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Licensed Clinical Psychologist
39 E. Main Street, 2nd Floor, Little Falls, New Jersey 07424
Does life feel out of control? Do you feel like you are on an emotional roller coaster? A wide range of emotions are associated with loss. Grief, loss, and bereavement is unique to every person who experiences it. I will address your unique needs and help you learn effective ways to cope your loss. It is my goal to help your feel like your life is more manageable.
Marty Tashman, Ph.D.(psychology), ACSW, M.S.W.
Dr. Marty
622 -624 Valley Road, Uppper Montclair, New Jersey 07043
Grief Counseling Grief counseling is a journey with many turns in the road. One moment you can't imagine how you can go on and the next, it's seems like maybe the cloud is beginning to lift. When I work with someone who is experiencing grief, I sit with them during the painful trip that they are taking. Grief counseling more than any other kind of counseling as blend of spirituality and practical reality, In our work together we will work with both parts of the healing; how to gain some perspective that can help us to go on and practical things that can be done to help with deal with painful difficulties in relating to the deep sense of loss. Dr. Marty also uses techniques from EMDR (a t....
Joanna Buset, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Specializing in Children & Adolescents
777 Passaic Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey 07012
If you or your child has experienced a significant loss, you know how difficult it can be to get back into the rhythm of life, and to find joy and hope once again. Perhaps you or your child are full of sadness, anger or fear... or simply confused and overwhelmed... As a parent, you may find yourself withdrawn or over-reactive, and then feel guilty about how this effects your child's moods. You may also find yourself at a loss as to how to help your child process his or her grief, talk about feelings in a helpful way, and yet also find happiness in daily activities. I can help you through the many facets of grieving, so that you and your child can create a positive future...
Diane Davis, L.C.S.W.
Licensed Psychotherapist
94 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042
The loss of an important person, can be a terrible shock. I help you with moving through the process of grieving, including issues of survivor guilt, anxiety and depression that may arise after a loss, whether it be loss of a person, job, or pet. When grief feels overwhelming, I can provide the support needed to find meaning in the past, and hope for the future.
Lewis Pagano, LPC
Licensed Professioal Counselor
33 Plymouth St Ste LL1, Montclair, New Jersey 07042
I believe loss is a major issue in life and every loss brings up past losses. I work closely with individuals with all past losses to resolve current losses. This can result in relieve from extreme symptoms of loss.I have an extensive background in working with individuals with grief and loss issues from childhood also which is important in resoling current losses.
Peter Berzins, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Brittany Ryan-Berzins Ph.D. Birch Tree Psychology
498 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains, New Jersey 07444
Times of loss and grief are extremely sad and often people have trouble coping after the loss of a loved one. Dr. Peter Berzins helps individuals with grief and loss by discussing the loss in a safe environment, where people feel free to discuss not only thier sad memories but positive ones as well. Therapy has been proven to help minimize the stress associated with loss.
Elizabeth MacGregor, Ed.D, LPC
Psychoanalyst, Licensed Professional Counselor
10 Stoneybrook Rd., Montville, New Jersey 07045
Are you struggling with the loss of a close friend or neighbor? Are you grieving the loss of a parent, a spouse,a relationship or of a child? Are you experiencing painful feelings? Is sadness a large part of you day? Do you feel abandoned? Has your grief reation been prolonged or does it manifest itself through some bodily or behavorial symtom? Through comfort care management and empathy , we will help you to begin to resolve your feelings of traumatic grief .
Mitchell Milch, LCSW
Psychotherapist/Couples Counselor
216 Dayton Street, 2nd Floor, Buzzer #1, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
Grieving the loss of loved one can be complicated if our valued identity and/or our equanimity was tied to that person given diffuse boundaries. When we overly depend on people regulate our emotions, self esteem or self confidence, then being without them can leave us angry, bereft, empty, etc. In psychotherapy we can rewrite the specious narrative that you were joined at the hip because you could not survive without that person. By internalizing what is offered by the therapist to enhance your self-reliance, you are then free to come to terms with the reality of loss of your loved one and internalize the relationship that is over. That person can now live on inside of you.
Konstantin Lukin, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
20 Wilsey Square, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
We all experience different types of losses over the course of our lives: loss of a loved one, of a job, of a role, or of a way of life. Everyone is affected differently by loss - often the same event can have very different meanings for different people. At the Lukin Center, we work with clients who are grieving a loss to help them identify what the loss means for them in order to work through and grow from their grief.
R. Hope Eliasof, LCSW, LMFT
Psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage therapist and Lic LCSW
666 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park, New Jersey 07432
Grief and loss are powerful emotions that can cause daily emotional pain and negative thinking. Grief and loss can inhibit people from taking action and getting what they want out of life. Grief and loss can be short term due to a death, divorce, or loss of a job, friendship, etc. Sometimes these feelings are chronic and began in childhood due to growing up in a dysfunctional family. In Psychotherapy we work on effective tools to help people mourn, let go of the pain and find ways to move on in their lives.
Wendi Dumbroff, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Grief and loss are certainly very difficult to deal with, but sooner or later, it comes to all of us. I meet my clients right where they are in the process of their grieving, and sit with them in that space. I help people to walk through the feelings and stay with them through the process. I create a safe space where clients can be with all the emotions they are experiencing. I am very patient as individuals walk through their grief at their own pace.
Kevin Fleming Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
Ho Ho Kus, New Jersey 07423
Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of grief & loss through the lens of innovation----instead of growing the same neural networks responsible for the pain in weekly therapy sessions, we reset the brain to move forward quicker and efficiently by working on the stuck limbic system so as to empower the person with more success and traction. For no one wants to stay in a grief mode for too long; but when you don't include the brain in your work with someone, you risk describing the water to them while they drown and calling it success. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at email@example.com or 877-606-6161.
Debra Feinberg, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Are you grieving over the death of a child, partner, spouse, parent or grandparent? Are you going through a painful loss such as a divorce or end of a relationship? Grief counseling may help you. We all experience, expresses and deal with loss in different ways. If your grief is making it hard to function, grief counseling may help. Maplewood Counseling therapist Debra Feinberg, LCSW provides individual grief counseling in a compassionate and warm environment. She helps men and women with the different emotional reactions to grief and trauma such as shock, anger and deep sadness.
Mars & Venus Counseling Center, LCSWs, DCSW, LPCs, MFTs, LCADC, CTP
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691 Cedar Ln, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
Loss can come in so many different forms, yet the pain is there and is strong. When we hold someone or something dear to our heart and then they suddenly gone, we are often left with a hole in our heart and need to grieve that loss. Grief looks different for each person. There are 5 main stages of grief that most people will go through in an order: Denial and Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. These are hard stages to walk through alone. Reach out and call one of our compassionate therapists at Mars and Venus Counseling Center who can help you to talk through each of the emotions that you experience at each stage.
Suzi Sena, EdS, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
147 Columbia Turnpike, Suite 307, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
Our hearts hurts, sometimes very badly, when we experience a loss. Whether we experience loss through death (human or pet), sickness, divorce or ending of a relationship, employment termination, a move, or other circumstances – it can cut like a knife. This can leave us with many unanswered questions about how to move forward or handle these waves of grief that can stop us in our tracks. I meet you where you are at in your grieving process – where you can express your emotions, memories, and fears. Collaboratively we will find practical ways to cope, how to redefine the meaning you may be looking for, and start putting one foot in front of the other.
So.i.Heard Music Therapy, MM, MT-BC, NMT
Neurologic Music Therapist
10A E Willow St, Millburn, New Jersey 07041
Our credentialed music therapists tailor sessions to each individual, utilizing personalized music exercises and interventions to address each person's unique experiences of loss or trauma. Involvement in music addresses trauma in two ways: music reaches us on an emotional level to help with coping, as well as on a neurological level to address and heal areas of the brain that are affected when trauma or loss are experienced. Our music therapists work with each client using musical elements like songwriting, processing, and guided imagery to help clients find their own voice and learn new coping skills to help manage trauma of any severity.
