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	glass.org - Industry Resources
		Wire glass where the pattern is square, and wires are parallel with the edges of the sheet.
		Impact damage to laminated glass that is marked by a clean, separated cone in the outer layer of the glass.
		This is caused by the laminate detaching from the outer layer of glass.
	www.glass.org /indres/glossary.htm (5190 words)

	Shard End Glass
		Shard End Glass was founded in 1970 and incorporated in 1972.
		We specialise in the replacement of broken/damaged glass in all types of frames/doors in both a routine and an emergency capacity.
		We are members of The Glass and Glazing Federation and are FENSA registered for the fitting of new frames.
	www.shardendglass.com (183 words)

	Shards of Glass (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Glass, whose résumé is enormous, is perhaps best known for being a co-founder, along with fellow composers Steve Reich and Michael Nyman, of the minimalism movement.
		Like composers of earlier eras, Glass has written for the theater, dance and cinema, as well as for orchestras and soloists; remaining close to the font of popular culture is very important to him.
		Glass, along with the Patti Smith Group, and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe -- in a rare solo acoustic performance -- will be appearing at the Second Annual Allen Ginsberg Memorial Concert Friday, October 2 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
	www.metrotimes.com.cob-web.org:8888 /music/features/18/53glass.html (1054 words)

	Curry Art Glass - Hot, Architectural, Lighting, & Cast Glass Glossary
		Is the hot glass or gathering that is placed on the receiving pipe for transferring the glass work that is currently connected to the blowpipe.
		Glass fragments usually colored of which would be rolled or melted into a working piece for the additions of colors of textures is not melted all of the way.
		A term used for the heavy outside bead of glass that is used generally for creative style sometimes used as a contrasting color from a vessel.
	www.curryartglass.com /architectural-cast-glass-dict.htm (1752 words)

	shardglass.html
		This glass is prized for use in homes of rich and powerful uz, where it can be used to make windows that humans cannot look through, but uz can.
		Shamans of Shard often wear it flaunt their strength; Ankad Spirit-Bullet built her entire hut of it, although it was dismantled after her death.
		Banka Glass is exceedingly sharp along broken edges, and is prized for use as knives and spearheads.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~gerakkag/shardglass.html (571 words)

	Art Glass Dictionary, Terms, Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The process of gradual cooling of the outside and the inside of the molten glass to assure that the glass won’t cool to fast causing cracks or breaks.
		A button may also be used as a part to the actual glass project to enhance a particular art piece.
		Didymium glass in the glasses to avoid serious damage to the vision of one’s eyes.
	www.artglassproduction.com /Dictionary.htm (1860 words)

	Glass Apothecary Vials from the Glass Museum Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The small glass medicinal vial re-emerged in relative quantity particularly around Germany and the Baltic regions during the "Renaissance" period.
		This one is an early type of Murano glass from Italy and can be identified by the use of "cristallo" soda glass rather than the less successful potash glass used elsewhere.
		The "kickup" on the base is lightly conical with a small shard of pontil glass or a tiny circular pontil ring.
	www.glass.co.nz /vials.htm (1430 words)

	Shard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shard also called sherd or potsherd, is a term for broken pieces of pottery or glass, often used in archaeology.
		In zoology, a shard is a tough scale, sheath, or shell; it is especially used as a term to refer to the elytra of a beetle.
		SHARD is an acronym for South Hams Against Rural Destruction, a local environmental action group from South Hams, Devon, United Kingdom, active since approximately 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shard (345 words)

	ArtLex's Sg-Sh page
		Artists have used shards as a found material in making works of various kinds, as in the making of pique assiette (also called picassiette) and trencadis, which are techniques of
		glass, 14 x 14 x 2.5 inches, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Roberta Lord, of Grand Arts wrote, "In 1979, visiting his Polish homeland for the first time in 25 years, Marek Cecula was strolling with his sister along a Baltic beach when he spotted a small white object half-buried in the sand.
		Shard Plate 1, from the "Shard Plate" series, glazed slab constructed stoneware, fired by raku and electric kiln, 2003.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Sg.html (2503 words)

	Pittsburgh Glass Center \| Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fusing with Float Glass: One of the exciting new developments in kiln formed glass is fusing colored sheet glass, frits and powders using float glass, or window glass as a base.
		Her work, both blown glass and jewelry, can be seen in galleries around the U.S. In the spring of 2005 Ginger moved from Seattle to Louisiana, across the lake from New Orleans.
		Theresa Cress’ intrigue for glass began as an undergraduate at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1988, where she received her BFA in glass.
	www.pittsburghglasscenter.org /classes/index_summer2006.html (6753 words)

