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Wing supports 4th Mobile User Objective System satellite launch
By 45th Space Wing, Public Affairs / Published September 02, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing helped successfully launch the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 40 here Sept. 2, 2015, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 6:18 a.m. EDT. The U.S. Navy-delivered MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, built by Lockheed Martin, designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move. (Photo by Michael Deep/Spaceflight Insider)
The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing helped successfully launch the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 40 here Sept. 2, 2015, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 6:18 a.m. EDT. The U.S. Navy-delivered MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, built by Lockheed Martin, designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move. (Photo by Dawn Haworth/Spaceflight Insider)
The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing helped successfully launch the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 40 here Sept 2, 2015, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The U.S. Navy-delivered MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, built by Lockheed Martin, designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move. (Photo/United Launch Alliance)
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing helped successfully launch the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 40, at 6:18 a.m. EDT, Sept. 2, 2015.
"Here at the 45th we measure success one launch at a time," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th SW commander. "With this being my first launch as the 45th SW Commander, I can tell you the road to achieving that success is no small task. It takes a blended team of military, civilian and contracted professionals driving toward the same objective of getting that rocket into space. I am proud of the hard work our team put into today's launch and it goes without saying that there's nothing more exciting than being a part of a team that provides assured access to space...that's our charge. We did it today, we'll do it tomorrow and there's nothing quite like it. Great work team."
The U.S. Navy-delivered MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, built by Lockheed Martin, designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move. The system will undergo Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation beginning this December and will achieve Full Operational Capability in 2017.
According to the U.S. Navy's Communications Satellite Program Office, MUOS works like a smartphone network in space, vastly improving secure satellite communications for mobile U.S. forces. MUOS provides users a global, on-demand, beyond-line-of-sight capability to transmit and receive high-quality voice and mission data on a high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.
"Delivery of this fourth satellite for the U.S. Navy completes the initial MUOS constellation and provides near-global coverage for the network," said Iris Bombelyn, vice president of Narrowband Communications at Lockheed Martin. "For our mobile forces, that means for the first time they will be able to have secure, high-fidelity voice conversations, networked team calls and data exchange, including video, with anyone around the world connected with a MUOS terminal."
MUOS is supported by the Army's Project Manager for Tactical Radios. According to the U.S. Army, MUOS will use Earth-orbiting satellites as the equivalent of cell phone towers in space and will connect U.S. forces on ships, in submarines, aircraft, and vehicles. It provides the vital link between troops in advanced positions or remote areas and the rest of the Department of Defense military global network.
Prior to the successful launch of MUOS-4, the 45th SW supported the MUOS-1, MUOS-2 and MUOS-3 launch respectively in 2012, 2013 and 2015 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla.
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Who chooses your clothes in the morning During the week it's a school uniform Weekends and no school days, it's me!
What is the piece your like the most from your wardrobe All my dresses!
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Last item you added to Kiki's wardrobe Head to toe Orage Junior ski jacket, pants, gloves and beanie for the coming winter & ski season. It's lightweight and cool!
Most precious item you bought for your child Charms for her charm bracelet which we will add to until she reaches her Sweet 16 and then present to her. Each charm so far expresses a bit about her.
Best gift you gave for a child's B-day Two octopus toys that were extremely hard to find!
Favorite pieces in Keira-Mae's wardrobe An Escada girls dress that she wore to her first school recital & a cute yellow pinafore dress made by a Québec artisan & dressmaker. Both are now too small but I have it stored away in a memory box.
Where do you like to go for the summer holidays Anywhere where there is a beach, which in the last three years included Southern California and Virginia Beach.
Molo : 10 years already!


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January 5, 2010 / Lucinda / One comment
Remember when you got that flatbed scanner and the first thing you did was scan your ass or your lips or your breasts and post them to your GeoCities site (and don't even think about asking, I'm not going to repost them)? Well now TSA can do the same thing and zap you with a bunch of radiation at the same time which does not make me feel safer, in fact it scares the crap out of me.
