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With mandated sales tax collection becoming more likely, online retailers should take a hard look now at their tax strategies. Want amnesty for back taxes? Proceed carefully.
With Congress increasingly likely to pass national online sales tax legislation, merchants may want to seek amnesty deals with states for uncollected back taxes. But to minimize what they may have to pay, it's best to see what kind of deal a state offers before registering to collect taxes, tax experts say.
In every Congress for the past dozen years, legislative proposals have sought to back a system that would allow states to mandate collection of sales tax by online retailers. But though these bills have never won enough support to become law, pending legislation in the current Congress appears to have a better chance of winning approval, tax experts Stephen Kranz, a partner with law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, and Maureen Riehl, vice president, government affairs, Council on State Taxation, said at the Internet Retailer 2012 Conference & Exhibition in a session titled "The new urgency for developing a state sales tax strategy."
Thanks to support from retailers like Amazon.com Inc. and pressure among states to raise tax revenue without imposing new taxes, a federal law that would allow states to mandate sales tax collection by most online retailers is becoming more likely. As a result, retailers should figure out now how much sales tax collection will affect their profit margins, factoring in the cost of collecting the tax and the effect of displaying higher prices to customers.
Merchants should also consider whether they may already be in trouble in some states, such as by being liable for tax collection under what can be confusing rules regarding drop-shipping, Kranz said. "Don't hide," he warned. "You'd just be building up penalties and taxes."
One approach some merchants have followed is to seek an amnesty deal in states where they believe they're liable for uncollected back taxes. Under such agreements, a retailer will usually agree to begin collecting sales tax before a law makes it mandatory; in exchange, the merchant is typically relieved of having to pay the state for past uncollected tax and penalties.
But such merchants shouldn't rush to register to collect tax before completing an amnesty agreement, Kranz said. It's best to work out the best terms while the state is still hungry for a deal, he added.
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Yahoo! co-founder takes open road against Google
Lack of integration hurts Yahoo
I think one issue with Yahoo is that it has a lot of high quality services (Flickr, Delicious, YUI, Search, Mail) but somehow the integration (beyond a common login) just isn't there. It's kind of strange because they acquired some really popular apps such as Delicious, but don't seem to have a strategy for integrating that into it's other services. In fact go to the Delicious homepage and you'd struggle to realise it is run by Yahoo. With Google on the otherhand you are never more than about 3 clicks away from any of its services.
I've been using Yahoo Mail since 1997, yet that is about the only Yahoo service I use in earnest. It's pretty much Google for everything else, eventhough Yahoo offers the same sort of products.
Jobless Brits face influx of foreign IT workers
@ @Jim (AC):
"Overseas employees - Has anyone met one who can speak intelligible English?"
UK based employees - Has anyone noticed how poor their German, French, Spanish or Italian is??
Fact is most foreigners speak good enough English to get a job in England. Most Englanders speak no foreign language whatsoever. Hence: 1m foreigners working here. 200k Englanders working abroad (stats from a post above).
But TimNevins got it right: The real problem is Capitalism and shareholders. Bank A makes 10bn profit by investing in dodgy US properties. Thus Bank B must invest in dodgy US properties in order to appease its shareholders. Bank A goes bust because said dodgy properties are worthless. Bank B goes bust for same reason.
Likewise IT Co. A makes extra 100m profit by offfshoring junior roles. IT Co. B must follow suit or be destroyed by shareholders selling out.
Google blames Gmail outage on data centre collapse
@A FREE service
Some people are paying for this service
I would have thought maybe google would have two systems running. One for the free users and one for the paid for users. Then they could try out all their changes on the free users first...
Also interesting how when Google suffer an outage the public reaction is like: "no worries, these things happen", but when it's anyone else (eg Microsoft or even Yahoo) it's "Bunch of losers, waste of space, Kill Bill".
Google on trial over Italian 'defamation' vid
It's not black or white
There's no need to moderate 100% of all videos. Once you trust a user to post sensible stuff, there's no need moderate them further. What is not acceptable is that ANYONE can sign-up to YouTube and post ANYTHING without some kind check. The BBC fully understands this. Why is it so difficult for Google to understand this? Hiding behind freedom of speech simply not acceptable.
With freedom also comes responsibility. Otherwise it's anarchy.
This is serious guys
I think a little more respect is needed from the previous posters as to what actually happened and to simply say Google is 100% not responsible is simply sticking your head in the sand. I've never used YouTube. I just created an account, logged in and uploaded a video. The only warning re laws was a box to the left which explicitly mentions copyright laws but makes no mention of privacy laws. You will find these in the community guidelines if you look hard enough. And even then it is not explicit that you are not allowed to upload defamous material - it simply waffles on about respect. I think Google needs to ask users to click a checkbox on each upload to acknowledge that they know they are not allowed to publish defamous material. This sounds like overkill and it probably is, but Google can't just wash it's hands of this and say we took it down a month later. With YouTube Google is a publisher and therefore needs to abide by them same publishing laws as others. Whilst it is obviously not possible to moderate every single uploaded video, maybe they should take a leaf out of the BBC's book. Your first few uploads are moderated until Google are certain you're a not a juvenile 15 year old uploading harmful material. This is not rocket science. It is good for the community and respectful.
Russian rides Phantom to OS immortality
@Christian Berger: Vaporware???
With a name like Phantom? Surely not...
