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Two Nights in NYC - 8 Restaurants to Try!
I have two nights in NYC. Which of the following would you suggest I try? I love creative cuisine and travel all over the country simply to eat at fabulous restaurants. My favorites to date are Alinea (Chicago), The French Laundry (Napa), Joel Robuchon and Alex (both in Las Vegas).
Here are my choices - I'm interested in your recommendations as to which ones are THE BEST!
Eleven Madison Park
Jean Georges
Le Bernardin
Le Cirque
The Modern
Per Se
Thanks for your help!
There was a recent post on Le Cirque you might want to check out. It was not positive. I have only been to the Modern - Dining Room and Bouley (too long ago to be helpful). Our experience at The Modern - Dining Room was very good. I defer to other hounds for the rest of your list.
If Alex in LV is one of your favorites (mine too--I'm going back to LV next week and have a reservation), you will love Bouley, Eleven Madison Park, and Per Se (makes Alex look like a bargain). I'm going for the first time to The Modern next week so I'll hold off with a recommendation until then. One of my favorites not on your list is Aureole. Have a great time!
The Modern is consistently one of my faves. I've been to Eleven Madison Park once and loved it as well. You have some fantastic choices on your list- good luck deciding! (If you're in the mood for something creative and wonderful, you might want to add david burke and donatella to your list...fabulous!)
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Per Se is more like a variation and fancier version of TFL, if you liked TFL, I'd def go try. Le Bernardin is fabulous, but keep in mind it's all seafood. I know these are not on your list, but really worth the visit: Gramercy Tavern, Cafe Boulud and Blue Hill. Enjoy your trip.
I dined in the bar room at The Modern last July and can't stop raving it about it! Everything about this restaurant is perfect..food, service, decor...even the restrooms! Their arctic char and steak tartare are incredible and the lamb loin was cooked to perfection. The more formal dining room has a view of the sculpture garden. I went there with my friend and all we kept talking about during dinner was dinner itself! We were looking around at the decor, the food at the other tables, etc. It was one of my best experiences in a restaurant.
Of the above eight, the only ones I haven't been to are Le Cirque and Masa.
The two I'd cut from the remaining six are Bouley and The Modern.
As for the others, I'd probably choose them in the following order
Per Se above any of the others.
The following three, are all really close, and are all are fabulous.
Le Bernadin (only if you love seafood)
Jean Georges
Eleven Madison Park

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Supply Vs DemandIn the more traditional approach to weight loss, the main focus is on rationing calories in one way or another - the diet centers around changing how much you get to eat. Low carb diets, on the other hand, seem to work at least partly by improving satiety in other words, changing how much you want to eat. Another way to look at this (for the economists among us) is focusing on limiting the bodys supply of food vs limiting the bodys demand for food. This is something that all the low carb diet authors talk about, in one way or another.
Our Calorie NeedsIt is difficult to predict how many calories our bodies will need each day. Activity levels and internal processes such as metabolism fluctuate. There is also quite a lot of variation from person to person in calorie needs for the same activities. Of course, you can imagine that a large person will expend more energy/calories doing a similar activity than a smaller one. But even people of the same size can vary by as much as 20-25% in their calorie expenditure for a given activity.
In general, our energy intake and output are very finely tuned, with lots of different systems within our bodies to regulate appetite and energy loss based on the body's needs. Its obvious why it is important for the body to have a lot of different systems that regulate this. Think of it: a person probably takes in and expends at least a million calories over the course of a decade, and yet for the most part there is not much weight fluctuation, if all is going well physiologically.


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Beauty: The Sacred, Profanation, Idolatry And Addiction – Roger ScrutonOctober 19, 2010
I've stitched together some reading selections from Roger Scruton's wonderful little book, Beauty. By all means get it, it is a splendid read.
Reason, freedom and self-consciousness are names for a single condition, which is that of a creature who does not merely think; feel and do, but who also has the questions: what to think, what to feel and what to do? These questions compel a unique perspective on the physical world. We look on the world in which we find ourselves from a point of view at its very edge: the point of view where I am. We are both in the world and not of the world, and we try to make sense of this peculiar fact with images of the soul, the psyche, the self or the 'transcendental subject'. These images do not result from philosophy only: they arise naturally, in the course of a life in which the capacity to justify and criticize our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions is the basis of the social order that makes us what we are.
The point of view of the subject is therefore an essential feature of the human condition. And the tension between this point of view and the world of objects is present in many of the distinctive aspects of human life. it is present in our experience of human beauty. And it is equally present in an experience that anthropologists have puzzled over for two centuries or more, and which appears to be a human universal; the experience of the sacred. In every civilization at every period of history people have devoted time and energy to sacred things.
The sacred, like the beautiful, includes every category of object. There are sacred words, sacred gestures, sacred rites, sacred clothes, sacred places, sacred times. Sacred things are not of this world: they are set apart from ordinary reality and cannot be touched or uttered without rites of initiation or the privilege of religious office. To meddle with them without some purifying preparation is to run the risk of sacrilege. It is to desecrate and pollute what is holy, by dragging it down into the sphere of everyday events.
The experiences which focus on the sacred have their parallels in the sense of beauty, and also in sexual desire. Perhaps no sexual experience differentiates human beings from animals more clearly than the experience of jealousy. Animals compete for partners and fight over them. But when victory is established the conflict is over. The jealous lover may or may not fight: but fighting has no bearing on his experience, which is one of deep existential humiliation and dismay.
The beloved has been polluted or desecrated in his eyes, has become in some way obscene, in the way that Desdemona, her innocence notwithstanding, becomes obscene in the eyes of Othello. This phenomenon parallels the sense of desecration that attaches to the misuse of holy things. Something held apart and untouchable has been defiled. The medieval romance of Troilus and Criseyde describes the 'fall' of Criseyde, from the status of irreplaceable divinity to that of exchangeable goods. And the experience of Troilus, as described by the medieval romancers (Chaucer included) is one of desecration. That which was most beautiful to him has been spoiled, and his despair is comparable to that expressed in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, over the desecration of the temple in Jerusalem. (Some might object that this is a specifically male experience, in societies where females are destined for marriage and domesticity. However, it seems to me that some equivalent of Troilus's dismay will be found wherever lovers of either sex make exclusive sexual claims, since these claims are not contractual but existential.)
Sacred things are removed, held apart and untouchable — or touchable only after purifying rites. They owe these features to the presence, in them, of a supernatural power — a spirit which has claimed them as its own. In seeing places, buildings and artifacts as sacred we project on to the material world the experience that we receive from each other, when embodiment becomes a 'real presence', and we perceive the other as forbidden to us and untouchable. Human beauty places the transcendental subject before our eyes and within our grasp. It affects us as sacred things affect us, as something that can be more easily profaned than possessed.
