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Veteran Firemen's Association of the City of New York Excursion
To Troy, Watertown, Thousand Islands and Buffalo, August 19-25, 1890.
Seeing New York Observation Coaches
The Pullman Company Passenger's Check
Grand Circle Tour, standard car ticket. Valid through September 10, 1940.
Central Park 150th Anniversary Map & Guide
The National Highways Association certifies that J. C. Davies is a Highway Member of the National Highways Association
Certificate issued March 31, 1915.
[Early sightseeing bus.]
[Sight seeing bus.]
Jas. H. Rodgers, proprietor.
Swiss Federal R.R.
The Swiss Federal Railroad office.
A Convenient Map of the City of New York for Service Men
New York City Defense Recreation Committee
Official Metropolitan Guide
Central Park Carriage Service
[Printer] John C. Rankin, Jr., 34 Cortlandt St., New York.
Matthew Clune, proprietor.
Service Men's and Officers Recreation Pocket Guide
St. Nicholas Hotel
Broadway, New York. Uriah Welch, proprietor.
[Group of people riding in a vehicle.]
Copy of an earlier photograph dated between 1865 and 1894.
[Hotel Manhattan, 42nd Street and Madison Avenue.]
East 42nd Street and Park Avenue. New York City Information Center. Interior
[Circle Line boat passing the Statue of Liberty.]
Sight-Seeing Cruise Passing the Statue of Liberty
MWM Color-Litho "Bursheen" Finished, Made Only by MWM - Aurora, Mo.
Seeing the Sights.
Motorway Tours Co., Exterior, passengers on side walk.
Motorway Tours Co., Exterior, two cars at curb and passengers on side walk.
Group of Tourists on S.S. "Fort Victoria" Bermuda Line.
Motorway Tours, Passengers getting aboard.
[Navigazione Generale Italiana Building.]
Ships, Norwegian America Line Offices, 8-10 Bridge Street.
Swedish American Line, Interior, Mr. G.H. Lundbeck's Office.
Hotel Associations of New York City.
Norman's Steamship and Tourist Office, 1404 Broadway & 39th St.
Motorway Tours Co., Automobile pullman touring car, Central Park.
Photographs, Prints & Drawings
Display in Window of Cook's Tours--Fifth Ave. & 47th St.
A display window at the Gdynia America Line offices at Fifth Avenue and 47th Street.
Swedish American Line, Interior, Third Class Dept.
Motorway Tours Co., Exterior, four busses in Central Park.
Hotel Belmont, Portrait, Chester A. Doyle and his trunks after 60,000 mile trip around the world.
French Line, Interior, Group of Agents on the S.S. "Paris" Pier 57 North River.
Pierce Arrow Motorway Tours bus named "Santa Barbara" parked in Central Park.
An office pool of the Norwegian America Line at 8-10 Bridge Street.
Central Park. Park Carriage Company, Central Park Carriage Service
East 42nd Street and Park Avenue. New York City Information Center. Interior, view of map
45 Broadway. National Park Service Tourist Bureau. Interior
45 Broadway. National Park Service Tourist Bureau. Entrance
45 Broadway. National Park Service Tourist Bureau
The "Visitor" - One of the Sightseeing Yachts in the Circle Line Fleet
Vacation in New York City
Photographs of several different tourists sight-seeing around New York City. They are depicted going...
Foreign Youth Visits America
Photographs of several young men and women on a tour of Washington, D.C. and New York. They are depicted...
Hotel Gilsey House, Broadway & 29th Street Northeast corner.
Swedish American Line Pier 97 N.R. Waiting Room.

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Toshiba has added a number of new models to its Portége range of laptops and tablet PCs, including the super-lightweight R500-12S notebook that Toshiba claims is world’s first laptop to come with fitted with a 128GB SSD memory.
The R500-12S builds on the strengths of the 64GB SSD-equipped RS500-126 that was launched at the end of 2007. Powered by a U7700 ultra-low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor it’ll also feature 2GB of DDR2 RAM and will ship with Windows Vista Business edition.
Toshiba has also announced three new additions to its M700 range of tablet PCs: the entry-level M700-13A, the mid-range M700-139 and the 3G HSDPA-capable M700-3G13B.
All three are powered by the new 45nm ‘Penryn’ Intel Core 2 Duo processor and feature 12-inch digitised touch screens with WXGA display and an Intel GMA graphics card.
All new models also feature a DVD SuperMulti drive and can be ordered with either Windows Vista Business or XP.
All models are due to arrive in the UK before June. Prices are £1,880 for the Portége R500-12S, £1,175 for the M700-13A, £1,350 for the M700-139 and £1,290 for the M700-3G13B.


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Telephone numbers of 51,181 subscribers not registered as telemarketers but were doing telemarketing activities have been disconnected. Notices have been served on 88,307 subscribers who have committed similar violations, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Milind Deora, said in a response to a Rajya Sabha question. According to the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010, no subscriber, who is not registered with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) as a telemarketer, shall make any commercial communication. On verification of a complaint that a subscriber not registered as a telemarketer with TRAI indulged in unsolicited commercial communication , the operator issues a notice to the subscriber to stop doing so. If the subscriber persists , the Regulation allows disconnecting the subscriber.
Based on this provision, action has been taken against the violators (till July 30), the Minister said. “From the complaints’ data received from service providers, it is seen that the majority of complaints of unsolicited commercial communications are sent by telecom subscribers who were not registered as a telemarketer.”
The Government is aware that several calls and SMSes are being made/sent by subscribers not registered with TRAI as a telemarketer, by using normal telephone connections having numbers other than the ‘140’ number series allotted to registered telemarketers, Deora added.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced a multi-state settlement Friday with a now-defunct dealer of vehicle service contracts that will provide $9.3 million worth of restitution to approximately 19,000 consumers.
Under the terms of a multi-state settlement with attorneys general from Washington, Texas, Missouri and Ohio, US Fidelis will pay more than $9.3 million to resolve allegations of illegal telemarketing, robocalls, deceptive solicitations and misleading television ads. In Ohio, 583 consumers will receive $287,484 worth of restitution.
"The restitution that consumers will receive is the result of hard work and lengthy negotiations," DeWine said. "When a business files for bankruptcy, as US Fidelis did, it can be difficult to recover anything for consumers. But the states worked hard to advocate for consumers and to recover as much money as possible."
US Fidelis, formerly the largest dealer of vehicle service contracts in the U.S., petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 1, 2010. In April 2010, Ohio and multiple other state attorneys filed a lawsuit against the business and its owners for allegedly deceptive practices. The states later agreed to settle the allegations against the company's owners in exchange for an agreement to turn over their assets to the bankruptcy estate.
Consumers will receive at least $250 each with those eligible for a refund of their contract receiving partial refund based on the unused portion of their contract remaining after cancellation. The restitution checks were mailed last week.

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Cotton, these essential disposable squares in our bathrooms, are full of flaws! First, they undergo a large number of treatments and their production requires a lot of energy and resources! Secondo, it's a pure waste. We use them daily, for make-up removal (and make-up for awkward people), to refresh, to wash the children, to treat a small boo .. For our health and that of our planet, there is an alternative: washable wipes!
What does it change ?
For Daily use is super practical, we use the washable square like cotton but instead of throwing it away, we pass it in the washing machine (ideally in a washing net). These wipes are made of Tencel, a very soft viscose extracted from the eucalyptus fiber. This viscose is both innovative and environmentally friendly. The eucalyptus used comes from sustainably managed forests and its production takes place in an almost closed circuit.
Maintenance tips :
. Use your wipe as you would with a cotton pad
. Store your used wipes in your washing net (without compressing them)
. Wash with the rest of your laundry (maximum 40 °)
. Air dry or tumble dry
. Reuse! Your square can be reused about 300 times!
. made from eucalyptus fiber
. respectful of the environment
. biodegradability of tencel
. natural materials and manufacturing without harmful solvent
. pleasant use
80% viscose de tencel (fibre d'eucalyptus) et 20% polyester
Environ 10 x 10 cm
mai 3, 2019
Testé en avant-première et je suis conquise ! J'en avais déjà plein pour bébé en microfibre, bambou et coton, et aucune ne vaux la douceur de celles-ci ! Donc pour le visage c'est génial, les autres retourne dans le bac pour les mains et les fesses de bébé ^^


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Each of these four pieces appropriates something from the Renaissance repertoire. 'La Bergamasca' and 'La Romanesca' are both bass lines that were commonly used by composers as a basis for variation, and by performers for improvisation. ('La Bergamasca' came with its own melody, but this was not always used.) 'Wat zal men op den Avond doen?', a melody originally from Germany, was used by Jacob van Eyck in his compendium of recorder variations 'Der Fluyten Lusthof' (1649). The title translates as 'What shall we do this evening?', and I believe the lyrics provide a rather saucy answer. 'L'homme armé' ('The Armed Man') is a popular tune from the 15th Century, and was used as the cantus firmus for many settings of the Ordinary of the Mass, in other words, the line of the melody was worked into the polyphonic choral texture.
The melodies used have been given a new setting in this suite. 'La Bergamasca' is reinterpreted as a bombastic Stravinskian prelude, followed by a placid chanson version of 'L'homme armé'. 'Wat zal men op den Avond doen?' is set as a lively musette, which, given its title, has more than a hint of bagpipes in the texture. A stately pavan on 'La Romanesca' rounds off proceedings, with a further nod to Stravinsky in the final cadence.