Sheila Berard, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
99 Kinderkamack Road, Suite 300 , Westwood, New Jersey 07675
A loss can stop you in your tracks or some people report that they feel like they are "a witness" to their life and not a participant. We will work together on grieving your loss while also working on allowing you to become a participant in your life again. Having a dedicated space in your week to allow you to express your grief can allow you function at a higher level. Grieving does not have a timetable and it is not the same for everyone. Everyone grieves at their own pace and in their own way and we will work together at your speed and in the way that makes you most comfortable.
Nataliya Rusetskaya, Ph.D., LCSW,
Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Couple and Sex Therapist
132 Washington st, Suite 301, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030
I use CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) approach to work with the grief and loss that you might be going through. As a part of that approach you might be asked to think, talk, sometimes write at home some thoughts and memories that I will ask you about. It will give you a chance to slow down and give attention to grieving the loss of the loved ones. I use specific manual to walk you through this process.
Sheila Kaminski, MSW,LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
99 Kinderkamack Rd Suite 308, Westwood, New Jersey 07656
Coping with the loss of someone or something you love is one of life's biggest challenges. We can help you get through your difficult or overwhelming situation by taking positive steps to deal with your feelings. Face-to-face sessions with your therapist will give you the support to understand that your grief is unique to you. Grief is a natural response to a loss and the more significant the loss, the more intense your grief will be.
Angela Monti Fox, LCSW, MS,PC
Angela Monti Fox, Licensed Mental Health Professional
276 Riverside Drive (100 Street), New York, New York 10025
When a "loss" occurs in life sometimes it is difficult to know where to turn. Friends and family although they may be well meaning are often unable to say the right words or do the right thing to comfort you. Perhaps you feel you will never get over this feeling - the hole in your heart that has been created by this loss. Although you may not have thought of entering counseling for this type of reason, it is in fact one of the most common reasons people seek help. Loss is traumatic and can really derail you in achieving your goals or feeling like yourself again. Although you may not think it possible, I can help you heal and get back on track.
Ari Fox, LCSW-R
Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Psychotherapist
168 West 86th St- Suite 1D, New York City, New York 10024
Have you lost a family member or a close friend? The feelings associated with a loss can be painful, overwhelming and complex. For some the pain is so great, it is hard to imagine life without the loved-one. Sadness, anger, guilt There is no "right" way to grieve. Different people cope with loss in many ways. Speaking with a trained therapist, though, can help you process the loss and move on. Together, in a safe and supportive environment you can learn to manage the pain and slowly begin to adjust to life in the absence of your loved-one. Of course, there are many other types of loss, including the loss of health, a friendship or partner, a job. You do not have to face these alone!
Helen Borel, RN,MFA,PhD
PsychoTherapist and PsychoAnalyst
200 West 79th Street - Apt. 9L, Manhattan, New York 10024
There are four phases of grief which you'll go through when you've lost someone, before you can move to the next part of your life. There's shock. Then the pain of realizing who you've lost, what he or she meant to you, a gut-struggle about how you'll move on without him or her. Next comes "bargaining," a way your brain protects you from too much suffering. Whether it's to your God or another spiritual connection of yours, you may try asking for the lost person's return if you do this or that "good" thing. Finally, as your loss becomes real to you, comes Acceptance. Over my 20 years of practice, I've guided patients gently through each of these difficult stages of loss and personal growth.
Nikki DiFranks, PhD, MA, MS, LCSW-R
Dr. Nikki Nelson DiFranks
1841 Broadway, Suite 700, New York City, New York 10023
Depression and grief are often confounded. Although the etiology may be different, the shared characteristic is the overwhelming sense of sadness and loss, which can be amenable to cognitive-behavioral techniques. Understanding of the progression through the stages of grief (typically Kubler-Ross) is usually helpful. I have had particular experience with patients who are immobilized by prolongued grieving.
Howard Rossen, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
59 West 74th street, New York, New York 10023
Sometimes events overpower our ability to cope. The loss of a loved one can throw our daily coping mechanism completely out of control. We all understand the early stages of loss but after awhile we feel that we should be coping better and just find that we can't. That is when a caring therapist can be of help. There is no time limit for the grieving process. It is a very personal experience. I always remind my patients that our job is never to forget, but rather to learn how to put those powerful memories into a safe place within our heart so that we can move forward with our lives. Only then can we begin to breathe again.
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Dr. Fabiana Franco
65 Central Park West Suite D1, New York, New York 10023
Recovering from grief is never an easy process and nothing can replace the essential element: time. However, in therapy I can give you tools and techniques to help you manage pain, accept loss, and open up to life again. When you are overwhelmed by grief, it can seem like the pain will never depart. Whatever you do, though, don't give up. With the right help, the time will come when you can find the proper balance between mourning and facing your own future.
Bennett Pologe, Ph.D.
330 west 58th street - suite 601, new york, New York 10019
Grief is something you will, unfortunately, have to go through. You can't go around it, skip over it to the end, or otherwise avoid it. I can help you realize when you are going through the process and when you're fleeing it in a way that will come back to bit you in the ***. On the positive side, going through grief is not as complicated as it's sometimes cracked up to be. Talking - with the right person - goes a long way to moving the process forward.
Maggie Vaughan, LMFT, PhD
330 W. 58th St, Suite 203, New York, New York 10019
The loss of a loved one is a tremendously painful and personal process. Grief and bereavement therapy with Dr. Vaughan provides a source of support and serves as an outlet for expressing the wide array of emotions and experiences - disbelief, anger, depression, sadness, emptiness, heartbreak, denial, guilt - that often comprise the grieving process. In a confidential, non-judgmental and supportive environment, Dr. Vaughan helps clients to make sense of their experiences and to find ways of coping with strong emotions.


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(NEWSER) – An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant. Megan Rice was sentenced Tuesday along with activists Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, and Michael Walli, 65. The men were sentenced to more than five years in prison. All sentences were less than the recommended minimum guidelines, the Knoxville Sentinel reports.
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Radiation therapy and hormonal therapy can add to the fatigue you already feel from fighting cancer. Plan for rest periods during the day and ask for help at home when you need it. It is important to allow your body to rest.
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Possessed by PTSD, a veteran uses Exorcisms to cast out his demons
Tribal cultures differed in their approaches to reintegrating warriors. One common practice was to purify combatants after the fact, cleansing them of any evil spirits that might have trailed them home from battle. Sometimes, this purification centered on storytelling. A tribe would gather to hear a warrior recount his exploits, going into graphic detail, the bloodier the better. But in other societies, to tell war stories risked conjuring the dead and was considered dangerously taboo. Better to let the past be past.
America muddles through, somewhere in the middle. Our culture is too large and varied to have a single way of "purifying" veterans, and so our method reverts, perhaps unacceptably, to the mean. We ask for neither the whole story nor for the past to be wholly ignored. Basically, we hear what we want to.
As a soldier returning from Iraq, I felt both welcomed by and estranged from my tribe. Acknowledgements of the war, and my time there as a soldier, I found everywhere—but how could a yellow ribbon bumper sticker make anyone mindful of what was taking place impossibly far away from these clean streets and shopping malls, these comfortably padded people?
Friends and family allowed me the time to decompress. They were curious about what had happened in Baghdad, but they did not ask too many questions. I guess they were rightly afraid of what they might have heard, of what the answering might have entailed for us all.
Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism, does not suffer this fear. Or, at least she has overcome it enough to ask what "you're not supposed to ask, about killing, and how many you killed, and death and destruction."
Percy poses these questions to her book's main subject, Caleb, a veteran of Afghanistan. Caleb lost a close friend in the same Special Forces fiasco that ruined dozens of lives and spawned the Lone Survivor franchise.
He is a haunted man. Haunted by his hard luck growing up, by failed relationships, guilt, the death of his friend on a mission he himself should have flown, and most urgently, haunted by a six-foot-five "destroyer" demon that manifests as a man with a buffalo head.
Demon Camp is the story of Caleb's failed attempt to exorcise the destroyer that followed him home from Afghanistan, or, more likely, the one that was there all along—we learn that Caleb contemplated suicide early in his military career, before he deployed and saw combat.