C dominated 2008's open-source project nursery
@Jamie Kitson
Agree 100% In fact more releases might well = worse as things get patched due to the poor quality in previous releases. They should be using a mixture of metrics such as commits, committers, downloads and so on. I imagine though, that then they would actually, you know, have to do some work for the report rather than just auto analyse a bunch of stats on open source sites.
Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple to focus on health
Why the dig Gates?
This is an article about Jobs's health, so why do some childish fanboys still feel the need to take a dig at Gates in the comments (essentially wishing him dead)? Jobs has been truly visionary in PC market and I hope he recovers in the near future. But, despite what anyone claims, so has Gates. Without Gates we might all still be locked into expensive bespoke IBM solutions.
Microsoft and HP tackle SQL-injection scourge
So, if it's easy to code against why does no one provide the solution here?
So, if it's easy to code against why does no one provide the solution here?
I think @Confusion has it correct. Sql-injection traditionaly surely means preventing a query being run on the DB that was created from a malicious form field value. This is obviously coded against using parameterised queries. And if you're not doing that then you shouldn't be writing SQL queries in your code.
BUT if you're talking about malicious HTML and JS content being stored in your DB, then I am not sure the above parameterised queries will make any difference.
So all you clever cloggs out there: how exactly do you do this?
easyJet warns Expedia: 'Hands off our flights'
Expedia are cheaper than BA though
Hmm, I always book with Expedia for my regular business flights because they are about £10 cheaper than buying it directly from the airline - BA in my case.
On the otherhand I just found out that flights booked through Expedia don't automatically get added to the BA Miles and more program even if you provide them the your club number. Maybe it's worth paying that extra 10 quid!
Microsoft says 'hasta la vista XP' - well, kinda
@Seanie Ryan
"I remember when I first booted Win2k and the message on screen said "Built on NT Technology". laughed myself silly. 'Drive our new car, its built on the chasis of one 5 years ago'"
Er, most new cars are probably built on chasis designed 5 years ago.
India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks
@Graham Dawson
The Hague happens to be in Holland....
Microsoft could go it alone without Yahoo!
@Richard Foersom
There's lies, damn lies and statistics or something like that.
Yahoo.com is top of the list, that is true. But Google takes up much of the rest of the top 40.
Why is this? If you go to yahoo.co.uk you end up on uk.yahoo.com, which is therefore a hit for yahoo.com not yahoo.co.uk. This does not happen on Google.
A quick count of Google sites in the top 40: 14
A quick count of Yahoo site in the top 40: 3
I believe Google is the most visited company on the web. But this is only a belief as I have no stats on the matter....
Yahoo! to post Google ads on Yahoo!
Re: Good or bad
"On the other hand, if Google start getting into bed with them, we're letting yet another IT giant creep towards a monopoly"
I thought Google already were the search engine monopoly. Does anybody actually use Yahoo Search, Live or Ask??? The only people I know who use Live are ones who don't know they are using it because they think a browser is the web and it happens to be IE on their machine.
Nokia coughs up €200m over axed German workers
@John Band
Actually Tom's Math was wrong, since the pay off, if calculated his way is 86K in Euros not $. I doubt very much all of that figure will be going to ex-employees (at least not directly). But I agree that a 50K Euro payoff would not be unusual for a skilled worker in Germany.
Should Europeans pay to receive phone calls?
re: did anyone actually read the article properly?
Seems not. My understanding is that they are referring to the termination fees on local calls, not on all calls. And if you bundle the receive fees into the monthly allowance I guess no one will know anyway. And as Chris Miller stated it already happens when you're abroad.
To those on contracts I doubt it would make much difference as you get so many free minutes anyway nowadays. Pay-as-you-go could be screwed though.
Bill Gates chuckles at Google Apps
Re: Re: I forget...
AC, are you an Apple fan boy
"Windows - Xerox/Apple"
Didn't know Xerox and Apple were one company. It actually was:
Windows/Apple - Xerox.
But I think Ian "What are all the documents for?" has got it spot on. Who actually uses 99% of any MS Office application? They are so complicated I often can't even get basic formatting right and resort to typing the thing in an HTML editor or a Writeboard on basecamp. So much for increased Office productivity. But then if stuff actually worked and were easy to use all those support employees and consultants would be out of a job.
Microsoft! bids! $44.6bn! for! Yahoo!
Google search to take 90% market share overnight
Presumably one of the main reasons for such a takeover would be to get the Yahoo share of the search market. I suspect a takeover by MS would drive most Yahoo searchers to Google though....
What, you mean like Google?
Yahoo! readies! jobs! purge?
Re: The Problem with Yahoo!
And also that they spend money on useless stuff like Yahoo Pipes. Where's the value to Yahoo in that? Compare that to Google Maps....
DVLA's 5m driver details giveaway
Re: did this m yself recently
On the otherhand is anybody's info at the DLA actually still up-to-date. I know I haven't given them my new address since I got my licence 15 years ago.... good job too!!!
Mozilla hits back at Firefox 3 quality slur
Thank you AC
@Anonymous Coward:
Thanks for explaining to me why my firefox keeps on crashing on me. I also have firebug (on by default) and it FF has been crashing several times daily recently. Not goog at all. Am thinking of switching back to IE7!
