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Good day, I've been using Atahualpa theme for some time. I've just started trying out various reading/book list plugins and one I found, My Reading Library, does some odd things.
When you click the link to take you to the library page, it looks like you get the left hand column included as a footer. I've tried putting it on the left and the right hand side, but this effect continues to happen.
Additionally, if you click on the "Complete Library" button the page comes up but There is an error at the foot of the page.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function weaver_put_wvr_widgetarea()
Now I'm absolutely hopeless at editing PHP pages. Also the author's page has sort of gone away.
Is there a setting in the theme I can change to correct these two issues?
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text: It could put an end to end-to-end encryption in services such as WhatsApp: The U.K. government wants telecommunications providers to help it tap their customers' communications, removing any encryption the provider applied.The government's desires are set out in a draft of the regulations obtained by Open Rights Group (ORG), which campaigns for digital civil rights."These powers could be directed at companies like WhatsApp to limit their encryption. The regulations would make the demands that [Home Secretary] Amber Rudd made to attack end-to-end encryption a reality. But if the powers are exercised, this will be done in secret," said ORG executive director Jim Killock.The draft of the Investigatory Powers (Technical Capability) Regulations 2017 was circulated by government officials as part of a "targeted consultation" of some of the organizations that would have to comply with the law, the group said.Its requirements will apply to fixed and mobile phone networks, but also the operators of cloud-based messaging services and social networks, according to an analysis of the law by Bird & Bird last November, when the act received royal assent.Operators with over 10,000 users in the U.K. will have to modify their systems to provide government officials with on-demand access to their customers' communications, according to the draft regulation revealed Friday.Previous surveillance laws in the U.K. have required operators to provide just the communications metadata, information about who is calling whom, when and where. This time, though, the government also wants operators to provide the content of their customers' communications in an intelligible form, and "to remove electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the telecommunications operator."That, said ORG, could allow the government to compel companies to introduce backdoors to end-to-end encryption, or put in place other security weaknesses, with little accountability.There will be no pleas of "Sorry officer, the surveillance system broke," as the draft regulation calls for the spying apparatus to be at least as reliable as the rest of the network.Much of the Investigatory Powers Act -- and thus the draft regulation implementing it -- applies to companies worldwide as long as one end of the communication is in the U.K., although the government may have difficulty enforcing it, Bird & Bird noted in its analysis of the law.We seek your comments, head to our Facebook page.


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On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court took up the question of whether California's ban on same-sex marriage violates the Constitution.
Outside, Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo spoke at a rally supporting same-sex marriage.
"First and foremost, I have to say I'm not here as a Baltimore Raven," Ayanbadejo said, via Erik Brady of USA Today. "I'm actually here as a patriot -- as a patriot to uphold the Constitution of the United States. . . .
"So this is a fight that we've seen here before, we've been here before. How is this any different than Loving v. Virginia?" he added, in reference to the case that scuttled bans on interracial marriage.
"Luckily, I'm a child of the '70s, because in some states in the '60s, I wouldn't be here. So I'm a testament to progress. I'm a testament to things are changing. Love is always going to win the game," Ayanbadejo said.
A ruling is expected in June. But the very early indications aren't promising.
Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative with a cousin in attendance who wants to marry her partner, offered this confusing comparison while questioning one of the lawyers: "If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend. I suppose you can force the child to say 'this is my friend,' but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend. And that's, it seems to me, what [supporters] of Proposition 8 are saying here. All you're interested in is the label, and you insist on changing the definition of the label."
Whether the definition changes depends on what the definition is. Does "marriage" reflect a committed union of two persons of different genders, or simply two persons?
The word "friend" doesn't imply a gender. Should the term "spouse"?
That's easiest way to address concerns that same-sex marriage would result in a union between a man and a dog or a man and a sandwich. Defining the term as a marriage between two persons would prevent the parade of horribles that so often is cited by those who opposed same-sex marriage.
My own views on the subject flow from apathy regarding the private business of others and stubbornness regarding our inalienable right to pursue happiness. If it makes people of the same gender happy to be married, why should that bother me or anyone else?


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Monday, August 31, 2009
For Office Supply Addicts: 10 Pencil Cups
I'm still a fan of using coffee mugs as pen holders; many of us have way more mugs than we need, so why not put one to another good use? But if you'd like a pencil cup that isn't a coffee mug, look at the following options!
Let's start with these beautiful pencil holders from Galison/Mudpuppy. The patterns come from woodblocks in the Victoria and Albert museum; not surprisingly, the museum shop also sells these pencil cups. Update on Jan. 22, 2013: I'm no longer seeing these pencil cups of the V & A web site, or the Galison/Mudpuppy web site.
I'm also very fond of these pretty pencil cups from SuzyJack, available in six patterns, and made with recycled paper. They come with 22 pencils, too.
Thomas Paul also makes nice pencil cups, available from See Jane Work, RedStamp.com and doe. Update on Nov. 7, 2010: These pencil cups are no longer available.
Heading out to Australia, we can find this cloth pencil cup from kikki.K. Update on Jan. 22, 2013: The company no longer sells this pencil cup.
And this is just one of the many beautiful pencil cups made by Il Papiro, in Firenze.
Over on Etsy, Little Black Duck sells these suede storage bags which readily serve as pen pots. [via Apartment Therapy] Update on Nov. 7, 2010: I no longer see these at Little Black Duck.
Want something funkier? Etsy seller Monkey Travel Club has this monkey pencil cup; there's also an owl version. Update on Jan. 22, 2013: I'm no longer seeing this pencil cup.
Staying with critters for a moment, we have this oriole pencil cup. (I wish the whole collection were available!) [via Sparkle Paradise] Update on Nov. 7, 2010: I can no longer find any source for these pencil cups.
Here's a different sort of hand-crafted wood pen holder.
And finally, here's a totally different pencil holder.
Related Posts:
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Pencil Cups, Round 3: Two More I Had to Share
[photo at top of post by Lex in the City, licensed under Creative Commons]
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Labels: organizing products, organizing the office
Saturday, August 29, 2009
August 2009 Organizing Tips & More
My August 2009 newsletter is now available.
Tip of the Month: Organizing for the Real You
Organizing Product of the Month: PJ Pocket Pillow - on sale, half off!
Also included: Organizing Event of Next Month, Organizing Statistics of the Month, and Recycling/Reuse Information of the Month
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Spicing Up Those Sliding Closet Doors
Tired of your basic boring closet doors? Armadi closets, based in Florida, can provide a whole range of alternatives; see the company's wonderful closet door photo gallery.
The Sliding Door Company has just what you'd expect!
A Way With Furniture, in the U.K, provides bespoke wardrobe sliding doors.
And Robe Design in Ireland has some pretty eye-catching sliding wardrobe doors.
Another fun alternative is a shoji sliding closet door. Here's a typical one, from Berkeley Mills. Another company making such doors is Cherry Tree Design
Or you could get a wilder one; this one also comes from Berkeley Mills.
Don't want to buy new closet doors? You could consider painting or wallpapering the doors you have.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
3 Unusual Ways to Use the Walls
Professional organizers are always looking for unused storage space - and sometimes that means looking at the walls. Depending on your needs, you might want to add some shelving - or some sort of memo board. But here are some other fun ways to use the walls.
Let's start with the koala pouch shown above; there's a pelican version available, too. [via Inhabitots and Apartment Therapy] Update on August 15, 2011: I can no longer find these products.
If you're into retro stuff, you might like uten.silo from Vitra, a plastic design from 1969-1970, still available for purchase. It comes in two sizes and three colors - white, black, and red. It's widely available.
And since it's been two years since I first mentioned Droog and the strap, by NL Architects, it's time for a reminder about this unusual product. Here's another site selling the strap; it has a different picture, which might be helpful.
