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The US Treasury has failed to provide oversight of vital parts of its $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp), according to a report issued today by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)."The Treasury has yet to address a number of critical issues, including determining how it will ensure that the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) is achieving its intended goals and monitoring compliance with limitations on executive compensation and dividend payments," the GAO noted.
Additionally, the office said further efforts were required to establish internal controls for monitoring how Tarp funds are used and to establish an effective management structure.
Revision of executive remuneration and bonuses within financial firms, which have come under increasing scrutiny in the current economic climate, was an essential component of the CPP. In the initial plans, the Treasury stipulated compensation based on materially inaccurate earnings had to be refunded, while golden parachute payments were to be scrapped.
However, the GAO noted the Treasury has yet to determine how it will monitor firms' compliance with its compensation rules. "Without a consistent process for monitoring participating institutions, the Treasury's ability to identify and address any potential problems in these institutions' compliance with programme requirements will be limited," the GAO warned.
In addition, the GAO said, the Treasury "has not yet set up policies and procedures to help ensure the CPP funds are being used as intended". The GAO noted the Treasury's ability to ensure accountability and transparency will be hindered without this oversight.
The report notes that, while institutions participating in the CPP are subject to restrictions on dividend payments and repurchasing of shares, "the Treasury has no policies and procedures in place for ensuring the institutions are complying with these requirements or that they are using the capital investments in a manner that helps meet the purposes of the Act".
Furthermore, the GAO believes the Treasury's ability to oversee the implementation of Tarp has been affected by the change in the direction of the programme. Initially, Tarp's primary focus was expected to be the purchase of illiquid mortgage-backed securities and wholesale loans. However, on November 25 the focus of the programme switched to providing financial institutions additional capital through purchases of senior preferred stock. A total of $250 billion of the $700 billion Tarp funds was allotted to the CPP, while the Treasury also purchased $115 billion in senior preferred shares of eight national financial institutions.
The GAO recommends the Treasury works with bank regulators to establish a system for reporting whether the activities of financial institutions are "generally consistent with the purposes of CPP and help ensure an appropriate level of accountability and transparency". Additionally, the GAO said, the Treasury must ensure institutions participating in CPP comply with key programme requirements, including those covering executive compensation, dividend payments and the repurchase of stock.
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Faithful Place by Tana French
Viking, July 13, 2010
"Howyis," I said, in the doorway.
A ripple of mugs going down, heads turning. My ma's snappy black eyes and five bright-blue pairs exactly like mine, all staring at me.
"Hide the heroin," Shay said. He was leaning against the window with his hands in his pockets; he'd watched me coming down the road. "It's the pigs." . . .
"Francis," Ma said. She eased back into the sofa, folded her arms where her waist would have been and eyed me up and down. "Could you not be bothered putting on a decent shirt, even?"
I said, "Howya, Ma."
"Mammy, not Ma. The state of you. The neighbors'll think I raised a homeless."
Somewhere along the way I'd swapped the army parka for a brown leather jacket, but apart from that I still have much the same fashion sense I left home with. If I'd worn a suit, she would have given me hassle for having notions of myself. With my ma you don't expect to win.
Stieg Larsson fans have something to look forward to until the release of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest on May 25. I knew that there had been Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium Trilogy, and that a Hollywood version is in the works. What I didn't know—until last night, when a trailer screened at the Belcourt movie theater in Nashville—is that the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is coming to the United States. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the movie has already grossed $100 million abroad. It's also 153 minutes long and features brutally violent scenes.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the adaptation is worth a watch:
The film adaptation of the first book, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is, like its source material, at once formula thriller, scathing social commentary and dark history lesson. But it's also a more eloquent work; smartly condensing the novel's sprawl, the feature forgoes prosaic detail for cinematic vigor. The result is a character-driven mystery of considerable emotional power, often harrowing and always compelling.
Related content: Read how the director cast Lisbeth in this interview with the Wall Street Journal. And don't miss our reviews of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire.
I first heard about Helen Grant's debut, The Vanishing of Katherina Linden, in a British look ahead at anticipated debuts of 2010. Intrigued by the description of the novel, which is told in the voice of an 11 year old in a small German town who is the last one to see her missing classmate alive, I searched for a U.S. release date. No dice.
Until today, when I heard that Delacorte would be publishing the book in August. I love the deliciously creepy cover, which is a good fit for a book that sounds like a blend of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the Brothers Grimm. According to the Guardian, "The excellent writing, and the eschewing of anything remotely winsome or mawkish, make this an eerily subtle literary page-turner." Sleeper hit? We'll find out.
A month ago we reported on Libba Bray's $2 million deal to write a jazz-age trilogy for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Now, it looks like the huge YA contract of the month is going to a newcomer: HarperTeen has paid seven figures to Josephine Angelini for a trilogy billed as "a Percy Jackson for teenage girls."
From Publisher's Weekly:
In Starcrossed, which brings Greek tragedy to high school, a shy Nantucket teenager named Helen Hamilton attempts to kill the most attractive boy on the island, Lucas Delos, in front of her entire class. The incident proves more than a bit inconvenient for Helen, who's already concerned that she's going insane—whenever she's sees Lucas (or any of his family members) the image of three crying women appear to her.
Related in BookPage: Read an interview with Libba Bray or a review of The Lightning Thief, the first book in the Percy Jackson series.
Last week—on the publication date of House Rules—Simon & Schuster released the official iPhone app for Jodi Picoult. With the app, you can keep up with Picoult's news and Twitter feed; write on a fan wall; receive tour updates; and even read "exclusive recipes from Jodi and music that she's written."
Picoult's not the only author with an iPhone app; in December, Random House launched a line of apps for authors, including Steve Berry, Sophie Kinsella and Karen Marie Moning.
Do any Book Case readers use author apps? What feature do you find most fun/useful? Or is reading the author's book enough?
It's always fun to stumble across a literary landmark, and over a weekend trip to Memphis, I was excited to see a plaque paying tribute to John Grisham and The Firm. In the book, Mitchell McDeere takes a job with a Memphis-based tax firm.
Are there any literary landmarks in your city?
Speaking of Grisham, there's been a bit of news lately surrounding the king of legal thrillers. On May 25, Penguin will publish his first foray into children's books: Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer. Theodore Boone is a 13-year-old amateur attorney "who knows more about the law than most lawyers do"—and gets wrapped up in a high-profile murder trial. James Patterson's had success as a teen author; can Grisham do the same?
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Last week's mail brought a copy of the latest from Ann Brashares. Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first-novel narrative of love and friendship.
My Name Is Memory sounds a bit more exciting. Like the Traveling Pants stories, it has a magical angle. The book follows a pair of star-crossed lovers—Daniel and Sophia—through several incarnations as they find, and then lose, each other again. The twist? Daniel can remember his past lives.
