unreferenced date September 2009 Orphan date November 2006 Perrin Dandin is a simple citizen in the Third Book of Rabelais , who seats himself judge wise on the first stump that offers, and passes offhand a sentence in any matter of litigation a character who figures similarly in a comedy of Jean Racine Racine s, and in a fable of Jean de la Fontaine La Fontaine s. Nuttall Category Literary characters Dandin, Perrin lit char stub fr Perrin Dandin ... more details
In shooting, the standing position , also known as offhand , refers to shooting while standing. It is often regarded as the most difficult position. The rules vary depending on the shooting discipline. Generally, one must stand freely, without the aid of a rest or bench. Highpower rifle, smallbore rifle, and silhouette shooting do not permit the use of a sling. The international pistol, shotgun and running target events, as well as 10 metre air rifle , are all fired only in the standing position. 300 metre rifle three positions , 300 metre standard rifle and 50 metre rifle three positions all include standing as the second stage of competition, and the Olympic 50 metre finals are also shot standing. References Unreferenced date November 2006 Category Shooting positions sport stub ko ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2009 A hostile work environment exists when an employee experiences workplace harassment and fears going to work because of the offensive, intimidating, or oppressive atmosphere generated by the harasser. A hostile work environment may also be created when management acts in a manner designed to make an employee quit in retaliation for some action. For example, if an employee reported safety violations at work, was injured, attempted to join a union, or in some way caused trouble for the management, then their response might be to harass and pressure the employee to quit. Actions that could be taken in furtherance of this might include inappropriate disciplinary procedures, reduced hours or wages, unreasonable scheduling or workload or similar things. The company s behavior in lieu of termination avoids the need to pay unemployment benefits . The anti discrimination statutes governing hostile work environment are not a general civility code. Thus, federal law does not prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not extremely serious. Rather, the conduct must be so objectively offensive as to alter the conditions of the individual s employment. The conditions of employment are altered only if the harassment culminates in a tangible employment action or are sufficiently severe or pervasive. references Category Labour law Category Sexuality and society Category Business ethics ... more details
In mathematics, mimesis is the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem. The goal of numerical analysis is to approximate the continuum, so instead of solving a partial differential equation one aims to solve a discrete version of the continuum problem. Properties of the continuum problem commonly imitated by numerical methods are conservation law s, symmetry in physics solution symmetries , and fundamental identities and theorems of vector and tensor calculus like the divergence theorem . ref Citation last1 Hyman first1 James M. last2 Morel first2 Jim E. last3 Shashkov first3 Mikhail last4 Steinberg first4 Stanly L. title Mimetic finite difference methods for diffusion equations doi 10.1023 A 1021282912658 year 2002 journal Computational Geosciences issn 1420 0597 volume 6 issue 3 pages 333 352 . ref Both finite difference or finite element method can be mimetic it depends on the properties that the method has. For example, a mixed finite element method applied to Darcy s law Darcy flows strictly conservation of mass conserves the mass of the flowing fluid. there are analogies with heat conduction and elastics in mechanics, but i forget what they are offhand The term geometric integrator geometric integration denotes the same philosophy. References references Mathapplied stub Category Numerical differential equations ... more details
unreferenced date December 2009 The KLF released three long form videos during their career Waiting , The Rites of Mu , and The Stadium House Trilogy . They also worked on an ambitious road movie The White Room which was never released although bootleg copies are in circulation . All of the videos were pressed in limited editions on VHS video. don t forget the NME screenings The soundtrack of The White Room was remodelled and reworked in 1991 to create the album The White Room , and the soundtracks to Waiting and the The Rites of Mu were released on a 1997 CD presumed to be a bootleg called Waiting for the Rights of Mu . Some footage from The White Room was used in the 1989 music video for Kylie Said To Jason and the 1991 music video for 3 a.m. Eternal . The films The White Room and Waiting were produced by Bill Butt . Videography The White Room 1989 Waiting 1990 The Stadium House Trilogy 1991 The Rites Of Mu 1991 1991 The Work promovideo compilation boot or official? can t remember offhand hence fact See also Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid External links imdb title id 0098641 title The White Room http www.youtube.com view play list?p 8F6D8F56B9082CF2 Watch extracts of The White Room on YouTube The KLF Category The KLF Films ... more details
