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I went to Walden pond on my lunch hour yesterday to walk and maybe see some fishing. I parked in the lot across the street from the pond for free. As I crossed the street 2 older gents with spinning gear were on their way out with a stringer of 3 or 4 ~14" rainbows. When I got down to the shore I noticed 2 guys to the left of the bath house waist high in water fly casting. I walked over to observe. As I approached the men I noticed a big splash between them. Neither redirected their fly to the rise. Hmmm? Then I noticed another splash, then about 5 more at one instant. I thought what the heck? Smallys mating? Then a guy comes walking down the shore with a spinning rod and asks as he passes "how many they put in?" One of the flycasters says "he told me 700, butI'm not sure". I turn around to see I'm standing on the stalking truck roadway. These fish were just hanging around that inlet, jumping like crazy. I've never been that close to a stock before. Made me long for the brookies in the alders up in....ah...well...near central mass.
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Lake Okeechobee water levels rising, raising flood control concerns
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
April 1, 2010
Lake Okeechobee's yo-yoing water level is on the rise again, renewing safety concerns about the aging dike relied on to guard against flooding. That has the Army Corps of Engineers dumping lake water out to sea, wasting water relied on to back up South Florida supplies in order to ease the strain on the 70-year-old dike. The Herbert Hoover Dike is considered one of the country's six most at-risk of failing, and is in the midst of a decades-long rehab project to strengthen the earthen structure.
Pumps to keep Lake Okeechobee's water flowing south
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
May 27, 2011
Pumps will be added to keep drought-strained Lake Okeechobee's water flowing south, despite environmental objections about draining wildlife habitat. While that will help irrigate sugar cane fields and potentially boost community water supplies, siphoning the lake threatens wildlife that rely on its water to survive. Of particular concern is the endangered Everglades snail kite which has already seen 80 percent of its lake habitat dry up due to lake levels dropping. Water supply needs for agriculture and communities that get a boost from the lake outweighed the environmental objections, the South Florida Water Management District decided this week.
Lake Okeechobee draining increases due to flood concerns
By Andy Reid
October 3, 2012
To lessen Lake Okeechobee flooding threats, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to more than double the amount of lake water being dumped out to sea. Concerns about the safety of the lake's 70-year-old dike prompted the Army Corps on Sept. 19 to start draining lake water to the coast to slow the lake's rise. But despite dumping billions of gallons of water, the lake has risen half a foot since the draining started. On Wednesday, the Army Corps announced it would increase releases to as much as 3.7 billion gallons of water per day. While draining lake water helps protect the dike, it wastes water relied on to backup South Florida water supplies during the typically dry winter and spring.
Lake Okeechobee water releases stopped
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
December 20, 2010
Lake Okeechobee water releases intended to help west coast fishing grounds came to a stop over the weekend amid growing concerns about South Florida water supplies. The 730-square-mile lake serves as South Florida's backup water supply, which includes providing irrigation for sugar cane growers and other farmers south of the lake. Anticipating a drought, the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday stopped releasing lake water to the Caloosahatchee River. With lake levels dropping, agricultural representatives for weeks warned against continuing low-level lake discharges used to boost the environmental health of the Caloosahatchee River during dry weather.
Wildfire could help restore Lake Okeechobee's drought-strained wildlife habitat
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
September 22, 2011
Wildfires burning on Lake Okeechobee's exposed lake bed could end up helping drought-strained wildlife habitat. While it may seem weird to see fire spreading across land usually covered by water, wildfires are a natural part of Florida's ecosystem, Audubon of Florida scientist Paul Gray said Thursday. Lingering low water levels dried out aquatic plants in the normally soggy marshes along the northwestern and southwestern portions of the lake. The fire can burn away the dried up plants as well as invading ragweed, torpedo grass and other out-of-place plants that spread to the lake bed due to dry conditions, Gray said.
Lake Okeechobee dike threats linger into hurricane season
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
June 8, 2013
Thirty Palm Beach County school buses on Friday put Lake Okeechobee in their rearview mirrors and practiced racing a rush of water. It's a drive that lakeside residents and emergency management officials alike hope they never have to make — fleeing flooding from a breach in Lake Okeechobee's more than 70-year-old dike. The start of hurricane season this month coupled with Friday's evacuation drill bring reminders of lingering concerns about the Herbert Hoover Dike, which is considered one of the country's most at-risk of failing.
Lake Okeechobee wading bird population plummets
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
January 16, 2012
Lake Okeechobee wading bird populations took a steep decline between December 2010 and 2011 due to drought-strained water levels, according to the South Florida Water Management District. The state counted 2,750 heron, egrets, ibis and other wading birds on the lake in December. That was down from 8,700 wading birds on the lake in December 2010. Lake Okeechobee in 2011 dropped to its lowest point in three years, following a record-setting drought that came after decisions to release Lake Okeechobee water out to sea for flood control.
