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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-05-11, Page 229 Page 8—Crossroads—May 11, 1983 ' t wit's end by firma Bir mbeck 4\ My husband has been fol- lowing with great interest the story of the unemployed man in Nashville who was planning to raffle off his services for a year as a handyman. It seems the state called a halt to the pro- ceedings until they can figure out if he's selling him- self into bondage or not. My husband says if a pre- cedent is set, he will lead every married man in the country into a revolution. He claims for years I•have en- slaved him into every job around the house that I'm too cheap to pay a professional to do. Every time he picks up a paper, I wan a picture hung. Every tim it's the last 30 seconds, the ' tore is tied and it's third down on the two -yard line, I appear with a screw that has fallen into the dryer, or a frayed ironing cord that spells adventure in the utility room. Frankly, I can't get too worked up over a man who resets a toilet in Play -Doh and stops the leak in the kit- chen sink by turning the water off all over the house. I told him, "You certainly are not the clever man I thought you were when I married you. Remember when we were dating and my bracelet got caught in your sweater? You whipped a Phillips screwdriver out of your billfold, put a jeweler's glass on your forehead and disengaged it in two seconds Copywright 1979. Field Enterprises. Inc. flat! Where is that man to- day? "The same place the wom- an is who rewove my sweater with her fingers and made it whole again, but can't sew a button on my shirt today." "I don't expect you to do major repairs," I said, "but you didn't even try to fix the garden hose with the break in it." "What did you expect me to do? Heal it?" I lived near a woman once who was married to a handy- man. He was four -feet -ten, had one of those stomachs that children follow around just for the shade. He had a front tooth missing and spat when he talked. He could fix anything. By the end of the first summer, he began to look like Robert Redford. Americans are such ro- mantics. They marry for love. It isn't until you have a husband who trims a hedge like it's going into the army, or stands on a plastic gar- bage can to hang wallpaper, or hangs a,. clothesline at a height that gives you a nose- bleed every wash day, that you begin to question what marriage is all about. Meanwhile — all eyes are on Nashville. It's not that I want my own handyman as a slave, I just want a man who doesn't hide behind the water heater when I have a filter in my hand and wait for my feet to go by. Ill�llIIllllluf►IIIII� 1I ! WHEN YOU'RE PULLING A HAIL AND YOU CAA`r Qu1TM DO 1T Wtii REGULAR HOIMMER CLAWS 1 A SMALL"V" RILED INTO A CLAW MAY SWAB THE PROBLEM $Y PROVIDING MORE LEVERAGE. 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After the filar is developed, a compu- terized patented printer (designed and built by the Nimslo folks), correlates the four images and trans- fers them onto a unique print material, separating and focusing the four imag- es into one. Your exposed film obvi- ously has to be returned to your photo store, where it gets sent to Nimslo for their special processing. I found that viewing the pf'o- cessed prints at a normal distance has a tendency to make them appear just a bit blurry — but if you'll hold them at arm's length, that blurriness disappears and the three-dimensional feeling is really apparent. Since this camera will probably be used inside a great deal, the company has designed a strobe light to work with the camera. Known as an Opti -Lite, the strobe 'has been designed with two flash heads so that the photographer not only lights up the subject, FEELING IN DEPTH—This type of shot works well with a Nimslo camera — a strong foreground subject, with subdued background activity to enhance the feel- ing of depth. Camera re-creates stereopticon effect 'By HOLT CONFER Well, it's finally hap- pened — they've gone and modernized one of my boy- hood delights. 'Jerry -Nit -it -and- Allen Jia researched and then devel- oped a new version of the stereopticon viewer. Now I can just hear everyone who's in their second or third decade asking, "What's a stereopticon viewer?" Years ago, nearly every household had a strange - looking twin contraption that you held up to your face and looked through twin lenses at a card that. had the same picture on both the right and left sides. When the card was moved into proper focusing range, the viewer saw the scene in three dimensions. The new Nimslo three-di- mensional camera and pro- cessing—system re-creates the old-time stereopticon effect, but does it within the confines of a modern, single, color photographic print. The part that you, as the photographer, get to see, is the strange -looking cam- era with four lenses. A "quadra lens system," the company calls it — and it features four side-by-side 30mm matched optical glass three -element lenses. At this stage in the de- velopment process, the in- ventors have taken most but can also bounce some light into the background to enhance the three-di- mensional effect. The Opti - Lite is dedicated and there are only two settings — ei- ther 100 or 400 — depend- ing on the ASA rating of the film you've chosen. The Nimslo people have a nifty product and the prospects for other refine- ments — 8 -by -10 prints, for example — could make three-dimensional photog- raphy even more attrac- tive than it is. However, they need volume in both equipment sales and in print processing. — and they need that volume long after the initial novelty wears off. At the present price levels, I suspect those needed volume sales are going to be difficult to ob- tain. Finn doubly a marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Man- nerheim (1867-1951) com- mander in chief of the Finn- ish army in three wars, was twice made head of state. He was ,the only person ever named field marshal and later marshal of Finland. One Has High Blood Pressure? There's no way of knowing by just looking. There are no symptoms, and even if you are calm and relaxed you may still have it. Have your blood pressure checked by your doctor or another trained health professional and follow his advice. Take the medication he recommends. High Blood Pressure Treat it .. , and live. TSC STORES 8 H.P. 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The Big Dipper (Ursa Major) is now high in the north tumed to pour its contents over the northern horizon. Follow the curve of its handle to find golden yellow Arcturus in Boiites, the brightest star in the summer sky, then continue the curve southward to lo- cate Spica in Virgo. High overhead, to the east of the zenith, lies kite -shaped Boi tes, the Bear Driver, or Herdsman. Arcturus easily pinpoints this constellation. To the west of the zenith is Leo — a sickle shaped group of six stars with Regulus at its lip' marks the head of the mythological Lion: a triangle with Denebola its brightest star his hind- quarters. The world Denebola means "tail of the Lion". Hercules, the Kneeler, is high in the east. No bright star pinpoints this con- stellation but, using (he map as a guide, look for the keystone -shaped figure that is its distinguishing feature. A conspicuous and beautiful coronet of seven stars, the constellation • - Corona Borealis, often called the Northern Crown— lies between Her - MAY cutes and Bodies. Its brightest star, 1 Alphecca (or Gemma) is known as the "Pearl of the Crown". At maptime Virgo straddles the mer- idan well above the southern horizon, enhanced this year, by the presence of Saturn. During May and June Saturn moves westward against the background of stars, towards Virgo's brightest star Spica. This "retrograde motion" is due to the earth as it moves in its orbit between Saturn and the Sun and lasts until July 2 when, • once again, Saturn resumes normal eastward motion relative to the back- ground stars. PLANETS: Gradually increasing in brilliance, Venus continues to dom- inate the south -West after sunset. Watch it move close to Castor and Pollux: the "twin stars" of Gemini — on the 31st Venus is just 4° south of Pollux. Face east when the sky darkens to find Satum and Jupiter. Jupiter, lower in the sky and left of Saturn. is easy to identify — it is the brightest object in the sky once Venus has set. Near mid -month when moonlight will not be a problem use binoculars to search once again for Uranus. It will be a tiny, faint disk less than 1° south of Jupiter on the 16th. The Eta Aquarid Meteor shower is derived from Halley's Comet. These meteors move swiftly, bright ones are yellow, and they leave glowing trails. If conditions are ideal at shower peak, about 20 meteors per hour may be seen by an experienced observer. This year a last quarter moon may interfere in the early moming hours when the shower radiant (in the con- stellation Aquarius) is above the horizon. 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