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What do you use?
It's a question I get fairly often, so I decided to put this collection together for you.
I have personally used all of the resources listed below and can honestly enthusiastically recommend each and every one of them.
Some of the links below are affiliate links, so if you click on those, I may receive a commission (at no cost to you) if you make a purchase. If you do – Thank you for supporting Reboot Authentic!
Online Business Courses
Jon Morrow's Guest Blogging
I'm asked constantly what the one thing is that helped Reboot Authentic grow so quickly. My answer is always guest posting. Nothing can put you on the map faster than being seen on a major blog.
This course by Jon Morrow is second to none. It's a comprehensive, detailed, fully-supported A-to-Z detail of everything you need to know to be a prolific guest poster. Learn all the tactics, tips, and tricks from one of the most successful online personalities ever - Jon Morrow.
Click any link in this entry for a free video series from Jon about why guest blogging is so critical to your success.
Kickstart Your Blog
Kickstart Your Blog is a program that leads new bloggers step-by-step through a proven system to create and run a new blog that is destined for success.
The program is super-easy to follow, but still delivers all the know-how, tips, and tricks to ensure success. Kickstart Your Blog will teach you the insider secrets of creating a blog that stands out.
A-List Blogging Masterclass
Operated by Super-Blogger Mary Jaksch, The A-List Blogging Masterclass teaches you how to take your existing blog to the next level. Each of the Masterclass courses gives you the most pertinent, practical, yet innovative information you need to take your blog to where you always dreamed it could be. Plus there's a wonderful, supportive community in the members only forum. It's the first course I joined after starting Reboot Authentic and I'm still a member - so if you join A-List Blogging Masterclass, I'll see you there!
Audience Business Masterclass
Danny Iny's Audience Business Masterclass is the most intensive online course I've been a part of to date. The course goes into great detail and depth about targeting the right market/niche, how to position yourself, content creation, product creation, how to launch explosively, and much more.
The support from Danny and his staff is excellent – and there's a very active Facebook group to meet, converse, and strategize with other participants. Check out Audience Business Masterclass. It's fantastic!
Write Like Freddy
Write Like Freddy is another course from Danny Iny – one of the most prolific guest posters online. When Danny first appeared on the blogging scene, he made a name for himself by guest posting. A lot. In his first year online, he wrote over 80 guest posts.
Danny created this course to teach others the lessons he learned about writing outstanding content quickly – like he did when he went on his guest posting tear. I highly recommend Write Like Freddy!
Site Design & Themes
OptimizePress is what I use to make all my landing pages here on Reboot Authentic. Unless you're a designer, creating professional-looking landing pages is tough. I Googled and researched every landing page plugin, software package, and service out there.
I chose OptimizePress. It's the highest quality at the most reasonable price in my opinion. It comes as a plugin if you want to use it for just specific pages like I do (this page was created with it) - or you can use it as your WordPress theme. Your one-time purchase includes both versions. I love OptimizePress and very highly recommend it.
Hybrid Connect
Hybrid Connect is awesome! If you want one plugin that does optin forms, squeeze pages, lightboxes, slide-ins, and much more... this is it. It comes with tons of really professional looking templates that are super easy to customize. There's so much more. Seriously - click on the picture and go watch the video. HybridConnect is a must-have plugin.
Go see. You'll thank me. Click here.
I still use Optin Skin, but honestly have found myself using it less since I bought Hybrid Connect. Some of the optin forms on Reboot Authentic are still made with Optin Skin because in some cases I might prefer one of their designs or find it functionally easier to fit in a certain spot, etc. It's a matter of personal taste. I do recommend you take a look at Optin Skin. It's a viable option & is worth the cost.
StudioPress Themes
StudioPress created the Genesis Framework – which means all of their themes are functionally designed and SEO optimized. They have a large variety of attractive themes with a variety of great features.
All of them that I have used are very easy to use – and you don't have to know anything about coding to use them. Reboot Authentic is built on a StudioPress theme. Give StudioPress themes a try.
I have also used WooThemes in the past. They also offer a wide variety of attractive and easy to use themes.
Go visit WooThemes.
Graphics Creation
If you create digital products and have ever tried to make a book cover, software box, or CD cover - you know it's not easy for those of us with no graphic arts skill.
I tried several different software packages and didn't care for any of them - until I started using MyEcoverMaker. It's a free online service, so you can create as many different ecovers as you want - and you only pay for the ones you like.
Single downloads are $4.95 - or if you create a lot of covers, there's a subscription option as well. Check it out. It's easy to use, reasonably priced, and the finished product is really nice. Use MyEcovermaker now.
PhotoPos Pro Graphics Editor
Everyone knows about Adobe Photoshop, but very few are willing to spend the big bucks to get it. I personally do own Photoshop, but the truth is that probably 90% of the design you see here on reboot Authentic has been done using Photo Pos Pro.
It does great work and is easy to use. The best part is that Photo Pos Pro is completely free. There aren' t a whole bunch of companies offering high quality software like this in a free program. So my advice: get your free copy of PhotoPos Pro before they come to their senses!
PicMonkey Online Photo Editing
You may have noticed that a lot of the images in my posts here on Reboot Authentic have cool effects and text on them. Those cool effects are all created using PicMonkey - an awesome online photo editor. They have a Royale (paid) option, but you can do almost everything for free, too. It's easy (and kind of fun) to use. Give PicMonkey a try. You'll love it.
E-Commerce Solutions
If you want to post digital products for sale on your website in just a few minutes, you need Selz.com. Selz is an e-commerce solution without all the hassles and technical problems of most payment & delivery systems. It's free to sign up, the support is top-notch, and if you can cut and paste a few lines of code, you have all the technical expertise required to get rolling quickly.
