In particular she applied an intuitive understanding of animal psychology to design pens and corrals which funnel a herd of animals arriving at a slaughterhouse into a single file ready for slaughter.

The library she presided over was in the central part of the old Normal School building, and included such things as a " pen writing room ," for writing with the fountain pens of that era-only pencils were allowed in the library proper!

The half-sister, Halina, got a three-year prison sentence for receiving stolen things such as watches and pens that she knew came from Zdzisław's victims.

Cashin also designed matching shoes, pens, key fobs and eyewear, and added hardware to her clothes and accessories alike, particularly the silver toggle that became the Coach hallmark, declaring that she had been inspired by a memory of quickly fastening the top on her convertible sports car.

Later that night, as Rosy sleeps, Mary gets up out of bed and pens a note of confession: she was the one making the strange phone calls when she learned of Frank's escape from prison.

Burn worked on her meticulous illustrations in the evenings, in " a small cabin where she spends the day at work after chopping enough wood to keep the fire going through the day, hauling two buckets of water from the pump for washing brushes and pens and brewing ' a perpetual pot of tea '".

He installed a larger auxiliary, mounted a concealed machine gun on her deck and refitted the fish pens below to accommodate as much contraband as she could hold.

In March 2008 Federal Industrial Relations Minister Julia Gillard revealed that the previous government had spent $ 121 million on what she described as WorkChoices propaganda including promotional material such as 98, 000 mousepads, 77, 000 pens and 100, 000 plastic folders.

With a hot iron, she transferred a pattern from the cloth to a blank paper bill, then inked the pattern by hand with quill pens.

Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother György, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens.

Earlier pens leaked or clogged because of incorrect viscosity of the ink, and depended on gravity to deliver the ink to the ball.

Later Biro pens had a spring that kept pressure on the piston, and still later the Biro pens used just gravity and capillary action.

He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late 1945 ; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October 1945 for US $ 9. 75 each.

Because of the pen's reliance on gravity to coat the ball with ink, most ballpoint pens cannot be used to write upside down.

Ballpoint pens also have difficulty writing on surfaces with low friction, such as plastics, shiny surfaces, and wet or oily surfaces.

Additionally, " blobbing " of ink on the drawing surface and " skipping " of ink-flow require consideration when using ballpoint pens for artistic purposes.

Also, some users complain that the resulting prints are difficult to write on, as the wax tends to repel inks from pens, and are difficult to feed through automatic document feeders, but these traits have been significantly reduced in later models.

Pen-based plotters rely on contact with the paper ( but not impact, per se ) and special purpose pens that are mechanically run over the paper to create text and images.

Provisions of gang injunctions include things such as restricting the possession of marker pens, spray paint cans, or other sharp objects capable of defacing private or public property ; spray painting, or marking with marker pens, scratching, applying stickers or otherwise applying graffiti on any public or private property, including but not limited to the street, alley, residences, block walls and fences, vehicles and / or any other real or personal property.

Further, archaeological evidence suggests that the early settlers of Jamestown ( men largely from the West Midlands ) built swine pens for the pigs they brought with them and, once established, also carried on an ancient British tradition of slaughtering their pigs and producing their pork in mid-November.

Many people on MDI regimens carry insulin pens to inject their rapid-acting insulins instead of traditional syringes.

The pens were mounted on a traveling bar, whereby the y-axis was represented by motion up and down the length of the bar and the x-axis was represented by motion of the bar back and forth across the plotting table.

The quality of the lines produced by pens on paper is quite different from other digital output techniques.

* In February 1943, a Lancaster bomber hit the cable of a barrage balloon and crashed without survivors on the return from a raid on the U-boat pens at Lorient.

* as a component of industrial design — type on household appliances, pens and wristwatches, for example

Vector graphics can be created in hardcopy form using a pen plotter, a special type of printer that uses a series of ballpoint and / or felt-tip pens on a servo-driven mount that moves horizontally across the paper, with the plotter moving the paper back and forth through its paper path for vertical movement.

Fences of wood, stranded cable, and pipe are used where cost is less of a consideration, particularly on horse farms, or in pens or corrals where livestock are likely to challenge the fence.

The station also had a coal yard, horse loading bay and cattle pens with a weighing machine.

