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Calum Waddell – Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012)
From shadowlocked.com
Norman Bates once said "We all go a little crazy sometimes," but never has this been truer than in the genre that spawned everybody's favourite mother's boy. I speak, of course, of the slasher film, the roots of which can arguably be traced back to Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's monochrome masterpiece. Though there are cases for other films being the trigger point for the modern stalk and slash movie, notably Mario Bava's Bay of Blood (1971), Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960), and even the various celluloid incarnations of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, all of which are put forward by the contributors in Calum Waddell and Naomi Holwill's Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever, it was Psycho that brought murder to the masses and opened the vein for what was to follow.Considering the popularity of the slasher movie over the subsequent four decades or so, it's surprising that there hasn't been a documentary like Slice and Dice before now, but like the pay off in a well plotted horror movie, it's definitely been worth waiting for.Read More »
Calum Waddell – 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
The story behind the rise and fall of New York`s 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" – this is the document of the world`s most notorious movie strip.Read More »
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Advancing Laser Ablation Chemical Analysis
Rick Russo, the winner of the 2013 Lester W. Strock Award, is known for important advances in laser ablation for use in spectrochemical analysis. In a new interview, he talks about those developments, how his career developed, and what it's like, as a research scientist, to lead a start-up company.
An interview with Richard E. Russo, the winner of the 2013 Lester W. Strock Award.
Part of the 2013 podcast series presented in collaboration with the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), in connection with SciX 2013, the federation's North American conference.
For more podcasts in this series from 2013 and 2012, visit
Richard E. Russo, PhD, is the scientific director of the Laser spectroscopy group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), in Berkeley, California, and the president and CEO of Applied Spectra, Inc.
Russo's research group at LBNL pioneered the understanding and development of nanosecond and femtosecond pulsed laser ablation for chemical analysis. He is a co-inventor of the nanowire laser and developer of a real-time standoff laser ultrasonic sensor, which won an R&D 100 Award in 2006). He is also the inventor of a process for nano-texturing thin films (ITEX process) and the lead inventor of an assisted pulsed laser deposition process (IBAD).
Most recently, in his Berkeley research laboratory, with the assistance of Applied Spectra staff, he has demonstrated and patented the use of laser plasmas for real-time measurement of isotopes. The new technology, called laser molecular isotopic spectroscopy (LAMIS), won a 2012 R&D 100 Award and a FACSS–SciX Innovation Award, and was the Spectrochimica Acta paper of the year for 2012.
Russo has more than 240 scientific publications; 45 refereed proceedings; 310 presentations (215 invited); and nine book chapters. Fourteen students have received their PhD degrees under his direction at the University of Berkeley, and he has mentored numerous PhD students from international universities.
In 2004, Russo founded Applied Spectra, Inc. with the assistance of several of his PhD students from Berkeley. The company is a leader in chemical analysis using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
About the Lester W. Strock Award
The Lester W. Strock Award is given by the New England Section of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research in or an application of analytical atomic spectrochemistry in the fields of earth science, life sciences, or stellar and cosmic sciences.
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The traditional North American meeting of FACSS is now SciX - The Great Scientific Exchange. SciX covers the whole of analytical chemistry with an emphasis on emerging technologies. SciX carries on the FACSS tradition of a strong technical program (over 100 symposia), many prestigious awards, exhibits, a variety of workshops, an employment bureau and multiple social networking opportunities.
SciX is the National Meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the North American Society for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NASLIBS).
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The décor of the restaurant is of a traditional Japanese style with all utensils carefully handpicked by Ah De and brought back from Japan. In authentic Kyoto cuisine, to present the true essence of Japanese flavor, the display and utensils are also of importance and cannot be carelessly placed. The first floor offers the option of a private dining space, which can be closed off with bamboo shutters, as well as an open dining area where diners can observe the open kitchen. If you only come in a small group of 2 or 3, then you may sit at the sushi bar and watch the master at work. The second floor is reserved for families or business gatherings.
The restaurant maintains the traditional essence of Japanese cuisine, setting it apart from the rest of Taiwan's Japanese restaurants that focus on innovation. Even the name itself is meaningful. "Zi", meaning son, refers to the process of growth, while "Yuan" is the original flavor. "We hope that we can introduce the true essence of traditional Japanese cuisine to guests in Taiwan." The most important thing about cooking is to fully understand each ingredient, especially Kyoto cuisine which uses the freshest seasonal ingredients to create and bring out the tonic essence of the dish.
This time round, Ah De prepared a 2000 NTD combo set meal that included three-ingredient skewer, five kinds of sashimi, grilled dishes, stewed dishes, deep fried dishes, sushi, seafood donburi, soup, and desserts all presented delicately like small artistic masterpieces.
Appetizers include Japanese seaweed salad, mozuku seaweed in vinaigrette, three- ingredient skewer (Tamagoyaki, Konnyaku and shrimp). Soft and slimy, Ah De says the seaweed used in the salad is exclusive to Kyushu, found nowhere else. The five kinds of succulent and appetizing sashimi include tuna, amberjack, spot prawn, flatfish and Japanese mackerel.
The pan-fried red sea bream is often sought after by diners. This dish is followed by flatfish mushi (steamed), and mitten crabs in a gravy; when tasted, will have you realize the rigorous process put into the preparation. The sesame fugu karaage with its crispy batter and tender meat give it an interesting flavor. Fugu and sesame are both autumn seasoned ingredients. The most memorable part of the sushi is the neritic squid sushi, firm in texture, with just the right amount of wasabi and rice to devour in one bite. Then it is the salmon roe with urchin don, not of large amounts but guaranteeing you will be left satisfied. You will be astounded by the sweetness of the urchin and the explosion of flavors from the salmon roe.


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On the way back from the Frankston Motor Registry, my Singapore-born nephew, now the proud possessor of his P-plates, drove confidently and in a celebratory mood. I was happy that learner had turned 'chauffeur' so that I could revert to one of the idle contentment of life – reading aloud from a new collection of poems without pressing interruptions. I decided to try out The Poem Relevancy Test with a couple of random pieces. In his early twenties and now at university, this post-modern Everyman communicates mostly through text message and is one of the vast majority of non-poetry readers. Thus, Island Earth: New and Selected Poems became the tome for some stick-the-finger-in-the-page bibliomancy while we motored through death-camp quiet suburbia.


Customer Reviews & Client Testimonials – Love 'em or Leave 'em?
A fellow member of Small Biz Nation asks, "How critical are reviews and testimonials to a small business and how do you manage and share those reviews within your organization?" My answer: so critical that it's like throwing away money not to ask for them.
When seeking applicants for a job, the smart boss knows there are several ways to evaluate a candidate. The CV or résumé offers a snapshot of the person's capabilities in presenting him- or herself in written form. The interview is about the in-person presentation and "the vibe." Finally, the references provide 3rd party support for the conclusions reached in the use of the first two.
You've found great pictures of a bed-and-breakfast online and the rates look great. But many former guests have placed reviews on Qype that state the place smells, is farther from the city center than advertised, and its bathrooms are poorly cleaned. Will you still book your lodging there?
Or what about the new Indian restaurant. Your friends have just tried it and they're RAVING about how good the food is. How more likely are you to give it a try than if you'd only seen their "grand opening" sign?
Make the ask: Place a call or send a personal email to your current and former clients asking them to be a reference for your business. If the person is also on LinkedIn, use the Ask for a Recommendation tool. Easy!
Drop it into your marketing materials: Use snippets or even full text in your sales and marketing materials. If your current client says "I would recommend ArcherTC to anybody!" your prospective client may be persuaded by reading just that alone. Websites, brochures, sales letters — use it!
