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The Joy of Freedom
September 1978, Hong Kong
I am in the audience at the biannual meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, an organization of people who believe in personal liberty. At age 27, I am at these meetings for the first time. The lead speaker that first morning, a world-famous economist, gets up to give the opening speech. People have come from around the world to see and hear him. He is the first strongly pro–free market and antisocialist economist to have won the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious prize that an economist can win. In a series of articles in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he drove the final intellectual nail in the coffin of socialism, pointing out that the information required for a government to plan an economy rationally is far too vast for a small number of even the most brilliant minds to use effectively and that the information required is generated only by a free market. In one of his most famous books, The Road to Serfdom, written at the height of World War II and still a classic, he pointed out the strong totalitarian similarities among socialism, communism, fascism, and Nazism. After World War II, the four-power occupation authorities in Germany, representing the governments of France, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, had, at the behest of the Soviet Union, banned The Road to Serfdom. The author's name: Friedrich Hayek.
Hayek started the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, when he was one of only a few intellectuals who opposed socialism and favored economic freedom. People with his views were so scarce that he felt an international group was needed so they could give one another moral support and comfort for one week every two years. At the first meeting, only a handful of people (36) attended. But what a handful! They included Milton Friedman and George Stigler, then relatively unknown economists in their mid-thirties, who themselves went on to win Nobel Prizes; Walter Eucken, a German economist who, along with Ludwig Erhard, had ripped away the Nazi-imposed and Allied-enforced regulations that were stifling the German economy; Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist who was the first to lay out analytically why socialist economic planning could not work; Maurice Allais, a French economist who was later to win the Nobel Prize; and Michael Polanyi, Karl Popper, and Lionel Robbins, all from Britain, all of whom were later to be knighted.
The Mont Pelerin Society, named after the place in Switzerland where the group first met, expanded a good bit after 1947. In the 1960s, Hayek had retired to Freiberg, Germany, profoundly depressed about both the state of the world and the apparent lack of acceptance of his free market ideas and his criticisms of socialism. But the recognition that came with his Nobel Prize revived him. In 1978, at the Mont Pelerin Society's meeting in Hong Kong, Friedrich Hayek was in his glory and brimming with optimism.
Hayek told us that socialism was on the ropes and that we must try to arrange a grand debate, the topic of which should be "resolved: that coercion as a means of organizing the economy has failed." He envisioned having the debate in Paris and inviting the leading socialists and the leading advocates of freedom.
I stood and asked the first question. "I like your idea," I said to Hayek, "but do you really think that socialists are going to consent to wording the debate question that way? Many of them don't believe that they're advocating coercion. Why not make it a more neutral question like, 'Has socialism failed?'" He took it under advisement. Many of the next questioners were skeptical of the whole idea. Not that they thought socialism worked, but they thought the debate would never happen because socialists would simply not admit that it's debatable.
George Stigler, the president of the Mont Pelerin society that year and the person who invited me to the meetings, came up to me at the break. In his banquet speech the night before, Stigler had said that ideas and debates don't matter; no one, Stigler had insisted, changes his or her mind on the basis of ideas. Stigler thought, mistakenly, that he had found a kindred spirit in me. "Hayek has always been an actionist," said Stigler dismissively, using his unusual term for proselytizer.
June 12, 1987, Brandenberg Gate, Berlin
On the western side of the Brandenberg Gate stands U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Reagan, the eternal optimist, senses that Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist Party and leader of the Soviet Union, differs from his predecessors. The Brandenberg Gate is famous or, more exactly, infamous as one of the gates in the Berlin Wall that you pass through leaving East Berlin to go to West Berlin. There's one little problem: if you're East German you can't do so without permission. Since August 1961 East Berliners have been unable to get permission, and most of those who have tried to leave illegally have been shot at. For the last three decades, the leaders of the Soviet Union have made clear to the leaders of East Germany that they want the border closed.
Reagan says, "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!" A year later, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl says that the Berlin Wall will not come down in his lifetime.
November 9, 1989, East Berlin
Gunter Schabowski, the head of the Communist Party of Berlin, is about to go on television for a live press conference. Egon Krenz, party secretary and leader of East Berlin, hands him a draft of a new regulation from the Interior Ministry. The draft describes new procedures for obtaining visas to visit the West. Minutes later, in reply to an Italian journalist, he seems to say that East Germans can go to the West with no restrictions, starting right now. Immediately, thousands of East Germans head to the wall, some of them dressed in their pajamas. For three hours the crowd swells in front of the hated Wall. They refuse to move, chanting, "Open the gate! Open the gate!" The guards, unsure what to do, decide to open the gates. Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners swarm through into the welcoming arms of their West German brothers and sisters. The invincible Wall has fallen—without a shot being fired.
A few days later, I was lying on the floor, looking at the latest Newsweek with my four-year-old daughter, Karen. I showed her the famous picture from about 25 years earlier of the armed East German guard who successfully escaped from East Germany. Karen asked me why I was so excited about the Berlin Wall falling. I reached for words that a four-year-old could understand.
I said, "These men were told to kill anyone who tried to get from East Berlin to West Berlin. And some other men had suddenly decided that they were no longer going to shoot people; they were going to let them leave. This meant that these people who before were trapped where they lived now were not trapped. They could get out and go places they'd always wanted to go."
"Like Disneyland?" said Karen.
"That's right," I answered. "Not only can they go where they want, but also they can buy things they have always wanted to buy."
And my daughter, grinning, said, "Like candy?"
"Yes," I said, "like candy." I later learned that that weekend, the candy stores in West Berlin actually were sold out.
My daughter had understood the essence of totalitarian socialism.