My favorite feature of Selz is that unlike other services, your purchasers never leave you blog to make their purchase. It's all done right on your site. When the purchase is complete, your visitor is right where they left off… on your site where they belong. It's free to sign up – and it's super easy to use. Give Selz a test drive and you'll be hooked.
Hosting & CMS (Content Management Systems)
SiteGround Web Hosting
There are many hosts out there and I've had experience with a few of them. Of those I have used, I highly recommend the one I use here at Reboot Authentic: SiteGround . Super fast, GREAT Support, and prices as low as $3.95 per month.
SiteGround is your best hosting bet in my opinion.
WordPress.org (*not* .com)
Most bloggers (including me) prefer WordPress hands down. It's free, reliable, and very easy to use. There are two different versions of WordPress. You want WordPress.org NOT WordPress.com.
WordPress.com makes you host on their servers on their URL – and with their rules. WordPress.org is the self-hosted version that you host on your own server, and according to your own rules. You control everything about your site and its data. WordPress.org is the only way to go.
Email Services
I use MailChimp for my email marketing. It is easy to use, and is the best combination of full-featured and affordable among all the email services I have researched. There's even a free version. Go visit MailChimp!
AWeber offers a few more features than MailChimp, is friendlier toward affiliate marketing, but the extra features are reflected in the price. Still, AWeber is very highly regarded by everyone who uses it.


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LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria swallowed a hard lesson on Monday that has been inflicted on governments of developing nations the world over for years: try cutting subsidies for gas and the populace will erupt in rage.
Faced down by thousands of demonstrators, demands for his removal and a weeklong general strike that paralyzed his fractious country, President Goodluck Jonathan abruptly gave in, partly restoring the fuel subsidy that — more than an Islamic insurgency in the north or a long-running conflict in the south — seemed to crystallize the frustrations of the people and draw them to the streets in outrage.
"Government appreciates that the implementation of the deregulation policy would cause initial hardships," Mr. Jonathan said in a stiffly worded capitulation on Monday, after a week of refusing to back down.
Similar scenes have played out around the world in recent years, from Latin America to the Middle East to Asia, and the government response is frequently the same: give in quickly, despite the counsel of economists and international financial institutions that fuel subsidies are wasteful and distorting, sapping governments of money that could otherwise be used to improve education, public health or other needs.
The Nigerian government spends about $8 billion a year on fuel subsidies, and getting rid of them would be "an important first step" to shoring up the finances of one of Africa's largest economies, according to a 2009 International Monetary Fund report.Continue reading the main story
But in resource-rich countries like Nigeria, with its enormous gap between rich and poor, subsidized gas is one of the few benefits trickling down from an infamously corrupt government that has pocketed billions of dollars in oil profits, with little to show for it.
For the poor — and three-fourths of this country's population lives on about a dollar a day — the fuel subsidy means a cheap ride to the market. It means lower prices for the food they buy there. And it means some sense of ownership in a national resource, oil, in which roughly 80 percent of the economic benefit has flowed to 1 percent of the population, according to some estimates.
"It's one of the few ways the urban and rural poor feel they benefit from this strategic resource," said Michael J. Watts, an expert on the politics of oil at the University of California, Berkeley. "The fuel subsidy is experienced as one of the few things they get."
That sentiment was strongly in evidence as the protests dwindled here on Monday. Under the rollback union leaders agreed to, gas in Nigeria will drop to about $2.27 a gallon from about $3.50 — higher than the $1.70 price before Jan. 1, but low enough to end the strike.
Still, many Nigerians were disappointed that Mr. Jonathan had not dropped the price all the way back down.
"We are not benefitting from this oil!" shouted Ali Mohammed, a motorcycle-taxi driver. "No lights, no roads, no hospitals. Make him reduce the price. We are suffering in this country."
Hundreds of other young men milled about close by in what has been a center of the protest here: the New Afrika Shrine nightclub of the Afro-beat star Femi Kuti, son of the Nigerian musician and dissident Fela Kuti.
In a speech Monday morning, Mr. Kuti both incited and calmed the crowd listening at his feet amid clouds of marijuana smoke, expressing disgust with Nigeria's institutions from his rickety wooden stage as supporters murmured their approval.
Later in his office, Mr. Kuti shouted at his television as he watched the labor leaders announce the end of the strike. "I told you those people would back down," he said to his aides, looking up from the screen. As for the government, he said, "They prosecute people for being gay, but there is no law against stealing 14 million."
Nigeria has seen similar tumult over the issue in the past, and it is hardly alone. In Bolivia, protesters burned photos of President Evo Morales and vandalized government buildings in December 2010, forcing Mr. Morales to withdraw his subsidy-cutting measure only days after introducing it.
In Venezuela, before the rise of Hugo Chávez, days of riots and hundreds of deaths followed a fuel price rise in 1989. President Chávez now controls one of the world's most generous fuel subsidies, despite being critical of it.
In Jordan, an announcement last year that subsidies would be lifted helped inspire antigovernment demonstrations that forced a reversal. In Indonesia, a 30 percent increase in fuel prices in 2008 led to bloody rioting. Economists nonetheless praise that country for doing what others often do not: sweetening subsidy removal with cash programs that aid the poor.
Iran has employed a similar strategy, eliminating subsidized prices for fuel but cushioning the blow with cash payments of roughly $45 a month. The approach "was critical in preventing the kind of thing that we're seeing happening in Nigeria," said Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, an economics professor at Virginia Tech, adding that other Middle East countries shouldering subsidies they can ill afford, most notably Egypt, are looking at Iran's plan as a possible model.
The International Monetary Fund and other global financial institutions do not like fuel subsidies, pointing out that the biggest benefits do not even go to the poor, but rather to the owners of large cars and big generators.
Yet it was not the wealthy in Nigeria, or even the small middle class, that forced Mr. Jonathan to back down most of the way.
