Stars Frank Wood, Christina Kirk, Crystal A. Dickinson, Damon Gupton, and Jeremy Shamos.
Rebecca (Eisa Davis) and Drea (a fiercely funny Crystal A. Dickinson), a black lesbian married couple, encourage their good friends' decisions.
Building on an idea floated earlier this year by theoretical physics guru and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, a team led by UC Berkeley researcher Tongcang Li has created a schematic for a crystal with a fourth dimension -- movement in time.
The 14-year veteran received several gifts from the club, including a Tiffany crystal, a Rolex watch, a painting and a stick embossed with silver.
By creating a perfect crystal on a computer and then testing it, Dr Ceder and Mr Wu have deduced that thermal vibrations are not the problem.
The siren of the sea sits on a wave of rock crystal, a spume of colored sapphires below her tail.
Previous consumer-created ads for Doritos, including one that showed a vengeful dog securing an electronic bark collar on a guy, and another that featured an office worker slamming a crystal ball into a vending machine, have notched top slots on USA Today's annual Super Bowl Ad Meter.
Mr. Moreland produced a couple of special occasion crystal glasses and the mothership itself: a solid crystal decanter made by Asprey of London, jeweler to the Prince of Wales, and boasting a stopper depicting a sterling silver butterfly alighting on a sugarcane frond.
Strolling along the narrow street, you may glimpse a chandelier maker tinkering with a frozen crystal fountain, a cobbler fetching moulds from a shelf, or a bookbinder buried in rows of bookshelves, his head bowed as he works at his desk.
Like the Arduino Leonardo it has a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a micro USB connection, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
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This is a large calcite crystal recovered from a vessel that went down off the coast of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, in Elizabethan times.
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In lieu of a crystal facility, there is a wonderful library, which Owens refers to as his "panic room, " and features rugs repurposed from surplus military blankets.
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How it works:Ones and zeroes of digital data are first converted into checkerboard "pages"of bright and dark pixels using a liquid-crystal panel called a spatial light modulator.
When passed through a crystal, the result is a pattern of spots which, if interpreted correctly, can be used to calculate the positions of the original atoms.
Other pieces are poignant in their fragility, including a hand-cut crystal dish and a brown bowler hat.
"Although it's not a crystal ball, these models are a useful tool for developing scenarios, " Cheung said.
One that has is a Danish company called Crystal Fibre, a spin off from the Technical University of Denmark.
The step cut the time required to disperse liquid crystal across a 30-inch screen from five days to five minutes.
And if shareholders have done well, executives have been more than amply rewarded, according to Graef Crystal, a compensation expert.
It would be nice to own a crystal ball that tells us when a market will move, for how long and by how much.
Originally from Nebraska, Crystal has a great appreciation for classical music, and takes advantage of concert-going and hotel lobby pianos whenever she gets the chance.
For example, she cleans the kitchen sink with used tea leaves instead of regular detergent (less polluting and no extra cost), and polishes the crystal with a solution of soap and vinegar.
With all that expandability, the Crystal is a bit on the bulky side for an all-in-one, measuring a full 3.8-inches thick, but there's really a lot to love here if you can overlook the processor limitations -- and if you've got the DIY spark to build your own PC in the first place.
Like many others in their generation, their characters are coming to terms with a past whose message is crystal clear and a present that is murkily ambiguous.
One example the company has developed is a crystal fibre that squeezes light into such a narrow core that the intensity of the light modifies the optical properties of the glass itself.
Russell and Xu's method starts with a sliced crystal, either sapphire or silicon, cut at an angle that exposes a ragged section of the crystal's lattice structure.
To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.
In the same way, the pattern of holes in a crystal fibre can create the equivalent for light of a graphite core and a diamond cladding.
With silk carpets, a crystal Bulgari clock, smoked-glass roof and a chilled-champagne compartment, it harkened back to the elegant Caddys of the 1930s, when Cadillac developed the automotive industry's first V-16.
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