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I love to learn about my family history and how far my line goes back in history. It also is fun to see if any of my ancestors were royalty, or held an honorable place in history. My two main Surnames include HAWLEY and BANCROFT. Here are some of the names of the main branches of my tree up until the fourth generation. Allen, Anstead, Averill, Bateman, Berthold, Bishop, Camp, Conway, Conover, Crover, Damstadter, Fehl, Gragg, Hale, Hall, Hendryx, Heintz, Hise, Hoskyns, King, Koch, Kohlborn, Larkin, Luss, Martin, Merlau, McIvor, Miller, O'Toole, Parsons, Poringer, Reid, Robbins, Sillaway, Strockenfeldt, Templeton, Wagner, Whitney, Zimmerman, and Zittel. Wow and that's just up to the forth generation, and my tree online at [external link] goes up until at least the eight generations for most of my branches....lol, oh what fun I am having!
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Bed & Breakfast ' De Pauw ' is situated in the rural area of the beautiful city Wieringerwaard, named city of peacocks, within walking distance, water tower and grain mill on the Polder House and slightly longer distance the North Sea Beach (0ng. 10 km).
In spring you can see from your room the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths bloom.
The 4 attractive spacious rooms are located on the top floor of the spacious bungalow .
This big, green oasis offers tranquility and has several sitting areas where it is good place.
The Bed and Breakfast has a private entrance and hall.
Parking is no problem, there is plenty of room.
You can make use of all sorts of cultural activities in the surroundings. About the many sights and opportunities we can offer you extended information.
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You are welcome!
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Peter and Jelly were great hosts - very friendly and interested in making sure that the guests were all happy. The rooms are spacious - plenty of place to put everything. Parking was more than enough. Breakfast was exactly what you would expect. All the rooms were full during our stay, but everything was quiet... and we slept like babies - even missing our intended wake up time! If I ever visit this area of the Netherlands again, I would certainly stay there again. Jelly is a very nice lady... making chocolate brownies and leaving them as a surprise. :-) We had a great time!
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Skip to comments.Dr. Mark Mostert: Euthanizing Children in the US Yes, its Here
Posted on 04/20/2010 4:45:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
The latest edition of a prestigious medical journal, The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, has published a very disturbing piece of research. While the study is very small, the fact that it was done at all suggests that there might be a larger problem across the country: Euthanizing children right here in the US.
The study, of course, doesnt talk about euthanasia. Heres the title: Considerations About Hastening Death Among Parents of Children Who Die of Cancer.
I see. Its not euthanasia, its hastening death. Sounds so much more, well, clinical, dont you think?
Essentially, the researchers wanted to know, in terms of actual cases and presented possible scenarios, what parents attitudes were toward euthanasia when a child was terminally ill with cancer. No surprise, the more the actual case or scenario involved high levels of pain and suffering, the more likely parents were to consider euthanasia
Sorry, I meant hastening death.
Now, if the study only used contrived scenarios, the findings would be important, because they show, among other things, that parents are ignorant of palliative measures that can make terminally ill children comfortable in their final days.
However, among parents interviewed who literally had terminally ill children with cancer, there were several who actually discussed euthanasia for their child with their doctor, and, in three instances, where parents reported that the euthanasia was carried out.
Frightening, and even more so when you consider how small the study was.
And, its absolutely probable that if its happening in the two hospitals covered by the study, its going on all over the country behind closed doors after whispered conversations.
Killing children because they are sick.
Here in these United States.
This is how things started in the Netherlands.
Lets so all we can to make sure it doesnt happen here.
I wonder how long it will be before Zero and his czars start denouncing the "worthless eaters".
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I think either Zero or one of the famous czars (sorry, I don't remember who, but it caught my attention) has already mentioned something about "nonproductive" people.
John Holdren is the czar.
>> I give up. The world is doomed.
The World is doomed if we give up.
Yep,I agree.We must be getting close to the end.
Yes, John Holdren probably was the one who said this.
We can't give up, but I think one of the reasons for the attacks on the Catholic Church now is that the Church has held fast on this.
HOWEVER, there are a bunch of nuns who seem to be in charge of the Catholic hospital association who are out there licking Obama's toes on this and every other issue. The Vatican has to be told that the Pope must get these ladies out of there and make the Catholic stance clear and unequivocal.
The Nazis used to refer to "useless eaters".The current regime in this country is not all that different.
I'm about to reach the age to go before the death panel once Bambi's plan is implemented. I'm going to refuse to go.
What can they do to me? Kill me? They were going to do that anyway.
For an historical perspective.
this is how it starts.
Here are some more links:
This article, Useless Eaters by Dr. Mark Mostert is the best that I have ever read on the subject:
The lefties still have to come up wiht a better more simpler word for it. Simplify the language, cut out all the non-essential words.
>> The Vatican has to be told that the Pope must get these ladies out of there and make the Catholic stance clear and unequivocal.
I agree.
The line of when to start the "hastening" creeps and creeps and creeps.
There is often no discernable difference between palliative measures and euthanasia. The intent is different, but the end result is the same.
Everybody dies.
