century‚ no human had lived through a doubling of the human population‚ but there are people alive today who have seen it triple. According to the U.N. Population Division‚ by the end of 2011‚ there will be seven billion of us. The population explosion‚ though it is slowing‚ is far from over. Not only are people living longer‚ but so many women across the world are now in their childbearing years - 1.8 billion - that the global population will keep growing for another few decades at least‚ even
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| Starting air system for diesel engine - how it works Function of starting air system Diesel engines are started by supplying compressed air into the cylinders in the appropriate sequence for the required direction. A supply of compressed air is stored in air reservoirs or ’bottles’ ready for immediate use. Up to 12 starts are possible with the stored quantity of compressed air. The starting air system usually has interlocks to prevent starting if everything is not in order. A starting air system
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some reason. The President‚ Ronald Reagan is secured in the bunker with his staff. "How would I kidnap the president?" IQ thought to himself. "I would get inside the bunker before the attack." IQ ducks between cover runs towards the bunker as an explosion goes off. Through the smoke‚ IQ sees Brain matter run towards a helicopter with the president draped over his shoulder. The president shouts "help‚ these maniacs have fuc----Brain Matter knocked him out.
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1) Citation Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99 (1928) Court of Appeals of New York 2) Key facts a. The plaintiff‚ Helen Palsgraf‚ was waiting for a train on a station platform. b. A man carrying a package was rushing to catch a train that was moving away from a platform across the tracks from Palsgraf. c. As the man attempted to jump aboard the moving train‚ he seemed unsteady and about to fall. d. A railroad guard on the car reached forward to grab him and another guard
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prevention of such disaster again. Piper alpha was a sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. [1] The platform began production in 1976‚[2]first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on 6 July 1988‚ this catastrophic event killed in total of 167 men‚ [3] with only 61 survivors. The death toll includes two crewmen of a rescue vessel who tried to save the victims of the fire. [4] Total insured loss
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BP – The $40billion Safety Culture Vacuum On March 23rd 2005 a huge explosion at BP’s Texas oil refinery killed 15 people and injured more than 180. Most were its own staff. The refinery had suffered safety problems before. The previous year two workers died when scalded by super-heated water that escaped from a high-pressure pipe. The British media focused on the effect of the 2005 blast: the price of oil rose by several $s a barrel. In Texas‚ however‚ the local media were outraged by ‘yet
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allow carbon dioxide bubbles to form extremely rapidly. When this happens‚ you get the physical reaction of the coke exploding out of the bottle. Other carbonated drinks also work with this experiment. (Hiskey) One thing that contribute to this explosion is the structure of the Mentos. Mentos are fairly dense and sink rapidly‚ quickly creating bubbles that seed further
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INTRODUCTION: Terrorism in the Philippines are conflicts based on political issues conducted by rebel organizations against the Philippine government‚ its citizens and supporters. Most terrorism in the country are conducted by Islamic terrorist groups. The most active terrorist groups in the Philippines are the Moro Islamic Liberation Front‚ Moro National Liberation Front‚ Abu Sayyaf‚ Rajah Sulaiman Movement and Jemaah Islamiyah. Prior to Islamic terrorist groups‚ the Philippines were terrorized
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Between growing threats of Nazi and Fascist power‚ the fear of axis controlled nuclear weapons was among the greatest. The Manhattan Project was the allied effort joining scientists‚ military engineers‚ and dedicated American workers. Before the U.S’s involvement in the war‚ American scientists and government spies suspected Nazi scientists were experimenting with nuclear fission and weaponization of it. There were also a few major breakthroughs concerning nuclear energy and the delivery method that
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Plot: * Exposition: At first‚ we meet Jim Lowell when he hosts a party for other astronauts and their families‚ who watch on television as Neil Armstrong walks for the first time on the Moon. Then‚ slowly after‚ we meet the rest of the crew‚ Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly when they are told they will be flying on Apollo 13 instead of Apollo 14. * Rising actions: 1. Lovell is informed that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. 2. Jim Lovell‚ Fred
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