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The much-anticipated video for the Eminem and Rihanna collaboration, "Love the Way You Lie," debuted before "Jersey Shore" last week and, much like the subject matter tackled in the song, the clip is explosive.
The video opens with Rihanna standing in front of what's revealed to be a burning house, before cutting to a couple, played by Hollywood bad girl Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan of "Lord of the Rings" and "Lost" fame. The pair are lying in bed together, seemingly content, until Fox notices the phone number of another woman written on Monaghan's hand.
It then takes a violent turn, with Fox spitting in Monaghan's face, punching him and then scuffling around until he puts his hand through a wall.
In a flashback, the video recounts the couple's courtship and tries to visualize how the destructive love-hate cycles that typify domestic violence relationships come to be.
"Baby please come back/ it wasn't you/baby it was me/maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems/maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano/all I know is I love you too much," Em raps as the song's slow burn builds to its tragic conclusion, with Fox, Eminem and Monaghan being engulfed in flames.
The song attracted buzz long before it hit the airwaves because both Eminem and Rihanna have been associated with domestic violence issues. Eminem vented frequently on past records about the troubled relationship he had with now ex-wife Kim, and Rihanna was beaten up by her ex, R & B singer Chris Brown, after an awards show.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, the pop star revealed why she participated in the project.
"[Eminem] pretty much just broke the cycle of domestic violence and it's something that a lot of people don't have a lot of insight on," she said. "So this song is really powerful and it touches a lot of people."
Monaghan said in a recent interview with HitFix what he thought Eminem was trying to convey with the song.
"Ultimately, what I think he's trying to say in the song...is that he should have walked away a little bit quicker than he did and not let it get as messy as it did," he said.
Fox declined payment for her participation, instead donating her earnings to Sojourn, a women's safe house in California that helps domestic violence victims.


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Both Shows Will Air Mondays on ABC Beginning in May
New Bachelorette Will Be Announced Live During "The Bachelor: After the Final Rose"
The hit reality romance series "The Bachelorette" will return to the ABC schedule, along with "Mistresses," a sexy new scripted drama, on Monday nights beginning in May.
"The Bachelorette," now in its ninth season, will premiere MONDAY, MAY 20 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network, before moving to its regular time slot of 8:00-10:00 p.m., ET the following week. The identity of the latest Bachelorette will be revealed during "The Bachelor: After the Final Rose," airing LIVE on MONDAY, MARCH 11 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET).
"Mistresses," starring Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan, will premiere MONDAY, MAY 27 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC. Based on the acclaimed UK series, "Mistresses" is a provocative new drama about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends, each on her own path to self-discovery
Additional summer scheduling information will be announced at a later date.
This season the hit romance reality series will feature its ninth edition with the lucky new Bachelorette getting to know 25 fortunate men via a series of social gatherings and exotic, romantic dates - some in groups, some individually. She will introduce some of the men to her family and will visit their hometowns for a slice of their lives in an effort to determine the man with whom she is most compatible. At the end of the journey, filled with drama and surprises against the backdrop of spectacular international settings and featuring innovative twists and special guest stars, the Bachelorette may quite possibly have found true love. But the big question is: After all of this, will she hand out her final rose? And if she does, will the final bachelor accept it and propose?
Hosted by Chris Harrison, "The Bachelorette" is a production of Next Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television. Mike Fleiss and Martin Hilton are the executive producers.
Based on the hit UK television series of the same name, "Mistresses" is a provocative and thrilling drama about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends, each on her own path to self-discovery: Savannah ("Savi"), a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life, both professionally and personally; Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josslyn; their friends April, a recent widow and mother of a ten-year-old daughter, and Karen, a therapist with her own thriving practice. These four friends find support and guidance with each other as they brave their turbulent journeys and life's storms of excitement, secrecy and betrayal, all the while bound by the complex relationships they've created.
"Mistresses" stars Alyssa Milano as Savannah ("Savi") Davis, Yunjin Kim as Karen Kim, Rochelle Aytes as April Malloy, Jes Macallan as Josslyn Carver, Brett Tucker as Harry Davis, Jason George as Dominic Taylor and Erik Stocklin as Sam Grey.
The series is executive-produced by Rina Mimoun ("Privileged," "Gilmore Girls"), K.J. Steinberg ("Gossip Girl"), Robert Sertner ("Revenge," "No Ordinary Family") and Douglas Rae ("Wuthering Heights," "Camelot," "Mistresses," "Raw," "Meadowlands"). The series is from ABC Studios.

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We've been subjected to some bad Kinect games this past year and a half. Maybe it's time for a really good one? I'm stepping on board the fully-mechanized Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor bandwagon, because here is a Kinect game that looks fun and—this is key—appears to use the Kinect sensor sparingly.
Have From Software and Capcom figured it out?
Take a look above at five minutes of June's Xbox 360-exclusive Steel Battalion , shot by me at PAX East in Boston this past weekend. The graphics on the TV may be hard to see, but I wanted people to be able to observe what the players do to control the game. They mostly use the Xbox controller. From time to time, they use Kinect-tracked gestures to literally reach beyond those controls.
My favorite touch: When you stand up from your chair, you are basically standing in your Steel Battalion mech, popping your head out of the hatch above to survey the landscape beyond the tank.
My second-favorite touch: The thing that happens around 1:50 into this video, though that's not part of the game. It's just a perk of shooting Steel Battalion on Easter Sunday.


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Game #41: Jays at Phils pregame
This is my first time at Citizens Bank Park, or in Philadelphia for that matter, and so far, so good. Tomorrow I may take a look at the Liberty bell or perhaps run the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art like Rocky. For now, though, I'll just get today's pregame blog (Interleague Play edition) out of the way:
Toronto (18-22) at Philadelphia (20-21)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Citizens Bank Park
Today's lineups:
Aaron Rowand, CF
Shane Victorino, RF
Jimmy Rollins, SS
Chase Utley, 2B
Pat Burrell, LF
Greg Dobbs, 1B
Wes Helms, 3B
Carlos Ruiz, C
Jon Lieber, P
Alex Rios, RF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Adam Lind, LF
Royce Clayton, SS
Sal Fasano, C
Dustin McGowan, P
NOTES: RHP Roy Halladay, who underwent an emergency appendectomy on May 11, has started to play catch. He threw on Thursday and Friday. … DH Frank Thomas was out of the lineup for the first time this season due to the National League format in Philly. Thomas is "our pinch-hitting specialist," as Toronto manager John Gibbons put it. … Remember C Rod Barajas? The catcher the Jays "signed" and then had back out of the deal? Well, he's played his way out of the starter's job for Philly, hitting just .174 in 16 games. … Overbay moved up tot he second slot because Gibbons' preferred to have Lind hit lower in case a double switch was needed later in the game. … The Yankees signed former Jays righty Pete Walker to a Minor League deal and the 38-year-old has been working out at the club's camp in Tampa.
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If you get a chance, you should check out the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at UPenn. The whole thing is amazing, but especially the Egpyt exhibit.
Once again, McGowan flirts with adequacy for 60 pitches. Against the one guy in the lineup to whom you should be able to throw fastballs down broadway, he gives up a walk. It looked to me like Helms came off the bag in the 9th, but it shouldn't have mattered.
Seems like poor Dustin had to hit a strikezone the size of a letter sized paper…
So many pitches that looked like good strikes were ruled balls by the homeplate ump