Brashares says on her blog, "This new book is kind of a departure for me. Not a total departure--it's mainly about love. But it takes place on a broad canvas of time." Though the novel won't hit stores until June, it's already been optioned by New Regency, who saw the book as a blend of Twilight and The Time-Traveler's Wife. Sounds like a bestseller, but judge for yourself—there's an excerpt on Brashares' site. We'll be digging into this one soon and will keep you posted!
Still, it was nice to see the Los Angeles Times run an article this morning recognizing crossover hits like The Hunger Games trilogy or Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. And any readers who don't buy the YA trend can't argue with these numbers: In the first half of 2009, adult hardcover sales were down 17.8%; children's/young adult hardcovers were up 30.7%.
Lizzie Skurnick, author of a book of essays on teens books from the '60s and '70s explains why YA authors are popular with a wide audience:
YA authors are able to take themselves less seriously. They're able to have a little more fun, and they're less confined by this idea of themselves as Very Important Artists. That paradoxically leads them to create far better work than people who are trying to win awards.
There's a lot of fresh content available on BookPage.com this week. Below, we offer a teaser: first lines from new reviews and features you won't want to miss. Click the book titles to read more. (Don't get mad at us if you start bursting your budget at the bookstore!)
Were any other New York Times Book Review watchers as surprised as I was to see this week's cover? Their choice of Angelology makes two fiction covers in the last three weeks, which has to be a record. What's more, Danielle Trussoni's first novel is more commercial than not, with a supernatural angle and plenty of action—not the usual NYTBR material.
But hey, maybe they've seen the wisdom in the BookPage philosophy of featuring books that many people will want to read—we also tagged Angelology as a spring standout. In a BookPage.com exclusive, Trussoni wrote about her inspiration for the novel, first in a planned series ("As you can imagine, the places and characters in my book are extremely different from my "real life" as a 30-something mother of two.").
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Chelsy Davy may have been back on Prince Harry's arm for the Royal Wedding April 29, but there are no nuptials on the horizon for the two.
The Zimbabwean-born Davy returned to the UK for the wedding and is said to be giving her on-off relationship with Harry another chance.
But friends say she's seen what Kate Middleton is subjected to and wants none of it: "No way we are getting married. It's not a life for me."
Perhaps there's hope for Pippa Middleton and Prince Harry yet!
Prince Harry invited Chelsy to the wedding as his date and he has told friends he wants to make their five-year relationship work. But does she?
Chelsy Davy starts work as a trainee solicitor at a London law firm in September, and sources say that's where her focus is now - her career:
"Harry really wants things to work. He has brought up marriage in the past – usually when he's drunk – but Chelsy quickly plays it down."
"She thought the wedding was wonderful but she's watched what Kate went through and how much she sacrifices, and says it's not for her."That being said, she and Harry were the rock star MVPs of the wedding weekend, and had a blast at the reception and after party together.
"They were all over each other and Harry went back to Chelsy's flat before sneaking out and going home. They were very much an item, but who knows what will happen now," says a source. "They have a very turbulent relationship."
There's also the matter of the Prince's military obligations.
While Chelsy prepares to start work, Harry has another eight months at RAF Wattisham, where he is training to be an Apache helicopter pilot.
"Harry's got to get his head down so he completes his training but he is much happier with Chelsy moving back to London," the source said.
"She wants to make it work – she has missed Haz – but the truth is she really doesn't like the attention that comes with dating a prince."
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Prince Harry shouldn't marry her!I love him to death.He's my type plus he has a banging body!This is my dream:To get married at Westminster Abbey to a royal,well of coarse move to London,meet him himself..That's it but I really wAnt to!If I could meet Prince Harry I would cry my heart out,If he reads this I have to say this:You're sexy,And I love You.If I meet you expect me to cry!I love you and always will!Bye now I love u,I love u,I love U,I love u,I love u!=)
I think they really love each other and good for each other and I like too see them at the another royal wedding!!!!
I can't stand these bad slutty girls tbh. Kate seems evil and fake. Like she didn't look like she really loved Prince William when I saw them get married..she planned it all out like Wow said. I think these girls are so not the right girls for the two princes. Di would of been soo disapointed and if she was still alive, those girls would not be in the picture. at all imo
HAHAHA yea right! she wants that ring! She is such a SCAMER She is soooooo planning this one out. She has Harry right where she wants him! Eating from the palm of her hand. Playing her cards like kate did, is all shes doing. btw kate was soo desprate that she was willing to wait ten yrs for that ring. Not true love boys. There are so many women who would love you for who you are..you don't need this barbie mess.
shes lying!!!! Why on earth is she with him if she wants non of it?? & what the eff does sh mean by how much kate had to sacrifice, its not like shes working. least this chick has a job.
She wants to marry prince Harry. Why is she still with him unless she's just leading him on? Downplaying marriage talks is a strategy. Prince Harry will be so amazed that she is not desperate to marry him so he's gonna wanna marry her. Haha. Chelsy just doesn't want to look like a desperate commoner who wants to marry into the royal family. It's bound to happen, they'll marry. Wait and see.
What the Hell!! Bitch! Fergie is Royalty...American Royalty. The slut looks like a Barbie after a gang rape. LEAVE FERGIE OUT OF THIS MESS. Thw wedding was a bore, Kate looks old and frigid...Andrew looks like a tall yard gnome. Boring...Kat aint no Princess Di. Everyone is afraid to tell it like it is....she is another babt factory for the Royals...that don't do shit but complain about being soooooo privilaged....poor little shit heads...send out the Seals!
LMAO! I do not believe this for one minute. Everyone wants the ring.. the commitment.. and the lifestyle. Please. Who is (or I mean.. her "friends) trying to kid? HE WON'T MARRY HER! She's not royal material. She looks like a new version of Ferguson.


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for Couplesby A verified travellerfrom Virginia
Great hotel. Very unique and eclectic. Super staffPosted 18-Nov-2014
Pros: the room, staff, location and especially the roof top restaurant/pool/sitting area. Not to be missed.
Cons: nothing. Perfect in every way.
Location: shopping and dining. Sunset blvd is nearby, too. We were able to visit the Viper Room by walking a block.
Highly recommended. Very eclectic. Great staff. Tons of artwork. Easy walk to dining and shopping.
for Couplesby A verified travellerfrom Costa Mesa, CA
Boutique HotelPosted 28-Oct-2014
Pros: The roof-top restaurant, bar and pool area.
Cons: We requested an upper floor room but the only room available was on the first floor which was just below street level.
Location: Easy Uber ride to the Hollywood Bowl, not far to the Getty Museum and other LA attractions and restaurants.
