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on 4 October 2001
The Characters:
Trish - The main character due to the fact that the slumber party happens at her house.
Kimberly - Blonde with some serious tan lines from her bikini. Melanin will not reflect a steel knife. Stabbed.
Jackie - She was very compassionate, but opening the door was still a stupid thing to do.
Diane - Snobby girl. She should know better than to talk about naughty things on her friend's phone. Drilled.
Valerie and Courtney - Sisters who live next door to Trish.
Jeff, Neil, and John - "The guys," but they're all goons and die. I felt sorry for Neil though. He gets stabbed, a lot.
Linda - Brinke Stevens! Betrayed by her own hemoglobin and sent to a better place.
Mr. Contant - Nosy neighbor of Trish's family who has some major problems. He hunts snails at night with a meat cleaver! A hammer would do just fine; is a huge chopping instrument really necessary? Has a hole drilled through his neck.
Coach Jana, a telephone repair lady, and the pizza guy - All dead.
Russ Thorn - Escaped psychopath who discovers the many fine uses an industrial cordless drill can be used for.
The Plot:
Ah, the slumber party... ...attractive girls letting their hair down and parading around in skimpy clothes. It sounds like every possible male fantasy come true, except "the guys" are not invited. Of course we sneak around the house and peer in windows, marveling as the women change lingerie. The problem is, after scaring the girls and being invited inside, a homicidal maniac starts killing everyone. Guess who gets tasked with either hunting him down or going for help? You guessed it, fodder boy.
The day starts leisurely enough for Trish. Since mom and dad are out of town, the young lady has invited her friends over for a slumber party. School passes quickly and soon we are treated to the girls' basketball practice. This is, supposedly, the varsity team, but their skill level leads us to believe they probably didn't make it to the finals. Just enjoy watching the shirts bounce around and the requisite shower scenes that follow. Some of the "girls" might look a little old for high school. I have an explanation: they failed a couple of times (like nine or ten).
Escapee Russ Thorn is the top news story for the day, but the students are not paying attention. First blood comes when the murderer drills a hole through the cute telephone repairwoman that Jeff had just finished hitting on. Russ enters the school next, catching Linda returning to retrieve some forgotten study materials. She almost made it; too bad that her arm was bleeding so badly from the initial encounter and the trail led him right to her hiding place.
I must say that the drill, sporting a massive bit that is probably two feet long, performs faultlessly every time. Just thinking about that thing boring through my innards hurts. Its long battery life (Russ never has to recharge) makes the weapon all the more terrible. Russ should have invested in some better quality bits though. Do they make high-speed steel bits that long?
So, we are all set up for a night of debauchery. Just remember: that word might mean different things to the girls (getting high and drinking), the guys (the girls), and the killer (drilling holes in the guys and girls). Come to think of it, there might be an allegory to sexuality in Russ' choice of implement.
Trish and company oblige the peeping Toms (actually Neil and Jeff would be more accurate) by changing in the living room. The boys are almost discovered when Jackie, exhibiting a callous disregard for her friend's yard, dumps the ashtray out the window. Watching starts to get boring when the girls refuse to cooperate and stay clothed for several minutes. The two goons sneak into the garage and remove some of the fuses, prompting the girls to investigate why the lights went out.
First off, the garage is detached from the house and probably thirty yards away. What idiot designed that setup? Second, the fuse box is tiny. The fuse box in my mother's house (before she had it replaced with breakers) had double that many fuses for a much smaller dwelling.
John arrives and parks in the garage, fully intent on experiencing a certain song by Meatloaf. Diane will have nothing to do with the idea. She is afraid that one of the others will enter the garage and find his you-know-what in her you-know-what (yup, all those sex education classes really helped me). Diane tells her host that the two are going on a beer run. They do not make it out of the garage alive, but neither will be missed.
Inside the house, the guys and gals have no clue what is going on until the pizza delivery man arrives; they open the door to his mutilated visage. Several minutes of freaking out are required at this point and the trapped teenagers do a wonderful job, especially after the phone goes dead. Before cellular technology the killer had it easy. Clip one wire and you denied all contact with the outside world.
Meanwhile, just one house over, Valerie and Courtney have been relaxing at home. Their sibling relationship seems skewed by the way. One minute the eldest is fixing her kid sister's hair and the next berating her for making off with the latest issue of "Playgirl" (hidden as it was under Valerie's mattress). They also spend some time wondering about how Trish's party is going.
Badly is the answer. Jeff and Neil are nominated for an attempt to reach the neighbors. Mr. Contant is already dead at this point and Valerie has the television turned up so loud that she cannot hear anything else. Russ Thorn chalks up two more kills, even though Jeff required a second perforating. He had a hole drilled through the left side of his chest and was still alive! What a trooper!
Valerie is forced to go after her sister when the latter sneaks over to Trish's house. Things seem funny, so they poke around to see what is up; by now Russ is inside the house. None the wiser, our two newcomers are blissfully ignorant of the danger until Courtney finds Kimberly's corpse in the refrigerator. When the basketball coach (may she rest in peace) arrives, the surviving girls finally have had enough and mount a counterattack.
One thing about these films is that, invariably, one of the victims manages to clobber the killer with something and knock him down.
Then they run away!
No, no, no! Once the attacker is down keep on hitting him! Stomp on his throat, aim that poker for an eye socket, do something brutal and inhumane! Trish stabs Russ in the back at one point, then stares in horror at the blood covering the knife. I almost jumped out of my chair shouting, "What did you think was going to happen? The maniac has killed most of your friends! Now stick him again!"
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Sometimes the van a rockin' is a bad thing.
Never wear black panties under tight yellow shorts.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects a girl's right to privately discuss oral sex with her boyfriend.
One in four teenage girls have had breast implants.
Hot dogs are a poor substitute for steak when treating a black eye.
Knife fighting techniques are taught in the Cub Scouts.
Pizza retains heat better than a human body.
Garment bags make perfect hiding places.
Stuff To Watch For:
2 mins - If I was her neighbor I'd invest in a set of Steiner binoculars.
8 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
23 mins - What was the cat doing in the closet?
26 mins - Trish should be dropping the coffee pot and yelling "Ouch!" while waving her burned fingers in the air.
30 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOTS!
32 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A SNAIL!
43 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
51 mins - Simpleton! You knock like a pansy! I'd be bashing the door in with my shoulder!
57 mins - Well, that's not energy efficient. They need to replace the weather stripping...
72 mins - Psycho woman with a machete! Run like a bitch!
Audio clips in wav format
Starving actors speak out
Jackie: "What do the guys see in her anyway?"
Trish: "She's beautiful."
Jackie: "I think she has a big mouth."
Kimberly: "Hey, it's not how big your mouth is, it's what in it that counts."
Diane gets drilled.
Courtney talking, on the phone, about kissing Jabba the Hutt (well, that's the first thing that comes to mind).
Russ: "Takes a lot of love for a person to do this..."
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Reply #1.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Jim Hepler
Heh, this one has a ton of sequels. 4 of em maybe?
Oh yeah, made almost entirely by women. Interesting, isn't it?
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Reply #2.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Andrew K
Believe it or not, the script for this piece of crap was written by best-selling mystery author Rita Mae Brown, who for some reason insists on crediting her cat as co-author on most of her novels. Oh yeah, the director later made the Halle Berry vehicle The Rich Man's Wife.
