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I will be guest hosting The Sean Leslie Show on CKNW AM 980 on Sunday August 5 from 2 to 5 p.m.

Today’s lineup includes everything from threatened sockeye salmon runs in the Fraser River to Arctic sovereignty to Darfur to bad lawyers to the Pride Parade and the best BC beer!

Tune in! Here’s the schedule:

2 p.m. - ERNIE CREY…FISHERIES ADVISOR- STO:LO FIRST NATIONS - EARLY RETURNS OF FRASER RIVER SALMON ARE EXTREMELY LOW

2:30 p.m. - DR. JOE MACINNIS….. physician-scientist, author and deep-sea explorer - JOE HAS TRAVELED TO THE REGION THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE CLAIMING STAKE TO…. HE’LL TELL US WHY THE RUSSIANS HAVE DROPPED THE BALL ON THE REAL ISSUE IN THE ARCTIC… GLOBAL WARMING AND IT’S DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES

3 p.m. - CHRIS CZERWINSKI… FORMER HEAD OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM IN NORTHERN DARFUR ON TROUBLES THERE

3:30 p.m. - PHILLIP SLAYTON… AUTHOR OF “LAWYERS GONE BAD” - HIS CONTROVERSIAL BOOK HAS DRAWN THE IRE OF LAWYERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY

4 p.m. - TOMAS BACZKOWSKI.. PRIDE PARADE GRAND MARSHALL AND WARSAW PRIDE PARADE ORGANIZER WILL TALK ABOUT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS AND LESBIAN AROUND THE WORLD

4:30 p.m. - COLIN JACK… FOUNDER OF JUST HERE FOR THE BEER.COM ON BC’S BEST BEERS

Don’t miss it!

WIRED Magazine just launched the ‘How To Wiki,’ a collaborative site dedicated to the burgeoning DIY culture. Here we’ll find all kinds of projects, hacks, tricks and tips on how to live, work and play better. Anyone can contribute new items or edit an existing item. >>

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Since I don’t watch the news, this lovely bit of mass hysteria didn’t catch up with me until today. A few weeks ago two artists were hired to make and distribute advertisements for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. For those of you who don’t obsessively watch Teletoon at 10:00 every night, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a 15 minute cartoon show created by the wonderfully subversive minds at Adult Swim. The cartoon consist of human-sized fast-food creatures: a milk shake, a round ball of ground meat (which is something that probably hasn’t existed in a fast food place since the 40s, since all fast food hamburgers arrive already shaped and frozen), and an order of fries that sports a goatee and shoots lazers out of his eyes. The show follows these three as they hang around thier run-down house, torment their white-trash neighbour, Carl, and ocassionally get pestered themselves by a litany of strange side-characters.

The advertisements took the form of throwies (think Light Brite) of the Mooninites, a pair of popular side characters. The throwies were magnetic and were displayed around the cities of Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia for weeks, apparently without much notice. Almost made it a bust as an advertising campaing, until Thursday morning when a woman on a bus noticed one of the throwies on a bridge in boston and called the police to report a “suspicious deivce”.

“An army of emergency vehicles responded to the scene with lights flashing, including police cruisers, fire trucks, ambulances, and the Boston Police Department bomb squad.

Police inspected the package using a truck-mounted work platform. Transit police officer Joseph Mathews from the explosive detection unit donned the thick green armor of the bomb squad an approached the object.

Matthews attached cables to the device and officials later fired the small water explosive to render the object safe. ” - Boston Globe

Shortly after this made the news, Turner Broadcasting, parent company to Adult Swim, called the Boston police to assure them that they were responsible, that it was an advertising campaign and nothing threatening. They even gave them the exact locations of the other throwies. The police didn’t beleive them and only treated it as “a possible lead”.

After all the dust settled the police and government of Boston were very angry. Not because anything had done wrong, but because they were very embarrassed and embarassment often turns to anger: anger and the search for a scapegoat. The two artists were arrested on charges of placing a hoax device to incite panic, a felony charge that carries a five year maximum sentence, and one count of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Even the judge seemed sceptical and the two were released on bail. They will be faced with a judicial hearing at a time that hasn’t been disclosed. Turner Broadcasting has offered to pay for the inconvenience caused by the campaign, which has been estimated may cost a third of a million dollars.

