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Tax Benefits
Federal law now allows employers to offer their employees a tax-free benefit for commuting to work using public transit. The tax code allows employees to purchase bus passes with pre-tax dollars, providing a financial incentive for using transit rather than driving alone. The pre-tax benefit is only available through the employer. There are three ways companies can provide this benefit.
Employee Pays through Pre-tax Dollars
Employers can purchase a small quantity of transit passes then deduct the cost of a pass from a participating employee's paycheck before taxes are applied to pay for the passes. The employee would not pay state and federal income tax, or payroll taxes on the benefit, thus increasing their take-home pay. This option is known as the "pre-tax" benefit.
Share the Cost
An employer can decide to share the cost of a bus pass with the employee. The employer purchases a small quantity of bus passes and provides them to participating employees at a discount rate. The employer pays a portion of the cost and the employee pays the remaining portion before taxes, giving both a tax savings.
Company Pays
The company pays for the entire cost of a bus pass in addition to an employee's current salary. The employee gets a free bus pass to commute to work and the employer can deduct the amount they pay as a tax-deductible business expense.
Steps to Implement Commuter Tax Benefits
Once your company has decided to make commuter tax benefits available to employees, there are some simple steps to get the program up and running.
1) Make arrangements with payroll and accounting
- Set up a separate accounting code for 132(f) transit benefit funds. These funds cannot be combined with other pre-tax benefits.
- Decide when deductions will be made from employee paychecks.
- Decide when employees can change their deductions or participation.
- For more detailed information regarding the tax implications of commuter benefits you may wish to consult a tax advisor.
2) Promote commuter tax benefits and sign up employees
- Have employees complete a payroll pre-tax deduction authorization form. The Sample Pre-Tax Deduction Form can be customized to meet your company's specific needs.
Your payroll administrator or provider deducts the pre-tax dollars for each participating employee.
3) Purchase SunGO to ride transit
- Place transit orders online.
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Hey, kids! It's another stack of cool new books and ARCs, freshly arrived at the Scalzi Compound! What here looks interesting to you? Let me know in the comments.
Hey, kids! It's another stack of cool new books and ARCs, freshly arrived at the Scalzi Compound! What here looks interesting to you? Let me know in the comments.
The Martian by Andy Weir. Read it as an ebook. It's brilliantly funny!
I listened to The Martian as an Audible book and thought it was very well done – both the writing and the narration, it is a great story.
Andy Weir is a friend-of-a-friend, so I'm definitely interested in The Martian.
If all I had to go on was title, "Shopocalypse" would be my pick. Hands down.
Read the Krapman and write a bad review of it. Then he'll turn up and attack you for it and we can all watch the fun.
The Sarah Hoyt book was good but not as good as it's predecessor. Ryk Spoor's book looks like an excellent sequel. Sharon Lee's book is a freaking awesome Liaden book. And Tom Kratman's will be a good shoot 'em up.
So many books, so little time.
Ooo, Trade Secrets. That's the new Liaden one.
The only thing that stands out is the Kratman but only because of the title (not enough to encourage or discourage, it just stands out). Yes, the phrase has it's origins in the Battle of Thermopylae (aka 300) but in the last five years or so, it has become a dog whistle of sorts for the folks afraid of Obama/United Nations/FEMA coming to take their guns away.
From the snippets I saw, Spheres of Influence looks to be a good time. At the least, the snippets were a good enough time I got the book it's a sequel to, and I plan to get it.
Argh. Its not it's.
Already have a signed copy of "Trade Secret" ordered. The Liaden novels are good stuff.
Yay- Trade Secret! Jethri is my favorite member of the Liaden Universe.
Another person anxiously awaiting her copy of Trade Secret. I will be rereading Balance of Trade this weekend in preparation. The Martian, Ghost Key and Sphere's of Influence have gone onto my explore further list. To echo Lynn McGuire, so many books, so little time.
The only thing that stands out is the Kratman but only because of the title (not enough to encourage or discourage, it just stands out). Yes, the phrase has it's origins in the Battle of Thermopylae (aka 300) but in the last five years or so, it has become a dog whistle of sorts for the folks afraid of Obama/United Nations/FEMA coming to take their guns away.
Not to mention the sort of people who see themselves as King Leonidas and forget the far more relevant example of David Koresh…
So… I'm guessing we're not meant to read the Kratman title as some kind of subliminal invitation?
I know, long shot. It's just that I do like free books, and I intermittently wonder what it would be like to set foot on the soil that elected John Boehner. Plus Mary Robinette Kowal says such nice things about your lawn.
(Mindworm what will not die: "John Robinette Boehner, Puppeteer of Congress." I really need to go to bed.)
I'm surprised you'd even bother to include Kratman's book in a photo. I think the next photo you post should be that book on fire.
And what's awful, I live in the same town as him. =(
I'll third or fourth or whatever the comments for "The Martian". It's not one of those books you read for the prose, but it's hard SF fun that reads (er…sounds, I listened to the audiobook) like it's by someone who really did their research on current space technology. Pure fun.
I must admit I read 'Ghost Key' as 'Ghost Keg' and either way it looks interesting…
I've read all of Kratman's books in this series, including the ARC of this one from Baen. He's not a bad author, if you can just ignore the blatant political slant he and Ringo throw into these sorts of books. Talk about straw men! LOL!
I'm going with Innocent Blood. Loved the first book in that series, and I am eagerly awaiting this book to come out!
Love the Liaden books, and I actually got the eARC of Trade Secret as soon as it was available. Great reading!