afd mergeto M60 machine gun Mk43 Machine Gun 24 March 2011 date March 2011 MOS date March 2011 Image M60iraq2003.jpg right thumb A mounted MK 43 Mod 0 M60E4 later model is crewed by a Seabee of NMCB 15 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion , on a convoy in Iraq in May 2003. The Mk43 M60E4 General Purpose Machine Gun GPMG is a 7.62x51mm NATO 7.62 mm NATO light machine gun. Evolved from the M60 Series of machine guns, it has several improvements over the originals. The Mk43 M60E4 Series includes the Mod 0 and Mod 1 configurations. The Mk43 M60E4 is effective against infantry, unarmored or lightly armored vehicles and boats. It is the primary light machine gun used in the United States, other NATO countries and U.S. government approved countries. The Mk43 machine gun currently is manufactured solely by U.S. Ordnance USORD . USORD has produced it since 2000. Design details The Mk43 M60E4 is a gas operated, disintegrating link, belt fed, air cooled machine gun that fires from an open bolt. It is the newest, upgraded version of the M60 Series machine guns. ref name jane s Jane s Infantry Weapons, Sept. 2009 ref Features The Mk43 M60E4 fires a 7.62 x 51 mm NATO cartridge, which offers accuracy, reliability, and stopping power. It fires at a cyclic rate of 500 to 600 rounds per minute, with an effective distance of 1200 yards 1100 meters . The weapon s controllable, yet lethal, rate of fire allows for accurate firing in the offhand, kneeling and prone positions. The machine gun s light weight 20 to 21 pounds 9 to 10 kilograms and compact design make it easy to carry long distances and maneuver in tight spaces. It also allows for the weapon to be fired offhand shouldered accurately. The Mk43 M60E4 Mod 1 has multiple M1913 rail mounting points for mounting optics, aiming lasers, and accessories for around the clock capability. It mounts directly or adapts to all standard NATO tripod and vehicle mounts. The M60E4 Mk43 Mod 0, typically used as an infantry machine gun, ... more details
Dablink For the computer bus developed by Digital Equipment Corporation , see Digital Storage Systems Interconnect . Cleanup date January 2008 DSSI is a virtual instrument software synthesizer plugin architecture for use by music sequencer applications. It was designed for applications running under Linux , although there is nothing specific to Linux in the interface itself. It is distributed under the terms of a combination of GNU Lesser General Public License and some BSD license s, all of which are free software licences . DSSI is sometimes described as LADSPA for instruments . LADSPA is an audio effects plugin architecture for filters, reverbs and other sound processing software tools, whereas DSSI was designed specifically for instrument plugins that generate sound from note events. DSSI extends LADSPA by adding note event delivery, but it also adds predefined program selections and a method for plugins to provide their own user interfaces, both of which may also be used by effects plugins. DSSI hosts on Linux can also host some Virtual Studio Technology VSTi instruments for Microsoft Windows using the dssi vst wrapper plugin, which in turn make use of the Wine software Wine compatibility layer. DSSI stands for Disposable Soft Synth Interface . This is partly because DSSI was intended to be a lightweight addition to LADSPA that would require little extra effort from authors of LADSPA hosts and plugins to support, and partly to avoid distracting too much developer effort from the Generalized Music Plug in Interface GMPI plugin initiative. Perhaps as a partial consequence of this early offhand approach to publicity, the number of DSSI plugins available remains small. The major programs supporting DSSI are Renoise and Rosegarden . See also Portal Free software Free audio software LADSPA Software synthesizer External links http dssi.sourceforge.net DSSI API for audio processing plugins http dssi.cvs.sourceforge.net dssi dssi README?revision 1.11&view markup The pro ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2011 Notability date February 2011 Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. 