Confused BBC tech chief: Only 600 Linux users visit our website
"User don't choose windows?" Do they not??? I use Windows every day BY CHOICE. I am perfectly capable of getting Linux on my PC or using a Mac, but I've not seen anything there that is SO much better that it's worth changing to. No one is forced to buy a PC with Windows on it. There are alternatives. The "They don't have a choice" argument is just completely bogus.
As for the BBC. They should make their player available to all. But I am getting quite alarmed at how much of the licence fee is being spent on "IT". The BBC should be about programming and news. Not building ground breaking IT apps.
Long lunching Luddites show world how to do IT
La merde
@James Anderson
The whole of Paris stinks of la merde, that's why so many perfume companies are french I believe....
Vive la France
France is poorly understood by anybody with an anglo saxon background. They do things their way and it works about as well as any other way. With regards to technology in general, without France there would be no European space industry, no Airbus and no Eurostar.
Germans plan 578m-high überpyramid
Is this a joke?
Are these guys serious. Their site uses wordpress and you can sign up for free? They then promise to fix GMail's spam problem and also let you provide a url which gets posted on their website. Sounds like an interesting mix between dodgy link exchange program and an undertaker's spam list.
Newest Ubuntu dubbed 'Hardy Heron'
Re: Double take
"...would Vista be Worthless Weakling or Woeful Wanker"
Are you implying that we only have three more windows releases left (XYZ) before M$ go bust or something?
Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage
My contribution: is correcting a misleading comment about the BBC (and no I don't work for them or use their services very much).
Re: Interesting BBC spin...
"Given all the online talk recently about the spooky, near clandestine, links between Microsoft and the BBC I find it very interesting that the BBC news version of this story doesn't mention Microsoft or Patch tuesday at all."
Actually it does. This is how misinformation starts, through misinformed comments linked, tagged, pinged and trackbacked across the web....
Power outage knocks out major websites
Not good enough
This has happened a couple of times to the hosts I use. It is always the backup generators and I think this becoming something of a joke. They are obviously not maintained properly and not adapted to cope with increased number of servers. If I am paying good money for hosting which claims to have backup generators then I can expect them to work during a power outage. Is that so difficult?
Net radio saved from certain death
Setup shop somewhere else
Why don't all these internet radio stations simply shift their servers off shore. End of story. All taxes will then go to some carribean island and the RIAA will have no control whatsoever over the radio stations. Sounds good to me!
How to sniff out private information on Facebook
re: Bug
AKA as "a feature".
'IE8 compatible' - the cure for web standards headache?
What about the doctype?
And there's me thinking that I should use the doctype statement at the top of the file to define which standard I want to use.
Stupid me...
Is the relational database now a commodity?
Another word from a developer
I entirely agree with Micha.
But this all depends on the application being developed. I get the impression that nearly all of the DBAs discussing the merits of one DB or another are missing the point in terms of most database driven applications developed today. That is I would estimate that at least 90% of such applications will never have a need for any specialist feature of all the big DB manufacturers because they will never experience such huge demand. I'm talking about small agencies developing small, low volume, websites for many different clients. Such clients couldn't care less about the DB. For such developers systems such as Hibernate, Ruby on Rails or Subsonic are a godsend exactly because they cut out the entire DB layer. Sure Yahoo or Amazon will never be able to run their systems using off the shelf ORM tools, but then most applications are not Yahoo or Amazon.
Where I work I am the only developer which means I have to do everything from front end HTML and JavaScript to DB administration. I am not an expert in any of these but am sufficiently capable to work well in all of these areas. We use MySql and it is perfect for our needs because a) it is cheap and b) it is quick (or at least quick enough). We may soon be moving to MS Sql Server because this integrates better with .Net framework we use. 3 years ago we simply honestly didn't have the cash to spend 5k on a DB. Now we do. What I am trying to illustrate here is the needs and possibilities of the developer and his client are the biggest factor in making these decisions.
If you have the cash to employ a full time DBA then obviously you'd better make sure you are using the most appropriate DB. Until such a time the question is not relevant in my view. And if you run into DB optimisation issues before you can employ a full time DBA then there is something wrong with your business plan!
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With the eighth pick in the NFL Draft, the St. Louis Rams traded up to select wide receiver Tavon Austin out of West Virginia. Austin is an explosive play maker who can line up in the backfield or out wide. He is a player opposing teams will have to specifically game plan for, but Austin's downside is his size. He is only 5'8", 174 lbs., which means he could be injury prone.
To get to the Bills eighth slot, the Rams gave up one of their first round picks (#16), second round, seventh round, and swapped third rounders.
The 7-8-1 Rams showed signs of improvement last year. They played hard and seemed to fit in in the hard-nosed NFC West under coach Jeff Fisher. Stephen Jackson is no longer with the team, but they have already improved the roster during the offseason by bringing in Jake Long to immediately take over the left tackle spot. They also added TE Jared Cook and adding Austin gives Sam Bradford more weapons to work with after losing Danny Amendola in free agency.
The Rams are solid on both sides of the ball and have a young and improving roster. However, the team is still a few playmakers away, specifically at the safety and running back positions, but Austin fills a significant need at WR.
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For those iPad mini owners who tend to drop every electronic device they own, Hard Candy's ShockDrop is the ideal case. This case is outfitted with 10mm of shock absorbing silicon at the corners, a semi-rigid screen protector and tear-proof flaps for port covers. Its body maintains the tablet's thin profile with 6mm of overall shock protection, and there's a grip texture to make dropping the device all that much less likely. Available in black and red.