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Labels: organizing products
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Magnetic Boards in a Multitude of Styles
Prefer a magnet board to a bulletin board, a memo board or a chalk board? Let's look at some of your options - starting with this Union Jack magnetic notice board.
You could go for a simple round magnet board - in eye-catching red. (Those magnets - in your choice of four colors - are sold separately.)
Or maybe you'd prefer a not-so-simple round magnetic board. Update on Sept. 5, 2010: These came from Oliblock, and it seems they are no longer being sold.
This Old Bakery magnet board is made from recycled metal. Update on Feb. 20, 2011: Or so said the site I originally found it on - which no longer sells this item. The site I've now found it on doesn't indicate if it's recycled metal or not.
The Macbeth Collection has magnetic boards in well over 100 designs.
This magnetic board has a pegboard-style design lets you use hooks and other accessories. Update on Sept. 5, 2010: Topdeq is no longer selling its products in the United States, but it does sell in many European countries. I've linked to the French site, but there are a number of others.
And then there are the magnetic boards available from a number of Etsy sellers, all of whom offer a number of patterns, and many of whom provide matching magnets - sometimes included, sometimes for an extra fee. This magnetic board comes from Design4u. Update on Feb. 20, 2011: I'm no longer seeing magnetic boards at this site.
This fabric magnet board comes from Stick To It.
Magnetic Memories makes fabric-covered magnetic boards in four sizes. Update on Sept. 5, 2010: This Etsy shop no longer exists.
Here's a magnet board from TootsbeeZ. Update on Sept. 5, 2010: This Etsy shop no longer exists.
And finally, there are the many lovely magnetic boards from Steel Dreaming Design.
Related Post:
Magnetic Boards: Beyond the Refrigerator Door
Other Options: Hardenbrook Studio makes some lovely magnet boards, which come with magnets that match the theme of the board. You can get many of them through Elizabeth's Embellishments. Unfortunately, the pictures of the boards have a copyright notice, so I can't include a picture here.
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Labels: organizing products
Sunday, August 23, 2009
For Office Supply Addicts: Scissors That Won't Get Lost
A place for everything, and everything in its place. These scissors all come with their own holders - so "their place" is pretty obvious. First up is the Edward Scissors Caddy, from Koziol.
The Anything Scissors are sold by Paul Smith in the U.K. and by Rare Device and Unica Home in the U.S., among others. They comes in yellow as well as orange. [via Switched On Set]
Pylones has these scissors with the bunny holder.
And here are some rabbit scissors where the scissors stand on their own! They come in four different colors.
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Labels: organizing products, organizing the office
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Woodworking Gallery in Half Moon Bay: Stunning Storage and Other Organizing Products
I've been admiring the many lovely wood items at Gallery M for ages now - and have bought some smaller items. It's a gallery dedicated to high-quality woodworking, carrying the work of many different artisans. So I don't know why I never thought of featuring the many storage options available at this remarkable store until I walked into the place on Friday.
Owner Andreas Strieve was kind enough to send me some great photos - so you'll be seeing a combination of my snapshots and his much better photos.
There are a number of stunning furniture pieces, such as this hope chest - as well as various chests of drawers, and nightstands, and desks with drawers.
But I'm going to mostly focus on the smaller items. One that really caught my eye was the charging station, which handles five items. The one I saw cost $149. It comes in a number of different woods, as you can see.
And then there are the beautiful wood jewelry boxes.
The interiors are lovely, too!
This one doesn't look like much when it's closed - it's just a wood cube. But when it's opened - oh my!
You can get small boxes, like these.
Or a large jewelry chest, like this one.
And it's not just about how beautiful these are, but also how well-made - something you can't convey through pictures on the web.
Related Post:
Support Your Local Woodworker
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Do You Have Room for the Mediocre?
Some of my clients, who have abundant lives, have homes they find distressing because there's just too much stuff. I've often asked people, "Do you love that thing, or is it just OK? And do you have room for things that are just OK?"
So I was delighted when We Covet pointed me to this wonderful print from Amanda Atkins: Be Among the Things You Love.
For more reading on this theme, you could turn to Small Notebook, where Rachel writes about having a "home free of clutter, with just the things that make you smile." She notes there will be exceptions - "a few things that are good to own even if they don't make you happy to look at them (the toilet plunger, for instance)" - but you could even get a toilet plunger that makes you smile, if you really wanted to.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
16 Ways to Organize - in Miniature
Want to furnish the dollhouse for organized living? Let's take a look at some of the neater furnishings you could consider - starting with this miniature sewing armoire. Update on June 19, 2013: Earth and Tree no longer has this armoire, but does have many other miniatures.
I've written about pie safes - but who knew you could buy a pie safe for your dollhouse? Update on June 19, 2013: The site that sold this specific pie safe is gone, but there are others. Here's a miniature pie safe from Shaker Works West.
Ann High makes some lovely and unusual miniatures. This is her miser's chest, which she says is "based on the chest in a painting by Hieronymous Bosch."
Colin Bird does some great miniatures, too. While he seems to specialize in chairs, he also makes some other neat pieces, like this pedestal desk with a real leather top.
Margie's Petite Palette offers hand-painted miniature cabinets and hutches, including this armoire.
And Alice offers some amazing miniature armoires, too. Update on July 25, 2015: The site that sold this armoire has disappeared. But I think I may have found the same Alice on a new site, which also has wonderful armoires.
Wendy has a very specific niche; she makes enchanting miniature display cases and tables - for those collections of shells, rocks, etc.
And of course, (almost) every house needs a place for books. Note that the shelves on this miniature bookcase are adjustable.
But not all organizing products are big pieces of furniture. We also have the more prosaic binders, magazine files, and such.
And how about a miniature pencil box from Chris Sturgess-Lief? He can also provide you with some lovely mahogany coat hangers.) Update on June 10, 2013: Sadly, Chris Sturgess-Lief died in 2011.
And then there's the ever-popular basket: everything from the laundry basket (empty or full) to the miniature baskets by Zara Thomson Ribeaud, which include this potato basket. Update on July 24, 2015: The full laundry basket is no longer sold.
And staying in the kitchen, we can admire these miniature canisters, from Reutter Porcelain of Germany. Update on July 25, 2015: I'm not finding this canister set any more.
You can get a miniature umbrella stand, complete with cane, from Pinchbeck Miniatures. Update on July 25, 2015: Pinchbeck Miniatures seems to have disappeared — sadly, Tony Rivett of Pinchbeck has died — but this umbrella stand (or something similar) is available elsewhere.
And let's not forget the clocks, so useful in organizing one's time. You can get mantel clocks, wall clocks, or longcase clocks - running clocks, in miniature. This miniature American banjo wall clock comes from Small-Time.
Halls Miniature Clocks is also worth a look.
And finally, let's circle back to the furniture and admire this miniature Tudor oak court cupboard. Update on August 5, 2011: The site that sold this seems to have disappeared.
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This report summarises the findings for Scotland from a cumulative impact assessment of the impact on protected groups of:changes to the tax and social security, public spending since 2010
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Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, gave subscribers some good news yesterday:
We are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means no change: one website, one account, one password … in other words, no Qwikster.
As a long time subscriber, I can only say Hallelujah.
But I am not surprised. Hastings has changed course sharply before. Most famously, he killed off a set-up box–the Netflix Player–just weeks before its scheduled launch. I take that as a sign of great leadership. As I wrote two years ago:
Reed Hastings is not a man who gets locked in by sunk costs: he's willing to kill projects … even if he's got years invested in them.
That's a real strength. I am sure he regrets the decision to move toward Qwikster, but kudos to him for reversing course.
P.S. Netflix's corporate culture was the subject of one of my most popular posts. Favorite line: "Adequate performance gets a generous severance package."