The Kratman book might actually have a practical use if a copy of it turned up at my house – we are getting a wood-burning stove and might want tinder…
Wow! Phoenix Rising last week and Spheres this week! I squeeeed!
The Martian wouldn't usually stand out to me in this pile, but all of the positive comments have me intrigued. It's going to the near top of my goodreads list.
Lots of good authors here, Hoyt,Spoor, Lee & Miller, and Kratman that i meed to get
Trade Secrets!!!
I started my journey through the Liaden universe with the first Jethri book. I'm so looking forward to this one!
I'll always remember Kratman for that time he showed up on a forum I frequent and started peddling his neo-nazi revisionist* nonsense in defence of the Juden SS, only to get repeatedly shut down and denied by folk who actually knew real-world history.
The title is pretty much peak Kratman there.
I'll also always remember Sarah Hoyt for that time I looked at the cover of one of her books, assumed it was a typical bad SF "sex sells" cover, and found it to be an accurate representation of a scene in the book. This is a sequel to that, I'll probably pick it up. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else I read, so I'm glad someone posted that it exists.
* Not that he is one, but his arguments and twisting of history certainly came from them.
Got to say Baen has the most interesting titles: Come and Take Them, Darkship Renegades and Trade Secrets are all very intriguing. Spheres of Influence doesn't do anything for me though. I'll Meet You Yesterday is a good title, but I'm underwhelmed by the font. Shopocalypse is a funny title. Is it a funny book? If it is a funny book, it is a good title. If it is about something serious, it might be confusing.
I like ghosts, but Ghost Key isn't spooky. Ghost Lock would be spookier. Perhaps it is a mystery though, or cyberpunk, and then it works just fine. The Martian looks okay. Hope it is about a Martian.
It isn't pretty to look at but the simple Into the Wilderness stands out nicely. If it is a nature adventure, I'd pick it up.
Sarah Hoyt is great. Watch for her!
"I live in the same town with someone I disagree with, how horrible!"
"This book is from someone I disagree with politically or philosophically, I should burn it"
Ray Bradbury is good reading to, but burning anything I might disagree with sounds too much like the intolerance I would rather decry than emulate.
"I'll Meet You Yesterday" is a title I would pick up and skim to see if it was any good. Sounds intriguing. May I?
I actually know "Come and Take Them" more from it being adopted by my alma mater (Michigan State, the Spartans(hence the moniker)) after "300" came out than anything else. The original Greek (approx "Molon Labe") was sewn into the backs of football jerseys.
Re: Kratman in general. SFReviews.net (which pointed me to our host for the first time) has awarded one of his books its loweset rating (1/2 a star), the only book so dishonored. The review is worth a read: http://sfreviews.net/watchontherhine.html.
Like the dudebros that refuse to buy Scalzi books, I boycott Kratman and strongly encourage others to do the same, Makes me (more of) a tool perhaps, but I just can't stomach that guy.
I think Ghost Key is the sequel to a book called Esperanza.It's set in Peru with lots of supernatural creatures, random time-jumping and cell phones that won't work in 1976, if I remember correctly (that's Esperanza). So glad I could provide this vital, detailed information.
Hmm I was all excited for The Martian, but… not out until February. Oh well.
@Double Rainbow —
To me, what's jarring about the typography on the Barlow book is the kerning. Ouch!
That being said, I see that the publisher is hosting a party (sweet!) at SFContario4 next month, only a few days after the book officially debuts. I'll make a point of checking it out then.
Tom Barlow also has a short story collection out, Welcome to the Goat Rodeo. From skimming a few reviews, I see I ought to check that one out too.
Andy Wier's "The Martian" was a tremendouos audio read. Great story, likeable character, technically intricate yet approachable. I believe it is due out in print early 2014, so pre-order today! I'm not sure how Mr. Wier can top this wonderful debut, but if he is as inventive as Mark Watney (the main character), I have faith.
My apologies to Mr. Weir. People misspell my name all the time, as well.
Ooooh, "Spheres of Influence"! I loved "Grande Central Arena", the book to which "Spheres" is a sequel. Huzzah! And I'm intrigued by Sarah Hoyt, of whom I am entirely unfamiliar. I love these posts and continue to look forward to the day when something of mine is in the stack!
You can thank Baen for sending me roughly every thing they publish!
There's a story that Queen Victoria loved "Alice in Wonderland" so much that she requested Dodgson/Carroll send her a copy of his very next book. There's no record of her reaction when "An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations" arrived in the mail…
The Martian, because it's awesome, and Innocent Blood because I read the first one and enjoyed it even though it was sort of a cheap Indiana Jones/Robert Langdon (with vampires) kind of thrill.
Heard Dave Gullen read from Shopocalypse yesterday at BristolCon. I liked it so I'd go for that.
I listened to Tom Barlow read at a con. I was very impressed.
I have read "The Martian" – well – listened to it – and loved, Loved, LOVED it! It's funny, it's frustrating and dramatic. I urge everyone to listen to or read this book. I am going to purchase "Shopocalypse" right now as anything involving shopping cannot be wrong!
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Although SOPA is shelved for now, it can be reintroduced at any time. PIPA is up for heated discussion — let's speak out against it, by saying nothing at all on January 18th, demonstrating what the internet might become in the hands of an unchecked government driven by a strong IP industry lobby that tends to shoot first and ask questions later. Who will speak up for the little guy? We all should. Go dark today!
