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The EPA Guide to Cleaner Technologies.

I am on a fast track toward building my own 5 gallon (10 gallon tank) Ultra Sonic cleaner.

This particular book goes into a little more detail on chemical interactions, and their by-products as well as the efficiency of most popular cleaning solvents in their given applications.
There are a few things (so far) that I was totally unaware of.
example:
Vacuum ultra sonic cleaning. No water or solvent is used at all.
A vacuum chamber is drawn down, and the chamber is activated with ultra sonic waves. The waves alone dislodge debris including oils from the surface being cleaned.

Or... Vacuum dryers. The boiling point of a liquid goes down under vacuum. I knew that part but never thought about it as a shop tool.

Cool stuff for me because I'm not a story book fan. I prefer technical reads. It's short. about 30 pages. More of an overview.
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steve99f wrote:About halfway through Heinlein's The Puppet Masters first copyright 1951.
A fine selection, Steve. ::tu:: I recently finished a re-read of The Cat Who Walk Through Walls. I always seem to pick up "new" little bits here and there with new looks at Heinlein novels.
I've read most of his work before but it has been decades, probably the 80's anyway. I missed this one though. The social commentary is the attraction for me aside from well written stories and great characters. I believe "the Cat who..." is next and then Stranger in a Strange Land. I know I've read both before but they were soooo goood! The "Stranger..." edition is the original text, the one I read way back when was heavily edited so as not to offend the marketplace. I don't have that copy to do a side by side though.

I picked all three up at a second hand store called 2nd and Charles. Used books, CD'c, video's, games. A '70's kind of vibe. Good deals though and they do buy stuff back or give store credit. It is a chain, check them out.
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MITCH RAPP wrote:8) Hey Ray, you know they made Vince Flynn's book "AMERICAN ASSASSIN" into a movie, being released this month. I don't know if it will be any good or not but at least they didn't Cast Tom Cruise as Mitch Rapp :lol:
Recently read "AMERICAN ASSASSIN". Saw the movie last weekend. It sucked (the movie, not the book).
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jerryd6818 wrote:
MITCH RAPP wrote:8) Hey Ray, you know they made Vince Flynn's book "AMERICAN ASSASSIN" into a movie, being released this month. I don't know if it will be any good or not but at least they didn't Cast Tom Cruise as Mitch Rapp :lol:
Recently read "AMERICAN ASSASSIN". Saw the movie last weekend. It sucked (the movie, not the book).
Jerry,
Yours is the 1st bad review I read on the movie. Anything in particular you disliked? Were you a reader of the Mitch Rapp books?

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Paladin wrote:
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MITCH RAPP wrote:8) Hey Ray, you know they made Vince Flynn's book "AMERICAN ASSASSIN" into a movie, being released this month. I don't know if it will be any good or not but at least they didn't Cast Tom Cruise as Mitch Rapp :lol:
Recently read "AMERICAN ASSASSIN". Saw the movie last weekend. It sucked (the movie, not the book).
Yours is the 1st bad review I read on the movie. Anything in particular you disliked? Were you a reader of the Mitch Rapp books?
Haven't read the book (yet) but from what I've heard Tom Cruise was a stone cold awful miscasting as Mitch Rapp in that film.

The reviews I've seen online and heard in person seem to be split nearly 50/50.
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I read all of the Mitch Rapp series including the first two written by the new author (not Vince Flynn quality but still pretty good). I thoroughly enjoyed them all.

I suspect if you've never read a Mitch Rapp novel, the movie would be okay. For me it was a disappointment. The movie doesn't even try to develop Rapp's personality or the character's cunning, intelligence and grit (which was the main point and objective of American Assassin the novel). As chronologically the first in the series it is about Rapp's history, how he was found, trained and developed. Only in the last part of the book was he deployed on a mission.

The movie pays lip service to the training and development and can't wait to get Rapp on a mission. It's an action flick with martial arts and computer-generated special effects. Aside from the main characters Mitch Rapp, Stan Hurley, and Irene Kennedy, all the other characters and the plot are completely new and different than the novel American Assassin. The movie's newly-invented main bad guy, played by actor Taylor Kitsch, was IMHO the most interesting and well acted character. Too bad they didnt cast him as Rapp.

