved responsive -- especially at fixing security issues.
A focus on prompt patching
Monty told me that the MariaDB team has been working closely with mitre.org to ensure that security issues are promptly reported and explained in detail. Because Oracle no longer published details of the security fixes it makes, the MariaDB team usually has to reverse-engineer patches from published sources "dropped over the wall" from MySQL. They then merge all MySQL security patches into MariaDB. Monty told me "MariaDB is the most secure version of MySQL" -- a bold claim.
While the details of the vulnerabilities fixed are usually kept private until after new versions of both MariaDB and MySQL have been published, the most recent batch offers an unusual glimpse into the difference in responsiveness between the MariaDB and MySQL teams. MariaDB fixed the issues in a few days, with published and documented open source patches, but MySQL still hasn't (at the time of writing) patched the vulnerabilities.
This is not new. Oracle has been accused of allowing its corporate processes to take priority over community engagement at MySQL: closing access to new development, being slow to fix security bugs, failing to communicate with the MySQL ecosystem. I spoke with a number of people from the wider MySQL and MariaDB ecosystem, and all expressed frustration.
So with news last week of the formation of a MariaDB Foundation, it's clear that a new phase could be starting for the MySQL open source community. MariaDB -- and by implication, MySQL -- now has a dedicated institution, with the intent there should be no single entity in control. I talked about the creation of the MariaDB Foundation with Monty, its CTO, and with its COO Andrew Katz. You can see the full discussion on this and other topics in this video:


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Some scientists believe that camels originated in North America around 20 million years ago and migrated from there. Paleoecologist Guy Robinson, a professor at Fordham University, told ABC World News, "The original camel was North American. And it gave rise to all the camels you find throughout the world."1
According to this theory, some of these camel-kinds migrated to South America to become llamas. Other clans migrated across the then-existing Bering land bridge into Asia 13 million years ago and developed into the familiar dromedary camels of the Middle East. The ABC news story declared that "the fossil record, from over 20 million years ago, shows that every camel came exclusively from |North America|."1
However, what the fossil record really shows are…fossilized camels. The reported migratory patterns and dates do not come from the fossil record, but from a set of assumptions that are used as a framework to interpret the data. Robinson is quoted on the Fordham University website as saying, "I don't deal with direct evidence, but with proxy evidence. If you find a kill site, it just tells you that this particular animal was killed, but that doesn't necessarily lead to extinction. Indirect evidence can show a profound change in the population.…Science is detective work."2
Robinson's final statement is true of forensics, geology, or paleoecology, but not all science is detective work. Empirical science relies on fewer interpretive concepts and is more strictly based on observation of repeatable phenomena. Origin science, on the other hand, does involve detective work. Since history is not repeatable, a good detective ought to avail himself of the most reliable historical framework. Unfortunately, many scientists automatically use the unproven concepts of billions of years and evolution in their interpretations instead of, and in contrast to, the plainly understood history given in the Bible.
Probably two individuals3 of the camel kind began their journeys across the newly sculpted surface of the post-Flood earth. They started not in North America, but in "the mountains of Ararat."4 During the post-Flood Ice Age, some of these camels evidently migrated across the Bering land bridge into the Americas, while others migrated west and south. While there may not be a fossil record of camels in Turkey,5 there is a reliable eyewitness-written record right under our noses. The question of the origin of the first camels is better understood from the Genesis account of creation than from a long line of non-existent transitional forms.
- Krulwich, R. Camels Are Original American Emigrants. ABC World News, posted online July 4, 2008, accessed July 7, 2008.
- Renner, P. Guy Robinson, Ecological Sleuth. Interview posted on Fordham University website, accessed July 7, 2008.
- Genesis 7:2
- Genesis 8:4
- The absence of camel fossils in Turkey is not an indication that camels were not there in ancient times. If, as many creation scientists believe, fossils largely resulted from Noah's Flood, then animal migrations after the Flood could not be traced through the fossil record. See "Are Fossils the Result of Noah's Flood?" (John Morris, 2004, Acts & Facts, 33 |11|). See also "Ten Misconceptions about the Geologic Column" (Steven Austin, 1984, Acts & Facts, 12 |11|).
*Mr. Thomas is Science Writer.
Article posted on July 18, 2008.


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With statement-based replication, triggers executed on the master also execute on the slave. With row-based replication, triggers executed on the master do not execute on the slave. Instead, the row changes on the master resulting from trigger execution are replicated and applied on the slave.
This behavior is by design. If under row-based replication the slave applied the triggers as well as the row changes caused by them, the changes would in effect be applied twice on the slave, leading to different data on the master and the slave.
If you want triggers to execute on both the master and the slave—perhaps because you have different triggers on the master and slave—you must use statement-based replication. However, to enable slave-side triggers, it is not necessary to use statement-based replication exclusively. It is sufficient to switch to statement-based replication only for those statements where you want this effect, and to use row-based replication the rest of the time.
A statement invoking a trigger (or function) that causes an
update to an
AUTO_INCREMENT column is not
replicated correctly using statement-based replication. MySQL
5.5 marks such statements as unsafe. (Bug#45677)


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- Customer: "We don't even have a computer! You know, it's really not a good idea to be sending people these things in the mail when they didn't ask for them. That's pretty rude."
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- Customer: "Can you get me credited for this?"
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I worked for a while in tech support for a large ISP. One day the guy next to me got a call asking for a demo of the Internet. I said I could send him a one month free trial, but he said, "No, no, I don't want any trial versions. I just want a demo. Can you just copy the Internet to CDs and mail them to me?"
It took me about ten minutes to explain before he got a clue that this was, in fact, impossible. Even then he refused the free trial and just hung up. This always makes me wonder what goes on in some people's heads.
- Customer: "I got one o' these here disks of yours. Is this one a those new home security systems, that all I have to do is put it here in my winda, and it'll scare away burgulars?"
- Tech Support: "No, sir, this is for a computer. Do you own a computer?"
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- Tech Support: "Excuse me?"
- Customer: "I just got your software in the mail...when are you sending the computer?"
- Tech Support: "You don't have a computer?"
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- Customer: "I got a disk in the mail, and I don't have a computer. What do I do with it?"
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- Customer: "Can I speak to a supervisor?"
- Tech Support: "Why??"
- Customer: "Because I wanna speak to a supervisor."
She was transferred, and I listened in a while. The customer said that she didn't like my answer to her question. For some reason known to her and her alone, suggesting that you give a disk to a friend is unprofessional.
I work at a big box computer store, and one of our weekly ads showed that we had free America Online 5.0 disks at our store. Unfortunately, due to a shipping error, we only received one box, which went really fast. I had one middle aged customer come up to me.
- Customer: "Hello, where can I find the free AOL 5.0 disks?"
- Me: "I am sorry sir, due to a shipping error, we have not yet received them, but they should be in by Wednesday."
- Customer: "So you mean I drove all the way down here from Englewood (about six blocks away), and you don't have any of the disks? That's false advertising!"
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He walked in front of the entrance doors, which are clearly labeled "ENTRANCE ONLY," stood there for almost a minute waiting for the door to open, finally realized he was at the wrong doors, and huffed towards the real exit.
One night working at technical support, this old lady called and told me that she received our disk and said that she's afraid of it.
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I need a brief pause to scream with laughter.
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