I'm all for protecting and respecting intellectual property (not so much for endless copyright), but there must be due process and there must be equivalent consequences against the copyright claimants as there are for alleged infringers.
Write your Congressman (from within the US) or petition The State Department (from outside the US) here. Infographic on SOPA, PIPA and the ongoing struggle here.
Suggested links: Map of Congressional Support for S. 968 (PROTECT IP Act) | Map of Congressional Support for H.R. 3261 (SOPA) | A .pdf of The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) H.R.3126 | Mashable's Why SOPA Is Dangerous article | TechDirt's An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary |


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1. Re: change the color based on another worksheet's filter/rankAkram Ebrahim Jan 3, 2017 1:53 AM (in response to Christian Go)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hi Christian,
Edit color legends of "Open rate trend"
Select "Edit Colors" option on marks window
Then "Double Click" the individual color legend again -Highlighted on yellow marker
Then Select the option "Pick Screen Color" or just mention the HTML color codes of RANK in other charts
Then you can able to achieve your requirement!
2. Re: change the color based on another worksheet's filter/rankSireesha J Jan 3, 2017 2:09 AM (in response to Christian Go)
Hi Chrisian!
Drag the Rank field into Color Marks Card in Open Rate Trend by Country worksheet. Looking at the screen shot, it seems that you have country field in the Color Marks Card instead of Rank.
3. Re: change the color based on another worksheet's filter/rankVignesh Ilangovan Jan 3, 2017 2:28 AM (in response to Christian Go)
I hope coloring in MAP depending on ranking and it will change whenever date filter changed.
If you use same Rank function in Line chart rank will vary by each date. So calculate Rank by excluding date as "RANK(SUM({EXCLUDE[Date]:SUM([metric])}))"
And color it by this rank and keep compute using by Country name.
Let me know whether it is working as you expected.


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Kim Kardashian Touches Down In London
Kim Kardashian landed at London's Heathrow this morning looking effortlessly chic in an all black outfit complete with Ray Ban sunglasses and a classic Hermes bag. Kim is here to promote her new perfume range with a string of public appearances – the star will be chatting to Fearne Cotton on Radio 1 as well as appearing on Alan Carr's Chatty Man. Kim tweeted this morning as she arrived: "Just touched down in London town!!!!" followed by: "What a warm welcome!!!! Hello UK".
The famous Kardashian beauty is also thought to be meeting up with new beau Kanye West when he arrives for a string of shows with Jay-Z later on this week. Insiders have suggested that Kim hopes the gigs will be a great opportunity to get closer to Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce. The couple are said to be renting a plush five bedroom house in West London in June while the 'Watch The Throne' tour heads to Europe. It's been suggested before that Kim's manager mum Kris Jenner is keen to get the superstar couple to take part in Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Kim recently revealed that Kanye will be appearing on the show although there will be limitations to what the public sees about their relationship.
It seems highly convenient that Kim's visit coincides so well with Kanye's shows, although her publicist has insisted that her visit was scheduled last year and is simply a coincidence. It would be no surprise if the reality TV star's real intentions were to get close to superstar Beyonce, a friendship with the singer would be just what Kim needs to get herself back in favour with the public after her disastrous 72 day marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries. The Kardashian family are known for going by any means necessary to keep themselves in the public eye, after all the entirety of their lives is broadcasted on television for the world to see.
Kim's arrival has also sparked rumours that the Kardashians are planning a move to London this summer to film a new reality show. Kim's younger brother Rob is already dating Brit pop singer Rita Ora so it would be no surprise if he was set to fly across the pond permanently! Watch this space London, the Kardashians may be coming.


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Hi everyone, I've set up and cycled my new 180 liter tank. It has an allpondsollution 600 liter per hour filter, a large bio sponge filter with air line, 2 X airstones and 2 heaters, 150+200 watt so everything has backup. Ornaments, bogwood and slate shale but no live plants. Would I be able to have 5 each gold, serpae, neon, glowlight, and pristella Tetra, 25 in total and would they shoal together or remain separate? Also is there a best or worse way to add them 🐠🐠😀
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Assuming that, and only if, you have followed this guide and process for cycling
https://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/articles ... hless-cycling-article.htm
, then you would be able to add all 25 fish at once. That is about right / a good stocking capacity for your tank size, taking into account that ~10% of the water volume will be taken up with decor, etc.
Many folk come on this forum, believing that they have cycled their tank, having been given shockingly poor advice from pet/aquarium shops that imply that leaving the tank with its equipment switched on +/- some dosing of a "starter bacteria product" for a few days achieves a cycle. The former achieves nothing other than ensuring that the equipment functions while the evidence of effectiveness for the latter is very equivocal at best. Both consequently result in a fish-in cycle and, even with very gradual introductions of fish a few at a time, put the fish under severe stress and risk for their short- and long-term health (if indeed they survive beyond the cycling phase).
If, however, you've properly prepared the filter in advance to be able to process the fish's waste by following the guide's link above, then you could fully stock the tank straight away, assuming you've kept dosing with ammonia every few days and results are returning to 0 for ammonia and nitrite within 24 hours of dosing it. If there is any problem being able to get 25 fish at once, do explain to the LFS the nature of the fishless cycle you undertook and they ought to realise that full stocking immediately is absolutely fine as the filter has been prepared to cope with that (whereas any other attempt to cycle would result in the tank being a deathtrap if stocking fully at the outset).
