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When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know.
I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying "Hello."
I politely said, "This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robyn Carter?"
Suddenly a manic voice yelled out in my ear "Get the right f***ing number!" and the phone was slammed down on me. I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude. When I tracked down Robyn's correct number to call her, I found that I had accidentally transposed the last two digits.
After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again.
When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled "You're an asshole!" and hung up. I wrote his number down with the word 'asshole' next to it, and put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks,
when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an asshole!" It always cheered me up.
When Caller ID was introduced, I thought my therapeutic 'asshole' calling would have to stop. So, I called his number and said, "Hi, this is John Smith from the telephone company. I'm calling to see if you're familiar with our Caller ID Program?"
He yelled "NO!" and slammed down the phone. I quickly called him back and said, "That's because you're an asshole!" and hung up.
One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into a parking Spot. Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I'd been waiting for that spot, but the idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale" sign in his back window, so I wrote down his number.
A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole (I had his number on speed dial,) I thought that I'd better call the BMW
asshole, too.
I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?"
He said, "Yes, it is." I asked, "Can you tell me where I can see it?" He said, "Yes, I live at 34 Oaktree Blvd, in Fairfax. It's a yellow rambler, and the car's parked right out in front."
I asked, "What's your name?"
He said, "My name is Don Hansen,"
I asked, "When's a good time to catch you, Don?"
He said, "I'm home every evening after five."
I said, "Listen, Don, can I tell you something?"
He said, "Yes?"
I said, "Don, you're an asshole!"
Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too. Now, when I had a problem, I had two assholes to call.
Then I came up with an idea. I called asshole #1.
He said, "Hello."
I said, "You're an asshole!" (But I didn't hang up.)
He asked, "Are you still there?"
I said, "Yeah,"
He screamed, "Stop calling me,"
I said, "Make me,"
He asked,
"Who are you?"
I said, "My name is Don Hansen."
He said, "Yeah? Where do you live?" I said, "Asshole, I live at 34 Oaktree Blvd, in Fairfax, a yellow rambler, I have a black Beamer parked in front."
He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers."
I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, asshole," and hung up.
Then I called Asshole #2.
He said, "Hello?"
I said, "Hello, asshole,"
He yelled, "If I ever find out who you are..."
I said, "You'll what?"
He exclaimed, "I'll kick your ass,"
I answered, "Well, asshole, here's your chance. I'm coming over right now."
Then I hung up and immediately called the police, saying that I lived at
34 Oaktree Blvd, in Fairfax, and that I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover.
Then I called Channel 9 News about the gang war going down in Oaktree Blvd. in Fairfax.
I quickly got into my car and headed
over to Fairfax. I got there just in time to watch two assholes beating the crap out of each other in front of six cop cars, an overhead news helicopter and surrounded by a news crew.
NOW I feel much better.
Anger management really does work.


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When you picture a dangerous terrorist, Kevin Kjonaas may not immediately spring to mind. The 28-year-old Catholic-school graduate stands 5 feet 10 inches, weighs 120 pounds, and speaks in a mezzo-soprano voice. He uses the word "cute" a lot. Kjonaas pays his rent by working at a doggy daycare; before that he went door to door for John Kerry's presidential campaign but quit when he realized that his strained relationship with the law could be a liability for his employer. Kjonaas is both a vegan and a preppy. He owns almost 40 vegetarian cookbooks but is quick to point out that "I don't cook sprouted wheat germ. It sounds so hippie-ish." His closet is filled with J. Crew hand-me-downs, and for his birthday this year, he got a dress shirt with light pink and light blue stripes. "I really like it," he says. "It goes really well with this sweater vest I have."
Until quite recently, Kjonaas was president of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC USA), an animal rights group dedicated to shutting down Huntingdon Life Sciences. The U.K.-based company owns labs in New Jersey, where it tests household chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other products on animals. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined Huntingdon $50,000 for animal abuses. A British television documentary showed clips of Huntingdon employees punching beagle puppies. Kjonaas grew up with a beagle named Barney. "He was my best friend," he says. "We did everything together."
As president of SHAC USA, Kjonaas posted the home addresses and telephone numbers of Huntingdon employees on the group's website. Sometimes Kjonaas helped organize protests in front of workers' homes. When he couldn't make it to a demonstration, he posted other people's accounts of the event, even when they included acts of vandalism. He saw himself as a conduit for information. "Since it wasn't my words going on the site, I felt I had no place to censor," Kjonaas says. "Of course, now that it's my ass being indicted, those words are being censored."
On May 20, 2004, Kjonaas and six other SHAC members were indicted by a New Jersey grand jury on federal charges that they had orchestrated an interstate campaign of terrorism and intimidation in violation of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, originally passed in 1992, was strengthened after 9/11 in response to heavy lobbying from animal-testing firms and pharmaceutical companies. The changes made it easier to convict people for attacks on animal-testing facilities and in some cases tripled mandatory jail sentences.
Kjonaas was tipped off about 30 minutes before federal agents arrived to arrest him. He prepared by brushing his teeth and pulling on a dress shirt and his best pair of khakis. He tied his beagle, Willy, to a fence in the back yard.
At precisely 6 a.m., a column of black-clad agents ran in a full sprint toward Kjonaas' rented house in the Bay Area suburb of Pinole. One wore a balaclava. Another carried a battering ram. They entered with their pistols aimed at Kjonaas' head as a helicopter hovered low overhead. It was a remarkable show of force, especially since, after six months of recording Kjonaas' phone and email conversations, picking through his trash, reading his mail, and following him everywhere he went, the FBI knew that the most dangerous thing in the house was a coffeepot. "What did they think I was gonna do?" Kjonaas says. "Attack them with a floppy disk?"
Officials admit there might be somewhat of a disconnect between Kevin Kjonaas and the public's idea of a terrorist. "I don't want the parallel drawn to actual Middle Eastern terrorists," says Michael Drewniak, spokesman for the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. In its 27-page indictment, the government doesn't allege that Kjonaas plotted to kill anyone; most of the charges focus on using the Internet to instill fear in people associated with Huntingdon. If the prosecution succeeds, Kjonaas and two other defendants each face up to $1,250,000 in fines and 23 years in prison.
There's no denying that SHAC's protest tactics were designed to frighten. SHAC activists have poured paint thinner on a Huntingdon executive's car, broken windows, and spray-painted "puppy killer" on an employee's property. Using tactics akin to those of extreme antiabortion groups, the SHAC USA website published the names, ages, and school addresses of Huntingdon employees' children. "When you're on the receiving end of [SHAC's] campaign, it's violent and severe intimidation," Drewniak says. "It's a campaign of terror, yes." John Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, told Congress last May that SHAC and other animal rights groups represent America's No. 1 domestic terror threat.