The ipad mini is such a beautiful feat of engineering and style, I simply fail to see why anyone would get a thick, bulky, ipad mini case like the ones shown above.
The GGMM ipad mini cases we sell at http://www.sympleuk.com/ipad-mini-cases are so super thin that the profile is hardly noticeable.
Let me know if you,d like to review one.
I find the QQ tech iPad mini keyborad case just as good
A great case to have with a detachable keyboard detachable keyboard
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There's no worse situation for a punter than being backed up into your own end zone. You're cramped. You know the opposition is sending the house after you. It's the stuff punters have nightmares about.
That nightmare came true for South Florida punter Mattias Ciabatti today as he and his Bulls took on the Miami Hurricanes.
The situation wasn't as dire as it could have been though as Ciabatti, despite being pushed back, wasn't all the way to the back line of the end zone, rather, just a yard or two in the end zone. The extra breathing room should have given Ciabatti a bit more confidence as the Hurricanes decided not to rush the kick, opting for field possession on a good return.
Only problem? They couldn't return it.
Ciabatti lined up to boot the ball and shanked it off his foot, confusing the cameraman in the process. So how far did the booming kick travel? Two yards. Two, stinkin' yards.
If you look closely at the GIF below, you'll see the ball hit out of bounds, just a few yards in front of the line of scrimmage – clearly, not a good for South Florida's punter.
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For the first time this season, the Jacksonville Jaguars are in the national spotlight as they face the Houston Texans in a battle for the top overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft. Despite being at home against an opponent they beat two weeks ago, the Jaguars are underdogs. Coming off of their most complete performance of the season in Cleveland, the Jaguars have the confidence to deliver the fans their first win at home.
So how will the Jaguars do in their lone primetime game? Here are some well thought out predictions:
Cecil Shorts will have +100 yards receiving: FACT
Cecil Shorts has been targeted more after his complaints a couple of weeks ago but he hasn't really made the most of them. Shorts has had a few costly drops, but he's also flashed some of the skill that could make him one of the top receivers in the game. His move on Joe Haden – one of the top cornerbacks in the NFL – for the game winning touchdown on Sunday was a thing of beauty. This week Shorts will get into a groove early and rack up the yards.
J.J. Watt will have a sack: FICTION
It's generally pretty stupid to think J.J. Watt can be contained, but the Jacksonville offensive line has improved in pass blocking over the last few weeks. The Jaguars only allowed one sack last week after giving up six to the Texans two weeks ago. I'm going out on a limb here, but I think Jedd Fisch finds a way to move most of the offense away from Watt.
Case Keenum will throw at least one interception: FACT
The Jacksonville secondary has arguably been the most consistent unit on the team despite also being the youngest. After a rough start, Johnathan Cyprien has improved and emerged as a playmaker in the back end. Dwayne Gratz, Alan Ball, and Will Blackmon have all played well and are rarely beat outright by opposing receivers. Keenum had an awful day two weeks ago and the Jaguar defense should frustrate him again Thursday night.
I haven't predicted a Jaguar victory so far this season, but the team has momentum and is due for a win at home. The way head coach Gus Bradley has this team playing may leave the Jaguars out of the Teddy Bridgewater sweepstakes, but it validates the message Bradley has preached and the effort the players have exerted all season.
Jaguars 23 – Texans 20
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A terrace in Sunspear
#Tehran #Iran (at Golestan Palace | كاخ موزه گلستان)
A terrace in Sunspear
A modest but creatively constructed home in Dorne that protects its inhabitants from the hot, Dornish sun
(Source: starry-eyed-wolfchild)
House Martell's seat at Sunspear
(Source: do-things-go-places)
A bedroom in a noble Dornish house. (via Bath & Bedroom)
The Palace in Sunspear
(Jaipur by Daniel Vinuesa)
Tin Mal Mosque, Morocco.
(Source: la-sicilienne)
Oberyn Martell's bedroom
(Source: evysinspirations)
"The kid had been roasted with lemon and honey. With it were grape leaves stuffed with a melange of raisins, onions, mushrooms, and fiery dragon peppers. 'I am not hungry,' Arianne said…After a while, hunger weakened her resolve, so she sat and ate."


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Do you ever get the urge to try something creative instead of just making an ordinary old sandwich? Here are some examples of what you can do if you really get imaginative:
To see 17 more wild sandwich creations, click HERE.
LOL! Actually, the culprit is more insomnia and the resultant mental fog. I don't have nearly the time I wish I had on my hands but I agree that creating the page was pretty frivolous. Fortunately, I had the images saved for many months and it took but a few minutes to throw a page together.
The reason for the alert is that, frivolous or not, I thought the sandwich creations were highly entertaining (which is why I copied and saved the images to begin with) and figured other might get a kick out of taking a look. Besides, though I normally don't give ratings to my own posts, if I hadn't given it an "R" alert, Luella would have probably given it a BSA since it was something I posted.
Umm, you probably don't want to look at this page either:
I actually looked those up in the wee hours last night.
Guess which aquarium is my favorite (or would that be guess which pair of aquariums?)
Nah, that sandwich portion on the right just hasn't had adequate natural D3 . . .
Actually, it looks like a lighter wheat type bread to me (in which case it probably does has some bleached flour content). The processed lunch meats are more scary to me . . .