The fish you propose are all lovely. Species profiles are available in various locations including
https://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/ ... resheets.php?cat=Tropical
, so you'll be able to check in advance that your water hardness is suitable for them and that you can meet any other requirements they may have. (Your water hardness in CaCO3/PPM or dH/German degrees hardness ought to be available by inputting your postcode into your water company's website if you live in the UK.)
Most of these fish are advised to be kept in larger numbers for them to experience fewer problems, pose fewer problems for others, and display more natural behaviour, including shoaling. For these reasons, you would be better to increase numbers of each species but have fewer species - e.g. 3 species of 8 fish or 2 species of 12 fish.
Hope this is helpful.
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Thank you so much for the help, I have several cold or temperate tanks for several years but this is my first venture into tropical fish. I've decided to go for serpae, neon and pristella Tetra and see how I get on. Would I be able to keep shrimp with them or would the shrimp become a light lunch?
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That sounds a good plan.
I wouldn't trust the serpaes or the pristellas with shrimp. While they *might* be ok with very large shrimp, personally, I wouldn't take the risk. [My own pristellas have always had a strong interest in anything that moves at the bottom - poor cories got their tails bitten frequently - and serpaes are meant to be even more so than this.]
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Ok, separate shrimp tank it is! I'm very lucky in that the fish I particularly want happen to require the type of water I have, it comes from a stream in the wesh mountains and all my tests have been spot on for the Tetra, must have been meant 😊
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8800GTS shootout - XFX 8800GTS XXX vs Gainward 8800GTS "Golden Sample"
Testing and Test Setup
Published: 5th March 2007 | Source: XFX | Price: |
To test these high-end nVidia cards I set a PC that gives as little of a bottleneck as possible.
The setup is:
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6700 @ 3.33Ghz
Motherboard: abit IN9 32x max Motherboard
RAM: Mushkin XP2-6400 4-4-4-12
Sound: Creative Labs X-Fi fatal1ty FPS
HDD: OS - 160gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA II
HDD: Gaming - 2 x 40gb Hitachi Deskstars in RAID 0
Power: Silverstone Zeus 560w
Case: Silverstone TJ09
Cooling: Scythe Infinity
As I have previously tested both the stock 8800GTX (click) and the 8800GTS (click) I am going to do this review slightly differently from normal. Usually the reviews focus on Image Quality and game-play playable settings but instead I am going to focus on Frames Per Second at set resolutions.
I am still using a manual run-through of the games listed, exactly the same as in previous reviews, but doing it slightly differently to get some consistant numbers. Notice that for all games I ran through with 4 x AA and 8 x AF @ 1920 x 1200. For all of the 3Dmark benchmarks I did two runs. One run was with the stock settings that the free version of the benchmark comes with and one was with 4 x AA @ 1920 x 1200.
For installation I have installed the card as usual with the normal PCI-E power dongle. Checked that the card is seated correctly and powered on.
I am using a clean install of Windows XP Professional SP2 with all the latest patches.
Both cards are using the latest nVidia 97.92 Forceware drivers.
Overclocking was performed using Rivatuner on both cards.
Cards tested:
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XFX 8800GTS "XXX" Edition. Core Speed 550. Memory speed 1800 (900). Stream processor clock 1500MHz.
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In the trend of cross-boundary performing arts in Belgium, Peeping Tom is one of the most unique companies. Artistic Directors Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier first met at les ballet C de la B, and jointly founded Peeping Tom in 2000, which soon became well-known in the theatre circle of continental Europe.
Based on details in daily lives, Peeping Tom develops hyperrealistic narrative and aesthetics. With concrete sets and characters on the stage and extremely distorted physical movements, the directors create an unstable universe that defies the logic of time and space, leading an unconscious world of nightmares, fears and desires as metaphors of all circumstances and sentiments in real lives.
Vader, meaning "father," is the first episode of the company's family trilogy. The show is set at a nursing home for the elderly. The old people on the stage are gradually decaying both physically and mentally, and there appear gaps and crevices between their perception and the reality. Only in memories or when reflecting is the world meaningful to them. As a result, the fragments of lives in decay are no longer full of solitude and loneliness, but instead transformed into the moments of fantasies and imaginations.


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Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: Exploring Land Arts of the American West
A Lecture by Chris Taylor
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Chris Taylor is a Harvard-trained architect and the director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, a program he has developed with Bill Gilbert of the University of New Mexico since 2002. In conjunction with Field Reports, Taylor organized Performing Land Arts: the Philadelphia Experiment with Kate Wingert-Playdon, a weeklong workshop for Tyler School of Art. In 2007 Taylor led Atacama Lab: 07, a conference and field workshop extending the interpretive frame and working methods of Land Arts to Chile to examine terraforming in the Atacama Desert. Taylor also explores the interstitial forces creating landscape through his practice, the Architecture Workers Combine, which has built work in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University.
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The 22nd annual Taste Washington is this weekend, March 28-31! Voted one of USA Today's 10-Best Wine Festivals, Taste Washington features four full days of wine and food events with Seattle and the country's hottest chefs and acclaimed Washington winemakers. Tickets are still available for festival events and can be purchased at tastewashington.org.
The weekend begins with the Red & White Party at AQUA by El Gaucho from Thursday, March 28. Enjoy stunning scenery, seasonal Northwest cuisine and select wines poured by 30 premier Washington winemakers.
On Friday, March 29, experience a true farm-to-table lunch at Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center with Chef Melissa Miranda of Musang Seattle and Washington winemakers from Buty Winery, Hightower Cellars, Novelty Hill-Januik Winery and Three Rivers Winery.
