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5/17/2010 -- what is your phone number?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: We can be reached at (425) 355-8865Our toll free order is (800) 850-2739
9/8/2009 -- how can i flavor moonshine after it has been distilled?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: We sell an entire line of essences for flavoring alcohol. These essences turn plain alcohol into whiskeys, rums, gin, brandy's etc etc. It works for commercial alcohol (legal) as well as moonshine (illegal in the U.S.). How you choose to use these essences is not our concern.Here is a link to that category:http://store.homebrewheaven.com/Category41
1/26/2008 -- I live about an hour (if traffic is good) from the address on your website. Do you have an actual store or is everything here based solely online?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, we have an actual brick-and-mortar store in Everett, WA. People actually walk in and buy stuff!Our address is:Homebrew Heaven9109 Evergreen WayEverett, WA 98204Here is a video of our shop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1a5fKvv8XIHeck, you can actually call us on the phone, too! It's 425-355-8865. A person will actually answer as long as it's business hours!
5/30/2007 -- How do you check the proof of the distilled finished product so that you know it is safe to drink?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: The alcohol content (proof) of distilled spirits can be checked with an Alcoholometer.Please note, however, that this is not the same as "safe to drink". Many things have ZERO alcohol and are perfectly safe, like water. Many things contain alcohol, but that doesn't mean they are safe.
7/28/2006 -- Does your activated stone carbon need to be washed with water before using it to filter alcohol? If so, what is the procedure?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It is more effective if you do. A good way is to put it into a tube with something like a coffee filter on the end to hold the carbon. A rubber band will do to hold it in place. Start pouring a little water into the tube. It will bubble at first, and then be absorbed by the carbon. Keep doing this until water trickles out the end of the tube. Keep passing water thru the carbon for maybe 10-15 minutes, and it should be ready.I'm told that just plain soaking the carbon in a large bowl of water is effective too. Discard the water a couple of times to get rid of the gray "powder" and refill as necessary.Spirits should be "cut" with water for best carbon filtration. 60-110 proof is best for filtering.
5/14/2006 -- can I make wiskey with out machines?and only fermented? ...Do you have a book that can help me?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: No; if by "machine" you mean a still. Whiskey is fermented and then distilled.Yes we have helpful books, in our Distillation category, several on making whiskey. Here is a link to that category:http://www.nexternal.com/hombre/Category41
2/12/2006 -- Can homebrewed wines be distilled?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes; most certainly. That is how brandy is made.The legality of doing so depends on where you are located and lots of other factors, however.
9/26/2004 -- can you make brandys or schnapps and are they legal?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It depends how you do it, where you live and how willing you are to do the paperwork...Mixing flavoring essences into purchased (commercial) vodka is legal. Making your own (for home use) by distillation is not legal in the U.S. In other countries, it is often legal.Of course, brandys and schnapps can be made commerically in the U.S. with the proper permits and licenses. This is difficult and expensive, but it can be done.
9/15/2004 -- I make the best plum brandy in surroundings but now I'am interested in producing whisky. my question is: Can produce whiskey using baker yeast? Grettings from Zagreb
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It is better to use whiskey yeast! Here is a link to that product:http://www.nexternal.com/hombre/?Target=products.asp&ProductID=772
5/5/2004 -- The Price Of Gasoline Just Keeps Going Up !If I Became Good At Distilling And Ran A "Moderately" Efficient Distillation System:How Many Hundred Pounds Of Corn Would I Have To Distill Each Week To Make 20 Gallons Of Fuel Quality Alcohol For My Automobile?How Long Would It Take To Distill 20 Gallons Of 'Fuel Quality' Alcohol Using A Basement Or One Car Garage Sized Still?And Finally, would Running Straight Alcohol Or A 50/50 Alcohol/Gasoline Mixture Hurt A Fuel Injected Engine?I'm Not Asking For Documented Facts; Just A Few Guestimates Would Do Fine.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, it does (the price, anyway)!The use of alcohol as a fuel, and economics of doing so is best described in this website:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_manual/manual_ToC.html
3/6/2004 -- I have "Compleat Distiller" on my shopping list for general purposes. Do you know if this book covers the use of potatoes (versus grains) as the base for the fermentation stage, or do I need to search for additional "informational" materials?Thanks.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: This book is an excellent resource for the distillation part of the process, but it is a little "lean" on the fermentation portion. The Alaska Bootleggers Bible actually has better information on using potatoes, and even has a recipe for potato "wine".
2/28/2004 -- Is it illegal to produce ethanol for a use other than human consumption?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It depends on where you live, but in general, it is not illegal to produce ethanol for use as a fuel, for instance. A permit, however, may be required. The Feds even offer tax credits for producing alcohol as alternative fuel.Here is a link to that permit:http://www.homebrewheaven.com/permit.pdfWe are not lawyers of course, and you should always be sure of your own legal position.