My wife and I planned this get away weekend in LA for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl and a day at the Getty Museum. The Petit Ermitage was the perfect definition of a "Boutique" hotel. It was charming, the staff was extremely pleasant, and the service was exceptional. The 4th floor roof-top restaurant, bar and pool provided a classy LA experience without the craziness of LA crowds. We definitely feel we have found a hidden gem.
by A verified travellerfrom canada
Dark & Dingy !Posted 21-Oct-2014
How did this hotel get such a high rating ?! I would give this hotel 2.5* & that's only because of the location & good water pressure in the shower ! It's like a creepy haunted house with amenities & nothing to make the guest feel welcome. The staff are just kids & will not make eye contact. I needed a hair dryer & asked twice & it never came. There are no stores, coffee shops within a comfortable walk. The lighting is terrible in the room. Save yourself the misery & book the Andaz hotel on sunset blvd like I should have :(
for Everyoneby A verified traveller
Very comfortable hotel, but not a great locationPosted 8-Oct-2014
Pros: helpful staff and the size and cleanliness of the bedrooms
Cons: clearer instructions on how to control the temperature in the rooms!
Location: already explained in my overall experience
This hotel was very clean, tidy and all staff were helpful and friendly. However, the location of the hotel was a little awkward as we were at least a 40 minute bus journey from Santa Monica and an hour's walk from central Hollywood. We were fortunately close to a supermarket which sold a huge variety of food, but we struggled to find any restaurants for evening dining which were within walking distance of the hotel. In conclusion, a great hotel if you're happy to stay there for the entirety of your trip or have enough money (or a car) to travel to the various tourist attractions in the area.
for Everyoneby A verified travellerfrom Australia
Great location. Wonderful experience. A pleasurePosted 14-Sep-2014
Pros: Location, ambience, friendliness and "something different".
Cons: Nothing!
Location: The location was excellent. A block away from the action on Santa Monica it's convenient yet quiet. Proximity to restaurants, clubs and stores.
We thoroughly enjoyed our 3 night stay end of August 2014. The hotel was beautifully located in a quiet back street and perfectly located in LA for our needs. The staff were attentive and friendly we felt really at home. We loved the rooftop decks and pool with the marvellous views. Really cannot recommend Petit Hermitage enough. The eclectic fit out of the hotel was a welcome relief from the usual cookie cutter hotel decor. It's definitely not the cheapest place in town but certainly the cost is more than offset by the quality and ambience of the place. We certainly had no regrets about our stay and shelling out the bit extra.
for Everyoneby A verified travellerfrom Sydney
Love this place xPosted 14-Sep-2014
Pros: Everything.
After booking this hotel I decided to read reviews whilst waiting for my flight at the airport. Do not read the negative reviews for this hotel, these people are incredibly fussy because I did not encounter one negative during my stay, Hotel staff are by far the best hotel staff I have come across. Rooms are amazing and incredibly spacious. Very clean. Great facilities. Loved the decor and bohemian feel. Ideal location is West Hollywood. A must stay in LA.
by A verified traveller
Posted 3-Aug-2014
Pros: nothing really
Cons: everything
i was very disappointed in the conditions of the hotel for the level of stars. I will not stay here again and would not recommend this hotel to anyone i know - unless i didn't like them. The elevator's floor was torn up. The room was only OK at best - the cabinet where the mini bar was located was in complete disrepair and a mess. Over all the condition of the hotel and staff did not warrant a 4 star - this was a better rating for a 2 star.
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The Suite was Excellent and Food AmazingPosted 25-Jul-2014 on Hotels.com
We arrived to a wine and cheese happy hour in the charming courtyard. The breakfast the next morning was even better. We stayed in the suite which was spacious and made you feel like you were really in the countryside. Would definitely recommend this place to anyone.
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While I have much respect and admiration for pacifism and pacifists like Tolstoy, Ghandi, Quakers and the like, I have always been uneasy at the long-term prospects for achieving peace and liberty without the right of self-defense and the ability to do so if necessary.
Libertarianism is essentially the non-aggression principle writ large, meaning that force can only be used in self-defense when others have broken this principle and initiated coercion (or threatened to do so in a highly credible manner). This does not reject pacifism per se, only that you have the right to defend yourself. Should you choose to turn the other cheek, that is your business.
Chris Dates at Bill Buppert's great website has a very interesting article on the distinctions between, and the relative utility of, pacifism and self-defense:
How does a person come to hold the belief of absolute nonviolence? What about this belief draws people to it? Is nonviolence the logical conclusion of non-aggression? These are the question that I have been asking myself as of late, because there is a growing number of people within the liberty movement who are latching onto the belief of absolute nonviolence. I'd like to explore this idea, and try to lay out an argument as to why I think it is not only wrong, but also dangerous to adopt this belief.
One who believes in, and adheres to, the non-aggression principle makes a fundamental moral distinction between aggressive violence, and retaliatory violence. One who adheres to a principle of nonviolence does not make the same distinction. Or, perhaps they do, but they see retaliatory violence as violence nonetheless, and therefore wrong, or immoral, or "against God" or something else. It is important to note here that I will not be discussing non-aggression and nonviolence from a pragmatic point of view, rather I will be discussing these things from a position of principle.
The absolute pacifist paints themselves into a tough philosophical corner. In order to remain consistent they necessarily have to abandon other positions they hold in order to avoid contradictions. For instance, any concept of justice that involves any level of violence must be rejected by one who adopts this belief. It would be a contradiction to advocate for any form of justice that involves capturing and punishing a criminal; any concept of justice that condones the use of physical force to apprehend and contain a criminal must be abandoned. Likewise, any form of government that was not wholly voluntary would also have to be discarded. It may be the case that the entire concept of government will have to be abandoned if it's not absolutely nonviolent. The only form of government that would be possible if the nonviolent position is adopted is autarchy–absolute self government.
I think it is a non-sequitur to make the jump from non-aggression to the position of absolute nonviolence. I am of the opinion that these beliefs are spawned from two completely different principles. Non-aggression does not presuppose nonviolence, as the person who holds the belief in non-aggression will violently defend the self, while the person who adheres to the belief in nonviolence will not. A person who has chosen to defend themselves using retaliatory violence necessarily believes that their own life is of higher value than a belief in nonviolence. The belief in absolute nonviolence presupposes that the concept of nonviolence is greater than the value of one's own life. Non-aggresssion is a belief that is founded in the self, and absolute nonviolence is altruistic. This is why I claim it is illogical to jump from one belief to the other, because they are based upon two principles that could not be farther apart from each other. Any person who makes the illogical jump from non-aggression to nonviolence demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the principles involved. I believe that even the doubt of self defense would exhibit that same misunderstanding.
Yet, I claim this is exactly the jump that some are making. I think the focus is being placed on the wrong thing. It is true, that, in some cases, nonviolence is a perfectly reasonable tool, and I believe that these particular instances are being mistaken as nonviolence being the correct principle in all cases, but that is a clear error in reasoning. It is important to remember that one who adheres to the non-aggression principle will defend themselves because their ultimate goal is self-preservation. As I mentioned before, non-aggression is premised on the self, and if there is an instance where utilizing retaliatory violence will endanger the self, then, rationally, it ought to be abandoned in that case.