: Even at those hours when the gray Petersburg sky is completely overcast and the whole population of clerks have dined and eaten their fill, each as best he can, according to the salary he receives and his personal tastes ; when they are all resting after the scratching of pens and bustle of the office, their own necessary work and other people's, and all the tasks that an overzealous man voluntarily sets himself even beyond what is necessary ; when the clerks are hastening to devote what is left of their time to pleasure ; some more enterprising are flying to the theater, others to the street to spend their leisure staring at women's hats, some to spend the evening paying compliments to some attractive girl, the star of a little official circle, while some — and this is the most frequent of all — go simply to a fellow clerk's apartment on the third or fourth story, two little rooms with a hall or a kitchen, with some pretensions to style, with a lamp or some such article that has cost many sacrifices of dinners and excursions — at the time when all the clerks are scattered about the apartments of their friends, playing a stormy game of whist, sipping tea out of glasses, eating cheap biscuits, sucking in smoke from long pipes, telling, as the cards are dealt, some scandal that has floated down from higher circles, a pleasure which the Russian do never by any possibility deny himself, or, when there is nothing better to talk about, repeating the everlasting anecdote of the commanding officer who was told that the tail had been cut off the horse on the Falconet monument — in short, even when everyone, was eagerly seeking entertainment, Akaky Akakievich did not indulge in any amusement.

Although named after their feather-like appearance reminiscent of antique quill pens, only sea pen species belonging to the suborder Subselliflorae live up to the comparison.

* 2006 Started using ceramic ball in gel pen, to give longer shelf-life to gel pens, named CERA-GEL technology.

* There are many other themes and words that occur through several of the stories: jazz, Buddhisms, marmots, gers, Genghis Khan, green pens, camphor trees, dinosaur references, people named Brain ... and ghosts.

The pen was originally named the Golden Arrow, a reference to the new arrow clip which would go on to become a Parker trademark, appearing in some form on almost all of Parker ’ s subsequent pens.

Starting in the 1850s there was a steadily accelerating stream of fountain pen patents and pens in production.

Good quality steel and gold pens are available inexpensively today, particularly in Europe and China, where there are " disposable " fountain pens such as the Pilot Varsity.

The pens used for the manuscript could have been cut from either quills or reeds, and there is also evidence to suggest that the trace marks ( seen under oblique light ) were used by a modern equivalent of a pencil.

The large submarine pens built during World War II still stand there, although they are not in use.

On the east side of the reserve there are a number of pens providing habitats for birds from Africa, Australasia, North America, South America, Siberia, and Asia.

The settlement moved a mile or so west to the site of present-day downtown Crowley when the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad built pens and laid tracks there.

: But bide ye there, my pens an ' papers,

In addition there were Koten ( small, single houses ), sheep pens and shared bakehouses.

( However, there are simple, tiny tubular reservoirs that illustrators sometimes clip onto dip pens ; these allow drawing for several minutes without recharging the nib.

In 2001, working off an idea in a novel he was writing ( Communion of Dreams ), Downey theorised that that there may be enough laser powered pens to show a red spot on the Moon.

This is because most detergents are very similar, and thus have high substitutability, whereas pencils and pens are only partial substitutes-while they are sometimes interchangeable, many consumers prefer one over the other and there are some situations where only one is acceptable, such as pens on legal documents or pencils on most high-school maths homework.

Kumano-cho is known as the best manufacturers of Japanese brush pens, so that there are traditional events rooted since early Showa-era ( 1926 ~) such as FUDEMATSURI ( Brush pen Festival ) on Autumnal Equinox in September, and The Calligraphic Works and Art Competition and exhibition nationwide in Japan to enhance children ’ s expressions and develop a rich appreciation.

During the two-year transit ( subjective time ) to their new home, as well as the colony's first years there, Valentine pens a complete multi-volume history of the wars against the Formics, with the final book centering primarily around the now-legendary Ender Wiggin and including the text of The Hive Queen by the Speaker for the Dead.

In addition to the world of levels, there are the great meat-animal pens and sprawling, vast plantations to feed the population.

Over the last hundred years, there has been a proliferation of multi-function knives with multifarious and often ingenious gadgets including awls, reamers, scissors, nail files, corkscrews, tweezers, toothpicks, and so on, and the tradition continues with the incorporation of modern devices such as ballpoint pens, LED flashlights, and USB flash drives.

There is still a village green today ( oddly triangular ) near the pub and railway station but unlike when Nicholas Blundell visited there are no cattle pens on it.

The infiltrator also pens a note to the Baldwin – Felts Detective Agency, which provides armed agents as strike breakers to the coal company, saying there is a " Red " organizer in town.

The screens were installed in 1878 along the grandstand section directly behind the catcher, an area known as the " slaughter pens " for all the foul ball injuries that occurred there.

To date, however, there have been no reports of replica piston-filled Montblanc fountain pens.

It is made by Sanford, the maker of Sharpies, but there are many different brands and types of solidified paint pens.

While Moon and Birdboot are understandably extreme examples, Stoppard uses these characters to show how self-aggrandizement can muddle the true purpose of a play through Moon ( who uses the play as an attempt to show off his skills in the brief period where Higgs, the person he is standing in for, is absent ) or how other interests can jeopardize the integrity of a play through Birdboot, who pens lavish reviews as long as there are visually pleasing female leads in the play.

On the up side there were sidings serving an auction mart and cattle pens at the London end ; and the Maltings and a coal yard at the country end accessed from both the main line and the Maldon branch.