Glass sponges like " Venus ' Flower Basket " have a tuft of fibers that extends outward like an inverted crown at the base of their skeleton.

Glass sponges are different from other sponges in a variety of other ways.

Fiberglas materials are available from Glass Plastic Supply Co., 1605 W. Elizabeth Ave., Linden, N. J..

Glasses are classified using the Schott Glass letter-number code to reflect their composition and position on the diagram.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

Further glass forming techniques are summarized in the table Glass forming techniques.

Glass is in widespread use largely due to the production of glass compositions that are transparent to visible wavelengths of light.

The Blaschka Glass Flowers are still an inspiration to glassblowers today.

Glass and metals are examples of isotropic materials.

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.

Vertical ridges etched on the surface are smooth .</ li > < li > Twisted nematic liquid crystal .</ li > < li > Glass substrate with common electrode film ( ITO ) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter .</ li > < li > Polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block / pass light .</ li > < li > Reflective surface to send light back to viewer.

Glass mirrors are most often coated with non-toxic silver or aluminium, implemented by a series of coatings:

Glass block or glass brick are blocks made from glass and provide a translucent to clear vision through the block.

This theory, conceived by a British Glass manufacturer, proposes that the first two figures are Gauis Octavius, father of the future emperor, and Attia Julia Balboa, his mother ( hence the cherub with the arrow ) who had a dream of being impregnated by Apollo in the form of a sea serpent ( ketos ), note the snake's prominent teeth.

Glass Moonshine slides are made of glass, but have a porous ceramic interior that helps prevent slipping ; other slides have been designed to reduce the weight of brass or porcelain slides by using a lightweight interior, while still others are made of glass on the front and of metal on the back to allow easy switching.

Note that in England and Wales, the circumstances where Promissory estoppel may be used to overcome the statute are limited-see Actionstrenght Ltd v. International Glass Engineering UKHL 17-and some jurisdictions deny this possibility altogether.

A sequel, System Shock 2, was released by Looking Glass Studios and off-shoot developer Irrational Games in 1999 ; the 2000 game Deus Ex and the 2007 game BioShock are spiritual successors to the two games.

Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels, which are suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track.

Glass candle holders are sometimes cracked by thermal shock from the candle flame, particularly when the candle burns down to the end.

There are five main types of Time Controls: ( 1 ) Fischer ( invented by Bobby Fischer ), ( 2 ) Bronstein ( invented by David Bronstein ), ( 3 ) Simple Delay, ( 4 ) Game Word and ( 5 ) Hour Glass.

Image: Glass bottom boats & Semi sub. JPG | Glass bottom boats and a Semi submarine which are used for coral viewing at Green Island ( Queensland ), Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

The genus is of relatively recent creation, the species originally being described as part of Escobaria, although recognized as a separate section by Nigel Taylor in 1983, and raised to a genus by Charles Glass in 1998.

During the mid-60s, Taylor worked mostly for MGM, where his credits included Sunday in New York ( 1963 ), Fate Is the Hunter ( 1964 ), 36 Hours ( 1965 ), Young Cassidy ( 1965 ), The Liquidator ( 1965 ) and The Glass Bottom Boat ( 1966 ).

Lyrically, Glass Hammer is inspired mostly by their love of fantasy literature ( most notably Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and by their Christian faith.

Glass survived mostly on wild berries and roots.

In 1861, Holiday accepted the job of stained glass window designer for Powell's Glass Works-after Burne-Jones had left to work for Morris & Co. During his time there he fulfilled over 300 commissions, mostly for customers in the USA.

* Glass bangles are mostly produced in the old Indian city of Firozabad in North India.

The questions deal mostly with the lyrical and musical content of the album Never Let Me Down and the upcoming Glass Spider Tour.

Cudworth North Junction to Oakenshaw survives, mostly as a single line, to serve the Ardagh Glass works on the Monk Bretton spur, but Oakenshaw to Normanton ( Goose Hill Junction ) is all gone.

On 6 November 1984, they recorded Field of Glass, a three track 12 " EP, mostly live in BBC Studio 5 in London, which was issued in February 1985.

The covers are mostly made of leather, leatherette or Glass.

Glass frogs are mostly arboreal.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

The modern American composer Phillip Glass also found the story fascinating, and composed an opera, The Photographer, with a libretto based in part on court transcripts from the case.

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.

In September, Glass Harp found itself in New York's Greenwich Village recording its first album Glass Harp at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios with Lewis Merenstein as producer.

With their latest demos having found the ears of Grammy Award-winning producer Lewis Merenstein, Glass Harp began work on their first album for the Decca label in the fall of 1970.

Having already written Christian-themed lyrics throughout his time in Glass Harp, Keaggy first found an audience in the burgeoning Jesus music scene, and later achieved worldwide fame as both a songwriter and instrumentalist as it evolved into Contemporary Christian Music.

" Funk, jazz, and Brazilian music were inspirations, and the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich can be found on 1999's Cobra and Phases Group .... Several critics have commented that the band's later work, like Instant 0 in the Universe ( 2003 ) and Margerine Eclipse ( 2004 ), sound similar to their guitar-driven earlier style.

In producer / engineer Tony Cohen they found a willing accomplice to their experimentation and their refusal to repeat themselves ; and in manager Keith Glass they found an enthusiastic financial backer.

One was Stephen Glass, who would be found to have made up quotes, anecdotes and facts in his own articles, while he served as a reporter years later ( later dramatized in the feature film Shattered Glass ).

Pumice, a type of rhyolitic lava, also is found covering the monument ; this rained down around 900 years ago during the eruption of Glass Mountain.

Rolling Stone and Harper's found the material generally accurate yet maintained they had no way of verifying information because Glass had cited anonymous sources.

Insisting that he had reformed, Glass then petitioned the State Bar Court's hearing department, which found that Glass possessed the necessary " good moral character " to be admitted as an attorney.

The latest iteration of the dock, found in OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion presents a 3D perspective instead of the traditional flat one, resembling Sun Microsystems ' Project Looking Glass application dock.

After the company folded, people from Looking Glass went on to work at Ion Storm, Irrational Games, Harmonix, Mad Doc Software, Arkane Studios, Westwood Studios, Valve, and to found Floodgate Entertainment and Digital Eel, amongst other later studios.

* My Glass House — An ongoing project set up by artist Judith Taylor by taking black and white pictures of natural habitat found in the prison's walls.

When he found Bridger, on the Yellowstone near the mouth of the Bighorn River, Glass spared him, purportedly because of Bridger's youth.

When he found Fitzgerald, he discovered that Fitzgerald had joined the United States Army, Glass purportedly restrained himself because the consequence of killing a U. S. soldier was death.