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The Indy Issue from Friday March 12, 2021
By Kevin Zorn
An oil on canvas mural is displayed in the post office in Salem, West Virginia. It was painted by an artist named Berni Glasgow and its production was funded
through the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture. It is titled "Visions of the Development of Salem" and depicts a group of people
receiving mail, in the background is a village and cattle.
Berni Glasgow was one of more than 800 artists commissioned to paint 1371 murals, the majority of which are featured in post offices.
Often mistaken as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) initiative, these Treasury funded murals were created with the intent of fostering i
nspiration in the American people who were still feeling the devastating economic and social effects of the Great Depression.
It is a testament to the shift in the ideological landscape today that I cannot believe the US Government, in tandem with local governments,
was capable of doing what the WPA accomplished. Yet, here are just some of the facts: from 1935 to 1943 8.5 million unemployed men and
women were hired by the government to build over 10,000 bridges, 620,000 miles of streets and roads, 40,000 new and 85,000 renovated
buildings including thousands of schools, gymnasiums, auditoriums, playgrounds, parks, libraries, college dormitories, tennis courts, and skating rinks.
The WPA employed artists, writers, historians, and musicians whose work directly affected the lives of millions of Americans during some of the
country's most painful years. Musicians hired under the Federal Music Project taught free lessons to 132,000 children and adults every week.
Those hired in the Federal Writers' Project, in addition to their popular state tourism guidebooks, recorded over 2,300 slave narratives -
an invaluable collection for scholars and historians. Under the Federal Theatre Project 1,000 plays were performed across the country every month.
Incalculable is the number of children and adults inspired by this work.
Through the colossal endeavors of the WPA in both its pre-war effort and its public projects America achieved full employment by 1942,
the same year "Visions" was painted in Salem.
It is clear that the America many of us grew up in, the structures that supported our lives, the parks we enjoyed, the schools we attended,
the infrastructure we relied upon for travel, even the art classes that inspired the next generation of creators was largely built under the
auspices of the WPA and the New Deal.
This is a salient reminder that capital "H" History is not simply a collection of memorized facts and figures, dates and obscure names.
No, History is alive in the communities in which we live. It not only teaches us, it haunts us as well. It haunts us with what was
possible before and what is possible tomorrow.
Perhaps that is the greatest battle waged in the spectacle of media and politics today - the question of what is possible.
Our expectations are managed lower and lower. We learn that the climate crisis is inevitable, that homelesness is natural,
that workers are essential until they ask for a living wage. All to say that change is impossible. Visions of better futures recede from view.
But history haunts us with an alternative. By the time Berni Glasgow painted the mural in the Salem post office, the American
government had provided millions of meaningful jobs improving, with concrete and paintbrushes, nearly every community across the nation.
Nick Taylor, the author of "American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA", writes this:
"These ordinary men and women proved to be extraordinary beyond all expectation.
They were golden threads woven in the national fabric. In this, they shamed the political philosophy
that discounted their value and rewarded the one that placed its faith in them,
thus fulfilling the founding vision of a government by and for its people. All its people."
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A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the aircraft.
As plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village of Grabovo, an Associated Press journalist counted at least 22 bodies at the wreckage site 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border.
The Boeing 777-200ER plane, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage — which included body parts and the belongings of passengers — was scattered over a wide area.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the downing an act of terrorism and called for an international investigation into the crash. He insisted that his forces did not shoot down the plane.
President Barack Obama called the crash a "terrible tragedy" and talked about it on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The village of Grabovo is currently under the control of pro-Russia separatists and the area has seen severe fighting between the two sides in recent days.
Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine prior to Thursday's crash. Within hours, several airlines, including Lufthansa and KLM, released statements Thursday saying they were avoiding parts of Ukrainian airspace.
Malaysia Airlines said Ukrainian aviation authorities told the company they had lost contact with Flight MH17 at 1415 GMT (10 a.m. EDT) about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Tamak waypoint, which is 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.
It said the plane was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members. It had left Amsterdam at 12:15 p.m. and was due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6:10 a.m. Friday.
Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit by a missile from a Buk launcher, which can fire up to an altitude of 22,000 meters (72,000 feet).
Igor Sutyagin, a research fellow in Russian studies at the Royal United Services Institute, said both Ukrainian and Russian forces have SA-17 missile systems — also known as Buk ground-to-air launcher systems.
He said Russia had supplied separatist rebels with military hardware, but he had seen no evidence "of the transfer of that type of system from Russia." The weapons that the rebels are known to have do not have the capacity to reach beyond 4,500 meters. (14,750 feet)
A launcher similar to the Buk missile system was seen by Associated Press journalists earlier Thursday near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne, which is held by the rebels.
The Malaysia Airlines plane was delivered to the company on July 30, 1997, according to Flightglobal's Ascend Online Fleets. It has more than 43,000 hours of flight time and 6,950 takeoffs and landings.
Poroshenko said his country's armed forces didn't shoot at any airborne targets.
"We do not exclude that this plane was shot down, and we stress that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not take action against any airborne targets," he said. "We are sure that those who are guilty in this tragedy will be held responsible."
The Kremlin said Putin "informed the U.S. president of the report from air traffic controllers that the Malaysian plane had crashed on Ukrainian territory" without giving further details about their call. The White House confirmed the call.
Separatist leader Andrei Purgin told The Associated Press that he was certain that Ukrainian troops had shot the plane down, but gave no explanation or proof for his statement.
Purgin said he did not know whether rebel forces owned Buk missile launchers, but said even if they did, they had no fighters capable of operating it.
It was the second time that a Malaysia Airlines plane was lost in less than six months. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It has not been found, but the search has been concentrated in the Indian Ocean far west of Australia.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who had been attending a European Union summit in Brussels, headed back to the Netherlands to deal with fallout from the crash.
There have been several disputes over planes being shot down over eastern Ukraine in recent days.
On Wednesday evening, a Ukrainian fighter jet was shot down by an air-to-air missile from a Russian plane, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday, adding to what Kiev says is mounting evidence that Moscow is directly supporting the separatist insurgents. Ukraine Security Council spokesman Andrei Lysenko said the pilot of the Sukhoi-25 jet hit by the air-to-air missile was forced to bail after his jet was shot down.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York on Thursday that Russia did not shoot down the Ukrainian fighter jet on Wednesday. "We didn't do it," Churkin said
Pro-Russia rebels, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for strikes Wednesday on two Ukrainian Sukhoi-25 jets.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the second jet was hit by a portable surface-to-air missile, but added the pilot was unscathed and managed to land his plane safely
Moscow denies Western charges that is supporting the separatists or sowing unrest in its neighbor.
Earlier this week, Ukraine said a military transport plane was shot down Monday over eastern Ukraine by a missile fired from Russian territory.
Other passenger planes have been shot down before including:
— April 20, 1978: Korean Airlines Flight 902, which diverted from its planned course on a flight from Paris to Seoul and strayed over the Soviet Union. After being fired upon by an interceptor aircraft, the crew made a forced landing at night on the surface of a frozen lake. Two of the 97 passengers were killed by the hostile fire.
— Sept. 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by at least one Soviet air-to-air missile after the 747 had strayed into Soviet airspace. All 240 passengers and 29 crew were killed.
— July 3, 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 Aircraft was shot down by a surface to air missile from the American naval vessel U.S.S. Vincennes. All 16 crew and 274 passengers were killed.


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ps: winners have been announced for the past 3 giveaways!
winner of the perricone giveaway was #72 - post grad hair cut
winner of the blog anniversary giveaway was #1170 - rts
winner of the saratops giveaway was #9 - amy h.
thanks everyone! :)
Ohhhh I love the mirror. And the card catalogue drawer. So much good stuff!ReplyDelete
Love the vintage frames!ReplyDelete
oh wow...those farmstead napkin rings are adorable and make me want to throw a party right now.
but i think i'd have to go with those adorable popcorn bowls. eeeeek. they are adorable.