Choose your own adventure Friday night with three incredible events:
Canlis Wine Dinner – Dive into the storied wine cellar at Canlis with Wine Director Nelson Daquip as he and James Beard nominated Chef Brady Williams pair delectable dishes with "The Best Washington Wines You've Never Heard Of" during a special dinner.
The New Vintage – The second option is to start your night at The Sanctuary downtown for The New Vintage, where James Beard nominees Ethan Stowell of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, Rachel Yang of Joule, Shota Nakajima of Adana and many more will be serving up incredible bites alongside 35 Washington wineries.
Lexus Late Night – Keep the good vibes going with James Beard Award-winning Chef Edouardo Jordan at his restaurant Salare, for an exclusive after party. Tickets to The New Vintage and Lexus Late Night can be purchased together for $225 or to The New Vintage only for $125.
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Senator Hope Uzodinma representing Imo West and his sister were arrested for alleged electoral malpractices at Omuma, Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday by a combined team of policemen and soldiers.The Senator who was later released on self-recognition, allegedly mobilised hoodlums who set bonfires on the road to prevent the security men from taking away the suspects.
It took a reinforcement of soldiers and men of the Department of State Security to rescue the policemen and take the suspects to the Police Headquarters in Owerri, where they were detained.
Also, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Job Doma, arrested 25 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Imo State for alleged thumb printing of ballot papers during the election rerun exercise on Saturday.
Some of the suspects were said to have been picked after a tip off at Osu Primary School, Omuma, where they were allegedly engaged in massive thumb printing for one of the political parties.
Also arrested were fake INEC officials who posed as Returning Officers at the Collation Centre.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Edo State, Mr. Mike Igini, who was in the INEC team deployed for the election, said some INEC officials were arrested at Umumma Primary School Ward 10, Polling Unit 008, 003 and three others.
"Myself, accompanied by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police have arrested poll officials in Oru-East involved in mass thumb printing and are now being taken to Owerri.
"Upon my suspicion, I caught an impostor who claimed to be INEC staff without proof, acting as a presiding officer; l ordered his arrest and it was executed by the Police," Igini said.
But INEC's Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo, Dr. Gabriel Ada, while confirming the arrest, told our correspondent that identities of those arrested had yet to be confirmed to him as of press time.
He noted that the suspects were ad hoc staff of INEC.
When contacted, the Police Public Relation officer, Andrew Enwerem, said he had yet to be briefed on the incident.
Meanwhile, a recent defector from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress, Mr. Rex Anunobi, was kidnapped in Oru-East LGA by thugs suspected to be working for a political party.
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The scientific reason why social networks don't do it for me.
Somewhere in my school science lessons we were introduced to something that I know as the law of sheer cussedness (Cussed, [Kússid] causing annoyance and anger, especially by being uncooperative). Basically if a chemical reaction which emits heat has reached equilibrium cooling it down makes it react more. The current that flows in a spinning dynamo wants to make it a motor spinning in the other direction... and so on. I thought it was Gay-Lussac's law but it turns out that it wasn't so I went to look up Scientific Laws named after people on Wikipedia. Skimming down by field I saw "Computer Science" againstBradford's law. This was a new one on me. So I looked it up
Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals. One formulation is that if we sort journals in a field by number of articles into three groups, each with about one-third of all articles, then the number of journals into each group will be proportional to 1:n:n². There are a number of related formulations of the principle.In economics this pattern is called a Pareto distribution .[Known sometimes as the 80:20 rule]
This explains so much. Why TV is rubbish for example, or why my supermarket carries 200 kinds of mineral water would be another. And why I know instinctively that facebook et al are of no interest to me.
Here's how Wikipedia puts it.
Suppose that a researcher has 5 core scientific journals for their subject. Suppose that in a month there are 12 articles of interest in those journals. Suppose further that in order to find another dozen articles of interest, the researcher would have to go to 10 journals. Then that researcher's Bradford multiplier bm is 2 (ie 10/5). For each new dozen articles, that researcher will need to look in bm times as many journals. After looking in 5, 10, 20, 40, ... journals, most researchers quickly realize that there is little point in looking further.
Why my supermarket carries [many] brands of [something] . Everyone knows there are only 2 kinds of bottled water: with bubbles and without. If they only sold their own brand of locally bottled water they might sell to 100 customers. Introduce Perrier, Evian, Ty-Nant and 5 more to put 10 kinds on the shelf, and they sell to 200 customers. That's a Bradford multiplier of 4. Want to sell to 300 customers ? They have to add 32 more kinds (that's 42 in total). You see where this is heading...
Why TV is rubbish. my favourite TV channel might serve up 4 hours of (what I consider to be) really good TV over the 30 hours or so I might watch during a week. The other 4 "main" UK channels might serve up another 4 hours between them. That gives me a Bradford multiplier of 4. Another 16 channels from cable/satellite/DTT might give me 4 more good hours. The amount of good TV doesn't increase linearly with the amount of number of channels. The proportion of so-so and "crud" increase exponentially. Ever heard of Sturgeons law ? "Ninety Percent of everything is crud" - it was a defence of Sci-fi made by Theodore Sturgeon who accepted that "Ninety percent of science fiction is crud" but that's because "ninety percent of everything is crud.". If you take a large enough sample, that's probably true. Give me a another 64 and another 256 channels of TV so I have 1+4+16+64+256=341 channels and I only find 20 hours of good TV out of 10,000. 0.2% is good. 9.8% is so-so. 90% is crud. Maybe it's not a 90:10 rule but an 80:20 rule (see Pareto) and 19.8% is so-so but the principles are the same.