The Flight From Beauty
One of Mozart's most endearing works is the comic opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio), which tells the story of Konstanze, shipwrecked and separated from her fiancé Belmonte, and taken to serve In the harem, of the Pasha Selim. After various intrigues, Belmonte rescues her, helped by the clemency of the Pasha, who respects Konstanze's chastity, declining to take her by force.
This implausible plot permits Mozart to express his Enlightenment conviction that charity is a universal virtue, as real in the Muslim empire of the Turks as in the Christian empire of the enlightened Joseph II (himself hardly Christian). The faithful love of Belmonte and Konstanze inspires the Pasha's clemency. And, even if Mozart's innocent vision is without much historical basis, his belief in the reality of disinterested love is everywhere expressed and endorsed by the music. Die Entführung advances a moral idea, and its melodies share the beauty of that idea and persuasively present it to the listener.
In the 2004 production of Die Entführung at the Comic Opera in Berlin, the producer Calixto Bieito decided to set the opera in a Berlin brothel, with Selim as pimp, and Konstanze one of the prostitutes. Even during the most tender music, the stage was littered with couples copulating, and every excuse for violence, with or without a sexual climax, was taken. At one point a prostitute is gratuitously tortured, and her nipples bloodily and realistically severed before she is killed. The words and the music speak of love and compassion, but their message is drowned out by the loudly orchestrated scenes of murder and narcissistic sex that litter the stage.
That is an example of a phenomenon with which we are familiar from every aspect of our contemporary culture. It is not merely that artists, directors, musicians and others connected with the arts are in flight from beauty. There is a desire to spoil beauty, in acts of aesthetic iconoclasm, wherever beauty lies in wait for us, the desire to pre-empt its appeal can intervene, ensuring that its still small voice will not be heard behind the scenes of desecration.
For beauty makes a claim on us: it is a call to renounce our narcissism and look with reverence on the world. (Cf. Iago of Cassio: 'He hath a daily beauty in his life / Which makes me ugly', and the soliloquy of Claggart in Britten's Billy Budd, raging against the beauty that shines its light on his own moral worthlessness.)
I have used the word 'desecration,' to desecrate is to spoil what might otherwise be set apart, in the sphere of consecrated things. We can desecrate a church, a mosque, a graveyard, a tomb; and also a holy image, a holy book or a holy ceremony. We can also desecrate a corpse, a cherished image, even a living human being — in so far as these things contain (as they do) a portent of some original 'apartness'. The fear of desecration is a vital element in all religions. Indeed, that is what the word religio originally meant a cult or ceremony designed to protect some sacred place from sacrilege.
Our need for beauty is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical condition, as free individuals, seeking our place in a shared and public world. We can wander through this world, alienated, resentful, full of suspicion and distrust. Or we can find our home here, coming to rest in harmony with others and with ourselves.
The experience of beauty guides us along this second path: it tells us that we are at home in the world, that the world is already ordered in our perceptions as a place fit for the lives of beings like us. But — and this is again one of the messages of the early modernists — beings like us become at home in the world only by acknowledging our 'fallen' condition, as Eliot acknowledged it in The Waste Land. Hence the experience of beauty also points us beyond this world, to a 'kingdom of ends' in which our immortal longings and our desire for perfection are finally answered. As Plato and Kant both saw, therefore, the feeling for beauty is proximate to the religious frame of mind, arising from a humble sense of living with imperfections, while aspiring towards the highest unity with the transcendental.
Look at any picture by one of the great landscape painters — Poussin, Guardi, Turner, Corot, Cezanne — and you will see that idea of beauty celebrated and fixed in images. Those painters do not turn a blind eye to suffering, or to the vastness and threateningness of the universe, of which we occupy so small a corner. Far from it. Landscape painters show us death and decay in the very heart of things: the light on their hills is a fading light; the walls of their houses are patched and crumbling like the stucco on the villages of Guardi. But their images point to the joy that lies incipient in decay, and to the eternal that is implied in the transient.
Even in the brutal presentations of thwarted and malicious life that fill the novels of Zola we find, if not the reality of beauty, at least a distant glimpse of it — recorded in the rhythm of the prose, and in the invocations of stillness amid the futile longings which drive the characters to their goals. Realism, in Zola as in Baudelaire and Flaubert, is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal. The subject matter is profane; but profane by nature, and not because the writer has chosen to desecrate the few scant beauties that he finds. The art of desecration represents a new departure, and one that we should try to understand, since it lies at the centre of the post-modern experience.
Sacred And Profane
Desecration is a kind of defense against the sacred, an attempt to destroy its claims. In the presence of sacred things our lives are judged and in order to escape that judgment we destroy the thing that seems to accuse us.
According to many philosophers and anthropologists, however, the experience of the sacred is a universal feature of the human condition, and therefore not easily avoided. For the most part our lives are organized by transitory purposes. But few of these purposes are memorable or moving to us, Every now and then we are jolted out of our complacency, and feel ourselves to be in the presence of something vastly more significant than our present interests and desires. We sense the reality of something precious and mysterious, which reaches out to us with a claim that is in some way not of this world.
This happens in the presence of death, and especially the death of someone loved. We look with awe on the human body from which the life has fled. This is no longer a person, but the 'mortal remains' of a person. And this thought fills us with a sense of the uncanny. We are reluctant to touch the dead body; we see it as in some way not properly a part of our world, almost a visitor from some other sphere.
This experience is a paradigm of our encounter with the sacred. And it demands from us a kind of ceremonial recognition. The dead body is the object of rituals and acts of purification, designed not lust to send its former occupant happily into the hereafter — for these practices are engaged in even by those who have no belief in the hereafter — but in order to overcome the eeriness, the supernatural quality, of the dead human form. The body is being reclaimed for this world, by the rituals which acknowledge that it also stands apart from it. The rituals, to put it in another way, consecrate the body, purify it of its miasma and restore it to its former status as an embodiment. By the same token, the dead body can be desecrated, when it is displayed to the world as a mere heap of discarded flesh — and this is surely one of the primary acts of desecration, one to which people have been given from time immemorial, as when Achilles drags the body of Hector in triumph around the walls of Troy.
There are other occasions when we are in a similar way startled out of our day-to-day preoccupations. In particular, there is the experience of falling in love. This too is a human universal, and it is an experience of the strangest kind. The face and body of the beloved are imbued with the most intense life. But in one crucial respect they are like the body of someone dead: they seem not to belong in the empirical world. The beloved looks on the lover as Beatrice looked on Dante from a point outside the flow of temporal things. The beloved object demands that we cherish it, that we approach it with an almost ritualistic reverence. And there radiates from those eyes and limbs and words a kind of fullness of spirit that makes everything anew.