Isaac's rains mean Lake Okeechobee may need lowering
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
September 14, 2012
One super-soaker storm, and Lake Okeechobee's water supply woes turned into a possible South Florida flooding threat. Tropical Storm Isaac and the rain that followed boosted the lake that serves as South Florida's backup water supply nearly 2 1/2 feet — and it's still rising. Now after months of lingering below normal levels, the lake has hit the range where the Army Corps of Engineers considers dumping lake water out to sea. Draining away lake water would ease the strain on the Herbert Hoover Dike — considered one of the country's most at risk of failure.
Lake Okeechobee dike leaks emerge as inflows lessen
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel
August 15, 2013
Inspections revealed increasing leaks in two spots on Lake Okeechobee's troubled dike, even as this week's brief relief from summer rains reduced the amount of water flowing into the lake, the Army Corps of Engineers reported Wednesday. Flooding threats from rising lake levels prompted the Army Corps of Engineers in May to start dumping billions of gallons of lake water out to sea to ease the strain on the more than 70-year-old dike that protects lakeside communities from flooding.
Floridians rally in DC to curb Lake Okeechobee pollution
By William E. Gibson, Sun Sentinel
October 4, 2013
Round after round of applause from visiting Floridians at a congressional briefing on Thursday demonstrated a strong public demand that federal officials find a way to stop polluted water from pouring out of Lake Okeechobee and damaging surrounding communities. The briefing was more like a rally to preserve Florida's environment, economy and way of life. Polluted discharges from the lake have been killing fish and eroding property values along the Treasure Coast and Southwest Florida coast for many years.
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Had my 03 TJ in for service at Big O and they told me I had 2 small oil leaks. The main rear seal and the pan gasket. They wanted $347 to repair the rear seal and $327 to repair the pan gasket.
My question is if they repair the rear seal isn't it real easy to do the pan gasket ?? |
What engine?
If you have a 4.0L, it's a lot like changing your socks with your shoes on. You cannot replace the rear main seal without removing the oil pan. So maybe you should just opt for the RMS job and beat them at their own game. The oil pan gasket is a 100% lesser included offense if the RMS is being replaced. |
Have to take pan off either way, so my guess is that they thought break the bill into two parts to make it sound better than 700. lol. Rear seal price isnt bad, but that pan gasket seems high.
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Forgotten Heroes: Scythe & Shroud
Forgotten Heroes Scythe and Shroud introduces the new power source Death and with it, four new classes. To me, a power source is merely an effect. Much like the Hero game system where you can have an energy blast that does 1d6 per rank, you get to choose what the effect is. In D&D 4e, they went the opposite route in that they tell you what the effect is, but most of the game mechanics are of a similar level in terms of power.
The book is lightly illustrated and my only complaint would be that the illustrations all dont follow a type if you will. For example, while I enjoy Marcio Fioritos art and his known for many of his d20 illustrations in the past, his style is crisp and clean, almost comic book like, and it fails to mesh with some of the others like Doug Kovacs or Brad McDevitt.
Like the previous Forgotten Heroes book, this one does a little more than just throw the classes at you. It provides some other details as to how the classes might get along. What sort of conflicts they may come into. Because its also a power source on death, it includes details on some planar destinations for you when a character dies, and some adventure hooks. For example, Sheol is the Final Destination. A group of planar travelers is building a sphere to travel there and deities do not wish this to happen. Or a renegade angel claims that Sheol holds a secret the gods to not wish to learn. These are far from fully fleshed out ideas but the seeds should be enough to get any creative juices flowing.
Each class includes all standard class traits; Role, Power Source, Key Abilities, Armor Training, Weapon Proficiencies, Bonus to Defense, Hit Points, Haling Surges, Trained Skills, Class Skills, 2 build options, class features, and the full allotment of standard powers. After each standard listing of powers comes the paragon paths. Epic destinies are included after all classes.
Assassins are the strikes of the book. A pretty standard fantasy archtype, this isnt the assassin who merely brews poisons and pricts someone as they walk by and gloats in their death, but rather someone who has abilities called Harrowings and such lovely options as the 23rd level encounter harrowing, Kidney Slice that weakens the target and provides the character with a study point. These study points are part of the class feature and the assassin can accumulate them and then trade them in for bonuses to hit and damage with the bonus changing depending on what tier the assassin currently is.
Deathwardens are the leaders. While the other classes are fairly well represented in the fantasy genre, or at least the d20 genre, the deathwarden strikes me as fairly unique in that they use the connection to death to shield your allies and dispatch your enemies. Their abilities are also called harrowing and include those abilities which let allies spend healing surges as well as those that inflict damage.