"That is patently absurd," says Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which tracks violent political groups on the left and right. "The reality is that these people have killed no one." Which is not to say that groups like SHAC should be mistaken for Sunday bridge clubs. Potok says there is a trend of increasing violence and intimidation at the fringes of the environmental and animal rights movements, including a rise in bombings and inflammatory threats. "What is just screaming hypocrisy among these groups is the idea that you should blow things up, but the minute you hurt an animal or a human it is automatically not one of their actions," Potok says. "It's inevitable that someone will die at the hands of an animal rights firebomber."
The defense of the "SHAC 7" will rest largely on the landmark 1969 case <i>Brandenburg v. Ohio</i>, in which the Supreme Court ruled that political speech is legal unless it can be shown that a defendant has told specific individuals to commit specific, imminent acts of violence. "These kids were posting things on the Internet, for crying out loud," says Louis Sirkin, a Cincinnati-based First Amendment attorney who is representing one of the activists charged along with Kjonaas. "They were communicating with the entire world."
Certainly, federal authorities spared no effort in trying to gather more evidence on Kjonaas. Back in May 2003, his roommates began noticing two men wearing suits who sat in a parked car three doors down from their house. ("I can't believe they actually thought they were undercover," Kjonaas says.) The gar- bageman told them FBI agents paid him cash to set Kjonaas' trash aside; the mailman said the FBI ordered him to photocopy Kjonaas' mail. Later, Kjonaas' attorneys would discover that the FBI had also obtained warrants to tap his phone and monitor his email use.
Kjonaas and his roommates tried to have fun with their pursuers. They began to pour used kitty litter into their trash bags and douse it with pepper spray. They'd drive toward a freeway on-ramp, then pull a sudden U-turn, snickering as the agents swerved behind them. Lauren Gazzola, one of Kjonaas' roommates and a codefendant in the case, went outside on a cold fall evening and tried to offer the men in the car some hot tea. They ignored her.
These days, when he's not at work playing with dogs, Kjonaas is busy preparing for his trial, which is scheduled to begin February 6 in Trenton, New Jersey. He has 890 hours of videotape to watch, 600 taped phone calls to listen to, and thousands of pages of documents to review—all of it gathered during the FBI's two-year investigation of SHAC. Both sides expect the trial to last at least three months, to be followed by years of appeals. "It's going to be a giant pain in the ass," Kjonaas says. "If this case wasn't so serious, it'd be comical."

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Is Bing Censoring US Searches on Chinese Topics?
The other day I had a little fun with Bing's search results on Windows 8 problems. But this seems much more serious. From a reader:
No comment.
That's Microsoft's response to new revelations that the search engine is censoring Chinese searches in the United States — not just in China. Searches on Chinese topics in the U.S. now produce markedly different search results than Google, results that mimic those in China. China broadly censors the Internet, blocking topics like the Dalai Lama and Tiananmen Square.
The censorship blog Greatfire.org was the first to point out that Bing's search results display information propagated by Chinese authorities. A Chinese language search in Bing for the Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛 in Chinese) produces two results from China's Wikipedia (Baidu Baike) and one from the state-owned television station CCTV. In Google, the same search returns two Wikipedia entries and the Dalai Lama's official site.
Click here to see the results in Bing, versus the results in Google.
Even more shocking, a search for the anti-censorship software FreeGate produces the result: "Due to restrictions on Chinese laws and regulations, we removed the results of these search terms. For more information, see here."
Microsoft responded to a request from Charlie Smith's Greatfire to explain the discrepancy. At first, the software juggernaut replied: "We've conducted an investigation of the claims raised by Greatfire.org. First, Bing does not apply China's legal requirements to searches conducted outside of China. Due to an error in our system, we triggered an incorrect results removal notification for some searches noted in the report but the results themselves are and were unaltered outside of China."
But after finding the "due to Chinese laws and regulations" search result, Microsoft replied: "Thanks for your inquiry. We have no comment on this topic."
Much more detail at the link, with examples and screenshots


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I'm pleased to share what I consider the most promising, must-read nonfiction titles scheduled for release in October of 2022. These titles make up our third and final group of nominees for Season 19 of the Next Big Idea Club (the August group was announced here, and the September group here).
All nominated books will be shared with our Next Big Idea Club curators—Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink—who will narrow the list down to a handful of finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
Authors will also be invited to create a "Book Bite", a 15-minute audio self-recording that features 5 big ideas from their book. It's kind of like chatting with a stranger at a party—only that person just happened to write a fascinating nonfiction book!
And now, the October 2022 titles are…
Hunting: A Cultural History
By Jan Dizard & Mary Zeiss Stange
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Humans have been hunting since we became human—but did hunting make us human? The authors consider and question the "hunting hypothesis of human origins." View on Amazon
Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance Between Intuition and Information
By Christopher Frank & Paul Magnone & Oded Netzer
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Successful decision-makers are fierce interrogators. They square critical thinking with open-mindedness by blending information, intuition, and experience. Balancing these elements is at the heart of Decisions Over Decimals. View on Amazon
Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future
By Yung Pueblo
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world. Pueblo's path to deep healing began only after years of drug abuse had taken a toll on his mind and body. Searching for a way forward, he found that by honestly examining and addressing the anxieties and fears that he had been running away from, he no longer felt like a stranger inside of his heart and mind. View on Amazon
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
By Jeremiah Moss
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
In this genre-bending work of "autotheory," Moss gives an account of his renewed sense of place as a transgender man, braiding the narrative with psychoanalysis, literature, and queer theory, as he offers valuable insight into the way public space―and the spaces inside us―are controlled and can be set free. View on Amazon
Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success
By Srikumar S. Rao
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Profound wisdom for today's busy thinker. Unconventional and highly successful coach Dr. Srikumar Rao distills and condenses valuable life lessons, from ancient sources, literature, and his own experience, into quick-to-read, easily digestible chapters. View on Amazon
Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness
By Moheb Costandi
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes. View on Amazon
The Family Outing
By Jessi Hempel
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as transgender, and her mother as a survivor of a traumatic experience with an alleged serial killer. Yet coming out was just the beginning, starting a chain reaction of other personal revelations and reckonings that caused each of them to question their place in the world in new and ultimately liberating ways. View on Amazon
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
By Danielle Keats Citron
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Wherever we live, laws have failed miserably to keep up with corporate or individual violators, letting our privacy wash out with the technological tide. With vivid examples drawn from interviews with victims, activists, and lawmakers from around the world, The Fight for Privacy argues urgently and forcefully for a reassessment of privacy as a human right. View on Amazon
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By Annie Duke
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Whether you're facing a make-or-break business decision or life-altering personal choice, mastering the skill of quitting will help you make the best next move. View on Amazon
Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company
By Nicolai Foss & Peter Klein
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
A new, important and pragmatic vision on what the job of the boss is in an age of lean/flat/agile organizations, self-organizing teams, and mass collaboration, .when bosses are expected to disappear, countering conventional wisdom of the media and management gurus. View on Amazon
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology
By Martin Chorzempa
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
The startling picture of how China's revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances. View on Amazon
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
By Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsyth
