* Slide brass instruments use a slide to change the length of tubing.

The resulting documentary, Cracked Actor, featured a pasty and emaciated Bowie: the tour coincided with the singer's slide from heavy cocaine use into addiction, producing severe physical debilitation, paranoia and emotional problems.

More often, however, players use the fourth valve in place of the first and third valve combination, which is somewhat sharp ( compensated for on trumpets and cornets and some three-valve flugelhorns by a slide for the first or third valve ).

Shooting ranges may require that firearms not in use have the bolt, slide or ( in case of revolvers ) cylinder locked open to expose the firing chamber as empty.

The use of phase contrast does not require staining to view the slide.

On occasion, Hurt would use an open tuning and a slide, as he did in his arrangement of " The Ballad of Casey Jones ".

Color photography may form images as positive transparencies, which can be used in a slide projector, or as color negatives intended for use in creating positive color enlargements on specially coated paper.

John Lee's cousin Earl Hooker may have been the first to use wah-wah and slide together.

One alternative is to use a solid metal bar or rod, about the same size as a bottleneck slide, laid across the strings of the guitar and held by the fingers of the fretting hand being laid on it to either side, parallel to it.

Many slide guitarists will still use their free fingers to fret the strings if they want to employ that sound as well.

One strategy is to use the free fingers for rhythm work, and intersperse this with lead phrases played with the slide.

If holding the guitar in the normal vertical position, it is more common to use the tube type of slide.

Usually, a slide player will use open tuning, although standard tuning is sometimes used.

Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally ; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel ( generally made of metal, but also of glass or other materials ).

Firstly, they often use a railroad track design, to allow the toe and heel pieces to slide, which in turn allows the ski to flex deeply, without a non-flexing spot underfoot due to the binding.

The pitch of the trumpet can be raised or lowered by the use of the tuning slide.

To overcome the problems of intonation and reduce the use of the slide, Renold Schilke designed the tuning-bell trumpet.

Removing the usual brace between the bell and a valve body allows the use of a sliding bell ; the player may then tune the horn with the bell while leaving the slide pushed in, or nearly so, thereby improving intonation and overall response.

A bong may be constructed from any air-and water-tight vessel by adding a bowl and stem apparatus ( or slide ) which guides air downward to below water level whence it bubbles upward (" bubbler ") during use.

With the aid of a cadre of female " data analysts ", including Françoise Ulam, who performed computations on mechanical calculators, and whose efforts were supplemented and confirmed by Everett's use of his slide rule, they carried out laborious and extensive computations of many thermonuclear scenarios.

Projection lamps are used in motion-picture and slide projectors for homes and small office or school use.

Some use a two-piece floating disc style, others use a floating caliper, others use pads that float in the caliper, and some use one moving pad that makes the caliper slide on its mounts, pulling the other pad into contact with the disc.

The rules and policies to be applied in this process of course must be based on objectives which represent what is to be desired if radio service is to be of maximum use to the Nation.

When an alphabet is adopted or developed for use in representing a given language, an orthography generally comes into being, providing rules for the spelling of words in that language.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

In May 2010, Rite Publishing secured a license from Diceless by Design to use the rules system in the creation of a new product to be written by industry and system veteran Jason Durall.

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

This early use has cast doubt on the origin through expatriates in India, though it is known that it was popular there in the 1870s and that the first rules were drawn up in Poonah in 1873.

In 1991, BCI published a reference guide containing 2300 vocabulary items and detailed rules for the graphic design of additional characters, so they settled a first set of approved Bliss-words for general use.

The word use of Basic English is similar to full English, but the rules are much simpler, and there are fewer exceptions.

Ogden's rules of grammar for Basic English help people use the 850 words to talk about things and events in a normal way.

For example, when Whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.

Cycling suffers from a perception that it is unsafe although use of appropriate safety equipment and observance of road rules can reduce risk of serious injury.

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

As Solomon Schechter noted, " however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the Rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition ".

What was added were rules for the use of the classical orders, and the exact proportions of the orders down to the most minute detail.

In the later 18th century the rules of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods came to be disregarded, and the original use of the orders revived, based on first-hand study of the ruins of classical antiquity-often hailed as the ' correct ' use of the orders.

Postmodernism introduced an ironic use of the orders as a cultural reference, divorced from the strict rules of composition.

In several languages the rules have changed over time, and so older dictionaries may use a different order than modern ones.

These rules formed the basis of the d20 System that is available under the Open Game License for use by other publishers.

The game's extensive rules – which cover diverse subjects such as social interactions, magic use, combat, and the effect of the environment on PCs – help the DM to make these decisions.

Different languages use different rules to put diacritic characters in alphabetical order.

* 1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The United States Supreme Court rules that the U. S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.

He started out in 1989 as a student at the current Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where he lived in a typical student house with all the stereotypical side-kicks, such as the fat boy, the beer drinker, the bossy girl who checks if everybody keeps to the house rules, and the tramps who use the heated shared hallway to stay the night.