The Ongoing Battle for Freedom
In just 12 years, the gleam in Friedrich Hayek's eye had become a reality. And although the debate he wished for had never happened, socialist economist Robert Heilbroner wrote, in September 1990, that, after having dismissed von Mises's arguments against socialism in the 1930s, "it turns out, of course, that von Mises was right."
Since then, there have been major gains in economic freedom around the world. In 1922, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the leader of the Communists in Russia, had said that the government should control the "commanding heights" (the most important sectors) of the economy. A few years later, the Soviets, under Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, proceeded to take over the commanding heights by murdering millions of Ukrainian farmers, called kulaks, and taking over their land. From the late 1920s until the 1980s, virtually all productive assets in the Soviet Union were owned and operated by the government. All factories, all power plants, all trucks, trains, and airplanes, all stores, and all apartments were government owned. The only privately owned means of production were small farm plots, which was fortunate because these plots were highly productive, producing, on only 3 percent of the sown acreage, more than 25 percent of the Soviet Union's meat and about 50 percent of its potatoes. Yet by 1996, most assets in Russia (which had lost its colonies) were privately owned. Seventy percent of Russia's gross domestic product is now privately produced.
In China in 1978, peasants facing a severe drought needed to break through the parched land of the farms they were working. There was one main problem: The farms were collectivized and the peasants were simply unwilling to exert the effort to improve what wasn't theirs. Thus they pleaded for the return of the household responsibility system, which allowed a family to keep some of the benefits of its labor. In desperation, communist dictator Deng Xiaoping granted their wish. Henceforth, peasants had to deliver a certain quota to the government; anything above that quota was theirs to keep and sell. In essence, the government implemented a system of de facto property rights. Moreover, the output above the quota was tax free, which created an even more powerful incentive for the farmers to produce beyond the quota. The result was that, between 1978 and 1990, the share of agricultural output sold in open markets rose from 8 percent to 80 percent, and in the six years after 1978, real income in farm households rose by 60 percent. Deng also allowed more freedom to companies located in "special economic zones" along China's coast, which have since grown much faster than the rest of China. "I have two choices," said Deng. "I can distribute poverty or I can distribute wealth."
There has also been a shift away from government power and toward economic freedom in formerly communist European countries such as Poland, Hungary, and the two parts of what was Czechoslovakia, in India, in the rest of Asia, in Latin America, and in Britain. In short, economic freedom has increased dramatically in parts of the world that, in total, contain more than half the world's population.
How did it all happen? There were two main causes. First, people, including government planners, noticed how badly government ran things. "Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991," recalled a high-level government planner in India, "I felt as though I were awakening from a 35-year dream. Everything I had believed about economic systems and tried to implement was wrong." The head of the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda department was shocked when he visited Japan and noticed that half of Japan's households owned cars and more than 95 percent owned TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. In the report of his trip to Japan, this official wrote, "One Sunday we went out to a busy street. Of all the women we saw, no two wore the same style of clothes." He added, "The female workers accompanying us also changed clothes every day."
Second, ideas really did matter. The fact that the von Miseses, the Hayeks, and the Friedmans of the world had been slugging it out for decades had made a difference. One of the leading reformers who helped Russia get rid of socialism was economist Yegor Gaidar. As a young boy, Gaidar had lived in Cuba during Castro's revolution, and his family often had Che Guevara, the famous Cuban communist revolutionary, as a guest. He began to doubt communism when the Soviet Union's military invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Then he started reading more in the 1970s and 1980s about free markets. Asked who were the main influences on his economic thinking, Gaidar responded, "Of course, Hayek."
The world seems to be going the right way. Countries around the world are becoming freer, and that freedom is generating wealth for masses of people such as the world has never seen.
Yet despite the proven economic success of freedom, much of the world, including the United States, is hanging on to freedom's opposite, government control. The government does not allow us complete freedom to save for our own retirement but instead takes a substantial bite of our income in payroll taxes through our working years and gives us a lousy rate of return on those taxes during our retirement years. If you are an employer who wants to provide insurance coverage for your employees, various state and federal laws force you to include various benefits, whether or not your employees want them, and these requirements may cause you not to provide the coverage. If you are trying to get on the lower rung of the economic ladder by selling goods out of a street cart or turning your car into a taxi, you must first get government permission, and often the government won't give you permission. If you persist despite the government, you could go to jail. If you are unhappy with the education your child is getting in a tax-financed school and you decide to take your child out of that school, you don't get a refund of the taxes you pay toward government schools. Moreover, if you put your child in a private school, that school may be regulated by the government. Those who sell items whose use carries certain risks—ranging from cigarettes and firearms to ladders and airplanes—are often sued when the users are harmed by their product. Users of those products pay more for them because the risk of a lawsuit drives up a product's price.
The list of government rules and regulations goes on and on. The Federal Register, which contains just the new and proposed regulations of the federal government, has grown from 53,376 pages in 1988, before the Wall fell, to 68,571 pages in 1998. Governments at all levels in the United States take about 30 percent of the average person's income and regulate in various degrees how she or he can spend much of the other 70 percent. The nastiest government leaders of the twentieth century—Stalin, Mao, and Hitler—murdered tens of millions of people and oppressed hundreds of millions of others. Fortunately, the United States and governments of other industrialized countries are much tamer. Yet the small and medium intrusions committed by these tamer governments add up. Governments in the United States and other industrialized countries chip away at our freedom in literally thousands of ways.
