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Big Bear, Ca, February 20, 2012, 3:00pm - Skiers and snowboarders can spend a day on the slopes, never wait in a lift line, enjoy a complimentary lunch, have chances to win great prizes, celebrate at an after-ski party with silent auction and entertainment, and do it all to support children and adults with disabilities. The 2012 USARC Ski-A-Thon is … [Read more...]
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Following to this nvd3-js-rendering-solution-for-internet-explorer
any examples on how to use nvd3.js charts with RaphaelJS for internet explorer which does not support SVG
Or any links to use PhantomJS with NVD3. simmilar to HighChartJS
I am working on to use Phantom.js to conver nvd3 graphs, but wondering if anyone here has already invented this wheel..
this is my jsbin link for Piechart
Ok using Phantom rasterize.js i am able to convert my html page into png. Example
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> What i am looking for is just to pass a specific SVG Id to this js > script. i.e if I have 2 SVG charts i want to pass them individually > and create 2 PNG files and render them on Screen

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ôBig Brotherö is the Vegemite of reality TV: Either you love it, or you find it so noxious and distasteful itĺs impossible to comprehend that anyone else would willingly, let alone happily, ingest it. For the past 13 years Ś every single summer since 2000 and one ill-conceived February Ś a dozen-odd people have willingly isolated themselves for three months inside a floodlit Panopticon made to look like a home, their every move broadcast over all-day livestreams and condensed into three prime-time hours per week, all for a half-million-dollar prize. The participants on ôBig Brotherö are, of course, not ôhere to make friends,ö and regularly engage in all sorts of scheming, manipulation and histrionics. On this show, when one player calls another a liar, another can safely reply, ôYeah, I donĺt know what game youĺre playing, but Iĺm playing Big Brother.ö But this season, the showĺs 15th, some ôBig Brotherö contestants have plumbed a new nadir of atrocious behavior: blatant racism.
Almost as soon as this season began, close watchers of the various Web streams began to catalog racial slurs, as well as homophobic, sexist and anti-Semitic ones, that were not making it to air. CBS has historically sanitized the livestreams for prime time: ôBig Brotherö has a long history of contestants being racist Ś if not this racist Ś but CBS has previously claimed that such comments do ônot meet the networkĺs standardsö and it would cut them out of the network airings, leaving them to the hawk-eyed thousands closely monitoring the livestreams. Not this time. In this summer when Paula Deen and Trayvon Martin are on front of mind, instead of ignoring its contestantsĺ racism, Big Brother has made it one of the major storylines, giving audiences a front-row seat not just to the sort of hateful mindset and speech that usually occurs behind closed doors, but to the self-delusion of bigots.
About half the cast has, at this point, engaged in some kind of casual hate speech, but there are two major culprits. The first, Aaryn Gries Ś yes, her name really is an anagram for ôAryanö Ś is a blond-haired, blue-eyed, Texas-born carapace of pure vileness. Aaryn insists she is a ôgoodö person. She has also put on an ôAsian voiceö to joke about getting her nails done; said that Helen, the only Asian-American on the cast, should ôgo make some riceö; and remarked that one should be careful in the dark around Candice, the only African-American woman on the cast, ôbecause you might not see the bitch.ö She has also taken issue with pediatric speech therapist Candiceĺs pronunciation of the word ôasked.ö GinaMarie Zimmerman, a loud Staten Islander who is Aarynĺs blunt, uncouth attack dog, has said that Helen ôshould be kissing our a-- and serving us some f---ing riceö; declared that Candice ôgets that f---ing blacknessö; and in one of the more surreal clips referred to welfare as ô insuranceö by whispering the word into the ears of the two men she was speaking with, apparently aware that she shouldnĺt be saying it but unwilling to stop herself.
The derogatory language, which Aaryn and GinaMarie had previously used only in front of other white cast members Ś you know the saying, evil flourishes when less evil people do nothing because they are trying to win a game show Ś made it to prime time when Aaryn provoked a flabbergasting scene that caused the house to turn against her. (Sheĺs up for elimination this week; GinaMarie is not.) In a fit of pique, Aaryn flipped Candiceĺs mattress off the bed for no reason. When Candice asked who had done that, Aaryn began to snake her head and taunt, ôWhat you gonna do, girl? Whereĺs yo class, girl?ö GinaMarie, escalating, got in Candiceĺs face and asked if she ôwanted the black to come out.ö (Thereĺs a class component at play here: GinaMarieĺs bigotry is classically white working-class, a reflexive xenophobia thatĺs more out there but less frightening for it. Aaryn is genteel, racist but knowing enough to not get busted saying the N-word. Hers is the racism that usually knows how to hide.) The incident ended only when Howard, the other African-American in the house, carried Candice out of the room. Crying, Candice said to him, ôThey have called me ĹSheniqua,ĺ flipped my bed, and I am supposed to go into another room and hide?ö Howard implored her to keep her cool: ôThis game doesnĺt care about whatĺs right.ö
One would think that only someone extraordinarily stupid would say these things in a house covered with cameras, where there is so little privacy that players change their underwear underneath a towel. But itĺs more insidious than that: ôBig Brotherö generally encourages bad behavior, and these women seem to think that their behavior is no worse than the standard sh---talking, slurring, scheming and gamesmanship that regularly goes down. Aaryn isnĺt hiding her true self, not simply because she is dumb, but because she is privileged and sheltered and doesnĺt think sheĺs being that racist and she imagines that everyone watching at home will see it the same way. They wonĺt: Aaryn and GinaMarie have both already been fired from their jobs.