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Enfusion Live 19: Results!
Wednesday, 2 July 2014 | Carl
Enfusion's 19th event took place on June 29th from the The Troxy in London. In an evening filled with upsets and finishes, 23-year old Ismael Lazaar stole the show with a stunning knockout of Glory veteran Daniel Sam. It was a bewildering performance from the hometown favourite Sam, as he was constantly backed up by the much smaller man and offered little in terms of output besides a few left kicks to the body. After winning the opening two rounds, Lazaar put an end to Daniel Sam's night with a crushing left-hook early in the third round. It was a marquee win for the Moroccan prospect, who claimed the Enfusion Heavyweight World Title in the process.
In the co-main even of the evening, American Andrew Tate upset veteran Wendell Roche with a referee stoppage in the second round. Tate came out aggressive from the opening bell, peppering Roche with combinations, before putting him away early in the second round with a series of punches and knees. Not only did Tate become the new Enfusion 90kg world champion, but he was also named Fighter of the Night too.
Enfusion # 20 takes place on the 12th of July from Mallorca, Spain.
Heavyweight Enfusion World Title: Ismael Lazaar def. Daniel Sam via KO (Punch) round 3
90kg Enfusion World Title: Andrew Tate def. Wendell Roche via TKO (Referee stoppage) round 2
Ilias Bulaid def. Regis Sugden via Unanimous Decision
Sheena Widdershoven def. Lauran Huxley TKO (Corner stoppage) Round 1
Simon Santana def. Jose Varela via KO (punches) Round 1
Charlie Peters def. Ervin Wongsodimedjo via KO (punch) Round 2


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Early in the PlayStation 3's life on store shelves, Sony decided the best way to market the $499-and-up machine was through crying baby dolls and sterile white rooms, ads that shockingly came off as "arrogant." Thank goodness we're past that.
PlayStation Senior VP Peter Dille says that "whole positioning was a bit intimidating to people," according to a report from IGN. "Our research also showed that Sony could be perceived as arrogant," he adds, noting that the new Kevin Butler-starring ads—and a series of price cuts, natch—featuring the fake exec are working to turn things around. I'd say he's right, considering that thousands of PlayStation devotees are lobbying for Butler to present during the company's E3 showing.
"The arrogance I think has gone away," Dille said at last week's MI6 marketing conference. "We kind of gotten back to our mojo with the sense of humor that people came to know and love with early PlayStation advertising."
Agreed. If Sony doesn't milk this whole Kevin Butler thing for all its worth, we'll be horribly disappointed.


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(CNN) -- Heather Reynolds, the head of the nonprofit organization Catholic Charities, tells the story she heard from an 8-year-old girl from Guatemala who recently crossed the border without her family. "These kids were taken by drug cartels and others and would arrive back at their neighbors' dead with their organs cut out of them. Obviously, this little girl had seen stuff none of us could ever imagine."
The little girl's relatives hired a "coyote" to smuggle her into the United States. "On her journey here, she was sold as a sex slave. Finally escaping, this 8-year-old crossed the Rio Grande," said Reynolds.
The United States has a humanitarian crisis at its Southern border, as the number of unaccompanied children trying to enter the country has increased by 90% over just last year.
The Republicans are also trying to turn this into a political crisis by accusing the Obama administration and the push for immigration reform for enticing more undocumented immigrants. Once again, Republicans are bashing President Obama, this time by using suffering children as their political pawns.
Every parent can imagine it's not an easy decision to send your child with a stranger thousands of miles away to a foreign country. These are little kids, for crying out loud. That's not something you do because you want to, it's something you do because you have to.
Escalating violence in Central America is driving the new wave of migrating children. As the Los Angeles Times reports, "Although there has always been crushing poverty in Central America, violence in the region has escalated in recent years. For example, Honduras has the most murders per capita of any country. Drug cartels and gangs are at the root of the increased violence. Some of these children are fleeing gang initiations, according to several reports."
While historically most of the children who came to the United States illegally were from Mexico, that changed in 2013 when for the first time the number of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America eclipsed those from Mexico. Actually, the number of undocumented kids coming from Mexico has decreased in recent years.
Nonetheless, Republicans insist it's Obama's fault. Republican House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte said, "Many of the Obama administration's policies... have led to a surge of minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border." Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner alleged the President's "lax enforcement at Mexico's borders" are giving a "free pass" to immigrants trying to come to the United States.
These claims ignore the fact that President Obama has deported immigrants at a higher rate than President George W. Bush and is on track to have deported three million immigrants by the end of his presidency. One might call this rate of deportation inhumane or un-American, but no one could reasonably call it "lax" -- no one, that is, except Republicans fixated on attacking the President no matter what.
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, implicating the President's program of administrative relief for young immigrant "dreamers" brought to the United States as kids, accused the President of "incentivizing" unaccompanied children to migrate with the promise of "citizenship for anyone in the world who arrives illegally in the country by a certain age." Sessions said, "President Obama is responsible for this calamity."
Yet, the increase in unaccompanied children escaping Central American began back in 2009, long before President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
And for those who think that the United States should be even more aggressive in how it addresses the cases of kids who arrive here unaccompanied, it's worth noting that the current procedures for unaccompanied minors under our immigration system were created under President George W. Bush.
Could the prospect of comprehensive immigration reform be part of the lure? Perhaps, though in a study of 104 migrant children from El Salvador, only one mentioned the prospect of immigration reform as a motivation.
The White House has announced new steps to address the violence and poverty in Central America that is pushing children to migrate, including providing $9.6 million to help Central American governments repatriate citizens and additional USAID funds to reduce crime and violence in the region.
And if there is misinformation spreading in Central America about immigration relief for children crossing the border, possibly a deliberate misinformation campaign as White House sources suggest, the Obama administration will be actively working to counter this with correct information, including the fact that young people recently arriving in the United States do not qualify under DACA.
Although Republicans will continue to use this issue and other excuses to try to destroy the prospects for immigration reform, Democrats and the White House should keep pushing for reform, including a comprehensive path to citizenship.
Our government has made it incredibly treacherous to cross our borders. Yet, people still take the grave risk to do so in order to seek security and opportunity.
Currently, the avenues for legal immigration are largely backed up and broken, not keeping pace with the realities of why people migrate nor the needs of business in the United States that rely on their work.
Our broken system is only working for the criminal coyote networks that take advantage of immigrants' hopes. If we fix our immigration system, people will have reasonable and accessible avenues beyond crossing the hot desert in desperation.
Immigration reform is not the cause of the crisis at the border -- immigration reform is the solution. It would be nice if Republicans would face reality and be part of the solution instead of further exploiting these helpless kids in their endless vendetta against the White House.
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Visa Recharges Deal With IOC Through 2020
October 27, 2009: The International Olympic Committee has signed its second long-term extension marketing deal in as many months, unveiling a new alliance with Visa Inc. that would extend the financial firm's sponsorship of the Games for another eight years. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Visa's former deal was set to expire following the 2012 Summer Games in London, but the company now will remain the exclusive payment sponsor for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia; the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and 2020 Olympic Summer Games.
Omega extended its alliance with the IOC in September. Visa, which has been an IOC partner since 1986, joins Omega and Coca-Cola as the only current IOC "worldwide partners" with deals that run through 2020. Atos Origin, Panasonic and Samsung have extended their partnerships until 2016. General Electric, McDonald's and Samsung have contracts with the IOC that each currently run through 2012.
According to Visa, the new contract will enable the financial company "to deliver additional benefits to clients and their cardholders with expanded point-of-sale presence, exclusive acceptance programs for Olympic-related transactions and increased access to unique experiences for Visa clients to offer to their customers through Visa marketing programs." Visa also retains exclusive category rights to all 205 National Olympic Committees and their Olympic teams around the world. These rights include advertising and promotional use of Olympic marks and imagery from the Olympic Games as well as marks from the National and International Olympic Committees.
The renewal was unveiled during a formal contract signing ceremony in Moscow, Russia, attended by Visa Inc. group president Rupert Keeley and IOC president Jacques Rogge.
"The Olympic Games deliver tremendous global exposure and access to virtually every demographic group," Antonio Lucio, CMO for Visa Inc., said after the signing ceremony. "The Olympic Games also deliver tangible and proven business building benefits to Visa, its clients and partners. Client activation around the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which involved more than 573 clients in 41 countries, illustrates the universal appeal of this marquee property."
According to Gerhard Heiberg, chairman of the IOC marketing commission, "The staging of the Olympic Games, as well as the operations of the Olympic Movement as a whole, would not be possible without the support of our TOP Partners, and we are delighted that Visa will continue to be a key partner for the Olympic Movement. As an organization, Visa is a leader not only in the world of global payment technology, but also in its support for sports events and athletes around the world."
Lucio said Visa was already looking at 2016 while keeping its focus on 2010 and 2012. "With efforts in support of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games already underway, and London 2012 well into our planning stages, we are particularly excited about the opportunities that the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will provide. We look forward to working with partners in Russia , the Sochi Organizing Committee and the IOC to further build on our Olympic legacy and make the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games a global success.
"During the early days of our Olympic sponsorship, we focused on promoting our exclusive acceptance at the Games," Lucio added. "Today, we utilize the sponsorship platform to promote the advantages of using Visa instead of cash and check and to facilitate the development and advancement of the payment infrastructure in Olympic host countries."
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SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) - The Washington Nationals selected junior college slugger Bryce Harper with the No. 1 overall pick in the baseball draft Monday night.
Harper, 17, with prodigious power from the College of Southern Nevada, is one of the most-hyped players in draft history because of his eye-popping talent at the plate.
He hit .443 with 31 home runs and 98 RBIs in his first college season in a wood bat league, after skipping his final two years of high school and getting his GED.
"It was pretty difficult at the beginning, but you know, being around the guys I was around," Harper said, "all the guys I played in high school, my brother being around, it made it easier."
A year after taking similarly hyped right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the Nationals took Harper, who can play catcher but was announced as an outfielder at the draft site at MLB Network studios by commissioner Bud Selig.
"Frankly, I didn't think that it was that much of a surprise," Selig said while a few dozen fans cheered in the studio.
It wasn't, but where the Nationals plan to play him was.
Harper showed solid defensive instincts behind the plate and called pitches much of the time, but the Nationals think his bat could get to the majors faster if he plays outfield.
"I can get better out there, I think," Harper said. "Anywhere they need me, I'll play. I just want to make it and we'll see what happens when I get there."
Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo envisions Harper as a No. 3-type power hitter with a strong arm in right field.
"We're going to take the rigor and the pressures of learning the position, the difficult position of catcher, away from him," Rizzo said, "and really let him concentrate on the offensive part of the game and let his athleticism take over as an outfielder."
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Harper surpassed former big league pitcher Alex Fernandez, who went fourth overall to the Chicago White Sox in 1990, as the highest-drafted JUCO player.
Florida Gulf Coast left-handed pitcher Chris Sale, Collegiate Baseball's National Player of the Year, was taken by the Chicago White Sox with the 13th overall pick.
Sale was 11-0 with two saves and a 2.01 ERA in 17 appearances in his final season with the Eagles. He also racked up a nation's-best 146 strikeouts with just 14 walks for a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 10.4-to-1 for the year.
With the second overall pick, Pittsburgh selected hard-throwing Texas high school right-hander Jameson Taillon. He was considered by many as the top pitcher in the draft with a fastball in the mid- to upper-90s that overpowers hitters on a regular basis.
Baltimore went next and picked smooth-fielding Florida high school shortstop Manny Machado, who has drawn comparisons to Alex Rodriguez for his ability and background, and Cal State Fullerton shortstop Christian Colon went to Kansas City at No. 4. The spray hitter is tough to strike out, but not spectacular defensively and could end up at second base.
With the fifth pick, Cleveland took Ole Miss left-hander Drew Pomeranz, the Southeast-ern Conference pitcher of the year with the Justin Bieber haircut. The first college pitcher taken, the Rebels' career leader in strikeouts mixes a 90-94 mph fastball with a knee-buckling curve.
Texas A&M righty Barret Loux went sixth to Arizona, and North Carolina right-hander Matt Harvey was selected by the New York Mets at No. 7. Houston next took Georgia high school outfielder Delino DeShields Jr., son of the former big leaguer of the same name.
Florida high school righty Karsten Whitson went ninth to San Diego, and Texas-Arlington outfielder Michael Choice rounded out the top 10 picks by going to Oakland.
The draft's first- and supplemental rounds were to be completed Monday night, with rounds 2-50 selected over the next two days.
Harper is expected to seek a record contract through his adviser, Scott Boras, who last year negotiated a record-breaking four-year, $15.1 million deal with the Nationals for Strasburg. The top overall pick last June is scheduled to make his major league debut Tuesday, almost a year to the day after he was drafted.
The Nationals have until Aug. 16 to sign Harper, who has said he has plenty of options, including going back to Southern Nevada for another year if negotiations go awry.