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PET STAINS? NO PROBLEM!
All pets pee on the carpet at some point. It just happens. Pet urine stains are more common with a new puppies, older dogs and even a cat from time to time. You want to remove these stains from carpet ASAP. Pet urine can cause real damage to carpet, pads and subfloor. That’s why it is important to hire a steam cleaner to eliminate pet urine odors and stains from your home.
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Learn how to export 3D animations as Lottie in Adobe After Effects with the Extrudalizer plugin by IVG Design
Learn how to export 3D animations as Lottie in Adobe After Effects with the Extrudalizer plugin by IVG Design. In this tutorial, we will create a 3D animation of a coin flip where we’ll cover the entire process from extruding and animating elements, to optimizing and exporting as a Lottie. Now, let’s get creative and enhance your animation skills today!
Download Extrudalizer here https://aescripts.com/extrudalizer
Get started with LottieFiles for After Effects https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/after...
00:29 Tutorial to creating 3D animation begins
00:35 Creating a shape
00:44 Converting layer to a “Bezier Path” layer
00:52 Centering the anchor point
01:02 Adding basic animation
01:31 Using the Extrudalizer plugin
02:10 Adding animation to create coin flip
03:19 Hiding the anchor point
03:42 Adjusting colors of the coin
04:08 Optimizing for Lottie
04:22 Exporting animation with the LottieFiles plugin
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About Ink & Drop
We are a team of just four people, consisting of two designers and their partners attempting to juggle parenthood and creating awesome artwork day-in, day-out!
We believe that every home should have great artwork, regardless of budget, style or theme. The Ink & Drop team have backgrounds in interior design, fine art, graphic and poster/print design. Our aim is to create the best, most unique selection of print artwork you can find on the internet.
A print shop with a difference
What makes Ink & Drop different, is our unique mix of industry knowledge and backgrounds. Having worked in the creative / design industry for over 20 years, we have an unparalleled knowledge of print techniques, paper stock, and artworking. Our team members have also worked in the Urban Art and Street Art scene for a number of years, creating and releasing highly limited edition, sought after art prints. This is what gives our artwork an edge, and a distinct difference to generic wall art. Blending popular interior themes such as Scandinavian style, with an alternative edge we create truly unique artwork for your walls.
Our range of poster prints is ever expanding, as we always have our eye on current interior design trends, but always injecting our own designs and twists. Take a look through our range, we’ve a style of artwork to suit every home and beyond!
About our prints
All Ink & Drop artwork is unique and created in our studio by our designers. You can be safe in the knowledge that you will be adding a unique touch to your walls. Our imagery is printed onto high quality, 230gsm (that’s thick!) matt fine art paper. We use the latest equipment and archival, fade resistant inks to create beautiful bold artwork.
Each and every print to leave our studio, has been printed, packed and dispatched individually by hand for you. Ink & Drop is not a factory full of printers, it is a small, considerate operation.
As well as our stock print sizes we are happy to discuss bespoke sizing, should you have a specific frame or require a larger size print. You can contact us here.

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[singlepic=200,320,240,,] Car market leader Maruti Suzuki India Limited unveiled the much-awaited, World Strategic Model, A-star here today. Powered by the new, state-of-the-art, light weight, 998cc K10B petrol engine, A-star is the best in class
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The 2009-2010 Suzuki Kizashi has made earlier appearances when it was masked heavily under vinyl padding and when it was spotted sporting zebra stripes at the Nurburgring. Now, we have pictures of the Kizashi in a very distorted form – a crash test,
Country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, which has been struggling to keep its sales momentum is banking on the company’s to-be-launched compact car A-Star to beat the year-end blues. The car industry, which witnessed a decline of
[singlepic=77,320,240,,] Well, well, look what we have got here- The 2010 Suzuki Kizashi which we were speaking about earlier the other day. Spotted sporting zebra stripes, the Suzuki Kizashi is eager to attack it’s D-Segment competitors once it
The Splash just made its debut in Suzuki’s home market just about a week back – Japan. It offers brisk performance with outstanding roominess and comfort. The Splash is available from Suzuki dealers in Japan from 21 October 2008. India launch??
A few months ago, we brought you spy pictures of the upcoming Suzuki Kizashi testing in the U.S, which you can view here. It looks like the Suzuki Kizashi could well be the next vehicle from Maruti after the upcoming A-Star and the Splash in India. Maruti
The Suzuki GS150R is powered with a 149cc engine which develops 13.8bhp of peak power at 8500rpm and 13.4Nm of peak torque 6000rpm. It is mated to a six speed transmission. Fuel will be fed to the engine via a carburetor.
What is it? The city car that Suzuki hopes will challenge the Hyundai i10, Chevrolet Spark and cars from its own stable. The new A-Star/Alto will be built in Delhi by Suzuki’s majority-owned Maruti Suzuki Limited, and will be known as the Maruti A-Star
The Suzuki SXForce Concept is one of the latest additions to Suzuki’s media-acclaimed Suzuki LIVE Series – a line of brand-dedicated concept vehicles specially designed for life enthusiasts, adventurers and thrill-seekers. SX4 forms the base
The Suzuki SX4 is a truly great car. We Indians love it and its the best car in its segment out there. Suzuki also sells the AWD hatchback version of this car in the US of A. They provide a special version of the sedan with 2.0l DOHC that puts out around
Maruti Suzuki has plans of launching Splash in India by April next year. As we reviewed earlier, the Splash is quite a looker. For those who think the Splash does’nt look sporty enough, Suzuki has got an answer. The Japanese car-maker now offers
With the Maruti Suzuki Splash, a new fresh and exciting small passenger car, Suzuki Motor Corporation intends to gain a significant market share in the growing market for premium hatchbacks segment in India. The new flexible compact car combines the sportiness
Changan Suzuki (Maruti counterpart of Shanghai), has confirmed that it has halted production of the existing Alto model back in July itself. This is to
Suzuki considers the concept of ‘lighter, faster, better’ for achieving optimum efficiency in its cars. As an initiative, Suzuki recently launched the ‘one component, one gram’ drive in Istanbul, which aims at reducing the weight
You would have seen the New Alto a.k.a. A-Star in pictures released from the Paris Motor Show, but now you can watch the Alto from various views and angles through our video feature. Features like separate tachometer, integrated stereo, iPod-USB connectivity,


Classic Rock Wednesday with BREEZE
August 28, 2019 @ 6:30 pm
Enjoy a free night of classic rock with Breeze, South Florida’s longest-running classic rock band!
BREEZE is one of the finest, premiere “tribute” bands you will ever hear. With precise vocals as well as expert musicianship, BREEZE honors, celebrates and pays tribute to the music of a genre… Classic Rock… with integrity and authenticity.
Based out of South Florida and entertaining national audiences for 40 years, BREEZE presents the front runners and pioneers of Classic Rock in concert-style performances. Longtime fans of this group all say the same thing; “This group is amazing — you’re hearing all your favorite artists in concert — all in one night.”
*This is a free event. According to house policy, all tables in the showroom will be subject to a $15 food and beverage minimum spend per person.
*Please call 561-200-0222 for reservations or information.


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Ever felt like you needed a boost? I’m not talking about extra sleep or the boost you get from eating healthy. I’m talking about a boost of the soul. The kind of boost that refreshes fatigue, ignites passion, and inspires you to move. This is the kind of boost I, and a room full of some of the most promising young ladies I’ve seen in a while, received at The Unconditional Tour-St. Louis. Read all of about the experience from one of our very own Mamas and former speakers!
Guilt. We have all felt it. It can keep us stagnant, depressed, and anxious, but today, Tiffany is here to encourage you to renew your mind about that area of your life that continues to make you feel as if you are backed into a corner because you don't have to live with that lie. Let's talk about growth.
Have you ever taken the time to think about how hard it is to parent your children when you are trying to balance your own emotions? This month, Tiffany opens up to share how grief influenced her parenting style and what she did to get over it. Dr. Henry Cloud reminds us that grief is forward moving so let's address it. It's a self care summer and we hope you're making time for yourself!

