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Tundra’s great take on cargo

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 14 Juni 2014 | 12.32

The Tundra SR5, Toyota's workhorse pickup truck, takes driving big cargo to a new level.

Whether in the city or on a work site, the 381-horsepower, 5.7-liter iForce V8 engine commands the road — it is the "Big Dog." Pulling into traffic and passing on the highway can be done with authority and with power to spare.

The Tundra's steering wheel-mounted shifter makes downshifting a breeze, taking some stress off the brakes and giving you more control in turns. Its big 8-foot, 1-inch-long bed is perfect for cargo, easily fitting sheetrock, plywood, mulch or anything else you're hauling. The Tundra is right at home in the lumber yard, in the backyard or the garden center.

With the test vehicle's Radiant Red paint showing significant wear after 9,000 miles, the need for a bed liner seems obvious unless you wear your scratches like a badge of honor.

Spartan, but well thought out, the Tundra's interior has some decent optional features such as a built-in 7-inch high definition touchscreen Entune GPS and Bluetooth, but lacks heated seats, lumbar support, and interior storage. A middle seat folds down next to the driver, but lacks decent storage for a cellphone and a 12-volt charging receptacle.

You may need a step ladder to climb into this vehicle, especially if some of your precious cargo includes kids who take it as a challenge to climb Mount Tundra. Even the driver may need some assistance as there is no handle and no step to help you in.

Getting used to this behemoth takes a while and squeezing into those tight parking spots in parking garages will take some practice. And with the double cab and long bed extending this truck to almost 20 feet 8 inches, you can pretty much forget about parallel parking this beast. The width and the extra row of seating makes this a very roomy vehicle.

The good news is with all of the extra cargo space you can carry plenty of extra gasoline — and you may need it as it burns 13 miles per gallon in the city, 17 on the highway.

The Tundra, with a suggested retail price of $37,101 as tested, comes standard with a 2-inch receiver hitch. Both 7-pin and 4-pin trailer wiring hook-ups sit side by side on the rear bumper with weather protective housings.

Switching to four-wheel-drive was simple — especially compared to the recently reviewed 4Runner — as was getting into tow mode. Side view mirrors set further away from the vehicle make sense after you figure out how to set them up and help you to see what you are towing.

The bottom line: this Tundra is a tough truck that likes to take on tasks.

2014 Tundra SR5

  • MSRP: $34,345
  • As Tested: $37,101
  • MPG: 13 city, 17 highway

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River beckons just outside new Danvers condo

This new townhouse condo along the Porter ­River in Danvers is designed for boaters as it includes a 35-foot boat slip right outside the door.

Unit 7 at Mariners Point at 58 River St. is one of 11 new units in four buildings being built on the two-acre site of a former marina. All have attached garages, covered back porches with water views and boat slips. The energy-efficient units have beige Hardiplank siding and architectural-grade Pella windows and glass sliders. Window moldings and other woodwork is also high quality.

The three-bedroom model Unit 7 has 2,353 square feet of living space on two levels with red oak flooring, and is listed for $775,000.

The unit has a small entry porch and front door that opens into a recessed-lit kitchen with antique white cabinets with serpentine trim, a wine rack and St. Cecilia granite counters with a glass-mosaic tile backsplash. There's a center island, a pantry/coat closet and stainless-steel GE Cafe appliances.

The large, open dining/living area has recessed and contemporary light fixtures and there's a gas fireplace with a black granite hearth in the living room.

A wall of windows and a sliding glass door lead out to a columned private back porch with river views. There will be a grassy common yard around the buildings, new granite and cement seawalls and boat slips.

Behind the living/dining area is a ceramic half bath, a washer/dryer hookup and direct access to a one-car garage.

A red oak staircase leads to three bedrooms on the second floor, off a hallway with a laundry closet with a stacked Samsung washer/dryer. The recessed-lit master bedroom suite has three large windows with river views, three closets with built-in closet systems and a bathroom with white Carrara marble vanity top, floors, walls and walk-in shower, plus a deep soaking tub.

The two other bedrooms are decent-sized with a second full bathroom with tumbled marble floors and tub/shower walls with glass-mosaic tile inlays.

