Introduction On Monday, August 29th, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. This hurricane brought with it devastating winds and floods to the people of New Orleans. Following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several investigations we opened to identify what went wrong with the hurricane protection system, including questions into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the failure of the levees causing billions of dollars in damage in the greater New Orleans area, and
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to develop long-term relationships with customers and stakeholders • Profits – must have adequate financial performance in order to nurture and develop an ethical culture. Because of the actions of the American Red Cross following 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, their benefits of business effects were damaged. Employee commitment wavered because of the actions of the organization. Because of the lack of monitoring some employees or volunteers were doing unethical and fraudulent things. This misconduct
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........ 8 Tax considerations ..........9 Derivative and hedging considerations ..............9 Subsequent events ........ 10 Internal control implications ................ 10 Questions ....................... 11 Accounting and disclosure implications of Hurricane Sandy Overview On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy, one of the largest Atlantic hurricanes on record, came ashore in the U.S. When the storm made landfall it was no longer categorized as a hurricane (it was categorized
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Legal and Ethical Issues (GlaxoSmithKline in $3 billion fraud settlement) In cases like the GlaxoSmithKline fraud settlement there are legal and ethical issues affected. Ethically it was wrong for GlaxoSmithKline to put profit before the health of the public. Ethical issues do not have to be proven in court. Most individuals know and understand ethics as a basic human guideline for behavior. With thing legal issues it is a bit more difficult. In order to take action toward GlaxoSmithKline legally
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the insurance industry. In the insurance industry there are numerous companies and careers to choose from, there are small companies that no one has heard of and larger companies such Allstate and Nationwide. There are a few things to take into consideration other than just the compensation package being offered when choosing which company to work for. How well do they manage their financial issues such as tax issues, hedge funds, and natural disasters risks? My ideal career in the insurance industry
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Shield laws are “Statutes affording a privilege to journalists not to disclose in legal proceedings confidential information or sources of information obtained in their professional capacities.” While there is no federal shield law, 49 states and the District of Columbia have some form of protection for journalists. In all, 12 states have a shield law that gives absolute privilege to journalists, 25 states give journalists limited quantified privileges, and most of the remaining states have a court-recognized
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Charter and Traditional Schools in New Orleans Recovery School District: Selection Criteria and Service Provision for Students with Disabilities __________________________ Chairperson Date approved _________________ ii ABSTRACT In post-Katrina New Orleans, there is a growing concentration of charter schools. The Recovery School District (RSD) has oversight for the majority of these schools. To explore charges from community advocates that RSD charter schools restricted admission and provided
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polar regions alone, the temperature would spike more than 20 degrees Celsius, forcing the land in the region to change from ice and tundra to boreal forests. "The temperature estimate is actually conservative because the model didn't take into consideration changing land use such as deforestation and build-out of cities into outlying wilderness areas," Bala said. Today's level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 380 parts per million (ppm). By the year 2300, the model predicts that amount would nearly
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comparing to Robert S. Kaplan & Annette Mike’s techniques I believe it will be clear that that Dr. Kallman’s technique for risk management provides solutions that are manageable and reasonable approaches to eliminating and reducing risk taking into consideration numerous factors, and the biggest factor is that is does not require a lot of “buy in”; whereas Kaplan’s technique relies on “buy in” of too many people and calls out to many uncertainties to
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