express yourself; hoffman fabrics, established 1924; fabric-quilt... the fabric of inspiration; omnigrid... providing quilters with specialty rulers and accessories for over twenty-five years; quilters club of america, offering patterns and videos to the passionate quilter. welcome to love of quilting. this is the very first show in our 1900 series. we're starting off this series with a bang, a beautiful new york inspired quilt, times square by diane tomlinson. she's on our staff and made her first new york. she said she'd always been interested in the new york beauty type of block, always wanted to make one. i think she really captured the hustle and bustle of new york. she put her own spin, kind of literally, by spinning these blocks. it just jumps off the wall or the bed and says new york all over it. there's new york beauty blocks in the interior of the quilt. then she separated other new york beauty blocks with a square in a square. the whole quilt is paper pieced from the square in a square to the new york beauty blocks to the border -- to that s

and fujon cable, different company, fabricated the strands for the main cable. the saddles that these sit in, the deviation saddles you saw at the end and on the eastern end, were fabricated in japan at japan steel works. the saddles for each one of these 114 different spender cables were fabricated in the u.k. at good win steel. if you look at the entire eastern span, we have most of the piles and the foundations, these massive footing boxes that the bridge sits in come from exotic places like vallejo, california, corpus christi, texas, and up in oregon and washington. so there are a number of different place that is contribute to providing different structural elements. if you are looking at steel in particular, there is more domestic steel in the entire eastern span than any other foreign steel component. if you look at the final bridge, a little over 75% of the steel for the eastern span is fabricated in some u.s. mill. >> is there some updated total for the price tag for this project? is it still $6 billion for the price tag? >> it is about that, $6.3. the

then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stampedo the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view,

i get to try aerial fabrics next. polly seems to defy gravity as she gracefully executes her moves on the aerial hammock. >> which is basically a very long piece of fabric folded in half and tied in a knot way up there. >> since it's called a hammock, it makes sense that the one thing i learned how to do is lie down. >> well, sit first. there you go. [ laughs ] >> this pose is called "doing the coffin." ahh! now for something a little more challenging. >> so, you're gonna put your foot on the fabric and stand on up. >> okay. >> and just to make us a little more secure, we're gonna crisscross the fabrics. >> okay. >> then my foot's gonna come -- in dance, we call this passé, with your foot to your knee. >> okay. >> hands reach way up high, and then you're gonna arch forward and let your hands slide down a little bit for your first pose. >> okay, now, how did she do that? i think -- yep, like this. hello. when we return, i get a lesson in funambulism. that's a fancy way of saying tightrope walking. we'll be right back.

mucking up the interior of a household, covering up as many objects that are familiar to the i and the fabric. fourth area of investigation that the exhibition looks at is the larger concerns of the asian and latin communities intersecting with popular cultur one best example -- when he's exemplified is what you see when you enter into the culture. >> this piece refers to restaurants in tijuana. when you are driving, to speak chinese and you read chinese characters. you see these signs. i was trying to play with the idea of what you see and the direction you read. when you start mixing these different groups of people, different cultures, i like the idea. you can comment on somebody else's culture or someone else's understanding about culture. >> one of the hopes we have for visitors is that they go away taking a better understanding with the broadest and the breadth of issues impacting both the asian and latin communities here in california and how they spell out into the larger fabric of the communities we live and work in. >> i came out to san francisco about seven years ago. i was trained

stores stayed true to the san francisco fabric. otherwise it will not recognize this in the next five or 10 years. supervisor mar: i mentioned earlier, the q4 crossing the bay. hal-- thank you for crossing the bay. it is important in the board talks about the kind of development. that you include a question on the impact of workers. very little did we say what happens. i will give you the data in terms of the impact on walmart. inthithere is a lot of data ande found that walmart paid 14.5 cents less. we found that there were [unintelligible] around 60% less. we looked at a job based health care coverage. 5% of -- fewer had health care compared to retailers. we looked at the average wage there were paying. that would have been at 2005 levels. 8% of the federal poverty line for a family of four working at a typical wal-mart hours. we saw that when walmart enters the county, you lose 150 workers on average. for every job they create you'll lose 1.4 jobs. in terms of what trying to impact on how they treat their workers, we ran a simul

