According to the U.S. Department of Energy‚ 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled in U.S. waters from vessels and pipelines in a typical year. A major spill could easily double that amount. Oil spills are one of the biggest and overall worst environmental disasters. These spills happen for many reasons. Some of these reasons include: people making mistakes or being careless‚ equipment breaking down‚ natural disasters such as hurricanes‚ deliberate acts by terrorists‚ countries at war‚ vandals
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The largest marine oil spill in United States history began on April 20‚ 2010‚ with an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the water over the next 87 days‚ much of which washed up on shore along the Gulf coast region of the United States and Mexico. The accident was the result of numerous shortcuts undertaken by BP‚ and resulted in both environmental destruction and legal action. The events
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HTML5 and the Open Web Platform Prof. Beat Signer Department of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner 2 December 2005 A Brief History of HTML HTML 4.0 (1997) and HTML 4.01 (1999) In 1998 the W3C decided to not further evolve HTML! XHTML 1 (2000) and XHTML 1.1 (2001) XML version of HTML XHTML 2.0 (never finished‚ discontinued in 2009) revolutionary changes breaking backwards compatibility WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application
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There are many differences between the Republican and Democratic Party Platform. The Republicans are very conservative and the Democrats are more liberal. Not all the people in the party agree with the beliefs of their party though. On the topic of abortion‚ Democrats stand proudly for a woman’s right to choose. They also strongly support family planning and adoption incentives. The Democrats think abortion should be safe‚ legal‚ and rare. Republicans say the unborn child has a fundamental individual
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Mobile Health: What is the Holdup? Pablo Rivera Jr. Army- Baylor Graduate Program in Health and Business Administration August 21‚ 2012 Abstract In today’s world‚ the era of innovation is growing at a fierce pace; without limitations information technology can prove to be as harmful as it is helpful. This is especially applicable to the healthcare industry. The idea of paperless files is the way of doing business in the future. However‚ papers containing life and death implications such
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As a group you must review 5 online platforms of your choice (e.g. Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Ideascale‚ etc.) that could be used by a virtual team in a company to communicate with their worldwide divisions. Your group must use your readings to research and create a “grading platform” to create criteria to “grade” each platform. For example‚ you could create a matrix that has ease of communication as measuring item. After your group has “graded” these platforms‚ each person in your group will then write
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A CAPLIN WHITE PAPER Single-Dealer Platforms in aCAPLIN Cleared World BY PAUL www.caplin.com APRIL 2012 Far from signaling the end of singledealer platforms‚ the impending raft of new regulation in the US and Europe will create a new business environment in which the direct online channel is more important than ever for both banks and their clients. Paul Caplin‚ CEO of Caplin Systems Ltd. founded the company in 2000 Soon after the publication of the Dodd Frank act in the US‚ some early commentators
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WHAT FUTURE FOR RAIL IN THE TEN YEAR PLAN FOR TRANSPORT? Peter North Report to the All Party Parliamentary Rail Group November 2003 What future for Rail in the Ten Year Plan for Transport? Preface by All Party Parliamentary Rail Group The All Party Parliamentary Rail Group (APPRG) comprises over 300 parliamentarians from both Houses who are interested in rail issues. It meets regularly in Westminster and arranges visits both in the UK and abroad. Lawrie Quinn MP and Nick Hawkins MP are
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The 20th of April 2010 will be marked as the worst day in British Petroleum PLC’s history‚ the day that there was an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig whilst drilling in the Gulf of Mexico‚ killing 11 people and causing devastation to all the surrounding areas. The events of this day affected the global markets and relationships between countries substantially. ¹Daniels et al. (2009) states that globalisation is “The broadening set of interdependence relationships among people from
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"The Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and a girl named Jig. In the story the two are sitting in a rail station waiting for the train to Madrid. While they are waiting‚ they have an intense‚ ongoing discussion over whether or not Jig will get an abortion. At the end of the story‚ the train is about to arrive and the man carries the baggage to the tracks as they prepare to depart. The ending of the story leaves unclear the outcome of her decision
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