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A legal opinion by Tennessee's attorney general Tuesday affirmed the constitutionality of a proposed bill that could force Amazon to collect sales taxes on items the Internet giant sells to Tennesseans.
Also, the opinion appeared to support the contention that the building of distribution centers in the state by a company such as Amazon creates a physical presence or "nexus."
Under U.S. Supreme Court rulings, states cannot compel out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes from in-state customers unless they have a nexus.
However, Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. in the opinion declined to specifically make the nexus opinion relative to Amazon. He said his office has a longstanding practice "to not opine about the tax liabilities of particular taxpayers premised on detailed and individualized facts."
But Cooper said the legislation originally offered this past session of the General Assembly would be "constitutionally defensible."
Amazon is spending $139 million to construct distribution centers in Hamilton and Bradley counties and create more than 1,400 full-time jobs and more than 2,000 seasonal slots. It also has indicated an interest to build more such centers in the state.
State Sen. Finance Committee Chairman Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, who sought the opinion with House Finance Committee Chairman Charles Sargent, R-Franklin, termed the opinion "very favorable."
"The Amazon people contended this did not constitute a nexus," McNally said. "It's clear that the distribution center would constitute a nexus."
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Concerning the legislation, which was postponed until next January, McNally said he's going to wait and see what happens in discussions between Amazon and Gov. Bill Haslam and the state Department of Revenue.
"It puts them in a strong position to negotiate" with Amazon, the state senator said.
David Smith, press secretary for Haslam, had no immediate comment.
An Amazon spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The Alliance for Main Street Fairness called the attorney general's opinion "encouraging news for the thousands of Tennessee small business owners who don't want our elected officials to give Amazon special treatment."
Mike Cohen with the Alliance, a national retailers group based in Arlington, Va., said state government has no business picking winners and losers by giving one company an unfair tax advantage over everyone else doing business in Tennessee.
"Amazon will need to play by the same rules as everyone else doing business in Tennessee," he said.
But, Amazon policy director Fred Kiga, in late February, told Southeast Tennessee lawmakers that the distribution centers are set up separately from Amazon. They serve as "drop shippers," providing services to out-of-state retailers that do not have a physical presence in Tennessee, he said.
"The out-of-state retailer still does not have nexus in the state of Tennessee and as a result it is not required to collect sales tax online for Tennessee residents," Kiga said.
He said Amazon supports the national Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Project, an attempt to streamline states' sales tax laws and thus persuade Congress to enact legislation permitting states to compel out-of-state vendors to collect taxes.
Matt Kisber, the state's former chief business recruiter under then-Gov. Phil Bredesen who helped lure Amazon to Southeast Tennessee last year, insists the Internet giant will help the state and its tax coffers.
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Kisber, who once chaired a nationwide effort to streamline sales tax collections on remote sales, said taxation of Amazon and similar companies "is an issue that needs to be settled on a national level and will never be successfully resolved on a state-by-state level."
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Amazon has no nexus here. They sell online only. They have no retail sales centers as do Sears, Penneys, or any other retail chain. SCOTUS has so ruled.
Having a distribution center [read warehouse] here for third-party out-of-state online sales does not create a nexus by Amazon.
So instead of buying online from Amazon's 3rd party outfits [which I seldom if ever do due to price], I simply choose some other out-of-state, sales tax free, sales outlet that ships direct.
Expect to see McNally & Co seek to next impose TN sales taxes on all online sales.
Amazon -- sell your new buildings, get out of Dodge and take your jobs with you. We don' need no steenk'n jobs...just ask McNally. Perhaps it is time for McNally, et al, to watch their jobs disappear next election.
Online sales are covered by our state's sales and use tax laws. SCOTUS has ruled in 1932 that our state can decide to tax within its borders as it wants.
When Amazon came to Tennessee, they were promising us jobs. Now that they are here, their online hiring practices and ads directly state, "No extended breaks in employment."
It's a #$%^&* economic depression!
Of course our people were laid off by the hundreds by greedy scum like Amazon. Now, when they show up, under the massive tax break we've given them to get things started, they stab us in the back by saying they will not hire people who desperately need jobs.
To hell with them.
Tax them not only for what they will do, but for what they have already done. We want our millions of dollars in tax breaks back, with interest and punitive damages for defrauding us and lying to get this money. Expunge Amazon's unethical and deceitful business practices from our state permanently.
Disgusting betrayals from Amazon. We give up all we can, and in exchange we receive insults.
Tax Amazon today. They are liars.
It's not just Amazon. If TN reneges on its agreement not to tax their sales in the state, not only will Amazon pack up and leave, but any other company thinking about locating in TN will choose to go somewhere else instead. It may very well have been a mistake to give them our word that they would not be taxed, but our "leaders" did just that.
Other companies come to Tennessee exclusively because our state has unique financial laws about taxation. If a company is owned by a sole proprietor, they will pay the lowest taxes in North America and Europe by locating here. They already know this, that's why they put their offices here.
Stop Amazon job fraud and tax evasion today. Tax them now. They have reneged on their contract with us. Penalize them immediately. Our poor people gave them a six million dollar tax break, and we were betrayed.
Have the revenuers collect back taxes and punitive damages on Amazon's job fraud and tax evasion.
This is how the state of Louisiana became one of the poorest states in the nation. Many companies sought to move to the state to set up shop. Which would have created massive jobs for the state decades ago. However, the businesses wanting to locate in the state had to grease so many politician hands that they decided to scrap the idea and proceeded to move right across the border into the state of Texas. Texas is relatively a booming state, even when the national economy is in recessions.
