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Here is the reading list I put together for my study of Satin and Sateen:
More Than Four, by Mary Elizabeth Laughlin, Chapter 13, "Satin…or Sateen"
Mastering Weave Structures, by Sharon Alderman, Chapter 3, "Satin"
The Weaver's Book of Fabric Design, by Janet Phillips, Chapter 9, "Satin and Sateen Weaves"
A Handbook of Weaves by G.H. Oelsner, Chapter "The Satin Weave"
Handwoven Mar/April 2004, "Satin and Tencel for a shimmering scarf," Patricia Townsend, pg 52
Weaver's #15 "Step up to Satins" by Donna Sullivan, pg 15 and "Satin and Silk on four or five shafts" by Donna Sullivan, pg 21
Weaver's #28, "Vibrato" pg 38
Weaver's #30, "For 8-Shaft Weavers," by Alice Schlein, pg 47, describes drafting a satin weave.
Weavers #40, "Get Sett for Satin Simulation," by Doramay Keasbey, pg 6
Online references:
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The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers, by Marilyn van der Hoogt
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Greek Shipping News Cuts
Week 36 - 2011
Almi leads world in recognising people as key resource
Developed in 1990, in collaboration with leading UK businesses of all sizes, the IIP Standard has become recognised the world over as providing a framework of principles that are used to improve business performance and competitiveness through a planned approach to setting and communicating business objectives. The accomplishment of these objectives is achieved through the involvement and development of people.
Almi Tankers is in the process of building a modern tanker fleet. Currently it manages two aframax tankers, Almi Spirit, built 2007, and Almi Star, built 2005, and will take delivery of a further 10 suezmax vessels and two VLCCs between December 2011 and December 2013. All 12 are newbuildings and are under construction in South Korea's Daewoo S&ME, but there are reports Almi is presently assessing the s&p market with regard to possibly selling some of the suezmax tanker newbuildings.
Source: www.newsfront.gr
ABCML Takes Delivery of Its New Bulk Carrier Built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, South Korea
---Sep 6th, 2011. Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd. (ABCML), a Marshall Islands Company with offices in Piraeus, Greece, took delivery of its new Bulk Carrier built by South Korean Shipyard.
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard held naming ceremony for 58000 DWT Class Bulk Carrier M.V. DESERT HOPE on 1st July 2011.
Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd, a Marshall Islands Company with offices in Piraeus, Greece is a ship operator of Handymax, Supermax and Panamax size bulk carriers. The company has a strong presence in international shipping with long experience providing safe and dependable worldwide transportation of quality goods by sea. Its success is rooted to its highly trained and committed staff and the modern fleet it operates.
In addition, ABCML is highly regarded when it comes to the protection of the environment. It has in place a zero tolerance policy for environmental pollution while its environmental procedures and equipment exceed the regulation requirements for bulk carriers. ABCML, with its long, stable history and impeccable reputation, is considered one of the very top Greek shipping companies.
Source: http://www.abcml.com/news_uk.htm and http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/29616
Embiricos grabs bargain VLCC
And Greek broker Shiptrade Services noted that a newbuilding order at a yard today would cost $98M, while a newbuilding resale would cost $100M.
Source: ---Fairplay Daily News 05 Sep 2011
Eurobulk in line for five big boxships
---A Greek player is said to be mulling a deal worth up to $300m in Korea.
Greek managing owner EuroBulk is set to expand with its first order for boxship newbuildings.
The company is said to have approached a South Korean yard for a handful of post-panamaxes in a deal that could be worth up to $300m.
Market sources say it is holding talks with Ulsan-based Hyundai Heavy Industries for five 5,000-teu ships for delivery in 2013.
Its current fleet comprises 17 ships from 1,170 teu to 2,785 teu.
A Hyundai official declines to confirm the enquiry but says a handful of Greek companies are currently keen to order there.
Newbuilding experts reckon EuroBulk will have to pay in the mid-$60m each for the 5,000-teu newbuildings.
EuroBulk is the management company of US-listed Euroseas and private-equity fund Euromar, a joint venture between Aristides Pittas-led Euroseas and two hedge funds, Eton Park Capital Management and an affiliate of Rhone Capital III. Pittas, who is chairman and chief executive of Euroseas, could not be contacted to confirm the order would be funded by its private-equity partners.
Nasdaq-listed Euroseas owns 10 containerships and its expansion into the sector gathered pace in March last year with the formation of Euromar.
Euroseas is a minority partner in that venture, which has spent barely half of the $175m in equity it has to invest.
So far it has purchased seven vessels, five in the 2,500-teu to 2,800-teu range and two of 1,740 teu. The most recent acquisition was the 2,788-teu EM Astoria (ex Mate, built 2004), now fixed to PIL for 10 months at $13,500 per day.
Previously it focussed on feederships, with the view that this sector faces a lower delivery level in the coming years.