Death is therefore inevitable and can only be hastened for anyone, not just the immediately threatened.
Even if you are perfectly healthy and I kill you now, I have only hastened your death,
not brought about something that would never have happened eventually.
"Hastening" death by even a second is the definition of murder.
Most people are so easily fooled or their guilt lessened by the right euphemism.
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"...the "worthless eaters" ".
Careful! There are more than a few folks here on FR who would describe that as covering most immigrants on welfare.
this is horrible.
' I wonder how long it will be before Zero and his czars start denouncing the "worthless eaters" '.
Well... speaking of czars, and the current regime, I would say that they are the epitome of 'worthless' from a human productivity, usefulness, perspective.
I find this hard to believe.
This is being reported by the parents to the researchers. Parents are not medical personnel.
The conversation was probably like this( and I have witnessed this)- "Your child is terminal- and will probably die in the next two days. In order to make your child comfortable, we will need to give morphine. Sometimes large doses of morphine can stop breathing, but your child needs the morphine to be comfortable."
The parents then interpret this as euthanasia. Not true.
That is not true. Palliative measures can be given in doses that do not kill. Euthansia is purposely giving doses of whatever or large enough to kill. People who are dying can be given palliative care for considerble periods of time.
Why are you saying something that is not true?
I don't want immigrants on welfare to be killed. I just want them to not be on welfare, and to leave the country if they are illegal.
That wasn't a nice thing to say, btw.
Thanks for the LMSD/Laptop info. Here's a ping for you too. I'm actually pretty upset over even the thought of people bringing this up.
Prayers for all these children.
In some cases it is true. The tolerance for morphine becomes greater and greater, and larger and larger doses must be used to eliminate the pain.
I know that; but still, there is a difference between purposely giving a dose that kills and giving enough to ease pain. There is intent involved. And when the intent is to kill, that is when it all becomes evil.
And the danger with legalizing euthanasia or even turning a blind eyes is this:
"Well, he's supposed to live for another two days/two weeks/two months/two years but he's in such pain, he'll never be cured, it's really the kind thing to do...plus, our insurance is running out, and I can't possibly give him the care at home, and... and... And the doctor said it won't hurt, he'll just go to sleep and not wake up..."
I can see it and hear it now.
Of course with some fatal illnesses, pain is not the problem.
In bygone days the morphine dose would be regulated so it did not kill the patient. That was barbaric. When we can ease the pain, we should, and I'm glad we now do so.
What I'm saying is that if euthanasia or call it doctor assisted suicide (kids can now ask to be killed in, IIRC, Belgium), this sort of discussion will occur earlier in the illness. Not when the child is in unbearable pain, totally helpless, or unconscious. Much earlier. When large doses of pain killing drugs are not needed "yet".
"Why wait until he's in terrible pain? It would be so cruel to wait until then. Let's remember him as he is now; the doctor said he would get all twisted/go blind/stop eating - and I couldn't bear to see him like that. It's the kind thing to do. The doctor said he'll feel no pain, just go to sleep. We know there's no hope, why wait until he suffers so much more?"
It won't just happen when the children are near death, if it's legalized.
"That wasnt a nice thing to say, btw."
I certainly agree is isn't a nice thing to say. But I've read worse on some threads on FR and I've been posting here for a few years.
Those nasty comments I skip, as not everyone who is an immigrant is here illegally and quite a few are political refugees, like the Cambodians, and have needed help assimilating.
It was still shocking to read that 50% of all people on welfare are immigrants.
At one time immigrants could not enter the U.S.A. unless they had a sponsor, but that no longer appears to be the case. If the law still exists, we must need dust it off and start enforcing our immigration laws.
Reform is just a way to seem busy making progress while nothing really changes.
Maybe I misunderstood your other comment. I thought you were saying that many people on FR thought that immigrants (in general) were uesless eaters with all that that implies.
If I was wrong, I apologize.
I see tons of stuff on FR that makes me sick, for sure - from ignorance to much worse. I generally skip it, too, unless I want to try to defeat it.
My DH is a legal immigrant - took him a year just to get here, is now naturalized. He came when immigrants had to have sponsors. So I have nothing against legal immigrants! Just no illegals, and no welfare. Private orgs should help them, and other needy people.
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The most disturbing aspect of this rising evil is that We The People have not marched these murderous bastards out of any power, any authority over U.S.! By tolerating this EVIL we become complicit in it.
Yes, it is disturbing that the question is even being asked.
"I give up. The world is doomed."
We must never give up or the world WILL be doomed.
Inform everyone you know and PRAY.
no, in palliation you relieve pain, even though it might depress respiration, and that could hasten death.
This is allowed in Catholic ethics, even to the extent of "terminal sedation" where you put a person into a coma to relive the pain.
In hastening death, you adjust the dosage to kill.
The difference? I've had a couple patients who, once we relieved their pain, got better...
This country is deserving of the judgment God is going to pour out on it some day.
It is nice to have faith. I don't. Humanity is doomed.
For every 1 person trying to make the world a better place, there are at least 1 million making it much much worse. It's amazing that civilization lasted as long as it did. Extinction is long overdue.
