Tidbits on May 9, 2011
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
This week I made a special
photograph file of some of my favorite bird pictures
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Birds/Set01/BirdsSet01.htm
Here's Bob Jensen hunting for wild women at
Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort back in his hunting days
I got an MBA from Denver University and simultaneously worked for Ernst & Ernst
in Denver
My 1948 Green Chevy was about 13 years old at the time --- an oldie but goodie
Before leaving for Stanford I traded it in on a better coed chaser --- a 1957
Red Oldsmobile Convertible
April 28, 2011 message from Ben Plummer
Bob,
I gave a talk to the Audubon Group here in San Antonio. I send these selected pictures to show the unique and colorful kingfishers that we found. The lilac breasted roller is featured in pictures touting the interesting tours of Krueger Park.
Ben
White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/
Tidbits on May 9, 2011
Bob Jensen
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Explorations@scripps [iTunes] http://explorations.ucsd.edu/explorations@scripps/
Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology) ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated ---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours ---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/sartre_heidegger_nietzsche_three_philosophers_in_three_hours.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Spy Magazine (1986-1998) Now Online ---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/spy_magazine_1986-1998_now_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%2
Video
“Jersey Shore” in the Style of Oscar Wilde ---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/jersey_shore_in_the_style_of_oscar_wilde_.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Fire Ants Create Life Raft in 100 Seconds Flat ---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/fire_ants_form_life_rafts_in_real_time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Climbing an antenna higher than the Sears Tower ---
http://www.liveleak.com/player?a=config%26item_token=07b_1284580365%26embed=1
I find it hard to believe that there's not a safety tube for climbers to protect
against wind and rain. Also it would seem that a tube could have more safety
devices such as a safety line slider.
50 Classic Russian Films (Including Tarkovsky’s Finest) Now
Online ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/50_classic_russian_films.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Thank You Soldiers (Tusing Elementary) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5pfBUUZNbFM
Free music downloads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Celebrate Carnegie Hall Anniversary with Jascha
Heifetz Playing Tchaikovsky ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/carnegie_hall_celebrates_120_years_today.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Rap Video
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12f9cd7161794568
Baby Hummingbird as a Pet --- http://www.wimp.com/babyhummingbird/
Why do American workers outsource their own jobs?
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ
How Great Thou Art (Hymn) --- http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/UltimateFreedom.htm
Web outfits like
Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content
that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
TheRadio (my favorite commercial-free
online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this
international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen listens to music free online (and no commercials) --- http://www.slacker.com/
Photographs and Art
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
Works - Publications ---
http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=491
The National Gallery: 30 Highlight Paintings http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/explore-the-paintings/30-highlight-paintings/
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (photographs) --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/ault/
Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Lorenzo Homar Collection
(graphics arts) ---
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=gc151-homar
AIGA Design Archives (graphics arts) --- http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/home
Graphic Masters II: American Art --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/graphicmasters2/index.html
Housing Association of the Delaware Valley Photographs --- http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp245801coll13
The Photographs of Francis Blake (19th Century History) --- http://www.masshist.org/photographs/blake.cfm
Robert W. Krueger Collection (20th Century) --- http://www.chipublib.org/images/krueger/index.ph
Repeat Photography Site for The James J. Hanks Photographs, 1927-1928 http://www6.nau.edu/library/sca/exhibits/hanks/index.cfm
Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection (photographs) --- http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ahc-ludwig~1~1
Lafayette College Archives Photograph Collection --- http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/historicalphotos
Long Trail Photographs (the Green Mountains of Vermont)
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Long%20Trail%20Photographs
Oldest Long Distance Hiking Trail in the United States
New York Foundation for the Arts: For Artists --- http://www.nyfa.org/level1.asp?id=1
Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame [iTunes] http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=8690
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Santa Fe National Forest --- http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/index.html
Flight Global (aircraft) --- http://www.flightglobal.com/home/default.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Witness to the Early American Experience --- http://maass.nyu.edu/
RIP Arthur Laurents, Writer of West Side Story ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/rip_arthur_laurents.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on May 9, 2011
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2011/TidbitsQuotations050911.htm
Peter G.
Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
"Why Windows 7 May be Microsoft's Last PC Operating System," by Robert
Cringeley, MIT's Technology Review, April 28, 2011 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/26712/?nlid=4415
The University of Texas System released data Thursday designed to help the system's regents gauge the productivity of faculty members, The Texas Tribune reported -- one part of an accountability push that has concerned many professors and troubled some lawmakers. The massive spreadsheet -- which system officials insisted was raw and unverified, and should be treated as a draft -- contained numerous data points about all individual professors, including their total compensation, tenure status, total course enrollments, and information about research awards. A similar effort this spring at Texas A&M University -- also undertaken in response to pressure from Gov. Rick Perry -- created a stir there.
"Release of Faculty-Productivity Data Roils U.
of Texas," by Audrey Williams June, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6,
2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Release-of/127439/
Issues in Computing a College's Cost of
Degrees Awarded and "Worth" of Professors (including discussions of the Texas
A&M cost allocation study) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#CostAccounting
Why do American workers outsource their own jobs? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ
I wonder how many professors are outsourcing their research in the same manner?
May 3, 2011 reply from Richard Campbell
I went to www.elance.com -
and searched for people to bid on "accounting research" jobs and got over 10,000 hits.
"Teaching Carnival 4.9," by Jill Morris, Chronicle of Higher
Education, May 2, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-carnival-4-9/33127?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---
http://www.regulations.gov/
Accounting Doctoral Programs
PQ = Professionally Qualified under AACSB standards
AQ = Academically Qualified under AACSB standards
May 3, 2011 message to Barry Rice from Bob Jensen
Hi Barry,
Faculty without doctoral degrees who meet the AACSB PQ standards are still pretty much second class citizens and will find the tenure track hurdles to eventual full professorship very difficult except in colleges that pay poorly at all levels.
There are a number of alternatives for a CPA/CMA looking into AACSB AQ alternatives in in accounting in North American universities:
The best alternative is to enter into a traditional accounting doctoral program at an AACSB university. Virtually all of these in North America are accountics doctoral programs requiring 4-6 years of full time onsite study and research beyond the masters degree. The good news is that these programs generally have free tuition, room, and board allowances. The bad news is that students who have little interest in becoming mathematicians and statisticians and social scientists need not apply --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
As a second alternative Central Florida University has an onsite doctoral program that is stronger in the accounting and lighter in the accountics. Kennesaw State University has a three-year executive DBA program that has quant-lite alternatives, but this is only available in accounting to older executives who enter with PQ-accounting qualifications. It also costs nearly $100,000 plus room and board even for Georgia residents. The DBA is also not likely to get the graduate into a R1 research university tenure track.
As a third alternative there are now some online accounting doctoral programs that are quant-lite and only take three years, but these diplomas aren't worth the paper they're written on --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm#CommercialPrograms Cappella University is a very good online university, but its online accounting doctoral program is nothing more than a glorified online MBA degree that has, to my knowledge, no known accounting researchers teaching in the program. Capella will not reveal its doctoral program faculty to prospective students. I don't think the North American academic job market yet recognizes Capella-type and Nova-type doctorates except in universities that would probably accept the graduates as PQ faculty without a doctorate.
As a fourth alternative there are some of the executive accounting doctoral programs in Europe, especially England, that really don't count for much in the North American job market.
As a fifth alternative, a student can get a three-year non-accounting PhD degree from a quality doctoral program such as an economics or computer science PhD from any of the 100+ top flagship state/provincial universities in North America. Then if the student also has PQ credentials to teach in an accounting program, the PhD graduate can enroll in an accounting part-time "Bridge Program" anointed by the AACSB --- http://www.aacsb.edu/conferences_seminars/seminars/bp.asp
As a sixth alternative, a student can get a three-year law degree in addition to getting PQ credentials in some areas where lawyers often get into accounting program tenure tracks. The most common specialty for lawyers is tax accounting. Some accounting departments also teach business law and ethics using lawyers.
Hope this helps.