The unit has two zones of gas-fired heating and central air conditioning. There's a private parking space in front of the garage, plus about a dozen visitor spaces.

The condo does not have a basement, but is built out of the flood zone so flood insurance should not be required.

Home showcase

• Address: 58 River St., Mariners Point, Unit 7, Danvers
• Bedrooms: Three
• Bathrooms: Two full, one half
• List price: $775,000
• Square feet: 2,353
• Price per square foot: $329
• Annual taxes: To be determined
• Monthly condo fee: $337
• Location: One mile to retail and restaurants in Danvers Square
• Built in: 2013-14
• Broker: Francine Cecieta of 
J Barrett & Co. at 978-808-0704

Pros:

  • Private back porch looks out to river and boat slip
  • Red oak floors, Pella windows, quality doors and moldings throughout
  • Open kitchen dining/living area with 9-foot ceilings, wall of windows facing river
  • Master bedroom suite with three closets, Carrara marble bathroom

Cons


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Let’s Face it, selling your data beats fee

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 13 Juni 2014 | 12.32

A big fat cry-me-a-river to all the outrage over Facebook's announcement that it will sell your web-browsing data to advertisers. Did people think Facebook was collecting data about your every move on the Web just to keep itself warm at night?

Either way, here are five reasons that privacy advocates need to calm down over Facebook and start worrying about more serious threats to personal liberty:

5) You have more control than you think. Facebook is also allowing users to see why they are being shown certain ads. You can click through your full marketing dossier — your likes, web browsing history and interests — and add or change the information Facebook uses for advertisement targeting.

4) You're going to see ads anyway, so why not keep them relevant? If you long for an ad-free world, then the World Wide Web just isn't for you.

3) You can opt out of online ads at the Digital Advertising Alliance (aboutads.info/choices) or sign up for services like Ghostery that keep your browsing private. It's really not that hard.

2) There are bigger fish to fry. Please direct all this privacy outrage toward a preemptive strike on the next frontier of invasion: wearables and implantables. That's where the real threats to liberty and security lie. Facebook ads are a lost cause, but how about pharmaceutical ads that target whatever ailment is registering on those fitness wristbands of the future? Not only is that invasive, it's actually a hazard to your health.

But there's still time to act. So let's talk about that instead.

1) It's either you or the ads. Because Facebook is a public company, it has to make more and more revenue each quarter (as Wall Street demands). It can either do that by stepping up its ad game or by instituting a steadily increasing membership fee.

If Facebook wanted to keep to its current schedule of revenue, it would have to charge $4.10 per user per quarter right now. And that's assuming it doesn't lose any of its 609 million active daily users by instituting a fee.

So unless you want to pay $12 this year, and more next year and the year after that, thank Facebook for finding a way to make money that doesn't take dollars from your pocket.


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Hate Cape traffic? Join the (Bay) Club

Like the Cape but hate the bridge traffic?

Waltham builder/developer Paul Abelite has a solution.

He's building moderate-sized single-families priced in the mid-$500,000 to mid-$600,000 range on the grounds of the toney Bay Club at Mattapoisett, a 625-acre enclave in this quaint, unspoiled town on Buzzards Bay, with no need to cross the Sagamore or Bourne bridges. Houses at the Bay Club are normally custom built and larger — up to 8,000 square feet — with the club selling the lots for $250,000 and up.

Abelite and business partner Lisa Nickerson say their 36-home subdivision, called The Preserve, is bringing a price point to the gated golf club that will draw middle-class buyers — those looking for a vacation house or a full-time residence.

"We're offering a chance to get something above and beyond your typical sub­division house," said Abelite, president of Aerie Homes. "You can have the lifestyle of a golf community in an area also surrounded by a town forest and a nature reserve that's also just down the street from Buzzards Bay."

The Cape-style homes at The Preserve come in three different styles, from traditional to more loft-like, with cedar-shingle exteriors, outdoor patios and attached two-car garages. All homes are three-bedroom, ranging from 1,900 square feet to 2,550 square feet, with master suites on the first or second floors. Owners can customize their homes with a wide variety of wood flooring, cabinets and granite counters. Upgrades include everything from a custom sunroom to a golf cart bay attached to the garage.

