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Miami University--Oxford is a public institution that was founded in 1809. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 15,081, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 2,000 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Miami University--Oxford's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 75. Its in-state tuition and fees are $13,799 (2013-14); out-of-state tuition and fees are $29,589 (2013-14).
Miami University students make up nearly half the population of the approximately 7-square-mile town of Oxford, Ohio. Freshmen must live on campus, which is also home to more than 500 student organizations. The Greek system constitutes a large part of campus life, with about a third of the student body involved in more than 50 fraternities and sororities. In fact, the school often gets the moniker "Mother of Fraternities" because the Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Tau and Sigma Chi organizations were founded at Miami University. The school is also known as the "Cradle of Coaches" for the number of professional and collegiate coaches who once competed for Miami. The RedHawks, who compete in the Division I Mid-American Conference, were known as the Redskins until 1997. The name was changed after years of controversy and a request from the Miami Indian Tribe. (The tribe is the namesake of the university.) To help ease the transition into freshman year, older students often create a guide to life at Miami University, called the "M Book." Student couples who marry are known as "Miami Mergers" and are reminded of their alma mater each Valentine's Day, when the admissions office sends cards to congratulate former students on finding love at school.
To travel around campus and Oxford, students can use the Butler County Regional Transit Authority buses, free with student ID, and the door-to-door SafeRide shuttle service after dark. Cincinnati and Dayton are 35 and 45 miles away, respectively. Notable alumni of Miami University include Paul Brown, Hall of Fame NFL coach; Richard Smucker, chief executive officer of The J.M. Smucker Co.; and Benjamin Harrison, former president of the United States.
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Miami University provides a rigorous academic experience in the quintessential collegiate setting of Oxford, Ohio. Here, the best and brightest students prepare for success as they are given the opportunities of a large university while experiencing the personalized teaching, attention, and sense of community found in the best small colleges. A public university, Miami offers a wide range of academic programs. The bachelor's degree is offered in more than 100 areas of study, the master's degree in more than 50 and doctoral programs in 10 disciplines.
Dedicated to fostering an environment of teaching for more than 200 years, Miami faculty guide both undergraduates and graduate students in conducting significant research, completing projects with real-world clients, and fostering leadership skills. In fact, we've been ranked number three on U.S. News and World Report's list of "schools with an unusually strong commitment to undergrads," just behind Princeton and Dartmouth. With a long-standing dedication to global learning, complete with a European center in Luxembourg, Miami ranks first among public colleges nationwide for the rate of undergraduate students who study abroad. Miami students and faculty have an intense appreciation for a global view and multicultural approaches to learning.
Retention and graduation rates are some of the highest in NCAA Division I schools, as is our students' successful entry into top graduate programs and professional schools. Additionally, nearly twice as many employers recruit at Miami as at comparable universities and conduct four times as many on-campus interviews. As a result, Miami is regularly cited by national publications as a best value in higher education. The Oxford campus encompasses more than 2,000 acres and, with its distinctive modified Georgian architecture, is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses in America. Enrollment is approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 2,500 graduate students; an additional 6,000 students are enrolled at Miami's regional facilities in Hamilton, Middletown, and West Chester, Ohio. Founded in 1809, the university is located in the Miami Valley region of Ohio and is proud of the ties maintained with the Miami Tribe, now located in Oklahoma.
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When applying to Miami University--Oxford, it's important to note the application deadline is February 1, and the early action deadline and the early decision deadline are December 1 and November 15, respectively. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due February 1. The application fee at Miami University--Oxford is $50. It is more selective, with an acceptance rate of 72.8 percent and an early acceptance rate of 85.6 percent.
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The student-faculty ratio at Miami University--Oxford is 18:1, and the school has 29.9 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Miami University--Oxford include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Education; Social Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; and Psychology. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 89 percent.
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Miami University--Oxford has a total undergraduate enrollment of 15,081, with a gender distribution of 48 percent male students and 52 percent female students. At this school, 48 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 52 percent of students live off campus. Miami University--Oxford is part of the NCAA I athletic conference.
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Miami University--Oxford offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Miami University--Oxford also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Miami University--Oxford, 19 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is not permitted for students of legal age at Miami University--Oxford.
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At Miami University--Oxford, 42.9 percent of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $7,588.
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In many ways, "Jon & Kate" set today's tone at TLC. During the show's five seasons — it was canceled last year — the network rolled out a string of family-centric docu-series, including "19 Kids & Counting" and "Sister Wives." Each show delved into atypical families.
"Because there are so many media outlets, they needed to find a niche," said Patricia A. Williamson, a professor in the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan University. "TLC has reinvented itself so many times but seems to have found its stride."
In reinventing itself, TLC has come under fire for airing shows such as "Toddlers & Tiaras" and "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" that critics say are voyeuristic and border on exploitation.
"Those are worlds that exist with or without our camera there," O'Neill said. "We're not in the business of disrupting people's lives. We approach all of our productions as partnerships, so there is a lot of healthy back and forth between our producers and our talent."
Winter says the full spectrum of TLC's lineup is "in sync with what our audience expects from us."
Many of TLC's competitors have embraced a similar view of building their schedules around common themes that in some ways speak to a brand identity. Bravo is where you go for fashion, food and to gawk at women with too much time and money. We TV is where you head to see over-indulged brides behaving badly.
Williamson says networks with heavy concentrations in that type of format are challenged to keep it fresh.
"With some of these docu-reality series, they'll be hits for a season or two and start to wane in popularity," she said. "It seems that TLC has realized that and has been cycling through new ideas."

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Obamacare 2.0: Obama to Sell Health Law in Wake of Rocky Rollout
Poll says the more people know about Obamacare, the less they like it.
For two months, the White House and the president have been forced to apologize for promoting the website, healthcare.gov, that was riddled with problems and overwhelmed by volume.