We have some of the absolute dumbest politicians of all time in office right now. Why would they want to strip people of jobs just for sales tax?!?!!? Please people, next election, can we all agree that regardless of what party, we will no longer vote MORONS into office?!?! I cant take much more of this nonsense....
Yes, whether you agree on the tax issue or not....they had an agreement and spent a lot of money to have a location here. This will send a very bad message to any other companies interested in our area. It's sad, the greedheads want in everyone's pockets even when it's quite clear what Amazon will do for the economy overall. Keep pushing until we shoot ourselves in the foot!
I haven't wanted to post anything on any board until now. This one has got me all worked up. Amazon is not opening up a retail business in the state .. they are opening up distribution centers. If this passes. Then all the distribution centers in the state has to be charged the same tax for TN customers. I know of four distribution centers in my area. They do not generate income .. just store items that need to be shipped elsewhere.. Some magazines that offer free shipping to its customers will have to charger their customers because they have distribution centers in that state. I say if Amazon can't make a deal with Tennesse bring them to Ga we need the jobs.
SCOTUS never said a storefront is the only requirement for nexus. A warehouse or manufacturing facility also meets the standard of physical presence. The AG is correct in this case. TN is still free to make a similar deal as they did here in S.C. re: nexus exemption in exchange of tax perks and promise of new jobs ... just be sure to read the fine print before you do. Make no mistake that Amazon has proven to be a schoolyard bully in dealmaking.
"Opinion of Tennessee Attorney General Roy Cooper on taxation of Amazon"
The attorney general's name is BOB Cooper, and he's a native Chattanoogan. Perhaps that's something we can all agree on. I thought I'd interject a lone fact into this morass of high-minded opinion...
I am glad to see that so many of you agree with me that we should honor our agreement. That is, we should HONOR the REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGREEMENT which include CREATING JOBS, not defrauding our people out of millions of dollars.
This is not a money machine for rich people. It's a tax code in a state that has the word "Commerce" on its seal. It means commerce as a technology to honorably support civilization.
If you would like to know how people get money without civilized commerce, I would encourage you to go to Iraq. Every day I was face to face with people who killed for money. I don't think the rich boys at Amazon would last long under that system. Civilized commerce is about supporting civilization. If you want to steal, go someplace else. We don't need you here.
Six million dollars of tax evasion is no excuse to fail to hire our people because rich people laid them off en masse to make themselves richer.
As Alan Greenspan would say, "The market will take care of the fraudsters." Amazon, enjoy your six million dollar tax bill for breach of contract.
Openly advertising that you want to discriminate against people who are out of work? We are not paying six million dollars for unethical conduct. Criminal financial conduct may be the norm on Wall Street, but it is not accepted here.
No equity improvement? No need for a tax shelter.
If you are not creating anything, then you don't need a six million dollar tax break.
We are mad as hell and we will not be taken for fools.
We are not here to be your suckers. Amazon needs to live up to all six million dollars worth of its tax break agreement. That does not include taking our money and making fools out of us and insulting our unemployed.
Tax Amazon today. Failing to fulfill their half of the agreement is not worth a six million dollar tolerance of job fraud and financial misconduct.
If they can't do what they said, they can either pay like everyone else or get out.
I pay taxes when I do business. Where is my six million dollar payoff for doing nothing but being a disgusting person? We don't need these people ruining our economy with their poor Wall Street style decisions.
Say no to job fraud and tax evasion. Discipline Amazon if they can't act like honorable men for the six million they've taken from our poor with their sham promises.
I hope they all end up long-term unemployed. Then maybe we can send their kids to Iraq for a few years. It would serve them right. Draft the CEO's rich kids today.
Get out of my city.
Amazon, Wacker, VW and anyone else who's received a sweetheart tax break deal out to be required to publicly disclose how many veterans, minorities, disabled people, women and long term (over 12 months) unemployed people they've hired or plan to hire for a five year span.
Failure to do business honorably, failure to engage in a respectful dialog with our tax paying citizens, like our long tern unemployed who often spent decades working: it's just not right. We cannot continue to pay these people blindly.
Number of vets employed over there? I predict 0%. No joke.
If they cannot accept our people for who they are, then they don't need to receive multi-million dollar deals letting them get richer while doing it.
Number of minorities, women, or disabled people over there? Far below the population average. The only disabled person employer I've seen in this area, to any significant degree, is the US Post Office.
These people are taking our money, insulting us and our families, and then trying to tell us that they are right. It is not right.
Throw them out of state. If this is their brand of help, we don't need them. There are plenty of poor people for them to insult wherever it is they came from.
Tax Amazon today. Six million dollar tax fraud. Beyond disgusting.
IDIOTS! they need to wait until amazon has already built the facility and hired people before trying to tax them. what ever happened to tactics?
Indeed, onachair.
But then, even though our Dictator-In-Chief plainly told everyone what he stood for and what he planned to do well ahead of the election, too few people took him seriously. Wait until he destroys our coal industry and eliminates 45% of our energy producing capacity. That might get their attention.
McNally and Co are simply following in Dear Leader's footsteps.
However, we must realize that neither of the sponsors of the bill have more than half a dog in this fight -- neither District will gain employees but they will gain taxes. They are more than willing to throw those new jobs out the window just for a few bucks and to H with the workers. Typical politicians.
bpqd -- A funny-peculiar thing happened with many national chain stores during the last Depression; they instituted a policy that any woman who married a working man would lose her job...which would be given to an unmarried woman.
Point? Being in-need is a variable thing...some are more in need than others.
Besides, what does the hiring of minorities, women, or the disabled have to do with anything? Unless I am mistaken, there are laws against that sort of thing.
You would apparently have VW, et al, hire unqualified workers who would produce poor quality goods over those who are more qualified/experienced...and that applies across the board and excludes favoritism/preferential treatment for any reason other than qualifications for the job.