By Irene Ang and Ian Lewis Singapore and Genoa
Published: 22:01 GMT, 08 Sep 11 | updated: 20:32 GMT, 07 Sep 11
Source: www.tradewinds.no
Thenamaris extends Samsung LNG order
---9/9/2011 Greek owners are again absent from the secondhand market, while they continue their newbuilding investments in Chinese and Korean shipyards. In the bulk carrier segment, Navarone placed an order for two handysize units of 33,000dwt in Chinese yard
Yangfan Group for delivery in the end of 2012 at an undisclosed contract price. The vessels are likely to be chartered to CANFORNAV, Canada for Great Lakes trade. Eurobulk is said to be in discussions with a South Korean yard, Ulsan based Hyundai, for five 5,000 TEUs units for delivery in 2013, at a total estimated price of $300 mil. In the gas tanker segment, Thenamaris has extended its LNG order placed in July for two 160,000 cu.m units in Samsung H.I. by adding one more unit for delivery in 2014 at a price region $200 mil.
Overall, the newbuilding business is up by 312.5% in comparison with the buying momentum in the secondhand market, while the demolition activity is standing 44% higher than the volume of secondhand purchasing activity. It seems that the high scrapping momentum will continue to grow as scrap prices keep their firmness and freight market conditions appear to support the scrapping decisions of the owners till the end of the year. The week closed with 39 transactions reported worldwide in the secondhand and demolition market, posting a 4.9% decline from a similar week in 2010 when 41 transactions had been reported and secondhand ship purchasing activity was 19.4% lower than the ordering business. The highest activity has been recorded for one week more in the newbuilding market with 66 fresh orders reported worldwide.
Source: Golden Destiny
Source: http://www.shippingherald.com
Irika Shipping sentence
--- September 21, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
$750,000 of Penalty to Fund Projects Benefitting Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Irika Shipping S.A., a ship management corporation registered in Panama and doing business in Greece, today to pay a $4 million penalty, which includes a $3 million criminal fine and $1 million in organizational community service payments that will fund various marine environmental projects. Judge Motz also sentenced Irika to serve the maximum of five years probation, subject to following a compliance program that includes audits by an independent firm and oversight by a court appointed monitor.
Judge Motz also ordered today that four crewmembers that notified authorities about illegal discharges of oil and plastic from the M/V Iorana, a Greek flagged cargo ship, should split a $500,000 award under the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships which provides that whistleblowers may receive an award of up to one-half of fines collected under that statute.
Irika Shipping pleaded guilty on July 8, 2010, as part of a multi-district plea agreement arising out of charges brought in the District of Maryland, Western District of Washington, and Eastern District of Louisiana, including felony violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, related to port calls in Baltimore, Tacoma, Wash., and New Orleans by the M/V Iorana, and obstruction of justice charges based upon false statements to the Coast Guard, destruction of evidence and other acts of concealment.
To download document, go to: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/criminal/highlights/2010/irika-shipping-09-21-10.pdf
CONTACT AUSA VICKIE E. LEDUC or www.justice.gov/usao/md MARCIA MURPHY at (410) 209-4885
Source: http://www.epa.gov
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and Greek shipowners suffered from the deceit
RS has withdrawn the RS HELLAS LTD authority to assume any liabilities or to act as an agent and representative to the Maritime Administration of Greece and shipowners on behalf of RS.
Information agencies reported that documents on instituting criminal proceedings against Antonios Petridis, RS HELLAS LTD Director, were referred to the prosecution agency by the Coast Guard of the Republic of Greece. On 31 August 2011, RS notified RS HELLAS LTD of withdrawing the authorities to represent any RS interests and of avoiding all agreements concluded. The Maritime Administration of Greece was informed of these actions.
The issue of referring to the court of justice is under the RS consideration.
RS states its readiness to assist Greek authorities in investigating the illegal acts committed by RS HELLAS LTD and by A. Petridis personally.
RS is ready to promptly review class assignment requests of all the shipowners suffered from the above deceit, as well as to perform all the necessary actions and surveys for class assignment under the RS procedures.
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Established in 1913, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) is one of the leading classification societies.
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Source: http://www.rs-head.spb.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=3604
Greek Shipping Minister: "Citizen safety above all"
The Minister revealed that Greece will report the Russian Maritime Register to all the relevant international organizations as well as place the Register in breach of contract for a month. Civil Service Inspectors have already begun probing the circumstances under which the class society begun its operation in Greece while Chryssochoides also said that national legislation will be altered in order to update the existing legal framework relating to navigation safety and certification procedures.
Following anonymous complaints to the Hellenic Coastguard in May 2011 in relation to the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping - Piraeus office - issuing counterfeit class certificate documents for passenger-ferry vessels and tourist boats in Greece, The Commandant of the Hellenic Coast Guard (H.C.G.), Vice Admiral Konstantinos Soulis has ordered the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) to launch a probe into the case.
The PPA, in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Development, Competitiveness & Shipping, found violations regarding documents involving sixteen vessels in total. As a result, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping immediately removed authorization from its Piraeus office.
The Piraeus Port Authority awaits instructions in order to take the case further having submitted a filing to a Criminal Prosecutor. Meanwhile, Civil Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis (under whose umbrella of competences lies the Hellenic Coast Guard) has also ordered the case be investigated.