What scares me a whole lot more though is just how fast the Gotta Have Scanners cheer went up after the Is That A Big Stick In Your Pocket Or Are You Glad To See Me bomber wannabe totally messed up his chance to please all the awaiting virgins in heaven. If you recall, so barely 24 hours after September 11, 2001, we already knew who piloted the planes, where they were based and who sent them, a few weeks later, we mysteriously had a large enough supply of flags and decals for every car in America. If we were good enough to figure it out so quickly afterwords, lets face it, we knew ahead of time. And it is pretty damned clear that just happened again.
If that isn't enough to make you a tad cynical, the fact that Michael Chertoff is a big scanner cheerleader ought to. As James Ridgeway points out, it's all about the money, honey:
(T)he rush toward full-body scans already seems unstoppable. They were mandated today as part of the "enhanced" screening for travelers from selected countries, and hundreds of the machines are already on order, at a cost of about $150,000 apiece. Within days of the bombing attempt, Reuters was reporting that the "greater U.S. government shift toward using the high-tech devices could create a boom for makers of security imaging products, and it has already created a speculative spike in share prices in some companies."
Which brings us to the money shot. The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made the rounds on the media promoting the scanners, calling the bombing attempt "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery"—all without disclosing his relationship to Rapiscan.
Want some swamp land in Florida too? Meanwhile…there is now a new, new, new recommendation regarding mammograms:
This new advice, which is published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, comes from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the American College of Radiology (ACR). And these groups suggest just the opposite – that the screening does save lives.
The latest recommendations seem to be based primarily on bad-mouthing the earlier new recommendations to get less mammograms and dogged insistence that finding more cancers and finding them earlier saves lives. This is the mantra that we have been made pepto aware of for years now, despite the questionable evidence to support it. For more on this, see here, here and here.
I'm not a scientist, but what I do know is this: No other country suggests that women have as many mammograms as we do in the U.S. And other developed countries where women start getting mammograms at a later age and less frequently have comparable or better survival and incidence rates. But again, as with the airport scanners, we need to look at the money angle–if women don't get mammograms on a regular basis before the age of 50 and then get them every few years, radiologists and imaging centers are going to lose a lot of money. But that is not a justification for zapping our breasts unnecessarily.
Of course as a convenience for the busy traveler, maybe now we can just get mammograms at the airport. But in all fairness since we now know you can hide explosives between your balls, how about we squish those too as a matter of national security.
But what really is key here is that our national security policy is a bad joke. Scanners aren't the answer (and lets be very clear here–any amount of radiation adds to our body load and is a risk). Nor is stoking the fear of 'terrorism'. Nor is militarism. And like breast cancer, detection isn't a cure-all. If you want to end breast cancer, you need to find what causes it and eradicate the cause. The same is true for global security. Real security comes from enabling people, not from disabling them. Food, health, jobs. For far less money, we would reap far greater results. But where's the profit in that?


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Roskilde este un oraș în Danemarca.

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Catedrala din Roskilde a fost înscrisă în anul 1995 pe lista patrimoniului cultural mondial UNESCO.

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On This Day In History May 29
By TMC in News
Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future.
Find the past "On This Day in History" here.
May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of the year.
On this day in 1913, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps makes its infamous world premiere
Some of those in attendance to see the Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-élysées on May 29, 1913, would already have been familiar with the young Russian composer Igor Stravinsky through his 1910 ballet L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird). But if they expected his newest work to proceed in the same familiar and pleasing vein as his first, they were in for a surprise. From the moment the premiere performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring) began on this night in 1913, it was clear that even an audience of sophisticated Parisians was totally unprepared for something so avant-garde.
After undergoing revisions almost up until the very day of its first performance, it was premiered on Thursday, May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and was conducted by Pierre Monteux under the Ballets Russes.