The obvious question, of course, is: What the fuck? How bad has Bush got these poor people that small (no more than a foot square) magnetic Light Brites can cause such panic? The fact that this has been taken so seriously is both mind-boggling and a source of tremendous amusement to me. And many others. Here is Stephen Colbert’s report, YouTube-based comedy group Zebro favoured us with their take on the situation. I’m still looking for others: there’s rumour that Jimmy Kimmel did a skit and Penn Jillette discussed it on his radio show, but I’m still trying to find the links.

The final word: chill the fuck out, America!

Chanda LaVigne; David, Blake, Elijah
Email: - lavignechanda@yahoo.com
Location: - Our destroyed address was Longbeach,Ms. We are now at Picayune,MS. In a year we hope to have a home built on our land which is in Picayune

We have lots of plans for the future but lack of money has got us at a stand still
Number in Household: - Chanda 31 female,David age 57 male, Blake age 12 male,Elijah age 3 male.

We raise American Pit Bull dogs and have too many to list,that is one thing I have recently started doing to make money and just had our first litter,which will be ready for sale in time for Christmas.
If we can sell the pups we want to put the money towards lumber.
Situation: nearly 2 weeks after Katrina we were finally allowed south of the tracks to see what we had left - there was nothing and it went on for miles and miles.We slept in the back of my fiance’s truck whereever we could find to park and bathed in the creek and when we went back to the apt. for the first time, a friend told us of a school/redcross shelter where we could sleep in the truck and be safe, get plenty of food and ice. We slept in our truck on their grounds for a week or so and they got us a huge tent and then we moved into a fema camper park, where we lived until a few months ago.
We are now in another fema camper in my grandpa’s yard.
Current Living Arrangements: - FEMA camper
Help: - FEMA, Red Cross
My fiance is disabled and I am self employed selling at fleamarkets and online but lost thousands of dollars wurth of inventory in the apartment that fema wouldn’t even reconize and had just bought a new computer a few weeks before,this time I bought a laptop so it can go with me if we have to evacuate,I just got internet service a few months ago for the first time since the storm and most people here still dont have it.
I have not gotten any help this year but I just met a lady from Atlanta who is going to bring me all things to cook Christmas dinner.
Needs:
To be honest the most important thing that we need is building materials but you dont have to post that, I know that is a little much to ask for but we do need some cloths and bedding sheets and blankets
School Supplies - My 12 year old needs some uniforms,tan pants and white or navy shirts.Size 30×28 pants and large 18/20 shirts
Household Supplies Queen and Twin Sheets and blankets and some pillows, our pillows are old handmedowns
Clothing
ELI age 3 wears size 4t pants and 5t shirts and 10 shoes
BLAKE age 12 wears 30×28 or 30×29 pants and large shirts and 71/2 shoes. He needs some school tan pants and white or navy shirts and some boxer underwear and socks.
DAVID age 57 wears nothing but jeans and tshirts 40×30 jeans and XLshirts
CHANDA age 31 wears nothing but jeans and tshirts size 14 jeans & Lg shirts
(Side Note - Chanda is also surveying the FEMAville she just moved from for needs - I don’t have what she wrote, but their situation is extremely dire. Very little heat - no one can afford propane, many elderly and small children - I think it’s incredible that she thinks of them before herself - I met her when she wrote for help for THEM)
2/23
We are actually considering going ahead and moving to the land we bought without the utilities or having it cleared. We are having a hard time making it in this FEMA park (the manager hates fema residents and harrases us). I’m seperated from my 12 year old son because his school district is in Hancock and FEMA moved us to Pearl River, he is staying with my mother. We have an old RV and a few generators and think we can make do until we can afford to get the utilities and get it cleared. Wish us luck!

1/14
Our fema camper is leaky and very moldy, it’s getting worse everyday.There is black mold around almost every window and who knows whats behind the walls.Our family has a headache everyday and our eyes are burning and other sinus and breathing problems,it is the travel trailer,so its a little space anyways.
The day we found it leaking, our inspector happened to come by, we reported it to her a few days after Christmas, they never came so I then called them 3 times since monday the first time they said someone would come in 6-48 hours, the second time she said all she can do is call the contractor and the last time I finally got a lady that said she would put in on emergency status.
I then called a different FEMA number to ask about rental assistance, they said the only way is if we have medical documentation that the camper is making us sick, so I can take my 12 year old to the doctor on medicaid but that will be next week.
But then there’s not too many rentals in this area. So until they come out here and see for themselves,we dont know what to do except wait. We can’t afford a hotel room and just don’t have anywhere to go.
I’m really concerned about the long term effects this may have on our health.I’m hoping FEMA will show up soon. I can’t believe people are having to live like this. This is crazy,they should have this mess more organized by now.