One of my favorite parts in the movie, Rob Roy is the scene where the MacGregor Clan is contemplating on what to do about the feudal landlord thugs who destroyed their home and property. Rob Roy comes to the conclusion that it is more reasonable to not retaliate, because he fears the retribution from the retaliation will be swift and ruthless. He understands that everyone is still breathing in and out, and that property that is lost can be regained except for the self, once that is lost, it's lost forever. I would like to expand further on this point, because I think it cuts right to the heart of the matter. In this movie scene, Rob Roy demonstrates that even the concept of personal property is not of higher value than one's own life. One cannot recreate and rebuild if one is not alive.
Where else might retaliatory violence be a bad idea? When one is faced with overwhelming odds it may be reasonable to abandon the use of violence. I don't think I need to give many examples of this, as I'm sure you, the reader, can think of many instances where you may be out manned, out gunned, out witted, or just simply out classed. Many people in the liberty movement believe that armed resistance to an oppressive government is not the right solution–and I happen to agree with them–but this instance should not be mistaken for nonviolence being universally true. There are many differences between resistance to a rogue government, and resistance to a petty thug.
There is a vast epistemological difference between the actor performing under what they believe to be legitimate government authority, and the actor who has actually chosen to become a thug. The thug is the one who is conceptualizing evil, and bringing it into existence. This may not be the case for the government actor. Even though the end results may mirror each other, the two actors are operating under very different premises. One is bringing evil into existence by way of premeditated thought, and one is bringing evil into existence by following orders. This is precisely why the use of reason may still be wielded on the government actor with some positive result; they have not yet crossed over into the dark side. There is still hope that there is a human being inside of that mortal coil. This is why nonviolent resistance to a violent government may be effective. Think about it: Would you nonviolently resist if you knew the person you were facing was acting out of pure evil? Is it reasonable to do so?
Here is a quote from Martin Luther King that touches on this subject…
"When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: 'Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong,' you hardly know what to do. You feel defeated and secretly ashamed. You know that this man is as good a man as you are; that from some mysterious source he has found the courage and the conviction to meet physical force with soul force." (Martin Luther King, Jr. — "Why We Can't Wait", 1964, chapter 2, "The Sword That Heals", p. 30)
Would it be reasonable for one who believes in absolute nonviolence to utilize this same tactic against the home invader in the middle of the night? I do not think so. The home invader has made the conscience decision to carry out this act, and has prepared himself physically and mentally to carry out this crime. This example is light years apart from the government actor who is carrying out orders he perceives to be legitimate. The reason that non-aggression is adopted as a principle and not nonviolence is because the goal is to keep on living with their own life being the highest value.
The person who adheres to the non-aggression principle does not paint themselves into that same philosophical corner the absolute pacifist does. The libertarian will adopt whatever they believe to be the most reasonable choice in any given instance. Some of you may be thinking, "but that's pragmatic!" No, it's not, because non-aggression is but a tool for the deeper axiom of self-ownership. This is why the self-owner can use the tools of non-aggression and nonviolence interchangeably, because their axiom is their own life. I cannot say that about the person who adopts the principle of absolute nonviolence as they necessarily believe that there is something greater than their own life, and that is false to fact.
In my opinion, it is dangerous to let this type of thinking creep its way into the liberty movement. When a person desires liberty, what they mean is they desire liberty for themselves. The desire to have liberty in one's own life drives that individual to advocate that all other individuals also have liberty. The adherence to nonviolent resistance–even at the cost of ones own life– is premised on the idea that there is some greater cause that exists out there other than one's own life and happiness. This is the exact idea that Statism is premised on. That there is a "greater good" out there, and the individual may have to be sacrificed in the pursuit of this concept. I, the individual, reject this type of thinking, and I believe it is up to the individualists in this movement to defeat this type of altruistic, collectivistic thinking wherever it pops up–even within our own ranks.
"No man is free who is not a master of himself."
~ Epictetus
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Without government police, the words, decrees and dreams of the sociopaths that claim to represent us would simply be opinions subject, like the rest of us, to the market of public acceptance and adoption. Either they are good ideas and implemented, or they are voted out by our dollars, feet, time and lack of consent and interest.
But because of state police, this civilized and peaceful process is bypassed - with the violence of the iron fist as its substitute.
Police power is the beating heart of statism, the gun behind every law and regulation they foist on us. This is why those who care about liberty and the prosperity that civil society yields should oppose the state's monopoly on violence - and the costumed thugs that blindly follow orders.
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The IRS, DHS, and undoubtedly many other of the alphabet soup agencies are going undercover as businessmen, protesters, priests, and doctors to make their plunder, spying and criminality that much more an intregal part of Amerika.
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The Freeman has a great series of modern and classic essays that debunk and dissect many of the claims made my "progressives" attacking the market economy and individual liberty.
Hans Sennholz, one of the best living economists, shows why the caricature, post hoc history of labor unions, how wages rise, and government intervention might be a bit more complicated:
To believe that labor unions actually improve the lot of working people is to suggest that the capitalist economy fails to provide fair wages and decent working conditions. It is to imply that a free economy does not work satisfactorily unless it is "fortified" by union activity and government intervention.
The truth is that the unhampered market society allocates to every member the undiminished fruits of his labor. It does so in all ages and societies where individual freedom and private property are safeguarded.(The process works faster and more efficiently in our high-tech, information age with a labor force more mobile than ever before but it worked in previous times too, so long as individuals were free to accept or reject the offers of employers, or to leave one employer and work either for another or for himself--Editor.)
The reason your great-grandfather earned $5 a week for 60 hours of labor must be sought in his low productivity, not in the absence of labor unions. The $5 he earned constituted full and fair payment for his productive efforts—a voluntary contract he likely entered into because it represented his best opportunity. The economic principles of the free market, the competition among employers, a man's mobility and freedom of choice, assured him full wages under the given production conditions.
Wages were low and working conditions primitive because labor productivity was low, machines and tools were relatively primitive, technology and production methods were crude when compared with today's. If, for any reason, our productivity were to sink back to that of our forebears, our wages, too, would decline to their levels and our work week would lengthen again no matter what the activities of labor unions or the decrees of government.
In a free market economy, labor productivity determines wage rates. As it is the undeniable policy of labor unions to reduce this productivity (as measured per man-hour) by forcing compensation up or spreading out the work with restrictive work rules, they have in fact reduced the wages of the masses of people although some privileged members have benefited temporarily at the expense of others. This is true especially today when the unions enjoy many legal immunities and considerable political powers. And it also was true during the nineteenth century when our ancestors labored from dawn to dusk for low wages.
Through a variety of coercive measures, labor unions merely impose higher labor costs on employers. The higher costs reduce the returns on capital and curtail production, which curbs the opportunities for employment. This is why our centers of unionism are also our centers of highest unemployment; they are also the industries that have seen the most dramatic declines in numbers of existing jobs, because like anything else, the higher the price, the less will be purchased. (It's also why compulsory unionism states for years have shown lower rates of both employment growth and wage rates than so-called "right-to-work" states. See http://www.mackinac.org/4290 – Editor.)