1998 CanLII 5513 ON C.A. , is a Law of Canada Canadian copyright case on the ownership of copyright and requirements of fixation . Background During 1956, Jock Carroll interviewed a young Glenn Gould for an article in Weekend Magazine. Carroll documented much of the encounter, he took pictures of Gould, wrote notes and took an audio recording of the interview. All of this was permitted by Gould. The article was eventually published under the title I Don t Think I m at All Eccentric . In 1995, after Gould s death, Carroll published a book called Glenn Gould Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man that contained nine photographs from the 1956 interview, as well the narrative of the books was largely based on the notes and recording and contained many quotations by Gould. The estate of Glenn Gould brought an action against Carroll for copyright infringement in the material that Carroll had recorded and the pictures he had taken. Opinion of the Court The Court of Appeal for Ontario held that the oral statements of Gould could not be protected by copyright because there was not fixation. Gould was not reading from a speech or had prepared anything that was said. Affirmed by the appellate judge, the trial judge held The conversation between the two men was the kind that Gould would have with a friend. Indeed Gould and Carroll remained friends for a short while afterwards. Gould was not delivering a structured lecture or dictating to Carroll. Rather, Carroll engaged Gould in easygoing conversation out of which emerged comments which provided insights into Gould s character and personal life. Gould was making offhand comments that he knew could find their way into the public domain. This is not the kind of disclosure which the Copyright Act intended to protect. External links http www.canlii.org on cas onca 1998 1998onca10300.html OntCA decision Category Canadian c ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name A Good Thief Tips His Hat Type Studio album Artist Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams Cover GandalfMurphy AGoodThiefTipsHisHat.jpg Released 1999 Recorded Genre Folk rock Length 54 29 Label Slambovian Records Producer Joziah Longo br Sharkey McEwen br Tink Lloyd Reviews Last album This album A Good Thief Tips His Hat br 1999 Next album Live from WDST Acoustic Breakfast br 2000 A Good Thief Tips His Hat is the debut album of folk rock group Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams . The album s title is an offhand tribute to all of the older groups and artists who have influenced the Circus. Track listing All songs written by Joziah Longo. Genius 5 21 Silent Revolution 5 09 Radio 4 16 My Girl 3 19 Someday 3 21 Slambovia 4 14 Never Fit 5 34 Alice In Space 4 57 Good Thief 4 58 Circus Of Dreams 3 25 Already Broken 9 55 DEFAULTSORT Good Thief Tips His Hat, A Category 1999 debut albums Category Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams albums Category Debut albums 1990s rock album stub ... more details
Infobox short story See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name That Only a Mother author Judith Merril country flag USA language English language English series genre Science fiction short story published in publication type publisher media type Print Magazine pub date 1948 followed by That Only a Mother is a science fiction short story by Judith Merril , originally published in 1948. That Only a Mother was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one the best science fiction short stories of all time. As such, it was published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929 1964 . Plot summary The story is set five years in the future in 1953. World War III has been going on for several years. Unlike in many other depictions, it is seen as a prolonged war, which does not destroy all civilization at once but extensive use of nuclear bombs causes radiation poisoning and has led to a rash of mutated babies it is implied that only a small fraction of pregnancies result in the birth of normal children . The first part of the story is told in the form of letters from the pregnant Margaret to her husband Hank, a technical lieutenant, on assignment. In these letters we learn of Margaret s fears of giving birth to a mutant, disturbing tales of infanticide by the fathers of deformed babies, her successful labor, and the rapid development of the newborn. The daughter, named Henrietta, is extremely precocious, speaking in complete sentences by the time she first meets her father at the age of ten months. Margaret dotes on her and thinks she is wonderful, though there are hints of something disturbing about the girl, including the story s title referring to the phrase a face that only a mother could love , and an offhand comment that the nurses in the hospital were not sure whether the child was a boy or a girl. When Hank returns home, he discovers that his daughter has no arms or legs, and that his wife is i ... more details