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Sitting in the shadow of the Pierce Elevated just west of downtown, The Refinery at 702 Dallas is one of the newest bars in town. With the bar still in the midst of construction, a carpenter was laying down the beginnings of a large patio out front while I polished off The Refinery's Texamex burger. ... More >>
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Well, Valentine's Day is fast approaching, so I thought I'd clue you in to a fine dining place in the Tulsa area you may not be familiar with. Yes, I'm talking to you, guys. Valentine's is exactly 10 days away. So you need to start planning, making reservations, booking a babysitter, etc. etc. NOW. Do it. Tonight.
With that being said, I'm about to share with you a hidden gem of a restaurant in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Yes, Wagoner. You've probably never been there, even if you've grown up in Tulsa. But now is the time to go. The restaurant destination is The Canebrake. And if you have some extra time, you may as well spend a night or two at their highly-acclaimed Resort (rumor has it, there is a special buy one, get one night free from now through Feb. 16).
Dining at The Canebrake is a true Oklahoma experience: from the long, gravel road you traverse before arriving at the Resort, to the restaurant filled with Native American decor and an Oklahoma state flag hung proudly over the fireplace. More importantly, the menu is authentically Oklahoman. Before our visit to The Canebrake, if someone had asked me, "What does Oklahoma food consist of?", I probably would have answered, "Mazzio's, Ted's Cafe Escondido, and barbecue." And while all of those answers are pretty spot-on, The Canebrake prepare Oklahoma cuisine in a truly elegant, yet rustic manner. (Click here for their dinner menu; click here for their lunch menu).
For our starter, we selected the Black Bean Hummus, served with grilled house tortillas and veggies. I will admit, the appearance of the hummus itself was a little startling…we'll leave it at that. But it was a healthy and satisfying selection.
We also felt obliged to try a cup of soup after my husband heard the words "Gruyère and Broccoli Soup." Gruyère is his absolute favorite cheese, and this thick, decadent soup was not your average broccoli cheddar soup.
On to the main course! My husband selected the Grilled Ribeye: 12 ounce Oklahoma beef with smashed garlic horse sauce (I am not sure if that's short for horseradish?), served with sauteed seasonal vegetables and pommes frites (fried potatoes). Talk about a steak! The thing had to be larger than 12 ounces! Devon had nothing but fabulous things to say about that steak and was especially delighted that there was plenty left over for his lunch the next day.
I was thinking of being adventurous and trying the Quail, but I chickened out and went with the Beef Stroganoff. Wow…it definitely surpassed the version I make in my Crockpot by about 10,000%! Tender sirloin tips, pearl onions and wild mushrooms served over a bed of egg noodles with a decadent cream sauce, alongside sauteed vegetables. Everything about this meal was perfect! The sauce was nothing short of inspiring, folks.
We would not be true Okies if we didn't save room for dessert. Seriously, don't pretend you don't know what I mean, you Braum's lover, you. We couldn't resist trying the "S'Mores Crème Brûlée." First off, let me just say that everything about crème brûlée makes me giddy as a school girl. I am a sucker for texture, and crème brûlée has it all: a slightly burnt, crispy exterior, paired with a pudding-like, smooth interior. When you pair that with the flavors of chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers, you get magic in a cup.
Alas, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the incredible staff at The Canebrake Restaurant. Not only was our meal entirely delicious, but the staff ensured that our every need was met, and the chef himself came out to check on us. One of my favorite features of the restaurant is the open window into the kitchen, where you can watch the talented staff as they prepare your meal. The chef wittily remarked, "Not only do you watch us, but we watch you!" And I'm sure he noticed nothing but satisfaction on our faces as we enjoyed a truly exquisite Oklahoma meal!
The Canebrake may be a bit of a drive for Tulsans (it's about an hour drive), but once you get there, you will be glad you took the time to discover a true diamond in the rough.


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The nice folks over at A Comicbook Orange recently reviewed Ghost Projekt #1:
"Also launching this week is another sci-fi thriller; In Ghost Projekt by Joe Harris and Steve Rolston the ghosts of Cold War experiments literally haunt the present. It's a bit of a slow start but the mystery is intriguing and the art great. It gets 3.5 Oranges."
If you still haven't, check out a 13-page preview of Ghost Projekt HERE!
They also caught up with Wasteland writer Antony Johnston! Antony discusses Dead Space, the Julius film adaptation in the works, his plans for Wasteland, and his upcoming book Cold City, drawn by artist Sam Hart.
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Nearly 100 films from almost 40 countries at the Miami International Film Festival.
Few can surpass the majesty and grandeur that is Celia Cruz, but international sensation Lucrecia comes quite close. The Cuban born salsa singer, backed by a classic Cuban-style big band, gives passionate, high energy performances of traditional Latin melodies, and interprets boleros and jazz sta ... More >>
If you thought your family was messed up, just wait till you meet the Rizzos, the big brawling clan at the chaotic center of writer-director Raymond De Felitta's new comedy City Island. One moment, they seem normal, then they don't, and then they do, and then they don't. They lie. They keep secrets. ... More >>
The Rizzos are an average family -- two parents, two kids -- who make their home on City Island, an old fishing town in the Bronx. The patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), is a New York State corrections officer with dreams of being an actor. His wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), is a beautiful but aging ... More >>
The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and L ... More >>
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Saddam Hussein has found time on his crowded social calendar to play host to a nonstop parade of visiting celebrities in the five months since his Iraqi army mugged Kuwait.
A partial list of those who have made the pilgrimage to Baghdad include President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, former Prime Minister Edward Heath of Great Britain, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan, King Hussein of Jordan, former Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and even former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali.