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No, it's not Thursday but I'm posting this early for any of you who follow my blog.
Many of you may not have school age children and so you forgot that school supplies go on sale in July and August. I just read the Sunday ads. Well, there are pens, pencils (mechanical which are great for repositories), and notebooks (binders) of all sizes. Erasers of all types, some at 10 for $0.39, are great for those errors I make. Copy/printing paper at one store is $1.99 for 400 sheets. At my favorite office supply store, with my loyalty card and a rebate, I can buy 10 reams of paper, each 500 sheets, for an end cost of $9.99. That's $1 for 500 sheets of printer paper. (I think I'll find space in the bottom of a closet.)
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I've been sewing quite a bit and have fallen behind on posting. Since this is a long weekend, perhaps I'll get caught up.
First things first: a pattern review.
McCalls 6570
It's listed as a "Carefree pattern", which may have been true if I didn't find myself making things more complicated than they needed to be by trying to put my own stamp on everything only to have it backfire.
Once again this is a vintage pattern I got for $.50 at the second hand store.
Misses' Two-Piece Dress: Buttoned top A, B gathered into neckband has tie belt; top A has elbow length kimono sleeves gathered into bands; top B has extended shoulder line. Four-gore skirt has side zipper.
Pattern Sizing: 8-10-12. I made the 12
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it?
I changed it at the front closure, and it didn't look as narrow as the drawing, so not really.
Were the instructions easy to follow?
What I used of them, yes
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?
I liked the lines of the pattern, and it was a simple design (not many pieces). The arm bands were the perfect size so they slid over my elbows and back without restricting my bicep.As with many pattern illustrations, the final garment did not look as streamlined as shown, but generally, everything on the pattern fit together and nothing was missed. I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying it.
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Cotton crinkly plaid found at second hand store.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made:
I changed the front button-down to a short button placket using a men's polo pattern I have to work out the changes. I tried lengthening it about 4 inches so I could wear it with leggings, but it ended up looking like a victorian night shirt, so I curved in the sides about an inch at the waist and cut the bottom off at the original cut line. I started to add a 2" bias band to the bottom, but it was not looking good so I just hemmed it normally. I also added fusible interfacing to the sleeve bands which the pattern didn't call for. I cut the bands on the bias, so I felt they needed some stability.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
I don't know if I'll sew it again (right away anyway). I'd like to try the short sleeved version in a smaller size in a finer fabric with the buttons all the way down. I'll wait until I spot something that inspires me, otherwise, it's on to my many other patterns.
This is a well drafted pattern. As with all generously flowing designs, I think you have to have more curves to pull them off ie: larger waist to boob ratio. It would probably help to have a belt on it too. I'm curious to try it in a lighter fabric with more drape, but not now, I have other things to try!
Yikes! Horrendous panty-line.
Trying some outdoor shots since it's so nice out today...
Also showing the world how awkwardly and unflatteringly I can stand for a photograph. Super job Erin!
He looks sad
Probably because he has dirt in his mouth. Or maybe he's jealous that he doesn't have a large unflattering billowy shirt of his very own.
Really, he's sad because he's been looking at the grass jungle that is our front lawn for the last two months (our mower is broken).
I've also pledged to finish some UFOs, first up, my long forgotten bathing suit copy.
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That's not all! Are you a Guild member? A private room is gifted to your Guild by Kate. Use it for your Guild trainings, internals tournaments.. it's your
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IN FEBRUARY, RED HEARTS are not only a reminder of Valentine's Day, but also of American Heart Month. The Sew Red program by Bernina supports the American Heart Association's effort to raise funds for research and education about heart disease. Create the "CrossYour Heart" keepsake pincushion for all the important women in your life as a reminder of the importance of heart health. Go to americanheart.org for valuable health facts as well as more information on how to help.
• 1⁄4 yard of red print fabric (fabric A)
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• Matching all-purpose thread
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Use ¼" seam allowances.
From fabric A, cut two 4"-squares and one 7"-square. Position one fabric A 4"-square and one fabric B square with right sides facing, aligning the outer edges. Stitch one side. Press the seam allowance in one direction. Repeat with the remaining fabric A 4"-square and fabric B square.
Position the two pieced strips with right sides facing so that each square faces a contrasting square.Make sure the center seams match. Stitch one long edge. Press the seam allowance downward.
Position the heart pattern over the pieced square right side, matching the pattern intersection point with the seam intersection point.
Trace around the pattern outer edge. Flip over the pattern and trace around the outer edge again. Cut out the heart. Trace the heart pattern onto the fabric A 7"-square. Cut out the heart. Position the pieced and fabric A hearts with right sides facing, aligning the outer edges. Stitch around the heart perimeter, leaving a 2 ½" opening along one long side for turning.
Clip and trim the seam allowance.Turn the heart right side out. Stuff the heart with fiberfill, using a knitting needle or chopstick to push the fiberfill into the corners. Slipstitch the opening closed.
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Thread the needle with a double strand of thread. Knot the thread ends. Insert the needle at the pieced intersection point, bringing it out on the heart fabric A side. Bring it back up through the intersection point, pulling the thread to create an indentation. Repeat to secure the indentation.
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Goodbye Detroit
Six days in Detroit and I've seen two baseball games — can't say I anticipated that. On Thursday, the Tigers and Blue Jays decided it was too cold and windy to play the finale of their three-game set. Considering that they've cut the heat in the pressbox now, I'm going to have to agree with their decision.
"You've got to look at it, too, from the management point of view," Jays second baseman Aaron Hill said. "You're sending guys out there in 20 degree weather or whatever, the last thing you want to do is get somebody hurt. I hope we come back in a few months and it's a little warmer hopefully — if there's such a thing in Detroit."
There have been a few snow flurries flying around, but nothing close to a blizzard, and hardly any reason to even go looking for a shovel. The tarp has actually been removed from the field, too. Toronto won't be complaining, though. After A.J. Burnett's two-inning outing on Wednesday, the bullpen was taxed and wasn't about to get a break with Gustavo Chacin taking the mound today.
The relief corps and the rotation will all get an extra day now, though. The "snow out" caused some changed to the probable pitchers, too:
FRIDAY at Tampa Bay: LHP Gustavo Chacin (8 days rest)
SATURDAY at Tampa Bay: RHP Tomo Ohka (7 days rest)
SUNDAY at Tampa Bay: RHP Roy Halladay (5 days rest)
MONDAY vs. Kansas City: RHP A.J. Burnett
TUESDAY vs. Kansas City: RHP Josh Towers (9 days rest)
WEDNESDAY vs. Kansas City: LHP Gustavo Chacin
The Jays would prefer to keep Halladay on his normal five-day schedule, but they also don't want Ohka to get too far removed from his last outing, either. Also, this allows Toronto to have Halladay and Burnett fall back into the Nos. 1-2 positions in the rotation. Towers was upset that the postponed game — rescheduled for Sept. 10 — bumped his start on Sunday, because he hasn't pitched since March 31 and is eager to get back on the mound.
Also on Thursday, Toronto dealt RHP Francisco Rosario to Philadelphia for cash considerations. This was a move that wasn't hard to see coming. The Phils were scouting Rosario this spring, and the pitcher was out of options and without a job with the Jays. Toronto designated him for assignment last week.
HE SAID IT: "When we went out to the mound a couple times yesterday, I'd look at him like, 'What's wrong with you, man?' His hairs [on his arms] were sticking up. He was trying to act like he was tough or something." — Hill, joking about first baseman Lyle Overbay wearing short sleeves during Thursday's cold and windy contest
That's all for now. I'm taking some time off over the next few days and catching a flight back to Toronto in the morning. I'll be back at the blog next week. Until then…
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This year should be more exciting then last year. I'm hoping to see at least a wild card.
I like what I've seen so far. They are scoring 2 out runs, hitting with men on base, and if they get down by a couple, they just keep on coming. By and large, the pitching has kept us in striking distance, and should improve as the arms get tougher. The way they were flashing leather on Sunday looked like a playoff game was on the line. The only thing missing is a couple of 5-10 game streaks, and we will have to wait for those.


