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Around 300 residents of a slum in Quezon City, a residential and commercial area in northern metropolitan Manila, clashed with police on Monday while protesting against the planned demolition of their homes. Local authorities say the residents are squatting illegally on the land that is slated for redevelopment as part of the city's central business district.
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Star news has learned that JENNIE GARTH is now dating Big Gigantic's drummer, JEREMY SALKEN.
A far cry from Peter Facinelli, don't you think?
Just months after Jennie Garth was divorced by her husband, Peter Facinelli, she has finally found her ideal man who is "tattooed" and "likes sex"… electronic pop group Big Gigantic's drummer, Jeremy Salken!
The former "Beverly Hills 90210″ star met Salken in October—after her brief fling with photographer Noah Abrams—and started dating before the New Year's.
In fact, she already showed him off on her Instagram before the year ended, along with the caption:
"It's on…New Years with my jewboo @jewunit @biggiantic blows it out the house!!!!!!!!! "#lovechicago #happynewyearyall"
Do Jenni and her "jewboo" look like a great couple?
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Also, it rained in L.A. this weekend.
,,,must be a slow day at TMZ.....we all looked huge when we were pg...and it rains all over the world!
She is entirely too fat while pregnant.Quit stuffing your face.lololol
So is the guy walking with her
oh i take it she is TMZ favorite of the day. since no stories on KIM KARDASHIAN, LINDSAY LOHAN or CHARLIE SHEEN. so this is what they came up with.
poor fat jessican. I carried my daughter the same way. fat all over
It's not how huge she is now, it's how huge she is a month after that baby crawls out.
Bless her heart!!! She is pregnant people!!! Geez, be nice!
I know she is hoping as much as, or most likely more than any of you are that she has this baby soon!!!!!
I heard she's saying it will be a 10 pound baby. Well, that's 10 pounds of baby and a few more for other things, but, the rest is YOU!! God, your HUGE!!
Big D: The guy with her is the baby daddy
she has been pregnant forever!!!!! make it stop!!!
seems pretty obvious she will forever be 200+ pounds after she gives birth.
Her fingers look like little sausages. She is going to be amazed at how hard it is to get rid of that baby weight, especially because I believe Miss Simpson is rather lazy and the baby daddy gets paid whether she's fat or thin, so he probably doesn't care.
These two are straight out of the trailer park... and you all vote these the best looking people in the world? ... Fail... at least she isnt faking a pregnancy like Beyonce did though. Nobody could fake those fat ankles
She's pregnant for real, unlike Beyonce.


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A few weeks ago we profiled Diane Jones of Mint Hill. Jones graduated from Goodwill's Hospitality and Tourism Training Program and she was the class speaker. Here she is accepting her certificate at the ceremonies on June 26.
A house was heavily damaged by fire Saturday afternoon around 4 pm in Matthews. The house is located at 2535 Sam Newell Road. When firefighters arrived flames could be seen burning through the roof. Two firefighters were treated at the scene for heat-related issues. No other injuries were reported.
Matthews Fire & EMS Department was assisted by Idlewild Volunteer Fire Department and the Charlotte Fire Department.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The Lady Blues, an 18U team softball travel team made up of area players, finished 10th out of 88 teams in the Georgia Fire Dynamites Tournament in Columbia last week. Butler's Chelsea Ingersoll hit over .400 of the tournament playing catcher and third base. In the final day of competition the team played back to back games from 8:30 am to 10:30 pm. Ingersoll went 2-3 with a double and an RBI in the win of the evening over a team from Alexander Central area. Ingersoll's dad, Mike, estimated there were 25 college scouts at the tournament.
Ingersoll got a bit of revenge when the Lady Blues beat the travel team from Alexander Central. Many of the players on that team play for the AC high school team that stopped Butler's two-year win streak last season, and then knocked the Lady Bulldogs out of the state tournament. Continue reading
A photo was released by Mint Hill Police of a suspect in a recent break in. The Walgreens Pharmacy, located at 9202 Lawyers Road in Mint Hill, was broken into May 29 at approximately 12:09 am. A white male wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt or jacket used a rock to break the glass on the front door. After entering the store, the unknown white male removed several packs of cigarettes and then exited the store. As the white male exited the store, he dropped something and a white female with brown hair wearing a dark colored top and light colored pants, is seen stooping down to pick up what the other suspect dropped.
These two subjects leave the scene in a four door sedan, tan or champagne in color, unknown make and model. Continue reading
Butler placed third in the final Wachovia Cup standings at 372.5 points. The Bulldogs had top spring finishes including third in women's outdoor track and a tie for third in women's soccer. The Wachovia Cup award, sponsored by Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company, and the NCHSAA, recognizes the high schools that achieve the best overall interscholastic athletic performances within each of the state's four competitive classifications. The Wachovia Cup program has concluded its 30th year. Continue reading
The Mint Hill Boys 14-15 year old baseball won the Union County Babe Ruth League this season with a record of 13-2. They were facing other teams such as Piedmont,Weddington, Indian Trail, and Parkwood. This is the first time any Mint Hill team has ever won this league.