True enough, the senior union members who happen to keep their jobs do enjoy higher wages. But those who can no longer find jobs in unionized industries then seek employment in nonunionized activity. This influx and absorption of excess labor tends to reduce their wages. The resulting difference between union and nonunion wages rates gives rise to the notion that labor unions must indeed benefit workers. In reality, the presence of the nonunionized sectors of the labor market hides the disastrous consequences of union policy by preventing mass unemployment. (Nonetheless, with 94% of today's private sector workers being completely non-union, and many of them enjoying very high wage rates, it's increasingly difficult for unions to argue that workers without unions are exploited and unprotected. – Editor.)
- Wages can only be paid out of what is produced (no production, no wages), therefore greater productivity is the key to higher wages.
- Unions typically hamper production. Union activity may result in some people getting more but without an increase in productivity, that simply means that some other people must get less. Either you bake a bigger pie for everybody or you just slice the pie up differently.
- It looks sometimes like unions have actually forced wages higher because of the lower wages in non-unionized businesses. But the latter are caused in part by the outflow of labor from unionized sectors to non-unionized ones. Unionized auto-workers today, for example, may make a little more per hour than their nonunionized counterparts but there are a lot fewer of them too!
- For further information, see:
"Why Wages Rise—Part I" by F. A. Harper: http://tinyurl.com/phfsv6w
"Why Wages Rise—Part II" by F. A. Harper: http://tinyurl.com/ol7pwxd
"Can Labor Unions Really Raise Wages?" by Henry Hazlitt: http://tinyurl.com/kdthyuc
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According to new FBI statistics released this week, violent crime rates in the US fell over 4% in the past year alone, bringing the amount of violent crimes lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. The statistics showed that there were an estimated 1.16 million violent crimes in the year of 2013, which is the lowest number since 1978, when 1.09 million were recorded.
Broken down, the report revealed that manslaughter dropped by 4.4% to 14,196, the lowest rate since 1968, while instances of rape were down 6.3%. Despite the tough economic times, robbery is also down by 2.8% and property crimes were down by 4.1%.
The violent crime rate has been steadily declining since 1994, but the prison population has continued to increase over the decades. There are currently over two and a half million people imprisoned in the US, which is by far the largest prison population in the world.
However, a study recently published by Pew Charitable Trusts showed that for the first time in decades, the US prison population is actually on a decline. Their research found that the drop in crime that was seen in 2013 actually coincided with a decline in the prison population. According to their data, the amount of people in the US prison system peaked in 2008, and has since dropped 6%.
The study also found that there was a drop in the amount of prisoners in 32 of the 50 states, while imprisonment continued to rise in the other 18 states. California showed the largest drop in crime and imprisonment over the past five years, which is likely connected to lighter drug penalties that have been adopted in recent years.
Even among those who are technically "guilty" of breaking some law, a vast majority of prisoners are nonviolent offenders who don't belong in prison to begin with. According to some statistics, nonviolent offenders make up nearly 70% of the prison population, many of these people are not guilty of any transgression, and they are in fact themselves victims of state violence.
While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens carried out by police has been rising sharply.
According to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report, 461 felony suspects were shot by police last year, which is the highest number seen in decades. These numbers are likely unreported as well, and only includes felony suspects, so it is possible that this figure is much higher than the study suggests.
Another interesting angle is that in the same time period gun sales soared across the country, which seems to support the idea that more people owning guns actually contributes to making society a safer place.
According to a Congressional Research Service report covered by Breitbart News on December 4, 2013, the number of privately owned firearms in America increased from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million in 2009 and has continued to increase every year since.
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If you needed any more proof that the drug war has nothing to do with public safety and concerns over drug use, all you need to do is look at the fed's case against Silk Road.
The Silk Road is/was a secure, anonymous marketplace where people have a forum to peacefully buy and sell "illegal" drugs.
The costs of these drugs is far cheaper than you can find on the black market, deterring the violent crime that is so inherent in prohibition.
The drugs are safer too, as the standardization and reputation factors of the market lead to a better and more predictable product. This results in less overdoses.
For anyone in favor of a less violent society, less addicts, and less overdoses should be thrilled at the technology, innovation and utter bravery at those who run and participate in the Silk Road.
But no, the state - which seeks to control and coerce - would rather put them in cages, have your car broken into for the users' (artificially) expensive habit, junkies in the street, and a great excuse to strip us of virtually all of our civil liberties than the peaceful alternatives that the market provides.
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Don't blame Google or "gentrification" for the distortions in the housing market, blame government intervention:
To someone ignorant of economic reasoning, rent control seems like a great policy. It appears instantly to provide "affordable housing" to poor tenants, while the only apparent downside is a reduction in the income flowing to the fat-cat landlords, people who literally own buildings in major cities and who thus aren't going to miss that money much. Who could object to such a policy?
First, we should define our terms. When a city government imposes rent control, it means the city makes it illegal for landlords to charge tenants rent above a ceiling price. Sometimes that price can vary, but only on specified factors. For the law to have any teeth — and for the politicians who passed it to curry favor with the public — the maximum rent-controlled price will be significantly lower than the free-market price.
The most obvious problem is that rent control immediately leads to a shortage of apartments, meaning that there are potential tenants who would love to move into a new place at the going (rent-controlled) rate, but they can't find any vacancies. At a lower rental price, more tenants will try to rent apartment units, and at a higher rental price, landlords will try to rent out more apartment units. These two claims are specific instances of the law of demand and law of supply, respectively.
In an unhampered market, the equilibrium rental price occurs where supply equals demand, and the market rate for an apartment perfectly matches tenants with available units. If the government disrupts this equilibrium by setting a ceiling far below the market-clearing price, then it creates a shortage; that is, more people want to rent apartment units than landlords want to provide. If you've lived in a big city, you may have experienced firsthand how difficult it is to move into a new apartment; guides advise people to pay the high fee to a broker or even join a church because you have to "know somebody" to get a good deal. Rent control is why this pattern occurs. The difficulty isn't due to apartments being a "big-ticket" item; new cars are expensive, too, but finding one doesn't carry the stress of finding an apartment in Brooklyn. The difference is rent control.
Rent control reduces the supply of rental units through two different mechanisms. In the short run, where the physical number of apartment units is fixed, the imposition of rent control will reduce the quantity of units offered on the market. The owners will hold back some of the potential units, using them for storage or keeping them available for (say) out of town guests or kids returning from college for the summer. (If this sounds implausible, consider just how many people in a major city consider renting out spare bedrooms in their homes, as long as the price is right.)
In the long run, a permanent policy of rent control restricts the construction of new apartment buildings, because potential investors realize that their revenues on such projects will be artificially capped. Building a movie theater or shopping center is more attractive on the margin.
There are further, more insidious problems with rent control. With a long line of potential tenants eager to move in at the official ceiling price, landlords do not have much incentive to maintain the building. They don't need to put on new coats of paint, change the light bulbs in the hallways, keep the elevator in working order, or get out of bed at 5:00 a.m. when a tenant complains that the water heater is busted. If there is a rash of robberies in and around the building, the owner won't feel a financial motivation to install lights, cameras, buzz-in gates, a guard, or other (costly) measures to protect his customers. Furthermore, if a tenant falls behind on the rent, there is less incentive for the landlord to cut her some slack, because he knows he can replace her right away after eviction. In other words, all of the behavior we associate with the term "slumlord" is due to the government's policy of rent control; it is not the "free market in action."
