Comic Book Review: CHEW #5 [VIDEO]
2009-11-02 05:46:00 One of my favorite indie comics is CHEW by John Layman and Rob Guillory, published by Image Comics. It tells the story of Tony Chu, a 'cibopath', a person with the power to tell everything that has happened to a living creature if he eats a part of it. The book is dark, quirky, funny and wholly original. In this episode of CCW*TV, my comic-reviewing partner Jose Melendez and I take a look at CHEW #5. We love the book, but Jose takes issue with a certain spoiler-laden image on the very cover of the book! (WARNING: Explicit language!):Have YOU read Chew? If so, what did you think?...
Sunday Ad Flyers 11/1: P&G Saver, Toys R Us Big Book, Target Gift Card
2009-11-01 17:51:00 Target has two pages of gift card offers on technology items, inlcuding $5 gift card when you buy a 2GB Apple iPod Shuffle for $55, $10 GC for old fashioned-looking Crosley stereo @ $89.99; $20 GC for Flip Camcorder @ $149.99;, and more. Other gift card offers: $25 when you buy a Bissell vacuum, @ $149-$199 (and $20 Bissell mail-in rebate in today's 11/1 SmartSource), and a $5 GC for buying two large paper towel packs, laundry detergents, fancy razors, tissues, or Siffer WetJet starter kit, prices range from $7.99-$18.99. You can get four boxes of Kellogg's cereal FREE if you combine Target and manufacturer's coupons (thanks, Mashup Mom).* And another good deal I noticed: holiday flannel sheet sets are $15 for ALL SIZES. We have a king sized bed and an Amazon search does not turn up any sheet set for a mere $15. Wonder if the fitted sheet is big enough and stretchy enough to stay on our thick king mattress. Finally, there's a coupon for a $10 gift card with a new or transferred...
Matt Cafissi: guitar chef on face book
2009-10-25 01:39:00 Welcome to GuitarChef! The on-line of the infamous Italian Guitar Magazine of the same name (now only on web) created by MATT CAFISSI. Here we bring to you interviews with famous guitarists around the world, lessons, reviews of current cd's and more! http://www.facebook.com/pages/G-uitarChef/302156575149 This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
No, 'Where the Wild Things Are' Cannot Ruin the Book
2009-10-16 14:03:00 Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.Glib, uninteresting people are fond of saying the following phrase: "Oh, the movie totally ruined the book." First of all, a movie cannot "ruin" a book. A writer, director and actors can do a poor job of adapting a movie from a book, but this does not suddenly render the book inert. The book is still the same thing. You can still read it and it will have the same words as before anyone ever dreamed of turning it into a movie. You know what ruins a book? If the author turns out to be a Nazi. But short of the "secret Nazi" development, your precious book will be just fine. People say this phrase...
Book Club
2009-10-16 00:02:00 Our Book Club, the Bookbags, met on Tuesday to discuss a fine novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help. She was rejected 45 times after she submitted her manuscript, but #46 worked like a charm. The book gives a voice to a group of Mississippi maids, laboring for Junior League-ish women of the early 60's. I was a little uncomfortable with the premise of the book before I plowed in- I feared that the maids would be portrayed in a stereotypical manner. To the contrary, they are the dignified characters, ladling out love and wisdom to their "children". Their expression is musical, and their idioms are funny and down-to-earth. Their bosses are not portrayed as kindly. ...
Book Review: Blood on the Horns
2009-10-13 13:00:00 After a week off from book reviews, I'm back after reading Blood on the Horns by Roland Lazenby. Before even getting to the extended review, let me just say, if you haven't read this book and you are a Bulls fan from the Jordan era, stop reading this review and go get it. ...
sarah's pastries & candies & her new book!
2009-10-12 23:05:00 I love sharing exciting new information about amazing local artists, business people, entertainers, philanthropists,... and I think my sweet friend sarah levy of sarah's pastries & candies is all of that!  We both grew up going to school in Lincoln park and it has been really impressive to see a local friend evolve her passion into a successful thriving chicago business by working her butt off to make as many chicagoans as happy & smiley as possible with her seriously tasty treats... from making candy in her mom's kitchen, to selling in whole foods, to opening three successful stores, to now launching her first book this week! I can only imagine if her book is anything like the rest of her...