The Shop is a fictional, top secret United States government agency in the writings of Stephen King . It plays a central role as the antagonist in the novel Firestarter , the miniseries Golden Years TV series Golden Years , and the film The Lawnmower Man film The Lawnmower Man , and is an element of the novel The Tommyknockers . In addition, an offhand reference hints that it may be at least partially responsible for the events of the novella The Mist . In the film adaption of The Langoliers , Bob Jenkins tosses out a government conspiracy based theory for the conditions of the plane and refers to the theoretical agency responsible as The Shop. In The Stand , The Shop is tasked with stopping the superflu outbreak, which it utterly fails to do. The Shop is interested in the scientific research of what might otherwise be considered paranormal phenomena, such as aliens, immortality , and paranormal or psychic powers. The formal name of the agency is the U.S. Department of Scientific Intelligence . In addition to research staff, the Shop also employs armed agents who typically work undercover and pursue their goals with an utter disregard for morality or the rule of law . King keeps the extent of the Shop s legal legitimacy, as well as the exact nature of its relationship with other government agencies, vague. The Shop s director in Firestarter is Captain James Cap Hollister. King has stated that the name The Shop is a reference to Alfred Elton van Vogt s novel The Weapon Shops of Isher . ref http www.stephenking.com library novel firestarter characters.html StephenKing.com Firestarter Characters ref Notes reflist fictional stub DEFAULTSORT Shop Category Stephen King Category Fictional intelligence agencies es The Shop ... more details
Theory is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium . It was first published in 1917, so it is in the public domain. ref Buttel, p. 206. See also Librivox. http librivox.org forum viewtopic.php?t 4077 ref align right border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style margin left 1em style margin bottom 1em align left style background lightyellow Theory p I am what is around me. br br Women understand this. br One is not duchess br A hundred yards from a carriage. br br These, then are portraits br A black vestibule br A high bed sheltered by curtains. br br These are merely instances. The instances are instances of imagination at work, as in creation of a poem. They are not instances of a scientific theory, for they represent the particularizing quality of imagination, not the generalizing that takes place in scientific reasoning. They may allude to a theory about poetry, to the effect that that it should be local, engaging the environment one has roots in. See the main Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium essay about localism. But the instances are so loosely connected to any particular locale that they suggest the theory s refutation. The poet s imagination can go anywhere. Buttel interprets the poem as one of Stevens s attempts to approach the rhythms of prose, as part of a strategic understatement that moves into a poem in an offhand, anti poetic way. He sees that the instances must carry the strength of the theory, but he says nothing about how to understand theory in Stevens s specific sense, and nothing about what strength amounts to in this context. Compare Theory to Anecdote of Men by the Thousands . Notes references References ul li Buttel, Robert. Wallace Stevens The Making of Harmonium . 1967 Princeton University Press. ul poem stub Category 1917 poems Category Poetry by Wallace Stevens ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 A Different Approach is a 1978 film starring Michael Keaton . The film is about An all star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A committee of government representatives sits and watch the film Michael Keaton s character s assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes a different approach by combining several approaches most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities. Segments include a Busby Berkeley style dance number featuring people in wheelchairs, a phony TV commercial in which comedian Carl Ballantine touts handicapped workers as if he were a hard sell used car salesman, and several more. One of the committee members is played by All in the Family creator Norman Lear, affecting a heavy German accent. His character makes offhand remarks which imply that he is a former Nazi technocrat brought over after the war. The timid chairman of the committee is played by Sorrell Booke, Boss Hogg of the original Dukes of Hazzard television series. No references available description in this paragraph from first hand viewing of the film twice at showings sponsored by government and corporate HR departments in the San Francisco Bay Area around 1979 and 1980. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film . External links imdb title id 0077434 title A Different Approach DEFAULTSORT Different Approach Category 1978 films ... more details