The material is heavy and more than a little gonzo; at one point, Percy undergoes an exorcism at the hands of Caleb's Pentecostal sect. The informal church, operating out of trailer homes and storefronts, refers to the process of casting out demons as "deliverance." This word doesn't have the same horror-movie ring as "exorcism," but does evoke a pop-culture touchstone: James Dickey's great novel of the same name, based in the same state (Georgia), and on the same fascination with violence and the rural poor.
Percy's willingness to engage fully with Caleb and to undergo the rites of deliverance gives the book its vigor. But for all the immersive journalism on display, she remains an elusive character. At key moments she seems reluctant to come right out and tell the reader what she thinks about the prospect of destroyer demons, the legitimacy of exorcism as a treatment for PTSD, and the veracity of some of the more far-fetched war stories she is told.
Percy's reticence is understandable, plotwise, because appearing too openly critical would spoil the suspense she creates with the possibility, however remote, that demons exist. Aware of this narrative potential, Percy fuels it by reporting on several uncanny coincidences, including repeated appearances of the number 146, which carries morbid significance to Caleb.
In the end, however, Percy aligns herself with secular readers. The demons may be real for Caleb, but for us they are a recognizable metaphor for trauma, not spirit but symbol. Percy expresses her own disbelief not by direct pronouncements but with ironic juxtapositions. In one instance, a woman who assists in Percy's deliverance declares, "I am the son of Jesus." Percy then tells us, "The son of Jesus has on a sparkly pink shirt."
Ironies like this abound in Demon Camp. At their best they come off as brilliant, and at worst, overly simpering and voyeuristic. Percy positions herself as the skeptical character in the horror movie, the one who does not believe in the haunting, at first, but who seems bound by generic conventions to eventually meet the boogeyman face-to-face.
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WATCH: Prince William says his young son is a "little fighter"
In what CNN is calling his "first official interview" since the birth of his son George, Prince William says fatherhood has already changed his outlook on life.
"I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience," Prince William told CNN's Max Foster in an interview that aired Monday. "Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find, again it's only been a short period, but a lot of things affect me differently now."
The prince continued: "For me, Catherine, and now little George are my priorities."
William talked extensively about his responsibilities as a new father -- namely, changing George's diapers.
"He's a little fighter," William said. "He wriggles around quite a lot."
William also talked about leaving the hospital with Catherine and George, whom William carried in the royal car seat.
"Believe me, it wasn't my first time," William said. "And I know there's been speculation about that. I had to practice, I really did. I was terrified that I was going to do some, you know, it was going to fall off or the door wasn't going to close properly. So, I had actually practiced with that seat, but only once before."
The interview is part of a CNN special on William's transition to fatherhood. The program, hosted by Foster, is scheduled to air Sept. 15.
William and Catherine were able to have some private time in the hospital with George, though William said he was fully aware of the public wanting to see the future heir.
"I think more shock and dauntingness was the feeling I felt," William said, "but it was, the thing is it's um, I think I was on such a high anyway, and so was Catherine about George that really we were happy to show him off to whoever wanted to see him. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything."


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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Will You Ever Buy Mostly E-Books?
59 comments:
- K.C. Shaw said...
I don't think ebooks will ever entirely replace paper books, but ebooks are definitely in our future. I give it another decade before they're really useful, though. We're still in the equivalent of the cell phone's bag-phone-plugged-into-the-car phase, ebookreaderwise.
- December 5, 2007 at 2:21 PM
- Scott said...
I answered Never, but it really depends. For technical or certain reference books, I've already mostly replaced my books with PDFs or online sources. For example, although I have a couple of pretty good dictionaries, I usually go to a computerized dictionary first.
I also think that poetry's future might be electronic. It's usually short, which makes it easy to read electronically, and publishers just don't have much financial incentive to publish poetry. Problem is, of course, that most, but not even close to all, self-published (online) poetry is crap.
For regular reading, such as novels, stories, or nonfiction I'm reading either for fun or research (which is often even more fun than "fun"), gimme books.
I have tons of research material in PDF form, but I rarely use it because it's less enjoyable to read than in book form, even if I print it myself--which can be more expensive than buying the book, by the time you buy printer ink, paper, and a binder.
- December 5, 2007 at 2:29 PM
- Kaytie M. Lee said...
I will probably get to the point where I have to buy some ebooks (I see myself buying nonfiction that way) but I will always prefer regular books.
- December 5, 2007 at 2:30 PM
A year and a half ago, I swore I'd never read an ebook--I like my paper, thank you very much! But in the last six month or so, I've changed my mind quite a bit. Unless I'm buying one of my all-time favorite authors I go e-book, usually Mobipocket or eReader depending on the discount. If I love it, I'll buy the actual book (you're welcome, my favorite authors!). I absolutely cannot read a book from my computer screen so I load it into my Palm. It's much easier on the eyes, and it makes me look busy ;)
- December 5, 2007 at 2:30 PM
- Loren said...
Yes, when the portable reader is as convient and easy on the eyes as a book. They're not there yet.
- December 5, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Okay, this is like asking which do I prefer - blueberry pie or pumpkin? I like the both and want some of each. The pumpkin I can scoop from the pie plate and walk around eating while I'm doing other things - even when it's piled with whipped cream. The blueberry, on the other hand, is for devouring from a deep plate, snugged in my chair, as I savor the sugary blue juice and flaky crust. If I'm alone I'll even lick the plate.
And another thing; how do you give an e-book as a gift? My Amazon order just arrived with books for Christmas gifts(including Kim Long's "Almanac of . . ." Thank you for putting us on to it, Nathan) and I just don't see how I could give them in e-book form.
So - both. Pumpkin and Blueberry.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:06 PM
I wonder if the e-book will replace paperbacks, with hardbacks shifting position in the market to become a 'luxury' item.
That's how it went with manual wind watches and to a lesser extent stereo turntables. They never really disappeared from the marketplace, but are now mostly high-end items that trade on a certain chachet.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:12 PM
- Josephine Damian said...
Give you one guess as to how I voted.
Nathan, so glad you're doing polls. Did you know agent Donald Maass asks lots of poll questions of his audience whenever he gives a talk? He's always taking the pulse of readers, trying to get a handle on what books they buy and why.
I'm looking forward to Santa bringing you a Kindle thingie. Curious to see how user friendly you find it.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- Luc2 said...
Never say never. There may be a day that some books won't even come out in print, leaving me without a choice.
Still, I voted never.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:27 PM
- Precie said...
Never. I like paper. I like being able to hold a big fat book in my hand. I might be willing to buy e-books...but not mostly.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:27 PM
- brian_ohio said...
I'm rarely able to buy books due to these little people running about my house demanding things like milk and sweets.
I belong to three different local libraries.
What do you see happening to our beloved libraries?
- December 5, 2007 at 3:28 PM
- Sophie W. said...
I'd like to see an e-book reader that didn't drain your pockets with uploading, downloading, reloading and page loading fees. Also, a clicky wheel. The only reason I bought an iPod was for the cool clicky wheel.
That said, I'll probably only buy books that are only available in e-book format for my e-book reader. Too much screen time is bad for the eyes. (Says the girl who spends 3 hours a day staring at her computer.)
- December 5, 2007 at 3:33 PM
- Topher1961 said...
I haven't paid total attention to this since I first read about it in Publisher's Weekly. Once you purchase the books, will you be able to "lend" it out?
- December 5, 2007 at 3:34 PM
- spyscribbler said...
Definitely, if only so I can carry around two hundred books at once. :-)
Plus, I can't afford a house big enough to hold all the books I want.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:34 PM
- Matt Osborne said...
I don't think ebooks can ever replace paper books. A electronic gizmo like Kindle is just as easy to ruin as a book, and possibly less portable. Books are one of those perfected technologies that have staying power. That said, ebooks have a future - one that's probably analogous to dime novels. They'll become a haven for hacks and pulp artists, and a generation later their readers will be nostalgic.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:38 PM
- Erik said...