1/8
Our fema camper has started leaking and its tricky,it comes from behind the walls and under the floors and cabinets,not to mention the windows. After the last few days of bad weather,I have found all kind of things soaking wet,I mean its 8 x 30 and theres 2 adults and 2 kids so things are packed in here pretty tight, against some of the windows on the bunks and on the floors next the wall.Well theres no telling what kind of mold is behind the walls, I moved everything that I thought would get wet but it leaked in totally different places this time than it did last time,I can smell mold it in the cabinets.

We are buying a piece of property and will be moving an old 6×15 motor home there.The land needs a lot of clearing and doesent have the electric,water or septic.We are also in need of building materials. My fiance is disabled but says he can do the work himself but I would really love to get us some help. He is retired/disabled fireman of 18 years.

1/4 - A video narration of her story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smyCZhL4BRU

We want to show that it is possible to care enough to change things. We want to remove all excuses and impediments to individual action, because such actions–collectively–do make a difference –Not On Our Watch.

It isn’t often that you can’t wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Don’t get me wrong, there are extremely sad and depressing stories in here, but mostly it is a book that shares Cheadle and Prendergast’s, “Two Paths Out of Apathy,” inspiring citizen activist success stories, and tools and information to help you take action.

I particularly appreciated the historical background on the situation. What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn’t want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur. Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror.

I also found it heartening to hear that the US government actually does listen when the public applies pressure. Prendergast, who worked at the White House and State Department during the Clinton administration writes:

I have seen firsthand this continuum of pressure and its results. When citizens write letters and press their agendas in a coordinated way, Congress responds. And when Congress presses the president to act on a foreign policy issue, the president responds. When citizens are silent in the face of the world’s horrors, as they were during the Rwandan genocide, it is almost certain that the president will not act.

The book is interspersed with personal anecdotes from Cheadle and Prendergast. Cheadle’s stories reveal the reality of being a celebrity activist. Before speaking at a STAND rally at UCLA he reflects:

It is a perfect–yet to me often strange–example of the power of “celebrity”. I probably know less than Jenny [a student speaking at the rally] about whence I speak, and possess maybe a quarter of her energy, and yet the unitiated and heretofore uninterested are now beginning to pool to hear what Basher Tarr of Ocean’s eleven/twelve/etc. has to say. Fine then. It shouldn’t be all sunglasses and autographs anyway. I have been blessed with the rare opportunity to draw focus for however long it lasts, and I am happy to have something to talk about other than Brad Pitt’s favorite food or what Catherine Zeta-Jones is like in person (tacos and lovely, respectively).

The book is also filled with stories of citizen activists making a difference. When is the last time you read a book or a magazine article about a social/environmental/political issue that not only addressed the problems, but also solutions? So refreshing.

My favorite, because it is so creative and have fun-do goody is the Harry Potter Alliance which, “seeks to motivate Harry Potter fans to take a stand against tyranny, genocide, global warming, and more, using parallels to the book series.”

Perhaps I feel so strongly about this book, because right before it I read Vandana Shiva’s Earth Democracy, a really intense book which discusses a lot of disturbing things like water privatization, female feticide in India, and prevention of seed saving by corporate patents. Important things that everyone should be aware of, and I’m glad I read the book, but boy did I feel depressed and powerless to create change by the end.

Not On Our Watch, on the other hand, ends with an eight page Appendix of ideas and resources for change. Their Six Strategies for Effective Change are:

1. Raise awareness
2. Raise funds
3. Write letters
4. Call for divestment
5. Join an organization
6. Lobby the government

I particularly appreciated the 7 Deadly Sins of Human Rights Advocates (these tips apply to all kinds of advocates!):

1. Don’t be boring
2. Don’t be too long-winded
3. Don’t be too unilateral
4. Don’t be too complex
5. Don’t be too unstructured
6. Don’t be too random
7. Don’t be too touch feely.