The premiere involved one of the most famous classical music riots in history. The intensely rhythmic score and primitive scenario shocked audiences more accustomed to the demure conventions of classical ballet. Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography was a radical departure from classical ballet. Stravinsky would later write in his autobiography of the process of working with Nijinsky on the choreography, stating that "the poor boy knew nothing of music" and that Nijinsky "had been saddled with a task beyond his capacity." While Stravinsky praised Nijinsky's amazing dance talent, he was frustrated working with him on choreography.
This frustration was reciprocated by Nijinsky with regard to Stravinsky's patronizing attitude: "…so much time is wasted as Stravinsky thinks he is the only one who knows anything about music. In working with me he explains the value of the black notes, the white notes, of quavers and semiquavers, as though I had never studied music at all… I wish he would talk more about his music for Sacre, and not give a lecture on the beginning theory of music."
The complex music and violent dance steps depicting fertility rites first drew catcalls and whistles from the crowd. At the start, the audience began to boo loudly. There were loud arguments in the audience between supporters and opponents of the work. These were soon followed by shouts and fistfights in the aisles. The unrest in the audience eventually degenerated into a riot. The Paris police arrived by intermission, but they restored only limited order. Chaos reigned for the remainder of the performance. Fellow composer Camille Saint-Saëns famously stormed out of the premiére allegedly infuriated over the misuse of the bassoon in the ballet's opening bars (though Stravinsky later said "I do not know who invented the story that he was present at, but soon walked out of, the premiere.") .
Stravinsky ran backstage, where Diaghilev was turning the lights on and off in an attempt to try to calm the audience. Nijinsky stood on a chair, leaned out (far enough that Stravinsky had to grab his coat-tail), and shouted counts to the dancers, who were unable to hear the orchestra (this was challenging because Russian numbers above ten are polysyllabic, such as eighteen: vosemnadsat vs. seventeen: semnadsat).
After the premiere, Diaghilev is reported to have commented to Nijinsky and Stravinsky at dinner that the scandal was "exactly what I wanted."
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. Although the date of May 29, 1453, is that of the Julian Calendar, the event is commemorated in Istanbul on this day of the present Gregorian calendar.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday – see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1903 – May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1919 – Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceara, Brazil.
1931 – Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele "Mike" Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for INTENT to kill Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Mike Schirru.
1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1939 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 – Signing of an agreement Egypt – U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Holidays and observances
* Christian Feast Day:
* Bona of Pisa
* Maximin of Trier
* Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)
* Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)
* May 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Democracy Day (Nigeria)
* Earliest day on which Feast of the Sacred Heart can fall, while July 2 is the latest; celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. (Roman Catholic Church)
* International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (International)
* Oak Apple Day (England)
* Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)
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The current helicopter parent culture delivers immediate results such as better grades and extracurricular activities' awards, but it may hinder the qualities most needed for entrepreneurship and more generally, for success in adulthood – adaptability, resourcefulness and creativity.
Today's parents believe they are helping children by designing each aspect of a child's life. They carefully select not only the school their children attend, but also the activities children participate in, the books they read, the friends they meet. Many modern mothers and fathers closely manage their children's performance by reviewing and correcting homework, speaking to teachers daily, jumping in to resolve a disagreement children have with peers, hiring tutors and experts to help craft applications for college. As an extreme example, a distraught mother called me in the office once to ask why her son, a first year financial analyst, had not received the highest possible review grade at work.
Devoted parents have good intentions and worry that in an increasingly competitive world and a shrinking job market, their children would be left behind and thus, want to do everything in their power to position their children for professional and personal success. However, all the efforts may actually be counter-productive. It is hard to deny that the world our children are going to live in will be demanding. Technology innovation, information overload, shrinking job market, and globalization all contribute to a world that is much more hectic and uncertain than what past generations are used to.
It is not specific knowledge or skill but more intrinsic and conceptual capabilities that would position the young for success. When asked what we should do to prepare our children for adulthood, the futurist Dr. James Canton's answer was not what most would expect. He advised that children will need ability to speak multiple languages, to live and work in different countries, and to effectively deal with change.