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BetterDoctor, the rapidly growing doctor search service, announced today its new iPhone app. The free BetterDoctor app helps consumers quickly find a quality doctor, dentist or optometrist based on their insurance plan and location. The BetterDoctor app includes 600,000 pre-screened doctors nationwide, and is now available on the App Store.
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"BetterDoctor makes doctor search simple," says Ari Tulla, CEO and Co-Founder of BetterDoctor. "It used to take hours to do the research before choosing a good doctor who accepts your insurance. Now it takes a couple of minutes. We have already helped hundreds of thousands of people find the right doctor, and the new iPhone app makes it even easier."
BetterDoctor data scientists have spent years building a proprietary doctor directory that combines information from hundreds of data sources. The team has built sophisticated big-data and machine learning algorithms to turn over a billion data points into the BetterDoctor verification system, where each BetterDoctor is validated against tight quality criteria including:
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BetterDoctor is a disruptive doctor search service that helps consumers easily find a quality doctor who accepts their insurance plan. BetterDoctor's mission is to simplify healthcare and make doctor search more transparent. BetterDoctor launched in September 2012 and is located in San Francisco. The company is funded by angel investors, doctors and the founding team.
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Levi Johnston is keeping it classy. Well, kind of.
Playgirl.com has dropped a teaser of Levi Johnston's anticipated "Playgirl" spread in a limited "full-frontal" exposure -- and like a security blanket, Levi Johnston, 19, uses his hockey stick to cross-check away his "puck."
Well-oiled in a classic black-and-white shot, Levi poses in clever angles to only show enough -- without revealing the goodies. Sorry, ladies, it's strictly PG-13.
Johnston was reportedly paid upwards of $100,000 for the "Playgirl" shoot, a massive paycheck for the kid who shot to fame after fathering Bristol Palin's baby during conservative mom Sarah Palin's vice-presidential campaign.
Levi and the Palin clan have waged a public war over little Tripp for the past several months, as Levi swore last week he'd drag the Palins into court to win custody of his kid.
Sarah Palin said on "Oprah" Monday she felt sorry for Johnston, who she said was doing "porn."


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Internships and Careers, Life, and Services
Students pursue internships at Grinnell to enhance their skill sets, assess their strengths, begin building networks, and apply their classroom knowledge in real-world settings.
You can pursue internship opportunities during the academic year or during the summer, with or without academic credit. We encourage you to meet with a career adviser for help preparing your internship-search documents as well as for identifying methods of securing internships.
The Pioneer Internship Database, an on-line resource, allows students to view internship sites where previous Grinnell students pursued internships.