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Reply #3.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Squishy
Stupid Highlight: The heroine cuts the killer's (drilling) tool in half with a machete; the killer screams and falls down "dead." I can't remember if he was actually clutching his groin or not, and I'm not about to sit through this zero-grade buttchunk again to find out--but this might help explain the woman-director angle. Maybe.
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Reply #4.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by lostmissy
boy what action and the big drill!!...hey no no wait a minute I'm thinking of "Tool Box Massacre"..what action and a big drill!!...hey no no wait a minute I'm thinking of "Body Double"..what action and a big drill!! hmmm maybe I didn't see this one after all..never mind
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Reply #5.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Paul Westbrook
Leatherface would kick the driller killer's ass.
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Reply #6.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by The Necrofile-Crocodile:Leonard D. Loftin
I've seen much better slasher-flicks than this, but it is not bad at all.
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Reply #7.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by scott b
When I was about nine years old I stayed up late and snuck this movie. I got to see gore, nudity, and I thought one hell of a scary movie.
Then I rented this movie about two years ago, at age 26 and I must admit the this might be the worst film ever made. If there intention was to scare nine year olds it worked. Anyone over that age however will find this movie to be downright apalling. The killer armed with a slow moving 4foot drill is all of five foot two, and none of the party goers decide to leave when they discover a maniac is in there house.
So if you'r ever drunk and looking for a movie to make fun of with your friends then by all means grab this usless waste of film.
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Reply #8.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by lou
I remember rentin this whe I was a10 year old pervert beacause I thought It was porn."I can't believe I actually got away with renting it!"
I told my best friend at the time,well I remember the box said it was shot entirley by women.Odd,beacuse all the nudity here is at completley unneccsaary places but still a good cheese slasher for a rainy day (hey it is raining!)
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good discussions gents...very interesting.
I'll chime in later but for now some pics of the inverters and cable size.
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average power on the sine wave (at 60hz) is about .606 X peak power. If your cable is rated for 10k Dc and you are pumping AC through it, you'll have a a few extra atoms more than you need to help propagate the electrons....
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Aitch wrote:
The tide has turned against CFLs....it seems there's a mercury problem when they break...hoovering up spreads it everywhere...very toxic/carcinogenic......change to LED or ESL
7/11 watt LEDs provide good light levels, but are more focused than ESLs/CFLs, and work best in up/downlighters or reading lights
WE are such energy junkies....just use less!
The other problem with CFLs is that they don't "cold start" -- relevant to us in the cold, northern climes.
I put some of the Phillips LED (75W equivalent) in my cold locations. They're pricey, but are basically "instant on" - there is a fraction of a second delay, like many indoor CFLs show - but have no "warm up" time.
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Thanks sunburnt, Aitch, RTG, Sylvander, linuxbear , aarf, AND Thom the hillbilly
for being interested in this project/thread.
Solar power seems a good path, in my thinking, for earth's future energy needs..at least in the day time. Night-time is for the stored energy in salt based liquid batteries.
I'm storing power on the grid for now until I can use it to heat my house in winter.
This entails a storage of heat in my house.....we will see about the next direction for the project...hopefully more panels Eric
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RTG wrote:
It's not so much that he will be burning 10kW, it's that in the depths of winter, he might only get an average of 2-4 hours full sunlight/day (NREL shows that November tends to be the worst month, due to general cloudiness).
From looking at Eric's panels, I'd have thought snow coverage would be the biggest problem in winter....?
I think the salt storage idea is for a different type of solar install
This site is quite useful.....
....although I'd have thought your rig to be configured for high voltage grid tie/inverter rather than battery charging
Also check out thermal solar water tubes, such as this
or heatpumps
...which has the advantage of still providing heat when it's cold/dark
You are fortunate to have the space [and maybe grants?] to experiment...
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Hi Aitch,
Night-time is for the stored energy in salt based liquid batteries.
I should have been more clear. The salt based storage is for solar heating with a heat storage chamber (aka battery) based on salt that turns gelatinous when cold and thins to liquid when heated thus losing heat as it solidifies (I think that's close).
One of these days I might even understand all this stuff.
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based on salt that turns gelatinous when cold and thins to liquid when heated thus losing heat as it solidifies
Sounds like "
Latent Heat
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Sylvander wrote:
Caneri wrote:
based on salt that turns gelatinous when cold and thins to liquid when heated thus losing heat as it solidifies
Sounds like "
Latent Heat
" in action.
Yup. Energy stored and released during the phase change process (e.g. ice to water, liquid water to steam).
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One thing about solar heat is that it's seems to be geared towards commercial/industrial installs...or just a hot water tank which is not what I want.
I guess I need to get my pencil sharpened and look at a home build.
When I ask about what solution/solid that they use it seems to be a state secret.
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Caneri wrote:
One thing about solar heat is that it's seems to be geared towards commercial/industrial installs...or just a hot water tank which is not what I want.
I guess I need to get my pencil sharpened and look at a home build.
When I ask about what solution/solid that they use it seems to be a state secret.
The chase begins lads and lassies...Eric
If you're doing a home build, how about just filling it with auto antifreeze solution (adjusted to survive your local low temps). If you want to heat water for internal use, couple it elsewhere with sealed heat exchanger of some sort (or use perhaps use RV antifreeze to eliminate toxicity, in case of a leak).
Of course, if you can ensure that your hot water will never freeze, you wouldn't need to run a dual system.
But in these cases, we just talking home heat and hot water (not mechanical work, or electricity).
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A DIY molten salt setup would be both expensive and potentially dangerous as salt melts at around 230 degrees Celcius, achieved by focusing many parabolic mirrors on a tower
Nevada's new molten salt setup even produces power at night, but cost many millions of dollars
A concentrated solar water heating setup should be within your capabilities, though, using an insulated swimming pool as a heatstore, with insulating balls floating on the surface, [or other method of store of choice] and heatpumps to convert the low grade heat to higher grade for heating the house/buildings...or try utilising the planet's natural latent heat with underground pipes tapping the heat, also fed to heatpumps....but be aware, if there is a power outage, you'll need to supply power to all pumps, compressors, fans and control equipment
Tricky business, energy...the secret is to reduce use to a minimum, rather than try to produce as much as you're used to using...unless you intend to become a local supplier...with all the responsibility for people lives that carries...?
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something stinks…can you smell it too
Truckers test LNG
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Chad Porter wants to run his 18-wheeler trucks on frozen natural gas across Canada's Rocky mountains
even before the world's longest chain of refueling stations gets built to keep them fueled.
The chief operating officer of oil services company Ferus Inc. bought two vehicles to test liquefied
natural gas and reckons switching from diesel may cut 22 percent from his fuel bill, or about $1 a
gallon. At the moment, Calgary-based Ferus uses mobile tankers to refuel his trucks, which cost about
$100,000 more than conventional vehicles, adding expense to a project that's about saving money. A
Royal Dutch Shell Plc project will make it easier to fill up.
Shell's plan to spend $250-million on an LNG plant and a string of filling stations is the biggest single
investment yet in making frozen gas a transport fuel, a shift advocated by proponents of energy
independence including billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens. Switching engines to run on LNG is
becoming economic because a glut of fuel from North America's shale rocks has made the U.S. the
world's largest natural-gas producer and forced prices to record discounts versus crude oil.
"LNG holds great potential as a transport fuel," Mark Williams, Shell's director for downstream, said in a
speech this month. "North America, for example, now has a century of gas supplies at current
consumption rates. So gas is likely to gain market share in transportation."