Kanye West primes release of Glow In The Dark book
2009-10-12 06:32:00 Kanye dropped these amazing stills on his blog. It's the first look of his new book Glow In The Dark - a selection of photographs that captures the hottest tour of the summer of 2008, all taken by Nabil Elderkin. Kanye added this,THIS IS THE PHOTO BOOK FROM THE GLOW IN DARK TOUR. NABIL CAPTURED THE EXPERIENCE LIKE CRAZY! WHEN I LOOK AT THE PHOTOS IT BRINGS ME RIGHT BACK TO THAT TIME! IT'S VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO TOUR BUT MY PAIN BROUGHT MY GREATEST CREATION TO DATE. THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME TO THE SHOWS AND EXPERIENCED THIS MOMENT IN TIME WITH ME!- kanye westHit the jump for a couple more...
Russ Parrish: steel panther comic book appearance!
2009-10-10 17:04:00 STEEL PANTHER's October 6, 2009 in-store performance at Newbury Comics in Norwood, Massachusetts This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Owen Edwards, Andy James: writing a music book... feedback required
2009-10-05 20:21:00 Andy James says: with Owen Edwards (founder of guitar idol) and together with a load of stuff we are going to cover, are there any things that any of you would like to see in it that you think maybe missing in other publications? Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Cheers Owen Edwards says: Further to Andy's posts we hope to produce a book/series of books designed for the... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Meaty volume: the library book that came back with a bacon bookmark
2009-09-24 01:54:00 But a rasher isn't the only unusual thing found in returned library books A rasher of uncooked bacon may not seem an ideal bookmark, but one was found in a returned library book in Worthing.
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Vocabulary Booster e-book, Volume I
2009-09-23 15:43:00 The Vocabulary Booster, Volume I, can help the reader master essential yet problematic English vocabulary. Especially helpful for high school ...
Book Review: The Essential Guide To Breastfeeding By Marianne Neifert, M.D.
2009-09-23 14:08:00 By Amie Breeze Harper Having given birth to my first child this past spring and nourishing my son solely through breast milk his first 5.5 months, I was very pleased with Dr. Marianne Neifert's new book, The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding: Everything a Nursing Mother Needs to Know (Sterling 2009). First, the book is structured in a way that is very easy to read. I was able to find the answers I needed, immediately. For example, the use of bold font styles to make important concepts stay in my mind, and the use of big blue lettering for sub-sections allowed me to navigate the book well. The first chapter of the book lets the audience know why and how breastfeeding is "nature's perfect food for babies." Dr. Neifert breaks down the components in human milk (protein, fat, carbohydrates) and explains why it is far better than formula. Understanding that breastfeeding is still socially unacceptable in most parts of the U.S.A. (although it is medically proven to be optim...
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Book Review: Speech-less: Tales Of A White House Survivor By Matt Latimer
2009-09-23 02:37:00 By Loyd Eskildson Finding himself with a law degree and lured by the upbeat themes of the Reagan revolution, Matt heads to Washington, D.C. and snares a series of jobs with powerful figures on Capitol Hill, beginning as an assistant for Senator Spencer Abraham (R, MI) for $25,000 in 1996. Two moves later Matt was with Senator Kyl (R, AZ), and then off to Secretary Rumsfeld's office as a speech writer. En route, Matt drops dirt on several prominent senators (Abraham, E. Dole, McCain) for various reasons - detached/MIA, dumb, terrifying temper, and briefly comments on Ann Coulter (likes). Latimer was surprised to find Rumsfeld's hands tied on hiring decisions involving relatively low-level and reportedly less than stellar performers - the White House (Karl Rove) apparently had a long reach. Latimer was frustrated for a time by their Machiavellian machinations blocking him from meeting regularly with Sec. Rumsfeld. Latimer reports that he could have stayed with incoming Se...
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Book review: Tom Rob Smith’s “The Secret Speech”
2009-09-22 18:27:00 By Jefferson Flanders On February 26, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the then-leader of the Soviet Union, addressed a closed session of the 20th Communist Party Congress and denounced the cult of personality of his predecessor, Josef Stalin. Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” was a four-hour long condemnation of Stalin’s myriad abuses of power, a shocking and detailed indictment of ...
Book Review: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey Of Pat Tillman By Jon Krakaue
2009-09-22 13:30:00 By James Holland Ever since the time I attended a Harvard Square bookstore reading by Jon Krakauer and watched the slide show of his climb up Mt. Everest that he so beautifully described in his book Into Thin Air, I’ve been a big fan of Krakauer. However, I think he lost his way on this project. His own political views seem to have blinded him to fully understanding the motivations and views of his book subject Pat Tillman. Or perhaps the author thought that his book subject was “Illegal Wars Begun by George Bush” and Pat Tillman was just a convenient vehicle to provide a taxi tour of that theory. That is kind of the feeling the reader is left with as he finds himself skimming page after page of not-very-interesting background material that does little to advance the book’s story line. Unlike Krakauer climbing the heights of Everest one plodding step in the deep snow at a time, much of this volume doesn’t seem completely on target. Krakauer is a...