Encourage your colleagues to do the same: Sometimes, the recommendation is for one of your colleagues. But if each member of the whole team is getting great feedback, that speaks wonders about the team as a whole.
Help your clients talk about you: You know those "tell a friend" calls to action? They work. So don't hesitate to ask current clients to pass on the news about what you've done. Better yet, make it easy for them by making suggestions: If they have a newsletter, ask them if they'd be willing to include a small statement about the work you did for them. If they're in a business club, tell them you'll offer a great price to any members they personally refer.
I'm sure others have more to share about their own experiences, so I'd love to hear them. What's your take?
In a Search Engine Land article, marketing consultant Byrne Hobart uncovers the use of search engine optimization and marketing tactics in driving issue-based campaigns. While written for those already aware of SEO and SEM (e.g. term ranks, keyword research, organic results), the article is also a primer for those non-profits that wish to add these tools to their toolbox.
How do citizens, journalists, political leaders, and donors already gain awareness of political campaigns?
How can SEO and SEM help non-profits raise the visibility of their initiatives in an ever-crowded playing field?
How can advocacy groups with more time- or media-sensitive targets use SEO and SEM to place their concerns in the very same spaces as those they are challenging?
Your potential customers are looking for you online. Be sure to be there to greet them.
Technology has opened new doors to the small business owner. In the generation of our parents, there were straightforward needs: a phone number, a list of contact names, and the simple determination to market the business. The World Wide Web changed all of that. Now, while you still need that phone number and a list of names, you also are expected to have a website and – with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn sites dominating marketing news – a social media plan.
Do you need to have all of this in place before you begin marketing your business? Of course not. However, it does help to have a place to start and, increasingly, marketing experts state that place is online. So before you place your first call or send your first email promotion, you will want to have a website ready to receive your first customers.
A website is now considered the core of the small business marketing portfolio. It is as important as having a number that your customers can call and a business card that you can distribute at a trade show. Why? In increasing numbers, consumers are no longer turning to the printed Yellow Pages for information. Rather, they are going online and using search engines like Google or Bing to find everything from basic directions to a nearby retailer to recommendations for a new family restaurant. According to an ongoing consumer-focused study published in March 2010 by BIA/Kelsey, nearly twice as many survey respondents (90 percent) used search engines as the Yellow Pages (48 percent).
Because the first step to a successful marketing effort is being where your customers are, it makes good business sense to be online and findable.
Why is Purchasing a Domain Name the First Step?
There are many ways to get your business online with its own website, but the first step is to purchase a domain name. Domain names – like buymecoffee.com or insertyournamehere.com – are simply the addresses whereby a customer can find your website.
You will read from some advisors that you do not need to buy a domain name of your own to create a business website. In fact, some companies promise everything to you for free: an online address and the tools to build your own site. But these offers come with strings attached: The first is that the address that they provide (yourname.theirname.com) is merely an extension of their business marketing. Place that domain name on your business card and you provide the other business with free promotion!
The second problem is that their tools often come with their branding. Perhaps you have already seen websites like this: the text and banner advertising points the visitor to different sites all together. Surely you do not want your site to direct customers away from your core message!
Finally, just as if you were subleasing an office from a primary leaseholder, you take on the risk of the other company. If their business site closes, so does yours. This may be an extreme circumstance, but being a savvy business owner means anticipating the possible.
Are these the problems that you want your small business to take on in exchange for "free"? With prices for domain names at less than $10 per year, do yourself a favor and buy your own, unique name. Just remember to make it simple and memorable.
In addition to a domain name, you have two very important choices: a web design that provides the online polish to your small business story and a website host to show that finished product to the consumers looking for your business.
Design: Beyond the free sites come there are many inexpensive ways for you to launch your small business website to the world. At sites like TemplateMonster.com and ThemeForest.com, you can purchase complete website designs and hire developers at a fraction of the cost of an original design – a blessing to both your checkbook and your peace of mind. If you need a more complex site – with a shopping cart or a regularly updated blog, for example – there are free, open source programs like Zen Cart, WordPress and Joomla with which you can have your site built. These content management systems (CMS) are well-developed and often backed by passionate communities of users – many just like you.
Of course, hiring a designer to craft a look that uniquely represents your business is the best choice. But if you do not want to make that investment at the start, these options are available.
Hosting: Once you have purchased a template or a unique design, the next choice is to find a company that will serve it up to your potential customers. Prices for hosting companies can vary widely and so can service quality.
It helps to know what matters most to you and your business before you begin shopping. For example, how important is it to you to have 24/7 access to a customer service representative? If you have a small writing consulting firm, unexpected server downtime may not be as critical for you as it is for the owner of an auction site.
Use review sites like VistaInter.com and FindMyHosting.com to help you choose a host that provides the right balance of industry standard tools, pricing plans, and customer service.
These decisions, while small, serve as the foundation upon which your small business marketing can grow. With a memorable domain, a great design, and a strong hosting infrastructure, you can turn your attention to what really matters: the use of your website to promote your business to potential buyers of your products and services.
With inexpensive domain registration and equally affordable designs at your fingertips, online marketing of your small business is simply business smart.
Help your customers find you today with your first small business website.
The author, Tammi L. Coles, writes for Archer Targeted Communication, an American English communications company in Berlin, Germany. Does your business need assistance in getting on the web? Email her at tammi.coles@archertc.com.


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The Folly of Economic Warfare
Sanctions Helped Milosevic's Government Rally Support Throughout the Bosnian Civil War
Doug Bandow
Economics Sanctions
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia—"What we say goes," was George Bush's famous remark after the Gulf War. That remains American policy, and U.S. policymakers are increasingly using economic sanctions to enforce their will. Burma, Cuba, Iraq, and North Korea are ongoing targets. An odd coalition of religious conservatives and human-rights activists wants to hit China with huge trade barriers. And Washington is threatening to reimpose restrictions on Yugoslavia unless it abandons its crackdown in the province of Kosovo.
But Yugoslavia demonstrates the limits of sanctions. The United States and Western allies isolated the Serb-dominated state during the lengthy Bosnian civil war without effect. They imposed bans on air travel, investment, and trade. But nationalism proved to be more powerful than economics. Only exhaustion and threatened Western military intervention on behalf of the Muslims led to the Dayton Accord and the preservation of a united Bosnia hated by all three resident ethnic groups.
Yugoslavia was once the most advanced nation in Eastern Europe, the state with the freest economy and greatest autonomy from the Soviet Union. In the late 1980s it "was a model of economic development for Eastern Europe," says Slobodan Brkic, a British-trained analyst with the Yugoslav Democratic Party.
But the economy has since collapsed; the country's industrial production has fallen to 1952 levels. Yugoslavs are poorer even than the Bosnians, who only recently emerged from the horrors of civil war.
Sanctions were only one reason for Yugoslavia's economic implosion—the disintegration of the multi-ethnic state, the effects of war, and the end of the Communist Comecon market were others—but they are an important one. In that sense, they weakened the Yugoslav state.
However, sanctions had no discernible impact on Belgrade's policy.
But sanctions are not merely ineffective; they are usually counterproductive. President Slobodan Milosevic has so far escaped widespread blame for the economic chaos. He's the "Teflon president," explains one American observer. Indeed, sanctions actually strengthened the Milosevic regime. "The government loves sanctions," explains Filip David, editor of the magazine The Right to Pictures and Words. Democratic leaders in Yugoslavia, despite often difficult dealings with each other, agree that Western economic controls benefit the oppressive regime and make their opposition more difficult.
Western economic restrictions without doubt enriched those in power. Average people suffered from mass unemployment and underemployment, hyperinflation, and financial chaos, but smuggling and black-market activities provided enormous profits for the well-connected. With sanctions "the gold is everywhere. They control the black market completely," says David. "People become enormously rich." He adds that the people in the regime "don't need a good economy, they need the black market."