"Even though most fuel subsidies go to the nonpoor, the fraction of their income that goes to fuel is much greater," said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa. "That's why they feel the elimination of subsidies much more."
On Monday in Lagos, the government appeared to be anticipating trouble, with army checkpoints on major roads, which were uncharacteristically deserted because of the strike.
In the end the day was calm, though a feeling of anger at the unions for calling off the strike, and at the government for not restoring the full subsidy, permeated Mr. Kuti's hangarlike nightclub.
The protest movement here, though brief, came to encompass frustrations broader than the sudden rise in fuel prices, and some of the young men milling about on Monday wore "Occupy Nigeria" T-shirts.
The protesters made it clear that the fuel subsidy removal — abrupt and unaccompanied by any palliative measures — was seen as one more act of insensitivity by a government they criticized for favoring the wealthy.
"We are the people, but they are not listening to us," said Tayo Sola, an unemployed university graduate. "So what is the meaning of democracy? You are not ready to listen. So how can you govern?"Continue reading the main story


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Ina B. Hahn died at her home at Windhover in Rockport on January 22, 2016, surrounded by her family. She was the oldest child of Simon and Belle Aronson. Born in Dorchester, Ina was raised in Newton and graduated from Newton High School. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1950 as an Honors Scholar, majoring in English Literature; however, dance was always her prime love and passion.
Ina started dancing at the age of three and continued throughout her life. While at Wellesley, Ina married Herbert Hahn, and after college the couple moved to New York City where she had a successful career on Broadway. She appeared in the original 1950's Broadway productions of "Can-Can," "The King and I," and "Plain and Fancy," working with the choreographers Michael Kidd, Jerome Robbins, Helen Tamiris and Agnes DeMille. Originally an understudy for Gwen Verdon in "Can-Can," she replaced Gwen, and Ina became a Broadway star overnight. Columnist Walter Winchell gave her rave reviews for that role which helped launch Ina's Broadway career. Her last role in a musical was as Louise in "Carousel" at the North Shore Music Theatre when she was pregnant with her first child.
In addition to Ina's Broadway career, she was invited to perform with both modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. Ina said that she chose to dance with Doris because her works were more about the community and less about the "star-soloist." In addition, Humphrey's dances used the principle of "fall and recovery," a concept Ina embraced. She worked under the direction of Doris Humphrey at Connecticut College where Ina attended the American Dance Festival. She also took Humphrey's composition class at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, receiving a full scholarship given by Doris Humphrey herself. Later Ina went on to reconstruct many of Humphrey's works from Labanotation and Ina's "Windhover Dance Company" performed them.
In 1957, Ina and Herb's love for the ocean and natural surroundings inspired them to move to Rockport to raise their family. A decade later, they purchased the last working farm on Cape Ann and transformed the buildings into creative arts spaces. In 1968, Windhover Center for the Performing Arts was born, starting as a summer creative arts camp for girls which continued until 1984. At that point, Windhover became a non-profit foundation focusing on dance workshops, classes, performances, retreats and symposia, and it continues to thrive today.
In the 1960's, in addition to Windhover, Ina began choreographing and teaching dance. She taught at Radcliffe College, The Boston Conservatory, Endicott College, Bradford College, Smith College, Northeastern University, Walnut Hill, the Boston Arts Academy and many other schools. She presented her own works through the Windhover Dance Company, performing in Boston, Cambridge, at European Festivals and all over the North Shore for the next 50 years.
Ina was certified by the Dance Notation Bureau as a reconstructor of classic Modern Dance works. She reconstructed the works of Doris Humphrey for the Windhover Dance Company as well as for the students at the Boston Arts Academy and members of the Karen Peterson Dance Company in Miami, Florida. According to current faculty at the Boston Arts Academy, all four works that Ina reconstructed "brought the house down! Guests were spellbound and not going anywhere."
The art and history of Cape Ann were a source of creative inspiration for Ina. Dance-theater productions at Windhover which she produced and choreographed include Percy MacKaye's "Dogtown Common," "The Battle for Pigeon Cove Harbor," "Made in Folly Cove" and "The Artists of Lanesville." Several of these productions were also performed at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester Stage Company, Beeman School and Gloucester City Hall.
Ina was the recipient of The Walker Hancock Award in 1999 in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to the arts and humanities" on Cape Ann. It was presented by the Mayor of Gloucester, Bruce Tobey, in October 1999.
During her last decade, Ina wrote and produced a film on her dance mentor, A New Dance for America: The Choreography, Teachings, and Legacy of Doris Humphrey, which premiered to much acclaim at Lincoln Center's "Dance on Camera Film Festival" in 2011.
Ina loved living on Cape Ann surrounded by the plethora of natural beauty, especially the granite. She rode her bike around the Cape for years, loved walking daily around Halibut Point State Park located near her home, and enjoyed swimming in Folly Cove and Steel Derrick during the summers. For the last five years, she produced site-specific "Quarry Dances" with New York-based Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, combining her passion for the granite quarrying industry with her love of dance... celebrating the two in the natural environment of quarries on Cape Ann.
Ina lived a meaningful and full life and was an inspiration for many creative students, friends and family throughout the country. Her vibrant spirit will live on through all who knew and loved her.
She is survived by her two daughters, Lisa Hahn who resides at Windhover in Rockport and in New York City and Lauri Hahn who resides at Windhover; her brothers, Martin Aronson of Brookline, and Arthur Aronson of West Lafayette, Ind.; and her grandchildren Pamela and Herbie Lawrence. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert Hahn; daughter, Pamela Hahn; and longtime companion, Richard Winik.
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The online links are now available for the 2016–2017 Health Physics Society Fellowships, 2016 travel grants, 2016 Dade Moeller Scholarships, and 2016 Environmental Radon Section Scholarship. The deadline for submittal for all is now 1 April 2016. Notification will take place by 29 April 2016.
