Tidbits on September 11, 2015
Bob Jensen
at
Trinity University
Set 3 of My All Time Favorite
Photographs
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Tidbits on September 11, 2015
Bob Jensen
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing ---
http://ed.ted.com/
TED Talks: How schools kill creativity ---
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
Hamas just released a video showing off their
rebuilt Gaza tunnels ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-show-video-of-rebuilt-tunnels-2015-8
How to Age Gracefully: No Matter What Your Age, You Can Get
Life Advice from Your Elders ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/how-to-age-gracefully-no-matter-what-your-age-you-can-get-life-advice-from-your-elders.html
Rare color footage of Japan's surrender 70 years ago ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/rare-color-footage-of-japans-surrender-70-years-ago-2015-9
Watch The Half Hour Hegel: A Long, Guided Tour Through Hegel’s
Phenomenology, Passage by Passage ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-half-hour-hegel.html
IKE'S PLANE-----WHO KNEW? ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ehwvZXVKmPU
Free music downloads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
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
Bob Jensen's not interested
Stream 36 Recordings of Legendary Grateful Dead Concerts Free Online (aka Dick’s
Picks) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/stream-36-recordings-of-legendary-grateful-dead-concerts-free-online.html
See Very Early Concert Footage of the B-52s, When
New Wave Music Was Actually New (1978) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/see-very-early-concert-footage-of-the-b-52s-when-new-wave-music-was-actually-new-1978.html
Oliver Sacks’ Last Tweet Shows Beethoven’s “Ode
to Joy” Movingly Flashmobbed in Spain ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/oliver-sacks-last-tweet-shows-beethovens-ode-to-joy-movingly-flashmobbed-in-spain.html
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
How to Age Gracefully:
No Matter What Your Age, You Can Get Life Advice from Your Elders ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/how-to-age-gracefully-no-matter-what-your-age-you-can-get-life-advice-from-your-elders.html
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio (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's threads on nearly all types of free
music selections online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000
Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-british-library-puts-over-1000000-images-in-the-public-domain-a-deeper-dive-into-the-collection.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Galleries ---
http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/museum-map/galleries
A Nerd’s Guide To The 2,229 Paintings At MoMA ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-nerds-guide-to-the-2229-paintings-at-moma/
This 30-million-year-old cave in New Zealand has a beautiful
phenomenon that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-new-zealand-has-glowing-luminosity-caves-glow-worm-photos-2015-7
Stunning photos of one of the last vestiges of old New York
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-old-new-york-2015-8
Scientists have found a massive stone
monument buried underground that could be even bigger than Stonehenge ---
http://uk.businessinsider.com/stone-monument-found-near-stonehenge-2015-9#ixzz3l4CbTEO3
Smithsonian Photo Contest
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/12th-annual-smithsonian-photo-contest-finalists-180954445/?no-ist
14 photos that show the full and awesome scope of Instagram's
new feature ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-now-allows-horizontal-images-2015-8
A New Orleans photographer spent 10 years shooting haunting
images of the city after Katrina ---
http://www.techinsider.io/photographer-david-spielman-shot-new-orleans-after-katrina-2015-8
The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for
Superman, Batman & Your Other Favorite Superheroes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-1982-dc-comics-style-guide-is-online.html
Take a 360° Virtual Tour of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd
Wright’s Personal Home & Studio ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/take-a-360-virtual-tour-of-taliesin-frank-lloyd-wrights-personal-home-studio.html
A photographer traveled to 70 countries — here are some of the
best pictures from his journey around the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photographer-traveled-to-70-countries-2015-8
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
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
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
3 Million Judgements of Books by their Covers ---
https://medium.com/@deancasalena/3-million-judgements-of-books-by-their-covers-f2b89004c201
British Library: Virtual books ---
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html
The Poetry Society: Poetryclass ---
http://www.poetryclass.poetrysociety.org.uk/
The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for
Superman, Batman & Your Other Favorite Superheroes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-1982-dc-comics-style-guide-is-online.html
Kickstart a Documentary on Emily Dickinson, Narrated by
Cynthia Nixon ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/kickstart-a-documentary-on-emily-dickinson-narrated-by-cynthia-nixon.html
Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters:
Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/tolstoy-and-gandhi-exchange-letters.html
Hear Kurt Vonnegut Read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle &
Other Novels ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/hear-kurt-vonnegut-read-slaughterhouse-five-cats-cradle-other-novels.html
William Faulkner Rocked Fourth Grade
(1907-1908) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/william-faulkner-rocked-fourth-grade-1907-1908.html
Audio Books (both free and fee) ---
http://www.tryaudiobooks.com/business.php?ref=AA8004A333DB&utm_source=PRH_Audio&utm_medium=Advertising&utm_content=&utm_term=business&utm_campaign=RH_Audio_Summer_Promotion_WSJ
Stephen Colbert Reads Flannery
O’Connor’s Darkly Comedic Story, “The Enduring Chill” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/stephen-colbert-reads-flannery-oconnors-darkly-comedic-story-the-enduring-chill.html
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
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 September 11, 2015
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2015/TidbitsQuotations091115.htm
U.S. National Debt Clock ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Also see
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Peter G.
Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
GAO: Fiscal Outlook & The Debt
---
http://www.gao.gov/fiscal_outlook/overview
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
As they look for crowd-pleasing solutions to the
college debt "crisis," the Democratic candidates aren't making the right
distinctions.
Democratic candidates are actually off-target on student debt, Editorial
Board of The Washington Post ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-candidates-are-actually-off-target-on-student-debt-2015-8
Jensen Comment
Bernie Sanders is somewhat realistic. He realizes that when everybody has a
college diploma it will be even harder for them to find a job commensurate with
their education. So he leans toward the (former) Greek solution. Put them to
work doing almost nothing on the government payrolls (but not in the military).
And how do we pay for that? The Greek solution was to borrow more and more until
the Greek government could borrow no more with Paul Krugman applauding all the
way to economic Hell.
Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have discovered a new form of cheating for MOOC credits
"Multiple Personalities, Disorder," by Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed,
August 26, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/26/harvard-mit-researchers-find-mooc-learners-using-multiple-accounts-cheat?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e257aae0b9-DNU20150826&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e257aae0b9-197565045
Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs, SMOCS, Future Learn, iversity, and OKI Free
Learning Alternatives Around the World ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Encyclopedia Size Comparisons
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
Jensen Comment
Open source encyclopedias that let the people of the world write and edit
modules are more likely to have errors if for no reason other than they have so
many more modules. Allowing the world to make edits is both an advantage and a
disadvantage in terms or error and bias. It's a disadvantage in that the paid
and volunteer editors of these encyclopedias cannot possible find and correct
all errors and egregious bias. They do their best on controversial topics like
hot political topics and biographies.
The advantage of open sharing and
editing is that errors on popular topics (those topics having the most hits) are
likely to be corrected quickly by experts. The disadvantage is that the least
popular topics (those having almost no hits) are may go uncorrected for decades
such as in the biography of John Doe who is only of interest to his two friends
in life. Fortunately millions of experts are willing to examine and correct
popular topics very quickly.
"Is Wikipedia More Biased Than
Encyclopædia Britannica?" by Michael Blanding, Harvard Business School,
August 31, 2015 ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7689?item=7689.html
Jensen Comment
The finding that Wikipedia is more "left leaning" is hardly surprising.
Professors and students worldwide are overwhelmingly left leaning and they tend
to write a lot of the modules in Wikipedia and edit modules in that enormous
encyclopedia.
Liberal Bias in Academe ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias
However, academe also saves Wikipedia
in many respects. For example, the above article does not mention that some
medical schools deem it a public service to to have professors and students
update and correct Wikipedia modules on diseases, treatments, medications, etc.
This makes Wikipedia more likely rather than less likely to be of great service
to users.
September 4, 2015 message from Scott
Bonacker
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that sponsors but does not operate Wikipedia, announced Monday that at least 381 accounts
have been suspended for “black hat” editing, in which editors charge and accept money for “to promote external interests.”