For all we know, God changed his mind, gave up on this world, and moved to a different universe.
Nope.....we are the weak ones that give up on God. He never gives up on us!
I think that this is just the "sorting of the wheat from the chaff." Hang in there, Soothe! We are being tested!
That is a really good point. What you describe is a dangerous attempt at palliative care.
Euthanasia is the deliberate attempt at painless killing with the objective of causing death.
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@joshgustin do you guys have any plans to make a buckle back jeans with them cowboy pockets sometimes in the near future?post #2960 of 97208/24/14 at 5:24amI LOVE that new work shirt...but it's really too trim, with the chest measurements being smaller than my Brooks slim fit dress shirt. It's amazing to me that Gustin even came out with a "sllim fit" line...and of course, the shirt looks like it will be too short to tuck in. Please, Gustin, some shirts for people who aren't skinny 20-somethings?post #2961 of 97208/24/14 at 7:09am
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I have the same color duffle and would love to own the Dopp Kit but I think they're asking too much money for it. Not to mention, it was originally advertised at $44.00 and then went up to $50 when I refreshed it. No thanks.post #2964 of 97208/24/14 at 6:29pmQuote:
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Didn't see this answered, but I have the same question about the shoulders on the slim fit (and the drop from chest to waist, for that matter).
edit - curious about the sleeves as well. Will the slim fit have higher armholes/trimmer sleeves than the regular?
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It appears the slim fit actually tapers less than the regular which strikes me as a bit odd
Are the people here who were looking for a slimmer fit looking for a reduction in the chest or a more tapered fit? (or both)post #2968 of 97208/26/14 at 10:51am
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`Star Wars' Shoots Past `Avatar' to Break U.S. Box Office Record
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" broke the $760.5 million record for U.S. and Canadian ticket sales set by 2009's "Avatar," giving the Walt Disney Co. blockbuster bragging rights over the biggest film market in the world.
"The Force Awakens," the seventh film in the series and the first since Disney acquired franchise creator Lucasfilm in 2012, has taken in an additional $800 million in international territories, Disney said in a statement Wednesday. The movie broke the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend after its Dec. 18 U.S. release.
The picture helped lift worldwide ticket sales to a record $38 billion in 2015, according to market researcher Rentrak Corp. While the increased revenue is good news for theater chains, the reliance on so-called tentpole movies could spell trouble in 2016 if Hollywood studios press for a larger share of ticket sales, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst Benjamin Mogil said in a Jan. 3 research note.
The 20 highest-grossing films in the U.S. last year accounted for 50 percent of the total box office, up from 42 percent two years ago, Mogil said. That could lead the major studios to seek a bigger slice of the revenue from their most popular films.
The success of "The Force Awakens" prompted Cowen & Co. analyst Douglas Creutz on Tuesday to increase his fiscal 2016 earnings estimate for Disney to $5.65 a share from $5.60.
"'The Force Awakens' has been everything Disney could have hoped for as a 'Star Wars' reboot, both in terms of box-office performance and critical acclaim," Creutz said.
Disney could lead the box office this year, FBR Capital Markets analyst Barton Crockett said in a Jan. 4 note. He cited ongoing sales for "The Force Awakens" and the company's upcoming film slate, including the June 17 release "Finding Dory," which is a sequel to the hit "Finding Nemo," and "Rogue One," another "Star Wars" film due in December.


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Imperial Hotel Tramontano, Sorrento Coast (area)
- Free buffet breakfast and WiFi
Main amenities
- 113 guestrooms
- Near the beach
- 2 restaurants
- Outdoor pool
- Self parking
- Massage/treatment rooms
- Airport shuttle
- In-room childcare
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- In Sorrento Historic Centre
- Piazza Tasso (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Marina Grande (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Chiesa di San Francesco (0.1 mi / 0.1 km)
- Villa Comunale Park (0.1 mi / 0.1 km)
- Museo Bottega della Tarsia Lignea (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
For families
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Terrace
Imperial Hotel Tramontano, Sorrento Coast (area)
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $232
- Double Room, Sea View
- Double Room, Garden View
- Triple Room, Sea View
- Junior Suite, Sea View
- Triple Room, Garden View
- Single Room, Garden View
- Senior Suite, Sea View
- Classic Double Room
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 113 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets stay free
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Self parking *
Nearby Four Star Sorrento Coast (area) hotels
In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Free buffet breakfast
- 2 restaurants
- 2 coffee shops/cafés
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbeque grills
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Outdoor pool
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
- Fireplace in lobby
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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- Imperial Hotel Sorrento
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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
In accordance with national/local laws, air conditioning may be restricted to certain hours from 1 May to 30 September.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
A tax is imposed by the city and collected at the property in cash. The tax applies to stays from 1 April to 31 October. This tax does not apply to residents of the city, or children under 18 years of age. Please note that further exemptions may apply. For further details, please contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.50 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.
