...2002 became a turning point in the world of business. Publicly traded companies such as Enron and Worldcom were caught by the SEC misrepresenting financial statements, quickly leading to steep downward spiral in stock prices of publicly traded firms throughout the market. Once considered to be one of the top five accounting firms, Anderson was fined $500,000 and given five years of probation following the Enron scandal. The firm initially lost over 1,000 employees and is no longer audits corporations (CBCNews, 2002). As a result of these scandals, investors lost millions of dollars as the marketplace took a big hit that day nearly five years ago. On June 25, 2002, it was announced that Worldcom was a part of the largest corporate fraud case in American history at the time, with numbers reaching up to $3.8 billion (Snee, 2007). Mr. Snee goes on to say that stocks sunk to new lows on news of the fraud, as investor’s increasingly lost faith in companies’ earnings statements. As a result of such fraudulent activities associated with Worldcom and Enron, President George Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley act into law on July 30, 2002 (Edison, 2006). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is backed by the SEC to insure credibility and accountability of financial statements among publicly traded companies. Although it was certain to restore investor confidence in the marketplace, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has become a center point of controversy in the business world today since its enactment back in...
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...4 Anonymous Hacktivism and Contemporary Politics Christian Fuchs 1. INTRODUCTION It is Friday, August 6, 2012, on the Internet. Sixty-seven years earlier, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima. One hears a song by Trey Parker: "America. Fuck yeah. [. . .] So lick my butt and suck on my balls, America, fuck yeah! Whatcha' gonna do when we come for you now? (. . .) McDonalds, fuck yeah! Wal-Mart, fuck yeah!" Pictures of cats that look human are accompanied by the request, "I want to start a collection of my fetish catboys so post moar!" There is a link to a live cam on Times Square. One also finds an image showing a burning American flag that is accompanied by the logos of McDonald's and images of a can of Mountain Dew, the Statue of Liberty, a guitar player and a screaming bear. "You should kill yourself, fucking AMERRRICCAAA, you little fag- got." A rapper writes a new song and says that the first few minutes of the discussion in his thread will become part of the song. There is a story about a brother who tries to seduce his sister, but it turns out that his sister is a large arthropod. There is a thread with images of female but- tocks, accompanied by an announcement that one of the portrayed girls receives prank phone calls. One sees a picture of a couple having oral sex accompanied by the text "PORNO FUCK YEAH!" as well as a picture of a drunk sleeping man accompanied by the text "buddy passed out after 11 Coors...
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...9-486-083 REV: SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 TODD D. JICK MARY GENTILE Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (A) At 7:00 a.m. on Friday, April 19, 1985, Donna Dubinsky placed an urgent phone call to her boss’s boss, Bill Campbell, executive vice president for sales and marketing at Apple Computer, Inc. Dubinsky, director of distribution and sales administration, was attending a management leadership seminar located more than two hours away. Her words were crisp and to the point: “Bill, I really need to talk to you. Will you wait for me today? I’ll be back at the office around 5:00.” “Absolutely, I’ll be here,” Campbell replied, although he knew nothing about the purpose of her call. Dubinsky inhaled a deep breath. She felt the time had come to “bet her Apple career” on the ultimatum she was going to deliver to Campbell at the head office in Cupertino, California. Still, she could hardly believe it had come to this. Her first three years at Apple, from July 1981 through the fall of 1984, were ones of continuous success with increasing authority and recognition. She had refined and formalized much of the Apple product distribution policy, and she worked closely with the six distribution centers spread across the country. Unexpectedly, however, in early 1985, Steve Jobs, Apple’s chairman of the board and general manager of the Macintosh Division, had proposed that the existing distribution system be dismantled and replaced by the “just-in-time” method. Job’s proposal...
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...responsibility for sales administration, inventory control, and customer relations. Nine months later, she and Weaver presented the distribution, service, and support group’s 1984 business plan to the executive staff for review. Jobs challenged the plan much to the surprise of Dubinsky and Weaver who were confident in their group’s competence. While Weaver had previously reported directly to Scully, shortly after this meeting, his group was moved under the responsibility of Bill Campbell, vice president for sales and marketing. A few weeks later, following a dinner with founder and CEO of Federal Express and discussion of competitor IBM’s just-in-time (JIT) distribution process, Jobs enlisted Macintosh’s director of manufacturing, Debi Coleman, to investigate JIT for their division, convinced that their plant could efficiently incorporate the distribution function. The possible cost...