The beneficiaries were Milosevic's family and friends, who sent their money abroad, say opposition activists. This economic elite even used the sanctions to justify that conduct, observes David.
Sanctions also concentrated economic power in the hands of the government. Zoran Djindjic, a leading opposition figure, explains that "sanctions lead to centralization of the management of the economy." That obviously strengthens the state. Central control reinforces the people's dependence on the regime. And dependence cripples opposition activities. Djindjic notes that independent businesses and professionals have disappeared. "Our only support is from people who are independent in their businesses" since they are least subject to government pressure, Djindjic says.
Indeed, economic war from the West largely eliminated the indispensable constituency for liberalization: "The middle class is completely destroyed," says David. "It doesn't exist. Professors at universities, doctors can't survive." Brkic goes so far as to argue that "Milosevic's path to power was paved with the destruction of the middle class."
Thus impoverishing people for the actions of their rulers is not just bad moral policy. It is also bad politics. Notes Djindjic, sanctions "damage the democratic opposition." As people are made poor they tend to concentrate on trying to survive rather than on promoting political reform. "All classes of civil society are ruined," he says. Djindjic says that his party has even had to pay for the gasoline of party members so they can attend meetings, since they can't afford to do so.
Finally, and perhaps most important, sanctions have given Milosevic a convenient scapegoat for the impact of his policies—his "continual campaign for a lesser Serbia," as one wag in Kosovo, now under pressure from secessionists, puts it. "Whatever the problem—health, education, etc.—his response was that it resulted from the undeserved sanctions," explains Vesna Pesic, president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia.
Throughout the Bosnian civil war, sanctions helped the Milosevic government rally support. "It seemed unpatriotic to attack Milosevic," explains one American in Belgrade. And now there is "this feeling that he's defending Yugoslavia against outside pressure." Pesic says the sentiment is widespread that "someone is torturing us. They don't want to be Western slaves." Nationalism succeeds because, as Dragoljub Micunovic, president of the Democratic Center Party, observes, "unfortunately, we are not dealing with any kind of rational elements."
Having recently been relieved of the burden of Western sanctions, Yugoslavia is no longer on the economic brink—ten-Dinar notes are back in circulation, replacing the ten-billion-Dinar notes issued during the hyperinflation of the early 1990s. Belgrade has cracked the door open for a bit of foreign investment, and goods are far more plentiful than they were four or five years ago.
At the same time, democratic currents are stirring: opposition leaders led massive protests that overturned electoral fraud in municipal elections in 1996, and a Milosevic antagonist has won the presidency of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro. Police are refusing to serve in Kosovo, and parents are protesting the stationing of their conscript sons in that province. A bloody debacle in Kosovo could spark dramatic change.
Reimposition of sanctions—Western states are currently planning to block new investment and revoke landing rights for JAT, Yugoslavia's national airline—would do more harm to the opposition than to Milosevic. He will appeal to Serbian pride by "saying no to America, to the outside world," says Pesic. "Now the situation is a bit better," worries Djindjic, "but soon it could get worse." Micunovic says new sanctions would "definitely retard the development of anything progressive."
Solutions for Kosovo are hard to come by, but launching a new economic war on Yugoslavia is not one of them. Unfortunately, observes Filip David, "if we are not ready and capable of changing things here, then no one outside can."
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He writes regularly on military non-interventionism.


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Cultivating responsible digital citizens
to navigate an increasingly digitized world
Cultivating responsible digital citizens to navigate an increasingly digitized world
Program in Action
We Think Digital is a collection of short lessons or learning modules that help people think critically and share thoughtfully online.
What is We Think Digital?
We Think Digital is a collection of short lessons or learning modules that help people think critically and share thoughtfully online. The ready-to-use online modules were developed in collaboration with online safety experts from the region.
We Think Digital is designed to help develop the skills we need to create responsible digital citizens.
What does the program do?
Digital literacy has come a long way. Until a few years ago, it meant helping people learn their way around computers and the internet, and was focused on the skills you needed to get information, get a job or get your business up and running. Today, it needs to consider how people are joining global communities and connecting with people as well as information. We have chosen to work with organizations who have like-minded goals – to create a positive and safe culture on the internet. Through co-creating content and conducting capacity building activities, We Think Digital is designed to help develop the skills we need to create responsible digital citizens – critical thinking, empathy and digital discourse.
In a region that has one of the fastest growing internet population, developing skills around digital literacy and digital citizenship is vital.
Why is Meta doing it?
In a region that has one of the fastest growing internet population, developing skills around digital literacy and digital citizenship is vital to creating a positive and safe culture on the internet. The growing numbers of new internet users in APAC and the amount of time they spend online also means that a wealth of information is easily accessible at our fingertips. While connectivity at this scale is empowering and brings tremendous benefits, it also raises a whole new set of challenges.
Therefore, We Think Digital is designed to build the skills we need to create responsible digital citizens – critical thinking, empathy and digital discourse.
The journey of We Think Digital
Click on the year to follow the journey
Facebook launched We Think Digital first in Singapore. The program is designed to give people the knowledge and skills they need to be responsible Digital Citizens.
Partnered with Faro Digital, an Argentinian nonprofit to launch We Think Digital.
Facebook launched Digital Tayo in the Philippines in partnership with the Department of Education, Department of Information and Communications Technology, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration along with 9 international and local civil society organizations and private sector partners.
Program launched in Taiwan in partnership with Executive Yuan, Ministry of Education, Taipei Computer Association, Taiwan FactCheck Center, a network of NGOs and community groups, as well as life-long learning centers.
Program launched in Thailand in partnership with Kenan Foundation Asia and Love Frankie.
Facebook launched Asah Digital in Indonesia in partnership with Siberkreasi, PGRI (National Teachers' Association) and YCAB Foundation.
Program launched in India in partnership with the National Commission for Women (NCW) and Cyber Peace Foundation on Safer Internet Day.
Program launched in Sri Lanka in partnership with Sarvodaya-Fusion and supported by the Ministry of Education and Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).
Program launched in Vietnam in collaboration with Vietnet Information Technology - Media Center (Vietnet-ICT), the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Hanoi National University, HOCMAI Education System and Institute of Social Development Studies (ISDS).
Program launched in Malaysia in partnership with Teach For Malaysia.
Program launched in Japan in partnership with NPO ACE.
Program launched in Bangladesh in partnership with the Ministry of Education, ICT Division and a2i.
Program launched in Pacific Islands in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Fiji in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Papua New Guinea in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Samoa in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Tonga in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in South Korea.
Program launched in Hongkong in partnership with Agent of Change Foundation and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Media 21 (M21).
Program launched in Mongolia in partnership with Faro Foundation, Mongolia's Ministry of Education and Science, and Communication and Information Technology Authority.
Program launched in Kiribati in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Solomon Islands in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Program launched in Vanuatu in partnership with Save the Children Fiji and Save the Children PNG.
Acknowledgements from our partners
"As online education will be an integral learning modality, we need to ensure students are able to discern well what they see and experience in social media and the rest of the public digital space. Through the expanded Digital Tayo program, we can equip students with critical thinking skills that allow them to safely navigate the online landscape."
Mr. June Arvin Gudoy
Director of Philippines Department of Education
"We are excited for Facebook to launch its We Think Digital Program in Mongolia. Mongolia has prioritized digital transformation this year, and this implementation is much time as the government sought to foster digital literacy in its education system. We extend our sincerest appreciation to Facebook for this imperative investment for our people. I am confident that we will continue collaborating with Facebook in many other ways to support Mongolia's economic and social development."