Pictured: Back row left to right: Coach Steve Baucom, Cody Lekavich, Mitch Otis, Aaron Bevis,Ross Rushing, John Teague, John Hickes, Asst. Coach Jerry Otis. Front row left to right: Cameron Baucom, P.J. Sardinia, Austin Biddy, Kyle Ferrebee, Lane Polk. Not Pictured: Malachi Hanes, Asst Coach Ted Sardinia.


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Gov. Nathan Deal announced Thursday he will not appoint a panel to consider the suspension of Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill.
Attorney Page Pate says his client, a Clayton County community activist, has one goal.
"We want to force the governor to do what we believe the law requires," said Pate.
Pate has filed a lawsuit that his client hopes will eventually lead to the removal of Hill.
Hill has been indicted on 32 counts of felony racketeering and theft.
Many people expected Deal to appoint a special committee to look at suspending Hill because it appears Hill is breaking the law by holding public office while under indictment.
But yesterday Deal announced he doesn't have the authority to make a move.
"The governor is saying Hill was indicted while he was a private citizen so this statute doesn't apply to him. I don't read it that way at all," said Pate.
The Georgia Sheriff's Association also disagrees with Deal's interpretation of the law and supports the lawsuit.
"My client is simply hoping to convince a judge that Gov. Deal is wrong in his interpretation of this statue. If he is right and he can convince the judge of this, then a judge can force Gov. Deal to appoint the panel to consider suspending Sheriff Hill and that is what he wants," said Pate.
Musa Ghanayem, Hill's attorney, says Deal made the right decision and his client finds the lawsuit insulting. Deal forwarded questions about the lawsuit to the attorney general's office.
A spokesperson for Sam Olens said the attorney general had not seen the lawsuit and had no comment. Pate says a hearing will be scheduled within 30 days.
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November 16th, 2012
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TEDxUTFSM seeks to bring together various stakeholders in our society and highlight the ideas that passion every day. We want to surprise, inspire and motivate. We want to bring together people who want to improve our country.
Confirmed Speakers
Claudio Dib
Electronic Engineer from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María with a Doctorate in Physics from Stanford. He is theoretical phsyics specialist, specifically in Elemental Particles. He is presently the General Coordinador of the first underground laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere, which is located in Chile (ANDES Project).
Pedro Huichalaf
Lawyer from the Universidad de Valparaíso and profesor of Law IT at the same university. Pedro has served as a change agent in community campaigns such as "Un Computador por Niño (OLPC)" and Digital Liberation. He has also been dedicated to promote campaigns to achieve neutrality of the web in Chile. Presently, he is a founding member and director of the nonprofit organization META, which promotes citizen participation in the Technologies in Public Politics.
Mario Waissbluth
Chemical Engineer from the Universidad de Chile, with a Phd. In Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He is also the academic director of the Center for Public Systems at the Universidad de Chile. He is the president of the Education Foundation 2020, a nonprofit that has dedicated itself to improve elementary education since 2008, and has positioned itself as a leader of opinion in the discussions about education that are constantly hot topics in Chile.
Benito Baranda
Psychologist with a degree from the Pontifica Universdad Católica de Chile that has dedicated his career to social activism, has participated and presided in a series of foundations and other nonprofit organizations. Benito served formerly as the Social Director of the Hogar de Cristo, and in 1998 along with Felipe Berrios Sr, they formed the Centro de Voluntariado (Volunteer Center) named "En Todo Amar & Servir". Additionally he has participated in groups such as the foundation against poverty, the Solidarity Fund, where he is presently the Director.
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Events & Investigations
September 6, 2014:
Private residential investigation
David City, Nebraska
May 22, 2014:
PRISM Omaha will be speaking at the R M Marrs Magnet Middle School for their week-long exploratory 'Ghost Hunters' unit.
May 10, 2014:
PRISM Miami conducting a private residential investigation with our friends Messengers Paranormal.
April 2014:
PRISM Miami researching several South Florida possibly haunted locations: Coral Castle, the Merrick House Coral Gables, the Biltmore Hotel, City of Miami Cemetery, Pinewood Cemetery, and Charlotte Jane Memorial Park (Coconut Grove Bahamian) Cemetery, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Peacock Park.
April 11, 2014:
Paranormal Investigation
Villisca Ax Murder House
Villisca, Iowa
February 2014:
Paranormal Investigation
Sokol Underground
Omaha, Nebraska
January 18, 2014:
Paranormal Investigation
Doodle's Grill
Glenwood, Iowa
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Recent Press
November 3, 2012: PRISM Director Carl Norgard and investigator Brian Heath were mentioned in a newspaper article entitled, Groups seek proof in a world of darkness. The article centered around PRISM's investigation of the Ball Cemetery in Springfield, Nebraska and was written by World-Herald Leader Staff Writer Mike Bell.