Bob Jensen
PS
Case Western has a very respected accounting history track in its PhD program, but I'm not certain how many of the accountics hurdles are relaxed except at the dissertation stage.
May 3, 2011 reply from Jim Martin
Barry,
I have been developing a new topic on the MAAW site - "Advice for
Accounting Ph.D. Students and New Faculty. It includes a bibliography,
some blog notes, and several summaries. Your former student might find it
useful.
"The Business School Tuition Bubble," by Michael Ryall, Harvard
Business School Blog, May 2. 2011 ---
Click Here
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/05/the_business_school_tuition_bubble.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
Edutainment via Fiction Writing
'May 7, 2011 message from Larry Crumbley,
Bob, you may wish to update your accounting novel material. My tax Ultimate Ripoff novel is now in the fourth edition and I am now revising it. My cost accounting novel Costly Reflections in A Midas Mirror, is in the 3th edition at Carolina Academic Press. They also have published later editions of my auditing and forensic accounting novels. LSU press will have my Sports Marketing out shortly. Give me your mailing address and I will send you a couple.
Larry
May 8, 2011 reply from Bob Jensen
Hi Larry,
My forays into fiction so bad that even I won't share them --- and I share almost everything I write. My one exception is my "play" on eduarbitraging at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/muppets.htm
Now you know why I won't share my other fiction attempts.
I'm glad you're still doing well with your mystery/detective novels.
My threads on edutainment via accounting fiction writing are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/muppets.htm#Accounting
The module on the books by Larry Crumbley needs updating. I will add your listing of teaching innovation references at
http://www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumbley/innovate.html
Also see
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2002/Jan/BusinessBookshelf.htm
I also need to update my page on Accounting Novels in general at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNovels.htm
If you have any suggestions for things I should add here beyond what are noted above, please let me know.Respectfully,
Bob Jensen
Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology)
---
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http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
International Center for the History of Electronic Games --- http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/icheg/
Bob Jensen's threads on edutainment games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Most of these public speaking words of advice seem rather obvious
http://www.
But after spending 40 years of sitting through some pretty bad presentations at
conferences, the words of advice in the site recommended by Dee LaVerne
should've been heeded by many (most?) of the speakers, including me when I was a
speaker.
Be a bit careful about some advice. For example, to what extent should visual
aids really be the center of your presentation? Rapid succession of PowerPoint
screens is a bad idea. Also leaving a "dead screen" lighted while you're talking
about something else entirely is a bad idea. But I like a visual aid when it
relates to what a speaker is talking about at the moment.
Probably the most important word of advice is to be an enthusiastic speaker
about your topic --- show the audience your passion for having learned what you
are now teaching. The best role model for enthusiasm and passion that I've ever
encountered is Amy Dunbar. This is one reason, the main reason, why she wins
all-university teaching awards.
Perhaps one thing you can do for your students, especially your doctoral
students, is to have them study a really great video presentation with the focus
being on the presentation itself rather than the content. Also focus on where
even a really fine presentation could've been improved.
One video that would be great for students to study for presentation skills
would be Bob Kaplan's plenary presentation video at
http://commons.aaahq.org/
There could've been a bit more humor, but then Bob did not have a whole lot of
time for humor in this fully-packed presentation. He did have some clever humor.
Humor can also be overdone and too distracting.
Lastly it's important to note that a speaker who violates all the great advice
can sometimes really pull a presentation off relative to a speaker who follows
all the rules. For me enthusiasm and passion tend to trump all the other rules
as long as the content itself is valuable to me for my own learning purposes.
One time there was an AAA Plenary Session from one of these guys who makes a
living consulting with executives about how to improve their public speaking. He
started out great, but it soon became obvious that he had nothing whatsoever to
relate about accounting itself. After about ten minutes a third or more of the
audience had sneaked out of the ballroom. The rest of us sat politely hoping he
would make it short.
At AAA plenary sessions I used to sit in the front row with my video camera and
tape every session (the tapes are now available at the University of Mississippi
Accounting History Library). But before the above "professional" speaker
commenced, Tracey S. warned me that this particular speaker did not want to be
taped since he made a lot of money giving this speech over and over again at
executive conferences. When he finished giving the speech I was ever so
grateful to Tracey for preventing me from wasting my video cartridge on this
presentation that was all form and no substance.
Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Are profit-seeking corporations hopeless sociopaths?
"Business-School Leaders Debate Corporate Responsibility," by Katherine
Mangan, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Business-School-Leaders-Debate/127361/
The nation's financial meltdown and the sweeping regulatory overhaul it sparked are providing business schools with plenty of sobering teaching material about ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the unintended consequences of financial reform, according to participants at the annual meeting here of AACSB International: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
The meeting, which wrapped up on Saturday, included spirited discussions about the role that business schools play in society and the lessons they should be passing on to the next generation of corporate movers and shakers.
More than 1,300 business educators and leaders from 53 countries and territories attended the meeting of the association, which accredits 620 institutions worldwide.
"This isn't just a teachable moment about the financial crisis," said Robert Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. "It's a teachable moment about how you connect the dots" so another crisis doesn't occur.
In addition to offering courses in corporate governance and ethics, business schools are struggling to educate students about the financial-overhaul legislation, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (HR 4173), that was enacted last year.
Many of the business educators here were skeptical about the value of the legislation, which mandated comprehensive regulation of financial markets and greater openness about complex investments called derivatives.
Franklin R. Edwards, director of the Center for the Study of Futures Markets at Columbia Business School, called the legislation "a hodgepodge of regulatory initiatives" that puts regulators in charge, despite their failure to protect consumers in the past.
"If I had to grade it as a professor, I'd be giving it a D-plus," he said. Misgivings About Graduates' Behavior
In another session, Ira A. Jackson, a visiting scholar at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said business schools should feel "humbled" by the role they may have played in the crisis. Their former students were among the people selling "grenade loans" to their competitors, hoping they would blow up on them, he said.
"Those were our graduates. Why weren't they figuring out how to help working-class people afford homes in a responsible way?" he said.
Arguing against him in the debate-style panel was Aneel G. Karnani, an associate professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Mr. Karnani explained why he dismisses the idea that corporations should be socially responsible as "useless" and even "dangerous."
Noting the slew of angry letters he received after an essay he wrote appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Karnani said that arguing against the idea that companies have a duty to act in the public interest "is kind of like coming out against motherhood and apple pie." Putting the Onus on Regulators
Mr. Karnani said business schools should stop demonizing government and regulation and recognize that the fiscal crisis was caused not by a lack of ethics but by a lack of regulation. Publicly held businesses should just follow rules set by the government and not try to solve the world's social problems if doing so cuts into their profits, he argued.
He added that corporate social responsibility is "fundamentally undemocratic" because company officials decide what values they are going to promote instead of letting the government and voters decide.
Mr. Jackson countered that students are demanding that business schools take a more proactive approach.
Continued in article
Islamic and Social Responsibility Accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#IslamicAccounting
Triple Bottom Accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory02.htm#TripleBottom
"Do American Students Study Too Hard? A new documentary argues that kids
these days memorize too many facts. Go figure," by James Freeman, The
Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2011 ---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703655404576292752313629990.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_t
Young moviegoers have driven "Rio" to the top of the box office, but the film generating buzz among New Jersey parents is "Race to Nowhere." It's a response of sorts to last year's buzzed-about documentary "Waiting for 'Superman,'" which argued that ineffective schools and intransigent teachers unions are what's wrong with American education.
The new film may have arrived just in time for the New Jersey Education Association, the giant state teachers union locked in a continuing battle with Gov. Chris Christie over the cost of teachers' benefit plans. Directed by parent and first-time filmmaker Vicki Abeles, "Race to Nowhere" is marketed through a kind of partnership with local schools. The film suggests that if there are problems in American education, they are largely due to standardized tests, overambitious parents, insufficient funding, and George W. Bush. It also offers possible solutions, which include abandoning testing and grading and giving teachers more autonomy.
Ms. Abeles reports that she has been screening the film nationwide and even in numerous foreign countries. But few places have embraced it as enthusiastically as the Garden State. While in many states there are no showings currently scheduled, according to the film's website, New Jersey has 13 in the next month.