Continued --- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/31/wikipedia-accounts-blocked-paid-advocacy/
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
How the New American Dream Works ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-went-from-underemployed-waitress-to-the-top-1-of-millennials-in-3-months-2015-7
240 MOOCs Getting Started at
Prestigious Universities in September 2015 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/240-moocs-getting-started-in-september-enroll-today.html
See the list at
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
Plagiarism Detection
"My Love-Hate Relationship With TurnItIn," by Marcattilio-McCracken,
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/My-Love-Hate-Relationship-With/232887/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
I ’ve fully
embraced the benefits and strictures of being a professor in the digital
age. In both my online courses and live ones, I have come to rely upon our
online classroom portal to disseminate course information, post reminders,
log grades, and to serve as the primary method by which students turn in
their papers. I don’t know if it is necessarily sounder to do everything
electronically, but it’s a system that’s been honed course after course and
seems to work well for both sides of the lectern. Still, there are aspects
of it that trouble me.
Every paper turned
in to my class Dropbox gets automatically run against TurnItIn’s
plagiarism-detection tool. I detest plagiarists; they are the bane of my
professional existence. I’ve done my best to stamp out plagiarism with
antiformulaic assignment prompts, rotating exams, and gentle reminders
through the semester that committing plagiarism invites the devil into your
soul. Still, I get students who, either from Machiavellian overconfidence or
through abject laziness, plagiarize.
And so if asked,
I’ll not pretend otherwise — I love TurnItIn. It’s painless, effective, and
just as important, already there for me to use. It saves me some relatively
significant number of hours each term, agonizingly Google-searching the
paper of an unremarkable student who has suddenly turned into David Foster
Wallace on the final exam. And when I am forced to pursue an instance of
academic dishonesty, it provides a nice, tidy, official-looking report that
tends to convince students of the authority and weight behind the meeting we
are currently having. So I use it, happily.
But recently I got
an email from a student concerned about TurnItIn on dual grounds. The
student was nontraditional, and this was his first college course in some
years. He was concerned first about accidentally plagiarizing, and wondered
(naïvely, but completely understandably) if TurnItIn let students run their
work through free to make sure this didn’t happen. Second, the student
didn’t like the idea of being forced to surrender his work to a company that
would make money from it. He was articulate, respectful, and tentative.
My knee-jerk
reaction, which thankfully lasted only a minute or so, was to throw up
shields. Tell the student that such antiplagiarism tools were clearly
spelled out on our syllabus and that by staying in the course each student
was assenting to such measure in the name of academic integrity. But in
typing this into Outlook I decided I should probably be sure this was
actually the case, and so I called our university’s academic-integrity
coordinator, who said she had never gotten a question like this before, but
confirmed: So long as it was in my syllabus, I could do what I wanted.
I went back to
click "send," and discovered I was ambivalent about it. It must have taken
some guts from the student to send that email to his professor, and at the
very beginning of the semester no less. Plus, the fact that there was no
standing university policy pertaining to what was a potentially explosive
issue made the "it’s in the syllabus" argument seem astoundingly soft. Its
reliance on student ignorance rather than legal standing made me curious if
anyone had challenged it.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
"College Calculus: What’s the
real value of higher education?" by John Cassidy, The New Yorker,
September 7, 2015 ---
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/college-calculus
Jensen Comment
John Cassidy is one of my favorite writers, and this is a good summary article.
There are many things of value in a college education, and most of them do not
entail careers or lifetime income. However, one misleading aspect of the media
hype about college diplomas is that students with low aptitudes for college
benefit greatly from college. I have acquaintances (husband and wife with four
children) who went deeply into debt to get college diplomas by mostly taking
distance education courses.
He graduated in business, and she
graduated in criminology. But they really did not have high aptitudes to benefit
from college learning. Now they still have their same blue collar jobs that they
had before they plunged deeply in debt for diplomas on the wall. Yeah they went
through the motions of taking relatively easy courses from a relatively easy
university. But they were constantly distracted while still working at their
jobs and raising a young family. This is not quite the same as going full time
at a flagship university and plunging into really learning from courses.
September 7, 2015 reply from Steve
Markoff
I'm not sure that
the lesser aptitude students benefit even from complete immersion.
I see tons and tons
of these types semester after semester. I'm not sure what the value added is
for most of these. I feel strongly that they should be in vocational school
which will measurably benefit them.
Steve
"Lawyers Are Just As Likely To Lose Their Jobs To Robots As Truck Drivers
And Factory Workers," by Paul Caron, TaxProf Blog, August 30, 2015
---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/08/lawyers-are-just-as-likely-to-lose-their-jobs-to-robots-as-truck-drivers-and-factory-workers.html
Jensen Comment
The same is true for accountants. Just think of how intimidating it will be when
those eight-foot tall auditors wearing green eyeshades and sleeve garters file
into the client's office.