As recently as 25 years ago, when you got into an argument with someone about some choice that person had made, a common, debate-ending and debate-winning comeback from the person making the allegedly unwise choice was, "It's a free country." You don't hear that expression much any more. Instead, government is thought of more and more as the parent or as Big Brother, the term George Orwell made famous in 1984, his grim novel depicting a totalitarian state. A recent vice president of the United States, Albert Gore, apparently aware of the unease that many Americans still have about being regulated, stated that the federal government "should never be the baby-sitter, the parents." That sounded good. Gore, however, was not rejecting the idea of government power over people's lives. Instead, he was making fine distinctions about what role in the "family" the government properly plays. The government, he said, should be "more like grandparents in the sense that grandparents perform a nurturing role and are aware of what parenting was like but no longer exercise that kind of authority." But the government is not our parent, our big brother, our baby-sitter, or our grandparent. Government, as George Washington said, is force. So if you want to stick with Gore's model, think of the government as grandparents with guns who have never met you and don't care much about you.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the utter collapse of the vicious antihuman communist regimes around the world were great victories. But the victory is incomplete. People should be much freer than any government in the world is letting them be.


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The End of the World
A short video journal of my trip to South America shot entirely on my android mobile phone camera.
I travelled to the (southern) end of the world in October 2019 with my trusted travel buddy, Maricris. We followed the Andean mountains from Cuzco Peru all the way down to the Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia over four weeks.
I am not going to write about my experience here. Until now, I still have no words to describe the wonder and awe of seeing Machu Picchu, la cordillera de los Andes, el disierto de Atacama, Patagonia, Torres del Paine, Monte Fitz Roy and Glaciar Perito Moreno with my own eyes.
Maybe if I get better in Español or learn Quechua and Tehuelche or any of the indigenous languages still being spoken across America del sur, then I'll be able to articulate my experience of Peru, Chile and Argentina, and what I've learned about its rich history, colourful culture, diverse landscapes and beautiful people.
Until then, I hope this video journal gives you an idea of what "the end of the world" looks like and I hope it inspires you to experience it for yourself.
Aphrodite Delaguiado © 2019
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Naltrexone Assisted Recovery
Kay Quinn, reporting for Channel 5 News in the American Mid-West, introduces us to a woman who has abused alcohol for nearly thirty years, but who has now got her habit under control with the help of a drug called Naltrexone.
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This woman, who wishes to be known as Tracie, had abused alcohol since she was 15 years old. Three years ago, she was consuming between 14 and 22 drinks a day, but has now been able to get her craving under control by using the prescription drug Naltrexone. The drug costs about $3.50 a tablet, is approved by the FDA, and is covered by most health insurance schemes. Tracy's mother put her in touch with Assisted Recovery Centers of America, which routinely uses the drug as part of their recovery program.
Paul Menzies, owner of Assisted Recovery Centers of America, in an interview with Kay Quinn, wondered why more was not known about this drug, and why it was not prescribed more often. He described it as a life saver.
In another interview, John Wright, a recovered alcoholic describes how he had failed the 12-Step program but had been able to quit by using Naltrexone.
Use of Drugs to Help Cure Addiction
Of course, society often disapproves of the use of drugs to cure addiction, suspecting that the underlying causes are not being properly addressed. Dr. Charles Conway, a psychiatrist at Saint Louis University Hospital, also adds a note of caution. The drugs have to be taken every day, and getting patients to take the daily dose can be a problem. They are not a silver bullet or miracle cure, and should be taken only as part of a comprehensive program of treatment and rehabilitation.
Naltrexone works by blocking the endorphins that are released by alcohol. Abusers experience all the effects of alcohol except for the euphoria. Alcohol therefore loses its appeal. Naltrexone is even more effective when used by people addicted to opiates like heroin, morphine, codeine and methadone.
Treatment of Alcohol Dependence with Naltrexone
In this second video, there is a report by Gabriella Rogers for Channel 9 News Australia. In this report, she looks at the use of Naltrexone to treat alcohol dependence. The tablets were originally used to treat heroin addiction, but they have been found to benefit alcohol abusers too.
She interviews Dr. Raymond Seidler, a general practitioner working in an inner city area of Sydney, Australia. He thinks it would be very useful in the treatment of alcohol dependence, a growing problem in his area of the city. Dr. Seidler noted that in the USA, it is often given as a monthly injection, rather than the six tablets a day normally offered to patients in Australia.
Recovery Benefits of Naltrexone
She also interviews Michael, an alcohol addict whose daily intake used to be half a bottle of Scotch and four liters of wine. Michael describes how alcohol addiction destroyed his marriage of nearly thirty years before he was able to give up alcohol with the help of Naltrexone.
Then, in an interview with Professor Paul Haber, a consultant at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, we get an insight into how the new drug actually works. It prevents drug and alcohol abusers from getting the same enhanced mood elevation they would normally experience when drinking. He informs us that trials of the drug in the USA have produced good results with minimal side effect.
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Research Projects
Evaluation of UK Space Agency Principia Programme
A research project of the School of Education.
Increasing the number of pupils and young people studying STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) has been a concern for successive UK governments in the last two decades. In 2014 David Cameron, the then Prime Minister announced a scheme costing about £67 million to train 17,500 maths and physics teachers and attract more postgraduates with offers of university bursaries (DBIS 2014). The 'science problem' of too few STEM graduates has also emerged in the EU, US and other developed countries (Lamb et al. 2017, DfE 2015, Smith and Gorard 2011, Brophy et al. 2008, Brett 2007). Many bodies including governmental, non-governmental and charitable organisations, as well as representatives of industry, have been actively involved in attempting to increase interest, attainment and participation in STEM subjects at school and beyond.
