for removal into a high pressure testing area. At the high pressure testing area, the pipe is again placed on a gently tilted runout table that tilts toward the tester. At the tester, steel couplers are threaded onto the pipe and the pipe is subjected to 10,000 psi of water pressure to check the integrity of the pipe and the threaded ends. After completion of the threading operation, up to 2% losses are usually suffered primarily because of thread damage. While the pipe can usually be rethreaded once, it is scrapped if damage occurs more than once. The damage usually occurs in the handling of the pipe. The drop from the runout table and the storage area are major contributors to the thread damage.
Other damage occurs as aItaly, Napoleon once complained, is far too long. Even as the peninsula strove for unity in the 19th century, Goethe described it as "the shadow of a nation", and many Italians found themselves in surprising agreement. The late 19th-century statesman Giustino Fortunato declared that "the unification of Italy was a sin against history and geography", while one of his contemporaries warned that "the head and the tail will never touch each other, but if they are made to do so, the head will bite the tail".

Heading off in pursuit of Italy, David Gilmour finds instead a land and people defined enduringly by campanilismo (literally, the municipal bell tower) – a communal loyalty – and with little interest in nationalism except when "forced or cajoled". From the outset, Gilmour