Students submit directly for fellowships and travel grants. To apply for these, go to the links below, read the text to see if you are eligible, and then use the forms linked at the bottom of the text to submit your application. You will receive an email at the end of the process confirming your submission.
- Travel Grants: https://hps.org/apply/travelgrant.html
- Fellowships: https://hps.org/apply/fellowship.html
Nominations for Dade Moeller Scholarships and Environmental Radon Section Scholarship follow slightly different rules. Please see the information below, apply online, and send information accordingly.
- Dade Moeller Scholarships: https://hps.org/apply/moeller.html
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A Mystery Illness ~ A Search for a Cure
A Mother Daughter Love Story
Authors: Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy
Published: October 16, 2012
Publisher: Vanguard Press, A member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 253
Category: Memoir
Source: A complimentary copy was provided by FSB Associates to facilitate this review. The views expressed here are my own unbiased thoughts.
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Saving Each Other is a story of the bonds of family, the unconditional love and the lengths a parent will go to to save a child. What began as a search for a cure became a foundation to fund and facilitate research into defining, identifying and looking for the cure for an "orphan" disease, NMO, which struck Ali Guthy, Victoria's daughter, in her teen years. It all began one day with what Ali called an "eyeball headache" in her left eye. "Really inconvenient" were Ali's terms. (This gives you a hint as to Ali's nature.) This optic neuritis progressed to some loss of sight in that eye but with treatment and the administration of some steroids, her eyesight soon returned to normal. That was just the beginning, however, as the disease went on to turn her body against itself, attacking the spinal chord with lesions up the length of it, causing excruciating pain, numbness and prickling sensations.
NMO (Neuromyelitis optica) is explained in some depth near the end of the book so I won't go into detail here. Needless to say this family had one enormous battle on their hands. Victoria Jackson, queen of the Shopping Network "no make-up" make-up and her husband Bill, king of the Pro-active spots on the Shopping Network, facilitated a research foundation, funding research and operating a once yearly symposium with specialists the world over. Included in this symposium were patients and their families with a special patients' day.
This incredible story is told from the points of view of both Ali Guthy and her mother Victoria Jackson, which is likely the best approach, allowing the reader to become acquainted with the fighter that is Ali and her biggest champion, her mother. The insights into their fears, cares, struggles, and progress are revealed over a timeline of three years. Saving Each Other not only is an eye opener, but a work of hope for all out there who may be fighting their own battles as patients or loved ones. Whether it's NMO or any other disorder or disease, reading Saving Each Other just may be the vision of hope to enable you to climb another mountain ... cross another sea, in your own challenges in life.
From 2008 to 2012, much progress has been made thanks to the unification of the efforts of a variety of specialists and some very determined individuals. As of the writing of this book, Ali Guthy is symptom free. The lesions along her spine are no longer visible on MRIs. Ali now attends university and continues playing tennis, her one great love. Together they have conquered much and together they will continue to serve the cause.
Saving Each Other is a heartwarming and hopeful insight into what a family can accomplish and what it means to be a fighter.
Saving Each Other is a heartwarming and hopeful insight into what a family can accomplish and what it means to be a fighter.
Every Day Is a MiracleEvery day is a miracle. That I do know, even though I forget it sometimes.
By Victoria Jackson,
Author of Saving Each Other: A Mystery Illness, A Search for the Cure, A Mother-Daughter Love Story
By Victoria Jackson,
Author of Saving Each Other: A Mystery Illness, A Search for the Cure, A Mother-Daughter Love Story
Isn't that kind of the point of 2%? It's like by throwing a rare light show or random nightmare storm in our direction, the universe is just trying to get our attention so we don't take anything for granted and just appreciate our days and the hours and minutes that make them up.
That's what's on my mind as I talk to a mom who has just lost her son, my daugher Ali's age, to Neuromyeltis Optica (NMO). She sounds so strong. For all these years I've been waging war with the image of Ali having to be wheeled across the stage at her graduation, maybe not even getting there. Maybe that's why I'm looking for ways to delay the ceremony. And here is a mother whose son didn't make it. Not only that, incredibly, she's calling not to talk about her loss but to thank us for the work of the foundation that gave him longer than they had expected. She lets me know that friends and family have sent in donations for our Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation to be used in his memory. Her voice is clear and resolute as she tells me to call on her for anything she can do to help raise awareness in the ongoing search for a cure.
When I get off the phone, sad and mad that we couldn't do more, I fight a flood of fearful thoughts and just try to be in the moment to appreciate where we are. The truth is that every worst fear that I could and did imagine for Ali -- none of it has happened. The dire prognosis that we were given hasn't come to pass.
It's true that I have lived too often with the subliminal concern that special events and usual rites of passage may be her last. The irony, of course, is that she prefers low key. But my impulse was always to give all the kids happy memories and make all the details so memorable that they'll be able to relish them long into the years to come.
Even thinking that there could be a cap on the years to come for Ali is so sacrilegious, not even something I allow myself to think about, that I compensate by making every milestone the ultimate.
Senior prom, of course, had to be the absolute best in the world because (a) it's prom, (b) there might not be another event like it and (c) I never went to prom and refuse to let her miss out on anything that life has to offer.
The logic and the love were really uppermost in my mind. But then again, finding the most amazing dress and then having it altered -- I went a little crazy, almost going so far as to tell the tailor that it has to be perfect because only God knew how much time she had left.
Evan once told me that you have to try to just have faith in the world. That's the lullaby I kept trying to sing to myself now. He has always said that to me. Still, I looked around at other moms at the pre-prom party and realized that probably no other mother was thinking of her daughter in her very special dress the same way I was thinking of Ali.