The human form is sacred for us because it bears the stamp of our embodiment. The willful desecration of the human form, either through the pornography of sex or the pornography of death and violence, has become, for many people, a kind of compulsion. And this desecration, which spoils the experience of freedom, is also a denial of love. It is an attempt to remake the world as though love were no longer a part of it. And that, surely, is what is the most important characteristic of the post-modern culture, as exemplified in Bieito's production of Die Entführung: it is a loveless culture, which is afraid of beauty because it is disturbed by love.
The dialectic of the sacred and the profane is a leading theme of the Jewish Bible, in which God is constantly revealing himself in mysteries that emphasize his sacred character, and in which the Jews are constantly tempted to profane him, by worshipping images and idols in his place. Why should God be profaned by idolatry, and why are people tempted by it? Why does God decree the terrible genocidal punishment of the Israelites for what (by modern standards) is the casual peccadillo of dancing before the Golden Calf? Does God have no sense of proportion?
Such questions point us to the peculiarity of sacred things, that they do not admit of substitutes. There are not degrees of profanation, but a single and unified thing that profanation is, which is putting a substitute in place of that for which there are no substitutes — the 'I am that I am' that is uniquely itself and which must be worshipped for the thing that it is and not as a means to an end that could be achieved in some other way or through some rival deity.
Idolatry is the paradigm profanation, since it admits into the realm of worship the idea of a currency. You can trade in idols, swap them around, try out new versions, see which one responds best to prayer, and which one strikes the best bargains. And all this is a profanation, since it involves trading that which cannot be traded without ceasing to be, which is the sacred object itself.
The object of worship is to be placed apart, in the world but not of it, to be addressed as the unique thing that it is, in which all the meanings of our lives are somehow summarized and consecrated — 'robed as destinies', in Larkin's words. This is what we mean by calling it sacred. It is a deep question of anthropology why there should be the need for such objects, and a deep question of theology whether that need corresponds to any objectively existing reality. But it is important to see that the posture towards God that is advocated in the Hebrew Bible, although it is to a certain measure an innovation (as is the very idea that he is God, rather than a god), is one that we understand instinctively, even if we cannot give a rationalization of it, or explain why it has such importance in the life of a religious believer.
There are other occasions in which we try to focus on something, to appreciate it for its own sake, as the thing that it is, and in which our attitude, while not one of worship, is nevertheless threatened by the pursuit of substitutes. The most evident example is the one that I have been considering on and off throughout this book — sexual interest, in which the object is idealized, held apart, pursued not as a commodity but for the particular person he or she is. That kind of interest, which is what we mean by erotic love, is at risk — and the principal risk is the appearance, in whatever guise, of a substitute. Jealousy is painful not least because it sees the object of love, once sacred, as now desecrated.
One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total profanation: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing of the world, and not just a thing in the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it. That is what we see in the spreading addiction to pornography — a profanation that removes the sexual bond entirely from the realm of intrinsic values. It involves wiping out one area in which the idea of the beautiful had taken root, so as to protect ourselves from the possibility of loving it and therefore losing it.
The other area in which this profanation regularly occurs is that of aesthetic judgment. Here too we are dealing with an attitude that tries to single out its object, to appreciate it for its own sake, to regard it as irreplaceable, without substitutes, bearing its meaning inseparably within itself. I don't say that works of art are sacred things — though many of the greatest works of art started life in that way, including the statues and temples of the Greeks and Romans, and the altarpieces of medieval Europe.
But I do say that they are, or have been, part of the continuing human attempt to idealize and sanctify the objects of experience, and to present images and narratives of our humanity as a thing to live up to, and not merely a thing to live. And this is true even of those works of brutal realism, like Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Nana, whose power and persuasiveness depend upon the ironical contrast between things as they are and things as people wish them to be. As I suggested, the temptation towards profanation, which manifestly exists in the sexual sphere, exists too in the aesthetic. Works of art become objects of desecration, and the more likely to be targeted, the more claims they make for their own sacred status. (Hence the routine profanation of the Wagner operas by producers enraged by, or estranged from, their presumptuous spiritual claims.)
Anthropological Remarks
Culture emerges from our attempt to settle on standards that will command the consent of people generally, while raising their aspirations towards the goals that make people admirable and lovable. Culture therefore represents an investment over many generations, and imposes enormous and by no means clearly articulated obligations — in particular, the obligation to be other and better than we are, in all the ways that others might appreciate. Manners, morals, religious precepts and ordinary decencies train us in this, and they form the central core of any culture. But they are necessarily concerned with what is common and easily taught.
As I have been at pains to point out, aesthetic judgment is an integral part of these elementary forms of social coordination, and aesthetic judgment leads of its own accord to other and potentially 'higher' and more stylized applications. It is constantly pointing away from our ordinary imperfections and failings short, to a world of high ideals. It therefore contains within itself two permanent causes of offence. First it is urging upon us distinctions — of taste, of refinement, of understanding — which cannot fail to remind us that people are not equally interesting, equally admirable, or equally able to understand the world in which they live.
Secondly, because the democratic attitude is invariably in conflict with itself — it being impossible to live as though there are no aesthetic values, while living a real life among human beings — aesthetic judgment begins to be experienced as an affliction. It imposes an intolerable burden, something that we must live up to, a world of ideals and aspirations that is in sharp conflict with the tawdriness of our improvised lives. It is perched like an owl on our shoulders, while we try to hide our pet rodents in our clothes. The temptation is to turn on it and shoo it away.
The desire to desecrate is a desire to turn aesthetic judgment against itself, so that it no longer seems like a judgment of us. This you see all the time in children — the delight in disgusting noises, words, allusions, which helps them to distance themselves from the adult world that judges them, and whose authority they wish to deny. (Hence the appeal of Ronald Dahl) That ordinary refuge of children from the burden of adult judgment is the refuge too of adults from the burden of their culture. By using culture as an instrument of desecration they neutralize its claims: it loses all authority, and becomes a fellow conspirator in the plot against value.
Beauty And Pleasure
The desire for desecration leads to its own kind of pleasure, and you might be tempted to think that this too is an aesthetic pleasure, a new phase of that esthétique du mal extolled by Baudelaire: pleasure in must be distinguished from pleasure that. A distinction must be made between two broad kinds of pleasure in: the sensory and the intentional.
The first proceeds directly from a stimulus, has an excitable form, and can be produced automatically. Such are the pleasures of eating and drinking, which are easily obtained and easily over-indulged and which require no particular cognitive capacities. (Even laboratory rats can achieve such pleasures.)