I love the vintage frame set!ReplyDelete
The oval vanity mirror and the scrolled wooden shelf are my favorites, but everything in the shop is wonderful. Great giveaway!
I like the vintage metal file cabinet
i'm a twitter follower :)ReplyDelete
great giveaway!
I love the vintage mirror you show on your blog the most! I hope I win!!
my favorite is probably the vintage oval mirror!
thanks :)
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i love the black porcelain glove mold!! they have such a cute shop!
I blogged about this giveaway!
I love everything in this beautiful shop!ReplyDelete
I love the midcentury orange desk lamp and the vintage oval mirror!
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I could see the industrial wooden drawer no.6 in my house :)ReplyDelete
Wow there are a lot of things I love, but the thing I most need is the set of vintage framesReplyDelete
I love the mid century desk lamp... and the frame set is lovely too!ReplyDelete
I'm loving the industrial milk crate!ReplyDelete
How wonderful! There's so many good things in their shop! Thanks for the chance to win!
p.s. I'm a follower :)ReplyDelete
I love the vintage desktop collection no. 1. So great!ReplyDelete
i love most of the stuff in the shop!
but i really do like that orange desk lamp. and that fire extinguisher is stunning! i would fit it with a bulb and a lamp shape to make it into a great lamp!
IMpossible to choose just one item! I love the vintage drawer with a #6 on it and the pitney bowes scale!ReplyDelete
IMpossible to choose just one item! I love the vintage drawer with a #6 on it and the pitney bowes scale!ReplyDelete
I love the industrial divided milk crate.ReplyDelete
i love many items:
vintage oval vanity mirror
scrolled wooden shelf
vintage frame set
great giveaway :)
Definitely the vintage oval vanity mirror.ReplyDelete
i'm getting more and more into vintage thses days, and i am especially loving old crates, so this is probably my favorite item!: http://www.etsy.com/listing/49027905/vintage-apple-crateReplyDelete
twitted http://twitter.com/SumikoShop/status/20713058643ReplyDelete
of course, i am a follower of your lovely blog!ReplyDelete
and i tweeted! @christenstrangReplyDelete
I'm your follower
and I follow Amradio on twitter
Wow! I love the vintage frame set - I'm also a facebook fan of Oh, Hello Friend! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Undustrial divided milk crate :)ReplyDelete
I've been looking for a mirror and this one is actually my favorite. Great giveaway!ReplyDelete
i love the mid-century orange desk lamp!ReplyDelete
i'm a blog follower!ReplyDelete
This etsy shop has been one of my favs for a while now! I often visit and dream of having all of these neat things in my home. Currently I like the industrial wooden drawer. I'd use it in my wedding decor!ReplyDelete
I love the vintage frame set. Both frames are so lovely!ReplyDelete
I heart the apple crate, vanity mirror, the wooden game board and the Victorian arts. I'd join myself if shipping fees weren't expensive here in the PI. Oh, well. Thanks anyway for sharing the lovely shop. :)ReplyDelete
I am a follower of blogger & facebook.ReplyDelete
Oh, and the ticket roll too is a winner! :)ReplyDelete
I shared this giveaway on facebook! www.facebook.com/tiffneneReplyDelete
oh, the mirrors are all so amazing, but I think my favorite is probably, simply, the vintage frame set.ReplyDelete
Love the vintage desktop collection.
ohh exciting! i really like the vintage metal file cabinet! it would be really fun to keep letters in!ReplyDelete
i like the vintage apple crate... look like so cute~~~ReplyDelete
Oh! I love the primitive wooden wagon, even though I have absolutely no use for it! I'm also loving the vintage brass owl plaque. Ok, lets face it...I love it all!ReplyDelete
Also a facebook fan!ReplyDelete
I like the Vintage Pitney Bowes Scale. Haven't seen these for quite a while, what a delight to spot this in the shop. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
She has really great photography! I like many of the desktop organizers - maybe the cork ball is my fave?
well i simply cannot pick just ONE! so i like:
the vanity mirror
the vintage frame set
the movie popcorn dish set
yowza!! so cute :)
Love that black porcelain glove mold! Fabulous.
i tweeted! @ashley_gurski
Farmstead napkin rings. SO cute! :)ReplyDelete
This shop has been in my favorites for while! I love the amber apothecary bottle.ReplyDelete
I tweeted! :)
The scrolled wooden shelf is great.ReplyDelete
I am both a Facebook and blog follower of yours :)ReplyDelete
i like you on FB!ReplyDelete
i follow you on twitter!! @ashley_gurskiReplyDelete
I'm a Facebook, Twitter, and blog follower! :)ReplyDelete
I follow you on twitter! (@lacretia)ReplyDelete
I LOVE the vintage oval mirror! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
i love the mirror!
I love the mirror and the black porcelain gloveReplyDelete
I am a follower of the blog, twitter, and facebookReplyDelete
I love the mirror, the milk crate and all of the wire baskets. Lovely shop!ReplyDelete
I tweeted about the giveaway!
I follow you on facebook! (Chelsea Beckman)ReplyDelete
can't resist the brass owl!ReplyDelete
I am a blog follower! :)ReplyDelete
I love the vintage oval mirror!
That vintage oval mirror is what got me hear and stands strong as my favorite item!ReplyDelete
I love their desk collections! Would add charm to any office desk ;)ReplyDelete
I love that teak rack. And just about everything else in the store!ReplyDelete
I'm also a follower on blogger.ReplyDelete
Loving the orange midcentury desk lamp! (http://www.etsy.com/listing/45279107/sale-mid-century-orange-desk-lamp)ReplyDelete
I love the scrolled wooden shelf...so much detail!ReplyDelete
I have always been a real sucker for AM Radio's shop. Right now I'm a total sucker for that primitive wooden wagon.. I love the idea of using it as a teensy bookshelf!ReplyDelete
so much vintage goodness!
i love the red handle wooden brush but also have such a love for popcorn dishes, how to decide my fave?!
Annnnnd tweeted! (http://twitter.com/vinta9eblog/statuses/20719450316) (@vinta9eblog)ReplyDelete
I follow you on twitter and on blogger!
Ramblings of a Small Town Girl
I would love any of the mirrors listed in the shop.ReplyDelete
I'm a blogger follower.ReplyDelete
I have tons of ideas for things I can do with those vintage frames! I may need those even if I don't win!
Ramblings of a Small Town Girl
So many cute items! My faves are the wooden shelf, vanity mirror, and the garment hangers! <3ReplyDelete
and I'm a blogger and fb follower :)
love the orange desk lamp and the vintage frame set!ReplyDelete
I am smitten with the vintage metal file cabinet!!! I would use it to store my recipe cards!! I would love to have them all organized in something so fantastic! xo
kimberly.long at gmail dot com
I adore all things vintage - this shop is adorable and I agree, the photos are perfect!
I'm a follower.
Following you on twitter @sparkily
kimberly.long at gmail dot com
I really dig the wooden ruler collection. What an interesting Etsy shop! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.ReplyDelete
I tweeted.
I almost wish I didn't because I'm sure now more of her neat stuff will disappear!
I follow you on twitter @tammigirlReplyDelete
I love that vintage vanity mirror!ReplyDelete
I like the wooden mallet because it kind of looks like a gavel. My bestie is graduating from law school next spring and this would be such a fantastic gift to give her!!ReplyDelete
My favorite item from the AM Radio shop is the five pound disc weight.
I have so many favorites...the vintage oval mirror, the movie popcorn dish set, the vintage brass owl plaque, and the industrial divided milk crate are all great!
I follow your blog!