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Posts with tag "new york times"
- Posted Dec 8th 2010 at 04:36 PM by John Mitchell
The New York Times Magazine always goes all out for its year-end Hollywood Issue, but the magazine has outdone itself this year, producing a gorgeous video spectacle, entitled 'Fourteen Actors Acting: A Video Gallery of Classic Screen Types,' to accompany its annual portfolio of the year's best actors and actresses. As directed by Solve Sundsbo, who also shot the accompanying black-and-white...
- Posted Apr 7th 2010 at 08:00 PM by Zach Dionne
The New York Times has an interesting look at Conan O'Brien's path from "Web Luddite" to Twitter phenomenon, speaking to a handful of anonymous staffers and prompting the question: Exactly how many staffers does it take to run a Twitter feed? Ridicule is arriving for lines like "Assisted by his executive producer, Jeff Ross, and personal friends, Mr. O'Brien signed up for Twitter in late...
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The Dead Speak
In the land of the dying, dog crematoriums have now been pressed in for the once human bodies. At any given time there is only one priest for forty, fifty COVID dead. Twenty pyres are lit while the rest of the dead wait in queue—of putrefying body-bags—in the stinking heat.
The kaal-baisakh howls and moans, lifting embers from pyre to pyre. Ashen trees conduct lonely funerals, showering scorched leaves on the pyres that rise up as ash again in an endless cycle. The more the fires burn; the longer, sleeker and whiter the King’s beard grows, stretching like a luxurious snow-white-velvet curtain over all the uncounted dead.
The survivors—each locked down in grieving dread and hopeless guilt— are haunted by nightmares of hell fires tonguing the flesh off their bones for having abandoned their loved one’s in their squalid deaths. The bearded King and his courtiers increase the steady supply of intubated lies in-lieu of oxygen.
Behind the flowing snow-white beard an eerie silence reigns.
But the dead, they speak.
A week back, they did not show on the concrete façade of her flat. But she had felt the grit. The acrid taste. Must be black-dust from the dug-up site across the road, lifted by the hot loo winds. She would just have to wet-mop the balcony every day instead of every other day.
But now the days have gone still, heat has shot up to 42 degrees and the specks are all over. Slick curls of ash stick to clothes set out to dry, fine soot stains mark the pale yellow wall-paint. A ceaseless smog obscures Delhi skies, stretching from crematorium to crematorium in one Black Cloud.
Varsha Tiwary‘s short stories, memoirs and essays appear in DNA-Out Of Print short fiction shortlist,2017; Kitaab; Basil O’Flaherty; Muse India, Jaggerylit, Manifest-station and Spark, Usawa, Café Dissensus, Gargoyle magazine, Outlook magazine blogs, and Shenandoah lit mag and her piece is forthcoming in Months to Years Covid Flash.

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Due to its proximity to the Black Sea, summer and winter temperatures tend to be several degrees higher than in the rest of Ukraine. The climate is moderately continental, with a short, mild winter and a long, hot summer.
In the western steppe area the temperatures are the highest: there are often droughts and dry winds. The climate of the Danube and Dniestr Deltas is different from surrounding areas. Daily variations of air temperature are smaller, and the average humidity is higher than in adjacent steppe areas. Along the Black Sea coast the climate is milder and breezier.
During the tourist season, from May till the end of September, temperatures average between 200 and 270C with a maximum of 300-350C. The sea temperature is from 180 to 260C in summer. In winter, the temperature rarely drops below 00C in daytime. The sea may freeze for a few days, but sea traffic never stops. Yearly rainfall is from 350 mm. in the south to 460 mm. in the north.


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F.A.L.T.U (short for Fakirchand and Lakirchand Trust University, transl. Useless) is a Hindi comedy film directed by Remo D’Souza and produced by Vashu Bhagnani under the banner Puja Entertainment (India) Ltd. Its plot heavily borrowed from the 2006 Hollywood comedy, Accepted.
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RATIONALE: Historically, pandemics have had an impact on physical therapist practice and patientsÕ access to services in the United States. This research report will examine the influence that past pandemics, including the Spanish flu and Poliomyelitis, had on the physical therapy profession and workforce. We will also examine the impact that the current COVID-19 pandemic has had on physical therapist practice and patients access to care.
METHODS: With the design being a research project, the method of obtaining the information involved an extensive search over six databases. Within each database, numerous combinations of words were used in the advanced search tool pertaining to the events surrounding physical therapy in past pandemics, the current COVID-19 global pandemic, and projected direction for the physical therapy profession. Additionally, information was gathered from the Physical Therapy Associations of both the United States and Canada.
STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS: Strengths of this project include a continuous emergence of literature examining physical therapy utilization, employment rates, and telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this could also be considered a limitation due to the ongoing nature of the pandemic with constantly evolving information.
CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted utilization of services and physical therapist employment, including being furloughed or reassigned to non-physical therapy related roles. Recommendations for minimizing disruption of services, as well as optimizing physical therapistsÕ skills and knowledge in times of health crises in the event of future pandemics, will also be explored.

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A foreign national, who was hospitalized after getting shot by Limassol police during an attempt to arrest him, has succumbed to his injuries.
Police said they were notified on Thursday afternoon over a public disturbance incident in Apesia, a village in Limassol district, after 39-year-old Iranian Abolfazi Ziaei had caused damage to a vehicle according to the complaint.
Officers from Lania station, who went to investigate the incident, said they found Ziaei, described as a legal resident at the village, standing outside his house, while other calls had also come in allegedly reporting on the suspect being enraged and moving about in the village.
Police told Knews the man became visibly angry and the officers were trying to calm him down.
In the past, Cyprus law enforcement had been warned by the European Commission over the use of lethal force
It was not clear whether an attempt to arrest the man had been made, but police said at one moment the man moved in a threatening manner towards one of the three officers while holding an axe and a hammer.
“One of the other officers fired a shot in the air but the suspect kept moving,” police told Knews.
A shot was then fired against the suspect, injuring him in the hip with the bullet passing through the body, while the officer who was being approached by the man also fired a shot at the other hip, according to police.
The suspect was rushed to the Emergency Room at Limassol General Hospital, with initial reports saying he was in serious condition but out of danger. He later went into cardiac arrest just before surgery and passed away at 9pm, according to police.
An officer, who was injured in the incident, was on a nine-day sick leave after he was treated for injuries in the forehead, nose, and shoulder.
The suspect was known to law enforcement authorities in connection with drug related offences, according to local media.
Police declined to comment on the use of lethal force, telling Knews the officers responded to a disturbance call and the situation escalated despite their efforts to calm the man down.
Taser gun holdup
In the past, Cyprus law enforcement had been warned by the European Commission over the use of lethal force.
Last year, the government pushed for legislation that would allow the use of electroshock stun guns by police officers, wildlife rangers, prison guards and members of the armed forces.
A taser or stun gun is a non-lethal incapacitating weapon that delivers electric shock aimed at inflicting pain without causing significant injury. Officers are able to aim their non-lethal weapon at suspects and temporarily disrupt their muscle functions, making the possibility of an arrest much easier.
A House committee was expected in January to discuss studies about stun guns, while it was not clear whether the legislation was ready to go forward.


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ERBIL (Rudaw) – The Japan-based oil company of TonenGeneral imported the country’s first cargo of crude oil from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and delivered to its two refineries near the capital Tokyo.
“TonenGeneral imported about 1 million barrels of Kurdish oil last month, classified as ‘export blend of Iraqi origin’ in data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s (METI),” Reuters cited a well-informed source without raveling further details.
The cargo that was imported in January was delivered to “refineries in Kawasaki and Chiba, both of them near Tokyo,”
The Reuters report says that Japanese Ministry of Economy classifies the oil as “export blend of Iraqi origin”
The Kurdish government has exported its oil independently to the world market for more than a year to help its budget shortfall caused by the central government in Iraq since February 2014.