Soon after the mattress incident, Candice came upon GinaMarie sobbing on the couch, with Aaryn comforting her. Candice, finding almost supernatural reserves of compassion, sat down and began to rub GinaMarieĺs back. Aaryn took the opportunity to apologize. ôCandice, Iĺm sorry,ö Aaryn said. ôAnybody that knows me knows that just because Iĺm Southern, and I say things that probably arenĺt appropriate all the time, I have nothing against any other race. And if I make a comment that seems like I do, I donĺt want it to be taken that way, and I donĺt want to offend you.ö This is the kind of thing, distasteful as reality shows can sometimes be, that would be almost impossible to plausibly fictionalize, even though it is a fact of life all over America. The racist who believes she has nothing against any other race, who apologizes largely because it is strategically sound while still thinking of herself as an open-minded person, who is a cruel bully until she becomes self-pitying and defensive, is almost too ridiculously grotesque.
ôBig Brotherö has congratulated itself a bit for putting all of this on air: When Julie Chen, the host, spoke about it on her talk show ôThe Talk,ö her co-host Sara Gilbert said, ôIĺm happy that CBS and ĹBig Brotherĺ aired the comments, because I feel like itĺs good for people to see it, and let these people deal with the consequences when they get out of the house.ö But ôBig Brotherö plays a part in all of this, even if it was just giving Aaryn the rope with which to hang herself.
There is a larger issue, which is how the show is cast: GinaMarie described Candice and Howard as ôtokens,ö a nasty thing to say that also, if you look over the past casts of ôBig Brother,ö appears to be true. As with ABCĺs ôThe Bachelor,ö which has been unsuccessfully sued for its obvious bias against people of color, ôBig Brotherö has racially problematic casting. The show usually has exactly one black woman and exactly one black man on cast. One year there were three African-Americans. There have been seasons with just one. A little less than 40 percent of America is not white; ôBig Brotherĺsö cast does not come close to reflecting this. The series can disavow the behavior of its contestants, but it continues to cast the show as if white people are the ones who have the right to be there. This season the show cast people loathsome enough to verbalize that privilege. When Aaryn and GinaMarie get kicked out of the house, they are going to have lots of explaining to do. But so will ôBig Brother.ö á


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|Application number
|Publication date
|Jun 13, 1989
|Filing date
|Sep 24, 1987
|Priority date
|Sep 24, 1987
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Vaughn L. Mower, Evan A. Deneris, John B. Cox
|Original Assignee
|Unisys Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (23), Classifications (7), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The U.S. Government has a non-exclusive license in this invention adn the right in limited circumstances to require this patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR-1984 Edition) 52.227-12 entitled "Patent Rights Retention by Contractor".
b 1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to phase-locked loop apparatus for producing adjustable microwave frequencies in the range of 7 to 10 gigahertz in steps of 5 to 10 megahertz. More specifically, the present invention relates to a computerized control multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit employing a novel frequency synthesizer.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Frequency synthesizer systems are known and have been classified in U.S. Class 328, Subclass 14; and in Class 331, Subclasses 16, 22 and 19; and are further classified in International Class H03L 7/18 and 7/22.
Prior art basic linearized phase-locked loops are well known and include a VCO having an output coupled to a divide by N device, a mixer, a phase detector and a low pass filter in the loop and have an external reference frequency applied to the phase detector so that deviations of the VCO from the reference frequency cause the phase detector to generate an error voltage which when applied to the VCO adjust the VCO frequency to match the referencve frequency.
Multiple-loop phase-lock loops are known and have been employed in frequency synthesizing systems, however, such systems have heretofore been relatively complex, employed a plurality of N identical digit modules and complex circuitry similar to that set forth in U.S. Pat No. 4,626,787 and references discussed therein.
There is an unmet requirement for simple, low power, broad range frequency synthesizer which is capable of operating in the microwave frequency range. The frequency synthesizer apparatus needs to be compact, of light weight and easily controlled by a remote processor controller over small steps without the requirement of hardware modifications.