And the Five Helpful Hints for Advocacy Initiatives

1. Keep It Simple
2. Keep It Short
3. Keep It Sound
4. Keep It Smart
5. Keep It Special

Here are some of the resources they listed if you want more information about what’s going on in Darfur:

ENOUGH
International Crisis Group
Eric Reeve’s website
Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
mtvU’s Darfur video game
Genocide Intervention (GI-Net) Action Alerts
STAND’s National Newsletter
Save Darfur Weekly Action Network
Africa Action Action Alerts

Honestly, this is my favorite read of the year so far. As strange as it sounds, it can even be a “beach read”–(that’s where I read it!) It is that accessible, and it makes you feel like you can make a difference, or as the quote at the top says, that it is possible to care enough to change things.

Full disclosure: I requested a review copy of Not on Our Watch from Hyperion.

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Back in the USSR, Don’t Know How Boring You Are

Day Watch / Daniel Carlson
Russian-Kazakh writer-director Timur Bekmambetov, who has the second-most enjoyable name to type or say out of all modern international film directors (the winner being Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), has let me down in a big way. My first exposure to the man was last year’s Night Watch, an epic horror-fantasy that entertainingly merged the battle for good and evil with a healthy dose of bureaucratic irony, and I was sufficiently impressed. Based on the novel by Sergei Lukyanenko, the film was a frenetic take on an ornately realized universe, and unique in its ambiguity regarding moral absolutes. The story revolved around the Others, a group of supernatural beings who dwell among us and are split into two groups, Light and Dark, and whose respective members keep watch over the opposing party in order to maintain an uneasy truce that was struck a thousand years ago. The first film followed Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) as he joined the Light side to become a member of Night Watch, so named because they keep the Dark side in check; the bad guys, pretty obviously, are called Day Watch. But it was that ambiguity, and the film’s willingness to flirt with the odd mundanity of what magical police forces would look like, that gave it such a unique sheen. And, well, Bekmambetov has pretty much shot all that straight to hell with the sequel Day Watch: It’s long where the first film was tight, it’s sloppy where the first film was focused, and it’s aimless where the first film drove powerfully toward the goal of unspooling a grand story. I wasn’t really aware that watching vampires blow stuff up for a couple hours could be boring — stupid, maybe, but never really boring — but Bekmambetov proved me wrong. Day Watch is one dull slog through a series of pointless battles set to unimaginable thrash metal and serving no point but to sully whatever small joy was left in the memory of the original.

The film picks up an indeterminate amount of time after the first movie’s climactic finale, in which Anton’s estranged 12-year-old, Yegor (Dmitry Martynov), was revealed to be an Other and chose to join the Dark side. Actually, back up: The film opens centuries ago in the snowy frozen waste of what I think was Eastern Russia, where the Asian warrior Tamerlane led his army in storming some kind of castle in order to retrieve the Chalk of Fate. The Chalk of Fate, despite having a regrettably lame title, actually has the ability to grant the user whatever he or she wishes by writing, granting Tamerlane near-infinite power for the rest of his life. Back in present-day Moscow, Anton is busy training Svetlana (Mariya Poroshina), who was revealed to be an Other at the end of the last film and has apparently signed up with the good guys. She’s also spoken of as a Great Light Other, a gift not hinted at last time at all. This is part of the problem with the film: It feels only tangentially connected to the events of the previous movie because most of the conflicts feel retroactively created. First the Chalk of Fate (man), then Svetlana having all kinds of super-superpowers, and then the addition of extra levels to the Gloom, which is a kind of alternate dimension the Others can slide into when they want to pass humans undetected, and which is barely worth explaining except to say that the groundwork for all this mythology was pretty neatly delineated in the first film, and now the second film isn’t embroidering on that story, it’s rewriting it.

Anton and Svetlana respond to a call that a Dark Other is killing people on the street: It turns out to be Yegor, exploring his newfound freedom living with the bad guys. Fearing that the evidence of the crime could be enough to get his son in trouble, Anton decides to help him out by sneaking into the Light side’s archives and destroying the traces of Yegor left at the crime scene. Anton has always been reluctant to bow to the authority of the supernatural laws that govern the Others, and his willingness to completely ignore those rules in order to save his son could have made for an interesting through-line in the film. But Bekmambetov never follows through with the emotional component, instead upping the energy and adding more plots: Soon after the evidence swap, a Dark Other is killed and Anton is framed for the crime, but then he also tries to get his hands on the Chalk, and there’s also some body switching, which is when the entire plot just eats itself. Night Watch wasn’t a somber affair by any means, but Day Watch has exchanged the former film’s darkly cheerful brio for what could only be classified as wackiness, and instead of coming off as an action movie with a sense of humor, it just feels cheesy. What’s worse, the slide from levity to laughable renders the drama that much more impotent. It’s impossible to care about the romantic and emotional travails of the characters when the entire film feels like a farce of some better, truer story.

