Piper Alpha: Lessons Learnt‚ 2008 Piper Alpha was a large North Sea oil platform that started production in 1976. It produced oil from 24 wells and in its early life it had also produced gas from two wells. It was connected by an oil pipeline to Flotta and by gas pipelines to two other installations. In 1988‚ Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd ("OpCal")‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. On 6 July 1988‚ there was a massive leakage of gas
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Christian Brooks English 011 Descriptive Essay Unforgettable Death is a way of life‚ everyday about 250‚000-300‚000 people die each day. The average life expectancy of a person is 66.12 years of age‚ however the life expectancy is increasing and so is the population. On May 14‚ 2004 I experienced a death in my family which is something I will never forget. It was the day my grandma died unexpectedly; it was the hardest thing I have gone through. The feeling in the hospital room was morbid
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Brienna Jenkins David Willson English 201‚ M/W 28 August‚ 2013 The Candle Wax Incident I would never be so presumptuous as to assert that nobody but me has problems. I understand‚ in fact‚ that not only does everyone have problems‚ but that most people have bigger problems and more problems than I myself would care to imagine. I do believe‚ however‚ I can safely say that nobody else has my problems. The singularity with which I create extra work for myself is its own idiosyncrasy.
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Case Incident 2 BECOMING A FACIAL DECODER I. Background Paul Ekman is a psychologist known for his study about facial expressions‚ where facial expressions reveal true emotions. Researchers have distinguished real smiles (so called Duchenne smile) from fake smiles. Ekman and his associates have developed methods to detect other emotions suchas anger‚ disgust and distress. They call their method as Facial Action Coding System (FACS). FACS has been used to study the facial expressions
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The Incident of the Goalie Stick I had just finished my hockey game‚ one which we lost by far. I slowly skated my way off the ice‚ as everyone looked at the “losing team” in disappointment. I stepped my way over to the locker and to my surprise‚ a couple of kids had found a broken goalie stick‚ and the floor was a mess with splinters. It looked as if a volcano had erupted in the left side of the tiny locker room. These kids swung it back and forth‚ trying to break it‚ but had no luck in doing so
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someone who wants to help us to succeed in the future. However‚ we found that there are some special teachers that are a great example of learning how to succeed in life. In the two stories of “my favorite teacher” by Thomas L. Friedman‚ and “Unforgettable Miss Bessie” by Carl T. Rowan‚ we find two incomparable persons who made a change in their students’ life. They both were a motivating influence for their students. Carl Rowan’s teacher Miss Bessie and Thomas Friedman’s teacher Hattie Steinberg
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A Review of Factors Influencing User Satisfaction in Information Retrieval Azzah Al-Maskari Directorate General of Technological Education P.O.Box: 413‚ Post code 100 Tel: +96824839124 Fax: +96824813723 Email: maskeri.a@gmail.com Mark Sanderson Department of Information Studies‚ University of Sheffield Regent Court‚ 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP‚ UK Tel: +44 114 22 22648 Fax: +44 114 27 80300 Email: m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk 1 A Review of Factors Influencing User Satisfaction in Information
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The Wallace Group; Laurence J. Stybel | | | Case 2 The Wallace Group‚ Inc. I. CASE ABSTRACT Harold Wallace‚ founder‚ serves as Chairman and President of the Wallace Group. He owns 45 percent of the outstanding stock. The company consists of three operating groups?Electronics‚ Plastics‚ and Chemicals‚ which generate sales of $70 million. Mr. Wallace continues direct operational control over the Electronics Group. Several years ago‚ Wallace and the Board embarked on a strategy
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directoryundergraduate 20.14 bonus points reference bonus points for HSC subjects with 2013 entry scores Oxley College 2. introduction finding a way to deal with the complexities and mass of detail associated with bonus points. To the Students of Year 12‚ 2013. Please use this guide and other resources available to you‚ to fully investigate all the options that are available to you. You can never to be too informed‚ organised or start too early when investigating possible
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Besides Josephine‚ Nellie met many other women in the asylum. A few reports stuck out dramatically due to the severity nurses used to punish undeserving patients. One patient reported thinking she had seen her husband. The patient got out of the line the nurses had placed her in‚ in order to go to him. The patient later reports to Nellie how the nurses had responded: For crying the nurses beat me with a broom-handle and jumped on me‚ injuring me internally‚ so that I shall never get over it. Then
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