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  Quill - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
QUILL, a term applied to the bare, hard, hollow tube of the feather of a bird, also to the large flight feathers or remiges, and especially to the strong feathers of the goose, swan, or crow used in the making of quill pens (see Feather and PEN).
Certain ancient stringed instruments were played with a plectrum or plucker made of the quill of a bird's feather, and the word has thus been used of a plectrum made of other material and differing in shape, and also of an analogous object for striking the strings in the harpsichord, spinet or virginal.
The verb "to quill" is to fold lace, muslin or other light material into narrow flutes or pleats; when so pleated the material is called "quilling." The French term "quillon," apparently formed from quille, ninepin, is applied to the projecting arms or cross guards of the hilt of a sword.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Quill   (184 words)

  
 Quill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A quill pen is made from a flight feather (preferably a primary) of a large bird, most often a goose.
Quills were used as instruments for writing with ink before the metal dip pen, the fountain pen, and eventually the ball point pen came into use.
It has a quill ferrule which attaches the hair to the brush handle and is tied together with wire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quill   (269 words)

  
 3.11 Quill
Quill uses the postgres server as its backend and the postgres client library, libpq to talk to the server.
This means that condor_ quill appears as a directory under the top level src/ directory in the condor source and building the condor source will also automatically build quill and both of its query tools.
Since quill works by periodically sniffing the log file for updates and then sending those updates to the database, this variable controls the tradeoff between the currency of query results and quill's load on the system-usually negligible.
www.cs.wisc.edu /condor/manual/v6.7.11/3_11Quill.html   (2800 words)

  
 Gene Quill - Biography - AOL Music
Because Quill was so tireless and energetic a player in the 1950s (when his battles with Woods were documented by Prestige and RCA), the altoist was a natural sideman for such high-volume jazzmen as Gene Krupa, Quincy Jones, and Buddy DeFranco.
But Quill, who recorded for Roost and Dawn on his own dates, certainly had no problem playing melodically, and he was in very melodic settings when employed in Claude Thornhill's big band and Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band from 1960-1962.
Quill was in extremely poor health during the last years of his life, when he suffered brain damage and partial paralysis.
music.aol.com /artist/gene-quill/9473/biography   (298 words)

  
 The Quill Consultancy - Privacy Statement
The Quill will take all reasonable steps to ensure that information given to The Quill by users is afforded privacy and maintained in a confidential and secure manner consistent with the provision of the services.
The Quill will not be liable for any information which may be lost if a user’s browser session is terminated due to a long period of inactivity between the user’s browser and the website or any failure of connection by any other cause.
The Quill retains its rights to all intellectual property in which it has an interest associated with the website including copyright in all information and material and its rights in any trade marks or confidential information communicated to the public or the user or published on, integrated with or incorporated into the website.
www.quill.com.au /privacy.htm   (2500 words)

  
 Quill and Scroll
Quill and Scroll was organized April 10, 1926, by a group of high school advisers for the purpose of encouraging and recognizing individual student achievement in journalism and scholastic publication.
A Quill and Scroll charter is granted for the lifetime of the school and there are no annual dues.
Quill and Scroll magazine is published four times during the school year and mailed approximately the first of November, January, March and May.
www.uiowa.edu /~quill-sc   (429 words)

  
 Quill (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quill and his fellow Warpies were taken in by the British government organisation, the Resources Control Executive (the R.C.X. Quill and several of the Warpies were trained for combats and formed the Cherubim.
Quill was their leader and they attacked Captain Britain, but were later taken in by him and his sister Elisabeth Braddock.
Quill was killed during William Stryker's attack on the Xavier Institute in the wake of M-Day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quill_(comics)   (779 words)

  
 3.12 Quill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The condor_ quill daemon implements it, and the condor_ q and condor_ history tools use it.
Since Quill works by periodically sniffing the log file for updates and then sending those updates to the database, this variable controls the trade off between the currency of query results and Quill's load on the system-usually negligible.
However it cannot be overstated that Quill's vacuuming policy is quite rudimentary as compared to the integrated facilities of the database server and, under high update workloads, can prove to be a bottleneck on the Quill daemon.
www.cs.wisc.edu /condor/manual/v6.8/3_12Quill.html   (2307 words)

  
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Born in the village of Gortloughera in Kilgarvan, County Kerry, in 1905, Mike Quill was nurtured by the Irish revolt against British occupation.
Reflecting on those years, Mike Quill once recalled, "we were no experts in the field of labor organization, but we had something in common with our fellow workers -- we were all poor -- we were all overworked -- we were all victims of the 84 hour week.
Mike Quill listened to the announcement of the settlement from his room in the hospital.
www.twu.org /about/history/presidents/quill.html   (1168 words)

