Victoria Azarenka colapse update

Tenth-seeded Victoria Azarenka, who collapsed during her match against Gisela Dulko Wednesday, is still at a local hospital according to U.S. Open tournament referee Brian Earley. Earley said Azarenka retired from the match, where she trailed 5-1, "with headache-like symptoms. She was taken to a nearby hospital for diagnostic testing. Out of respect to her privacy, we can not give any more details. However, we can say that this does not seem to be primarily a heat-related illness."

Extreme heat rules are in effect, allowing women to take a 10-minute break after two sets and allows men to ask for medical timeouts if needed. There have been a couple of instances of cramping though most players have said so far that though the heat is noticeable it isn't impossible.

EMPEROR EMERALD FOUND IN NC

The nearly 65-carat emerald its finders are marketing by the name Carolina Emperor was pulled from a farm once so well known among treasure hunters that the owners charged $3 a day to shovel for small samples of the green stones. After the gem was cut and re-cut, the finished product was about one-fifth the weight of the original find, making it slightly larger than a U.S. quarter and about as heavy as a AA battery found from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm. The emerald compares in size and quality to one surrounded by diamonds in a brooch once owned by Catherine the Great, who was empress in the 18th century, that Christie's auction house in New York sold in April for $1.65 million

While big, uncut crystals and even notable gem-quality emeralds have come from the community 50 miles northwest of Charlotte called Hiddenite, there has never been one so big it's worthy of an imperial treasury

TRUE BLOOD SUPER HOT NAKED ROLLING STONE COVER

THEY'RE HOT! THEY'RE SEXY! THEY'RE UNDEAD!

Hunky True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgard gets his kit off for scenes in the sexy show, but unlike other actors he doesn't cover his manhood up!Swedish star Alexander Skasgard - who plays vampire Eric Northman in True Blood – doesn’t opt for a modesty saving “sock” like many of his fellow actors and insists he is happy to be nude on set.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. "To me, vampires are sex," he says. "I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed." On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one's neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Stephen Moyer — who plays Bill Compton, the undead Southern Civil War Veteran — "If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before. It's a de-virginization — breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that's pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive." He laughs a little. "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?" 

Guns N Roses AXL ROSE twitter account HACKED!

Festival organisers have confirmed that Axl Roses Twitter account was hacked and that Gun N' Roses will definitely be performing at this years Reading and Leeds festivals.

The bands appearance had been thrown into some doubt after Axl Rose appeared to claim on Twitter that all forthcoming GN'R tour dates had been canceled.
It has now been confirmed by the organizers of the Reading and Leeds festivals however that the Tweet was the result of a hack and that Axl Rose and his band mates will still be appearing at the festival as well as their planned tour dates.
A statement issued says:
"(We) are informed by GN'R management that Guns N' Roses have NOT canceled their performances at Reading & Leeds and that Axl Rose's Twitter account was hacked into and all claims of dates being canceled are unfounded."

AMERICAN IDOL: Fantasia Barrino Drug Overdose

American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino was hospitalized Monday night after overdosing on aspirin and a sleep aid. Barrino was rushed by ambulance to Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville in her hometown of Charlotte, N.C., at about 8:55 p.m. Monday, according to local media.

Her manager, Brian Dickens, released a statement Tuesday, saying Barrino’s injuries were not life-threatening and she would be released from hospital soon. “She was dehydrated and exhausted at the time,” Dickens said. “Fantasia is stable now.” But a North Carolina police report called the overdoes a “serious injury” and classified it as an attempted suicide, according to UsMagazine.com.

The 26-year-old, who won the TV singing competition in 2004, was recently named as the other woman in a divorced suit filed by a North Carolina woman. Paula Cook alleges that Barrino was her husband Antwaun Cook’s mistress and that the pair made sex tapes.

Dickens released a statement to TMZ saying Barrino is “certain that she is not responsible for the deterioration of Cook’s marriage.”

Dickens said Tuesday that Barrino “believed (Cook) when he told her he and Mrs. Cook separated in the late summer of 2009.” Dickens said Barrino was in love with Cook and the two dated “on and off for about 11 months.”

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SIKORSKY X2: PROJECT FIREFLY

Historically, vertical flight has required a compromise between hover performance and forward speed. If you look at efficiency vs. speed image on the right; the desired helicopter attributes (good hover efficiency, low speed controllability, low downwash, hover endurance) fall to the left of the plot. High disk loading aircraft such as Harriers and JSF, fall on the right of the plot: while fast, their hovering capabilities are limited, and their operational costs tend to increase due to the required power loading. Sikorsky is focused on creating an aircraft that operates to the right on this scale: providing more speed without compromising the essential attributes that make helicopters valuable.

The Sikorsky X2 TECHNOLOGY™ demonstrator aircraft will incorporate several new technologies and demonstrate them in a flight environment. These technologies include an integrated Fly-by-Wire system that allows the engine/rotor/propulsor system to operate efficiently, with full control of rotor rpm throughout the flight envelope, high lift-to-drag rigid blades, low drag hub fairings, and Active Vibration Control. In addition, the aircraft will be used as a 'flying wind tunnel' to determine the main rotor to propulsor aerodynamic interaction, shaft angle optimization for performance, and blade tip clearance for a range of maneuvers. This will allow optimization of the X2 TECHNOLOGY™ suite for future products.