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I would love to get some extra tips on shooting the variety of planes flying at an airshow. I think I am okay with the planes on the ground... but any tips on shutter speed, aperture or anything for the show up in the air?
I use a combination of 2 lenses, a 300mm prime on a 1.4 extender for distant formations / individual aircraft and a 100-400 for the formation shots and stuff happening on the ground.
I tend to use AI Servo (I am a Canon user, I am sure someone will quote the appropriate mode on Nikon if required). For individual aircraft I usually set the focus point to the centre point only - for formations I let the camera suss out the focal point.
A lot of guys use aperture priority for jets but I prefer to use shutter priority because I mainly shoot propeller aircraft. I also dial in a couple of + points on the exposure bias and set the metering to center weighted partial metering. I don't use spot metering because on sunny days - you can get glints of sun off the aircraft and this can throw the metering hugely.
Shutter speeds - for propeller aircraft it depends a bit on the aircraft and what the aircraft is doing. On their take off roll they will be at a high power setting so the RPM will be higher. I would start off using 1/320 and practice your panning technique. This will stop you freezing the propeller (pet hate) and show some movement.
When the aircraft is displaying, they will change settings frequently - I tend to use 1/250 or 1/320 depending on the aircraft type.
When the aircraft are on final approach to land, the prop will be much slower as they will be throttling back alot, you will need to dial the shutter speed right down for these shots - 1/100 or lower probably.
For jets, crank the shutter speed up - they will be moving really really quickly, as high as you can manage while keeping the ISO at 100 (this allows you to crop into the images more if you need to while keeping the noise down)
Helicopters... tricky! Their RPM is really slow, you want to stick around 1/100 and fire off plenty of shots.
Take a lot of memory cards and don't be afraid to hold the shutter down a bit when you first get started, with practice you will get better and can get more selective with when you're shooting.
Don't bother taking a tripod, they are a pain in crowds.
Composition: You want the aircraft to have some room to move into generally, really tight impact shots work well but you need to be very close in - if you leave a bit more space in front of the aircraft than behind they tend to work a bit better.
Positioning: The big formations tend to centre their display midway down the flight line for their big breaks etc - for everything else, I usually like to be at one end or the other so you get nice take off shots or landing shots and some lovely topside shots as the aircraft bank in as they come round the bend.
You can always have some fun and try some silly slow shutter speeds, sometimes it pays off :)
I hope this is enough and helpful and thanks for the vote of confidence from @jrista :)
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My son & I have been to a few airshows, and though I'm not a pro shooter, I can offer some advice based on what's worked well for me.
As always, location, timing and lighting are important. The EAA fly-in in Oshkosh, WI is a great example. With the aerobatic "box" lining up with the main N-S runway, the afternoon airshows often have some great lighting from behind the crowds. If you've got a chance to position yourself in different places, consider where the light's going to be coming from while the show is underway.
The more you can find out about the event logistics, the better - timing, etc. You'll also want to pay attention to where & when "off-stage" events occur. You might consider catching a pilot going through pre-flight checks, for instance, or shoot planes rolling out for takeoff when they'll have cockpits open and a clear view of the pilots. Most people will miss these "non-flying" shots, but they're a good way to include a human element, which is missing from most airshow photos.
An aircraft-band scanner can let you listen in on the control tower traffic, which can clue you in to some of these movements, too. At EAA, some of that traffic is streamed over the Internet and broadcast over frequencies you can pick up with a special radio they rent for $10 or so on-site.
Plan on using a variety of shutter speeds and focal lengths. You'll be switching from close-ups of static displays to trying to catch planes performing maneuvers in the air. You'll be tempted to go for super-fast shutter speeds, but for prop-powered planes, this gives you a frozen prop, which may not be the look you're going for. Instead, play with shutter speeds and panning to see if you can get a blurred prop w/ a clear plane.
Consider whether you're there primarily to shoot the airshow or to enjoy the time with your son. Some of the things you'd do to stalk awesome photos might not be fun for the family if they're tagging along. This might affect your photography, but you should still be able to come away with plenty of awesome shots.
Other random thoughts, in no particular order:
I am not an expert at photographing airplanes and air shows by any means, however I can offer some more general help. (We do have a talented member who photographs air shows and air planes quite a bit...@JamWheel. Hopefully he will see this and offer up some better advice.)
First off, you will likely want a pretty high shutter speed to help you freeze that distant motion. You should also use a continuous shooting mode to capture as many shots as you can when you take a shot, which means cameras with higher shutter rates will be ideal. A high shutter speed to freeze action will in turn probably dictate using a higher ISO, so that you can maintain a high enough shutter speed to capture planes in flight nice and sharp. I am not sure that flash will do you any good to help freeze motion of in-flight planes, however it might be helpful with parked planes on the ground.
To really fill the frame with in-flight planes, your going to want as much reach as you can get. A cropped sensor will do best here, as the crop helps to extend the reach of your lenses. I would recommend at least as 300mm prime lens, however I do know that many air show photographers use longer focal lengths. It seems fairly common to use extenders such as a 1.4x telephoto extender. This would make a 300mm lens 420mm, and combined with about 1.55x crop factor (1.5x for Nikon/Pentax/Sony, 1.62x for Canon) that effectively gets you 650mm.
It should be noted that with extension, your maximum aperture will be reduced, which will make ISO all the more important. You should use a camera that has good high ISO performance with low noise at around 800-1600.
I also recommend that you practice panning, so you have at least a moderately steady hand while panning and taking shots. If you have done some panning in the past, I would recommend taking some pictures of birds in flight with a telephoto to at least get a feel for what its like when trying to photograph a plane in flight.
Been shooting at airshows (not professionally though) for something like 30 years now.
My system: 1) no autofocus. Have yet to find an AF system that can keep up with a small object approaching the camera at very high speed. 2) manual exposure, same reason. The aircraft will be a lot darker (relatively speaking) than the sky around them. Use a greycard or meter on the grass next to the flightline. 3) pan the aircraft, don't wait for something to appear in your viewfinder, you'll be too late.
Bit of self promotion :)
Or in the extreme
Propeller driven planes: Use speed priority and do not exceed 1/250s in order to avoid frozen propellers which is ugly. If you can use the slowest possible shutter speed.
Jets: Use speed priority again and select the fastest possible shutter speed.