Blogs, mailing lists and social networks. What's true for TV works for other media. If my top ten blogs/lists/forums/other sites produce a dozen items worth the time it takes to read them each day, it might take another , it might take the next 20 to produce another dozen worthwhile items. The next dozen items might need me to read 40. Hugh Macleod coined Hugh's law "All online social networks eventually turn into a swampy mush of spam." Robert Scoble talked about it here
Out of 1,048 items on my link blog in the past 30 days only 490 came from the top 35 blogs.
So, more than half of the value of that link blog came from the B, C, D … Z list of my 772 feeds.
So Scoble got 490 linkable posts from the first 35 blogs and 558 from the other 737. That's close enough to saying 500 from the first 35 and the next 500 from the next 700 (less than one linkable post per feed/month). That gives him a Bradford multiplier of 20 ! If Bradford's law holds he'd have to read 14,000 more blogs for a month to find another 500 decent posts
Of course anyone who writes a blog with any noticeable number of regular readers (I include myself here) would do well to remind themselves from time to time that those readers have decided the blog is part of the small percentage of stuff out there which isn't crud. Thank you, whoever you are.


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You show me yours… and I'll show you mine…
At the beginning of the year when it was snowing and too cold to go outside, I was scouring the internet for fun blog-related projects to try out and I came across The Piripiri Lexicon's Show Me Around Your Neighbourhood. Bloggers from all over the world put up photos of the area in which they live and introduce it to their readers. I really enjoyed seeing children's playgrounds in Nagoya, a school in rural Zambia and places to worship in Russia. It's such an amazing idea – you get to glimpse a life in another country – and today I will show you all "my neighbourhood".
Berlin is full of open spaces. During the Second World War, 70% of the city was flattened. Although over the years many high-rise buildings have been built, it still feels very open, even when you are in the centre of the city. Also, housing was not normally built over five storeys, as then they could get away without constructing lifts (elevators) into the building. In fact, in the middle of Berlin there is an old airport that they have left to nature and people can walk along the old runways and have barbeques alongside the communal gardens they have created. It's a wonderful open space.
There are parks and children everywhere. I come from London, another capital city, but unless you go further out of the centre of town, you don't see many young children. In Berlin I feel like kids are all over the place. You can't walk past a corner without seeing Schools and Kindergarten with children carrying their Scout school bags on their shoulders. Small parks with climbing frames are found in all small communities and open spaces often look like this:
Here you can see on the right an area for children to play basketball/ football in a fenced court and in the middle there are many tennis tables. There is so much grass here too! It feels like kids go to bed later here than in the UK and if the sun is shining then you will find groups of children playing in the parks until late, often without any adult supervision, as they all live nearby.
Transport in Berlin is all about the bicycle. I am still astonished that I can get to work almost exclusively on bicycle lanes, mostly on roads that don't even allow cars. Travel in Berlin is expensive and as it's such a cheap city to live in, many people choose two wheels in order to save money as well as to help the environment, whilst keeping themselves healthy. However I was surprised to see so few helmet wearing cyclists and barely any lights on the bikes, even in the dark of night. Here you can see that there isn't even enough space to park all the bikes for the people who live in the building and an example of a bike lane:
Let me tell you about housing in this city. As I said before, Berlin was bombed heavily during WWII, and once the war was over people flocked to Berlin. There was a chronic shortage of housing and people began to build cheap and quick homes. In the below photo you can see the new housing in the front – it's very square and rough. Compare this to the building in the back, with it's intricate balcony detailing, curved walls and high ceilings. This is typical of the old-style of housing here and these apartments are high in demand and almost impossible to rent as people sublet these apartments to their friends and family in order to keep the rent low.
The old style of housing is warm and quiet. We used to live in the new style of housing and I can tell you it's cold and you can hear every single thing your neighbours say.
A typical street in our area is here:
The cobbled streets are surrounded by trees and finding parking is a difficult task. If you look carefully you can see all the houses in the background are new-builds as they are very straight and do not have high ceilings.
Now, let me tell you about the supermarkets. I was surprised at the amount of meat you can buy in Germany (I actually wrote about it here). The supermarkets are never open on a Sunday, so you have to make sure to go out and stock up the fridge on a Saturday. Sadly you won't be the only one and the queues are huge, with impatient German people shouting at the staff to open more tills immediately. You always bring your own bag, as you have to pay for them at the till and people will tut at you for being so unkind to the environment.
Also I have been asked to include a photo of a typical school here. This is a Kindergarten. As you can see, it's just inside an old house. This seems to be normal, as schools are often small and the houses are huge. People here tend to stay in their local area, so it makes sense to have lots of little local schools nearby, so the kids don't have far to go to school. If you take a look through the windows, you can always see the children's artwork covering the walls in bright colours and we often see them going on walks in the local area.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the little walk around our local area. If you have any comments or questions or anything surprised you, let us know in the box below!


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Apple is unveiled its brand new virtual home assistant on February 9, capable of using Siri to help navigate your day at the call of your voice. But I know what you're thinking, "Wow, another voice-activated home speaker. Big whoop." And I only have one thing to say to that: you'd be right.