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...I asked Dr. Fonn then about his answering YES to Question #15 of the license application: “15. During the past 12 months, have you had any disciplinary or corrective action taken against you, or had your right to practice restricted by any professional or medical osteopathic association or society or by any licensed hospital or medical staff of a hospital.” Dr. Fonn advised that he received the suspension from SFMC. He was suspended for thirty (30) days total. His suspension was taken in two (2) parts. The first two weeks of suspension were served in the first two weeks of January 2015. The second two weeks of suspension were served the last of April 2015 and first of May 2015.” Dr. Fonn does have current privileges at SFMC. I asked...
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...university are limited. The supply of universities are available are constant, with more freshman registering at a gradual rate, and as a result tuition is increase for the university. “According to the College Board, a not-for-profit membership association comprised of more than 5,400 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations, the national average cost for a year of education at a private four-year college costs $25,143 annually (up 5.9 percent from last year) and $6,585 for a public four-year university (up 6.4 percent)”(Coleman, 2009). Substitutes that could be available to college is, as aforementioned in the previous paragraph, online universities. Online colleges, like the University of Phoenix, can serve as a strong substitute to regular colleges because of its accommodating concept. Online courses can serve as a gateway to other opportunities to get into a better college, or best case scenario, a better paying job. Like regular colleges, the supply for online universities is finite, and unlike universities, the demand is not as strong as a regular university....
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...Boston Children’s Hospital – Possible “Anonymous” Attack Cyber Incident On April 24, 2014, the Boston Children’s Hospital reported they had been under a cyberattack from an unknown source for the previous four days. This paper will focus on the details of the cyber security incident, the impact of the attack, the consequences, and a brief explanation of the mitigation steps the hospital has taken post incident. The Boston Children’s Hospital was a victim of a cyberattack between the dates of April 20 and April 25, 2014. The cyberattack on the hospital focused on bringing down the hospital’s internal website – used by hospital personnel to check appointments, test results, and other patient information (Wen, 2014). The hackers used a distributed denial of service approach attack, which consisted of a bombardment of traffic to the hospitals web page, causing it to crash and become unusable to all hospital staff. The hospital has insisted that no patient data or information has been compromised due to these cyberattacks (Farrell, 2014). Law enforcement was notified of the attacks, but it is unconfirmed whether investigations were started. It is suspected the attackers were a part of the well-known hacker network “Anonymous”. Even though no evidence exists to prove this group is behind the attack on the Children’s Hospital, the incident has all the markings of a typical Anonymous cyberattack. The group typically targets Internet pages of large organizations and cripples...
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...Biography of Harper Lee (1926-) Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature (1926-38). As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first day of trial. Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a twelve-year-old boy, to death. Six years of subsequent trials saw most of these convictions repealed and all but one of the men freed or paroled. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for the events in To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee studied first at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-49), spending...
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...3MER ASSESSMENT CONTENTS | | | |CONTENTS |PAGE NUMBER(S) | | | | |Contents |1 | |Activity 1 | | |Understand the impact of employment law at the start of the | | |employment relationship | | | |2 – 4 | |Activity 2 | | |Understand the main individual rights that the employee has | | |during the employment relationship | | | ...
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...to lack of treatment. In 1990, the case Coleman V. Brown was filed and the District Court ruled that prisoners with serious mental illness do not receive minimal, adequate care (Plata V. Brown). Twelve years after that ruling, conditions were continually degrading and prison populations were still increasing to such an extent that it prompted the filing of another class action civil rights lawsuit, Brown V. Plata. Brown V. Plata was originally filed on April 5, 2001 by the Prison Law Office in Berkeley California on behalf of 9 state prisoners who alleged that the defendants deliberately displayed indifference to their serious medical conditions. Violating the 8th Amendment clause of the United States Constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (Plata V. Brown). The suit also alleged the conditions lead to violations of the American with Disabilities Act and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Plata V. Brown). An injunction was placed but by 2005 the State still had not complied so Coleman V. Brown and Plata V. Brown consolidated themselves to be able to present themselves to the three-judge court empowered by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (568 U.S. __ 2011). The case was argued on November 30, 2010 and decided on May 23, 2011, by a 5 to 4 decision. The Supreme Court decided that a court-mandated prison population limit was indeed the answer to rectify the violation of the inmate’s 8th Amendment right. After the case was heard, the court decided that California...