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Ralston Apartment
Ralston, Nebraska 2005
Photo: Kelley Kennedy
Squirrel Cage Jail
Council Bluffs, Iowa 2005
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Downtown Omaha Residence
Omaha, Nebraska 2005
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Downtown Omaha Residence
Omaha, Nebraska 2005
Photo: Dan Christianson
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Elk City, Nebraska 2005
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Francisville, Louisiana
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Jerez, Spain 2002
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Villisca, Iowa 2005
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Villisca Axe Murder House
Villisca, Iowa 2005
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A trombone player attaches a GoPro camera to the slide of a trombone and gives us the POV angle of his silly face. And the man behind this trombone silliness gone viral is none other than David Finlayson of the New York Philharmonic.
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The overwhelmingly positive reaction to this new worker-empowered management style led Fortune magazine to publish an annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For."
The Container Store earned a top spot on the list when reports rolled in of employees saying things such as, "[I]t's rare to find a company with the same values, philosophy, and foundation principles. Going to work is like going to a family reunion every day." Research shows that this enthusiasm is a cash cow: Members of the 100 Best routinely outperform their autocratic counterparts. Indeed, American automakers' refusal to adopt team-oriented practices is often cited as the reason they could not outsell their foreign competitors.
Given that American automakers needed a bailout, Moore's movie seems more like a documentary of capitalism's authoritarian losers, rather than its democratic winners.
Self-interest is not always selfish
Business is booming for companies like Tom's Shoes, which donates a pair of shoes to needy children for each pair purchased. Psychological studies reveal a symbiotic relationship between capitalism and charity: Donations to charity increase when matched with the purchase of "luxury" products.
For instance, consumers are more willing to splurge on a $5 cup of Fair-Trade Starbucks coffee, since they can rationalize the cost as a contribution to some third-world coffee bean grower.


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Salvation in the I-Formation
"The body should be trained to be able to obey the counsel of wisdom and reason, whether it be a matter of work to be done or trials to be borne." -Cicero
At some point in our recent history, we became spectators instead of active players. We have given a prominent place to watching sports and the mind-numbing drivel of the latest and greatest advertising hooks of the corporate world. Hey, it's much easier to watch football than to actually go out and play it!
But is it really more edifying to God to sit slack jawed in rapt attention as Third and Eight plays out, or to go outside and throw the football around with your sons?
Winter is a banquet table of NFL and college football, hockey, pro and college basketball and countless other dishes for our consumption. Anyone who has played any kind of sport understands the exhilaration of competition. The gut feel of pitting your skills and heart against an opponent is something that is very difficult to duplicate, unless you're engaged in real battle. We can fully appreciate what it takes for the athletes on TV to be successful, to be winners. We can project ourselves into the action. And that is both the allure and accompanying potential trap. (More…)
Sports and the Battlefield of Life
Most women can't understand the attraction men have to sports—but some women want to be right in there playing with (and defeating) the men. What kind of role should sports play in our families' lives?
I grew up in the Title IX era, when team sports became more available—and almost required—for girls to play. I didn't really want to, but because I was nearly 6 feet tall I succumbed to peer pressure and joined the basketball and volleyball teams.
To offer some balance (or maybe due to the masculine walk I was developing), my father held the tennis player Chris Evert up for me as an example. A gifted athlete, Chrissy tried to maintain her femininity on and off the court…especially if you compared her to Martina Navritilova! (More…)
The Screen: How Acceptable is It?
Almost any parent alive will agree that violence on television will easily translate into violence in children. Scene after scene of murders, fights, and shootouts has a negative effect on kids—and adults! [i] They see others acting violently and it gives them a model with which to work. And what an evil model.
But when Dennis and I heard that television viewing itself—no matter what the content—also encouraged violence, we resisted. After all, we've been known to watch religious movies and an occasional educational DVD or two. (Okay, maybe three.)
Even more startling is that any screen time—be it the television, video games, or computer—drastically decreases academic achievement in children. And we're not talking about four, six, or eight hours a day in front of the screen. It can be as little as one hour a day.[ii]
Uh-oh. (More…)
[i] American Psychological Association, 2000. "Psychiatric Effects of Media Violence." APA Factsheet Series.
[ii] US Dept. of Education. "Strong Families, Strong Schools, Building Community Partnerships for Learning." 1994.
Book Review: The Valiant Woman
"It's complicated being a woman. Maybe it's all of our hormones. But the feminist propaganda constantly swarming around us hasn't helped, either!
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The past couple of generations have lost touch with the beauty, nobility, and privilege of womanhood. Now, instead of learning about womanhood from the women around us, we need a book to help us dig into our soul to develop our God given gifts." (More…)
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee!
Ian was planning on receiving his First Holy Communion at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. That joyful event was exactly one week away.
