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    Oil plays a tremendous role in our world, but what happens when oil spills occur? Spills can cause physical smothering of animals and lead an impact on long term effects. When oil spills occur oil spreads out rapidly across the water and forms something called an oil slick, and eventually the oil continues to spread and becomes a thinner layer called a sheen. Oil spills can be very harmful to birds, mammals, and even fish. There are many places that oil spills have occurred across the country

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    References Caughron, J. J., Antes, A. L., Stenmark, C. K., Thiel, C. E., Wang, X., and Mumford, M. D. (2011). Sensemaking Strategies for Ethical Decision Making. Morals and Behavior, 21(5), 351-366. doi:10.1080/10508422.2011.604293 In this article, it expresses that the ebb and flow consider utilizes a sense making model and thinking procedures identified in prior research to analyze moral basic leadership. Caughron, Antes, Stemark, Thiel, Wang, and Mumford states that utilizing a specimen of

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    ‘Booms’ are large floating barriers placed around the oil, while ‘Skimmers’ collect the oil. ‘Skimmers’ can range from vacuum machines, to sponges, and even absorbent rope. Besides the ‘Boom and Skimmers’ method, there is also the possibility of In situ burning. This refers to igniting freshly spilled oil while it is still floating on the water. However, due to the dangers of this method, it is not commonly used (“Cleaning up”). The major threat to oil is the fact that oil supplies will eventually

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    Credit Card Hacker’s and Skimmer’s Modern day technology has changed the ways in which people purchase products and services. In the twenty-first century, all business has pretty much converted over to the electronic payment systems. One swipe of a credit card and immediately the data transmits through a gateway onto the payee 's bank processing link. However, during the disbursement of data is when more than forty-three million people’s debt or credit card information becomes promised. May of these

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    can be divided into following categories: using booms and skimmer; using oil solidifier and dispersants; adding biological agents to speed up the oil breakdown; or in-situ burning of oil spills. However, only the skimmers were designed to recover the spill oil.1 When oil is skimmed from the surface water, much of the recovered material is water. Thus, the storage container fill-up with more water than the actual oil. For example, a weir skimmer generally recovers 70% water and 30% oil.1 To help make

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    used to solidify any kind of spilled oil, making it easier to collect. Using the motion of the waves and sea, the gelling agent turns the oil into a rubbery material that can be easily removed from the water with nets, vacuuming, suction, devices or skimmers. This method helps clean the water without taking a lot of the water with it since when it solidifies you just pull out the chunks of oil instead of taking a lot water with it like if you were to try the hay or fleece

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    store water skimmers near your pool. The skimmer is a net connected

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    Red Deer River Oil Spill

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    really depends on how fast you also clean it. If the spill is very little than it may just take days to clean up to the spill. One big way to clean up a big oil spill is something called the “Skimmer” this is a machine that goes through the water and it collects oil and removes it but sometimes the Skimmer collects oil and saves it because not all of the oil that is in the water is bad. But, the oil that is bad is taken out and removed completely. Another method to take out oil is something called

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    to use the ATM. One way they can steal your credit card information without you even realizing is using a Skimmer device. According to pcmag.com, “Skimmers are essentially malicious card readers that grab the data off the card's magnetic strip attached to the real payment terminals so that they can harvest data from every person that swipes their cards.” Identity thieves can place these skimmers in any ATM or credit card reader and they don’t prevent them from functioning properly. Some places this

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    Hall Meetings

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    Kelley, I’m stuck in Canada, can you transfer me $500?” and they could have a voice mimicking device. 4. Skimmers. Pretend you are at a Gas station. You know those like thing you slide you Credit cards in to? Well now the Bad Guys have a way of putting their sliders on that steal your information these are called skimmers, the scary part is, there is no real way to know if there is a skimmer or not. Now, I thought this was very interesting… but most of the other people attending these meeting didn’t

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