2/23/2004 -- Do you know of any websites or books that have instructions on making a still from scratch?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Most of the books we sell shown how to build a simple still. Here is a like to the Distillation category:http://www.nexternal.com/hombre/?Target=products.asp&CategoryID=41 You can also try:http://www.moonshine-still.com/andhttp://homedistiller.org/
1/5/2004 -- I would like a book or information on how to ferment rice,potatoes,cracked corn.wheat,etc without the use of commercial sugar.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would recommend these three books:"From Harvest to Moonshine""The Lore Of Still Building" "The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible"All are available in our "Distillation" categoy.
1/1/2004 -- How long does it take to make a liquor with a still?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It involves two separate operations:1) Fermentation 2) DistillationStep 1) depends very much on what is being fermented, temperature, nutrients, yeast and many other factors. A general timeframe may be say... 7-10 days. This is entirely legal in most countries/states.Step 2) takes perhaps 4-8 hoursPlease bear in mind, that step 2) has legal implications in many countries (like the U.S.) if that liquor is used for personal/human consumption. It is always best to understand your own legal position.
11/16/2003 -- Is it possible to turn an old beer keg into a good still? What type of still would be better(pot or reflux)? And also how would I control the temperature of the mixture? For research purposes only, of course.........
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, it is possible, along with a number of components. Stills are not complex. Temperature is controlled in many ways, depending on how YOU design it. There are electric immersion types, external hotplates, propane fired, solar etc etc etc.Reflux stills and pot stills are just different design types. Reflux designs are inherently more efficient, but that is not always what you want. It depends on what you are trying to achieve.Sorry, but there are no quick answers for this. The books we carry, however, go into lots of detail.
11/9/2003 -- So after someone builds a still what would be a good book to really get in to learning about distillation, recipes, tips, etc.?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: The best book I know of is the "Compleat Distiller".Here is a link:http://www.nexternal.com/hombre/?Target=products.asp&ProductID=34
10/6/2003 -- What could I do to maximize the alcohol content of my product? ie. Ph levels, ideal temp, etc.?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: This yeast is quite temperature tolerant (15 deg C to 35 deg C), but starting at 35oC will help. Maintaining 25-35 deg C. will help to increase alcohol content. pH should be in the range of 3.0 to 3.515 deg C =59 deg F25 deg C =77 deg F35 deg C =95 deg FKeep in mind that more volatiles are produced at higher temperatures. Volatiles are harsh smelling, "fusels". This is not important if you are using it as a fuel, but liquor distilleries try to avoid these unpleasant volatiles.
9/20/2003 -- i have done some research i have found that in 1984 was a bill signed that made it legal to make 100gal per year for legal age person that resides at that address for personal use and not for sale. please tell me if something has changed.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I assume the law you are referring to (actually in 1978 by the Feds, altho some states took longer) legalized beer and wine making only, not distillation. Beer and winemaking involves production of alcohol through the normal, natural processes of yeast fermentation; and that is typically the legal distinction. The deliberate CONCENTRATION of alcohol by means such as distillation, fortification, or freezing remains illegal if it is for consumption (within the U.S.). This is to the best of our knowledge, at this time.There have been some efforts to legalize home distillation of spirits as well, but so far it remains illegal to do at home in the United States. Land of the free? You decide.
9/15/2003 -- Is it illegal to make moonshine for personal use in the U.S?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: If by moonshine, you mean distilled alcohol that is produced at home for consumption as a beverage without paying taxes, YES!We do not encourage, and will not be responsible, for the illegal use of equipment purchased from Homebrew Heaven. If you intend to do that, we don't want to know.In many other countries, it is legal (New Zealand, Sweden etc.) but in the U.S. it is not. We ship distillation equipment to LOTS of places.***It is NOT illegal to LEARN about distilling, however.*** even in the U.S.
9/12/2003 -- I need to know everything there is to on how to build my own still I need at least a 5 gallon dimension please!!!
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would recommend the books "Lore of Still Building" and "The Compleat Distiller" and "Moonshine Made Simple and Still Makers Manual" for full information on this.
9/10/2003 -- new zealand has become propaganderised as a non-drinkers heaven. tax is raised by the communist govt. on real beer(4.5%+)and on spirits! The 'average class' new zealander prime minister asked live on tv why beer drinkers do not drink lite beer. The country shook to its' core when about 400,000 real men and 200,000 sheilas started stomping their feet and chanting 'because we don't f%&*ing well want to'. The communist govt and hippy social engineers are also trying to lower the breath alcohol level to .05!
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I sympathize with you. Please understand that we don't have it so good either. At leastin NZ it's not illegal to distill at home. I'm of the opinion that anything I choose to do at home is MY damn business. Land of the free? I think not. By the way, in this state, blood alcohol limit was .10; now it is 0.08 and I'll bet in a year or two, we'll be at .05 as well.Was there a question, or did you just want to blow off steam? (like me!)