Optional extras
Self parking costs EUR 15 per night
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.4 /5 from 145 reviews
Overall was a wonderful stay, views were amazing, hotel staff friendly and very accommodating, full breakfast with a variety of choices was served overlooking the Bay of Naples! We had dinner the first night and did not go back, no one enjoyed their meal and there are just too many other fabulous restaurants to choose from. Two items I would think should be included are water and body lotion. We would definitely stay there again!
This hotel was extremely rundown and in need of renovation. While it has a great location, it is very overpriced for the condition of the hotel. The service was not particularly friendly in comparison to all of the other hotels that we stayed at in Italy.
The hotel is beautiful. We did not have a water view, but we did have a pretty balcony overlooking the pool. Beautiful garden setting. My only negative would be the attitude of the staff at breakfast. Very aloof and not helpful. Gorgeous view of the bay from there.
We had only room facing the ocean with no balcony and not renovated. We looked at the other rooms facing the ocean. They had wood floors, instead of old tile and balconies m, instead of a window that started about 3 feet high.
Perfect location! Would book again in a heartbeat.
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States Continue 911 Fund Raids
States seeking to cover budget shortfalls are increasingly raiding funds raised from fees paid by cell phone customers for maintenance of and enhancements to state 911 services.
Georgia has joined Hawaii and Michigan among 11 states reallocating funds designated for 911 services to cover expenses in the states' respective general funds. Washington state and the District of Columbia are reportedly proposing similar measures.
Kenneth Braun, a senior policy analyst for the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, says these fund raids are tax increases by another name.
"Every taxpayer should hold their wallet close whenever a 'fee' is discussed as if it is always different from a tax," he said. "Fees created for supposedly specific purposes have a nasty way of morphing into general slush funds when politicians want to avoid making tough choices."
Infrastructure Completed, Fees Continue
This past November, Infotech & Telecom News reported on a 911 fund raid in Hawaii that moved $16 million to the state's general fund.
In January of this year the Atlanta, Georgia Journal-Constitution reported fees the state began collecting three years ago on purchases of prepaid cell phones brought in approximately $25.7 million. The money was designated for 911 call centers but was never appropriated for its originally stated purpose.
This past fall, Michigan legislators approved a 911 fund raid that would move $7 million for each of the next two fiscal years. Braun notes the infrastructure the phone tax was intended to create was completed several years ago and the tax was supposed to end, but legislators extended it through 2014 in 2008.
Braun also notes the fund—raised from a 52-cent cell phone fee—was previously raided in 2004 and again in 2006. The 2004 raid took $12 million from it to cover general fund spending, and the bill in 2006 took another $15 million.
'Fees = Taxes'
Braun adds, "While the 2008 bill reduced the 911 'fee',' by this point it was nothing more than a 'tax' in all but name, a tax with six years of renewed life thanks to state legislators."
Regardless the original purpose of fees, they become tax hikes when used for something else, Braun says. "The bottom line is that these tax hikes fuel general spending."
Braun says lawmakers who vote for fees and later vote repeatedly to divert spending to other uses more than likely don't see these efforts as raising taxes.
"These fees were taxes to begin with, and they are taxes now," he said. "There is no difference, but implementing a tax for one purpose and switching it to another account to pay for bloated state governments is something taxpayers should hold their lawmakers accountable for," he said.
Bruce Edward Walker (email@example.com) is managing editor of Infotech & Telecom News.
On the Internet
"Hawaii Raids Telecom Funds to Balance Budget," Infotech & Telecom News, November 2010: http://www.heartland.org/infotech-news.org/article/28496/Hawaii_Raids_Telecom_Funds_to_Balance_Budget.html
"State Has Diverted Millions in Fees," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 18, 2011: http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/state-has-diverted-millions-807366.html
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Jules Verne's Gravestone
Famed science fiction author Jules Verne died from diabetes at the age of 77 on March 24th 1905 in Amiens, France, where he was buried in the Cimetière de la Madeleine. Two years after his death a sculpture entitled "Towards Immortality and Eternal Youth" was erected atop his marker. Designed by sculptor Albert Roze, and using the actual death mask of the writer, the statue depicts the shrouded figure of Jules Verne breaking his own tombstone and emerging from the grave.
Amazon Books to Open in New York City?
The New York Post is reporting that Amazon plans to open an Amazon Books outlet in Hudson Yards, the major retail/commercial/residential development being built near the Javits Center in New York City. Sources told the Post that although a final lease hasn't been signed, "the deal is happening." The development is scheduled to open in late 2018 or early 2019. The first Amazon Books opened last November in Seattle, Wash. A second is scheduled to open in San Diego, Calif., this summer, while a third is planned for Tigard, Oregon, near Portland.
Oh, come on, will it get to where every time you see a Starbucks, there'll be one of these "pretend bookstores?" Will they compound all the damage they've already done to bookselling and publishing, by spreading Amazon Books outlets around until nobody remembers what a quality independent bookstore is any more? I hope that they go the way of Borders Books and leave independents stronger. - John
E-book Sales Decline
Limitations of e-reading devices and "digital fatigue" are cited as causes of decline in sales of the format. Various sources have reported a decline in e-book sales for traditional publishers in 2015 compared to 2014. To gain some insight into the trend, the Codex Group devoted a recent survey of book buyers's shopping preferences to looking more deeply into the question. Preliminary figures from the Association of American Publishers found that sales of e-books for trade publishers fell 14% in 2015 compared to 2014 and accounted for 20% of overall trade book revenue, down from 23% in 2014.