Considerable public funding has been allocated to programmes intended to improve attainment in STEM subjects at school, and encourage participation in STEM-relevant education and training beyond and outside school. The STEM Mapping Review revealed over 470 STEM initiatives run by government departments and external agencies as early as 2004 (DfES 2006). All were designed to engage young people, and in particular under-represented groups, in STEM subjects. The number and range of such interventions has increased considerably since. However, the actual impact of these efforts in reaching young people across the UK and in different SES groups has not been fully investigated. For example, the Science and Innovation Observatory by Sheffield Hallam noted that most studies were evaluations of a single event, and in one supposedly longitudinal study, evaluation was merely an on-the-day survey (Coldwell and Mannion 2011).
This report looks at the reach of a programme of 34 projects based on the interest and educational opportunities arising from the astronaut Tim Peake's Principia Mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The project is funded by the following grant.
- Evaluation Of Uk Space Agency Principia Programme (£19300.00 from UK Space Agency)
The aims of this project were to :
- Establish the 'reach' of the Principia education programme, in terms of the number of schools and number of young people who have taken part in the projects.
- Identify, as far as possible, patterns of participation in terms of phase of schooling, type of educational establishment and level of student disadvantage, and their geographical distribution and neighbourhood characteristics.
- Map the kind of activities that have the greatest reach, with types of participants, schools and geographical locations.
Methods for estimating the total numbers
Estimating the total numbers was challenging as each of the 32 projects had their own approach to recording or presenting participation. No data on individual participants was collected. Several projects did not provide data on the number of participants – just the school or other establishment in which the project took place, or from which the participants were recruited. Only 24 of the 32 projects provided lists of schools or other settings and organisations along with numbers of participants. All these meant that the 'reach' of the programme could only be our best independent estimate.
Without individual registrations it was not possible to eliminate entirely the duplication of participants across different projects (where an interested individual has participated in more than one). As a substitute we did three things:
First, we totalled separately the figures that are not measured in terms of participants – such as website downloads or resources sent to schools.
For the other figures, where the same school (or organisation) appeared within a project more than once this was because different year groups participated or the project ran for successive years with the same age group. We collapsed these entries to create a total for that project in that school.
Where the same school (or organisation) appeared across different projects, and it was clear that different year groups participated, nothing was done. If it was clear that same year groups participated in different projects, or it was not clear whether it was the same year groups, we had to estimate the overlap between projects (to avoid over-estimating the overall reach of the programme). Where we did not know the identities of the schools, we estimated the level of overlap with other schools by using the known level of overlap for the schools whose identities we did have. Estimating this overlap required knowledge of the size of each participating school or organisation.
To estimate the size of each school we used Edubase (a publicly available database of schools and their characteristics), and matched institutions via names and postcodes where these were available. However, Edubase only contains information about schools in England, some offshore islands (e.g. Jersey and Guernsey), and a few schools in Wales. For the other UK countries of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, participant institutions were simply totalled by region. Institutions outside the UK were also simply totalled. The list of institutions is therefore not complete. There were also participants registered as being educated at home, or by parents, and no school information is available for these.
Edubase provides information on the type of school, phase of schooling, its location (region, urban/rural), and levels of potential disadvantage (assessed by proportion of pupils with free school meal eligibility, and English as an additional language). We analysed participation in terms of all of these characteristics including size. This enabled us to go beyond reach, and consider also the kinds of participants in the overall programme as far as possible from these limited data. We did this by comparing the participating schools with the equivalent figures for all schools in England.
UK Space Agency Principia education programme report : the reach and spread of its projects : http://dro.dur.ac.uk/21760/
Headline findings
- Up to March 2017 it is estimated that over 1.6 million children and young people have participated in the educational outreach programme linked to the Principia Mission since it started in 2014. This represents 15% of the total UK school population in any year.
- Participants came from 9,894 schools. This is equivalent to 31% of all schools in UK. In addition, some projects within the programme sent out resources or set up websites whose use is not easily and accurately measured in terms of participants. As a result of this, the overall total is likely to be well over 1.6 million. Many of the projects are still going on so the number will have increased since.
- The programme has successfully reached schools and pupils of all ages in different phases of education (primary, secondary and post-secondary) and in different types of establishment (e.g. academies, community, voluntary and independent schools) in close proportion to the UK's overall school population.
- Schools and participants in different parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) were well-represented.
- Schools from large urban centres, towns and cities, rural villages and small hamlets were also well-represented. These were broadly representative of the national distribution of schools.
Published Results
- See, B.H., Morris, R., Gorard, S. & Griffin, N. (2017). UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects. Durham Durham University.


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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has rallied Ghanaians to pull together to make things happen - grow the economy and bring progress.
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call at a special service held by the Asante Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana at the Manhyia Palace.
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu asked the church to support him with prayers so that he would have the courage to do what was right in the performance of his traditional duties.
'As a king, I always need divine assistance in order to take bold decisions', he stated.
He thanked God for his abundant mercies and blessings in the past year, and said he was hopeful that more good things would be happening to the nation, this year.
The Reverend Dr. Kofi Amfo-Akonnor, Chairperson of the Presbytery, said the special service was part of the church's 'Mission to the Palace' programme, which aims at strengthening relationship between the church and the chieftaincy institution.
He spoke of the church's unwavering resolve to scale up the spread of the gospel to give confidence and bring salvation to the society.
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"We are Catalans first and Europeans second, but don't call us Spanish!" say many in Spain's independent minded northeastern region, when asked to define their national identity.
Catalonia, whose capital is Barcelona, is home to seven million of Spain's 44 million inhabitants - and over the past four years the proportion wanting complete independence from Madrid has risen by half, from 14 per cent to 21 per cent, according to the regional government's figures. Some 35 per cent also back creation of an almost entirely independent Catalonia within a federal Spain.
The steady rise in support for independence has dismayed Spanish politicians who hoped that a move three years ago to grant greater freedom to Catalonia within Spain - comparable to Scottish devolution - would reverse the tide of Catalan nationalism.