We took a look at the completed "Hawthorn" model unit, a three-bedroom, 21⁄2-bathroom house with 2,550 square feet offered at $650,000. It features an open living/dining/kitchen area with wide-plank oak floors and a gas fireplace, and a granite counter, dark-stained oak cabinet and stainless-steel kitchen. The first floor has a carpeted master bedroom suite with a ceramic-tiled bathroom. The second floor has a vaulted ceiling family room and two additional guest bedrooms and tiled bathroom. There's a full basement and attached two-car garage.

"We're building more modest-sized homes that buyers are looking for, but using high-quality materials and craftsmanship," said Nickerson, a partner in the project who also owns a Waltham-based public relations firm that is handling the sales and marketing. "Owners are free to join the club or not."

Homeowners can join the Bay Club as social members for $10,000, which provides access to tennis courts, a junior Olympic pool, fitness and racquetball facilities, club restaurant and cultural activities. A golf membership for the 18-hole parkland-style course designed by Brad Faxon costs $30,000.

"This club was designed from the ground up to appeal not just to golfers, but to those who want family and cultural activities," said Bay Club general manager Craig Fleming, citing a recent cooking demonstration by a Boston chef and a lecture by a Harvard professor.

Dave Andrews, director of sales and membership development at Bay Club, said 80 percent of the club's 54 custom-built homes are primary residences, with a number of residents commuting to work as far away as downtown Boston.

"We think The Preserve houses are high quality and a great buy, considering the amenities we offer." Andrews said. "And you're surrounded by green space, which takes up 90 percent of the club site."


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Deval Patrick inks pact with Japanese trade organization

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 12 Juni 2014 | 12.32

Officials expect a new pact with a Japanese trade organization will strengthen the growing economic relationship between the Bay State and the Asian industrial giant.

"We've already seen a trend of Japanese life science companies choosing Massachusetts," said Angus McQuilken, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. "We expect to see that trend accelerate."

Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday signed an agreement with the Japan External Trade Organization to formalize a partnership "facilitating business and investment opportunities," according to the agreement.

"Japan is important to us," Patrick said. "(This is) an umbrella agreement, we will build out from here."

The state and the trade group began working on the Memorandum of Understanding after Patrick's economic development trade mission to Japan in December.

"Today is a new beginning in the history between Massachusetts and Japan," said Hiroyuki Ishige, chairman of JETRO.

Patrick said there are roughly 130 Japanese companies doing business in Massachusetts, which account for 10,000 jobs.

"That is important economic prosperity for us," Patrick said.

Japanese life sciences companies MBL International and Scivax will open a new lab today in Woburn, McQuilken said. The agreement is expected to have an impact throughout the Bay State business community.

David Brewster, president of energy intelligence software provider EnerNOC, said: "I firmly believe that the MOU that (was) signed will continue to foster collaboration and will bolster innovation between these two economies."


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The Ticker

Bain, Goldman Sachs 
settle antitrust suit

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bain Capital Partners LLC agreed to pay a total of $121 million to settle claims they suppressed competition in some of the biggest deals of the leveraged buyout boom before the financial crisis.

Goldman Sachs will pay $67 million under the agreement to settle the antitrust lawsuit while Bain Capital will pay $54 million, according to the preliminary settlement filed today in Boston federal court.

Shareholders of companies that were acquired accused Goldman Sachs, Bain, and banks and private-equity firms of conspiring to carve up the market for large leveraged buyouts, suppressing prices and depriving investors of billions of dollars.

Alex Stanton, a spokesman for Bain Capital in New York, declined to immediately comment on yesterday's settlement. Michael DuVally, a spokesman for New York-based Goldman Sachs, didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Legislature strikes minimum wage deal

State House and Senate negotiators have reached a compromise on a bill hiking the minimum wage in Massachusetts.

The bill would increase the current $8 per hour minimum wage by $3 over the next three years. The hourly minimum for the state's lowest paid workers would go to $9 on Jan. 1, 2015, to $10 the following new year, and finally to $11 on Jan. 1, 2017.

The measure would not tie future increases to inflation.

The bill — a compromise between a Senate bill calling for an $11 minimum wage indexed to inflation, and a House-passed bill calling for an increase to $10.50 per hour, without indexing — must be approved in both chambers. It also seeks to rein in unemployment insurance costs.

