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Rustic Garage - Garage

Inspiration for a large rustic detached two-car garage remodel

[byneddiedingo]

Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin in The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952) Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Steven Geray, Henri Letondal, Hank Worden. Jim Davis. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Ray Buffum, DeVallon Scott, based on a novel by A.B. Guthrie Jr. Cinematography: Russell Harlan. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Perry Ferguson. Film editing: Christian Nyby. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. The Big Sky is a good Henry Hathaway or Budd Boetticher movie, except that it was made by Howard Hawks, from whom we have come to expect more. Hawks had just passed through one of the peak periods of his long career, with the sterling achievement of To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Red River (1948), and he was to return to form in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959). But The Big Sky looks like a routine Western adventure in that company, even though it has some old Hawksian hands on board in screenwriter Dudley Nichols, cinematographer Russell Harlan, and composer Dimitri Tiomkin. It has the director's characteristic touches in places: overlapping dialogue and the usual male-bonding moments. Some of the latter, especially between Kirk Douglas's Jim Deakins and Dewey Martin's Boone Caudill, verge on the homoerotic, since Boone is given to wearing tight leather pants and both go around with their shirts flared open, making one scene look like it's taking place in a West Hollywood bar and not a St. Louis saloon. The absence of the usual "Hawksian woman," able to return wisecrack for wisecrack, is particularly noticeable. The only woman in the large cast is Elizabeth Threatt, playing an Indian woman named Teal Eye, who doesn't speak English. This was the only film appearance for Threatt, a model Hawks had spotted in a photograph. Her chief function in the film is to provide sexual tension among the members of a crew of fur traders making their way up the Missouri River and to spark a bit of rivalry between Jim and Boone. Teal Eye has been brought along on the expedition by Zeb Calloway (Arthur Hunnicutt) to act as a go-between with the Blackfoot tribe, to which she belongs. Also along for the journey is a somewhat addled Blackfoot known as Poordevil, played by Hank Worden, a regular member of John Ford's stock company who sometimes moonlighted for Hawks. The journey is interrupted by Indian attacks, river rapids, and the threats from a rival trading company, in scenes that are staged and shot well but never provide more than the routine excitement of the genre. Hunnicutt and Harlan received Oscar nominations for their work.

[renee00124]

LINK: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9409438/ *Microwave Strategic Synthetic Beamed Cancers Including Ovarian*

Night after night and day, the microwave beam originating from various locations within the official setup around me is focused on my brain, the back right side then top. They have remotedly guided weaponized antennas setup in houses on both sides, front and back.

As part of the official coverup, the Department of Defense lists microwave weapons as nonlethal which is a misnomer. The fact is microwave weapons are not nonlethal if the weapon is focused on a specific area of the body repeatedly or once with great intensity. In cases like this, the outcome is exactly with official personnel at the helm seek.

About 2 months ago, there was a precise focused hit to my left ovary. As I sat watching TV in my bedroom, I first heard the beam scratching around inside the wall. This is an alert that it is being focused before a beamed assault. This time it originated from one of three houses behind used by military personnel, and the Lockheed Martin field trainer training them. There also two drones positioned overhead as well.

Zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, at least ten times, was the rhythm of the pulsed microwave beam, expertly irradiating and slow cooking the area. Although I am being tortured, there obviously is a special plan for me and others exposing them.

The Executive Summary Neuropsychological and Electronic No-Touch Torture Report by Robert Duncan A.b., S.M., M.B.a., Ph.D.

Tonight, a few months later, there is definitely unusual pain in the precise area of the beam focused that night. Remember microwaves, as it does with meat inside cook from the inside out.

This program does not setup around targets, unless the leadership wants the target strategically silenced. The last thing this monstrous program wants to be known or publicized is those we honor are actually setting people up for destruction using mind invasive, psychotronic, psychophysical advanced technologies. And in their hideous eyes, if a person awakens to this horrible truth, they officially show up in droves aware that exposure brings shame and disgrace to the reality of horrendous suffering resulting from ongoing human experimentation.

These people are little more than so-called "Meat Suits" for evil to evolve and operate and are so heinously programmed officially that they are actually very comfortable in what they are doing and reportedly doing to untold numbers in one way or another.

No one is exempt, men, women including children and silence is not an option!

[theloniousbach]

Once Again Working on The Enigma off Ornette Coleman

February 28, 2024

By Kim Kleinman, Contributing Writer

When he invited me to this birthday party for Ornette Coleman, Fritz wrote, “…I’ve loved his music since I got the ears to hear it correctly, and now I’m convinced I’ve underestimated his brilliance and the sheer beauty of his music.”

“The ears to hear it correctly” captures my efforts too. I dutifully read Martin Williams as a new jazz fan in the late 1960s or early 1970s and saw that Ornette Coleman was not only NEW, but IMPORTANT. I think I snatched up the Atlantic Best of collection from the Columbia Record Club. It was new, important, but not really much fun. Still, it would come out for at least one side from time to time in those days of vinyl LPs as the soundtrack to underaged beer and the deep but tedious thoughts of young people trying to figure out the world. Like the world itself, this music was mysterious, challenging, and a little scary.