Source: http://www.shippingherald.com/Admin/ArticleDetail/ArticleDetailsShippingNews/tabid/98/ArticleID/866/Greek-Shipping-Minister-Citizen-safety-above-all.aspx
Dimitroula and Romilda make their final voyage
---Old ferries crowding Piraeus port sent to Turkish scrap yard
By Nikos Bardounias
Early on a Tuesday morning in late August, the ferryboat Dimitroula, retired four years ago, set off on her final journey to the Aliaga scrap yard in Turkey. The aged vessel, creaky from years of inertia, dutifully allowed herself to be tugged along, providing a spectacle for the passengers of a luxury cruise liner that was docked in the port of Piraeus.
Officials at the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) estimate that -- weather permitting -- by the end of September, another five ferries that have been taken out of service, and which are not only unsightly but also pose a risk to public safety and sanitation, will be towed out of the busy port.
Efforts to remove the decommissioned vessels began taking shape in November 2009 with the revival of a law, Article 9 of Law 2881.2001, ordering the removal of ferries that are no longer in operation. In March 2010, the commission that drew up the law published a paper that deemed 27 shipwrecks, 58 ferries -- including the eight belonging to Agoudimos -- and 27 partially sunken ferries as hazards. The following month, letters were sent to the owners of the vessels ordering them to begin the removal process. Sources at OLP suggest that Agoudimos had at the time requested an extended deadline as he was still looking for potential buyers for his vessels.
The two firms deposited 7.2 million euros with OLP and once the vessels are removed this money will be deposited in the Deposits and Loans Fund in favor of the shipowners, after OLP keeps 10 percent of the amount.
ekathimerini.com , Wednesday September 7, 2011 (22:02)
Source: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_07/09/2011_405321
Revoil subsidiary: Delivery and charter of a dry bulk carrier
--- 03 / 09 / 2010
REVOIL S.A. announced that its 100% subsidiary ARISTON SHIPPING INVESTMENTS COMPANY received, by completing the purchase, the dry bulk carrier "Blue Angel" Japanese construction 1994, capacity of 44,950 tons. The purchase price totalled $ 21,400,000. ARISTON has already made an agreement to charter the vessel for a period of 11 to 13 months with a daily income of U.S. $ 16,000. Today, Friday the 3rd of September the vessel was delivered to the charterers. This agreement is expected to generate total revenues of approximately $ 5,300,000 (assuming 11 months charter).
REVOIL informs investors that it will issue in the coming days an information booklet for expanding its business in Shipping.
In 2005 the Company started a cooperation with the liquid fuels and lubricants laboratory of Technology of the National Technical University of Athens. The main purpose of this cooperation is the Quality Control of fuels within the network of petrol stations. In 2008 the cooperation expanded also in Quantity controls.
By adopting initiatives which are helping the company reduce its environmental impact and contribute to a better future, the Revoil brand has also become synonymous to environment protection and company's philosophy that every drop counts.
The developments in drybulk Shipping industry in the last few years, which was influenced by the sharp fall of international trade and the over-supply of dry bulk carrier capacity by the significant increase of new building vessels deliveries, created suitable conditions for an investor to enter the market. Concluding that this period is appropriate the establishment of ARISTON took place.
Source: hwww.revoil.gr & www.aristonshipping.gr


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Morning services
Rev Gerald Vanderwert will bring us God's Word from Mark 12, "Abuse and murder in a vineyard".
This morning we will celebrate the Lord's Supper.
Chinese service
Gerry Drew will continue the sermon series on the Gospel of Matthew.
Evening service
Rev Clinton Le Page will bring us the message from 2 Corinthians 6, "A life of hardships and
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Sunday School Classes
Today is a 'non-curriculum' Sunday and we will be doing something special for Father's Day. This topic is not part of the usual curriculum and parents, you are welcome (as you are every week) to keep your children with you in the service if you prefer.
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Tuesday at 7 pm, DPC. Details? Speak to Noelle.
Operation Christmas Child
(20th August- 17th September)
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Qatar: check this event!
Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX) has welcomed a procession of ships from participating navies, including Bangladesh, India, Italy, Oman, Pakistan UK, and the USA.
The ships docked at Hamad Port, one of the Middle East's largest ports, enabling a selection of the world's largest seafaring ships to harbor at its state-of-the-art facilities. DIMDEX has now received more than 80 warships since its first edition in 2008.
The visiting warships are eleven in total including, the Qatari Fast attack fcraft HUWAR (Q05), Destroyer INS KOLKATA, the lead ship of the Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy, Frigate BNS BANGABANDHU which is a guided missile frigate of the Bangladesh Navy, and is one of the most modern currently in service, and Frigate CARLO MARGOTTINI from Italy.
US Navy is participating with three warships, Destroyer USS SAMPSON (DDG-102), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy, and two Navy special mission patrol vessel MK VI which are class of patrol boats in service.
Also displaying two of its warships, The Royal Navy of the UK will display Bay-class landing ship dock RFA CARDIGAN BAY of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and two Hunt – mine countermeasures vessel HMS MIDDLETON, which is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel.