Today

  • Commerce Department releases retail sales data for May.
  • Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims.
  • Freddie Mac releases weekly mortgage rates.
  • Commerce Department releases business inventories for April.

TOMORROW

  • Labor Department releases the Producer Price Index for May.
  • The American Red Cross of Massachusetts has announced the appointment of Ralph Boyd, left, as its new CEO. Boyd has previously served as chairman and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation and been a U.S. assistant attorney general.
  • Waltham-based AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc., announced the appointment of Melissa Bradford Klug as senior vice president of business development and strategy. Klug joins AMAG from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.

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Business Protocol: Dress for work, not for beach parties

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 10 Juni 2014 | 12.32

Are spaghetti straps appropriate for the office?

What about Hawaiian shirts? Flip-flops? Or short shorts?

Summer is here, and so too is inappropriate dress in the workplace.

For anyone trying to make an impression, dressing as if you're heading to a beach party is not the way to win over the boss. What you wear is central to your message and reflects intention, especially this time of year.

When dressing, self-
esteem should be part of the equation. Dressing provocatively is not part of the "dress for success" formula some may believe.

Summer is high season for company-wide outings, cruises, concerts and drink-fests, all of which encourage camaraderie and help build team spirit. Maintain your high standards, sense of style, moderation and decorum at the office or on the boat.

Office gossip is rampant on its own. Protect your reputation. Dress smart and tastefully. You can be stylish, professional and fun at the same time — without flashing too much skin.

Summer attire inherently suggests lighter fabrics, transparency and fewer layers. Sure, it's hot out there, but summer should not trigger dressing less professionally.

Ladies: A suit or jacket sans blouse (with pearls or a necklace) is a great summer look. Plunging necklines and outrageous hair, however, will undermine your professional credibility.

Wearing hosiery is being "finished" and presents a polished look regardless of temperature.

Sandals do not make a professional statement, no matter how you wear them.

Sometimes, more is revealed when less is on display. Women may have more room for error but a more natural advantage by virtue of the fact that they are women. In a room of gentlemen, Karen Kaplan, CEO of Hill Holliday, says, "Who do you think they are going to remember, the 10th guy in the gray suit or the one woman?" Being a woman (in business) is an advantage, not a disadvantage. In a room full of gentlemen, "it's easy to stand apart. Embrace what makes us different, ladies," Kaplan added.

The way you dress speaks volumes and reflects how you feel about yourself. Dress to feel good about yourself and show respect for others around you.

Lead by example to stand apart and advance.

Judith Bowman is president of her own consulting firm.


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USOC to meet in Hub today

The U.S. Olympic Committee's board of directors will meet today in Boston, which reportedly is on its short list for a U.S. bid for the 2024 Olympic games.

The meeting is expected to be a standard one for the board, which holds its quarterly meetings in different parts of the country. And the board will not be touring the city. However, CEO Scott Blackmun and Chairman Larry Probst will take questions from reporters afterward via a teleconference.

The board is expected to narrow down its contenders for host city this month and choose one to submit to the International Olympic Committee for consideration by next year.

"We're currently in discussions with a number of cities," said Mark Jones, a USOC spokesman, declining to be more specific.

Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish, who has led the campaign to bring the Olympic Games to Boston, said he has been in discussions with the USOC about the possibility of Boston being considered.

"I think it would be good for Boston to have the opportunity to explore the possibility," Fish said. "It's not so much about hosting the Olympics," he said. "It's about where Boston wants to be in the future."

But Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College who has been a consultant on major sporting events, called the Olympics a "17-day party with a huge hangover."

"You're talking about 10, 20, 30 billion dollars in a state that's strapped for funds," Zimbalist said. "There will be people in Boston like the construction companies that say this is the cat's meow. But it'll mean more taxes and less money for things like education and roads."


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Springfield site may sway issue

Written By Unknown on Senin, 09 Juni 2014 | 12.33

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission's anticipated vote Friday to license the state's first casino in Springfield may spur economic activity experts say could boost public confidence in expanded gaming and counter the negative view pushed by the repeal campaign.