Special Coolers
Using LNG in vehicles has limitations, from fuel evaporation to the special coolers needed at filling
stations to keep the gas at minus 162 degrees Celsius (minus 259 Fahrenheit), making it mostly
suitable for long-haul trucks with large gas tanks. U.S. truckers spent more than $135 billion on fuel
last year, according to American Trucking Association.
"We would take advantage of any infrastructure that gets built," Ferus's Porter said in an interview from
his office in Calgary.
Shell agreed to work with filling-station owners Flying J Inc. to offer LNG to trucks along the highway,
from Fort McMurray in Alberta, the heart of Canada's oil industry, to Vancouver on the Pacific coast,
more than 900 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the southwest. At today's diesel prices, fuel for each run on
the route by a typical 33,000-pound, 60-foot truck costs about $550.
The roadway, which comes within about 235 miles of Mt. Robson, the range's highest peak at 12,972
feet, passes through part of Canada's oil and gas producing region, as well as the mining and forestry
operations of companies including Teck Resources Ltd.
'See Opportunities'
"We see opportunities for a concept like this one in other areas of the world as well," said Jose-Alberto
Lima, Shell's vice president for LNG and gas sales in Americas. He said Shell, based in The Hague in the
Netherlands, doesn't expect a rebound in gas prices anytime soon.
In addition to being cheaper, natural gas burned in trucks emits as much as 25 percent less carbon
dioxide, as well as almost eliminating particulate matter and sulfur dioxide produced by diesel-powered
vehicles, according to the Calgary- based Van Horne Institute. Using natural gas, a fuel where North
America is self-sufficient, would also cut demand for imported crude oil.
Shell eventually plans to deploy LNG technology to power trains, ships and mining industry engines. Gas
overtook crude oil to account for more than 50 percent of the company's production for the first time this
year. It expects to expand the use of LNG as a transport fuel beyond North America to Europe, China,
Latin America and Australia.
Green Corridor
The Anglo-Dutch company's Green Corridor project in Canada will make 300,000 tons of LNG a year. It
plans to start production at its first small-scale gas liquefaction plant at Jumping Pound near the route's
halfway point next year.
"These trucks are more expensive than the traditional diesel trucks today," Shell's Lima said. "You need
to have economies of scale to bring these costs down."
Shell is cooperating with Vancouver-based Westport Innovations Inc., the maker of cryogenic fuel tanks
and the only currently available 15-liter gas-powered engine suitable for heavy-duty trucks running on
Compressed Gas
The second Canadian maker of gas powered engines is Cummins Westport Inc., which makes smaller
8.9 liter heavy-duty unit. The Vancouver-based joint venture of U.S.'s Cummins Inc. and Westport has
designed a motor able to run on either compressed natural gas, CNG, or LNG.
CNG is used for light- and medium-duty vehicles, such as buses and garbage trucks. LNG, which is
using a cryogenic technology to chill gas and reduce it to one-six-hundredth of its original volume at
low temperature, is offered mostly as a fuel for heavy-duty vehicles.
CNG, which is stored at ambient temperature, requires tanks with thicker walls to hold the pressure and
provides less energy per volume. Therefore, long-haul trucks can take more LNG on board in lighter
chilled tanks with less time required for refueling per energy unit.
"Drivers have been very receptive to LNG trucks, especially since they drive like diesel trucks,"†said Cara
West, a spokeswoman at Paccar Inc., which designs and manufactures trucks under Kenworth, Peterbilt
and DAF nameplates and where Ferus bought its vehicles. "Dealers are receiving multiple inquiries from
customers anxious to learn more about LNG trucks."
Market Share
Paccar currently equips some of its Kenworth and Peterbilt models with LNG engines. The Washington
state-based maker expects the gas-powered-truck market share in North America to expand to about
20 percent in the next several years, up from about 6 percent now.
With natural gas fuel taxed about 20 Canadian cents less a liter than diesel on equivalent basis, it takes
less than five years for a driver to return extra investment benefiting from cheaper fuel, according to the
Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance. Canada has more than 100 LNG powered trucks almost equally
split between western and eastern parts of the country operated by Vedder Transport, a milk hauler in
British Columbia, and Robert Transport, which operates in Quebec and is expanding the fleet.
Tax Breaks
In January, President Barack Obama said tax breaks for natural-gas powered trucks will help cut
dependence on imported oil in the world's largest crude-consuming country. "We, it turns out, are the
Saudi Arabia of natural gas," Obama said. The U.S Senate and House have been reviewing the bill to
boost greater use of the gas.
"The potential is there, and when you have this huge resource in the U.S., and you've got almost 10
million barrels per day imported being used for transportation fuels," said Theepan Jothilingam, an
analyst at Nomura Holdings Inc. At some stage, the U.S. government "will need to give a tax break and
encourage both the technology and the execution of this technology."
Billionaire investor Pickens has been lobbying for incentives to stimulate greater use of natural gas as a
vehicle fuel to replace imported oil. Pickens is the largest shareholder of Clean Energy Fuels, a natural-
gas supplier for bus and truck fleets, which is building America's Natural Gas Highway across the U.S. to
fuel long-haul trucks with LNG starting from the end of this year.
About 30 percent of U.S. "classic trucks" can be converted to run on LNG, which needs highly utilized
vehicles running lots of miles to pay back for the additional engine costs by fueling it with cheaper LNG,
said James Burns, Shell's general manager for LNG in Transport, Americas. "Emissions is a key issue
here as well both on local air emissions and green- house gas emissions."
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The use of salt melts as solar collectors and storers is not new. Although they've been in discussion for at least 40yrs, only two very large installations (Barstow & S. Spain) have been constructed based on tracked mirror arrays. They both use(d?) nitrate(s) at ~900K - either KNO3 or an admix with the sodium salt. Salt melts have also been proposed as heat transfer media in closed cycle nuclear plant, as designed at ANL. The technologies are so old now that they are described in hard-back text books.
The big problem with lower temperature phase-change mixtures is maintaining the uniformity and composition as anyone who has used one as a hand-warmer knows - after a few freeze-thaw cycles they fail due to irreversible segregation, decomposition (organic/aqueous mixes) and a plethora of other undesirable processes. Furthermore, high temperature heat storage advantage falls out of Second Law considerations and all that jazz; hardly a welcome prospect for a domestic roof installation!
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Ok Ladies and Gentlemen....and all the ships at sea,
I'm on the grid as of 4.40pm June 19 2012....Hooray!!
I'm encouraged to be green....or copper colured...hey
My first impression is, I'm producing much more than I use even with AC working...we will see as the year unfolds.
PS.. @Sage,
No wonder you are called Sage....very interesting post...ty
@RetroTechGuy ....yup thought about that. I need a storage solution that is effective first.....and the hunt continues....ty All.
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Caneri wrote:
@RetroTechGuy ....yup thought about that. I need a storage solution that is effective first.....and the hunt continues....ty All.
One or more old water heaters (broken, and probably free) -- perhaps will extra insulation around the tank?
Or a solar pond?... (may not work up north).
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Microsoft Admits Its Datacenters Are Wide Open To NSA Attacks
from the uh,-guys... dept
Unfortunately, it's not clear that other companies are following suit. When asked about this right after the infiltration was revealed, Yahoo gave a non-committal answer:
"We have strict controls in place to protect the security of our data centers, and we have not given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency."Yeah, but that doesn't say they encrypt the links between data centers, or even that they're planning to do so. Since then, Yahoo has basically said nothing as far as I can tell. Over in Europe, however, Microsoft has now admitted that it still is not encrypting those links, and is only now investigating the idea.