Among the warships also is the Fast attack craft (patrol vessel) KASSAB from Oman and Fast attack missile craft PNS HIMMAT and Maritime Patrol Vessel PMSS BASOL from Pakistan.
The arrival of the warships is one of the key elements of the leading three-day maritime defense event, as navies from around the world get to display their latest vessels and showcase their capabilities in protecting trading routes, borders, and shorelines.
Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the official opening ceremony for DIMDEX 2018 will take place today at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar. The event is hosted and organized by Qatar Armed Forces over the next three days (12-14 March).
DIMDEX acts as a pivotal platform for exhibitors to access key decision makers represented by VIP delegates, highlighted by the $31.95 billion dollars of deals completed to date at the event throughout five previous editions. This year, DIMDEX will welcome 180 exhibitors from more than 60 countries across the local and international maritime and military industries.


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Curator Johanna Lasner evaluated the artwork abstract series by Marcos Santos Espinel.
The work of Marcos Santos Espinel rescues that occasion of the crisis of representation, the moment in which the image of the artwork deviated from the course, totally distancing itself from the figurative representation to approximate to another unidentifiable, an issue that still seems to astonish us.
I intuit that we still feel shaken by the art that questions the uniform criteria of representation and the illusionistic reproduction of images. In a world highly run by canons, formulas, theories and models, the abstract as a narrative sphere often results in challenges, however, it is suitable and timely to conquer alternative discourses of communication.
The work of Santos fairly activates these unconventional interpretation criteria, his expressive use of painting is discovered in the relationship with the spectator, in it he brings us his explicit desire to awaken a sensitivity and the promise of new readings, i.e., infinite opportunities of interpretation.
The intensity of expression is central to his work, it comes to a free painting in which the strength of the emotions is handled diligently through color, indeterminate forms, the emancipated brushstroke, imprecise brushstrokes and the gestural trace.
Marcos Santos painting is like one of the most famous representative painters of Abstract Expressionism, Robert Motherwell, would describe: "Painting without prejudice, for smart, sensitive, passionate beings, is a process envisioned as an adventure," (Catalogue of The School of New York exhibition, 1951), or as the artist himself explains, "it is nothing concrete as peace, tranquility, hate, but some of that."
The Guayaquil born Johanna Pazmiño-Lasner is currently studying her senior year, majoring as a Bachelor of Arts, with a specialization in Curation and Art Criticism at the Espiritu Santo University (UEES) of Guayaquil. Johanna also unfolds as an emerging artist, self-taught in mixed technique and a variety of materials such as glass, ceramics, charcoal and paint.
For more than 12 years photography has been for her a privileged environment in the exploration of photo manipulation and a source of conceptual research of social and psychological issues.
Much of her work is influenced by her early studies in London, in the field of interior design and special effects techniques in painting; in it, she discovered the importance of the process as a probing strategy, of internal development and a manifestation of creative phases.
In 2014, she contributed under the curatorship of the exhibition "305 megapascals," by the Colombian artist Klaudia Muñoz, presented at the Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art (MAAC for its Spanish acronym). This year, Johanna participates as a judge of the illustrations contest of the Guayaquil poet Medardo Angel Silva.
Her interest in cultural diversity has led her to Haiti and Guatemala, where she has collaborated in several assistance missions for poor communities. Traveling is another of her passions. She learned French in Vichy, France, and has resided in Canada, England and the island of Saint Kitts and Nevis, she currently lives with her family in Pittsburgh, United States.


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Mining Company Wants Tsilhquot'in Film Censored at Public Hearing
H/t to Censored News.
Mining company wants film sympathetic to Tsilhqot'in barred from public hearing
UPDATE: Public Hearing Schedule
By Andrew MacLeod March 17, 2010
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Taseko Mines Ltd. is seeking to prevent a federal panel reviewing its proposal for a gold and copper mine in northern British Columbia from showing a public hearing a documentary it says is biased in favour of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation, who are opposed to the project.
The Tsilhqot'in National Government had requested the film, Blue Gold: The Tsilhqot'in Fight for Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), be shown during a public hearing on Taseko's proposal, according to a message sent today to review panel participants by the panel's chair Robert Connelly.
A lawyer acting for Taseko, Keith Clark with the Vancouver firm Lang Michener, outlined the company's concerns in an e-mail to the review panel yesterday. "It is not evidence," he wrote. "It is a propaganda film, produced to influence the opinions or behaviour of people, by providing deliberately biased content in an emotional context. By its nature, there is no opportunity for Taseko or anyone else to challenge it. When it is finished it is done. There is no one to answer questions or clarify any of the assertions."
An e-mail distributed through the Friends of the Nemaiah Valley, one of the groups that funded the documentary directed by Susan Smitten, says Blue Gold is an important film. "It documents the voices of the Tsilhqot'in people themselves," it said. "These voices are not filtered . . . They are the honest and deeply sincere voices of people who are defending their traditional territory.
"Taseko continues to trivialize these voices by labeling the film 'propaganda.'"
The panel intends to consider Taseko's objection during its first day of hearings in Williams Lake on March 22, Connelly wrote.