"We've heard a lot of discussion about the potential negative impacts, but we haven't seen any of the benefits," said Clyde Barrow, a gaming expert at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. "It's been an asymmetrical debate up to this point. I think it becomes very important to see some of the benefits starting to occur, with construction jobs and hiring. It will certainly shift it back to the direction of where it was two years ago, when most of the discussion was about the benefits."

The commission will decide whether to license MGM, the only player left for a western Massachusetts casino after four others shifted sites or pulled out of the state. Chairman Stephen Crosby called the upcoming vote the culmination of "a tremendous amount of work" that "was required to take this several-page law and turn it into an industry."

"It's very exciting," Crosby said. "This is the beginning of the jobs and the revenue, and that's what it's all about."

MGM says it can break ground in Springfield as early as July if it receives approval Friday. The company expects to generate $500 million annually — a quarter of which will flow to the state — and pay $25 million a year to Springfield. The project, which has a 2017 completion date, is expected to create 3,000 permanent jobs and 2,000 construction jobs.

"The MGM team and the City of Springfield have worked cooperatively and diligently to reach this point in the licensing process," MGM President Michael Mathis said in a statement. "Springfield and its people have earned this moment, and MGM looks forward to sharing this milestone with them."

The casino repeal campaign — which is awaiting the Supreme Judicial Court's ruling on if a repeal question will be allowed on the November ballot — says "momentum is clearly on the side of repealing this wrong-headed law" and "investing instead in sustainable economic development for Springfield and the rest of Massachusetts."

"Springfield is struggling and we know it can do better than a casino to sap local jobs, kill local businesses and profit on the backs of local residents," a repeal spokesman said. "MGM is obviously worried about our momentum — their local leaders sat in on the SJC arguments and they have asked for a delay in the awarding of their license until voters have a chance to vote on repeal."

But Boston College professor and gaming expert Richard McGowan said construction in Springfield will provide a powerful example of the stimulating effect a casino can have in a community that wants it.

"I think it's going to make it even harder for the repeal to go through to be quite blunt, especially in the western part of the state," 
McGowan said of Friday's vote. "What might change things is if MGM doesn't deliver on what they say they're going to do out there. That would hurt."


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Grocers try out cart for special-needs kids

People taking care of children with disabilities can grocery shop with more ease thanks to Caroline's Cart.

The shopping cart, 
specially designed to accommodate children and adults with special needs, is now at a number of Massachusetts supermarkets, including certain Wegmans, Hannaford, Stop & Shop, Big Y and Whole Foods stores.

"It's been very successful," Wegmans spokeswoman Jo Natale said. "We're getting tremendous feedback from our customers. They get used quite frequently."

Wegmans has two carts at its Northboro store, and a pair is headed for its Chestnut Hill location.

The chain had tested the cart in Rochester, N.Y., but took it out of commission when customers without special needs children were using it. It then put an Americans with Disabilities Act label on the cart to ensure its proper use. And in the last couple of months, it's ordered the carts for all of its stores.

Feedback from parents kept Caroline's Cart creator Drew Ann Long going when she started pursuing the idea six years ago after dealing with the challenge of grocery shopping with her daughter Caroline. Once Caroline grew out of fitting in the seat of a conventional shopping cart, the Alabama mother found herself unable to push her in a wheelchair while also pushing a shopping cart.

"I said, 'Well this is what I think is needed, let me put it out there,' " Long said. "It went viral so fast. I knew, clearly, that I wasn't the only mom in America who had a disabled child. We're in every neighborhood in America."

Features of the $850 cart, which can hold up to 250 pounds, include swinging handles for easy access to the seat, the back of which has a 5-degree tilt to increase comfort for children with low muscle tone. There's a harness to help keep the child secure and an abductor in the seat to help keep the child upright.

"Anything that improves the ability to have people with disabilities in the community — participating in shopping and other things — is absolutely great," said Christine Griffin, executive director of the Disability Law Center in Boston. "This cart may not be for every kid with a disability that a parent wants to take shopping, but it certainly would work for some kids."

Hannaford has the carts at its Waltham, Leominster, Dracut and Lunenberg stores. "We have been getting customer requests in some stores for this, and it's certainly a service that we want to try to provide where it's needed, as much as possible," spokesman Eric Blom said.