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...Health Law and Regulations Federal regulations play a major role in the health care industry. Federal laws and regulations protect the American public from a number of health risks and administer programs for public welfare. Federal regulations also regulate the health insurance industry by implementing cost-containment measures. Through various regulatory bodies, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) protects and regulates public health at every level. HHS is the United States principal federal agency for protecting the health of Americans and providing essential human services. HHS administers more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined. Medicare program administered by HHS is nation’s largest health care insurance. HHS governs more than 300 programs administered by its 11 operating divisions (Department of Health & Human Services, 2011). In addition, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is also part of the HHS. Description of each 300 programs is beyond the scope of this paper. However, it is imperative to understand the role of each operating agency and how it affects the health care industry. Role of Federal Regulatory Agencies Each operating division consists of sub-divisions making health care system a complex maze. Main 11 operating agencies are: Administration for Children and Families (ACF) The ACF provides funding for family assistance, child support, and childcare. The state, county, and city governments provide these services (Department...
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...W. D. Ross PHIL 245 – D4A3 General Ethics Emilia C. Coleman Benedictine University April 24, 2013 Abstract According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2012) on W. D. Ross, “Sir William David Ross made significant contributions to the translation and interpretation of the works of Aristotle and to moral philosophy. His work in ancient philosophy, especially his various commentaries on Aristotle, is still considered to be of the highest caliber. Many believe that Ross's work in this area is his most valuable contribution to philosophy. However, his main writings in moral philosophy are of lasting if not equal value. His The Right and the Good is arguably one of the most important works of moral philosophy published in the twentieth century” (p. 1). This essay reviews ethical pluralism. Ross contends that there is plurality of irreducible moral rules that are basic in moral thought. W. D. Ross Ross argues there is no one single moral principle or rule. Instead, Ross thinks we can make moral betterment by learning more of our moral duties, and doing our best at balancing conflicting understanding and values. According to Ross review of Utilitarianism, which Ross considers has limited aspects of the relationships between people: the relationship of harmer to harmed and the relationship of beneficent to beneficiary. Ross advances that we have self-evident prima facie moral duties, and intrinsic value. These duties are “prima facie” because they can be overridden...
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...Gertrude Pridgett was born of Ella and Thomas Pridgett on April 26, 1886 in Columbus, Georgia. Throughout her youth she performed and sang in various areas. It was said that her first actual performance was at a talent show named a Bunch of Blackberries when she was 14. She was well known for her deep contralto voice, she could only sing a few octaves but the way she sang and moved her audience which made her grow very popular. At the age of eighteen she married William “Pa” Rainey who was a vaudeville performer, and a comedian; this holy matrimony earned her the well known name, “Ma” Rainey. Rainey first heard the genre of blues when a woman started singing a song about a man who cheated on her and her anymore. When Rainey heard this music she described it as “strange and poignant.” Rainey seemed to fall in love with this type of melody, so much so that she decided to incorporate this new type of music in her shows....
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...Victoria Heckel Professor Baldassare English 201 4 April 2014 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: The Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. Lee’s early life influenced a lot of what was introduced in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, although she made a point that this was not an autobiographical novel. Throughout her life Lee shows similarities in characters in the story as well as ones she’s grown up with. Lee addresses prejudice and tolerance and especially the courage it takes to make societal change. These ideas combined with her personal experiences is what probably won her Pulitzer prize winning novel. Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Her mother, Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, was a homemaker. For most of Lee's life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house. It is believed that she may have had bipolar disorder (Harper Lee 1). Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law, a member of the Alabama state legislature (Lee, Harper 2). She grew up as a tomboy in a small town, which she fought on the playground, and talked back to teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity. Truman Capote was one of Lee’s closest childhood friends, Lee often stepped up to protect Truman from other boys his age that picked on him for the fancy clothes be wore and also for being a sissy. The two were different but they both shared in having difficult home...
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...there are still quite many people who perceive quality management as ‘extra work’ for them. The truth is quite the opposite; quality management is the activity to prevent ‘extra work’ from becoming necessary. Having the perspective that quality management is an extra work, workers and managers can be reluctant in responding to quality management initiatives, which could give the manager of the quality assurance department quite a headache. In this paper, I am observing a case study to identify existing quality problems and determine all the causes that contributes to the quality problems. In the final chapter there will be short recommendations on how to deal with the quality assurance issues. I.2 Corporate Background Figure 1 Process at Hank Kolb Office The above figure represents the process/supply chain along the company where Hank Kolb works for. The company deals with the manufacturing of low-viscosity Greasex since six months ago. II. Situational Analysis In the case study, Hank Kolb found himself within a strain of obvious problems. These problems lead to a single outcome, poor quality assurance. The next needed step to be performed is categorizing those problems into groups. 1. Problems with Suppliers • Low quality supplies, this refers to the low quality plastic nozzle heads for the Greasex can. 2....
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