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Title – Pocketful of Sand
Author – M. Leighton
Publication Date – March 15, 2015
"She's beauty for my ashes. And I'm hope for her heartache."—Cole Danzer
I don't know what makes a great love story. Is it that instant attraction when boy meets girl? The passionate kisses and the fairy-tale ending? Or is it a lifetime of tragedy, paid in advance, for a few stolen moments of pure bliss? The pain and the suffering that, in the end, you can say are worth it for having found the missing piece of your soul?
The answer is: I don't know. I don't know what makes a great love story. I only know what makes my love story. I only know that finding Cole when I did, when Emmy and I were running from a nightmare, was the only thing that saved me. That saved us. He was more broken than I was, but somehow we took each other's shattered pieces and made a whole. If that is what makes a great love story, if that is what makes an epic romance, then mine…ours is the greatest of them all.
Contains material that some may find disturbing. Not intended for readers under the age of 18.
Pocketful of Sand by M. Leighton is one of those books that rips your heart out but you unknowingly become okay with it making you feel all the anxiety, love, and guilt. It's a tale of two broken people who recognize each other's souls and somehow, begin realizing that the other is the key to healing their brokenness. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting to receive with this release, but I definitely can say that it far surpassed any hopes that I had for it.
"If I feel anything, I have to feel everything. The good and the bad. The peaceful and the painful."
There's an element of intrigue that keeps you guessing in the beginning, which morphs into an utter fascination with the world that Leighton creates. I physically could not put down this book. Pocketful of Sand is told from dual points of views of the main characters – Cole and Eden. Both characters have spent years running from a past they would rather forget. The difference lies in the fact that Eden has something to live for in her daughter, Emmy, while Cole has lost everything and is merely surviving. There was something about these two that I was simply drawn to. The way that the two of them fit together provided something very special for their relationship. It was almost as if they could fight it all the wanted, but the two were just meant to figure out a way. They complemented each other perfectly.
"We are two broken people, finding strength in each other's remaining pieces."
Ultimately, this book is one of finding your strength. It's learning how to forgive your past, stop focusing on a future, and truly live in your present. Leighton does something pretty remarkable with the ending as well, and I haven't come across anything like it. It's definitely one that you'll want to experience for yourself as a reader! Pocketful of Sand isn't filled with angst and drama for the sake of a storyline. It describes real, raw emotions with a genuinely captivating feel. Pick this one up and carve out some time because I guarantee that you'll be racing to the end!
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M. Leighton is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction. Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.


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John Stossel's Illegal EverythingMonday, July 1st, 2013
I came across this John Stossel's Illegal Everything and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is well worth the time it takes to watch it.
I came across this John Stossel's Illegal Everything and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is well worth the time it takes to watch it.
This is a must watch.
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War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose 50 years of government spin and media collusion that has dragged our country into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. With remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, the documentary exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people.
Giving special attention to parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, War Made Easy sets government spin and media collusion from the present alongside virtually identical patterns from the past, guided by Solomon's meticulous research and tough-minded analysis. Rare footage of political leaders and journalists from the past includes Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.
Many consumers aren't really privy to what goes on behind the scenes when people use credit cards.
Well, let me tell you, it's not pretty. Virtually any time you use your card — regardless of whether it's a credit card or a debit card that you're using like a credit card — the merchant gets hit with a substantial fee. There is usually a fee made up of a flat, per transaction fee on the order of $.25 to $35, plus a portion of the transaction, which can be as high as 7% in some cases. (Usually it's closer to one or two percent, however.)
It's extremely unlikely that Obama's campaign is not subject to these fees. So, if someone were to, for example, visit Obama's donation page, and make a "donation" of one cent, it would actually cost the Obama campaign something like twenty-five cents.
According to their website, each individual is allowed to donate a total of $5,000 per election cycle. (That's $2,500 for the primary, and $2,500 for the general election.) So, for example, if one were to write a script that "donates" $5,000, one cent at a time, it would result in a net loss of $125,000 for the Obama campaign.
I haven't done it… I'm just sayin'…
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this, but I found it very interesting.
For the sake of context, Encyclopedia Dramatica is, without question, one of the top five least-sane websites on the Internet, in terms of its content. Figuring out exactly what it is, and why, is an exercise that I will leave to you.
Anyway, this is the blog post I found. It's by Joseph Evers, the founder of ED.
For those unaware, Encyclopedia Dramatica has been in a lot of trouble in Australia lately. First ED was placed on the ACMA blacklist, a "secret" list of websites to be censored throughout Australia in their upcoming internet filter. After this list was leaked to the public, we all laughed about how we were put on a blacklist with "Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions, Christian sites, and even the websites of a tour operator and a Queensland dentist". Meanwhile, Australia Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called for the arrests of Australians publishing the list.
