With Thanksgiving coming up, I thought I'd revisit Planes, Trains & Automobiles, one of the few movies directly connected to that holiday and a delightful comedy classic in its own right. It had been several years since I'd watched it, and I assumed that in the meantime it had been released on some kind of special edition DVD. Last year was its 20th anniversary, in fact -- a fine time to put out a handsome disc with lots of extras.

Or so you'd think! As it turns out, Planes, Trains & Automobiles has only legitimately been released on DVD once, way back in 2000, with a poor video transfer and no extras whatsoever. Not even a trailer. Not even the extra scenes that are commonly included when the film airs on television. Deepening this wound is the fact that, as several reviewers noted at the time, Paramount's announcement of the DVD had promised it would have deleted scenes. Why the studio changed its mind at the last minute no one knows, but it sure disappointed people in 2000 who had been looking forward to the DVD.

The film was released again this summer as part of VH1's "I Love the '80s" series, but it still didn't have any extras and was essentially a rip-off in new packaging. The only bonus was the incorporation of one additional scene, of Neal and Del eating food on the airplane, that's often shown in the TV version. That's hardly a good enough reason to re-buy the disc, though.

Why is there no special edition of this movie? It's a perennial favorite. It is beloved. It is oft-quoted ("Those aren't pillows!"). It frequently appears on polls of movie fans' favorite comedies. Its very title has become shorthand for any trip punctuated by mishaps and setbacks, as in, "Our vacation to Mexico was a disaster -- it was a total Planes, Trains & Automobiles situation." You would buy it, right?

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Julie is a teacher down the hall from me. From time to time she and other teachers offer workshops to other teachers after school. Over the past couple of days, she has showed ten colleagues from the science, special education, history, administration and art how to work with PMC, Precious Metal Clay.

Julie talked a bit about the fun of working with PMC as the workshop wound down.

PMC is a quick way to express yourself in metal. You can do everything with it, people are amazed at how easy it is and how quickly they can make something really beautiful. It's not intimidating. I think anyone can do it. You can teach a nine year old how to work creatively with it.

Together they made a whole mess of neat designs with the clay. Some people used molds that Julie made from shells, rocks, coins, buttons and lots of other cool found objects. Some made their own designs by rolling out the PMC and removing or adding material. When the clay dries to its green state, then gets touched up to remove any imperfections and strengthen the shape.

Once they are pretty much dried, they are then fired them in the kiln at high temperature between 1110 - 1830 degrees, depending and a hold time from 10 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the type of metals. When they come out, they look pretty much the same as when they went in, but after they are burnished and sanded, they come out to be a nice silver object.

There are a lot of places to get PMC, mostly from catalogs or online. Julie really speaks highly about her interactions with Whole Lotta Whimsy.

Have you used PMC? Do you have any experiences in teaching creative techniques to people? Post your thoughts in the comments!

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HI,
new here

I think I deleted the user file that contains my password because it won't let me sign on, even to reload OSX. The sign in screen comes up with my name on it, but won't accept my password.

Anyone know a way around this or do I have to get a new Hard drive and start over.

Background,
Macbook 13" just a bit over 14 months and out of warranty.
this started while it was still under warranty but I thought it was me moving them.
It started misplacing or fragmenting files, although they were listed where they should be(IE: Scanner output or documents folders) without an Icon next to the name of the file. When you click the file to open it it disappeared. Other files in the same folders with Icons next to them did open normally.
Being new to macs I thought it was me misplacing them, since I was saving them to a jump drive anyhow, it didn't concern me all that much at first.
The files are still on the hard drive just not where they should be.

Next issue,
I had a message the other night there was an update for Safari, so when I let it update and restart it would not sign on to Safari. Error message: Safari quit unexpectedly, try again.
I call Tech support and after trying a few things he had me reload the OS because there was no option to just reload Safari. It reloaded but with what would seem to be corrupted previous system folder.since my files were still missing.
I got everything all set back up with the previous system file but my files were still missing.
Since Apple wouldn't give me a clue as to what was happening I decided to reload again, and wound up with several versions of Previous system folders and began deleting what I thought were corrupted ones trying to keep the oldest one.
Well it seems i must have deleted an important one since it won't let me back in.

So unless I can find a way to hack into the drive I need to replace it and start over.

Thanks for any help
McTired