ASNT Standard for Qualification and Certification of Nondestructive Testing Personnel

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ASNT Standard for Qualification and Certification of Nondestructive Testing Personnel - 1995 Edition
American Society for Nondestructive Testing
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ASIN: 1571170871

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Asnt Standard for Qualification & Certification of Nondestructive Testing Personnel

Manufacturer: Amer Society for Nondestructive
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ASIN: 1571170057

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The questions investors need to ask . . . The answers corporate America must give about the true facts of corporate performance and value.

During the 2001 baseball season, when games were played at Enron Field in Houston, a typical reaction was: “What the hell is Enron and what do they do?” Now we know more about the executives and inner workings of today’s best-known rogue company than we ever imagined. But it turns out that Enron is just the most egregious case of a disturbing trend and the seemingly unstoppable tendency of some capitalists to destroy capitalism. Something like 50 percent of American households directly support the markets by investing in stocks and mutual funds. But some of the people entrusted with the responsibility for maintaining and managing the corporation—senior executives, boards of directors, auditing firms—have become engaged in what can only be called economic terrorism.

Enron, Sunbeam, Global Crossing, and Waste Management are but the tip of the iceberg. Luckily, there are ways for investors to spot corporate smoke and mirrors and challenge the players. Larry Elliott and Richard Schroth show investors the questions that need to be asked to get a handle on the performance reality of companies. The corporate world, in turn, needs a return to reality and authenticity in business operations, finance, accounting, and deal making. This need for performance reality is not an issue confined to a few companies who engage in unethical and illegal behavior. The technological pace of change, along with increasingly complicated business transactions, makes global markets more and more complex. The assumption, however, has always been that we have the management competence and rigor to ensure shareholder value. Enron is definitive proof that the way companies are run—the gap between what they say is reality and what is really the case—is frightening. And this gap has severe implications for millions of people who are employees of and investors in these companies.

Using Enron as the touchstone, Larry Elliott and Richard Schroth show investors how to think about and measure the candor of corporations, the Wall Street players, and their supporters.

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A Deep Look at Business Reality.......2002-11-06

If your looking to share an opinion with someone and you feel like business leaders are letting you down, then by all means, pick up this book. This book stands on its own and appologizes to no one. The Wharton Business school's review is dead on in citing that the authors are trying to get at something much deeper than the shallow perspective of accounting. Something is fundamentally broken ... and these boys point it out. This book is not about greed, its not about Enron, its not about accounting methods, but its about a deeper and more fundamental issue that no one else seems to be getting to .... our system for understanding the current economic, legal and technological functionality of our corporations is broken. As the authors point out, "Have you been able to tell recently when you hear an earnings report on the news if anyone can tell the difference between them lying to you and the truth? I've been listening and I can't distinguish Xerox today from Xerox a year ago when I hear it on the news. The people these guys are talking about begins with us. Read this book and read it deep. There is a warning here that we all better pay attention to. Remember, this book is acknowledged to have been written before all this Enron stuff took place, and then a little Enron perspective was added. If the authors are actually that correct, we have a long way to go to fix the curret problems.

Review of "How Companies Lie".......2002-10-30

This book examines the problem of financial misstatements with a special focus on Enron. The book is light on facts and analysis, but heavy on opinion. Most of the chapters just restate contemporary criticisms of contemporary management decision-making (e.g., greed). The authors have very little to say about warning signs and the accounting used by management to mislead investors. Those wanting a more substantive analysis of the issues and the perspective of an insider should read Arthur Levitt's new book, "Take on the Street."

Highly Recommended!.......2002-10-23

In another era, we might have been tempted to shrug off How Companies Lie as just another polemic against corporate greed. In the wake of Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and a host of other corporate scandals, however, we must (sorrowfully) admit that this book is as timely as it is insightful. Readers will gain much from the book's explanation of some of the actual accounting techniques that companies use to mislead investors, as well as its advice on how to spot telltale signs that a company might be cooking the books. While financial and accounting experts might find this analysis a bit basic, we from getAbstract recommend this book to all general business readers.

the crooks hire the cops.......2002-09-19

This fortuitously timed book pulls no punches about the seriousness of the problem currently facing the stock market:

"The scale and penetration of corrupting market processes is global....."

According to the authors, investors have no choice other than to assume that everything corporations report or otherwise articulate is not all the truth. Investors must find ways to verify what is going on inside the corporations that hold their money, or they must decide that they have reason to trust the leadership team and place their bets on the people in charge.