Beautiful stuff! Love the vintage metal clothes brush :)
And I'm a follower of your blog ;)
AHH! The scrolled wooden shelf is beautiful! :)
xo, Michelle Huynh
I am a follower on both Twitter (mahalmichelle) and on Facebook (Michelle Huynh).ReplyDelete
love the vintage vanity mirror - would look amazing in my bathroom over my pedestal sink!! the teak wine rack is very nice too.ReplyDelete
i really love the vintage frame set.ReplyDelete
ok, like most others, i do love that mirror! everything is pretty awesome, though.
I follow your blog
I am a Facebook fan (Like!)
~ gisele requena
For that extra entry :)
I'm a Facebook fan
~gisele requena
OMG!! i love the vintage frame set and the vintage oval mirror in gold :DReplyDelete
i am a facebook fan :DReplyDelete
for my last entry :P
i posted it on my facebook profile
I'm a blog follower!ReplyDelete
love the oval mirror and the milk crate!! :D
And my favorite has to be the vintage oval mirror. It's stunning!ReplyDelete
also, i'm a follower on twitter, facebook, and blogger! whew!ReplyDelete
My favorite is the orange desk lamp. So cute!
That little cork pencil holder is the cutest thing. I love that it is so funky and you can use tacks to put notes on it.
And that mirror is pretty fun too.
Thanks for sharing!
Enjoy the day!
Oops. I am a follower too!
Enjoy the day!
great vintage stuff!!! I loved the glass owl!! And the oval mirror is lovely! =)
the vintage vanity mirror is my favorite!ReplyDelete
I love the glove mold for my rings!
I tweeted about the giveaway and I'm a follower on twitter!
i love love that mirror! and the vintage black clock. soo simple!ReplyDelete
hello friend!
love the oval frame &the divided milk crate!
The industrial milk crate looks super cool. - would love to win! katiembarker(at)gmail.comReplyDelete
Love the Vintage Frame Set!ReplyDelete
I follow on Blogger!ReplyDelete
Ohhh.. so pretty... I love the vintage oval mirror. Would love to have that in my bedroom.ReplyDelete
Definitely the vintage desk top collection 1. So cool. Thanks.ReplyDelete
I love the popcorn set. Been ooking for one for a while :)ReplyDelete
Follow your blog.
tfurnas @ gmail.com
I seriously love the owl glass desktop setting.ReplyDelete
I'm a follower of your blog too!ReplyDelete
I love the
owl glass desktop setting :)
jrerwin6 at gmail dot com
I follow your blog too :)ReplyDelete
I think I'd choose the Vintage Oval Mirror. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I adore the vintage brass owl plaque. Hooray for owls! omydarlingblog(at)gmail(dot)comReplyDelete
Follow you on blogger, too.ReplyDelete
I love the vintage hamilton lettepress drawer (already sold!).
I follow your blog :D
Cute store! I love the vintage metal file cabinet, I can think of so many uses for it.ReplyDelete
i am also a blog follower. thanksReplyDelete
I love the milk crate or the vintage hangers...super cute!ReplyDelete
My fave item: vintage frame set
soooo cute!!!
I follow your blog AND facebook fan;-)ReplyDelete
I love the popcorn bowls! so cute!ReplyDelete
the vintage frame set is my favorite!ReplyDelete
i am a follower and a facebook fan too!ReplyDelete
love both the oval mirrors and the porcelain glove mold! great stuff...added to my favorite etsy sellersReplyDelete
I adore this shop, and most especially the "art and crafts style table". Fingers crossed!!ReplyDelete
hi dear friend. :) love your blog and am very much diggin' the vintage frame set...thanks for this chance!
This shop is simply stunning!
I love it :)
hope your having a lovely day!
I follow this blog.ReplyDelete
I think my favorite thing is the arts and crafts style table.ReplyDelete
I really like the vintage apple crate- it would be cute storage, and also an interesting photo prop...ReplyDelete
I follow on Twitter, FB, and through rss feed :)ReplyDelete
LOVE the "large folding teak rack"! :)ReplyDelete
Love the vintage apple crate!!ReplyDelete
weird, i was just looking at that mirror in their shop about 20 minutes ago and thinking "i want this!" ;) definitely one of my favourite items.ReplyDelete
i tweeted! :) http://twitter.com/hellokellyann/status/20760134238ReplyDelete
love the vintage gas station signs!ReplyDelete
already a Facebook follower :-)ReplyDelete
I love this item (vintage file cabinet)!!!
Listing: http://www.etsy.com/listing/42150030/vintage-metal-file-cabinet
I also am following you and AM Radio on Twitter (@jjoules)
I blogged about this giveaway on my bloggy (this also links to my Twitter and Facebook).
I follow you via Google!ReplyDelete
i really love the vintage frame set! they are so simple and lovely!ReplyDelete
Holy crap! AWESOME giveaway. I would be happy with any and everything in the AM Radio shop, but especially the owl desktop set: http://www.etsy.com/listing/53441257/owl-glass-desktop-setting
Oh, and those gas station numbers.
I tweeted about the giveaway, too!
love, want that accent lamp!ReplyDelete
i love the movie popcorn dish set!ReplyDelete
I like the owl glass desktop setting as I collect owls.
I follow you on twitter as winsome6
I can't decide between the mirror and the vintage file drawer. I love them both!ReplyDelete
I'm a facebook fan! :)ReplyDelete
It's a tie between the wine rack and the industrial milk crate, though I covet it all!ReplyDelete
oh gosh, this is so difficult to choose! probably the vintage frame set :)ReplyDelete
also, i follow you on twitter :)
LOVING the vintage, divided milk crate. have been setting up my home office and searching for something of the likes to house my files--would make my days very happy to store them in this :)
also, blogged about giveaway here:
oops, so sorry (still a bit early), blogged about giveaway here: http://mapleandshade.blogspot.com/2010/08/him_10.htmlReplyDelete
Wuaw, love almost all.. But I'll choose the orange mid century lamp. That's awesome!
Hope I win..
Love from Denmark
i love the color of the apple on the vintage apple crate! pretty, pretty.ReplyDelete
i love the gas station numbers, the oval mirror and the industrial crate! LOVE! thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I love the vintage pottery table lamp! Gorgeous pieces in the shop :)ReplyDelete
love this shop! so glad to have been introduced to it! my fave item is definitely that vintage oval mirror - it is just lovely!ReplyDelete
i tweeted! http://twitter.com/PrettiesbyMeg/status/20806814170ReplyDelete
LOVE the industrial wooden drawer.. LOVE everything!!ReplyDelete
i follow with gfc! :)ReplyDelete
i tweeted @blairitaReplyDelete
i love the vintage framed set. how pretty!ReplyDelete
I'm a google follower :)ReplyDelete
My favorite is the glass owl desktop set =D
iheartdante at gmail dot com
I also tweeted! My twitter account is dcisgoingtohell
I'm loving the "Vintage Apple Crate!"
Many thanks, Cindi
"Facebook Post!"
Again, many thanks...Cindi
Also, I follow you on Twitter and on Facebook!
Merci, Cindi
I love vintage shops :)ReplyDelete
The "yellow vintage rotary phone" is super cute!
Blog follower via GFC!
i love the orange mid-century lamp. it is perfect!ReplyDelete
Friends, Thank you so much for reading + supporting my blog, and for taking the time to leave me a comment. Your comment support truly means so much to me. Have a lovely day! xo, danni


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The purpose of this site is to chronicle and share experience in developing a residential energy management system. This project started out as the simple addition of a wood boiler, but quickly grew into the design of a multisource (wood/oil/solar/heat storage) heating system. A major part of the project was the development of control system hardware and software to manage energy across all subsystems. This control system became known as the 'NoFossil Control System' (NFCS) which has been used all across the northern United States and Canada. It has now been relaunched as a commercial product by Vermont Energy Control Systems LLC - the Vesta controller.