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Credit the quality of a superior educational system. Or the native wit of two quick thinkers with a gift for understanding the human animal. Or the power of happy collaboration. In any event, Lawless Heart, the second feature co-written and co-directed by the young Brits Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger, is one beautiful piece of work--as alert and aware a survey of interpersonal relations as you're likely to find at the movies this year. Working with a tiny budget in the small seaside town of Maldon, Essex, the pair manage to address big issues like love, grief and the accidents of fate without veering into solemnity or self-importance. The three linked stories they give us here are as touching as they are tone-perfect, and they are deftly infused with humor.
Like The Big Chill, Lawless Heart begins with the funeral of a man the other characters all cared about, but Hunter and Hunsinger are not about to launch a political and personal nostalgia-fest. Instead, they use the accidental drowning of a magnetic young man named Stuart (David Coffey) to disturb the emotional balance of their three protagonists, then propel each of them toward some measure of self-knowledge.
In the first vignette, Stuart's prudish brother-in-law, a married, middle-aged farmer named Dan (Bill Nighy), finds himself attracted to an adventurous Frenchwoman (Clementine Celarie) he meets at the funeral. Long imprisoned by caution and convention, Dan is suddenly overwhelmed by desire, and that gives him a view of his own follies and deep-seated bigotry. The second episode focuses on Nick (Gosford Park's Tom Hollander), Stuart's grief-stricken lover. He, too, enters an unlikely (and ill-considered) alliance--with a scatter-brained, yet appealing girl named Charlie (Sukie Smith)--but in the end turns for comfort to Stuart's sister (Ellie Haddington). When the film's point of view shifts once more, it takes in Tim (carrot-topped Douglas Henshall), one of Stuart's boyhood friends. A rootless wanderer who fancies himself a ladies' man despite his empty pockets and unnoticeable looks, he unexpectedly hooks up with a shop girl named Leah (Josephine Butler), who's been in the picture all along, just beyond his blurred vision.
Each of these understated, deceptively simple stories is linked to the others (the common characters rise and fall in importance as they circulate through the vignettes), and each contributes nicely to the film's liberating world-view. To wit: Neither our own expectations nor the strictest self-imposed taboos can withstand true emotion; set free by feeling, we grow and thrive as the old limits within us are erased. That won't always make us happy, but we career on.
At bottom, Lawless Heart is an extremely serious film, but it's never gloomy or heavy-handed. Instead, Hunter and Hunsinger arrive at their seriousness through irony and comic deflection, like magicians dazzling an audience with major sleight of hand. From the chaos of an ill-planned house party we get new insight into life's essential unpredictability. In Dan's frightened rapture we find as much humor as sadness. In death, we find a joke. In a joke, we find darkness.
It doesn't hurt that cinematographer Sean Bobbitt has shot each of the three stories in a noticeably different style, from hip and hard-edged to classically restrained, in order to suit the respective protagonist. It doesn't hurt that this perfectly chosen cast--none of them well-known on this side of the Atlantic--is so able, down to the last detail. Nighy is particularly effective in his portrait of a man who comes to be startled by his own veiled self-hatred. The directors encouraged their actors to improvise, and the results are almost spookily natural.
It's even more encouraging that Hunter and Hunsinger have enlarged the view of their gay-themed 1996 feature debut, Boyfriends, to include this ambitious second film's wider variety of genders, social classes and political temperaments. Daring in its dramatic structure and keenly observant of human nature under stress, Lawless Heart is that rare gem made on a shoestring, using subtlety and intelligence for working capital.
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Call to wear medals of lost relatives
By Somerset Guardian | Thursday, November 08, 2012, 11:00
Organisers of this year's Act of Remembrance in Midsomer Norton and Radstock are calling on the children and grandchildren of veterans to wear their relatives' medals with pride on Sunday.
In Midsomer Norton the parade will be assembling at 10.30am at Midsomer Norton Social Club before marching down the High Street to the War Memorial.
The parade is being led by the Midsomer Norton Silver Band.
The service at the War Memorial will start at 10.50am with a two-minute silence at 11am before heading to St John's church for a Service of Remembrance.
Following the service the salute will be taken at the War Memorial before the parade disperses.
The parade commandeer is Dave Rose, who is an ex-Regimental Sergeant Major with the Somerset Light Infantry.
Their will be chairs set out at the War Memorial for those attending the Act of Remembrance but are unable to march or stand.
Ar Radstock, the service will take place at the War Memorial in the Miners Memorial Garden at 2pm. The service will be taken by the Rev Sue Greatorex and there will be a bugler.
Parade marshal and Midsomer Norton and Radstock Royal British Legion branch secretary Rob Fairweather said: "We are hoping that former Bevin Boys and Land Girls will join us and we are also appealing to the children and grandchildren of veterans to march with us."


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The BlueCross BlueShield logo is visible on the side of their old building.Photo by Staff File Photo /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee accounted for an estimated 86 percent of the new health plans offered in Tennessee through the health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
The Chattanooga-based insurer said today it attracted more than 31,000 of the 36,000 Tennesseans who enrolled in last year.
In Tennessee, four health insurance companies will offer plans on the exchanges — BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Cigna Healthcare, Coventry Health & Life and Community Health Alliance. BlueCross is the only insurer to offer plans in all 95 Tennessee counties.
Of the total number of BlueCross enrollees last year, 30 percent were from the Nashville region, followed by the Knoxville region with 18 percent, and Chattanooga and Memphis regions with 12 percent each.
