The municipal´s waste landfills may be one of the many causes of the ground water contamination, since many of the old solid waste landfills in municipals were often situated over aquifers which did not have clay or synthetic liners and leachate like they are required to have now. ... The new landfills are required to have clay or synthetic liners and leachate which it's a collection system that will help to protect the ground water so it will not get contaminated. ... A hazardous waste landfill is required double liner, double leachate collection and removal systems, leak detection syst...

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It stated that instead of waste just being dumped in open pits, new landfills that are built must be lined with clay or plastic liners. They also must have systems for treating leachate. ... Sooner or later the liners will start to deteriorate and methane and leachate will leak out. ...

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Transport In Singapore Singapore has a well-connected network of transport systems both within the Republic and the rest of the world. ... Her strategic location and free port policy helped to attract many ocean liners calling on her shore. ... LTA is trying to provide world-class "seamless" transport system within the island-state. ... LTA must continually raise the quality of the public transport systems to minimize car population so as to curb overcrowding of cars on the roads....

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Five more three-winged Lambda -class shuttles were leaving the atmosphere, carrying new passengers to the luxury liners. ... It was, perhaps, one of the most beautiful liners in galaxy. ... It was not quite designed to monitor the ship's systems, only to pilot the ship and make sure everything worked perfectly as planned. ... Attention, Calamari Star Cruisers, a voice said over the communications system. ...

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Sulfide ore is transported to the in pit crusher, which is an enormous pit with giant rotating steel pommel that crushes the ore as it falls beneath the crusher, onto the conveying system. ... Trucks dump the oxides in big piles and under these piles are liners that have collection ponds. ...

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Although the system did have several defects, there was still hope to improvise and reform the government to meet the needs of the people. Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader who intended to change and reform the communist system in Russia. ... His political and economic views were seen as drastic changes to most communist "hard-liners". ... The confidence in money is important for any country, but even more so for a centralized distribution system. ...

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Between 1987 and 1991 the trend of popular political participation grew even while having to outmaneuver attempts of control by both hard-liners and regime reformers (Edvins, 225). ... Elections in Latvia became true schools for democracy by fostering civic participation and creating an alternative in a formerly closed political system. ... DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS A civil society, democracy at the grass roots, and a political culture were needed for the transition from a Communist system. Yet these qualifications were hard to achieve in a context where the opposite values had been promo...

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The first victory that came to the German U-boats was over the British liner Athenia (Pitt, 8). ... Today the convoy system is a standard naval defense procedure that limits the threat to the merchant vessels from submarines. Assembling merchant vessels to sail with armed escort vessels creates the convoy system (HAH-WEB). ... The down side to the convoy system was that there was a waiting period between each fleet that went out (MM-WEB). ... Air support was introduced to the convoy system to force the submarines under the water. ...

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During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a hierarchy of social birthright in an orderly system of strict proper etiquette, gentility and formal addresses. ... An understanding of the humour in Emma unmasks other such humours in film which are reinforced by visual, slapstick and verbal comedy such as one-liners "Isn't my house classic? ...

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(Curtis, 279) Rising from the roof above the spiral staircase stands a large tubular stack and lining the ramp leading up to the roof garden is a white tubular-steel railing both adding to Le Corbusier's interest in ocean-liners. ... "Like the Villa Savoye, the building contained an enormous quantity of ideas' compressed into a simple guiding image; it' too, relied on years of experimentation with an architectural system based upon principles, and upon a philosophy of life."" ...

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Thompsons, the UK's largest tour operator used a booking system called viewdata systems. This move by Thompsons forced travel agencies to use the system in order to make bookings faster quicker and for cheaper, because time is money. The airlines developed computer reservation systems (CRS). ... Better infrastructure causes companies to move their resorts out to countries where the weather systems are more reliable. ... Ocean liners had competition with the jet aircraft and their popularity decreased. 3.5 All-weather attractions All weather attractions or indoor attractions, are...

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---Frank Zappa, liner notes from Joe's Garage, Acts 2&3 (CBS, 1979) The first Amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (Friendly). ... Parental advisory labels, banned concerts, banned cover art, rating systems, legislative bills and laws, and banned clothing are a few of the ways in which mus...

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National security America over its short life time has built up this reputation for being "untouchable". We are so far away from any major threats, and because of this, America has gone to sleep. It used to be that communication amongst countries would take months at a time. Your conversation w...

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Napster: Your Long-Lost Music Friend Everyone else was doing essays on sailing and horses and stuff. Go me. First off, a little technical history. Right now you're probably thinking to yourself, "Hey, how come we never traded music on the internet before Napster came out?" The reason why is beca...

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All life on earth is similar in that at one point in time it will begin and at any point after that it can end. The interim between the two significant quordinate is the time that is given to the species to have an active effect on others and their environment. This effect can of course be positive ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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Color symbolism has an optical background, a psychological foundation and one related to cultural tradition, which relates the colors of the spectrum with other systems of signs and values ​​relevant in the spiritual life of the human community.2 The language of colors is an area that expresses its specificity depending on the socio-cultural context. ...

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Chapter 1: Introduction While PSY's viral sensation Gangnam Style may have opened the floodgates of K-pop to mainstream consciousness worldwide, it is not indicative of the phenomenon itself by any means. Yes, it possesses the synthesizer and bassline driven electro-pop sound that K-pop is known for. It also possesses a "point dance," an extremely recognisable piece of choreography that becomes attached to a K-pop song by the consuming public, in the form of the "horse riding dance." Despite these ingredients, this dissertation would argue that PSY does not represent ...

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