notability date October 2011 refimprove date October 2011 Infobox Book Wikipedia WikiProject Books Title Waifs and Strays image image caption author Micah Ballard language English language English genre publisher City Lights Bookstore City Lights release date September 2011 pages 100 pp isbn 9780872865440 Waifs and Strays is a book of poetry by Micah Ballard . The book was first published in 2011 by City Lights Bookstore City Lights and is part of the City Lights Spotlight Series. Reception Reviewing the book, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright from The Brooklyn Rail stated that highly stylized, fairly experimental, and original, the poems rely on sequential disruption underpinned by a solidly smoldering focus. The thematic transference of significance becomes a mantra of sustenance amidst an arranged wilderness, It is all imagined, anchored by the word. ref http www.brooklynrail.org 2011 10 books rapid transit image makers in photography and poetry ref Publishers Weekly further acknowledged the poet s style Though raised in Baton Rouge, La., Ballard now seems energetically tied to San Francisco , since his offhand intensities, fiercely casual stance, quick free verse, and colloquial mysticism draw so frequently on two great sources of Bay Area poetics, the prophetic concentration of Robert Duncan and the extroversion of the beats. ref http www.publishersweekly.com 978 0 87286 544 0 ref References reflist External links http www.brooklynrail.org 2011 10 books rapid transit image makers in photography and poetry The Brooklyn Rail book review http www.publishersweekly.com 978 0 87286 544 0 Publishers Weekly book review http www.scribd.com doc 60988554 Table of Contents and First Three Poems from Waifs and Strays Scribd Excerpt http www.usfca.edu facultydetails.aspx?id 4294974759 Micah Ballard bio Category American poetry collections ... more details
other uses An impromptu IPAc en icon m p r m p tj u , IPA fr pr pty lang , loosely meaning offhand is a free form musical composition with the character of an ex tempore improvisation as if prompted by the spirit of the moment, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. The first recorded use of the term impromptu in this sense occurred in 1817, in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung , an idea of the publisher to describe a piano piece by Jan V clav Vo ek . Since the very concept of unpremeditated, spur of the moment inspiration without studied care is at the heart of Romanticism Romantic artistic theory , it didn t take long before the first generation of Romantic music Romantic composers took up the idea Jan V clav Vo ek was the first one to compose impromptus published under that title, in 1822. Franz Schubert published two sets of four Impromptus Schubert Impromptus for piano op. 90 and 142 1827 . After his death 3 more unnamed piano compositions Klavierst cke were sometimes named Impromptus . Fr d ric Chopin composed 4 Impromptus Chopin Impromptus , including the famous Fantaisie Impromptu . Robert Schumann wrote some Impromptus, published as Op. 5. Franz Liszt composed an Impromptu in F sharp sometimes called Nocturne and a piano piece named Valse Impromptu Liszt Valse Impromptu . Alexander Scriabin is known to have written at least nine impromptus for the piano in his early period. Jean Sibelius composed six impromptus for piano op. 5 1893 The impromptu genre remained popular all throughout the 19th century. In the 20th century, there are also several examples of composers naming their compositions Impromptu , such as Gabriel Faur composing six Impromptus between 1881 and 1913. Richard Rodney Bennett composing five Impromptus for guitar in 1968 Maurice Journeau composing six Impromptus between 1971 and 1974. ref http www.journeau.com en oeuvres.html Journeau s works ref Donald Martino composing Fantasies and Impromptu in 1980. Nikolai Kapust ... more details
