Bestseller lists may vary widely, depending on the method used for calculating sales. The Book Sense bestseller lists, for example, use only sales numbers, provided by independently-owned (non-chain) bookstores, while the New York Times list includes both wholesale and retail sales from a variety of sources. A book that sells well in gift shops and grocery stores may hit a New York Times list without ever appearing on a Book Sense list. USA Today has only one list, not separated into fiction/non-fiction and hardcover/paperback, so that relative sales among these categories can be ascertained. Lists from Amazon.com, the dominant on-line book retailer, are based only on sales from their own Web site, and are updated on an hourly basis. Wholesale sales figures are not factored into Amazon's calculations. Numerous Web sites offer advice for authors about a temporary method to boost their book higher on Amazon's list using carefully timed buying campaigns that take advantage of the frequent adjustments to rankings. For example, faith healing author Zhi Gang Sha has used this method to create a number of #1 bestsellers. The brief sales spike allows authors to tout that their book was an "Amazon.com top 100 seller" in marketing materials for books that actually have relatively low sales. Eventually book buyers may begin to recognize the relative differences among lists and settle upon which lists they will consult to determine their purchases. The weight and price of a book may affect its positioning on lists. The Amazon.com list tends to favor hardcover, more expensive books, where the shipping charge is a smaller percentage of the overall purchase price or is sometimes free, and which tend to be more deeply discounted than paperbacks. Inexpensive mass market paperbacks tend to do better on the New York Times list than on Amazon's. Book Sense and Publishers Weekly separate mass market paperbacks onto their own list. Category structure affects the positioning of a book in other ways. A book that might be buried on the Book Sense hardcover fiction list could be positioned very well on the New York Times hardcover advice list or the Publishers Weekly religion hardcover list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestseller

The New York Times best sellers http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html
USA Today best sellers http://content.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx
Washington Post best sellers http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/documents/departments/library/pdf/WPBestsellers-URL.pdf
Indie best sellers (formerly Book Sense best sellers) http://www.bookweb.org/indiebound/bestsellers.html

Downstate Illinois refers to all of Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. This term is flexible, but because it is generally meant to mean everything outside the Chicago-area, some cities in Northern Illinois, such as Rockford – which is actually north of Chicago – and DeKalb, which is west of Chicago, are considered to be "downstate". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstate_Illinois

The IRS defines Upstate New York as covering 53 counties -- all those north of the Rockland and Westchester County lines. Another usage of the term "Upstate" excludes only New York City and Long Island.

Earth Day April 22 Elements of the 2011 Earth Day campaign include:
Athletes for the Earth: Bringing the voices of Olympic and professional athletes to the environmental movement
The Canopy Project: Supporting global reforestation
Green Schools: Greening America’s Schools within a Generation
Women and Green Economy (WAGE)™: Engaging women leaders in the creation and development of a global green economy
Creating Climate Wealth: Convening 200 of the world’s entrepreneurs to solve climate change and create a new green economy
Arts for the Earth: Celebrating the work of environmental artists in all media, and partnering with the American Association of Museums to bring sustainability to museums nationwide http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2011

The AAA Great Battery Roundup is an opportunity to safely dispose of any old car , boat or farm battery that can leak acid. Contact your local AAA for information in your area.

Earthweek, a diary of the planet http://www.earthweek.com/

Situationism in psychology refers to an approach to personality that holds that people are more influenced by external, situational factors than by internal traits or motivations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationism_(psychology)

Situationism is a period of art during the 1950’s up to 1970’s, ending in about 1972. Its main tenet is that the individual is mostly influenced by situational factors in life and not by who they are inside. Situationism has its roots in Italy in the late 1950’s. Situationism artists were predominantly influenced by Dadaism, Lettrism and Surrealism. They did not believe in categorizing art and wanted to involve everyday life and fuse if with music and poetry and make it into art. http://www.arthistoryguide.com/Situationism.aspx

Situationist International (SI) was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France. They fought against the main obstacle on the fulfillment of such superior passionate living, identified by them in advanced capitalism. Their theoretical work peaked on the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. Debord argued in 1967 that spectacular features like mass media and advertising have a central role in an advanced capitalist society, which is to show a fake reality in order to mask the real capitalist degradation of human life. To overthrow such a system, the Situationist International supported the May '68 revolts, and asked the workers to occupy the factories and to run them with direct democracy, through workers' councils composed by instantly revocable delegates. After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May 1968 revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, the SI was dissolved in 1972. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International