Necromancers the controllers and like assassins, a fairly common archetype in fantasy, especially d20 which had numerous variants of them. My favorite ability of the necromancer, perhaps due to the full page illustration accompanying it, is Necromancer Attack level 29, Summon Dead God, where the necromancer summons the corpse of a god. This daily action conjures forth a dead god with defenses equal to 10 + ½ level + intelligence modifier + implement. If it takes damage, its destroyed (which makes me wonder why it has hit points equal to three times your healing surge value), but it inflicts 4d10 + intelligence modifier and as a sustain minor, the dead god can make another attack. Moving the dead god is a move action. To me, thats a power that showcases a lot of creative thinking.
Spiritsworn the defenders. While perhaps not as typical as the assassin and necromancer, their association with spirits tends to make them like shaman or spirit talkers and are a traditional fantasy role going back to at least 2nd editions Shaman sourcebook.
There are two epic destinies included here, angel of death and demilich. Other standards of player favored books includes feats for each tier, as well as multiclass tier feats and magical items. Magic items include new or hardly used types such as death masks and poisons.
For those without a DDI subscription and no access to the official assassin, or those who are tired of waiting for WoTC to come out with a necromancer class, Forgotten Heroes Scythe and Shroud is worth reviewing.
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text: Plastic Logic QUE ProReader is Dead, Dead, Dead. DEAD.Jesus Diaz8/10/10 5:52pmFiled to: Ebooksque proreaderplastic logicqueproReader30EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink After canceling all pre-orders, Plastic Logic has completely cancelled the QUE ProReader. They claim, however, that they are working in a second generation. Apparently, they realized their product was dead-on-arrival because of the changes in the market. We recognize the market has dramatically changed, and with the product delays we have experienced, it no longer make sense for us to move forward with our first generation electronic reading product.That's what Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta said on the announcement. I guess "dramatically changed market" really means "three million magical devices sold." [Financial Times] Reply30 repliesLeave a reply


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This book is an introduction to the model-based approach to survey sampling. It consists of three parts, with Part I focusing on estimation of population totals. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce survey sampling, and the model-based approach, respectively. Chapter 3 considers the simplest possible model, the homogenous population model, which is then extended to stratified populations in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 discusses simple linear regression models for populations, and Chapter 6 considers clustered populations. The general linear population model is then used to integrate these results in Chapter 7. ... More
Keywords: model-based survey inference, sample survey design, survey estimation, variance estimation, linear models, sample weights, outlier robust estimation, small area estimation, distribution function estimation, transformation-based inference
Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198566625 |
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Talaija Dorsey laid to rest in St. James
ST. JAMES - A church packed full of grieving friends and family mourned the loss of 12-year-old Talaija Dorsey.
"It's heartbreaking that we have to do this. I wish that we didn't have to," said Keantrya Franklin.
Funeral services were held at Mount Cavalry Baptist Church Saturday. More than 200 people attended the service to celebrate the girl's life that was cut short.
"She's just a baby, and for her to be taking away from us like this it's just not right," said Franklin.
Dorsey went missing on July 1 sparking a parish-wide search. St. James Sheriff Willy Martin found the girl's body six days later on the edge of a sugar cane field in Vacherie.
John Celestine, Dorsey's mother's fiancé, was charged with murder during the investigation, but Talaija's family still has unanswered questions.
"He raised this child, so why would you do this? What was going through his mind? What could have pushed him to this limit for him to take her away?" said Franklin.
Loved ones said they will miss Talaija's smile the most. They hope to cope with the loss with each song and prayer.


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Warning, Paraboard burn
Hi Guys,
I learned something new today the hard way. I have a paraboard with T plugs on it. At the end of a charge today of six 4S 5000 mAh packs I be gan removing the packs from the board and while attempting to hold down the paraboard with my left hand as I pulled the plugs of the remaining two packs, I inadvertently touched one of the exposed male T-plugs with my wedding band. Burn baby burn! Damaged my wedding band and left a constant reminder that is burning as I type this. I thought I would post something about it to maybe save someone else from suffering th same fate. |
Sorry to hear of your misfortune Terry and hope that it heals swiftly!
I witnessed the same last summer with a T-Plug parallel board. Not 10 minutes after I cautioned the fellow to always keep unused T-Plugs covered with the included rubber caps, he shorted his wedding band after connecting three 6S 5000mAh packs. His burn was a LOT worse than yours. Mark |
Wow, that's scary, I hope it heals quickly. May be worth considering a change to something with better-shielded/recessed contacts, like EC3/EC5, XT60, etc.
A friend was doing some welding a while ago, he normally wears welding gloves, as you should. But he'd positioned a piece, and was just going to quickly tack-weld it in place, and decided not to grab his gloves (bad idea, of course). A piece of molten spatter landed on his ring and stuck to it, burning his finger nicely. And if he'd tried to yank the ring off, he just would have burned other fingers as well. Just takes a moment for things to go wrong. |
I am pretty careful to keep unused T-plugs covered but I was in the process of removing all 6 packs. I had already removed the first 4 only a moment before. I have not been in the habit of putting a cover on as I remove each pack. I usually just pull all the packs and then replace the plug covers. I will have to start a new regimen
Rampman, I haven't had my wedding band off my hand since my wife put it there 20 years ago. Don't think I'll start now. Just have to learn a new technique for removing the plugs. Blessings, Terry |
Glad this turned out ok. Kudos to Terry for being brave and posting his experience.