This piece is excerpted from "Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story" by Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy. Available from Vanguard Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright 2012
Copyright © 2012 Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy, authors of Saving Each Other: A Mystery Illness, A Search for the Cure, A Mother-Daughter Love Story
Copyright © 2012 Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy, authors of Saving Each Other: A Mystery Illness, A Search for the Cure, A Mother-Daughter Love Story


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After summer of discontent, Congress takes a break
WASHINGTON - The accomplishments are few, the chaos plentiful in the 113th Congress, a discourteous model of divided government now beginning a five-week break.
"Have senators sit down and shut up, OK?" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blurted out on Thursday as lawmakers milled about noisily at a time Sen. Susan Collins was trying to speak.
There was political calculation even in that. Democrats knew the Maine Republican was about rip into her own party's leadership, and wanted to make sure her indictment could be heard.
Across the Capitol, unsteady bookends tell the story of the House's first seven months in this two-year term. Internal dissent among Republicans nearly toppled Speaker John Boehner when lawmakers first convened in January. And leadership's grip is no surer now: A routine spending bill was pulled from the floor this week, two days before the monthlong August break, for fear it would fall in a crossfire between opposing GOP factions.
Chaos reigns
A few weeks earlier, Boehner suggested a new standard for Congress. "We should not be judged on how many new laws we create. We ought to be judged on how many laws that we repeal," he said as Republicans voted for the 38th and 39th time since 2011 to repeal or otherwise neuter the health care law known as Obamacare.
Reaching for a round number, they did it for a 40th time on Friday, although the legislation stands no chance in the Democratic Senate and the GOP has yet to offer the replacement that it pledged three years ago to produce.
House Democrats claimed to hate all of this, yet couldn't get enough.
They demanded the GOP cancel summer vacation so Congress could stay in session. The break, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said, "shows shocking disregard for the American people and our economy."
To be sure, there have been accomplishments since Congress convened last winter, although two of the more prominent ones merely avoided a meltdown rather than advancing the public's preferred agenda.
Months earlier, at the urging of their leaders, House Republicans agreed to raise the government's debt limit rather than push the Treasury to the brink of a first-ever national default.
Legislation linking interest rates on student loans to the marketplace passed, and, too, a bill to strengthen the government's response to crimes against women. Two more measures sent recovery funds to the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Among the 18 other measures signed into law so far: one named a new span over the Mississippi River as the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge, after the late baseball legend. Another renamed a section of the tax code after former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.
The Senate passed sweeping immigration legislation to spend billions securing the nation's borders against illegal entry and creating a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants currently in the country unlawfully. The vote was 68-32, with all Democrats and about one-third of Republicans in favor.
But House Republicans, many of whom oppose granting citizenship to anyone living in the country illegally, deemed the bill a non-starter.
The Senate approved a farm bill that followed customary lines in providing funding simultaneously for growers and for government programs to feed the hungry.
But a revolt by tea party conservatives blocked passage of a combined bill in the House. The leadership promises one for nutrition programs this fall, and an attempt will be made to find common ground with the Senate.
Trusting no one
Both houses have approved budgets.
But some Senate Republicans have blocked Democratic attempts to begin compromise talks, saying they will relent only if there is agreement in advance not to raise the federal debt limit as part of any deal.
"Let me be clear, I don't trust the Republicans," said GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, a tea party-backed first-term lawmaker from Texas. "I don't trust the Democrats, and I think a whole lot of Americans likewise don't trust the Republicans or the Democrats because it is leadership in both parties that has got us into this mess."
Most opinion polls over the past six months put public approval for Congress in the mid-teens, with disapproval generally over 70 percent.
And yet, says Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., "Congress does reflect the American people and the American people are divided."


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May 13, 2008
Lee County -- The family of a Lee County man killed in a police chase last June has sued Albany and Dougherty county.
Last June, 21-year old Billy Klewitz left his job at Winn Dixie and was on his way to pick up a family member when Bobby Jones hit him head on while running from an Albany Dougherty Drug Unit agent.
Now his family has named the city of Albany, Dougherty County, the Sheriff's Office, Jamil Saba, and ADDU in a lawsuit claiming Officer Gary Price was at fault for Klewitz's death.
Attorney Patrick Eidson was shocked the city and county never responded when they were first notified of the suit.
"Never received any formal response from the city or the county which was kind of surprising, we thought we'd hear one way or the other, but after the time had elapsed we had the right to file our complaint," said Attorney Patrick Eidson of Barnes, NeSmith. & Eidson, P.C.
The city and county will have 45 days to complete the discovery questions filed with the complaint.


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is the debut CD from the famous scene musician Muffler
- known for his work in demo-scene groups (both Amiga- and
PC) Scoopex, CNCD, and Haujobb.
This album is released on TRSI
Recordz and is the first TRSI Recordz release in a very
long time. The music is extremely funky big beat and drum'n'
bass - very well produced and with a mature, professional
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by Fatboy Slim, I would say.
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See also available CDs from other
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Dr.Awesome, Jogeir
Liljedahl, Vivid,
Moby, and.. not to forget.. Lizardking.
Track listing:
1. Step to Dark (part 1)
2. Contrafunk
3. Twinkle
4. Found and Lost
5. Jolla
6. Step to Dark (part 2)
7. No Tank
8. One
9. Ignition
10. Float
Reviews of Muffler
: "Muffler"
album is definitely NOT representative of Muffler's Amigan
work. It's exclusively very dark, repetitive and haunting
drum'n bass. I mainly recommend this album to people who
are into D&B but Muffler's fan should give it a try.
Personnally, I like it very much but not being a real D&B
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Muffler, if you hear me, releasing
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Overall, very good Drum and
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Last summer's interview of CEO/co-founder Jim Kaskade by UT telecom reporter Kathryn Balint shows a classic "scratch an itch" startup:
Balint: How did Eyespot get started?Eyespot has a two-pronged approach. The Eyespot.com website allows editing online, while Eyespot Mobile Share (announced a year ago at Qualcomm's annual BREW developer conference) allows such editing to be done on BREW-based cell phones (i.e. Verizon and BREW operators in Japan and Korea).