So here's the deal. This is an initial investigation into charging me, personally, with the violation of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act. While I act in complete compliance with both the civil and criminal codes of the United States of America, and am assured the right of free speech according to our Constitution (which, if not the greatest political document in the entire history of law, is certainly on the top five) I can personally be jailed and fined for the violation of this law. Check out the court precedent they cite, Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick, where a United States paper had to pay 580k for publishing an article about a globalized company headquartered in Australia and its CEO whilst completely in compliance with United States civil precedence. This isn't a far-fetched legal theory, they have used it before. Welcome to the one world government, folks. Is this what you wanted? Is this what you had in mind? Cause this is what you're gettin'.
Encyclopedia Dramatica will never be censored in any way. We will keep publishing this content and our Australian users will be able to view it up until the point that your God-forsaken government blocks it with their soon-to-be-implemented secret list of banned material. ACMA's child pornography blacklist is only one half child pornography. The rest is religious and political speech. You really want Soviet-style communism as your future? I know some people that had to escape from the GDR. Many of your children will be in that position. The house of cards is about to come down, and they're making sure your mouths are taped shut first. Don't say I didn't warn you.
My counsel has advised me that I can never under any circumstances visit my family in Sydney again, nor otherwise make any appearances on Australian soil. Here's to the hidden cost of freedom.
Scary. I've only been to ED a few times in my life, but their content has nothing to do with the issue at hand. I applaud Joseph for refusing to censor his wiki site, and I find this trend of global cooperation among pro-censorship bureaucracies incredibly chilling.
If you follow CNN, you're almost certainly already aware that, due to a shortage of IP addresses, "the internet might stop working."
I just wanted to take a moment to make three quick points:
1) The Internet is not going to stop working when we run out of IP addresses. In fact, that whole idea is incomprehensibly dumb.
2) There are PLENTY of IP addresses!!
Okay, get this… There are fewer than 300 million internet users in the world. There are over 4 BILLION IPv4 addresses.
Get it? There are plenty of addresses. The problem is not the number of addresses. The problem is that the crackheads assigning them don't care whether or not they end up being utilized. What an incredible (and expensive) waste.
3) There is a very simple solution to this that doesn't involve spending billions of dollars on forcing the world to move to IPv6 before it's ready:
ARIN should just start reclaiming unused IP blocks.
It's that simple. It really is.
Ping each IP address, and if there's no response, check a few ports.
Use that data to create a utilization metric for each IP block.
If the IP block is underutilized, or not used at all, simply recover part or all of the IP block for someone else to use.
That's it. That's all that has to be done.
People are idiots.
So here's the Plain English version of what's going on, as I understand it.
What You Should Already Know
Everybody knows that the US Government is running a HUGE deficit — like $1.8 trillion so far this year — way more than the average human can fathom. I think it's also safe to assume that everybody understands that this money is borrowed from other governments, like China, Japan, Brazil, the UK, etc.
So, obviously, the US government has to pay interest on this money that it borrows. It makes these payments by borrowing more money, which results in more interest payments for which even more money must be borrowed, and so on. The cycle continues as the debt increases exponentially.
What You May Already Know
This works fine as long as other countries continue to have an appetite for US debt. However, if they were to decide not to continue buying more and more US debt, the US Treasury would not longer to be able to afford to service its debt and would have to default. Total chaos would ensue, like you can't imagine. Many banks would be rendered insolvent overnight, mutual funds and ETF's would be wiped out, corporate and individual savings would be depleted, tons of governments — both foreign and domestic — would instantly go bankrupt, and the $100 trillion T-Bond futures market would be crushed.
But, that will never happen, because this is America, and the rest of the world will always want more and more and more of our debt, no matter how much we create. It's a risk-free investment, after all!
What Just Happened
So, long story short, it turns out that last week the Treasury started having trouble unloading some of that freshly-created debt. Actually, they couldn't sell about half of it. But not to worry — Bernanke's crew quietly stepped in, printed $14 billion out of thin air, and used it to buy up all those bonds nobody else wanted.
That's an easy quick fix, because most people probably won't even learn about what happened, but it should send off alarm bells for anyone who has any interaction with the US economy.
See… if nobody wants to buy the US treasury's debt, they basically have two options: They can default on the debt, which I described above, OR, since the government can print its own money, they can print money like crazy to continue financing their madness.
The latter is what seems to be going on right now. The problem with this is that as they create more new money, the existing money — the cash that's in your wallet and bank accounts — loses value. Since your money is less valuable, it takes more of it to buy the same stuff. In other words, prices go up. Economists call this "price inflation" for obvious reasons.
All modern governments do this to some degree. This is why prices gradually go up over time. It's basically a hidden tax.
However, the more the US government inflates the money supply to finance their deficit spending, the faster the US Dollar will lose its value. If this continues, the US economy could enter into a state of hyperinflation, and virtually all of the value of the USD could be wiped out.
This is nothing unprecedented. The US did it back in the 1860′s, Germany did it in the 1920′s, China did it in the 1940′s, Israel did it in the 80′s, and Zimbabwe is doing it today. These are just a few of many, many examples.
I guess the biggest difference is that everyone in the US seems to think it can't happen here, but apparently it's starting to slowly unfold.
Stefan Molyneux does a fantastic job of explaining exactly why. It all boils down to the government-enforced monopoly that is the AMA. This is a must watch for anyone who has any interest in the current health care debate.