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
An explosive, deeply-reported expose of McKinsey & Co., the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of their work on employees and citizens around the world. View on Amazon
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
By Kieran Setiya
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Warm, accessible, and good-humored, this book is about making the best of a bad lot. It offers guidance for coping with pain and making new friends, for grieving the lost and failing with grace, for confronting injustice and searching for meaning in life. Countering pop psychologists and online influencers who admonish us to "find our bliss" and "live our best lives," Setiya acknowledges that the best is often out of reach. Instead, he asks how we can weather life's adversities, finding hope and living well when life is hard. View on Amazon
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By Tricia Hersey
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right. View on Amazon
The Book of Boundaries: End Resentment, Burnout, and Anxiety–and Reclaim Your Time, Energy, Health, and Relationships
By Melissa Urban
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Set the limits that will set you free. As the co-founder of the Whole30, Melissa Urban helped millions of people transform their relationship with food. Now, in this powerful and practical guide to setting boundaries, she shows you how to prioritize your needs and revolutionize your relationships. View on Amazon
Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
By Herman Narula
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
An eye-opening, myth-busting exploration of the metaverse—and how it is poised to expand the possibilities of human life—from the visionary co-founder of one of today's most innovative technology companies. View on Amazon
When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them
By Julia Boorstin
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Outliers meets Lean In in a groundbreaking, deeply reported work from CNBC's Julia Boorstin that reveals the odds-defying leadership and counterintuitive approaches of women running the world's most innovative (and successful) companies—and what we can learn from them. View on Amazon
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By Ruha Benjamin
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Born of a stubborn hopefulness, Viral Justice offers a passionate, inspiring, and practical vision of how small changes can add up to large ones, transforming our relationships and communities and helping us build a more just and joyful world. View on Amazon
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
By Shilpa Ravella
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
In A Silent Fire, gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it. We meet an eccentric Russian zoologist, the passionate yet flawed inventor of Kellogg's Cornflakes, and dedicated researchers working on the frontiers of medical and nutritional science today. View on Amazon
Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
By Michael Fanone
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. With his unique insight as an undercover detective and intense desire to do the right thing no matter the cost, Fanone provides a nuanced look into everything from policing to race to politics in a way that is accessible across all party lines. View on Amazon
Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
By Nora McInerny
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
As a bestselling author and host of the beloved podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, she has captured the hearts of millions by discussing grief and loss with wit and warmth. Now, with Bad Vibes Only, she turns her eye on our aggressively, oppressively optimistic culture, our obsession with self-improvement, and what it really means to live our lives online. View on Amazon
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World
By Zarifa Ghafari & Hannah Lucinda Smith
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights. Written with honesty, pain and ultimately, hope, Ghafari describes the work she did, the women she still tries to help as they live under Taliban rule and her vision for how grassroots activism can change their lives and the lives of women everywhere. View on Amazon
Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
By Nomi Prins
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Exposes a world fractured by policies crafted by the largest financial institutions, led by the Federal Reserve, that have supercharged the financial system while selling out regular citizens and leading to social and political reckonings. She uncovers a newly polarized world of the mega rich versus the never rich, the winners and losers of an unprecedented distortion that can never return to "normal." View on Amazon
Imperfection: A Natural History
By Telmo Pievani
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to work quite well. In this book, Telmo Pievani shows that life on our planet has flourished and survived not because of its perfection but despite (and perhaps because of) its imperfection. View on Amazon
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope
By Peter Friederici
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
The importance of telling new climate stories—stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope. View on Amazon
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
By Temple Grandin
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Grandin makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. View on Amazon
Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
By Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Declassified cheekily demystifies the world of High Art while making the case that classical music matters, perhaps now more than ever. View on Amazon
Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters
By Laura Vanderkam
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Work crises, childcare emergencies, and home repairs are inevitable, and the mundane tasks of life – cooking, cleaning, laundry – aren't going anywhere. To make time for what matters, you need a resilient schedule, not a perfect schedule. Based on a time diary study of over 150 people, Vanderkam shares nine strategies for building opportunities for joy, nourishment, and fulfillment into your week. View on Amazon
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
By Patrick House
Publication Date: October 11, 2022
Describes complex concepts in accessible terms, weaving brain science, technology, gaming, analogy, and philosophy into a tapestry that illuminates how the brain works and what enables consciousness. This remarkable book fosters a sense of mystery and wonder about the strangeness of the relationship between our inner selves and our environment. View on Amazon
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life
By Eugenia Chang
Publication Date: October 13, 2022
The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life – from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. View on Amazon
Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them
By Michael Bess
Publication Date: October 13, 2022
Climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence – these four existential dangers present a special kind of challenge that urgently requires planet-level responses, yet today's international institutions have so far failed. The book lays out a realistic pathway for modifying the United Nations over the coming century so that it can become more effective at coordinating global solutions. View on Amazon
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
By Karen Bakker
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life. View on Amazon
Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
By Rana Foroohar
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization—by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today. View on Amazon
Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well
By Renee Alsarraf
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Renee shows us why canines are the perfect guides to help us navigate traumatic and difficult experiences. Dogs, she reveals, are unbelievably hopeful, wonderfully stoic, and unwaveringly cheerful even under treatment that would make most of us humans nauseous, angry, and sad. These wonderful animals are terrific reminders of the power of the human spirit, and what is available within ourselves. View on Amazon
A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
By Dolly Chugh
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future. View on Amazon
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent―and Reinvent―Our Identities
By Gregory Berns
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Berns shows how we can embrace the delusion of a singular self to make our lives better, offering a plan not centered on what we think will be best for us, but predicated on minimizing regrets. View on Amazon
The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
By Tim Palmer
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Whether we want to predict climate change or market crashes, understand how the brain is able to outpace supercomputers, or find a theory that links quantum and cosmological physics, Palmer shows how his vision of mathematical uncertainty provides new insights into some of the deepest problems in science. View on Amazon
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
By Margaret Sullivan
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nation's most influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the news and what it will take to regain it. View on Amazon
You, Me, We: Why We All Need a Friend at Work (and How to Show Up As One!)