I kept returning to Coleman, though far more often than other avant-gardists, even late-era John Coltrane. There was brilliance and sheer beauty, plus a vulnerability that kept drawing me back. A.B. Spellman’s Four Jazz Lives showed Coleman to be shy and brave, thoughtful and enigmatic. Later I saw Shirley Clarke’s documentary “Ornette: Made In America,” which conveyed an overwhelming sense of loneliness. It was with that impression in mind that I walked into the green room after a 1981 concert with Prime Time when I began to get the ears to hear him correctly. Shy myself, I shook Coleman’s hand to say thanks, for that night and all the years before. It was easier to talk to bassist Jamaaldeen Tacuma, who asked what I played. We both heard me blurt, “Er, stereo.”

In 1981, over the two drums, two basses, and two guitars with the leader, I heard just how Ornette sang, not just on alto but on trumpet and violin. Somehow the lack of technical prowess on the latter instruments expressed that vocal element of his art. That’s what he’d been doing all along; I finally had the correct ears to hear him singing brilliantly and beautifully.

With that insight, I could go back to those early Atlantic albums and really hear them for the first time—the coherence and poignancy of the melodies, the rich interplay of the voices, the harmonies that are there even without a chordal instrument to frame them. The previously daunting “Free Jazz” had a logic and opportunities to triangulate Coleman’s music with the more familiar voices of Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, and Scott LaFaro, a chance to hear how they played this music.

Coleman composed some wonderful tunes—my favorites are among the obvious ones: “Ramblin’,” “Una Muy Bonita,” “Peace,” “Lonely Woman.” Other musicians have covered these and a few other gems, but they aren’t really part of the canon. Still, the lead sheets of his that I’ve seen in fake books are straightforward, but his highly personal concept of “harmolodics” was not widely developed by others. He certainly contributed to the shape of jazz that came along in the 1960s with terse snarling lines and swoops of sound, but to parse out the Coleman from the Shepp, the Ayler, the Dolphy, the Coltrane, in an adventurous young saxophonist of today is difficult.

Yet his sound is distinctive and I do revisit it often enough. Usually it’s the Atlantic albums from the early 1960s, though I have a selection from the late-sixties Blue Note sides and I paid attention to his work with pianist Geri Allen in the mid 1990s.

As part of the Jazz Spectrum birthday bash for Ornette, I once again have listened to those favorite early albums this time around, including the one standard that Coleman covered, which is included in this week’s Song of the Week segment, “Embraceable You.” It’s a chance to test his approach with a recognizable point of reference. In the same vein, I also returned to his contribution to “Sonnymoon for Two” from Sonny Rollins’s September 2010, 80th birthday concert at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, which is collected on Road Shows, Vol. 2. It is, in the end, not all that good. For one, it is way too long, though to be fair Coleman doesn’t start playing until the nine-minute mark. They solo only serially in two- or three-minute segments over the remaining 12 minutes with little direct interplay. They certainly listen to one another but the interaction is passive. Coleman does invoke the theme at least tangentially in one solo, but more revealing is the way his improvisatory approach rooted in melody and theme has an affinity to Rollins’s and yet is so different. They each hear those intersections and lean into them.

It doesn’t quite work, but I am glad I listened. Coleman’s music does work, brilliantly and with sheer beauty. I am glad I have listened to it again and again and again.

[madewithonerib]

J. O. Y. | Eric Gilmour [Psalm 128]

Let's talk about joy the Scripture tells us in Psalm 128 that you will be happy who fears the LORD. This is the way of life, of those who fear GOD—joy!

     Joy C.S. Lewis said is the serious business of      Heaven; Martin Luther said I know how easily      one can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

The Scripture tells us that the joy of men has withered away in connection with their disobedience—the first thing to go when our hearts go astray from GOD is joy!

You see, to entertain sin is to invite sorrow.

Mother Teresa once wrote:

     One filled with the joy the LORD preaches      without even preaching; A.B. Simpson said      there is no time Satan in the world tempts      the heart so persuasively—as when it has      lost the joy of the LORD.

See an Angel comes to announce the Gospel & he calls it glad tidings! Good news of great joy & I believe that man is not qualified to preach the Gospel without joy!

He must first be touched with the goodness of joy before he can preach the Gospel of glad tidings. See one of the things JESUS could have done to prepare the Disciples to preach the Gospel is you know teach them some specific method or something..

     But what happens is HE pours out HIS SPIRIT upon      them & we know that the fruit of the SPIRIT is joy!

2.] Wine Gladdens the Heart

HE came upon them, like wine!

Wine was CHRIST's chosen preparation for the preaching of the Gospel—we know in Psalm 16:11 | In the presence of the LORD is fullness of joy!

Not not just joy, but fullness of joy!

And at HIS right hand pleasure is forevermore!