The reading devices that first ignited the e-book category—dedicated e-readers such as Nook and Kindle—still remain the most important factor affecting e-book reading and sales. Only 34% of book buyer households own e-book readers. The challenge going forward is that dedicated e-reader ownership has been stagnant for the past three years, and the devices are increasingly being retired. The Codex survey also found that though book buyers stated they spent almost five hours of daily personal time on screens, 25% of book buyers, including 37% of those 18–24 years old, want to spend less time on their digital devices.
Since consumers almost always have the option to read books in physical formats, they are indicating a preference to return to print. In the April survey, 19% of 18-to-24-year-olds said they are reading fewer e-books than when they started reading that format. Overall, 14% of book buyers said they are now reading fewer e-books than when they started reading books in the format, and 59% percent of those who said they are reading fewer e-books cited a preference for print as the main reason for switching back to physical books. Unless the e-reader device market is recharged with lower-price, higher-quality options, it is expected that consumers tiring of their digital-device experience will have further digital fatigue, leading to continued e-book sales erosion.
The annual PEN Literary Gala
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker introduced Rowling, recipient of the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. The Harry Potter author, in her award speech, condemned the views of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump—then made clear that her condemnation did not equate to silencing. "I consider him offensive and bigoted, but he has my full support to come to my country," she said, in reference to a petition to ban Trump from the U.K. "His freedom of speech protects my freedom to call him a bigot." Following Rowling, PEN executive director Suzanne Nossel called the attendees into action to protect free speech worldwide, and Naji's younger brother, Mohamed, accepted the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award on his behalf, to another standing ovation. "We at PEN are a noisy, obstreperous lot," Solomon said in his remarks. "Silence is not so golden around here."
ABA Sees Membership Grow for 7th Straight Year
Since 2010, independent bookstores have been coming back. And 2016 is no exception. With BookExpo America set to open in Chicago this week, American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher reported to the AP a 63-store increase in membership from last year. With the uptick, ABA now has 1,775 ABA members with 2,311 outlets. This year's jump in membership marks the seventh straight year that the ABA has swelled its ranks. While the 2016 numbers represent a jump in membership, of nearly 4%, the ABA still has a way to go before it recovers from its previous heights. The organization had 2,300 members as recently as 2002, and 3,300 in 1998. For Teicher, though, there are bright spots. He has been particularly encouraged by the number of stores that have recently transitioned to new ownership, like Bennington Bookstore in Bennington, Vt., and Women & Children First in Chicago. Still, Teicher saw plenty of cause for optimism. In addition to the increase in ABA membership, indie sales from the roughly 580 stores reporting were up 5% year-over-year in the first four months of 2016.
Len Riggio, Barnes & Noble Founder, Announces Retirement
After building Barnes & Noble from a single college bookstore into the largest book chain in the country, Len Riggio is retiring. Riggio, the founder and chairman of B&N, who's been heading the company since its inception in 1965, said he has "done everything I have wanted to do in business" and that he is now looking to focus on his "philanthropic and social" interests. Riggio, who will step down in September, will stay on at B&N as a board member.
Riggio got into bookselling to help pay for his college tuition, taking a job at the NYU Bookstore. But B&N, which remains the largest bricks and mortar bookseller in the country, has faced immense pressure since the rise of e-books and the migration of bookselling online. Barnes & Noble.com has struggled and the launch of the Nook, at first a success, has resulted in deep losses in recent years and the company has been drastically downsizing that part of the business.
Personally, I never had a soft spot for B&N - "corporate scum that they are" - and I never tired of spreading the rumor that the brothers Riggio kept growing B&N by constantly laundering money and other mob activity. If you haven't heard that before, feel free to pass it on. I used to have a great cartoon on the wall of my office in our bookstore that was from New Yorker magazine, it showed the two Riggio brothers dressed as threatening looking mobsters. − John
Great Quotes on Reading & Books
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
- Maya Angelou
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Marcel Proust
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- Haruki Murakami
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
- Donna Tartt
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut Literature.
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
- George Orwell
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
- Henry Miller
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
- EM Forster
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.
- Margaret Atwood
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
- Gustave Flaubert
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
- Jeanette Winterson
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, 'Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.'
- Virginia Woolf
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
- Ian McEwan
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?
- Franz Kafka
When you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It's an old moral, but it's completely true.
- Zadie Smith
Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.
- Prince
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
- Harper Lee
I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
- JK Rowling
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
- Joyce Carol Oates
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
- Maurice Sendak
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I used books as alternate worlds for a long time. I still do. I have dozens of reasons for why I love reading: one of them is that finding yourself wanting to hang out in the world created by a writer is one of the coolest feelings ever, although it can be damn uncomfortable. I remember as a teen reading Stephen King novels. While I can't understand why I was so enamored of his books when I was sixteen and seventeen, I can still remember the sensation of being so frightened that I had no choice but to finish the book I was reading at 3am because, otherwise, I would not be able to get to sleep. I needed to get to the end of the book in order to feel resolution. I remember when reading Salem's Lot that my dad stuck his head in my bedroom door at around midnight to find out if I intended to go to sleep on a school night. I explained to him that I was too frightened to sleep, and book lover that he was, my father seemed to understand perfectly.