By Morag Barrett & Eric Spencer & Ruby Vesely
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
One of the most important indicators of individual, team, and organizational success is the presence of an ally mindset. When we have best friends at work―people who are with us, in good times and bad, and who help ensure we make it through together―we thrive. When we don't, we flail, and eventually crash and burn, leaving only a smoking hulk of debris behind as evidence that they were ever even there. View on Amazon
Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange
By Bob Pisani
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Bob describes how the investment world has changed, from brokers shouting on the floor of the NYSE to fully electronic trading, from investment sages and superstars picking stocks for exorbitant fees to the phenomenal rise of low-cost index funds that are saving investors millions, and from the belief that investors make rational decisions to the new age of behavioral finance, which recognizes the often-irrational nature of human decision making and seeks to understand its role in the stock market. View on Amazon
The Invisible Promise: A Field Guide to Marketing in an Upside-Down World
By Harry Beckwith
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Only 26 percent of Americans believe that advertisers "practice integrity." In this new age in marketing, he details how to build digital and nondigital messages that enhance your reputation for integrity; that stand out from the clutter; and that can produce exponential growth while saving you both time and money. View on Amazon
Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World
By Gautam Mukunda
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing an objective and tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote. View on Amazon
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
By Ann-Christine Duhaime
Publication Date: October 18, 2022
A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can―and likely will―enable us to prioritize the long-term survival of humanity. View on Amazon
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
By Linda K. Yates
Publication Date: October 25, 2022
The Unicorn Within provides everything even the most established company needs to create high-growth new ventures that deliver compelling new products and services—and stay perpetually competitive in the face of relentless change. View on Amazon
The Art of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact
By Chuck Wisner
Publication Date: October 25, 2022
Explores the way we can reframe our thoughts, emotions, reactions, and interactions so we form a connection from the very first conversation and keep our discourse positive and productive throughout any endeavor. Wisner identifies four universal types of conversations and offers specific advice on maximizing the effectiveness of each. View on Amazon
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
By Jeremy Utley & Perry Klebahn
Publication Date: October 25, 2022
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Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
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Paris Jackson Tells Fans to Stop Editing Her Skin Color: 'I Am What I Am'
Paris Jackson wants fans to stop editing her skin color online.
The 19-year-old actress and model called out her followers in an tweet Tuesday for lightening and darkening her complexion in social media posts.
"i appreciate everything y'all make for me, i enjoy every edit i see. but please stop lightening my skin to make me look more white. and please stop darkening my skin to make me look more mixed," Jackson wrote.
"i am what i am," she told her 1.3 million Twitter followers. "i'm aware of what i look like and i [am] finally happy with it.."
Jackson followed up in a tweet Wednesday after a fan questioned her use of "mixed."
"sometimes peeps say i 'don't look mixed enough to be bi racial,'" she responded.
Jackson is the daughter of late singer Michael Jackson, who was African-American, and Debbie Rowe, who is Caucasian. She said in an interview with Rolling Stone published in January 2017 that she identifies as black.
"I consider myself black," the star said before recalling how Michael encouraged her to be "proud" of her heritage.
"Most people that don't know me call me white," she acknowledged. "I've got light skin and, especially since I've had my hair blonde, I look like I was born in Finland or something."
Jackson attended the Los Angeles premiere of her movie Gringo on Tuesday. The film co-stars David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried and Thandie Newton, and opens in theaters Friday.
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New Media Communications Strategies For Small Business Awareness & Growth
Ever since the advent of Microsoft Windows in the mid-nineties, which made the computer as a mode of communication more accessible to most everyone, people have been trying to figure out how to leverage its communicative power to have their business interests grow. In other words … How can one use New Media communications to make money and have their businesses grow to meet the needs of more potential customers?
The next layer that has developed over these last one and a half decades are programs that help people to connect with additional ease to share interests, ideas, information, and just plain communicate on a broader field more quickly. This layer is called social media, and when used properly, social media can help a growing business boost brand awareness, improve customer relations, garner market research, even bolster sales. As the number of people who use social media rises, many marketing experts believe it's essential for even the smallest of companies to consider developing a strategy to utilize this resource.
The worst effort a small business can put forth in this arena is to enter the world of New Media communications without a focus or a plan upon which the small business can leverage its limited resources to take advantage of the many social media communications opportunities that exist. As always, a business desires to place in motion a plan that will have a great chance at success, otherwise, why bother … just run an ad in the local paper which fewer people bother to purchase, let alone read.
Logging on to a computer just takes a few clicks to potentiality connect one with thousands of business contacts and customers … in addition to setting up networking strategies, business owners can use social media to glean useful insights by reading comments made by customers, industry experts, even competitors.
This excerpted and edited from the Tucson Citizen –
Small businesses use social media to grow
by Laura Petrecca on Feb. 16, 2012
Hamburger chain Smashburger has become a smash hit, growing from three Denver locations in 2007 to 150 outposts nationwide. And while its Angus-beef burgers and unique toppings have helped to propel its success, its secret sauce is social-media outreach.
Smashburger offers coupons and trivia contests for its 67,000 Facebook followers, replies to questions and complaints on its Twitter and Facebook profiles, and actively reaches out to bloggers who might write about the new Smashburger restaurants opening in their areas.
"The brand was really built on social media and PR strategies," says Jeremy Morgan, senior vice president of marketing and consumer insights. "Social media is an opportunity for us to engage with consumers and have a conversation, which is different than paid media, when you're just shouting through a bullhorn."
"Everybody should take a look at it," says Dan Galbraith, owner of marketing support company Solutionist and a National Small Business Association board member.
"Whether they chose to jump into social media or not is a question that only they can answer," he says, but all firms should at least explore how social media could work for them. "There's a lot of good information floating out there," he says.
A time investment
It takes dedication to achieve social-media success.
"The common misconception about social media is that it's free," says Morgan. "Facebook and Twitter accounts are free, but for small business owners in particular, time comes at a premium."
To keep from feeling overwhelmed, business owners should decide how much time they can dedicate to this burgeoning arena, says Galbraith. Some may need to hire social-media help.
Either way, business owners should first set goals, he says. For instance, an owner might want to increase store traffic by 20% by offering coupons via Facebook or another social-media site. Or a business-to-business company could plan to reconnect with 10 former clients and re-establish solid relationships in the next three months.
The goals should be clear-cut, but as many business owners have learned, the initial strategies might have to change.
Consistency counts
While marketing experts advocate joining the social-media conversation, most say that doing it poorly — such as combining personal and professional updates or not posting information consistently — is worse than not doing it at all.
"Consumers won't stick around, and you won't get much traction," says Morgan.
There are some basic social media tenets to keep in mind, says Sabina Ptacin, co-founder of 'Preneur, which provides tools and resources for small businesses.
She first suggests that business owners "baby step it out," to see what feels comfortable to them and is do-able. Those who can't contribute on a daily basis might want to hold off on creating a public profile.