We were in Dallas Children's Hospital that morning having a CT Scan done on our seven-year-old First Communicant's head. When my untrained eye saw the horrifyingly large tumor on the screen, I whistled under my breath. The technician glanced at me with a grim and knowing look, then quickly back at his equipment. (More…)
Short, Sweet, and To The Point
"Dennis had a bagel clenched between his teeth, steam wafted out of the hole in the insulated coffee cup in his left hand, and his black laptop case and car keys dangled from his right fingertips. Now was not a good time to ask him to empty the trash by the back door.
"Have a good day, and God bless!" I smiled, giggling to myself. A few years ago, I would have asked him. My, how our marriage has grown." (More…)
Trees of Grace
"It promised to be a busy Saturday. My husband Dennis, our children and I were going to plant trees that morning on our farm, I had my radio show to do in the afternoon, and then Dennis and I were picking up friends for dinner and the Symphony that evening.
I bounced out of bed early, said my morning prayers, and then headed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for my family. As I tied my apron on over my nightgown, I gloomily surveyed the damage from the previous few days. The children and I had been so intent that week on trying to do all of Dennis' outside chores while he was out of town on business so that he could spend more time with the family on the weekend, that the details of keeping the kitchen spotless had been neglected.
I heaved a sigh and started breakfast. The kitchen disaster would have to wait one more day. Or two." (More…)
Little Red Corvette
"When I renounced my career in favor of being a stay-at-home-mother, Dennis and I knew we would suffer a major loss of income.
Since the beginning of our marriage, I had handled the finances and made all the financial decisions. Controlling the finances had always been an emotional experience for me, as the budget never seemed to go as planned. It had become downright stressful and depressing.
After three years of trying to make ends meet, one day I broke down. "I can't do it anymore," I wailed, throwing the checkbook and bills on the counter next to Dennis. "Trying to handle the finances is stressing me out, and I'm overwhelmed. Will you please take it over?" (More…)
The War of the Onion
"Some of our favorite times together have been in the kitchen. Even when we were dating, Dennis and I would work side by side concocting tasty meals, and then enjoy what we had created together. That tradition has continued for the past 14 years of our marriage. That's why I was so baffled by what we now affectionately call, "the War of the Onion."
We were making stir-fry. A few years earlier, I had learned from a Japanese Chef how to wildly "slice and dice' and not lose a digit. Innocently, I thought I'd share the technique with my beloved.
"You know, if you hold your fingers this way," I demonstrated, "you won't cut your fingers."
The tips of his ears turned red. Oops! Dead giveaway. He's upset." (More…)
The Postcard
"I'm glad I got the mail that day instead of my children.
Living in the country, our mailbox is a quarter of a mile from the house, and the children—ages 8, 6, 4 and 2—take delight in running down to the box to get the mail. It also helps them burn off some extra energy.
I was headed out for an emergency trip to the grocery store that afternoon and stopped to get the mail myself. We had received a postcard." (More…)
Reflections on Motherhood
"I received a joke the other day over the Internet. In a nutshell, it said that women are communicative, nurturing, sensitive, generous, caring, loving and supportive. Men, on the other hand, can lift heavy things. I giggled. Then it hit me: Before the Fall, would Adam and Eve have had the same differences?" (More…)
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What Do Your Books Say About You?
I came across artist Jane Mount's "Ideal Bookshelf" series today on the Jealous Curator. I've seen her work over on 20x200 a few times before but this time the series got me really thinking... what does your bookshelf say about you?
Mine actually communicates quite a bit about me rather quickly. The bulk of my books are large glossy art books and I also have a collection of old books by photography greats with a few first editions mixed in. There are a handful of books on travel and some travel guides, a good sized collection of décor books, exactly five novels that have made a real impact on me (I have a read it then gift it policy on paperbacks), a few books on small business and marketing and exactly three cookbooks: one of deserts, one entirely devoted to cheese and another that I won in a contest for being "in dire need of a gourmet makeover."
What does your bookshelf say about you? Leave your answer in the comments below.
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Mine says that I like crime mysteries, early London, the history of the underground, lots of books on poisonous plants and insects, Harry Potter, one or two design books, several dictionaries in different languages, and a few humour books.
My internet bookmarks tell a slightly naughtier story, and that's why my computer is password protected, haha.
Now that I have a kindle, I'm afraid that my bookshelves are going to become like my shelves of CDs are -- a shadow representation of a past version of myself, still relevant but incomplete.
Bookshelves change over the years. What used to be filled with sci-fi and fantasy adventures are now mostly American history, political science, contemporary musings, poetry, religion, biographies, art books, and loads of Calvin and Hobbes comic collection books. Not one damn design book anywhere.
Lots of 19th century fiction: Trollope, Gissing, the Brontes. Lots of 20th century outsider fiction: Rhys, McCullers, Kafka. Physique photography, opera singer bios, punk rock zines, Warhol monographs, '60s pop music annuals, and a signed copy of Joan Crawford's "My Way of Life." Me in a nutshell.
My bookshelves are a fairly accurate representation of me. Mostly fantasy (not the bodice ripping kind), cook books, and what I call books for the edification of the mind. But I did just buy a nook. So the majority of my paperbacks are about to disappear.