Mr. L. Oyun-Erdene
Prime Minister of Mongolia
"The National Commission for Women has been constantly working towards creating digital leadership among women. However, we do feel that it is not the responsibility of a single entity. It is important for all stakeholders to come together. For example -- we partnered with Facebook on implementing 'We Think Digital', a global literacy programme that aims at creating awareness among women and girls about digital security and imparts them training on keeping themselves safe online. The project, which was launched in 2019 has trained more than 1,60,000 women since 2019."
Mrs. Rekha Sharma
Chairperson of National Commission for Women
"We and Facebook share a vision of ensuring all of Thailand can participate in the country's transformation to a digital society, which will foster creative development - and the overall economy. Facebook's collaboration with government agencies, academics, and civil societies from all four regions of Thailand means We Think Digital will properly support Thais from all areas - helping all people benefit from the digital world regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, or social status."
Mr. Newin Chochaiyathip
Vice Minister for Digital Economy and Society, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society
"Programs like We Think Digital that keep pace with increasing online participation and the way we consume, create or share content are important to the promotion of astute and responsible digital citizenship and online safety in Singapore and across the region. This is a positive initiative from Facebook."
Mr. Lock Wai Han
Chairman of Singapore's Media Literacy Council
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The ceremony will take place on the bridge leading to the falls park.
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Charles Cohen buys Harrys of London shortly after Richard James buy
Richard James owner Charles Cohen has bought UK-based men's footwear and accessories retailer Harrys of London and plans to push forward with an international expansion plan for the firm.
Harrys of London
The American real estate and movie billionaire, who acquired Savile Row tailor Richard James just a few weeks ago, plans to open more stores in London. And he will boost the label's presence in North America, Asia and the Middle East saying he sees it as a business that could grow "on a global scale".
He acquired the brand from current shareholders, the largest of which was Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, which has held a controlling stake since 2014. No price was disclosed.
Harrys chief executive Steven Newey is staying on in his role with Cohen set to become chairman of the firm.
The Harrys brand was launched in 2001 as a formal shoe brand and only opened its first London store in 2008, in Mayfair. It has since opened in the historic Burlington Arcade as well as having a presence in high-end department stores including Harrods and Lane Crawford. It is also stocked by stores in some of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East.
The fall of the pound since the Brexit vote last June has made UK companies cheaper for investors from outside of Britain. The most newsworthy example of this was Kraft Heinz's attempt to buy Unilever for £115bn earlier this year. However, Unilever quickly rejected the move and Kraft Heinz said it would not make a hostile bid.
But a number of smaller deals in assorted industries have been successful, as the earlier Richard James buy showed. And while Harrys is the latest deal, the continuing weak pound means it is unlikely to be the last. London listed luxury firm Jimmy Choo is also up for sale, although a buyer trading in US dollars would get a better deal than it would have done a year ago, Choo's share price surge of recent weeks means it is not the bargain it once was.
BFC maintains charitable giving despite lower funding in latest year
Back-to-school season could be hit by Covid and Brexit supply issues
M&S warns of problems due to isolating store staff, LDO encourages mask wearing
Liberty hit hard by flagship Covid closure, but online booms
ASOS sales still rising strongly, despite Covid pressures
Mamas & Papas secures wider European distribution deals in global push
Balenciaga returns to couture after half-century hiatus
Walpole launches film series to support British luxury and creativity
UK faces retail labour crunch as EU workers stay away
Banshee of Savile Row, feminine bespoke for fiery beauties
Nutters Of Savile Row X Peter Werth
Fall-Winter 2013 London


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"Billy Idol was among British punk's first wave, beginning with Generation X in the late seventies, and going on to become one of the first punk acts to succeed in the video medium in the eighties. To many, he defined the look, style, and snarl of punk, and he's not afraid to claim the mantle. He narrates his memoir in his unmistakable Cockney accent, which befits the more lurid tales of excess as well as
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AUTOBIO MUSICAL REFERENCE GUIDE
DANCING WITH MYSELF Soundtrack
Autobiography Musical Reference Guide
The playlist* below is a musical reference guide to Billy Idol's New York Times bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself. Compiled by chapter and in chronological order as they are discussed by Billy throughout the book, these songs** represent a sampling of the music and the artists who influenced, shaped and colored Billy's musical landscape and awareness. Also included are many of the songs which he would go on to create as a punk
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AUDIOBOOK & PAPERBACK RELEASE!
Billy Idol's New York Times bestselling autobiography is now available in the US and Canada in audiobook format read by Billy himself and in paperback! The audiobook (digital download) clocks in at 12 hours and
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INTERVIEW: LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS (VIDEO)
Billy Idol sits down with Los Angeles Times writer Lorraine Ali to discuss his bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself and perform an acoustic version of Rebel Yell with Steve Stevens.
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IDOL PUMPS UP THE LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
April 18, 2015 Saba Hamedy–LA Times
Billy Idol sang his way onto the stage (literally) to talk about his memoir at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday.
"I'm ready ready ready to discuss rock 'n' roll," Idol sang as he strutted onto the L.A. Times stage at USC. "Hopefully I don't really need an introduction."
It's true, he really didn't need an intro: Crowds of book festival attendees arrived at the stage area early to save seats. Others packed the surrounding grassy area, standing to get a better view of the 1980s British rocker. "Bookchella," indeed.
The lively musician, who still sports his iconic spiked bleached hair look, pumped up attendees with
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LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS APRIL 18
Billy Idol will be appearing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this Saturday, April 18th at 3:40pm.
The Festival will take place in USC's Alumni Park, near Downtown Los Angeles. Billy will be interviewed live on stage about his bestselling autobiography, Dancing With Myself, and he will also personally read from the book. His appearance on the LA Times Festival Stage will be followed by a short book signing.
Posted in:	AUTOBIOGRAPHY/EVENTS
INTERVIEW WITH SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Billy recently chatted with the Sydney Morning Herald about his new album, Kings & Queens of the Underground, bestselling autobiography, Dancing With Myself and current world tour.
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BILLY'S BOOK A TOP 10 OF 2014
Billy Idol's self-penned New York Times bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself was selected as #5 on Rolling Stone's "10 Best Music Books of 2014." (Actually, #1 of all self-penned autobiographies if we're keeping track).
From RollingStone.com:
"In 2014, the rock star tell-all autobiography train rolled on with Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Carlos Santana, Mick Fleetwood, George Clinton, Paul Stanley and Billy Idol among others all getting their turn. But some of the years best books were the
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IDOL-IZE YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING
Give the gift of "IDOL" this holiday season to yourself or a friend! Choose Billy's New York Times Bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself, his acclaimed new
BILLY DISCUSSES HIS BESTSELLING BOOK (VIDEO)
In this brand new video, Billy Idol discusses the DIY roots of the punk rock movement, the early days of MTV, and why writing his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Dancing With Myself, was more exhilarating than taking drugs. You can watch the
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BILLY IDOL SIRIUSXM ARTIST CONFIDENTIAL AIRS OCT 28
Billy Idol's SiriusXM 'Artist Confidential' episode, recorded live at the Troubadour in Hollywood, will air next week features a live recorded performance by Billy, Steve Stevens and the band, interspersed with an interview with Billy by Mark Goodman. Billy Idol's 'Artist Confidential' airs Tuesday 10/28 at 8pm & 11pm ET on SiriusXM Radio 80's on 8 (Channel 8) and
DANCING WITH MYSELF SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS
The winners have been announced for the Dancing With Myself book sweepstakes! The winners below should be looking out for an email from a representative from Billy's publisher Simon & Schuster (Touchstone) with further
DANCING WITH MYSELF HITS BESTSELLER LIST!
Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol is officially a New York Times Bestseller! Dancing With Myself is a survivor's story at its heart, but also an enchanting, sometimes chilling, and always riveting account of one man's creative drive joining forces with unbridled human desire, this startling memoir is unmistakably literary in its character and
BILLY & STEVE PERFORM AT CBGB FEST
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens performed a searing acoustic set for a sell-out crowd in New York City to kick off the 2014 CBGB Music & Film Fest. The unplugged set featured "White Wedding", "Kiss Me Deadly", "Eyes Without A Face" and "Rebel Yell". Prior to the performance Billy was interviewed on stage by Timothy Sommer about
BILLY CHATS WITH USA TODAY (VIDEO)
Billy recently sat down with Jocelyn McClurg at USA Today to discuss his new autobiography, album and more. Watch two video segments and
BILLY & STEVE ON THE TODAY SHOW
Billy Idol and Steven Stevens appeared on NBC's Today Show on October 7! Billy was interviewed about his just-released autobiography, Dancing With Myself followed by an acoustic performance of White Wedding by Billy and Steve. You can watch
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DANCING WITH MYSELF IS RELEASED!
Billy Idol's long-awaited autobiography Dancing With Myself is released today!
An early architect of punk rock's sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop's mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, Billy Idol remains to this day a true rock 'n' roll icon.
Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, Dancing With Myself, he delivers an electric, searingly honest account of his journey to fame—from his early days as frontman of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he led—all rendered with the in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades. Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the evolution of rock and culture, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career.
Featuring sixteen pages of behind-the-scenes photos, Dancing With Myself is a survivor's story at its heart, but also an enchanting, sometimes chilling, and always riveting account of
BILLY IDOL ON Q104.3 NEW YORK (VIDEO)
Billy Idol recently joined Jim Kerr on New York's Q104.3 to talk about his autobiography Dancing With Myself and his new album KIngs & Queens of the Underground Watch the interview segment featuring Billy
BILLY ON CBS SUNDAY- WATCH NOW
Billy Idol recently sat down with CBS's Tracy Smith to discuss his autobiography Dancing With Myself and more at Electric Lady Studios in New York City's Greenwich Village, the legendary recording studio built by Jimi Hendrix where Billy's iconic, multi-platinum album Rebel Yell was recorded in 1983. Watch the segment featuring Billy
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EXCLUSIVE BOOK PREVIEW AT TIME.COM
Time.com is offering readers this exclusive preview of the prologue from Billy's autobiography, Dancing With Myself:
They say if you hear the bang, you're still alive
By the morning of February 6, 1990, I'd been living on a fine edge for more than a decade, always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped…
UK SIGNING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
Billy Idol will meet fans and sign copies of his new autobiography Dancing With Myself and new studio album Kings and Queens of the Underground at two upcoming exclusive UK signing events at HMV Manchester on 27th October and HMV London on 29th October. For details and additional
NEW BOOK AND SONG PREVIEW
Read a revealing chapter excerpt from Billy Idol's autobiography Dancing With Myself and listen to 'Bitter Pill' from the forthcoming album Kings & Queens of the Underground exclusively from Rolling Stone! Read and listen here.
BILLY IDOL ON CBS SUNDAY OCT 5
Billy Idol recently sat down with CBS's Tracy Smith to discuss his autobiography Dancing With Myself at Electric Lady Studios in New York City's Greenwich Village, the legendary recording studio built by Jimi Hendrix where Billy's iconic, multi-platinum album Rebel Yell was recorded in 1983. The segment featuring Billy will air
CBGB FESTIVAL HQ KICKOFF EVENT
CBGB FESTIVAL HQ KICKOFF EVENT WITH BILLY IDOL
The CBGB Festival Headquarters, Center548, will host a keynote interview and short acoustic concert by the legendary Billy Idol. Billy will release his autobiography, Dancing With Myself, on October 7th and his first new album in nearly a decade, titled Kings & Queens of the Underground, on October 21st. This intimate and very special keynote event will feature musician, record producer, and former VH1 VJ Timothy Sommer interviewing Billy Idol live on stage, followed by a short acoustic performance by Billy and
WIN A BILLY IDOL VIP FAN EXPERIENCE TRIP!
MEET BILLY IDOL!
Pre-order your copy of Billy Idol's forthcoming autobiography Dancing With Myself before October 7 at any online retailer and complete the online entry form for your chance to win the GRAND PRIZE VIP FAN EXPERIENCE TRIP TO THE 2015 IDOL LIVE U.S. CONCERT OF YOUR CHOICE! (Tour dates to be announced.) You and a guest will
BILLY IDOL BOOK TOUR
DANCING WITH MYSELF BOOK SIGNING EVENTS
Billy Idol will embark on book tour across the U.S. this October in conjunction with the release of his highly-anticipated memoir Dancing With Myself via Touchstone, on sale nationwide October 7. Billy will be meeting fans and signing copies of Dancing With Myself at the following locations locations listed here.
BILLY IDOL TO APPEAR AT CBGB FESTIVAL 2014 IN NYC
Billy Idol will be the 2014 CBGB Festival Keynote on Thursday, October 9th in New York City. Billy will be interviewed on stage about his forthcoming autobiography Dancing With Myself (October 7 via Touchstone) and his new album Kings & Queens of the Underground (October 21 via BFI Records). Joining him onstage for a few songs at this
LATEST STUDIO ALBUM
Billy Idol's latest studio album isKings & Queens of the Underground!


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Design Dilemma: This dilemma is as common as kids favorite toys being Lego and Disney. I hear so often from parents wanting to create an attractive space for their kids, yet some how incorporates their favorite toy, game, storybook or movie character without it looking like the Disney Store threw up all over it!
Our approach is to find inspiration in those beloved toys, games or characters. What is it that we as adults like about them? The goal for inspirational room design, is to find a way to incorporate the essence of said object/image whether that is the color, shape, texture or emotional significance. Easier said then done. With so much easy access to licensed merchandise sold in stores and online, thinking outside of the highly marketed, toy box package it is especially challenging. We get that it is all right there at your finger tips, both literally and economically in reach. Not to mention the minimal amount of time and mental effort it takes to pull this type if decor out of the package and pop in a room. So, we are going to share some examples and decor ideas to get you started or at least started thinking.
Now, do you want to know what the heck I am talking about? Want to see what an inspired room versus a themed room looks like? Then feast your eyes on this, Tiffani Thiessen's nursery for her son Holt. We should mention she had a little help from designer Christiane Lemieux of Dwell Studio.
For me the wallpaper in this space is the most fabulous thing ever. It is exactly the right element we discussed above regarding being the essence of a "theme". This hit the mark on both color and shape, but in the most subtle, sophisticated way. The wallpaper is by Eskayel, essentially it is a piece of art in itself. Abstract expressionism brought to life in desaturated colors. Eskayel produces hand-painted patterns and digital printing create works of functional art.
As we watch the interaction viewers have with the images promoting our current contest, Youthful Inspiration, most viewers are gravitating towards the richer and more sophisticated hues. Here you can see that these colors are not your traditional gender pink and blue, rather more chic versions (you can find them at Colorhouse Paints, along with many more beautiful options!).
When the house is quiet and my two year old little boy is not in my line of vision, I often find him in his room. Usually, sitting reading a book otherwise playing in the curtains. I noticed he finds such pleasure in the simple act of wrapping and unwrapping himself up in the panels, playing peek-a-boo with his stuffed animals or simply sitting under the the created enclosure playing with a to car. I thought about how he would probably enjoy a playspace of his own.
Then recently, I was curating a style board for a client who's MUST-HAVE was a teepee. Previously, I had come across the classic pyramid shapes and neutral colors. I also perceived them to be big and bulky, taking up to much precious storage or sleeping space in a bedroom. Instead, as I dug through retail site after retail site I found an entire cornucopia of coverage. All with different footprints, styles, prints and colors. Here are some of our favorites.