Dorothee Belz, EMEA VP for Legal and Corporate Affairs made the remark when answering a question from Claude Moraes, MEP during a meeting at the European Parliament on Monday.Sure, it's not something that can be done overnight, but large internet companies who use multiple data centers now need to assume that all of their data is compromised if they're not encrypting the links. Whether or not it's done yet, these companies have a responsibility to get that process started as soon as possible. Hell, they all probably should have started doing this as soon as the news broke that Google was rushing to do this, since it was pretty clear they'd figured out what was going on.
"Generally, what I can say today is server-to-server transportation is generally not encrypted," she said. "This is why we are currently reviewing our security system."
It's especially ironic that Microsoft is now admitting that it's not encrypting the data leaks, because the company has been on a rampage trying to present itself as protecting users privacy and that Google is a privacy nightmare. But, given these admissions, Microsoft has now basically said that its made all of your data available to the US government and it's still thinking about what to do about it, while Google has been rushing to protect its users privacy.


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This is a utility gimmick for magicians, with many diverse applications. The regular Bottomless Glass dates back to a few centuries, and this is a slightly most sophisticated version, that permits you to "prove it is a regular glass" by some subtle handling. It will also permit you to perform other effects, similar to those performed with an Okito Glass, and some entirely different ones as well.
The props we supply consist of a clear plastic Bottomless Glass, and a very special half glass insert, with a regular bottom. You could also remove the insert, and perform any of the effects using the regular Bottomless Glass. As a bonus extra, we also give you many effects that can be performed with a regular Bottomless Glass in our instructions. These are some of the effects detailed with the prop.
Amazing Wand through liquid . Pour an opaque liquid (Milk or a dark colored soda) into the empty glass. Pick up your wand, and pass it up from the bottom of the glass, and out at the top! You have demonstrated a most convincing penetration.
An effective Vanishing Device. There are dozens of effects that involve the vanish of a borrowed ring, key, marked coin, token etc., which is later reproduced from a Nest Of Boxes, A Locked Box, A Ball of Wool, or even A Loaf of Bread. The usual method involves a gimmicked handkerchief with a duplicate of the item in the hem. With this glass, you can perform the Vanish part of the routine in a much more effective manner. Just drop the borrowed item into the glass of liquid, and you have it "ready" for your production.
An Impossible Production. You could make a very impressive production, because of the special construction of this glass. Display the empty glass, and place it on the palm of the hand. Pour opaque liquid into the glass. Dip the fingers of your free hand into the liquid, and flick your fingers, so they see the drops of liquid, demonstrating it is just a glass full of liquid. Reach into the glass again, and make your production. Not only can you produce dry silks or ribbons from a glass of liquid, but the final volume of production could be much bigger than what the glass could possibly hold. No matter what your performing preferences, this is a prop you will find a use for, like Change Bags, and Thumb Tips, and other gizmos that most magicians cannot do without ! Complete with many ideas for diverse applications.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Health Care - What way is best?
I was having dinner with some British and American friends the other week and the subject of the UK's National Health Service (NHS) came up. Also state pensions, Obama's ideas and the System in the UK.
And do you know… No one was saying the NHS was sacred or anything? Not like you see on the news and from UK politicians.
The best anyone would say was it was good for public health in general to keep up basic good health and immunisations, make sure babies of trashy parent/s got their vitamins.
They said it was waay too expensive, crippled by bad practices and brought down by too many over paid under talented managers who got themselves into deals called public/private partnerships, about building and leasing hospitals back that no one who knew what they were doing would have signed up for.
Apparently some "Trusts" in London are basically bankrupt over them and people may even be dying because of it.
Someone said if the NHS refuses to give a treatment, maybe for a cancer drug banned by this "Nice" (Is that Newspeak for Nasty?) committee and the patient buys the drug privately they get their NHS treatment cut off as a punishment. That sees quite evil to me. Sure gets rid of critics tho.
They also said you could die because of how slow it could be to get treatment..
But weirdly if the "Nice" people say you can have it, you might still be refused it.
They also said the NHS and State pensions were basically Ponzie schemes.
They were didn't like how it treats seniors either.
So they didn't like the level of service it delivered.
For all of that I don't think they wanted to junk the NHS out of hand. More cut it massively down to size to a sort of basic safety net if it could not match the levels of service you get if you pay privately in the UK.
OK comments please.. Agree or disagree? What do you all think? Is it fine? is it broken? Is it fixable?
5 comments:
- James Higham said...
Definitely hardhat, Moggsy.
NHS - if it doesn't deliver and is a millstone, then time to get back to the GP days.
- February 7, 2012 at 7:11 AM
You've always had a better system in Canada. The NHS needs to be reformed as it is burdened by both bureaucracy and abuse by patients.
- February 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- Moggsy said...
According to the news maybe the GMC or Doctors representatives don't want them to be in charge James. isn't that what the goverment suggested? GPs in charge.
LGS I guess the NHS is difficult to reform tho, How would you reform it so enough people agreed?
No matter what any one suggests there is a 'medical' talking head saying how terrible it would be.
Are gravey trains involved?
- February 7, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- James Higham said...
Romantic day for the ladies at this blog - thinking of you today.
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- Moggsy said...
Thank you James. I hope the day lifts your spirits.
- February 15, 2012 at 5:57 AM


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My husband and I just moved from our spacious live-work loft into our first home. The house is great, but the living room is small, not even 10 feet wide. There is also a fireplace that takes up quite a bit of room. I'm wondering how I can arrange my furniture to seat more than just three people on the sofa. I tried putting the sofa under the window, but I moved it because we don't have a large bay window and the view isn't great. I've also tried the sofa across from the fireplace and was thinking of putting a large TV on top of the fireplace, but it seems too close. I'm not used to working with walls.
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Next, Tamara put her sofa under the window and placed two small-scale armchairs directly across from the sofa. I especially like this placement because a classic sofa dressed with piles of pretty pillows is a great sightline from the dining room and kitchen.
The shelves flanking both sides of the fireplace provide extra storage, but also are a surface where guests can set a drink. Multiple side tables really aren't necessary when you have shelves in close proximity to your seating.
The vintage glass coffee table with its antique-brass faux-bamboo base makes a statement about Tamara's personal style and doesn't feel heavy in the room. While the mirror above the fireplace reflects light and makes the space feel more open.
Tamara created a den with a TV in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I mention her upstairs den in case your basement, like many of the basements in homes with the same footprint, isn't finished.
You're right, Jamie, a large television doesn't belong in a small-scale living room. A TV hung higher than 48 inches in a small space is too high for comfortable viewing and will strain your neck. Plus, a large TV in a small room may give your living room a sports bar vibe.
If you must have a TV in your living room, a small white one would fit well on one of the shelves or on a cabinet beside the fireplace. You really need a room that's at least 14 feet wide for a TV above the fireplace or a 24-hour chiropractor.
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Those plump little cherubs smiling rapturously from the depths of dark Baroque paintings have reason to be happy, I thought as I listened to tour guide Niall Stewart expound on "the angels' share," a term used to describe the amount of Irish whiskey that evaporates daily while aging in casks.
"No one knows what the angels actually do with their share," said Stewart, as we began our tour of the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin. "But we do know 6,000 bottles of Jameson are lost a day floating in the air."
I'd heard a lot of stories about those lucky angels, and I'd been exceptionally lucky myself: I was on the seventh day of a marathon eight-day journey exploring the Irish Whiskey Trail, tasting my way across the island, learning how to sip and savour one of its most intriguing exports -- its ultra-smooth whiskeys.