It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a novel synthesized microwave frequency generator for generating frequencies up to 20 gigahertz.
It is another principal object of the present invention to provide a synthesized microwave frequency generator having computor control steps of about 5 megahertz.
It is another principal object of the present invention to provide a multiple-loop microwave frequency synthesizer controllable by a processor controller for programmably setting frequency dividers.
It is another general object of the present invention to provide a high stability microwave frequency synthesizer having a relatively low frequency stable reference voltage generator for its base frequency.
It is yet another general object of the present invention to provide a novel sampling mixer circuit for utilization in a multi-loop microwave frequency synthesizer system.
It is general object of the present invention to provide an economical, lightweight microwave frequency synthesizer system.
According to these and other objects of the present invention there is provided a frequency synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop system having an upper and a lower phase-locked loop and a novel sampler mixer mutually connected in the feedback path of the upper phase-locked loop and in the output path of the lower phase-locked loop. A plurality of programmable frequency dividers are connected in the upper and the lower phase-locked loop which are computer controlled to provide a wide range of adjustable frequencies up to about 20 giagahertz at the output of the synthesizer.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a prior art multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit of the type employed to generate frequencies up to about 500 megahertz;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram with the present invention multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit for generating adjustable microwave frequencies up to about 20 gigahertz;
FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of the present invention microwave sampling mixer employed in the circuit of FIG. 2; and
FIG. 4 is a more detailed schematic block diagram of the balun transformer and the impulse driving circuit of FIG. 3.
Refer now to FIG. 1 showing a prior art multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit of the type employed to generate frequencies up to about 500 magahertz. Generator 10 comprises a reference frequency generator 11 for generating frequencies on line 12 which are applied to the phase detector 13 to produce an output signal on line 14. The output signal on line 14 is an error signal produced by the comparison of the reference frequency signal on line 12 and the VCO signal on line 15. The error signal is applied to loop filter 16 to process and amplify the signal and produce an output on line 17 which drives the voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) 18. The locked oscillator 18 output signal on line 19 is coupled to line 21 and is applied as an input via line 21 to the low pass filter 22 which eliminates harmonics and noise from the RF signal on line 23. The RF signal on line 23 is applied to mixer 24 along with the local oscillator input on line 25 to produce an IF output on line 26. The IF output on line 26 is filtered in IF filter 27 to eliminate spurious output signals of the mixer 24 and to provide a clean IF signal on line 28 which is applied to the divide by N circuit 29.
The reference frequency generator signal on line 31 is applied to the phase detector 32 in the lower loop. The output of the phase detector on line 33 is applied to the loop filter 34 to produce the aforementioned error signal on line 35 which is applied to the voltage controlled oscillator 36 to produce the phase-locked loop output signal on line 37 which is applied to a diide by Q circuit 38 to produce the voltage control oscillator signal on line 39 from the lower frequency VCO 36 in the lower loop. For purposes of this discussion the elements 32 through 39 comprise the lower loop. The output of the lower loop voltage control oscillator on line 37 is applied to the comb generator 41 that produces harmonics of the voltage controlled oscillator 36 on line 42 which are applied to the voltage tuned filter 43 to produce the local oscillator (LO) output signal on line 25.
Employing the state of the art commercially available devices and using the highest frequency voltage controlled oscillator 18 the output of this prior art circuit is limited to about 5 gigahertz when employing gallium arsenside voltage controlled oscillator technology.
Refer now to FIG. 2 showing a schematic block diagram of a multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit 40 for generating frequencies up to 20 gigahertz. The synthesizer circuit or system 40 comprises a reference frequency generator 44 selected for the highest stable frequency which is presently limited to approximatly 200 megahertz employing ECL technology. The output of the reference frequency generator is applied via line 45 to a divide by L circuit 46 and to a divide by M circuit 47 for producing the pre-determined and desired output step frequency on line 48. The stable step frequency is preferably approximately 5 megahertz but may be any desired step obtainable by dividing the reference frequency by an integer. Phase detector 49 produces an error signal on line 51 which is applied to upper loop filter 52 to produce a processed error signal on line 53. The error signal on line 53 adjusts and controls voltage controlled oscillator 54 to produce the locked VCO frequency output on line 55. The VCO signal on line 55 is coupled to line 56 to provide a coupled VCO output signal to low pass filter 57 which produces the RF frequency signal on line 58. The RF signal on line 58 is applied to the present invention sampling mixer 59 to produce an IF output on line 61 which is applied to the IF filter 62 to produce a clean IF signal on line 63. The clean IF signal on line 63 is applied to the programmable divide by N circuit 64 to produce the upper VCO signal on line 65 that is applied to the phase detector 49 to produce an error signal on line 51. The upper loop in the present invention comprises the elements 49 through 65 and the programmable divide by M circuit 46.