I'm always hunting for unique decor items with lots of built in character. And it's no secret that I love using books as art and decor. In fact, I spelled out my love of books as art in our a recent blog post Judging A Book By Its Cover. That's why it's no surprise that I found these repurposed, used book letters by Second Nature by Hand the perfect combination of book meets art.
Each piece is hand-carved into a one-of-a-kind book of any alphabet letter. Each letter is made from its own decorative edition and features a unique book title along the spine. Since these are made from a variety of recycled books, each letter will have its own pattern, color, print and of course charm.
I have only found these little guys for sale at Nordstrom.com. They come in two sizes, 4" H and 7 3/4" H.


Home Health is a collaboration involving the patient, family, physician and the MyCentric home health team. With a plan for functional independence, MyCentric provides a road to recovery in the comfort of your own home.
Home Health Care services are typically covered by Medicare for patients who require skilled, intermittent care services provided by licensed nurses or therapists. Coverage by Medicare must be approved by your physician, and you must be considered homebound.
Directed by a Physician, our Registered Nurse or Physical Therapist will come to your home and together with the Patient, will make an assessment for needed services. Working with the Physician, the home health staff will engage with the patient and family members in devising an individualized patient care plan. The care plan will guide the entire care team on managing the patient's needs to arrive at care plan goals.
Who Benefits from Home Healthcare?
• People who have health problems, but want to maintain independence in their homes with the support of a professional caregiver.
• Patients of all ages who return home after surgery, and need care, supervision or assistance.
• Patients who have complex treatments that require use of medical equipment and/or medication monitoring.
• Mothers and newborns, home from the hospital after 24 or 48 hours who are in need of further support and the clinical assessment skills of a trained nurse.
• Young adults, recovering from accidents or injuries, who can manage on their own - if they know an experienced healthcare worker will be there when needed.
• Adults who want their parents to have quality care at home.
• Millions of Americans with chronic diseases and disabilities, like Alzheimer's, heart failure, kidney disease, or diabetes, who need careful monitoring but do not want or need to enter a nursing home or skilled care facility.
Hospice is intended to enhance quality of life instead of continuing with treatment to prolong life. Using interventions that focus on serving the patient's wishes, Hospice provides medical services as it works with the patient and family to strive for comfort, spiritual resources, and peace of mind to get the most out of life.
During the last stages of an illness, Hospice offers the patient control over their life by focusing on connecting with family and friends and making the most out of every day. It allows you to make decisions concerning things that are important to you.
When frequent hospital visits, invasive treatments with side effects, and repeated "heroic" healthcare efforts that provide few improvements to your prognosis, Hospice should be considered as a way to focus on your desires to find connectedness and closure.
Quality of Life – as we receive news of diminishing health, our perspectives of what is important begins to change. Enhancing relationships with close family and friends become extremely important as our purpose becomes sealing the close bonds and leaving a strong legacy. MyCentric will focus on treatment that emphasize comfort, lucidity, and connectedness. Through comfort visits, counseling, spiritual support and community touch, MyCentric will facilitate togetherness when it matters the most.


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Every Change Begins with A Vision
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An exposé of the future of ecosystems and the ecosystems of the future
The unnatural separation between humans and the world's ecosystems is a key cause of the steadily worsening biodiversity crisis and the degradation of so many natural habitats on our planet. 2021 is the first year of the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration announced by the United Nations, in which decisive action is to be taken to reverse this trend. For wildlife habitats, the most important goal may be preservation or restoration, but for our cultural landscape – i.e. where we live and operate – the issue will be people's new attitude towards "nature." The big challenge for us will be to understand ourselves as living organisms directly connected to and dependent on these ecosystems. Steinbeis expert Professor Dr. Michael Weiß presents his vision of how.
As ecosystems in their own right, soils play a central role in modern-day ecological research. Rapid developments, particularly in the high-throughput sequencing of minute amounts of DNA, are providing us with increasingly detailed insights into the full spectrum of organisms in soils. A key characteristic of healthy soils is an abundance of biodiversity, dominated by fungi and bacteria, with animals and plants performing a less significant role. The methods available to us at the moment still have a long way to go to provide us with a proper understanding of the complexity of interactions between different organisms, however. What we do know with certainty is that methods developed in the industrialized nations in the last century with respect to nutrition and the protection of agricultural crops largely neglected this complexity.
Fungi and food waste support sustainable crop production
Industrially produced salts requiring large amounts of energy (artificial fertilizers) and increasingly effective organic pesticides are still the central pillars of modern industrial farming. This is fueling continual decline in humus, the organic component of soil. In turn, a large number of soil organisms (the edaphon) have vanished, leaving soil compacted and eroded, with decreasing capacity to absorb recently applied fertilizers, which then end up in the streams, rivers, and groundwater.
For some time, the Steinbeis Innovation Center for Organismal Mycology and Microbiology has been working on transferring the findings of fundamental biological research into methods of sustainable plant cultivation. Its current focus lies in fungal strains that colonize plant roots, resulting on the one hand in interactions that have a systemic impact on growth promotion. On the other hand, the strains make plants more resilient to various types of biological stress (e.g., drought, pathogenic fungi or bacteria, or animal pests). The second area of focus for the Steinbeis expert lies in the development of plant-based fertilizers from the material flows of food production, which were previously underexploited and offer an opportunity to raise long-term humus content and improve the ability of soil to store water. By not sidestepping into composting, which results in half of the energy offered by raw materials being lost, innovative fertilizers support the food chains of soil life directly in the areas around roots, which is beneficial to plant crops. But this is just one step of many in making ecosystems sustainable.
Human life in 2050
Michael Weiß is responsible for the Steinbeis Innovation Center for Organismal Mycology and Microbiology. To illustrate how to improve developments in the ecosystems of our cultural landscape in the coming decades, he fast-forwards to the year 2050 and takes a look back at changes over the last 30 years.
It's 2050. Our cities are interwoven with a rich and diverse cultural landscape. We have succeeded in halting further eradication of natural countryside and the colossal levels of land consumption for industrial farming prevalent until the 2020s. Just as importantly, this was made possible by no longer keeping animals for meat production. In 2020, 60% of agricultural land was still being used to grow feeds for animals, which only provided two percent of calories required by humans. To do this, more and more forests were being cleared. Today, in 2050, we only use the most fertile arable land to grow our food. This has enabled us to turn our cultural landscape back into highly diverse habitats. To this end, we systematically restricted field sizes. Every field is now surrounded by hedges or coppices. This change alone has helped reduce soil erosion, which in the early 20th century resulted in over 10 million hectares of fertile land being lost worldwide every year. Many fields are surrounded by coppiced land which is used to produce timber materials for industrial requirements. Such hedges and coppices alternate with herbaceous strips of land rich in biodiversity. This diversity around the fields ensures pollinating insects are able to find suitable habitats.
The widespread reduction in meat production has led to stronger demand for plant proteins in our diets.Cereals are now mostly grown in mixed crops with legumes. A major advantage of this is that legumes help supply cereal crops with nutrients through their root symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
In keeping with regional and local conditions, a variety of agroforestry systems have developed worldwide, with both crops and woody plants grown side by side. Trees and shrubs act as windbreaks for fields. Planted in the right density, they also provide shade and help reduce heat stress for field crops. The foliage of trees contributes to the natural humus fertilization of the land. This also significantly reduces surface erosion. The overall productivity of such systems is consistently higher than wood-free farming, which was still dominant worldwide at the beginning of the 21st century.