I occasionally still hear folks question the value of the fused boards like the MPA or the ePbuddy fused Paraboard. Stories like this can help prevent this for others that transition over to boards with fuses. |
Years ago a friend of mine was replacing a trolling motor battery in his boat. While installing the new battery he accidentally hit the battery's ground terminal while tightening the positive with a wrench. The now electrified wrench melted his wedding band into his finger. Three surgeries later (1 to remove the ring, 2 to repair the damage) his finger is almost completely normal.
I'm a dirt bike mechanic and haven't worn any type of jewelry for years including my wedding band as it tends to get in the way. After 20 years of hearing about it from my wife I finally had our wedding bands tattooed into a 1/4 sleeve along with our anniversary date. Bad thing is I no longer have a good excuse if I forget our anniversary! |
I have posted several times that wedding rings or any metal jewely such as rings,watches,necklaces should not be worn when handling batteries.
My wedding band went on 50 years ago but was never worn to work or during handling rechargable batteries it soon became a stay in a drawer item. I never needed a band of gold tro remind me I was married. Charles |
I've always feared I would do something like this which is why I've avoid Deans/T-Plugs on everything. Even if you keep the unused ones covered it would be a chore to cover them one by one while removing batteries only to have to uncover them again the next time you charge.
I saw something earlier this morning that I have expressed in the past should have been included in the original Deans Ultra connector design. Specifically, the new iMax X200 has a shroud around the blade contacts (photo below) that should certainly reduce or even eliminate shorting accidents as described in this thread.
Build a parallel board with this safety feature and you'll gain a LOT of customers. Mark |
APP's here as well. Just had my semi regular APP shock. Went to sort them as I had just picked a new parts organizer. I was shocked that I am almost out AGAIN! I always buy about three times more than I think I will need. But its never enough.
Regarding the shrouded Deans, I don't like that forces the user to pull on the wires instead of the connector. |
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The Paris Wife A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, "The Paris Wife" captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Full description
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The very first thing he does is fix me with those wonderfully brown eyes and say, "It's possible I'm too drunk to judge, but you might have something there."
It's October 1920 and jazz is everywhere. I don't know any jazz, so I'm playing Rachmaninoff. I can feel a flush beginning in my cheeks from the hard cider my dear pal Kate Smith has stuffed down me so I'll relax. I'm getting there, second by second. It starts in my fingers, warm and loose, and moves along my nerves, rounding through me. I haven't been drunk in over a year--not since my mother fell seriously ill--and I've missed the way it comes with its own perfect glove of fog, settling snugly and beautifully over my brain. I don't want to think and I don't want to feel, either, unless it's as simple as this beautiful boy's knee inches from mine.
The knee is nearly enough on its own, but there's a whole package of a man attached, tall and lean, with a lot of very dark hair and a dimple in his left cheek you could fall into. His friends call him Hemingstein, Oinbones, Bird, Nesto, Wemedge, anything they can dream up on the spot. He calls Kate Stut or Butstein (not very flattering!), and another fellow Little Fever, and yet another Horney or the Great Horned Article. He seems to know everyone, and everyone seems to know the same jokes and stories. They telegraph punch lines back and forth in code, lightning fast and wisecracking. I can't keep up, but I don't mind really. Being near these happy strangers is like a powerful transfusion of good cheer.
When Kate wanders over from the vicinity of the kitchen, he points his perfect chin at me and says, "What should we name our new friend?"
"Hash," Kate says.
"Hashedad's better," he says. "Hasovitch."
"And you're Bird?" I ask.
"Wem," Kate says.
"I'm the fellow who thinks someone should be dancing." He smiles with everything he's got, and in very short order, Kate's brother Kenley has kicked the living room carpet to one side and is manning the Victrola. We throw ourselves into it, dancing our way through a stack of records. He's not a natural, but his arms and legs are free in their joints, and I can tell that he likes being in his body. He's not the least shy about moving in on me either. In no time at all our hands are damp and clenched, our cheeks close enough that I can feel the very real heat of him. And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest.
"I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?"
Probably every girl between here and Michigan Avenue, I think, looking at my feet to keep from blushing. When I look up again, he has his brown eyes locked on me.
"Well? What do you think? Should I toss it out?"
"Maybe not just yet. You never know. A name like that could catch on, and where would you be if you'd ditched it?"
"Good point. I'll take it under consideration."