     It's unending joy! See we must happily submit      to GOD & find that in this, is the highest way of      life that a man can experience joy.

     There isn't anything more joy-filled than being      filled with GOD—as C.S. Lewis also said:

     GOD does not give joy, HE is joy

Praise GOD! See HE's with us in every aspect of our lives —to be joy in that, even joy in the midst of sorrow, even joy in the midst of pain!

3.] Joy Obliterates All Other Circumstances

     Joy even in the midst of not knowing what to do!      because it's not based upon anything external HE      HIMSELF is that joy! In Ephesians 5:18, Paul likens      the SPIRIT to wine on the day of Pentecost.

     The men are not drunk as you suppose, we see      that even in Song of Solomon that HIS love is      likened to this wine of the SPIRIT.

     We know that in Luke 5:33-39 that the wine of the      new covenant burst the religious system; and we      know that in Luke 10:34 when we have the parable      of the Good Samaritan, the man is beat up on the      road, he's bloody & he's passed by a Levite & he's      passed by another…

     But who is the one who bandages him up?

     It's the good Samaritan & what does he use? He      uses wine! GOD does not heal us from being      battered & beaten in this life or by other people      or even by the Church in some circumstances..

     He doesn't heal us by mere words or theology      alone—HE heals us with the wine of HIS presence      & HIS SPIRIT, which is inseparable from the heart      being made merry in joy!

     The Scripture says in Psalm 104 that

     HE gives men wine to drink to make their hearts      glad & their faces glisten with oil! Scripture says      in Psalm 47

     YOU O GOD have put joy in my heart! Praise GOD      this is so important, we see also that joy isn't      taking refuge in GOD!

     The Psalmist shows us obviously joy is in HIS      presence we see joy is resting in HIS victory      [Psalm 20:5]

4.] Joy is Our New Way of Life

     We see that joy is connected to as we live      righteous, we grow in joy! We see GOD      HIMSELF is joy that there's joy in HIS rule.

     There's joy in hearing HIM, there's joy in      repentance; there's joy in HIS shadow!!!

     There's joy in HIS presence, HIS joy in the      springs of GOD! There's joy! HIS joy is our      satisfaction -- there is joy shed abroad in      our hearts by the HOLY SPIRIT.

     Joy is our way of life.

...................................................................................      1 Thessalonians 5 16 joy in Nehemiah is      said to be strength, the fruit of the SPIRIT      in Galatians is joy! joy joy upon joy! ...................................................................................

     This is the way of life in the Christian's life.

     Richard Raleigh writes that:

     When he experienced JESUS, he says HE      became all his desire, all his joy — all his      consolation, all his strength!

     So that his song was always about HIM & in HIM      all of his rest! See joy has nothing to do with      having or not having--joy has nothing to do with      being treated right or being treated wrong.

...................................................................................      Joy has nothing to do with any of these things;      it is the MAN CHRIST JESUS; it is the shadow of      the ALMIGHTY, it is the reception of the SPIRIT. ...................................................................................

     As I read a quote earlier that brown bread in      with the Gospel is great fair in other words      even if you have nothing—if you have the      Gospel, you have everything!

     And that Gospel is the glad tidings great joy!

     JESUS HIMSELF received & experienced.

     Richard Raleigh goes on to describe his sense      of GOD's presence in this manner he says:

     a certain sweet gift flows into the pure mind      & as if drunk with strong wine, we melt into      the pleasures of the CREATOR.

     He also says this inebriated my spirit with the      burning wine of YOUR sweetest love—so that      forgetting all evils in all limited sites illusions      & images, I may exalt embracing YOU alone!!!

     And I may rejoice in my GOD, my JESUS!

     You see it is the Christian life experience joy as      we experience GOD, joy erupts on the inside      that we might leave the Sanhedrin rejoicing      with our backs bloodied!

     Rejoicing because of the Name of the LORD!!!!

     We see that choosing to drink the wine of      Heaven will make us whine for the Earth..

     I remember reading Reinhard Bunkey said:

     Don't argue, shine & that shining is nothing      other than JESUS WHO is anointed with joy      above all HIS fellows!

     O a joy even in the midst of pain is probably the      greatest demonstration of GOD giving you a life      that is greater than anything that can happen to      you in this life!

     Praise GOD you see the enemy is after your joy      —the lack of joy is an indication GOD no longer      is the source, but this ecstatic life..

     This life of ecstasy in HIS presence comes from      a life of experiencing GOD & that is the joy that      we know! That's the highest joy that we're able      to know & I want to encourage you to live a life      rejoicing always, not just joy five days a week or      six days a week.

     But living in joy even in the midst of things not      going your way, or someone being mean to you      or things not happening the way you thought or      expected or things start falling down all around

     You grip on to CHRIST WHO is GOD's smile in the      heart—grip on to CHRIST WHO pours the SPIRIT      out without measure!

     & let the SPIRIT HIMSELF fill your heart with the      love of GOD shed abroad! That great joy & love      in our hearts by HIMSELF.

