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Ready Or Not: Evacuating An Animal Shelter During A Mock Emergency, Leslie Irvine Dec 2006

Ready Or Not: Evacuating An Animal Shelter During A Mock Emergency, Leslie Irvine

Leslie Irvine, PhD

This paper reports on a disaster response exercise involving the evacuation of an urban animal shelter. A simulated emergency provided the opportunity to test the shelter’s disaster evacuation capabilities and to illuminate issues that animal stakeholders should address when creating and refining emergency response plans. The participants successfully evacuated all animals from the building in good time, but the exercise highlighted flaws in the standard authority structure used in disaster response, known as the Incident Command System, or ICS. Specifically, the ICS does not easily integrate volunteers who have no training in disaster response but who nevertheless want to help. …


A View Of The Dutch Ipo Cathedral, Peter B. Oh Dec 2006

A View Of The Dutch Ipo Cathedral, Peter B. Oh

Peter B. Oh

This is the Keynote Address for “IPOs and the Internet Age: The Case for Updated Regulations,” a symposium held at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law. Initial public offerings (“IPOs”) are an exercise in asymmetrical valuation. One mechanism for bridging these asymmetries is a private financial intermediary to conduct price discovery by meeting with preferred investors. An alternate mechanism is an auction, such as a descending-bid or Dutch procedure, to conduct price discovery by soliciting bids from all prospective investors. Recent disenchantment with the relationship between issuers and intermediaries has prompted some to hail (online) auction-based …


The Pitfalls In The Nigerian Federalism, Ozy B. Orluwene Jp Dec 2006

The Pitfalls In The Nigerian Federalism, Ozy B. Orluwene Jp

Dr Ozy B.Orluwene,JP

ABSTRACT The paper is primarily examining the pitfalls in Nigeria’s federalism. Theoretically, federalism as a system of government and power arrangement is crafted deliberately to deal with a sociological complex polity as presented in Nigeria’s multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious composition. But there exist wide gaps between theory and practice, vision and reality, with the data of governance being replete with many contradictions, controversies, paradoxes and crises emanating from the persistent stagnation and diminution that follow fragile practice of federalism. Rather than improving the quality of governance and practice, it tends to diminutates and validates the fact and conclusion that the …