The lower loop of the present invention comprises the programmable divide by L circuit 47 which produces the step down reference frequency generator signal on line 66 which is applied to the phase detector 67 to provide an error signal on line 68 which is applied to loop filter 69 to produce the voltage error signal on line 71. The voltage error signal on line 71 adjustably controls the lower voltage control oscillator 72 to produce the locked VCO signal on line 73 which is hardwired connected to a node 74. Output 75 line connects node 74 to a programmable divide by Q circuit 76 whose output on line 77 is connected to the phase detector 67 completing the lower loop comprising elements 67 through 77.
The locked lower loop VCO signal on line 78 is applied as a LO signal to the sampling mixer circuit 59 and to a frequency multiplier 79 via line 81. Preferably the multiplier 79 is selectable over a range of integers depending on the output frequency range desired. The output of the multiplier 79 on line 82 is applied to mixer 83 along with the upper loop voltage controlled oscillator output signal on line 55 to produce the sum of the two input frequencies on line 84. The higher sum frequency from mixer 83 is applied to a band pass filter 85 to eliminate the difference frequency and provide a clean signal line 86 which is processed and amplified by amplifier 87 to provide the desired output microwave frequency on line 88. The elements 83 to 87 are commonly referred to as an up-converter because they produce the sum frequency of the two lower input frequencies rather than the difference frequencies.
Microprocessor controller 89 preferably comprises an inexpensive microprocessor chip combined with a programmable read only memory which produces output signals on bus 91 capable of setting the programmable divider circuits 46, 47, 54 and 76. In the preferred embodiment synthesizer circuit 40, the divide by L and M circuits 46 and 47 extend the range of tunable frequencies beyond those heretofore obtained in the prior art. The synthesizer circuit 40 is operable without the extended range divider circuits 46 and 57 but since all other components of the circuit are present they do not penalize the cost of the preferred embodiment circuit. Even if circuits 46 and 47 are set an an integer of one, so as to eliminate them functionally from the circuit, the system 40 is still operable.
Refer now to FIG. 3 showing a more detailed schematic block diagram of the novel sampling mixer circuit 59 of FIG. 2. The sampling mixer circuit 59 is shown having the local oscillator input line 78, the RF input line 58 and the IF output 61 connected thereto as shown in FIG. 2. The local oscillator signal on line 78 is applied to amplifier 92 to produce the amplified signal on line 93 applied to balun transformer 94. The dual outputs 95 from balun 94 are applied to the impulse driving circuit 96 to produce dual outputs on line 97 which are applied to the load 99 in the form of a diode bridge comprising microwave diodes 98. The output of the load 99 on line 101 is the IF signal which is amplified and processed in amplifier 102 to produce the desired IF signal on line 61 as described hereinbefore. The line 61 is provided with a matched impedance resistor 103 to prevent reflections on IF line 61.
Refer now to FIG. 4 which is a more detailed detailed schematic block diagram of the balun transformer and the impulse circuit of FIG. 3. The local oscillator signal on lines 93 is applied to the primary winding 104 of balun transformer 94 via resistor 105. The center tapped secondary winding 106 of the balun 94 provides balance signals on lines 95. Inductance 107 and capacitor 108 provide means for impedance matching the signal on lines 95 to the step recovery diode 109. The step recovery diode 109 generates a sharp on/off transition in response to the local oscillator input at lines 93 and the impulse signal is applied to the load 99 through the coupling capacitors 111 and 112. Resistor 113 provides a DC return path for the step recovery diode 109.
Having explained a preferred embodiment sampling mixer mixer circuit for use in a multiple-loop phase-locked loop circuit it will be understood that a high stability output frequency can be generated which can also be upconverted to provide high stability microwave frequencies. Further, it will be understood that employing the present invention synthesizer circuit 40 that the frequencies of the voltage controlled oscillators in the lower loop and the upper loop may be extended to provide the desirable microwave frequencies as well as being employed to cover the range of frequencies covered by prior art devices.