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The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has the highest collision rate in Ontario, while drivers in the province's northern region have the fewest collisions, according to a new study from Allstate Canada.
As part of its annual Ontario Safe Driving Study, the insurer looked at its customer claims data over a two-year period from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2012, and ranked 46 communities in Ontario by the frequency of collisions per 100 cars insured by Allstate.
See the rankings here: Ontario Safe Driving Study Brockville, Ont., in the eastern part of the province, had the lowest collision rate at 3.06%, while the GTA including Toronto, had a rate of 5.63%. Toronto itself had a rate of 6.12%. Welland, Chatham, Amherstburg and Sarnia rounded out the top five lowest rates, all under 3.62%. Brampton had the highest collision rate at 6.45%. Brockville also had the second largest improvement, a 21.01% decrease, to its collision frequency between the 2008–2010 and 2010–2012 periods. Chatham was the third most improved community with a 16.67% decrease. Regionally, northern Ontario had the lowest overall collision rate at 3.87%, followed by 4.6% for Southwestern Ontario. Overall, the province's car collision frequency rate dropped by 3.3% between the two time periods, according to Allstate. "We're pleased to see fewer collisions in the province," Allstate Canada spokesperson Saskia Matheson noted. "Whether this is because of an increased awareness of the dangers of handheld devices starting to take effect, drivers reducing their speed, increased police activity or other influences we don't yet know, we hope to see this trend continues." Matheson also noted that many collisions in Allstate's claims data were caused by speed and occurred when the roads were clear, not just during winter months. The insurer has also looked at data from five major cities in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa) as part of its 2012 Urban Safe Driving Challenge. Toronto had the second highest collision rate out of the five most populated cities in the country, behind Montreal's 8.54% collision rate. Calgary had the lowest rate at 5.63%.
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"We walked out of that class, and I remember thinking, 'Boy, if they wanted to prevent you from having a baby, this is really the way to do it.' The message was 'Really think about this before you do it because it will change your life.' "
But it was good because we could say to ourselves, "We know all of those things and we still feel like this is what we want to do."
While the evidence is still inconclusive, working through potential anxieties and trouble spots early on may even contribute to a healthier pregnancy, says Dr. Ezra Davidson Jr., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles. "Unwanted pregnancies have a higher incidence of complications and poorer outcomes, while women in a supportive, unstressful environment where the pregnancy is eagerly anticipated by both partners are in general going to do better."
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Read this on Huffington Post's Healthy Living page. Ebola, ISIS, midterm elections, climate change, drought, unemployment. The headlines of the day provide plenty of fodder for fearful reactions. "We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself" was the topic of Tom Ashbrook's recent On Point NPR program, echoing FDR's famous words, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Given the news of the day, I was intrigued by the topic and listened to the replay online. Ashbrook interviewed Continue Reading
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Does it ever feel as though some chronic condition or dire diagnosis has you in check mate? Well, not so fast. You do have a say in the outcome. Dr. David Katz, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, says we've known enough—for decades—how to prevent 80% of all chronic disease and premature death (through diet, exercise, etc.). Katz's new campaign is that we should use what we already know, and that those health care providers who are searching for new Continue Reading
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Overfilled transmission?
Overfilled transmission?
It's been some time.
I tried searching the forum but couldn't find much about it so I just wanted to ask what would the symptoms of an overfilled transmission be. My aunt took her 2000 Windstar (same as mine) to the mechanic and he said the transmission has too much fluid in it.
She complained that the transmission would seem to slip sometimes when downshifting or going over speed bumps and that's why she took it to the mechanic. She wanted to ask me first before letting the guy do any work, I'll be driving to her home during the next days to take a look at it and, if needed, drain some fluid out.
What do you guys think? Can too much tranny fluid cause this?
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An overfilled trans can do that and even stranger problems. My question is WHY is it overfull? did soemone add too much? More fluid doesnt just magically get there.
Thanks man I appreciate your input.
She says it all started about 2k miles ago when she had the transmission fluid changed.
I test drove the van in order to see what was wrong and let the fluid reach normal temperature. The shifting was harsh sometimes and downshifting was the worst, gear would suddenly kick in after the revs had gone a bit high. Going over speed bumps would cause slipping too, just like I mentioned in my previous post.
I headed back home and checked the fluid level, it was WAY TOO HIGH!. I drained an entire quart in order to bring the fluid level back to the top of the crosshatched area.
I also took this opportunity to measure the volume delivery of the transmission pump, it took about 30 seconds to pump a quart which I think is within specs.
I finally test drove it to see if there was any improvement and VOILA! everything was back to normal; my aunt was so happy to have her van back to normal.
My only concern was the fluid being a bit discolored but I guess it might be normal as the fluid still smells like new (that same nasty smell of brand new mercon V fluid) and as said before fluid has only 2k miles on it. I have uploaded a picture of a drop of fluid on a napkin.
What do you guys think? Could driving it overfilled for 2k miles have caused any internal damage or is there anything to worry about?.
You are on the right track color-testing the fluid on a clean towel. Do the test again, but first clean the dipstick super well. With the engine off, dip the stick and wipe a sample on the towel. Then clean the dipstick again, and pull a second sample ... this time with engine idling. Put sample on towel alongside the first. Then add a third sample to the cloth straight from a bottle of fresh fluid.