The authors point out that if financial planners and brokers are smart, they will begin to position themselves as "investor's representative" to the capital markets. Investors want to know more about the companies in their portfolio and how the professionals are making sure that money is not in the hands of the fakers. Investors may also want to see that their investment advisers have a little skin in the game as well.

Here are some of the useful reforms suggested by the authors:

1. If executive sells company stock, put 50% of proceeds in escrow for minimum of two years; audit companies would have to place 30% of their fees in same kind of account.

2. Provide some kind of limited insurance (e.g. $100,000 maximum like FDIC) to protect individual investors from fraud, paid for by publicly traded corporations

3. Have auditors report to SEC and paid through an "audit tax" (a pool of funds paid by corporations) rather than directly by corporations

4. Have something like the Baldrige awards to recognize and reward companies based on the quality of their tools for verification of the financial data they report.

5. Require financial reports to include, among other things:

- all "off-balance sheet" debt, revenue, and taxes
- all loans to customers, insiders and outsiders
- measures to ensure employee ethics
- measures taken by the audit committee of the board ensure that audits produce an accurate picture of company performance...

A Must Read For Many Investors.......2002-09-17

This is a read not to be missed if you wander what is going on in today's corporations. Elliott and Schroth have come as close as anyone to date in looking at the entire problem facing todays corporations head on; not just all the accounting and finance problems. They don't mess around either in explaining their position. Agree with them or not, they lay out a very serious issue very simply and straight forward. What I find amazing is that WorldCom, Bristol-Meyers /Squibb, Nortel, Xerox are all discussed in this book. I found the Wharton review below the most helpful and probably the most credible of all the reviews on this book.

How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
A. Larry Elliott , and Richard J. Schroth
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0756767679

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Using Enron as the touchstone, bus. authorities Elliot & Schroth show investors how to think about & measure the candor of corp., the Wall Street players, & their supporters. The collapse of Enron is definitive proof that the way companies are run -- the gap between what they say is reality & what is really the case -- is frightening. And this gap has severe implications for millions of people who are employees of & investors in these companies. Shows investors the questions that need to be asked to get a handle on the performance reality of companies. In return, corp. America must answer these questions with the true facts of corp. performance & value. "There are ways for investors to spot corp. smoke & mirrors & challenge the players."

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Journalism and mass communications professionals entering the innovative world of new media technology face a wave of challenging and often unanticipated ethical quandaries. Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals is the first title in Blackwell Publishing's Media and Technology series (Alan B. Albarran, series editor). This important new text establishes a framework for discussing, understanding, and ultimately making sound decisions on meeting these ethical challenges. In addition, the book provides guidelines for approaching and making decisions from an ethical standpoint.Part one of the text gives background and overview information to examine existing professional ethical codes and their applicability in the new media. Part two delves into the ethical dilemmas faced by all online communications professionals -privacy, speech and intellectual property. Part three warns the reader about three specific types of ethical hazards -speed vs. accuracy and quality; validating Internet sources; and blurring editorial with commercial information.Through the use of historical summaries, discussion of specific problems, case study illustrations, critical thinking exercises, chapter summaries, key points, and recommended readings, each chapter comprehensively explores ethical issues. Aimed at students as well as practicing journalists and media professionals, Digital Dilemmas serves as the essential text and user 's guide to the emerging ethical challenges facing those who work or plan to work in the online media.

Black Journalists in Paradox: Historical Perspectives and Current Dilemmas (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)

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Black Journalists in Paradox: Historical Perspectives and Current Dilemmas (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Clint C. Wilson
Manufacturer: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0313266905

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The Dilemmas of Journalism
Gerald Priestland
Manufacturer: Lutterworth Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 071882394X

Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom

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Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom
W. Dale Nelson
Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0815608888

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W. Dale Nelson, a poet-journalist himself, explores the provocative effect of journalism upon poetry and likewise poetry on the newsroom.

This enlightening volume presents minibiographies of key British and American poets who at one time or another worked as journalists. Poets covered range from the famous to the obscure: Whittier to Whitman, Kipling to Bryant, Coleridge to Crane.

Writing in a direct, unadorned style, W. Dale Nelson tells each writer's story, often relating how the poet in question felt about the journalistic experience and its impact upon creative work. Archibald MacLeish wrote "young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast." On the other hand, Leonard Woolf suggests that Hemingway's strong spare prose often "bears the mark of good journalism."

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In July 1868 the Daily Telegraph congratulated itself on providing the arena for a controversy marked by `good sense, liveliness, practical wisdom, and hearty humanity.' The controversy was over the choice -: 'Marriage or Celibacy?' - faced by middle-class youth trying to reconcile economic facts with moral values, social customs - and love. The arena was the correspondence page of a newspaper just establishing itself as the most successful London daily through its appeal to the middle-class reader.