ISO: Use the one that gives best results for your camera, with the least electronic noise.
And practice, practice, practice !!! Go to the nearest airfield and shoot aircraft take-offs and landings. You will soon see what gives you the best results.
I just point and shoot on auto!
(Gloster Gladiator I, Nikon D50, 18-200 VR, Program mode, 200mm, f5.6, 1/800, ISO 200, unprocessed JPEG from camera, resized for web in Picasa)
(EXIF data says 95mm(!?), f6.3, 1/640, ISO 200, I cropped it a little then resized for web)
(Barnstormer picking up a ribbon with his wingtip - I zoomed out to get a better chance of catching the moment. Uncropped. 95 mm, f5.3, 1/400, ISO 200)
I try to find a good place to stand, watch how the planes use the airspace, consider what sort of angles I want to shoot. Hope for good weather. Pan with the plane.
I'm happy with these but I'm sure you could do a lot better with some care. Photographing planes at airshows is a zillion times easier than photographing wild songbirds in my garden.
I'd add...
You need to think about the light in the same way you would for any other photography. If the sun's out, then there's usually about 1/3rd of the sky where the light is best for aircraft shots. Figure out what works and don't bother shooting much in other parts of the sky. Clouds and blue sky together work best.
Find a good place to stand. Crowds are bad. If you know where the planes will be flying and where the sun will be that helps. Take a look around and see if you can spot where the people "in the know" are. It's not generally right down on the flight line.
I don't like neck straps but they work well for this. You can't swing mono-pods around quick enough and you don't need a tripod.
Lenses... a zoom would give you slightly increased opportunities at the expense of quality and complexity. A 300/f2.8 IS (full frame) is perfect for where I stand. Multiple bodies don't really work as you don't have time to switch. You may need longer if you're further away, although you'd then be stuffed for those close passes.
I shoot in the light so ISO100 is fine. For props I'll go shutter priority at 1/250 or 1/320. For jets I'd use auto. In both cases +1/3 or more depending on the light, evaluative metering, raw.
Modern Autofocus is brilliant. Although it can limit your composition, even with the 1-series Canon AF I prefer a single AF point for this. You can switch it about but you have to be quick.
I set the drive mode to continuous but the only time I'll hold the shutter down is if someone's crashing; I prefer to look at what's happening and pick my shots.


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Ext.ux.chart.TitleChart - Chart with a Title
When one page contains several charts, it may be necessary to provide users with information on each charts' meaning. This is what Ext.ux.chart.TitleChart is for: it allows assigning title text to any kind of chart supported by Ext JS.
It looks like this:
TitleChart screenshot.png
TitleChart accounts for presence or absence of a title, adjusting chart dimensions accordingly. Title can be placed at top, bottom, left or right side of the Chart. Padding between Chart edge and title text is configurable, as well as margin between title text and actual charting area.
Usage is pretty straightforward, take a look at the source and it should be obvious how to use it. Demo application is provided as well.
Tested with:
- Chrome 15
- Firefox 7
- Safari 5
- Opera 11
Live demo: http://nohuhu.org/demos/demo_titlechart.html
Sencha Market page: https://market.sencha.com/users/30/extensions/36
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20 Nov 2011 1:14 PM #2
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8 Feb 2012 6:42 AM #3
I try to use your plugin but I get that message :
uncaught exception: Ext.Loader is not enabled, so dependencies cannot be resolved dynamically. Missing required class: Ext.chart.TitleChart
Ext.require('Ext.ux.chart.Chart');Ext.require('Ext.chart.TitleChart'); Ext.require('Ext.ux.chart.TitleChart');
I called the chart like that (not sure it will be good):
var ETTRChart= Ext.create('Ext.chart.TitleChart', { animate: true, store: stoETTR, title: 'ETTR', titleFont: 'bold 16px sans-serif', titlePadding: 5, titleMargin: 5, insetPadding: 5, shadow: false,
8 Feb 2012 6:55 AM #4
Forget it, it works. I thought I was in 4.0.7, but apprently, i'm not, I try with 4.1.0 and it's good.
Sorry to bother you.
14 Aug 2012 3:06 PM #5
Version 0.99 supports Ext JS 4.1.Regards,
22 Jan 2013 9:29 AM #6
Does not work in IE8 or older
Hi @ nohuhu,
your extension works great with 4.1.3 and the popular browsers, but it does not work with IE8 and older or in Quirksmodus, just with IE9.
If you open your demo with IE8(Win 7), you'll get the panel empty without chart and chart title.
Do you know about this? There is no error or warning in the IE browsers, so I do not really have an idea how to get it working.
Thank you for your shared extension
MariusFirst I would like to thank you for your time and knowledge
Win 7 Ext JS 4.1.3 IE(6-9), FF17
22 Jan 2013 10:47 AM #7
Hi Marius,
Thanks for the bug report, I've never noticed that the demo didn't work in IE8. The component itself does work with IE7+ though, it's used in one of my projects and I never noticed any problem there. It's probably the demo is misconfigured or something; I'll look into it.
23 Jan 2013 2:06 AM #8
Hi Alex,
and than you for your answer. That would be very helpful to find out why the demo does not work in IE8/IE7.
I've tried to use the component and got the same issues in IE8/IE7.
I have it in a CardLayout and works fine in IE9 and all other popular browsers:
But not in IE8/IE7 :
ThxFirst I would like to thank you for your time and knowledge
Win 7 Ext JS 4.1.3 IE(6-9), FF17
5 Feb 2013 1:53 PM #9
I've taken a look at the demo and it seems that there's some problem with first rendering of the chart. If you click on 'no title' button in the demo, the chart will render - clicking on any of the arrows will redraw the chart with the title. I'm not sure if that's a problem with component code or demo code; I'm using this exact component in one of my projects and it works as expected with IE7+.
31 Oct 2013 9:36 AM #10
I was having the same problem with display issues on IE7/8 in quirksmode. I updated the "getTitleAttributes" function inside the TitleChart.js file to default the width and height to 0 if its undefined and then it started to render with no issues.

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Deciding How You'll Pay for a Home
Checking Out Your Profile
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Today's adjustable mortgages don't offer the really big initial savings that they did in the past. Even the Mover might be better off locking in a low long-term rate through a fixed mortgage.