It would say I love scifi, fantastic, chicklit, history. Also that I like to cook, to sew, that I'm either a scientist or an engineer (got both degrees in fact), that I'm bilingual and that I invest waaayyy too much in graphic novels!
My shelves didnt really changed, I just added new stuff to the ''old''. Im very careful with my books and I like disposing them in a certain way. I still have the books that I loved when I was a teenager and I like having them in my house. My books probably says contradictory things about me; the artistic part of me has a load of novels, plays, dictionaries, tons of fashion magazines, decor magazines, cookbooks... The biomed student has a bunch of colorful anatomy atlas, neurology, genetics and molecular biology volumes... I like to have them co-exist, its whats make me whole...
We have a LOT of film books. Then there are his graphic novels and my home design books, among others. But yeah, mostly film history books, actor/director biographies and screenplays. Viva la cinema!
Books! My favorite AT topic. Just the sheer number of books I have says a lot about me (mainly that I'm a bookish geek). I'm the only person of my age in my group of friends with 1,000 or so books which I don't even think of as that many since I'm lucky enough to have the shelf space. I keep 20% of my books in my living room and the other 80% in the office and so anyone looking at just my living room shelf would have an incomplete idea. My living room shelf expresses my love of art and design and Victorian and contemporary literature -- lots of Edith Wharton and Henry James novels rub covers with David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and Saul Bellow. I've basically just split them by subject (almost all my large art coffee table books and smaller books on art history are in the living room while my entire collection of Anthony Trollope novels are in the office) and then by size. The living room bookshelf just suits larger books better, and the shelves are fixed whereas the office bookshelves can fit books of all size. I admit I hide my more embarrassing titles on the very top shelves (Ayn Rand, anybody?).
@Eliz I have a kindle too and as much as I'm fond of it, particularly when going away for a weekend or travelling on public transport, for me it will never replace proper books.
Our bookshelf is an eclectic collection of both my husband's and my interests; sci fi, graphic novels, art and coffee table books, Victorian novels, children's lit and classic literature, (I'm an English teacher,) history, in particular London and British history as that's where we live, and travel and language guides for the European countries we've been fortunate enough to visit.
well, my books say a lot about me. keen reader in 3 languages, classics, mostly 20th century, interested in politics, history, feminism, cooking and baking. think dostoevsky in russian next to simone de beauvoir to claude lanzman and vegan cupcakes.
Oh I forgot to add that most of the 4000+ books are in the living room and in the office while only a small part is in the bedroom. I dream of a private library. It would totally make sense as my parter works in library related IT and I am almost every time mistaken for a librarian when I am in a bookstore or library. People come to me an ask me where they can find books or how much they are.
I like social history, international literature, and Modernist fiction. I also have an entire shelf devoted to Cthulhu Mythos books - a complete edition of Lovecraft's stories, anthologies from Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu fiction line, collections by various contemporary Mythos authors (Sargent, Pugmire, Ligotti), Innsmouth Free Press collections, and collections by Lovecraft's predecessors Arthur Machen and Robert W. Chambers. Oh, and also this book published in the 1940s called It's an Old New England Custom that includes a chapter called "To Thirst After Strange Gods." I got it yesterday at an antique bookstore of precisely the type Lovecraft would have loved.
I suppose my bookshelves say I'm eclectic: generally a serious reader but not afraid to indulge a fun geeky side.
Well, I am a Librarian and also have a "read then offload" policy for fiction that I buy rather than borrow, so my shelves give a skewed view. My partner and I only collect things we want to refer to again. Science, mythology, informational tools, sci-fi and fantasy (some collectible out of print types) including Harry Potter, decor, gardening, jewelry crafts, art, humor, some history and political works (his), etc. Mostly non-fiction, and what we choose to keep gets reviewed as interests change. (Landscaping books are less interesting now that my yard is established, for instance.) I think the shelves holding my pantheon of archeological replicas of deities of many ancient cultures plus a Pieta and R2D2 says more about me...
that we travel and cook a lot!
By the way, if you're in Chicago, and are looking to thin out your bookshelves, there is a wonderful shop called Open Books. It's on Franklin, just north of Chicago ave. They are staffed entirely by volunteers, all the books in the shop are donated and the proceeds go to fund their literacy program. I've found it's a great way to unload all the paperbacks I no longer want on my shelves, and an even better way to replace them with hardcover books! Hardcovers can easily go for as little as $8. Paperbacks for under $3.
That depends entirely on which bookcase and which room. The living room bookcase is mostly classics (Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, etc.). Cookbooks on the top shelf on the baker's rack in the kitchen. The den/library has one shelf with biography, drama and nonfiction, a bookcase with chick lit on the top shelf, mystery novels and sci-fi in the middle and children's books on the bottom, and another that is a catch-all for general fiction, with autographed books. The autographed books are a really random assortment of genres - a first edition of Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow that was a wedding gift from my bridesmaids, a signed copy of The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems that was a Valentine's Day gift from my husband, and copies of The Pluto Files and Awakenings, from when I met Neil deGrasse Tyson and Oliver Sacks, respectively.