Wednesday night, about 200 people gathered to watch at the Jewish Community Center in Bergen County. Ms. Abeles, who answered questions via a Skype video connection, reports that the crowd was so small because the event was organized in just four days after another local screening had attracted 800 people to a packed auditorium. She says that the film enjoys "buy-in from a lot of stakeholders," including school superintendents and teachers.
Parents in New Jersey suburbs have received numerous emails about the film and its upcoming show times from parent-teacher associations. Ms. Abeles and the schools split the revenue from ticket sales, but the director told the crowd in Bergen County that she is holding off on a DVD retail release while she explores a possible broadcast on PBS. She also said she is moving full speed ahead to hire companies in Washington to lobby for policy changes suggested in the film.
The movie's recurring theme is that American kids are under intense pressure to succeed, forced to complete up to six hours of homework each night and therefore increasingly driven to mental illness. The movie is promoted with the tagline, "The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture."
The dark side is illuminated with powerful anecdotes—we learn of one young California girl who, we are told, committed suicide after a disappointing grade in math. But the achievement is tougher to spot. The film reports that as hard as kids compete to win acceptance to name-brand colleges, they come out of high school without knowing much. The University of California at Berkeley, we are told, has to provide remedial education for close to half of incoming freshmen before they can handle a college course load. The film notes that American kids score poorly in international tests. If they work so hard, how do they learn so little?
One possibility is that kids aren't working as hard as Ms. Abeles believes. But even deducting a generous portion of Facebook chatter, tweeting and YouTube viewing from "homework" time, most parents would likely report that their kids have substantial assignments and a school year that seems to get longer all the time.
The film's answer, in part, is that President Bush's No Child Left Behind law forces schools to focus entirely on preparing their kids to pass annual tests tied to their state's education standards. The premise is that state governments have designed standards so poorly that kids must spend time learning useless material, or too much material, which they are then unable to retain.
It's certainly not impossible that state education bureaucracies have churned out flawed standards. And readers of this page are probably willing to consider the idea that the umpteenth federal education law might not have improved American education. But of course American kids were performing poorly on international tests long before Mr. Bush was inaugurated.
Ms. Abeles argues that U.S. education is focused too much on giving kids "things to memorize and regurgitate," instead of developing the critical thinking skills that will be most useful in solving problems and thriving later in life.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Let's face it. It's hazardous to K-12 students health and way too costly to
expect them to graduate from high school knowing how to read and divide by
fractions. This type of knowledge just is not needed from most of them,
especially students aspiring to be elected to Congress.
Some Thoughts on Competency-Based Training
and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/competency.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on education controversies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
"Are College Business Majors Slackers (relative to other majors in the
college)?" by Louis Lavelle, Business Week, April 20, 2011 ---
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/blogs/mba_admissions/archives/2011/04/are_college_business_majors_slackers.html?link_position=link5
Jensen Comment
Or put another way, are business majors and sports basket weaving majors in a
race to the bottom?
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A new study by Turnitin, the plagiarism detection service, has found that term paper mills account only for a small minority (15 percent) of the apparent sources of the copying. One-third of such material comes from social networks and another one-fourth from "legitimate" educational sources.
"Plagiarism Goes Social," by Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher
Education, April 28, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/plagiarism-appears-to-be-going-social/31142?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
The Web is going social. And now it seems that plagiarism might be heading that way, too.
A new study found that social and user-generated Web sites are the most popular sources for student copying. Academic sites come in second, while paper mills and cheat sites are third.
A report on the findings was released today by iParadigms, creator of Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection service that takes uploaded student papers and checks them against various databases to pinpoint unoriginal content. For its study, the company analyzed 40 million papers submitted by high school and college students over a 10-month period.
“It shows that plagiarism in sourcing work is going the way that everything else in the world is going,” says Chris Harrick, vice president of marketing at Turnitin. “People are relying more on their peers than on experts.”