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Award-Winning Teacher's Inspiring New Book
2009-09-21 16:57:00 Treat yourself to this interview from last week with Rafe Esquith on WNYC. He's just put out a followup to his bestseller, Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire. It's worth a listen, whatever side of the education debate you're on: WNYC Lighting Their FiresI'm sure Chicago has a Rafe Esquith -- any nominations?...
Book Review: ?Treasure of Eden? by S. L. Linnea
2009-09-21 00:13:00 In late March, 1954, two cousins found a cave in the Judean desert, west of the Dead Sea. Bedouins, the teen boys, believed the cave to be full of treasure. The boys knew of a promise made by the sheikh that whoever brought back home treasures of antiquity would get to go with the sheikh ...
Book Review: Bull Run
2009-09-20 13:00:00 Bull Run by Roland Lazenby was an accidental pick up merely because the library didn't have Lazenby's "Blood on the Horns". Bull run covers the Bulls 72 win season while the Blood on the Horns covers the final championship. This one was a bit different than a typical book I've read as the artwork portrayed in it played a prominent factor....
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programme
2009-09-20 11:04:00 Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)1008 pages | Wrox (October 6, 2008) | ISBN-10: 0470247959 | PDF | 26 MbWhen SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) was released to the market in SQL Server 2005, it took the Extract Transform Load (ETL) market by storm. Three years later, SQL Server 2008 has introduced an even more mature rendition of SSIS that is focused on improving the scalability and performance of SQL Server and also serves as a very powerful tool for performing ETL operations, which are central to data warehousing.With this book, an assembled team of professionals has combined their years of experience and tried-and-true best practices to present you with the tools to take your SSIS skill set to a new level. After a basic review of the fundamental concepts of SSIS, you'll move on to more in-depth topics such as extending the engine, synchronizing systems incrementally, managing the SSIS platform, and more. Plus, helpful...
Book Review: Luggage By Kroger: A True Crime Memoir By Gary Taylor
2009-09-19 19:20:00 By Loyd Eskildson Luggage by Kroger is billed as "a true crime memoir," and thus got my interest. It's true the protagonist Catherine Mehaffey was a serial murdering femme fatale masquerading as a law-abiding attorney; however, the author's (Gary Taylor) relationship with her consumes far too much of the book, thereby relegating most of Ms. Mehaffey's alleged crimes to too fleeting reference. Luggage by Kroger opens in Houston at the scene of anesthesiologist George Tedesco's murder - the day his 'divorce trial' versus Catherine Mehaffey was to begin. During the past year his former three-month common-law 'wife' (per Catherine) had been the target of frequent harassment and theft complaints by Tedesco, and she immediately became the prime suspect. Catherine, in turn, defended herself and spiced up the case alleging Tedesco had an affair with another attorney's wife and was also a homosexual, broadening the suspect pool. Taylor also briefly referen...
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Book Review: Historic Walking Guides Edinburgh by Andy Hayes
2009-09-19 15:03:00 Edinburgh is one of my very favourite European cities and that’s not just because I’m Scottish, so I was looking forward to reading and reviewing Andy Hayes’ Historic Walking Guides Edinbugh. As Andy says, Edinburgh is fairly compact so exploring the city on foot is a great option. Edinburgh skyline from Calton Hill by europealacarte The ...
Book Review: The Sacred Door and Other Stories, Cameroon Folktales of the B
2009-09-18 16:37:00 I love folk-tales, don’t yo-u? Here’s a book of folk-tales from Cameroon: Makuchi. The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba. Athens Ohio University Press,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Book Review: Site 39, Blue Orb by Otis V. Goodwin III
2009-09-17 16:04:00 I think I would put Site 39, Blue Orb squarely in the genre of classic Science Fiction. I am guessing that the intended audience is the Young Adult reader, and I do believe Otis Goodwin will do well with that sector. The heroes and heroines are youthful, and their mission is to not only save the ...
Book Review: The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood
2009-09-17 16:02:00 Science fiction — excuse me, speculative fiction — loves series. For whatever reason, readers — and evidently authors — can’t get enough of particular worlds or characters. And just as Margaret Atwood distances her fiction from science fiction, she may be taking the concept of a series in a different direction. Atwood’s latest novel, The Year ...
