Floating knot

The president screams as his head disappears, then his chest and legs. The only part of his body you see is his foot, tied to the rope, and floating several inches off the ground. His disembodied foot dances and finally slips out of the knot. 

The fibres thus obtained, after removal of the knots and pieces not well defibred, are grouped so as to make a roughly circular tuft about 1 cm. in diameter and 1 mm. thick. This tuft is placed on the surface of distilled water contained in a weighing bottle and observed during a period of a few minutes. With raw products, the tuft of fibres does not become wetted and remains floating even when the liquid is agitated with a bleached product, on the other hand, the tuft is wetted more or less rapidly and, when the liquid is shaken, falls slowly to the bottom. 

Weather conditions at a spill site have a major effect on the efficiency of skimmers. All skimmers work best in calm waters. Depending on the type of skimmer, most will not work effectively in waves greater than 1 m or in currents exceeding 1 knot. Most skimmers do not operate effectively in waters with ice or debris such as branches, seaweed, and floating waste. Some skimmers have screens around the intake to prevent debris or ice from entering, conveyors or similar devices to remove or deflect debris, and cutters to deal with seaweed. Very viscous oils, tar balls, or oiled debris can clog the intake or entrance of skimmers and make it impossible to pump oil from the skimmer s recovery system. 

Main signs symptoms Stools dry and knotted, urination short and frequent, a dry, yellow tongue coating, and a floating, rapid pulse... 

Some of the main defects in the woven fabrics are knots, harness wrong draws, wrong ends, reed marks, missed picks, soiled spots, thin or thick places (slubs), warp or weft puU, mixed wefts, broken picks, loom bars, foreign fibres, warp and weft floats and defects from printing (Anagnostopoulos et al., 2001). Various woven fabric defects are described in Table 5.7 and are some of them shown in Figure 5.4. There may be some other fabric faults not described in this table depending on the type and nature of fabric. 

Individual beads can be stitched by hand in children s garments for 4 years and above, by using core-spun polyester thread. Those must be securely attached with double thread and the end of the thread is to be knotted. A maximum thread end of 1 cm and a minimum of 0.5 cm are acceptable, but floats over 1 cm are not acceptable. 

The first priority in any spill is to stop the source of leakage. The second priority is to contain the spiU so that further environmental damage does not occur. Spills on water can be contained using the many commercial spill containment booms. Booms will contain floating liquids up to a relative speed of knot. This is an important limitation because in many situations this velocity is exceeded. Attempts to contain oil on some open waters and across tidal bays will be futile. Tidal currents often exceed 2 knots and can be as much as 8 knots. Placement of booms requires extensive manpower and time. 

Floats are usually caused by slubs, knot-tails, knots, or fly waste, or sometimes by ends being drawn in heddle eyes incorrectly or being twisted around heddle wires. 

After about 40 months of service, the rig/platform was no longer used for drilling, but it served as a so-called flotel (i.e., a floating hotel) for workers from the close by Edda platform. On March 27,1980, wind gusts of approximately 40 knots created waves up to 12 m high that, in turn, caused the rig/platform to collapse into the North Sea, and resulted in the death of 123 off-duty workers. 

There were a number of traditional aboriginal uses of jack pine (Maries et al., 2000), some of which are inner bark and needles processed to yield poultice to treat wounds and frostbite pitch chewed as a medicinal dried cones used in tanning of hides roots used to make baskets, and fish hooks made from knots. The wood was used for cabins, boat planks, fishnet floats and fiielwood. Though less effective than spruce (Picea) pitch, pine pitch could also be used for caulking. 

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