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anchor and needs
The disadvantage of using deadweight anchors in conditions where a mushroom anchor could be used is that it needs to be around ten times the weight of the equivalent mushroom anchor.
A stream anchor, which is usually heavier than a kedge anchor, can be used for kedging or warping in addition to temporary mooring and restraining stern movement in tidal conditions or in waters where vessel movement needs to be restricted, such as rivers and channels.
A career anchor is one's self concept, and consists of one's perceptions of one's talents and abilities, one's basic values and one's perceptions of motives and needs as they pertain to career.
Knowledge of the correct device position relative to the rope anchor is critical for the correct operation of the cam devices in a fall as they are mono directional in operation, and the soloer must be aware that he needs to put in a runner as soon as he sets off above the belay point on a multi-pitch climb, otherwise he can slide to the bottom of the rope in the event of a fall.
The weight of a mushroom anchor causes it to be slowly buried under soft sediment, giving significant holding power and are typically used for moorings, buoys, and other permanent anchoring needs.
As Chief, the player needs something to anchor them into the story, and that happens to be Cortana.
Back in Springfield, Cobb tells Homer that in order to stop the train, he needs to find an anchor.
It provides distributed strength and is useful when a shock load needs to be spread along an anchor point, since it provides four lines distributed across two points, in which case a double bowline or water bowline should be used as the security knot.

anchor and hold
If you anchor one end of a ribbon or string and hold the other end in your hand, you can create transverse waves by moving your hand up and down.
In 1962, Walter Cronkite landed the anchor seat, which he would hold until 1981, and the program's name was changed to CBS Evening News.
The Rhodan GPS Anchor has been demonstrated at trade shows to precisely hold a boat's position within a couple feet in wind and current acting as a virtual anchor.
A vertical pull on the anchor will result in the anchor breaking out of the bottom sediment and is used as a technique to break the anchor's hold allowing the anchor to be raised in order to leave the anchorage.
He started all right, but ' getting way ' on him, I could hold the rope no more, and away he went sliding headlong down the stairs, like an avalanche down Mont Blanc ... he smashed the door open ... and slid right into the kitchen ... till at last he brought himself to an anchor under the kitchen table.
The anchor relies on the lateral shear strength of the soil to hold it.
The arms are used to hold the underside of the bench to anchor the shoulders to it to prevent rolling forward.
By the captain of the port in which you have cast anchor I have been courteously requested, as a soldier, and, above all, as a gentleman, to hold a conference with you, adding that you have advised him that war has been declared between our respective nations, and that you have come for the purpose of occupying these Spanish islands.
The Mystics hold a meeting, and The Hand ( a giant glove serving as Marko's assistant ) formulates a plan, which requires a magic anchor stone from the center of the world.
Equipment content varies widely by market – including such features as six airbags ( front, front side and air curtain ), Anti-Lock Braking System ( ABS ) with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution ( EBD ), Electronic Stability Control ( ESC ) with Traction Control System ( TCS ) & Brake Assist System ( BAS ), dual or tri-zone heating and cooling, " walk through " aisle between the front seats with fold-down tray, tilt / height adjustable steering wheel, ISOFIX anchor points, rear side sliding doors with " hold open " locking feature ( to prevent an open door from inadvertently closing ), second row power roll-down windows, third row 60 / 40 fold-in-floor seat ( LWB only ), power sliding doors and liftgate, backup sensors, and in-dash navigation.
This knot can be used to provide a toe hold in the middle of a rope ; to make an emergency bosun's chair ; and to create an upper rope " block " to make a crude purchase by threading the rope round an anchor point and then back up through the loop.
It is sure, however, that Ferdinand Magellan did not drop anchor by the mouth of Agusan River in 1521 and hold mass to commemorate the event which was held at Mazaua, an island separate from 1521 Butuan which was in the geographical conception of Europeans who wrote about it was a larger entity than what it is now.
Kentucky Junior Miss and America's Junior Miss 1963 Diane Sawyer continued to support the program as her career in journalism continued, which led to a position at the ABC Television Network program " Good Morning America " and most recently to be the second woman to individually hold the anchor chair nationally for a nightly news program World News on ABC television ( Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas and Connie Chung co-anchored with male counterparts ).
MacAskill was well known for feats of strength such as lifting a ship's anchor weighing to chest height, and an ability to carry barrels weighing over apiece under each arm or reputedly able to lift a hundredweight ( 50kg ) with two fingers and hold it at arms length for ten minutes.
* " Screens ": Lattice-structures of rubber-or polyurethane-mounted on both sides of a wall ; anchor bars inserted into holes in the walls, helical pressure springs, and anchor nuts have a visual function and hold the parts together.

