...The Sarbanes-Oxley act was created in 2002, requiring companies to have more sufficient internal control over their financial statements. The old “I wasn’t aware of that” from executives is no longer acceptable and in fact can result in jail time for the executives and others involved. The company can also lose their exchange listing, lose of D&O insurance or face large 7+ figure fines. The act was a direct response to corporate scandals, such as WorldCom, Enron and Tyco who covered up or misrepresented questionable transactions. The scandals resulted in large losses including the closure of Enron and Arthur Anderson. This act applies to all US public companies as well as international companies that have “registered equity or debt securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the accounting firms that provide auditing services to them”. (Sarbanes-Oxley Essential Information) While the intention was good, I do not feel the benefits out way the costs, particularly for smaller public companies. In an article in The CPA Journal, it lists out some of the expected costs based on a survey completed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in June 2003. The article states the direct costs associated with this act are the accounting and auditing fees. The survey estimated $2 million in first-year compliance, 12,000 hours of internal work, 3,000 hours of external work and additional audit fees of $590,000. (D'Aquila) While large companies may be able to afford these types...
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...“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to show their personal vision of the world and how they want their audience to view it. They are concerned with mythical and spiritual truths that can best be represented by distorting the image of reality. Classicism to bring in a third theory is all about ideal storytelling, it lies somewhere in between realism and formalism. (Understanding Movies 5) The goal of a classicist is to tell a story in the best way possible. They want you to get caught up in the characters and their problems, to feel what they feel, but not be distracted by the filmmaking techniques. The two films we screened in class Bull Durham directed by Ron Shelton, and Field of Dreams based on the novel Shoeless Joe directed by Phil Alden Robinson both demonstrate these film theories throughout their movies but in a very different matter. Bull Durham is a great realistic example of what the sport of baseball means to the men who play it. It's all about the dreams, the desire to compete, and the ultimate goal to one day...
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...Kesha Farrington Wilbraham English 070 February 25, 2015 Compare and Contrast Essay Major League Baseball Greatest Two of the world’s greatest baseball players were Jackie Robinson, and Babe Ruth. Both of the men established a career in a game they both truly loved. Jackie Robinson, and Babe Ruth have accomplishments that will remain a part of life’s history in the spirt of baseball. However both are known as baseball legends, they offer their differences and similarities amongst not only by their careers but by their personal lives. Throughout my essay I will explore their history and career also what makes them legends that they are today. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia. Robinson was the youngest of five siblings. Jackie attended Washington Junior High School, and enrolled at John Muir High School, recognizing his talents Jackie oldest brother Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports. In 1936 Robinson won the junior boys championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament All Star Team. After attending Muir High School, Robinson went on to Pasadena Junior College where he continued his athletic career. Toward the end of Robinson’s term, Frank Robinson, Jackie’s oldest brother whom he felt closest was killed in a motorcycle accident. The incident motivated Jackie to pursue his athletic career at a nearby...
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...seen 38.6 percent of balls he put into play fall for hits, an unusually high number that could be due to come down. He also had a .638 OPS in six Minor League seasons and a .678 OPS in his first 465 Major League plate appearances, so this early offensive outburst might be just that -- early. In a two-week stretch beginning April 18, Iglesias' average fell more than 100 points, so the correction is underway. Still, Iglesias' glove and actions in the field are so strikingly sound and he's working off such a fine offensive stat base that he has to be considered the early favorite for the AL honor. Bogaerts, though, is a good candidate to chase Iglesias eventually, if not immediately. Granted, he's not nearly as hyped as he once was. The Red Sox wouldn't have traded Iglesias to the Tigers midseason in 2013 if Bogaerts weren't waiting in the wings, and Bogaerts' national emergence that October made him seem like a star. But after a hot May last year, Bogaerts cooled considerably, looked lost as the summer wore on and his body struggled to adjust to the grind of a full season. That said, Bogaerts made efforts this winter to address the physical side of the sport, and he's also worked hard to refine his arm and instincts at the shortstop position, to the point that the defensive metrics that once were critical of him now view him as league average, which is a substantial...
