Note to readers of House of Mirrors

The genesis of House of Mirrors was a slip of the finger during searching for a book to read on my kindle. I inadvertently clicked on what was portrayed as an erotic story, mentally seeing the words as an exotic story. What I downloaded was a truly crude bit of pornography, written in language with which I am not comfortable. It was essentially street language that described sex acts in the crudest way, using crude language. I deleted it from my kindle.

That night, I began to think that over the years I have on occasion read erotic books, beginning as a boy with D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterleys Lover and later on one with a semi-erotic theme Being There by Jerzy Kosinksi that was made into a movie starring Shirley McLane. I conflated that thought with the notion that I could write a more interesting erotic story than what I had inadvertently downloaded to my kindle. And that I could do it without using street language to describe self-love and other forms of amorous activity. I let my imagination rove and House of Mirrors is the result.

I submitted it under my pen name, Stanley Israel to VP Publications and their subsidiary sent me a contract to publish the work as a novelette. This little book is the result.

I published it under my pen name to avoid embarrassing family and friends who might be appalled that a man of my age and profession has and is capable of expressing such thoughts. If such material is offensive please do not purchase the paper back or download it for your kindle or nook.

The forthcoming, Love, Sex and Erotica deals with the same themes and people uncomortable with such material should avoid it.

Viewers if this blog can purchase an illustrated print copy of An Old Timer’s Scuba Tales, by Stanley Yokell from Amazon.com.
Stanley Israel’s novelette, “House of Mirrors” has been published and available for purchase on kindle and nook and in paperback. Please see the post that explains the genesis of this book.

Stanley Israel’s anthology, “Love, Sex and Erotica” will be published later this year.

Stanley Israel is a pen name that Stanley Yokell has used for his book “The Ride”, published by Xlibris in 2008.

Stanley Yokell’s murder mystery “Murder at Plato House” will be published later this year.

Stanley Yokell’s book, “A Working Guide to Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers”, McGraw-Hill, 1990 is out of print but used copies may be available on Amazon.Com.

“Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance and Repair” written with Carl F. Andreone remains available from McGraw-Hill and other sources.

Purchasers of MGT’s courses and consulting services may now pay for them using PayPal

On July 20, 2011, the ASME published online Stanley Yokell’ article “Pressure Testing Feedwater Heaters and Power Plant Auxiliary Heat Exchangers,” in the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (Vol.133, Iss.5).

Viewers can access the article at:

URL: http://link.aip.org/link/?JPV/133/054502
DOI: 10.1115/1.4003468

Stanley Yokell presented his paper, “Assuring Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Tightness and Strength“, on July 13th, 2011 at the 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM Session 3-4, Experience Driven Reliability Improvements at the ASME Power Conference held at the Marriott City Center in Denver. A Power Point presentation is available on request.

MGT Inc. now offers the service of preparing various procedure specifications based on our generic specifications for the following:

Welding tubes to tubesheets whether full- or partial-strength or seal welding.

Post welding roller expanding tubes into tubesheets.

Roller expanding tubes into tubesheets when tubes are not welded to the tubesheets.

Hydroexpanding tubes into tubesheets whether post welding or with tubes not welded to the tubesheet.

Hybrid expanding tubes into tubesheets whether tubes are or are not welded to the tubesheet.

Hydrotesting Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels in accordance with ASME Paragraph UG-99.

Liquid Penetrant Examination of surfaces; and

Miscellaneous other procedures for Nondestructive Examinations.

Please contact Stanley Yokell at syokell@mgt-inc.com or send your inquiries to Info@mgt-inc.com for prices and availability.

Stan Yokell posts technical information on his blog at http://syokellpefasme.blogspot.com/. For example a recent post discusses tube expanding and % wall reduction. Another post discuss hydrotesting and tube joint leakage and a previous post discusses API 660 and the TEMA Standards.