But the findings come with a big caveat: Turnitin detects “matched content,” not necessarily plagiarism. In other words, the software will flag material from a paper mill, but it will also flag legitimate stuff that is properly cited and attributed. The company leaves it up to individual professors to determine plagiarism. So there’s no way to know exactly how much of the copying highlighted in this study, outside of the material that matches content from shady sites, is actually cheating.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism and cheating are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
From the Scout Report on April 29, 2011
Squrl --- http://www.squrl.com/
This handy device is well named, as its primary function is to help visitors
collect interesting videos online for later "consumption". First-time
visitors will need to complete a short registration, and they can get
started saving videos from a range of sources. Visitors can also organize
playlists, and then email them to friends and colleagues. This version is
compatible with all operating systems.
Strike --- http://www.strikeapp.com/
Who says making a "to-do" list has to be boring? Not the good people at the
ZURB, who have created the Strike application to help people "knock down"
their lists quickly and with a bit of fun. Visitors will note the bowling
alley theme as they enter the site, and they have the ability to create a
list that is stored on the web for easy access. Visitors can share their
lists with others, and they can also break down more complex lists into
smaller steps. This version is compatible with all operating systems
Inquiry into the Central Asia Institute's financials raises questions
about oversight of charities
'Three Cups of Tea' questions remind donors to check up on charities
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2011-04- 25-researching-charities.htm
Greg Mortenson and our false ideals about social change
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0425/ Greg-Mortenson-and-our-false-ideals-about-social- change
The Greg Mortenson Scandal: One University's Bitter Cup of Tea
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2066239, 00.html
The Greg Mortenson We Knew
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_greg_mortenson_we_ knew/C39/L39/
Greg Mortenson: 60 Minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363068n
Charity Navigator
http://www.charitynavigator.org/
From the Scout Report on April 22, 2011
Plnnr --- http://plnnr.com/
Do you have a complicated trip you need help planning? Trying to figure out to get from Florence to Dublin perhaps? The Plnnr tool can offer some sage wisdom on such an itinerary. Visitors can select from one of eighteen cities, and Plnnr will help them plan a trip with various dates, themes, and luxury levels. The themes include "outdoors", "culture", "with kids", and "The best of". Plnnr is a fun way to find a number of possible vacation options and this particular version of Plnnr is compatible with all operating systems.
With the release of Google Map Maker, users can contribute their own
spatial knowledge
Google: Map your own neighborhood
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20055063-250.html
Google Wants You To Complete its U.S. Map
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/google-maps- us-edit/
Now Users Can Help Edit Google Maps
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/19/now-users-can-help- edit-google-maps/
Google Map Maker
http://www.google.com/mapmaker
Railroad Maps Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance, economics, and statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Education Tutorials
Khan Academy --- http://www.khanacademy.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
British Geological Survey: Learning --- http://www.bgs.ac.uk/education/home.html
Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology) ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Fire Ants Create Life Raft in 100 Seconds Flat ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/fire_ants_form_life_rafts_in_real_time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Lorenzo Homar Collection
(graphics arts) ---
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=gc151-homar
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy --- http://collections.stanford.edu/atomicenergy/bin/page?forward=home
International Atomic Energy Agency --- http://www.iaea.org/
The National Academies Present: What You Need to Know About Energy --- http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/
AIGA Design Archives (graphics arts) --- http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/home
Graphic Masters II: American Art --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/graphicmasters2/index.html
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Santa Fe National Forest --- http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/index.html
Science at Burning Man (various science projects) --- http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?cmd=browse&project=102
Explorations@scripps [iTunes] http://explorations.ucsd.edu/explorations@scripps/
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing --- http://caat.jhsph.edu/
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
U.S. Census Bureau: Random Samplings --- http://blogs.census.gov/
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection --- http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/index.shtml
Future of Aviation Advisory Committee --- http://www.dot.gov/faac/
Natural Resources Defense Council: Smarter Living --- http://www.nrdc.org/living/
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Creative Placemaking [changes coming to cities and towns] http://www.nea.gov/pub/CreativePlacemaking-Paper.pdf
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements --- http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3085
Science at Burning Man (various science projects) --- http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?cmd=browse&project=102
Sheepherders of Northern Nevada --- http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/sheepherders/
Hmong Cultural Center (Viet Nam) --- http://www.hmongcc.org/
Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---