	Chihuly Soft Cylinders
		Then the glass shard is carefully placed on a hotplate with hundreds of glass threads all around the drawing.
		with the glass and it fuses to the surface.
		The shard may crack at this point and the glass threads go flying everywhere.
	www.chihuly.com /softcyl/selsoft.html (107 words)

	Shard London Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shard London Bridge, set to become the tallest building in Western Europe.
		Shard London Bridge — also known as London Bridge Tower and the Shard of Glass — is a major new skyscraper being planned for London.
		Another skyscraper, the Bishopsgate Tower, was submitted for planning permission in London and was originally proposed to exceed the height of the Shard by a metre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shard_London_Bridge (625 words)

	London - 'I love Southwark' says Shard architect Renzo Piano - Europaconcorsi
		Talking about the Shard of Glass at London Bridge, Piano explained that 'it is not a selfish building; not a mysterious affair' and that as a mixed-use development with hotels, apartments and restaurants as well as offices, it wouldn't be a building that was closed outside office hours.
		The Dean declared that he welcomed the construction of the Shard of Glass: 'Soon I will be able to say that this cathedral has the tallest spire in the United Kingdom'.
		Slee said that he disliked the Shard of Glass name, preferring to think of the tower as 'a spire pointing heavenwards'.
	www.europaconcorsi.com /db/rec/inbox.php?id=12408 (724 words)

	"Shard" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Shard" was the first object spotted by Hoagland on frame LO-III-84M.
		Although no cross-confirming images of the "Shard" have been found, it's vicinity to the "Tower", which has been cross-confirmed, is a factor favoring it's existence as a "real" object.
		The absence of any spray tends to diminish the "outgassing' theory, and the presence of a comparable glass like haze on the horizon behind "Shard" argues that it is amongst a field of artificial structures.
	www.lunaranomalies.com /shard.htm (180 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Glass shard 'in leg for 12 years'
		A woman has had a shard of glass the size of a playing card removed from her leg - 12 years after it became embedded there.
		She only realised the three inch shard had been left inside the wound this July, when her thigh began to swell up.
		In considerable pain, she went to the Ridgeway Hospital in Swindon, where an X-ray revealed the shard of glass in her thigh muscle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/3672406.stm (259 words)

	The Shard of Glass - Renzo Piano's London Bridge Tower - Wired New York Forum
		Piano himself refers to his design as a "Shard of Glass", describing the tower's design as a sharp and light presence in the London skyline, its shape generous at the bottom and narrow at the top, disappearing into the air like the mast of a tall ship.
		The tower is planned to be sheathed in glass, using a ventilated double-skin facade to reduce heat gain.
		The first version was in the form of a 390-m shard of glass.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=11553 (1416 words)

	Turquoise & Copper Necklace with Roman Glass (Israel)
		This beautiful necklace features colorful circular shard of Roman glass connected to a string of copper seed beads.
		The copper strand intertwines with a strand of turquoise beads.
		This beautiful necklace features colorful circular shard of Roman glass in a sterling silver setting connected to a string of copper seed beads.
	www.importu.com /acpa-aorgn07.html (180 words)

	Shard of Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I grabbed a shard of glass, and it sliced the palm of my hand, causing the blood to flow freely.
		I threw the shard of glass towards the wall, and the assailant wailed out in pain, and climbed over a fence.
		Climbing to the second story, he uncovered the skeletal remains of a man, with a large shard of glass wedged into his chest.
	www.jhedge.com /story/fiction/shglass.htm (751 words)

	Strange Horizons Fiction: Shard of Glass, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
		The shard was shaped like an isosceles triangle with a chipped top—so lopsided it could only have been broken off from a larger piece.
		The window on the side of the building was a bit too high for either of us, but I could see through a gap in the curtains when she hoisted me up.
		After I put away the shard, I crawled out of the cave and tried to shelter myself from the pelting rain under a small overhang nearby.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20050214/shard-1-f.shtml (4219 words)

	ShardsO'Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At Shards O' Glass, our goal is to be the most responsible, effective and respected developer of glass shard consumer products intended for adults.
		Our Shards O' Glass Freeze Pops are the nation's top-selling frozen treats containing glass shards.
		And remember, Shards O' Glass Freeze Pops are for adults only.
	www.shardsoglass.com /shard.cfm?lp=1 (58 words)

	Pittsburgh Glass Center \| Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The glint of glass can be seen at the hotel's front desk, outside the grand ballroom on the second floor, next to the George Benson meeting room on the third floor and beside the elevator on every guest floor.
		Mark Girbeau began blowing glass in 1983 at Red Deer College and continued his studies at the Alberta College of Art, where he is now a technical instructor.
		Stephen is lead both by the viscous nature of the molten glass as he forms it and by its fragile and translucent qualities when it has solidified.
	pittsburghglasscenter.org /renaissance_hotel.html (1361 words)