Compare the three samples for color/contamination. If there is a difference between the first two samples, there may be some material floating in fluid ... gathering to the surface when the fluid is quiet.
If all spots are very similar ... all is well.
Thanks 12Ounce I appreciate your help,
I will surely check that ASAP (have to drive to my aunt's again).
If the fluid seems more discolored with the engine off and more uniform at idle, that would indicate there are some particles in the fluid, then what, just live with it until the transmission dies?.
She told me that when she had the fluid changed the guy (she really trusts him) showed her the pan and it looked dirty but clean (quoting the mechanics words meaning there were no debris or metallic pieces inside) and fluid was pretty dark and smelly (not burnt).
If the fluid seems more discolored with the engine off and more uniform at idle, that would indicate there are some particles in the fluid, then what, just live with it until the transmission dies?.
Most of the normal wear particles in a tranny or either steel or friction material off of the clutches. It would be abnormal, but possible, for flotsam to appear ... contamination from a leaky radiator cooler, wrong fluids, etc. The "normal wear" particles are easily washed along through the tranny passages and fall out in the low-flow fluid in the pan. You don't want to see a lot of black friction stuff in pan ... but some is normal. Also normal is a fuzzy build-up of steel particles on the magnet. Was the magnet in place?
You don't want to see chunks of metal ... usually indicating more than normal failure.
Drive it til it drops!
Thanks again man,
I drove to my aunt's this morning and did what you suggested to check the fluid color and I must say that,for me, the fluid looks the same at both idle and before starting the engine; and is definitely lighter than fresh fluid. I've uploaded the pictures, I wrote on each piece of paper towel in order to identify them.
I also showed her some pictures I googled about transmission pans and asked her if she could tell one that looked similar to hers when the mechanic dropped it. This is the one she said looked the same:
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Is that anything to worry about or is it still considered as normal wear?.
I will be draining a little bit more fluid (about 1/3 of a quart) as today it seemed to be a bit above the top mark, unfortunately today she was in a hurry and didn´t have enough time to do it.
Do you think I should disconnect the negative battery cable and let the PCM relearn the transmission behavior or not?
This is off-topic but I will be doing the Isolator bolt fix on the same windstar, it;s not showing any DTC's but I decided to hook my scanner and saw the LTFT's above 7 and after checking the engine bay I saw some engine oil had spilled between the upper and lower intake manifolds. I already checked prices and the dealer wants 133 dlls for only the 8 isolator bolts and the 6 plenum port gaskets. Autozone has for the entire kit from Droman with the valve cover included for only 100 dlls. What do you guys think, anybody has any good/bad experience with Dorman's Isolator bolt kit? The store offers a limited lifetime warranty on it.
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I don't see anything about the smears on the towel to concern oneself with.
The pan tells another story ... But first we need to know, "How many miles since the pan was last cleaned?" If 2000 miles, then get ready for some major problems ... that's a very dirty pan ... indicating a lot of clutch wear! If 75k miles, or more, then its not so bad ... and probably "normal". With that much clutch wear I would say the tranny is in its "autumn years/miles". Remember that 100k - 150k miles of service on one of these trannys is about all one should "expect" ... more miles than that and you are just LUCKY! A number of folks have gotten much less.... a few have gotten more.
Of course, she is guessing .... her tranny pan may not have been that dirty.
Just for reference: With repairs, and fair fluid maintenance, my original Winnie tranny went 216k miles. I now have over 100k miles on the Ford reman replacement ... and the pan is staying very clean ... hardly worth wasting a paper towel on to wipe out. So I consider myself very lucky this time around, and if something doesn't just out-and-out break suddenly, I am expecting 200k miles service without "repairs". I use Mobil1 fluid, and do a 15 qt self-flush approx 50k mile intervals.
Btw, the tranny will relearn on its own ... without the battery cable removal.
I have read of folks having problems with aftermarket bolts ... I would stick with Ford bolts, maybe reuse the gaskets.
Thanks again buddy,
My aunt showed me the receipt of the second to last flush and was 7k miles ago but it clearly states that the shop used MERCON fluid instead of mercon v; so the wrong fluid stayed in for 5k miles, she says the fluid was very dark and stinky (again no burnt smell) and recalls that's very similar to what the pan looked like. She complained and had it flushed again 2k miles ago with the correct fluid (overfilled).
She doesn't drives for too long or too much; those 7k miles are a 15 months use and It's a good thing that she can at least answer these basic questions and has kept the receipts. I really wish I can give her some good news but I guess that's not going to happen, right?.
She complains about a delayed forward gear engagement but says it has been like that since she had the transmission rebuilt.
I drove the van for a while today and feels very strong, I wish mine was like that, it doesn't seems to slip anymore and RPM's are near 2k at 60 MPH which I think is OK; I noticed a little surging (1000-1800 RPM's) on the tachometer only while driving downhill with the foot off the gas pedal; I tried shifting to neutral to see if it persisted but the RPM's would spike over to 2000 and slowly go down to 1500 (still driving downhill). If the problem would be a bad torque converter it should be a constant surge isn't it?. My thoughts are that the vacuum leak must be causing it. There is also some surging at exactly 19MPH every time and doesn't matters which gear is selected, still think it must be the isolator bolts causing it.
About the isolator bolts I will get the ford one's and the 6 port gaskets, I don't want to have to deal with the same problem twice; thanks for letting me know about the dorman's.