In summary, if the goal is to provide affordable housing to lower-income tenants, rent control is a horrible policy. Rent control makes apartments cheaper for some tenants while making them infinitely expensive for others, because some people can no longer find a unit, period, even though they would have been able to at the higher, free-market rate. Furthermore, the people who remain in apartments — enjoying the lower rent —receive a much lower-quality product. Especially when left in place for decades, rent control leads to abusive landlords and can quite literally destroy large portions of a city's housing.
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Drug war + empire + militarized police = the most expensive, lethal, weaponized and efficient police state in history.
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Geography of Home : writings on where we live
Akiko Busch
This collection of personal essays dissects the house as home, meandering from room to room while simultaneously shifting between Busch's personal experiences and more general ideas gleaned from history and literature. She doesn't really succeed in placing her experiences into a comprehensive context, yet the book isn't presented entirely in an anecdotal manner.
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Fatal Distraction
Sonja Ahlers
I loved Sonja's first book Temper, Temper, though I never tried reading it straight through. I did so with this one, and it was most rewarding. While it feels a bit square to page-by-page, as it'...More
The Three Incestuous Sisters
Audrey Niffenegger
From the author of The Time Traveler's Wife, she calls this a "visual novel" and/or "a silent film made from Japanese prints." The story is of three sisters torn apart when two fall for the same dude, told in aquatints and spare text. Some of my favorite pages are those that don't obviously pull the story along—...More
Mariette in Ecstasy
Ron Hansen
Elissa told me she's bought several copies of this book, as she did once again while in town last week, leaving it with me to read when she left. An appropriate choice for Easter weekend, it follows the story of Mariette, a young postulant of the Sisters of the Crucifixion in the early 1900s. Shortly after arriving at the priory, she begins experiencing ecstasies — or perhaps is...More
The Future of Nostalgia
Svetlana Boym
I loved the concept of this book but eventually had to accept that it was a bit more academic than I wanted it to be. But that enabled me to just skip to the parts I wanted to read instead of feeling like I had to read every word. That may sound like a lackluster recommendation, but I'm sure to return to this book and skim again.More
Before the War: poems as they happened
Lawson Fusao Inada
We are all the loves we ever lost.
I can't for the life of me remember how this wound up on my hold list at the library, but there must have been some reason. The poems in this book span ten years, themes of jazz, WWII internment camps, and banalities set in several distinct locales around the US. A...More
Jeanette Winterson
I used to read books so quickly, it was disturbing to some friends of mine. But these days I plod through books and leave them half-read all the time. It was especially sad to open this book and feel some excitement because the type is so big. Yes! A quick read. Maybe I should just embrace it and dedicate myself to YA novels for a while.More
Book One
Chip Kidd
One of the great advantages to designing book covers is that you don't ever have to have an idea, much less a thought, ever, in your head. That is the author's job. Through a manuscript, he or she will give you all the ideas and thoughts that you could possibly need to design a jacket.
Stranger Things Happen
Kelly Link
Once again, unable to finish a book before its due date back at the library. Part of it might have been that I liked some of these stories a whole lot better than others. The pseudo-modern-fairy-tale/mythology-retellings weren't heavy on the clever for me. But I did enjoy the creepier stories, like the librarian in love with a lady whose family shares a serious sense of loss,...More
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
I thought it was just last spring when I started reading this book and didn't get past the first section before it was due back at the library, but now I can see it was actually more like a year and a half ago — where does the time go? I'm glad I revisited this, as this is certainly sure to keep a place as one of my favorite...More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Not having it in front of me now, I can't skim through and remember the precise points that caught me when I was reading this. I can recall that I appreciated the elements that returned throughout the book, waves washing back over, appropriate for a memoir of grief. I poke through a few reviews to jog the memories, noticing that a few describe a lack of "inwardness" or distance from emotions...More
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
I waited for months on the hold list from the library, only to be unable to finish all these stories before going out of town. Perhaps I should have just paid the few days of late fees I would have received if I'd taken it with me on my trip and returned it afterwards. I only got through half the book, but I might have gotten through more if I hadn't been unable to resist re-...More
Neil Gaiman
This girl Coraline is bored in her new house, her parents are too busy for her, and all the neighbors call her Caroline. But there is an old door to the flat next door that has been bricked up; when no one is around, it brings her into a parallel world which has all the things she might want, but in messed up, creepy ways. And all the people have buttons for eyes.
The End
Lemony Snicket
I couldn't decide while reading this whether it was a good ending for the Baudelaires, being stuck on some island rather than somehow encompassing all the books in one. But the ending does deliver pretty well. A lot of us had our suspicious anyhow.
I still think it would have been better to wait until all the books were published, having only read...More
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
I never was assigned this book in high school and probably only read it now because it happened to coincide with some curiosity about Lithuanian ancestors we know nothing about and a casual mention of this to a friend who happened to reading this book at the time. While this book is well-known for its effect on the meatpacking industry, it's primarily an argument for support of socialism, by...More
The Crooked Mirror and other stories
Anton Chekhov
I tried reading some Chekhov three years ago after a long stretch of short stories and just couldn't do it. Being that I read with much less density these days, what I read has less to do with what I've read before it. And I guess not having read much short fiction lately at all gave me a prime opportunity to try again.
Chekhov's stories are pretty clever,...More
By Its Cover
Ned Drew & Paul Sternberger
Looking back through all the covers reproduced in this book, subtitled Modern American Book Cover Design, I love Alvin Lustig and Paul Rand's covers from the 1950s, a few things here and there from the 1960s, and then nothing much else until the last chapter, looking at the late 1990s with a section focusing on various Knopf designers.
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
I wanted to like the movie Capote but in truth I found myself bored through large stretches. Aesthetically it was pretty well-done, but the story maybe needed some extra editing. This isn't one of those straight-up book vs. movies cases, as the stories are from the same source but different perspectives — the movie a story...More
The Madame Paul Affair
Julie Doucet
This story about the bizarre events surrounding a Montreal apartment Doucet lived in ended kind of weird and anti-climactic after all the suspense. It was originally printed serially in a newspaper, and I think that would be the best way to read it, slowly and over time.
My New York Diary
Julie Doucet
I used to read a lot of comics years ago but I don't think I'd ever read any of Julie Doucet's, not even holed up in a comic shop, pretending it was a library. Her drawing style is pretty dense; it took awhile for me to adjust to it, and then I was surprised I never stumbled on her largely autobiographical work before now. This one opens with some back story in her early sexual and romantic...More


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When I made the Ninot jacket, I knew it was needing a pencil skirt to create a 40's style suit.
So here is the entire look with a self-drafted pencil skirt made in the same burgundy/plum wool crepe. That fabric is perfect for a suit.