6/14/2003 -- Is it legal for an individual in the US to distill spirits for individual consumption?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: No. It is not.In some other countries, like New Zealand, Sweden and others, it is. There are at least two reasons advanced for this:1) Taxation. No incentive for the government to make it legal.2) Liqour industry. A highly profitable industry would take a hit. The feds support their industry, and the industry supports the feds. See 1) above. We cannot encourage the use of equipment purchased from Homebrew Heaven for illegal purposes. If you intend to do so, please do not tell us.
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AH! I will be in Provo just days before that, but will not be in Utah that day! :( Pooh!
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Oh man, I live in Utah, but am having a baby this weekend so I think I'll still be out of commission. Next time you guys come out it would be fun to meet up!
This is awesome girl!!! So fun to connect with other bloggers in Utah!
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Cellar/Tasting Notes With prices for Sancerre over $25 a bottle it's a relief to find a fresh one easily under $20. Lightly grassy and fresh, with the minerality of a solid Sancerre.
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Dr. Seuss' birthday has been celebrated throughout Bell County for the past few weeks and the culminating event is happening Saturday at Middlesboro Mall.
The Happy Birthday - Dr. Seuss Event at the mall is taking place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is free to the public.
The event begins with a Dr. Seuss classic — Green Eggs and Ham. From 9 a.m. to noon., Lazy Joe's will be serving green eggs, ham, hash browns and toast for $5.
After breakfast, children can have their picture made with the various Dr. Seuss characters in attendance all day. Children are encouraged to come in costume to be a part of the costume contest and parade.
The mall will have exhibitors set up throughout the mall promoting literacy. Entertainment and guest speakers will also be provided throughout the day.
The Middlesboro Daily News will be in attendance as well. Stop by our booth to subscribe to your hometown paper and promote literacy in your family.
All week, workers have prepared for the big event. Mall management donated space in a vacant store to be set as a staging area. Volunteers have been working around the clock to make this year's event as successful as last year.
Store windows have been transformed into works of art portraying various characters from Dr. Seuss' many children's books. A display of favorite Seuss classics appear in Bookland's window and the Incredible Chocolate Cookie Company is featuring Dr. Seuss themed desserts in their display case.
The event is sponsored by the Children's Reading Foundation of Appalachia-KY — a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting literacy among children.
Research shows that reading with children just 20 minutes a day helps them become better readers and that better readers are more likely to stay in school and to succeed later in life. The foundation works hard to spread the reading foundation message through newspapers, radio and other media and through special events and community partnerships.
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To learn more about the work of the Children's Reading Foundation of Appalachia-KY, to donate books, volunteer, or to become a community partner please like their page on Facebook.
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World Cup action continues on Friday in Whistler
WHISTLER, British Columbia (Nov. 20, 2012)- Bobsled and skeleton World Cup action continues on the 2010 Olympic track in Whistler, British Columbia this week. Competitions will take place from Nov. 23-24, and U.S. athletes are favorites for gold in all five disciplines.
The detailed schedule is as follows, with all times listed in PST:
Friday, Nov. 23
9 a.m. – Women's skeleton race heat #1
10:30 a.m. – Women's skeleton race heat #2
3 p.m.– Men's two-man bobsled race heat #1
4:30 p.m. – Men's two-man bobsled race heat #2
6:30 p.m.-Women's bobsled race heat #1
8 p.m.- Women's bobsled race heat #2
Saturday, Nov. 24
9 a.m. – Men's four-man bobsled race heat #1
10 a.m. – Men's four-man bobsled race heat #2
3 p.m. – Men's skeleton race heat #1
4:30 p.m.- Men's skeleton race heat #2
Reigning World Champion Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) is back on track after winning the Park City, Utah event and is expected to have a repeat performance. Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) will make her return to the World Cup circuit this Friday and hopes to kick start her comeback with a medal.
Matt Antoine (Prairie du Chien, Wisc.), John Daly (Smithtown, N.Y.) and Kyle Tress (Ewing, N.J.) have posted strong performances this season that include personal best finishes. The men's team has a history of success on the Whistler track and will be eager to crack into the medals this weekend.
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Steven Holcomb (Park City, Utah) and his powerful push team of Steve Langton (Melrose, Mass.), Justin Olsen (San Antonio, Texas) and Curt Tomasevicz (Shelby, Neb.) hope to ride the BMW four-man sled to victory after two consecutive silver medal performances this season. Holcomb will again pair with Langton in the Under Armour sled for the two-man event.
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WASHINGTON — We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of optimum.
Even today, there are far more questions than answers. Could Stevens have been saved? Was Washington doing all in its drone-loving power to intervene? And, finally, as now-retired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fired back to congressional questioners during her recent appearance on Capitol Hill: What difference does it make?