The question remains, and you and your aunt may not know the answer .... How may miles "ago" was the pan last clean? Flushing will not clean the pan. The pan is so large that sediment can lay against it and never experience much fluid flow ... even in a "flush" ... so the sediment will remain in the pan until it is dropped and wiped out. This is "by design".
The sediment that was in the pan may have been collecting since manufacture! If the transmission repairs were of the right nature ... the pan possibly has never been dropped and wiped before. ??? Do you have any guesses? Its possible the tranny is now in great shape and the wear particles collected in the pan were of an earlier period. Who knows.
I certainly don't mean to a an alarmist ... we really don't have enough historical information to make a good judgement based on history. If the tranny performs well with no slippage ... I would go with that!
A-ha! Thanks man,
Now I understand what you were talking about. With the mechanics I know around here, it wouldn't surprise me if they had drained and refilled with the same old fluid at the time of the rebuild. That thought never came to my mind until know that you mentioned about the pan.
Well I guess the only thing remaining will be to drive it until it stops! Just like you said ;).
I really appreciate your time and help buddy, when it comes to transmissions I'm in the dark :D. I will surely post anything that could come up (I hope not) in the future.
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The biggest challenge Nuttall faces is gaining acceptance among individual investors and their financial advisors. KKR has never courted the little guy. Traditionally, the firm raised most of its capital from multibillion-dollar pension funds, banks, insurance companies and endowments. These institutional investors could–and did–thrive despite delivering mediocre returns. After all, they were playing with other people's money, often at a great remove. Retail-level financial advisors, however, live and die by the very personal trust they earn by generating decent returns on their clients' nest eggs. It takes more than a new wrapper on an old business to win over brokers.
Which is why, on a cloudy day last November, you could find Nuttall and one of KKR's billionaire founders, George Roberts (net worth: $3.7 billion), shoulder-to-shoulder with Chuck Schwab, the patron saint of retail investors, at the brokerage giant's annual conference held in Chicago's McCormick Place convention center. Before a crowd of more than a thousand independent financial advisors, the trio took to the stage to spread the gospel of investing Main Street savings with Wall Street titans.
Roberts, the "R" in KKR and the founder known for his intellect and aloofness, even spent time manning the firm's booth on the convention hall floor, mingling with frontline brokers. Why woo hoi polloi? Because that's where the money is: "There are huge pools of capital there," marvels Roberts, 69. "I talked to one fellow that managed $800 million and another that managed $5 billion."
Numbers like that add up fast. In all, there is about $2 trillion managed by independent registered investment advisors, and that number is growing at a 13% annual clip, according to Cerulli Associates, a Boston-based financial research firm.
The numbers become even more enticing when you look beyond advisors to mutual funds and ETFs, which can also be purchased directly by individuals. According to McKinsey & Co., by 2015 there will be $13 trillion invested in these types of funds, and 13% of this money will flow into so-called alternative assets, a category that includes many areas where KKR has deep expertise: private equity, junk bonds and real estate. That 13% is more than double the amount that was allocated to alternatives in 2010.
The money is vital to keep KKR well capitalized, as the big pension funds it relied on for decades dry up and are replaced by tens of millions of Americans managing their own retirements through 401(k)s. "The implications for alternative asset managers are staggering because the bulk of all their money has historically come from pensions that are now going away," says Josh Lerner, who teaches investment banking at Harvard Business School. "Over the next five to ten years individual investors are going to be a very important source of capital for alternative asset managers, and you'll see them rethinking their business models."
It's all a long, long way from KKR's roots. The firm was founded in 1976 by three Bear Stearns alumni: Jerome Kohlberg, who had headed the corporate finance department at Bear, and the brash Henry Kravisand his cousin Roberts, who were Kohlberg's protégé. (Kravis was not interviewed for this article; Kohlberg was pushed out of the firm in 1987.) While at Bear, the three men pioneered friendly leveraged buyouts of public companies. The formula: have management borrow money against the assets and cash flow of a company, and use that money to buy a controlling stake of it. The process left the companies weighted with crushing debt loads, which was thought to be a good thing as it prevented management from embarking on wild spending sprees and ensured strict financial discipline (conversely, it also limited innovation and growth). Through a combination of cutting costs, selling assets and paying down debt, the now private firm could be brought public again, at a higher valuation, making a small (or large) fortune for the management team–and, of course, for Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts.
KKR's first fund was tiny–just $31 million, raised from Allstate Insurance, Citicorp Venture Capital and well-heeled individual investors–but the firm grew fast and made piles of money for its investors. In 1984, less than a decade after its founding, KKR raised its first $1 billion fund. By then the firm was increasingly moving from friendly buyouts, undertaken with the cooperation of management, to hostile ones, where new management would often strip the target company like a stolen car, sell off choice bits to the highest bidders and fire thousands of employees along the way. In 1988, a year after Kohlberg left the firm, Kravis and Roberts engineered the ne plus ultra of hostile deals, the $25 billion highly leveraged hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco, immortalized in Barbarians at the Gate (Harper & Row, 1990). That deal generated nearly $1 billion in fees for the likes of KKR and its partners, including Drexel Burnham Lambert, but it proved less sweet for KKR investors, who squeaked out an 8.9% annual return in the fund that took RJR private. The takeover also resulted in the loss of at least 45,000 RJR Nabisco jobs. In all, during the 34 years between KKR's founding and its IPO in 2010, the firm raised roughly $61 billion in capital, performed 185 buyouts, saw its portfolio companies shed tens of thousands of employees–and returned an average of 19% per year to its investors.
