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Mississippians can begin saving on modular house purchases today after Gov. Haley Barbour signed a 4 percent sales tax cut into law. The tax break is perhaps the quickest legislation to be enacted in the state's history.
In less than two hours, both the House and Senate agreed on Senate Bill 2001 that trims sales tax on modular houses from 7 percent to 3 percent, hoping to boost reconstruction in south Mississippi.
Legislative staff sent the paperwork to the governor's office today, and Barbour signed the bill shortly after 4 p.m.
Modular houses are built in a factory and assembled on the buyer's lot. The homes are viewed as a fast way to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Modular house can be built in a month, compared to the year-long wait for site-built houses on the coast.
The BATM InterNetworking OS (BiNOS) from Telco systems embeds management intelligence in all BATM/Telco Systems hardware platforms.
From the troubleshooter patching into a unit in the field, to the manager supervising the network from a central console, the BiNOS supports administrators with performance information and configuration tools. The BiNOS makes network management easy and intuitive. The BiNOS-enabled network devices support advanced multilayer switching protocols. They can be field-upgraded to higher-layer functionality with no downtime in most cases.
To exploit the management intelligence BiNOS puts in our devices, BATM/Telco offers a complete range of command-line and graphical system management tools. Built around open SNMP standards, based on portable Java technology, these powerful tools integrate seamlessly with your existing network management toolkit.
At least six qualified energy professionals will go to a remotely located modular home and garage that are powered exclusively by the Tilley Home Power system, to test the system for at least seven days, to verify that the fuelless technology works as claimed. by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
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October is Manufactured Housing Month in Mississippi, according to a recent press release from the Manufactured Housing Association in Flowood. The release went on to say that one out of every three Mississippi housing starts in the first six months of the year was a manufactured home. With so many manufactured homes sold in the state, there is no doubt the industry fills a need. But the volume of manufactured homes sold may help explain why so many people confuse them with modular construction. Emily Austill said she got a permit and financing for her modular home in Perkinston. But after the home was delivered and while finishing work was taking place, a neighbor protested her right to have the home, believing it to be manufactured. Austill said work has stopped on the home until the misunderstanding can be rectified.
On a per capita basis, we use about 15,000 kilowatt hours a year, more than twice as much as California or New York and well ahead of any other state. We've been gorging on electricity since the 1960s, back when the state's per capita usage was about 4,000 kilowatt hours a year, but we haven't really noticed much until this summer. Power was pretty cheap and our bills were relatively low. Not anymore. For many of us, our electric bills this summer mirrored our mortgage payments. One aspect of this problem, energy efficiency, is becoming a hot topic after being relatively dormant in Texas for years. And the area's energy-efficiency program, run by TXU Electric Delivery, still has $4 million available to homeowners to use by year's end for upgrading insulation and other weatherization measures -- sometimes with built-in rebates or, for those with low income, at no cost.
IT'S spring carnival racing time and the Howard Government has gone to Victoria to back what it hopes will be a sure thing. Yesterday it dropped $75 million on what will be the world's biggest solar power station as its first big punt on a range of new low greenhouse emission technologies in the coming weeks. It's been more than two years since it announced the formation of its Low Emissions Technology Development Fund. The realisation of pulling together more than 30 starters and a forensic review of the form by a panel of eminent and expert Australians couldn't have come at a better time for a government seriously needing to back a political winner in the climate change stakes. Howard's first wager certainly looks handy: a remarkable and innovative Australian solar technology that has enough wow-factor to make Australians simultaneously proud and impressed, with its fancy talk of using space technology, Boeing and even the US Department of Energy.
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