A slow number starts, and without asking, he reaches for my waist and scoops me toward his body, which is even better up close. His chest is solid and so are his arms. I rest my hands on them lightly as he backs me around the room, past Kenley cranking the Victrola with glee, past Kate giving us a long, curious look. I close my eyes and lean into Ernest, smelling bourbon and soap, tobacco and damp cotton--and everything about this moment is so sharp and lovely, I do something completely out of character and just let myself have it.
There's a song from that time by Nora Bayes called "Make Believe," which might have been the most lilting and persuasive treatise on self-delusion I'd ever heard. Nora Bayes was beautiful, and she sang with a trembling voice that told you she knew things about love. When she advised you to throw off all the old pain and worry and heartache and smile--well, you believed she'd done this herself. It wasn't a suggestion but a prescription. The song must have been a favorite of Kenley's, too. He played it three times the night I arrived in Chicago, and each time I felt it speaking directly to me: Make believe you are glad when you're sorry. Sunshine will follow the rain.
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness and death had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty-eight, and yet I'd been living like a spinster on the second floor of my older sister Fonnie's house while she and her husband Roland and their four dear beasts lived downstairs. I hadn't meant for things to stay this way. I assumed I'd get married or find a career like my school friends. They were harried young mothers now, schoolteachers or secretaries or aspiring ad writers, like Kate. Whatever they were, they were living their lives, out there doing it, making their mistakes. Somehow I'd gotten stuck along the way--long before my mother's illness--and I didn't know how to free myself exactly.
Sometimes, after playing an hour of passable Chopin, I'd lie down on the carpet in front of the piano and stare at the ceiling, feeling whatever energy I'd had while playing leave my body. It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happiness anyway? Could you fake it, as Nora Bayes insisted? Could you force it like a spring bulb in your kitchen, or rub up against it at a party in Chicago and catch it like a cold?
Ernest Hemingway was still very much a stranger to me, but he seemed to do happiness all the way up and through. There wasn't any fear in him that I could see, just intensity and aliveness. His eyes sparked all over everything, all over me as he leaned back on his heel and spun me toward him. He tucked me fast against his chest, his breath warm on my neck and hair.
"How long have you known Stut?" he asked.
"We went to grade school together in St. Louis, at Mary Institute. What about you?"
"You want my whole educational pedigree? It's not much."
"No," I laughed. "Tell me about Kate."
"That would fill a book, and I'm not sure I'm the fellow to write it." His voice was light, still teasing, but he'd stopped smiling.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing," he said. "The short and sweet part is our families both have summer cottages in Horton Bay. That's Michigan to a southerner like you."
"Funny that we both grew up with Kate."
"I was ten to her eighteen. Let's just say I was happy to grow up alongside her. With a nice view of the scenery."
"You had a crush, in other words."
"No, those are the right words," he said, then looked away.
I'd obviously touched some kind of nerve in him, and I didn't want to do it again. I liked him smiling and laughing and loose. In fact, my response to him was so powerful that I already knew I would do a lot to keep him happy. I changed the subject fast.
"Are you from Chicago?"
"Oak Park. That's right up the street."
"For a southerner like me."
"Well, you're a bang-up dancer, Oak Park."
"You too, St. Louis."
The song ended and we parted to catch our breath. I moved to one side of Kenley's long living room while Ernest was quickly swallowed up by admirers--women, naturally. They seemed awfully young and sure of themselves with their bobbed hair and brightly rouged cheeks. I was closer to a Victorian holdout than a flapper. My hair was still long, knotted at the nape of my neck, but it was a good rich auburn color, and though my dress wasn't up to the minute, my figure made up for that, I thought. In fact, I'd been feeling very good about the way I looked the whole time Ernest and I were dancing--he was so appreciative with those eyes!--but now that he was surrounded by vivacious women, my confidence was waning.
"You seemed awfully friendly with Nesto," Kate said, appearing at my elbow.
"Maybe. Can I have the rest of that?" I pointed to her drink.
"It's rather volcanic." She grimaced and passed it over.
"What is it?" I put my face to the rim of the glass, which was close enough. It smelled like rancid gasoline.
"Something homemade. Little Fever handed it to me in the kitchen. I'm not sure he didn't cook it up in his shoe."
Over against a long row of windows, Ernest began parading back and forth in a dark blue military cape someone had dug up. When he turned, the cape lifted and flared dramatically.
"That's quite a costume," I said.
"He's a war hero, didn't he tell you?"
I shook my head.
"I'm sure he'll get to it eventually." Her face didn't give anything away, but her voice had an edge.
"He told me he used to pine for you."
"Really?" There was the tone again. "He's clearly over it now."
I didn't know what had come between these two old friends, but whatever it was, it was obviously complicated and well under wraps. I let it drop.
"I like to think I'm the kind of girl who'll drink anything," I said, "but maybe not from a shoe."
"Right. Let's hunt something up." She smiled and flashed her green eyes at me, and became my Kate again, not grim at all, and off we went to get very drunk and very merry.