I honestly don't see why people care about the medium. If it was up to me, all my entertainment would come in the form of barroom banter - stories told to me by strangers. All this mass media stuff, from books to teevee to magazines, requires you to use your imagination. So use it, fer godsakes!
- December 5, 2007 at 3:42 PM
- Tammie said...
Okay I said Maybe - how's that for a definite answer :o)
Spyscribbler - carry 200 books at once - now that I like!
erik I have visions of your work on bar room napkins after that post. I'd read'em!
- December 5, 2007 at 4:00 PM
- Independent Book Report said...
Being with a large e-book publisher (Samhain, born from Ellora's Cave) I've quickly learned the value of e-books. Not for those volumes you KNOW you're going to keep (like my hardcover Harry Potter collection or my beat-up but collectible Annotated Alice), but for those you know you'll read and not read again. I look at my tiny house and the piles of books on the floor that need a new home and I think "Yes, I need an e-book reader".
I just found out that, as a writer, I can use it as a tax-write off, since I mostly buy tween fantasy, which is what I write. They call it 'market research' HA!
I'd buy a Kindle if they weren't so dang expensive. For now, an ebookwise will do for me.
- December 5, 2007 at 4:09 PM
- James said...
I'll bet the majority of people commenting haven't seen an e-ink display yet. They're really good, absolutely as readable as paper, very sharp with high contrast and no refresh/flickering at all. Once you see it, a lot of doubts will disappear.
But here's where I see it going. Even though I'm not opposed to e-books, the reader that I would buy hasn't been made yet. It would need to have the same wireless functionality as the Amazon Kindle, but be reduced in bulk considerably. I don't want any border around the page and just the most minimal of buttons/controls. It also needs to be black, not sure why that's important, I just don't want it looking like a piece of hospital equipment. It would also be using the next generation of e-ink displays, which can do colour (and even refreshes fast enough to do video - JK Rowling eat your heart out). Could even be flexible or foldable while we're making a wishlist. Basically, it's a about two revisions away from what I want right now.
The second thing is, I wouldn't stop buying books. I'd still want a nice library of classics, books that mean something to me or are straight up essential. You can't have a house with no books in it, it's not right. Similarly, too many books is oppressive, that's why people thrown them out.
So in a couple of years I'll have a little e-reader (made by Apple, no doubt) and a bookshelf that has awesome written all over it. Totally going to happen.
- December 5, 2007 at 4:21 PM
- Andrew said...
I probably would have said "never"... but then again, I remember the first time I downloaded an mp3, and I thought, "This has its uses, but I'll never give up buying CDs. Never never." And oh, how ironic that has become.
Then again, perhaps the analogy doesn't hold. If you have a CD, it's easy to transfer it to mp3s; if you have mp3s, it's easy to make them into a CD. That means it's easy to share the stuff you like with your friends, and while we're less likely to give music as a formal gift, we can still give it as a favor. So far with ebooks, there's no easy way to transfer, and there doesn't seem to be one in the making without major changes to the process.
- December 5, 2007 at 4:21 PM
- Heidi the Hick said...
You know I'm one of those booksmellers.
- December 5, 2007 at 4:37 PM
- Heather B. Moore said...
I've just learned to never say never.
My 10-year old is dying for an IPOD. That's just crazy. $250? She got an MP3 player, much cheaper.
But I am tempted to buy my kids a computer--just so they'll stay off mine. Never thought I'd get to that point.
So ebooks are definately intriguing. Especially if there is a backlight on the Kindle and I can read in a dark car without disturbing anyone (when I'm not driving of course).
- December 5, 2007 at 4:57 PM
- Megan said...
I don't want to be "Britney Platinum Blonde Call Her" personally. Or anybody on Brody Jenner's phone list.
- December 5, 2007 at 5:04 PM
- Sam Hranac said...
As of this post, the poll stood at 89% Never or Maybe and 7% Absolutely.
This from people that read a blog about the publishing industry. What would be the response from people coming and going from a grocery store (beyond, "get the F^@& out of my way!")?
- December 5, 2007 at 5:35 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
I'd look at it another way. 44% never, but 51% say either yes or maybe. If half of people by half of their books as e-books that's going to result in a significant change in the book industry.
- December 5, 2007 at 5:40 PM
- Susan Helene Gottfried said...
I've read a few and yes, I still read better on the page than on the screen. E-books are great and serve their purposes but I suspect that, for me, they will always be like audio books: Fine for some, but I prefer the real thing, heavy in my hand.
(did I expound enough, or should I write another chapter? This WAS sort of short for me)
- December 5, 2007 at 5:41 PM
- Jen said...
Quite honestly, no. LOL. It's not necessarily because I don't think the technology will improve and be close to "the real thing." It's just that I'm in front of the computer _all the time_. It's nice to put all gadgets aside and just sit with a book without the inclination to pop on my email, etc. A reader would probably help, but I dunno... I like the smell of fresh, shiny books. (g)
- December 5, 2007 at 5:56 PM
- Conduit said...
Because I'm a decisive person, firmly grounded in my own beliefs, I voted 'Maybe'. Because, y'know, they kind of might maybe some day, but then they might not, so I don't really know...
Here's something that's just occured to me. A lot of where civilisation is today is born of a few huge advances in technolgy, like the mastery of fire, the invention of the wheel, and the printing press bringing enlightenment and education to the masses.
We'd still be in the dark ages if someone hadn't thought of typesetting words and printing them on paper. And in the few centuries since then we've invented cars, aeroplanes, radio, television, computers, the Internet, space travel, and blogging literary agents.
We'd have none of those things without the printing press, and here we are debating whether or not a piece of mass produced plastic is going to finally kill off a method of communication that has essentially changed very little since its inception.
Mmmm, smell the irony.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:14 PM
- Julie Weathers said...
No. I enjoy the look and feel of books.
I have books from the 1800's I adore, carefully. Where is the pleasure in looking over a screen? I love the worn covers and pages showing the books were read and loved by many.
Give me lots and lots of books to curl up with and surround myself with.
Of course, I am also one of these people who mourns the passing of letters, handwritten and treasured.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:18 PM
- Karen Duvall said...
I checked absolutely, but I'm concerned about quality. I've read a couple of ebooks recently from small ebook publishers and they were extremely poor. The authors were obviously not yet ready for publication, but they were published anyway. That's a concern. I know some startup electronic publishing companies will buy anything they can just to build inventory, and that's a bad thing for readers.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:23 PM
- JaxPop said...
E - books will 'take over' but I think the option for either will remain available for a long time. There will probably be a premium added for the paper versions (tp prod acceptance?). That makes Conduit's 'Maybe' pretty safe, though I can't smell the irony all because of Susan's pies. When the e-book thing takes off & since the cost exposure for production & distribution would be greatly reduced, maybe publishers would take more chances with their acceptance of writers & their (well written)work. I gotta go buy pies now.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:36 PM
- Karen Duvall said...
Speaking of ebooks, I see publishers are now selling eARCs prior to release of the hardback edition. Isn't that interesting? Is it ethical to sell ARCs? If everyone who's interested in reading the book buys the ARC, will the hardback hold as much appeal? Lots of food for thought. Read about it here:
- December 5, 2007 at 6:42 PM
- Simon Haynes said...
I answered Never even though I've put a considerable amount of effort into my ebook reading software. (Doesn't matter which - I'm not here to self-promote.)
The idea of ebooks is great ... entire libraries in your pocket, read anything anywhere, buy without leaving your chair, lower prices, etc, etc.
The reality is different. Books are a physical product you can buy, hold, sniff, enjoy. And they still have a value when you've read them ... you can pass them on to family, friends, others. You can line your house with bookshelves and set out to collect certain editions. You can get them ... gasp ... signed.
If you're buying something to read, then ebooks will do the job. But to me, wanting to read a book is only about 60% of the reason for my purchase. The other 40% varies, but none of it is met by ebooks.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:47 PM
- Dead Man Walking said...
No way. It'd feel too much like 'work' if I read on a Kindle...sorta like I was multi-tasking at work on my Blackberry.