After the flawed rollout of a website to help Americans sign up for health insurance knocked President Barack Obama on his heels, and after changes in the overall market based on his health care reform law forced him to apologize for misleading the American public, the president is going on offense. And a new Gallup poll released Tuesday showing the public's unfamiliarity – and dislike – for the law proves he's got his work cut out for him.
Obama is scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the White House, to kick off a month's worth of promotion of the Affordable Care Act, the much-maligned signature domestic policy of the president and Democrats. Republicans have decried the law as a government takeover of health care since its passage in 2010 and recent negative publicity has caused some Democrats on the hook for the law to panic ahead of the 2014 elections.
"In his remarks, the president will discuss the ongoing work to strengthen the website and reach Americans seeking these new healthcare options," a White House official said, according to Reuters. "He will also focus attention back on the core principles of reform that have been lost in the attention on the website, and invoke the successes that are already flowing from the law."
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The White House will employ digital media and Democratic surrogates to push a new benefit or success story per day throughout December, in an advent calendar-like approach to promote the law meant to provide more affordable health insurance and widespread coverage to Americans. For two months, the White House and the president have been forced to apologize for promoting the website, healthcare.gov, that was riddled with problems and overwhelmed by volume to the extent that many people who tried to sign up for federally mandated insurance could not do so.
The Obama administration also had to push back sign-up deadlines and create waivers for millions of people whose current plans were cancelled by their insurers as a result of the new law, despite a repeated promise from the president that "if you like your insurance, you can keep it."
"On Wednesday, the White House and Democratic allies will focus on how Americans are paying less for preventative care under Obamacare. On Thursday, they'll highlight that people with preexisting conditions can no longer be charged more or denied coverage. And on Friday, they'll emphasize the slowing growth in health care costs," Politico reported Tuesday.
[READ: Healthcare.gov Reports Progress, Overlooks Lingering Problems]
A new poll by Gallup shows young people are most unfamiliar with the law, with 37 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds reporting their lack of knowledge of it. That compares with 28 percent of adults overall who say they lack familiarity with the measure.
"The majority of Americans remain broadly familiar with the healthcare law, but relatively few claim to be 'very' familiar with it," said Frank Newport, Gallup's editor-in-chief in a memo accompanying the poll results. "Two groups that the law is most likely to affect – young Americans and those with lower incomes – remain less familiar than others."
Much of the law's ability to decrease insurance costs broadly depends on young, healthy Americans not previously signed up for insurance to sign up in order to spread out the risk for insurance companies among a wider pool of consumers.
The poll also shows people who say they are familiar with the law are more likely to oppose it than those who aren't, a trend the president will seek to change.
Newport points out this could simply reflect the law's polarization, as more Republicans than independents or Democrats say they are familiar with the law, which has been the focus of much negative coverage by conservative news outlets for years.
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"These relationships do not necessarily mean acquaintance with the law leads one to become more negative, as the correlations most certainly reflect party differences in familiarity," Newport said. "Still, it is possible that if familiarity with the law increases, opinions could shift at least somewhat in a more negative direction, given the higher disapproval among the familiar population."


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Tomorrow, Facebook (FB) officially joins the Nasdaq 100, the index of the tech-heavy exchange's biggest non-financial stocks that drives the PowerShares QQQ (QQQ), one of the most widely owned ETFs on the market. Not coincidentally, short sellers are becoming outnumbered.
Actually, overwhelmed may be the better descriptor for Facebook shorts. Exchange-traded fund sponsors and others are flooding the securities-lending market — that's where bear go to borrow shares before shorting them — with Facebook stock, which is sending the percentage of the social-media company's stock out on loan to fresh lows.
Short sellers are using an "inconsequential" 2.7% of the free float, according to Will Duff Gordon and colleagues at Markit, who sent reporters a bunch of interesting stats this morning.
This, by the way, doesn't have much bearing on whether the shorts will ultimately be proven right or wrong. The greater the supply of stock, the cheaper it should be to borrow — all the better for shorts. The proportion of FB in securities lending programs has been "surging" since November, Markit notes, from 85 million to about 138 million today.
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|Texas Council For Economic Education President Laura Ewing, pictured right, presents techniques teachers can use to educate students about economics and personal finance during a daylong workshop UTPA hosted for high school teachers.
During the daylong workshop, 16 high school educators representing campuses from across the Rio Grande Valley reviewed curricula that address economics and personal finance and heard a presentation on maquiladoras — manufacturing centers located in Mexican cities that border the United States — from Dr. John Sargent, a professor of management, marketing and international business at UTPA. They also discussed how they could present these concepts to their students in a way they would understand.
UTPA's College of Business Administration and College of Education collaborated with the Dallas Fed and the Texas Council on Economic Education on the workshop in hopes of helping high school-level teachers better explain economics and personal finance to their students.
"Secondary teachers are really the feeders to Pan Am," said Steven Lovell, an economics and finance lecturer at UTPA. "The students who come out of these gentlemen and ladies' classes are the ones who are later hopefully going to be Pan Am students, and the better educated they are the higher level we can start teaching here. Also, the students understanding the financial aspects makes them more responsible with their money, which increases savings and allows for more entrepreneurial investments, which helps the Valley to grow."
Organizers of the event said it is crucial to know how important it is to live within one's means and save for the future, especially now that so many Americans have been affected by the country's ailing economy.
Sherry Kiser, director of economic education of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said the Federal Reserve Bank system has 12 regions and all 12 regions have economic education programs. The Dallas Fed focuses on training secondary school-level teachers.
"We're all committed to helping people better understand economics and along with that is personal finance," Kiser said. "What we want to do is help teachers understand the basic tenets of personal finance so that they can pass that knowledge on to their students."
Learning about economics and personal finance as early as possible can help people make better decisions about their money and how to use it wisely, said Laura Ewing, president of the Texas Council for Economic Education.
But, quoting statistics from a survey the national Council for Economic Education and State Farm conducted, Ewing said only 21 states, including Texas, require students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade to take an economics course and only 13 require a course in personal finance. And less than 20 percent of teachers reported feeling competent to teach basic personal finance topics, according to that survey.