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It is the Catalan flag, with its narrow crimson and gold stripes, that mostly flutters from balconies across towns and in the region's capital, Barcelona - not the national flag of Spain.
Now children in state schools learn only in the Catalan language of their region - which evolved, like Spanish and French, from common Latin - and are confined by law to a maximum of three hours' Spanish a week.
Promotion of the language and the Catalan culture has been extended worldwide with "embassies" opened in London, Paris, New York and Beijing.
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"We strongly believe in the European Union, because there we have an alliance that potentially gives the same voice to small 'nations', like Catalonia, as to bigger countries such as Spain and France," said Pol Pages, 25, a leading member of the youth arm of ERC, the separatist party which forms an important part of the Catalan regional coalition government.
"And the European Union offers protection," he added. "If tomorrow Catalonia voted to break away from Spain, Madrid couldn't send in the army as it has threatened in the past because we are a part of Europe and protected by its laws.
"Europe to us represents democracy, human rights and a respect for freedom and we hope one day to be recognised as our own state within it."
Catalonia's status as a powerful region has been greatly enhanced by the EU: the region has had its own "embassy" in Brussels since 2004 and directly lobbies the European Commission and the European parliament - to secure changes to the law and seek direct regional funding from the EU budget. Such funds, worth billions of euros a year, are directly managed by the Catalan parliament and government.
The growing power of the region has led to demands for Catalan ministers to participate directly in EU Council of Ministers meetings, meetings which would normally be reserved for national Spanish ministers. Likewise, Catalonia has demanded and won the right to participate in European commission committees and, most importantly, the right to participate directly in the drawing up and revision of EU treaties.
The region's language has been recognised as an "official" language of the EU, but has not been put on a par with Spanish - meaning that only some documents are translated into Catalan. The region is now demanding the right of direct access to the European Court of Justice to protect its interests. At present it needs the backing of the Spanish government before it can go to court.
Barcelona is expected to become the headquarters of EU's Union for the Mediterranean project, a regional bloc intended to improve links with the countries of North Africa.


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Building Blocks
Proposal: Cubesat Technology Demonstrator for Plasma Magnet Sail
For those who don't know, the plasma magnet sail is a type of magnetic sail invented by John Slough, which should be able to produce orders of magnitude more thrust than ion drives of similar power consumption. It has been tested in laboratory vacuum chambers, but not in space, which is important...
Student, engineering / plasma physics
Coral, an Open Lunar Space Program
Coral, the first decentralized space program to the Moon (https://medium.com/spacedecentral/introducing-coral-an-open-lunar-space-program-702e293c9869), has been many months in the making. We wanted to build a clear process for the community to finally collaborate on a space mission. We have bee...
Co-Founder, Space Cooperative
Two Asteroid Probe Missions Will Reach their Targets in 2018
The Christian Science Monitor published this superb, in-depth article about the Japanese Hayabusa-2 Mission to Asteroid Ryugu and the US OSIRIS-REX mission to Asteroid Bennu: Chasing asteroids: Dual missions sniff out clues to solar system's past It opens with this great aspirational s...
Small Multi Role Satellites in Lunar Orbit
A constellation of small multi role satellites providing lunar position system, 5G communication, lunar high resolution spectrography and space weather monitoring. These satellites would support lunar mineral mapping and identification of mining zones for future robotic missions. A lunar economy ...
Systems Engineer
Modular "Universally" Adaptable Support Craft
As a tentative proposal for a near- to mid- term project, I suggest the development of a Modular Universally Adaptable Support Craft. This would be composed of a "plug-in" command/control module, attached to a modular support frame. Other modular components would be attached as necessary for a gi...
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MELISSA like projects
Hello everybody, I would like to talk a little bit about the MELISSA project, is everyboy familiar with it ? http://www.esa.int/OurActivities/SpaceEngineering_Technology/Melissa
Master student at the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture
Asteroid Commons
2018 Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering Results
The 2018 ASIME Symposium was held at the Université du Luxembourg https://asime.uni.lu/. Recently, they posted the ASIME Abstract Book http://geophy.uni.lu/users/tonie.vandam/asime-2018/Abstract_book.pdf The abstracts that grabbed my attention include the following (I added URLs where ...
Lunar Odyssey
Whatever Happened to the Constellation Lunar Program?
As the prospect of returning humans to the Moon becomes a more frequent topic of discussion, it would be valuable to describe the circumstances that led to the demise of NASA's last attempt: the Constellation Lunar Program that ran from 2004 to 2010. The Constellation Program poses a cautionary ...
Software Development
Since Derek started posting some ideas about space education fundamentals, I am posting some curricula for space education and placing the documents in the "Files" box at the bottom of this page. Starting with: Duerk, Donna P. (2004 September). A Curriculum for Aerospace Architecture (AIAA 2...
Martian Spring
A Big Week for Mars News
This past week (July 23-29, 2018) has displayed a wealth of Mars News. Leading off the week was a US Congressional hearing about the "Journey to Mars." The big scientific news from Mars was the discovery of what appears to be an underground lake 20 km long, which if it proves true, would amount...


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I used to have the perfect wardrobe. I fondly remember the days when I would simply go into my own closet for an outfit to wear for whatever occasion I was attending at that time in my life. It was so refreshing to know that I had everything I needed, and my wardrobe suited my lifestyle and when I did go shopping it wasn't out of need, but more for fun and to add pieces to my wardrobe that just updated and refreshed it from season to season. Those days of my beautiful walk-in closet came to an end when I decided to quit my public relations job in New York City, and embark on a cross-country, self-discovery journey. Upon returning home, to a very limited wardrobe and a deeper sense of self, I needed to start from scratch and rebuild my dream wardrobe all over again. I decided to call in the fashion experts: The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees, How To Dress For Success by Edith Head and Secrets Of A Fashion Therapist by Betty Halbreich, and made a plan to read these books and document my journey of rebuilding my dream wardrobe and share the process with all of you. To make this process easy to follow, you can easily click on any blog post in the category, Rebuilding My Dream Wardrobe, to travel with me on this new journey.