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|Hewlett Packard Company
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|Hewlett-Packard Company
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|Jan 19, 1988
|Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
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|Mar 19, 1991
|Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
|Method and device for converting voltage to frequency
|Mar 16, 1990
|Apr 16, 1991
|Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
|Method and device for converting voltage to frequency
|Oct 18, 1989
|May 28, 1991
|Siemens-Albis Aktiengesellschaft
|Frequency synthesizing device
|Mar 12, 1990
|Sep 10, 1991
|Westinghouse Electric Corp.
|Method and circuit for controlling the frequency of an electronic inverter
|Jul 8, 1991
|Jul 7, 1992
|Motorola, Inc.
|Multi-loop synthesizer
|May 13, 1991
|Sep 8, 1992
|Microsource, Inc.
|Programmable-step, high-resolution frequency synthesizer which substantially eliminates spurious frequencies without adversely affecting phase noise
|Jan 31, 1991
|Nov 10, 1992
|U.S. Philips Corporation
|Multichannel sine synthesizer
|Nov 1, 1991
|Aug 24, 1993
|Ben Efraim Gideon
|Microwave synthesizer
|Feb 8, 1993
|May 31, 1994
|Hughes Aircraft Company
|Wide band, low noise, fine step tuning, phase locked loop frequency synthesizer
|Feb 11, 1993
|Jul 12, 1994
|Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
|Double phase locked loop circuit
|Oct 4, 1991
|Oct 18, 1994
|Nec Corporation
|Rate conversion apparatus
|Aug 12, 1993
|Sep 19, 1995
|Northrop Grumman Corporation
|Frequency synthesizer with comb spectrum mixer and fractional comb frequency offset
|Aug 15, 1996
|May 5, 1998
|Northrop Grumman Corporation
|Microwave frequency generator and method of generating a desired microwave frequency signal
|Oct 4, 2000
|Nov 27, 2001
|Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
|Transmitting and receiving apparatus
|Jun 4, 2007
|Aug 25, 2009
|Rockwell Collins, Inc.
|Low noise frequency synthesizer
|Dec 20, 2007
|Mar 2, 2010
|National Taiwan University
|Frequency synthesizer, coupled divide-by-N circuit, current-reuse multiply-by-M circuit
|Sep 5, 2008
|Jul 17, 2012
|Thomson Licensing
|Reduction in the acquisition duration of a phase-locked loop able to reconstitute a synchronisation signal transmitted over an IP network
|Jun 12, 2014
|Apr 26, 2016
|Triquint Semiconductor, Inc.
|Clock generation circuit with dual phase-locked loops
|Dec 20, 2007
|Mar 12, 2009
|National Taiwan University
|Frequency synthesizer, coupled divide-by-n circuit, current-reuse multiply-by-m circuit
|Sep 5, 2008
|Aug 5, 2010
|Thierry Tapie
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|Oct 25, 2011
|May 10, 2012
|Sony Corporation
|Frequency synthesizer and frequency synthesizing method
|Jun 12, 2014
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|Triquint Semiconductor, Inc.
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|Jul 2, 1992
|Jan 21, 1993
|Motorola, Inc.
|Multi-loop synthesizer
|U.S. Classification
|327/105, 331/2, 331/22, 327/113
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Sep 28, 1992
|Fee payment
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(...) and go back to playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic.
For those who do not get the reference :
1-The bullet chamber of semi-automatic weapons rotates automatically to find a loaded chamber, which make russian roulette a forced loss for the first player ;
2-The man who discovered this won a Darwin award a few years ago.
Am I delusional, or did they also make a change where, when I'm playing over a game or using the analysis board, the pieces no longer "slide" from square to square, but just instantly jump to the new square? This makes it harder for my brain to follow what's going on. Change it back please!
Thanks for pointing this too. This is even more irritating. I always liked that pieces slide from one square to the other here as opposed to other sites.
Chess.com please stop changing stuff that is fine and change the things that aren't ok or those that people do want changed!
Here Here, its just too distracting and in your face
Now, in addition to the last move color change it seems the letters and numbers have been moved and there is sort of a back board underneath the board with the chess pieces on it...from bad to worse...
OTB chess never looked so good. Once we understand the previous move, there's no need to be reminded of this in such annoying fashion. It's hard enough to develop depth of thought around a chess board, is this supposed to help?
It (yellow-highlighting) is a probably well-intentioned but totally dumb-idea.
It is very distracting indeed whilst trying to look at online-chess board postions.
This site too often implements things where an "update" is not necessarialy needed. I would think that thoughts of changing something like this would be brought to the community as a question: This is what we're thinking of doing. What do you think of it? If enough members respond that they don't like it, at least make it an option in settings.
Chess.com, I think from now on when I manage an OTB game, I shall highlight every move with a dry erase marker without asking my opponent. It'd be interesting to see their reaction wouldn't it?
if it can be turn off im ok with it , i dont like it either tho
You can turn it off by going to Home -online chess - setting.
I only play on-line (correspondence) so having the last move highlighted is useful.
If they wanted to introduce a new type of hlighting, why didn't they just add it as another option rather than forcing it on us.
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It should be an option for not a complete change. If say 80% are using it consistantly then consider to make a change and remove it as an option.