Those words, uttered impatiently with just a soupcon of anger, came in response to Sen. Ron Johnson's question about what the administration knew and when. Specifically, he asked why the administration sent U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice around to Sunday talk shows with talking points that we now know were clearly incorrect.
Recall that Rice repeated the operative narrative that the attacks in Benghazi were caused by a spontaneous protest gone awry about an anti-Muhammad video. While there was such a protest at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, nothing of the sort happened in Benghazi. The attacks — two of them six hours apart — were a premeditated assault, now widely referred to as a "terrorist attack by an al-Qaeda affiliate," which may or may not be confirmable. Isn't every wannabe terrorist part of an al-Qaeda affiliate these days?
To the point, was the White House's response deliberately misleading? Or, was Rice merely regurgitating what she had been told, using the best-available information?
Clinton's huffy response during testimony that was otherwise measured and cool was likely intended to put a lid on this can of worms:
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd they go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?"
Well, it all makes quite a bit of difference, though inarguably less now than it might have just weeks before the November election. Clinton's response was so loaded with explosive potential, it's a mystery why no one on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee attempted to provide an answer. Apparently, Johnson and his Republican colleagues were so hornswoggled by Clinton's irritation that no one wanted to volunteer.
Most important, obviously, is the possibility that those four American lives might have been saved. More prosaically, it is very possible that President Obama's re-election might not have been assured had possible incompetence at the highest levels been highlighted sooner rather than ... now.
Americans got a clearer picture of what transpired last Sept. 11 during testimony Thursday by retiring Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Panetta said he personally delivered the news to Obama that the consulate was under attack during a 30-minute briefing that also included Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Continued...
The president said, "Do whatever you need to do to be able to protect our people there," and that was that. He and Panetta didn't speak again that night — and neither Dempsey nor Panetta spoke to Clinton at all.
Under questioning by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.Y., Panetta added that the president didn't ask about military options or deploying assets. "He just left that up to us," Panetta said.
As chief executive, Obama may have felt he delegated appropriately. Let the military handle it. But he is also the commander in chief. When our ambassador is being attacked, our country is being attacked. Should he have done more? Might he have made a call to Stevens or someone else on the ground? Obama didn't hesitate to call Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke two days after she was attacked on-air by radio host Rush Limbaugh. As Fluke reported, the president "wanted to make sure that I was OK."
Two days after would have been too late for Stevens, of course, but one is a real-war theater and the other is merely political. To each his own arena.
To Clinton's query — conceding the unfair advantage of Monday morning quarterbacking — it is just and necessary to fill in the holes left gaping in Benghazi. Ultimately, the real truth may be, as one current ambassador put it to me, "Bad things happen in bad places."
Does it make any difference how or why four Americans were murdered in Libya? My guess is Ambassador Stevens would say that it does.
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Yes, you can use a traditional meat thermometer (stick), but repeated opening of the door of the oven will drastically affect your cooking time and oven temperature. It is better to invest in a quality digital meat thermometer.
First, preheat the oven to 200 degrees (yes, 200). Season the outside of meat (Montreal Steak Seasoning is the best for this). Pat the seasoning into the sides of the meat.
Sear meat on top of stove in the cast iron skillet (you can use a heavy skillet, but the cast iron is the best choice as it gives it the best crust). You will have to sear each side separately, about three-to-five minutes per side at high heat. Keep turning until all the sides are seared. Sear does not mean burn, just brown it and turn, as cast iron can heat up to a very high heat. Beware that you cannot be distracted while you are doing this step—you must pay attention and keep turning it and searing.
Insert the digital meat thermometer probe into thickest part of the roast (don't hit the bone with the probe) and place it on a broiler pan, bone side down, and roast at 200 degrees until the temperature reaches 130 for bright pink (medium rare). If you like it a bit closer to medium, go to 135 but I wouldn't go beyond that as it will start to get well done. It will take about 45 minutes per pound up to a maximum of four to five hours. Be sure to go by the temperature, not the time.
Next is the most important step in roasting: let it rest about 20 minutes before slicing. This assures you will have a very juicy roast. Use a large knife to slice off the bones, then slice into slices as thick as desired and serve with ground horseradish.
Leftovers make a superb prime rib hash when combined with fried potatoes.
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Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
Sayings, Film Adaptations, CO2 Science
by Orson Scott Card
December 27, 2012
Several high school students my wife and I know had the same assignment from a high school teacher: Get one saying each from people they knew. All three decided to ask my wife and me.
Since they all had the same teacher, they couldn't very well show up with the same sayings from us. Yet we couldn't play favorites among the three.
No doubt about it. My wife and I would have to come up with three separate sayings each.
The trouble with sayings is that even if you're a witty person, as my wife is, and even if you write for a living, as I do, creating characters who sometimes say clever things, it's very hard to come up with something pithy and quotable on demand.