The estimated enrollment figures represent the period of Oct. 1 through Dec. 28 compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services, which reported that 36,250 Tennesseans signed up for a Marketplace plan. Nationally, enrollees for the same period stood at 2.2 million Americans, according to HHS.
Enrollment for the Marketplace continues through March 31, 2014.
"We're proud to be the insurer of choice on the Marketplace in Tennessee," said Henry Smith, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for BlueCross. "We worked hard to provide the most plan options of any carrier, with multiple networks and a range of pricing to meet the needs of individuals seeking coverage."
Dave Flessner is the business editor for the Times Free Press. A journalist for 35 years, Dave has been business editor and projects editor for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, city editor for The Chattanooga Times, business and county reporter for the Chattanooga Times, correspondent for the Lansing State Journal and Ingham County News in Michigan, staff writer for the Hastings Daily Tribune in Nebraska, and news director for WCBN-FM in Michigan. Dave, a native ...


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Listing the best Paypal Poker sites for November 2014
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Sketch of suspected armed robber released
Updated On: Nov 26 2013 03:51:24 PM CST
Police released a sketch of the man they believe robbed a Loanmax employee at gunpoint Aug. 27 on Madison's east side.
The woman had locked up the Loanmax at 3066 East Washington Ave. around 6:09 p.m. and was walking to her car when a man appeared next to her, according to the release.
Officials said the man pressed a black handgun into her side and forcibly took her purse and other paperwork.
The robber fled on foot, according to the release. He is described as a black male in his late 20s, 5 feet 9 inches tall with a muscular build. He was last seen wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt, dark colored shorts with a red stripe down the side and a baseball hat.
Officials ask anyone with information about the robbery to call Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.
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Longtime listeners of Jim Rome know of the sports radio host's references to (and encouragement of) octopus being tossed onto the ice at Detroit Red Wings games. While you ponder how one sneaks a cephalopod mollusc into a modern sports arena, know that San Jose fans have come up with their own de ... More >>
Despite injuries, a horrible pre-season and dire predictions from NHL experts to the likes of "Anaheim Sucks" on yesterday's post ("Ducks outscored 13-2, outshot 100 to 35. From Niedermayer/Pronger to Mara/Brookbank? LOL. On pace for 0-82 this season. If you turn the OC Register upside down the ... More >>
The Anaheim Ducks home opener is tonight at the Honda Center against the Vancouver Canucks. The previews are in and they aren't pretty. "The Ducks top line has been terrible," reports RotoWorld.com. "Anaheim: Early contender for worst in the NHL," claims Kevin in PA on the Hitting the Post blog. ... More >>
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Islam Karimov and Sam Irvin scored first-half goal while Josh McMeans scored in the second half for second-ranked Class 6A Vestavia Hills (11-2). Christian Despot and Enrico Camata had first-half assists for the host Rebels. Pelham (8-5) goalkeeper Cameron Foss had two saves. Vestavia keeper Marvin Castellanos had two saves.
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Gov 'smart meter' plans: Sky box in charge of your house
The UK government has unveiled its plans for so-called "smart" energy meters, to be compulsory throughout Blighty in future. The proposed technology appears like excellent news for energy companies, offering them many options to cut costs and perhaps carbon emissions. Chances for consumers to be truly "smart", however, aren't …
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Remember that, in spite of the 30 years' development of appliances since Economy 7 was phased out, the Nanny State would have you believe that if you run your dishwasher at night, you will all die in your sleep.
I'm all for differential charging, so long as it offers opportunities for customers to reduce their bills. Usually, differential charging just means applying a massive price hike at the times you want to use the services. c.f. road tolls, telephone bills, public transport et al.
A bit like Economy 7 then
We're on Economy 7 and apparently we can save £200 a year switching back - which requires them to physically change the meter.
I thought the idea with Economy 7 was to charge less at night, but apparently the main idea is to charge more during the day.
Good luck getting anything more complicated to work in the user's favour.
And once the infrastructure is in place -
the "Big Brother" telescreens will quickly follow.
Sky at night, contractors delight
I'm sure Crapita, EDS, and all the usual suspects in government tendering are rubbing their mitts in glee at the prospect of this big expensive government project.
Not sure about this one.
"....perhaps with the aid of your trusty electric car as a power reservoir...."
If you wanted a battery to store power, why buy one in a lushly appointed metal box with wheels on it? Surely you'd just get a battery pack? For one thing, it'd be far less likely to bugger off to the shops for a loaf of bread when it was most needed.
Sounds like a bad idea
Does this mean your electricity meter will be able to crash and effectively cut your power supply off by accident?
Will they be secure enough that only ther energy company can cut you off, rather than some script kiddie on the net?
Do not want.
Misleading title
I was excited to see that my sky box may offer the smart meter service, so that while I'm watching TV I could get a warning to my power usage, or maybe view my remaining units (money prepay). But no, the title is misleading, its simply implying that the smart meter will be like a sky box (an expensive device, which we have to wait for the right deal to buy, and ultimately, be updated remotely whilst reporting what I'm using so much power on!)
Not sure I like this
I like my current system whereby the energy company persist in sending round meter readers during the day, while I'm at work. This allows me to 'hedge' on my energy costs.
Inevitably I'm out when the meter reader comes round (and my electricity meter is in the hall, and gas meter in the cellar), so no reading is taken. Therefore, my energy company asks me to kindly provide my own readings. Which I do. But the readings I want to give them. So, just when the announce a big price hike, I give them a massive meter reading to take advantage of the cheaper price. Then low readings until (hopefully) the prices come back down again. It's all worked very well (if, probably, a little illegally!) so far.
Meter Readings
When is the last time EDF sent an meter reader out to your house? I've not seen one in the 4 years I've been living in the UK. I have to tell them my reading.
