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They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.
The inner panels do not have to be weatherproof, and the choice will depend on the quality of finish desired.
The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.
new panels are exchanged for the old right in the field on a single trip.
they can also be applied to opaque panels for use on cutouts, or they can be applied directly to painted bulletin faces.
This vacuum formed sign is comprised of 27-in. ( or smaller ) panels formed of 0.080-in. clear butyrate sheet stock, masked and sprayed on the rear side.
At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.
The mother of young queen, Mrs. G. Henry Pierson Jr. chose a white brocade gown made on slim lines with panels of tomato-red and bright green satin extending down the back.
Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.
The remains of Altdorfer's surviving work comprises 55 panels, 120 drawings, 125 woodcuts, 78 engravings, 36 etchings, 24 paintings on parchment, and fragments from a mural for the bathhouse of the Kaiserhof in Regensburg.
This means that the Justice keeps his or her title, and may serve by assignment on panels of the U. S. Courts of Appeals.
Both O ' Connor and Souter occasionally serve on panels of the Courts of Appeals of various circuits.
Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.
Since then Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written extensively on the issue, arguing that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist.
Garfield and Mutts were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run " generic " title panels.
According to Samsung this was because the " Demand for the old ' Square monitors ' has decreased rapidly over the last couple of years ," and " I predict that by the end of 2011, production on all 4: 3 or similar panels will be halted due to a lack of demand.
Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes an underdrawing is drawn first on that same support.
In England in the 17th century the door panels were raised with bolection or projecting moldings, sometimes richly carved, round them ; in the 18th century the moldings worked on the stiles and rails were carved with the egg and tongue ornament.
He worked as a solicitor for much of that decade and became a reporter on children's panels and was involved with the Lanarkshire local authority.
* Information on the " active " and " passive " panels may be used for constructing commands on the command line.
panels and names
Panel S-68 of the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool, one of two panels that bear the names of United 93's crew and passengers.
Built in Portland Stone with names listed on three bronze panels, it stands at head of an ornamental pond at the western end of the memorial cloister.
The names of the dead are on four panels that form the base of the cross.
Above the exhibition space, which is quite dark, is a field of glass panels inscribed with the names of the victims.
The $ 1. 4 million memorial, designed by Yardley architect Liuba Laschyk, includes twin fountains representing the towers of the World Trade Center ; a Walk of Remembrance, with a series of glass panels etched with the names of the 2, 973 people who lost their lives in the 9-11 attacks ; and a memorial rail etched with the names of the 17 residents from Bucks County who were killed.
A Wall of Honor is located inside Washington Park Mall, with names of service members listed on panels beside cabinets that display military artifacts, photos, story boards, POW / MIA listings, and other exhibits.
Two panels with the names of the crew of STS-107.
On panels devoted to the particular campaigns in which they lost their lives, are the names of ex-cadets killed in action.
The names of ex-cadets who have died on active service in the field, or elsewhere are listed in the spaces between the panels.
Its large Hall of Memory contains names on stone panels of 54, 896 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Salient but whose bodies have never been identified or found.
Across from the top of the stair is a door ( to the reception room ) flanked with wood panels documenting the names and escutcheons of each of the governors general for New France, British North America, and Canada.
Most stations do not have maps that cover the entire network, instead having only panels showing the names of stations on the current line or, in some cases, only showing a selected number of stations from the respective line.
The names of the men killed in World War I are on the lower 8 panels and on bronze plaques are the names of those who were killed in World War II.
The names of the apostles are incised in a frieze around the bowl, below a girdle bearing inset gold wirework panels of animals, birds, and geometric interlace.
The Survivors ' Wall includes several panels of granite salvaged from the Murrah Building itself, inscribed with the names of more than 600 survivors from the building and the surrounding area, many of whom were injured in the blast.
The names of the characters and the team are not mentioned in the two panels in which they appear.
There are 279 Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars buried here, the names of all being listed on bronze panels on a Screen Wall memorial, as are 4 Dutch merchant seamen.
The names of the characters and the team are not mentioned in the two panels in which they appear, but this Post-Crisis Earth-3 Ultraman was originally shown to be aged, as he was supposed to be reflected of the aged Superman of Post-Crisis Earth-2.
The names are engraved on slate panels fixed to the wall behind the columns.
On its wall are panels bearing the names of the military men who lost their lives in the First World War, and eight murals painted by Frank O. Salisbury in 1923.
Two panels show the names of the crew of STS-107
The names of the 24 astronauts who have died are scattered over the mirror, with names of astronauts who died in the same incident grouped on the same panel, or pairs of adjacent panels.
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