Adding It Up
Fannie Mae is a security issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association, which is backed by insured and conventional mortgages. Monthly returns to holders of Fannie Maes consist of interest and principals payments by homeowners on their mortgages.
The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants has come up with a set of mortgage guidelines, based on a borrower's profile. Read it over and see where you think you fit in, and what type of mortgage may be best for you.
The Lifer. For borrowers who will stay in their home for many years, a fixed-rate mortgage may be the best. You pay slightly more in the first year than you would with an adjustable-rate mortgage, but you lock in the low fixed rate for the long term. It may be worth paying points up front to get a lower interest rate that will save you money over the years of the loan.
The Mover. If there's a possibility that you may move again during the next few years, an adjustable mortgage might be best for you. You get a lower rate in the early years than with a fixed mortgage. And, because you'll be moving, you needn't worry much about the adjustable rate creeping up on you.
The Income Climber. If you expect to receive pay raises, pay off debts, or experience increases in income due to an inheritance or some other reason, consider a graduated payment mortgage. Monthly payments will gradually rise on a fixed schedule.
The Well-Heeled Buyer. If making a big mortgage payment isn't a problem, consider a mortgage for 15 or 20 years, instead of 30. You'll pay off the loan faster, and save a bundle on interest.
The First-Time Buyer. If you can afford the monthly payments but don't have the savings for a 10 or 20 percent down payment, look around for a mortgage that requires little or no money down. One such loan is the Flexible 97 mortgage backed by Fannie Mae. It allows a down payment with an unsecured loan from a family member, something that isn't permitted with most traditional mortgages.
These profiles can give you an idea of what type of mortgage may work the best for you. It's a good idea, though, to talk to a mortgage counselor or your accountant before making a final decision.
If you're thinking about buying a vacation home and you have built up a fair amount of equity in your primary home, you might think about getting a home equity loan.
Home Equity Loans and Lines of Credit
Money Morsel
If you're interested in an equity loan, be sure to do some comparison shopping. Lending institutions are competing fiercely with one another to sell home equity loans. Find a lender that charges a good rate, with minimal fees.
Loans based on the equity in your home generally can be obtained at lower interest rates than nonsecured loans, and the interest is normally tax-deductible.
If you need cash out of your home, you probably don't have to refinance into a new first mortgage. Consider adding a second mortgage or getting a home equity loan. Second mortgages are loans you get on top of your primary mortgage, and they're not part of the national market. Held by local lenders, the interest rates on them can vary tremendously, so be sure to shop around.
Home equity loans are generally paid back over a much shorter time period than mortgages. Review your entire loan situation with your lender, looking at whether it's best to refinance everything into one loan or to add a home equity loan to your first mortgage. The lender will be able to provide you with comparison costs and total interest paid.
Using your home as collateral for a loan puts your home at risk if you should default. You should carefully assess your borrowing needs and your ability to repay before you decide to borrow against your house.
There are two types of equity loans. The first, a fixed, lump sum amount, is known as a home equity loan. Usually taken out for a car or home improvement project, there is a fixed term to the loan. That is, the interest rate and your monthly payment will remain fixed over the life of the loan.
An equity line of credit enables you to draw against a credit line as the need arises. You can pay for the kids' braces, car repairs, or whatever. Instead of borrowing a fixed amount of money, a line of credit qualifies you for a certain amount of credit. You can borrow up to your credit limit, if needed, but you don't need to. The monthly repayment amount depends on what you've borrowed and the interest rate charged is variable. Lines of credit generally carry higher interest rates than home equity loans.
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In coming weeks, investigators will conduct a flight test to learn more about UPS pilot procedures during landing approaches, safety-board member Robert Sumwalt told reporters Saturday. "This is just the very beginning of the investigation" and no conclusions have been reached yet about the probable cause, he said.
He nevertheless indicated that the focus of the probe was on why the pilots failed to realize that they were descending too quickly in the predawn darkness as they tried to land at the Birmingham airport. The twin-engine jet hit power lines and trees before slamming into a hill and breaking apart in a field less than a mile short of the landing strip.
The two pilots on board, both of whom died in the crash, were the only people on the plane.
With the plane's engines and flight-control system seemingly operating normally, Mr. Sumwalt said, the cockpit crew kept the autopilot and automated thrust-control system, called autothrust, engaged through the final phase of the approach. Mr. Sumwalt suggested, however, that the autopilot might have been disconnected several seconds before impact but he didn't elaborate. Pilots frequently keep autopilots and autothrottles engaged throughout landing approaches, Mr. Sumwalt said.
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Investigators previously said that about seven seconds before initial impact, the pilots received the first automated alert from an onboard collision-avoidance system, warning them that the plane was descending dangerously quickly. It wasn't clear whether the autopilot was turned off before the second warning.
Investigators want "to understand what the crew was doing and what they knew" during the final few seconds of the flight, Mr. Sumwalt said.
He said the emphasis of the coming flight test will be to understand how UPS safety officials recommend or train pilots to fly the type of approach that was used in Birmingham during Wednesday's accident.
The UPS freighter was following a so-called nonprecision approach because the runway it was using didn't have a glide-slope indicator. Such equipment, commonly used at most commercial airports, helps provide pilots with a detailed visual image of an aircraft's trajectory, particularly its descent rate and altitude in relation to potentially hazardous obstacles.
The plane was using a strip without a full-blown instrument-landing system because a longer strip that had such navigation aids was closed for maintenance.
The NTSB had said that the cockpit-voice recorder revealed that one of the pilots said the runway was "in sight," barely four seconds before the first sounds of impact.
Since early July, three jetliners have been involved in high-profile accidents in the U.S. at the end of visual or nonprecision approaches to runways. Mr. Sumwalt said that after collecting the facts of the Birmingham crash, NTSB experts will "look to see if there are wider systems issues that need to be addressed."
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BURGETTSTOWN - Wellsburg native Sherri Dolan said she always has enjoyed working with animals.
Dolan, who has opened a new dog grooming business at 1100 Steubenville Pike, grew up around chickens, ducks, quail, horses and dogs at her family's home on Rabbit Hill Road.
"I'm really a pet person," she said. "It's nice to go to work every day and love what you do."
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FURRY FRIENDS — Sherri Dolan, owner of Bath and Doggie Works, sits with her dogs, Maggie and Darby, and Diamond, a visiting pooch, in the waiting area of her new dog grooming business in Burgettstown.