The HomePod offers fantastic audio quality. It sounds better than any other smart speaker on the market, including the Amazon Echo and Google Home. It even sounds a bit better than the Sonos One. But its sound quality isn't something that can justify its lofty price tag. Also, Siri is so far behind Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant it's becoming embarrassing for Apple. Siri lacks many of the basic skills I love from Alexa and sounds hilariously robotic against the continually improving Alexa. Apple might say that HomePod is a home speaker first, but Siri is supposed to be what makes it useful throughout the day.
According to a test done by the New York Times, the $349 Apple HomePod was unable to play music from another medium other than Apple Music, meaning you'd have to buy a membership to Apple Music to even play your music if you don't have one already. This is unfortunate considering how many people use Spotify or Amazon Music as their primary form of music consumption.
It's hard to justify the purchase of this expensive smart-speaker, especially when there are better and cheaper versions of what it is offering. If you are looking for supreme audio quality, get a speaker that focuses on that. If you are looking for a great home-assistant, the Google Assistant or Alexa may be better. The Apple HomePod has solid audio quality but it's effectiveness as an assistant simply doesn't justify the hefty price-tag.


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My daughter-in-law is from China.
She is the wife of my godson. They have two beautiful children. I don't see them much because they live in China.
My first encounters with this dear lady were enlightening. We struck up an immediate friendship, and I was deeply impressed by her work
ethic, her respect and her honoring of those who have more age then herself.
But she is Chinese. She was raised under an absolute totalitarian form of government, which discourages people from being inventive. Now, the Chinese diplomats would probably take issue with that, but the danger of trying to make everyone the same is that they take you up on it. And once sameness has been achieved, the desire to excel, be different or discover an original path seems pointless.
In our capitalistic system, discouragement comes from a different arena. We are constantly pumped full of the helium of hope–that anyone can be wealthy and successful, while simultaneously closing doors of finance and opportunity on ideas coming from ingenious folks who weren't born with any spoon in their mouth.
I suppose the controversy rages over which system hampers the human spirit the most. Is it more vindictive to quell creativity, or much more punishing to be creative and unable to find the means to your end?
I suppose my daughter-in-law and I could talk about this for hours. But the real issue is free will. Although many religionists and politicians would persist in trying to steal it from the human condition, God is intensely committed to free will.
So where the Spirit of God exists, there is liberty.
I have the choice to be lazy, productive, genuine, fake, kind or mean. Then I also have the responsibility to rise and fall on my choice.
It would be amazing if the Chinese people, with their great traditions and immense passion for excellence, could be unleashed with creativity and complete freedom, to choose their own path. Would they maintain the quality of their passion, or become complainers like many capitalists?
I don't know.
True spirituality is feeling responsible without being confined, and being creative without insisting you're entitled.
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What a hard two weeks TIL has had! I had neck surgery, Jason had to get a wisdom tooth pulled that broke and exposed the nerve, two of our board members are going through a tough time this week, and now the best & worst news: please pray for Shirley as she mourns the death of her mother, Ms. Jeanie, who went to see her Savior and Lord Jesus this morning.
Obviously, it's sad for us and a joyful occasion for Ms. Jeanie and those who know she's with Jesus now!
I cannot say enough good things about Ms. Jeanie. She was full of zest for life, loved her Lord, served her Lord on the mission field and as an addictions counselor, loved her family, and made everyone around her smile, laugh, and experience joy! She was all about Jesus!
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Stranger Things is the hottest Netflix show of the season, and plenty of other companies are trying to take advantage of the horror/sci-fi retro adventure. We saw Microsoft and Coca Cola do it, and Google is no different. The company has a great Stranger Things Easter egg for you, but you have to buy The New York Times.
That's right, you'll need an actual newspaper for this Google trick, as it involves some neat augmented reality (AR) trickery via Google Lens. The Thursday print edition of the paper has three ads for Stranger Things, 9to5Google reports, including one for the Starcourt Mall that's at the center of the story. Google has a blog post on the matter:
What's interesting is that there's a Lens logo at the bottom of the ads with an invitation to "Unlock something strange." That's where your phone comes in, as you'll have to bring up Google Lens on your Android or iPhone and point the camera to the newspaper. The app will recognize the ad and launch an AR experience for it. That includes special commercials for each of the three Stranger Things printed ads. Here's how it looks:
Yes, that's a strange thing to see in today's paper, and a strange partnership to get it all done, considering the various parties that had to collaborate on this one.
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Some of us grew up on 'Wogan's Winner'. Back in the late Seventies, at 8.25 every morning on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, Terry Wogan would give us his certainty of the day and those of us on their way to school would either think nothing of it, or take notice. If nothing else, we knew we were either on time, or late. We set our clocks by Wogan's Winner.
Terry Wogan's love of horses shone through. He had horses with both Nicky Henderson and Barry Hills. He was also a close friend of the late Sir Peter O'Sullevan and gave a reading at the commentator's memorial service in October.
Wogan's friendship with owner Peter Deal led to the naming of a horse, by Presenting, in honour of Terry. That horse was named Wogan and went on to land the Grimthorpe Chase at Doncaster in 2010.
The much-loved broadcaster, who died of cancer on Sunday at the age of 77, also teamed up with Lady Lloyd-Webber to race The Grocers Curate, also trained by Henderson, in 2005. Wogan's father was in the grocery trade and the horses was named as a passing nod to his profession.
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Axiata Group–Target Price Raised
Cashflow On The Mend - Raise to BUY, raise TP to MYR6.70
Upgrade to BUY. We are upgrading Axiata to a BUY for the following reasons. One, the latest results suggest that declining margins that had
been the major negative in previous quarters are stabilising. Two, challenges on the regulatory and currency fronts are well known by the market and already factored into the share price. Three, free cashflow
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onward. Axiata has already doubled its interim dividends this time round. Our EV-derived TP is MYR6.70 (MYR5.30 previously).