So I guess my bookcases say I am well-rounded, and clearly a librarian by profession, since they are organized by genre and alphabetical by author. If I had enough non-fiction to justify doing so, I'd probably assign Dewey numbers as well. :-P
that we like psychedelia, post-modern fiction, mythology, a little sci-fi, photography, natural birth, cooking and have kids (which we don't, but we do have a children's books section on the bottom shelf (= )
Wharton, Maugham, Capote, Sedaris, Austen, King, Christian/devotional books, sheet music booklets, horror & science horror, true crime, chicken soup series, cat books, fashion, make-up, shape magazine, sunset magazine, runner's world, backpacker magazine, reader's digest
It says that I'll read anything and everything and pile it anywhere. In all my years of reading AT, Jane Mount is one my favorite discoveries. I remember her smallest coolest entry and am glad to see success for such a talented and interesting person. Go Jane!
I think my book collection just says "hoarder." I cannot go to the thrift store without buying at least one book.
My bookshelves are filled with children's literature (it's mine, not my kids'!) like the Little House series, Roald Dahl books, Harry Potter and Anne of Green Gables; current pop fiction like The Hunger Games and Twilight (shut up); tons and tons of farm and garden books, and classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Wuthering Heights.
I only buy books that I'm going to read over and over again. Everything else is borrowed from the library. I wonder how it will all change now that I recently bought a Kindle?
My living room bookcase is a little more refined (my very very favorites and classics) and my bedroom holds my guilty pleasures. (Twilight is hidden in my bedroom.)
I/we have lots of books?
It really depends on the part of the house. On the main floor (where most people are) we have most of our childhood books (including books for my great grandmother, i.e., pre-1900), history and social culture books (especially American and European history and architecture, house plans (circa 1900-1930) and photography) and cookbooks (lots and lots of cookbooks--several hundred even after culling several times over the last few years--and yes, I read/use lots of them all the time). Upstairs, gardening, more history social and otherwise, sci fi (hubster's), stuff in the news (mine) and etiquette and house keeping books (my dissertation topic, but I still collect and love to read for fun). We could pare down but we have enough room we don't have to right now, and we read and reread a lot.
What can I say...a couple of booklovers and academic types.
My bookshelves aren't a *snapshot* of me so much as a *history* of me, which is exactly what I like about them (and those of others). My childhood copy of "Little Women," the complete set of Tolkien that I read at 13, my parents' tattered copy of "Catch 22" that I devoured at 14 (and periodically thereafter) to modernists like T.C. Boyle, Jonathan Ames and and everything David Foster Wallace has ever published. In between? Lots of Kingsley and Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Penguin classics, most of Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, scads of books on music, way too many cookbooks and Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" first among the few design books. In sum: I like to read good fiction and eat good food amidst ample light. In a comfortable chair, with everything from Coltrane to Arcade Fire for dessert.
This is fun! I have one of those sapien shelves from DWR, and it's full from the floor up in my living room. This is where I store my favorite hardcover books. Mainly sci-fi and fantasy, graphic novels, art books, lots of Shel Silverstein, (Where the Sidewalk Ends, etc.) and my favorite classics.
I gave away the bulk of my book collection prior to moving here. The rest are in my kitchen on top of the upper cabinets. These are mostly coffee table books like PostSecret, and design books. I put them there temporarily while I was unpacking, and decided they look nice there.
Well, if it's just the stuff I have in my apartment, it pretty much just screams "ENGINEERING STUDENT!" as they're all engineering textbooks because I don't have room in my car when I move for the rest of my books. (I've got a kindle, so that really helps with that)
As for when I finally don't have to move every 4 months and can get the rest of my books out of storage, it will definitely show my love of sci-fi and fantasy, but still pretty much just be what I read as a child (Dr. Seuss, Serendipity books, little house books, Anne of Green Gables, Diana Wynne Jones, Tolkien, Harry Potter, Series of Unfortunate Events, Tamora Pierce, Wizard of Oz, Charlotte's Web, Garth Nix, etc.) It'll also show a little bit of an affinity for pop science and history.
Hopefully I can get some more 'adult' books once I'm out of college and actually have money!
Books tell us either what we are or what we'd like to appear. I love big bookshelves, because they are rarely stylish and prove that the owner loves books enough to read them and doesn't care about design or aesthetic as much as he/she cares about keeping the best books around. That seems to be the case for everyone who commented above (keep on having good books !!).
On the other hand, I've seen more than enough of books used as props. Usually, you find those glossy picture books for adults. MCM, Eames, maybe a Conran book, usually a regional style book, organized by color if possible. While there's nothing wrong with the books themselves, I hate that "I chose that book because the cover matches the paint on the wall". Really ? That is why I hate books used as props, because they tell me things I don't like about the owner.