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Dolan said she takes pride in pleasing not only her clients but the dogs themselves. She often senses a different attitude in the canines when they have been washed and neatly trimmed, she said.
"A customer once commented, that's the best his dog ever looked. I'm very proud of that," Dolan said.
Her services include trimming hair and nails, shaving their pads, bathing the dogs, applying conditioner and cleaning and plucking their ears.
Dolan is available Monday through Saturday at various hours, including evenings. Appointments may be made by calling (304) 374-7430.
A Weirton resident, Dolan is pleased her new location is less than a half-hour from Steubenville, Weirton and much of Brooke County.
Located a short distance from the Pennsylvania Route 18 exit off U.S. Route 22, it's beside a Curves fitness center and behind the Grab 'n' Go, with ample parking.
Dolan also is very happy with the abundance of space provided by the location. The waiting area is decorated with flowers and light colors, designed to resemble upscale dog grooming places but without the high prices, she said.
Dolan said area residents can get to know her and have a little fun by bringing their pet dogs and cats for a Halloween-themed event from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 27. Pet owners are encouraged to dress their dogs and cats in costumes for a parade and prizes will be given to the best costumes in five size categories: toy, small, medium, large and extra large.
The event also will include a Chinese auction and treats for all pets.
Potential clients also can look for her on Facebook at Sherri Hilt Dolan.
Before opening the Burgettstown shop, Dolan operated a Hooverson Heights location for a few years. Before that, she was manager for a major pet store chain.
She was serving the Air Force near Boise, Idaho, when she saw a groomer working in a pet store.
"I knew right then and there that was what I wanted to do," said Dolan.
After attending the Paragon School of Grooming in Michigan, where she received certification, and following an eight-and-a-half-year stint in the Air Force, she became a salon manager at a pet supply store in Western Pennsylvania before deciding to branch out on her own.
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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says when a woman is impregnated during a rape, "it's something God intended."
Mourdock was asked Tuesday during the final minutes of a debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
He replied: "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that's something God intended to happen."
In response to Mourdock's comment, Democratic candidate Joe Donnelly said after the debate that he doesn't believe "my God, or any God, would intend that to happen."
Mourdock and Donnelly have been locked in a tight race since the Republican primary in May, when Mourdock defeated longtime GOP Sen. Richard Lugar.


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I'm having problems with a (usually) latency bound desktop java application connecting to a custom database server.
While it's working on a remote host (windows XP) it's fast (big form opens in under 2 seconds). When it's running on same host the database is on (using X11vnc and NX) it is very slow (the same form opens in aroung 20 seconds). Server is running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.
What I checked:
iptablesare clean (no rules in
nat, all tables on ACCEPT)
- routing is normal (just default route and local network)
- brtables are not even installed
tcis clean
- ping latency to localhost is aroung 0.007ms for both 64 byte and 1500 byte packets, latency to remote host is around 0.8ms
- loopback throughput is aroung 500MiB/s (tested with
- different java VMs (both 1.5 and 1.6)
While looking in
atop there doesn't seem to be any bottlenecks:
- CPU utilisation of the java and database processes is very low (java: ~20%, database <5%), the CPU utilisation is moderate on remote access (around 30% for the database) server is a Quad Core 2.66Ghz, client is a Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz, system besides that is idle
- there are hardly any disk reads/writes during the long query (in total about 5-10 reads)
The only thing that differs between the remote and local run is network utilisation, while the local process pulls data at about 1200kbps, the remote is doing it at about 15Mbps.
I'm currently working on duplicating the problem with my hardware, so any tips on those lines are welcome too.
EDIT: Changing the
lo interface MTU from the default 16k to 1500 fixes the issue.
The issue had been duplicated on Debain lenny 64bit.


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I know this will vary depending on the type of the story and the characters involved, not to mention the location itself. What I am looking for is some kind of guideline for identifying different aspects of the setting that should be included when you try to work it into your story. Is there some kind of checklist that an author can use to consider what they should include when describing the setting of the story?
Just the location can be a pretty broad part of the setting. From the country down to the city and then down to the buildings surrounding your characters, depending on what is important to your story. You could also consider what activities are going on around your characters. Are there are plants or wildlife that are relevant or that might add interest to your story? What about the weather or smells or sounds?
Not only do you have to take into account all the senses, but you have to understand which details your narrator would think were worthwhile to mention. When you describing your setting or location, you must think about not only what it says about the main character but also what details the narrator would include or leave out and why.
For example, let's say your character is a banker. They probably wouldn't notice the materials that a house was made of, but they may notice the cars in people driveways. If your character is instead a carpenter, the type of wood used in the banisters or the sub-par job done on the basement drywall might be the first things they see.
It could also be quite fun to work the history of a site into the story by playing the current protagonist as a modern 'historical figure' with a twist. Subtle and sublime if you can do it without direct statement or allusion.


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Astro City: The Dark Age: Book Three #1
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The Flash: Rebirth #2
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Blackest Night
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Detective Comics #853
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Batman #686
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Vogue 1236 DKNY dress
41 comments:
- coffeeaddict said...
If I were making this for myself I'd definitely include the pockets and add cap sleeves.
I love your fabric choice and the champagne silk lining. I love this colour and it's one I buy in large quntities (besides black and white of course) to have at hand for the spur of the moment projects.
- May 6, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- AllisonC said...
Yes I must admit I feel a bit exposed with bare arms but it's about to get so hot here that I will be glad of them soon!
- May 6, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Karin said...
Cute dress! It looks great on you and must be really cool and comfortable to wear. Don't worry about your arms- they look slim and toned!
- May 6, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- toboldlysew said...
Great dress! As usual, a wonderful fabric choice, and I love the underlining effect - very elegant! I'm definitely going to have to get to HK for fabric shopping one of these days! x
- May 6, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Adrienne said...
Beautiful dress! I have some fabric very similar that's white and a one that's a khaki color that I can not wait to use!
- May 6, 2011 at 7:16 PM
- Kristine said...
Perfect marraige of fabric, lining, and pattern! I love it!!!
- May 6, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Irene said...
Wonderful dress! Now I know that I'll have to nab this pattern for myself. Thanks for the inspiration.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- Nancy K said...
Love it. I love the fabric far better than the original as well. Fantastic, simple summer dress.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Lisette M said...