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Polaris F9550 Review – Why its considered worthy enough?
No one in this world wants a dirty pool, But the pools don’t clear themselves. And, you know this. That’s why you are in this article. Cleaning the pool is really a hassle. But not in 2020, where everything is automated. And, Polaris F9550 Sport Robotic cleaner is the one you are looking for.
Polaris F9950 has all the features you would need. Because of its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and mapping technology, you can schedule everything, you want it to do. But, there are shortcomings in it too, as everything in this world has, and you will know them in this Polaris F9550 review.
However, before we move to the main discussion, let’s know how many types of automatic pool cleaners are there?
There are three types of automatic pool cleaner. They are suction-side, pressure-side and robotic pool cleaners. Among them, Robotic Pool Cleaners are the most famous now because of their advanced controlling system. And, F9550 sport is also a robotic pool cleaner.
At A Glance Of Polaris F9550 Pool Cleaner
- With its motion-sensing, you can remote the cleansing control over your palm.
- By just pressing a button on the F9550’s surface, it can evacuate water from the pool effortlessly.
- Its dirty canister indicator let you know the exact time to clear the filter canister.
- You can just clean the debris with a shake from the filter canister and fit it properly.
- By setting a 7-day programmable timer, it can do its job automatically.
- For 4-wheel drive technology, it cleans everything starting from the pool floor to tile line.
Because of its bland blue and grey finishing and big four black wheels, the F9950 seem like a teeny flashy sports car rather than a pool cleaner. It is 16.9 x 18.9 x 10.6 inches in HWD and weighs about 21 pounds which is quite light. You can clean up to 60 foot of the pool with this pool cleaner.
Compare Polaris F9550 And Dolphin Triton Robotic Pool Cleaner
|Polaris F9550 Pool Cleaner
|Dolphin Triton Pool Cleaner
|In the case of pool cleaners, weight matters a lot. The F9550 sport weighs 21 lbs.
|The Dolphin Triton is lighter than F9550, only weighs 16.5 lbs.
|The Polaris Vortex Vacuum technology used by it which allow it to go anywhere on the pool water surface.
|The Dolphin pool cleaner uses PowerStream Technology which ensures advanced walls and tiles cleaning and can mount walls vertically.
|Because of its in-build ActivMotion Sensor Tech, it can navigate your entire pool and also can focus on the areas that need extra cleaning.
|It can track its way around the pool when cleaning, and you can also control it with your smartphone.
|It can easily handle pool size up to 60 ft. and its cable length is 70 ft.
|In the case of Dolphin Triton, it can handle up to 60 ft sized pools and the cable size is 60ft.
|Although it’s a smart little robot, you can’t connect it with Wifi or Bluetooth and also don’t have any controller app.
|You can connect it with Wifi and Bluetooth and also has its own control app.
Key Features of Polaris F9550 Robotic Pool Cleaner
ActivMotion Sensor And Motion Sensor RC
With ActivMotion, F9950 creates a digital map of the pools and cleans the pool in the most effective way. In this process, it does its work faster while still clearing almost all the areas. But it’s not like without shortcoming. It misses some areas with ActivMotion. But you can control the pool cleaner to clean the missed areas by just moving your palm.
When cleaning your pool, filter canisters can fill anytime, and you can’t say when is the exact time. But, not in the case of the F9550 sport. It has a canister indicator which will alert you when the canister is full. The canister removing process of the canister is also very easy.
It happened many times, I set a time to clean my pool but forget to clean it. But, it’s not anymore with the F9950 sport.
Polaris F9550 comes with a 7 days programmable scheduler. Just set the cleaning days of the week, place the pool cleaner inside the pool, and you are all done. The pool cleaner will automatically do your work.
What Users Are Saying About Polaris F9550 Pool Cleaner
The thing most of the users loved about the best pool vacuum cleaner is the 4WD technology which is actually four oversized tires. And, these with anti-slip Aqua-Trax tires ensure it climbs on the wall without any support. Without its peerless cleaning performance the power cord which is non-tangle, allowing it hassle-free underwater movement, made many users fall in love with it.
The ActivMotion sensor is also something to brag about. With the help of this sensor, F9550 sport can create its own cleaning path which may be better than your selected path. There are tons of features that make this pool cleaner so lovable among the users. But it does mean it’s without flaws.
The F9550 Pool cleaner shows its weakness when cleaning the deep corners. It is too large to handle them. Although it can clear entry stairs perfectly, it doesn’t clear the deep stairs appropriately. It’s not a good choice for most of the deep pool owners. And, the price is also not haggled for some people.
FAQs About Polaris F9550 In-Ground Pool Cleaner
Why is the cable tangling in the pool?
Why isn’t it climbing the pool sides anymore?
My pool cleaner isn’t staying firmly on the pool bottom surface?
The Polaris F9550 offers so many things at once. There are too many features and programs to tell. So, keeping it simple, the F9550 is excellent in every angel.
Whether it is cleaning performance or managing the pool cleaner, it’s better than any of its competitors.
There are also so many problems people are having with it. And the price is also high. But, you know it outworks everything with its performance. And, from this review, you already know this much.
So for a hassle-free and comfortable swim in your pool, Polaris is one of the best of the automatic pool cleaner.


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Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean. It is by far the biggest city in Lebanon. Due to Lebanon's small size, the capital has always held the status as the only true cosmopolitan city in the country, and since independence, has been the commercial and financial hub of Lebanon.
Beirut has survived a rough history, falling under the occupation of one empire after another. Originally named Bêrūt, "The Wells" by the Phoenicians, Beirut's history goes back more than 5000 years. Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Ottoman civilizations.
Following World War II, Lebanon gained its independence from France and Beirut became its capital in 1943 - Bechara El-Khoury and Riad El-Solh, Lebanon's first president and prime minister respectively, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and national heroes. Beirut thrived as a major commercial and tourist center of the Middle East. It was a top destination among wealthy Arabs and European tourists, due to Beirut's unique geography, climate, diverse culture, and freedom. Beirut was seen as the "European gateway to the Middle East" and vice versa, and was often called the "Paris of the Middle East".


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-Day 28 of the #TrumpShutdown
-Federal Workers Stand in Food Lines
-Directed Cohen to Lie to Congress?
-Allowed Sen Graham to Fly to Turkey
-Meets NoKo Spy Chief in Oval Office
-Gambling Reversal Linked 2 Donor
-Teases a "Major Announcement"
Day 684 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
There have been 11 American mass shootings in the first 18 days of 2019.
Real-time U.S. gun violence numbers as of January 18th:
•679 gun deaths
•1,188 gun injuries
•25 children shot
•98 teenagers shot
•71 incidents of defensive gun use
•88 home invasions
•76 unintentional shootings
•11 mass shootings
The House bill that would expand background checks and help to prevent gun violence #HR8 now has 224 cosponsors.
And The 224 co-sponsors includes many Republicans
3 of the 4 Americans killed in Syria identified:
-Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37, Boynton Beach, FL
-Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent, 35, upstate NY
-Defense Dept. civilian Scott A. Wirtz, St. Louis, MO
FYI: The Trump admin has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border.
At one agency, the children were put into temporary foster care and shelters with little or no indication that they arrived at the border with their parents: propub.li/2QcsPvY
Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now almost 15,000 are in U.S. custody.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
Reminder: Tweet from June 17, 2018.
When Trump returned from his last summit with Kim Jong Un he tweeted "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea."
Yesterday, Trump's Pentagon issued a report saying North Korea's nuclear program is still an "extraordinary threat" usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Trump met with North Korean Spy Chief Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half in the Oval Office, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February.
Will the notes of the conversation be released to the public?
Trump plans to meet again with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, in February nyti.ms/2Dhvk8c
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden's news agency says a secret, high-level meeting between envoys from the United States and North Korea is being held in Stockholm.
So, who is representing the U.S. in these secretive talks?
Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter tell BuzzFeed News.
Trump supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations, BuzzFeed reports.
"Make it happen," the sources said Trump told Cohen.
Even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, sources tell BuzzFeed News that Trump, Ivanka and Don Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Mueller's office learned about Trump's directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, texts, and a cache of other docs, BuzzFeed News reports.
Klobuchar: "A president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction. Is that right?"
Klobuchar: "You also said that a president convincing a witness to change testimony would be obstruction. Is that right?"
Article One of Nixon bill of impeachment, approved by House Judiciary Committee, accused Nixon of “approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to...false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings."
In 1998, the first article of impeachment against Bill Clinton included "efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence."
Dianne Feinstein: "Now, media reports say Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about that business deal. If true, [Trump] committed a crime and must be held accountable."
Obstruction and collusion are somewhat nebulous concepts — which makes impeachment and removal of Trump difficult.
Suborning perjury though, if proven, is clearly a crime and would be very hard for Republicans to explain away. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
According to the NYT story last fall, one of the written questions to Trump from Mueller was, “What communication did you have with Michael D. Cohen, Felix Sater, and others, including foreign nationals, about Russian real estate developments during the campaign?”
When asked directly, White House press secretary Hogan Gidley refuses three times to say whether the Buzzfeed report is true or false.
This is witness intimidation.
The funny thing about Newt dissing BuzzFeed as supermarket tabloid is that Trump used a supermarket tabloid to smear his rivals and commit a felony by facilitating hush money payments to a mistress
BuzzFeed stands by its reporting
Day 28 since Congress & Trump have not agreed on a spending bill.
Government agencies are now shut down.
More than 800,000 government workers to work without pay because of the #TrumpShutdown
As we wind down day 28 of the #TrumpShutdown, let's not forget:
"I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it."
There's a food line for furloughed federal workers in DC that stretched around the side of this building.
America 2019: bread lines for people who *have* jobs #TrumpShutdown
The Capital area food bank has sent an email asking for more support and donations because of the #TrumpShutdown.
"I’ve organized food drives for the food bank for years. I never dreamed I’d be standing in line for food myself."
Trump suggests someone would lug a prayer rug across the Atlantic, up through South America, into and across Mexico, only then to ditch it in Texas.
To play on the fears of his racist, xenophobic, bigoted base.
Reporters on the border say migrants often carry small heavy rugs to throw over the barbed wire and then dump them when they make it to the U.S. side.
Has nothing to do with Islam.
Tim Kaine tried to get consent to take up a House-passed bill that would reopen all government agencies except Homeland Security, but Mitch McConnell objected.
McConnell didn't explain his objection. thehill.com/blogs/floor-ac…
The message the White House is sending here is that taxpayer funded visits to autocrats are fine, and taxpayer funded resort weekends in Palm Beach are fine, but visits to meet with troops and NATO are not.
Erdogan and visiting US Senator Graham discuss Syria and US troop withdrawal, attend concert of popular Turkish pianist Fazil Say
Pence on Wednesday: "The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."
Pentagon spokesman today: "As Wednesday's attack demonstrates, ISIS remains a threat."
As Trump cozies up to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea, Russia has deployed nuclear capable ballistic missile launchers near Ukraine’s borders.
Trump remains silent about the increased threat being mounted on the Ukrainian border. Stay tuned.
Steven Mnuchin recently flew to L.A. on a private jet to meet with Michael Milken, the billionaire "junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
Birds of a feather... nyti.ms/2HlIrtb
The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed conservative conspiracy theorist and special counsel witness Jerome Corsi, his attorney told The Hill.
The committee is seeking both an interview and documents from Corsi.
The legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's unusual reversal this week of an opinion that paved the way for online gambling hewed closely to arguments made by lobbyists for casino magnate & top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, WSJ reports.
New Pew Research poll on Trump entering year 3:
—37% approve, 59% disapprove
—58% trust Trump less than previous presidents
—29% say his presidency will be a success people-press.org/2019/01/18/tru…
Former White House aide reveals compiling of Trump "enemies list" in memoir: report
Will Trump declare a national emergency tomorrow?
In case you missed yesterday's thread:
✅ Russia probe didn’t start from the dossier.
✅ Dossier not discredited.