and the final major piece of the fabricated steel for the project. today's piece will allow us to start the cable work in the months to come. so you'll see a dynamic change again in the bridge. we are proud of the fabrication that has been provided by dpmc and we thank them for all of their efforts. we're also very fortunate to have an experienced work force here on the project that can accomplish great feats like you see going on behind us. without their skill, without their effort, this wouldn't be possible. milestones like today are only achieved through the spirit of cooperation, communication, and coordination. and for that, american bridge floor appreciates the team work of everybody that is here today and some special ones that couldn't be here as well. finally, i express our gratitude for the support from cal trans, the california transportation commission, and all of the elected officials that have supported this project, and like steve said, we look forward to continuing the work on this project to drive forward to a possible opening to tra

this is like a fabric refresher. >> a fabric refresher and you're diluting it with water. vodka is in the house it's to clean the fabric. >> you don't buy expensive vodka. the cheapest will do the trick. >> i love these swiffer sweepers. you say paper towels is just as good. >> it sounds like a big duh but the grooves picks up and attracts all the dirt. there's no reason to buy the little pads. >> i thought there was a felty magnetic quality? >> not too much. that's what the grooves do, and that's why you buy a pattern like a grooves paper towel. >> you could probably wet it, too? >> it's supposed to be dry but yes you could do that and you could even use one of these solutions if you wanted to. >> maybe some vodka. >> and vinegar. >> now it's a cleaning party. okay, finally draino, if your drain is clogged. >> drano is bad for your pipes. it's a much better and safer way to go taking a half a cup of baking soda, pour that down the drain, follow it with a half a cup of white vinegar, then cover the drain with a cloth like a damp cloth for about five minutes and then chase

can find their way to some of the latest technology there's still one more step in the process the fabrics are turned into what are called which stands for pre impregnated material they're basically the last intermediate phase before they're ready to be used in a whole host of things in this so-called pre pregnant stage specialized equipment precisely introduces the proper amount of resin on to the fibers after being properly positioned the fibers are. coated with resin to the right thickness the sandwich of backing materials resin and fibers is then compacted by several sets of rollers and he did to a precise temperature for a specific amount of time that causes the resin to slightly here and solidify through cross-linking after it comes off the press it's now ready to be shipped to clients which can then be molded into sheets of whatever they need. china are no doubt attractive markets but nonetheless we mainly focus on russia because we monitor external markets for benchmarking purposes such as to work out the pricing or to compare technologies in order to be able to produce a competiti

here and must reach this state of the art plant the carbonized fibers or they will run into whole fabrics the new production line is outfitted with three looms number one will be able to churn out six hundred kilograms of textile a day which will supply strong with pure real for construction and repair projects the second and third looms will produce an additional one hundred thirty kilos a day by two thousand and fifteen this factory could produce two thousand tonnes a year. we run a wide range of material tests for our customers the so-called qualifying. these materials are designed to be used subject to extremely high loads they require a very thorough testing. for example the world standard for materials is to pass sixty to seventy thousand tests successfully. that means we have sixty to seventy thousand various samples for different kinds of tests designed to check a full range of the materials properties. but before those textiles can find their way to some of the latest technology there's still one more step in the process the fabrics are turned into what are called which stands fo

the taliban are part of the fabric of the part of the world, and they will have to be dealt with. >>tin scorsese, a fell after the politics. >> "casino" was a political film. the amount of excess is nothing that is never enough, until it finally explodes. ♪ >> syria is now at a state of civil war, a u.n. official said this week. it is estimated that more than 4,000 people have been killed by pro-government forces since march. but who is supplying president assad and other oppressive regimes with the technology to hunt down the dissenters? an investigation has discovered that the british company based in oxfordshire has been implicated in the sale of state of the art technology to syria, and it is not the only british company which has a role in allowing despotic regimes access to cutting edge technologies to help them spy on their citizens. here is the report. >> the arab spring. egypt. libya. now, syria. popular uprisings fueled by new technology, coordinated using mobile phones, the internet, text messages, and tweets. these pictures captured last week from syria spread around the