I also love this pattern. Your dress turned out beautiful, I like the subtle effect of the fabrics you chose.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- Carolyn (cmarie12) said...
What a great dress! Your fabric choices really make this dress shine.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Erica B. said...
Beautiful! Fabulous job as always! that is such a great fabric that really dressed up such a simple pattern.
- May 6, 2011 at 8:56 PM
- Amanda S. said...
Love it! The fabric and lining are a great pick for this pattern. Enjoy your day off!
- May 6, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- JoanneM said...
This looks super on you.
I too ignored this pattern because I knew I "must" have something similar in the stash.
Yours looks so much better than the pattern photo.
- May 6, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Rachel said...
That is a really lovely dress!! You have the best taste. I always look forward to your posts.
- May 6, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Stevie said...
Lovely dress I love that combination of black and gold shining through! Beautiful!
- May 6, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Beth (SunnyGal Studio) said...
great look. once again you have chosen a Vogue pattern that I overlooked - now I need this one too.
nice choice of fabric for the style.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:20 PM
- Jane said...
Allison, what a fabulous dress. The fabric is awesome and you look great in it.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- MAD14kt said...
Well done!
- May 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM
- Rebecca said...
Your dress turned out wonderfully! So much better than the pattern envelope. :]
- May 7, 2011 at 1:40 AM
- MushyWear said...
I love the fabric you used, and underlining in a neutral was a great choice to keep it chic. I'll have to take a look at this pattern. I love the style. You look fabulous in this dress.
- May 7, 2011 at 3:02 AM
- Vicki said...
Simple, but lovely! Perfect fabric and lining for it.
- May 7, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- Trisha said...
Love that fabric! Great choice.
- May 7, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- Aminat said...
You rock girl!!!, absolutely fabulous...
- May 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- Summerset said...
Love it! Smart lining choice - makes it interesting, yet not tacky like you described.
- May 7, 2011 at 7:11 AM
- Dana said...
Love the dress! That fabric really turns it into something special.
- May 7, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Carmencita B said...
This dress makes me want to go and sew some more. Great use of the fabric.
- May 7, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- j.kaori said...
This is an adorable dress! It is a simple style, but perfect for warm weather. The fabric is cool, too.
- May 7, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Pin Queen said...
I din't think very much to this pattern when it first came out, because I thougt it too simple for my taste - then I saw what you've done to it. I've changed my mind! we have a 40% off sale coming up so it's now on my list. I really like your use of fabrics and, as ever, the cut and fit look great on you.
- May 7, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- lorenakitty said...
I love your dress! I just made my version in a cobalt blue printed cotton sateen for a summer look. I almost passed up the pattern but gave the subtle drafting a second look and figured this would be a winner.
One thing I did omit was the pockets. After spending time matching the print at the pocket openings, I decided my fabric was too delicate - rats :(
- May 8, 2011 at 12:59 AM
- Nancy said...
Very pretty! I love to see different interpretations of patterns- I love what you did!
- May 8, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Gail said...
You really are the queen of dresses! I love this dress in every aspect.
- May 8, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Gabrielle said...
Oh, I was wondering if this would look like the envelope picture and it does, great to see! I think this will be such a practical dress for hot days / evenings - and it looks great on you.
- May 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Angela said...
Lovely dress and looks perfect for summer!
- May 10, 2011 at 5:59 AM
- Marie said...
I didn't like that pattern until I saw your version. Yours is gorgeous.
- May 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Handmade said...
Great fabric and cute dress.
- May 11, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Jacquie said...
Lovely dress Allison, it looks superb in that fabric. Very chic but not something that will date. The DKNY patterns of late have been terrific.
- May 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Sophia said...
Love the dress and the fabric!
- May 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Lisa said...
As always another fantastic creation . I love your fabric you look gorgeous .
- May 13, 2011 at 4:14 AM
- Cennetta said...
Excellent fabric combo. This dress is great on you. Nothing cheesey about it.
- May 17, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- amber said...
Great call on the lining fabric - from a distance it almost looks like a subtle eyelet. What a great dress for summer.
- May 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- SEWN said...
I love this dress. The bodice especially. You should make another; it seems like the perfect summer dress.
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Current popular drama series on British TV, which may interest overseas viewers.
Downton Abbey began its second series on ITV on Sunday night. I am one of the few people in the UK not to have been watching this. It has a big audience, and almost universal public and critical acclaim. Mrs Polynikes (the wife) loves it, as does Mrs Polynikes (the mother). The only widespread criticism of the first episode was not of the drama itself, but of the number of advert breaks, and of the choice of adverts therein. ITV not unsurprisingly packed in the maximum number of breaks allowed (five in 90 minutes), including some depressing ones about insurance (a large insurance company sponsors the programme). Press criticism was rife, and a record number of viewers complained to the broadcaster. Do other nations complain about this? From my excursions to other countries, I reckon their advert breaks are more frequent and intrusive, so we in Great Britain are relatively fortunate, even when watching commercial TV rather than the BBC.
BBC started its final series of Spooks in direct competition at the same time on the same night. Perhaps it was almost resignation as a way of justifying the end of Spooks. This is an enjoyably daft (maybe intentionally so) series where three or four MI6 officers save the UK every week from some kind of threat. However, in its sixth (?) series now, and well past its sell by date, so time to finish it. The lead actors tend to duck out after a series or two, but their replacements continue to save us from disaster every week. Another favourite of Mrs Polynikes (the wife) and my other female acquaintances, particularly when Rupert Penry-Jones had a leading role.
Dr Who is nearing the end of a run, so it should have made it to channels in the US and elsewhere by now. My wife and children still watch, but I gave up some time ago, so I can't comment on it.
The best of the US drama is being snatched over here in the UK by cable and satellite TV to whom one has to subscribe, and I only have free-to-air channels, so I have not seen series such as Game of Thrones or Mildred Pierce. Did the recently finished Camelot make it to the overseas market? It was a retelling of King Arthur described as a "Game-of-Thrones-lite" made on the cheap (relatively speaking), but a second series was not commissioned. Bit raunchy in places, and as my younger son loves Merlin (coming back to the BBC in the autumn) and Arthurian legends, we let him stay up to watch. As a result, his sex education is well under way. Although it was slow at times, I quite enjoyed it, and as you might expect from a cast including Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green, the acting is generally good. Shame we will not get a second series.