French leaders have called on the world to take action in Libya over worries the chaos there is turning the country into a “terrorist hub” that’s a short flight or boat ride from Europe.
France on Tuesday issued a clarion call to the rest of the international community to act in Libya, amid growing fears the country is becoming a major “terrorist hub” on Europe’s doorstep.
But while the major regional players voiced concern about [...]
Paul Joseph Watson | Institution that ignores its own citizens' referendums decries Crimea vote as undemocratic. [...]


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VpCI inhibitors are recommended for protection of inaccessible areas of marine structures such as: keel, rudder, rubbing strip etc. They are also applicable and highly efficient in the protection of pipelines, marine and naval equipment as well as electrical contacts.
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1. Cortec Emitters VpCI®-101, VpCI®-110 and VpCI®-150 were installed in electrical enclosures.
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4. VpCI®-609 was fogged in cement and barite tanks at a typical dosage 0.5 kg per cubic meter. VpCI®-609 was also added at a dosage of 3-5% to water and glycol used for filling of manifolds and flushing of carbon steel piping in the mud system.
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We recommend airing your Baavet products before use, this will allow them to loft and regain their bounce after being in the packaging. This will also allow the lanolin residue in the wool to dissipate.
The lanolin residue in each product will vary according to the source of the wool. This is perfectly natural and will dissipate over time.
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BINOCLE is the office led by Italian architect Lorenzo Bini since 2011.
Born in 1971, educated in Milan and Oslo, Lorenzo graduated in 1998 from Politecnico di Milano and worked for different offices in Milan and Rotterdam until 2003 when he co-founded studiometrico, his former practice that ceased business in 2011 after 8 years of shared partnership.
BINOCLE works on the transformation of existing spaces shifting from temporary structures to permanent buildings and gardens.
Beside his professional activity, Lorenzo is teaching at Politecnico and Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan and was visiting professor at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Set up for the exhibition ‘Vico Magistretti. Architetto milanese’ organised by Triennale Milano in collaboration with Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti in occasion of the centenary of the architect’s birth.
The main structures - a large table, a long shelf/wall and a gigantic hood - are designed as blow-ups of domestic archetypes, organise the exhibition space and allude to a place in which to work, design, think, stay and live. A single construction system and a single material confer unity and recognisability to the installation.
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In a move that appears to be a bit of damage control mixed with a bit of new-product marketing, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted an apologetic message on the Netflix blog Sunday that has received mixed reviews.
And by mixed, I mean… mostly not great.
Hastings apologized for the PR fiasco that ensued following Netflix’s announcement in July that they would be charging separately for DVD-by-mail and streaming services.
The message begins with Hastings saying “I messed up” and “It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology.”
But then it moves to an announcement about splitting the two components of the business into different websites and different names and NO integration between the two (meaning if you’re searching for a movie, you have to look for it on two sites instead of one). Streaming = Netflix. DVD = Quikster. Current subscribers will now get two charges on their accounts, but with no more price changes.
What do you think? Good move? Bad move? Does it matter?
Seattle-based startup Medio is partnering with the company that makes those wildly popular birds of destruction.
Rovio, makers of the 300-million-times-downloaded Angry Birds, will be using Medio technology to track who tosses those birds into the pigs (or monkeys or whatever enemy is stealing their eggs).
"… our games generate a gold mine of consumer behavior across every demographic, from kids to senior citizens. Figure out a way to crunch those data in real-time and the result will be much better game play for all to enjoy."
"With more than 200 million people world-wide playing games like Angry Birds, Rovio and others are presented with the gift of “Big Data” 24 hours a day. Over the span of even just a few months, these data sets are massive – from dozens of terabytes to many petabytes – unstructured and complex. But they contain a gold mine of information that we think can increase our fan engagement and satisfaction."
In a battle to rally search engine market share, Microsoft is taking their fight… to the mall. The Redmond giant (I know it’s cliche to use that phrase, but for some reason it amuses me every time) now offers detailed maps of hundreds of shopping centers around the country, including all the major ones in the Puget Sound.
Southcenter, for example:
From a person who is always looking for a directory to find that elusive-but-ever-present watch repair store (psst, it’s next to the nail salon and the tux rental shop), thanks. And it’s not a bad way to win over some fans, especially of the younger demographic.
(Now… what to do about those aerial photos… I mean, come on, it still shows the movie theater being built, which means it’s at least four years old. And the other aerial pic is even older.)
One week into Google+ and counting: An analysis (or... "BECAUSE EVERYONE IS WRITING ONE OF THESE")
Okay. Bottom line: Yes.
Yes, I like Google+.
Yes, it has some amazing bells and whistles.
And yes, it kind of scares me.
I’ve told many people G+ sure seems like the Buzz Lightyear of social media, the new must-have everyone wants to play with to the detriment of the old Woody the Cowboy (psst… I’m talking about Facebook).
But at some point, many of us will finish trying to figure out this new behemoth and go back to the tried-and-true white and blue.
Considering I’ve had at least 30 people ask for invites in the last two days, and nearly all signed up within minutes of being added to my Circles, it’s safe to say the g+ears are turning. Some estimate ”Plus” may already have around 5 million users (see below for more on that).
So here are my first week impressions:
THE “+1”S OF G+
Google Hangouts - To quote my friend Josh, an aircraft engineer, “How is this is free???” Hangouts may be the most awe-inspiring thing about the Google+. Over the weekend, I extended an open invite for the multi-person video chat function.
We got a maximum of six people at one time, mostly journalists (apparently we tend to stay up the latest), from Anchorage to Toledo to an SUV navigating the streets of San Jose. I’m told up to ten can simultaneously chime in, and it’s an nice technological detail that whoever is speaking the loudest takes the big window.
You can also share YouTube videos with everyone, though that part still seems a bit awkwardly implemented (You had to click on the “Join” button before it disappeared, and even then it didn’t always play the video the person was watching immediately).
Still, considering Skype charges for multi-person teleconferencing and XBox Live is still experimenting with multi-person “Avatar” chat, color me impressed. Oh, by the way, the video hardly lagged on any of the webcams.
Circles - I would have put this first if not for how much fun I had with Hangouts. Circles, it seems, is the fundamental pillar of Google+. In order to add friends to your list, you drag them into a labeled circle, be it “Friends” or “Acquaintances” or something else of your choosing.
To be fair, Facebook has “circles” in the form of Groups, which even has some settings and features similar to Google+ (How many of us knew you can tailor who sees your status updates or photos?).
I think the difference is that by prominently featuring Circles rather than making it a sorting afterthought, Google+ encourages cliques. Facebook, it might be said, would rather you be friends with everyone. Google+ keeps your friends close and your enemies, well, in their own circle.
But Circles can also be a bit problematic (see below… again).
Integration - One interesting side effect of Google+? My old GChat list has exploded. It’s more than doubled in size, which speaks to how much Google has integrated its different apps.
As someone pointed out, teleconferencing, news feeds, and photo/document sharing are not new concepts to the ole’ World Wide Web. It just really takes someone with Google’s clout to turn it into one big social network.
To continue with the Disney analogies, it’s like taking all the classic animated features, the ones we revisit time and again anyway, and looping them into one massive “Princess Collection.” Not that.. um.. I have… said collection… (anymore)…
The Google+ Minuses
Privacy - With Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen already estimating more than 4.5 million Google+ users using his unique method, you expect Google to face the same privacy questions that Facebook has dealt with over the course of its own explosive growth.
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
Granted, I’m pretty sure Google+ isn’t trying to be uber-private. They want you to have a public profile. I’m just not sure they tell you just how public some of your stuff can be.
As soon as some “acquaintances” I know signed up, Google+ started posting photos from their previously established Picasa albums. While they’re okay with it, it did catch many by surprise.
Circles - If you understand them, Circles have the potential to rock your world. But if you don’t, they can really make your head spin. That’s the part that worries the folks who don’t want others to be able to add them into a circle sans mutual consent (a la FB).