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...Good Morning, my name is Nathan Hood. You have family members around you, a busy kitchen, everyone is eating chicken wings, pizza, popcorn, and beverages. If you have all these things in one place, you’re all having a super bowl party. Today I will inform on the rules of the american football as well as the history behind this sport, and the exciting and controversial game of super bowl. First I will discuss the rules that the american football has and I will also include the scoring system. Secondly I will talk about how american football has evolved from rugby and soccer. Lastly I will talk about the most talked about game, the super bowl and about how the people spend their time watching the game. The rules of the american football are very simple. According to american football there are two opposing teams, the offense and the defense. The offense stretches score points on the defense, while the defense tries to obtain position of the ball, and keeps the offense of the other team from scoring. There are four ways to score in a football game. The main scores of points the player will get is by scoring a touchdown. Another way to score is by kicking the ball between the goal post and the team will obtain one point. The field goal is another way to score, even though the player could not reach till the ending zone, it still has the opportunity to score between the goal post and they will give you the three points. The most uncommon way of scoring is by safety, this happens...
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...Who is the only Milwaukee pitcher to win four games of a pro baseball championship series? Warren Spahn? Pete Vuckovich? Connie Wisniewski? Connie Wisniewski? She’s the right answer—the star right-hander who led the Milwaukee Chicks to the 1944 title of the All-American Girls’ Professional Ball League and an athlete who left her male counterparts in the dust. The most games Spahn won in a single series was one. Vuke didn’t get any while a Brewer. Even Wisniewski’s searing fastball couldn’t save her team from its ultimate jam: It played its season in anonymity and red ink, then moved immediately to Grand Rapids. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of perhaps the most successful, least loved team in Milwaukee history. Chewing gum mogul Philip Wrigley started the league—the same one depicted in A League of Their Own—in 1943 because World War II had siphoned off more than half of the existing major-leaguers. Buoyed by good attendance in towns like Kenosha and Rockford, he added teams the next year in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Wrigley apparently gave little thought, though, to naming the new teams. The Milwaukee Journal dubbed the team the “Schnits,” German for “little beer.” After another drawing board session, the team came up with the Chicks nickname, inspired by its Hall of Fame manager, Max Carey, and a popular kids’ book, Mother Carey’s Chickens. Undaunted, The Journal insisted on calling the team Schnits. “I thought Chicks was a nice name,” says Wisniewski...
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...The New York Yankees are good again. They have a 14-11 record in Spring training right now even with all their young talent playing. Not only did they sign reigning MVP Giancarlo STanton to add to their power hitting trio of Stanton, Judge, and Sanchez, but their young prospects are balling out. They have veterans like C.C. Sabathia and Brett Gardner who know how to win and win a lot. Justus Scheffield, Chance Adams and Dillon Tate are all young promising pitchers that could one day lead the Yankees to a title themselves. Sabathoia had some advice for the young guys, "Just be yourself," Tate explained. "Don't get too amped up and overthrow just because you're pitching in front of the manager and big league coaches." While Sabathia has embraced...
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...there is only one place I want to be: my room. As I walk in I try to avoid the clothes thrown all over like landmines in a battlefield. My room is the closest resemblance to me, someone who loves sports and music. I flop onto my bed staring up at the ceiling light covered in baseballs and basketballs. In one of the corners of the ceiling there is an ugly yellow stain the size of a football from my once leaky roof. My room has changed little since I was younger. Everywhere I look I see something to do with sports, mostly the Red Sox. Two red pin strips wrap around my white walls. As I sit on my bed tucked away in the right corner, I catch myself staring at a huge picture of Fenway Park hanging above my desk. To the right the infamous picture of Carlton Fisk waving his homerun right hangs over my closet. Dangling from a hanger on my closet is a retro New York Mets jersey signed by Mike Piazza that waits to be encased. Right next to my bed an oversized Red Sox logo sticks to the wall. The logo is almost bigger than the wall itself. A black and red “jet life hangs” over my head, probably the only thing that doesn’t have to do with sports in my room. My desk is littered with nickels, dimes, and pennies that I have tossed on it. There are clothes all over my desk; some folded others rolled up in balls that have been sitting there for days. The top of the desk is covered in filthy black hats with faded red CW logos on it. Dodge Viper, Corvette, and Porsche 911 model’s stretch across...