You can read more details on my blog.
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Jan 15, 2014, 02.15 PMby Nikki Brooks-Revis
I love love love this jacket
Dec 22, 2013, 10.19 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous suit, both pieces are fabulous in their own right and just gorgeous to.gether x
Dec 22, 2013, 12.04 AMby janene
So stylish. I love it :-)
Dec 21, 2013, 02.52 PMby martinK
lovely outfit!!!
Dec 21, 2013, 02.06 PMby MissHickory
I love everything about the suit!! Perfect job!!!!!
Dec 21, 2013, 01.13 PMby max
Great job and I love the vintage vibe!
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ditto! kirsten
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- April 20, 2014
A MOTHER-of-the-bride has successfully sued one of Melbournes top boutiques over claims her custom-made dress was too tight to enjoy her daughters wedding.
Victorian mum Lena Mancino launched action against Croce & Colosimo Couture seeking a $3500 refund, alleging the frock left her physically and emotionally bruised.
While her only daughter Angela's wedding last Easter Sunday should have been one of her most treasured memories, Mrs Mancino alleged the body-hugging dress made it an awful experience.
Mrs Mancino claimed she could barely sit in the tightly sculpted ensemble and was scared to eat or drink at the reception in case she needed the toilet.
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On Friday the Los Alamos MainStreet's Annual Trick or Treat on MainStreet will be from 5-7 p.m. with an estimated 3,000 people gathering in Downtown Los Alamos.
Local businesses and organizations will open their doors and set up booths along Central Avenue to give out treats to the community's trick-or-treaters.
The Hillstompers will lead a Hallo-wiener Parade at 5:30 p.m., followed by a dance performance by New Mexico Dance Theater at 6 p.m.
The Los Alamos High School NJROTC will host brisket night from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Posse Shack on North Mesa, about one mile from the roundabout, on the left.
$10 per plate, includes barbecue brisket, potato salad, vegetable, a roll, drink and dessert.
The Authors Speaks Series will feature novelist and playwright Mark Dunn at
7 p.m. in the upstairs rotunda at Mesa Public Library.
The community will soon be treated to an evening of gleaming, glowing, ghostly, smoldering Jack-o-lanterns. Beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, the Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) will present its 9th Annual Pumpkin Glow on the lawn at Fuller Lodge.
The event, sponsored by Smith's, Village Arts, Los Alamos National Bank and MainStreet, will feature hundreds of pumpkins designed and carved by community members, from young children to professional artists. Creations of all sorts will glimmer in the night.
The Lads of Enchantment meet every Thursday evening at the United Church (Graves Hall) at 7 p.m. to share those grand old Barbershop Songs. Contact: Murlin Nutter at 672-3235
The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra Fall concert will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Crossroads Bible Church.
With a big band orchestra, singers and swing dancers, "In the Mood" is the retro 1940's musical that brings to the stage the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war.
Presented by Artbeat, Inc., a not-for-profit performing arts presenter, the musical is coming to Duane Smith Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1.
Edward Albee's "Seascape" is next up at Los Alamos Little Theatre, and the intense effort of everyone involved will surely result in a fantastic show. Several veterans of the Los Alamos theatre community are lending their experience to this effort and that skill is sure to shine through when "Seascape" opens in November.
The individuals who portray "Seascape's" four characters bring a great deal of experience, passion and determination to the production.
To celebrate the authors of Los Alamos, Otowi Station Bookstore and Science Museum Shop announces AuthorFest: the Sequel, from 4-7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at Otowi Station. Local authors will sign their books and discuss their work with readers.
Authors of children's books will sign books after school from 4-5:30 p.m. and authors of books for young adults and adults will sign from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
The Olions Thespian Club is performing Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People," as their fall play this year.
This show is a drama about a man who discovers that the springs at the health institute they have built are poisoning the visitors. In his attempt to prove that the discoveries he has made are true, and that the threats are serious, he realizes that the majority would rather destroy the truth than lose the business that the springs are bringing.
The Brown Bag Concert on Wednesday will feature students who are auditioning at the state conference of the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico. The concert is scheduled for noon at Fuller Lodge.
The students perform at a professional level for this competition and the program will be posted on Facebook under the LA Arts Council site. The following students will perform at the Brown Bag Concert:
The Los Alamos High School Hilltopper Marching Band placed third in class at the Tournament of Bands in Las Cruces on Oct. 23.
"It was a good performance," said Band Director Zane Meek, "Probably the best overall performance we've had." He said the band will use rehearsal times this week to improve the music and marching execution.
The band will perform at the Zia Marching Band Festival at the University of New Mexico Saturday. Meek said he looks forward to another strong performance.
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NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual Limited Reissue
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Remember those fellas who found an original copy of the NYC Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual in the basement of Pentagram? Well, they're partnering with the MTA to release a limited run of manual through Kickstarter. It won't be exactly like the original manual. The original is ring bound in binder, but the reissue will feature a cloth hardcover and unaltered high-resolution scans of each page of the manual, all Smyth sewn together. It will measure 13.5" W × 13.5" H (343 x 343 mm).There will be an introduction by Michael Bierut, and an essay by New York magazine writer Christopher Bonanos. The manual will be printed in Italy on 100 and 140 gsm Munken Pure ivory offset paper. The cover, introduction, and essay headings will be set in a custom version of Standard Medium by type designer Nick Sherman, that he recreated from the photographs of the original manual. This is a great way to get this wonderful piece of design history in the hands of more people. I've backed it.
Dot Zero – Issue 1
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Dot Zero was a quarterly by Unimark in partnership with Finch Paper that focused on the theory and practice of visual communication. Only five issues were published between 1966 and 1968, and Massimo Vignelli was the designer and creative director of the magazine. Vignelli wanted to make the design exciting, but simple, so he set all type in only two weights of Helvetica and everything printed in black and white. Michael Bierut interviewed Vignelli about the magazine. Some nice insights on how the publication came about, and its production. The folks at Rationale Design have made available a hi-res PDF of issue 1 of Dot Zero, and you can see some photos of issue 2 here.
Grids: Their Meaning and Use for Federal Designers
Posted By Antonio Carusone
"Grids: Their Meaning and Use for Federal Designers" is a book based on a presentation given by Massimo Vignelli at a seminar for federal graphic designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology on November 10, 1976. He covers the basics of grid design, then shows how grids were used in some of the projects that he worked on. It's a nice little read. Hi-res scan of the entire book is available here. Via Sean Wolcott
Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Unit Editions just announced a new book titled Manuals 1 Design & Identity Guidelines. It's a study of corporate identity design manuals from the 1960s to early 1980s. The book includes manuals created for NASA, Lufthansa, British Steel, NYC Transit Authority, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, and more. The ABC manual is from my collection that I've contributed. I've been really looking forward to this book. Manuals are such a great learning resources because they're not only great to look at, but they also give you insight into the rationale and thinking behind each system. You get to experience what the designers were thinking. The foreword was written by Massimo Vignelli and the book includes text from Adrian Shaughnessy, NASA designer Richard Danne, Greg D'Onofrio and Patricia Belen of Display, Armin Vit, Sean Perkins and John Lloyd. Available in March and you can pre-order now.