I just want to encourage you this year there's probably all kinds of things going on in your life there's probably more things going to happen this year.

But this is certain, the joy of the LORD is your strength & that we can live in the shadow of the ALMIGHTY and rejoice there no matter what happens!

No matter what rain falls!

We have the pavilion of GOD ALMIGHTY & we can dance! We can dance in HIM & enjoy HIS presence!

Bless you guys!!

Joy upon joy be released upon you, wine of Heaven, Amen!

Hey guys it's Eric Gilmore, I'm extremely excited about adoration mentorship international. This is a time every Tuesday night where we can get to know each other & interact in a way that will help you give JESUS the kind of love HE deserves in your everyday life.

There's two types of involvement you can be a part of it:

If you want one or two Tuesday nights a month, I encourage you to sign up at patreon.com backslash Eric Gilmore pick your level of interest & I am excited to get to know you to pray with you, and to grow together in our love for CHRIST through this online mentorship program.

GOD bless you guys

Jan 10 2022

[4evahaka]

Helen Louise (Wheeler) Riddle was a founding member of the #SigmaChapter of the #AlphaKappaAlpha at #UniversityOfSouthernCalifornia (1922), & FIRST Black Woman to graduate from #USCLawSchool (1927). She married #JohnThomasRiddle, a USC graduate and #USCFootball player. Group photograph of about 125 members of the #AlphaKappaAlphaSororityInc in the courtyard behind Kerckhoff Hall at #UCLA. Helen Louise Riddle is standing in the next to last row within the center arch, centered between the ladies who are 3rd and 4th from the right in the last row under the center arch representing the #SigmaChapterAKAs. A flower-covered sign reads: "#Boule1932." Naida McCullough was a school teacher in Los Angeles, and a charter member of the University of Southern California Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She served as president for the USC branch. In 1925 she also was a temporary #FarWesternRegionalDirector and she established the #AlphaGamma Chapter at #UCLA. She was a well-known concert pianist and art patron. Corine Stovall was a member of the Stovall family of Los Angeles, and was active with events for the Stovall Foundation. She was active in clubs and events aimed at community uplift, often called the African American clubwomen’s movement.. Hortense Taylor was a member of the Los Angeles branch of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was active in clubs and events. Dr. Alice Watkins Garrott was a dentist who married dentist. Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott. Top row from left: Corine Stovall, Ph.G., Minnie Mitchell Wickliffe, Ph. B., Vada Somerville, D.D.S., Alice Garrott, D.D.S., La Verne Martin, Junior Liberal Arts. Bottom row from left: Hortense Taylor, Junior Liberal Arts; Grace Broyles, A.B.; Helen Wheeler, Junior Law; Naida McCullough, Grad. Music; Hazel Baskins, Senior Liberal Arts; Edith A. Jones, A.B. #AKAExcellence #AKAHistoryIsBlackHistory #AKA1908 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoNuLQ1Pjzc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bigboxochristmas]

Yuletidings 1987: HaHaHallelujah

1. Have Yourself A Looney Christmas - Bugs Bunny & Friends        01:49 2. Don't Believe in Christmas - The Sonics        01:42 3. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Bob Rivers        02:05 4. Toad Away - The Firesign Theatre        02:13 5. Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope - Martin Mull         02:19 6. Santa And The Sidewalk Surfer - The Turtles        01:54 7. Be-Bop Santa Claus - Babs Gonzales        03:05 8. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens        03:14 9. The Hat I Got For Christmas Is Too Beeg - Mel Blanc        02:42 10. Christmas in the Congo - The Marquees        02:13 11. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - A.B. Green        02:09 12. There's Trouble Brewing - Jack Scott        02:17 13. Jingle Bells - NRBQ        00:55 14. Santa and The Satellite - Buchanan & Goodman        02:58 15. Captain Santa Claus -Bobby Helms        02:27 16. Monster's Holiday - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett        03:06 17. 'Zat You, Santa Claus -  Louis Armstrong        02:44 18. I'm Your Santa (As Seen on TV) - The Christmas Jug Band        03:46 19. The Nutcracker Suite - Spike Jones        06:57 20.  O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads - Bob Rivers        01:22 21. I Tawt I Taw Ol' Tanty Claus - Tweety & Sylvester        01:59 22. Christmas Dragnet - Stan Freberg        06:38

------------------------------ The basic theme for this collection was holiday recordings with a humorous bent, though the definition of ‘humorous’ was stretched in a few cases.  My holiday-music collection still being somewhat limited at the time, there are a few repeats from the previous compilations, but there are definitely some gems here.  Highlights include: Bob Rivers’ stunning, note-for-note cover of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” (with an absolutely perfect Eric Burdon imitator on vocals), remade as “O Little Town of Bethlehem”; the Firesign Theatre’s (from whom I swiped my nom de blog, Sacred Cowboy) quasi-biblical “Toad Away”; Martin Mull’s classic “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope”; Babs Gonzales’ 1955 hipster version of “The Night Before Christmas”, entitled “Be-Bop Santa Claus”; the peculiar interpretation of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” by one A.B. Green, and Stan Freberg’s holiday-themed follow-up to his earlier “St. George and the Dragonet”, “Christmas Dragnet”.