I found myself watching for Ernest the rest of the night, waiting for him to appear and stir things up, but he didn't. He must have slipped away at some point. One by one nearly everyone did, so that by 3:00 a.m. the party had been reduced to dregs, with Little Fever as the tragic centerpiece. He was passed out on the davenport with long dark wool socks stretched over his face and his hat perched on his crossed feet.
"To bed, to bed," Kate said with a yawn.
"Is that Shakespeare?"
"I don't know. Is it?" She hiccuped, and then laughed. "I'm off to my own little hovel now. Will you be all right here?"
"Of course. Kenley's made up a lovely room for me." I walked her to the door, and as she sidled into her coat, we made a date for lunch the next day.
"You'll have to tell me all about things at home. We haven't had a moment to talk about your mother. It must have been awful for you, poor creatch."
"Talking about it will only make me sad again," I said. "But this is perfect. Thanks for begging me to come."
"I worried you wouldn't."
"Me too. Fonnie said it was too soon."
"Yes, well, she would say that. Your sister can be smart about some things, Hash, but about you, nearly never."
I gave her a grateful smile and said good night. Kenley's apartment was warrenlike and full of boarders, but he'd given me a large and very clean room, with a four-poster bed and a bureau. I changed into my nightdress then took down my hair and brushed it, sorting through the highlights of the evening. No matter how much fun I'd had with Kate or how good it was to see her after all these years, I had to admit that number one on my list of memorable events was dancing with Ernest Hemingway. I could still feel his brown eyes and his electric, electrifying energy--but what had his attentions meant? Was he babysitting me, as Kate's old friend? Was he still gone on Kate? Was she in love with him? Would I even see him again?
My mind was suddenly such a hive of unanswerable questions that I had to smile at myself. Wasn't this exactly what I had wanted coming to Chicago, something new to think about? I turned to face the mirror over the bureau. Hadley Richardson was still there, with her auburn waves and thin lips and pale round eyes--but there was something new, too, a glimmer of potential. It was just possible the sun was on its way. In the meantime, I would hum Nora Bayes and do my damnedest to make believe.
The next morning, I walked into the kitchen to find Ernest leaning lazily against the refrigerator, reading the morning newspaper and devouring half a loaf of bread.
"Did you sleep here?" I asked, unable to mask my surprise at seeing him.
"I'm boarding here. Just for a while, until things take off for me."
"What do you mean to do?"
"Make literary history, I guess."
"Gee," I said, impressed all over again by his confidence and conviction. You couldn't fake that. "What are you working on now?"
He pulled a face. "Now I'm writing trash copy for Firestone tires, but I mean to write important stories or a novel. Maybe a book of poetry."
That threw me. "I thought poets were quiet and shrinking and afraid of sunlight," I said, sitting down.
"Not this one." He came over to join me at the table, turning his chair around to straddle it. "Who's your favorite writer?"
"Henry James, I suppose. I seem to read him over and over."
"Well, aren't you sweetly square?"
"Am I? Who's your favorite writer?"
"Ernest Hemingway." He grinned. "Anyway, there're lots of famous writers in Chicago. Kenley knows Sherwood Anderson. Heard of him?"
"Sure. He wrote Winesburg, Ohio."
"That's the one."
"Well, with your nerve, you can probably do anything at all."
He looked at me seriously, as if he were trying to gauge whether I was teasing or placating him. I wasn't. "How do you take your coffee, Hasovitch?" he finally said.
"Hot," I said, and he grinned his grin, elastic and devastating.
When Kate arrived for our lunch date, Ernest and I were still in the kitchen talking away. I hadn't yet changed out of my dressing gown, and there she was sharp and fresh in a red wool hat and coat.
"I'm sorry," I said, "I won't be a minute."
"Take your time, you deserve a little indolence," she said, but seemed impatient with me just the same.
I went off to dress, and when I came back, Kate was alone in the room.
"Where did Nesto run off to?"
"I haven't the faintest," Kate said. And then, because she clearly read disappointment in my face, "Should I have invited him along?"
"Don't be silly. This is our day."
PAULA MCLAIN was born in Fresno, CA in 1965. After being abandoned by both parents, she and her two sisters became wards of the California Court System, moving in and out of foster homes for the next 14 years. Eventually, she discovered she could — and wanted to — write. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996, and since then has been a resident at Yaddo and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of two collections of poetry, a much-praised memoir called Like Family (Little Brown, 2003), and one previous and well-received novel, A Ticket to Ride. Paula McLain lives in Cleveland, OH with her family.
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After skating in a red practice jersey Tuesday, Richard Panik reiterated his intentions -- he came to play.
In his first game of the season with the Syracuse Crunch Saturday, the 6-3 Slovakian winger posted an assist before absorbing a thundering check by the Hershey Bears' Tyson Strachan. Panik quickly got up from the hit, and instead of taking the game off Sunday to rest and recuperate an apparent upper body injury, he was back on the ice against the Sound Tigers Sunday.