"Our responsibility is to seek staff development opportunities for teachers on economics, personal financial literacy and entrepreneurship," she said.
Educators who attended the event said they enjoyed studying more in depth concepts including budgeting, investing and managing debt. They also liked hearing from one another about their opinions on credit, investments and other related topics.
"It's been fun being around adults who think about economics," said Glenn Ramey Jr., a government and economics teacher at Sharyland High School. "The workshop has given me the opportunity to expand my knowledge base a bit just through conversation."
Ramey said he really enjoyed the discussion the educators had regarding how credit scores are determined and how those scores affect people's lives. He said he plans to use some of the material presented at the workshop in his class.
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Tiffany was moved to tears by Hyoyeon's performance on MBC 'Dancing With The Stars 2′
Last week, Tiffany visited Hyoyeon at the set of 'Dancing With The Stars 2′ to cheer her on. Before the live performance, Tiffany, who went to meet up with Hyoyeon told the production staff, "I cried while watching Hyoyeon's dance performance on TV", indicating the huge effort that Hyoyeon has been putting in for the program.
In the upcoming episode, footages of Tiffany and Hyoyeon behind the stage will be revealed.
Tiffany said, "Hyoyeon is participating in 'Dancing With The Stars 2′ recently. With her amazing dancing skills, it will be great if Hyoyeon could perform Rumba that matches well with our song."
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Kenneth Elwood Daniels, 82, of Cannonsburg, passed away Friday, March 29, 2013.
Kenny was born May 3, 1930, in Boyd County to the late Norman and Ethel Conley Daniels.
He proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict and retired in 1992 after 39 years from AK Steel as a conductor. He was a member of Steel Workers Union Local 1868 and a trustee and member of Heritage Temple Free Will Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Emma Runyon; and two infant brothers.
Survivors include his loving wife of 59 years, Elizabeth "Dolly" Estep Daniels of Canonsburg; a son, Kenneth Ray Daniels and his wife Vicky, of Oak Hill, Ohio; a daughter, Rebecca Cheri Kelly and her husband Gregory of Westwood; two grandchildren, Matthew Norman Daniels and Kenneth Ryan Daniels; two great-grandchildren, Riley Marie Daniels and Kenneth Landon Daniels; and numerous extended family and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Heritage Temple Freewill Baptist Church in Cannonsburg by the Rev. Ed Cook and the Rev. Tim York. Burial will be in Ashland Cemetery.
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Anne Goldizen's research interests focus on vertebrate social systems, including mating systems, social networks, cooperative breeding, parental care patterns and communication, and on conservation biology. She has carried out and supervised long-term studies of social and mating systems on wild primates, birds and macropods. Other studies have focused on endangered or potentially threatened species, including bridled nailtail wallabies, brush-tailed rock-wallabies, black-faced impalas, pademelons and black mongooses and have related aspects of species' behavioural ecology and genetics to their conservation and management. Current studies are based mostly in Queensland and Namibia, including studies of individual differences in sociality and social networks in eastern grey kangaroos and giraffes.
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Carter, K. C., J. M. Seddon, C. H. Frère, J. K, Carter, A. W. Goldizen (2013). Fission-fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Anim. Behav. 85:385-394.
Garland, E. C., A. W. Goldizen, M. L. Rekdahl, R. Constantine, C. Garrigue, N. Daeschler Hauser, M. M. Poole, J. Robbins, and M. J. Noad (2011). Dynamic horizontal cultural transmission of humpback whale song at the ocean basin scale. Curr. Biol. 21: 687-691.
Macqueen, P., J. M. Seddon, J. J. Austin, S. Hamilton and A. W. Goldizen (2010). Phylogenetics of the pademelons (Macropodidae: Thylogale) and historical biogeography of the Australo-Papuan region. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 57:1134-1148.
Favreau, F-R., A. W. Goldizen and O. Pays (2010). Interactions among social monitoring, anti-predator vigilance and group size in eastern grey kangaroos. Proc. R. Soc. B 277:2089-2095.
Carter, A. J., S. L. Macdonald, V. Thomson and A. W. Goldizen (2009). Structured association patterns and their energetic benefits in female eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Anim. Behav. 77: 839-846.
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A couple of my Facebook friends have been filling my news feed with their support of campaigns from an organisation known as Pink Stinks. In general some of their campaigns are very good and initially upon reading the site, I thought yeah this is a good cause. However, the more I read, the more I felt as though the whole thing was becoming a little bit "Germain Greer on a mission".
On their homepage is this blurb "Pink stinks is a campaign that targets the products, media and marketing that prescribe heavily stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls. We believe that all children – girls and boys – are affected by the 'pinkification' of girlhood. Our aim is to challenge and reverse this growing trend. We also promote media literacy, self-esteem, positive body image and female role models for kids.
That seems fair enough to me, however, the rest of the site just seems to turn into girls should never have pink, or anything remotely girly, because it will destroy their ambition and self-esteem. They blame manufacturers for making pink products and a pink version of a toy. Now, I am no marketing expert, but I would take a wild stab in the dark that Fisher Price, Mattel, or whatever other toy manufacturer makes a pink version of a toy, they do so because their market research has shown them that this is what the public wants.
My daughters have a Fisher Price singing cookie jar, it's yellow and purple, totally unisex. You can now also get a pink version of the same toy. Fisher Price didn't just make millions of pink cookie jars and push them out to their customers in the hope that they sold. Their research will have revealed requests for the cookie jar in pink. So if that is the case surely then "Pink Stinks" should be campaigning against mothers who buy or request pink versions for their daughters.
My daughters are not pink obsessed as yet. Yes they do have pink things, generally by their own chosing, some that I bought and some that were gifts. I have no problem with that whatsoever. If my 2-year-old asks for a pink thing, I'm not telling her no, pick another colour. Equally if she asks for a blue thing, I won't tell her no, pick another colour. The colour choice is and always will be hers. The toy choice is also hers, she chose a Minnie Mouse shopping trolley – yup a shopping trolley – quick call the police, a toy manufacturer made a toy that allows a little girl to imitate what she sees her mum doing. Is imitation not part of childhood development anymore, or does that only apply when it's a boy doing "manly" things, like playing football or pretending to fix cars.