Now the legendary raiders are donning the white hats. Besides the lure of trillions of dollars in fresh capital, the retail investment business holds another attraction for KKR and its shareholders–steady and predictable revenues from fees. In the case of KKR's new junk bond mutual fund the expense ratio is 1.31%. That's puny compared to traditional private equity fees, but the firm can make up for it with massive volume: McKinsey & Co. estimates that fees from alternative investments by mutual funds will surge to $25 billion in two years, up from $9 billion in 2010. "That's $16 billion of revenues up for grabs," says Nuttall.
And it's the type of reliable revenue that Wall Street loves. Buyouts can be enormously profitable, but because the money is tied up for years while management restructures and pays down debt, the returns are extremely uneven. In 2011, for example, KKR's net income was $1.9 million on $724 million in revenues–a 0.3% profit margin. But just a year earlier the firm made $333 million in profits on $435 million in revenues–a margin of 77%. Wall Street hates wild swings in earnings almost as much as it hates surprises, and as a result KKR's stock trades at an earnings multiple of around eight, far lower than the broader market. Compounding the sting: Steady-Freddy asset managers like T. Rowe Price and BlackRock are awarded above-market multiples of around 20 times earnings.
"KKR and other private equity funds have a life cycle that's lumpier than traditional mutual fund companies, which can constantly raise assets, generate fees, exist and grow for decades," explains Robert Lee, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
In order to jump-start its foray into the retail business KKR is tapping its $6.5 billion balance sheet, which includes a $1.4 billion cash hoard, seeding its two mutual funds with a whopping $125 million, versus the typical $1 million seed at most mutual fund companies. But this is not a market that KKR can simply buy. Despite decades of experience and enormous Wall Street cred, it remains a Main Street newbie. "They don't have a manager with experience in a publicly traded mutual fund, but these guys are smart, so I'll keep an eye on them," says Brian Amidei, an investment advisor based in Palm Desert, Calif. with $600 million in assets. KKR has responded by recruiting Michael Gaviser from AllianceBernstein, who joined in November to build relationships with the likes of Fidelity and Pershing. "The things we're doing in these new funds are things we're already doing," says Gaviser. "But now it's structured in a wrapper for investors who want daily or quarterly liquidity."
Robert echoes the idea that KKR isn't altering what he calls its "internal DNA": "If you want to paint a picture of our firm, private equity will continue to be at the center of it." But he also admits that the makeover has been a long time coming. He distinctly remembers that in 2008, after the annual partners meeting, he gave attendees white T-shirts with two black circles on them, one tiny and one large. "The message was that the big black circle was our brain and the small black circle was what we were using of it," says Roberts. The problem was KKR's laserlike focus on leveraged buyouts was costing it huge opportunities. "If we went to see a company that didn't want to do a private equity transaction we'd say, 'Thank you very much,' and we couldn't do anything else with it," Roberts says. The problem was so bad, Nuttall says, that KKR began maintaining a spreadsheet listing opportunities it had to turn down.
One still burns today. Williams Companies, a Tulsa, Okla. energy firm, was ready to be taken private by KKR's private equity fund back in 2002. But shortly before the announcement Williams' stock began to sink as one of its subsidiaries came under fire over shoddy energy trades. Instead of going private as planned, Steve Malcolm, Williams' CEO, was calling KKR to help his company with at least $900 million in financing it required to avoid bankruptcy. In exchange he offered KKR $2 billion in natural gas reserves and an 18-month secured note at 25%, plus warrants.
"We had to turn it down. It was very painful, but at the time KKR only had private equity funds and this was a credit investment," Nuttall recalls. "Ultimately Warren Buffett made the investment along with a couple of hedge funds and generated something like a 30% or 40% return in 15 months."
That's not going to happen anymore. "We thought of ourselves as a private equity firm to that point," says Nuttall, "when it became very clear that we are an investment firm."
Barbarians Tamed
From masters of the universe to mingling with the masses.
1969: Henry Kravis joins his cousin George Roberts at Bear Stearns to work under Jerome Kohlberg Jr., who was developing a specialty in leveraged buyouts.
1976: Bear's boss, Cy Lewis, refuses to support the trio's buyout business, so they leave to launch Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. with offices in New York and San Francisco.
1979: KKR completes the first major leveraged buyout of a public company for $380 million with Houdaille Industries.
1987: Kohlberg is forced out after clashing with Kravis and Roberts over hostile deals.
1988: KKR's audacious $25 billion hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco marks the high-water point of 1980s greed. Two years later KKR is vilified in the bestseller Barbarians at the Gate .
1994: KKR plays white knight for troubled dairy giant Borden, financing its $2 billion deal partly with RJR stock, which struggled after its 1991 IPO.
1998: Buyout funds boom during the bull market, and KKR opens its first international office in London.
2004: The firm expands outside private equity and launches KKR Asset Management.
2007: KKR takes over Texas-based power utility TXU for $45 billion, the largest LBO in history and one of KKR's biggest losers.
2010: Shares in KKR begin trading on the NYSE.
2012: KKR goes retail with the launch of its first-ever mutual funds.


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