... top ofthe house, the picture ofDorianGray grew older every year. The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in thepicture grew slowly more terrible. ThePictureof Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde retold by Jill Nevile OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 ThePictureofDorianGray of my ... intelligent, of course, but with ThePictureofDorianGray Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing — only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor. The Hand of a Killer again. The murdered...
... and hung them over the side. ey talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their or-anges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them. Some women were laughing in the pit; their voices ... of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowa-days. ey have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. ey feed the ... one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ey always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest ofthe play is entirely over they propose...
... shoulder a bundle of wood and a short-handled spade, in her free hand the pail of clams. She sought the darker side ofthe street at the corner and hurried across the zone of electric light ... from. " ;The coffee," she answered. "And the butter." He emptied his plate of meat and her plate into the frying pan, likewise the roll of butter and the slice on the table, ... roly-poly litter of seven little ones, marched majestically through the chickens, rooting them out ofthe way. The hens, in turn, took it out on the little porkers, pecking them when they strayed...
... insect is then glued to the tip of the point using a minute quantity of water-soluble glue, forexample based on gum arabic. The head ofthe insectshould be to the right when the apex ofthe point ... from the person mounting. For mostvery small insects, the tip ofthe point should contact the insect on the vertical side ofthe thorax below the wings. Ants are glued to the upper apex ofthe ... thorax between the wings, with the pin emerging between the first andsecond pair of legs (Fig. 17. 2g); set the wings with the front margins ofthe hind wings at right angles to the TIC17 5/20/04...
... Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance (London, 2010). 105 “A Plan for the Support ofthe Poor, and for the Relief ofthe Necessitous,” Miers Fisher Papers, 179 0?, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, ... Inquiry Into the Causes ofthe Present State ofthe Circulating Medium of the United States (Philadelphia, 1815), 49-50. 88 Littleton Teackle, An Address to the Members ofthe Legislature of Maryland, ... determined the nature ofthe bank’s loan portfolio. For example, the founders ofthe Farmers Bank of Bucks County set up in Hulmeville because, in the words ofthe bank’s chronicler, it “was the seat...
... o nIn the method described in the previous sections, the production of biodiesel started from the extraction of oil from rice bran and subsequently using the oil for the con-version of FFA ... a typical run, at the end ofthe rst step, the reaction mixture contains about 3% FFA, 35% acylgycerides, and 62% FAME. At the end ofthe second step, the FAME content in the product is more ... difcult. The residual wax imparts haziness to the oil and is the main reason for the darker color of rened RBO (Ju and Vali 2005). This dark color is the main cause ofthe low appeal of edible...
... severity ofthe spill. The purpose of contingency plans is to coordinate all aspects ofthe response toan oil spill. This includes stopping the flow of oil, containing the oil, and cleaningit up. The ... serious. As the seriousness of an incident is often not known in the initial phases, one ofthe firstpriorities is to determine the magnitude ofthe spill and its potential impact.Alerting the first ... contingency plan for this phase ofthe operation and the importance of a high level of training in first response.Stopping the flow of oil is a priority in the first phase ofthe operation, althoughresponse...
... properties. These properties influence how the oil behaves when it is spilled and determine the effects ofthe oil on living organismsin the environment. These properties also influence the efficiency of ... UnitedStates, the price of a specific oil may be based on its API gravity, as well as otherproperties ofthe oil. Solubility in water is the measure of how much of an oil will dissolve in the water ... that it would be the equivalent of approx-imately one grain of sugar dissolving in a cup of water. The flash point of an oil is the temperature at which the liquid gives off sufficientvapours...
... Through the process of dissolution, some ofthe most soluble components of the oil are lost to the water under the slick. These include some ofthe lower molecularweight aromatics and some ofthe ... the future. In addition to predicting the trajectory, these models can estimate the amount of evaporation, the possibility of emulsification, the amount of dissolution and the trajectory ofthe ... by the force of gravity and the interfacial tension between oil and water. The viscosity ofthe oil opposes theseforces. As time passes, the effect of gravity on the oil diminishes, but the...
... water line to the top ofthe boom. The skirt is the portion ofthe boom below the floats or flotation that helps to contain the oil. It isusually made ofthe same types of fabric as the freeboard ... The freeboard member is the portion ofthe boom above the water, whichprevents oil from washing over the top ofthe boom. The term freeboard is also usedto refer to the height from the ... by the amount of flotation and the weight ofthe boom. This means that the float must provide enough buoyancy to balance the weight ofthe boom with the force exerted by currents and waves, thereby...
... much on the thickness ofthe oil, type of oil, surface type, andmany other factors.**This is the percentage of oil in the recovered product. The higher the value, the lower the amount of water ... much on the thickness ofthe oil, type of oil, sea state,and many other factors.**This is the percentage of oil in the recovered product. The higher the value, the less the amount of water ... variety of factors including the type of oil spilled, the properties ofthe oil suchas viscosity, the thickness ofthe slick, sea conditions, wind speed, ambient temper-ature, and the presence of...
... tanks are often used as separators, withoutlets installed on the bottom ofthe tanks so that water that has settled to the bottom of the tank can be drained off, leaving the oil in the tank. ... ortruck. The vacuum pump creates a vacuum in the tank and the oil moves directlythrough a hose or pipe to the tank from the skimmer or the source ofthe oil. The oil does not go through the pump, ... or piston to the exit ofthe pump. The oil and other materialwith it must move through the chamber because there is no alternative passage, thus the name “positive displacement.” The screw...