The other kind of pleasure proceeds from an act of understanding: not a sensory gratification of the subject but a pleasing interest in an object. Such intentional pleasures have a cognitive dimension: they reach out from the self to lay hold of the world, and their primary focus is not the feeling of pleasure itself, but the object that gives rise to it. They are, if you like, objective pleasures, that take in the reality of the thing towards which they are directed. Pleasures of the senses are, by contrast, subjective; they are focused on the experience itself, and how it is for the one who feels it. Between the two kinds of pleasure are a host of intermediate cases — such as the pleasures of the wine connoisseur, which involve a distinctive kind of 'relishing', but which do not depend upon interpreting their object in terms of its content or meaning.
Aesthetic pleasure is focused on the presented aspect of its object, and this tempts people to assimilate it to the pure sensory pleasures, like those of eating and drinking. And a similar temptation bedevils the analysis of sex. There is a kind of sexual interest in which sensory pleasure eclipses the inter-personal intentionality and becomes attached to scenes of generalized and impersonal excitement — an image or tableau, to which the subject responds compulsively. This kind of sexual interest can easily reshape itself as an addiction. The temptation is to suppose that this depersonalized and sensory pleasure Is the real goal of sexual desire in all its forms, and that sexual pleasure is a form of subjective pleasure analogous to the pleasures of eating and drinking — a claim explicitly made, for example, by Freud.
Pleasure And Addiction
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can produce it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life. Sex addiction is no different in this respect from drug addiction; and it wars against true sexual interest — interest in the other, the individual object of desire. Why go to all the trouble of mutual recognition and shared arousal, when this short cut is available to the same sensory goal?
Just as there is sex addiction, arising from the decoupling of sexual pleasure from the inter-personal intentionality of desire, so too is there stimulus addiction — the hunger to be shocked, gripped, stirred in whatever way might take us straight to the goal of excitement — which arises from the decoupling of sensory interest from rational thought. The pathology here is familiar to us, and was interestingly caricatured by Aldous Huxley, in his account of the 'feelies' — the panoramic shows in Brave New World in which every sense-modality is engaged.
Maybe the Roman games were similar: short cuts to awe, horror and fear which reinforced the ensuing sense of safety, by prompting the visceral relief that it is not but another who has been torn to pieces in the ring. And maybe the 5-second cut which is the stock-in-trade of the B movie and the TV advert operates in a similar way — setting up addictive circuits that keep the eyes glued to the screen.
The contrast that I have been implicitly drawing between the love that venerates and the scorn that desecrates is like the contrast between taste and addiction. Lovers of beauty direct their attention outwards, in search of a meaning and order that brings sense to their lives. Their attitude to the thing they love is imbued with judgment and discrimination. And they measure themselves against it, trying to match its order in their own living sympathies.
Addiction, as the psychologists point out, is a function of easy rewards. The addict is someone who presses again and again on the pleasure switch, whose pleasures by-pass thought and judgment to settle in the realm of need. Art is at war with effect addiction, in which the need for stimulation and routinized excitement has blocked the path to beauty by putting acts of desecration centre stage.
Why this addiction should be so virulent now is an interesting question: whatever the explanation, however, my argument implies that the addiction to effect is the enemy not only of art but also of happiness, and that anybody who cares for the future of humanity should study how to revive the 'aesthetic education', as Schiller described it, which has the love of beauty as its goal.


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2. MacroeconomicsGiving advice on Macroeconomics books is a lot more difficult because Macroeconomics is taught so differently from school to school. Your best bet is to see what books are used in the school that you would like to attend. The books will be completely different depending on whether your school teaches more Keynesian style Macroeconomics or "Freshwater Macro" which is taught at places like "The Five Good Guys" which includes the University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, University of Rochester, and University of Pennsylvania.
If anyone can recommend a good set of Keynesian textbooks, can you please contact me using the feedback form. The advice I'm going to give is for students who are going to a school that teaches more of a "Chicago" style approach.
Macroeconomics Material You Must Know as a Bare MinimumI would recommend reviewing the book Advanced Macroeconomics by David Romer. Although it does have the word "Advanced" in the title, it's more suited for high level undergraduate study. It does have some Keynesian material as well. If you understand the material in this book, you should do well as a graduate student in Macroeconomics.
Advanced Macroeconomics Material that would be Helpful to KnowInstead of learning more Macroeconomics, it would be more helpful to learn more on dynamic optimization. See my section on Math Economics books for more detail.
What Macroeconomics Book You'll Use When You Get ThereWhen I took Ph.D courses in Macroeconomics a few years ago we didn't really use any textbooks, instead we discussed journal articles. This is the case in most courses at the Ph.D. level. I was fortunate enough to have macroeconomics courses taught by Per Krusell and Jeremy Greenwood and you could spend an entire course or two just studying their work. One book that is used quite often is Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics by Nancy L. Stokey and Robert E. Lucas Jr. Although the book is almost 15 years old, it's still quite useful for understanding the methodology behind many macroeconomics articles. I've also found Numerical Methods in Economics by Kenneth L. Judd to be quite helpful when you're trying to obtain estimates from a model which does not have a closed-form solution.
3. Econometrics
Econometrics Material You Must Know as a Bare MinimumThere's quite a few good undergraduate texts on Econometrics out there. When I taught tutorials in undergraduate Econometrics last year, we used Essentials of Econometrics by Damodar N. Gujarati. It's as useful as any other undergraduate text I've seen on Econometrics. You can usually pick up a good Econometrics text for very little money at a large second-hand book shop. A lot of undergraduate students can't seem to wait to discard their old econometrics materials.
Advanced Econometrics Material that would be Helpful to KnowI've found two books rather useful: Econometrics Analysis by William H. Greene and A Course in Econometrics by Arthur S. Goldberger. As in the Microeconomics section, these books cover a lot of material which is introduced for the first time at the graduate level. The more you know going in, though, the better chance you'll have of succeeding.
What Econometrics Book You'll Use When You Get ThereChances are you'll encounter the king of all Econometrics books Estimation and Inference in Econometrics by Russell Davidson and James G. MacKinnon. This is a terrific text, because it explains why things work like they do, and does not treat the matter as a "black box" like many econometrics books does. The book is quite advanced, though the material can be picked up fairly quickly if you have a basic knowledge of geometry.
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This is in regard to Robert Holleman's letter to the editor. I, too, believe in recycling. That is why I called IESI to receive a replacement of "Big Green" because the handles of the containers had broken the lid. They came out the same day I called with a trailer load they had repaired and replaced mine with a repaired one. All you have to do is to give them a call.
