Need for disaster management It was October 5‚ 1968. The Kosi river in Bihar played havoc as 9 lakh cusec of water was discharged in one day alone. Forty years later‚ the survivors of flood fury in north-eastern Bihar are returning to their homes without fully knowing how a repeat of such discharge in a day can ruin them altogether. The sudden diversion of the Kosi’s course last fortnight already inundated huge tracks of Supaul‚ Madhepura‚ Araria‚ Purnea and Saharsa districts‚ traditionally non-flooded
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How to Make a Bamboo Bed? DIY Tutorial In this DIY tutorial I’ll show you how to make a bamboo bed with very basic hand tools and without the use of any metal nails or screws. Inventory of Materials Tools Needed Step 1: Drilling Double Holes in the Bamboo Bed Frame Rails Cut two bamboo canes of 220 cm length (the tip of the cane should include a node). Continue by drilling two double holes in each bamboo bed frame rail (A). The first hole should be made at 8 cm from the tip of the bamboo
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Let’s take this private: linens ‘n things versus bed bath & beyond Problem: In March 2006‚ Robert (Bob) DiNicola‚ chief executive officer (CEO) of Linens ‘n Things (LNT)‚ needed a turnaround plan for LNT. The task of restoring the housewares retail chain to a leading position within the industry was a daunting one. The impact of comp etitors such as Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) coupled with encroachment from discount retailers like Target and Walmart had eroded LNT’s stature as a housewares retailer
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Paper Topic 1—Intensive Mothering and Attachment Parenting Draft DUE: 9/22/09 ENWR 1510-49: “The Mommy Wars” Angela Nemecek Problem: Authors Judith Warner‚ Susan Douglas‚ and Meredith Michaels all explicitly criticize attachment parenting as emblematic of a certain type of labor-intensive‚ anxiety-filled‚ consumeristic‚ and competitive parenting that places undue demands on women’s time and burdensome restrictions on their identities and professional lives. Other writers‚ like Sharon Hays
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Working Together Sharing the Journey of Learning and Development ACT Health Learning and Development Framework 2005 2 Contents Introduction ................................................................................................. 4 Key Performance Indicators for the Learning and Development Framework ................................................9 Principle 1: Foster and Support a learning culture through inspirational leadership and shared vision.....................
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some preventative measures we can take to make our houses less appealing to them‚ there’s nothing we can do to get rid of termites in our San Antonio‚ TX homes without the help of pest control specialists. Bed bugs are notoriously hard to find and if we can’t find them‚ we can’t kill them. Bed bugs are tiny
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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis * Felix Oberholzer Koleman Strumpf Harvard Business School UNC Chapel Hill foberholzer@hbs.edu cigar@unc.edu March 2004 Abstract A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific
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Statement of Problem Bed‚ Bath and Beyond (BBBY) currently has $400 million more in cash than they need for ongoing growth and operations requirements. While the company is financially sound analysts and investors worry about the company’s capital structure decisions. Investors do not want to see that much cash on the books and worry that the current capital structure is not the most effective for the future. They prefer that BBBY change their capital structure by paying out excess cash
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 MEANING OF ORGANISTIONAL BEHAVIOR 4 THE BENEFITS OF STUDYING ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR: 6 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 7 THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE ORGANISATION 7 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 8 PERSONALITY 10 THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL 10 LEARNING‚ PERCEPTION‚ AND ATTRIBUTION 10 LEARNING 10 THEORIES OF LEARNING 11 PERCEPTION 11 THE PERCEPTUAL PROCESS 12 ATTRIBUTION 12 ATTRIBUTION THEORY 12 TYPES OF ATTRIBUTION 12 ATTITUDES‚ VALUES AND ETHICS
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Advance Corporate Finance - Bed Bath and Beyond Case Questions: You are BBBY’s CEO‚ Steven Temares. It is April 2004 and you are about to decide what to do with the company’s excess cash: - Keep it? - Pay it out and issue debt? You structure your analysis by answering the following questions: 1. What is wrong with building up cash? Provide (at least two) reasons in favor and against keeping cash in the firm. Against: By paying out excess cash and issuing debt‚ BBBY could improve
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