Give children goals not tasks: Successful entrepreneurs manage to a vision and a mission. To accomplish that vision, they design a bold strategy and implement a practical plan. Company founders are able to visualize both the big picture and the way to get to it. The more we as parents can help children connect what they are doing with the goal they want to accomplish, the more independently children can handle specific responsibilities. Instead of telling your son: "Put your toys away" and "complete your Physics homework," collaborate with him to agree on what goals he as individual or you as a family want to achieve and then let him take the lead on designing the tasks to get to his goals. In the book, The Secrets of Happy Families, Bruce Feiler shares that he created a mission statement for his family.
Let children choose more of their activities: Entrepreneurs exercise choice and pursue their dreams arguably more so than any other professional. To succeed as an entrepreneur one needs to be passionate about what she chooses. Similarly, if children choose what they want to pursue they will be more likely to be passionate about it, have fun and succeed. Often I see parents who try to push children to be a better version of themselves, to study medicine or engineering, to go to the best college, to win that championship. I have to admit that I am often tempted to nudge my children to be the best I want them to be. But then I remember their unique personalities – the creative one that loves to dance and can convince anyone of anything but hates math and the stubborn one that does not ever want to get into the pool and learn swimming but loves to read books and has almost photographic memory. It is unlikely that I would make a mathematician out of the first one and an Olympic swimmer out of the other. But if I let them choose and then guide them, they are more likely to discover their natural talents and become the exceptional entrepreneurs of their own life.
Let children fail early and often: No one fails more often than entrepreneurs do. Similarly children can benefit dramatically from the lessons and strength that come from failing. Instead of resolving every problem for them, let children fail early and often. It is OK to get a less than perfect grade, lose a game, scrape a knee, and get in a disagreement with a friend. Small and frequent failures teach children the consequences of their actions, what effort they need to apply to truly succeed and build their confidence when praise and awards are truly deserved. Teaching children that it is OK to fail as long as you learn from the experience and ultimately improve makes them more resilient and ready for the unavoidable challenges of adulthood.
In financial services, I work with some of the brightest and most accomplished young people who are used to honors and success but have not experienced failure. Now these young people have to deal with not always being the best, not getting the immediate promotion they think they deserve, and even being let go. Some do not know how to handle a crisis and are crashed. The ones that are familiar with both failure and success rightfully earned quickly pick themselves-up, reinvent themselves and ultimately succeed. An academically accomplished young man who was abysmal at his first job in Operations, talked me out of firing him and convinced me to give him another chance. I admired his grit. Through perseverance, he became an effective analysts on the team. When he asked me for a recommendation for Harvard Business School, I gave him the strongest recommendation I have ever given. He had the makings of an entrepreneur and a leader.
Put children in situations where they need to adapt: Today's parents try to provide our children with a safe and recognizable environment in an attempt to create a magical childhood – a beautiful home, a stocked with all the best-seller toys playroom, the stability of the same familiar schools and circle of friends. Are we really doing our children a favor or hindering their independence? The world our children are about to face arguably is going to be the most dynamic world experienced in the history of human civilization. Much as the industrial revolution brought an unprecedented level of social, economic and political change, the information revolution has sped up change cycles even more. According to a BCG study on innovation, the Ford Motors Model T was dominant for more than 75 years before it become displaced by competitors. However, the Blackberry was at the top of the handheld market for less than 7 years. Can you imagine the rate of change the future holds? Only the most adaptable would be able to manage and succeed in such a world.
Consciously exposing children to different situations and giving them new challenges prepares them for the future. One way to do that is to expose children to living abroad, learning foreign languages and attending new schools. If that is practically not doable, sleep-away camp, adventures in nature or experimentation with new technology can also encourage adaptability. Another way to develop adaptability is to give children room to dream and explore on their own. One of the problems over-achieving, over-scheduled young adults have today is that they get to college and into their first job completely drained of energy. The classic Study Hacks Blog, Want to Get into Harvard? Spend More Time Staring at the Clouds., describes how young adults can develop their "interstingness" and creativity through exploring more and doing less crammed extra-curricular activities.