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Redlands Classic - California
Our correspondent Leigh Hargrove (Pushbikes.ca) has called in a report from the final stage of the men's race.
The Sunset Road race for the men is 142 kilometres, consisting of two and a quarter laps of the criterium circuit, and then 11 laps of the 10.5 kilometre Sunset loop, with a major climb and descent each lap. Just as in the women's race, a break got away on the first climb - 13 riders in total. We do not have names of all 13 at this point, but some of the riders include Eric Wohlberg (Sierra Nevada), Jurgen Zan den Broeck (US Postal), Ben brooks (Jelly Belly) and Scott Moninger (Health Net), Gordon McCauley (Monex), Will Frischkorn (Colavita) and Jacob Erker (Team Seasilver). The gap reached a maximum of 2:10, but is currently at 1:30 with 3 laps remaining. Webcor is driving the vastly reduced peloton (no more than 30 riders), with assistance from Jittery Joe's Coffee. Also, Gord Fraser and Mike Sayers (both Health Net) are out of the race after suffering flats in the first lap.
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MILLBROOK, N.S. - Members of the Mi'kmaq First Nation will begin a four-day fast today in support of a northern Ontario chief staging a hunger strike near Parliament Hill.
Organizer Shelley Young says as many as 200 people could take part in fasts on Nova Scotia's Millbrook and Eskasoni reserves.
Young says by taking part participants will be sending a message that they want Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.
Spence has been on a hunger strike since Dec. 11 in an attempt to draw attention to aboriginal issues and to force a meeting with the prime minister.
Young says fasts are also being organized in other parts of Canada and are open to anyone who wants to take part.
The Nova Scotia fasts will be held until noon on Dec. 31.
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I got into Ace Combat 6 for the Xbox 360 far too late to get in on the hot, flightstick bundle action, and I've been regretting it for months now, especially considering the prices a used model of the special controller have been going for on eBay. Well these guys are going to feel awfully silly now as Namco Bandai announces the return of the Ace Combat 6 Flightstick bundle! Available exclusively at Best Buy, the pack comes complete with Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, the Hori Ace-Edge flightstick, a custom Xbox 360 faceplate, and a copy of the award-winning aerial combat documentary Speed & Angels. The total package retails for $149.99. Despite all of the large, useless hunks of plastic littering my living room area, I shall not be truly fulfilled until this flightstick rests on my coffee table, buried under a pile of WoW cards, video game wrapper plastic, and Mountain Dew cans. Thank you Namco Bandai.NAMCO BANDAI GAMES RE-LAUNCHES ACE COMBAT® 6 FLIGHTSTICK BUNDLE WITH EXCLUSIVE DVD Exclusively at Best Buy Stores, "Speed & Angels" Documentary Included in Bundle with Leading Flight-Combat Video Game and Critically-Acclaimed Flightstick Santa Clara, Calif., (October 21, 2008) – Leading video games developer and publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announced today that the Ace Combat® 6 Flightstick Bundle is once again available, exclusively at Best Buy retail stores nationwide. Including the critically acclaimed Ace Combat® 6: Fires of Liberation for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, HORI's exclusive ACE-EDGE™ flightstick and a custom Xbox 360 faceplate, the newly released bundle also includes an exclusive DVD of the award-winning flight combat documentary Speed & Angels. Speed & Angels follows two young aspiring fighter pilots as they follow their dreams of taking to the skies in F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Providing a behind the scenes look at the extraordinary people that pilot the world's most advanced fighter planes, the film was the recipient of the Audience Award at the 2008 Newport Film Festival and an official selection at the 2008 Sedona International Film Festival. Thrusting players into massive living battlefields, Ace Combat 6 lets players pilot cutting-edge real world aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor and A-10 Thunderbolt as they take on screaming enemy fighter jets, ground-based anti-air emplacements and hulking naval vessels. Up to 16 players can test their dogfighting skills online in a variety of multiplayer modes, including objective-based air raids and exclusive cooperative missions. Unanimously praised by critics and fans alike, Ace Combat 6 was chosen as one of Time Magazine's top 10 games of 2007 and lauded as "bigger, better and even more photorealistic than its predecessors" by USA Today. The Ace Combat 6 Flightstick Bundle with the Speed & Angels DVD is available exclusively at Best Buy locations nationwide and carries a suggested retail price of $149.99. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is available at retailers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $59.99 and is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB. For more information, please visit www.acecombatsix.com and www.speedandangels.com.
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No-Fuss Instagram Photo Backup With Grambacker for iPhone
More than several 'side-eyes' have been thrown at Facebook, I mean...Instagram for recently for disabling the ability to view photos in the Twitter stream, and changing its Terms Of Service in favor of what most thought was an attempt to monetize user's photos. As a result, some Instagram users got "all up in their feelings" and have made plans to ditch the uber-popular photo-sharing app. For those planning on deleting their accounts, or looking for a simple way to backup their photos for safe keeping, the Grambacker app for iPhone is a no-fuss way to backup Instagram photos to Dropbox.
Setting up the backup process is real simple. There are no additional options outside of connecting the app to your Dropbox account and/or opting to backup to your camera roll as well. Once you connect your accounts and start the backup process, the app creates a folder in your Dropbox account and pushes all the photos to that location. I'm a little anal, so I would have preferred the option of choosing where I wanted to save the photos. I'm assuming the developer wanted to keep the process as simple as possible.
While I was testing the service out, the backup process did get hung up several times and I had to start the process over. Not sure what the issue was, but just to be on the safe side, it's probably a good idea to have a strong network connection when backing up photos.
On the flip side, the app did keep the photos from the previous attempt, and it didn't create any duplicates. Speaking of which, when the app creates the filenames for the photos, a date/time-stamp is included so I could see exactly when I took the photos (Not surprising, my first Instagram photo is of a bowl of cereal) - That's a feature I would like to see implemented in the actual Instagram app.
I'm not sure If I'm going to join the "great migration" from Instagram, but it's nice to know that for $0.99 I can quickly and easily backup my Instagram photos.
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Today I tried a new recipe for blueberry muffins and I loved the outcome! I changed the recipe up a bit because I didn't have sour cream but I did have fat-free Greek Yogurt so I made them using the yogurt. Oh my... they were so great. The kids each ate two and wanted to go for 3, but I made them stop.
They make for a rich and tender muffin in which the blueberries are floating throughout. Don't be surprised by the thick batter. It doesn't pour like some muffin batters, but plops more like cookie dough. That is the way it should look.
Here's the recipe as I made them.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 large egg
1 cup sugar
4 tbsp melted and cooled unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups 0% Greek yogurt
1 1/2 cups small, fresh blueberries
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat to 350F. Spray muffin tin with PAM.
2. Whisk flower, baking powder and salt in medium bowl until combined.
3. Whisk egg in second medium bowl until light yellow. Add sugar and whist until thick and well combined, about 30 seconds. Add melted butter slowly in 2-3 batches, whisking between to combine. Add yogurt and whisk just to combine.
4. Drop batter into greased muffin tin filling 3/4 full. Bake until light golden brown and toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean... 25-30 mintues. Or 20 minutes on convect bake.
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Are you using Windows 8? Whether you love or hate Microsoft's reworking of its flagship operating system, you'll want to download Windows 8.1, which is available starting today. If you're already using Win8, this update is free.
To get it, go to the Windows Store. If you are running the Windows 8.1 preview, you might not see the update in the store. If so, use Internet Explorer to go to this page on Microsoft's website. It will provide you with a link to 8.1 in the store. You can also use that link if you're running an older version of Windows and are interested in getting information about upgrading.
Of course, the usual caveats apply – this is the first release of an updated operating system, so you'll want to make a backup of your critical files. Make sure you have installation downloads or media for your important programs. And be prepared to spend some time learning about Windows 8.1's new features. I recommend this slideshow by my buddy Ed Bott, which lays out the most important new features in the update, and Microsoft's FAQ about getting Window 8.1.
If you're frustrated or annoyed by Windows 8, here are the items that will be of most interest:
• The Smart button is back, kind of. Yes, there's now a Windows logo in the lower left corner of the traditional desktop, but it won't bring up the Start menu you knew and loved from old-school Windows. Instead, it takes you to the Windows 8 Start Screen. But right-clicking on gets you list of common and useful commands.
• Look for a small down arrow when you move your mouse or tap on a touchscreen device near the lower left side of the start screen. Tap or click it, and you'll get a complete list of all your apps, sorted by folder. This is similar to the old Program Groups, and some folks think it's a lot easier than using the tiles on the Smart Screen.
• Search, which was always the most useful part of Windows 8, is even better. Search now works across both your PC and the Web at the same time, making it much easier to find just what you want.
• The Start Screen is now much easier to customize, with more tile sizes and a simpler setup process.
• You now have more control over how multiple, full-screen Windows 8 apps are displayed, and they behave more intelligently. You can also have multiple windows of the same app open, such as two browser windows or two mail folders.
• Mail is also greatly improved. It gets drag-and-drop, and now works with IMAP as well as POP and Exchange.
• While switching between the tile-based Windows 8 Start Screen and the traditional Windows desktop remains jarring, it's now smoothed over by the fact that you can have the same wallpaper for both. It's a little thing, but it makes moving between the two a little less annoying.
I'll write more about it next week. If you've installed Windows 8.1, tell us what you think in the comments.