- fingerlakeswanderer
I've always read in order to experience another reality. I remember reading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor and feeling frozen through and through. Same with some of the sequences in Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Berniere.
Someone once accused me of living more in my head than in the real world. Not so. I do love to disappear into a novel though.
- Sara Richards
I read to lose myself and find myself at the same time.
- Imani Mosley
Follett Corp. Buys Baker & Taylor
for non-book world nerds − this involves one of the largest corporations that runs college bookstores across the country, buying up the second largest book wholesaler in the country. According to a release form Follett, the combined company will have sales of $3.6 billion. Follett, with annual revenue of $2.6 billion, is a provider of technology, services and print and digital content to PreK-12 libraries, schools and higher education institutions and is one of the country's largest operators of college stores, while B&T has focused on distributing books, video and music products to public libraries and institutions.
Richard Russo and Readers' 'New Best Friend'
Yesterday at the Celebration of Bookselling, Richard Russo, winner of the 2016 Indie Champion Award, thanked booksellers with these comments: "When I published my first novel 30 years ago, the relationship between writers and publishers and independent bookstores was vital. Nobody knew me or my books, and if it wasn't for independent booksellers handselling Mohawk and The Risk Pool, many readers still wouldn't. Of course, this was long before Internet search engines, before Google and Amazon and Apple. Back then, it was the big box stores that had you guys in their cross hairs, and things didn't look good. The conventional wisdom was that you wouldn't make it. And yet here you are. Here we are. Okay, we haven't taken over world, which continues to change before our eyes, but then we never intended to. We did survive though, both the big box stores and the Internet retailers. How? Well, for one thing, search engines haven't replaced handselling. The technology itself and the terminology is revealing. You search for something that you already know the existence of. You search for your car keys. Their existence isn't in doubt, just their precise location. An engine is a mechanical thing, efficient and helpful but thoughtless. Booksellers are human beings, and they alert readers to what's new, emerging writers, like Richard Russo 30 years ago, whose existence most readers did not even suspect. By which I mean to say that the relationship between writers, publishers, independent booksellers and readers is even more vital today than it was 30 years ago. Amazon, Google, Apple--they all sell a lot of books, but they're not in the book business. They are in the business of business. They're not book people. That doesn't mean that they're bad, but they are different from us because we are book people. It's not just what we sell, it's who we are. The noisier the culture gets, the more we crave quiet, stillness. Because beneath the noise and the sheer philosophy of life, there is still a conversation going on, the conversation of the democracy. And that conversation is still taking place in the form of books, books written and read. And it's because it's still important that we strain to hear that conversation. We need to know who's saying what and what things ring true and authentic. When we press books upon one another--authors on their publishers, publishers on booksellers, booksellers on readers--we are doing what we've always done and always for the same reason. You'll like this, we tell each other. This is worth your while. This will cheer you up. This will break your heart. This will help you understand. Here, right here, is your new best friend, this book. "
Partners Book Distributing, Partners/West Closing
After more than 30 years of business, Partners Book Distributing, Holt, Mich., and Partners/West, Renton, Washinton, are closing. "As much as we love what we do, the numbers are no longer working. We would like to thank all of the customers we have had over the years for keeping us going this long." For many years and as recently as the 1990s, regional book wholesalers were a significant part of the business, and Partners is one of just a few regional book wholesalers still in existence.
Booksellers were upset about the news. Allison Hill, president and CEO of Vroman's, Pasadena, California, and Book Soup in West Hollywood, said she is "heartbroken" over the news. "Gloria, Vicky, and Jim and the rest of their team are extraordinary. They made us feel like they were our store partners and our friends, and they had a significant impact on Vroman's business over the years." At the King's English, Salt Lake City, Utah, co-owner Anne Holman said, "I've been crying all day. It's terrible. They were one of the little guys and they were there for us for any and everything, and I feel like I've lost a member of the family." Brian Juenemann, executive director and marketing director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, commented: "True to their name, they were real partners to us and they worked to remain true partners with our booksellers. They worked with local authors and helped with events, and the authors felt that they had their own distributor working for them."
This company was a class act that really worked with bookstores to give them a lot of information about the new books they were carrying. Vicky did most all of the book ordering for our bookstores, and I only sat in once in a while, but their reps were always very helpful and we came away from each order feeling good about buying from them. They had their own style and weren't afraid to show some personality ... something that I always value in any company. You would never mistake them for the national, and very corporate, giant wholesalers like Baker & Taylor or Ingram. − John
Author James Patterson will donate another $1.75 million to school libraries this year, in the second installment of his School Library Campaign. The program was launched in 2015 in partnership with Scholastic Reading Club, which administers funding applications to its network of 62,000 schools and 800,000 teachers, and will match each dollar with "Bonus Points" that teachers at every school receiving an award can use to acquire books and other materials for their classrooms. Last year, Patterson pledged $1.75 million in grants to school libraries. Of the nearly 28,000 entries received, 467 schools were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
It's a GOOD DAY to be Bernie
I'm sure there's no other candidate who's mind would go to doves and stopping war because of this small bird, combine that with 70 and 80% of the vote in three more states and I'm even more proud of him.
