The Blast in Centralia No. 5 Megan Moore Mr. Joseph McCue Modern Public Administration October 23, 2011 The explosion at Centralia No 5 was a great tragedy in the State of Illinois that created over 90 widows and 70 fatherless children. Unfortunately, it was a tragedy that could have been avoided had action been taken sooner. Today it is easy to be shocked and appalled that this would have happened. However, looking
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THE BLAST IN CENTRALIA NO. 5 (Assignment #1) By Kareen Tompkins; July 2013 Class: PAD 500 (STRAYER UNIVERSITY) (MODERN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) Dr. Shelley Taylor In 1947, One hundred eleven men were killed in an explosion that took place at the Centralia No. 5 mines located in the state of Illinois. The explosion was caused by highly explosive coal dust that was ignited by an explosive charge. During that time, Driscoll Scanlan was one of l6 Illinois state mine inspectors, appointed
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History 124 7 November 2012 Coal Power and the Upper Big Branch Mining Disaster Coal was a major energy source for the United States throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries during the Industrial Revolution (Yale.edu). Even though it was a major energy source, coal has caused many problems with the environment and the people of the United States. Many disasters have occurred because of the safety regulations of coal mines. The safety regulations and conditions of coal mines have caused
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LAW OF TORTS, MV ACCIDENT AND CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS II AMBIKA NEGI PRN NO- 15010321035 BA LLB (A) ROLL NO- 35 UNDER THE GUIDANCE MRS. M. V. CHANDRAMATHI Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad Symbiosis International University, Pune CERTIFICATE The Project entitled- ‘Compensation to the motor vehicle victims- legislative and judicial
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The definition of distracted driving is driving while doing another activity that takes your attention away from driving. Distracted driving can increase the chance of a motor vehicle crash. From the articles that I read what stood out most to me is on average about 5 to 6 thousand distracted driver crashes occur every year and I find it interesting that the crash rates have been staying in that 5 to 6 thousand range. My personal belief is that we could be able to bring down the number of crashes
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B. Specific Purpose: Inform my audience on the many dangers of using a phone while driving, and persuade them not to use their phone's while driving. C. Central Idea: Using a cell phone always results in a distracted driver. This causes many accidents which also results in death. It's a terrible tragedy that can be so easily avoided with minimal effort. II. Introduction. Did you know that at any given daylight moment, some 13.5 million drivers are on hand-held phones? This is a fact according
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Tesla, in our view, is the first to achieve commercial scale in sale of high performance electric cars. Our model assumes only sales of 4200 Model S (to be launched in 2012) cars even in 2015, which could prove conservative given Tesla‟s expectations for 20k cars a year. We note that Tesla has booked over 2200 orders for Model S. We expect the NUMMI plant (with a theoretical capacity of 400k cars) in Fremont to give the company ability to expand production at low capital cost. We expect Daimler
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Citation: Netland, T. H. & Aspelund, A. (2013) Company-specific production systems and competitive advantage: A resource-based view on the Volvo Production System. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 33, Iss. 11/12 Post-print. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 33, Iss. 12. Forthcoming. Company-specific Production Systems and Competitive Advantage:
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The Blast in Centralia No.5 highlights multiple failures in Public Administration, on March 25, 1947; a deadly coal mine explosion rocked the calm, peaceful town of Centralia, IL. During World War II, this mine provided coal to the war effort. A charge ignited built-up coal dust and caused the explosion. This explosion should have come to a surprise, many public sector safety professionals from state and federal agencies knew of the hazards as a result of inspections, union complaints and letters
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Changing Lanes is a movie directed by Roger Michell and written by Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin. The film is about a young lawyer and a business man who shares a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Gavin Banek who is played by Ben Affleck who also acted in Armageddon leaves the scene of accident and drives off leaving Doyle Gibson played by Samuel Jackson on the F.D.R causing him to miss his court appointment which leaves him with a broken family. After watching the film Changing Lanes, I would
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