You see that's my problem with Pink Stinks, it seems to be perfectly normal and acceptable for little boys to play with trains, cars, dinosaurs and big trucks. No one says they are being pigeon holed or limited. The problem seems to only exist in girl related products. Girls must not be told something is pretty, girls must not be told something is beautiful. So what exactly are girls supposed to like or be allowed to play with. I am all for gender equality, I want my daughters to have equal pay and equal opportunities in the workplace. However, I doubt very much that their chances of that will be effected by playing with a doll or a pink shopping trolley as a child.
My daughters play with farm animals, multi coloured Mega Bloks (not just the pink ones)and Thomas the Tank Engine, all along side their pink pram and shopping trolley! Do Pink Stinks think all "girl" toys should be done away with, no prams, no toy kitchens, no dolls. If so does that mean that all boy toys should also be done away with and a whole plethora of nondescript unisex toys be created that can in no way be attributed to one gender or the other? Where does it all end!
It really did fry my head reading it all after a while and it just then became repetitive and tedious. What got my back up in the first place though, was that the 2 "friends" on Facebook who were doing the bombarding are both first time mothers of BOYS! All their Facebook pictures reveal their sons playing with tractors, cars, fire engines and footballs, dressed in blue with dinosaurs on the front. There wasn't a pram (pink or otherwise) or a doll in sight. Their little manly men were being just that and somehow that's ok. It would seem to me therefore, that the campaign from Pink Stinks for gender equality gets lost in translation and in some cases perhaps they are making the gap more obvious.
To put a different spin on things again, my husband quite often wears a pink shirt to work – YES a man in a pink shirt. The shock and horror of it all. He has had multiple comments about his bravery at wearing the forbidden colour for males. He has actually been asked if he's not worried that people will think he's gay! So there you go boys, you too must never ever touch the colour pink – so maybe Pink Stinks should run a sister site promoting pink for boys!
Boys can be boys or mini men, but girls must be girls wearing lumber jack shirts, crew cut hair and playing with, I dunno, maybe a hoop and stick or a green yoyo. Is it any wonder that people are disillusioned by the world and by society. Is it any wonder that women are on occasions held back. When we have the "Gruffalo Brigade" plugging a campaign that sends out completely mixed messages of what the aims are.
Argh, my daughters will be as pink, red, blue, purple or orange as they like and I'm sure that by the time they are teenagers their hair will undoubtedly become several if not all of those colours at some point! (by the way my font is purple
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Dani King wins gold at the European Track Cycling Championships
Updated 1:12pm Saturday 19th October 2013 in Sport
Hamble cycling sensation Dani King has won yet another gold medal, after producing a world record performance in the European Track Championships.
Olympic champion King powered to victory alongside her London 2012 colleague Laura Trott, Kate Archibald and Elinor Barker in the women's team pursuit, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
The quartet clocked a time of 4:26.556, over nine seconds quicker than Poland, their opponents in the final.
The British team had also set a new world record during qualifying, when Joanna Rowsell raced in place of King.
This season has seen a change in rules for the women's team pursuit, with four members now competing over 4,000m, rather than three over 3,000m.
That has not impacted the success of the British team, though, who have again underlined their status as the dominant force in the event.
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|The United Space League
|How Could I Have Known?
|0:54:20 (Real | )
|The United Space League
|Without You
|0:56:44 (Real | )
|The Daughters Of Eve
|Help Me Boy
|1:03:18 (Real | )
|The Old Exciting Scott Richard Case
|Get The Picture
|1:05:03 (Real | )
|Dave Clark Five
|Any Way You Want It
|1:06:59 (Real | )
|The Shirelles
|Putty (In Your Hands)
|1:09:20 (Real | )
|Question Mark & The Mysterians
|Got To
|1:11:39 (Real | )
|The Last Word
|Sleepy Hollow
|1:14:43 (Real | )
|Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
|Black Sheep
|1:18:19 (Real | )
|Bad Brains
|Redbone In The City
|1:21:22 (Real | )
|The Gories
|Hey, Hey We're The Gories
|1:23:35 (Real | )
|The Gories
|I'm Smashed
|1:25:30 (Real | )
|The Gories
|1:27:14 (Real | )
|The Gories
|Can't Catch Up With You
|1:29:35 (Real | )
|The Gories
|Sister Ann
|1:32:56 (Real | )
|The Oblivians
|Static Party
|1:35:42 (Real | )
|The Oblivains
|I'm Not a Sicko There's a Plate In My Head
|1:37:42 (Real | )
|The Oblivians
|Feel Real Good
|1:39:39 (Real | )
|The Oblivians
|No Time
|1:42:06 (Real | )
|The Oblivians
|I Blew My Cool
|1:43:54 (Real | )
|Gene Simmons
|Goin' Back To Memphis
|1:47:16 (Real | )
|Johnny Knight
|Rock & Roll Guitar
|1:50:11 (Real | )
|The Shag
|Stop And Listen
|1:51:57 (Real | )
|Barbara Pittman
|I'm Getting Better All The Time
|1:54:12 (Real | )
|The Rising Tides
|Take The World As It Comes
|1:56:46 (Real | )
Listener comments!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:13pm
Miss Debbie! So glad to find you here. Been having the greatest of fun with your "songs we taught" blog posts, and now I get to dig your superb on-air work. Happy 4th!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:13pm
how was the oblivians/gories in Detroit? memphis was great even if it was 102 degrees
Sat. 7/4/09 1:19pm
Debbie D:
Detroit Was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:27pm
great tunes! thank you!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:39pm
Debbie! Great to hear you on air! I love Beaver Patrol...