I have a flash from the past.
On March 14, 1987, 29 YEARS AGO TODAY, my beautiful wife and I opened our very first bookstore, Mansion Book Merchants, in a hidden space in Davis. It was a labor of love and It started 22 years of working with some of the finest people/friends/employees I've ever met, selling great books to our outstanding customers. HUGE thanks to everyone who was a part of the best jobs we have ever had. Remember, we're just one big LOTTO win away from opening our next bookstore.
"Due to our name still being misunderstood, even after six years," the Fountainhead Bookstore, Hendersonville, N.C., is changing its name to Novels & Novelties Bookstore, the store announced on its website. "But everything else will be the same--great customer service, wonderful recommendations, cool under-the-radar title choices, and interesting gift options. Same staff, same place, same local community bookstore, just a new name."
A too powerful Rand brand seems to have prompted the change. As the Hendersonville Lightning put it, "perhaps" the problem arose because the store "shared its name with the well-known 1943 Ayn Rand novel that signifies the triumph of individualism over co
George RR Martin denies being dead after George Martin dies.
Following panic from Game of Thrones fans in the wake of Beatles producer George Martin's death, author insists his own passing has been exaggerated. Fantasy author George RR Martin was moved to reassure his fans on Wednesday that rumors buzzing around the web that he had died "have been greatly exaggerated". His invocation of Mark Twain's famous quote followed news that the Beatles producer George Martin had actually passed on that had panicked come hasty readers.
The 10 Most Literate Countries in the World (Nope, the U.S. Isn't No. 1)
An analysis of literacy behaviors and standardized test results for 61 nations reveals some surprises.
In late February when President Barack Obama selected Carla Hayden, the head of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, to run the Library of Congress, he lauded her commitment to boosting the community's use of the facility and providing patrons with greater access to computers. Hayden's focus might also get a thumbs-up from the authors of a new study that ranks 61 countries from most to least literate.
Indeed, the study led by John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, examined several factors, including Internet and library resources, newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, years of schooling, and literacy scores on standardized tests. According to those criteria, Finland—which is known for its high-performing education system—is the world's most literate nation.
Second Amazon bookstore
Amazon is opening its second bookstore in San Diego this summer. Amazon opened Amazon Books in November in Seattle, Washington. Signage at the San Diego store's site reads in part, "Coming this summer--Amazon Books."
You just have to love our next president.
I HAVE HOPE THIS YEAR ... it comes from a democratic socialist named Bernie.
Instead of another election where the best choice on the ballot is the lesser-of-two-evils, this year I have a candidate who I have known for decades, and is someone I trust, believe in, and agree with when he speaks of what has to change in our very dysfunctional system.
Hillary personifies to me the present day Democratic political establishment to the max. She is political in all ways possible, and I'm not sure that she has any true core beliefs that guide her beyond those benefiting her own political advantage. She has been coldly calculating connections and collecting political chits for decades as she positioned herself for her big run for president. Certainly, it would be great to have the first woman president , but voting for a candidate because of their sex is no way to elect a president. Also, electing someone because they have been around a long time, working the system, is not any stronger a reason
With hope and change, Obama took her out last time. Now, I'm ready for my man Bernie to gain the White House this time.
So, I say, FEEL THE BERN. I'm just so happy to have a chance to vote for someone I believe in and am excited about. That is, unless not enough people make an effort to help Bernie change things up, and Hillary ends up as the don't-change-things-too-much Democratic candidate. Then I'll be stuck voting against Trump-Cruz-Rubio, with a vote for a centralist like Hillary ... which is sure to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I won't be a happy camper, stuck having to vote for the queen of the Democratic establishment to avoid something childish and repulsive like T-C-R.
Just think about what Bernie's revolution could mean for the country's future. If you've read your Thomas Jefferson, you know we are way overdue for change.
I'm going to be voting for Bernie with a big smile on my face. - John
After Eight Year Slump, 2015 Bookstore Sales Rise
Bookstores sales rose 2.5% in 2015, marking the first time since 2007 that sales in the sector were up. According to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, total bookstore sales in 2015 hit $11.17 billion, up from $10.89 billion in 2014.
The numbers come after continued signs about the category strengthening. Sales from bookstores were strong throughout 2015, with December sales having risen 8.7%, to $1.42 billion. That bricks and mortar locations are performing so well will not be a surprise to anyone following the sales trend of books for the year, which showed print sales on the rise and e-book sales on the decline.
Amy Tan to be honored by naming of new species - of leech Chtonobdella tanae named after the Joy Luck Club author because of her longstanding support for the American Museum of Natural History, joining a host of wildlife, asteroids and dinosaurs named after authors.