You have to realize that Google wants to know who you want to see virtually everything you post. That means paying attention to the green versus blue:
Blue is a constricting circle, so to speak. Green, on the other hand, means people you haven’t sorted will be able to see what you’ve posted. If you’re not paying attention, it’s tough to know who is seeing what on your page.
Beta - In the end, most of the knocks on Buzz Lightyear relate to the fact that he’s shiny and new and simply inexperienced. In this parlance, that means Google+ is glitchy+.
Tech superstar Chris Pirillo lamented that 200 people unfriended him after his photos started posting automatically. Apparently, due to a miscalculation by Google, his pictures would float to the top of people’s feeds every time someone made a comment about them.
On a smaller scale, I had friends texting me to stop emailing them every time I posted on my stream. First of all, I wasn’t aware at the time that I had added people who were not already Google+ members. Second, I didn’t know the default setting (cleverly enough, because it encourages people to sign up for G+) is to notify those non-members via e-mail every time I hit the “Share” button.
But Google tends to fix things (except for letting me sort GMail by file size, but that’s a fight… sigh… for another day), so I’m just going to be patient for now.
I wrap up with a philosophical question I posed on a G+ comment from Ted Kim of the Dallas Morning News, regarding the difference between Facebook’s “like” and Google’s “+1.”
Do they have different connotations? I venture you’d be more likely to “+1” a witty yet negative comment than “like” it. Eh, what do I know?
So.. for now, yes.
Yes, Google+ gets my +1. But Facebook still has all my food photos.
Pretty huge deal. Not only does this help MS potentially leap-frog Google’s voice and video capabilities, but a potential Skype on the XBox LIVE network would make that Kinect web cam function immediately more appealing to millions of Skype users around the world. The official press release from MS:
REDMOND, Wash., and LUXEMBOURG – May 10, 2011 – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.
The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.
With 170 million connected users and over 207 billion minutes of voice and video conversations in 2010, Skype has been a pioneer in creating rich, meaningful connections among friends, families and business colleagues globally. Microsoft has a long-standing focus and investment in real-time communications across its various platforms, including Lync (which saw 30 percent revenue growth in Q3), Outlook, Messenger, Hotmail and Xbox LIVE.
Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.
“Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “Together we will create the future of real-time communications so people can easily stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world.”
Skype will become a new business division within Microsoft, and Skype CEO Tony Bates will assume the title of president of the Microsoft Skype Division, reporting directly to Ballmer.
“Microsoft and Skype share the vision of bringing software innovation and products to our customers,” said Tony Bates. “Together, we will be able to accelerate Skype’s plans to extend our global community and introduce new ways for everyone to communicate and collaborate,” Bates said.
“Tony Bates has a great track record as a leader and will strengthen the Microsoft management team. I’m looking forward to Skype’s talented global workforce bringing its insights, ideas and experience to Microsoft,” Ballmer said.
Speaking on behalf of the investor group that sold Skype to Microsoft, Egon Durban, managing director of Silver Lake, said: “We are thrilled with Skype’s transformation during the period of our ownership and grateful for the extraordinary commitment of its management team and employees. We are excited about Skype’s long-term future with Microsoft, as it is poised to become one of the world’s most dynamic and comprehensive communications platforms.”
Founded in 2003, Skype was acquired by eBay in September 2005, and then acquired by an investment group led by Silver Lake in November 2009. Skype has made impressive progress over the past 18 months under Silver Lake’s leadership, increasing monthly calling minutes by 150 percent, developing new revenue streams and strategic partnerships, acquiring the intellectual property powering its peer-to-peer network, and recruiting an outstanding senior management team.
Other members of the selling investor group led by Silver Lake include eBay International AG, CPP Investment Board, Joltid Limited in partnership with Europlay Capital Advisors; and Andreessen Horowitz.
The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. The parties hope to obtain all required regulatory clearances during the course of this calendar year.
The guy who live-blogged the death of Osama Bin Laden... and didn't realize it!
Sohaib Altar was complaining about helicopters circling overhead via Twitter and unwittingly became an eyewitness account of the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. I love that it appears now he’s getting followers by the thousands. Here’s some snippets:
Xbox LIVE is now offering Hulu Plus free for 7 days to all Xbox users (and then only to Xbox Live gold members after that).
That means XBox 360’s can stream your favorite TV shows and some movies for $7.99 per month.
Adds Microsoft, because it can: ”With Kinect for Xbox 360, easily control your Hulu Plus entertainment content from your couch using your voice as the remote control. Play, pause, fast forward and rewind any show you are watching using gesture or voice commands, as well as select movies and TV shows recommended for you by Hulu Plus through the Kinect Hub.”
KING-5 reporters use Verizon aircards out in the field, and we recently upgraded to the new 4G aircards, which at once make our laptops look 30 percent more cyborg, and make the download/upload speeds much much faster.
At least, when they work.
We’ve already had some problems with the connections switching between 3G and 4G in a way that, shall we say, is less than seamless.
Some firmware upgrades to the hardware seem to have helped a little, but the cards have definitely been more finicky than their predecessors. For the most part, I’vea been chalking that up to new technology (it takes a while to get the cell towers upgraded) that stuff up and running.
Then, yesterday happened. VZW’s 4G network went down nationwide, and with it, my ability to access my newsroom remotely. Not fun.
And the outage lasted 24 hours… Around 8am this morning, the Verizon Wireless Twitter account posted:
"4G LTE up and running. Thank you for your patience."
Although, while it seems smartphones can now connect to 4G without a problem, the Wall Street Journal says customers with a laptop USB modem (like yours truly, who just experienced this while driving into Tacoma) will still have to reconnect to the network when switching between 3G and 4G connections.
VZW has not said what caused the 4G LTE network, which is rolled out in 45 meropolitan areas so far, to fail.
Amazon announces Library Books to be available for Kindle
Amazon says it will start allowing Kindle users to borrow books from more than 11,000 libraries across the country later this year.
I’ve spoken with avid e-readers over the years who say they specifically went with Barnes and Noble’s Nook or Sony’s Reader specifically because they could download books from libraries.
And librarians have expressed frustration at the Kindle, believing that Amazon’s decision not to support their widely used EPUB format was solely so they could sell their own books online.
But today Amazon said it’s working with OverDrive, a digital distributor that already hosts 500,000+ titles, according to its website, to create Kindle Library Lending, a new feature that will be available for all versions of the Kindle, including the reading apps, like those for smartphones.
What that says about the Pac Sci’s ability to target an audience is commendable. What that says about the future of music is… well, no comment. My niece would kill me if I said anything bad about Bieber.
I got this email this morning signed by Best Buy Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Barry Judge:
Dear Valued Best Buy Customer:
On March 31, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers were accessed without authorization We have been assured by Epsilon that the only information that may have been obtained was your email address and that the accessed files did not include any other information. A rigorous assessment by Epsilon determined that no other information is at risk.
The email warns customers to look out for unusual emails, not to click on any suspicious links or give out your personal info. You know, the usual ID theft protection stuff.
Though only email addresses and names were among the hacked, the big concern is that whoever has access to that information can send you a realistic email looking like it comes from a place where you shop (also known as “phishing”).
By the way, the AP says email addresses may also have been stolen from The College Board, which runs the SATs, and Walt Disney Co.’s travel subsidiary Disney Destinations.
AT&T/LG and Sprint/HTC fighting for your stereoscopic eyeballs!
On the heels of LG’s Thrill 4G for AT&T, the first glasses-less 3D smartphone, HTC has unveiled its new EVO 3D, which will run off the Sprint 4G network.
These include an Android (running the Gingerbread version) smartphone model the HTC EVO 3D that promises to deliver glasses-free 3-D. Consumers will also be able to capture 3-D on the device up to the 720p high definition standard. EVO 3D is due out this summer (no pricing yet). (thanks TechnologyLive)
Actually, both phones sport large screens and dual 5.0 megapixel cameras. Both are powerful enough to shoot 720p 3D video or 1080p 2D video, though HTC’s supposedly has just a little more processing power.
Now if only I had a 3DTV on which I actually could watch all the 3D cat videos that are going to be showing up on youtube…..
No more specifics have been given on the release dates of either.