If you get all of your news from media outlets in the US, you're totally missing out. Podcast clients like Miro make it not only possible, but very easy, and very convenient, to get on-demand news from around the world. You pick and choose your content sources, and episodes just download automatically. I see content every day that I would never, ever see from the US media. One example from just a few minutes ago is this two-part interview between Josh Rushing and Michael Mullen about the US military strategy in Afghanistan. Just ask yourself while you watch: "Would anyone in the American mainstream media ever dare ask questions like this?" I will list the RSS URLs of some of my content picks in case you're interested in checking it out for yourself:
These are just three out of about thirty content sources that I receive video from daily. If you have one that you feel should be listed here, let me know. Or, if you want to see my list of Technology or Libertarian content sources, let me know.
If you watched Ron Paul's opening statement and discussion with Bernanke regarding the definition of inflation, I'd encourage you to check out Alan Grayson's and Bill Posey's follow-up questions:


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7:00 pm 23 October 2013
(Note the first: this is in response to a discussion group, hence the heavy discussion of Maggie Krusemark.)
(Note the second: part of the reason I'm cribbing my response rather than writing a fresh review is that I am down with a bad cold. I may have missed details.)
I'm going to call this one a fun and very fast read--I went through it all in one sitting, took slightly less than three hours--and tip my hat to it for the ending; I'd bump it up half a star if I could for that.
the little asides and references; I read the Emma Dodd Harvest Memorial Clinic as a shout-out to the Dodds from
Harvest Home
, and Angel's claim in Walter's Congress of Wonders to that he's not a salesman of "insurance or lightning rods" as one to the opening of
Something Wicked This Way Comes
, for example.
The sister thing didn't bug me; possibly because I went in knowing vaguely about Angel's history, I thought of it (in terms of technique) as foreshadowing the lie that Harry Angel and Johnny Favorite were different people; the one the reader sees is really the good one, and the evil one is off and away somewhere else. In terms of story, I took it as Maggie lying to stall someone who was setting her on edge about Johnny; I figured that Angel's contact would have mentioned a sister. (Something like "it ran in the family; they called her the Witch of Wellesley, and her sister flips cards in Carnegie Hall.")
(And of course Favorite was a Gemini. Of course.)
Not really subtle, but at least nicely textured, you know?
WRT the Black Mass; my opinion of Angel took a very hard nosedive when he was just sitting there taking pictures of the rape and murder during the ceremony, and that made the rest of the book rather less engaging. I may pick up another [a:William Hjortsberg|8058|William Hjortsberg|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1333048656p2/8058.jpg] later when I've got more time; this one felt like a fast, slightly pulpy horror/crime mix, and that's no bad thing, but I have a bunch of books to run through first.
7:00 pm 11 October 2013
Decent thriller, though the switching out perspectives during the near-climactic fight felt like a bit of a cheat and threw me out of the action. Still, solid, and will probably check out more by him.
7:00 pm 24 September 2013
(I understand I should mention I got my copy as a gift. And it came with a little rubber kidney.
A kidne, people.
You try explaining to a bewildered barista why that's making you laugh. The looks you get.)
Another book that's making me revisit my policy of reserving five stars for books that everyone should read regardless of whether they are usually interested in the genre--because by any other metric, this would be a five-star book. It's thoughtful, strange, creepy, weird, clever--it ranges from layering strange new meaning onto the quasquicentennial-old[1] events to reinterpreting them in new settings to addressing just what can develop out of a driving obsession with Jack.
Seriously worth picking up, for those with an interest in the Ripper, fans of horror, and those who enjoy the supernatural mixed with their crime fiction.
[1] Another plus. Do you know how few books teach me new words?
7:00 pm 5 September 2013
I'm waffling between three and four stars, because it made me cringe a couple of times when it was meant to make me cringe, but ultimately I do not think it is
the kind of thing that absolutely everyone into the genre would need to read. So three.
That said: dear god this thing reads like an icepick. Direct, brutal, straight to the point, fast and slick and hard. I don't think it can be his best work, but I look forward to digging up more.
7:00 pm 3 September 2013
On the good side: solid plot, smooth interweaving of the now and then, some really beautiful description, and lovely characterization (one struck me as a bit false, but they didn't matter much to the story, I think).
On the down side: I am inclined to be suspicious of stories which unfold a truth (note that this is
a truth
, not
a clue
) that the main character "should" have known but forgot. But it was done fairly well.
Overall solid; will keep an eye out for other works by the author.
7:00 pm 25 August 2013
Honestly, the overwhelming desire to shake the protagonist until his teeth fell out and he stopped being such a selfish whittering whiner made this incredibly hard to get into. Everyone else seems at least interesting (although I side-eye the Manic Pixie Dream Girl), but right now I just cannot plough through the POV character to get to them. May revisit next year or something: right now, it's going back to the library.
7:00 pm 14 August 2013
I think Simon Logan may be one of the few people whose novels I like better than his short stories. A very quick read, cinematic and grim and twisted.
