Blue pencils — sharpened, finished and ready for packaging and sale.
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A blue pencil is a pencil traditionally used by a copy editor or sub-editor to show corrections to a written copy. The colour is used specifically because it will not show in some lithographic or photographic reproduction processes; these are known as non-photo blue pencils. For similar reasons, sometimes red pencils are used since their pigment will not reproduce by xerography. With the introduction of electronic editing using word processors or desktop publishing, literal blue pencils are seen more rarely.
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To combat slumping sales, Simon originated the concept of "blue light" sales, by instructing his in-store salespeople to mark down items with blue pencils while customers were looking on.The Clothier and Furnisher, Vol. 101, pg. 61. December, 1922.
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R. B. Cockett, "'In Wartime Every Objective Reporter Should Be Shot.'The Experience of British Press Correspondents in Moscow, 1941-5." Journal of Contemporary History 23#4 (1988): 515–530. in JSTORRalph Elphick, "Moscow's blue pencils and the green baize door," Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television (2004) 24#3 pp 491–495.
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Some animators prefer erasable colour pencils as opposed to graphite pencils because they don't smudge as easily, and the different colours allow for better separation of objects in the sketch. Copy-editors find them useful too, as their markings stand out more than graphite but can be erased. ;Non- reproducing: or non-photo blue pencils make marks that are not reproduced by photocopiers (Sanford's Copy-not or Staedtler's Mars Non-photo) or by whiteprint copiers (Staedtler's Mars Non-Print). ;Stenographer's pencil: Also known as a steno pencil.
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Argos is most well known for its traditional high street catalogue stores. The Argos shopping process involves completing a small order form with the catalogue numbers of the desired items. Argos provides red pencils (formerly small blue ballpoint pens, then blue pencils) in shops for this purpose. The order form is taken to the checkout and the items paid for, then the customer is given a receipt which indicates where they should wait for their items to be brought to them from the storeroom.
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Waddington played the ukulele and became a member of a group called the Blue Pencils, recruited to entertain forces during the Second World War. After the war "Waddy" became a comedian, often appearing on the same bill as Jill Summers, who would eventually play Phyllis Pearce, Percy Sugden's foil in Granada TV's Coronation Street. In 1955 Bill was chosen for the Royal Variety Performance, and when American stars such as Frankie Laine, Lena Horne, Billy Daniels and Dorothy Lamour toured Britain he was the opening comedian in their shows. His agent was Lew Grade.
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Samnee uses 300 series two-ply Strathmore Bristol board. He does not use non-photo blue pencils or any other equipment purchased at specialty stores for preliminary sketching, but uses .9 mm mechanical pencils that he purchases from Target. For inking he formerly used a sable hair Rafael 8404 number 3, 4, and 5, but found that he was able to produce convention sketches more quickly with implements that could be easily stored in pencil bags or pencil boxes, like brush pens, which eliminated the need to clean brushes and the worry about spilling ink, and eventually began using these tools for his professional work as well.
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The colors red and blue also feature on the United States flag. Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, had used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, as well as the earlier Federalist Party. This may have been a holdover from the Civil War, during which the predominantly Republican north was considered However, at that time, a maker of widely-sold maps accompanied them with blue pencils in order to mark Confederate force movements, while red was for the union. Later, in the 1888 presidential election, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color perceived to represent the Union and "Lincoln's Party", and red for the Democrats.
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David Mazzucchelli autographing a copy of the Artist's Edition of the story at a June 28, 2012 signing at Midtown Comics in Manhattan The first issue of the storyline was voted 11th of the 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time by fans in 2001. In 2012, IDW Publishing published David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again: Artist's Edition, a 200-page hardcover collection of the storyline printed at the dimensions of the original art, 12 x 17 inches. The art for the book was scanned by Mazzucchelli himself, and in color, in keeping with other books in IDW's Artist's Edition series, so as to mimic as the experience of viewing the actual original art, complete with things such as pasteovers, blue pencils in the art, editorial notes and art corrections. Mazzucchelli appeared at a signing event for the book at Midtown Comics on June 28, 2012.
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A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (Cambridge University Press, 2013) [with Linda K. Hughes] Rebecca Harding Davis’s Stories of the Civil War Era (University of Georgia Press, 2009) [with Robin Cadwallader] Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760–1860 (Ashgate Publishing, 2009) [with Theresa Strouth Gaul] Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters (University of Georgia Press, 2009) The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Bedford-St. Martin's, 2007) Periodical Literature in Eighteenth- Century America (University of Tennessee Press, 2004) Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830–1910 (Northeastern University Press, 2004) Women’s Early American Historical Narratives (Penguin, 2003) Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography (Vanderbilt University Press, 2001) [with Janice M. Lasseter] American Women Prose Writers, 1870–1920. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 221 (Gale, 2000) American Women Writers to 1800: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford University Press, 1996) Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray.
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