Glass has praised Bowie's gift for creating " fairly complex pieces of music, masquerading as simple pieces ".

Glass has the ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light following geometrical optics, without scattering it.

Glass has a higher dielectric strength, but it attracts condensation and the thick irregular shapes needed for insulators are difficult to cast without internal strains.

Glass in particular has recently turned to conventional orchestras in works like the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto No. 2.

With Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers, Crawford has edited Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Toledo is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry: windows, bottles, windshields, construction materials, and glass art, which the Toledo Museum of Art has a large collection.

In Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.,, the Supreme Court laid out what has become the modern understanding of what constitutes ' gross income ' to which the Sixteenth Amendment applies, declaring that income taxes could be levied on " accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

Glass sponges are relatively uncommon and are mostly found at depths from although the species Oopsacas minuta has been found in shallow water, while others have been found much deeper.

Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.

In 2012, Brin has been involved with the Project Glass program and has demoed eyeglass prototypes.

Glass has been placed higher than 7 World Trade Center.

In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to Linus ' Law as a " mantra " of the Open source movement, but calls it a fallacy, stating that research has found that the number of bugs found decreases with too many inspectors, and that no research supports the Law as stated.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

The main difference to K. minor is the longer anal fin of the Glass Catfish, which in the latter has more than 54 and up to 68 rays.

She has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Heidi Chronicles and Uncle Vanya.

On Saturday, September 2, 2003, the Phillips football field ( James E. Glass Stadium ) was named after Coach James E. Glass in honor of the dedication he has given to the football team and school throughout the years.

The Kokomo Opalescent Glass Works started making stained glass in Kokomo in 1888 and has been in continuous operation ever since.

Corning Incorporated has a plant located in Harrodsburg, which makes Gorilla Glass.

Cardinal Glass Industries has a float glass manufacturing facility in western Durant.

The poet Peter Oresick has also written about it in The Story of Glass ( 1977 ).

Fenton Art Glass Company has officially stopped making glass.

Glass plates are still used in some applications, such as surveying, because the resolution possible with a chemical film is much higher than any electronic detector yet constructed.

* Glass cliff – A situation wherein someone has been promoted into a risky, difficult job where the chances of failure are higher.

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* David Doty's Carnival Glass web site contains an index of patterns and manufacturers

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city / ten-show sold out US tour titled " A Parting Glass with The Pogues " visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Boston, and New York ( in that order ), with only the last three cities getting more than one show.

The album was more experimental and free-form in nature than previous Glass Harp recordings, and includes extended versions of older material bridged together by the nearly-sixteen-minute " Beachland Jam ".

In March 2012 Keaggy, Sferra and Pecchio performed four concerts in the Eastern U. S. billed as " The Phil Keaggy Band " rather than " Glass Harp ".

On March 11, 1933, Senator Glass reintroduced ( as S. 245 ) his Glass bill revised to require banks to eliminate securities affiliates within 2 years rather than the 5 years permitted by the compromised version of the Glass bill the Senate had passed in January.

Although Section 21 of the Glass – Steagall Act was directed at preventing securities firms ( particularly traditional private partnerships such as J. P. Morgan & Co .) from accepting deposits, it prevented any firm that accepted deposits from underwriting or dealing in securities ( other than “ bank-eligible securities ” after the 1935 Banking Act ’ s “ clarification ”).

The fact Sections 16, 20, and 32 only restricted Federal Reserve member banks was another feature that made the Glass – Steagall Act less than “ comprehensive ” and, in the words of a 1987 commentator, provided “ opportunities for banking institutions and their lawyers to explore ( or, perhaps more accurately, to exploit ).”

Historian Geoff Andrews ' explains ‘ it was the role of the shop stewards in organising the Broad Lefts and influencing trade union leaders that was the key rather than organising the rank and file in defiance of leaderships ’ and so the party withdrew from rank-and-file organisations like the Building Workers Charter, and attacked " Trotskyist " tactics at the Pilkington Glass dispute in 1970.

Summers hailed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which lifted more than six decades of restrictions against banks offering commercial banking, insurance, and investment services ( by repealing key provisions in the 1933 Glass – Steagall Act ): " Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century ," Summers said.

Lloyd Webber has given more than 50 works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold ( Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989 ), Joaquín Rodrigo ( Concierto como un divertimento, 1982 ) James MacMillan ( Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001 ), and Philip Glass ( Cello Concerto, 2001 ).

Senator Carter Glass said of him: " Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for this stock crash.

Glass fibers have a tensile strength stronger than steel, but bulk glass usually does not.

) In the episode " Murder Under Glass ", he reveals that he ate more egg rolls than cannelloni in his childhood.

In 1993, Glass said, " I like to think of it as the only show on public radio other than Car Talk that both Daniel Schorr news analyst and Kurt Cobain singer / guitarist of Nirvana ( band ) | Nirvana could listen to.

Philip Glass has written that he and Steve Reich took Moondog's work " very seriously and understood and appreciated it much more than what we were exposed to at Juilliard.

These three operas were described by Glass as portraits of men whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force.

Steuben Glass had been unprofitable for more than a decade, losing 30 million dollars over the previous five years.

The Glass Menagerie is accounted by many to be an autobiographical play about Williams's life, the characters and story mimicking his own more closely than any of his other works.

In addition to their distinctive position on civil rights, derived from the theory of revolutionary integrationism, the tendency also took a position that was more sympathetic to China than was the norm in the SWP, in part this being due to the alliance between the Kirk-Kaye tendency and the loose tendency around Arne Swabeck and Frank Glass.