YouTube announced this week it’s acquired Next New Networks, a Web video production company, which New York Times says may be a step in an effort to produce original content and get its viewers (aka everyone with 55 free seconds to watch Kitten vs. Baby) to watch its content for extended periods of time (more like, well, Hulu).
This has been rumbling around the tech community for a bit…. but it’s official. Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces in the mobile phone market.
That should mean Nokia’s phones will no longer use their own operating system (Symbian, in case anyone wants to know) and use the Windows Phone software instead. (Well, actually, Symbian won’t completely go away, not just yet, not with a few hundred million cell phones currently using it)
Why is that good for you? It means more competition for iPhone and Android phone, and possible some crazy interesting phones in the next few years as MS tries to grab more market share from the Apple’s current gold standard and Google’s rising star.
According to the AP report, analysts said the deal was a bigger win for Microsoft than Nokia.
Neil Mawston of London-based Strategy Analytics said Microsoft was the big winner in the partnership, by teaming up with the biggest mobile hardware vendor in the world.
“In terms of expanding their distribution reach, this is a huge win for Microsoft,” he said.
Now if they can do something about that Nokia ringtone…
"The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model, these people said. It will have at least one camera on the front of the device for features like video-conferencing, but the resolution of the display will be similar to the first iPad, these people said. It will also have more memory and a more powerful graphics processor, they said."
One of these days, I want to be a “source familiar with this matter” for someone’s story.
The news isn’t shocking, of course. iPad 2 rumors have been swirling around even since the introduction of the iPad (in large part due to its lack of a camera).
And to explain the title, my poor father was just coaxed into buying an iPad. Mind you he loves it, especially since it recognizes his writing in Chinese script, but he’s always the kind to get something really early on. I mean, we have a laser disc player lying around somewhere.
Still not seeing 3DTVs take off like they'd like...
As someone who wears the real thing, I’ve said to many folks I think 3D HDTV’s won’t go mainstream until you can watch them without special glasses (which I always have to stack on top of my existing pair).
Apparently, to throw out an overused adage, size matters too.
Toshiba came out with retail glasses-less 3DTVs in December in Japan. But now, Bloomberg is reporting that the company is having less-than-expected sales of its sets… Really low. Like less than 1000 of them in a month. It doesn’t help that the two models they have are 20- and 12-inch sets. The technology limits them to those sizes, because any bigger, and you have to resort to — you guessed it — special glasses.
But the numbers also just reflect that most of us are still in wait-and-see mode with this technology. Roger Ebert (via Gizmodo) apparently thinks we’ll never get past that mode.
Still, 3D was good for one part of the market: plasma TV’s, which saw a bit of a resurgence in 2010 (after all those newer, thinner, and less energy hogging LED’s jumped onto the market).
Offline since last Friday, it looks like Egypt’s largest Internet providers are back on.
The home pages of Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, two of the country’s largest telecommunications carriers, were first to appear at around 0930 UTC, according to IDG News Service monitoring. Shortly after the websites of Orascom Telecom and the Egyptian Stock Exchange reappeared.
VZW iPhone 4 Available for Pre-Order Tomorrow; Sales start 2/10
Fresh off the PR wires:
CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced an exclusive opportunity for Verizon Wireless’ 94 million customers to pre-order iPhone® 4 online beginning on Thursday, February 3 through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) and at www.verizonwireless.com/iphone. Due to high demand, customer orders will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis.
Beginning on Wednesday, February 9, all qualified customers will be able to order an iPhone 4 on Verizon through the Apple Store (www.apple.com) for delivery or reserve for in-store pick up beginning February 10.
Beginning at 7 a.m. local time on Thursday, February 10, iPhone 4 on Verizon will be available to all qualified customers at Apple’s retail stores. iPhone 4 will also be available at more than 2,000 Verizon Wireless Communication Stores nationwide.
As for how much the iPhone 4 will cost, MSRP is set at $199 for 16GB models and $299 for 32GB models. Of course, you have to sign a 2-year agreement to get that price.
I feel like I know at least five… hundred.. people who might be able to use this.
While I credit Facebook for trying to remedy this, the way they prioritize who shows up on your news feed has a nasty habit of bringing up some folks you might not want to see (unless you do, and yes I know some of you out there are ex stalkers… at least 74 percent of you, actually…), someone has gone and developed an app to hide people from “your news feed, profile updates, photo updates, suggested photo albums, and Facebook Chat.”
Downside: You have to be using Google’s Chrome web browser for it to work.
While this map comes courtesy the other UW (Wisconsin), I had to share it. It’s not your normal topography. Rather, Daniel Huffman logged about 1.5 million Twitter posts, and checked them for swear words (you can check out his methodology — that is, which swears he used — on his blog). Essentially, what the peaks of bright red show us is that almost all of our big cities like to wax profane, while the Midwest (and Salt Lake City, in particular), are quiet. Chicago seems uncharacteristically dark, too, dont you think? Meanwhile, Louisiana and Georgia… wow. :)
Facebook just gave me the option to upgrade my Facebook Messages to its new format, which includes — drum roll — an @facebook.com email address.
The new format appears to do what Facebook does best (and what FB messaging had previously done the worst), organizing a social network out of your email. Now when I click on a friend’s name, I can see not just the most recent message they sent me, but the entire string of conversations all the way back to the beginning. No more endless scrolling to find one lost message in the haystack.
On a similar note, it’s really nice to list my messages by just unread ones.
FB says it will also “smart filter” messages according to people with whom “you’re close.” I’m assuming that means it incorporates a system similar to the “Top News” on my newsfeed. Either that, or it will just weed out spam messages.
If you haven’t gotten your upgrade button yet, here’s Facebook’s FAQ explanation:
We’re rolling out the new Messages to everyone gradually, so you should see steps to upgrade soon. If you want to access the new Messages sooner, visit the Learn more page to request an invitation (invitations will be sent pending availability).
I am curious to see how the new email meshes with the old “messaging” system. And the notification by text message seems very Twitterish, though if I recall, Facebook has had text messaging status updates for some time.
Ballmer promises (though should Apple take it more as a threat?) Windows will be "everywhere"
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ended his CES keynote with this: “Windows PCs will continue to adapt and evolve, and Windows will be everywhere, on every kind of device, without compromise.”
The speech itself was littered with demonstrations of that promise centering around Microsoft’s XBox (and Xbox Live), Windows Phone 7, and Windows 7 PCs (including support for system on a chip, which essentially puts a full version of the company’s flagship OS on a tiny motherboard, like the kind you would see on a smartphone).
"We’re entering a new generation where you’ll be able to use Windows from the small screen to the biggest screens," Ballmer continued.
While the enduser (read: me) is probably most interested in the deals MS is offering with Hulu Plus, Netflix, and ESPN (streaming bowl games!), some of its other partnerships, like with Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments, may have some long-ranging impacts.
The idea that you can make a full version of Windows run off a motherboard (not processor, but entire motherboard) that’s maybe about 1.5 inches square could mean serious competition to all those mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets (ahem iPad and Android tablets) to whatever the tech industry deems the next big thing.
Overall, while Ballmer’s speech itself and the demonstrations likely lended little new information to the crowd sitting there listening (from the pre-speech hype I got the sense that people wanted Ballmer to talk about the future of the industry as a whole), it did make clear one of Microsoft’s goals going forward.
Did you know the proposed NBC-Comcast merger includes an FCC requirement that Comcast offer any online video provider (i.e. rivals to Hulu) ”reasonable access” to NBC Universal programming? What does that mean? Allthingsd has some theories.
(Disclosure: I work for KING, an NBC affiliate which is owned by Belo)
Facebook overtakes Yahoo as world's #3 most visited website
With the juggernaut momentum Facebook has going, was there ever any doubt that it would surpass Yahoo?
Now only Google and Microsoft remain as bigger websites (and by “websites,” we’re talking about the sum of everything they own, i.e. Youtube = Google, XboxLive = Microsoft), according to data collected by Comscore.
Facebook drew an estimated 648 million unique visitors from across the globe in November, 2010, compared to 630 million for Yahoo. In October the two sites were dead even with 633 million worldwide unique visitors each (actually Facebook had already passed Yahoo by a smidgeon in October with about half a million more visitors).
Last year Facebook took over AOL for #4 (yes, yes, you also probably are more curious about how AOL is still ranked that high).