BTW the character Mitch Rapp wasn't played by Tom Cruise. Cruise played Jack Reacher.

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Mumbleypeg wrote:BTW the character Mitch Rapp wasn't played by Tom Cruise. Cruise played Jack Reacher.
Ah, thank you! I'm conflating all the summer action movies, apparently. Which is not a surprise, seeing as I haven't seen a new first-run film in longer than I can remember. ::nod::

I Googled the actor playing Mitch Rapp and I still don't think I could pick the guy out of a lineup if he were holding a $10,000 check behind his back made out to me. ::rotflol::
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Paladin wrote:
jerryd6818 wrote:
MITCH RAPP wrote:8) Hey Ray, you know they made Vince Flynn's book "AMERICAN ASSASSIN" into a movie, being released this month. I don't know if it will be any good or not but at least they didn't Cast Tom Cruise as Mitch Rapp :lol:
Recently read "AMERICAN ASSASSIN". Saw the movie last weekend. It sucked (the movie, not the book).
Jerry,
Yours is the 1st bad review I read on the movie. Anything in particular you disliked? Were you a reader of the Mitch Rapp books?

Ray
All except the newest one. I misspoke and American Assassin was not a recent read for me. :oops: As said, they spent almost no time developing the character and I didn't think the character was true to the books. It was just violence for the sake of violence. Not well done at all and the actor who played Mitch Rapp didn't fit my image of him.
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jerryd6818 wrote:
Paladin wrote:
jerryd6818 wrote: Recently read "AMERICAN ASSASSIN". Saw the movie last weekend. It sucked (the movie, not the book).
Jerry,
Yours is the 1st bad review I read on the movie. Anything in particular you disliked? Were you a reader of the Mitch Rapp books?

Ray
All except the newest one. I misspoke and American Assassin was not a recent read for me. :oops: As said, they spent almost no time developing the character and I didn't think the character was true to the books. It was just violence for the sake of violence. Not well done at all and the actor who played Mitch Rapp didn't fit my image of him.
I haven't seen the movie but from the trailers, I sure wondered about the image thing. The actor looked kinda wimpy to me and wimpy is a word that would, or should, never appear in the same sentence as Mitch Rapp. :lol: :D

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I'm reading "The Testament" by John Grisham. It's the most recent in a string of his books I've read of late. I've become a fan of his writings. So far I'm about a third of the way through it and it's not bad.
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zzyzzogeton wrote:I’m working my way through E.T. Seton’s 6 volume set “Pioneering and Woodcraft”. Seton was a friend of Sir Baden Powell, who formed the Boy Scouts. Seton had already started a group called Woodcraft Inidians in 1902 - 7 years before the Boy Scouts were first formed, that Powell used as a basis for the Scouts.
Ernest Thompson Seton, he should be in the library of anyone who loves the outdoors.
I have a 6-volume set of these that were published in 1926, but his books are still in print. Wonderful books by an interesting and extremely talented author. Seton was a naturalist and a student of American Indian culture - do an Internet search for both "Ernest Thompson Seton" and "Woodcraft Indians". The drawings alone are fantastic works. The Seton Memorial Library, the official BSA library located at Philmont, is named for him and contains his personal library.

When I was a scout leader I frequently referred to these books, along with my own old 1950s issue of the Handbook for Boys (the Boy Scout manual) for camp activities, ideas, campcraft knowledge, and campfire stories. I still use some of it with my grandsons. People seem to think kids have changed, but boys are boys - they're still interested in the same stuff they were interested in 100 years ago - you just have to get the %+#* video games out of their hands and get them outdoors!

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philco wrote:I'm reading "The Testament" by John Grisham. It's the most recent in a string of his books I've read of late. I've become a fan of his writings. So far I'm about a third of the way through it and it's not bad.
Sounds intriguing. I've read a lot of Grisham but not this one. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on it. Just checked and fortunately one of our libraries has it.
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Lots of good titles guys!
I'm currently reading the second of Robert Parker's Jesse Stone novels, DEATH IN PARADISE.
After that, it's gonna be TY COBB: A TERRIBLE BEAUTY, by Charles Leerhsen. He debunks a lot of the misinformation written by Al Stump about Ty Cobb being a racist murderer who sharpened his spikes before every game in order to inflict pain on the opposition.
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MITCH RAPP wrote:
Paladin wrote:
MITCH RAPP wrote:8) Got this one on pre-order from Amazon ::tu::
Mitch,
Please give us a review on this on when you are thru with it. I became a ardent fan when Vince Flynn was at the helm and need to know if I want to get back into them.