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Probably the only production of the Lion King musical that you will hear the unusual terms Hilo Hattie and Mahalo. Spoiler alert: listen closely to Zazu and Timon.
If you grew up loving the Disney original, then I highly recommend this show. And if you're in Hawaii, then you have until March 9, 2014 to do so. You'll find yourself mentally singing along. At the very least, check out the soundtrack.


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Robur the Conqueror/Chapter XVIII
The sea was as rough as ever, and the symptoms became alarming. The barometer fell several millimeters. The wind came in violent gusts, and then for a moment or so failed altogether. Under such circumstances a sailing vessel would have had to reef in her topsails and her foresail. Everything showed that the wind was rising in the northwest. The storm-glass became much troubled and its movements were most disquieting.
At one o'clock in the morning the wind came on again with extreme violence. Although the aeronef was going right in its teeth she was still making progress at a rate of from twelve to fifteen miles an hour. But that was the utmost she could do.
Evidently preparations must be made for a cyclone, a very rare occurrence in these latitudes. Whether it be called a hurricane, as in the Atlantic, a typhoon, as in Chinese waters a simoom, as in the Sahara, or a tornado, as on the western coast, such a storm is always a gyratory one, and most dangerous for any ship caught in the current which increases from the circumference to the center, and has only one spot of calm, the middle of the vortex.
Robur knew this. He also knew it was best to escape from the cyclone and get beyond its zone of attraction by ascending to the higher strata. Up to then he had always succeeded in doing this, but now he had not an hour, perhaps not a minute, to lose.
In fact the violence of the wind sensibly increased. The crests of the waves were swept off as they rose and blown into white dust on the surface of the sea. It was manifest that the cyclone was advancing with fearful velocity straight towards the regions of the pole.
"Higher!" said Robur.
"Higher it is," said Tom Tumor.
An extreme ascensional power was communicated to the aeronef, and she shot up slantingly as if she was traveling on a plane sloping downwards from the southwest. Suddenly the barometer fell more than a dozen millimeters and the Albatross paused in her ascent.
What was the cause of the stoppage? Evidently she was pulled back by the air; some formidable current bad diminished the resistance to the screws. When a steamer travels upstream more work is got out of her screw than when the water is running between the blades. The recoil is then considerable, and may perhaps be as great as the current. It was thus with the Albatross at this moment.
But Robur was not the man to give in. His seventy-four screws, working perfectly together, were driven at their maximum speed. But the aeronef could not escape; the attraction of the cyclone was irrestible. During the few moments of calm she began to ascend, but the heavy pull soon drew her back, and she sunk like a ship as she founders.
Evidently if the violence of the cyclone went on increasing the Albatross would be but as a straw caught in one of those whirlwinds that root up the trees, carry off roofs, and blow down walls.
Robur and Tom could only speak by signs. Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans clung to the rail and wondered if the cyclone was not playing their game in destroying the aeronef and with her the inventor - and with the inventor the secret of his invention.
But if the Albatross could not get out of the cyclone vertically could she not do something else? Could she not gain the center, where it was comparatively calm, and where they would have more control over her? Quite so, but to do this she would have to break through the circular currents which were sweeping her round with them. Had she sufficient mechanical power to escape through them?
Suddenly the upper part of the cloud fell in. The vapor condensed in torrents of rain. It was two o'clock in the morning. The barometer, oscillating over a range of twelve millimeters, had now fallen to 27.91, and from this something should be taken on account of the height of the aeronef above the level of the sea.
Strange to say, the cyclone was out of the zone to which such storms are generally restricted, such zone being bounded by the thirtieth parallel of north latitude and the twenty-sixth parallel of south latitude. This may perhaps explain why the eddying storm suddenly turned into a straight one. But what a hurricane! The tempest in Connecticut on the 22nd of March, 1882, could only have been compared to it, and the speed of that was more than three hundred miles an hour.
The Albatross had thus to fly before the wind or rather she had to be left to be driven by the current, from which she could neither mount nor escape. But in following this unchanging trajectory she was bearing due south, towards those polar regions which Robur had endeavored to avoid. And now he was no longer master of her course; she would go where the hurricane took her.
Tom Turner was at the helm, and it required all his skill to keep her straight. In the first hours of the morning - if we can so call the vague tint which began to rise over the horizon - the Albatross was fifteen degrees below Cape Horn; twelve hundred miles more and she would cross the antarctic circle. Where she was, in this month of July, the night lasted nineteen hours and a half. The sun's disk - without warmth, without light - only appeared above the horizon to disappear almost immediately. At the pole the night lengthened into one of a hundred and seventy-nine hours. Everything showed that the Albatross was about to plunge into an abyss.
During the day an observation, had it been possible, would have given 66° 40' south latitude. The aeronef was within fourteen hundred miles of the pole.
Irresistibly was she drawn towards this inaccessible corner of the globe, her speed eating up, so to speak, her weight, although she weighed less than before, owing to the flattening of the earth at the pole. It seemed as though she could have dispensed altogether with her suspensory screws. And soon the fury of the storm reached such a height that Robur thought it best to reduce the speed of her helices as much as possible, so as to avoid disaster. And only enough speed was given to keep the aeronef under control of the rudder.
Amid these dangers the engineer retained his imperturbable coolness, and the crew obeyed him as if their leader's mind had entered into them. Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans had not for a moment left the deck; they could remain without being disturbed. The air made but slight resistance. The aeronef was like an aerostat, which drifts with the fluid masses in which it is plunged.
Is the domain of the southern pole a continent or an archipelago? Or is it a palaeocrystic sea, whose ice melts not even during the long summer? We know not. But what we do know is that the southern pole is colder than the northern one - a phenomenon due to the position of the earth in its orbit during winter in the antarctic regions.
During this day there was nothing to show that the storm was abating. It was by the seventy-fifth meridian to the west that the Albatross crossed into the circumpolar region. By what meridian would she come out - if she ever came out?
As she descended more to the south the length of the day diminished. Before long she would be plunged in that continuous night which is illuminated only by the rays of the moon or the pale streamers of the aurora. But the moon was then new, and the companions of Robur might see nothing of the regions whose secret has hitherto defied human curiosity, There was not much inconvenience on board from the cold, for the temperature, was not nearly so low as was expected.
It seemed as though the hurricane was a sort of Gulf Stream, carrying a certain amount of heat along with it.
Great was the regret that the whole region was in such profound obscurity. Even if the moon had been in full glory but few observations could have been made. At this season of the year an immense curtain of snow, an icy carapace, covers up the polar surface. There was none of that ice "blink" to be seen, that whitish tint of which the reflection is absent from dark horizons. Under such circumstances, how could they distinguish the shape of the ground, the extent of the seas, the position of the islands? How could they recognize the hydrographic network of the country or the orographic configuration, and distinguish the hills and mountains from the icebergs and floes?
A little after midnight an aurora illuminated the darkness. With its silver fringes and spangles radiating over space, it seemed like a huge fan open over half the sky. Its farthest electric effluences were lost in the Southern Cross, whose four bright stars were gleaming overhead. The phenomenon was one of incomparable magnificence, and the light showed the face of the country as a confused mass of white.
It need not be said that they had approached so near to the pole that the compass was constantly affected, and gave no precise indication of the course pursued. Its inclination was such that at one time Robur felt certain they were passing over the magnetic pole discovered by Sir James Ross. And an hour later, in calculating the angle the needle made with the vertical, he exclaimed: "the South Pole is beneath us!"
A white cap appeared, but nothing could be seen of what it bid under its ice.
A few minutes afterwards the aurora died away, and the point where all the world's meridians cross is still to be discovered.
If Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans wished to bury in the most mysterious solitudes the aeronef and all she bore, the moment was propitious. If they did not do so it was doubtless because the explosive they required was still denied to them.
The hurricane still raged and swept along with such rapidity that had a mountain been met with the aeronef would have been dashed to pieces like a ship on a lee shore. Not only had the power gone to steer her horizontally, but the control of her elevation had also vanished.
And it was not unlikely that mountains did exist in these antarctic lands. Any instant a shock might happen which would destroy the Albatross. Such a catastrophe became more probable as the wind shifted more to the east after they passed the prime meridian. Two luminous points then showed themselves ahead of the Albatross. There were the two volcanos of the Ross Mountains - Erebus and Terror. Was the Albatross to be shriveled up in their flames like a gigantic butterfly?
An hour of intense excitement followed. One of the volcanoes, Erebus, seemed to be rushing at the aeronef, which could not move from the bed of the hurricane. The cloud of flame grew as they neared it. A network of fire barred their road. A brilliant light shone round over all. The figures on board stood out in the bright light as if come from another world. Motionless, without a sound or a gesture, they waited for the terrible moment when the furnace would wrap them in its fires.
But the storm that bore the Albatross saved them from such a fearful fate. The flames of Erebus were blown down by the hurricane as it passed, and the Albatross flew over unhurt. She swept through a hail of ejected material, which was fortunately kept at bay by the centrifugal action of the suspensory screws. And she harmlessly passed over the crater while it was in full eruption.
An hour afterwards the horizon hid from their view the two colossal torches which light the confines of the world during the long polar night.
At two o'clock in the morning Balleny Island was sighted on the coast of Discovery Land, though it could not be recognized owing to its being bound to the mainland by a cement of ice.
And the Albatross emerged from the polar circle on the hundred and seventy-fifth meridian. The hurricane had carried her over the icebergs and icefloes, against which she was in danger of being dashed a hundred times or more. She was not in the hands of the helmsman, but in the hand of God - and God is a good pilot.
The aeronef sped along to the north, and at the sixtieth parallel the storm showed signs of dying away. Its violence sensibly diminished. The Albatross began to come under control again. And, what was a great comfort, had again entered the lighted regions of the globe; and the day reappeared about eight o'clock in the morning.
Robur had been carried by the storm into the Pacific over the polar region, accomplishing four thousand three hundred and fifty miles in nineteen hours, or about three miles a minute, a speed almost double that which the Albatross was equal to with her propellers under ordinary circumstances. But he did not know where he then was owing to the disturbance of the needle in the neighborhood of the magnetic pole, and he would have to wait till the sun shone out under convenient conditions for observation. Unfortunately, heavy clouds covered the sky all that day and the sun did not appear.
This was a disappointment more keenly felt as both propelling screws had sustained damage during the tempest. Robur, much disconcerted at this accident, could only advance at a moderate speed during this day, and when he passed over the antipodes of Paris was only going about eighteen miles an hour. It was necessary not to aggravate the damage to the screws, for if the propellers were rendered useless the situation of the aeronef above the vast seas of the Pacific would be a very awkward one. And the engineer began to consider if he could not effect his repairs on the spot, so as to make sure of continuing his voyage.
In the morning of the 27th of July, about seven o'clock, land was sighted to the north. It was soon seen to be an island. But which island was it of the thousands that dot the Pacific? However, Robur decided to stop at it without landing. He thought, that he could repair damages during the day and start in the evening.
The wind had died away completely and this was a favorable circumstance for the maneuver he desired to execute. At least, if she did not remain stationary the Albatross would be carried he knew not where.
A cable one hundred and fifty feet long with an anchor at the end was dropped overboard. When the aeronef reached the shore of the island the anchor dragged up the first few rocks and then got firmly fixed between two large blocks. The cable then stretched to full length under the influence of the suspensory screws, and the Albatross remained motionless, riding like a ship in a roadstead.
It was the first time she had been fastened to the earth since she left Philadelphia.