anchor and vessel
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or current.
A sea anchor is a drogue, not in contact with the seabed, used to control a drifting vessel.
The vessel is attached to the anchor by the rode, which is made of chain, cable, rope, or a combination of these.
Since all anchors that embed themselves in the bottom require the strain to be along the seabed, anchors can be broken out of the bottom by shortening the rode until the vessel is directly above the anchor ( at this point the anchor chain is " up and down " in naval parlance ).
Since one fluke always protrudes up from the set anchor, there is a great tendency of the rode to foul the anchor as the vessel swings due to wind or current shifts.
If there is much current, or the vessel is moving while dropping the anchor, it may " kite " or " skate " over the bottom due to the large fluke area acting as a sail or wing.
A cable or rode is the rope, chain, or combination thereof used to connect the anchor to the vessel.
The basic anchoring consists of determining the location, dropping the anchor, laying out the scope, setting the hook, and assessing where the vessel ends up.
After this second anchor is set, the scope on the first is taken up until the vessel is lying between the two anchors and the load is taken equally on each cable.
One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.
A swivel is attached to the middle of the anchor cable, and the vessel connected to that.
When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.
An anchor from the naval vessel USS Chicago ( CA-136 ) is on display at the far end of the Pier
* A location where a boat or other vessel lies at anchor
An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore.
The float allows a vessel to find the rode and connect to the anchor.

anchor and all
Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.
In use, it still presents all the issues of the admiralty pattern anchor.
Likewise the French ships Tonnant, Heureux and Mercure all cut their anchor cables and drifted southwards away from the blazing ship.
* all the external entities used by these standard document types are referenced by simple attributes, declared with the CDATA type in their standard DTD ( such as the " href " attribute of an anchor " a " element, or the " src " attribute of an image " img " element, whose values are interpreted as a URI, without needing any catalog of public identifiers, i. e., known FPI );
Edge pieces can anchor flips that influence moves to all regions of the board.
The caldera being 400m deep makes it possible for all but the largest ships to anchor anywhere in the protected bay ; there is also a newly built marina in Vlychada on the southwestern coast.
Another popular way to anchor molecules to the electrodes is to make use of sulfur's high affinity to gold ; though useful, the anchoring is non-specific and thus anchors the molecules randomly to all gold surfaces, and the contact resistance is highly dependent on the precise atomic geometry around the site of anchoring and thereby inherently compromises the reproducibility of the connection.
Jocelyn Delecour, France's anchor leg runner, famously said to Paul Drayton before the relay final that, " You can't win, all you have is Bob Hayes.
The symbol of the town – the anchor, present on all coins minted by Apollonia since the sixth century BC, is proof of the importance of its maritime trade.
Most EMAS organisations introduce employee participation schemes at all levels of the organisation to anchor the environmental management and audit system in the organisation successfully.
Since New York was also the home of NBC, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, it provided the best possible anchor for national coverage from their reporters all over the country.
On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9: 30 a. m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight.
For all seasons, the show is hosted by veteran television personality, one-time game show host and news anchor Chris Harrison.
The arms show a silver eagle holding a gold anchor in its left claw and a gold Rod of Asclepius in its right claw all on a red background.
However, none of these are safe in all weather conditions and a ship mooring anywhere on Bear Island must therefore be prepared to weigh anchor at any time.
They all had both bow and stern anchors, with " springs " attached to the anchor cables to allow the ships to be slewed through a wide arc.
At the tail of the line, the sloop Finch failed to reach station and anchor, and although hardly hit at all, Finch drifted aground on Crab Island, and surrendered under fire from the 6-pounder gun of the battery manned by the invalids from Macomb's hospital.
Characterising climbing as " traditional " distinguishes it from sport climbing in which all protection and anchor points are permanently installed prior to the climb typically while rappelling, and " free solo climbing " ( a. k. a. " free soloing "), which does not use ropes or gear of any kind.
A climbing anchor ; in this example, all three pieces are placed in the same crack.
Below is a complete list of any and all who have served as an anchor at one time or another, and the season ( s ) which they served.
The plants have no roots at all, but sometimes they develop modified leaves with a rootlike appearance, which anchor the plant to the bottom.
* Multiple anchor mooring systems use two or more ( often three ) light weight temporary-style anchors set in an equilateral arrangement and all chained to a common center from which a conventional rode extends to a mooring buoy.

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