As mentioned in the notes for the first compilation, Mel Blanc’s “The Hat I Got for Christmas is Too Beeg” is somewhat queasy-making by modern standards, as is The Marquees’ “Christmas in the Congo”, and are only included here because they were part of the original mix.

The cover art (such as it is) was a cut-and-paste job with some photocopies of an alphabet from a book of classical lettering designs and borders. DOWNLOAD

[new-dinosaurs]

Ibirania parva Navarro et al., 2022 (new genus and species)

(Back vertebra [top, scale bar = 10 cm] and schematic skeletal [bottom, scale bar = 1 m, with preserved bones of the type specimen in orange and those of other specimens in blue] of Ibirania parva, from Navarro et al., 2022)

Meaning of name: Ibirania = Ibirá wanderer [in Greek] (can also be interpreted as “tree wanderer”, as Ibirá is a Portuguese derivative of the Tupi word for “tree”); parva = small [in Latin]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Santonian–Campanian)

Where found: São José do Rio Preto Formation, São Paulo, Brazil

How much is known: Remains of several individuals, including vertebrae and limb bones.

Notes: Ibirania was a titanosaurian sauropod. Although titanosaurs included the largest known land animals of all time, Ibirania is one of the smallest sauropods discovered so far, estimated as having been about 5.7 m long. Examination of the microscopic structure of its bones indicates that the known specimens of Ibirania had reached adulthood before they died, suggesting that their small size was not the result of being at a juvenile growth stage.

Other sauropods of comparable size to Ibirania are known largely from island environments, but Ibirania appears to have lived far inland. It is possible that prolonged periods of aridity in its habitat limited resources in a way similar to islands, thus favoring the evolution of smaller body sizes in this sauropod.

Reference: Navarro, B.A., A.M. Ghilardi, T. Aureliano, V. Díez Díaz, K.L.N. Bandeira, A.G.S. Cattaruzzi, F.V. Iori, A.M. Martine, A.B. Carvalho, L.E. Anelli, M.A. Fernandes, and H. Zaher. 2022. A new nanoid titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Ameghiniana 59: 317–354. doi: 10.5710/AMGH.25.08.2022.3477

[rantreader]

I went through my house and collected most of the books that I have not read. There are more, but I wrote a list of the 100 books that I want to read relatively soon. If I start the challenge today, it can progress throughout this year and go into next year. By the end of 2023, I want to have read all these books.

Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh & Thomas Cable

The Power of One by Byrce Courtenay

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Criminology – A complete Introduction by Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick

The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Tarzan of the Apes and the Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twainn

When Fashion Really Works by Marnie Fogg

Go the Distance – A Twisted Tale by Jen Calonita

The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister

Trinity by Leon Uris

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Makers of Rome by Plutarch

A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin

Difficult Women by Helen Lewis

The Wreckage by Michael Robotham

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Traitors by Frank Walker

A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

Traitor to the Blood by Barb & J.C. Hendee

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Great Expectation by Charles Dickens

Heddy & Me by Susan Varga

No Silver Spoon by Katie Flynn

The Dance of Death and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Carrie by Stephen King

My Royal Story – Marie Antoinette by Kathryn Lasky

Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations by John Rex and David Mason

The Little Book of Psychology by DK

The World’s Greatest Idea by John Farndon

Don Quixote by Cevantes

The Survival Handbook by DK

Yes Yes Yes – Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality by Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Wonder Woman Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

The Fire of Joy by Clive James

Monsoon by Di Morrissey

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Conquerers’ Road by Osmar White

The Art Book by DK

How to Garden by DK

How Science Works by DK

German for Everyone by DK

The History of the World by Alex Woolf

Cathy by Cathy Freeman

Song of Survival by Helen Colijn

Pet Semetary by Stephen King

The Crime Book by DK

The Bone Collection by Kathy Reichs

Basic Mandarin Chinese by Kubler & Wang

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Woolstonecraft

Joyland by Stephen King

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

Gulliver’s Travels by Johanthan Swift

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Japanese Myths and Tales by Epic Tales

Eleni by Nicholas Cage

Psychology of Human Behaviour for Nurses by Dennis

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

More Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Little Book of Politics by DK

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel

The Road by Cormack McCarthy

A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell

Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton

Dracula by Bram Stoker

English Grammar Usage by McGraw Hill Education

Night at the Circus by Angela Carter

The Confidence Booster Workbook by Martin Perry

Ancient Egyptian Myths by Catherine Chambers

The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong

Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life by Miles Kelly

The Prince in the Heather by Eric Linklater

Simple Astronomy by DK

How to Kiss a Crocodile by Max Walker

The Fitness Instructor’s Handbook by Mark Coulson

Mool-nya-moonya Dreaming by Julie Tuckey

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Shortest History of England by James Hawe

Mental by Dr Steve Ellen and Catherine Deveny

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Work by Louisa May Alcott

Deranged Marriage by Sushi Das

Stranger the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Emma by Jane Austen

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman

321 Seriously Smart Things You Need to Know by Mathilda Masters

Wish me luck.