Day Watch runs a full 20 minutes longer than its predecessor, and suffers from far too many plots with not enough direction on any of them. The first film was remarkably streamlined for the amount of backstory it had to incorporate as it followed Anton’s pursuit of his son across Moscow and attempt to reclaim him. But the sequel is bloated and overlong, and lacks the clear vision of the original. Many of the details feel the same — the English subtitles are still interactively rendered, often blurring behind actors or objects or changing color or altering themselves in other ways to emotionally match the Russian dialogue. But even this charm has been diminished from the first film, replaced by louder music, choppier editing, and some action sequences that make Jerry Bruckheimer look like Wim Wenders. Left to its own devices, Day Watch is merely a weak film, but when paired with its forerunner and considered as a sequel meant to further that weird and fascinating story, it becomes a crushing disappointment.

Daniel Carlson is the lead critic for Pajiba and a low-level employee at a Hollywood industry magazine. You can visit his blog, Slowly Going Bald.

My latest article is up at Marketing Profs, entitled ‘Eight Easy Ways to Grow Your Blog’. It’s a freebie article (yah!), and is aimed specifically at small businesses/companies that are struggling to get their blogs off the ground. Many such businesses are bootstrapping it already, and they don’t have the time or money to hire SEO consultants or web designers to come in and tinker with their blog. They need no-nonsense tips they can easily put into action themselves to make their blogging efforts more successful. That’s what this article provides.

Here’s a quick overview of the Eight Easy Ways to Grow Your Blog:

1 - Post regularly. Probably the easiest way to grow your blog’s readership, but it can be the hardest to follow, especially for a small business/company. Make sure you put your writers on a regular schedule going in. I also talk about which days are best to post, and how to space out your posts.

2 - Develop a comment policy. Decide how you will handle comments, if you will post them automatically, or moderate them. And if you moderate them, you need to develop a plan for approving them as quickly as possible, and during non-business hours.

3 - Reply to comments. Listen to the feedback you are receiving from your readers. Readers want to know that you are paying attention to their comments, and by replying and acknowledging them, you are showing your readers that you appreciate their efforts. And more comments leads to more comments.

4 - Showcase readers who make special contributions. Do everything you can to make sure that readers that frequently comment, or link to your blog, know that you appreciate them. It’s just common courtesy, and when you have a reader that’s going out of their way to be a faithful community member, you cannot do enough to encourage and reward that behavior.

5 - Build your blogroll with your readers’ interests in mind. Remember your blog isn’t for you, it’s for your community. Treat it as shared space, and tailor your blogroll to the interests of your readers, as well as your own.

6 - Offer unique content aimed at your blog’s target audience. The majority of my target audience is fellow bloggers with an interest in marketing and social media topics, and companies that are looking to enter this space. So I first created the Top 25 Marketing Blogs list, which serves as a reference for both bloggers and companies, then I created the Company Blog Checkup series, which serves as a reference for companies on how to improve their own blogging efforts.

7 - Make your blog’s feed available for RSS subscribers. Both steps 7 and 8 explore the importance of giving your readers the ability to consume your content in the form(s) that are convenient to them. Feed readers such as Google Reader and Bloglines are becoming increasingly popular, so you should set up a FeedBurner account ASAP and get your feed out there. Then once you have done that, you can add popular chicklets that will make it easier for readers to subscribe to your feed.

8 - Offer email subscriptions to your blog’s content. FeedBurner offers this service as well. You have to remember that not everyone has the time to check your blog more than maybe 2-3 times a week. Offering email subscriptions gives these infrequent readers the ability to stay up to date on your postings. I added this option here at the end of April and my number of daily email readers is already equal to 10% of my actual traffic to the blog.

You can view the entire article which includes ‘action points’ for each step by clicking here. Hope you enjoy it!

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It’s easy to list the advantages of running a home-based business: low overhead, no commute, and creating a more flexible lifestyle.But when you live and work under the same roof, there are also are a number of disadvantages to contend with. Here are some tips to help you.

Emergency funds
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How you communicate with your customers isn’t that important; what’s important is that you do it! Stay in touch with email newsletters, mailings, or a blog. These methods remind your clients and customers that you’re around when they need you. You can even call them to let them know about a sale, a new service you are offering, or just to ask if there’s anything else you can do for them.

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