From Walk-In Closet To Backpacking Across The Country.
Truth be told, I donated a shit ton of my clothes when I left New York City to embark on a self-discovery mission. Now, I'm back on the East Coast with plenty of colorful stories and adventures under my belt, and feeling that although traveling cross country with a backpack taught me so much about having a minimalist lifestyle, it's time to build my dream wardrobe, again. Living like a yogi has been fun, but I'm ready for another walk-in closet. And now, after living out of a backpack for eleven months, I think it's safe to say I've built some pretty strong minimalist muscles when it comes to my wardrobe, and my lifestyle. But for the sake of time and purpose of this blog, let's stay focused on personal style.
I don't remember everything I packed in my backpack, but I do recall the main ingredients. I had a yoga mat, hiking shoes, a pair of Toms, sneakers, and western boots on my feet. My ex-military boyfriend taught me how to pack like a boss, so I rolled up all my favorite yoga leggings, three pairs of jeans, some comfy sweaters, a jacket, two pairs of shorts, some tanks and tees, undergarments, and the personal hygiene essentials. Plus I had to carry my favorite books and journals. I couldn't leave my entire library behind. Long story short, I had to get real creative with how I dressed for dates and other events that required a little more jazz than a tank with yoga leggings, sneakers, and a denim jacket. At first it was fun. I was a traveling yogi, so the shoe fit. But then I started to miss my old wardrobe and all the blouses, pencil skirts, blazers, wool winter coats, and my twenty pairs of jeans and a pair of shoes for every mood. What was I thinking? Just donating 95% of my wardrobe to my former coworkers, friends and The Salvation Army. Somebody shopped on fleek that day.
Creating A Versatile, Minimalist Wardrobe.
Even though it wasn't one of the best decisions I've made, it actually gave me the space to practice the art of creating a minimalist, versatile wardrobe, which is my best-selling style program and one of my main offerings of my style services. The first time I read through The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees, I LOVED every single page. It was dense, and pragmatic and everything I needed. I learned very quickly that we share similar values. We're both very clear, and intentional with how we want to dress. We don't follow fashion rules. But we're huge advocates of discovering yourself through personal style and having it tell the story of who you are through the clothes, shoes, accessories and pieces that you wear on any given day. We shared the same passion: building a wardrobe that is as functional and as personalized as possible. In fact, it wasn't until reading this book that I finally had a language for a lot of the things I was already doing and practicing in my own life. I fell in love and recommended it to women everywhere. In my opinion, it's the best style book on the market. She breaks down every single detail and gives you a simple, thoughtful step-by-step system on exactly how to discover your personal style and build a dream wardrobe. So, that's exactly what I'm going to do! I'm going to read through her book, and document my journey step-by-step. I'm not saying I'll follow a straight line from chapter one through twenty-one, but I will read it again and work through it as I feel inspired. Full disclosure: I've done many exercises in this book, and have shared them with my clients (because they're brilliant). But, I think there's magic in the process of documenting my personal experience step-by-step, and I hope it will add value and create inspiration for everyone who reads this as they go through their own personal style journey. Because the truth is, even though I gave away almost every piece of clothing I ever owned, my personal style has changed so much, because my life has changed so much, and it's beautiful to be able to rebuild and start fresh with a blank canvas. I mean, I chopped my hair, guys.
KEY PRINCIPLE #2: Be Authentic: Forget conventional style typologies like "classic" or "bohemian" and create your own unique look.
The Curated Closet Philosophy.
Anuscha Rees has written a brilliant book for discovering your personal style, and building your dream wardrobe. As I embark on this journey, it's important to highlight why I chose to work through her book out of all the personal style books on the market. It all comes down to The Curated Closet Philosophy. In the book, Rees answers: "What Is The Curated Closet? The Curated Closet is a wardrobe that's perfectly tailored to your unique personal style and your life. It contains everything you need to feel confident and inspired everyday– no more and no less. It is not based on trends, style typologies, or a cookie-cutter list of "wardrobe essentials." Your life isn't cookie-cutter, so why should your wardrobe be?"
5 Key Principles Of The Curated Closet Philosophy.
I deeply believe in these principles and have been practicing them for years without even knowing it. All five of these principles apply to every single tip, technique, and exercise in the book, The Curated Closet. It's important to outline them here, in the beginning of my personal style discovery journey, so as you follow along you can see how all five principles are woven into everything that I do.
KEY PRINCIPLE #1: Be Selective: Reserve your closet space for items you love 100 percent.
KEY PRINCIPLE #2: Be Authentic: Forget conventional style typologies like "classic" or "bohemian" and create your own unique look.
KEY PRINCIPLE #3: Aim For Quality: Build a wardrobe of high-quality pieces that last more than just a few years.
KEY PRINCIPLE #4: Style Trumps Fashion: Get excited about fashion trends that suit your own style, but ignore all others.
KEY PRINCIPLE #5: Put In The Work: Invest time and though into developing your style and selecting the perfect garments.
Documenting Your Outfits For 2 Weeks.