"You can't post once a week and think it's going to make an impact," she says. "You need to constantly be contributing, definitely every day."
She counsels social-media users to think of it as circulating during a cocktail party.
"I always tell people to pretend that they're at a party and (act) how they would behave," she says. "No one wants to talk to the person who is always talking about themselves. … They want you to ask them questions and engage in conversations."
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A business should also understand that the communicative strata of social media is as varied as there are concepts and interests held by humans themselves. Most are aware of social platforms as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the like but many could gain from understanding other social communications platforms such as SodaHead, Pinterest, Google+, Stumble, as well as other syndicated message and image sharing environments.
A business must decide what niche(s) it speaks to, and can participate in upon which they can contribute so as to receive the benefits of engagement. A well placed pebble thrown into a pond sets up a communications wave that can reap incredible benefits … social media environments are just well placed ponds for well placed communications pebbles.
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Hourly Pay vs Value Pay – Seth Godin
By Seth Godin: Hourly work vs. linchpin work
There's a gulf between hourly work and linchpin work.
You should pay people by the hour when there are available substitutes. When you rely on freelancers you can put a value on their time based on what the market is paying. If there are six podiatrists in town, and all can heal your foot, the going rate is based on their time and effort, not on the lifetime use of your foot.
On the other hand, if there are no short term substitutes, then you don't pay what the market will bear, instead you pay what someone is worth. Big difference.
Consider, for example, someone putting together a series of concerts for which they intend to sell subscriptions or even have the musicians sell tickets.
They could seek out pretty good musicians and imagine that paying them $500 or more per hour is very fair compensation. After all, that's more than a podiatrist gets, and she gives you back the use of your foot.
But when they find a linchpin, someone who will either make it easier for them to sell subscriptions or will bring an audience with them, the question isn't how much time it took for the musician to do her set, the question is what did she bring in terms of value, right? An indispensable person, someone with a rare asset, has few substitutes and an hourly rate makes a lot less sense.
So, if a musician is going to sell 300 subscriptions for you and you earn $200 a subscription from that effort, that person just added $6,000 worth of value. Who cares if it took a minute or a day? What's on the table is who gets what portion of the value added…
I had a college professor who did engineering consulting. A brand new office tower in Boston had a serious problem–there was a brown stain coming through the drywall, (all of the drywall) no matter how much stain killer they used. In a forty story building, if you have to rip out all the drywall, this is a multi-million dollar disaster. They had exhausted all possibilities and were a day away from tearing out everything and taking a loss. They hired Henry in a last-ditch effort to solve the problem. He looked at the walls and said, "I think I can work out a solution, but it will cost you $45,000 if I succeed." They instantly signed on, because if he succeeded, the project would be saved.
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Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
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At the heart of the survey's objectives is the understanding of the economic well-being of Canadians: what economic shifts do individuals and families live through, and how does it vary with changes in their paid work, family make-up, receipt of government transfers or other factors?
Data release - June 27, 2013 - This is the last release from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. For more information, please click on the "Summary of changes" tab.
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- Description
- Data sources and methodology
- Data accuracy
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NOTE: Effective with the 2012 reference year, cross-sectional income estimates will be available from the Canadian Income Survey (record number 5200), see the link in the "Documentation" section.
Longitudinal estimates are available up to and including 2010.
For detailed information related to previous SLID releases, please click on the "Other reference periods" sidebar.
The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) complements traditional survey data on labour market activity and income with an additional dimension: the changes experienced by individuals over time. At the heart of the survey's objectives is the understanding of the economic well-being of Canadians: what economic shifts do individuals and families live through, and how does it vary with changes in their paid work, family make-up, receipt of government transfers or other factors?
SLID was the first Canadian household survey to provide national data on the fluctuations in income that a typical family or individual experiences over time which gives greater insight on the nature and extent of low income in Canada. SLID is the primary Canadian source for income data and provides additional content to data collected by the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
The survey data are used by federal (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Finance, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation , etc.) and provincial departments to formulate social policies and programs. Non-government organizations, private consultant firms and academics also use SLID data to do research to support their positions and to lobby governments for social changes. Individuals and families can use the data to compare their earnings and income situations with those of similar types of family compositions.
Reference period: Calendar year
Collection period: January to mid-March
- Families, households and housing
- Household, family and personal income
- Income, pensions, spending and wealth
- Labour
- Low income and inequality
Data sources and methodology
Target population
All individuals in Canada, excluding residents of the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, residents of institutions and persons living on Indian reserves. Overall, these exclusions amount to less than 3 percent of the population.
Instrument design
The questionnaire was designed for Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview, which means that as the questions were developed, the associated logical flows into and out of the questions were programmed. This included specifying the type of answer required, the minimum and maximum values, on-line edits associated with the questions and what to do in case of item non-response. The initial version of the questionnaire was focus-group tested. When applicable, questions used in other Statistics Canada surveys were implemented in SLID to improve comparability across surveys.
This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.
The samples for SLID are selected from the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS, record number 3701) and thus share the latter's sample design. The LFS sample is drawn from an area frame and is based on a stratified, multi-stage design that uses probability sampling. The total sample is composed of six independent samples, called rotation groups, because each month one sixth of the sample (or one rotation group) is replaced.
The SLID sample is composed of two panels. Each panel consists of two LFS rotation groups and includes roughly 17,000 households. A panel is surveyed for a period of six consecutive years. A new panel is introduced every three years, so two panels always overlap.
Data sources
Responding to this survey is voluntary.
Data are collected directly from survey respondents and extracted from administrative files.
For each sampled household in SLID, interviews are conducted over a six-year period. Every year between January and March, interviewers collect information regarding respondents' labour market experiences and income during the previous calendar year. Information on educational activity and family relationships is also collected at that time. The demographic characteristics of family and household members represent a snapshot of the population as of the end of each calendar year.
SLID interviews are conducted over the telephone using computer-assisted interviewing (CAI). The interviewer reads the questions as they appear on the computer screen and keys in the reported information. Skip-patterns and edits are built into the collection software, allowing interviewers to immediately detect and resolve response inconsistencies. Collection of date-related information (e.g., employment spells, jobless spells, interruption of work), is greatly improved by the use of such an interactive data capture technique. Another advantage of the CAI technology is the feeding back of details from the previous interview, helping respondents to recall past events.
Proxy response is accepted in SLID. This procedure allows one household member to answer questions on behalf of any or all other members of the household, provided he or she is willing to do so and is knowledgeable.
View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s).
Error detection
A series of verifications took place to ensure that the records were consistent and that collection and capture of the data did not introduce errors. Reported data were examined for completeness and consistency using automated edits coupled with manual review. Some responses reporting uncommon values or characteristics were processed manually.
