Alt + Home This combination will take you to your homepage. What is a homepage? Well, it is a webpage that automatically gets opened when you open Mozilla Firefox. You can go to Options and then in General tab you can set your homepage. Pressing Alt + Home will open your homepage right in your current tab. If you haven’t set any homepage, Firefox will open the default about:blank page....
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Before you begin the fusing process, however, you do need to prep the fabric. Fabric used with a fusible of any form should be pre-washed; finishes in the fabric may prevent the fusible from adhering to the fabric. You should also press the fabric and any detail (such as a hem) with an iron into place before using a fusible. Perhaps there is an item of clothing that you would like for the hem not to show....
Tobacco Companies Suffer a Defeat in the Supreme Court (December 15, 2008) The Supreme Court ruled that the cigarette companies can be sued by smokers who claim they were deceived by advertisements promoting “light” cigarettes. The 5 to 4 vote was a victory for a group of plaintiffs in Maine who accused a tobacco company of fraudulently advertising that “light” cigarettes deliver less tar and nicotine than regular brands.
Mary McLeod Bethune What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? New York, N.Y., Nov. 23, 1939http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html Barbara Bush Commencement Address: Choices and Change Wellesley College, Mass., June 1, 1990 Carrie Chapman Catt The Crisis Atlantic City, N.J., 1916 Shirley Chisholm Equal Rights For Women Washington, DC, May 21, 1969 Mary Church Terrell What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States Washington, DC, Oct. 10, 1906...
Bionym, a technology startup based in Toronto, Canada, has come up with a new idea on how electronic devices may recognize an authenticated user. The company has developed a wristband that can confirm wearer’s identity by recognizing patterns in user’s heartbeat. Once the pattern is recognized and a decision on authentication is made –the decision is conveyed to other devices like, smartphones, tablets, laptops, cars etc. The wristband device, named Nymi, works on the basis of the fact that every person has a unique heartbeat pattern....
Which Kitchen Gadgets are Collectible? If your kitchen gadget is no longer in production or is made in a style that’s not readily sold in retail stores today, it’s likely considered collectible. Collectors are interested in items such as potato mashers, eggbeaters, ice cream scoops, melon ballers, olive forks, and tin cookie cutters, just for a start. Before you start listing your old melon ball scoop on eBay, however, it’s important to check into its value to collectors: not all older kitchen appliances are worth more than a few dollars....
A fifth-generation Wisconsin native, Paul Ryan was born and raised in the city of Janesville. After graduating from Miami University in Ohio, Ryan worked as an aide to legislators Bob Kasten, Sam Brownback, and Jack Kemp. He worked as a speechwriter for Kemp, who became his mentor. Ryan also worked as a speechwriter for Empower America, a conservative think tank. Ryan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 and has won every re-election bid since....
There are no rules in quilting—other than standard safety concerns such as rotary cutting safety guidelines. Pressing depends on two things—personal opinion and what’s best for the current project. Pressing Seam Allowances to One Side Most quilters usually prefer to press seams to one side because a little bump called loft forms when two layers of fabric are pressed together along the length of a seam. Lofts of adjoining seams are ideally pressed in opposite directions so they will butt against each together when placed right-sides together for sewing, helping to create perfectly matched seam intersections....
Some facts: The only even prime number is 2. All other even numbers can be divided by 2.If the sum of a number’s digits is a multiple of 3, that number can be divided by 3.No prime number greater than 5 ends in a 5. Any number greater than 5 that ends in a 5 can be divided by 5.Zero and 1 are not considered prime numbers.Except for 0 and 1, a number is either a prime number or a composite number....
The Eccentric Bill Lear Lear never got beyond the eighth grade, but he developed the first car radio in the 1920s, and grew rich during WW II making electronic aircraft equipment. After inventing the eight-track stereo in the 1950s, he “retired” to Switzerland. But the restless Lear couldn’t stop tinkering. His Learjet design was based on the wings and basic structure of a short-lived Swiss fighter plane, the P-16. He moved the project back to the U....
The question is, would you need to buy all these tablet and laptop devices? Thankfully, the answer is NO! Good news is that now you can test your website online to check how it would look on difference screen sizes. There are a number of free online services available for this purpose. Before we take a look at these services, let me tell you that nowadays it is very important that your website has a responsive design....
Rookwood Pottery ranges in value from hundreds per piece to thousands. The price is often determined by the artist’s cipher found on each piece, when present. These marks were used on Rookwood’s desirable hand decorated wares, but will not be found on the company’s monotone pastel production lines. Kataro Shirayamadani, a skilled ceramics artisan, began decorating pottery for Rookwood in 1887. His work represents some of the company’s most valuable wares....
The Blank Tile The game has two blank tiles that are unmarked and carry no point value. The blank tiles can stand in to be any letter. Once laid on the board, the choice of the letter that it stands for is fixed until the end of the game. If a blank tile is placed on a double-word or triple-word square, it causes the corresponding scoring to be applied to the word or words that are created as a result....
Sashiko embroidery has been used in Japan for centuries, dating back to the Edo era of the 1600s to the 1800s. The Japanese word sashiko means “little stabs” and refers to the small stitches used in this form of needlework. This style of embroidery and the “sashiko stitch” was used to reinforce or repair worn fabric or tears with patches, making the darned piece ultimately stronger and warmer. In addition to the basics, Purl Soho has a few fun projects that feature sashiko designs....
A typical quickpoint project can be finished in half the time it takes to needlepoint on smaller canvas sizes with customary fibers and threads. Not only is the quickpoint the easiest way to learn the art of needlepoint; it’s also the perfect canvas embroidery craft for kids. You can usually find inexpensive quick point kits in the toy section of many department stores. Needlepoint Supplies for Quickpoint You can turn any charted needlepoint design like the Reindeer Pattern in the above image into a quickpoint project by changing the size of the canvas and adjusting the weight of the thread....