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Technologies used at Saugatuck Brewing industrial Ethernet upgrade
Saugatuck Brewing expanded beer output by fourfold in two years, with help of EtherCAT industrial Ethernet and Beckhoff Automation PC-based controls.
Saugatuck Brewing required a modular automation system that could flexibly expand in multiple phases and in rapid succession. To maintain ideal carbonation levels and accommodate further brewery expansions, the brewery used PC-based control and the EtherCAT industrial Ethernet communication system from Beckhoff Automation.
Today Saugatuck Brewing uses EtherCAT throughout its brewing process as the networking system with cabinet-mounted EtherCAT Terminal I/O (IP20 rated) and EtherCAT Box I/O mounted outside the cabinet in plant areas (IP67 rated). For the process controller, Saugatuck uses a compact Beckhoff CP6607 Ethernet Control Panel with 5.7-in. touchscreen as the interface to the brewery's updated carbonation system. The CP6607 is equipped with an Intel IXP420 processor with XScale technology that has a 533 MHz clock frequency. The Ethernet Control Panel also runs the Saugatuck Brewing HMI so brewery staff can adjust carbonation parameters and change other settings. Saugatuck Brewing programmed its HMI using TwinCAT PLC software instead of relying on a stand-alone HMI software package.
"The Beckhoff control system is 50% less expensive per tank compared to an alternative controller architecture Saugatuck Brewing considered," said Ron Conklin, brewmaster at Saugatuck Brewing. "The other system was ruled out as soon as we determined we would have to purchase a new hardware controller every time we expanded. If we went down that path, we would have had inefficient controllers all over the place. Standardizing on one PC-based system that controls all brewing tanks makes plant operation, maintenance, and further upgrades much easier."
For more application details and many more photos, also read: Brewing more with industrial Ethernet, linked at the bottom of this file.
- Shane Novacek is marketing communications manager, Beckhoff Automation. Edited by Mark T. Hoske, content manager CFE Media, Control Engineering and Plant Engineering, mhoske(at)cfemedia.com.
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Before Overeem's victory over Brock Lesnar last night, there was already a definitive buzz surrounding the idea of a fight with Junior dos Santos. As such, many people were already picking Alistair. However, I think that going into this fight, Overeem has a lot of questions to answer.
First of all, how will he deal with Junior's speed? It's no secret that Overeem takes a slower, more plodding approach to striking. Additionally, he isn't much of a volume puncher. While he does have some serious explosiveness in his combinations, he seems to always be looking for that one big punch, kick or knee. These are all flaws that JDS would be happy to exploit. He's faster on his feet than Overeem is and he has both vicious one punch knockout power, as well as some blazing combinations.
Next, will his striking defense be good enough to avoid Junior's technically solid boxing? Overeem's turtle like approach to striking defense works very well in kickboxing, but in MMA, many strikers who are inferior on paper have managed to repeatedly find his chin. when he is being pressured, he also has a tendency move backwards and put himself in even more dangerous positions. If Junior is able to find his chin or put him against the cage, the fight will be over very quickly.
On the flip side, Junior has shown that his striking defense is considerably more solid. He knows how to use head movement to avoid his opponents strikes, and if he is put in a dangerous position, he will circle away from his opponents power and utilize the cage to get back to safety.
Finally, will his conditioning hold up? He has shown some issues with cardio in the past. In contrast, Junior seems to have anything but cardio issues. In the later rounds, he doesn't seem to slow down the way Alistair does. While it seems unlikely that this fight will go the distance, stranger things have happened, and conditioning could end up being the deciding factor.
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2:35pm Friday 23rd March 2012 in News
The five shortlisted bidders to run library services in Croydon have been revealed.
Along with Wandsworth Council, the local authority has been working to find a partner to take control of its libraries.
The five shortlisted companies are understood to be LSSI, Civica, Essex County Council, Greenwich Leisure Trust and John Laing.
LSSI (Library Systems and Services) are an American company set up in 1981 who run 17 public libraries in the US.
It has stated it wants to move into the UK market and has said it is committed to working with local councils.
On its website, it said: "No longer will libraries simply sit and wait for their customers to arrive. They will be more proactive, more outgoing and offer the range of educational, leisure and cultural services that their communities demand."
Civica manages libraries in Singapore as well as providing support services in Australia, while Essex CC manage library services for Slough and Southend, and Greenwich Leisure Trust are bidding to manage Greenwich Libraries.
John Laing is a familiar name in Croydon, being the regeneration partner for the council's urban regeneration vehicle.
But the company has a subsidiary company which runs Hounslow libraries, the only UK library under private contract at the moment.
Campaigners fear the handover will lead to library closures and poorer services.
A Save Croydon Libraries group has been set up to try and ensure services remain the same.
Speaking in February, Croydon's cabinet member for customer services, culture and sport Councillor Sara Bashford said: "Over the years Croydon has seen substantial cost savings and service improvements through contracting arrangements such as these and our intention is to see this repeated through this exercise.
"These organisations have shown that they potentially have the vision, expertise and financial backing to deliver modern, efficient and effective library services.
"Closure is not an option for us. Our central library is the third busiest in the country, and last year we consulted widely on the future of all of our branches.
"We got the message loud and clear that these are important community facilities that must be kept open as a matter of priority."
Both authorities have said all core services should remain free of charge, buildings would remain in public ownership and councillors would continue to control opening times.
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Kel-Tec CNC Industries, Inc., has a well-deserved reputation for innovative and affordable firearms, from pistols to rifles (with a new shotgun that will amaze everyone, but that's a story for later).
Their latest entry (it was introduced to the market in late 2006) into the concealable personal protection line is the PR-9, a 9mm sub-compact pistol that weighs in at just 18.2 ounces, with a full 7-round magazine and one in the chamber.
It's a small handful, just 5.85 inches long, 4.3" high, and at .88 inches wide, this is a pistol that will tuck into waistband or ankle holster with barely a bulge.
The locked-breech action is adapted from Kel-Tec's well-proven and highly successful P-11 and P-3AT pistols. The frame is machined from a solid aluminum billet, and carries the trigger group. The slide and barrel are made from hardened AISA 4140 steel and it is designed with a hammer block safety.
The trigger has a comparatively long, five-pound pull, and is double action only. The slide locks back on the last round and the magazine release is thumb-operated (for right-hand shooters), located right where it ought to be, behind the trigger guard. John Browning would approve.
Field stripping requires nothing more than a cartridge case and is quick and easy.
The rear sight is adjustable for windage with the supplied allen wrench and shims (not included in the basic pistol package) can adjust for elevation. The seven-round, single-stack magazine has numbered holes and the "pinkie-grip" magazine extender adds a tenth of an inch to the height.
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Can Twitter Save an Election?