The primary method employed for imputing income data in this survey is to use the previous year's data, updated for any changes in circumstances. Only in the absence of such data are income figures imputed using the "nearest neighbour" technique in SLID.
Amounts received through certain government programs, such as child tax benefits, the Goods and Services Harmonized Sales Tax Credit, and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, are also derived from other information. Data obtained from the tax route are complete and do not need imputation.
The estimation of population characteristics from a survey is based on the premise that each sampled unit represents, in addition to itself, a certain number of unsampled units in the population. A basic survey weight is attached to each record to indicate the number of units in the population that are represented by that unit in the sample.
For each reference year, SLID produces two sets of weights: one is representative of the initial population (the longitudinal weights) while the other is representative of the current population (the cross-sectional weights). For the production of the cross-sectional weights, SLID combines two independent samples and assigns a probability of selection to individuals who joined the sample after the panel was selected. Longitudinal weights for 2011 are not available.
Two types of adjustment are applied to the basic survey weights in order to improve the reliability of the estimates. The basic weights are first inflated to compensate for non-response. The non-response adjusted weights are then further adjusted to ensure that estimates on relevant population characteristics would respect population totals from sources other than the survey.
The first set of population totals used for SLID is based on Statistics Canada's Demography Division population counts for different age/sex groups as well as counts by household and family size at the provincial level. These annual population totals are based in large part on totals from the Census of population.
The second set of totals is derived from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) administrative data (T4 file) and is intended to ensure that the weighted distribution of income (based on wages and salaries) in the data set matches that of the Canadian population.
Quality evaluation
The survey results are compared with other data sources that include: administrative databases, census and other Statistics Canada surveys.
Disclosure control
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any data that would divulge information obtained under the Statistics Act that relates to any identifiable person, business or organization without the prior knowledge or the consent in writing of that person, business or organization. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.
Suppression rules, or data reliability cutoffs, are currently established based on the sample size that underlies the estimate. In general, a sample size of 25 observations is required for the estimate to be published. Depending on the type of estimate, this rule can vary slightly. These rules help protect the confidentiality of survey respondents and ensure the reliability of estimates.
Revisions and seasonal adjustment
This methodology does not apply to this survey.
Data accuracy
There are two types of errors inherent in sample survey data, namely, non-sampling errors and sampling errors. The reliability of survey estimates depends on the combined impact of non-sampling and sampling errors.
Randomly occurring non-sampling errors generally result from human errors such as simple mistakes, misunderstanding or misinterpretation; their impact over a large number of observations will be minimal. Errors occurring systematically and errors arising from sources such as coverage, erroneous response, non-response and processing can have, on the other hand, a major impact on the reliability of estimates. Considerable time and effort is invested into reducing non-sampling errors in SLID.
Coverage error arises when sampling frame units do not exactly represent the target population. Units may have been omitted from the sampling frame (under-coverage), or units not in the target population may have been included (overcoverage), or units may have been included more than once (duplicates). Undercoverage represents the most common coverage problem. Slippage is a measure of survey coverage error. It is defined as the percentage difference between control totals (Census population projections) and weighted sample counts. In 2011, SLID covered 87.4% of its target population. SLID estimation procedures use Census population projections to compensate for determined slippage. Rates are also available upon request for sex, province and age groupings.
As for the response rate, the cross-sectional response rate was 67.3% in 2011.
Sampling errors occur because inferences about the survey population are based on data from a sample of that population rather than the entire population. The sample design, the variability of the characteristic being measured, and the sample size will all contribute to the magnitude of the sampling error. The standard error is a common measure of sampling error. The standard error measures the degree of variation introduced in estimates by selecting one particular sample rather than another of the same size and design. Another widely used measure of the sampling error is the coefficient of variation (CV), which is the estimated standard error expressed as a percentage of the estimate. In SLID, the bootstrap approach is used for the calculation of standard errors. This is a resampling method of variance estimation, often used when dealing with estimates from a complex sample design.
- Canadian Income Survey (CIS)
Effective with the 2012 reference year, cross-sectional income estimates will be available from the Canadian Income Survey (CIS).
The CIS is a cross-sectional survey developed to assess the economic well-being of individuals and families in Canada. It provides a portrait of the income and income sources of Canadians, with their individual and household characteristics.
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Actors: Actors A-B - Actors C-D - Actors E-G - Actors H-J - Actors K-M - Actors N-R - Actors S-Z, No credits
Some lists have not been added yet, and have not checked all pages for dead links etc yet.
Video clips: Trailers - Short films - Acting reels - Music videos - Interviews - Documentaries - Spoofs and Parodies - Commercials
Film/TV: Feature films, TV episodes, Mini series and TV-series
Other lists: Production/crew - Music
Casting callsI'll post casting notices here up to several times a week, and remove the old ones. Will post on the NativeCelebs facebook page when I update the page. I usually don't include "any ethnicity" postings. Instructions for casting directors/producers below New: A facebook group where anyone can post casting notices:
Stabilization of video camerasThese days, you don't need more than a cameraphone or point and shoot digicam to be a filmmaker. Videos on Youtube, facebook and Vimeo don't need to be shot with professional cameras. But even with a simple camera, you'll need some pro gear for advanced shots. The smaller your camera, the more you'll need this gear. So, I've found some videos and links describing low cost gear you can make yourself. These are versions of gear used professionally, and in here you'll also find how to use it. Last Updated (Saturday, 23 July 2011 14:17) Web presence for actorsIf you are an actor and know you need some sort of web presence, read on! Last Updated (Sunday, 14 March 2010 20:42) |


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Located just east of Norman in central Oklahoma, Lake Thunderbird State Park features two marinas, nine boat ramps and two swim beaches. The park includes RV sites with full hookups. RV and tent campsites in the campgrounds can be reserved online. Book your stay and see why Lake Thunderbird is one of central Oklahoma's most popular recreation areas. Online reservations must be made for all RV and tent campsites.
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John Doolittle on DrugsRepublican Representative (CA-4) |
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. HOWARD BERMAN (D, CA-28): The drug crisis facing the US remains a top national security threat. This bill represents a new partnership with Mexico and Central American countries to face the immediate security threat of drug gangs, and help these neighbors build the capacity of their law enforcement agencies.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. MICHAEL McCAUL (R, TX-10): We need a strategy on this side of the border: a two-pronged Approach; a comprehensive strategy that deals not only with the Mexican side but with the US side. And for too long, our border sheriffs and our Border Patrol agents have been outmanned and outgunned. And if we are going to provide assistance to Mexico, it seems to me we ought to be providing assistance to our men and women on our side fighting this war every day.