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8) Ray, this is the 3rd post Vince Flynn book and I got to say this Guy does a Real decent job carrying on the Mitch Rapp legacy. ::tu::
I just finished ORDER TO KILL, the 2nd of the Mitch Rapp series by Kyle MIlls for Vince Flynn. This one was a thriller from start to finish. I can hardly wait to get the 3rd in the series.

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I picked up this nice old Charles Russell at the local book store today. He was a hoot.
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Just received the New John Sandford book " Deep Freeze" a Virgil Flowers Novel , going to save it for a few weeks :roll:
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jlw257 wrote:Just received the New John Sandford book " Deep Freeze" a Virgil Flowers Novel , going to save it for a few weeks :roll:
I've read all of John Sandford's "Prey" books and Virgil Flowers books except "Deep Freeze". Love 'em.
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Larry, Linnea bought "Deep Freeze" and brought it over last weekend. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. It's good as usual.
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I am currently reading a series by an English writer named James Runcie.

They are mysteries involving an Anglican priest and WWII veteran named Sidney Chambers.

They mostly take place in a small village outside Cambridge called Grantchester.

Some of the stories have been produced for Masterpiece Mysteries on PBS.

There are six books, thus far.

There is a good bit of Christian Spirituality in them. No bad language, no graphic sex, but lots of death and mayhem.

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About to finish Easy Going by Leon Hale. Hale was a newspaper man who wrote a column three times a week in the Houston Post and later in the Houston Chronicle[/] about places and people he encounters while traveling around Texas. This book was originally published in 1973 and is a collection of Hale's newspaper columns from the 1960s and early 1970s, and stories from his own youth while growing up in west Texas during the 1930s. Great story telling and a great read. The stories range from somber and reflective, to wry humor, to laugh-out-loud hilarious.

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Mumbleypeg wrote:About to finish Easy Going by Leon Hale. Hale was a newspaper man who wrote a column three times a week in the Houston Post and later in the Houston Chronicle[/] about places and people he encounters while traveling around Texas. This book was originally published in 1973 and is a collection of Hale's newspaper columns from the 1960s and early 1970s, and stories from his own youth while growing up in west Texas during the 1930s. Great story telling and a great read. The stories range from somber and reflective, to wry humor, to laugh-out-loud hilarious.

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Leon Hale is a paternal Uncle to one of my cousins on my dad's side, not this Leon Hale of course but it could very well be shirt tail kin because there are some of those Hales down in Texas. Couldn't find the book in our library but I did find a copy on Amazon that I may order.
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jerryd6818 wrote: Leon Hale is a paternal Uncle to one of my cousins on my dad's side, not this Leon Hale of course but it could very well be shirt tail kin because there are some of those Hales down in Texas. Couldn't find the book in our library but I did find a copy on Amazon that I may order.
Funny you should say that Jerry. One chapter in the book is called "Shirttail Days", containing stories about his youth, growing up with his friends, cousins, aunts and uncles. In fact some of the funniest stories are about his oldest cousin "C.T." and all the mischief he got into. (C.T. grew up to be a preacher.) :lol: A few of the stories incidentally involve pocket knives.

I'd send you this copy but I borrowed it from my brother-in-law. I see you can get a used copy from Amazon for as little as 4 bucks though. Amazingly, the author is still living - 96 years old, and apparently still writing.

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That book interested me and I bought it yesterday on Amazon. For little money.
He wrote several that I put in my browse pile.
Wonderful that he is still with us.
Jerry, wouldn't it be cool if you could find a connection. ::nod::
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Ole mitch is a b-b-a.
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Joe, you probably already know this but that's the last one actually written by Vince Flynn before his death June 19, 2013. The next three were written by Kyle Mills and if "The Survivor" is any indication, quite well done.
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