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6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries
In real life, people don't suffer freaky events like getting struck by lightning or getting part of their brain removed and then suddenly find themselves with new superpowers, like heat vision or flight. However, people do apparently suffer freaky events and then gain the ability to do art.
It's a poorly understood phenomenon, but according to the experts who've studied them, these people aren't just messing with us.
#6. Man Has Mystery Illness, Gains Super Memory and Painting Powers
Quick: Picture in your mind what your neighborhood looked like when you were 4 years old. Even better, try to draw a picture of it, in fine detail. Hell, most of us couldn't do the latter with a room we saw five minutes ago. To unlock that ability, apparently all we need is a severe, life-threatening fever to jar it loose.
"It's so strange. He just paints pictures of houses burning down with a child giggling in the foreground."
When 30-something Italian immigrant Franco Magnani arrived in San Francisco in the 1960s, he came down with just such a fever -- to the point that he sometimes became delirious and had seizures. In the aftermath, Magnani started having insanely vivid dreams/memories about his childhood hometown of Pontito, Italy. The man hadn't visited the place in more than 30 years, but his dreams were intense and filled with detail, as if his seizures had somehow surfaced a bunch of old image files off his brain's hard drive, perfectly intact.
Magnani became so engulfed by the memories that he started to draw and eventually paint them. If the below paintings look like random pictures of streets and alleys you could see on anybody's wall, you have to see them next to a photo of the real scene to understand why they're remarkable. The photo is on the left. The painting on the right was painted from a three-decade-old memory from early childhood:
Can we call "Photoshop" on a painting?
Again, Magnani did not have that photo to work from -- that was taken later, probably by somebody trying to find out if he was full of shit. And keep in mind, painting at all was totally out of character for him, given that he had been a cook in Italy and a woodworker when he came to San Francisco. Yet even though he'd never so much as held a brush in his life, he was suddenly overcome with an urge to paint these scenes, with as much detail as his memory provided him. Yes, there are variations in the pics -- for instance when he paints the view from his old bedroom window, he's remembering it being zoomed out a bit:
Via Exploratorium.edu
Photo, again on the left.
What you're seeing is the product of what had become an obsession. According to one of his friends, Magnani was known to leave his favorite bar mid-drink if he got a memory that he wanted to paint. Later, when word of Magnani's story got out, doctors said that what he had was probably "temporal lobe epilepsy," which is known to sometimes create an obsessive personality in sufferers.
Via Francomagnani.com
Photo on left.
When Magnani's work was eventually shown in art galleries, it was put up next to photo comparisons of Pontito taken from the same angles as his paintings. You can see the result for yourself.
And to think, all he had to do was have himself a fever and a couple of seizures. We're betting any aspiring artist will take that deal over three years of putting up with stuck-up assholes at art schools.
#5. Man Gets Ass Kicked, Begins to See and Draw Fractals
According to a professor at the University of St. Louis, Jason Padgett has the world's only case of beatdown-induced genius. And it all started when some muggers kicked his ass so hard, they turned him into a math and art phenomenon.
In 2002, Padgett was just minding his business, leaving a restaurant after a date, when two dudes rudely decided they were going to use his head like a freaking pinata. After the beating, they took his money and ran.
Via Jason_padgett.fineartamerica.com
"Why yes, we would hit a man with glasses."
At the hospital they told him he had a concussion, and to get some rest. But when Padgett went back home, he immediately went on the longest drugless acid trip of all freaking time. On sunny days, the little bit of light that bounced off a car's window would suddenly explode into an array of triangles. Every time an object moved, it left strange patterns behind. The edges of clouds and liquids became spiraling lines. The dude thought he was either going crazy or being haunted by the ghost of geometry. Either way, he stayed mostly inside his house for three freaking years.
Via Neurobonkers.com
This is what he sees all the time. All the time.
Well, two MRIs, two metal plates in his head and a few "Oh, God, what's happening to me?"s later, Padgett decided he'd go ahead and start drawing the shapes he saw. And hey, they looked pretty freaking sweet.
Padgett eventually started to get out of the house more, and someone who saw his art noticed that the drawings looked kind of mathy, so they suggested that Padgett take math classes at the community college so he could learn how to describe them.
Via Fineartamerica.com
"... and then if you turn it upside down, it spells 'BOOBLESS.'"
Padgett had always sucked at math, needing to cheat just to get by in high school, but hey, he'd never had any art training whatsoever either, so why not, right? At school, he now found he kicked ass in math, too, and even learned that the art he was making was called a fractal, which is a shape that contains its same shape many times inside itself. It's the Inception of geometry, is what we're saying.
Via Consciousness.arizona.edu
Or what Terence McKenna saw whenever he closed his eyes.
Since taking those math classes, life's been pretty good to Padgett. He won best newcomer at an international art competition and is widely acknowledged as the only person able to hand-draw fractals (for a tidy profit, of course!). He also has advanced the fields of math and physics with his intuitive understanding of those weird repeating shapes. He even discovered that Einstein's E=mc�?² is a fractal.
Via Neurobonkers.com
The theory is that the blows Padgett took to the skull affected the areas of the brain that control object boundary formation, and this somehow unlocked his visual math superpowers. Well, whatever it is, it's certainly not the worst side effect of an ass-kicking ever.
#4. Guy Gets Struck by Lightning, Suddenly Is Great on the Piano
With the skies gray and impending-thunderstorm-like, orthopedic surgeon Tony Cicoria got the idea to call his dear old mom, so he stopped by a payphone and gave her a ring. But no sooner had he finished his conversation that he got the shock of his life -- literally. Like a creepy-but-true urban legend, lightning struck the payphone, came out of the phone's receiver and struck poor Cicoria right in the face, killing him.
"That's what you get for being a considerate son!" - Zeus
Well, at least it seemed to everyone like he was dead. Including to Cicoria himself. He recalls thinking, "Oh, shit. I'm dead," before being slammed back to life.
Via Doctorshobbies.com
Tony Cicoria, seen here thoroughly enjoying not being dead.
Like most people who've had a bajillion volts go through their bodies, Cicoria had a few minor complaints after the incident. For a week or two, he was feeling sluggish and having trouble remembering things. But those symptoms went away, and that's when things got weird. Out of the blue, Cicoria got this sudden, insatiable urge to listen to piano music.