Priyanka aiming for Guinness Book of World Records
2009-09-17 07:20:00 Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000, is set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for playing 12 roles in Ashutosh Gowariker’s forthcoming movie "What’s Your Rashee?". The movie is based on US based Gujarati writer Madhu Rye’s novel Kimball Ravenswood. Anjali, Vishakha, Kajal, Hansa, Mallika, Pooja, Rajni, Nandini, Bhavna, Jhankhana, Sanjna, and Chandrika ...
Book: The Politics of Language and Nation Building in Zimbabwe
2009-09-15 16:26:00 About the book The Politics of Language and Nation Building in Zimbabwe: Finex Ndhlovu, Africa in Development Vol. 2 2009, Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Abstract: This book examines the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Telephone Interview With Jackie Silver Author of The Book ?Aging Backwards?
2009-09-15 03:19:00 I was lucky enough to do a phone interview with Jackie Silver the writer of the book “Aging Backwards”. The book can be found on Amazon.com and on her website AgingBackwards.com It all started when she had put out a comment on Twitter that she was looking for quotes for her up coming book she was ...
The Fuhrer Virus ? Paul Schultz: Book Review
2009-09-13 21:28:00 This espionage-suspense caper is set during World War II, but during that odd and brooding breath-of-a moment-time period during 1941 when Russia, and England were in a desperate, full-out balls-to-the wall war effort against Nazi Germany, and America was officially a neutral nation but teetering on a knife-edge, with powerful and influential people and organizations ...
Book Review: You Unstuck by Libby Gill
2009-09-13 17:07:00 Mastering The New Rules Of Risk-Taking In Work And Life Let me pose a question, what brings about success and happiness? It was with this question on my mind that I read Libby Gill’s new book You Unstuck. I think I know the answer that Libby would propose, change and risk taking are the two key ...
Book review: Unguarded
2009-09-13 13:50:00 Even with a short week I manged to finish off a book on the train. This time I took on Unguarded, the biography of Lenny Wilkens. Going into the book I didn't know what to expect. Wilkens wasn't really high on my list of most interesting people to read about prior to picking it up, but I'm glad I did, because he's on my list of most interesting players now....
Book Review: ?The Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery? by Craig Johnson
2009-09-13 00:30:00 Having won the 2009 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for the preceding novel in the series, ?Another Man?s Moccasins,? Craig Johnson makes the latest Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery another interesting and good read. Wade Basard, a wealthy rancher in Campbell County, Wyoming was killed approximately ten days ago as the novel opens. ...
Book Review: ISSA ? The Greatest Story Never Told by Lois Drake
2009-09-12 19:43:00 Neither historians nor theologians have solved the mystery of the missing years in the life of Jesus. His whereabouts between the ages of 14 and 29 are an unknown. There is a school of thought that suggests these lost years were spent with Jesus traveling, Tibet, India, and the rather elusive civilization of the Kushans ...
Book Review: ?Blood Lines: A Mystery? by Kathryn Casey
2009-09-12 18:09:00 It has been nearly a year since the events depicted in ?Singularity? and only now is Lieutenant Sarah Armstrong somewhat ready to return to work as a criminal profiler for the legendary law enforcement organization Texas Rangers. Her time at the ranch outside of Houston, Texas with her Mom, her daughter Maggie and the horses ...
Book Review: Natural Success Principals by Jack Hatfield
2009-09-12 13:58:00 Everything You Need To Succeed was inside you BEFORE You Were Born As Jack Hatfield points out, the book stores are awash in self help books. In fact I am of the belief that the Library Of Congress system for classification system is broken, they need to add Insomnia to many of these books. Some are ...
Book Review: Scarecrow Finds A Friend by Blume J. Rifken And Illustrations
2009-09-11 14:45:00 I am a firm believer that writing for young children is much more of a challenge than writing an adult novel. There are so many different dynamics at work. The book has to be visually appealing to the child, but it also needs to offer some educational value to the adult buying it. Most pre-schoolers ...
Book Review: Tess?s Tree by Jess M. Brallier Pictures By Peter H. Reynolds
2009-09-10 14:41:00 I have to admit that I am a fan of children’s books, they are a source of wonder to me. They are way more complex than they may appear to many adults. Alas adults are adults and some fail to understand, or capitalize on the learning opportunity that a well thought out picture book can ...
Book Review: Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel
2009-09-10 02:00:00 A Memoir I am not sure that I have read a book like this before. Judy Mandel is not famous, she is not a rock star, nor a Nobel prize winner, she is for the most part, a very average person. Her story though, is a very unique one, and one that I found captivating. It ...
Twihotels Helps Guests Book & Hoteliers Sell Hotel Rooms
2009-09-09 23:52:00 Twihotels, the unique Twitter app that offers post-your-hotel-queries in a tweet format has expanded their hotel solutions for both hoteliers and hotel guests. Known as the first social networking hotel-finder, Twihotels is already enhancing their feature offerings after their recent debut launch in August.