And there go my plans for a cannabis grow-op in my shed.
off to a good start
Have just sent an email with suggestions for functionalit to be included in the Smart Meters project to the address published at: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/smart_metering/smart_metering.aspx
After 5 minutes I recieved this reply:
"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
Bodes well for the project! Or are they just not interested in participation from the public?
For once...
the monopoly power provider in Northern Ireland is ahead of the game. I have a pre-pay "smart box" installed at home. Besides the fact that I get 2.5% discount for using this I can my power consumption at any given time or, historically, over days & weeks. Since some form of technology is there to communicate the "top up" codes & its value between the box & the network it would seem relatively trivial to harvest consumption data from the smart boxes into a database so the consumer could look at pretty graphs on a web page.
Presumably this is for taxes
Currently the govt takes a lot of income from fuel taxes. If people move to leccy cars they will lose this income. So we need to have smart meters so that that "transport electricity" can be charged (no pun intended) with it's own special tax band.
I'm not at all sure....
I like the idea of a supplier being able to remotely disconnect me...
They suffer a "blue screen of death" moment - no leccy for me... difficult recovery?
I'm in dispute over my bill, they shut me off. Now they've got my attention! Whether or not it is legal.
They decide to change the tarrif profile and very suddenly I pay more...
In introducing these "Smart" meters were is the incentive for them to be more efficient?
Next wave of trojans
"able to switch between suppliers by simply pressing a button - or perhaps under the control of a simple home computer program".
Then the scum start writing trojans that switch you to a premium rate supplier to make themselves loads of money. A bit like the old premium-rate diallers that circulated back in the 90s.
Connect it to my HomeNetwork? are they kidding. Talk about a security issue inside your own network that you have no control over. If I did have to connect it then i would have to put it outside of my firewall.
Frankly, I love the idea
No one will ever come around to my house to read the meter. I can run a cable from before the meter to the loft where my 2 200watt servers run all the time. Big savings ahoy.
I could become an energy supplier for the street...
Remote cut off...denial of service attack anyone? Jacqui's home addressES?
Did I just say that out loud?
It has its merits
If the majority of the savings from all their laid off meter readers and billing staff are passed onto the consumer and not just pocketed then I wouldn't mind having one.
On the other hand, how much will all those laid off employees be costing me in dole money?
Swings and roundabouts.
How will the comms work?
Does this mean everyone will be forced to have a phone line?
What's the intended uplink for these meters to talk back to Big Brother?
Is a BT line going to become a requirement for electric and gas supply? I ditched my phone a decade ago.
Also an oppertunity to further screw the poor, I wonder if the cut off fee will reduce as it will only cost them oohh approx tuppence ha'penny to cut them off (plus a letter perhaps), so those living on the breadline will not get any advantage? This country is a joke, where can I leave feedback? I could not see a link on the page? Which mp could I contact, any suggestions?
@A bit like Economy 7 then
You are correct - however things have changed.
One upon a time in the UK, there was a manufacturing sector and a lot of heavy industry which required lots of electricity. The government (energy was run by the Government) had options - upgrade the infrastructure (i.e. power lines that could cope with more current), curtail demand or load balance.
Load balancing was the favoured option. So you (domestic consumers) use energy in the evenings (when industry has ceased) and allow industry to use that capacity during the day. In exchange, you get cheaper electricity in the evening for 7 hours. Hence the invention of storage heaters. It was always the case that the standing charge was slightly higher but because the rate was lower, as long as you did use a high proportion of electricity at night it was cost effective.
The game has changed - reduction in the manufacturing base means load shifting by consumers is not a priority. Also, we're not willing to use such dire things as storage heaters.
I run my dishwasher, washing machine, bread maker etc. at night but I'm also now told the standard tariff will cost me less. I don't have a plasma TV, I have gas heating and cooking so I think this may be the case with many households.
Smart Metering was devised by the energy companies for their benefit. There is very little benefit for the consumer and the energy companies want us to pay for it. They DO NOT want it to be easy to switch, the innovative scenarios in the article would be dire for them.
These meters will be with us for many years. If you care, do provide feedback to the government via the link else it's no point in complaining for the next few decades. The meters should be configured to allow for switching to the best rate. Of course, there are significant implications for the industry, particularly with regard to billing. One area is not a concern - retail has been separated from transmission so you'll be able to get a fault repaired no matter how the retail arrangements work.
Intelligent devices
To make this work needs intelligence in the electrical appliances - expecting consumers to rush round plugging and unplugging devices as the unit rate changes isn't going to be very practicable. Some of this is going to have to be very dynamic indeed as inherently variable generation like wind & wave comes more and more on strream.
What is needed is something like freezers that can adjust power consumption according to the cost of electricity. It's perfectly possible in the short term to use cheaper electricity to cool the contents of the freezer more than normal and use the "thermal intertia" effect to cut power consumption during expensive periods (as sort of reverse energy store). Similarly, all sorts of other types of devices could have energy stores. Clearly batteries (albeit that's expensive), but the ultimate would surely be when it is integrated into electric transport. It's perfectly feasible to imagine the battery in your electric car "smoothing out" the demand on the grid at peak times (albeit I think this is only acceptable with "plug in" hybrids to avoide being stranded if your battery has been drained because you boiled a kettle at peak rates).
As everybody realises, the real problem is that nobody has cracked the problem of storing large amounts of electric power in a cheap and efficient manner. The person that cracks that will deserve riches which even Bill Gates couldn't dream of.
They're not listening
I've just tried the link at the end. It timed out. This bunch of self-serving cretinous control-freaks will do whatever they want anyway, so I'm not surprised they don't care to hear our views.
Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act
Currently suppliers have to obtain a warrant from a magistrate in order to enter the property and disconnect the supply. This will presumably still be the case with these meters - hopefully it won't all be done automatically by some system linked in with their crappy SAP billing engines?
waste of money and time
so we are in a recession, and lets cut the meter reading jobs, great idea.
Spend the money on supplying me with a couple of solar panels, and a water heatexchanger on my roof, i'll let the energy comapny fit the unit to send extra power back into the national grid if they want.
then i can save money and save energy.
got to be cheaper then building and running a nucleur power station that nobody wants next to them
remote cut off, just like when BT decided to put me on paperless billing, without asking me, then we get a call, from a foreigner asking for our card payment details or we will be cut off.
Guess what, we didn't give it, and yes, got cut off.
3 days arguing and we got put back on, and charged for reconnection. eventually refunded!
that wil be fun mid winter with gas and electric !
In years to come - Power rationing!
Yes its a new round of taxation and monitoring. 'Carbon Limits' will be set for houses and if you go over certain limits you'll be charged a carbon tax etc.etc. Thats a given.
And then when we dont have enough power for the country as a whole, it will then allow monitoring of power rationing to homes and penalties for those that break them.
Oh joy.
As for Economy 7, my parents swapped to that a couple of years ago. Why I have no idea as they knew full well the hassles my Nan had with it in the 80's. So yes they now have to 'live' at night rather then during the day to actually make any savings. Its a barmy system. I did tell them.
As usual the government are not interested
Well I tried to email my observations on the smart meter proposal but sending my email to firstname.lastname@example.com (the email address given on their website) I got an undeliverable email bounce back. Obviously they're all too busy working out how to screw us for more money now we've rumbled their expenses rip offs to be bothered with reading emails on this subject.
secret technology
But, if they get rid of the meter reader, they'll have to write off the investment in "showering consumer detection" technology. That's why they always call when you're in the shower - my meter reader told me.
Is there more information on the "exported" electricity option... like how is it priced? Does the credit for that vary in-line with the tarrif changes for peak/non-peak? That would offer an good incentive for consumers to become producers, perhaps installing solar or wind generators, or getting the kids onto exercise bikes with alternators when East Enders comes on... A greener, fitter Britain?
Mine's the wet towel.
What's needed
is a cheap box with the unit-o-meter output split between a secure, non-company-touchable output (like an RS232 serial port- ultra-simple and able to connect to anything) and the "proper" company interface. That way we can't be screwed over by falsified measurements as we can record exactly what's being read. A monthlong datalogger wouldn't go amiss either given the minimal increase in cost and complexity (recording the previous hours total once a month with a 32-bit register for each reading means about 24kbit (3kByte) of storage required) as it'd mean even non-techie people can defend themselves in court.
Also, no power company should own the box- it should be owned if not by the householder then by a government funded independant body that has no links to the energy market.
No disconnections should happen without evidence- and ideally the involvement of the police; if these companys believe you're stealing electricity or gas from them, surely that's a matter for the cops? And with the new Smart Meters it'll be even easier to make a case against the alleged thief and easier for the innocent to defend themselves.
It should be possible to connect to your smart meter and change immediately (with a sensible limit, say once a week or once a month) who supplies your electricity / gas. Ideally this would be possible using an ATM-style multi-button option screen (cuts costs compared to a touchscreen on the device) or using a computer hooked up to the device.
The device should be designed so that it's absolutely impossible to be taken over by a script-kiddie or other non-utterly-world-class malcontent. And yes, it can be done- and yes, it could be done pretty cheaply.
Anything over about £20 worth of cost to the consumer for a "smart" meter is utterly unjustified (if it's rolled out country-wide).
RE: jason
"Yes its a new round of taxation and monitoring. 'Carbon Limits' will be set for houses and if you go over certain limits you'll be charged a carbon tax etc.etc."
They could always learn from the ISP's and offer an 'unlimited' service.
The fine print shall read thus: "Boil a kettle before 2am and you will be throttled to a single dily glowing blub. If you turn on said bulb you will be cut off completely"
is this really safe?
i think not. consider:
connectivity: 'they' intend equipment fully under their control to use your comms, at your expense (and probably designed to connect to your home network also, to monitor you closely. for your own safety of course. i mean, think of the children. ffs).
hackers: will have a field day with systems like these. fire sale anyone? hehe.
disputes: as said previously, any minor dispute or misunderstanding (read human error) will result in immediate disconnection. we will more and more be at the mercy of corporate/politicals.
I do feer
that there will be alot of people cut off. Working in credit control I know that you do get people (mostly little old ladys) that will send a cheque for there bill to the company.
It will be In an envolope to the head office, marked "To Paul" or whoever the talked to last.
It will have no infomation on it about who its from or what its for, just "Mrs Smith" as the payer name.
These people will be hit hard if the changes to meter disconection go through, as the companys will just cut them off without looking for there payment. Yes these people are a pain (They think that everyone in a company with 200,000 cusotmers should know who they are when they phone up saying "Hello. Its Mrs Smith." and get anoyed when you don't) but they are cusotmers, and you should try and help them.
Time We Switched to Microgeneration
If everyone installed solar panels, wind turbines, ground heat systems, etc. then we could i) ignore the electricity companies or ii) sell power to them! Working for a contractor who works for a power company I know that they are rolling in cash. They query many bills we put into them and to the consumer bill them a huge uplift on top of the work we've done. My mother also recently found we were in credit to our electric supplier by £400, though they suggested we up our payments to £200 a month. Power companies are just ripping everyone off.
@ Steve Bennett
All the main mobile telecoms companies have been doing work on smartmeters with embedded SIMS, so these are the most likely route for the connection.
