Mullens is located at ( 37. 584678 ,-81. 384736 ), at the confluence of the Guyandotte River and the Slab Fork.

Modern applications of continuously supported track include Balfour Beatty's ' Embedded Slab Track ' which uses a rounded rectangular rail profile ( BB14072 ) embedded in a slipformed ( or pre-cast ) concrete base ( development 2000s ), the ' Embedded Rail Structure ', used in the Netherlands since 1976, initially used a conventional UIC 54 rail embedded in concrete, later developed ( late 1990s ) to use a ' mushroom ' shaped SA42 rail profile ; a version for light rail using a rail supported in an asphalt concrete filled steel trough has also been developed ( 2002 ).

* Slab ( geology ), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting

* Slab ( NCR ), a unit of computer memory in the NCR 315 architecture

* Thomas Murphy ( Irish republican ) ( born 1946 ), nicknamed " Slab "

* Cross Slab, Lios O Moine ( Lissamona ), Baile Iarthach ( Ballyieragh )

* In the cable reality show Art Race ( broadcast on Halogen TV ), one of the artists attempts to stay in Slab City to sell his art but leaves soon after dark with the show's crew because of fears for his safety.

Classic routes include The Crow's Nest ( climbing grade VS ), Nelson's Slab ( HVS ), Sail Buttress ( VS ), Sail Chimney ( S ), Topsail ( VS ), Orpheus Wall ( HVS ), Peaches ( E4 ), Trafalgar Crack ( V Diff ), Camperdown Crawl ( VS ) and Powder Monkey Parade ( S-but do not underestimate it ).

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

Some of the well known ones are Mun ( 4610 m ) near Dharamshala, Manimahesh Kailash ( मण ि मह े श क ै ल ा श ) ( 6638 m ) in the sacred Manimahesh region, Gaurjunda ( 4946 m ), near the Talang pass, which is also commonly referred to as the ' Dhauladhar Matterhorn ', Christmas ( 4581 m ), Toral ( 4686 m ), Dromedary ( 4553 m ), Riflehorn ( 4400 m ), Lantern ( 5100 m ), Arthur's Seat ( 4525 m ), Camel ( 4520 m ), Slab ( 4570 m ) and several other named and unnamed peaks.

* Slab reefing, which involves lowering the sail by about one-quarter to one-third of its full length and tightening the lower part of the sail using an outhaul or a pre-loaded reef line through a cringle at the new clew, and hook through a cringle at the new tack.

Ceramic forming techniques include shaping by hand ( sometimes including a rotation process called " throwing "), slip casting, tape casting ( used for making very thin ceramic capacitors, e. g. ), injection molding, dry pressing, and other variations.

Though the fiber flow ( local inhomogeneities of the material's chemical composition generated during casting ) doesn ’ t follow the shape of the crankshaft ( which is undesirable ), this is usually not a problem since higher quality steels, which normally are difficult to forge, can be used.

However, a study in Thailand found the cost per malaria case prevented of DDT spraying ($ 1. 87 US ) to be 21 % greater than the cost per case prevented of lambda-cyhalothrin – treated nets ($ 1. 54 US ), at very least casting some doubt on the unexamined assumption that DDT was the most cost-effective measure to use in all cases.

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

The electrical energy efficiency of a typical industrial induction motor can be improved by: 1 ) reducing the electrical losses in the stator windings ( e. g., by increasing the cross-sectional area of the conductor, improving the winding technique, and using materials with higher electrical conductivities, such as copper ), 2 ) reducing the electrical losses in the rotor coil or casting ( e. g., by using materials with higher electrical conductivities, such as copper ), 3 ) reducing magnetic losses by using better quality magnetic steel, 4 ) improving the aerodynamics of motors to reduce mechanical windage losses, 5 ) improving bearings to reduce friction losses, and 6 ) minimizing manufacturing tolerances.

A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares ' Observations upon the Times ( London, 1652 ), involved " Old Christmas " advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.

* Hot spot ( casting ), a metal casting defect

Because these spells have ( very ) long casting times ( up to several days ), highly specific and exacting verbal, material and somatic requirements, and can only be cast inside the sorcerer's consecrated temple, these spells are actually more like quasi-religious rituals.

* Matrix ( printing ), a mold for casting letters

* Pipe ( casting ), a type of metal casting defect

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

* Core ( manufacturing ), used in casting and molding

At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La boum ( 1980 ), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project.