Sat. 7/4/09 1:44pm
Shawn Garrett:
I will sheepishly admit that I never knew Beaver Patrol was a cover when I heard Pop Will Eat Itself do it years ago - thanks for setting me straight! WFMU and Debbie, teach unto us!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:49pm
Jimmy Jam:
Detroit Rules!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:53pm
Debbie D:
Motor City, Baby!
Sat. 7/4/09 1:58pm
Hot off the press, its gonna jump on you baby and stay in your dress!
Sat. 7/4/09 2:16pm
Debbie D:
Sat. 7/4/09 2:23pm
Happenin'Bar-B-Q tunes Debbie!!!! Keep 'em Rockin'!
Sat. 7/4/09 2:39pm
like elvis on a 3-day meth and booze binge
Sat. 7/4/09 2:45pm
I can't wait to see the Gories/Oblivians in Berlin. I'm sure it won't be as cool as Memphis/Detroit. Thanks for Thee Milshakes.
Sat. 7/4/09 2:48pm
Long live the Buccaneer Lounge!
Sat. 7/4/09 2:49pm
Debbie D:
Shit. I wish I could be at every show.
Sat. 7/4/09 2:52pm
The Show in Gronigen, Holland would be the best I'm sure in Europe but It's probably sold out, Damn!!
Sat. 7/11/09 3:56am
Thanks for the heads up back in December about the shows. Had a great time at the second Memphis show. I've heard rumors of a seven inch for both bands on third man records. fingers crossed
Sat. 7/11/09 8:40am
Debbie D:
Kogar has posted audio from the Paris show!
Tue. 7/6/10 12:26pm
Gosh ! ...a wyld live show on the air ...as we like ...turn on too overseas...u better to dig our live wyldest rock shows from France ."Rock en Caux " on 103.1 mhz FM ...kiddies !!!
It's fine that Garage sixties & ugliest gagage new scene fly thru different foreigner counties , nowadays . Patryck
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Name: SallyD
This must be a joke...
Is this humor ?!
I shared a few laughs with Borat, not really my kind of humor but still it was quite funny.
Then Bruno came... Not very funny. It was aweful and low level humor.
Then The Dictator... Had my hopes up for actor Cohen that this movie was better than Bruno... But its just as BAD!!!
Okay... okay... There was one funny part in the movie. When the dictator was in the heli with the American couple. That was pretty funny.
Overall, I give this movie a 3
This movie is a 10 for me...
Drama, comedy, reality, emotions, laughter, sadness...
ALL in one movie!
Thumbs up for the French!
Saw it in theatre and had to go again the week after!
Wanted to show the movie to everyone and I recommended it to everyone! Eldery people, youngsters etc
This movie is a 10
I didnt like this movie at all!
Why are those aliens sooooo fake...
Couldnt they have come up with something better..
Only part that I liked was the part where Will found out that the little boy who lost his dad... that he was that little boy! That part was good..
Overall I would give this movie a 4 out of 10


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Archive for category Business
I watched this and didn't know whether it was exciting or frightening – you decide!
Sony showed this to attendees at their Annual Shareholder's meeting in 2009 but I have only just come across it and think it needs a wider audience.
The frightening thing is when they talk about first year and third year students…
Tell us what frightened or excited you below in the comments!
One 71 year old that leaves our politicians standing – a man to be greatly admired.
Posted by Ampers in Africa, Business, Finance, Overseas travel on Friday, 15 April 2011
Colour and excitement returned to the City yesterday as Glencore announced a former French foreign legionnaire, Algerian war veteran, author, explorer and financier as its new chairman.
Simon Murray (pictured) will be tasked with leading the firm's up-to $11bn (£6.7bn) float, valuing it at about $60bn, the details of which were confirmed yesterday.
The move heralded a return to the days when interesting and complex characters, rather than faceless executives, ran the City.
Earlier this week, Murray said: "This is very exciting, but you are talking to someone who has been chased by a leopard. You are talking to someone who has been shot at with a machine gun and missed."
Murray, whose tales of derring-do include carrying two severed heads in his backpack during his time in the French Foreign Legion, was born in Leicester in central England. As a teenager in 1960 he joined the Foreign Legion on a whim, going on to fight for five years in Algeria. He later wrote a bestseller, "Legionnaire", about his time in north Africa.
It was made into a film in 2002.
Educated at Bedford School, one of England's oldest public schools, Murray was turned down by the British Army before signing up with the Foreign Legion.
"I think perhaps I was just a young buck without much confidence in himself setting an extreme challenge to see if he could hack it in a man's world," he says in his book.
He has since run a 240km race in the Moroccan desert, climbed Mount Everest and become the oldest man to walk unsupported to the South Pole. Glencore unveiled its blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) to the market yesterday, following months of speculation.
According to Wikipedia, he has been awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by H.M. The Queen, and the Order of Merit of the French Republic and is a "Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur". He holds an Honorary Degree in law, from Bath University and attended the (SEP) Stanford Executive Programme in the US. He also trekked to the South Pole in his sixties.
Murray married long-time sweetheart, the former Jennifer Mather, with whom he has three children. Jennifer Murray was the first woman to fly around the world in a helicopter.
What a family
Amazing and incredible technology arriving from Japan in the near future!
Posted by Ampers in Business, Computers, Mobile Phones on Monday, 4 April 2011
and read the explanation of what they are, our future is here, incredible! what an age we live in.
Are they pens with cameras?
Any wild guesses? No clue yet?
Here is how it works:Ladies and gentlemen…. congratulations! You've just looked into the future…
You've just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future.
In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with blue tooth technology…
This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets . This 'pen sort of instrument' produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces
from where you can carry out functions you would normally do on your desktop computer.
This idea has been around for some time though
But now, the light comes from the actual phone or PDA
I don't think it will replace the Notebook as such, but in the future I can imagine that larger laptops will replce the desktop and the above computer might will replace the Notebook.