A5/06: HfG Ulm, A5/07: Rolf Müller
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Hey folks, sorry for the long silence. I got a kidney stone, and I was out of commission for a week. Feeling better now, so the posts will resume. Back to business. Lars Müller Publishers is releasing two new books as part of their wonderful A5 series. I've been waiting for these titles every since I heard about them in early fall. The first is A5/06: HfG Ulm by René Spitz that covers the history of The Ulm School of Design founded by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill. The second book is A5/07: Rolf Müller, a monograph dedicated to Rolf Müller who worked with Otl Aicher on the visual identity of the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Both books will be available at the end of this month.
Poster Collection 25 Josef Müller-Brockmann
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Next month, Lars Müller Publishers is releasing "Poster Collection 25 Josef Müller-Brockmann", a book that showcases a selection of posters designed by Müller-Brockmann. No photos of the spreads, but this is definitely going in my collection.
Index Magazine
Posted By Antonio Carusone
The Harvard Art Museums have announced the launch of the digital magazine Index, which provides a dynamic and interactive space for readers to discover a broad range of content and media produced by staff at the Harvard Art Museums and from arts-related venues around the world. The digital magazine supplements the printed edition of the magazine with new content posted each weekday. Index includes multimedia components that put viewers behind the scenes at the museums and also provides regular updates during the final stages of the museums' renovation and expansion project in Cambridge.
Designing News
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Designer Francesco Franchi, known for his work on Il Sole 24 ORE, has written a new booked called Designing News, that explores the future of the news and media industries. His perspective is based on his work for IL, and the book includes case studies by Richard Turley, Daniele Codega, Mark Porter, Oliver Reichenstein and more. The book will be published Gestalten, and will be available very soon from their site. Time to drop hints to my wife for X-mas presents.
Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized: The Complete Interviews
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Gary Hustwit, the director of Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized, is releasing almost 100 hours of unseen interviews from the three films as a book. The book, designed by Build, will include in-depth discussions with Paola Antonelli, Michael Bierut, Neville Brody, Matthew Carter, Wim Crouwel, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler, Experimental Jetset, Naoto Fukasawa, Jonathan Ive, Michael C. Place, Rick Poynor, Dieter Rams, Karim Rashid, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Erik Spiekerman, Massimo Vignelli and more. A Kickstarter has been setup where you can back the project.
Type Only
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Unit Editions continues to impress me. They continue to pump-out these high-quality books with great work. The newest book Type Only looks like it's awesome. Designed by Spin, and edited by Tony Brook, Claudia Klat and Adrian Shaughnessy. The book celebrates type unsupported by illustration or photography. Type Only features the work of over 100 graphic designers from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA. Want.
Interaction of Color App
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Yale University Press has released an iPad app version of Josef Albers's influential book, Interaction of Color. Designed by Potion, the app features archival video of Josef Albers in the studio and classroom, videos of practicing artists, designers, and architects discussing how they use color, and 63 fully interactive plates. Looks like it's really well done. I'm looking forward to it.
MADE Quarterly Edition Two
Posted By Antonio Carusone
Edition Two of the perfectly designed MADE is now available. MADE Quarterly is a publication that documents the workings of the modern maker, including but not limited to industrial design, architecture, fashion, interior design, photography and the culinary world. The second edition of MADE Quarterly features: Mast Brothers (USA), Best Made Co (USA), Huet Brothers (NLD), Stevie Gee (GBR), Earth Tu Face (USA), March Studio (AUS), Uniform Wares (GBR), Henry Wilson (AUS), Ben Huff (USA) and Minimalux (GBR). MADE Edition Two also features four individual covers, each displaying chosen works from our esteemed contributors. Please note covers are distributed randomly. Great design and content.


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Attachment company debuts new multi-function processing attachment.
Genesis Attachments, Superior, Wis., has announced the expansion of its Logix Processor LXP product family with the introduction of the LXP 800. The model offers the LXP line's largest jaw openings, jaw depths and capacities, says the company.
Featuring concrete pulverizer, shear and concrete cracker jaw openings of 61, 40 and 71 inches and jaw depths of 39, 35 and 50 inches, respectively, Genesis says the LXP 800 is a powerful demolition tool for large columns, structures and projects. The LXP 800 model is designed to fit 90,000- to 150,000-pound excavators.
"Conversations with contractors and an analysis of tools on the market identified the need for a versatile, interchangeable-jaw attachment that has bigger jaw openings and depths," says Steve Letko, Genesis engineering services manager. "The Genesis LXP has always been a powerful concrete processor that enables customers to change-out jaw sets in 15 minutes to meet the needs of their application, but now it provides even more power and capacity, opening the door for demolition contractors to use one tool on a job that previously required two or to bid on jobs on which they previously might not have been able," he adds.
Genesis Attachments designs and makes shears, grapples, concrete processors and specialty attachments for the scrap processing, demolition, material handling and offshore decommissioning industries.
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Doosan introduces new articulated dump trucks Tuesday, November 25, 2014 01:02:40 PM
Wastequip named one of Charlotte's 'Best Places to Work' Monday, November 24, 2014 06:11:36 PM
Michigan DEQ approves shingles, plastic for use at cement kilns Monday, November 24, 2014 05:41:08 PM
GBB assisting Maryland County with public private partnership procurement Monday, November 24, 2014 04:38:06 PM
San Francisco Bay Bridge project delayed Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:50:13 AM
University of Michigan considering $9 million demo project Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:50:07 AM
OSHA updates reporting requirements Tuesday, November 18, 2014 03:36:59 PM
Prominent industry economists to speak at C&D World 2015 Tuesday, November 18, 2014 03:36:56 PM
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Rotochopper completes factory expansion Thursday, November 13, 2014 06:32:48 PM
Wacker Neuson to build skid steers, compact track loaders in US Thursday, November 13, 2014 06:32:45 PM
Kirby-Smith Machinery names new north Texas area manager Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:19:25 PM
Go To Parts adds new business development manager Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:39:05 AM
Carpet recycling project begins in Maine Wednesday, November 12, 2014 02:53:09 PM
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Jest introduces recycling system Tuesday, November 11, 2014 10:43:09 AM
Liebherr adds dealer in the West Monday, November 10, 2014 02:57:36 PM
Remodeling market strengthening, says NARI Friday, November 07, 2014 10:35:06 AM
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CP Global names new CEO Tuesday, November 04, 2014 01:37:06 PM
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EcoExpo Asia 2014: Zero Carbon Building sets example in Hong Kong Monday, November 03, 2014 06:27:04 PM
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Carpet squares designer to collect unwanted carpet from Denver residents Friday, October 31, 2014 12:31:35 PM
Studies reveal growing demand for LEED-credentialed professionals Friday, October 31, 2014 12:01:12 PM
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