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Extract from the article "History of Oxygen Therapies" by Suzanne Hotston which first appeared in Positive Health Magazine in February 2000
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Design Wall Monday 07/18/16
My sister came over to sew on Saturday, and she made the wall hanging shown above. She had a pattern out of an old magazine, and so we raided my fabric stash and then she got right to work. We even had time to run out to the fabric store to get the ric rac. Very cute. I haven't finished anything worth showing this week. I spent my time on Saturday cutting pieces for the chain blocks in the Crossroads quilt along quilt. There are 18 chain blocks so it will take a little time. If I were using yardage or the kit, it would go much faster because you can strip piece the block parts, but I am using scraps, which take a lot longer to cut out. It's not difficult, though, so once I get all of the pieces cut, I can go to town on the blocks. I'm looking forward to having all of the blocks done.
I also got some embroidery floss so I can add the final touches to my Farm Girl Vintage quilt blocks. I am noticing that embroidery is starting to get very popular again. There are a lot of new patterns and sew alongs that involve embroidery. Now that I finally have proper glasses, I can do some hand work much easier.
Hopefully next week I'll have at least one Crossroads chain block finished!
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Design Wall Monday 07/11/16
I'm all caught up with the Crossroads quilt along! I had a fun day of sewing on Saturday. I finally just decided to get to it and it was wonderful. Now I just need to wait until Friday for the next set of instructions to come out. I believe all of the chain blocks are next. I'll need to switch to scrappy reds for that. I surely did not make a dent in my stash of blues. Oh well. Maybe I'll piece a bunch together for the backing. We'll see.
I've turned into a starched fabric convert. I started starching my fabric before i start cutting. I press it dry and then cut my pieces out. Wow what a difference this has made. The last two blocks above were made that way and they came out just perfect and lay very flat. It takes more time but not so much when using scraps and working on one block at a time. It would probably take quite a bit more time if I were working with yardage.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
Design Wall 07/05/16
Today is a Design Wall Tuesday (instead of Monday), as yesterday was a holiday and I didn't get around to logging into my computer. I was sewing instead! I've been working on the Crossroads quilt along that is being run by the Fat Quarter Shop. I have finally finished the first four months of blocks. I have a little over a week to get the fifth month's blocks finished if I want to keep up with the sew along. Next month will be the chain blocks, which I am going to make in scrappy reds. I think the blocks should all come together nicely - it will be my scrappy Red, White, and Blue quilt. I'd like to say that it is all coming from my stash, but I did recently purchase some fat eights of background prints so I would have more variety.
The other thing that I worked on over the long weekend was a fabric frame for one of my husband's co-workers. I made one for my husband over 10 years ago and he's had it hanging up at work (a standard 4"x6" photo pops into the middle section - the center borders are actually flaps that hold in the photo). I had almost forgotten about it, and then he asked me to make one for a co-worker's wedding shower gift. I had him bring his home so I could study it - I really couldn't figure out how I had made it. As a last resort, I went to my old (and very dusty) pattern box and lo & behold - I found the original pattern! I must say my skills have greatly improved in the last 10-12 years, as the new one looks a lot nicer than the original!
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Throwback Thursday 06/30/16
Ready for another TBT post? I'm slowly making my way back to my sewing machine, but I haven't sewn anything yet. I've cleared off some old projects and I've been cutting up scraps with my die cutter, but no sewing as yet. So we're back to another Throw Back post. Above is a picture of a quilt that I made for a co-worker's daughter back in 2008. The story on that is here. This was a sew along, and I was originally going to set the blocks in a straight set with sashings, but I saw someone else had set them in the tilted setting and I loved it! By adding the strips around the blocks to make them tilt, the blocks end up getting bigger. It was for a child, so I didn't want a huge quilt. I had many more of the churn dash blocks already made, but decided not to use them. They are still sitting in my sewing room and every once in a while I tell myself that I will make another quilt like this. I really like how it turned out.
I went to a Kaffe Fassett exhibit at the local quilt museum yesterday and took a bunch of pictures. I'll post those soon!
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Throw Back Thursday 06/23/16
How about another TBT post? I found this one on a blog post I made in 2007. I remember it well. It was a baby quilt for some friends of ours, and I really thought that these were the colors that they told me they were using for the baby's room. I remember I thought it was an unusual combination of colors and I probably never would have chosen them to put together into a quilt, but I do like how the quilt turned out. When I gifted them the quilt, I found out that the baby's room was actually only a couple of these colors (I can't remember which ones now). It didn't really matter though. They loved the quilt anyway. I tied this one and used a high loft batting so it was nice and cuddly. The pattern was from an old magazine that I had earmarked and put away for a future project. It is a variation on a Jacob's Ladder block. There is a half-square triangle in two corners of each block which created a pinwheel when the blocks are put together. I used a bunch of fat quarters and I'm pretty sure that I'm still using up scraps from that quilt.