Energy production in 2050
The energy required to power our fully electric agricultural machinery in 2050 is produced by different forms of field-based agro-photovoltaic systems. The modules these contain are entirely transparent to allow crops more sensitive to heat stress to thrive underneath them. The large number of ecological niches that characterize today's cultural landscape have resulted in a halt in insect decline and a continual rise in the biodiversity of our cultural landscapes. Following the ban on biomass burning for energy production in the 2020s and a steady rise in the share of timber production associated with coppices around fields and agroforestry systems, there has been a decisive reduction in the pressure to exploit our forests. Today, basically only the edges of forests are used, resulting in minimal soil damage following the abandonment of combine harvesters and large farming vehicles. Inside forested areas, while the roads and path networks are safeguarded by regular tree maintenance such that forests are still among the most popular areas for recreation, only few interventions are made in areas away from trails, so that forests are well on the way to developing into modern virgin forests. As a rule, deadwood is no longer removed but remains in the forest. This has allowed the forests of Central Europe to once again become effective regulators of the regional climate and develop into highly biodiverse ecosystems that capture increasing volumes of carbon dioxide in the soil through continual rises in the proportion of humus.
Following the complete renunciation of fossil carbon and biomass combustion, carbon fixation in the soil became the most effective tool in enabling Europe to succeed in becoming climate-neutral and thus meet the goal laid down by the EU Green Deal in the early 2020s. This success gives us hope that we will eventually succeed in limiting global warming to under 1.5˚C this century. A decisive contribution to this was made by the widespread rewetting of bogs and peatland, which was drained in the 20th century for peat extraction and to make way for agricultural land. The return of peatlands, which are once again storing growing amounts of carbon, became possible when vast swathes of land used by the meat industry for feed production were no longer needed. Slurry spreading on open land has also been discontinued, resulting in a reduction in nitrate contamination in the groundwater. Grasslands now primarily consist of biodiverse meadows, which rather than being harvested to supply livestock feed are only cut once or twice a year to produce plant fibers. In combination with wood from managed land and coppice areas next to fields, plant fibers play a pivotal role in providing raw materials required for both the production of packaging materials and biorefineries. Foams – that only several decades ago were still manufactured from synthetic plastics – are now mostly produced by using fungal mycelia based on plant fibers.
Our cities in the year 2050
The appearance of our cities has changed radically over the past 30 years. After systematically limiting the number of cars used by individuals, tarmac and concrete could be removed from many spaces previously used as parking lots or roads and the land could be returned to nature. Green facades and roofs have become standard practice. The number of trees in urban areas has risen sharply. Most of these trees are being cultivated along the lines of the Stockholm biochar technique developed at the beginning of the century. Biochar is produced by pyrolysis of biomass in the absence of oxygen. This involves heating the biomass to temperatures of 600 to 800°C, which completely converts it into carbon chars. Synthesis gases produced by this process are extracted and burned in a low-emission combustion chamber, generating the heat and electricity required for the process. Surplus heat is fed into local heating networks. Biochar is highly effective at retaining water and nutrients due to its immense inner pore surface. This allows it to act as a valuable substrate for plant life. Its long half-life also offers long-term benefits to the atmosphere by acting as a carbon sink. More and more inner-city soil is being replaced by this substrate, which is ideal for sequestering rainwater.
One outstandingly successful model, which almost every city has now joined, was the Edible Cities network launched at the beginning of the century. Fruit trees are now highly prevalent in urban areas, and a large number of city parks have been planted with berry bushes and vegetables that are free for all residents to use. Community-based urban gardening and urban farming projects make a significant contribution to meeting the food requirements of the urban population – another factor that has improved the quality of life in cities and formed a link between people and the fundamental source of their livelihoods.
Three factors that will shape the journey ahead
Michael Weiß's conclusion for his vision of the year 2050: "Looking back, we can see that there were three critical factors that made an effective turnaround for the better possible, two of which were the products of globalization. First, in the early 2020s a highly motivated generation of young people saw the acute threat to their own future and succeeded in organizing themselves into a dynamic movement on a global scale, rallying increasingly large swathes of the older population behind them and thus asserting the required political pressure to take action. Second, indigenous people increasingly had a say in this global movement, offering their valuable experience with alternative ways for us to use our natural resources. And finally, a new feature of democracy at that time that came with the emergence of citizen councils at various levels within politics played an increasingly successful role in resolving and healing polarization and divisions in society." What was the key outcome of these processes? A broad realization that human life is only possible in the long term within functioning ecosystems. The term "nature conservation," which is still in wide use today, will give way to different approaches to preserving and actively creating biodiverse ecosystems. In 2050, we will preserve the planet's surviving ancient wildernesses in many protected areas and make shaping and caring for the ecosystems in which we live our number one priority.
CategoriesBest-of 2021, Edition 1, Feature Topic, Transfer 2021
Tagsecosystem, exposé, vision
Prof. Dr. Michael Weiß (author)
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The Dune Encyclopedia is an expansion of the Dune universe, background and commentary in the form of a reference text compiled and edited by Dr. Willis E. McNelly in 1984. A total of 43 people contributed articles to the work.
The book was based on the first 4 books of the original Dune saga by Frank Herbert, namely Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune. At the time it was written, The Dune Encyclopedia was promoted as the "official" Dune chronology. Frank Herbert, who was a personal friend of Dr. McNelly, wrote the foreword for the Encyclopedia. Rumors existed that Herbert himself contributed to it; however, if this were true, he wrote under a pseudonym, as his name only appears on the foreword.
Despite the Encyclopedia being hailed as an official reference text for the Dune universe, some of the information contained therein was contradicted by Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.
The Encyclopedia also presents itself as an in-universe document. It was published in 15540 AG and its editor was Hadi Benotto.
The Encyclopedia provides a timeline both based on the Dune chronology by Herbert, original dates of original events, as well as real history, seen from the Dunish perspective of the Imperium; the history of Terra is seen as the history of an "Imperial Seat", started by Alexander the Great and carried over by Rome, Madrid, London until the "interfeudal war" of WW II when it is transferred to Washington.
The Encyclopedia was printed in the US only once as paperback in 1 June, 1984 by Berkley Books, an imprint of Putnam (the publisher of all of Frank Herbert's Dune novels). It was also released in hardcover by Putnam Adult a month later, 13 July 1984. Another paperback edition, with a different cover picture, was printed in the UK and published by Corgi Books (a division of Transworld Publishing), also in 1984.
In 1999, Dr. McNelly stated that he had proposed to Frank Herbert that they collaborate on a Dune prequel novel, expanding upon the Butlerian Jihad story presented in The Dune Encyclopedia. He noted, "FH and I had discussed writing it together and he agreed with my general plot outline, completed first chapter, and so on but his untimely death prevented us from continuing." [1]
After Herbert died in 1986, his estate took over all licensing and copyright on Dune material. The Dune Encyclopedia has been out of print for over 15 years, and is highly sought after by fans.