[joeyclaire]

Who is he.

Ben Bernanke

14th Chair of Federal Reserve

Ben Shalom Bernanke (/bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chair, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chair, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.

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From August 5, 2002, until June 21, 2005, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, proposed the Bernanke Doctrine, and first discussed "the Great Moderation" — the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy, particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations, diminishing the influence of macroeconomic (monetary and fiscal) policy.

Bernanke then served as chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush nominated him to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. His first term began February 1, 2006. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28, 2010, after being renominated by President Barack Obama, who later referred to him as "the epitome of calm." His second term ended January 31, 2014, when he was succeeded by Janet Yellen on February 3, 2014.

Bernanke wrote about his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve in his 2015 book, The Courage to Act, in which he revealed that the world's economy came close to collapse in 2007 and 2008. Bernanke asserts that it was only the novel efforts of the Fed (cooperating with other agencies and agencies of foreign governments) that prevented an economic catastrophe greater than the Great Depression.

Family and childhood

Bernanke was born in Augusta, Georgia, and was raised on East Jefferson Street in Dillon, South Carolina. His father Philip was a pharmacist and part-time theater manager. His mother Edna was an elementary school teacher. Bernanke has two younger siblings. His brother, Seth, is a lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina. His sister, Sharon, is a longtime administrator at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The Bernankes were one of the few Jewish families in Dillon and attended Ohav Shalom, a local synagogue; Bernanke learned Hebrew as a child from his maternal grandfather, Harold Friedman, a professional hazzan (service leader), shochet, and Hebrew teacher. Bernanke's father and uncle owned and managed a drugstore they purchased from Bernanke's paternal grandfather, Jonas Bernanke.

Jonas Bernanke was born in Boryslav, Austria-Hungary (today part of Ukraine), on January 23, 1891. He immigrated to the United States from Przemyśl, Poland, and arrived at Ellis Island, aged 30, on June 30, 1921, with his wife Pauline, aged 25. On the ship's manifest, Jonas's occupation is listed as "clerk" and Pauline's as "doctor med".

The family moved to Dillon from New York in the 1940s. Bernanke's mother gave up her job as a schoolteacher when her son was born and worked at the family drugstore. Ben Bernanke also worked there sometimes.

Young adult

As a teenager, Bernanke worked construction on a hospital and waited tables at a restaurant at nearby South of the Border, a roadside attraction, amusement park and fireworks retailer, in his hometown of Dillon, before leaving for college. To support himself throughout college, he continued to work during the summers at South of the Border.

Religion

As a teenager in the 1960s, Bernanke would help roll the Torah scrolls in his local synagogue. Although he keeps his beliefs private, his friend Mark Gertler, chairman of New York University's economics department, says they are "embedded in who he (Bernanke) is." Once Bernanke was at Harvard for his freshman year, Fellow Dillon native Kenneth Manning took him to Brookline for Rosh Hashanah services.

Education

Bernanke was educated at East Elementary, J.V. Martin Junior High, and Dillon High School, where he was class valedictorian and played saxophone in the marching band. Since Dillon High School did not offer calculus at the time, Bernanke taught it to himself. Bernanke scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar. He also was a contestant in the 1965 National Spelling Bee.

Bernanke attended Harvard College in 1971, where he lived in Winthrop House, as did the future CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. degree, and later with an A.M. in economics summa cum laude in 1975. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 after completing and defending his dissertation, Long-Term Commitments, Dynamic Optimization, and the Business Cycle. Bernanke's thesis adviser was the future governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, and his readers included Irwin S. Bernstein, Rüdiger Dornbusch, Robert Solow, and Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Jorgenson of Harvard.

Personal life

Ben and Anna Bernanke

Bernanke met his wife, Anna, a schoolteacher, on a blind date. She was a student at Wellesley College, and he was in graduate school at MIT.[citation needed] The Bernankes have two children, Joel and Alyssa. He is an ardent fan of the Washington Nationals baseball team, and frequently attends games at Nationals Park.

When Bernanke left Stanford to accept a position at Princeton, he and his family moved to Montgomery Township, New Jersey, in 1985, where Bernanke's children attended the local public schools. Bernanke served for six years as a member of the board of education of the Montgomery Township School District.

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Bernanke was a victim of identity theft, a spreading crime the Federal Reserve has for years issued warnings about.

Academic and government career (1979–2006)

Bernanke meeting with United States President Barack Obama.

Bernanke taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1979 until 1985, was a visiting professor at New York University and went on to become a tenured professor at Princeton University in the Department of Economics. He chaired that department from 1996 until September 2002, when he went on public service leave. He resigned his position at Princeton July 1, 2005.

Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005. In one of his first speeches as a Governor, entitled "Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn't Happen Here", he outlined what has been referred to as the Bernanke Doctrine.

As a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 20, 2004, Bernanke gave a speech in which he postulated that we are in a new era called the Great Moderation, where modern macroeconomic policy has decreased the volatility of the business cycle to the point that it should no longer be a central issue in economics.

In June 2005, Bernanke was named chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, and resigned as Fed Governor. The appointment was largely viewed as a test run to ascertain if Bernanke could be Bush's pick to succeed Greenspan as Fed chairman the next year. He held the post until January 2006.

Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve

Bernanke testifying before the House Financial Services Committee responding to a question on February 10, 2009.

On February 1, 2006, Bernanke began a fourteen-year term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a four-year term as chairman (after having been nominated by President Bush in late 2005). By virtue of the chairmanship, he sat on the Financial Stability Oversight Board that oversees the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He also served as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policy making body.

His first months as chairman of the Federal Reserve System were marked by difficulties communicating with the media. An advocate of more transparent Fed policy and clearer statements than Greenspan had made, he had to back away from his initial idea of stating clearer inflation goals as such statements tended to affect the stock market. Maria Bartiromo disclosed on CNBC comments from their private conversation at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. She reported that Bernanke said investors had misinterpreted his comments as indicating that he was "dovish" on inflation. He was sharply criticized for making public statements about Fed direction, which he said was a "lapse in judgment."

Financial crisis of 2007–2008

Bernanke (left) in September 2008 as President Bush speaks about the economy

Further information: Financial crisis of 2007–08

As the Great Recession deepened, Bernanke oversaw some unorthodox measures. Under his guidance, the Fed lowered its funds interest rate from 5.25% to 0.0% within less than a year. When this was considered insufficient to abate the liquidity crisis, the Fed initiated quantitative easing, creating $1.3 trillion from November 2008 to June 2010 and using the created money to buy financial assets from banks and from the government.

Second term

Bernanke answers questions in 2013 at FOMC press conference

On August 25, 2009, President Obama announced he would nominate Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. In a short statement on Martha's Vineyard, with Bernanke standing at his side, Obama said Bernanke's background, temperament, courage and creativity helped to prevent another Great Depression in 2008.

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#WCW: Willa Beatrice Player

Above photo: Infographic depicting the information about Willa Beatrice Player written in this post.

Willa Beatrice Player, OC Class of 1930

The youngest of three children, Player was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She became an educator, college president, federal appointee, & civil rights activist.

Born September 9, 1909; Died August 29, 2003

A.B., Ohio Wesleyan, 1929; M.A., Oberlin College, 1930; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1948

Brought Martin Luther King to Bennett College to speak in 1958 when other colleges and churches in the region refused to host him

Served as president of Bennett College from 1956 to 1966

First African American to serve on Ohio Wesleyan’s board of trustees

Received honorary degrees from seven universities, including Ohio Wesleyan University, Morehouse College, Albion College, and University of North Carolina

MAJOR MILESTONES

1956- First African American woman to serve as president of an accredited, four-year college

1962- Named President of the National Association of School and College of the Methodist Church

1962- First female Director of the Division of College Support in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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The Big Sky (1952). The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.

This is a fun, albeit dated western, which mostly succeeds due to the charisma of it’s stars, and Howard Hawks strong directorial presence and sense of pacing. The light and shade of the narrative is well done, as is the developing relationship between Douglas’ Jim and Dewey Martin’s, Boone. I also love that they actually cast a Cherokee woman in the role of Teal Eye - it’s pretty rare to say the least. Still, I don’t really enjoy Westerns all that much, and this one didn’t do anything that really set it apart. 6.5/10.

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"Muhammad: Messenger of God"

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who, in accordance with the tenants of Islam, is never seen or heard (as this is offensive to certain islamic schools of thought). In Mecca in the 7th century, Mohammed is visited by a vision of the Angel Gabriel, who urges him to lead the people of Mecca to cast aside the 300 idols of Kaaba and instead worship the one true God. Speaking out against the corrupt political and military leaders who rule Mecca. With the help of his uncle, a brave warrior named Hamza (Anthony Quinn), Mohammed and his followers return to Mecca to liberate the city in the name of God. The Message (originally screened in the U.S. as Mohammed, Messenger of God) proved to be highly controversial during its production and initial release. The Message was shot in two versions, one in English and one in Arabic (entitled Al-Ris-Alah), with different actors taking over some of the roles due to language requirements.

First of all thanks for providing an opportunity to download this memorable piece to refresh my childhood memories.

The movie was banned at that time, in many parts of the Islamic world because of so called custodians of the Religion. They never had had this idea that a time will arrive in a few decades, when this very movie will become an Icon of spiritual inspiration for the coming generations of all Muslims and a "Message" of Islam to the non-Muslim world!

The movie has been written, screen-played and directed in a most diligent manner reflecting all the respect and expertise of the writers and makers. The "Asaa" (the stick) of the Prophet Muhammad S. and the Sword of Ali R. turns a fire on in the hearts when shown.