Public attention was first caught by a court report of a failed attempt to entrap a Belgian girl into prostitution. This induced blistering editorial comment and angry letters to the paper deploring ineffectual controls over the 'Great Social Evil.' The next development was unusual for the Victorian press: readers began to write extensive and richly varied comment on the root of the problem - young people did not have in possession or expectation enough money or the right qualifications for marriage. The Telegraph initiated a new form of popular journalism by filling its correspondence columns for almost a month with readers' letters under the heading 'Marriage or Celibacy?', which they supplemented with lengthy leading articles.

John Robson places in contemporary context the central issues facing Victorian youth: What is a proper marriage? How to balance income and expenditure? What are the ideal qualities of young women and men? 'Emigration or starvation?' In examining these debates, he looks closely into methods of argument, connecting rhetorical techniques with public persuasion. The letters being a special kind of discourse, he shows how in the debates rhetorical and logical arguments are specifically designed to persuade the Telegraph's readers.

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1005 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Internet community's thirst for up-to-the-minute news has raised some difficult economic and editorial questions for newspapers who publish on the World Wide Web. Newspapers have traditionally published just once a day, but as the number of readers with access to the Internet has grown so too has their demand for round-the-clock coverage. This latest development has led to an interesting dilemma: continue to rely on wire services to update their Web sites or incur potentially high costs by developing their own resources.

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Title: The breaking news dilemma. (online news reporting)
Author: Scott Kirsner
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v36 Issue: n4 Page: p18(2)

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Charting New Terrain.(ethical dilemmas of online journalism)(includes related article): An article from: American Journalism Review

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Charting New Terrain.(ethical dilemmas of online journalism)(includes related article): An article from: American Journalism Review
Barb Palser
Manufacturer: University of Maryland
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on November 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5924 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Ethical dilemmas related to online journalism are discussed. Topics include issues related to privacy, external hyperlinks, sensitive content, sponsored content, corrections and retractions, framing other sites, use of copyrighted images, and online interactivity; Web sites on newsroom ethics are also listed.

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Title: Charting New Terrain.(ethical dilemmas of online journalism)(includes related article)
Author: Barb Palser
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 21 Issue: 9 Page: 24

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The deans' dilemma: we train broadcast students for serious work. Then they graduate. (Voices).: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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The deans' dilemma: we train broadcast students for serious work. Then they graduate. (Voices).: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Orville Schell
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FKAEC
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The deans' dilemma: we train broadcast students for serious work. Then they graduate. (Voices).
Author: Orville Schell
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Page: 60(1)

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Dilemma of interest: many law enforcement officials now use the vague term "person of interest" to describe people caught up in their investigations. That ... An article from: American Journalism Review

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Dilemma of interest: many law enforcement officials now use the vague term "person of interest" to describe people caught up in their investigations. That ... An article from: American Journalism Review
Donna Shaw
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3997 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dilemma of interest: many law enforcement officials now use the vague term "person of interest" to describe people caught up in their investigations. That poses a challenge for journalists, who must try to convey a situation accurately without unfairly tarring someone's reputation.
Author: Donna Shaw
Publication: American Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 56(6)

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Since the introduction of the income tax in 1913, controversy has raged about how heavily to tax the rich. Opponents of high tax rates claim that heavy assessments have negative incentives on the productivity of some of our most talented citizens; supporters stress the importance of the rich shouldering their "fair share," and decry the loopholes that permit many to escape their obligations. Notably absent from this debate is hard evidence about the actual impact of taxes on the behavior of the affluent.

This book presents evidence by leading economists of the effects of taxes on the formation of businesses, the supply of labor, the form of executive compensation, the accumulation of wealth, the allocation of portfolios, and the realization of capital gains. Among its findings are that the labor supply of the rich remained unchanged in the face of large tax cuts in 1986, and that in late 1992 executives exercised billions of dollars' worth of stock options in order to beat the tax increases expected in 1993. The book also presents a history of efforts to tax the rich, a demographic snapshot of the financially affluent, and a road map to widely used tax-avoidance strategies.

Does Atlas Shrug? will be of great interest to policymakers and interested citizens who want to know how much tax revenue could really be gained by increasing tax rates on the rich, or whether low capital gains tax rates really spur economic growth.

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Does Atlas Shrug?
Joel B./ Slemrod, Joel B. (Edt) Slemrod
Manufacturer: Harvard Univ Pr 01/1//2000
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5T4TU

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