The hope is that this site will evolve into a helpful resource for others who are undertaking similar projects. Welcome, and please feel free to contribute, ask questions, or just poke around. You may contact us by email at .
This site espouses no particular social or political agenda, other than a belief in the idea that it's good for people to be able to take control of meeting their own needs.
The focus is practical solutions to design and management of energy for residential space and water heating. The information here is based on our needs and experience, and may not represent the best approach in this or any other situation. This site is not intended to replace the advice of professionals. In particular, code and insurance requirements vary by locale.
The original system documented here consists of an Orlan EKO 25 wood gasification boiler, a heat storage tank, a traditional oil boiler, solar hot water panels, an indirect domestic hot water tank, a hot tub, and a home-brewed controller.
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Forum: There is a forum on this site, primarily for sharing information on use of the NoFossil Control System.
Solar-Today: This displays a graph of solar panel performance for the current day.
Wood-Today: This displays a graph of wood boiler performance for the current day.
Burn Planner: This tool looks up NOAA forecast data and estimates heat load for the next 48 hours in three hour increments.
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The cartoon is by Rex May (Baloo). I identify with the caveman. I was just having fun and it somehow turned out to be useful.
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This site is organized by topic. Major topics are listed as links on the left side, and some topic pages contain links to additional details.


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Weddings can happen anytime of the year but if you plan to have a fall or winter wedding then you should consider a wedding dress with jacket to ward of the chill. There are many different designs for a wedding dress with jacket. In fact, it does not have to be fall or winter for you to consider wearing a wedding dress with jacket. Some jackets for the wedding dress are made of thin material and suitable for summer or spring weddings. Some jackets are also small enough to look like shrugs, stoles or boleros. These can really accentuate a brides waist and the gown as well.
Why Choose a Wedding Dress with Jacket
There are many reasons why a bride might chose to wear a wedding dress with jacket. One of the primary reasons is that the day of her wedding is chilly and she will need a complementing jacket for her gown. Usually, jackets designed to ward off the chill can cover the entire bodice of your wedding gown. Because of this, the jackets are usually embellished of made to look sophisticated to ensure that it can be worn in and out of church.
It could be that she is partial to jackets or partial to the design which happens to have a jacket with it. Jackets can be used to hide flaws as well like large shoulders or arms and can also be used to camouflage a large tummy. A wedding dress with jacket can also cover the less conservative gown underneath for the benefit of some conservative priests and family members.
Other reasons why some brides chose to wear a wedding gown with jacket may be because it complements the gown so well and does not even appear to be a jacket at all. Some jackets are made of very fine material and can be considered as the top of the gown. Others definitely look like a jacket and can be taken off when the church or place or the location of the wedding turns stuffy.
A wedding gown with jacket was all the rage a couple of decades ago and this design had a jacket with long sleeves and wide lapels. Some jackets are fitted to accentuate the waist of the bride while others are no more than boleros or shrugs that are very great complements to some gown. Jackets need not look bulky and ill fitting because some designers integrate wedding gowns with jacket according to the trend.


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RPM rear skid plates for the Traxxas Slash 2wd are designed to eliminate the frustration of broken skid plates and chassis. When a stock rear skid plate fails, it can rip the rear shock tower mounting screws out of the chassis, causing a catastrophic failure usually resulting in the rear end sailing in a different direction than the rest of the truck. With RPM skid plates mounted, that problem will be a thing of the past!
RPM rear Slash skid plates are completely redesigned, making them stronger and much more durable. Our unique design use three chassis mounting points instead of two, triangulating the chassis mounts on the truck, in turn spreading impact energy over a larger area. This is done using a hole already located in the stock chassis, meaning no drilling is required. We also eliminated the cross-tube styling of the stock skid plates in favor of a solid flat skid design with a large radius at the transition points to allow the truck to slide over obstacles that would have normally caught on the stock rear skid plate. That means no more direct impacts to the lower rear end of the truck, which is the primary source of a broken chassis.
As a final design touch, we added four thick skid rails on both the front and rear skid plates which reduce sliding friction while improving the overall durability of the skid plates and the truck. At the tail end of the rear skid plate, a skid rail runs from side to side to protect the lower transmission screw and rear bumper mount while providing a smooth transitional surface.
RPM skid plates for the Traxxas Slash are sold in three color options – black, blue and our all new gray color which is designed to blend in with the stock Traxxas gray colors of the chassis, bulkheads & transmission.
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Thome passes Sosa in Orioles win
To Jim Thome, helping Baltimore win its third consecutive game meant more than hitting his 610th home run.
Thome moved past Sammy Sosa into seventh place on the career homers list and the Orioles beat the Cleveland Indians 10-2 Friday night.
The 41-year-old Thome's historic home run was a towering 418-foot shot off Derek Lowe (8-8) to open the fourth inning.
''The big thing is we won another game,'' Thome said, wearing a large icepack on his neck. That's been a longtime postgame ritual to sooth his back that has ached for years, but not put a crimp in his production.
''I knew I got it,'' Thome said of the majestic shot.
He then got the baseball, exchanging a bat and two signed balls with the fan who caught it.
Thome's homer was his sixth this season and first since being acquired by Baltimore on July 1 from the Philadelphia Phillies for two minor leaguers. He had signed with the Phillies as a free agent last winter.
''Nothing Jim does surprises me and I just feel pretty lucky to watch and enjoy it,'' Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. ''I'm glad he's passed our way. He sets a great example for everybody and works incredibly hard. He plays every game like it his first in Little League.''
It was Thome's 189th homer at Progressive Field. The left-handed slugger holds Cleveland's career record with 337 homers. He was a key part of the Indians' power-laden lineup from 1991-02 and returned for the final two months of the 2011 season.
Ken Griffey Jr. is next up on the career list with 630 homers.
Thome had three hits, including his 449th career double, tying Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and two others for 97th all time. He also struck out for the 2,526th time, leaving him 61 behind career leader Reggie Jackson.
Ryan Flaherty had a three-run homer and Mark Reynolds doubled home two runs in Baltimore's six-run third as the Orioles went ahead 7-1.
Miguel Gonzalez (2-1) gave up seven hits and two runs over 6 2/3 innings in his third career start. The right-hander struck out five and is 1-0 with a 2.14 ERA on the road.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Jack Hannahan homered for Cleveland, which has lost six of its last nine.
''We couldn't do much offensively, but it was a big, big hole to climb out of,'' Indians manager Manny Acta said.
Orioles reliever Matt Lindstrom was hit in the left knee by a wicked line drive by Johnny Damon in the eighth. He wanted to stay in the game, but with a 10-2 lead, Showalter brought in Kevin Gregg with the bases loaded and two outs and Lindstrom walked to the dugout.
''I'm a little sore,'' Lindstrom said, a red welt on his leg just below the knee. ''I'm icing it and have complete confidence in our training staff. I just need quicker reactions. I put my glove down, but not far enough.''
Baltimore took a 1-0 lead in the first on a wild pitch by Lowe. J.J. Hardy hit a one-out double, moved up on a groundout by Thome and scored when Adam Jones walked on a pitch that got past catcher Matt Wieters.
Cleveland tied it in the bottom half on Cabrera's 12th homer. Hannahan hit his fourth in the seventh to make it 10-2.
Lowe yielded nine runs and seven hits — five doubles and two homers — over three-plus innings. He walked five without a strikeout.
''The game speaks for itself,'' Lowe said. ''It was embarassing, frustrating, all of the above.''
The right-hander was the Indians' best starter in the first two months of the season, but the 39-year-old veteran is 2-7 with an 8.31 ERA in his last 10 starts — allowing 48 earned runs and 75 hits in 52 innings.
Reynolds went 1-for-5 and is hitting .304 with eight RBI over six games after going 10-for-66 (.152) with seven RBI in his previous 22 contests.