Book Review: The Karmic Car Cycles by Cliff Livingstone
2009-09-08 17:52:00 I think that Cliff may well be a long lost relative of mine, we seem to have had the same bad luck with the same cars. The Karmic Car Cycles is a delightful look at Cliff’s misadventures over the years with various automobiles. As a fundamental law of physics states, ‘for every action there is an ...
best book for Industrial engineering, Production Technology & catia v5
2009-09-08 12:42:00 which are the best books for Industrial Engineering, Production Technology & Catia V5 R17? who are the best authors for these books?
CCW*TV - Fantastic Four: The Comic Book Review!
2009-09-07 23:37:00 The Fantastic Four by Bryan Hitch - Courtesy Marvel EntertainmentOh yeah, they still publish a Fantastic Four title, and they just handed the book over to one of the hottest talents in comics, Jonathan Hickman. In this segment of CCW*TV, Jose and I review the latest issue of FF: The Fantastic Four have been taking a back seat to the X-Men for years now, and it's gotten worse with the (blech) Dark Avengers taking yet another spot in the Top Ten. This recent 'revamp' of the title just shows that there's still work to be done if Marvel's First Family are to be a top-selling title again. What would it take to get YOU to add it to your pull...
Book Review: ?Below Zero: A Joe Pickett Novel? by C. J. Box
2009-09-07 17:44:00 April Alive? It can?t be possible that their foster daughter, April, who died in the botched raid of the soverign cult as described in ?Winter Kill?, could be alive. It?s been six years and the family of Game Warden Joe Pickett, his wife Marybeth, daughters Lucy and Sheridan has moved on though a lot of trouble ...
Book Review: Second Coming by Sam Smith
2009-09-07 13:00:00 Sam's most remembered for the incredible book "the Jordan Rules", but he wrote a second book detailing Jordan's comeback from baseball into basketball. After reading it, you get the feeling he really wished he had waited another year or two to write it....
Book Review: Deep Dive by Richard Horwath
2009-09-07 01:54:00 How many managers believe that strategic thinking plays a key role in the survival of his or her company? Let’s see a show of hands please. Everyone? Good! That’s what I thought. Now, bear with me when I ask another question. Just what is strategic thinking, anyway? Or more specifically, how many of you feel ...
Book Review: Gathering of the Clan by Thomas Richard Harry
2009-09-07 01:51:00 The number of Independent voters has increased dramatically since 1995. Depending on whose statistics you read the proportion of Americans registering as political Independents (or decline to state their affiliation) is currently between 38 and 40%; and this is scaring the hell out of both the Democrat and Republican Parties. But Thomas Richard Harry, author ...
Book Review: Why We Dont Kill Spiders by Bo Macreery
2009-09-06 20:22:00 Bo Macreery, the author of the novel “Why We Don’t Kill Spiders,” is one of those rare writers who can pull a long forgotten period of history off a dusty book shelf and breathe fresh, new life into it; turning it into a rich and vibrant tale that resonates with the world we live in ...
Book Review: ?Defending Violet? by Jennifer Louise Jefferson
2009-09-06 18:45:00 Ginger Rae Reddy practices law in the city of Port Grace, located somewhere along the northeastern seaboard hard against the Atlantic. A city that, like herself, has seen tough times and still sees them and yet survives despite all odds. Ginger Rae is practicing Family Law these days which is primarily about the final collapse ...
Book Review: The Big O
2009-09-06 13:00:00 This week's book on the train was the autobiography of Oscar Robertson. Robertson has always been one of the players who's most intrigued me. His stats are legendary making me wonder if he was significantly underrated as a player. If you ask Oscar, the answer is yes....
Shutterfly Photo Book Giveaway
2009-09-05 10:00:00 One of the greatest things I've seen the internet produce is those online photo books that you can create using your own digital pictures. To me, being able to upload your photographs then arrange them with backgrounds and text, click a button and have a real, honest-to-goodness, hardcover book arriving at your doorstep, bound and beautiful is one of the greatest uses of the web.I've seen other photo book sites before, they're multiplying daily, but after using the Shutterfly site I have to admit it's the best of the best.They have a step-by-step tutorial on how to create one of their books.Shutterfly doesn't have the bugs I've seen at other places, making uploading slow and difficult.Customer service is great.You can share your uploaded photos online without even having to create a book.You can create cards, stationery and other things besides books with your photos.You get free shipping with an order of $25 and 20% off a second photo book, which seems to be standard procedur...
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