My do-it-yourself tour was so pleasurable that I wasn't bothered that at many of the tastings, Irish whiskey was compared with the United States' native spirit, bourbon. And that bourbon -- a favourite in my Kentucky-born-and-bred family for generations -- always seemed to come out on the losing end of the comparison .
The tour, stretching north and south from Dublin, took me to four whiskey-tasting centres. It also provided a quick look at some of Ireland's most popular sights and turned out to be a first-rate bargain: Two friends and I took advantage of off-season prices, scoring a cheap round-trip airfare to Dublin.
We were prepared to spend much of the trip wallowing in the rain, another well-known Emerald Isle trait, but luck was with us here, too, and skies were clear. Even gloomy weather would have been tolerable, though, with that golden Irish whiskey to keep us warm.
Emerald Isle monks get the credit for developing whiskey distillation techniques around the year 600, an advance that irks the Scots, who would like to claim that distinction for themselves.
Since its inception, Irish whiskey has been fascinating foreigners.
"Of all the wines, Irish is the best," said Peter the Great, czar of Russia, who described whiskey as "the blessed elixir of the Gods." Anglo-Saxon invaders were equally as impressed; they anglicized the Gaelic term for it -- uisce beatha (ish-keh ba-ha), or "water of life" -- to whiskey.
There's no better place to get a taste of whiskey's history than at the first recorded distillery, Old Bushmills, about an hour's drive north of Belfast, in Northern Ireland, which opened its doors in 1608.
On weekdays, it's a noisy, active place, and visitors can watch the process from distillation and fermentation through bottling. It's the only working Irish whiskey distillery open for tours.
Of course, the most popular place at the plant is the tasting room. (Make sure you have a designated driver before you start tippling. Ireland's twisting, two-lane roads can be scary even when you're sober.)
We booked a premium tour, which meant a special tasting in a private roomful of sofas, a handsome bar and a gathering table. We were shown to the table; in front of each of us were five glasses, half-full of golden liquids. To the side, each of us also had a beaker of water. Tour guide Robert Galbraith was in top form as he cracked his first joke. "A wise man once said, if you don't start in the morning, you can't drink all day." Indeed, it was only 10:30 a.m.
He told us a little about Bushmills' grand celebration: In April, the distillery will mark 400 years of making Irish whiskey. And he mentioned that the tour we just completed draws about 100,000 people a year.
"Some people frown, but a drop of water will open whiskey up and enhance it," Galbraith said, motioning for us to put a few drops -- "just a splash now" -- into the first whiskey we would taste, Bushmills Original. He called it a "gentle giant, a soft and mellow blend."
We twirled our glasses, smelled the heady fragrance, then tasted.
"With a good whiskey, you'll find the flavour will linger on your palate," our tasting maestro said.
We moved on to two other Bushmills: Black Bush and Single Malt 10-year-old. Galbraith helped us describe the flavours; for Black Bush, we used such words as "assertive" and "lovable rogue." (Isn't that the way every Irishman is described?) For the 10-year-old single malt, "delicate with a hint of chocolate-vanilla."
Next, he invited us to smell, then taste Johnnie Walker Red Scotch. The smoky odour and taste were startling after the mellow Irish whiskeys. "That smokiness is from the peat," Galbraith said. "When Scotch is made, malted barley is dried over peat fires; smoke from the peat penetrates the barley. With Irish whiskey, the barley never comes in contact with smoke, because it's dried in closed ovens."
We took a long sip of our Bushmills 10-year-old and then moved on to bourbon. Galbraith expected another revelation, and for the others at our gathering table there was one: The bourbon went down like fire compared with the Irish whiskeys. I felt the heat in the back of my throat, too, but I wasn't sure the comparison was fair. We were tasting Jim Beam White Label. It's the best-selling bourbon in the world, but it's a relatively low-end product that's aged only four years. A more apt comparison might be Knob Creek, a small-batch Beam bourbon that's aged nine years.
But, hey, these guys aren't selling bourbon; they're selling Irish whiskey. And I had to admit their smooth mix of malt and vanilla was memorable.
It was time to move on. In the days ahead, we would visit more distilleries, but for a time Ireland's lush green scenery, thatched-roof cottages and rollicking pubs would hold our attention.
Although Ireland isn't even quite as large as New Brunswick, its roads can be demanding and distances deceiving. When we began our Whiskey Trail journey, we left Dublin in the early afternoon, expecting to arrive in Bushmills village about three hours later. It took twice as long. But by 9 p.m., we were dining at Bushmills Inn, a quaint re-creation of an old coach inn and mill house that was listed as one of the most romantic inns in Britain by the Sunday Times of London.
The charming village is only two kilometres from the Giant's Causeway, one of Europe's major tourist attractions. After our Old Bushmills tour, we headed that way.
Named for a legend about duelling giants, the Causeway is a magical place with ominous gray cliffs, crashing surf and bizarre columns of basalt that plunge downward into the sea. We jumped rock to rock, listening to the shrill cries of gulls as they arched across the sky, and tried to puzzle out how this jagged promontory -- made up of neatly stacked columns of hexagonal rocks -- came to be. (It's the result of a volcanic eruption.)
From the peaceful Antrim coast we stepped back into urban life in Derry, a walled city with a tumultuous past. Set on a hill on the banks of the River Foyle, Derry -- or Londonderry, depending on your politics -- came under siege and attack for more than 1,000 years. But the historic incident most remembered today occurred in 1972 on Bloody Sunday, when 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead and 15 wounded by British soldiers during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city.
Today Derry is calm, the "Troubles," as the conflict between the Catholics and Protestants often is called, finally set aside, and the city has emerged as one of the most progressive in Northern Ireland. We walked the walls around the 17th-century city; below us streets bustled with shoppers.
Leaving Northern Ireland, Sligo County was next on our itinerary.
We drove south, exploring the narrow, winding streets of Galway; detouring for a look at the rugged Burren and sheer rock faces of the Cliffs of Moher; then heading south again to Cork, where we made an obligatory stop at Blarney Castle .
Our tour had taken us through miles of unspoiled, beautiful countryside, but the landscape had been devoid of tasting rooms. We tried to fill the gap with pub stops, but we were ready to taste some more Irish whiskey.
So, with rising excitement, we picked up the Whiskey Trail again east of Cork at the Old Midleton Distillery in Midleton, once the main Jameson plant. The operation now has moved to a new, adjacent site, where much of the Irish whiskey produced today is distilled and matured. The stately stone buildings at the old plant haven't been used to make whiskey since 1975, but they've been restored for tours, and the tasting room is first rate. I ventured in, seeking Irish whiskey converts.
"That's me," said Bill Dowling, a retired San Francisco attorney-turned-bartender. ("I finally don't have to apologize for my profession," he said.) Dowling had just finished a tasting, but I got the impression that he didn't need the education.
"I've been practising on Irish whiskey for years," he said, laughing. "In fact, I have some Jameson waiting back in the hotel right now. I'm going to go back there to practise some more."
My friends and I volunteered again to be tasters. Only a few members of each distillery tour group get to be tasters, so we learned quickly to raise our hands immediately and wave them frantically when the tour guide asked for volunteers.
We were chosen, and magically, five more glasses of spirits and beakers of water appeared in front of us. We repeated the sip-and-savour tests we'd first tried at Bushmills, this time focusing on Jameson, Paddy and Power's Gold Label.
This is a great way to spend a vacation, I thought to myself. And two more chances to be volunteer tasters still lay ahead.