Close to the Bone (Logan McRae)
7:00 pm 13 August 2013
Solid McRae, but it felt a little more scattered than usual. Mind, I have had a very long week, so that might have simply been my buckling down to read it while in a rather frangible state of mind. (No, not fragile. Frangible.)
Still; the usual weaving together of plot threads, the usual battered-and-gritty setting, and a couple of secondary characters I hope to see again (plus a brief walk-on from good old Jackie). I imagine that at most there's two more books before Logan needs to decide what to do about Wee Hamish, and if he keeps dragging his feet on that until the last minute he's in for it.
(Also, Logan McRae, for the everbleeding love,
answer your messages in a timely fashion
. Still not doing that? Nope? Right, carry on.)
The Best British Mysteries 2006
7:00 pm 9 August 2013
This was an odd one; a few of the stories I'd call straight up horror before anything else, and several of them were definitely crime stories but had zero elements of mystery or even deduction. Some of them were a little stilted, but none of them were bad.
(Also, a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes riffs. Fun with the one that began "To Professor Moriarty, she will always be
that bitch
." although I think the one done entirely from Watson's perspective as he recruits the young conman is excellent.)
A pretty solid read, though, and no complaints.
7:00 pm 6 August 2013
As usual, four stars is my "recommend to anyone who'd like the genre" marker, but I'm not sure what the genre
. Dark and lovely and
written adult fairy tales I suppose, although it feels a bit odd to call them adult. (I mean, there's clearly sex going on, but it's a little distant, hardly ever explicitly referred to, and the emotional entanglements and compulsions are sad and/or creepy four times out of five.)
(It reminds me of [b:Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & other Horrors|9147711|Engines of Desire Tales of Love & other Horrors|Livia Llewellyn|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1298570681s/9147711.jpg|14026601] a fair bit, actually.)
Ultimately, I think it's the sad distance in the tone of so many of the stories that keeps me from going for four stars; the writing was amazing and beautiful and evocative, but so many of the stories left me feeling a little like I was having a sad day, and couldn't tell anyone why. Definitely worth looking at, if fairy tale retellings are at all your thing, but be warned of possible disconsolation.
7:00 pm 5 August 2013
This is the story of a boy whose mother is sick, and the monster that comes to call.
It is a sad book, and a true one (in that it speaks a truth, not the truth; I think it is smart enough to realize that the topic it is addressing is not one it can fully dress down in words). I have not decided if it is a kind or a cruel book; if it is kind, it is a terrible sort of kindness.
I wrote, once, seven-months-and-change ago, about how there is a dearth of narratives for accepting that you have finished grieving. This is not about that, but it speaks to the shunning--of aspects, of truth, of a person entire--that arises in response to apparently terminal illness, and I think the topics are related.
It strikes me as very worth reading, and I recommend picking it up most strongly.
7:00 pm 16 July 2013
I keep trying to come up for a better adjective for this story than
, and I can't do it. (The book's not unpolished; that's quite different.) It's a three-in-the-morning, diner-coffee, grit-spit-and-grime ragged tired running lonely scared book.
And it manages to work through all the storytelling possible problems associated with a protagonist who sees what's coming, and finishes up with a
I liked it. Right at the end, there, I loved it a little bit.
Will check out the next one.
7:00 pm 7 July 2013
Odd story; for me, four stars means anyone who's interested in this kind of thing should read it, but in this case I'm not sure what "this kind of thing"
, exactly. Literary adventure ghost story?
Still, enjoyed.
The Innsmouth Syndrome
7:00 pm 30 June 2013
Pleasant read. Found the writing a tiny bit choppy in some spots, but otherwise solid; a reasonable update of what Innsmouth might be like in the modern day. Will keep an eye on the author's other stuff.
Ghost I Have Met and Some Others
7:00 pm 30 June 2013
A bit overarch sometimes, and a bit stiff, but largely lightly funny and occasionally pleasantly creepy. I think I might look this one up in paperbook; it feels like the kind of book which would particularly suffer from being e-read.
7:00 pm 29 June 2013
I have just hit page 245 of 336, and unless I am
stunned by the resolution of this book, or hear something a hell of a lot better about where this series goes - possibly after a several-book break, because I understand I am only on book six of fifteen - this is going to be my last
Dresden Files
book. Or at least the last one from Harry's POV.
Yep. I'm done.
When the guy you hired has been leering at and creeping out your friend who does not like him; when your friend goes into an extremely dangerous situation where both you and her are relying on this hired person's expertise (which exceeds yours and hers together); when your friend ends up in a situation where she cannot move except under this person's direction or all three of you plus several small children will be literally torn to pieces; when the hired person then needs to strip your friend's pants off; when your friend, whom you cannot see, gasps and starts sounding uncertain...
When your response to all that is
If he's taking advantage of the situation to do anything sexual to my friend, it's obviously wrong for me to want to do anything about it because
not the one fucking her, that's the sensible logical approach everyone goes by
, you have dropped off the bottom of my list of tolerably flawed protagonists.
I hear he keeps getting better, but unless anyone can offer specific assurances that he gets better
, yeah, I'm done.
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