He'd listen to it everywhere, all the time. The dude had never had an interest in piano music, as he much preferred rock music to Rachmaninoff and wasn't even mildly the artsy type. But, you might say, so what? He had a life-changing experience, and he decided he liked different music afterward. But then he was hearing music in his head -- new, original music like he never had before. Never stopping. Always there.
Via wskg.org
"Flash before my eyyyyes ... now, it's time to dieee ..."
So, despite not really knowing how to play the piano and not knowing how to read or write music, Cicoria got himself a piano and promptly began to play everything he heard in his head. He'd even wake up at four in the morning and play until he had to go do his orthopedic surgery thing, which seems a little dangerous to us considering his line of work, but whatever.
We're pretty sure he became a Heroes character before it was canceled.
Soon after his lightning strike, he was composing his first song called, you guessed it, "The Lightning Sonata." Here he is, playing some of it in a show hosted by a clearly stoned hippie:
Since his zapping, Cicoria's been studied by prominent Columbia University brainologist Oliver Sachs, who featured him in a book and in a PBS documentary about how music works in the brain. Despite several examinations, the exact medical explanation for Cicoria's condition still eludes the men with the MRI machines. They do say that his jolt and his out-of-body experience may have caused some cerebral cortex anomalies, among others, but really they're mostly giving a fairly big shrug on the subject.
Regardless, Cicoria's musical career has really taken off, as the formerly tone-confused doctor has been featured in magazines and TV shows, and has had several recitals where he's played the classics and his own work. It's clear now that Zeus didn't want to hurt Cicoria. He just wanted to hear himself some piano.
"Know any Skynyrd?"


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Oil and gas provide more than 60 percent of energy worldwide, and the demand for energy is anticipated to increase by 40 percent as the world's population continues to grow. That's according to the editors of a new ASTM International book, who have compiled the manual with the understanding that these expected changes in energy consumption will demand the development of new processes and products.
ASTM Manual 58, Petroleum Refining and Natural Gas Processing, details new technologies for petroleum refining, natural gas processing and refinery management as well as biofuels and biorefineries. With the publication of the manual, professionals working in the global energy industry have a new reference available that covers the most recent industry and research advances on these topics.
The 800-page work addresses developments in various aspects of hydrocarbon downstream technology plus the economic and environmental aspects of hydrocarbon processing. These technologies will continue to become more important as conventional oil reserves decrease, according to Manual 58 co-editor M.R. Riazi, Ph.D., a professor in the chemical engineering department at Kuwait University, Kuwait City.
Riazi edited and co-authored the work with Suresh R. Agrawal, Ph.D., founder and president of Offsite Management Systems LLC, Sugar Land, Texas; Semih Eser, Ph.D., professor of energy and geo-environmental engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa.; and José Luis Peña Díez, a research team leader at the Repsol Technology Center in Madrid, Spain.
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5 Self-Destructive Ways People Accidentally Cured Themselves
#2. Fistfight Corrects Vision
Not every bad behavior is completely self inflicted. Sometimes you need a partner, which is exactly what a young boy in 1970s Russia thought when he got into a boxing match with another kid while neglecting to first remove his prescription eyeglasses.
Nerd fight!
Predictably he got rocked right in the damn face, embedding the glass from his soviet spectacles into his eye and causing a corneal laceration. While it seemed the fates had just kicked him in the balls twice by first making his vision suck and then punching glass into it, it turns out they had something far grander in store for him (sadly it was not to become a communist pirate).
In order to remove the glass, a layer of the kid's eye had to be shaved off, presumably with an ice cream scoop. The combined result of the injury and the treatment was a flatter cornea which allowed the eye to focus light more effectively. After a short recovery, the boy's eyesight not only came back, but in fact was better than it was prior to taking an eye-slashing Dragon Punch.
The doctor who had attended him observed the phenomenon and determined that if a couple of retards in a fight could accidentally repair a person's vision, a surgeon should be able to do it on purpose. Hence, the birth of corrective eye surgery.
Except now we use lasers because it's the future.
#1. Lightning Fixes Everything
In 1980, 62-year-old Edwin Robinson of Falmouth, Maine had been deaf and blind for nine years as a result of a head injury he received in a collision with a tractor trailer. One day he was wandering around looking for his pet chicken "Took Took" when he suddenly found himself caught outside in a lightning storm, presumably because God felt he hadn't been punished enough.
"Eat that, you sightless bastard."
Rather than return to his house, he began swinging his aluminum cane around to try to find his way to shelter underneath the biggest tree in his backyard, which is the precise decision a person with a severe head injury would make. Meanwhile, we here at Cracked wonder how a blind, deaf man ever expected to find a goddamn chicken, let alone how he managed to determine that it was missing in the first place.
"I said I'm in the kitchen, Edwin! Get your silly ass back inside!"
At any rate, Edwin's metal cane and giant tree shelter proved too tempting for the storm and he was inevitably struck by lightning, blowing out his hearing aid, blackening the grass around him and knocking him out for a good 20 minutes. When he regained consciousness he crawled back into the house and went to sleep, because getting hit with the fury of Zeus tends to wear you out.
When Edwin finally woke up, he found that he could see straight ahead (no peripheral vision) and he that could hear perfectly. Not only that, but his hair even grew back after 35 years of baldness. Like any recipient of a bonafide miracle, Edwin hit the talk show circuit, inspiring a generation of bald, deaf, blind people to try and get themselves struck by lightning.
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Listening. The more accurately you hear the game master's clues, the better you'll play.
Tolerance, due to repeated exposure to different points of view and different styles of play.
Honesty. If you cheat at die rolls or other aspects, you can become distrusted and ostracized.
Timeliness. Force others to wait for you and you'll probably hear about it; if they play anyway you'll miss out on some fun (and praps rewards).
And of course the easy ones... speaking, thinking logically, using math, vocabulary improvement, etc. (and psst... personal hygiene)
For a player, I think the following skills are greatly improved:
Imagination: Mostly for DnD-like RPGs. In DnD, your actions are almost limitless. If you can think if it, you can try to do it. If you have a decent DM and good confidence in your rolls, you can achieve remarkable things. Out-of-the-box thinking is critical in almost all of today's well paying jobs.