I remember my friend Robert Stoddard's all-purpose quotation from college days: "He who shall, so shall he who." Yet even though this epigram is equally applicable to all situations, we didn't feel we should rely on his creativity.
Then it dawned on me. Practically everything that people say is quotable, if you say it portentously enough. In fact, the very next thing my wife said seemed to me a perfect demonstration of that fact:
"I'm going to make some oatmeal. Oatmeal makes the world a better place."
Engrave that in stone. Or at least stick it to the fridge.
Then I remembered her oft-repeated maxim: "Avocado makes any food better." (She stands by this even when I offer counter-suggestions. "Ice cream?" "Yummm." "Mustard?" "Not a food.")
My own ideas sound contrived by comparison with her epigrams. "Since you're not listening, does it matter whether I tell the truth?" (I like that one, but since it's a question I'm not sure it qualifies as a maxim.)
"Subscribing to a magazine you don't read doesn't make you smarter."
"I've been young and I've been old. Young is better, but only old people know how much."
"If you sing loud enough, the melody is whatever note you're singing." (This is the guiding maxim of extremists everywhere.)
And here's the maxim that I'd love to say to President Obama: "If you don't know what to do, don't insist on getting your way."
But it really all comes down to: "I'm going to make some oatmeal. Oatmeal makes the world a better place."
Watching Peter Jackson make a joke out of Tolkien's magnificent Lord of the Rings and of Tolkien's amusing but much slighter The Hobbit may lead some people to think that great works of literature are inevitably trashed when converted to film form.
But that is not true. Peter Jackson's mistakes all came from a combination of hubris, reliance on false formulas from screenwriting classes, and, with The Hobbit, the greed of financiers who wanted to stretch a one-movie story into three films.
Jane Austen was every bit the genius that Tolkien was. Like Tolkien, she took the existing literary conventions of her time and reinvented them into something new and transformative. Like Tolkien, she changed everything that came after.
And, like Tolkien, her individual works remain masterworks that can be read and understood without professorial intervention.
Translating a story from fiction to the screen is hard, and it has taken several tries with many of Austen's novels to get them right. Fortunately, the BBC recognizes the necessity of making more than one attempt, and the results have been quite stunning.
One thing is obvious: It is very hard to make a Jane Austen story work well within the two hours of a feature film. It takes time to develop relationships and societies, and you can't tell a Jane Austen story without doing that.
In my opinion, the only perfect feature-film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel has been Emma Thompson's script of Sense and Sensibility.
Others have been good there's a decent feature-length Pride and Prejudice (the one starring Keira Knightley) and a very credible Persuasion (starring Amanda Root).
Otherwise, however, the successful screen adaptations have been at miniseries length.
Everybody knows that the best Pride and Prejudice is the Colin Firth miniseries. But it isn't the only one, and isn't even the best Jane Austen miniseries.
On Dec. 16, Jane Austen's birthday, some Austen-loving friends joined us to celebrate the day by rewatching the BBC miniseries of Emma, written by Sandy Welch and directed by Jim O'Hanlon.
I can only marvel at the way this writer and director, joined by an astonishingly good cast, understood Austen's brilliant material and brought it to life with a depth and completeness that, if anything, improved on the original.
Now that we've seen more of Jonny Lee Miller in the series Elementary, it makes his achievement as Mr. Knightley in Emma all the more wonderful because both performances are so brilliant and so different from each other.
Romola Garai, perfect in the title role, makes Gwyneth Paltrow's pathetic misunderstanding of the character all the more reprehensible because Paltrow's mistakes were entirely her own, and not caused by the script or the underlying material.
Most important, however, is the way that Sandy Welch filled in elements that were implied but not fully developed in Austen's novel. The father, instead of merely being annoying, is treated with love and compassion; we agree that Emma cannot leave him.
We also see the tragic dilemma underlying Emma's life; that she does not belong to herself. Yet she manages to find joy and cheerfulness in her dilemma. She is young and imperfect and sometimes causes harm. But she maintains a close friendship with the one person who speaks truth to her. And, together, they find a road out of the lonely life that fate had designed for her.
Every step of the way, we are shown that lonely life by the apposite character, Miss Bates (Tamsin Greig), also trapped in a life devoted to the care of an aging parent. Like Emma, Miss Bates retains a commitment to uncomplaining good cheer in the midst of her loneliness and sacrifice; the fact that Emma never understands her similarity to Miss Bates does not prevent the filmmakers and us from experiencing it.
The BBC Emma is a gorgeous example of using one medium to shine a bright light of understanding on a story first told in a different one. It can be done; it has been done; and each work, the book and the film, is elevated by having experienced the other.
Peter Jackson, in adapting Tolkien, treated story elements he did not understand with such contempt that future generations will watch his story changes with stunned outrage (as some of us do now). And the self-indulgent three-feature version of The Hobbit will be regarded as a sad joke.
As the cost of computer effects drops and the quality improves, it will not be such a massive undertaking to reenvision and remake Lord of the Rings in the future.
Just as the miserable Gwyneth Paltrow Emma was later put to shame by the brilliant BBC Emma of 2009, so also there will someday be films of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in which scriptwriters who actually understand the story they're working with bring Tolkien's story to fruition on the screen.
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All Peter Jackson really brought us was the New Zealand scenery and Andy Serkis as Gollum.
Ever since the whole global-warming fracas began, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has been fudging and faking evidence and statistics in order to give the illusion that there was proof of human-caused global warming.
This is well known among scientists, though unmentioned by our monolithic true-believer media, whose science coverage has become a mere church choir in the religion of eco-puritanism.
The IPCC has performed illegitimate and unjustified statistical manipulations; it has reworded reports after scientists signed off on them, and without their knowledge.
These are the kinds of things that you only do when you know that the evidence does not make your case. Nobody steals an election they've actually won.
Through all of this, they have insisted that human-caused global warming is a fact, and that anyone who resists it is in the same category as creationists and Holocaust-deniers.
This namecalling is another confession that they haven't got the data to make their case. If you have the data, you don't have to call names. The science speaks for itself.
One reason they have been able to get away with this is the lack of data to contradict them. That is, the data we have had up to now did not say what they claim it said but it didn't say anything else, either.
That's because everything was based on computer models, and computer models are only as good as the data that is fed into them. The people running the simulations were all True Believers, and so they always came up with "results" that mirrored the biased data they had been fed.
But finally there is real data to feed into the computers. In a Dec. 18 Wall Street Journal essay, Matt Ridley reports on a conversation with Nic Lewis, one of the educated people keeping tabs on the global warming science issues for those of us who don't have access to the latest reports.
If it weren't for people like Lewis, we laypeople would have no choice but to believe the deceptions of True Believers like the IPCC. Lewis is part of the reason we know about the previous lies and manipulations by the IPCC, but no one denies that the deceptions took place.
Now, however, because Lewis is an honest observer, he reports that real data shows that there is a genuine statistically probable effect from atmospheric carbon emissions.
What genuine scientists, faithfully reporting their actual findings, now report is that the mechanisms claimed to cause global warming may in fact contribute to a rise in temperature but they do so at a rate far, far lower than that assumed by the True Believers.
We are finally getting a pretty good idea of the actual effects of carbon dioxide emissions. Comparing global temperatures over the past 100 to 150 years with the fluctuations in carbon dioxide emissions from human activities gives us at last a reasonable basis for estimating how sensitive global climate is to changes in carbon dioxide levels.
Keep in mind that carbon dioxide is far from being the major greenhouse gas. Methane is far more important, and the most important, water vapor, has such unpredictable effects that it is left out of all the models.
That's because water vapor, besides being a greenhouse gas, also forms clouds, which by their high reflectivity, bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere without converting it to heat. Storms also funnel heat from near the surface up to the higher atmosphere.
We have no way of predicting or modeling how much the albedo and storm effects balance with the greenhouse effect, nor even to what degree global warming would increase cloud cover.
As Ridley says in his article, "As one Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a senior role in combating climate change admitted to me the other day: 'We don't even know the sign' of water vapor's effect in other words, whether it speeds up or slows down a warming of the atmosphere."
Says Ridley, "Climate models are known to poorly simulate clouds, and given clouds' very strong effect on the climate system some types cooling the Earth either by shading it or by transporting heat up and cold down in thunderstorms, and others warming the Earth by blocking outgoing radiation it remains highly plausible that there is no net positive feedback from water vapor."
This matters a great deal the global warming alarmists' warnings absolutely depend on the idea that carbon dioxide's warming, if real, will then be greatly amplified by water vapor increases. But this remains entirely a matter of faith. For all we know, increased water vapor may be the ecosystem's natural way of damping down the effects of global warming whether that warming is astronomical or human caused.
We can now calculate with some reliability just what a doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would do to global climate. "Given what we know now," said Ridley, "there is almost no way that the feared large temperature rise is going to happen."
Ridley quotes Lewis as saying that, assuming a doubling of CO2 the IPCC's worst-case scenario and even assuming "another 30% rise from other greenhouse gases by 2100, we are likely to experience a further rise of no more than" one degree Celsius.
Says Ridley, "A cumulative change of less than 2O C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good that much the IPCC scientists have already agreed upon in the last IPCC report. Rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly."
Historical evidence shows that global temperatures have been warmer than they are now, following natural cycles alone, in historical times. There seems to be a regular warming-and-cooling cycle, with cooling represented by the Little Ice Age of 1350 to 1850. In 1000 A.D., global climate was warmer than it is now.