I love the feel of paper. I love how its edges grow dark over the years. I love poking through boxes full of paperbacks and hardcovers at flea markets. I love cover art with its raised lettering. Most of all, I love having bookcases full of the ones that wouldn't let me toss them into the yard sale box.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:59 PM
- SeaWriter said...
My research habits involve opening lots of books at the same time and spreading them out on the desk with book marks and post-it notes sticking out everywhere. I'm willing give E-Books a chance, but how many Kindles will it take for me to hit my comfort zone as described above? Maybe I need to start thinking more linearly as I work. Or, maybe I can't. This question seems to be laden with hidden stressors for me, I'm beginning to realize. Anyone else?
- December 5, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Hi Nathan,
I actually had a quick question completely unrelated to your blog topic (sorry!). I've been trying to research Curtis Brown Ltd, but I can only ever find info on the UK branch. Is the US branch planning on creating a website? Is there somewhere I could find a list of who reps what? Whenever I search, I only see the same two or three names over and over again, but I thought there were more agents? Thanks for your time!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Yes, I have and I will continue to. I just recently found out that some countries don't have printed books in stores like we do in the USA. ha. Are we spoiled or what??? I also discovered that books cost a fortune in some countries. Ebooks are a better choice.
- December 5, 2007 at 9:27 PM
- Chumplet said...
I suppose I should exhibit a little support, since my first two releases start out as e-books. But there's nothing like a real book. Nothing.
- December 5, 2007 at 10:16 PM
- Hope Clark said...
Paper, for sure. However, when the industry ever gets smart, it will come up with a reader that someone 40+ can read, that can support any ebook format (or at least a common one), and is reasonably priced. They are no where near that yet. Bought a Rocket Reader, got burnt when they went under. Never again until the industry gets it right.
- December 5, 2007 at 11:45 PM
- Reid said...
Probably not. Until there's an E-Book I can read in the bathroom, there will always be a place for paper books in my house.
- December 6, 2007 at 1:02 AM
- Other Lisa said...
I agree with whoever said that e-books are great for those books that you intend to read once and toss. I get a lot of free books that I read and recycle - stuff I'd never buy, never want to take up space on my shelves.
Also for traveling, when I read them and leave 'em behind.
Also if I need a book in a big, tearing hurry and can't find it at my local bookstore and don't have time to order it.
I say this as a person who owns many, many paper books and plans to keep buying them.
- December 6, 2007 at 2:52 AM
- Peter R said...
The only advantage an e-reader can have over a real book, for the general population, is weight. So until an e-reader resembles a folded piece of stiff card, which when forded out can have a left and right page visible at the same time, I don't see it catching on. Also to be really convenient it would have to incorporate other functions such as GPS, maps, photos, video, films, tv, and be something you can write on like a piece of paper. We are a long way from this yet.
The other thing which will really drive the e-book is when publishers can make more profit out of an e-book than a paper book.
- December 6, 2007 at 6:30 AM
I'm curious.
As an agent, do you ask for electronic submissions or need them printed out?
So far, I have not heard of many instances of agents or editors who accept submissions other than paper
- December 6, 2007 at 9:29 AM
I would love to have my entire library compact so I could bring it everywhere. Why wouldnt I, why wouldnt you? The only problem right now is the price. I'm am so cheap! Unless a book is hardcover and attractive I dont spend over 10 dollars for it and I would never normally spend even more than 6 dollars for a paperback. I love hunting for books at used bookstores. Once I found a signed copy of Vivian Vean Veldes ( or however you spell it book's) it was only a dollar fifty. I'm pretty sure the people who worked there had no clue it was signed. So unless the e-books are really cheap I would never use my money on them.
- December 6, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Wait a second!!!!!!!!!!
Now I'll have to to descibe the concept of books to my kids!!!
I never thought I'd see the day.
- December 6, 2007 at 9:42 AM
- Vinnie Sorce said...
I can't afford new books so e-books are out unless they end up at the quarter rack at the library book sale...
- December 6, 2007 at 10:53 AM
- Sam Hranac said...
Interesting question CarBeyond (how many publishers and agents accept e-query). The number appears to be growing. I wonder how many print out the submissions they REALLY want to read.
- December 6, 2007 at 11:38 AM
- Impy said...
I don't think it's likely I'll ever pay for electronic books regularly, but not because I'm so devoted to paper books, just because I'm used to finding my electronic entertainment for free.
Additionally, I don't see the ebooks being necessarily a terribly sustainable model for publishers. Not only is it difficult to protect electronic content from unlawful distribution, coming up with and maintaining a systemic method of distribution is bound to be expensive, and the likely result would be a system too inflexible to keep up with the market and changing technology. Plus, there already are several electronic distribution models that cut out the middleman, with varying degrees of success, and a publisher would have to offer far more than their shiny name to compete with those models effectively, at least from an income and reputation standpoint.
I know that if I were a writer, I would never even consider selling my electronic rights to a publisher unless what they were offering me was better than I knew I could do on my own (that just makes sense, right?) Based on my experiences in webcomics, that means they'd need to not only have an extremely solid plan for protecting my material from unlawful distribution as well as encouraging lawful sales, they also would need to be offering me extremely healthy advances and royalties... I would expect to be making on the higher end of five figures a year at least by allowing them to handle my electronic distribution for me.
I realize that sounds much too high from a print market perspective, but my husband and I currently make our entire living from VOLUNTARY payments for an otherwise free electronic distribution product, and that has perhaps given me a different perspective on the electronic market. It may not be the most stable income ever, but if my husband and I are doing that on our own, I don't think it's unreasonable to require that publishers show they can do at least as well before handing over those rights.
- December 6, 2007 at 11:47 AM
- Rachelle said...
I voted "absolutely." I LOVE my paper-and-ink books, and I hope I always have the opportunity to buy them. However, one of my biggest heartbreaks is that I will never own a house large enough for both my family and my books -- at least not all the books I WISH I could keep. (Unfortunately the rugrats take first priority. Darn them.) Every year I give away boxes of books, sadly waving good-bye as the Goodwill truck fades into the distance. Once e-books are the norm, I will NEVER have to get rid of a book again.
- December 6, 2007 at 12:07 PM
- Linnea said...
I was watching a program last night on the influenza pandemic of the early 1900's that killed millions worldwide. Part of the method used to track the killer, isolate it and make a vaccine, depended on notes made by doctors who tended to the dying. The doctors notes were published in printed volumes so scientists could study them at a later date. It occurred to me that ebooks are too transitory and that what can be read in an ebook today might not be readable ten years from now as the technology changes. Paper and ink are permanent. I can and have read books over 100 years old. I doubt I'd be able to do that with an ereader. I'll likely read some ebooks but I will always have a library of the real thing.
- December 6, 2007 at 12:37 PM
- Erik said...
Conduit sed:
We'd still be in the dark ages if someone hadn't thought of typesetting words and printing them on paper.
Yes, all that you said is true. A little time spent understanding the Reformation, the 30 Year's War, and its net effect on the development of three continents shows the importance of the press. Publishing the Bible in vernacular languages was the key to ripping apart the largest empire the world has ever seen.
Fast forward to today, and it seems to me that everything moved along at a reasonable pace after that, more or less according to Hoyle. While the technology grounded us nicely and made other things possible, the really interesting bit was the splash the press made when it first arrived.
So if you feel nostalgic for the printed page, remember that there's a decent chance we might live to see the new technologies really turn a corner in ways that are unimaginable now. Charles V might not have seen it coming, but I think we can.
- December 6, 2007 at 12:37 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
Paper's not permanent either, if you take the long view!
- December 6, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Danette Haworth said...
I've bought a few reference pieces in the form of e-books.
- December 6, 2007 at 1:41 PM
- Linnea said...
You're right, Nathan. Paper isn't permanent. But a 100 year old book has character and history. When you pick up a 100 year old book you know that particular book has been read for 100 years. You can see it on the flyleaf in the handwriting of its first owner, the first time it's given as a gift, the first time it's sold in a used book store, the stains, little tears and bends in its pages. Books have 'soul'. Ebooks are nothing like them. Maybe it is simply because I love history that ebooks will never replace a real book that I can hold in my hand.