NOTES: Baltimore acquired INF Omar Quintanilla from the New York Mets for cash. He was designated for assignment by the Mets on Tuesday and is expected to join the Orioles on Saturday after a roster spot is cleared for him. ... Indians LHP Rafael Perez, out since April 26 with a sore shoulder, threw a bullpen session and is scheduled to resume a minor-league rehab assignment Monday. ... Cleveland RHP Cody Allen made his major league debut, working one inning in relief. The 23rd-round draft pick in 2011 was called up from Triple-A Columbus as the Indians optioned out LHP Scott Barnes. ... Hannahan moved from third base to shortstop in the seventh - for his sixth career appearance at the position. ... Damon's three hits tied a season high. ... Cleveland leads the series 24-16 since 2007. The Indians took three of four in Baltimore, June 28-July 1.


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(visited by Jonathan selby)
15-Feb-2004 -- 55S 66W was visited by the Sailing yacht Anahera on 15th February 2004. at 14:21 UTC.
Radar indicated this convergence is 1.8 Nautical miles from shore.
The survey team were:
Jonathan Selby Captain
Natasha Martin Crew
Guy Sadan Crew
From the log of Saililng Yacht Anahera of Rye:
15th February 2004 Puerto Espanol
Back tracking my course of 14 years ago saw Anahera enter Puerto Espanol with light headwinds and another 37 miles of motoring. With a favorable current it was easy going. Looking at the barometer falling, Warm air and frontal clouds approaching I felt it would not be good for going North in the Le Maire straits against the wind.
We picked up a temporary mooring on a navy buoy and waited for the Northerly winds which came up as scheduled. Thankfully leaving the very unknown quantity of the mooring, we motored up to the Northern end of the bay and anchored in excellent holding. The anchorage is a bit roly but all the better for gently acclimatising everyone for the open sea. This wild anchorage is very much as I remember. The abandoned navy base is completely dilapidated but the ranch looks in good stead even though I cannot see smoke or a flag, it seems somebody has been keeping it up.
So far apart from burning more fuel than planned, it seems that everything is going well.


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Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 25, 2013
SALISBURY — Several years ago, John Grimes built a two-story addition to his home off Deer Road in eastern Rowan County.
The interior became a laboratory for Grimes' creations, which are experiments with brick, rope and wall ties that often have a primitive feel to them.
He has incorporated his "art" into fireplaces, walls, moldings and valances — and that's the one drawback. If he ever sells the house, he can't take all this with him.
But Grimes, 50, says he's not a material person anyway. He just tries to create something unique.
"I don't even consider this mine," he says.
The one thing you can't help but ask him about is the addition's interior fireplace. It seems part Aztec, part Egyptian, part Viking and all spiritual.
It's even inspired partly by Biltmore in Asheville, Grimes says.
About 20-feet high, the fireplace flows upward into the second floor and features a "battle cross" at the top.
Grimes said he employed a "freehand" approach to the work — no lines or levels — and never depended on a drawing. "What I did was I thought of the opening," he says, "and I tried to make things as difficult as possible.
"… This may not go down as the prettiest fireplace, but it's one of the most different pieces in the world."
A brick mason by trade, Grimes built the interesting fireplace years ago when the economy was good and things were booming, so it took him about 18 months, working on it in his spare time.
The type of battle cross he fashioned at the top is what ancient tribes, before Christ's time, would take to collect the souls of the dead, he says.
"It's a soul collector," he adds. "That's just my take on it."
Grimes is often drawn to crosses. He made a divinity cross for the stairway wall leading to the second floor.
He also embedded a solar cross of brick and shale pieces in a wall outside, near the swimming pool.
Grimes marvels at something he realized after the solar cross was finished. It took 84 pieces to encircle it, and there were 84 pieces inside the circle.
Part of the upstairs to Grimes' addition is a large practice area set aside for his son Chase's band, "Skyfold."
"This is my side, this is their side," Grimes explains. "They've got that takeover mentality for sure."
Grimes has started a brick dragon at the far end of the practice area, and he wants to wind its long body all the way down the outside wall at least 25 feet.
On his side of the upstairs, Grimes often lays out practice designs of his brick creations on the carpet.
"I do this all the time," he says, looking at a couple of the ideas on the floor. "If I see it's going nowhere, I'll just clean it up."
The walls hold pieces such as his brick portrait of Clyde, the well-known Salisbury artist and collector.
"Clyde couldn't pick me out of a lineup," Grimes says. Still, he has always admired the artist, and has even asked himself on certain pieces, "What would Clyde think?"
No, he doesn't talk to the brick Clyde on his wall.
"I'm out there," Grimes says, "but I'm not that far out there."
In his creations, brick usually dominates, but Grimes also might incorporate U-clamps, wall ties, rope, Mason jars — anything he can trade for, barter for or pick up free.
"This material found me," he says. "I didn't buy any of the material. If I had to buy any of this, it never would have happened."
Upstairs, Grimes has started a self-portrait in brick, and on the same wall, has fashioned a hot-air balloon out of brick and rope.
Elsewhere, he has made rope valances for the windows and a unique patio fireplace with a water feature at top and a flame-inspired design in the concrete piece at the bottom.
A screened-in room off the rustic, covered patio includes a wall covered entirely by brick wall ties, which Grimes pieced and glued into a colorful beach scene.
Grimes never considers any of his pieces finished, and he says he struggles with the materials he has to use sometimes.
"As soon as I get an idea, I jump on it," Grimes says. "It takes a lot of troubleshooting."
After high school, some odd jobs and a stint in the Air Force, Grimes learned basic masonry as a laborer for Marvin Bost. He became hardheaded after a couple of years and thought he could strike out on his own. Along the way, Grimes adds, he learned a lot of lessons.
Things for an independent brick mason were great when people had money to build, remodel and expand, but that time has passed.
"It's the worst it's ever been," Grimes says.
So he has time for more ideas, more brick creations — things to add to his hardscape.
"It's an outlet," Grimes says.
And the wheels keep turning.
Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263, or email@example.com.


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Flying drones getting smaller, smarter, cheaper, and scarier
Thank the development of smartphones -- with their cheap sensors, abundant computing power, and numerous radios -- for the growth of both hobby and military tiny drones.
A little more than a year ago, we did a Roundtable episode on aerial drones and UAVs. The discussion mostly focused on how remote-controlled and robotic vehicles were getting bigger, more capable, and more scary. Since then, a funny thing happened. The drone revolution downsized. Today we're talking about cheap and small drones. Today, perhaps, a collection of a hundred $1,000 drones can be just as capable -- and just as scary -- as a $100,000 drone.It's not all Skynet doom-and-gloom, though. Small robotic flying vehicles can be used to save lives, keep repressive governments in check, do environmental monitoring, and perform business functions like surveying land.
There is both a hopeful upside and a terrifying dark side to the rapid advances in small, cheap drones. We covered both on this episode of Reporters' Roundtable. Our guests: Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and the founder of the DIY Drones community site (and its retail arm, 3D Robotics); and Daniel Suarez, author or the new geek thriller, Kill Decision, which features swarms of drones gone bad. Very bad.
As Anderson points out, many of the toy remote-controlled airplanes out there are "just one box away from becoming drones." Not coincidentally, Anderson's company, 3D Robotics, makes such a box, the ArduPilot Mega. It's a $200 controller that, "allows the user to turn any fixed, rotary wing or multirotor vehicle into a fully autonomous vehicle."
It's the ubiquity of this technology that was one of the inspirations for Suarez's book, which is in part about, "the miniaturization of war," as he says. Our own military is now, in fact, developing an air-fired missile specifically to launch from drones.
There's only a slight overlap between the hobbyist drone and the war drone, Suarez says.
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Anderson, who's part of a community of drone builders, maintains that the aircraft are being used in plenty of nonaggressive applications, such as filming (like in car commercials) and environmental monitoring. These products give people, "anytime, anywhere access to the sky," he says.