Posted by Ampers in Business, Politics, Simplicity on Tuesday, 15 March 2011
by Anton Howes
We're all now familiar with the way the online exchange market eBay works. However, it should also be seen as an example of how unregulated free markets can work. In 2010, 90 million people from across the world, often unable to speak the same language, and totally unknown to each other due to adopted pseudonyms traded $2000-worth of goods every single second.
Without any government input when it came to advertising standards or fair trading, or any of the usual regulations we see with conventional off-line markets, a whopping 98% of trades managed to get a positive rating. This shows that trust can be built between and amongst people who will never meet, and may even conceal their identities.
You may argue that this is simply because of the rating system, something put in place by the eBay designers, and that this provides a justification for a similar government scheme. But then eBay, like all other markets is entirely voluntary – we buy at our own risk but try to reduce it. Even if eBay had not built in its own ratings system and provided free Buyer Protection, the huge demand for these services would have prompted someone to design them in any case.
Whilst government may wish to get involved, the chances are it would be a waste of taxpayer money, and would displace both consumer wariness and voluntary approaches more open to innovation. Furthermore, regulations always respond to the last disaster. But consumer ratings are likely to be more immediate and effective, whilst also changing seller behaviour without the need for intrusive or expensive top-down rules governing everyone else too.
Read the full article at The Adam Smith Institute
My own monika is "ampers" on eBay and I have traded 158 times with a perfect 100% record.
Why I moved to OpenSource
I am often asked why I moved over to Linux from Windows. A question which is difficult to understand when replied to verbally, but a little easier when written down. A few years ago I had a wonky hard drive and kept on having to reformat and reload Windows. After I had done this a few times I received a message on my screen asking me to ring a number (Microsoft's) immediately.
The guy on the other end introduced himself as Microsoft's fraud department and demanded to know why I had tried too many times to use the same disk to load up Windows. I was furious and called him a few names and told him I had trouble with my hard drive. He wanted to know where I got the disk.
I suddenly saw how I could have some fun at his expense and said a lady in a London club gave it to me. He became very alert and asked me details of the person. I gave her name and a Reading phone number which he wrote down and suddenly he said, but that's a Microsoft head office number in the UK. Yes, I said, I am an IT Journalist and she gave it to me at a Microsoft event in London and if he'd prefer, I could scrap this disk and get her to send me another one. He then grudgingly gave me a code to enter into my computer to release Windows. I was amazed that he believed me though!
But it got me thinking. I evidently hadn't bought the software but the cost is expensive for most, and that this proved most windows products are only on loan, you are not entitled to do anything you like with them, as you wood a book for instance. Lend it to a friend or resell it. Similar to DRM and Music CDs, they are not yours, you have to obey the rules laid down by the music company. Even Kindle books for example can't be lent to a friend, it has to stay on your Kindle.
It was then that I decided that I would never rent anything again. I would only buy products which were mine to dispose of how I wished. With music I had to be allowed to make up a backup copy and MP3 files for my portable music. I had to make this concession else I'd never buy CDs.
I flirted with several distributions of Linux and decided to settle down with Ubuntu as it seemed the best behaved. And two years on, I have never looked back. I have a choice of a single click download of 43,000 programs which automatically put themselves in the right menu on my computer, I have just counted the number of programs I use, it comes to just over 100! And, these don't include the administrative files there to help you run the operating system.
Who should run Ubuntu? Not an easy question to answer, but at the lower end of the scale, if you just use your computer to use email, browsing on the web and word processing, then you should definitely seriously consider it. Get the following three programs for Windows or the Mac: Firefox Browser, Thunderbird email and LibreOffice. Google for them. Use them for a few months and, if you are very happy with them, change over to Ubuntu and load the same three programs into your computer and you are away. Easy Peasy! If you want to remain with windows, remember, the free LibreOffice reads, and saves to, Microsoft Office so you can avoid paying such huge prices for that program.
There are some good programs for editing photographs (Picasa from Google is available on all three systems) and music playing, cd ripping, video editing. And a terrific help forum where you get answers in no time at all. Look at www.ubuntu.com
Most other users would probably benefit unless they either use their computers for serious gaming, or Adobe's more serious software – although "The Gimp" is almost as good as Photoshop and is available on all platforms.
Batteries in mobiles and laptops to run 100 times longer
Posted by Ampers in Business, Computers, Mobile Phones on Friday, 11 March 2011
A team of electrical engineers at Illinois University in the US believe their method will enable mobiles and laptops to run for up to 100 times longer between charges.
It focuses on changing the way a device's digital memory works, as this consumes much of the charge.
At the moment mobile phone memories contain thin metal wires. Every time information is accessed, electricity is passed through them to retrieve the data.
The electrical engineers thought that if the size of the components used to store and retrieve the information could be reduced, so could the amount of electricity.
They have discovered a way of using carbon nanotubes – tiny tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – instead.
The full article is in the Daily Telegraph
The difference between Barclays Bank and the Gardian Media Group
The following has been lifted unashamedly from Guido Fawkes website, Order-Order.com
On Saturday morning The Guardian decided to give UK Uncut a front page boost. The protestors managed to shut down three dozen of the 1,720 branches of Barclays bank. Surprised they found any branches to occupy given Saturday opening hours.
The gist of the shabby story was Barclays bankers are evil tax dodgers. The evidence was a hatchet job with the paper making the spurious claim that Barclay's only paid 1% tax on their £11.6 billion profits. In arriving at a profit before tax figure of £11.6 billion, The Guardian has added the profit from the ongoing business (£4.5 billion) to profits from a disposed business (£726 million) and the gain made on disposal of that business (£6.3 billion) to reach a total of £11.6 billion.
What they chose to ignore however was the total tax take Barclay's had to pay; payroll taxes, bank levy, non-recoverable VAT, employers NI, SDRT and so on. Over the weekend Tim Worstall and the FCA Blog tore chunks out of the piece:
The article compares the cash paid to HMRC in respect of UK corporation tax in 2009 (£113 million) to the profits generated by the consolidated Barclays group worldwide in 2009. In the UK, tax is paid in arrears, so 2009 taxes would relate to widespread 2008 losses, not 2009 profits.
