The 2003 sports novel “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis‚ is the true story of Oakland Athletics‚ an American professional baseball team‚ as they try to build a competitive team with a limited financial budget. The General Manager of the Oakland Athletics‚ Billy Beane‚ realizes that his team can never compete in free agency against teams with twice as large budgets and begins to implement a sabermetric approach. Sabermetrics is identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies
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Empire State Building The Empire State Building Outline THESIS STATEMENT: The Empire State Building did not cause much trouble for New York; instead‚ its construction had many positive effects. Reasons for the Building I. Raskob wanted to make money by renting offices to tenants. A. He wanted to construct a building that offered him the largest number of offices at the lowest price. B. He didn’t care for innovation and style ‚ but he wanted a building that sticks with his budget
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Introduction Building service is one of the important parts for a building because it will make a building to function well. Building service is responsible for the design‚ installation‚ and operation and monitoring of the mechanical‚ electrical and public health systems required for the safe‚ comfortable and environmentally friendly operation of modern buildings. Modern technology of building service can make a building to become more safety or more comfortable. While building developers are increasingly
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Earthquake Resistant Building Construction - 1 A short Research Paper on Affordable Solution for Earthquake Resistant Building Construction in Haiti by Dawang Sherpa Submitted to Southern Alberta Institute of Technology-SAIT Calgary‚ Alberta February 24‚ 2010 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Some Concepts on Earthquake Resistant Construction 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 Adobe Buildings with Earthquake Resistant Components 3.2 Rice Straw/Wheat Straw Buildings 3.3 Bamboo & Wooden Houses 3.4
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What Is Team Building? A team is a group of people working towards a common goal. ’Team Building’ is the process of enabling that group of people to reach their goal. It is therefore a management issue‚ and the most effective form of team building is that undertaken as a form of management consultancy‚ rather than as pure training (though there is a role for training within a programme of team building). In its simplest terms‚ the stages involved in team building are: ▪ To clarify the team goals
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Free online IELTS Advice IELTS Essay – Protecting Old Buildings This model essay is about old buildings and whether they should be protected or not. It is quite a difficult question‚ so you will need to brainstorm your ideas carefully. It is basically an opinion essay‚ as you have to give your opinion on protecting old buildings. There are two parts to this essay question so you must answer both. 1) How important is it to protect old buildings? For the first part you have to decide which opinion
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industrial buildings. During the last twenty years‚ this building type has increasingly been protected as a symbol of the historic value attached to the physical remains of the industrialization process. The best way to secure their continuing role in the urban fabric for the future was through adaptive reuse. Conservationists prescribe design guidelines for the conversion schemes of all protected buildings in formal terms‚ requiring that the ‘aesthetic integrity’ of the protected building is maintained
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scale violence. Peace building describes interventions that are designed to prevent the start of violent conflict by creating sustainable peace. This start before conflict starts or it ends. Post conflict peace building means action to identify and support structures which will tend to strengthen and solidify peace in order to avoid relapse into conflict. Peace building process takes different dimensions according to scholars. According to Barnett et al. post peace building process follows three
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Earthquake Resistant Buildings A Research Paper in Writing in the Discipline Emilio Aguinaldo College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course in Writing in the Discipline Submitted by: Manicdao‚ Marlone S. Introduction Earthquakes are major geological phenomena. Man has been terrified this phenomena for ages‚ as little has been known about the causes of earthquakes‚ but it leaves behind a trail of destruction. There are hundreds of small earthquakes around the
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Building a virtual team Saturday August 26‚ 2012 Building a virtual team A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time‚ space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Several key factors can cause a virtual team to succeed or to go down the drains such as lack of interest‚ lack of directions and difference of work ethic. We can describe the key challenges and pitfalls to virtual teams as such: Some virtual team lack of clear
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