James Patterson donates £10,000 to flood-hit UK bookshops
Bestselling writer James Patterson gave £5,000 each to the Book Case in Hebden Bridge and the New Bookshop in Cockermouth.
What is your idea of perfect happiness? Reading. - the late, great David Bowie
(from the August 1998 issue of Vanity Fair - Proust Questionnaire)
David Bowie: Book Lover's Lament
"I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.
Black Oak Books to Close
Gary Cornell, who brought Black Oak Books in Berkeley back from the brink of closing in the mid-Aughts, said today that he will shutter the new and used bookstore by the end of January. Cornell first bought the store in 2007 or 2008, he said, from the previous owners who were struggling to adapt to the internet age of book selling and had racked up debt with the IRS. "When they got into trouble, I wanted to rescue it," Cornell said. "But at some point, you have to say enough is enough."
He initially operated the store at its existing location on Shattuck Avenue but said it didn't generate enough sales to make the rent his landlord wanted. Cornell purchased a building on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, hoping the area would turn into the next Temescal, and moved the store there in 2009. Although sales did increase slightly after the store moved and went up marginally this past year, Cornell said the bookstore never generated enough foot traffic to cover costs. Though he said he didn't take a salary or expect to have the store pay for its rent, he was still having to subsidize the business to keep it open. "Bookstores are low margin businesses. You need a lot of sales, you need a lot of foot traffic," Cornell said. "We just weren't getting it."
Print Book Sales Up Again in 2015
Unit sales of print books rose 2.8% in 2015 over the previous year, following a 2.4% increase in 2014.
Unit sales of print books from outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan increased 2.8% in 2015 over 2014, marking the second consecutive year that print units posted annual gains. In 2014, unit sales increased 2.4% over 2013; in 2015 unit sales were up 5.3% over 2013. Total units sold topped 652 million in 2015 at outlets that report to BookScan, which captures about 80% of print unit sales in the U.S.
(from Publishers Weekly)
Let's see, how does that compare to all those bogus Print is Dead headlines? As a bookseller of many years, I'm smiling. - John
Bestselling Books of 2015
Nielsen BookScan Adult Fiction
1. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - unit sales: 1,599,189
2. Grey by E.L. James - 1,406,868
3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - 1,345,721
4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 1,013,616
5. The Martian (trade edition) by Andy Weir - 673,041
6. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham - 576,362
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 563,293
8. See Me by Nicholas Sparks - 445,531
9. Gray Mountain by John Grisham - 365,392
10. The Nightingale by Kristin - 331,384
11. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King - 322,298
12. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz - 305,929
13 .The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 296,641
Nielsen BookScan Adult Nonfiction
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo - 1,143,422
2. Killing Reagan by O'Reilly/Dugard - Sales: 851,980
3. American Sniper (trade edition) by Chris Kyle - 851,457
4. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime by Ree Drummond - 569,925
5. Jesus Calling by Sarah Young - Sales: 545,217
6. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - 532,082
7. Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath - 528,506
8. Lost Ocean by Johanna Basford - 492,684
9. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - 443,801
10. American Sniper (mass market edition) by Chris Kyle - 354,536
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The Giants may have already advanced to the NLCS, but they're stuck in Cincinnati for the moment, which should give them time to figure out their rotation.
Sergio Romo survived a 12-pitch battle with slugger Jay Bruce, then struck out Scott Rolen to propel the Giants to the NLCS and erase the memory of a dismal 0-2 start.
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Senate Bill Would Make it Easier to Move Miami's Urban Development Boundary
Republican State Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff represents Fort Lauderdale, but during this year's legislative session she seems to be really intent on introducing bills that could forever alter Miami-Dade County. First she was behind the now-failed bid to legalize destination casinos in South Florida, and now she's introduced an amendment to a state bill that would make it easier to move Miami-Dade's Urban Development Boundary. The move puts her at odds with several Miami-Dade leaders, including County Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
Update: It's already dead. Bogdanoff fails again.
The UDB limits construction west of the county line, and creates a buffer between urbanized Miami and the Everglades.
Currently a vote of nine out of thirteen of the county's commissioners is required to move the line. Just last week Mayor Gimenez unveiled a plan that would require a yay vote from 10 out of 13 commissioners, a super majority.
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Bogdanoff's amendment would require only a simple majority, 7 of the 13, to move the line.
Gimenez isn't pleased.
"They are trying to usurp local authority," he told the Miami Herald. "It strikes me as funny that soon as my state-of-the-county address calls for strengthening the UDB, this crops up."
The UDB debate often pits environmentalists against developers.
Gimenez has sent a letter to state senators from Miami-Dade in which he asks them to oppose the amendment, but not all would be on board.
Sen. Miguel de la Poritlla, for one, supports Bogdanoff's amendment. Coincidentally, he also happens to have close ties to Ferro Investment Group, a developer currently hoping to build on 9.9 acres that sit outside the UDB.
Update: The amendment has died after the Senate's rule chairman ruled that Bogdanoff's amendment was not germane to the bill she was trying to attach it to.
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