A Bear Called Paddington Characters: Mr. Brown‚ Mrs. Brown‚ Judy and Paddington the Bear Setting: Paddington‚ the car‚ the mall‚ Paddington Railway Station in London Mr. and Mrs. Brown are on a railway platform at Paddington Station‚ they discover something strange near the bicycle rack. They are still waiting for their daughter Judy when they see that the strange thing is a little bear. It looks like a very unusual kind of bear‚ it is brown in color‚ a rather dirty brown‚ and it is wearing
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Excelsior College Summary During a 19 month study of life on two oil platforms that included living‚ eating‚ and working alongside crews offshore‚ the key finding was that extinguishing macho behavior is vital to achieving top performance. Oil rigs are dirty‚ dangerous‚ and demanding workplaces that have traditionally encouraged displays of masculine strength‚ daring‚ and technical prowess. Over the past 15 years or so the platforms have shifted this macho type of culture to one where men can admits
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disposal of the 14‚500 tone‚ 463ft Brent Spar oil storage and loading buoy in the north Atlantic. There followed a sustained‚ highly publicized campaign by Greenpeace‚ backed by European governments and public‚ which included occupation of the oil platform by Greenpeace activists. The incident proved to be a turning point in the history and laid behind many learning:- 1. A well–organised consumer boycott can hurt companies. The response must be that an ounce of market research is worth a pound of
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Abstract Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum. The platform began its production in 1976‚ first as an oil production and then later converted to oil and gas production. In the night of July 6th 1988‚ the platform was engulfed in a catastrophic fire‚ which caused the death of 167 men and cost billions of dollars in property damage. There are only 61 survivors who saved their lives by jump off the platform in to the sea. At the time of the disaster‚ the Piper Alpha disaster was the worst
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Doesn’t everyone love swimming in the ocean and seeing all the pretty sea life? Some people do‚ and when people are offshore drilling they can cause a lot of problems if something goes wrong. The biggest concern by environmentalist is not a spill‚ but the pollution of the air and water‚ damage to the ocean bottom and debris that washes ashore from day-to-day operations of oil and gas rigs. Oil Drilling can lead to jobs being endangered‚ animals dying‚ and damaging the eco system. So many animals
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The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well‚ were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206‚ held in New Orleans. June 22 – Mark E. Hafle‚ a senior drilling engineer from BP‚ warns that the metal casing for the blowout preventer might collapse under high pressure Deepwater Horizon drilling rig company‚ owned by Transocean‚ begins drilling on the Macondo Prospect. The planned well was to be drilled to 18‚000 feet below sea level‚ and was to be plugged
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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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practised in the platform. Introduction This is a case study about the Piper Alpha disaster‚ on the management operations and structures‚ the objective of the management‚ the industrial process of the platform‚ the causes of the accident together with the consequences of the accident and case study on the improvement and the prevention of such disaster again. Piper alpha was a sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. [1] The platform began production
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MEDIA WORKSHEET PLATFORM GAMES TASK: Using the Wikipedia website‚ answer these questions about Platform Games. 1. What is a ‘platform game’? A platform game (or platformer) is a video game which involves guiding an avatar to jump between suspended platforms‚ over obstacles‚ or both to advance the game. These challenges are known as jumping puzzles or freerunning. 2. What characterises these games? 3. When did platform games originate? Platform games originated in the early 1980s
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gaming companies. Its success in Japan was due both to the in-house games and also to the development platform it provided to third-party game designers. Its greatest challenge ended up being to replicate the prosperity of this two-pronged strategy in marketplaces around the globe‚ where it needed to contend not only with lots of other game developers (e.g. Zynga)‚ but additionally using the mobile platform companies themselves (e.g. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android). Authors: Andrei Hagiu‚ Masahiro Kotosaka
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