The BP oil spill Pensacola had watched close in for days arrived on its white sandy beaches Friday. BP placed a cap over the gushing oil in an attempt to slow down the flow as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 has fouled shorelines in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and now Florida. President Obama arrived for his third visit to the gulf oil spill cleanup as crude washed up on Pensacola Beach. Meanwhile, BP launched a $50 million advertising campaign to try and burnish the company’s oil-stained image while the oil spill live feed continued to show a gushing black cloud.
The BP oil spill, Pensacola’s worst nightmare, has dumped up to 47 million gallons of oil in the gulf, according to government estimates. Other estimates are as high as 112 million gallons. The Associated Press reports that swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the oil slick. Others curiously inspected the tarballs and congealed goo while some took pictures of the contamination. Chi
Taxes in California fall into three categories. There are taxes on income, on property, and on sales.
Let us look first at income tax. This is paid on personal income. It is a progressive tax that varies according to the size of the income. There are six tax bands. On the first $6,622 of taxable income 1% tax must be paid. This goes up to 2% for the next tax band between $6,623 and $15,698. The third tax bracket, $15,699 and $24,776, pays 4%. It is 6% on incomes between $24,777 and $34,394 and 8% on incomes between $34,395 and $43,467. Above that level tax is payable at 9.3%.
In addition there is a 1% surcharge on incomes over $1 million. This makes the highest income marginal tax rate 10.3% in California.
Tax returns must be submitted by April 15 every year. They should be made on Form 540EZ, Form 540A (short form), Form 540 (long form) or Form 540-ADS.
Couples can file joint tax returns. In this case the allowances for each tax bracket are doubled.
Sales tax varies across California. Read more…
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You’re at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you’re a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.
Either way, you’re playing a video game – and you may be improving your vision and other brain functions, according to research presented Thursday at a New York University conference on games as a learning tool.
“People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition,” said Daphne Bavelier, an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester.
Bavelier was a presenter at Games for Learning, a daylong symposium on the educational uses of video games and computer games.
The event, the first of its kind, was an indication that electronic games are gaining legitimacy in the classroom.
President Barack Obama recently identified the creation of good educational software as one of the “grand challenges for American innovation,” and the federal Department of Education’s assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement, Jim Shelton, attended Thursday’s conference.
Panelists discussed how people learn and how games can be engineered to be even more educational.
“People do learn from games,” said J. Read more…
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