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...If they could each make $10,000 in 5 games just to loose, why not? The ethical decisions the players made affected everyone around them and resulted in a soiled reputation for the players who accepted the terms as well as players who remained true to their contract. The decision to throw 5 of 8 games during the World Series relates very well to business and accounting. This decision by the 8 players illustrates how they value their own integrity. The 1919 Chicago White Sox were said to be the greatest baseball team ever assembled in the history of baseball. The problem was that the team owner, Charles Comisky, was too greedy to pay the players in accordance with their talent over other teams in the league. The players and their decisions could be compared to that of any employee in business or accounting because every individual has a reputation to rely on. The decisions you make could change the rest of your life. I have always been raised to do the best job I can possibly do and the players for the white sox were too. The players were fully aware that what they were doing was wrong, but as seen everywhere in business, money becomes a factor. The players obviously did not value the opportunities they were given. If they would have been patient, the luxurious salaries would have come in due time. I relate this to business because it is always easiest to do a sub-satisfactory job. Through integrity, honesty and willingness to obey the law a person can become very...
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...Jackson's sporting achievements and encouraging MLB to rescind his ineligibility.[21] The resolution was symbolic, as the US government has no jurisdiction in the matter. At the time MLB commissioner Bud Selig stated that Jackson's case was under review, but no action has been taken that would allow Jackson's reinstatement.[citation needed] Jackson spent most of the last 30 years of his life proclaiming his innocence, and evidence has surfaced which casts doubt on his involvement in the fix. Jackson reportedly refused the $5000 bribe on two separate occasions—despite the fact that it would effectively double his salary—only to have teammate Lefty Williams toss the cash on the floor of his hotel room. Jackson then reportedly tried to tell White Sox owner Charles Comiskey about the fix, but Comiskey refused to meet with him.[22] Unable to afford legal counsel, Jackson was represented by team attorney Alfred Austrian—a clear conflict of interest. Before Jackson's grand jury testimony, Austrian allegedly elicited Jackson's admission of his supposed role in the fix by plying him with whiskey.[13] Austrian was also able to persuade the nearly illiterate Jackson to sign a waiver of immunity from prosecution.[22] Years later, the other seven players implicated in the scandal confirmed that Jackson was never at any of the meetings. Williams said that they only mentioned Jackson's name to give their plot more credibility. Jackson's performance during the series further suggests his innocence...
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...Everyone has heard of the infamous “Babe Ruth”, but few people know that his birth given name is George Herman Ruth, Jr. He lived from February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948, and was best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat". Babe was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for three teams between the years of 1914–1935. The most important points of Babe’s life are his early childhood, his major league baseball career, and the legacy that Babe left behind. Ruth came from German-American parents, Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth, Sr. His parents owned a succession of saloons (bars) and sold lightning rods. Babe Ruth was one of seven children; however only two of the seven children survived infancy, Ruth and his sister, Marnie. At the age of seven, Ruth’s father signed custody of his son over to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage ran by catholic missionaries. Ruth would only get to see his family on special occasions and holidays, however his mother died from tuberculosis when Babe was a teenager. Brother Matthias Boutlier of the orphanage became Ruth’s father figure in life; teaching him how to read, write, and most importantly, introducing Ruth to the sport of baseball. Brother Matthias helped Ruth to work on his hitting, running, and pitching. In 1913, Ruth’s talent and abilities at baseball were noticed by scout, Joe Engel, who brought Ruth to the attention of Jack...
