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| Born | March 11, 1943 |
| Hometown | Canada |
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Here’s How You Can Help Someone Struggling With Suicidal Ideation
- Experts in the field of suicide prevention tell PEOPLE how you can best be there for someone struggling
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- HealthThe Daily Beast
Suicide Hotline Calls Jump 25% After Spade, Bourdain Deaths
Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline spiked by 25 percent after the deaths of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, the director of the hotline said. The number—1-800-273-8255—was widely shared on social media in the wake of the two celebrities’ shocking deaths by suicide last week. Director John Draper said there’s a similar spike whenever a celebrity takes their own life, saying people feel a “collective sense of loss.” Alan Ross, executive director of Samarit
- HealthReuters
U.S. suicide prevention programs say more funding needed
Efforts to fight suicide in the United States are desperate for additional funding, suicide-prevention experts said, following this week's high profile deaths of celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, and new statistics showing a growing problem. "Our crisis centers across the country are chronically underfunded," said John Draper, executive director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which can be reached at +1-800-273-TALK and provides free support 24 hours a day. The National
- HealthGood Morning America
Anthony Bourdain dies in apparent suicide: What to know about the alarming rise in suicides and how you can help
The shocking death of chef Anthony Bourdain in an apparent suicide has once again placed a spotlight on what new data shows is a rising trend. Suicide rates increased in nearly every state in the United States in 2016, with rates rising more than 30 percent in half of states, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Bourdain, 61, was in France working on an upcoming episode of his CNN series, the network confirmed in a statement Friday.
- NewsCosmopolitan
Suicide Hotlines Receive More Calls After Election
In the last hour before the election was called, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline rang 660 times.
- TechnologyEngadget
Kickstarter launched to reunite the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club
A cool new Kickstarter campaign was launched today. Its goal? To reunite the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club. In case you're unfamiliar, the Homebrew Computer Club was a hobbyist group formed in the mid '70s for computer enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Some famed alumni of the group include Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and famed programmer John Draper, aka Captain Crunch. The Kickstarter page for the project reads in part: Please join us on November 11th, 2013 for a historic event
- U.S.Good Morning America
Apple's Siri Can Be First Call for Users Thinking of Suicide
Siri Has Been Updated to Provide Suicide Prevention Information
- TechnologyTechCrunch
Cloud-based Password Manager my1login Wants To Gamify More Secure Passwords
Legendary phone phreaker (and friend of Woz), Captain Crunch, once told me that you can't have convenience and security. Enter: my1login, a browser-based password manager that claims 'stronger encryption technology than most online banking platforms', but with the convenience of 1-click logins and all passwords stored and accessible from the Cloud. The way it works is as follows: Users progress through the system based on things like how many strong passwords they generate, how many of these a
- TechnologyHuffPost
The Article That Inspired Steve Jobs
You may have read about this in the Times obit for Steve Jobs. Mr. Wozniak had graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, when she sent him an article from the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. The article, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box,” by Ron Rosenbaum, detailed an underground hobbyist culture of young men known as phone phreaks who were illicitly exploring the nation’s phone system.
- EntertainmentEngadget
'Mythbusters' Savage & Hyneman to host Steve Jobs retrospective on Discovery
It seems like this must have been in the works for a while already, but Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the inimitable Mythbusters (Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman) will be hosting a one-hour special on the life and achievements of Steve Jobs. iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World will include interviews with key figures from Jobs's past, including the legendary inspiration for Jobs & Wozniak's first explorations into phone phreaking, John "Captain Crunch" Draper. Considering that Sav