Rees recommends starting your personal style journey in your current closet. The very first thing she recommends is documenting your outfits for two weeks. This exercise is something I ask my clients to do in my staple style program, because it's important to actually see what you're wearing, how you're wearing it, and how you feel about what you wear on the day-to-day of your life. You choose a "normal" two week period of work, social events, gym time, and whatever else you've got going on and take two weeks of selfies. After that, she asks you to complete a Status Quo Questionnaire with all of your photos from the two weeks in front of you, and evaluate how your current sense of style. Then, after reflecting on your answers, you write down your style goals: what you like about your style and current wardrobe, what aspects of your style and wardrobe need work, and what skills you're wanting to learn. Next up: collecting style inspiration and laying the groundwork for discovery.
Try This At Home.
Feel free to follow and experiment along with me, and try this at home. I also recommend seizing the moment and starting the new fall season with a fresh reorg of your current closet. To make space for the new, we've got to remove the old. Take all the summer items out of your closet and place them in storage. You can use bins to store any items you don't use like swimwear, summer dresses, skirts and shirts, sandals, etc. I recommend choosing a bottom dresser drawer and storing out of season items there. It'll be out of your closet, which will make more room for the in-season stuff. And having it in a bottom dresser drawer means it's close enough that you can switch things up pretty easily without too much transportation.


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This piece of necklace is perfect for those who wants to spot a luxurious look but wants to keep things simple. Absolutely minimal and elegant.


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March 13, 2019 - 10th Annual Surrey Women in Business Awards
The Surrey Board of Trade will welcome, to Surrey, the former Senior Adviser to USA Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Betsy Myers as the keynote speaker for the 10th Annual Surrey Women in Business Awards Lunch.
A leading advocate in the advancement of women in both business and politics, Betsy Myers was one of the masterminds behind President Barack Obama's 2007-2008 campaign. Since then she has become one of the most sought-out speakers and consultants on the changing nature of leadership.
Betsy Myers served as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Adviser to Barack Obama's 2007-2008 presidential campaign and chaired the Women for Obama organization. As Chief Operating Officer, Myers used her customer service expertise and business savvy to establish Obama's national campaign operations in January 2007. Though Obama was initially considered a long-shot candidate, Myers built up a $100,000,000 organization that stayed focused and turned Obama into a serious competitor after a historic win in the 2008 Iowa Caucus. Ultimately, her team helped secure him the White House in a general election in which he received 69.5 million votes, the highest amount of votes ever won by a presidential candidate.
Betsy Myers was also a senior official in the Bill Clinton administration. She was the first director of the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach.
Before joining the Obama campaign, she was Executive Director of Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. She currently serves as Founding Director of the Center for Women in Business at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She lives with her family near Boston.
Betsy has a wealth of experience in corporate, political and higher education. Betsy has been taking the message of leadership and women's advancement to organizations and corporations around the globe. Betsy's book, Take the Lead, was voted one of the top leadership books of the year by The Washington Post.
Guests will experience an inspirational presentation that will add to their businesses and to the city of Surrey.
Speaker Topic:
Women and Leadership
In this provocative presentation, Betsy discusses important research and thinking around women in leadership. She explores the history of the movement for equality and shares insights gleaned from her work with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug. Tracing her own career path, Betsy brings perspective from her experiences as a successful female leader. She helps audiences understand what it will take to continue closing the confidence gap, how to confront the balance question, the different leadership styles of men and women, and leadership necessary for the next generation of women. Betsy will translate lessons learned from the campaign and President Obama's leadership style that could be applied to every organization and leader in both the public and private sector. Myers outlines key elements of respectful leadership and provides insights for leaders who want to improve both their personal and organizational success.
Reserve your seats now! This event sells out quickly so don't miss your opportunity!
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ALSO: The event will also include the presentation of the six Surrey Women in Business Award winners.
The Master of Ceremonies for this year's event is legendary news anchor Coleen Christie.
Event payment is due upon registration. Cancellations for event attendance, sponsorship, or exhibitor space will not be refunded. An event registration is considered a commitment to pay. While event registration is non-refundable, cancellations before three full business days of the event may be eligible for a credit towards a future event. Some exclusions apply.


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Faithful Fields to host Leinster Championship match tomorrow
New facility is being pressed into action due to Storm Brian
Faithful Fields from the air
Bord na Mona Faithful Fields will host a Leinster Club Championship match tomorrow as Storm Brian continues to play havoc with the weekend's GAA fixtures.
The AIB Leinster Club Intermediate Football Championship encounter between Offaly champions Durrow and Mullinavat from Kilkenny has been moved to the new facility just outside Kilcormac. The game will throw in at 2pm.
Erin Rovers and Ballinamere's respective Leinster CLub Junior Championship games fell foul of Storm Brian today.


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Video SEO Is Important For Video TrafficBy
You should not neglect using good video SEO when you produce a video for your online marketing. Strong SEO keywords in your video title and description will really make a difference in driving traffic to your videos. Using good Internet marketing video SEO strategies will get lots of folks clamoring to view your videos. If you want video traffic… follow these simple tips.
By the way…. Google rank your videos according to the keywords you use and the amount of traffic you get.
Video Title:
Use keywords in your title. You are limited to the number of characters in the title so put the keywords as close to the front of your title as possible. Notice my name is in the title. It's a keyword too.
Video Description:
The first thing you put in your description is the URL to your website or optin-page. Follow it with the title of your video and other keywords. You can make this description as long as you want… in fact the longer the better. Pack it with relevant keywords so Google will see your video as an authority site.
Your tags are any words that a viewer may type into the search bar.
Now I have your attention… I'm, going to share this video with you… so you can make this delicious apple crisp for your family.
*** Believe it or not… YouTube video resolutions is some of the worst. There are other video directories that do a much better job in re-producing your videos with good clarity.
Happy Video Marketing and Promotion
Till later,
Kathryn Griffiths
P.S. Some of my earlier videos did not follow these steps. Isn't it wonderful that Online Marketing is a learning process and we can always improve.