Next on our list was Locke's Distillery Museum, and we headed north to visit it. Established in 1757, Locke's is now part of the Cooley Distillery family and offers the last remaining example of a small pot still distillery in Ireland. The facility is smaller than some of the others, but wins points for charm.
The brands available here include Connemara, Kilbeggan and Tyrconnell. The new Michael Collins also comes from the Cooley distillery
Last on our list was the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin. Well organized and easily accessible to tourists, it has the most polished presentation. Tour-guide jokes rank high here.
"We're serious in whiskey making," guide Niall Stewart said, "but not in whiskey drinking. You can drink it with water, cranberry juice, Coke, anyway you want it. Just make sure you buy Jameson, not something else."
And about those angels -- Stewart has a theory.
"All great whiskeys have magic to them. Who's to say that's not what the angels provide?"
Getting there: Air Canada offers flights from Toronto to Dublin from May to October. Transat Holidays has flights from Toronto to Dublin from April through October and, new this year, will offer flights from Montreal to Dublin from April through October as well. Zoom Airlines offers flights from Toronto to Belfast year round. Newcomer Flyglobespan offers flights from Hamilton to Dublin and Belfast from May through October and, new this year, flights from Vancouver to Dublin from May through October.
- Bushmills Inn Hotel, Bushmills, Antrim County, Northern Ireland:
011-44-28-2073-3000 or www.bushmillsinn.com. Award-winning 19th-century coach inn has a welcoming atmosphere and turf log fires. Doubles from about $290.
- Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort, Adare, Limerick County, Ireland: 1-800-462-3273 for reservations from Canada or www.adaremanor.com. If you've always wanted to sleep in a castle, this is the place. Other amenities: 18-hole golf course, spa. Doubles from about $390.
- O'Callaghan Alexander Hotel, Fenian Street at Denzille Lane, Merrion Square, Dublin:
011-353-1-6073700 or www.ocallaghanhotels.com. Comfortable, well-located downtown hotel. Doubles from about $180.
Tours include whiskey or a non-alcoholic beverage. Visitors may volunteer to do free comparison tastings or can schedule one by paying a premium.
- Old Bushmills Distillery, Bushmills, Antrim County, Northern Ireland: 011-44-2820-733-218, www.bushmills.com. Tours daily; about $7.50.
- Old Midleton Distillery, (The Jameson Experience), Midleton, Cork County:
011-353-21-461-3594, www.whiskeytours.ie. Tours daily; about $16 per person.
- Old Jameson Distillery, Bow Street Distillery, Smithfield, Dublin: 011-353-1-807-2355, www.whiskeytours.ie. Tours daily; about $9.
- Locke's Distillery Museum, part of Cooley Distillery, Kilbeggan, Westmeath County, Ireland: 011-353- 57-93-32134. Tours daily; about $9.
To learn more:
- Tourism Ireland:
1-800-223-6470 or www.tourismireland.com


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Students might expect to learn fundamental disciplines and theory of conservation biology, as well as concentration courses in conservation issues. Expect as well that you are likely to examine individual species and their interactions with the environment, as well as the way in which policy decisions can drive beneficial or harmful changes in ecosystems.
DID YOU KNOW? Scientists and foresters also typically have a background in a geographic information systems (GIS) technology, remote sensing, and other forms of computer modeling.[ii]
Since conservation biology is interdisciplinary, you may find programs that combine the natural sciences with environmental policy and law. Courses might include:
- Evolutionary biology
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- Ecology
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- Statistical analysis
- Biological Sciences
Potential areas of Concentration might include:
- Wildlife Management
- Water pollution
- Evolution
- Animal behavior
- Computer cartography
- Aquatic ecology
Potential Career Paths for Masters in Conservation Biology Graduates
If you aspire to work as a Conservation Scientist or Forester, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you typically need a bachelor's degree in forestry or a related field, such as agricultural science, rangeland management, or environmental science. Graduate work is not generally required, however, some conservation scientists and foresters get a master's degree or Ph.D.
Furthermore, if you aspire to a postsecondary teaching career, or to conduct higher-level investigative or scientific work as a Wildlife Biologist or Zoologist, you need at least a Masters degree and possibly a PhD in Conservation Biology[iii].
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HILLSDALE � Just as it seemed Hillsdale Academy would put a quick end to Thursday's competition, the Hillsdale Hornets collected themselves and staged a comeback that would make for a great evening of volleyball.
After dropping the first two games, Hillsdale took the next two, setting the stage for a fifth and deciding set.
In set five, Academy outside hitter Olivia Jones took over and the team gained a 16-15 lead. At game point setter Erin Wonders served an ace, ending the Hornets comeback and giving the Colts a victory.
"I think they found more of a groove," head coach Katherine Huffman said of the Hornets comeback. "It was just a good game all together."
Hillsdale Academy took the first two sets, 25-11 and 25-18.
The Academy played fundamental volleyball, controlling the ball, passing, and finding holes in the Hornet defense. Maeve Sullivan, demonstrated the Colt's experience and mental awareness, as she ended the second set with a soft tap as the Hornets retreated, looking for a hard spike.
Hornets head coach Amy Gramling said her team played tentatively at first and focused too much on defending without putting any offensive pressure on their opponent.
It was clear to see that by game three, the Hornets were more comfortable and began to attack.
"We had to take control," Gramling said.
Jamee Thompson and Claire Wilcox jump started the Hornets in set three. Thompson made a number of saves on balls that looked like sure points for the Academy. Meanwhile Wilcox played aggressively under the net.
"They have a real good game sense," Gramling said of Thompson and Wilcox. "They are intense. They never give up on the ball."
Hustle plays allowed the Hornet offense to control the ball and set up their hitters, in particular Megan Stoll who had a number of scorching kills in decisive moments.
The Hornets won set three, 25-23.
The Academy played uncharacteristically sloppy, as Hillsdale hitters including Mallory Hill, Alana Thayer, Stoll and Wilcox dominated game four.
Academy went onto lost game four after Thompson made a deceiving tap at game-point.
The Colts suddenly found themselves in desperate need of some momentum.
Huffman said their games at St. Philip Tournament, earlier this season, had prepared them for this moment.
"It helped us learn to comeback," she said.
Academy and Hillsdale hitters traded kills to begin the match. Academy senior Sierra Russell gave her team an early 3-2 lead.
Hillsdale's Alana Thayer responded with a kill of her own, and the Hornets went on a 3-0 run. Russell then led the Colts back into the game with two more kills.
With score knotted, 8-8. Academy setter Erin Wonders began executing set after set to Jones. Jones uncorked four straight kills.
"We knew when the game was tight, they were going to go to her," Gramling said.
The Hornets matched Jones, however, and the scored deadlocked at 13-13, until a kill by Cecelia Pewe put the Academy on top.
Hillsdale then tied on a missed served by the Academy. But Jones, once again, delivered a big hit and after the ace by Wonders, the Academy secured a victory.
The two teams make the short trip to Jonesville Saturday, Sept. 7, for the Sue Carlisle Tournament, where they are likely to meet again.
Colts stifle Hornet comback
HILLSDALE � Just as it seemed Hillsdale Academy would put a quick end to Thursday's competition, the Hillsdale Hornets collected themselves and staged a comeback that would make for a great evening of volleyball.


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I decided not to for go the ENO slap straps and opted for a more custom suspension. It was a nice day in southern Indiana and my webbing finally arrived from strapworks. So, I packed up the toddler and headed out to the park.