Multinational companies such as Barclays pay tax in a number of jurisdictions. Generally speaking Barclays only pays UK corporation tax on profits it generated in the UK. Anything earned outside the UK doesn't get taxed here. So it's a howler to compare the UK corporation tax payment to the global consolidated profit. Most of those profits were taxed where they were made.
In 2002 (under Gordon Brown, Chuka), the UK government introduced the substantial shareholdings exemption, a corporation tax exemption for UK businesses disposing of a substantial shareholding in a part of their business. The idea was that businesses should be able to restructure their businesses without having to worry about chargeable gains implications. Barclays are heavily criticised by The Guardian for using it. The last time that Guido saw this being used was by the, err, Guardian Media Group to save themselves some £60 million of taxes in 2008:
"In 2008 GMG sold half of Auto Trader publisher Trader Media Group and made an exceptional (one-off) profit of more than £300 million. No tax was payable on the return from that sale because under UK law GMG qualified for SSE"
In 2008 The Guardian made £302 million in profits and paid no corporation taxes. The CEO, Carolyn McCall, was paid an £827,000 package. Yet we don't see the UK Uncut crowd kicking up a stink about The Guardian's tax structures or their fat cat pay and bonuses.
Over the weekend the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger (half-a-million a year since you asked) tweeted about Barclay's offshore holding corporations. Guardian Media Group holds hundreds of millions in assets in a Caymans Island domiciled offshore corporation.
Guido put it to the GMG press office that GMG has £223.8 million invested in an overseas/offshore hedge fund managed by Cambridge Associates which trades currency derivatives. They don't deny it and have declined to confirm the fund's structure for tax purposes.
Guardian readers seem to be under the illusion that it is owned by a not-for-profit charity. The Scott Trust was wound up in October 2008 and the Guardian is a for-profit-privately-owned media business, the well paid directors of which confirm in their annual accounts that they operate tax strategies in line with their fiduciary duty to the shareholders – just like any other business.
The old Scott Trust was set up in 1936 to avoid inheritance taxes and wound up in 2008 so that GMG could cynically exploit the SSE capital gains tax shelter to pay 0% in corporation taxes on their £302 million in profits that year. GMG claim that it was about modernising the holding structure, in fact it was a disingenuous cover for corporate venality.
For three quarters of a century the The Guardian has been shirking taxes, Guido has no problem with them acting in their shareholders' best interests. The hypocritical cant from them however about others doing the same is beyond contemptible…
Mobile phone companies charging new VAT for December
Posted by Ampers in A Rant, Business, Mobile Phones on Friday, 28 January 2011
Take a look at:
It seems like several cellphone companies are charging the new rate of 20% VAT a month earlier.
I am not accusing the companies of dishonest practice but of pure laziness of not wanting to work out which parts of the bill attracts which rate. But it should be noticed that they are erring in their favour not ours.
I could separate the Banks investment arms from their high street banking in five minutes flat!
I have been following Cameron's attempts to persuade them to split up over the months and wonder at the ineptitude of it.
If I were Prime Minister, I would make a phone call to the newspapers saying that the Government will be withdrawing the £50,000 savings guarantees for peoples savings as from 31st December 2011, and after that will only guarantee the savings of savers who save with banks who do not have an investment arm.
There, it will be done.
You can bet your bottom dollar than by the end of this year, most of the banks will have separated the two business otherwise they would have dead high street branches.
What is Ubuntu
Ubuntu, in Xhosa or Zulu means a shared progress0 for the help of all. The Linux program Ubuntu was based by a fellow South African, Mark Shuttleworth, on that premis and it has expanded rapidly in the five or so years it has been in existence.
I have been dabling with Linux on and off for ten years now, First with SuSE and then with Ubuntu, and for the last two years have used Ubuntu solely on my desktop and for one year on my Notebook and on my Netbook.
And have never looked back, or spent a penny on software.
Take a look at their latest software. It is quite impressive.
If you only use a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, browser and email program, then it is foolish not to use this. If you also like software to edit and watch videos and photographs, then it is foolish to use anything other than this. If you like to play music and edito mp3 files for your cellphone, then this is the operating system to use.
There is only one "lie" in the entire video. It states there are thousands of free programs available. This is wrong but I understand why they have said this. There are, in fact, tens of thousands of free programs and I have said this here as I am sure my readers will be able to get their heads around this fact.
Tell them why you're leaving
Posted by Ampers in A Rant, Business, Politics, Self Improvement on Thursday, 20 January 2011
The English don't complain verbally, they just complain with their feet.
This may be a way of punishing the shop or supplier, but is it fair to your fellow Englishmen?
For example, if you don't like a shop because the staff are rude to you, complain to the owner and tell him you don't need "rudeness" and won't be shopping there again. For example, I use Virgin and will leave for Three when my contract expires. I will tell them it is because Virgin charge me 10p to call them, and Three don't charge anything.
OK it may be too late for me, but if enough of us complain about the same thing, the supplier may change his ways.
British management is renowned all over the world for being at the bottom of the list of countries with regard to employer employee relations. This can be partly because we don't complain. If you hate your boss and you want to leave, state the reasons in full; send a copy of your resignation letter to the managing director (but be fair, add "copy to managing director" on your letter. The MD will do nothing at the time, but if the next person who leaves gives the same reason, he'll start asking questions and if three do the same…
If you are stuck with a supplier because you are under contractual obligations, start a notebook with all the things which occur that has upset you, date each item. Write a report on all these just before your contract expires and tell the CEO why you are not renewing.
If you are not happy with the Government, write to your MP and tell him why. But to be effective, this has to be for genuine reasons. Of course, this is more potent if your local MP is of the same party as the one in power at the time. The same applies to complaining about local issues to your councillors.
There are advantages of us turning into a race which complains about everything that is not right. Eventually, it could strengthen the country as a whole and your local community in particular.