The same cycle seems to have corresponded with the collapse of agriculture and population during the cooling phase in the late Roman Empire and through the Dark Ages a plague-ridden era like the Little Ice Age.
The historical evidence suggests that eras of global warming are natural, that they are beneficial, that they can best be called "good weather."
When you add to this the fact that all of human history has taken place in a ten thousand year lull in the great Ice Age that has dominated the last million years of Earth's climate history, and I, for one, wish that we could control and warm the climate through mere carbon dioxide emissions because when the major astronomical cycles bring back the Ice Age, our descendants will very much wish for a means of causing global warming on a vast scale.
Meanwhile, keep in mind that there is nothing unnatural about the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere. All the carbon in the coal and oil and natural gas that we dig or pump up from under the surface was once atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Carbon dioxide is fertilizer for all plant life. For millions of years, the coastal jungles of the dinosaur era sequestered natural atmospheric carbon dioxide and kept it out of circulation.
In effect, we have starved for CO2 for millions of years because all those plants selfishly drank up all the atmospheric carbon they could and then thoughtlessly died without returning it to the atmosphere.
We're only putting it back where it started.
And every serious climate scientist has to admit this fact: Whatever else our carbon dioxide emissions might be doing, they are definitely fertilizing forests and grasslands all around the world. Where humans are involved, that means orchards and grainfields.
If we really did reduce our CO2 emissions, it would cause a worldwide decrease in crop yields. That's a fact, not a computer model.
The real limiting factor should be this: The supply of oil and coal is finite. It was larger than the alarmists of the 1970s and 1980s supposed, but that doesn't mean that we will never run out. It is quite possible that in a mere two centuries of fossil fuel consumption, we will use up the entire supply of accessible sequestered carbon.
That, not groundless fears of global warming, is the reason we need to find other means of generating energy. Instead of worrying about carbon emissions, we need to search desperately for a means of powering our transportation and heating and cooling our habitations that does not depend on a resource that, once it runs out, is gone forever.
My fear is that because of all the lies and deceptions, all the oppression of dissent and nastiness of the global warming alarmists, the general public, once free of those delusions and lies, will think that all warnings and dangers are false.
In other words, we have been through three decades of massive wolf-crying about a nonexistent wolf, so that people won't believe in the need to deal with the real wolf of depleting resources.
We have a responsibility to future generations to leave them with the resources necessary to sustain a modern society. It is a sin to burn it all up when we don't have to. CO2 is a non-issue and always has been only the eco-puritans took it seriously and then foisted it on laypeople who trusted in "science."
The net effect of their falsehoods will be a loss of trust in real science, and that's a crime. Because there are dangers to the environment, and serious consequence from burning up resources that can never be renewed. And thanks to the global warming clowns, I fear that nobody will pay attention.
Meanwhile, the IPCC is due to put out another report. Let's see if they actually tell the truth this time, or continue to suppress facts, twist statistics and lie, lie, lie in support of their blind faith in evil human-caused global warming.
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December 27, 2012 | 11:07 AM
Ha ha ha. This science FICTION writer complains about a society who is desensitized to the depletion of our natural resources because of the "wolf-crying" scientific community. But fails to mention the unbridled greed by his buddies on the right. Grow up.
Changing energy sources
December 27, 2012 | 01:28 PM
Only by having a change benefit the individual who's making the change will replacement sources of energy be adopted -- unless the government mandates it. But even then, people will change the gov't. if they don't like the energy source change. Saving the world is not something people get excited about until it's obvious to the individual that something must be done.
December 27, 2012 | 11:22 PM
"Through all of this, they have insisted that human-caused global warming is a fact, and that anyone who resists it is in the same category as creationists and Holocaust-deniers.
This namecalling is another confession that they haven't got the data to make their case. If you have the data, you don't have to call names. The science speaks for itself."
Didn't realize this was satire until you started calling those who disagree with you clowns and liars.
LOTR reviews
December 28, 2012 | 12:49 PM
OSC, what happened between the time the LOTR movies came out and now? You loved them then. Youo had a few quibbles (which I didn't include, but here are paragraphs from your previous reviews:
One quick review. "Fellowship of the Ring" isn't just a good adaptation of the first volume of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." It's an excellent film, moving and thrilling, scary and magical and full of nobility and comedy and tragedy and brilliant acting and gorgeous settings. The trickery that gives us half-size hobbits is so effective you have to force yourself to remember that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin are actually full-size adults. But you won't be thinking about that, because the filmmakers concentrated on what really matters: They put storytelling first.
The Two Towers isn't in serious contention for awards -- and shouldn't be. It's a very good film, but as the middle of a trilogy, it neither begins nor ends. I loved it, though, and appreciated most of the changes.
