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Interesting things to know about the towel

How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut.  No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut).  Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori,  salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...

IEBC performance in 2013 was much worse than that of ECK in 2007.

According to the Form 36 for the election of Governor for Meru County, the total valid votes cast were 423,247. Of these, the Form 36 says, Peter Munya got 184,273 votes while Kilemi Mwiria got 180,837 votes, making the difference between the two candidates 3, 436. The Form 36 also indicates that the total votes cast were 428,273. According to the results subsequently published by the IEBC, pursuant to the Political Parties Act, and posted on the IEBC website, the total valid votes cast in the gubernatorial election for Meru were 420,520. Of these, Peter Munya got 184,273 votes while Kilemi Mwiria got 180,273 votes, making the difference between the two candidates 4,000 votes. The results subsequently published by the IEBC also indicate that the total votes cast were 425,807. As regards the senatorial election, the results subsequently published by the IEBC indicate that the total votes cast were 421,272. The same results (subsequently published) indicate that the total votes cast in the Women Rep election for Meru was 417, 204. The question is, if the IEBC was using the same roll of voters in all these elections, how can we have variances running into thousands of votes in respect fo the total votes cast in each election? I now believe, as I saw someone comment on TV, that we had another 2007 in 2013, except that there was no PEV in 2013. Actually, I now believe the IEBC performance in 2013 was much worse than that of ECK in 2007.

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