Above expectations. 2Q12 core net profit rose 12% to MYR717m on a 9% rise in revenue. We have raised our FY12 net profit forecast by 4% to MYR2,718m. Celcom was the best performer (+14%) on growth in all segments. On a normalised basis, Dialog (+59%) and Robi rebounded
(>100%) while XL (-2%) still suffered the impact of its data investment. Forex impact was lesser than 1Q12 as regional currencies stabilised. Interim dividend doubled to 8sen a share (102% DPR).
Margins holding up. Group EBITDA margin improved 1-ppt QoQ to 43.5% in 2Q12, driven by improvements in Malaysia and Bangladesh. Axiata has succeeded in driving back the erosion caused by data via tight cost control. Of note is the growing stabilisation in Indonesian margins as XL is filling up the data network that it has invested heavily in since 2011. While we expect margins to continue to retreat, this will be a function of mix, and overall growth should not be compromised.
Focus on cashflow. While regulatory and currency challenges remain, we think these factors are well-known by the market. One very positive trend is Axiata's improving cashflow, which should see an accelerating
trend in the next two years as capex is expected to peak this year. This should lead to higher dividend payout potential. FCF jumped 68% YoY to MYR400m in 2Q12, and 1H12 FCF of MYR825m will be more than sufficient to cover the higher interim DPS of 8 sen.
Raise to BUY, raise TP to MYR6.70. Our target price is raised to MYR6.70 on a lower WACC of 7.4% (previously 9%). Axiata recently refinanced its sukuk loans at a lower interest rate, which will lead to cost of debt falling from 7.1% to 3.9%. With more than 10% upside to our new TP, our call on Axiata is now a BUY.
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So what's with the colors?
Glad you asked. As you may have noticed, the BEAU logo appears in more than one standard color. That is, as they say, by design. Are we aware that this is unconventional? Absolutely. But Broadview Entertainment Arts University is anything but conventional, so it made sense for the logo to emphasize that.
How many colors are there? Six. So, why six you may ask? This was by design too. Though not purely a fine art school, what we teach – and what our students create – is art. So as our brand evolved, we chose slightly-brighter-than-traditional primary and secondary colors in an effort to create a subconscious connection to the colors of a painters' palette. But the connection shouldn't stop there. Our spectrum of color also represents diversity and change.
BEAU is home to a wide variety of artists and aspiring artists. Though the tools of their trade differ (and evolve), our students (and instructors) are all creators of digital art. And art, perhaps more than the pursuits of more common vocations, is about change. Back in the day (B.C.), Greek philosopher Heraclitus was among the first to acknowledge the importance of change. "The only constant is change" is our favorite variation of his original quote – and the inspiration for our modern palette of logo colors.
I hope you find a favorite hue among them, and that our ever-changing colors inspire you to embrace the constant change obvious in today's art…and world.
~ Cliff Allen, Creative Director, Globe Education Network


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A Tuna and Chorizo Pasta Bake recipe with a crunch and cheesy Herb Crust. Totally delicious!
- 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
- Grated Cheddar Cheese to taste
- 1 red pepper
- 1 onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tin of tuna
- 2 tablespoon mixed Italian herbs
- Salt and pepper
- 400g pasta
- 1/4 of a stick of Chorizo sausage
- Olive oil
How to make Tuna and Chorizo Pasta Bake with Cheesy Herb Crust:
- Heat a frying pan with oil in
- Chop the onion, garlic and pepper and add to pan
- Fry for a couple of minutes
- Chop chorizo into small pieces and add to the same pan
- Put pasta on to boil
- Continue to fry the vegetables until soft
- Add chopped tomatoes, creme fraiche and tuna
- Stir on a low heat for a couple of minutes
- Add 1 tablespoon of herbs and season with salt and pepper
- Pre-heat the grill to 200 Degrees Celsius
- When the pasta is cooked, drain and put into oven proof pasta dish
- Pour the sauce over the top of the pasta and mix together
- Layer the grated cheese on top of the pasta
- Sprinkle remaining herbs over the cheese
- Cover the cheese with a layer of breadcrumbs
- Grill for about 8-10 minutes or until breadcrumbs are golden brown and cheese is melted!


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One would think a little pink Barbie car would be perfectly safe, but that's not the case with the one that had a little modification from Edwin Olding and his team at Grind Hard Plumbing Company.
The car, formerly made for little girls who love their Barbies, has had its engine modified to drive at a more adult speed. The men from Grind Hard Plumbing replaced the inside of the engine with components of an old go kart and the engine from a Honda dirt bike. The newly remodeled Barbie car can now travel at speeds up to 72 miles per hour!


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Award Winning Appshelf Shelf
Acclaimed Designer Exhibits The Appshelf Shelf
The thinktank behind the highlighted work Award Winning AppShelf Shelf demonstrates, Inspired by the shape of an apple the "AppShelf" is as good looking as it is easy to use. Stylish, functional and modern are just some of labels for this piece. The shelf is a decorative object and practical as well. The unique shelf layering makes this piece airy and stylish. The "AppShelf" is customizable and the user can change its shape by rotating the parts and creating the desired look. This is a perfect accent piece for any room of the home or business setting. It adds the perfect finishing touch with its charismatic presence. .
Award Winning Appshelf Shelf Images:
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