- December 6, 2007 at 3:16 PM
I love to feel the pages between my fingertips, run my hand down the page, smell the book (as Heidi said). The reading is a whole multi-faceted sensory experience for me.
Also, I feel that any house, without the books jammed in the bookshelves of many kinds and types, lining every wall, is a house lacking in soul.
Reading an e-book for me would be like making love to a robot. That might work for some, but it just doesn't get to the "heart" of the matter for me. ;)
- December 6, 2007 at 3:30 PM
- Isak said...
I like hanging out in bookstores, losing hours of my life exploring the books inside. That's a habit I developed as a kid, and I'd hate to see it go.
But then, I think about things like PDF files and rich text format, and eBooks aren't that far off. I suppose if they can somehow figure out a way to simulate that experience or, ideally, preserve it, I wouldn't have a problem with buying eBooks on a regular basis. (Sure would save space by not having huge bookshelves filled top to bottom in my house...)
- December 6, 2007 at 4:04 PM
- LindaBudz said...
I like that the technology could make "small" books available for years to come. No more going out of print! Also that it can help save trees.
- December 6, 2007 at 10:24 PM
While thinking about this topic, I actually collected a complete large garbage bag filled to the brim of breakage with junk mail and old bill and bank statements over the last year.
Now, I would want to keep my best books always,
but if i am going to save trees, please let's get rid of bills and junk mail first, NOT books!!!
- December 14, 2007 at 1:00 AM
- Melissa said...
I said never, but honestly for myself I typically buy ebooks. But I never buy ebooks for my kids, something about being able to sit with them and let them turn the pages and look at the pictures is the only way I can go with them.
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a human talking point. You put her in front of a TV screen, pull her string, and she regurgitates whatever partisan angle the Democratic party has programmed into her on any given week. Yesterday on MSNBC, the angle was - Mitt Romney doesn't care about America. Here's Debbie:
"It would be nice if we had a candidate for president who was committed to America. Mitt Romney is committed to making sure that either he makes the most money as humanly possible, or his investors do. And that's evidenced by his track record in shipping jobs overseas and making sure that he has investments that we don't know why he invested in offshore accounts. But most folks that I know, they make their investments in a bank in America, most American business men invest here and if you're running for president, that certainly should be your commitment."
Here, Ms. Schultz would have us believe Romney is running for President solely to enrich himself and his rich friends. It's certainly not the first time I've heard this contention from Democrats. I have no idea why Romney would want to become President only to enrich himself and his pals, seeing as how Romney already has more money than he will ever need, but they don't ask such questions of Democrats on MSNBC. Instead, MSNBC leads the parade for these bizarre Democrat narratives…because MSNBC is a serious news organization.
Ms. Schultz seems deeply confused about the difference between Romney's private sector business career and the job he would take on if elected President. She seems to believe them to be the same job, that we'd suddenly transform into the United States Of Bain Capital with Romney at the helm [insert maniacal Dr. Evil laugh here]. This view doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I suppose it's not so surprising, seeing as how, in my experience, many liberal Democrats don't seem to understand the private sector or trust it any further than they can throw it. Dems often leave me with the impression that the private sector is their shadowy enemy, not to be trusted. Kind of like the Illuminati. And liberal Democrats have already identified twin Dr. Evil's in their conspiratorial passion play. They are called [cue the opening notes of Beethoven's 5th]] the KOCH BROTHERS. Sure, the Koch Brothers employ 50,000 people in the USA, but they are some evil dudes in liberal eyes, mainly because they give a lot of money to Republican organizations. What more proof of evil is necessary than that ? These evildoers must be destroyed. As for those 50,000 jobs…well, we're going to need lots of new IRS agents to chase down ObamaCare criminals. It'll all work out somehow.
Now we can add Romney to the Democrats' Dr. Evil list, and just in time for the election !!! How convenient.
Schultz called for Romney to release like ten years of his past tax records, because Democrats need to dig up some dirt…er, I mean, because Democrats are interested in transparency (as long as the words "Fast And Furious" are not involved). Democrats want Romney to come clean, just like all other Presidents have done… except for Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and on and on, who only made their tax returns public starting with the year they were running for President.
But this year it's different, say the Democrats, because Romney has…da, da, da, dum… OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS !!! Sure, they are perfectly legal offshore accounts almost all held in a blind trust, which means Romney doesn't even control those investments, and there is no indication Romney has done anything illegal, but Democrats know the word "offshore" is sure to frighten at least some voters away from Romney, just like Team Obama's phony characterization of Romney as a "corporate raider" will hopefully do. Feel the Hope and Change. Democrats insist that American Presidents holding offshore accounts is unseemly and downright un-American…which, unfortunately, made offshore account holder Bill Clinton un-American too, darn the luck. And I probably shouldn't even mention John Kerry, who, ironically, was the Democrat nominee for President in 2004. Kerry paid a lower tax rate than Romney does, and Kerry never put his investments in a blind trust, which created conflicts of interest with legislation Kerry had to vote upon. Kerry avoided taxes. No word on why Romney's riches are such a sore spot for Democrats now, when they nominated the richest guy in the Senate for President only eight years ago. It must be the same thinking that led liberals to call Bush II a "chickenhawk" every other minute, but not Obama. Btw, Bush served in the military. Obama did not. Go figure.
Our economy created 80,000 jobs overall in June, the third month in a row in which the economy has slowed. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.2 percent, making it 41 months in a row with unemployment above 8 percent (virtually Obama's entire presidency). We are still down 5 million jobs from the Great Recession, which caused 8.8 million job losses. We have recovered only 3.8 million of those jobs. I'm not even counting the additional jobs we should be creating based on population growth. It takes in the neighborhood of 140,000 new jobs per month just to keep up with population growth. We have a historically low labor participation rate, with millions moving out of the work force or underemployed. And this has all happened as we've run up over $5 trillion in new federal debt on Obama's watch. This year's federal deficit is about $1.3 trillion. We can't even create enough jobs living in this artificial, unsustainable, debt-fueled economy. This is the first recession in my lifetime from which we haven't experienced a robust recovery. Instead, we have merely returned to a weak normalcy, and even that has been fading this quarter. Not good.
So naturally, given all these depressing statistics, President Obama was eager to share the "good" news:
"You know, we learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month, and that overall means that businesses have created 4.4 million jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. That's a step in the right direction," Obama said.
For purposes of comparison, the last President to inherit a severe recession was Ronald Reagan. Unemployment soared to over 10 percent during Reagan's first term, but the economy recovered and turned around, with 5.3 million new jobs during Reagan's first term (with a significantly smaller population). Obama is still below zero in net jobs created in his first term. At this point in the Reagan recovery, the economy was creating well over 300,000 jobs per month, and economic growth was in the 6 percent range. THAT is economic recovery, and we still have not experienced it under Obama.
The important matter is, how do we get out of these doldrums ? How do we get America back to work without bankrupting the country ? We have two different visions coming from the Democrats and Republicans.
The Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is proposing lower tax rates to spur demand and investment, implementing a regulatory framework that will promote bank lending and investment, expanding foreign markets for our goods, and implementing a pro-jobs energy policy. These are ideas I can understand from an economic standpoint…but Team Obama hates them. The White House prefers something it calls "from the middle out". I'm not sure what this means, but here's VP Biden to try and describe it:
"[Romney believes] somehow, that those so-called job creators will make everything okay for the rest of us," Biden said at the National Education Association conference. "We believe that the way to build this country is the way we always have, from the middle out . . . [to] invest in the things that have always made our economy grow: innovation, research, development, infrastructure, and education."
Oy vey. Biden actually refereed to the private sector, our economic engine, as "those so-called job creators". I fear Joey has been inside the beltway for far too long. He thinks it's the government that creates jobs. This is where I always run into problems with the snake oil the Obamanauts are trying to sell. Even when federal spending is at a historic high, with the accompanying historic rise in debt and deficits, all the Obamanauts can do is propose even MORE spending. What are they smoking ? Let's sweep the White House for crackpipes. Somebody's in denial over there.