Kaskade: David Dudas and I both have families, and we both shoot video with a digital video camcorder. But we were both asking what do you do with the digital video after you've captured it? I hadn't done anything with it, to be honest. I didn't have the time to learn complex editing tools. This is the typical situation of a lot of consumers. So David and I said, "This is a pain point that needs to be addressed. We need to take advantage of the fact that the Internet is becoming the operating system and instead of having an application run on your desktop, you can have a hosted application running on the Internet."
Today's big announcement is that Eyespot has been selected by Lucasfilm to provide the tools for Star Wars fan(atic)s to create their own clips based on the 6-part movie saga, whether short parodies or longer mini-movies. Lucasfilm is providing some 250 clips of up to one minute or less that visitors to StarWars.com can combine using the Eyespot web-based software, and then post to the website (linked from a dedicated blog). This is in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars — I still remember waiting outside a Westwood movie theater to see the first (4th) episode) back in 1977.
There are limits, as mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article (but not the press release):
The mash-up project will come with rules, however. While it won't stop anybody from assailing characters or casting them in unexpected lights, Eyespot has set up a program to make sure none of the doctored clips contain nudity, pornography, and the like. As a backup, a team of screeners based in Costa Rica will watch each video before it goes live.Still, this marks a courageous effort by Lucasfilm to utilize the power of user innovation and confront head-on the threat of BitTorrent, YouTube etc. facing all of Hollywood. The commentary by MaryAnn Johanson shows how big a shift this is for Lucas:
George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is why some call him "Lucas the Litigator." …This sort of deal also helps Eyespot avoid the the GooTube copyright dilemma. It is only the latest deal by Eyespot with licensed content, including Paramount Pictures and the NBA.
This is smart, on Lucas's part. He's trying to take control of the crazy, pop-culture-commenting creativity all the kids are into these days. I predict this will fail, wildly, from Lucas's perspective (though fans will love it). If I may paraphrase what Princess Leia told Grand Moff Tarkin: The more you tighten your grip, Lucas, the more mashups will slip through your fingers.
Kaskade and co-founder/CTO Dudas seemed to have had both a great vision and executed right on building the key content partners. With both VC and blue-chip angels like Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs and Linspire (née Lindows) chairman Michael Robertson, it appears they've built a small team that (at least until recently) was working out of a home.
This is the second startup of Kaskade, who in 1998 founded Incep Technologies, a Mira Mesa-based firm that developed IP to improve semiconductor packaging and connections. The company won more than $10 million in VC funding before it was acquired in September 2004 by Molex, Inc., a Fortune 1000 component company.
Graphic credit: Original 1977 Star Wars poster from Starstore.com
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Inspector Singh Investigates : The Singapore School of Villainy by Shamini Flint
This round, Inspector Singh is in his home turf. A senior partner, Mark Thompson, in a big law firm was murdered in his office at night. The murder seems to be much closer to home since his wife's nephew was one of the suspects.
Not an easy case to solve as there are many suspects and all of them have motives to want Mark Thompson demise.
Could it be his current wife, Marie who is in need of $$? or could it be his vengeful ex-wife? Could it be Quentin who was the one last stout supporter of Mark? Could it be Ai Leen who was prim and proper but behind the scene she was sleeping her way up the cooperate ladder? or could it be Inspector Singh's wife's nephew who seems to have something to hide.?
I find this book very fast paced from the first page. Enjoyed it very much. One thing I don't understand was why in this book Inspector Singh was allowed to continued with the investigation when his relative was one of the suspect.
Overall I give it 3 stars out of 5.
I wonder when will the 4th book be out and where would Inspector Singh go next.?
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- AnonymousNovember 27, 2010 at 11:32 PM
i like this kind of books. keep me turning pages. lol. why only three star?ReplyDelete
I not yet read this, but I think it's that Ai Leen who dunnit la... usually it's the pretentious, preen and proper kinda person is the one who is the bad ppl lorr... cis... see oso know! I hate this kind of people wan u kno? Outside look good, but inside... damn rotten... summore... I wonder... this Ai Leen got sleep with the boss anot? Ishh... sleep all the way up the corporate ladder! Ishhh!ReplyDelete
So did u guess the murderer right? Hehe.ReplyDelete
Coz the plot though very kan cheong but seems a bit "out". Cant tell u exactly coz then will reveal the ending pulak
Have "sumbat-ed" you the book yesterday evening. Read and find out for yourself :P
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Nope...but i laughed at myself when Inspector Singh reveal who is the murderer. Very simple explaination :D
Hmmm, not exactly sure about this book as some of your comments leave me feeling that it isn't always believable or realistic. Shame really as I think the cover is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Is it the one about continueing on though one of the suspects is his relative?
I like her 1st two books very much
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Do drop a comment if you have feel like it.
Meantime, happy reading and have a nice day!


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John Fahey, who took up his post on 1 January, has been impressed with work done by the Chinese authorities.
"The chances of getting caught, for those that want to cheat, are greater than ever before," Fahey told BBC Sport in his first interview as Wada chief.
"The tests will be more significant than at any other Olympics."
The Australian added: "They (the Chinese authorities) have done an enormous amount of work, putting in resources in terms of highly-trained personnel and money.
"And the laboratory, from what I'm told, is of the highest standards. So the nuts and bolts are there."
Fahey, a former finance minister in the Australian government, said there was also an onus on national governments to ensure they send clean athletes to the Games.
He said: "Will the athletes that come to the Games be clean? I can't say that. But I would ask all countries to send honest and clean athletes.