There is no one right way to raise children and I am hardly an expert as I am learning myself. However, I cannot help but think that the lessons of effective entrepreneurs are transferable to how we teach children. Entrepreneurship teaches children not simply how to survive but how to thrive in the face of challenges: Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile, writes: "Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind." If we give children room to experiment and learn like entrepreneurs do while being there for them to love, advise, guide, they are more likely to grow up a generation that is better prepared to live productive and fulfilled lives.


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Shona Craven: Austerity and Brexit leave the SNP with no choice but to walk into a tax trap
By Shona Craven @shonacraven Columnist & Community Editor
Does the Scottish Government now find itself in a Saw-like dilemma?
THE best horror films – the ones that keep you on the edge of your seat – always involve choices. The choice between investigating the noise upstairs or fleeing to a neighbour's house. Between screaming for help or hiding in a cupboard. Between what the viewer sees as a sensible decision, and the brave but potentially suicidal alternative.
Watching Nicola Sturgeon starting an "open discussion on the direction of income tax in Scotland" yesterday, I thought I glimpsed a sinister shape in the background. Was that the Brexit bogeyman, lurking in the shadows, waiting to disembowel the Scottish economy? Or was it merely Ruth Davidson, still in guising garb, ready to pounce as soon as the Unionist trap was sprung?
It would be unfair to compare the UK Government to the serial killer in the Saw movies – whose ideologically driven killing sprees take the form of elaborate games involving knives, syringes, iron maidens and rusty tools – but handing income-tax powers to the Scottish Parliament was a stroke of evil genius. It presented the Scottish Government with an instant, self-contained dilemma: use the new powers to raise taxes and risk losing votes, or decline to use it and risk accusations of hypocrisy any time Tory austerity and public-service cuts get a mention. You wanted more powers? You got more powers. Heads you lose, tails you lose.
This isn't quite as stark a choice as, say, whether or not to hack off your own foot, but in political terms it could still prove seriously damaging. "Pay more tax for the same standard of living" is not a winning campaign slogan, even if it's the practical reality with which we're faced thanks to the reckless decision of the UK electorate to stand in front of a mirror and say Boris Johnson's name three times. Much will now depend on how Sturgeon and her colleagues dress up the inevitable decision to raise income tax, and how they justify reneging on a manifesto pledge made a mere 18 months ago.
Of course, an awful lot has happened since then. The SNP lost their majority, the UK voted to leave the EU, the Tories lost their majority at Westminster and now the grubby pasts of UK Cabinet ministers are coming back to haunt them, creating yet more political chaos. Theresa May can't afford to lose any of her precious MPs, so she might be forced to drag along the odd rotting corpse when she takes another stomach-churning ride on the ghost train of Brexit negotiations.
Brexit alone would arguably be justification enough for a change of tax policy, but Sturgeon is very keen to emphasise that this is not her party's free choice to make.
If Patrick Harvie wants to climb into a dusty attic and root around for coins to fund a huge public-sector pay rise, she'll have little choice but to follow him up the ladder with a torch. If the SNP, Greens and Labour all manage to agree on a tax-raising mechanism, then all three parties will have to share the blame if the electorate get spooked.
So will the Scottish Government's discussion paper spark a good-faith debate about the kind of country we want to live in, and the price we're willing to pay for it? The First Minister and her Finance Secretary Derek Mackay are clearly hoping those who've benefited from free childcare, free tuition fees and free personal care will take a look at the sums their families have saved and agree that a modest hike is justified. But what about those who don't personally receive any of these benefits, and possibly never will? And what if many of those who have personally done very well out of 10 years of SNP government nonetheless object to being asked, at this stage in the game, to chip in a bit more from salaries that have stagnated over the same period?