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...Red Sox Organization When you hear someone talking about the Boston Red Sox, you often think of the baseball team or the players, but we forget that they are an organization. Like any organization, the Red Sox has its own organizational behavior that influences the performance and commitment of its employees. Besides the team manager and the occasional interviews with the owners, most people don’t realize that the Red Sox organization consists of hundreds of managers and employees at all different levels. From the owners to the ball boys, the organization behavior is a product of the attitudes and behaviors of these individuals and groups. Understanding why these individuals act the way they do is essential to managing the Red Sox organization effectively. To better understand what makes the Red Sox so valuable to its fans we must look at it from a resource-based view (pg. 9). As an employee at Fenway Park, I can tell you that Fenway Park is one of, if not, the most valued inimitable resources the Red Sox owns (pg. 10). Another resource is its history of players, such as Jason Varitek, who spent his entire 15 years in the MLB with the Red Sox. There is also a socially complex resource the Red Sox have that attracts fans worldwide that has been given the name Red Sox Nation (pg.10). Red Sox management has always had a keen eye for choosing well performing and committed players, non-more committed than Curt Schilling. Famous for his bloody sock, Schilling had torn his tendons...
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...Leadership Lessons from Billy Beane I just returned from seeing Moneyball, a great baseball flick. Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland Athletics 2002 squad that won an unprecedented twenty straight games that season—despite having the lowest pay roll in the major leagues. Season after season Beane would watch teams with deeper pockets steal his star players. When he realized that he couldn’t compete with the New York Yankee’s salaries, he decided that he needed to change the way the game was won. He needed to actually evolve the game by reimagining it in such a way that you couldn’t just buy the World Series. There are some leadership lessons in this true story for church leaders. First lesson: Do not prematurely resolve the tension. Billy refuses to accept solutions from his scouts and assistants that were based on the old paradigm. At this point, he had no solutions himself. He simply held the tension. He steeped himself in the conflict that ensued when he consistently contradicted the “experts”. He increased the evolutionary tension. It’s my experience that most leaders in the church capitulate in the face of conflict. How do we support our leaders and congregations to hold the tension, when everything in us wants to resolve it prematurely for the sake of a false peace—a peace that will ultimately keep us from evolving? Lesson 2: Staying in the fire focuses your attention on outside-the-box solutions. Billy stumbles upon a completely new model in a young Yale...
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...The 1920’s: Baseball Uniform The decade of the 1920’s is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. This was the Jazz Age, the decade of the flappers. The 1920’s opened with an explosion of color and the wailing sounds and fast rhythms of jazz and energetic dancing. It was a time of tremendous change in America. America was one of the victors in the First World War and it enjoyed a period of great prosperity in the twenties. The Americans were opposed to anything that might drag them into another European war. Many Americans simply wanted to enjoy the prosperity that had developed in the previous decade and felt that foreign entanglements would threaten it. For the next decade America kept to herself for the most part. Most Americans enjoyed a high standard of living. Food was plentiful and cheap thanks to the vast quantity produced on American farms. More and more people bought their own houses through mortgages. Thanks to Henry Ford and mass production, one could buy a ford for $290. It was the “Roaring Twenties,” the decade of bath tub gin, the model T, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It was the great age of popular entertainment. Among the world of entertainment, there were sports. Baseball’s growing popularity in the 1920’s can be measured by structural and cultural changes that helped transform the game. Ballparks were being constructed left and right. In 1920 the Cubs Field was opened and in 1926 re-named to...
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...the answer to the impossible Jason C. O’Brien Quincy University OUTLINE TITLE Introduction Introduce Theo Attention-Getter A. Why he was as successful as a General Manager and why he will complete the most difficult task sports may have ever seen. Description Age & Background A. http://www.foundationtobenamedlater.org/founders.html B. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1795393/ Education C. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/11/06/monet_goes_to_vegas_kerry_goes_out_on_the_town/ D. http://www.foundationtobenamedlater.org/founders.html Professional Background 1. Work with Orioles, Padres, Red Sox A. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=68bfa412-56d2-4b1e-b615-7dc3839f07e0%40sessionmgr115&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=11420045 B. http://www.foundationtobenamedlater.org/founders.html C. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=4cc5a7a5-d23e-4ec5-be12-5d328206db5d%40sessionmgr111&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=8703167 Current situation E. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110912&content_id=24581220 F. http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7147573/chicago-cubs-introduce-theo-epstein-president-baseball-operations * * BODY Explanation of Success A. Focus 1. Type of GM a. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-11-28-sw-gms_N.htm ...
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