"SAT Scores Drop," by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed,
September 3, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/03/sat-scores-drop-and-racial-gaps-remain-large?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=512fde5bd3-DNU20150902&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-512fde5bd3-197565045
SAT scores dropped significantly for the class of college-bound seniors this year. All three sections saw declines -- and the numbers were down for male and female students alike.At the same time, SAT scores showed continued patterns in which white and Asian students, on average, receive higher scores than do black and Latino students. And, as has been the case for years, students from wealthier families score better than do those from disadvantaged families. These and other figures -- including new data on Advanced Placement participation -- are being released today by the College Board.
Over all, scores dropped two points on critical reading, two points on mathematics and three points on writing. The seven-point decline across all three sections compares to a one-point decline the prior year, and no change the year before that.
Here are the figures for the last five years:
SAT Averages
Year |
Critical Reading |
Mathematics |
Writing |
2011 |
497 |
514 |
489 |
2012 |
496 |
514 |
488 |
2013 |
496 |
514 |
488 |
2014 |
497 |
513 |
487 |
2015 |
495 |
511 |
484 |
The reading score has not been so low as far back as the College Board's annual report, which dates to 1972. The mathematics score hasn't been this low since 1999. And the writing score is the lowest since that portion of the test was created in 2006.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
The drops may not seem so significant but it should be remembered that the
sample sizes each year are huge. More importantly the high school students who
opt out of taking the SAT and ACT tests (because so many colleges no longer
require these standardized tests) are most likely the students who would further
draw down the scores.
However, my speculation above runs counter to data that shows SAT test
takers are becoming more diverse ---
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/3/9257121/sat-scores-2015
Coffee ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee
7 unusual ways coffee is made around the world
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/unusual-ways-coffee-is-made-around-the-world-2015-8
There's a right and wrong way to eat this 'superfood' (chia) that Taylor
Swift swears by ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/should-i-eat-chia-seeds-2015-8
11 bizarre college courses offered across the US ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/11-bizarre-college-courses-offered-across-the-us-2015-8
Jensen Comment
Makes governmental accounting courses sound pretty dull.
The 27 most controversial people on Wikipedia — featuring Britney Spears,
Bill Clinton, and Adolf Hitler ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-27-most-controversial-people-on-wikipedia-featuring-britney-spears-bill-clinton-and-adolf-hitler-2015-8
Jensen Question
Note the ranking criteria.
This brilliant world map shows countries scaled to the size of their stock
markets ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/map-countries-scaled-to-equity-market-capitalization-2015-8
Four Mistakes That Could Ruin Your
Retirement ---
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/03/4-mistakes-that-could-ruin-your-retirement.html
Jensen Comments
Mistake: Boosting bond
allocations at retirement
It used to be a good ideal to shift from CREF to TIAA before retirement.
Thanks to the Fed's virtually zero interest rate policies this may no longer
be a good idea. Times change, however, so everything should be reconsidered
if you won't be retiring soon.
Mistake: Counting on Medicare to cover
all health care costs
Medicare is being torn apart by fraud and explosion of medical costs.
Drastic revisions in the future almost certainly will entail making middle
and upper income retirees bear much more of their medical costs than they
currently are paying out when on Medicare.
Mistake: Moving to a state for the low
income taxes
There are usually more important variables for choosing where to live in
retirement than state income taxes. However, if plans include moving to
another state both income and inheritance taxes should be considered. We
have two grown children living in California and Maine. Taxes were a
consideration when we chose New Hampshire with good tax deals relative to
Maine and California, and New Hampshire is very close to Maine.
Mistake: Not saving enough for
retirement.
This is a bigger problem since the Fed's zero interest rate policy destroyed
most safe investment alternatives like certificates of deposit and low-risk
bonds. Now investments for retirement must take on more risk like choosing
all CREF versus having some TIAA. Of course taking on more financial risk
entails taking more chances. Dah! Some investors take chances in real
estate, but the real estate in my portfolio was only in the house I lived in
and the land surrounding this house. I do not generally like rental property
because of the headaches of being a landlord (including owning a farm). I do
not like idle land investments because of the annual property taxes and
insurance cash going out and no cash coming in.