Focus: If you don't focus on your fight, you'll probably miss some great opportunities. Or the DM will take special interest in you.
Decision-making: In most RPGs, you have to make decisions that will change the course of the story. RPG players soon learn that making informed decisions based on past facts will help them do better decisions in the future.
Ambition: If there's one thing that's clear in RPGs, it's that hard work improves your character. Harder you work, the faster he becomes powerful. Sadly, some players only stick to that philosophy in the game and don't apply it in real life. But it works the same everywhere. Hard work is always rewarding.
The ability to react to unforeseen circumstances rapidly, and not to panic when things go south.
For a GM, this is an even more pronounced asset. The ability to "wing it" without showing it when players attempt something unplanned, comes in very useful in any non-trivial project in work and leisure.
Being well read. It encourages you to research various cultures, technologies, and other topics - I've read up on medieval demographics for D&D, read African explorers' journals for pulp, Japanese myths for Asian-themed games, etc.
Real world rules exploitation. Whether it's health insurance, corporate America, contests, or the IRS, a solid understanding of how to min-max the system contributes to your success!
Lateral Thinking Slightly different to critical thinking. Problems faced in gaming encourage players to look at alternative ways to get around a problem rather than the obvious head on approach. Several times groups of players I've run for or been with have ignored the immovable door and blown a hole in the wall, dug under it, teleported past it or marched off to convince a guard to let them through rather than wasting energy on a direct battering on the door instead.
This does has other knock on effects however, in a LARP when myself and a friend received a brief to "be guards and stall the players" we engaged them in a half hour discussion about the joys of ferret farming which the players somehow decided was vital to the plot before the GM came back to see why it was taking so long for them to just beat us up...
for a gm, the benefits are the most outstanding, because knowing how to A> Wrangle Cats and B> entertain small children (or the equivalent) is a handy enough skill. It also helps with C> Public Presentation and D> General Social Interactions.
For a player all those skills are still available, but at a slightly lesser clip.
In general I find the use of imagination and creative problem solving to also be useful end results , if terribly hard to quantify.
Primarily I include 3 major skills towards what an RPG offers the players beyond a way to have fun.


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MIAMI — The road trip is finally over, but will the losing end?
The Mariners believe it will. They've said all the right things as the losing streak went from four to five and now six games with Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins at Globe Life Park.
"It's all right, we'll get out of this," said reliever Tom Wilhelmsen, who took the loss. "We are a much better team than this. There is no other way to feel either. We know what we have going here. It's just a bump in the road."
They aren't panicking. They aren't pressing. They also aren't playing well or winning.
And manager Lloyd McClendon was frank about the solution to fixing it.
"The only way we are going to snap out of this if our guys start performing a little better," McClendon said. "It was a great game, but we had some opportunities to get some things done and we just didn't do it."
The Mariners played with a lead much of the game, getting a run in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from Justin Smoak and a run in the fourth on a sac fly from Dustin Ackley. But there was an uneasy feeling to that lead. With an overworked bullpen, that would have to be used extensively because of starter Brandon Maurer's pitch limitations, two runs didn't seem like it was going to be enough.
And it wasn't.
Miami finally got to a tiring Maurer in the fifth inning, scoring a run on Donovan Solano's bloop single to right field to cut it to 2-1.
In the eighth inning, talented rookie Christian Yelich led off with a double off the left-field fence off of Charlie Furbush. McClendon went to right-hander Wilhelmsen to get out of the inning. Wilhelmsen got Marcell Ozuna to fly out and then intentionally walked the ultra-dangerous Giancarlo Stanton.
But Wilhelmsen's next walk wasn't intentional. He issued a free pass to Casey McGehee, not getting called strikes on a couple borderline pitches that McClendon and catcher John Buck felt could have been strikes.
"I was wanting to keep the ball low to get the double play," Wilhelmsen said. "Maybe some guys call them and some guys don't. I have to look at that and realize he's not calling them and make an adjustment."
With bases loaded, Wilhelmsen got Garrett Jones to hit a soft ground ball to first base. Justin Smoak fielded the slow hopper and fired home to try and get the speedy Yelich. Home plate umpire Ed Hickox ruled Yelich out. But at first glance it looked as though Yelich beat the throw. Marlins manager Mike Redmond appealed and it was overturned. The run counted and the game was tied at 2-2.
"I fielded it and threw it and he must have got a tremendous jump," Smoak said. "I think that hop gave him time to get there. I fielded it clean enough."
Wilhelmsen then gave up a sac fly to Adeiny Hechavarria that scored Stanton and gave the Marlins the 3-2 lead.
The Mariners had a good chance to tie it in the ninth. Corey Hart blooped a double into right-center off of Miami closer Steve Cishek to start the inning. Dustin Ackley then hammered a hard ground ball up the middle that seemed like a sure hit. But Hechavarria made a brilliant stop and fired to first to get Ackley. The play did allow pinch runner Brad Miller to move to third.
But most times that would an RBI single.
"That's what happens when you are in losing streaks like this," McClendon said. "It could have been a double."
Still, the Mariners had a runner on third with one out—a simple fly ball would likely be enough. Cishek walked Smoak, but then came back to strike out Nick Franklin for the big second out. McClendon turned to pinch-hitter Michael Saunders. Cishek struck him out to end the game and complete the series sweep.
The Mariners had chances to add on to the lead and didn't. The biggest opportunity came in the seventh when Seattle loaded the bases with two outs and called on pinch-hitter Kyle Seager to push a run across. He couldn't. Marlins reliever Carlos Marmol struck out Seager on three pitches to end the inning.
"We'll keep searching, keep working on it and hopefully get it right tomorrow night," McClendon said. "Our guys are going out and playing hard, but we just haven't gotten over the hump in the last six days."
Facing the Houston Astros (5-14 coming into Sunday) at Safeco Field could help them get over that hump. Having Felix Hernandez (3-0, 1.91 ERA) start on Monday helps more. They will ask him to do what No. 1 starters do—stop losing streaks.


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I need to study hard for a month, more than 10 hours/day. The problem is, I cannot concentrate on what I'm reading more than 15 minutes. I lose concentration easily while reading. the most important distracting thing is my laptop, I cannot keep it turned off for more than an hour. The moment I decide to to do so, things come to my mind which I need my laptop to do something about them.
How to get rid of distractions and focus on what I am reading?