http://www.regulations.gov/
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
Law and Legal Studies
Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---
http://www.regulations.gov/
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Law
Math Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
History Tutorials
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works -
Publications ---
http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=491
Witness to the Early American Experience --- http://maass.nyu.edu/
Nantucket Historical Association --- http://www.nha.org/
Maritime History of Massachusetts --- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime/
Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video
Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours ---
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Video
Spy Magazine (1986-1998) Now Online ---
Click Here
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Video
“Jersey Shore” in the Style of Oscar Wilde ---
Click Here
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Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (photographs) --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/ault/
New York Foundation for the Arts: For Artists --- http://www.nyfa.org/level1.asp?id=1
Housing Association of the Delaware Valley Photographs --- http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp245801coll13
Flight Global (aircraft) --- http://www.flightglobal.com/home/default.aspx
Children and War --- http://www.childrenandwar.org/
Mississippi History Newsletter --- http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/mhn/index.html
International Center for the History of Electronic Games --- http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/icheg/
Sheepherders of Northern Nevada --- http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/sheepherders/
RIP Arthur Laurents, Writer of West Side Story ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/rip_arthur_laurents.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/buckaroos/
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
April 29, 2011
April 30, 2011
May 2, 2011
May 3, 2011
May 4, 2011
May 6, 2011
May 7, 2011
Nutrition and healthy eating --- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/MY00431
USDA: Food & Nutrition Service --- http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/
AARP Health Tools ---
http://www.aarp.org/health/
Why do American workers outsource their own jobs? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ
Forwarded by Sid and Eileen
The Israelis and Arabs realized that, if they continued fighting, they
would someday end up destroying the whole world. So they decided to settle
their dispute with an ancient practice: a duel of two, like David and Goliath.
This "duel" would be a dog fight.
The negotiators agreed each side would take 5 years to develop the best
fighting dog they could. The dog that won the fight would earn its people the
right to rule the disputed areas. The losing side would have to lay down its
arms for good.
The Arabs found the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers in the world.
They bred them together and then crossed their offspring with the
meanest Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest, strongest puppy of
each litter, fed it the best food and killed all the other puppies. They used
steroids and trainers in their quest for the perfect killing machine. After
the 5 years were up, they had a dog that needed steel prison bars on its cage.
Only expert trainers could handle this incredibly nasty and ferocious beast.
When the day of the big dog-fight finally arrived, the Israelis showed up with
a very strange-looking animal, a Dachshund that was 10 feet long! Everyone
at the dogfight arena felt sorry for the Israelis. No one there seriously
thought this weird, odd-looking animal stood any chance against the growling
beast over in the Arab camp. All the bookies took one look and predicted that
the Arab dog would win in less than a minute.
As the cages were opened, the Dachshund slowly waddled toward the center of
the ring. The Arab dog leaped from
its cage and charged the giant wiener-dog. As he got to within an inch of the
Israeli dog, the Dachshund opened its jaws and swallowed the Arab beast whole
in one bite. There was nothing left but a small puff of fur from the Arab
killer dog's tail floating to the ground.
The stunned crowd of international observers, bookies and media personnel let
out a collective gasp of disbelief and surprise.
The Arabs approached the Israelis, muttering and shaking their heads in
disbelief. "We do not understand," said their leader, "Our top scientists and
breeders worked for 5 long years with the meanest, biggest Dobermans, Rottweilers
and Siberian wolves, and they developed an incredible killing machine of a
dog!"
The Israelis replied. "Well, for 5 years, we have had a team of Jewish plastic surgeons from Boca Raton working to make an alligator look like a Dachshund."
Tidbits Archives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
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College Atlas ---
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Among other things the above site provides acceptance rate percentages
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accountancy Discussion ListServs:
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for free) go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm AECM (Educators) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/aecm/
AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etcRoles of a ListServ --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed. Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or education. Others will be denied access.Yahoo (Practitioners) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA. This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA.AccountantsWorld http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation.Business Valuation Group BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM]
Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
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Phone: 603-823-8482
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