Allison Fine and Nancy Scola provide some really smart ideas about how Twitter could be a tool to protect the election and with it our democracy.
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I think they are really onto something. Thousands of Americans volunteering, reporting problems, election day lawyers just a tweet alarm away — this could really work.
It would sure beat how its been done in the past.
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TOMPKINSVILLE – Randal "Bill" Evans, 75, of Tompkinsville, passed away Sunday, June 16, while in the company of family members, at Monroe County Health and Rehab Center in Tompkinsville.
Bill was born in Monroe County, on June 20, 1937, a son of the late Lizzie (Pollard) and Eli Evans.
On April 20, 1959 at Carlos Carter's Home, he married Joyce (Hartley) Evans, who survives him.
He was a member of Cave Springs Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon.
He worked as an auto mechanic/car detailer. He worked at many car dealerships throughout his life, but with Gillie Hyde in Glasgow for many years.
Bill is survived by a daughter, Alicea Rush, of Tompkinsville; four sons, Chuck Evans and his wife Mitzi, of Brentwood, Tenn.; Rocky Evans and his wife Patricia, of Tompkinsville, Randy Evans and his wife Peggy, of Tompkinsville, Billy Evans and his wife Stacy, of Tompkinsville; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren also survive.
He is also survived by two sisters, Mary Finley, of Tompkinsville, Margie Pickerell, of Tompkinsville.
He is preceded in death by his parents; Eli and Lizzie Evans, five sisters, Geneva Anderson, Gladys Vibbert, Mae Bell Birge, Thema Evans and Ruby York; three brothers, Rex, Elmore and Jack Evans.
Funeral services will be at Yokley Trible Funeral Home at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19, with Brother Doug Copas and Chris Vinson officiating.
Visitation is in progress and will continue Wednesday 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Yokley Trible Funeral Home. Burial will be in Bailey Cemetery.
Juanita Franklin
SUMMER SHADE – Juanita Franklin, 89, of Summer Shade, died June 18, 2013, at T.J. Samson Community Hospital.
She was the daughter of the late Guy and Sallie Josephine Hayes Martin. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Butler Funeral Home in Edmonton with burial in Missionary Mound Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 until 8 p.m. Wednesday and after 9 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
She is survived by one daughter, Patricia and husband Jerry Oaks, of Edmonton; one son, Ronnie and wife Linda Franklin, of Summer Shade; three brothers, Edgar Martin, Wayne Martin and Bobby Martin, all of Edmonton; one sister, Joyce Vibbert, of Glasgow; seven grandchildren, Alicia and husband Steve Reed, Julie and husband Spencer Botts, Sherry Edwards, Christopher and wife Angela Franklin, Jennifer and husband Wes Harlow, Justin and wife Tammy Franklin and Troy Daniel Franklin, five great-grandchildren, Matt and wife Mattie Reed, Jonathon Reed, Hayden and Ashton Botts and Blake Franklin, also survive. She is preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Franklin, two brothers, Kenneth and Dee Martin and sister, Runell Deck.
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GLASGOW – Violet Haiduc, 90, of Glasgow, died Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at the NHC Healthcare facility.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but are under the direction of A.F. Crow & Son Funeral Home.
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FRANKLIN, Ohio – Wendy Melissa Handley Rhodes, 36, formerly of Glasgow, died Saturday, June 15, 2013, in the care of Hospice of Ohio.
She was the daughter of the late Anna Katherine Handley Nuckols. She was a member of Oak Ridge Baptist Church.
She is survived by her father, Dennis Sprowls, of Hodgenville; a stepdad, Lindon Nuckols and wife Kim, of Glasgow; husband, Steven Rhodes, of Ohio; two sons, Steven and Gregory, and two sisters, Samantha and Stephanie, all still at home; two brothers, Timothy Handley and wife Ericka, of Hiseville, Dennis Randell Sprowls, of Radcliff; nieces, Ashley Handley and Makaila Carmicle; and nephews, Lucas Carmicle and Mason Handley.
A memorial service will be conducted Thursday, June 20, 2013, at Glasgow First Assembly of God. Doors open at 4 p.m. with service at 5 p.m.
GLASGOW – Wilma Joyce Graham Cleveland, 69, of Glasgow, died Saturday, June 15, 2013, at SKY Rehabilitation Center in Bowling Green. Funeral services will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home with cremation to follow.
EDMONTON – Jack Morris Pedigo, 88, of Edmonton, died Sunday, June 16, 2013, at T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Butler Funeral Home with burial in Missionary Mound Cemetery.


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PLAYERS: Ryan Doumit, Samuel Deduno, Ron Gardenhire, Dustin Ackley, Jesus Montero, Kyle Seager, Trayvon Robinson
TEAMS: Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners
TEAMS: Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners
The last time Twins catcher Ryan Doumit was behind the plate for a start by Samuel Deduno, Doumit talked about the uncertainty with which each of Deduno's pitches approaches the plate. Deduno's curveball often ends up in the dirt before bouncing into the chest of the catcher. His fastball has good movement on it as well and darts any which way. As a result, Doumit just sets up right behind the plate and lets Deduno's pitches do the work. Like he had been in his previous seven starts with Minnesota, Deduno was effectively wild in Sunday's series finale against the Mariners, although he was hit with his first loss of the year in a 5-1 Seattle win. Deduno picked up a quality start by allowing just two runs in six innings of work. During that time, though, he walked six batters while striking out just two. "Deduno was Deduno," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "A lot of walks, and we were out there a long time playing defense. ... But he didn't break. He bent a little bit, got himself into some messes, but he got out of them." The six walks were a season high for Deduno, who walked five batters in each of his last two outings. Despite his wildness Sunday, Deduno was able to prevent the floodgates from completely opening, thanks to a trio of double plays turned behind him. The biggest double play Deduno induced came in the third inning, after he walked in a run with the bases loaded. Yet after walking John Jason to bring home Dustin Ackley, Deduno got Jesus Montero to ground to shortstop for a 6-4-3 double play. A run scored on the play, but it limited the damage as Deduno escaped the inning with two runs -- the only two he allowed. In that third inning, Deduno issued four walks. Instead of getting the hook, though, Minnesota allowed him to stay on the mound and clean up the mess. "He's got good stuff, and that's how he's able to get away with the walks," said Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager, who walked twice and got a hit against Deduno on Sunday. "He's got the real good sinker and a real good curveball. He's got good stuff. I was just fortunate to be able to walk a few times and get the one hit." With a runner on third and one out in the first inning, Deduno got a ground ball double play to end the inning without allowing a run. Deduno's final double play of the game came in his sixth and final inning as Trayvon Robinson grounded to shortstop, allowing the Twins to turn two behind Deduno. "He can make some pitches when he has to," Gardenhire said. "Living like that, with those guys out there like that and base on balls is eventually going to get to you. He worked his way through it somehow or another. I don't know how he did it. It's kind of amazing, to tell you the truth." Through his eight starts, Deduno has now allowed 75 base runners, but just 24 percent of those runners (18) have come around to score. That percentage is the lowest among all Twins starters. But given his high walk totals, it's unlikely that Deduno can sustain that type of success long-term. And Minnesota knows that. "It'll eventually catch up to you," Gardenhire said. "There's going to be some big hits when you're walking people and putting them out there and it's going to eventually get you buried. But he seems to be able to make some pitches when he has to. ... But that's not a good formula walking all those people like that." Because of the high walk totals, Deduno certainly doesn't fit the typical mold of a Twins pitcher; Minnesota prides itself on pitchers who can pound the strike zone consistently. But with eight starts under his belt, it's fair to ask the question: does Deduno deserve a shot at the starting rotation next year? Amid his erratic control, Deduno lowered his ERA to 3.33 after Sunday's start. For a Twins team with many questions among its pitching staff, Deduno might end up being one answer. Robby Incmikoski contributed to this report. Follow Tyler Mason on Twitter.
