The jewel is about long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an enamelled image of a man holding floriate sceptres, perhaps personifying Sight or the Wisdom of God.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films like Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven.

It is the subject of both popular and critical acclaim ; it was voted onto the top three of the Sight & Sound critics ' list of greatest films of all time in 1982, and onto the directors ' top ten films lists in the 1992 and 2002 polls.

Sight reading music at speed can be mentally ( and physically ) taxing, so where an editor or engraver sees a possible opportunity for confusion, a courtesy or cautionary accidental may be placed by a note whose pitch is, strictly speaking, already given by the key signature.

For establishing Fresnel zones, first determine the RF Line of Sight ( RF LoS ), which in simple terms is a straight line between the transmitting and receiving antennas.

* In David Clement-Davies's books The Sight and Fell, the wolves are known as the Varg, their self-chosen name, and their god is Fenris.

Pocinho is near the city of Foz Côa, which is close to Côa Valley Paleolithic Art site, ( an Archaeological pre-historic patrimony ) another UNESCO Heritage Sight.

He is also Patron of Fight for Sight ( U. K .), a charity dedicated to research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease, and was a member of the Scout Association.

In the 2008 USA Network series In Plain Sight, during the episode, Stan by Me, two FBI agents are murdered and a federally protected witness is kidnapped in Northvale.

Branson has continued to add theaters ( the most recent new theater is Sight & Sound Theatres ) and shows ; and today refers to itself as " the live music show capital of the world ".

* PEENAQUIM ( Pe-na-koam, Penukwiim-“ Seen From Afar ”, “ far seer ”, “ far off in sight ”, “ far off dawn ”, also known as Onis tay say nah que im-“ Calf Rising in Sight ”, and Bull Collar, about * 1810-d. 1869 by smallpox near Lethbridge ), son of Two Suns, Chief of the Fish Eaters band ( Mamyowis ), leading Chief of the Kainai, his tribal following is estimated at the time of his death as being 2, 500 people

The true size and shape of any feature in an engineering drawing can only be known when the Line of Sight ( LOS ) is perpendicular to the plane being referenced.

The CV90 is equipped with a UTAAS ( Universal Tank and Anti-Aircraft Sight ) from Saab.

Scaruffi argues that Coryell is " another candidate to inventor of jazz-rock ", in that the Texas-born guitarist released the jazz-rock recording Out of Sight And Sound in 1966.

* The 1980 film Hide in Plain Sight is about a man whose ex-wife and children disappear into the program.

SACLOS is an acronym for Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight, a method of missile guidance.

MCLOS ( short for Manual Command to Line of Sight ) is a method for guiding guided missiles.

Similar in overall appearance to the Manual Command Line of Sight ( MCLOS ), radio frequency guided Blowpipe, Javelin is slightly more compact, uses Semiautomatic Command Line of Sight ( SACLOS ) radio frequency guidance and is fitted with Semi and improved warhead.

In 1964 and 1965 Parker was the drummer on three of Brown's recordings: " Out of Sight ," " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ," and " I Got You ( I Feel Good ).

Smash also released three of Brown's vocal recordings, including his 1964 proto-funk single " Out of Sight ".

With the help of record producer / songwriter Teddy Randazzo ( a childhood friend of the group ), the Imperials found success on the new DCP ( Don Costa Productions ) label with the dramatic pop-soul records " I'm On The Outside ( Looking In )" ( 1964 ), " Goin ' Out Of My Head " ( 1964 ), " Hurt So Bad " ( 1965 ), " I Miss You So " ( 1965 ), " Take Me Back " ( 1965 ), " Hurt " ( 1966 ), and " Out of Sight, Out Of Mind " ( 1969 ).

He is also the author of three books, Choral Conducting ( Holt Reinhart and Winston 1971, second edition Schirmer Books 1985 ), Sight Singing ( W. W. Norton 1979, 1997 ), and The Study of Orchestration ( W. W. Norton 1982, 1989, 2001 ; Italian edition edited by Lorenzo Ferrero for EDT Srl Torino, 2008 ).

Some used the regular album version ( UK, 3: 54 ), others an edited album version ( US, 3: 22 ) and others an edited version of the 12 " Disco Mix ( 4: 10 ), which is the one usually found on current hits compilations like the 1994 anthology The Platinum Collection, Greatest Hits: Sight + Sound ( 2005 ) and Greatest Hits: Sound & Vision ( 2006 ).

* Georgina Kleege, visually impaired since age 11, wrote about her life and how it was affected by cultural perceptions of blindness in Sight Unseen.

In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.

Although his work was not initially taken seriously by British critics of the Sight and Sound circle, he was venerated by French critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma, who intellectualized his work in a way Hawks himself was moderately amused by, and he was also admired by more independent British writers such as Robin Wood.

The expressionist influence lasted throughout Whale's career, with Whale's final film, Hello Out There, praised by Sight & Sound as " a virtuoso pattern of light and shade, a piece of fully blown expressionist filmmaking plonked down unceremoniously in the midst of neo-realism's heyday ".

The printing by a prominent newspaper of an article entitled " Is War in Sight?

Making good on his Schizopolis-inspired " artistic wake-up call ", his commercial slump ended in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.

Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey ( 1999 ), from an original screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.

The album was nominated in the top 100 Australian albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine and the title track " At First Sight " remains a bona fide Australian classic.

A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time.

* " Love at First Sight " intro, 12 Etudes Op. 10 ( a son ami Franz Liszst )-No. 1 in C major, allegro, by Frederic Chopin, uncredited.

" Their second album, Outta Sight, Outta Mind, was produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

( These tapes were re-released by Second Sight in 1999, with a small music edit made to the episode featuring Jamus Bondus.

Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ,, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound " Directors ' Top Directors " poll 2002.

The 2002 Sight & Sound poll of film critics and directors did not place Rio Bravo in its top ten, but it did find it to be the best film directed by Howard Hawks, with 7 votes, surpassing seven of his other films, including His Girl Friday ( 5 votes ), Red River ( 4 ), To Have and Have Not ( 3 ), and Bringing Up Baby ( 2 ).

This new version of the band released a pair of albums for Word Records: 1992's The Seventy Sevens ( known by the band and fans as Pray Naked, the album's original title which was dropped by the record label without consulting the band due to Christian vendor pressures not to sell an album titled " Pray Naked ") and 1994's critically acclaimed Drowning with Land in Sight.

1996 short story " Karen Makes Out " and the novel Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard tells the story of a romance between a U. S. Marshal and a bank robber.

In 2008, USA Network ( owned by NBC ) launched In Plain Sight, a drama showcasing the United States Federal Witness Protection Program ( WITSEC ).