"The onus isn't on Wada, it isn't even on the Chinese authorities, it's on each of the countries that send athletes to the Games to go through a rigorous process of ensuring that only the clean athletes get there, rather than those that seek to cheat.
"Testing isn't the only thing, though obviously testing ultimately leads to many of the cheats being detected and dealt with in the appropriate way.
"It is just as important to ensure that the investigations are smarter than ever before and that through proper investigations your testing is focused on where it can do the most good.
"And that requires a great deal of co-operation with law enforcement agencies in many countries. Some have come a long way, some haven't made much of a move at all."
Fahey says he is confident that a rigorous testing procedure for human growth hormone will be in place in time for the Games.
Peter Sönksen, a leading expert on drugs in sport, told BBC Sport last November that the current test for HGH is "useless".
But Fahey told BBC Sport: "With regard to HGH, it has reached the stage where we can have confidence in the testing.
"There has been a lot of comment about having a kit that is practical and accessible, and that requires those kits being manufactured.
"There have been a few stumbling blocks there - which I needn't detail - but the tests have been validated. And samples have been stored in the past that can be used in the future.
"I think we're a lot further with HGH than many of the commentators have said. We're very confident that by the time of the Olympics in Beijing in August that these kits will be readily available and in a form that nobody can argue can be utilised to achieve outcomes.
"Is this the right test? Are there other ways? We won't ignore any proposal that can be validated.
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I have been browsing through the Upanishads of late, enjoying their perennial wisdom and marvelling at the common ground they share with 21st century revelations about the primary nature of the universe and with modern quantum theory. The Upanishads are a summation of the knowledge, insights and sacred wisdom of the Vedic sages and seers and date back some 4,000 years.
In his introduction to selected translations from the Upanishads, Alistair Shearer writes that the Vedic teachings propose 'the ground of all being is an infinite and unified field of Consciousness, eternal and self-luminous. This Consciousness creates the universe from its own depths, by reverberating within itself….Thus, Veda is said to be the source of creation; it is the DNA of the universe, containing all manifest possibilities in seed form.' The Upanishadic teachings also reflect the ancient Greek understanding of philosophy or 'gnosis' – the cultivation of true and sacred wisdom. Plato described such a philosopher as one who would 'live in constant companionship with the divine order of the world'. Continue Reading →


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1. Critically reflecting on what psychological scales mean is important even when the scales are extremely popular. New ways of data gathering may shed new light on scales.
2. Leaving the lab and testing things in the real-world can lead to new insights. In the future, we should conduct more behavioural science research in people's real lives.
3. Understanding what leads to temptations is as important as understanding what helps us to resist them. We need to better understand the person-specific and situation-specific factors that lead to temptations, and trait self-control is just one of them. For example, in my 2012 paper I described an economic formalization of how situational factors such as cues can trigger temptations.
Daly, M., Baumeister, R. F., Delaney, L., & MacLachlan, M. (2014). Self-control and its relation to emotions and psychobiology: evidence from a Day Reconstruction Method study. Journal of behavioral medicine, 37(1), 81-93.
deRidder, D. T., Lensvelt-Mulders, G., Finkenauer, C., Stok, F. M., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). Taking stock of self-control a meta-analysis of How trait self-control relates to a wide range of behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16(1), 76-99.
Ent, M. R., Baumeister, R. F., & Tice, D. M. (2015). Trait self-control and the avoidance of temptation. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 12-15.
Hofmann, W., Baumeister, R. F., Förster, G., & Vohs, K. D. (2012). Everyday temptations: an experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(6), 1318.
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University Tuition Hike May Help Offset Budget WoesAugust 28th, 2007 by flanews
���� Despite a veto by Charlie Crist, Florida college students could be facing a tuition increase next semester. Back in the spring, lawmakers approved a five percent hike that was wiped out by the governor�s veto pen. But the tuition plan could be revived to help deal with a billion dollar budget shortfall.� Chris Casquejo talked with students and school leaders about the financial flip-flop.
���� Students at Florida State University are back in class, hitting the books. But come January, families of those who attend the state�s 11 universities may feel a hit in their checkbooks, as much as 5 percent.
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���� But lawmakers may not be able to wait. They have a billion dollar hole in the budget and raising tuition in January would be one small way to help bridge the gap.
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Eric Krakauer and Jason Le Miere welcome New York Red Bulls captain, Dax McCarty, to discuss the team's early struggles and recent turnaround, as well as the upcoming games against staunch rivals, DC United, and New York City FC. Dax also discusses Jurgen Klinsmann and his omission from the US men's national team. Follow Eric… Read More »


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AFCA Forums > Antique Fan Collectors Association > Pre-1950 (Antique) > Found one of my wish list fans
|Moderated by: Steve Cunningham, Rod Rogers, Larry Hancock
|Found one of my wish list fans
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|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 03:52 pm
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|Out of the blue, one of my many antique store contacts alerted me to a six wing westy that was for sale about an hour away from me so I hopped in my car and away I flew. Here is what I found (and bought) for $150.
The cord is definitely not original but everything else is all there except for the end cap on the back of the rotor shaft. I'll post on the WTB for that missing piece or perhaps Ted Kaczor can make me one similar to the GE end caps I have purchased from him from time to time.
I was like a kid waiting for Santa Claus this morning hoping that this fan was still there and it was. I consider that price to be very good, this fan being worth all of that. I don't dare plug it in (though I might test it with my dim bulb tester).
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 04:17 pm
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Peter Buffo
AFCA Member
|Congrats! That is a beautiful fan and I think a solid $value..... (I spent exact same for mine a few months ago so I'm a wee biased)
Hopefully both of our upcoming projects are enjoyable and fun! Are you going to keep it all original? At least from the perspective of strip it and repaint...
I'm looking forward to seeing it cleaned up and pushing air!