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BATES TOWNSHIP—Bates Township officials report a major water project is nearing completion and two other projects are ready to go. An update on the projects was made at the Township Board's Dec. 12 meeting.
Contractors have stopped work on new underground lines in Rogers Location for the winter, according to Supervisor Grant Helgemo. A spring restart on the project will be coordinated with road restrictions. Township supervisors plan a major renovation for the Bates Township Park at Sunset Lake next year. Workers will cut down several dead trees at the park this winter in preparation for the project. The $210,000 project includes renovation of the pavilion and fireplace, repaving roads and improving drainage with new culverts and landscaping, Helgemo added. The township must contribute $25,000 in matching funds for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources grant. The township also plans to move ahead with a veterans' memorial at the Bates Township Cemetery. A committee in charge of the project continues selling engraved pavers to fund the memorial. The foundation has been poured, and committee members said enough pavers have been sold to finance the project. The memorial is dedicated to Bates Township veterans of all wars—however, patrons can have pavers inscribed to commemorate anyone. The board of supervisors also set their three-year road project list. On the list for 2013 are repairs to Willis, Wildwood, Chicaugon Lake and Parks Farm roads. Work on Raymond, Shoquist and Pasamani roads are being considered for the 2014 construction season and the board is planning to work on Anderson and Larson roads in 2015. The list will be forwarded to the Iron County Road Commission, which puts major repairs and construction out on bid.
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It is important to hold incumbents accountable for their elected service; it is also important to recognize incumbents who merit another term.
This election year, Teresa Tanzi is an incumbent who merits being re- elected to serve District 34 in the RI General Assembly House of Representatives.
In my experience, Teresa clearly demonstrated a pro-active approach. She could be seen at school committee and Town Council meetings as well as other community meetings throughout her two-year term. She was accessible, constituent concerns were listened to and heard, and legislative remedies were pursued.
As a freshman, Teresa quickly established herself as a credible legislator. She was deeply involved in the issues sponsoring and co-sponsoring bills ranging from the environment to education to economics to farming and fishing, to health care, and more.
In particular, I would like to acknowledge Teresa's courageous vote to support pension reform. I cannot recall a more high profile, more contentious issue for our state in the past decade. The impact of no pension reform would likely have resulted in serious negative consequences for education funding.
I thank Teresa for stepping up to the plate - the pension reform enables us to continue the high quality education program our community values.
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An anonymous publishing exec explains to PaidContent how he started to break DRM on the ebooks he bought (they wouldn't open on all his devices unless he did) and how, having broken DRM, he realized that DRM was total bullshit:
I believe this is justified because I realize that when I buy an e-book from Amazon, I'm really buying a license to that content, not the content itself. This is ridiculous, by the way. I feel as if e-book retailers are simply hiding behind that philosophy as a way to further support DRM and scare publishers away from considering a DRM-free world. I'm not going to say where I work, or anything about my company, but I will say that I don't think DRM is good for the publisher, author or customer. Don't pro-DRM publishers realize this is one of the key complaints from their customers? I've heard plenty of customers tell me that e-book prices need to be low because they're only buying access to the content, not fully owning it. That needs to change.
The actual process of breaking the DRM was pretty easy. There are plenty of how-to resources that are only a Google search away from you. I've now unlocked books from both Amazon and Apple, and I ran into minor hiccups with both. But a bit of digging online and help from a trusted friend got me through it. Now I can read those books on any device I want to. My advice to newbies is to not give up. If you run into a problem, look around and I bet you'll find the answer online. I think most readers would be able to do this easily. It just requires a bit of detective work and not giving up if you hit a roadblock.
Do I feel "evil"? No, not really. If I was giving these books away, I would, but I'm the only person using them.
"Why I break DRM on e-books": A publishing exec speaks out (Thanks, hughillustration!) Discuss
21 Responses to "Publishing exec admission: "I break ebook DRM""
bkad says:
He's not the only one. I know others who work in the publishing industry who feel similarly.
And of course I break the DRM on ebooks I publish. It's foolish not to, and even if breaks the letter of whatever license I bought the book with it doesn't break the 'spirit' of things so long as I don't distribute.
I'll admit I'm skeptical that DRM-free books would work as well as DRM music does — writers don't make money from concerts. I'm willing to be wrong, though. For me, it's not DRM itself that bothers me, it is the effects of drm, for example device lock-in, lack of resale, risk of obsolescence, etc.
I wonder if there would be a way to have a distributed, cryptographic DRM… I thought of this when I was reading an article about bitcoin. I wonder if there would be away, using the magic of computers, to create a DRM system that would be open (anyone can read the source code and make devices compatible with it), would allow unlimited transactions (lending books to friends or for sale), and would be free of any one company's interest (distributed), but would make wholesale infringement difficult enough not to be worth it. It's a pointless exercise since companies don't really have a strong incentive yet to allow resale or compatibility, but I think something like what I describe would work. It would almost be as good as physical books, from both customer and a publisher point of view.
bkad says:
Just say I'm aware some writers ARE successful with DRM-free books. I just think that is specific to the author and his or her audience.
Sagodjur says:
Likely authors who connect with their fans and give them a reason to buy. I read Cory's For the Win online for free and then bought a physical copy for him to sign when he came to town. It was worth it to see him in person and hear him speak.
foobar says:
Ultimately, your device has to get the plaintext, which means you get the plaintext. Cryptography is useful for preventing third parties from snooping on messages you send to other people, not for preventing people from reading things you intend for them to read.
lostmongoose says:
"I believe this is justified because I realize that when I buy an e-book from Amazon, I'm really buying a license to that content, not the content itself. This is ridiculous, by the way. I feel as if e-book retailers are simply hiding behind that philosophy as a way to further support DRM and scare publishers away from considering a DRM-free world."