Then the Obamanauts pretend raising marginal tax rates on the rich (the up-is-down "fair share" argument) is somehow going to pay for it all, when they know darned well it will not. Liberals talk endlessly about tax increases to pay for all their "helpful" government programs (that are bankrupting us), but they fail to mention that the huge tax increases coming in January 2013 and again in 2014 are one of many reasons employers are hesitant to hire now. Liberals like to reminisce fondly about the good old days of the 1950's, when the top marginal tax rate was 90%, as if that would somehow be a good idea now. What it would really do is kill our economy deader than a doornail. In the 50's, America found itself in the unique situation of being the only economic game in town following WWII. Europe was in a shambles, Japan was decimated, and China and Russia were still closed societies. We succeeded IN SPITE OF those high confiscatory tax rates, not because of them, and those days are long gone…unless we want to fight and win WWIII to recreate that 50's environment. I would definitely recommend against that course of action. Unlike progressives, who ironically prefer to live in the past, I believe we must act like the 21st century globalists we are. It's not going away folks, not even if we close our eyes, kick our heels together three times, and say "there's no place like the 50's, there's no place like the 50's". It would be nice, but it's not gonna happen.
Plus, nobody really paid those 90% tax rates, not even in the 50's and early 60's. I was listening to Harvard economist Larry Lindsey on CSPAN the other day, and he said in 1960, a grand total of EIGHT people paid that 90% rate. Not much of a gamechanger, even if those tax rates were a good idea, which they aren't, other than in the fevered brains of the Occupiers.To read more or comment...
If you pay attention to politics, you're gonna hear some really bizarre things come out of the mouthes of politicians. But even after all these years, they still surprise me sometimes.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's creative 5-4 split decision upholding the ObamaCare mandate on the grounds it is a tax, Democrats are surprising me by refusing to take 'yes" for an answer. Top Democrats are still insisting the mandate is NOT a tax.
Let's start with Henry Waxman (D-CA), who helped write the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, Waxman said it's "ridiculous" for Republicans to call the individual mandate a tax increase. He castigated Republicans for raising this alleged "phony issue":
The policy is not a tax increase because people have a way of avoiding it, Waxman said.
"It's a penalty, but through the tax code, because that's an efficient way of picking it up," he said. "So when Republicans say this is a tax — and I've seen charges this is the biggest tax increase in American history — that's ridiculous. This is not a real tax increase. It's a requirement that everybody get health insurance."To read more or comment...
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A few months after the final death of the legendary but long desolate punk rock mecca CBGB & OMFUG, it's proprietor Hilly Kristal died of long cancer at 75.
CBGB's closed last October after a string of great shows featuring old-timers such as Bad Brains, Blondie and Patti Smith who told the audience that Kristal was ââour champion and in those days, there were very few.ââ
Kristal who opened the club in 1973 wanted it to be some sort of Lowery Bowery mecca for the music he loved, namely the country, bluegrass and blues of the club's name. But he was smart enough to read the prevailing winds (and the many rock articles on the crazy new punk rock scene happening at a dirty, dingy club in the Bowery) and he rode the punk zeitgeist turning "CBGB's" into a recognizable logo whose shirts you can now buy at Target (CBGB's shirt = I like punk!).
After the club was finally shuttered, Kristal said he planned to take everything out of the original club including the legendary bathrooms and open a Vegas version of the club.
Let's be honest, that would have sucked.
I'd say it was the end of an era but the era actually ended nearly 30 years ago.
Frankly for several years, the club had been living off its reputation, seemingly booking any band that asked.
I mentioned this in the paper a few weeks ago before everything was settled, but now it's in a press release so you know it's GOT to be true.
The Black Keys recently spent a few weeks at SUMA Studios recording tracks for their upcoming fourth album.
This will be the first time the West Akron duo has come outside their own basemen studio and the first time they have used an outside producer.
Danger Mouse, who has become a high profile producer with the massive global success of Gnarls Barkley and the Gorillaz after years of being an indie darling.
It's certainly a good thing that the Keys are reaching outside of their comfort zone for album four and a little rock n' roll bird told me, the initial sessions went very well producing the blueprint of several songs.
It'll be interesting to how the man who imaginatively meshed the Beatles White Album and Jay-Z together for the less than legal Grey Album will do with just Dan Auerbach's voice and guitar and Pat Carney's drums and what effect it will have on the duo's songwriting.
We won't find out until 2008.
Stay tuned.
Alright all you Sinners, get ready to Swing!
The press release makes it O-fficial!.To read more or comment...
editors note: A reader pointed out to me that I initially got my 80's hair bands mixed up in the following ramble and repeatedly referred to Great White as White Lion.
My apologies to both bands, and it's been fixed.
Also, thanks to the the same reader for the Elton John/John Holmes clarification. Apparently, I have been modeling my entire lifestyle after the wrong guy...that might explain why the $4000 hairpiece and tiny dog I bought aren't helping me much with the ladies.
AP reports that Alrosa Villa the Columbus concert club where Dimebag Darrell and four other people was shot and killed by a crazed fan will welcome Great White, the hair metal band whose onstage pyro set a Rhode Island club ablaze and killed 100 people.To read more or comment...
Another jazz innovator dies and another living link to the bebop era of jazz and the days when music and musicians were an active part of the civil rights movement fades.
Roach of course was THE bebop drummer pushing Bird and Diz and a very young Miles Davis with his speed and amazing polyrhythmic abilities. And of course, the records he made with the late Clifford Brown are quintessential hard bop and are still the basis for what conservatives such as Wynton Marsalis consider real jazz.To read more or comment...
OK kids, word is that today Monday August 13, Eddie, Alex, Wolfgang Van Halen and Diamond David Lee Roth will announce their late summer tour as VAN HALEN.
Can you say train wreck?To read more or comment...
Here's a few more tunes that folks keep hidden in their collections and hearts.
Undercover Angel (Alan OâDay)
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So this is what's important in hip hop.
50 Cent who has made inventing irrelevant beef with...well anyone, to get folks to pay attention to his product has invented another promotional tool with this challenge/promise as reported by APTo read more or comment...
Ooh, that's gotta hurt.
107.9 was had very good deals on tickets for this show. you have to wonder what the "technical difficulties" were.To read more or comment...
The maverick country artist and songwriter who helped make Nancy Sinatra more than just Frank's wannabe singer daughter, and who worked with Duane Eddy and influenced Phil Spector's production style died from Liver cancer on Saturday.
Rather than pretend to be an expert on Hazlewood, here's a well rounded obit from the U.K.
Dude, I forgot.
It'll be on the web in a few hours, anyway.
In just a few short hours we all will have the opportunity to be among the first to hear the new single "Incosolable" from THE BACKSTREET BOYS!
I know that, like me have missed the fivesome who are now foursome because Kevin Richardson (the brooding guy with the mustache) has had the good sense..I mean, he decided to take a break to pursue "other projects."
The "band" refused to replace him, leaving the door open for any possible return.
Here's a neat use of your broadband connection (seriously, if you don't have one, you're only wading not surfing the Interweb Super Roadway), music legend quincy Jones has started a 26 episode video podcast series on his website quincyjones.com that will include "footage of the musician at work in the studio and at exclusive events around the world. Also featured in are Jones' takes on film, popular culture, politics and world events."
OK, for me it's the work in the studio that i'm interested in seeing and episode one gives us five minutes with Celine Dion in the studio recording her vocal for I knew I Loved You from the recent underwhelming tribute album We All Love Ennio Morricone.To read more or comment...


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Man that is simply amazing!
And these are legitimate Apple iPods too. Salehoo needs to add that one to its preferred list. I'm thinking order one test it out.
Do they dropship too?
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(NEWSER) – Ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich is now officially a fugitive from justice, just two days after the country's parliament voted to remove him from office. The country's interim interior minister has issued an arrest warrant accusing the ex-leader of "mass murder of peaceful citizens" over the deaths of scores of protesters in Kiev last week, the BBC reports.
