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I can do a very good Cherry Garcia (w the ninja). Also maple walnut, butter pecan, coffee (using starbucks via as the mixer), vanilla w maple syrup on top, mint chocolate chip.

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I'm gonna guess Mr. But that you're a wood guy. So, here's an essential book for woodworkers, along with a pretty old timber scribing knife (much used but not much maintained) of unknown origin.
The other pic is my bench, made about 50 years ago -- just copied a traditional. My only concession to the modern world is the 3/4 holes in the top for stops, holdfasts, etc. If I was doing one now, I'd skip the squares, go with round holes, and use chain vices. Might use two planks with a space along the middle for clamps.
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I'm gonna guess Mr. But that you're a wood guy. So, here's an essential book for woodworkers, along with a pretty old timber scribing knife (much used but not much maintained) of unknown origin.
The other pic is my bench, made about 50 years ago -- just copied a traditional. My only concession to the modern world is the 3/4 holes in the top for stops, holdfasts, etc. If I was doing one now, I'd skip the squares, go with round holes, and use chain vices. Might use two planks with a space along the middle for clamps.
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That's a nice bench. Mine isn't nearly as nice. Mine's walnut, with a full width wood vice on the end. It has holes on each side, then I have a row of matching holes running down each side of the bench that I drop 3/4" bolts into instead of holdfasts, or stops. I'll get a pic of it sometime.
 
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Another book I read while we were renting a cottage on Lake Huron the last two weeks of August. I periodically try to read some of the JFK assassination books that I've become aware of since the last time I indulged in that reading guilty pleasure of mine. This is a book by a Catholic theologian promoting the theory that JFK became President as a hardcore Cold Warrior, but gradually became committed to working for peace. The author claims that as JFK handled international crises by negotiation, including "back-channel" communication with Communist leaders, he thwarted the plans of the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the military-industrial complex, who were hoping to find an excuse to make a preemptive first-strike nuclear attack on the Soviets. As a result, the CIA set up a complicated plan to kill the President. I don't know a lot about early-1960s politics, so the political info was new to me and seemed quite convincing regarding JFK losing credibility with military and intelligence organizations that he supposedly led. But I think I know quite a bit, from extensive reading, about the JFK assassination and the many "conspiracy theories" proposed to explain it. And Douglass, the author, seems willing to accept the wildest, most improbable pieces of many of these theories (even if they seem to have been already shown to be false) as long as they support his claim that the CIA planned the assassination and set up Lee Harvey Oswald to take the fall for it.
Interesting book, and I suppose I'll go on another JFK assassination reading binge for a while.
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Gary, this is a good one on the JFK shooting which, as a firearms and ballistics aficionado I agree with.

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Thanks for the recommendation, Jeff. :thumbsup::cool:
I read that one a long time ago, so I don't remember all the details. But the theory that the JFK "head shot" was actually from an accidentally-fired Secret Service automatic rifle in the follow-up car was about the only "Oswald wasn't alone" theory that seemed plausible to me.

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While I was out of town at the end of August, I read this biography of the "voice of the Detroit Tigers" when I was a kid (and an adult). The book (and his radio broadcasts) make it seem like he was low-key and always a gentleman who treated everybody with respect, but he was also ambitious and persistent about going after what he wanted professionally.
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While I was out of town at the end of August, I read this biography of the "voice of the Detroit Tigers" when I was a kid (and an adult). The book (and his radio broadcasts) make it seem like he was low-key and always a gentleman who treated everybody with respect, but he was also ambitious and persistent about going after what he wanted professionally.
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I remember when Bo Schembechler fired Harwell. I held him in disdain for many years for doing that. Firing one of the greatest baseball announcers of all time. How dumb was that?
Like most things, it wasn't quite so black and white, nor was it accurately reported by the media. At least not in my memory which may not be a reliable source.

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mbkr said:
I remember when Bo Schembechler fired Harwell. I held him in disdain for many years for doing that. Firing one of the greatest baseball announcers of all time. How dumb was that?
Like most things, it wasn't quite so black and white, nor was it accurately reported by the media. At least not in my memory which may not be a reliable source.

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The biography I read started off with a discussion of Harwell being let go. I think my Tiger fandom had cooled a lot by the 19990s and I don't think I was even aware of that controversy when it was happening. According to the book, some WJR marketing guy seemed to be the real "culprit" behind Harwell's "firing".

A very interesting part of the biography for me was learning details of Harwell's MLB broadcast experience before coming to the Tigers in 1960. I was vaguely aware that he'd been an announcer for the Dodgers in Brooklyn for a while (and called Bobby Thompson's playoff "Shot Heard Round the World" against the New York Giants, but I didn't realize he'd broadcast for the Giants after that, and was the first broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles when they started (as a transplant of the St. Louis Browns IIRC).

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5K Qs said:
The biography I read started off with a discussion of Harwell being let go. I think my Tiger fandom had cooled a lot by the 19990s and I don't think I was even aware of that controversy when it was happening. According to the book, some WJR marketing guy seemed to be the real "culprit" behind Harwell's "firing".

A very interesting part of the biography for me was learning details of Harwell's MLB broadcast experience before coming to the Tigers in 1960. I was vaguely aware that he'd been an announcer for the Dodgers in Brooklyn for a while (and called Bobby Thompson's playoff "Shot Heard Round the World" against the New York Giants, but I didn't realize he'd broadcast for the Giants after that, and was the first broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles when they started (as a transplant of the St. Louis Browns IIRC).

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I was unaware of his broadcasting before the Tigers. Being born in 1960, Harwell was the only broadcaster I remember calling the Tigers. By the time he got fired I was living in Missouri, and being pre-internet, the only news I got about the Tigers was from the sports pages of something called a newspaper. I was never a fan of Schembechler when he coached Michigan so when it was reported that he fired Harwell I was like
 
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