Blame the retailers? BS. *YOUR* company publishes the books. *YOUR* company can say 'no'. Amazon, B&N, Apple, etc do not own the rights, publishing companies/authors do. The licensing nonsense rests with the publishers and authors. Someone out this guy so we can properly ridicule him.
Antinous / Moderator says:
I don't think that he's the owner of the company.
lostmongoose says:
That wasn't an ownership 'your' it was a 'your' in the sense that he's an executive there and is just as at fault as his fellow upper managers for the very DRM he complains about.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Please understand that in the last several decades, many businesses have reclassified workers into managerial and executive positions in order to avoid having to deal with them responsibly in terms of pay, disputes, etc. I've met Hollywood studio execs who make less than supermarket managers and have far less say in how the business is run.
randyman says:
I've been using ebook readers for quite a while. First, the RocketBook, then the first Sony Reader, and now I'm on my third iPad.
I bought quite a few ebooks on the Sony, and was frustrated when the first iPad came out, because I hadn't made it more than halfway through the first book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Well, where there's a will, there's a way…
With readily available resources, I removed the DRM from everything on the Reader – all legitimately bought and paid for – and transferred them to the iPad. I then wiped the Reader, initialized it, and gave it to a friend. No transfer of copywrited goods.
Here's the thing… I had a right to do this. I don't have to wait for someone to give me the right; I don't give a damn what the legalese says – I have an absolute right to continue reading what I paid for.
Publishers, wake up… I've bought a lot of novels by Doctorow, Stross and others I first read in DRM-free form. There's money to be made by decriminalizing consumption.
Wade Sims says:
No, you absolutely most certainly do NOT have an absolute right to continue reading what you paid for. You SHOULD have a right to continue reading what you paid for. But you do not have that right at all, because you can sign away certain rights through use of End User License Agreements and Terms of Use.
That right should not be absolute. Freedom of speech should be more absolute, but I think we would mostly agree that I should not be absolutely free to spam these boards with obscenities merely on the grounds that I have an absolute, unassailable right to freedom of speech. I terminated that right by agreeing to use this reply board. You terminated your right to read as you see fit when you purchased the e-book.
I don't want to derail on an economic policy debate and justifications for lack of free market; I haven't even made my own determinations there. But I have not bought an e-book and will not buy one for the foreseeable future (haven't illegally downloaded any, either), until DRM is removed. E-books are more problematic than music because format transfer is nigh impossible, so I can't very well go make my own, but with prices being what they are, I'm happy with my dead trees. I sacrifice convenience, but I also don't feel compelled to argue that I should maintain a right I explicitly/implicitly signed away by terms of use.
Trust me, these problems are changed much faster by business policies than by legislation. Make DRM unprofitable, as we did music, and the businesses will follow suit, albeit slowly.
Mantissa128 says:
I think he's talking about a kind of basic human right, rather than a legal right. The concept of ownership predates the legal system, which follows it and tries to codify it, leading to occasional absurdities such we see with DRM.
From my perspective and experience over the last decade, it seems to me that it is continued consumption of jailbroken products and the failure of DRM to stop this that has driven changes in the music industry, not boycotts. That said, I agree that the only way to reach content providers is to deny them their prize, and however you get there is equally effective.
Andrew Singleton says:
Who'd have thought. Someone stuck with the same runaround we pleebs are suddenly finds the hoops too annoying to jump thorugh.
Good for you man for being willing to speak up. Hope you don't get fired/thrown under the bus. I sincerely don't. We need more of that mindset in the publishing world.
digi_owl says:
As was pointed out elsewhere, what sunk prohibition was high ranking officials being caught with their proverbial pants down. Most of the crazy laws and such come into existence because those that decide do not see themselves affected by it…
greggman says:
Vote with your wallet folks! Don't buy DRMed stuff and then remove the DRM. All you're doing is telling the publisher you like DRMed content. Refuse to buy DRMed ebooks, music, movies, etc.. Support those publishers that provide ebooks without DRM
Patti says:
greggman has it exactly right. I decided back when music still had DRM that I would vote with my wallet and not support that business model. I now own a Kindle Fire, and I'm sticking to my guns on that.
I have no problem, however, on DRM with things that I'm borrowing/renting. I use Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library regularly, and check out ebooks from my local public library.
I would desperately love to be able to just buy books with a couple of clicks and have them on my Kindle. That's not going to happen, though, as long as the content that I'm purchasing has DRM.
SedanChair says:
Do I feel "evil"? No, not really. If I was giving these books away, I would, but I'm the only person using them.
OK, signing up for evil then. Piracy is noble and keeps authors lean and fighting-fit.
Daniel Gibson says:
If DRM's purpose is to stop piracy and not to lock you into an eco-system, the way around that and still use DRM would for device manufactures to either create one single DRM standard or support multiple DRM systems on devices. Any device that is owned and registered to you would accept any DRM'd content also registered to you regardless of the vendor.
Mantissa128 says:
DRM is a pipe dream because of the KISS principle. It's hard enough making content work on a variety of devices, and multiplying the complexity of the wrapper around that content makes for a high enough rate of failure to be rejected by consumers.
digi_owl says:
Seems these media execs flip flop on the sale being a license or a actual product depending on what side of the table they are on…
pinup57 says:
@boingboing-e16a4ca71de93b9d1e35186e568d9fdf:disqus : (quote)"I'll admit I'm skeptical that DRM-free books would work as well as DRM music does — writers don't make money from concerts. "
This is a common misunderstanding: one must make the difference between AUTHORS/COMPOSERS and MUSICIANS. These are not neccesarily the same persons. Many authors/composers are not concert-musicians. Many musicians don't write the music they perform. Those that do both, do BOTH.
pjcamp says:
"Do I feel "evil"? No, not really. If I was giving these books away, I would, but I'm the only person using them."
As I recall, the IP industry claims this is not a legitimate excuse. So does the DMCA.
You know, if the publishing industry really wanted to break Amazon's grip on e-book publishing, they'd leave off illegal collusion that benefits only Apple, and adopt a standard, DRM-free data format standard, transportable to all readers, and then inform Amazon that the Kindle can support it or not get content.
I hear ePub is handy.


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Jerry Brown, a linebacker on the Dallas Cowboys practice squad, died early this morning in a single- car accident — and his teammate, Josh Brent, was arrested on charges of intoxication manslaughter.
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