Things went pretty well initially. I guess I kinda used my 3 year old as a guinea pig, oh well if that makes me a bad parent. However, when I sat in the hammock there was so much stretch that I just sank to the ground... that's gonna be a problem.
I think the 3/8" polyester webbing I used between the toggle and the ring device was were my stretch was occurring. I opted fro the webbing cause it was flat and the garda hitch I used at the ring device wouldn't damage the webbing like it would amsteel.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Bryce Cotton scored eight of his 21 points during a game-breaking 17-0 run that carried Providence to a 66-47 win over Fairfield on Friday night.
LaDontae Henton scored 15 and grabbed eight rebounds, and Josh Fortune added 10 points for the Friars (4-2).
Derek Needham paced the Stags (3-3) with 18 points. Fairfield shot just 35.2 percent (19 of 54) and committed 16 turnovers.
Cotton, who entered the game as the Big East's leading scorer with 24.5 points per game, went 6 of 13 from the floor, hitting his only two 3s of the game in the key run.
Vincent Council, Providence's leading scorer from last season at 15.9 points per game, missed his fifth straight contest. He suffered a leg injury 5 minutes into the season opener.
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Rick Baker might not be a household name, but the special-effects makeup maestro has won more Oscars—seven—than Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep combined for creating some of cinema's most memorable creatures. This weekend he goes back for Men in Black III to create more outrageous aliens, including some groovy retro-looking ones for when Agent J (Will Smith) travels back in time to 1969 and encounters a younger Agent K (Josh Brolin).
Baker's first professional gig was to assist makeup legend Dick Smith on The Exorcist. He worked on other notable movies for years (including second unit on Star Wars) and won his first Oscar for Best Makeup for An American Werewolf in London the first year the Academy created the category. The wolf transformations in that classic horror film were hideously convincing and still hold up in our current era of CGI overkill.
The next time Baker won a little-gold-man statue was for 1987's Harry and the Hendersons. The Bigfoot family flick showed Harry as a gentle giant who develops a friendship with George Henderson (John Lithgow) and his family. Baker will tell you that of all his fantastical creations, Harry is still his favorite.
Martin Landau won an Oscar for portraying Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, and Baker also won the Academy Award for creating the prosthetics that helped transform Landau into Legosi while still allowing Landau to emote. Ed Wood—about the cross-dressing director of Plan 9 from Outer Space—remains one of Burton's best original works.
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In 2001, Baker won his sixth Oscar for transforming Jim Carrey into the eponymous green grouch with a heart a few sizes too small in 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The film was also nominated for two Razzies, but that just shows that even award-winning makeup can't cover up a bad movie's blemishes.
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One of the more interesting pioneers of the haskalah movement was R. Shelomo Zalman Hanau (Katz). Hanau's works mainly concern grammar and, in that vein, corrections to the siddur. Hanau's first book, Binyan Shelomo, Frankfort A.M., 1708 was published when he was 21. This book focuses on grammar, but, as we have already discussed, was important in the development of the Siddur. (Additionally, see S.'s recent post on Hanau here.) This book is now up for auction, however, I must note that there seems to be an exaggeration regarding the scarcity of a particular page.
The catalog describes the book as follows:
The author was born in 1687 and was noted for his many books regarding the foundation of the Hebrew language . . . The author corresponded with many Torah luminaries regarding his subject of expertise. His first book, Binyan Shlomo . . . [a]s a young scholar he spoke sharply against many sages who preceded him by hundreds of years. As the years passed, the author regretted his sharp language and printed a unique apology in which he notes the names of the sages whom he did not properly honor. This list features at least five leading Torah scholars from previous generations. To the best of our knowledge, this leaf is not extant today and is not listed in the C.D. of the Bibliographic Project. The book itself was never reprinted and is very rare today. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only known copy with the apology leaf.
Judaica Jerusalem, Elul 2009, lot # 144, (emphasis in original). There are a number of corrections in order. First, the description states that there was only one edition of Binyan Shelomo "and it was never reprinted." That is incorrect. Aside from two photo-reproductions done by Copy Corner and Guttman, Binyan Shelomo was reprinted in 1723. Vinograd, in his bibliography, Otzar Sefer ha-Ivri, lists this book as extant the Annenberg Library, which, according to their online catalog, the book can still be found.[1] Turning now to the "apology leaf." It is correct that the leaf is rare, however, it is an overstatement to say this is the only known copy with the leaf. Indeed, the existence of the leaf is not mentioned in Vingrad's Otzar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri, Jersusalem: 1994, vol. II, Frankfort A.M. # 218. But, the leaf was mentioned already in 1865 and the fact that Hanau issued an apology was mentioned as early as 1715. The first mention that Hanau issued an apology (although there is no mention of a special leaf) was in Johann Christoph Wolf's Bibliotheca Hebraea, Hamburg: 1715. (S. has kindly translated the relevant passage here.) Shadal in Prolegomenon, Grimmae: 1838, 61-2 n.1, also records Wolf's comments. (See S.'s comments regarding the use of Prolegomenon here.) The first to republish the apology leaf was Meir Wiener in Ha-Maggid, May 17, 1865, Ha-Tozfeh le-Maggid. Wiener decided to republish the text of the entire leaf "due to its rarity." Wiener obtained a copy from the Rosenthal library and in the catalog for the library by Roest, Yodeah Sefer, he says "that in my copy I have an extra page at the end." Yodeah Sefer, letter Bet, # 304. This notation was then recorded in Wiener's bibliography of St. Petersberg library, Kohelet Moshe. Wiener says "that the extra page at the end, which Roest records and where the author asks for forgiveness for insulting various authors, is not in this copy." While it wasn't in these copies, nor is it in the copy on Hebrewbooks.org, it is in the JNUL's copy which is online here. Additionally, we have a copy which has this leaf, making it at least two others in existence.
We now turn to what precipitated the inclusion of this leaf. According to the auction description, R. Hanau did this on his when "the years passed" and he "regretted his sharp language." According to Roest, however, "it is without a doubt that Hanau was forced by the Rabbis to print this apology, just like R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzato." Roest, op cit. Thus, according to Roest, the apology was not brought about from Hanau's own introspection but because of the Rabbis. Indeed, Friedberg in Bet Eked, says "that the author [Hanau] was forced by the Rabbi of Frankfort A.M. and his bet din to print a special page, in a smaller format, which was appended to the work, in which the author asks for forgiveness from the authors which [Hanau] insulted in his book." Bet Eked, letter Bet, # 1238. Similarly, Wolf states "Rabbis of Frankfurt were going to destroy it by flames" had Hanau not agreed to print the apology. So according to these sources, Hanau was forced to print this apology. According to a contemporary source, we can place the retraction before 1713. This is so, because in Siddur of R. Azriel and R. Eliah of Vilna, published in 1713, they note that Hanau printed a page "asking for forgiveness." Additionally, according to this source, the request for forgiveness was at the behest of the Frankfort bet din. R. Azriel and R. Eliah say that the page was printed "due to the decree of the head and leaders of the holy city Frankfort A.M." R. Azriel and R. Eliahu then continue, and mention the possibility that R. Hanau deserved to be placed under the ban due to his disrespectful words. David Yitzhaki appears to have misunderstood R. Azriel and R. Eliah's words as Yitzhaki says "that Hanau was almost placed under a ban." D. Yitzhaki, "The Editors of the Ashkenzi Siddur & R. Shelomo Zalman Hanau and his Forgeries," in Luach Eres, Toronto, 2001, 32. If, as it appears, Yitzhaki's source is the quote from R. Azriel and R. Eliah, that quote merely says that it was R. Azriel and R. Eliah's opinions that Hanau "should" have been placed under the ban, they never say that there was a serious consideration of actually placing Hanau under a ban.[2] Of course, according to Wolf's version, Binyan Shelomo was to be consigned to the flames, also implying a ban. Wolf, however, provides no source for this assertion, and it seems unlikely that R. Azriel and R. Eliah would fail to mention the fact that Binyan Shelomo was almost destroyed.