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MindOverEye profiled in SourceEcreative Rastermasters Special Feature
From its home base in automotive work, the fast-growing company is expanding boldly into new product, content and media categories.
The Mars Rover doesn't have a lot in common with the Jaguar F-Type or the latest pulse-throbbing iteration of Chevy's Corvette Stingray Coupe. The Rover, for example, has six wheels, and runs on what's probably a little nuclear reactor. It also can't go from zero to sixty in under five seconds. But don't tell that to the folks at MindOverEye. For them, if it moves, reflects light, has curves and can shine, then they've got it covered.
Of course, that description fits a lot of things besides Martian land craft and muscle cars. Just about any consumer electronic gadget would fit nicely, as would any manner of recreational gizmo that has a modern, high-tech and ultra-sleek look to it. Frankly, it really doesn't matter what your hero product might be. When it comes to finding new ways to make it look simply awesome, MindOverEye and its cadre of artists, programmers, producers and directors are up to the task.
They've done it for the aforementioned Rover (as part of their work for TV's "Cosmos" series, an image from which appears above), as well as for just about every automotive model you've ever lusted after while sitting at a stop light. But they've handled more than just sheet metal, shooting VFX-infused, integrated live action work for a range of brands.
When last we checked in with MindOverEye back in the fall of 2013 (you can see that story here), the studio was riding high on a number of interesting projects for brands such as Jaguar and Microsoft. In the case of the former, the studio was asked to shoot a few effects-oriented inserts. In the process of capturing live action footage for the assignment, they shot added content and transformed it, on their own, into a fast-paced, design-driven standalone commercial. They showed it to the client and its agency, Spark 44, and it was met with open arms (not to mention the smell of burning rubber). The spot has gone on to run around the world, with the client recently re-upping to use it for a second year.
Since then, MOE Founder and ECD Bill Wadsworth says the studio has simply exploded. They've experienced growth in the area of 60 percent since moving into their current complex in El Segundo back in December of 2012, where they operate out of a 15,000 square-foot nest of shooting stages, edit rooms and workstations.
MindOverEye is still an integral part of parent company Source Interlink, publishers of iconic titles like Motor Trend. Earlier this year Source Interlink rebranded its media division as The Enthusiast Network (TEN), home to a range of online video content sites that cater to everyone from car buffs to the burgeoning action/sports market.
From the initial success of its Jaguar spot, MOE has been commissioned to produce a half-dozen more long-form pieces, including a series that puts the F-Type through moves and settings straight out of an action thriller.
Wadsworth and MOE's Director of Integrated Production Paul Babb – who first worked together at Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, along with MOE Executive Producer Dave Wein, back in the 1990s – report that the studio has worked for close to a dozen major automotive brands in the past two years, including Ford, Lincoln, Hyundai, Dodge and others.
The company was tapped by Infiniti to produce a dark and foreboding short film titled "The Beast Within," to introduce its sexy Q50 Eau Rouge concept car (which was created completely in CG), and created an experiential event for the model that was mounted at this year's Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach, California, the preeminent luxury car show in the US.
And they were brought in by the VFX supervisor on the aforementioned Fox/National Geographic series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" to produce a number of shots for this critically-acclaimed series. What started as a small assignment quickly ballooned to over 150 effects shots, says Babb, with a number of them being part of the work that earned "Cosmos" an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects.
Much of MindOverEye's automotive work, Wadsworth says, arises out of the studio's connection with TEN, whose automotive channel on YouTube has over 2.6 million subscribers. In fact, MOE produced a live installment of TEN's popular YouTube show "Wide Open Throttle" during the Pebble Beach show. If anything, these kinds of projects represent the future of where MOE is headed. Wadsworth and Babb report that the company's volume of live action production has taken off in the past year. "We've shot in 15 different countries, creating over 100 hours of original content working with just about every kind of image capture device out there," says Wadsworth.
This explosion of work is being fed into a slew of media projects MOE has undertaken, and the list is dizzying. They're creating commercials, branded content, original programming, apps and games and for some of the top users of design and effects-laden imagery out there.
Get Wadsworth talking about these gigs and it's hard to get him to stop. [/column]
He'll tell you, for example, about the work they've done with Dodge, drifting a rare Viper sports car across the desert flats near Barstow or racing it through the closed-off streets of downtown Detroit. (And if you're up for it, check out MOE's Dodge "Revolution" driving app, which you can download off the iTunes store.)
And then there's the Augmented Reality work they're doing for both racing games and other digital entertainment genres. Again, if you get Wadsworth rolling on this I advise you to start taking notes. He'll explain mobile shading algorithms, physics-based user interfaces, extended tracking systems and lot of other technical jargon, but keep in mind that all these terms usually add up to one thing: awesomeness.