A purely individualistic approach might seem the safest bet for a party with the SNP's broad support base – including as it does everyone from radical socialists to indy-backing right-wingers – but it's in sharp contrast to much of the language of the independence campaign.
Even if the correct question to ask is "what's in it for me?", it can't be answered simply by totting up the savings from the universal benefits packaged as "Scotland's social contract" and disregarding the value of a well-resourced NHS, high-quality education for all and a justice system worthy of the name.
Scotland's universal benefits weren't introduced simply to save middle-income taxpayers a few quid. For those on the lowest incomes, free prescriptions can mean the difference between taking medicine and going without, and a free bus pass the difference between visiting a friend and becoming trapped in a cycle of social isolation.
It's impossible to put a price on the long-term benefits of such public services as intervention by social work to protect children from abuse, or halt a spiral of offending, or prevent an elderly person from being neglected, but these behind-the-scenes services, targeted to those in greatest need, must be protected from the worst effect of shambolic Tory rule of the UK. Raising income tax certainly isn't the fairest way to do it – and only time will tell what behavioural changes will actually result – but the scary reality is that right now, it's the only option we've got.
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A loan of $775 helped to buy a cord of onions.
Julio, 54, is in a common-law marriage, has a three-year-old son, and lives with his family in the department of Sololá. He says that he buys and sells vegetables. He pays per cord (0.0715 hectares) for the vegetables and later sells them by the quintal in the Sololá market. He has been operating his business for 15 years to generate cash to pay household expenses and says he is happy with his work. He also farms, and that income supplements the family budget. So Julio has applied for a loan of Q 6000 to buy a cord of onions. His biggest dream is to buy more farmland.
Julio tiene 54 años de edad, está en unión de hecho, tiene un hijo de 3 años de edad; el vive junto a su familia en el Departamento de Sololá. Comenta que actualmente tiene un negocio de compraventa de verduras; la verdura la compra por cuerda (0.0715 hectáreas) posteriormente la comercializa por quintales y esto lo hace el mercado de Sololá. Realiza esta actividad porque le genera ingresos inmediatos para cubrir los gastos familiares. Tiene 15 años de estar realizando esta labor y cuenta que se siente muy feliz de estar haciéndolo .Además de esta actividad también se dedica a la agricultura, y los ingresos de esta actividad complementan su presupuesto familiar. Es por ello que está solicitando un préstamo de Q 6,000.00 para la compra de una cuerda de cebolla. Su mayor sueño es adquirir más terrenos para cultivar.
ADICLA (Association for the Holistic Development of the Basin of Lake Atitlán) is nonprofit rural community development association that provides small loans and services to improve quality of life in two of the poorest regions of Guatemala, home to large indigenous populations. Kiva funding will be used to support three innovative credit initiatives: youth business loans, green loans, and smaller loans to help ADICLA move down-market and serve poorer clients.
ADICLA is a rural, community-based organization operating in the area around Lake Atitlán, in western Guatemala. ADICLA's borrowers are mostly indigenous Guatemalans living in rural areas. These members also help run the organization by sitting on its board of directors. ADICLA shares Kiva's focus on social impact, having conducted rigorous self-evaluations in recent years in an effort to improve its social performance and move toward targeting poorer borrowers. ADICLA is interested in piloting several innovative new products with Kiva, including green loans and loans to youth entrepreneurs for start-up businesses. Kiva is proud to be pushing the frontier of innovation through its partnership with ADICLA.


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Elon Musk becomes world's second richest person
26th Nov 2020 | Source: BBC
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has topped Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world's second richest man after a meteoric rise in his personal fortune.
Mr Musk's net worth jumped by $7.2bn (£5.4bn) to $128bn after shares in his car firm Tesla surged.
Only Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is richer, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
It comes after news Tesla shares will be added to the S&P 500, one of the main share indexes in the US.