There is one more version of the story behind the retraction that is worth noting because it contains a major error. This is a real honker.* Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, in Sefer ve-Seif, apparently confused R. Hanau's Binyan Shelomo with another book that has the same title. Carmilly-Weinberger writes (172-73):
R. Yehezkel Landau the Noda be-Yehuda, stood with R. Yisrael Lifschitz [regarding the controversy surrounding the infamous Get of Cleves], who was in conflict with the head of the Frankfort bet din, R. Nathan Maz and R. Shelomoh Hena [sic] the author of the Binyan Shelomo. Since R. Landau agreed with R. Yisrael Lifschitz, the enemy of R. Shelomoh Hena, [Hena] banned the work of the Noda be-Yehuda.
Carmilly then quotes a passage from the Hida's work Shem ha-Gedolim in support of the above statement:
And because of this [fight about the Get of Cleves], when the book Noda be-Yehuda was published the Goan, author of Binyan Shelomo and his bet din prohibited anyone from reading [the Noda be-Yehuda]. The Noda be-Yehuda, however, took the opposite view and he said I tell anyone who is reasonable to go ahead the Binyan Shelomo, to look and see ערות האר"ש השמנה הוא אם רזה (a word play implying that there isn't much in the Binyan Shelomo).
Carmilly then continues, and he links the extra leaf in the Binyan Shelomo, to these statements explaining that Hana asked forgiveness for all those people he insulted. Carmilly implies that the forgiveness related to the controversy about the Get of Cleves! This is wrong. First, and foremost, the controversy regarding the Get of Cleves occurred in 1766, Hanau died in 1746. Moreover, Hanau could not have counseled people not to read the Noda be-Yehuda as that was published in 1776 some thirty years after Hanau died. Additionally, it is clear that Carmilly never saw this leaf as we will soon see, this leaf requests forgiveness from rishonim and doesn't mention anyone involved in the Get of Cleves controversy.
Carmilly confused two books with the same title, Binyan Shelomo. The first, by Hanau on grammar which is the subject of our discussion, and the second one, is written by R. Nathan Maz, and was published in 1784. R. Nathan Maz [3] who was involved in the Get of Cleve controversy and who was on the Frankfort bet din (something that Hanau was not), was the subject of the above discussion. What makes this error even more ironic is that Nepi-Ghirondi, in his Tolodot Gedolei Yisrael, correctly notes that R. Maz authored a work titled Binyan Shelomo. Carmilly, however, faults Nepi-Ghirondi "incorrectly associating Binyan Shelomo with R. Maz and, instead, the correct author is R. Hanau!" Id. 172 n.297. Of course, if one looks at the Hida in the original, it is also apparent that he is not referring to Hanau but to a different book with the same title.
Turning to the text of the "request for forgiveness." This text reminds me of a story I heard regarding a relative. According to the story, A. calls C. "stupid." A's mother then tells A. to apologies, to which A. turns to C. and says, "I am sorry you are stupid." Hanau's request for forgiveness is similar as after offering a general request for forgiveness, Hanau then goes ahead and records every objectionable thing he said. For example, Hanau says
I erred in my ways when I disagreed with the authors. I was too verbose and, at times, I insulted the authors . . . therefore I come to ask forgiveness: from the prince Don Isaac Abarbanel when I wrote that "he speaks without logic and his words make no sense," and in another place I wrote about him that "this statement [of the Abarbanel] is because of his lack of knowledge and that he didn't understand what was being said" . . . Regarding the Ibn Ezra I wrote "he didn't subject this statement to logic"
While this apology my be tongue in cheek, it seems to have appeased many or, at the very least, many thought Hanau's next book didn't suffer from the same lack of respect. In R. Yehezkel Katzenellenbogen's approbation to Sha'arei Torah, Hamburg 1717, he notes that while Hanau had in his prior work been too harsh with his language in "Sha'arei Torah, [Hanau] speaks with the appropriate measure of respect as I [R. Katzenellenbogen] have carefully checked."[4]
[1] Wiener, in his article in Ha-Maggid (17 May 1865), questions the existence of this edition. He claims that there is no such edition and that the abbreviation used for the date was misinterpreted.
[2] It should be noted that R. Azriel and R. Eliah were not dispassionate observers. Part of the reason that Hanau wrote Binyan Shelomo was to disagree with R. Azriel and R. Eliah's opinions regarding proper punctuation of the Siddur. See Jacob J. Schacter, "Introduction," in Luach Eres, op cit., 11-12. R. Azriel and R. Eliah derogatorily refer to Binyan Shelomo as "Hurban Shelomo."
[3] For more information on R. Maz see M. Horovitz, Rabbanei Frankfort, Jerusalem:1972, 134-43.
[4] This did not appease everyone. R. J. Emden really disliked R. Hanau's positions. See Jacob J. Schacter, Luach Eres, op cit., 14-25.
* I would like to thank A. Rottenberg for calling this error, as well as numerous other errors in Carmilly-Weinberg's book, to my attention.


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Clicking on the names of the presenters on the CPA website does not play the audio on my Mac. A Web Player thingie pops up and just says the audio is "buffering".
Thanks to all of you who helped me work on my pitch for the Center for Photographic Art panel on raw processing. The slides for my presentation are available here.I just posted the audio for the whole day on the CPA's website. You can hear our own Eric Chan talk about Lightroom in general and Lightroom 5 in particular here. If you want to view my presentation, which is an introduction to digital photography with an emphasis on exposure (ETTR, Unity Gain ISO, and the like), I suggest that you download the slides, then click here for the audio.By the way, I used Adobe Audition to edit the audio. I would have used a less-capable program, but I recently subscribed to CC (one seat, toe in the water) to see what it was like, so I had Audition available. I wasn't doing anything hard, but I still was a bit apprehensive about the learning curve. I needn't have been. I never had to look at the documentation, and there was a minimum amount of fumbling around before I found what I needed. The speech-oriented automatic gain riding processing is quite nice. Jim
...what did you record it with?
Sorry, but how do you download the audio for Charles Cramer's talk.
There's a USB port on the sound board we used. We just stuck a thumb drive in it and hit the red button.Jim
...and I thought I could learn something. :-)
I am getting the audio, but not the video
Do you know if the slides from any of the other speakers are available online?
Jim, Excellent slide presentation on the intricacies of digital capture technology explained in a somewhat easy to understand layout for photographers to grasp. Got lost on the graphs and math.
Did you create this just for techno FYI or are there plans for developing a better Raw converter by you engineer types?
Because of the location of the workshop, we thought that the average level of mathematical and scientific sophistication of the attendees would be high, which is why I didn't pull too many punches when it came to explaining what goes on inside a digital camera. If I went overboard, I'm sorry.
Bill, here's a link to Mike Collette's presentation on capture from last year's raw processing workshop. Here's a link to the audio. Another take on very roughly the same material, and with less math.Mike is the founder of BetterLight.Here's a link to all of the audio from last year's workshop. including another presentation by Eric Chan.Jim