Rep. TED POE (R, TX-2): I am concerned about drugs and violence on the border, but I am also concerned about corruption. In order to gain control of access corridors in the US, drug cartels are hiring hit men from an elite force in Mexico's military. This group is known as the "Zetas." Some of the Zetas are military deserters that may have been trained in the US. $1 billion in this bill would go to Mexico. And Mexico in its arrogance objects to any conditions we want to put on this money. The administration can offer us no assurance that our equipment and training won't be used against us and neither can Mexico.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2006 NORML scores as follows:
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law's mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty.
NORML is a nonprofit, public-interest lobby that for more than 30 years has provided a voice for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition. We represent the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly and believe the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime.
NORML supports the removal of all criminal penalties for the private possession & responsible use of marijuana by adults, including the cultivation for personal use, and the casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. This model is called "decriminalization."
NORML additionally supports the development of a legally controlled market for marijuana, where consumers could purchase it from a safe, legal and regulated source. This model is referred to as "legalization."
NORML believes that marijuana smoking is not for kids and should only be used responsibly by adults. As with alcohol consumption, it must never be an excuse for misconduct or other bad behavior. Driving or operating heavy equipment while impaired from marijuana should be prohibited.
NORML strongly supports the right of patients to use marijuana as a medicine when their physician recommends it to relieve pain and suffering.
Lastly, NORML supports the right of farmers to commercially cultivate hemp for industrial purposes, such as food and fiber production.
To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for the distribution of needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs. Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit Federal funds from being expended to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs.
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On any given day, 90 percent of Americans enjoy a snack, compared with only 75 percent who eat breakfast and 88 percent who eat lunch, according to the Madison, Wis.-based International Deli-Dairy-Bakery Assn.
Eagle Snacks first brought hungry airline fliers honey-roasted peanuts and the second largest snack brand during its tenure under Anheuser-Busch ownership. The brand returns to the snacking scene under Chicago-based Reserve Brands with the nationwide debut of its two new snack line products: Poppers! and Bursts!
Poppers are crunchy potato spheres with a zest-packed punch in four savory flavors: Honey Barbeque, Habanero, Sweet Onion and Salt & Vinegar. Bursts are corn puffs that come in Cinnamon & Sugar, Caramel Dulce de Leche and White Cheddar flavors.
Eagle Snacks is back with products and flavors that reflect the palate of today's snacking constituency," says Scott Lazar, Reserve Brands president/CEO. "Discerning snackers need variety and a break from the same-old traditional snack food fare. Eagle is responding with innovative and delicious flavors and textures that provide a truly unique snacking experience to wake up tired taste buds."
Suggested retail price for a 2.5-ounce bag is $2.79.


text: TK Theaters is a design firm specializing in the design of residential theaters. Theo Kalomirakis and his team of experienced architects and designers have created hundreds of such theaters throughout the world, ranging from small intimate spaces to large environments that can accommodate the entertainment activities of even the most demanding host. Like the great movie houses of the early 20th century, the theaters that Theo Kalomirakis designs lure the audience away from everyday life into a tantalizingly polished and detailed space. Visual refinements in color, light, and texture, as well as spatial transitions, from entering the outer lobby to taking a seat in the auditorium, prepare the client almost ritualistically for the proper experience of the movie. Regardless of their size, they all share a common trait -- the theater experience.


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The ABAA holds its members to high ethical standards. This includes asking members to do all they can to prevent the theft of and traffic in stolen manuscripts, books, and other printed material or to help prevent the traffic in frauds and forgeries. This job is handled in part by the ABAA Security Committee.
If you have had books stolen or gone missing, you can contact the ABAA headquarters in New York to have the material added to the ABAA Security Blog. If you suspect a forgery, we may be able to make a referral that can help you authenticate your material.
The cooperation of an ethical dealer is only one part of the process when you suffer a loss. Contact the appropriate law enforcement agencies to file a report in case of loss or theft. This is a critical step to help in the recovery of lost material. ABAA members have worked with local law enforcement agencies, FBI, Homeland Security and Interpol in efforts against biblio‐crime.
Crime & Punishment
The ABAA Security Blog will keep you up to date with the latest in stolen, missing or fraudulent material. You can also read about ABAA members who have put a stop to theft and forgery. Ken Sanders catches a man who loved books too much. Jeremy Norman writes about a noble Italian mathematician with sticky fingers.
Also see Library and Archival Security News from the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, or The Society of American Archivists' "Introduction for Archivists" for the ACRL/RBMS Guidelines regarding security and theft.
The ABAA Security Committee
The Security Committee shall be responsible for establishing and maintaining contact with both the Association membership and the bookselling and library communities at large on matters pertaining to the theft of books and other printed materials, and manuscripts, and the trafficking thereof; shall promote security measures which may assist in the prevention of book theft; shall cooperate with law enforcement authorities in the effort to recover and return stolen materials to their rightful owners; and, shall assist, when practical, in the apprehension of those responsible for the theft.
Legal Disclaimer
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America ("ABAA") makes available a Blog ("Blog") which contains information regarding stolen or missing rare and antiquarian books, prints, or maps reported by ABAA Members and the general public ("Information"). The Information provided through this Blog is for informational and educational purposes only. The ABAA does not in any way check or review the information reported to the Blog, and thus cannot guarantee the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of the Information. Viewers alone will bear the sole responsibility of evaluating the merits and risks associated with the use of any of the Information described on the Blog or before making any decisions based on Information contained in the Blog. The Information provided through this Blog is for the personal use of the viewer only and no reproduction or distribution of the Information may be made for any commercial purposes. The viewer assumes all risk involved with the use of the Information on this Blog and agrees to hold the ABAA harmless from and against any and all liability arising from the use of the Information on this Blog.


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- Location
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Telephone
- +31 (0)70 800 9500 or +31 (0)71 527 8200
Monday to Friday
07:30 - 23:30
Saturday and Sunday
9:30 - 23:30
For more information on the opening hours of the Wijnhaven Library, check the UBL website.
Student access
Only accessible to students of Leiden University and EPA students TU Delft in possession of a valid LU Card.
Closing dates and seasonal opening hours in 2024
- 1 January: closed (New Year's Day)
- 31 March and 1 April: closed (Easter)
- 26 April: 7:30 - 19:30 (King's Night)
- 27 April: closed (King's Day)
- 5 May: closed (Liberation Day)
- 9 May: closed (Ascension Day)
- 10 May: closed (compulsory closing day)
- 19 and 20 May: closed (Pentecost)
- 24 December: 09:30 - 19:00 (Christmas Eve)
- 25 December to 1 January: closed (Christmas break)
Opening hours during the summer period
8 July to 18 August
- Monday to Friday: 07:30 - 19:30
- Saturday: 12:00 - 17:30
- Sunday: closed
Campus The Hague is spread out over five buildings in the administrative heart of the city. Leiden University's students, researchers and staff are able to work and study at locations with direct links to topics that are relevant to The Hague such as governance and security.