  
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Once gestures have been entered, quill gives the designer suggestions on improving the gestures so that the computer can recognize them more easily and so they are easier to learn and remember.
In quill, gestures are always drawn with a dot at the beginning.
quill also shows you a summary of how good it thinks your gestures are with two goodness metrics, displayed between the menu bar and the training area.
quill.sourceforge.net /tutorial.html   (1907 words)

  
 The Quill Pen
The quill pen was made from easily acquired materials and required only the simplest of equipment, basically a small sharp knife, in its manufacture.
The structure of the quill was altered by standing it in hot sand for a period of time.
The knife was inserted into the hollow of the quill and a slit was made by carefully levering the blade upward.
medievalwriting.50megs.com /tools/quill.htm   (666 words)

  
 Historic Quill & Document Co.
The quill must then be sanded to eliminate any splattering of ink while writing and to allow the point to glide smoothly across the surface.
The beauty of the white goose quill in your home or office, placed on your desk or table is unique and unmatched in style and elegance.
After demonstrating the quill pen to thousands of students at various museums and historic sites, we saw their excitement and genuine interest in the goose quill pen.
members.tripod.com /~quillpen   (949 words)

  
 Motorcycle Performance Exhausts, Motorcycle Accessories from Quill Exhausts Ltd
Quill Exhausts Ltd have been hand making performance exhausts since 1989, initially as one off race systems for various factory road racing teams.
Quill Exhausts introduced the new for 2002, Quill Powerflow T3 road legal (BSAU stamped) silencer range and it took the country by storm.
T3’s are only availble from Quill Exhausts, and come in polished stainless steel, carbon, titanium and andonized titanium finishes.
www.jbracing.co.uk   (333 words)

  
 Group for User Interface Research - Projects - Quill and GDT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Quill is a tool for designing gestures and gesture sets for pen-based user interfaces.
It improves on typical recognizer trainers by exposing some information about the recognizer, and provides active advice about how well the gestures will be recognized by the computer and how well they will be learned and remembered by people.
Quill is based on an earlier prototype tool called gdt
guir.cs.berkeley.edu /projects/quill   (97 words)

  
 Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Manuscript Production - Quills
If you attempt to cut the quill it could well shatter, so before cutting immerse the tip into boiling water for a few seconds.
My quill point was so fine that it was no longer stiff enough to write with, so I had to shorten it, fairly imperceptibly that is, to firm up the tip, writing in 'bold' rather than 'medium' weight text.
When I dipped the quill into the ink pot, it became habit to shake off the excess ink and still wipe the tip of the quill on the edge of the pot to remove any further 'drools' of ink.
www.regia.org /quills.htm   (835 words)

  
 The Quill Awards
The Quill Awards pair a populist sensibility with Hollywood-style glitz and have become the first literary prizes to reflect the tastes of the group that matters most in publishing-readers.
The Quills, an initiative launched with the support of Reed Business Information, is designed to be an industry qualified "consumers choice" awards program for books, honoring the current titles readers deem most entertaining and enlightening.
The Quills celebrates the best books of the year in nineteen popular categories, ranging from romance to biography to graphic novels.
www.thequills.org   (111 words)

  
 Quill Publicity Practitioners
Quill was setup in 1988 and since then has worked for many different companies operating in various fields of industry.
This means the services we can offer you - press relations, production of literature and total exhibition project management at venues in the UK and Europe - have been proven over the years to meet different requirements.
For a brief overview our services, please, browse our web site and then contact us to discuss how Quill's experience and expertise can be put to work for you to achieve your publicity objectives.
www.quillpp.co.uk   (102 words)

  
 How to Cut Quill Pens from Feathers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They say that in the old days, folks kept a penknife solely for the usage of cutting quills, and that it was kept wicked sharp and never used for anything else, even scraping parchment to erase a mistake.
This actually lines up with historic data that indicates that only four or five good points could be gotten from a quill, as without being able to just further the split, the split has to be restarted *opposite* the original tip.
Also, the shape of the quill under the plume may affect how easy it is to hold.
www.flick.com /~liralen/quills/quills.html   (5110 words)

  
 Quill legal accounts software Pinpoint solicitors outsourcing bureau bookkeeping case management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For 27 years Quill has been at the forefront of developing systems and services for the legal profession.
As an established software house our expertise is based on a proven and tested approach to the development, implementation and support of software solutions for the small to medium sized practice.
To mark the occasion Quill Group Ltd had a 'Fun Day' to raise money for this special charity.
www.quill.co.uk   (751 words)