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The past few years have not been the most encouraging for the South African economy, with anaemic economic growth putting a dampener on business and investor confidence whilst political instability only serves to make matters worse.
Of course, the office market has not been immune to the economic climate and both investors and occupiers have had a challenging time. Rental growth rates in Waterfall have slowed and the office vacancy rate has increased to 12.3% in Q1 2017, a sturdy increase from 11.3% in Q4 2014 around the time when Waterfall opened one of its first offices.
It is within this climate that the market has seen an ongoing increase in new developments which has made investors somewhat nervous. Johannesburg's office development pipeline now sits at an estimated 793,700m2, a 7.5% increase in overall stock once these buildings come into completion over the next 2-3 years. Competition in the market is getting tighter and the gradual increase in vacancies correlates with the gradual increase in accommodation over the past two years as new completions have been added to the market.
What gives investors the confidence to continue to break ground?
There is that classic argument of the property business cycle: that investors should build ahead of an economic upturn in order to be well-positioned to take advantage of an economic boom when it happens. However, there have been factors that have worked against an economic recovery in SA contributing to GDP growth below 1% in 2016 and a similar figure expected in 2017. Looking at economic forecasts and our local business sentiment measures, it seems the economy is far from a recovery and the market is anticipating a period of stagnation. As a driver of office demand, employment growth is also not very promising at just 0.3% y/y in 2016.
Be that as it may, offices continue to mushroom in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, but more so in Johannesburg. Why? Could it be that in reality things in the market are not as bad as they may seem? Although employment in the Gauteng as a whole only increased by 0.4% in 2016, slightly higher than the national average, the City of Johannesburg actually recorded a much more encouraging 2.3%. This was largely driven by the financial and Business Services Sector, a major office occupier, which saw a 2.4% y/y increase in employment nationally and an encouraging 7.8% y/y in Gauteng alone. The sector in Gauteng province recorded a notable 81,000 increase in jobs in one year.
However, this is not to say that the sector is not under pressure. In fact, with improving office and business efficiencies the growth in office demand is no longer directly proportional to the growth in employment. Rather it is likely to increase at a decelerating rate to relevant employment growth. By way of example, the amount of accommodation required per head has declined with the increasing popularity of open plan office and hot-desks. This has come to play an important role in what occupiers look for in accommodation and what differentiates one asset from another.
It goes without saying that the best quality assets are likely to outperform the market. Although most nodes have seen increased vacancies, overall Grade P stock continues to maintain low vacancy rates at just 2.7% across the city. Waterfall entered the market with non-speculative offices for key tenants. Rental rates were low in comparison to Sandton at R180/m 2. Today Waterfall compares to well-established nodes such as Rosebank and Fourways, in some cases having higher asking rentals. Speculative developments have been well received with the node maintaining low vacancy rates.
What has driven the success of the node in a rather unfavourable climate?
In the prevailing economic climate, even occupiers who are prioritising quality and are keen on a move, are likely to be cost-sensitive. Improved efficiency justifies relocation expenditure. There are three factors which allow for greater efficiency in the Waterfall node that notably improve its attractiveness to occupiers.
First is the promotion of its locational advantage. Waterfall does not add anything significantly new in comparison to the nodes of Sunninghill and Woodmead which are in close proximity to the new business estate. The difference is that Waterfall has harnessed the advantage of the road networks in close proximity, providing centrality between Sandton, Centurion and Pretoria and the West Rand. This attribute, particularly attractive to the logistics enterprise, has allowed some businesses to consolidate warehousing and office space in the same location without producing a node that feels like an industrial area. Tenants such as Colgate have also been attracted to Waterfall due to the larger, younger and varied skills-pull within the radius, drawing talent from the northern, eastern and western suburbs – all with similar distances to Waterfall.
On softer issues, Waterfall presents itself as a place where employees would like to work. A key feature of Waterfall Business Estate lies in its urban design which provides a 'live, work and play' environment that is gradually taking form as individuals who either live or work in the precinct make greater use of its facilities, including walking tails and bicycle lanes which are not found in other business districts.
Second is the increased consolidation of business operations. Several occupiers have either combined their office and logistics operations into one location as indicated above, or consolidated multiple offices which were in different locations or buildings into one building. This is an important cost-saving element for occupiers which allows them to look at one, centralised corporate real estate transaction. The relatively larger size of the deal also give tenants some level of power in negotiation.
Lastly, is the commitment to both high-tech and Green facilities. Initially a heavy capital expenditure, green-buildings offer long-term cost benefits whilst also contributing to corporate responsibility. Corporates are placing a high priority on "going-green" and the use of technology, innovation and green features hold definite appeal for occupiers. More than a green building, Waterfall can be viewed as a "Green-Node" which may add to its locational advantages in time, setting it apart from other nodes.
In summary, the Johannesburg office environment is best described as a "tenant driven" market at the moment as landlords are competing for occupiers. Recent employment figures parallel to a rise in office vacancies suggest that even when demand recovers, it is not likely to have the same effect on office demand as it would have had in the past. Developers therefore need to be conscious of the changed mind-set of occupiers and the Waterfall Precinct remains a prime example of this.