That triggered a fresh wave of buying of the electric carmaker's shares, sending the company's market value above $500bn and boosting the value of Mr Musk's holding in the business.
Tesla is already the most valuable car firm in the world, despite producing a fraction of the vehicles of rivals such as Toyota, VW and General Motors.
On Tuesday, in a speech in Germany, Mr Musk said it could "make sense" for Tesla to expand in Europe by entering the mass-market segment with a small car.
"In the US, the cars tend to be bigger for personal taste reasons," he said. "In Europe, (they) tend to be smaller."
And after years of losses, Tesla has seen five consecutive quarters of profit as sales of its cars perform well despite the pandemic.
The California-based firm will be the biggest new entrant on the S&P 500, with a market value of more than $500bn.
It means investment funds tracking the index will automatically hold its stock and benefit from gains in its share price - news that has excited investors.
Gates and Bezos
Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, was the world's richest person for years before Mr Bezos knocked him off the top spot in 2017.
Mr Gates's fortune is worth $127.7bn but would be higher had he not donated large sums to charity over the decades.
Jeff Bezos's net worth is estimated at £182bn by Bloomberg. He too has seen his personal fortune rise this year as demand for Amazon's services climbed in the pandemic.
Mr Musk, who regularly courts controversy, has had an eventful past few weeks.
Last weekend he tweeted that he "most likely" had a moderate case of Covid-19 and has had symptoms of "a minor cold."
It came the day before four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station in a rocket built by Mr Musk's SpaceX.
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In 2011, the common number of approved drilling permits from the state was almost 1,600 per month or two. That is 19,200 potentially profitable oil or gas wells added to the existing formulating. That means many new jobs are being created. These lucrative careers are expecting the right market . want to create a career in gas and oil prices production!
It's time we start sacrificing and pay for the fast expensive cars as well as the growth. One solution towards problem is improving existing infrastructures in our cities. The best offer provide for better mass transportation to relief all this consumption of your energy. Another getting a smartly designed infrastructure before new developments take arrange. I live within Orlando, Florida area and have found this to be a major concern. Developers are not implementing these responsibilities of their communities and the infrastructure design prior to construction. Allow provide the minimum infrastructure necessary for government.
But while we've been talking about crude oil, natural gas has quietly crept back onto a purchase scene. In fact, natural gas investing climbed six out of the past seven trading days.
And it's not just Oughout.S. companies looking acquire natural gas assets. China Petrochemical Corp., known as Sinopec Group (and Asia's largest oil refiner), is joining with Chevron in a deepwater propane project off Indonesia priced at more than thousand. China's gas consumption is expected to quadruple over the next 25 years, as documented in the International Energy Organization.
Air, water and soil pollution is prevalent more than the the modern world. This includes quite a few emissions from cars to drilling for George Lindemann Jr settles with investors and power plants creating acid rain that enters the lakes, oceans and rivers. All of this kills species and poisons different species in these areas, also as the lighting conditions . areas less filled with nutrients to farm.
When it will come to gasoline and other refined petroleum products, we find another scores of miles of pipe. This kind of petroleum is piped around the nation through roughly 95,000 miles of direction. This number, however large it is, is dwarfed by amount of of miles of gas main lines that weave the actual world continent. More than 1.8 million miles natural gas pipeline weave during the in the Untied States alone. This bumps the a amount of miles of pipeline in the states to beyond what 2 ton of. and that number rising every 24 hours. Some people estimate that new pipeline construction all of the beginning belonging to the new millennium will be prolific than any other period as early as the 1950's. Enter hardwood rugs.
1) It's too big. Believe it or not, the furnaces in many Canadian homes are big. And contrary to which might think, bigger is not always better.
The published report indicates that in the long run, the negative economic consequence better taxes would offset any short-term tax revenue gains. A recent study by the energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie shows by using increased access to America's natural resources, we could add 4 billion in new revenue for the U.S. economy by 2025.