	Bob & Laurie Kliss - Kliszewski Glass Artist Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In their Shard Vessel series they build abstract "shard drawings" from glass pieces,
		The vessel's form then becomes the canvas on which the "shard drawing" is displayed.
		He melts and fuses the glass, working with it until it reaches its final desired shape.
	www.guild.com /artist/6423.html (179 words)

	'Shard of glass' set to join London skyline \| Society \| SocietyGuardian.co.uk
		The government has ignored the advice of its own heritage agency by approving construction today of the "shard of glass" - the tallest tower block in Europe.
		In a move that will change the skyline of London, the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, has given the go-ahead for the 66-storey London Bridge Tower after a public inquiry.
		Dubbed the "shard of glass" it will include office, hotel and residential accommodation.
	society.guardian.co.uk /urbandesign/story/0,11200,1088537,00.html (497 words)

	Strange Horizons Fiction: Shard of Glass, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
		I pulled the shard from my pocket—it was too hot in the summer to lug around the book, even though my mom got angry when I left it at home.
		For a moment I was twelve years old again, huddled in an alley behind a restaurant, clutching a shard of glass whose power I didn't understand.
		He was weak and he was a bigot, but he had been raised on those twin pillars since he was a baby, and I knew it was too much for me to expect him to change, even for love of my mother.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20050221/0shard-2-f.shtml (4106 words)

	Extra White Glass \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 66 floor London Bridge Tower certainly looks impressive, and it's 'Extra White Glass' is expected to make the top of the tower "disappear into the sky" and change colour with the weather.
		I am quite sure that the aforementioned shard could be put to excellent use in one of the many pub brawls that occur with depressinging regularity post closing time.
		The multi-pronged Millennium Dome held out hope for a new golden age of sharpness, but the effect was undermined by a failure to use jagged glass shards in its construction, and by that crap exhibit about The Body.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25118 (2424 words)

	The Shard, London
		This design was then replaced by an 80-storey, 390-metre design by Renzo Piano, described by many as a 'shard of glass'.
		Shard London Bridge will be the first skyscraper on the European continent to both reach and exceed 1,000 feet in height.
		Shard London Bridge's extensive use of energy-saving materials and techniques contributes to the building using 30% less energy than other high-rises of comparable dimensions.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=101995 (424 words)

	Best Beach Finds & Jewelry Creations
		Some are shards of very old glass that have been tumbled over time by the sea.
		Some opaque shards are tinted with shades of red, green, or gray.
		Beach glass shards are selected and categorized by their quality and potential for jewelry making.
	www.debeachglass.com (338 words)

	GLASS SHARD NEAR T.M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GLASS SHARD NEAR T.M. Contributed by: Richard W. Harris, Ph.D. Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology @ Brigham Young University
		Several days after the accident, the patient was seen with a chief complaint that his left ear "did not feel quite right".
		Video otoscopy revealed the presence of a windshield glass fragment lodged just lateral to the left tympanic membrane.
	www.rcsullivan.com /www/byu2.htm (119 words)

	Hot Glass Art Dictionary, Terms, Phrases, Definitions, Explanations, Vocabulary, Glassblowing
		Providing worldwide high end custom museum quality art glass creations, virtual production replications, superior glassworking, glassblowing and original hot glass art fabrication for discerning collectors of all resources.
		– The process of gradual cooling of the outside and the inside of the molten glass to assure that the glass won’t cool to fast causing cracks or breaks.
		– The glass worker (generally the Gaffer) that puts the finishing touches on the glass before it goes into the Annealing Oven.
	www.glassblowers.org /HotGlassDictionary.htm (1957 words)

	Europe's tallest skyscraper to be built in London, "Shard of glass" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Europe's tallest skyscraper to be built in London, "Shard of glass"
		The project has already been approved by the London's Southwark Council, the council of the district where the skyscraper is to be built, and is scheduled to be completed by 2010 at a cost of about 560 million euro.
		The new London tower will look like a "shard of glass", the expression commonly used to identify the project for a 66-floor building overlooking the Thames.
	www.floornature.com /articoli/articolo.php/id29/sez1/en (216 words)

	London Bridge Tower :: 32 London Bridge Street, London, , United Kingdom :: Glass Steel and Stone
		In spite of the fact that it retained its graceful shape, it was labeled "the shard of glass" by those who believed the modern skyscraper would tear a cultural gash across the London skyline by hiding views of Saint Paul's Cathedral.
		The building is to be covered with what the designers call "extra white" glass, which will reflect the sky more than most traditional skyscrapers.
		A beautiful shard of glass for a gem of a city.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/655.php (2113 words)

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