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BMS 474: Pandemics and Society
The recent outbreaks of an infectious novel coronavirus, across international boundaries, is the latest example of a pandemic disease. Throughout history, pandemics have had significant impacts on global morbidity and mortality, and have reshaped societies. While the impacts of COVID-19 on society as a whole are still emerging, immediate health care responses have been hampered by poor information and/or misinformation. The elective course "Pandemics & Society" is designed to provide pharmacy students with the requisite knowledge of pandemics that they might be effective health care providers under those conditions. Specific objectives include: 1) student familiarity with epidemiology, 2) understanding routes of transmission, 3) recognition of political versus biomedical discourse, and, 4) risk assessment/mitigation of pandemics.
- Pre-requisite: P2 or P3 Classification.
- Lecture: Lecture for BMS 474


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E-Commerce Times spoke with Partner Peter S. Vogel, chair of the Firm's Internet, e-commerce and technology team, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s agreement to hear an appeal of Samsung’s patent dispute with Apple.
“Most complex technology disputes are confusing to the Supreme Court, and this will be no exception,” said Mr. Vogel. “The main reason is that justices on the Supreme Court are not trained in computer and patent technology, and freely admit they don't understanding texting and emails, so can one expect any more?”
In December, Samsung agreed to pay Apple $548 million in a patent settlement but stated in the filing that it reserved the right to reclaim or obtain a partial reimbursement.
The full article can be accessed here.


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Grilled Chilli Lime Chicken Fajita Salad Recipe- Tender and juicy chicken thighs grilled in a chilli lime marinade that doubles as a dressing! Creamy avocado slices, grilled red and yellow peppers, and succulent chicken pieces. Great for lunch or dinner!
Best Ever BLTA Wrap - Yummy Healthy Easy Sick of boring lunches? You NEED to throw an easy BLTA wrap in the lunchbox! What could be better than a bacon, lettuce, tomato & avocado wrap with a creamy dressing? Seriously the most amazing wrap ever.
OH SO YUMMY CHICKEN BAKE This is a clean recipe that I got from a fellow beachbody coach. It is a super simple and super yummy chicken bake. It takes about 15 minutes to prep and 45 minutes to bake. >Lose Up to

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Ideas for Quilts
Gathered from the QuiltNet &rec.crafts.quilting
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 19:12:37
Subject: teeny tiny scraps
Another idea for those who cna not stand to throw away even the most
minute scrap(like me).
1) There was a quilt at the Mid Atlantic Quilt show in Williamsburg VA.
The technique used was to iron fusible web to a foundation of
material. Then take all those scraps and cover the foundatinon. Iron
and those that stay stay. Then I beleive she also did lots of machine
stiching with diff threads in crazy patterns. The effect was really
neat. She (I think it was a she) used all types of scraps in many
colors. The quilt it self was some sort of jungle or forest scene and
the scraps were in the lower foreground of the quilt.
2) I also like to take those 3/4" or less strips and weave them into
cloth using the method in the one of the latest American QUilter mags.
You iron fusible webbing onto a foundation then lay out strips in a row.
Then taking other strips you weave them(remember elementary school
placemats). When down iron to secure the weaving. I have made some pins
this way. I bet you could use this 'woven cloth'in blocks like a nine
patch etc.. It is also a nice effect
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 08:19:38 MDT
Subject: Quilt with a bunch of squares
I was surprised at everyone's negative reaction to the quilt with
a bunch of random squares. I was glad when people started posting
positive ideas for the project. I think that with a little planning
and imagination, the quilt could be beautiful.
If you just can't bring yourself to do it, try a 9-patch. Have you
ever seen a radiant 9patch? You make a zillion (or more :-))
fairly small 9patch squares (two colors per square of the same
value/color) - the 9patches I made are about 4.5 inches square
That make each individual square about 1.5 inches.
You use as many fabrics as you can find (mine has 52 fabrics - 26
different squares and it's only a lap quilt). Make about 20% light
colored 9 patches, 30% medium, and 50% dark/very dark. You need a
lot more dark than light. The hardest part is picking the fabrics.
You pretty much need to visit every fabric source in your area and
always take the fabrics you've already chosen with you.
When the patches are done, you lay them out with light fabrics just
off center, put medium around them, then the dark. You don't do
this in lines/patterns. The progression from light to dark should
look random. It's not easy - took me two weeks to get the squares
where I wanted them. My family had to give up the living room floor.
The result is a beautiful quilt - random yet coordinated/organized.
There are tricks to it's construction (strip quilting/piecing/ironing)
that make it come together better. I took a class. There was a book
but I can't find it. The book calls for 1/2" seams, but we used
quarter inch seams.
The only drawback (IMO) is that the quilt will probably need to be
machine quilted - I can't imagine hand quilting through all those
Simulating the Sky in a Quilt
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 10:44:10 PDT
Subject: Sky Fabric Summary
The responses to the sky fabric suggestions fell into roughly 3 categories:
1. Randomly piece 2" squares of blue fabric
2. Strip piece, adjusting to your satisfaction for shading
3. Bargello piece with blues to create a "moving" feeling to the sky
1. Graduated Whole Fabric ( Slowly feed fabric into a dye bath a
section at a time. When complete, you should end up with a piece of fabric in
graduated shades of blue from light to dark)
2. Spray Bottle Dyeing
a. Use colored dyes in spray bottles on white or light blue to
achieve the desired result.
b. Use bleach or other color remover to lighten or whiten blue
3. Paint with white on blue to shade and create clouds
1. Use a solid blue and quilt in texture (clouds, etc)
2. Use a solid blue (timesaver)
3. Several suggestions for "sky colored" fabrics already on the market.
By far the most popular fabric suggested was "painted desert" by Hoffman.
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 14:18:27 EDT
Subject: making those dreaded ruffles
Here is a suggestion for making ruffles. A method which I have used in
I use 'invisable' elastic. Cut the elastic the length of the finished piece
[the length of the quilt]. Do some quartering of both the elastic and the
ruffle fabric - mark the center, quarters, eights whatever. Pin the elastic
and ruffle fabric at the marks. Put the needle in, through both, and STRETCH
to the next pin; stitch [I use a zig zag stitch here]. This should result in
an evenly ruffled piece.
If you are into clothing construction, this works well for gathering sleeves
etc. especially on 'rabbit and bear cloths!
Hope this hint helps eliminate your hatred of ruffles.
Quick Log Cabin Quilt
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 18:35:44
Subject: batting foundation quilt
I made my daughter a log cabin quilt using the technique of piecing it directly
to the batting, but not the backing. She wanted something fast, to take away
to college and I wanted it to be "sturdy". Each block was pieced to a square of
bonded batting that was about 2" bigger than the block because as was noted
before they do get a bit off kilter, but you can trim the excess batting and
they are fine. I drew a diagonal line from corner to corner on each batting
piece to find the center where I began the flip and sew process. When the
blocks were done I sewed them in vertical strips. I cut the backing in one
piece and lay the first strip face up along one edge of the backing, then the
second strip face down on the first strip and pinned through all layers, then
stitched along the inside edge of the strips through all layers, flipped the
second strip over and sewed the third strip on top of it as I had the second.
I continued to flip and sew the strips of blocks until the thing was together,
then went back and sewed in the ditch through all layers along the horizontal
seams. So, the front was completely quilted down to the batting and the back
was quilted around the blocks, which works pretty well. I had been skeptical
of this method, but it worked *great* for what I needed for that quilt. My
daughter loves it and I think it looks awfully good for a "quickie". Oh, one
more thing--you do need to be able to lay the quilt out flat and smooth each
time you add another strip of blocks to the backing and pin, pin, pin!
Date: 94-07-24 12:52:40 EDT
I learned a technique in a class called Origami Stars. We sewed
light interfacing to the back of a circle, adhesive side facing the fabric,
slashed the back of the interfacing,
turned it and brought 4 edges of the circle toward the center to make a diamond.
Attach the diamnds together to make a star. Magic! the front AND back of the star
is ready to attach to another star for a summer quilt, etc. This technique was
taught to me by Anna Marie Tucker of the Haybarn in Summit, NY. I love it :-)


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Round your corners for a better render
PhotoView 360 uses simple drag and drop methods to create very realistic renderings with very little work. There are many settings that can be tweaked to create just the right image. A new setting that I found in 2013 is setting an appearance to round corners.
One trick to making your rendering more realistic is to round all sharp corners. This only needs to be a thousandth or two. Traditionally this had to be done using fillet, but the downside of this was the performance. Having many small fillets will really slow down your performance.
This example shows how this setting is applied to a cube. You can see that the large fillets do not produce a real high quality round, but I wanted to exaggerate the fillet so you could tell how effective when you are only trying to round off a thousandth or two.
The appearance will not eliminate your need for fillets. To get a cleaner render, use fillet for larger radii. Below is the same model rendered with true filets.
Hope this little setting helps you create better renderings.