Future and Canonicity
McNelly repeatedly tried to reprint The Dune Encyclopedia following Frank Herbert's death in 1986, in 2000 he explained his reasons on the Dune Usenet group;
I am not repeat NOT interested in any financial gain from reprinting the DE. I would like to see it in print again because I am proud of the work done by my many contributors to the volume as well as of the vast amount of material it adds to the Arrakeen saga.[2]
Despite his persistence the Herbert estate refused to allow it. McNelly warned fans against taking matters into their own hands and releasing the Encyclopedia online for free and hinted at his frustration in the face of HLP lawyers;
I cannot, ethically, legally, or morally or even practically permit anyone to use anything from the DE unless prior permission is granted by the FH estate. And that is as likely as finding open water on Arrakis. And I strongly - VERY strongly - suggest that you do not risk the wrath of FH's attorneys in using any of this material in a way not permitted by the current copyright laws. Frankly, I know of no one in the a.f.d. [alt.fan.dune Usenet Group] group who has the money to defend him/her self against a lawsuit. I know whereof I speak. [2]
The reason for the estate's refusal to re-print the Encyclopedia may be that many of the ideas in The Dune Encyclopedia go directly against the later two prequel trilogies, and sequel duology written after Frank Herbert's death by Brian Herbert (Frank Herbert's son) and Kevin J. Anderson, which they state complete the original series. Brian Herbert and Anderson have also stated that when writing these books, they drew on Frank Herbert's own notes, left behind after his death. In response to questions over why the new post-Frank Herbert Dune novels conflicted with The Dune Encyclopedia, the book was declared non-canon on the official Dune website in a letter credited to McNelly, Brian Herbert, and Anderson:
Kevin J. Anderson [3]
The wording of the letter raised some eyebrows - the wording does not reference that the Encyclopedia is and always was a fallible in-universe document that openly mis-represents known history and adds historical embellishments. It also seems oddly out of step with McNelly's previous statements - prompting speculation that he was not involved in the drafting of the letter.
Dr. Willis E. McNelly died on April 7, 2003. The Encyclopedia remains out of print. Despite McNelly's warnings, several fan-made searchable PDF versions are available online.[4]
The Dune Encyclopedia was also used as a sourcebook for the Dune computer games, developed by Westwood Studios. It was here that Westwood got the name "House Ordos", which first appeared in Dune II, although the crest used is actually that of House Wallach recoloured. The Dune Encyclopedia displays Ordos's crest as being bones making an 'x' with ivy entwined around one corner, rather than a snake coiled around a book.
Willis E. McNelly
↑ Alt.Fan.Dune Post: [[1]]
↑ 2.0 2.1 Dr. McNelly's Usenet posts on reprint negotiation, e.g. [2], [3].
↑ Why do the new prequels sometimes contradict the history set forth in THE DUNE ENCYCLOPEDIA compiled by Dr. Willis E. McNelly? [[4]]
↑ The Dune Encyclopedia [[5]]
Fansite which attempts to discover its contributors and determine current status


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A 2021 paper by Frost & Sullivan in collaboration with tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) titled, "Tobacco Harm Reduction and Novel Nicotine and Tobacco Products: Evidence from the Japanese Market," found that the entry of HTPs has led to a drop of 34% in cigarettes sales.
"The commercial availability of HTPs in Japan is associated with a significant drop in conventional cigarette sales, well ahead of the previous rate of decline. Moreover, even after Heated Tobacco Products became available, sales of all tobacco products (Heated Tobacco Products and conventional cigarettes) continued to fall. Although there is mixed evidence, data from the 2019 National Health Survey indicates that 76% of consumers who use Heated Tobacco do so exclusively. Only 24% of HTPs users maintain dual-use," said Mark Dougan, Consulting Director, Healthcare, Frost & Sullivan.
2021 data: Japan's domestic cigarette sales had fallen by 8.2%
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Such a pattern had already been observed back in 2018, with the Financial Times reporting that Philip Morris' heated tobacco product, IQOS, was laying waste to cigarette sales in Japan. According to the report, "shipments of traditional cigarettes" declined by more than 7% in 2018, which had followed an 11.5% decline in the first quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, shipments of "heated units" increased from 1.2 billion to 6.4 billion during the period, while during the quarter, nearly 9% of PMI's' global revenue was from reduced-risk products.
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When compared to 2016, reported volumes of cigarettes have now declined by 42%. An American Cancer Society research study in 2020 concluded that heated tobacco products "likely reduced cigarette sales in Japan." Another 2020 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health came to a similar conclusion, stating that "the accelerated decline in cigarette-only sales since 2016 corresponds to the introduction and growth in the sales of heated tobacco products."
Similar patterns have been observed in the UK and Sweden. The UK has achieved the lowest smoking rates ever recorded thanks to endorsing the use of vaping products for tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation. While Sweden has reached a smoke-free statues by legalizing snus and embracing its use as a safer alternative to cigarettes.
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Let's talk about Kennel cough for a minute – one of the worlds most widespread doggy illnesses.
It seems to be going around lately and I felt it was important to address – especially now that my precious Lulu seems to have contracted the awful illness.
Regardless of what we call it, the illness is highly contagious and extremely uncomfortable for our poor sweet furbabies.
The name Kennel Cough came about because the illness itself is highly airborne as well as being contagious via touch and contact.
Kennel Cough is very common in kennels where there are large amounts of dogs in small spaces, sharing space and unfortunately sickness.
In fact, Kennel Cough can be picked up from any place a dog with the illness has been, and the more dogs in the area, the more likely your dog is to catch it.
Kennel Cough is so contagious that it even can be shared among 2 dogs that are walking the same path.
As you've already read, Kennel Cough is an airborne illness. The bacteria from the infection attaches itself to small air particles that can land anywhere and everywhere. This makes the illness transferable via breathing it in as well as through contact with anything that has been near or on the infected dog.
Kennel Cough bacteria and viruses can remain contagious for up to 2 weeks if they are airborne and up to 48 hours if they land on a surface – making it highly contagious over a long period of time.
So what is Kennel Cough?
Well, it turns out that Kennel Cough is not a cause but rather a symptom.
Kennel Cough is a symptom of upper respiratory distress caused by certain bacteria or viruses that are contracted via airborne particles or by contact. In other words, it will affect their throat, airways, lungs, windpipe and voice box.
The combination of the bacteria Bordetella Bronchiseptica and the virus Canine parainfluenza being the most common cause of bringing on the dreaded Kennel Cough illness.
Kennel Cough is developed once your dog's respiratory tract is attacked and weakened by the various bacteria and viruses, making them more susceptible to the symptoms of Kennel Cough.
The most obvious and uncomfortable symptom being the cough itself. It's something that can be aggravated and intensified with any physical activity and it can even be consistent for dogs that are resting.
Dogs can be coughing every few minutes and while the illness is not generally life-threatening, it does take a toll on your dog's body and can leave them utterly exhausted and depleted of energy.
It's also important to know that if your dog does have a fever during their Kennel Cough episode, it's usually an indication that their body is working overtime to fight the infection and that you should pay extra attention to their health and well-being.
How long does Kennel Cough last for?
Because Kennel Cough is a virus of sorts, symptoms can last anywhere from 10 days to 3 weeks depending on the severity of the infection.
But it is important to know that dogs contract the illness 5 to 10 days before the symptoms start to show.
It may also be alarming to know, but dogs who have the illness can still be somewhat contagious for up to 14 weeks once symptoms have developed.
So even though symptoms are present for only a few days or up to a week, your dog runs the risk of infecting other dogs for up to 14 weeks.
As dog owners, we really have to be careful and courteous when it comes to Kennel Cough and it's ability to spread far and wide. If you know your dog has Kennel Cough be sure to consult your vet and also keep an eye out for next week's blog where we discuss all the possible treatments and remedies for Kennel Cough.
Another note to consider is that while all breeds of dog are susceptible to the illness, puppies, older dogs and those dogs whose immune systems are compromised are more likely to catch the Kennel Cough and hold onto it for longer.
It's always a good idea to seek professional advice from your local vet. And next week we'll be releasing part 2 of the Kennel Cough series with more information around treating and preventing it.
If your dog is showing signs of Kennel Cough, monitor them closely. If their symptoms are not going away after 10 days, you may need another visit to the vet because their Kennel Cough could have caused secondary infections and unpleasant conditions.
Has your dog ever experienced Kennel Cough? What was it like for them AND you? We'd love to hear from you! Information shared is a potential life spared. Leave a comment or email us at sarah@frankandjellys.com.