ESP comms perhaps?
Surely a lot of premises don't have phone lines and a lot of meters are in situations where wireless won't work (e.g. cellars).
In my modest home I have a phone line, but it's not in the garage where the meters are and I don't exactly relish my energy company making the necessary "modifications" to my property. In any case, I might well dispense with a landline in favour of a mobile on the timescales involved here.
As for wanting to graph my energy usage on my PC. You're kidding surely? I've got better things to do with my time, like comment on El Reg... err, OK, forget that.
"I wonder if the cut off fee will reduce as it will only cost them oohh approx tuppence ha'penny to cut them off (plus a letter perhaps)"
If they're anything like TIcketMaster, they'll impose a $15 (sorry, I'm american) 'electronic disconnect convenience fee'.
Business as usual
Why bother responding? The government will make sure that the bumper profits continue to roll in for those all important party donors. Instant switching of suppliers? Not short of a 'heads on poles at the tower' revolution, I think.
Remote shutdown !
There's no way I'm letting someone into my house to install a remote controlled cut off switch for some spotty oik to hack into. No way.
could it be...
this article has spookily reminded of a recent article about the military seeking 'local building scanning tech'. perhaps like imaging technology using the power wires routed all around your house... could this 'smart meter' be related to that by any chance at all?.. oh, of course not. pure random speculation.
Say your car could recharge in 2 hrs at 60amps or over 8 hours 15 amps now you plug in your car 10 hours before you need to go to work... an intelligent meter could know that its better for the grid/cheaper not to charge until 4am then whack 60Amps for 2 hours the problem is that it MUST charge your car no matter what. but how does it know when is best for the grid? likewise they cant all wait till the same moment or the grid would collapse..
its all well and good using an instant electricity price and cost trigger but can it work cooperativly and get you the best price AND make sure your car is fully charged???
Why consult, the decision has been made
The system will be implemented to maximise the profits of the companies (as that is where MPs will get the cushy directorships etc) and there will be no regard for the public.
Just like every other decision ever taken by any British government in recent history.
"Fuck the public, show me the money!"
Bastards, the lot of them.
Communication with the smart meter would probably be over the power lines supplying the premises, not using the customers' phone line.
No, I don't want a smart meter with a remote cut off switch, I could do without a power cut due to the thing suffering a BSOD or at the whim of a script kiddie!
I had my meter moved to a box outside the house so readers can get access when I'm not at home but in fact I still get estimated bills, the meter is only read once a year.
There are as I understand two main proposed methods of comms for energy companies to be able to remotely read your meter and cut you off if you haven't paid them, ADSL & GPRS.
ADSL would be easy for the end user to disconnect, but turning off the GPRS modem would mean physically breaking into the meter, which would probably be illegal if not against the terms & conditions of the electricity supplier's contract with you.
@Owen Williams
Better still, swap the in and out wires, so that the meter always runs in reverse. This used not to be possible, but with the advent of Micro-generation, you should be able to earn a healthy profit just by watching the telly!
Might be a good idea to stick some fake solar panels on the roof though, just in case you ever get a visit.
So someone wants to put a meter into my house that could be controlled externally and remotely without my knowledge.
That leaves them completely open to any accusations of fraud - I would want a second physical meter, outside their control, monitoring my use as well. Any disagreement, it would be up to them to prove that I'd tampered with the meter, not up to me to prove they were messing around on their end.
Seeing as they're money-grubbing liars on the fiddle at the moment (I won the case, I can say that), we need some safeguards in place before any such scheme is implemented.
Good idea
Anything which allows me to connect to the lamppost ouside and sell their electricity back to them has got to be a good idea.
What happened to Internet over Power Lines?
Warning: There is no need to have any significant technology investment.
The Utilities and Government are trying to rape the Public promoting the lie that this is complicated and will take billions in development costs.
The technology is already here, the "smart" themostats for HVAC systems already exist and only cost a couple of hundred US dollars.
We have had "drive by" water and electricity metering via radio here in my community (just outside of Niagara Falls NY USA) for a couple of years and all that is required to eliminate the driver is for our electric utility (National Grid, seemingly we all suffer together world wide) to institute digital communications over the power lines.
If they had any brains or Ethics, the utlities would just recognize they could make huge money on the internet communications and offset the cost of both the technology and the cost of electricity.
Perhaps contrary to my usual position
Speaking as someone who never lets anyone in to read the meter I actually welcome this - particularly the part about remotely accessible meter readings. Suits me fine.
I forsee a future in microgeneration anyway.
Easy Switching?
Didn't read too hard but that seems to be one of the 'touted' benefits. Chances are it will go full rail and the middle men will get cut out. If energy, in particular electricity, is bought from a central pool then the next (i)logical step will be the customers will become a similar pool. You won't be with a 'named' entity as your supplier. Someone will sit at a trading desk bidding for customers from the customer pool, on the basis of lowest offered price, to be supplied with energy sold into the supply pool. Market economics at its leanest and best/worst. Naturally 'poor' customers are still open to penalisation it just becomes more finely grained.
they won't be that smart...
Surely these 'smart' meters will be no different from existing half-hour meters that are mandatory for large supplies to commercial/industrial buildings?
They're no different from normal ones other than they phone up the energy provider and inform them of how many KWH's you've used. They have no visibility of how you used the power only how much.
In order to gain visibility of what appliances you've been using and for how long would require substantial rewiring to folk's homes which would cost a fortune. Therefore all that could happen is the meter is changed to a half-hour type of unit (they look largely the same bar the phone cable).
The only savings the energy suppliers will have is that they won't need to employ meter-readers and it will eliminate usage estimates that may be too low.
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