It's fun looking at all of these old quilts. Lately I've been watching some of the Craftsy classes that I've been stockpiling, and I feel like I'm starting to get my quilting mojo back. Hopefully I'll have some new projects to post soon!
Thursday, June 16, 2016
I thought I'd try out a Throw Back Thursday post. I've seen other people make TBT posts, and since I haven't had much to show that is new, I thought I'd go for old! I found this picture of a wall hanging that I made as a gift. I can't recall exactly what year I made it, but I believe it was around 2006 (judging by the other pictures it was with). I really like this one and it was not difficult to make. It was a paper foundation pieced pattern that went together fairly quickly being that there are only four blocks. I was able to use up some pink scraps for the petals. Looking at it now, I think I would change the proportion of the two borders if I made it again. I remember seeing this pattern again in my pattern stash when we moved a couple of years ago. Maybe I'll dig it out and make myself a quilt with it.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Design Wall Monday 06/13/16
There hasn't been much sewing going on lately, but I'm moving forward very slowly on the Crossroads quilt along. I'm making all of the monthly pieced blocks in blue scraps, and then I'll make the alternate/chain blocks in scrappy reds. Above are two of the four "Family" blocks that are the blocks for this month. I have most of the pieces cut for the other two blocks - just need to sew them together. Below are blocks from past months - three "Friendship" blocks:
And three "Diamond" blocks:
I didn't grab a picture of the four "House" blocks that I made first, but you can see them here. As you can see, I still have my Farm Girl Vintage quilt taking up most of my design wall, so I have to squeeze these new blocks in on the side. I'm hoping to get a burst of motivation this summer while it's too hot to be outside.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what is on everyone's design walls today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Monday, June 06, 2016
Design Wall Monday 06/06/16
Wow. How is it June already?? Crazy!
Above is my sister's completed Swoon block. It came out great. I believe it's about 24" square now. Good wall hanging size.
I've been on a little quilting (and blogging) break. Sometimes I need to step away from the sewing machine and do other things until my sewing mojo comes back. My other love is gaming, so I've been playing Fallout 4 on the XBOX for the past few weeks. I love those games a lot. I finished the game, so I'll be back to sewing soon. And now I get to play with my new Accuquilt Go Big system that I just got last week. Very excited - I hope it works out this time. My Accuquilt Go Baby never worked properly, but I know that it did work for a lot of people. I had purchased a lot of dies for it, so I'm hoping I'll finally be able to use them. We'll see!
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what is on everyone's design walls today!
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Design Wall Monday 05/16/16
Sorry for the absence last week - we had been on a mini vacation that week and I didn't get any sewing done! We love to drive down to Paso Robles and go wine (and beer) tasting. Now that we live in San Jose, it is only about a 2 1/2 hour drive from home. Above is a pic of me at the vineyard where we stayed for two nights, Croad Vineyards. Absolutely wonderful place and great wine too. The winemaker, Martin Croad, was around and we had some wonderful chats.
Because we were gone on Mother's Day weekend, my mom, sister and I moved our annual Mother's Day sewing day to this past weekend. A good time was had by all, as usual. I got quite a bit of cutting and marking done, so I literally have my work cut out for me now! I can just sit and sew tonight which is wonderful. I'm really pleased with how much I got done. I usually talk so much I don't get anything accomplished! Above is my sister showing her Swoon block that she made yesterday. Turned out so great! Both of those prints have a little metallic touch to them, which you can't see in this picture.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
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Monday, May 02, 2016
Design Wall Monday 05/02/16
Where is the time going?? I can't believe it's already May. I got a little sewing done over the weekend. I've been playing around with blocks that use flying geese units. The technique that I am teaching in the current quilt class session is the No Waste Flying Geese method. The link is to a really good resource on how to do this method. I decided to go with the Golden State Warriors colors (blue and yellow/gold) for these blocks. The bottom block on the left is for the Crossroads quilt along. I think it came out pretty good! And it has flying geese units as well!
Above is a picture of my whole design wall as it is right now. All Farm Girl Vintage blocks are present and accounted for! I love looking at them on the wall. It will look so empty when I finally put them together and I take them off the wall.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone has on their design walls today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Design Wall Monday 04/25/16
I've done it! I finally finished all of the blocks for the Farm Girl Vintage sampler quilt. I kept putting off making the last block. I think because I was trying to figure out what color to make the sheep. I just made the cat block in grey fabric, and I didn't want to have too much grey in the quilt. I tried to decide which color would round out the quilt, and I finally decided on pink (even though I just made a pink pig block). I'm happy with how it turned out and I don't know why I was so worried about it. I just need to embroider the eyes and legs. I'll probably do all of the embroidery next (before I sew the blocks together). I'll get it all out of the way at one time. Then I'll cut up my scraps for the sashing cornerstones. I have plenty of those and will still have scraps leftover. After that, I have a LOT of flying geese units to make for the inner border.