Leiden University regularly opens its doors for informative, inspiring, and socially engaged events that are closely related to the educational and research programmes of Campus The Hague. If you would like to organise something that might be of interest to our students and/or staff, please feel free to enquire about the possibilities.
Due to limited building capacity, the planning of educational and research activities always takes priority over other events. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate meetings, conferences, and events that do not include our students and/or staff as their target audience.
Please find information about the rooms and their facilities in this presentation.
If you would like to know more about the possibilities, please feel free to contact Jamy van Baarsel and/or Joany Doornik, Event Coordinators Campus The Hague at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The number of parking spaces at Leiden University is limited. Do you have an appointment with one of our staff members? In some cases, he or she can reserve a parking space for you.
You can also make use of the paid parking options offered by Leiden and The Hague.
Paid parking
- Information from the municipality
- Ehrenfestgarage Leiden Bio Science Park
- Westerdijkgarage Leiden Bio Science Park
The Hague
Seven faculties
Right in the city centre is Wijnhaven, the beating heart of Campus The Hague. Around 3,500 students take classes here and in the other Campus The Hague buildings. There is also room for study, discussion and group work. Researchers and lecturers from six of the seven faculties teach or conduct research here. In addition, Delft University of Technology has a presence on the fifth floor, and there is a high-tech studio for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Classrooms and silent study areas
Wijnhaven comprises almost 14,000m2 of teaching and research facilities, and offers 630 study spaces, 280 silent study spaces, 140 study spaces with a computer, a library, an information desk, an area for study associations and offices for around 250 members of the University staff. There are five lecture halls, both big and small, and 21 smaller classrooms with flexible walls. The Centre for Innovation's Future Lab can be found on the first floor. Right next to the entrance is a coffee corner, and on the first floor there is not only a coffee bar but also a restaurant.
Disabled parking space
About 250 metres away in the Interparking car park on Korte Voorhout or in Plein Parking on Plein.
- The route to the entrance is paved and level.
- There is an automatic wheelchair-accessible revolving door.
- The barrier-free passage is about 100 cm wide.
- There is a doorbell.
Reception immediately after the revolving doors at the entrance on the right.
070 - 800 9500
Wheelchair-accessible toilets
- Ground floor: between the Spanish Steps and the escalator, about 16 metres from the entrance.
- Second floor:diagonally opposite auditorium 2.01
- Third floor: opposite 3.50; enter corridor and turn right there
- Third floor: opposite 4.82
- Fifth floor: diagonally opposite 5.35
- Sixth floor: opposite 6.18
After the entrance, immediately turn right, then continue straight ahead for 9 metres. The lifts go up to the fourth floor. For the lift to the fifth and sixth floors, get off at the third floor and continue straight on for 100 metres, then turn right three times.
Possible obstacles
- Not all glass walls and doors are marked.
- Outdoor locations have a threshold of about 25 centimetres.
- The lifts are only accessible with a valid LU-Card.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Pacific Southwest Region today announced the 12 winners for the 2012 annual environmental awards to acknowledge significant contributions to protecting the environment.
"The winners, green heroes all, prove there are many ways to protect our air, water and land," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "Each one has taken up the challenge to improve our environment, and we all stand to benefit."
Groups and individuals were selected from nominees received this year from businesses, government officials, tribes, media, environmental organizations and community activists. The 12 categories and this year's winners are from Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and tribal lands:
· Green Business of the YearFrito-Lay Casa Grande Plant, Casa Grande, Ariz.
· Green Government ASU's Sustainable Cities Network, Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability, Tempe, Ariz.· Zero Waste Advocate Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif.
· Sustainable Agriculture Champion Russ Lester of Dixon Ridge Farms, Winters, Calif.
· Climate Change Champion Grid Alternatives, Oakland, Calif.
· Green Chemistry KORE Infrastructure syngas pilot project in Paramount, Calif.
· Environmental Justice Champion Neelam Sharma of Community Services Unlimited, South Los Angeles, Calif.
· Efficient Water Infrastructure The Water and Energy Technology (WET) Center at California State University, Fresno, Calif.
· Children's Environmental Health Dr. Jeanne Conry of American Congress of Obstetricians and GynecologistsRoseville, Calif.
· Educational Leadership Guam Environmental Education Committee, Hagatna, Guam
· Clean Technology Kuehnle AgroSystems, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii
· Tribal Environmental Protection Shoshone Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley in Owyhee, Nev.
Individual presentations and group award ceremonies will be conducted at various locations in the Pacific Southwest region over the next several months. Additional information about the award recipients will be provided in advance of the separate award ceremonies.
Each year, U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest office encourages citizens in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories to nominate individuals or organizations for 12 environmental awards. This program offers a great opportunity to recognize individuals and groups outside of the EPA who are working to protect public health and the environment. Awards are granted to scientists, teachers, journalists, citizen activists, young people, organizations, business representatives, tribal leaders, public officials, and others committed to protecting public health and preserving our natural surroundings.
This free educational webinar will provide a detailed process for climate-driven "pre-response" in a variety of key areas including: Supply Chain Disruptions, Employee Safety and Productivity, Regulatory and Compliance Risks …and many more areas.


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We were lucky up here on the North Shore — we got lots of wind and plenty of rain from Sandy, but very little damage. We lost power for about a half-hour last night. When it came back, it seemed that the worst had passed.
But then we tuned in to CNN and saw the devastation that was taking place in New York and New Jersey. The aftermath will be with us for a long time.
As it turns out, it's mapping week in my Reinventing the News class. Although classes at Northeastern were canceled on Monday, I've been sharing with my students some of the more interesting storm presentations being put together by news organizations.
Above is a map you'll find at BostonGlobe.com plotting all kinds of Sandy-related reports — everything from photos and stories by Globe journalists to power-outage announcements and updates from other news organizations. It uses Leaflet, a tool I'm not familiar with, and OpenStreetMap, an open-source alternative to the increasingly commercialized offerings of Google, Apple and Microsoft.
I have not been able to puzzle out why some red dots are larger than others. I asked a source at the Globe, but he was too busy dealing with actual news to get back to me. I'd be curious to know the answer.
The New York Times is offering more of a meteorological tool — a map that tracks the path of Sandy and lets you call up a forecast for your community.
Also well worth a look is an interactive map put together by Google.org, the company's nonprofit arm. Called "Superstorm Sandy," the map lets you add and subtract various layers, including emergency shelters, YouTube videos and public alerts.
It's part of an international effort called Google.org Crisis Response, which makes digital tools available wherever a disaster takes place.