text: Israel appears to gird for war as its defense establishment prepares the greatest military exercise in the history of the Jewish state. This exercise is expected to take place on June 2 and will involve testing the U.S.-Israeli developed missile defense system "Arrow" intended to deter missile attacks. An Israeli strike on approximately one dozen targets in Iran could come with hours or days of receiving orders, according to an Israeli defense official quoted in the The Times of London. The military is apparently awaiting the final go-ahead by the country's new civilian leadership under Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. This comes despite assurances issued just days before on April 15 in which Israeli President Shimon Peres had backtracked on earlier rumors of war, saying, "The solution in Iran is not a military one." Indeed, Peres has recently been quoted as confirming that if a diplomatic solution is not found soon, "we will strike." According to The Times of London, a senior Israeli defense official stated, "Israel wants to know that if its forces were given the green light they could strike at Iran in a matter of days, even hours. They are making preparations on every level for this eventuality. The message to Iran is that the threat is not just words." The Times is known to receive reliable forewarning of Israeli defense measures when the Israeli press is otherwise constrained from doing so. Iran is engaging in some sword-rattling of its own while President Ahmadinejad reviewed thousands of parading troops, ballistic missile batteries, and armoured vehicles in Teheran. The leader of the Islamic Republic said that his country is the strongest in the world and would not be intimidated by anyone. However, the missiles that Iran would presumably use against the Jewish homeland were not on display in Teheran. Israel was already taking initial defense measures in preparation for a retaliation by Iran and its other enemies should the Israeli military make its airstrikes. Two nationwide civil defense drills are expected within days to prepare the public for strikes on the Jewish homeland. Israel will conduct the exercise with U.S. forces to test the ability of Arrow, its U.S.-funded missile defense system. The exercise would test whether the system could intercept missiles launched at Israel. Adding a sombre note to preparations, Colonel Hilik Sofer told Haaretz, a daily Israeli newspaper, that the drill would "train for a reality in which during war missiles can fall on any part of the country without warning ... We want the citizens to understand that war can happen tomorrow morning". A raid by Israeli air forces could be risky and would require very accurate bombing runs intended to cripple Iranian nuclear facilities and defenses, such as its Russian-made S-300 radar-guided missile systems--not yet operational. The operational status of the S-300 was first reported as pivotal to Israeli military planners in The Cutting Edge News. Aircraft launched against Iran from Israeli airspace would have to cross over both Jordan and Iraq, where the United States has significant presence, observers theorize. Israel will probably rely on its three Airborne Warning and Control (AWAC) aircraft for the actual attack. Once given the go-ahead by its civilian leadership, Israel's airforce could be required to hit more than a dozen targets, including moving convoys. The sites include Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges produce enriched uranium; Esfahan, where 250 tons of gas is stored in tunnels; and Arak, where a heavy water reactor produces plutonium. The distance from Israel to at least one of the sites is more than 870 miles, a distance that the Israeli force practised covering in a training exercise in August 2008 year over Greece and the Aegean Sea that involved F-15 and F-16 jets, helicopters and airborne refuelling tankers. Greece has S-300 air defenses that are similar to Iran's, adding further realism to preparations for the blow against the Islamic Republic. The test of Greece's S-300 system was first reported The Cutting Edge News. Other preparations by the Israelis included a January 2009 air attack on a weapons convoy in Sudan bound for militants in the Gaza Strip. According to Ronen Bergman, author of The Secret War with Iran, "Sudan was practice for the Israeli forces on a long-range attack…", "They wanted to see how they handled the transfer of information, hitting a moving target ... In that sense it was a rehearsal." Many believe any strike on Iran cannot be compared to its attack on the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad in 1981. That strike destroyed the facility in under 100 seconds and was completed without Israeli casualties. Iraq's plans for a nuclear weapons future were stopped cold. But Iran's robust nuclear program is massively decentralized, substantially underground or masqueraded, and carries with it the likelihood of a massive missle retaliation by Iran and its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza. In his book, "The Plan," author Edwin Black, predicted that if Israel attacked Iran over its nuclear ambitions, Iran would immediately close the Strait of Hormuz, causing an oil interruption which would throw the U.S. and Weestern economies into chaos. The United States has no contingency plan for such an oil interruption and despite the threat has not begun planning for one. Within the U.S. military establishment, there is some concern that such an attack on Iran's nuclear weapons facilities would be ultimately unsuccessful. There are predictions that a strike on the approximately one dozen sites in Iran would only delay is nuclear program by two or three years. A senior Israeli defense official expressed the opinion that a raid on Iran would be unlikely without approval of the Obama Administration that, even now has sent senior envoy George Mitchell for talks in Jerusalem. According to an Israeli defense official, "Israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate the threat of a nuclear Iran. According to Israeli Intelligence they will have the bomb within two years ... Once they have a bomb it will be too late, and Israel will have no choice to strike — with or without America." http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11264&pageid=17&pagename=News Seems more like saber rattling to me than an imminent act...I dont think Israel will get into a full scale conflict without the backing of the United states and/or the UN


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This daunting term is almost meaningless. It simply means that hormones are fluctuating in women during their later reproductive years. Perimenopause can last for many years, during which time a woman is still capable of conceiving. One study reported that when a woman enters perimenopause, she still has, on average, ten thousand eggs remaining. It isn't until a woman has been without a period for one year that she is considered to be in menopause. Then she is no longer capable of bearing children with her own eggs.
This transition occurs at multiple levels - ovarian output fluctuates; blood flow to the ovaries diminishes, and the biopotency of the FSH molecule changes. The hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis becomes more delicate.
According to Chinese medicine, this is one of the most rich times in a woman's life. Although she may experience symptoms of this transition - like reduced libido, decreased cervical fluid, irregular menstruation, moodiness, insomnia, hot flashes and night sweats, these are not considered symptoms of disease. They are an invitation as the energies shift from a focus on lower reproductive output to one where the spirit dominates.
Most all energetic transitions will produce symptoms. When you know that they are natural and necessary, they will become less problematic. When they are resisted, it exacerbates liver qi stagnation, aggravating the symptoms. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can help ease this transition and reduce symptoms, while one is trying to conceive.
Reducing sugar, wheat and refined carbohydrates helps the metabolic changes. Supplement with essential antioxidants, minerals, CoQ10, and fish oil. Light exercise like walking, biking, or swimming helps reduce depressive symptoms, especially when performed out of doors. Inner body meditations can help ease symptoms of anxiety. Perform the femoral massage daily before ovulation if you are still trying to conceive. We also have formulated a Fertile Soul herbal blend to assist and enhance fertility during this time.