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Startup tests resistance to HIV drugs

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 08 Juni 2014 | 12.32

A simple, fast, affordable test developed by a Boston-based MassChallenge finalist is able to determine which drugs HIV is resistant to, saving money and lives.

Using a technology called Pan Degenerate Amplification and Adaptation, Aldatu Biosciences allows doctors to match patients with drugs the HIV won't be resistant to, based on the genetics of the virus.

"If resistance is present, switching people to effective drugs improves quality of life and saves money by reducing the risk of new infections," Aldatu CEO David Raiser said. "If resistance is not present, money is saved by not switching patients to more expensive drugs unnecessarily. There are clear economic and public health benefits to performing the test, regardless of the result."

Aldatu's test produces results in about two hours, compared to roughly two days for current tests, Raiser said, and the price is $99, about one-third the cost of other tests.

"Ours is a simple 'sample in/answer out' format, whereas the current tests have multiple steps and require several pieces of equipment," he said.

Raiser and co-founder Iain MacLeod, Aldatu's chief scientific officer, plan to bring their test first to Botswana, where one in four adults has HIV and about 10 percent of those receiving treatment don't respond to it, but the price of the prevailing drug-resistance test prevents most doctors from using it.

"Presently, (doctors) give everyone the same drugs and wait for them to fail to see if they're resistant to the drugs," Raiser said.

If they are, they are put on a second line of drugs, which typically costs four times as much as the first, he said. And if they're resistant to that, they're put on a third line, which can cost 15 times as much.

"In some cases, people are being switched to a second or third line of drugs because doctors don't realize the virus isn't resistant; the patients just aren't taking their meds correctly," Raiser said.

"There's the ethical question of leaving people on ineffective drugs when their quality of life is poor and they're at risk of infecting other people with drug-resistant HIV," he said.

There is also the economic question, one that countries around the world are wrestling with.

"What happens in Botswana can and will impact what happens in the U.S.," said John Hallinan, chief business officer at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. "What's happening is a drain on the entire global health system. We think (Aldatu) has a very promising technology."


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Drones fly with Mass. users

Some Bay State businesses are already putting drones in the air to boost their bottom line as the Federal Aviation Administration hints it may be open to some commercial uses of the hovering craft.

"It's a novelty now, but I think it will become more of a mainstay," said Missy Cummings, a drone expert at MIT. "These drones can really improve business processes."

Lexington Realtor Jonathan de Araujo has been using a drone to take aerial shots of properties he is listing since last summer, and the birds-eye view has quickly found a place in de Araujo's real estate arsenal.

"The end result is just unparalleled," he said. "Everything we can do to give a more positive impression means more people at the open house. The idea is to just give a better, more positive, a more thorough impression of what you're looking at."

De Araujo uses his drone, a model outfitted with a camera and available to any consumer, to give his homes more context, including offering a complete view of a backyard, or showing how close the park down the street is.

"When you're taking stills from ground level, you're seeing one angle, one shot," he said. "It just made sense to add that extra dimension."

Last week, the FAA said it is considering letting seven movie and television filming companies use drones. Now, the only commercial drone flights permitted by the FAA are those by one company off the Alaskan coast. The FAA has been working for the past decade on potential safety regulations that would allow widespread commercial drone use, but those regulations have been repeatedly delayed. Most recently, the FAA has said it will release proposed regulations for operating small drones by November. That would be followed by a potentially yearslong process to finalize the regulations.

Dan Kara, a robotics and drone industry analyst with Myria Research, said the FAA is under pressure to clarify the guidelines because many, from individual real estate agents to Amazon.com, are using or expressing interest in making drones part of their toolkit.

"It's happening organically," Kara said.

Marcella Hoekstra, who runs wedding video company Heirloom Pictures, is planning on buying a drone soon.

"I've seen what these drones can do, and I've seen some really beautiful, sweeping shots of landscapes and architecture," Hoekstra said. "It's a wonderful way to explore ... and give the bride and groom a bird's-eye view."

Kara said some are looking to drones for the novelty — a club in Las Vegas is delivering high end champagne to its high-rollers by drone.

But others are advocating for the permitted use of drones for search and rescue missions, to get a good view of wildfires and to help farmers track their crops.

"There's no question drones can revolutionize (agriculture)," Cummings said.


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