Last edited on Sat Dec 1st, 2018 04:22 pm by Peter Buffo
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 04:30 pm
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|The paint is in very good condition. I'm going to try and clean it up with some Flitz and MeGuiars to see how it looks. I will post pictures as I go.
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 05:07 pm
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Dave McManaman
AFCA Member
|Very nice fan and, imo, an equally nice price. Might check see if Chad Hunter has a rear cap. I got one for my Westy from him. Congrats!
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 05:33 pm
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|My good friend Dennis LeBow found me a cap and wonderful guy that he is, he wouldn't even charge me the cost of mailing it to me. Here is the fan all broken down. The speed coil looked almost new. The paint is in such good condition that I'm just going to clean it with Flitz (which I ordered and will be arriving tomorrow) and maybe polish it up with some Meguiars. As I suspected, this is a 1914 centrifugal start fan.
You can see part of my dim bulb tester in the upper right corner. That and my kill o watt are very handy devices which every newbie should have. I may replace the steel acorn nuts with some brass nuts. I love the way they look even though it wouldn't be "original". What do you think? Who might have those? Maybe Darryl Hudson?
Last edited on Sat Dec 1st, 2018 05:34 pm by David Kilnapp
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 06:44 pm
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Steve Stephens
AFCA Member
|David Kilnapp wrote:
I may replace the steel acorn nuts with some brass nuts. I love the way they look even though it wouldn't be "original". What do you think? Who might have those? Maybe Darryl Hudson?David, you already know what I think about replacing the acorn nuts with brass nuts; I would not do it but it's your fan so you can make your choice. My 1912 model 6 wing Westy has black oxide finished brass acorn nuts. I don't know when they went to the steel nuts but WWI might have had an influence. The other differences between my 6 wing and yours are the bronze bearing carriers used on the earliest stamped steel westy noon-oscillator models and mine is a two speed with the third (low) speed blocked off by a stud. These are pretty quiet fans and I think you will love it.
One question, what is the small number stamped in one of the fan hub fingers on the back side? That should be the year of the fan.
|Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2018 11:25 pm
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|The stamped number is 1915 on the back of the blade. You are quite right about the acorn nuts - they will stay as is...black oxide. I cleaned and degreased all the painted parts. A little more cleaning and then we'll see.
|Posted: Sun Dec 2nd, 2018 12:23 am
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Steve Stephens
AFCA Member
David Kilnapp wrote:
The stamped number is 1915 on the back of the blade. .
David, the micro date on the motor tag is only a close approximation of when a Westy item was made and was likely when a new batch of motor tags was ordered, enough in most cases to last two to four years. The date stamp on the rear of the blade hub should be the exact year or, in the case of my 6 wing, was the fan made in 1911 but as a 1912 model (which it is). I don't know what the star means. I would love for the factory people to be around so I could pick their knowledge on these small details and much more.
Are you saying your acorn nuts are brass or steel?
Last edited on Sun Dec 2nd, 2018 12:27 am by Steve Stephens
|Posted: Sun Dec 2nd, 2018 12:54 am
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|My acorn nuts appear to be steel. The date stamp on the back of the blade is "15". There is only the number 15, there is no star.
|Posted: Sun Dec 2nd, 2018 03:03 am
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Steve Stephens
AFCA Member
|The star is not that common but not rare either. More don't have the star than have it.
|Posted: Wed Dec 5th, 2018 11:48 am
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|Progress report:
Runs like a charm - very quiet too. It's very odd, though, that the typical "click, click click" that one would expect from a centrifugal start mechanism is strangely absent. I had a heckuva time getting it to run initially because the shaft was slightly bound up (I've had this issue with pressed steel Westy's before). So I re-opened the case, then pressed the front and back half of the case together so that the shaft moved freely and fired it up. Then I slowly tightened the acorn nuts one at a time, all the while listening for signs of a binding shaft. It took a little time and patience but that's the trick. I suspect that the bearings just needed time to adjust which the spinning shaft was able to facilitate. (I never have had that issue with GE fans). The picture is somewhat misleading as the paint job (two coats of primer, two coats of satin finish and two coats of clear) is more of a matte finish which I think is pretty close to it's original look. (Just noticed that the fan is backward - switch should be on the right) so I'll back out the set screw in the neck and reverse the orientation tonight).
Last edited on Wed Dec 5th, 2018 12:00 pm by David Kilnapp
|Posted: Thu Dec 6th, 2018 01:29 pm
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Peter Buffo
AFCA Member
|Wow! Great looking fan! I'm anxious to get started on mine.... can't wait to get parts in and knock it out!Cheers!
|Posted: Thu Dec 6th, 2018 01:35 pm
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David Kilnapp
AFCA Member
|Just sent your acorn nuts at the post office. Busy day there today but you should have the acorn nuts by Monday the latest I would think, Peter. I've been thinking about purchasing an ultrasonic cleaner. Would you take a picture of the one that you use and post the picture? How much did you pay for yours?
Last edited on Thu Dec 6th, 2018 01:38 pm by David Kilnapp
|Posted: Thu Dec 6th, 2018 07:07 pm
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Peter Buffo
AFCA Member
|Thank you so much for the nuts! 😎
I don't use an ultrasound cleaner..... I'm considering getting a brass tumbler for reloading and the odd brass part thrown in.
Anyone want to chime in on what's best?
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Alice L. Etnier, age 100, of Watertown died Monday, Nov. 13, 2006 at the Elim Home in Watertown.
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I had another excellent AM workout yesterday! I started off by blasting my legs with 4 sets of high rep, moderate weight, short rest interval back squats. I was feeling great, so I decided to superset Bulgarian split squats with single leg DB calf raises (3 supersets). I finished off with 3 sets of stiff-leg deadlifts. My hamstrings and glutes are already sore this morning, and by tomorrow morning I'll be wincing with every step.
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