Orphan date November 2011 Michelle Urry December 28, 1939 October 15, 2006, born Michelle Dorothy Kaplan was the cartoon editor of Playboy magazine for over 30 years. Together with Hugh Hefner , she edited the retrospective Playboy 50 Years The Cartoons . Among the cartoonists whose career she is credited with developing is B. Kliban . On learning of her death, Jules Feiffer told the New York Times she was the mother superior to cartoonists. Urry was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba . As a child, she collected comic books rather than the dolls favored by other girls of her age. She graduated from UCLA , and after running a dress shop she moved to Chicago , taking a low level staff job with Playboy in the late 1960s. By 1971 Urry had become the magazine s cartoon editor, and she held that post until her death. In 1974, while visiting B. Kliban in his San Francisco studio , Urry was struck by a group of Kliban s offhand cartoons of cats, bought several of them, and prodded Kliban to create a book length collection of similar work. http www.eatmousies.com html scrapbook1.html Kliban s Cat became a best selling book the next year, and spawned a wide range of popular merchandise. She married sculptor Stephen Urry and the couple had one child, Caleb Urry. After Stephen s death in 1993, she married Alan Trustman , a screenwriter who is best known for The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt . Aside from her primary job at Playboy, Urry served as a cartoon editor or consulting editor at many other magazines, including Good Housekeeping and Modern Maturity . http www.cartoonists.net news 05 01 Cartoon Art.html External links New York Times http www.nytimes.com 2006 10 18 obituaries 18urry.html obituary Sequential Comix News http sequential.spiltink.org 2006 10 michelle urry rip.html obituary Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Urry, Michelle ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1939 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEAT ... more details
Of the Surface of Things is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium 1923 . It was first published in 1919 ref Buttel, p. 207 ref , so it is in the public domain. http librivox.org forum viewtopic.php?t 4077 align right border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style margin left 1em style margin bottom 1em align left style background lightyellow Of the Surface of Things p I br In my room, the world is beyond my understanding br But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four br Hills and a cloud. br br II br From my balcony, I survey the yellow air, br Reading where I have written, br The spring is like a belle undressing. br br III br The gold tree is blue, br The singer has pulled his cloak over his head. br The moon is in the folds of the cloak. br Buttel understands the poem as implementing Stevens s anti poetic strategy of moving into a poem in an offhand way. He finds that the prose rhythms of the first stanza contrast strikingly with the metrical regularity of the quoted line about the belle undressing. That line is so delicately honest that it almost had to be quoted, in order to give the speaker some distance from it. The sturdy epistemic modesty of the first stanza contrasts with the intense opacity of the final stanza. Is it saying that the real tree basks in the illumination of imagination? Is the singer a poet like Whitman , who pushes through what is prosaic three or four hills and a cloud or beyond his understanding, in order to give full vent to his imagination in for instance Song of Myself ? http www.english.uiuc.edu maps poets s z whitman song.htm Milton Bates speculates that the cloak is probably the cloud and the singer one of the hills. ref Bates, p. 137 ref The poem can also be read as one of Stevens s many commentaries on the relation of imagination to reality the poet s previously written line about th ... more details
Infobox comics location Wikipedia WikiProject Comics name image vathlo.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Vathlo Island, from map of Krypton in Superman 239 Sal Amendola , artist publisher DC Comics debut Superman comic book Superman 239 br June July 1971 creators Sal Amendola type isle y residents Iph Ro ref Superman The Man of Steel 111 April 2001 ref races Kryptonian s locations subcat DC Comics altcat sortkey PAGENAME Vathlo Island is a fictional location on the planet of Krypton comics Krypton in the DC Comics universe. Publication history Vathlo Island is populated by a highly developed Black people black race of Kryptonian s, and retained its independence throughout history and did not join the planetary federation, though good relations were maintained . Black Kryptonians were first shown in Superman comic book Superman 234, with the island itself shown on a map in 239. Vathlo was rarely if ever referenced beyond these few issues, although a black Kryptonian named Iph Ro of Vathlo appeared in the more recent Superman The Man of Steel 111. An offhand reference to the island was made in Alan Moore s story For the Man Who Has Everything , where racial trouble with the Vathlo Island immigrants, are mentioned in a dream world Krypton that had avoided destruction. It is believed, based