Is it Capitalism which is evil?
There are three listed types of business, I am going by figures a decade ago, although now different EU states have added a category and changed the figures. For this exercise we will use the simpler terms as used a decade or so ago.
Companies with up to twenty employees were known as SoHo, companies between 21 and 500 were known as SMEs and Corporates had over 500 employees. This is really only a rough guide but is useful. The figures are a little hazy but SoHo was around 97.5%, SMEs around 1.5% and corporates around 1%. These refer to numbers of companies in the UK.
International conglomerates are a different kettle of fish and are a law to themselves and are no longer capitalist businesses. They really come under the title of Dictatorships and give good honest Capitalism a bad name.
I show a video here about the drug companies in the USA and this adequately describes what I am getting at. It is a shame that this has been presented by Al Jazeera as it meant I had to check all the figures and companies to make sure they were being truthful. They were.
As I mentioned earlier, these huge international businesses are a law of their own and do not respect the laws, either moral or legal, in any country they operate. Recall in the earlier part of the video how they weighed up being dishonest against the fine, and indicated that they thought it was worth disobeying the legal laws of the country as a good business decision if the profits far outweighed any fines or penalties involved.
I call on the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition, and David Cameron personally, to re-examine the reductions in taxes he is offering business in the UK.
If the real reason is to create jobs, then the 97.5% of companies which are in the SoHo sector are the ones more likely to employ people. Do away with all Capital taxes including Capital Gains Taxes, and NHS Employee contributions for the SoHo sector. Add a rider on the NHS contributions, so that these will only be on a net increase of staff; this will prevent them firing a few so as to take on another few and avoid the tax (entrepreneurs are wily creatures).
My plan above will probably be lower in cost to the governments plan, but it will be more directly aimed at the entrepreneurial SoHo sector which are then more likely to grow into SMEs.
People have to differentiate between our capitalist system which provides productive jobs (not with the socialist vision of a huge civil service which do not bring in finance) but with the huge dishonest and criminal section of the International Conglomerate sector.
I hasten to add, not all of this massive corporations are disreputable – I am sure one or two aren't.
What is Dropbox?
I have found an interesting website called DropBox in the USA. This is a special service which offers cloud computing. All cloud computing means is your data is on another computer.
The program adds a folder in your Windows Explorer or Linux Nautilus file display folder, and whatever you add into that folder is added to your DropBox cloud account and is immediately visible and shared on each of your computers and/or your smart-phone. However, you have to register (free) each computer/phone on their website but from each computer/phone. Mine, for example, is visible on my Linux machine, my Netbook and my HTC Desire smart-phone.
You can grab a link for any individual file and send it to someone who can view it without a DropBox account.
There is also provision to share folders but this is done a different way. Each person you share it with must have a DropBox account. And once they have clicked on the link to share, that folder is also visible in their DropBox folder. This is very handy for sharing files that need constant updating with your family, friends or office workers. My wife and I share a folder and, as she uses Windows, it is very useful for sharing files.
When you join DropBox you have the opportunity to select 2GB of storage space which is free or, if you want to store all your files on DropBox (they will do your back-ups) it is $9.95 (£6.42) a month for 25GB or double that for 50GB.
The nice point about the free 2GB choice is, you get a bonus of 256MB when you perform five of the six examples of learning how it works. This is a good deal as you get to know how it works by performing these requests.
You also get a bonus when you introduce anyone. 256MB for both you and the new person so everyone gains. I use DropBox so if anyone contacts ampers on gmail before signing on, I will send you a link to use so we both gain a 256MB bonus.
Transport and Telecommuting
Our problem here, in England with our transport is that we were the first to establish the railway, we were the first to establish the underground system and, as these occasions took part well over 100 years ago, they are more than ready for renewal.
The real problem is, we have let too many people into this country, too quickly, and all our public services, such as schools and hospitals are over-stretched. The police are over-stretched because of the rise in crime and apart from dilapidations, our railways are increasing due to the increase in customers needing to get from A to B, mainly for work. In addition, our roads are over-crowded for the same reasons.
We need to do something, and the following plan might help.
Telecommuting has never really caught on because our bosses cannot trust their employees. Although, in so many cases, companies who have embraced telecommuting and hot-desking have more than benefitted by greater productivity of their staff.
Take a company with a thousand employees, a hundred of them being office staff. If seventy-five of them worked from home for four days a week, a company can benefit with the space of fifty desks, calling in 20 staff each day to use one of twenty desks put aside for hot-desking. This could mean letting of part of their building, thus saving on expenses.
The trains would benefit by having fifty more spaces for commuters each day. The roads, locally, by having fifty people less driving to the station each day.
Multiply this my 10,000 businesses throughout the company and we begin to see a seat for every commuter, less cards locally on the roads, and less urban space taken up with offices so therefore, more space for housing.
So we have to nudge companies, and the railways, to embrace telecommuting.
The government could introduce a 100% increase in business tax for all companies with more than 100 office staff in one or more offices within a 50 mile radius who do not introduce telecommuting for at least 75% of their office staff. The money to be loaned to the local transport company to increase their throughput. So the reason for the extra tax is to help the local transport system which will benefit the companies concerned. Naturally if they introduce telecommuting, it wouldn't be fair to tax them extra as the company concerned is doing enough to ease local transport.
The railways could also have a similar rise if they don't introduce season tickets on a per day per week basis. So a telecommuter can go into work, one day or two days a week and pay prorate a fifth of a season ticket for each day requested.
This could be done on a two year trial basis, starting from six months in the future, to give business and railways the six months to investigate how they attempt the exercise.
If a company or railway does not do anything, hoping to ride the two years out, then they should be told that those who don't enter into the spirit of things will pay double taxes for the next twenty years.
I know this seems awfully complex but we need to shock companies into trusting their employees. British employers are considered some of the worse in the world and this has been my experience in my working life. I have always performed better, been paid more and have been happier when working for foreign bosses.