- Yanukovich, who fled the capital over the weekend while still declaring himself the country's legitimate leader, seems highly unlikely to turn himself in. Officials say he was last seen in the autonomous and strongly pro-Russia Crimea region, but left by car for an unknown destination.
- The Obama administration has warned Russia against sending troops to Ukraine, which is split between a pro-Russia east and pro-European Union west, Voice of America reports. Russian intervention would be a "grave mistake," National Security Adviser Susan Rice warned yesterday. "It is not in the interest of Ukraine or of Russia, or Europe, or the United States to see the country split. It is in nobody's interest to see violence return and the situation escalate."
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Katy Perry to hold 'Prism' party at iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles
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iHeartRadio has commissioned Katy Perry for another gig, weeks after she headlined its annual music festival in Las Vegas.
The star is set to hold her album release party at the opening of the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. The event will take place on October 22nd, the day her album Prism drops.
The venue, which is located at the Burbank Studios where "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" is taped, will be opening its doors to the public for the first time that night. An iHeartRadio venue opened in New York City back in 2009, and has hosted stars like Justin Bieber and Mariah Carey.
Katy's launch party will air in its entirety live on 175 Clear Channel stations as it happens on the 22nd. It will be televised on the CW Network a few days later on October 25th. In addition to performing, Katy will also take part in a question-and-answer session.
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NFL cheerleader who served in Iraq arrested for assault
(Dave Urbanski) Remember that feel-good story a few days ago about Megan Welter, the Arizona Cardinals cheerleader who put her dancing dreams on hold for seven years so she could serve in the U.S. Army?
Apparently all is not well in her world.
Welter, 29, was arrested July 20 on charges of disorderly conduct, assault, and criminal damage, according to the Arizona Republic. Here's the police report.
Here's how Right This Minute describes the incident:
A Scottsdale Police Department report states they were called to Megan Welter's home in Scottsdale shortly after 3am on July 20. According to the police report, Megan Welter, an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader, claims she was in a fight with her boyfriend, who sources claim is Ryan McMahon, and that he would not leave. Police recorded video when they responed to the 911 call. She stated they had both gone out to a bar in Scottsdale earlier the previous evening to celebrate her birthday. After they got home, she went upstairs to go to sleep.
Around 3am, she woke up and got upset after her boyfriend went through her cell phone. She stated he was a professional fighter trained in wrestling and that he picked her up and threw her out on the patio and locked the door. A moment later he opened the door and called her "trash". At this point, Megan started yelling "rape" and "help" because she claims she did not know what to do. After going back inside, she said her boyfriend pushed her down onto the tile floor causing her to hit her head and then began choking her. She also claims her boyfriend smashed her head into a wall. In the report, the officer asked Megan why she did not call police right away. Megan said she did not feel threatened until he began choking her. She claims he squeezed very tight but that she did not feel he would squeeze to the point where she would die. At this point, she claims she grabbed her phone, ran upstairs and locked the door to call police. Welter did admit in the police report that she hit and punched her boyfriend. The officer at the scene detailed in the report that Megan did not have any marks, bruises or redness but that her boyfriend had scratches on his chest, shoulder and back. The officer also noted that both Megan and her boyfriend had bloodshot, water bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol.
Welter is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 15, according to the police report.


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Nuke Guards Caught Napping With Door Open
(NEWSER) – It's reassuring to know the people entrusted with the launch keys to our nuclear missiles are at least well rested—if not well secured. US Air Force officers in charge of these keys have been caught twice this year napping while leaving the blast door to their underground launch center open, the AP reports. The door is far from the only line of defense between a terrorist and the 10 Minuteman 3 missiles housed within—the bunkers are underground and guarded by many layers of security. And one of the two officers on duty is actually allowed to catch some Zs while on a 24-hour shift. But doing so with the blast door open is still a big no-no.


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Jury Seated In Zimmerman Trial
(Sanford, FL) -- The Florida jury that will sit in judgment of George Zimmerman is made up of six women, and all but one are white. A jury of six and four alternates is being empaneled to hear evidence in the second-degree murder case in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. All ten jurors will be sequestered for the duration of the trial which is expected to last two to four weeks. Zimmerman could get life in prison if he is found guilty of murdering the unarmed 17-year-old last February.


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Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8: Another quality micro 4/3 lensFriday February 17 2012
To follow our review of the MZuiko 12mm f/2.0, here is the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8, also announced in June 2011. With identical finishes, these are two upscale and very high-quality micro 4/3 lenses.
As an ideal lens for portraiture, this bright 45mm (the equivalent of an 85mm lens for a 24x36mm camera) greatly enhances the micro 4/3 lens line.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8 review
Further readings for the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8: Another quality micro 4/3 lens
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
Added by Fredbare | February 20 , 2012
Thank you for your analyses
I have been a long time visitor to your site when I need a more 'scientific' analysis of a camera or lens that I can rely on when I'm thinking of purchasing.
Your articles on the micro 4/3rds lenses could not have come at a better time as I'm considering moving (in part anyway) from SLRs to 4/3rds for conevenience/portability, particularly with the imminent availability of the OM-D E-M5.
On the basis of the latest reviews I would just like to know if the Olympus 12 and 45 mm are considered part of the Olympus 'high grade' lenses?
Considering how well they perform against FF lenses, if Olympus can do even better then I think they've found the philosopher's stone and photographic heaven.
Added by simont | February 18 , 2012
Strange resolution numbers at f/2.8 (especially away from the center)
My previous message was a response to Xzeihoranth, but that's not too apparent from the formatting.
I also have one further question of my own regarding this lens test. I noticed that the measured resolution values at f/2.8 are really low, much lower than at both f/2 and f/4. Could this be a measurement error? If not, what could explain such behaviour and is it common?
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Added by cccx | February 19 , 2012
Re: Strange resolution numbers at f/2.8 (especially away from the center)
Hi Simont, I agree it is strange, I would also be interested in knowing why this is.
However, it appears to occur on all the camera bodies they tested this lens with.
I was thinking it could be caused by any of the following reasons:
[li]-a very 'different' testing methodology by DxO (perhaps taking into account more vertical resolution than any other lens testing site)?[/li]
[li]-individual lens fault?[/li]
[li]-lens design[/li]
[li]-a measurement error by DxO (unlikely if it occurs on all camera bodies they tested)?[/li]
Note that the SLRGear test did not show any such behaviour:
The Lenstip review linked to by Xzei showed f2.8 to be one of the highest resolution apertures:
So there are some very different test results for this lens.
Added by simont | February 18 , 2012
Two differences in measurement and reporting
My guess is that there are two major factors that can account for most of the difference:
1) DxO reports '35mm-equivalent' lp/mm numbers, which are 2 times smaller than the real lp/mm numbers, due to the smaller size of the 4/3 sensor.
2) DxO appears to compute the resolution figures from the individual raw R, G and B channels, whereas Lenstip uses a demosaiced image. It seems reasonable that the Lenstip numbers exceed those from DxOmark, because information from all channels is used simultaneously.
Added by Xzeihoranth | February 18 , 2012
Your scores for image resolution

This a comment for this page on the website
Comparing this test to that undertaken by Lenstip.com I can not fail to notice a vast discrepancy between the results for image resolution. Could you explain why that is so? Because if I were to apply their values this lens would trump even to scores of it's competitors mounted on the flagship dslr's.
With best regards Xzei


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Report: Kim & Kanye turned down $3 million baby North West photo deal
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The whole world has been dying to see the first photos of baby North West, since before she was even born. From the moment Kanye announced Kim was pregnant, everyone has been KimYe baby crazy. But it will probably be a little while longer before we get to see the KimYe offspring.
According to Us Weekly, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have already shot down a $3 million deal from an Australian magazine.
An insider tells Us Weekly, "Kanye's been adamant about not having the baby on the show. He was serious when he said North isn't America's baby, so he may not do anything."
Guess we'll have to imagine!
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