  
 Chemical Injection Quills
This design is prone to erosion-corrosion and cavitation in the piping after the quill due to vortex shedding and other problems.
The Jonas, Inc. Chemical Injection Quill has a tapered shape which is designed to reduce the effects of vortex shedding, thereby reducing the likelihood of erosion-corrosion, cavitation, and quill fatigue cracking.
Each quill is custom designed for each application with considerations of vortex shedding, resonance, vibration, erosion, and strength of the attachment to the pipe, according to ASME rules.
www.mindspring.com /~jonasinc/quill.htm   (217 words)

  
 Quill - SourceMage Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I decided after fixxing the umptenth new spell submission and commenting on all the spells that it would be much easier on us and on users if there was a tool that could do a lot of the work...
This is the version that is still rather dumb but it can generate a spell out of a spell name, source url and description.
Atm it's still the same old code base but put into separate modules There is an internal todo list in the quill main script file in p4 which has all the features atm I want updated....
wiki.sourcemage.org /Quill   (328 words)

  
 Quill Lake Community Directory, Quill Lake, Sask Sk
The Quill Lake Homepage icon at upper left, leads to a homepage designed especially for local residents.
The Village of Quill Lake, population about 500, is located north of the Quill Lakes, in one of the best areas for goose hunting.
The Quill Lake area also has a large variety of unusual animal farms; bison, elk, fallow deer and chinchilla.
www.quill-lakes.com /quilllake   (294 words)

  
 Quill Corner ~ Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Quill Corner is a forum for writers, poets, musicians, and artists to share their work.
Please be respectful of my work and the work of those who have contributed to Quill Corner.
Do not violate that faith by copying or using any part of Quill Corner, including its graphics, without obtaining permission to do so.
www.quillcorner.com   (193 words)

  
 The Quills Literacy Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
By bringing the awards voting to the reader and to have fully engaged partners like Parade Magazine, USA Today, Borders, Barnes and Noble and The American Booksellers Association helping to make the program become a reality, we were and are determined to make a difference in how consumers include literature and literacy as lifestyle priorities.
As part of these efforts, The Quills Literacy Foundation has been involved in the New Orleans Public Library Rebuild campaign and in Chicago's Battle of the Books.
Additionally, Target was honored with the second Quills Corporate Literacy Award and Caroline Kennedy was the recipient of the Platinum Quill Award.
www.quillsliteracy.org /index.html   (241 words)

  
 The Quill Consultancy
The Quill Consultancy specialises in computer training courses, application development, preparation of technical documentation and the provision of consultancy and help-desk services.
The Quill Consultancy has planned ITIL Foundation Certificate training for 19-21 March and 13-15 August 2007.
The Quill Consultancy has formed a partnership with ZANTAZ and are now acting as a direct distributor and implementer of the EAS product range.
www.quill.com.au   (330 words)

  
 Home
Quill has developed a unique musical style that has captured many varied influences, plying Celtic folk hued Fleetwood Mac-ish rock before the Corrs were invented.
The artistry of guitar and violin harmonies is complimented by five vocal harmonies producing an exciting dynamic sound.
Quill's repertoire includes many time-honoured classics, performed with energy and enthusiasm and their original material blends perfectly.
www.quill-uk.com /Home.htm   (157 words)

  
 Welcome to The Sugar Quill
Quills are the Hogwarts choice for writing utensils, not to mention that feathers are important in lots of ways in HP - just think what Fawkes' tail feathers have accomplished!
But ours is made of sugar, meant to be sucked in class for the alleviation of boredom and the sweet inspiration of new thought.
We thank her from the bottom of our hearts for creating characters and locales which enable our imaginations to run wild.
www.sugarquill.net   (292 words)

  
 Macworld: Review: The Quill
Designed for average- to large-size hands, the Quill may be too bulky and uncomfortable for kids or adults with small hands.
To move the cursor, you glide the Quill across your desktop, as you would a regular mouse; however, because the Quill is larger and heavier than a mouse, simply moving it from side to side requires more effort.
But the Quill is designed not to be gripped, so it's more awkward to pick up than a mouse.
www.macworld.com /2003/05/reviews/thequill   (607 words)

  
 Quill Medical - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Quill Medical develops and commercializes innovative surgical products for wound closure and tissue management.
These products, based on Quill’s patented technology, enable surgical sutures to “self-anchor” in tissue without the need of a suture knot.
Quill Medical and Surgical Specialties Corporation, a leading provider of micro incision and wound closure technology, entered into an exclusive manufacturing and distribution alliance in the field of aesthetic surgery in October 2004.
www.quillmedical.com   (136 words)

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