There are very few drones over our cities. Commercial interests are not allowed to fly overhead. Nor most local governments. Hobbyists can, if they keep their drones under 400 feet. And the skies will eventually open up to everyone. "Ironically, my 9-year-old can fly drones, but the police department can't." Anderson says.
The problem is that our airspace is governed by a policy called sense-and-avoid. Flying vehicle control systems -- be they people or computers -- are ultimately responsible for avoiding other vehicles. And today's drones, as a rule, have no facility to make them aware of other aircraft.
Anderson says there is still a long way to go when it comes to autonomous vehicles. The videos we've seen of quadcopters flying through tiny slits or playing instruments are taken in highly controlled environments, he says.
Out in the real world, GPS and wind leads to much less precise positioning.
Suarez, in his book -- which is fiction, mind you -- added a new tool to the drone developer: Stigmergy, or a drone's capability to lay down a marker that other drones can read as a reinforcer to their behavior (in the case of the book Kill Decision, that's generally the order to attack someone). He's aware that he took poetic license, but he does believe this idea could be "just over the horizon." He also posits that autonomous drones can be built so cheaply and with so many off-the-shelf components that they can be built as untrackable, leading to "anonymous conflict."
The fact that a drone can serve a person, or group, without ratting them out has huge benefits, though. Suarez points out that while it is legal to videotape the police as they perform their jobs, citizens still do get harassed and arrested when they do so. When the videotaping is being done by an autonomous bot with no obvious controller, there's no one to arrest.
Anderson says we can credit the smartphone for the rise of drones. He believes a smartphone -- with its numerous sensors, communications links, and its computing power -- is essentially everything you need for a drone minus the propulsion system. "By coattailing on the smartphone industry," he says, the control system for a drone will become, "ultimately disposable."
"It's going to get pretty weird," Suarez says, as civil groups begin to have conflicts over drones. He says the police forces could begin to try to jam drones; less-restrained groups might simply shoot them out of the sky. Anderson also points out that popping "a flying lawnmower with spinning blades over the head of a crowd, possibly operated by amateurs, is a really bad idea."
Anderson says it's unlikely that we will soon have "Occupy Wall Street with their air force, and the police with theirs, drones battling in the skies... that would be kind of dangerous."
Watch the video interview with Anderson and Suarez for full details on all these topics.


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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – Keeping Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. in its sights, IBM Corp. is planning to introduce variety of collaboration tools for mobile platforms to create full-featured unified communications endpoints and become the mobile collaboration vendor of choice.
Initially these mobile tools will enable calling features that, for example, determine the least expensive mode for making a phone call, but that will be expanded to include the full range of IBM collaboration and conferencing features, said Alistair Rennie, general manager of IBM Lotus during an interview at IBM's new and sprawling software development facility in Littleton, Mass. With the most recent release of Lotus SameTime Unified Communications collaboration software last week, the platform now supports Blackberry 5.0 and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 clients.
As it accelerates its mobile plans, IBM expects to exploit its already extensive interoperability with other platforms including its major competitor in UC, Microsoft. Its mobile support will also challenge competitor Avaya Inc. and its mobile clients. Over time, as businesses deploy 4G handhelds, IBM will fully support mobile collaboration "on the mobile device of choice" and treat the collaboration features as services, not a stack of available features but an always-available set of tools, Rennie said.
He expects customers will adopt SameTime for mobile devices via its LotusLive cloud-based collaboration suite, starting with a core of instant messaging, presence, Web meetings and some video. That will grow over time to include voice integration with corporate directories as well as full video services.
Rennie also said the company would respond to customer demand for appliances that can be used to more easily bring collaboration tools into their networks, much the same way that they can add security platforms to their networks via IBM security appliances.
IBM is also building a downloadable, browser-based plug-in so anyone can join SameTime conferences even if their machines lack SameTime clients. Later this capability will be deployed from LotusLive clouds so, for example, a bank could call a conference to talk to high-value customers and have them participate with relative ease, said Rob Ingram, IBM senior product manager for UC. The clients are already available for Web conferencing and IM, and the browser-based client for video is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011. After that the company may look into a mobile browser-based client as well, he said.
Meanwhile, the company is working with videoconferencing vendors to build adapters to communicate with IBM video infrastructure so, for example, IBM desktop video participants could join conferences anchored by Polycom videoconferencing gear, he said. The user case they're working on is collaboration with business partners who might not have IBM videoconferencing infrastructure, Ingram said. The list of those participating includes Cisco and Polycom Inc., but not Cisco's Tandberg gear or Hewlett-Packard Co. conferencing.
Even as he looks ahead to mobile collaboration, Rennie noted that businesses over the past 18 months have altered their view of UC, which blends presence and various modalities of real-time communication — IM, phone calls, video — with collaboration tools integrated with calendaring and corporate directories, and non-real-time communication such as texting and e-mail. Elements of IBM's UC offerings include Notes/Domino for messaging and calendaring; Lotus Connections for social collaboration; Lotus Quickr for team collaboration; SameTime for Unified Telephony; Lotus Live for on-premise or cloud collaboration.
Avaya , Cisco Microsoft, Siemens Enterprise Communiations and others rank among major competitors.
Whereas customers may have regarded UC as a package of tools that could be bought and installed, they now look at specific business processes, such as order fulfillment, from a desktop perspective rather than as a back-end resource, Rennie said. UC might have been deployed before for a siloed purpose such as a tool for contact-center agents, but now businesses see it with wider applications, he said.
CFOs, for instance can see the cost-saving benefits of enabling a business-analytics dashboard that pushes through work to the next stage by notifying the right person to handle it and pulling together conferences when needed. "We call it collaboration-enabled business processes," Rennie said.
Such an idea is in contrast to just promoting attractive UC features, such as finding people in a directory with appropriate skills for a task and whose presence information shows they are available in the right modality and then clicking on their name to reach them. That is the way IBM has been selling UC in the past, and that needed to change, says Don Van Doren, a principal with Unicomm Consulting.
"You can use the quick-to-communicate stuff," Van Doren says. "It's useful, but it doesn't touch the central concepts of unified communications and impact how companies can function differently. You need to get to the business guys and say there's a business-process bottleneck that costs them two days out of every business development cycle." And then show how UC can remove the bottleneck. But the task is daunting because that means pulling in top executives and line-of-business managers to help make the technology decisions with the IT staff, Van Doren says.
Even with that challenge, IBM is aligned to do well in battling its primary competitor, Microsoft, he says. Other UC vendors such as Cisco and Avaya come from the telephony end of communications, and he feels that software vendors with control of desktop software have the edge. One of IBM's strengths is that it already has desktop productivity software widely deployed in corporate networks where users are comfortable with it. And it is interoperable with Microsoft platforms, he says, making it possible to use products they have already bought. Specifically, IBM's strategy to enable putting IBM SameTime presence inside Microsoft's Outlook and SharePoint, making it attractive to businesses that have already invested in the Microsoft technologies, he says.
Van Doren also ranks IBM as being far ahead in its social networking software for business with Lotus Connections tied into presence and with its capabilities for mining information within the corporate network to enhance finding the right people for specific tasks. "They've been working on this four or five years," he says. "Cisco is just starting to do it."
IBM also seems to be opening up its platforms more to third-party developers, he says. UC needs ecosystems that independent developers can work in, and Van Doren thinks IBM may be getting to that point. Earlier, the company seemed to want to make releases rock solid before opening up to partners, but it may serve the company better to be more open to third-party developers sooner. "It's a much better strategy to get [products] out there with more people finding things that need to be fixed. The winner will be the company that opens up and supports best their ecosystem."
Has IBM turned a corner? "Man, I hope so. We need another strong player in this industry," Van Doren says.