The movie brings all the events to life so effectively , that one start living in the moments with clear understanding, what was happening and why!! This Movie will remain one of the best historical movies of Islam...ever, IshaAllah!

Watch it today and pass it on....and on....

Directed by  Moustapha Akkad

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)   H.A.L. Craig  Tewfik El-Hakim  A.B. Jawdat El-Sahhar  A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi  Mohammad Ali Maher

Cast overview, first billed only:

Anthony Quinn ... Hamza Irene Papas         ... Hind Michael Ansara ... Abu Sofyan Johnny Sekka ... Bilal Michael Forest ... Khalid Garrick Hagon ... Ammar Damien Thomas ... Zaid André Morell  ... Abu-Talib Martin Benson ... Abu-Jahal Robert Brown ... Otba Rosalie Crutchley ... Somaya Bruno Barnabe ... Umaya Neville Jason ... Jaafar John Bennett ... Salool Donald Burton ... Amr

Moustapha Akkad ... producer Harold Buck                 ... associate producer Mohammad Sanousi ... associate producer Music by - Maurice Jarre Cinematography by - Said Baker  Jack Hildyard - Ibrahim Salem Film Editing by - John Bloom Casting By - Maude Spector Production Design by - Maurice Fowler Tambi Larsen  Art Direction by - Norman Dorme Abdel Monem Shokry

Costume Design by - Phyllis Dalton

Copyright © 1976 by Filmco International Productions Incorporated

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Early Warning Radar Market Demand, Growth & Future Outlook, Size, Share | Global Industry Analysis, 2019-2027

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Modern airborne early warning radars help detect, track, and control interceptors. Military radar systems aid air and ground surveillance, early detection, air traffic control, and sea navigation in a big way. These systems are also used to track terrorist activities, along with cameras that use ultrasonic frequency and multiple object detection, using image processing to achieve higher national border protection. The procurement of air defense systems and radars would drive the military radar market as a result of increasing regional instability and transnational disputes. Likewise, the production of drones and UAVs is estimated to also propel the military radar sector during the forecast period.

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Key players operating in the global early warning radar market include CurtissWright Corporation, BAE Systems PLC, Thales Group, SAAB A.B., Elbit Systems Ltd, Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics Corporation, and The Raytheon Company.

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An early-warning radar is a system that is mostly utilized to identify long-range targets, which allows defense forces to be alerted as early as possible before an attacker hits a target, providing air defense units maximum time to operate and retaliate. This compares to devices that are mostly used to track weapons, which tend to offer shorter ranges, but provide higher precision.

Early warning radars, along with cameras, are being used with ultrasonic frequency that employs image processing so as to provide higher security at national borders. The need for advanced situational awareness and information dissemination abilities is driving the development and procurement of several radars for aircraft, rotorcraft, and UAVs. Early warning radar systems help defense and paramilitary forces achieve varied capabilities such as relatively low-cost ISR improved, electronic attack (EA), strike missions, suppression/destruction of enemy air defense (SEAD / DEAD), network nodes, communications relays, and search and rescue (CSAR) combat. Such radars are better equipped to detect targets and also track multiple targets. Compared to previous vacuum-tube-based radars, these also have a longer range and multi-function capabilities. Such developments have led to significant adoption, with these new systems replacing obsolete TWT and klystron-based radars. Expenditure on defense is anticipated to be driven by the ever-growing need for early threat detection and situational awareness, technological innovations in the industry, adaptability to new platforms, internal and external security threats, territorial disputes, and modernization initiatives undertaken by armed forces across the world. The growing demand for border surveillance radars and the need for new generation air and missile defense systems is expected to offer significant opportunities to the early warning radar market during the forecast period.

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The Oberlin College Archives celebrates the Classes of 1969 & 1994

The Oberlin College Archives will hold an open house during Oberlin’s Commencement/Reunion Weekend to honor the Class of 1969′s 50th reunion and the Class of 1994′s 25th reunion.

Pictured above are some materials in the exhibits:

The Class of 1969′s Commencement speaker was Richard Gordon Hatcher, former mayor of Gary, Indiana. Hatcher was a civil rights leader and activist, and defended minorities in Gary. He also worked with other civil rights activists like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesse Jackson.

The Class of 1994′s Commencement speaker was Romulus Linney (Oberlin College A.B. 1953; L.H.D. 1994), a notable playwright and novelist. Linney won many awards throughout his lifetime, including two Obie Awards and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also featured in the exhibit is a video and typescript of Linney’s commencement address.

The exhibit also features other memorabilia from the time the classes of 1969 and 1994, including this pamphlet from the 1967 Big Spring Happening, and poster advertising The Cradle Will Rock play in music in 1993.

The Archives open house hours are: Friday, May 24, 10:00 AM-noon and 1:30 PM-4:30 PM; Saturday, May 25, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM; and Sunday, May 26, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM.

Come on in to see plenty more from the Classes of 1969 & 1994, and reminisce with your former classmates!