But all of this is moot. This is the last chance for Lord of the Rings to receive an Oscar, and if it doesn't, that will be a worse stain on the Academy's history than the Best Picture award forThe English Patient.
What made you change your mind?
December 28, 2012 | 06:58 PM
"I guess the Academy decided that this was the last chance to get on record as having noticed one of the great achievements in film history -- the excellent adaptation of the greatest work of fiction of the 20th century, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings."
This quote is from Uncle Orson Reviews everything in 2005.
I understand opinions change over time, but how did we go from that to:
"Watching Peter Jackson make a joke out of Tolkien's magnificent Lord of the Rings and of Tolkien's amusing but much slighter The Hobbit may lead some people to think that great works of literature are inevitably trashed when converted to film form."
Seems like a pretty drastic shift, I am curious as to what caused this change in perspective.
Let me be clear, I'm not trying to be clever or snide here, I really would just like to know why you once thought so highly of the trilogy but no longer do anymore.
Samuel Ascher-Weiss
Vintage freaking Card
December 28, 2012 | 09:54 PM
I love it. I've never seen (except on accident when my wife made me watch Clueless) any Austen movies, but I feel like I have an opinion on them.
The best part is the global warming rant. I can't wait to see who he upsets with that one.
Jacob Smith
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January 02, 2013 | 11:17 PM
We get it, Mr. Card. You like to attribute movies you donât appreciate to dumb Hollywood executives and incompetent directors, following the wrong formulas taught in screenwriting classes. I have heard this complaint over and over and over again. But does it really apply to Jacksonâs accomplishment?
I remember from one of the DVD featurettes a teary-eyed John Rhys-Davies â" who played Gimli, and was therefore heavily involved in the trilogyâs production â" giving his thanks to the whole crew and cast, saying of their love and dedication to bringing Tolkienâs work to the screen, âYou wonât find that in LA.â If there is any big-budget movie series that wasnât subjected to the all-too-common incompetence and cynicism of Hollywood, it was the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Everything from the dialogue to the props was crafted with the care of a historical epic and the passion of people who had been in love with Middle Earth all their lives. And now The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey brings us another movie that is a similarly excellent labor of love from the same people. Even that doesnât stop you from parroting the myth that The Hobbit was padded out into a trilogy purely for financial reasons. And doesnât the accusation of padding fly in the face with the complaint that so many âvitalâ parts of the trilogy were cut out from Lord of the Rings? Too short, then too long. Are you going to have your cake or eat it?
I understand that you appreciate Tolkien in a very particular way, and have spent decades enjoying the story as only you could enjoy it. And maybe the differences between the original books and Jacksonâs interpretation felt like a betrayal to the vision you had cultivated and examined and appreciated for so many years. But that should be a matter that is stated once or twice, and then left alone for the opinion and private reaction that it is. It gets under peopleâs skin when you go back to the same complaint time and time again.
Take as an example the Scouring of the Shire. How Peter Jackson changed the ending made it work better as a movie, even if the bookâs ending worked perfectly as a novel. If heâd kept the Scouring of the Shire at the end of Return of the King, it would have dragged out the story past the central conflict: the danger and destruction of the Ring. Which, again, works fine in the storyâs original form, but drags a movie out even more than the myriad endings we already got. I would have left the theater disappointed and more than a little upset.
Granted, I have learned much about storytelling since then, and am in more of a position to appreciate the Scouring of the Shire and what Tolkien was accomplishing with it, but even now that is all I can do: appreciate it. Not love it. Not find it quickening my imagination. And it undeniably would be a frustrating, dour note to conclude a movie on. But because Jackson left the Shire blessedly intact, I walked out of that theater elated, thinking âThis is what I want to do with my life. I want to be a fantasy writer.â
Some of us were inspired toward fantasy, toward becoming writers, toward the wonders and treasures of Tolkienâs world, because of Jackson and companyâs tireless efforts. I should know; Iâm one of them. And in honesty, ever since I read the trilogy and The Hobbit, and then saw the movies, I admit to liking Jacksonâs Middle Earth even more than Tolkienâs. Thatâs partly because of personal taste, and partly because of the necessary differences between novels and movies. Iâm beginning to think that it isnât Hollywoodâs fault, but yours that it has taken so long for an Enderâs Game movie to finally get made. Clearly you donât get along well with the movie business and have been far too lacking in cooperation or trust with people who care about storytelling just as much as you do, only in a different medium.
A writer of your talent and sophistication dragging out the same misguided complaints amounts to little more than eloquent trolling. I will still be reading your work, but will stay firmly within your fiction, where I donât have to hear this bellyaching anymore. And I do look forward to seeing Enderâs Game in theaters, hoping I donât find myself saying it was a violent betrayal of your own novel. Because Iâve had my fill of writers saying movies ruin the books theyâre based on, and donât want to fall into the same trap.
With sincerest regards,
John K. Patterson
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