Today is the day we travel back home to walt disney world, as we say goodbye to our room and head through to security it finally starts to hit us that we are actually going to orlando florida.
We get some other bits and bobs for our trip in departures and then head over to Jamie Italian for some breakfast. As we said in our last episode with staying in the Bloc hotel you get a voucher book that has deals in certain shops and restaurants, so we found that you get either free prosecco or orange juice and of course we took the free prosecco. We both ordered eggs Benedict as its our favourite breakfast.
After food we head over to our gate and start to board our flights to orlando, we did not get window seats but instead got extra leg room which we prefer. As you can see from our faces we were so excited as we are flying to disney world. After take off we both get ready to watch movies and relax on our 9 hour flight Dave is happy with the movies selection.
Time flies by and we are about to land in orlando florida or as we call it home. We get through immigration and pick up our luggage but we take our luggage on the monorail as its quicker and easier after last years fiasco. We jump in a cab and head over to our resort for the next 3 weeks. This trip we are staying in the Clarion inn Lake Buena Vista which we stayed previously in 2014.
We get unpacked and we can only think of one thing hooters and one good reason we stayed Clarion inn again is because there is a nice cluster of restaurants near our resort so it was only a short walk to hooters. We decided to get boneless wings, curly fires and buffalo shrimp which was so good.
After food we decided to walk over to disney springs to see the change after we last saw it in 2015 and we can not believe how much it has changed and its just amazing.
Thanks for watch our walt disney world 2016 videos!
Since working for WDW we've had many trips to Florida, connected to so many people from around the world and what better way to create our channel for you to follow and share our Disney/non-Disney adventures together!
hey guys, which hotel did you stay in?
Commented on one of your more recent videos saying I was going to Florida this autumn and that i'd say hi if I saw you at HHN. Been to Florida a load of times but never in September/October before so figured it would make sense to watch these vlogs you did to see what to expect! Enjoying them so far, good work guys!


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Since first experiencing the Dances nineteen years ago, they have continued to be a significant part of my life. Sometimes at the forefront, sometimes in the background, but always there. During the last eight years, I have been sharing the Dances with others and have found great joy in doing so. Experiencing the wonder of the Dance Leader's journey and seeing others 'catch' the Dances has inspired me.
I lead the Dances regularly in the South West, at Monkton Wyld Court and am happy to travel anywhere that I am welcomed. I am a certified Dance Leader and a member of the Ruhaniat.
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Health risks. Complications. Environmental pollution. Controversy.
A new documentary highlights how all of these issues surround the use of mercury in dentistry.
"Evidence of Harm" is a comprehensive story of why mercury should be banned in dentistry and is a must see for anyone working in the dental industry.
Randall Moore, a filmmaker from Kansas, became interested in the issue when his father became ill with Alzheimer's Disease. After much research, Moore discovered that mercury fillings, otherwise known as "silver fillings" have been linked to Alzheimer's Disease – and his father had a mouth full of them.
Mercury is a known neurotoxin, and federal agencies limit its exposure to humans. Yet the dental industry has used silver fillings – which contain almost 50 percent mercury – in peoples' mouths for more than 150 years. "Evidence of Harm" uses personal accounts, scientific evidence and the history of mercury's use to showcase why. The reasons range from political agendas to greed to ultimately, stubbornness.
The health complications widely range in different people, making the diagnosis difficult. Many people who suffer from heavy metal toxicity exhibit symptoms such as low energy level, headaches, digestive issues, throat and mouth issues, and the list continues. Moore highlights the fact that victims of mercury poisoning will often feel "crazy" because many doctors will tell them there's nothing wrong with them, and families don't understand.
The documentary follows a dental assistant, a journalist and a researcher to advocate the importance of not only mercury-free dentistry but also mercury-safe dentistry.
By purchasing this movie through the International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine, you will be donating a portion of the profits to those in the industry fighting for change. Help end the use of mercury in dentistry.