Personally, I find books to be almost intimate. As I'm lucky enough to have a whole room devoted to a home office upstairs, guests won't see a book in my house unless they go up the stairs, to the more "family" part of the house where guest seldom go. There, I keep a well-edited collection of philosophical books (from early Greeks to Husserl), my favorite classics, beloved books like Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Terry Pratchett or Harry Potter. My husband and I also have a huge collection of belgian comics, and I hunt everything Calvin and Hobbes book. But if someone comes to our house, he/she won't see a book and would think we don't read at all, except for the few worn-out cookbooks I have in the kitchen (yes, I've read Homemade cheese making a thousand times, and have never ever made cheese at home).
My books say that I am a Potterhead, a comic book/graphic novel nerd, a mystery/suspense lover, a wanna be cook and a slight romantic.
I was just thinking about this! I have lots of novels of all different types, non-fiction narratives about everything, mixed in with Spanish novels (from undergrad) and policy books and handbooks (from grad school). I LOVE books, and I can always find something that I have never read just by looking in my own stacks. I am also a library junkie... oh the fines I've paid.
Late Victorian, Modernism, foreign cookbooks, French-language texts, dictionaries, travel, art books – once I read something I just amass it forever
Mine say that I love the classics, France, a smattering of Sci-Fi, and cooking. I absolutely love these prints -- the custom painting would be such a wonderful gift!
It says I need to buy more bookshelves... Aside from that it also says I like romance, fantasty, urban fantasty, chick lit, classics, historicals, Sci-Fi, childhood books, yaoi mangas, that i travelled in europe and japan, that i knit and cook, that i game a lot (all those VG guides!) and that the bf's into WWI and WII history and war-related bios/retellings. And that I looooooooooooove European bandes dessinées. :)
My bookshelf says I desperately want(ed) to escape my life (at some point). The adventure books I read and re-read are still there, but gathering dust, while the "take control" section of my library is growing with budgeting and finance books, books about working and living better, and humorous selections that help me embrace the nonsensities of the daily trudge.
My husband sticks to sports & history while I read pretty much every other category excluding sports & history.


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As a result of the collusion, prices for e-book best sellers rose to $12.99 and $14.99, according to the Justice Department, which sued Apple and the publishers in 2012.
The publishers have all since entered into settlements with the Justice Department and with a group of state attorneys general over the antitrust claims. Apple denies it engaged in price-fixing and collusion.
In his closing statement Thursday, Orin Snyder, a lawyer for Apple, said the two-year-old market for e-books was in transition at the time, with publishers withholding some best sellers from Amazon's bookstore for a period of time in response to the $9.99 price point, including Sarah Palin's biography, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
Publishers were unhappy with Amazon selling those books at a loss and were preparing to expand the practice of withholding some books, known as "windowing," Mr. Snyder said. In an April 2009 email entered into evidence at trial, Amazon's Chief Executive Jeff Bezos called windowing "an absolute declaration of war."
However, Apple wasn't prepared to enter the market for e-books if it couldn't get new releases at the same time as physical bookstores and wanted to be competitive on price, Mr. Snyder said. "It's like opening a record store in the 1960s and not having the Beatles records," he said.
When it entered the e-book market in 2010, Apple agreed to shift to a so-called agency model in which publishers, rather than retailers, set the price of e-books. As part of its deals with the publishers, Apple received a 30% commission on each book sold and the publishers had to match the price of Amazon or other competitors if the competitor's price was lower.
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The U.S. is seeking injunctive relief, which would likely require Apple to meet court-approved compliance standards or be subject to monitoring of its e-books business for a period.
If Apple were found liable, a hearing would take place in a separate lawsuit brought by state attorneys general, who are seeking to recover damages on behalf of consumers who paid higher prices for e-books.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is hearing the case, said in May that she believed the government will likely be able to prove its case, but has stressed that she won't make a final decision until all of the evidence is presented. It is unclear how quickly she will rule.
Apple last year separately settled an antitrust case with the European Commission over e-book pricing but didn't admit any wrongdoing.
The three-week trial featured testimony from top executives at the publishers and Amazon, as well as Eddy Cue, a senior Apple executive who worked closely with Steve Jobs, the company's former chief executive and co-founder who died in 2011.
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Young people should go from November to February,when young natives are on vacation from school,so everybody in on the beach,and enjoying the nightlife.
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Families should go in March,when school class starts,and the weather still warm.
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Sorry I missed the word "cold" in my fomer email... What I am trying to know is if the last week of March will be too cold to go to Florianopolis. Many thanks.
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The Brazilian seasons are opposite of those in the northern hemisphere. My first visit to Floripa was in November which is late spring there. The temperatures were in the 80 degree to 90 degree range during my visit. Republic day is a big national holiday in Brazil celebrated on 11/15. The beach areas will be very busy during that week.