"It's kind of like the nerds have been left to their own devices, and they've simultaneously generated all this cool stuff," he says with a laugh about his studio's diverse output. And it's easy to share his enthusiasm.
So what's driving all of this work, we asked? "It's because we have the talent and we've shown we can do really outstanding stuff," says Babb. "On top of that, we deliver what we say we're going to deliver." More importantly for ad agencies is their ability to take macro views of a brand's content needs and figure out smart ways to satisfy them, says Wadsworth. MindOverEye has been investing heavily in building up its storage and render capability, bulking up its pipeline and adding to its fiber backbone, all geared to handle the multi-genre, multi-platform, multi-media needs of advertisers. "When you need to get as much of your production budgets as you can, then it's all about harvesting data," Wadsworth says. "It's important to capture as much as you can going in, and it's how we've always worked."
This methodology has particular value for automotive brands, he points out, given their voracious needs, "but our process can benefit almost anyone," he points out. "And we've been on a tear getting people to see what they can get out of their production budgets for just a little added effort or money, and how much value that adds. It really drives the cost of everything down when you look at the economy of scale.
The work the studio did on "Cosmos" has opened doors for them outside the automotive category, says Babb, which the studio has welcomed as a balance for its automotive work. One area they feel particularly well-suited for is the growing action/sports genre, an important category for The Enthusiast Network. MOE is positioning itself to work on brand integration content for advertisers that are interested in connecting with this audience, which skews younger and more upscale, and they've already produced online videos for both Ford and Subaru tied to activities like surfing and kite sailing.
Lots of things are on the horizon for the studio, Wadsworth adds. They're actively negotiating for more space in their current campus, where the 80-or so people who work there every day are busting at the seams. This, of course, will give them an opportunity to retrofit their existing studio space and build out new space, which is something of a specialty for Wadsworth. MindOverEye has been his baby since he began to devote himself to it full time after leaving his position running the graphics and design studio at O&M in 2004. (Up until then it had been his agency-sanctioned sideline, a place for him to experiment with new graphics and effects technologies, many of which he brought back to Ogilvy.)
"We have such a good, solid, strong company now, and it's so different than the one that moved into this space almost two years ago," he says with pride. "There's an eclectic array of things going on here every day, and we've taken our strengths and stretched them really wide. We have an actively curious community of people here, and one of their favorite things to do is share, so there's a lot of cross-pollination," not just among the MOE staff but between them and other elements of the TEN media team.
It's all paying off big-time for Wadsworth, Babb, Wein and other senior members of the MOE management team. That they're having this much fun at this stage of their careers isn't lost on them, either. "We've got great support from our corporate parent, and lots of latitude to pursue some unorthodox things for a visual effects and CG studio, but we feel it's reaping huge dividends for us," Wadsworth says.
For now, they feel as though they're sitting on a goldmine. They're being tasked with new challenges, broadening their client base and producing more original programming – all part of their long terms plans. More immediately, the joint promises to stay super busy: "Over the short term I can see us doubling in size," Wadsworth sums up. "We're out to build a one-of-a-kind facility here, one that will function as a unique content engine. We can't wait to turn it loose."


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Rumours that Lunar Prospector - NASA's first lunar mission in twenty five years - had confirmed the existence of water ice had captivated the space science community since the beginning of February. Lunar Prospector was not originally designed to search for water on the Moon. Four years ago,
a radar experiment on the Clementine spacecraft recorded an echo that was consistent with the presence of water ice. Lunar Prospector was quickly modified to include experiments to search for water. Researchers working on the
project have now publicly stated that a neutron spectrometer on the
craft has discovered between 10 and
300 million metric tons of water at the
location suggested by Clementine.
Scientists are naturally excited at the
Sarah Dunkin,
a researcher working on the
Clementine data at University College London,
says: "It will herald one of the
most important and
exciting discoveries since the
days of Apollo." The findings were presented today at press conference at Ames Research Center,
have renewed interest in astronauts returning to Moon.
The presence of water would make a moonbase feasible and
practicable for the
first time.
It would also dramatically reduce the
costs of supplying outposts such as the
International Space Station or manned trips to Mars.
One of the
harder questions to answer will be: how did the
water get there? Most scientists believe that the
only possible explanation is cometary bombardment.
Previously it was thought that any ice left on the
surface would have been vaporised on impact.
According to Dave Heather,
also of UCL: " Now that its presence has been confirmed,
refinements can be made to models of cometary impact and
solar system evolution,
enhancing our knowledge in these fields."
The discovery also raises the interesting question of who owns the water. In 1979 five nations signed a Moon Treaty stating that the Moon is a common heritage for all mankind and its resources cannot be claimed by any one nation. However,
the US did not sign the agreement.
Water found on Moon!
Mar 5, 1998
NASA announced today that Lunar Prospector has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon.