Running the Books by Avi Steinberg

The adventures of an accidental prison librarian.
A Jewish 20 year old takes a job as a prison librarian and balances his psyche with prison guards and inmates.
"After two years, I was still trying to figure out the purpose of my job and the library at large.  For this I only had to take Elia's example.  He wasn't merely counting the days with each book.  His elegant librarianship, his hands deliberating over each title, the gentle way that he dusted and kept notes and piles, the care with which he arranged the shelves, his silence, made me appreciate how order is created:  No through grand schemes-- to which I was often drawn-- but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.  Page 378

Income Ideas

Preferred Stock ETF
Utility ETF
Emerging Market Income Funds
GGNhttp://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204374404575630983764352448.html?mod=BOL_twm_ls#articleTabs_panel_article%3D1

People Spew Out Unsubstaniated Proclamations to Fuel Political Predjudices

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17friedman.html?src=me&ref=general

AMED

27.99
Invested $31,556 with value now of $27,553
PE = 5
Great growth in Revenues and Earnings.
Has no long term debt.
Concerns about improprieties in billing dept prevailing.
Has the tailwind of the aging baby boomers and cost savings with home care.

New data show earnings decline... Increased legal expenses... Revenues still increasing... May consider investing in AFAM... Almost Family

Amazon.com Investment

Price 159.23
PEG = 1
PE = 65
Earnings Growth = 65


$32,000 value with $17,000 profit

Riding the decline of bricks and mortar, paper texts.

Will decline to invest more at this time.

70 year old Athelte

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592800623313806.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_6

Why we are Number 11... Thomas Freeman 11/12/10

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12friedman.html