I meant to get a picture of the design wall this morning with all blocks, but I ran out of the house without getting the picture. Big meeting first thing this morning, so my mind was elsewhere.
Next up, back to the Crossroads blocks so I don't get too far behind on those.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Design Wall Monday 04/18/16
One block completed! This one of three that I need to make for last month's Crossroads Quilt Along. The points aren't perfect, but I'm okay with that. I've been working on projects with a lot of precision lately, and I'm not going to knock myself out on this one. A lot of times when I just go for it, they come out pretty darn good anyway. I got creative with how I pressed the pieces so they would lay as flat as possible. I'm happy with it. The other two blocks are all cut and marked, so I hope to have those finished tonight. I accidentally cut one extra block - I thought there were four of these. I'll hold on to those pieces in case I have trouble with any of the other blocks. This month's blocks have already been released and I'm excited to get started on those.
Over the weekend I wrote a pattern for class, as well as made some demonstration pieces, so I accomplished more than I can show here.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Design Wall Monday 04/11/16
No change to my Design Wall today. It has remained unchanged for two weeks now. I hope to get some sewing done this week so I have something to share next week! I managed to make four half-square triangle units, but couldn't manage to put together the block they were part of. Oh well. At least I can get inspired by other people's design walls!
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also check out Quilt Story on Tuesday and Let's Bee Social on Wednesday. Let's Bee Social is the link-up day on the Sew Fresh Quilts blog by Lorna McMahon. Lorna is a pattern designer, teacher and blogger. I just love every pattern she designs. I have purchased several of her patterns, but she also offers patterns/tutorials on her blog for free. It's definitely worth a hop over there to check it out.
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Design Wall Monday 03/28/16
I got two more Farm Girl Vintage blocks finished this week. Just one more to go!! Above is the Honey Bee block, which is a block pattern that I purchased separately from the book. I just love it - I think it is one of my favorite blocks in the whole quilt. The pattern had blue fabric instead of black for the bee's stripes. I decided to go with black, although I was a little concerned because I don't have black anywhere else in the quilt. I still love it and I think it will look fine. There are little antennae that I'll embroider later.
I also finally finished the strawberry block! Boy, when a block isn't going well, it ends up being difficult all the way to the end! First I had trouble finding enough reds for the block. Then I lost some pieces. Then when I was sewing it together, the rows were coming out crooked and the wrong size. It was a bear, but I think it looks great now. I took the time to un-sew a few times to get it right - otherwise it would bother me forever. It's funny because it is very similar to the pumpkin block, and that one went together like a dream. Go figure.
This week I was able to grab a picture of my entire design wall. Once I get the Farm Girl blocks sewn together with sashing and cornerstones, I still need to piece an inner border which consists of lots and lots of flying geese units. I'll worry about those when I get to them! Also on my wall are the four house blocks for the Crossroads quilt along. I'm using scraps/stash for this project and all the blocks will be made with blue fabric and the alternate/chain blocks will be in reds. The backgrounds will be scrappy as well, so I'm hoping I can get the entire quilt made from stash.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Design Wall Monday 03/21/16
I finished another block for my Farm Girl Vintage quilt. This is Barn Cat, which is a pattern that Lori Holt is selling separately from the book, but will work in the quilt. This version finishes at 6" square. I still need to embroider the face, but I'll do all of the embroidery on this quilt at the end. Boy, there were some TINY pieces in this one. There were several 3/4" squares that I needed to cut to make corner triangles (like at the bottom of the head and on the tail). I usually throw pieces that small away! They were too small to pin in place, and they kept shifting when I put them in the machine to sew, so I found that if I put the tiniest dab of fabric glue in the corner that gets trimmed away, it held perfectly while I sewed it. This is the type I use. What a revelation! I only have three blocks to go, and I wish I had figured this out at the beginning of this project!!
My phone was dead this morning (I forgot to plug it in last night), so I couldn't get a photo of my entire design wall. I have the Crossroads house blocks up as well. I'm working on the second set now.
Be sure to check out Judy L's blog to see what everyone is working on today. Also linking up with Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social later this week.
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The grim litany of gang murders, tortures, and outright butchery by drug cartel members in Mexico has rendered the region near the international border almost untenable, and the latest discovery of 145 bodies in mass graves near San Fernando has precipitated a crisis in the logistics of dealing with death. The Houston Chronicle reported on Friday that the Mexican morgues were overwhelmed, and 70 of the bodies had been moved to Mexico City on Thursday.
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