P.P.S. Speaking of learning… I've pick up so many quick video marketing tips with this $7.00 e-book…"1000 Visitors In 24 Hours." I'm going to using some of the simple tips I've learned in this valuable book to increase my Video Traffic. If you snooze…you lose… so pick it up now!
I have to admit, I am very slow coming the video marketing world. Maybe if I continue to read blogs like yours, I will feel more comfortable with it. I know it's the "wave of the future" and you give great tips and make it sound do-able sooooooo, onward and upward! LOL
Hi Kathryn,
Great post on using SEO on your videos to build traffic. It is so important to use keywords in the title and description (and keyword section). A lot of people don't "bother" with that at all, unfortunately for them.
Another tip is to look at high ranking videos in your niche and see what keywords are being used.
Btw, my apple trees are full of apples ready for pickin' so I'll definitely be making apple crisp from your recipe… this weekend.
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"Isn't it wonderful that Online Marketing is a learning process and we can always improve." That is so true, Kathy. There is just so much we can learn and being selective is the key to avoid overwhelm. Thank you for explaining the importance of using good SEO strategies in video creation. I still have not started creating my own videos but it's one of my goals for the next 90 days. This post will serve as a valuable resource when I do.


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Dactylorhiza sambucina
Dactylorhiza sambucina's South and Central Europe mountain areas, in Sweden, in Finland only in Åland and is rare in Denmark. In Norway nature a limited distribution in southern Buskerud, Telemark and Aust-Agder, it's up to 1000 meters above sea level and is Telemark county flower. Chromosome Numbers 2n = 40 (42).
Not native to the UK.
Linnaeus named this species the first time in 1753 to Orchis latifolia, and the second time in 1755, he gave the plant the name Orchis sambucina. There are many examples where a plant has been named several times, but not by the same person. Here comes the latest art epithet sambucina which is not really in line with the current nomenclature there initially given the species epithet should apply. But the original to Linnaeus show he gave three plants art epithet latifolia, thus it is forbidden to avoid naming confusions. But one may still find epithet latifolia used in encyclopedias about sambucina. In Sweden the plant Adam and Eve that caused two color variations. One is yellow and the other red, and both blooms side by side. In Norway Dactylorhiza sambucina only with yellow flowers.
Dactylorhiza sambucina depending on silicates in the rock, and is a relatively low plant that grows up to 25 cm high. There is nevertheless a sharp orchids with a plurality of long oval leaves which are collected at the bottom of the stem. Upwards have stems that are narrower and shorter leaves. All leaves are spotless, and the inflorescence is short with many whimsical flowers. Plants bloom very early and can bloom as early as the beginning of May in lower altitudes.
Dactylorhiza sambucina exist in its natural habitat really only the bright, open places in the woods and preferably steep slopes with screes. The plant is a highly light-demanding orchid that will quickly disappear if it gets too little light. This orchid is a good representative of orchids that greatly benefits from human activities like farming driven the old way with grazing of farm animals' inputs and uncultivated land and cutting cultivated land with a scythe. The species is currently taken care of by the old cultivated land and natural meadows can only be cut at the old way.
Dactylorhiza sambucina is protected under the Nature Diversity Act and are as vulnerable on the Norwegian Red List.


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Community Immunization Map
Data will be collated and uploaded so that individuals and/vaccinators will be alerted where and when there is a deficiency.
Describe what you intend to do and how you'll do it in one sentence (required 250 Characters)TechEduHub seeks to work with the public, Hospitals, Health centres, Doctors in collating and uploading data of vaccinated individuals. This will clearly show and alert individuals and vaccinators to get and give the right and missing vaccines
Explain the idea (less than 2,000 characters)Most people fail to keep tab of their health status and mostly forget some important immunizations. Also, most individuals depend on free government vaccines which may not be totally wholistic of vaccines need for the age. People died of severe diseases that could have been conquered by early immunizations Everyon, gender Location will benefit from the immunization map Individuals: are able to see the immunizations that they have and have not taken. Hospitals: Doctors are also able to see any patients vaccination history and alert where there are deficiency. Patients vaccination history can also assist in diagnosing situations faster Vaccinators/Government: They are able to move swiftly and reach out to indiviaual communities that are yet to be vaccinated. This can easily help stop death or severe cases Others: Health Insurance schemes, employers medical check etc. Most of effort and time will be expended in collation and migration of data to an acceptable software for continuous Data collation. A Health software that will contain also the data will be built
Which part(s) of the world does this idea target?
- North Africa
- Eastern Africa
- Middle Africa
- Southern Africa
- Western Africa
Geographic Focus (less than 250 Characters)My Idea targets Africa as a whole
Who are your end users and how well do you know them? (750 characters)End users are 1. General public 2. Health Vaccinators 3Hospitals 4. Employers 5. Schoold 5. Other countries
How is the idea unique? (750 Characters)The Idea is Unique as the Immunization Map will help protect our citizens from getting hit by health hazzards. It will aid rapid response and also help in better diagnosis
Idea Proposal Stage (Select 1)
- Blueprint: We are exploring the idea and gathering the inspiration and information we need to test it with real users.
How many months are required for the project idea? (140 characters)It will take approximately 2 years but we can round off the phase 1 in 6months. Phase 1 will be some select communities and age grade of 0-5
Organization Name (less than 140 characters)TechEduHub
Type of Submitter
- We are a For-Profit Startup or Startup Social Enterprise
Organizational Characteristics
- Youth-led organization
- Technology Led
Organization Location (less than 140 Characters)We are located at Kosisochukwu Plaza, Rivervalley estate, Ojodu-Berger. Lagos.
What is the current scale of your organization's work?
- National (expansive reach within one country)