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Eating wild tapir sausage, slogging up a 75-foot cliff of mud, going a week without a shower and purifying muddy water to drink — sounds like the television show "Survivor". These were just some of the challenges Eugene Anderson, R.N., network clinical educator, faced during a recent trip to Bolivia with the Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church of Allentown. Eugene traveled to three different villages to help the native people with construction projects and to provide medical care, such as treating intestinal parasites, acute eye infections and other acute problems.
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What was it like traveling throughout Bolivia?
After 28 hours of flying, we arrived in the village of Oromomo. The next two villages we visited did not have landing strips and our only option was to travel by boat — actually canoes carved out of trees. Because it was the rainy season, there was a lot of flooding, and large amounts of debris made navigating the river very difficult. One of our canoe trips took an extra two hours because we got stuck and almost tipped. We had to continually bail water out of the boat. Our final ride back from the last village was the worst due to heavy rains one night. The river rose 9 feet in 3 hours. Since we were traveling with the current, the boat was going extremely fast. We didn't have enough lifejackets and we felt somewhat nervous. But our river guide was amazing and luckily no one was hurt.
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We slept in tents, and it was very hot — a constant 80 degrees and humid. Everything in the village was muddy. When we arrived at the second village it was already dark, and all we had were flashlights to navigate. We had to climb up a 75-foot cliff of mud, each carrying over 50 pounds of materials. One of the group members got stuck up to her hips in mud. We ate a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and beans. Sometimes the native people hunted and cooked for us, and we ate catfish and fried plantains. I even tried tapir sausage, a relative of the rhinoceros. We had to drink river water, which was extra dirty due to the flooding. It was a full-time job to purify the water. We were always thirsty and truly dehydrated. It rained a little bit every day and there were no showers. I wore the same pants and shirt for most of the trip in the jungle.
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The Rochester Shakespeare Literary Society (RSLS) meets on the second Sunday of each month from noon to 1:30 PM at Barrnes & Noble Booksellers (2nd floor meeting room), Pittsford Plaza, 3349 Monroe Avenue, Rochester NY 14618. Meetings are free and open to all. NOTE: Due to Mother's Day, the meetings in May will be on the third Sunday.
RSLS is a discussion group intended to prepare our members for upcoming productions of RCP's Shakespeare Players and other Shakespeare productions in Upstate New York and Southern Ontario (for upcoming shows, see below.)
Remaining Meetings in 2014 are anticipated to be:
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May 18 (third Sunday, as Mother's Day is May 11)
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July 13
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August 15 to 17: FIVE Shakespeare plays in Three days. FIVE PLAYS in three days: King John, The Beaux' Stratagem, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chambers Performance), Antony and Cleopatra, and King Lear. Package includes transportation, two nights at the Arden Park Hotel, one dinner and two breakfasts, plus three sessions of the Stratford Forum. Cost: $950 each for double occupancy, $1,100 for single room. More information soon. . .
Upcoming Shakespeare productions in Rochester, Upstate NY, Western Massachusetts, and Southern Ontario:RSLS will be discussing these upcoming productions at our 2014 meetings:
Spring 2014:The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare Players program of the Rochester Community Players) April 11-26, MuCCC Theater, 142 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester NY
Shakespeare's 450th Birthday Celebration: April 23, 2014; Shakespeare Players of Rochester, at MuCCC Theater, 142 Atlantic Avenue.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford Ontario:
King Lear May 5 thru Oct. 10, 2014
A Midsummer Night's Dream May 16 thru October 11, 2014
King John May 21 to September 20
Summer 2014:
A Midsummer Night's Dream; Shakespeare Players of Rochester; free Shakespeare at the Highland Park Bowl, Rochester NY July 5-19, 2014
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare & Co., June 21-Aug. 30, Lennox MA
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare & Co., June 27 to August 30, Lennox MA
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chambers Performance), Stratford Shakespeare Festival July 11 to September 20, 2014
Henry V, Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Buffalo, June 19-July 13, 2014
Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost, in repertory; Ithaca Shakespeare Company July 2014, Cornell Plantations
Macbeth, Saratoga Shakespeare Festival, July 15 to 27, Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY.
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Buffalo, July 24 thru August 17, 2014
The Tempest, Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, Adirondack Shakespeare Company, August 2014
Henry IV, Parts I & II, Shakespeare and Co., August 2 to 31, Lennox MA
Twelfth Night, Syracuse Shakespeare Festival, August 2014, Thornden Park Amphitheater
Titus Andronicus and As You Like It, in repertory, July to September, 2014, Shakespeare in High Park (Canadian Stage), Toronto
Antony and Cleopatra, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, August 3 to September 20, 2014
Othello and The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; June 10 to August 31, Garrison NY
Fall 2014:SaMe SeX sHaKeSpEaRe 2014: The Shakespeare Players Program of the Rochester Community Players present gender-bending scenes from Shakespeare at the Rochester Fringe Festival, September 2014.
King Lear: Shakespeare Players of Rochester, November 7 to 22, 2014; MuCCC Theatre, 142 Atlantic Avenue
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