on the appearances of black Kryptonians in recent Superman issues, that the Vathlonians eventually were integrated into Krypton proper. ref Brady, Matt. http www.msnbc.msn.com id 28543087 ?gt1 43001 Superman s planet is racially diverse finally , msnbc.com MSNBC.com , January 7, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2009. ref In Final Crisis 7, an alternate version of Superman modeled after Barack Obama from one of the 52 realities of the multiverse is featured. This Superman resembles an African American and made references to Vathlo Prime . In Superman World of New Krypton 4, it is established that Vathlo Islanders settled in Kandor prior to the destruction of Krypton. ref Superman World of ... more details
A term used by collectors of Art glass to distinguish relevant items from the more individual or unique Studio glass and by studio glass artists to distinguish their work from the more standardised items which are generally made in larger glassworks. ref 20th Century Factory Glass by Lesley Jackson ref It s difficult to specify how large a glassworks would be before it s considered a factory but size is not the key indicator. The crucial distinction would be where there is a significant degree of specialisation or division of labour as opposed to the more hands on working methods used by a single glass artist, with perhaps an assistant, in a studio. Exceptions Not all glass made in factories counts because more individual, limited edition or one off pieces were made for a variety of reasons. Examples would include experimental, end of day and apprentice pieces and friggers test or trial pieces but also special orders and one off commissions. Factory Studio Glass At Fenton, Dave Fetty, a factory glass worker for most of his career, was allowed to use specialist skills, learned before joining the factory, in limited editions of offhand pieces without the use of moulds. ref Fenton Art Glass Presents The Artistry of Dave Fetty http www.fentonartglass.com aboutus FettyBio.asp ref Such pieces are more akin to Studio glass than Factory Glass . In the United Kingdom, Whitefriars and Caithness, have produced limited production studio lines alongside standard production in the same factory. At the ZBS glassworks in Czechoslovakia, there was a separate department for making more experimental studio type pieces which was later hived off and came to be called Libera. The small Skrdlovice works was used by designers in the communist era to test out their designs with short runs before some went on to full production at other factories. The limited test items are much more prized by collectors but it s often difficult to be sure which ones these are and which ones were replicated ... more details
Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Trenchcoat Brigade image Trenchcoat brigade comic book cover small.jpg imagesize 200 caption The Trenchcoat Brigade 1, cover art by Glenn Fabry . schedule Monthly limited y publisher Vertigo DC Comics Vertigo date March June 1999 in comics 1999 issues 4 main char team writers John Ney Rieber artists John Ridgway comic artist John Ridgway pencillers inkers letterers Elle De Ville colorists Alex Sinclair editors Cliff Chiang br Stuart Moore creative team month creative team year creators TPB ISBN subcat Vertigo sort Trenchcoat Brigade, The The Trenchcoat Brigade is a four issue comic book limited series that was published in 1999 in comics 1999 as a part of DC Comics Vertigo DC Comics Vertigo imprint . The title references an offhand joke used by John Constantine in the earlier The Books of Magic Books of Magic series to label a loose affiliation of mystics including himself, Phantom Stranger , Doctor Occult , and Mister E who share a preference for trenchcoat s as their outdoor wear. Constantine was knowingly paraphrasing the title of Alfred Lord Tennyson s famous The Charge of the Light Brigade poem The Charge of the Light Brigade , about a reckless military event. ref name vert ency Cite book last Irvine first Alex author link Alexander C. Irvine contribution The Books of Magic editor last Dougall editor first Alastair title The Vertigo Encyclopedia pages 38 41 publisher Dorling Kindersley location New York year 2008 isbn 0 7566 4122 5 oclc 213309015 ref Publication history They first appeared together in Neil Gaiman s The Books of Magic series, in which they attempted to guide Timothy Hunter Tim Hunter through various realms of Magic in the DC Universe in order to teach him all of Magic s abilities and consequences. The group would later re unite in the five issue mini series The Names of Magic , before finally getting their own mini series. Members The names listed are those used while the character ... more details
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