The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was one of the worst man made disasters in recent history. Back in 2010‚ an estimated 47‚000 people and 7‚000 boats/vessels were involved in the cleanup process. “It was estimated by a government-commissioned panel of scientists that 4‚900‚000 barrels of oil had already leaked into the Gulf.” (Pallardy) An excessive amount of oil has polluted the region. The government and BP had to take action as soon as possible‚ before the spill reaches further distances. The disaster
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Fort Denison‚ the Heart of sydney Harbour What is the social‚ cultural and historical significance of your site? Fort Denison has been a the heart of Sydney Harbour for over 150 years and in that time has had a significant varied social‚ cultural and historical past. It has been used as a fishing spot‚ defence structure‚ navigational guide‚ tide gage station‚ weather station‚ time marker and now a restaurant‚ events space and historic museum. Fort Denison was once a small‚ rocky island
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Alena Brown Internet Paper #4 12/4/2012 Article: BP stops oil leak in Gulf of Mexico for first time since April Author: Suzanne Goldenberg Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-spill-leak-stopped The safety issue that I chose was the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The BP oil spill was the largest oil spill in United States history. This oil spill occurred due to a methane leak‚ and an explosion‚ causing a fire aboard an offshore oil drilling rig. The
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I. Introduction As mentioned in our case study of VideoLAN and it’s application‚ VLC Media Player‚ we discussed how it’s features and unconditional codecs made it easier for users to play or stream varied video and audio formats. Today‚ millions of people around the world are downloading this player onto their computers to play their favorite audio and video files in almost all formats. This media player is packed with numerous functions and features. This media player is not just for music
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Rough Seas On the LINK650 by Steven L. McShane University of Western Australia Perth‚ Australia © 1995 Steven L. McShane. This case is based on actual events‚ although names and some information have been changed. This case may be used by current adopters of: S. L. McShane Canadian Organizational Behaviour‚ 5th ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson‚ 2004); S. L. McShane & M. A. von Glinow‚ Organizational Behavior‚ 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2005); S. L. McShane & T. Travaglione‚ Organisational
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Aam Aadmi Party Aam Aadmi Party (translation: Common Man’s Party; abbreviated AAP) is an Indian political party‚ formally launched on 26 November 2012. It came into existence following differences between the activists Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare regarding whether or not to politicise the popular India Against Corruption movement that had been demanding a Jan Lokpal Bill since 2011. Hazare preferred that the movement should remain politically unaligned while Kejriwal
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Subsea Production & Processing Systems Market by Technology/Components‚ Types & Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to 2018 Published on 04TH Apr. 2014 This report analyzes the subsea production and processing systems market by types of technologies of production systems & processing systems‚ and geography. In terms of geography‚ the report is segmented into North America‚ Asia-Pacific‚ Europe‚ Latin America‚ and Africa & Middle East. Each and every region is further studied based upon the different
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JOB SITE REPORT PUTZMEISTER BOOM PUMPS WORKING AT BANGALORE METRO PROJECT‚ BANGALORE About BMRCL : Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) is a joint venture between Govt. of India and Govt. of Karnataka sharing the responsibility of implementation of Bangalore Metro Rail Project. It is named as “Namma Metro”. Phase I metro project started(Civil work) in June2007 .The estimated cost of project is Rs 11609 Cr. Namma Metro phase-I network consist of two corridors : East-West and
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Halei Rochus Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 25 January 2017 Subway Love In Love on the B-Line by Adam Kraar‚ two lovers dispute over their relationship at a subway in Brooklyn. Kraar uses a style that is simple and commonplace‚ but romantic still. The characters‚ Robbie and Marie‚ are rather ordinary and are living through a situation which many real-life couples also experience. This literary piece thrives on realistic human element‚ making is easy for readers to relate to them and understand
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This section presents an example that shows how to develop a simple Bean and connect it to other components via the BDK. Our new component is called the Colors Bean. It appears as either a rectangle or ellipse that is filled with a color. A color is chosen at random when the Bean begins execution. A public method can be invoked to change it. Each time the mouse is clicked on the Bean‚ another random color is chosen. There is one boolean read/write property that determines the shape. The BDK
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