On December 5, 1996, Thurmond became the oldest serving member of the U. S. Senate, and on May 25, 1997, the longest-serving member ( 41 years and 10 months ), casting his 15, 000th vote in September 1998.

In later British and Irish metalwork, the same style was imitated using casting, which is often called imitation chip-carving, or sometimes just chip carving ( authors are not always careful to distinguish the two ), a term also sometimes applied to pottery decorated in a similar way.

Modern fishing lines intended for spinning, spin cast, or bait casting reels are almost entirely made from artificial substances, including nylon, polyvinylidene fluoride ( PVDF, and called fluorocarbon ), polyethylene, Dacron and Dyneema ( UHMWPE ).

PCBs were also used as plasticizers in paints and cements, stabilizing additives in flexible PVC coatings of electrical wiring and electronic components, pesticide extenders, cutting oils, reactive flame retardants, lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, and sealants ( for caulking in schools and commercial buildings ), adhesives, wood floor finishes ( such as Fabulon and other products of Halowax in the U. S .), paints, de-dusting agents, water-proofing compounds, casting agents, vacuum pump fluids, fixatives in microscopy, surgical implants, and in carbonless copy (" NCR ") paper.

* Mary Jo Slater ( born 1946 ), American casting director and producer

From castings that fit in the palm of your hand to train beds ( one casting can create the entire bed for one rail car ), it can all be done with sand casting.

With George Cukor's Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ), MGM attempted to capitalize on Garbo's success as a comedienne by casting her in a romantic comedy which sought to portray her as an ordinary girl.

Generally between 10 to 14 feet ( 3 – 4 m ) in length, surf casting rods need to be longer in order for the user cast the lure or bait beyond the breaking surf where fish tend to congregate, and sturdy enough to cast heavy weighted lures or bait needed to hold the bottom in rough water.

In the 1890s the mechanization of typesetting allowed automated casting of fonts on the fly as lines of type in the size and length needed.

However, Eärendil at length prevailed, casting Ancalagon upon the triple-peaked towers of Thangorodrim, destroying both dragon and towers.

It "( 1 ) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, " questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon political, social, racial and religious views ; his integrity ; his sexual proclivities and inclinations ; and his personal habits "; ( 2 ) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time ; ( 3 ) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships ( 4 ) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him ; ( 5 ) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others ; and ( 6 ) conducted a " continuing " and harassing investigation of him.

the opera's length, roughly four hours of music, and casting requirements, such as the high range required for the tenor part, have contributed to the difficulty of producing the work.

In the extreme, only one crystal will survive after a certain length: this is exploited in the Czochralski process ( unless a seed crystal is used ) and in the casting of turbine blades and other creep-sensitive parts.

* Spin casting and centrifugal casting are production methods that uses centrifugal force to disperse liquid metal or plastic throughout the negative space of a mold.

Gutenberg's method for making type is traditionally considered to have included a type metal alloy and a hand mould for casting type.

Talos had one blood vessel which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail ( as in metal casting by the lost wax method ).

The 4th – 3rd millenniums witnessed the beginning of metal production, manufacture of copper tools, and use of casting molds.

* casting – molten metal is poured into a shaped mold.

Urbanization was accompanied by high levels of artistic achievement, particularly in terracotta and ivory sculpture and in the sophisticated metal casting produced at Ife.

Pure paraffin wax is rarely used for carving original models for casting metal and other materials in the lost wax process, as it is relatively brittle at room temperature and presents the risks of chipping and breakage when worked.

Bessemer also obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers-a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip.

This system was later enhanced by pressing wooden blocks into sand and casting metal types from the depression in copper, bronze, iron or tin.

The techniques for bronze casting, used at the time for making coins ( as well as bells and statues ) were adapted to making metal type.

In metalworking, casting involves pouring liquid metal into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowing it to cool and solidify.

Investment casting ( known as lost-wax casting in art ) is a process that has been practised for thousands of years, with the lost-wax process being one of the oldest known metal forming techniques.

* Viking Bronze-Early Medieval metal casting

# Creation of metal parts of the artificial limb using die casting

By casting the projectile point downwards and forming the head in an iron mold, the hot metal was suddenly chilled and became intensely hard ( resistant to deformation ), while the remainder of the mold, being formed of sand, allowed the metal to cool slowly and the body of the shot to be made tough ( resistant to shattering ).

* Stir casting: Discontinuous reinforcement is stirred into molten metal, which is allowed to solidify.