More of Bob Jensen's personal finance helpers
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
This is the research you should do before picking a credit card ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/sc/pick-the-right-credit-card-2015-8
AICPA: Back-to-School: How to Pay for College
---
http://blog.aicpa.org/2015/08/back-to-school-how-to-pay-for-college.html#sthash.gcYpuxSm.PSkI9cqt.dpbs
The Upshot: Is It Better to Rent or Buy? (real estate calculator) ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html
Jensen Comment
My general advice for new faculty is not to buy a home until tenure is achieved
except in hot markets where fast turnover profits are probable provided too much
is paid initially. After tenure achievement the above calculator can be helpful.
My priors were to invest as much as possible in long-term ownership of a
house and the least possible in the long-term ownership of a very reliable car.
However, be careful where you buy real estate. Up in the White Mountains I
advise mountain or lake views even though New Hampshire has a view tax.
There really aren't any gated neighborhoods up here, and nothing would be gained
by having gated neighborhoods. In San Antonio I would not put big money into a
house that's not in a gated neighborhood. Even if you're opposed philosophically
to that concept, the fact is that expensive homes do not sell very well in San
Antonio unless they are in gated neighborhoods with armed guards at the gates. I
would have had much more capital gain on my big San Antonio house if it had been
in a gated neighborhood. Sigh!
The Upshot: Is It better to Lease or Buy a Car? ---
http://money.howstuffworks.com/business/getting-a-job/buy-vs-lease-car.htm
Jensen Comment
Leasing became much more attractive when the Federal Reserve drove commercial
interest rates toward zero. But that does not mean "more attractive" than buying
in all instances. Much depends on the amount you drive and the terms of the
lease in the context of the amount you drive. It also depends a lot upon
your willingness to drive older cars. When I worked in San Antonio where newish
cars are stolen in unbelievable numbers daily my wife's car was a newish tiny
Honda Civic, and I drove a very reliable battered up ancient Ford station wagon
that had a newish engine and transmission under the hood. This ghetto-like car
looked so bad that nobody would think of stealing it and driving it across the
border to Mexico.
In general, even in retirement, my wife and I do not mind driving
well-maintained older cars. Our main car in the White Mountains (where car theft
would be headline news) is a very reliable Subaru Forrester that we will
probably drive until it is at least 20 years old (it's now five years old) or
has over 100,000 miles. The Subaru will probably be the last car we ever
own. After that its car leasing for us unless we're in a nursing home. I also
keep an unreliable old Jeep Cherokee in the barn that's used mostly for hauling
brush to the dump. That will be in our barn on the day I die.
My point is that leasing would probably not be the best choice for us until
we're very old. However, leasing is the best choice for most of our children
except for one son who puts a lot of miles on a car commuting a long distance to
work in California.
Bob Jensen's personal finance helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
TED ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28conference%29
Also note the Criticism section
TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing ---
http://ed.ted.com/
TED Talks: How schools kill creativity ---
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
Bob Jensen's threads on open shared (free)
learning ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Pictochart ---
http://piktochart.com/v2/
Also see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piktochart (an important feature of Piktochart
is its HTML scripting)
"Designing Engaging Course Documents with Piktochart" by Julie Platt,
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 25, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/designing-engaging-course-documents-with-piktochart/60851?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
It’s sometimes a struggle to get students to
carefully read course documents. Many student questions, especially at this
time of year, can be answered with “Please check the syllabus!” However,
when I check the syllabus myself (even my own!), I’m sometimes pretty
underwhelmed. As I prepared to teach our Technical Writing and Communication
course this fall, I decided I wanted to emphasize document design and
economy of language, two areas in which I felt my previous classes could
improve. Around the same time, I discovered Piktochart.
Piktochart
is a web-based app that allows you to design
infographics and other image-heavy documents and publications. It offers
inspiration in a number of customizable templates, and sizable, searchable
libraries of fonts, graphics, and icons; you can also drop your own images
into any document. You can publish finished projects on the web or download
them as PNG files; you can also share them on social media and export them
to Evernote. If you want more options, you can purchase a Pro account, which
allows you to download your document in a number of page formats and file
types and publish it to SlideShare. If you’re an educator, Piktochart offers
a 12-month individual license which is regularly $39.99, and
now on sale for $15.
Bob Jensen's threads on course authoring tools ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Also see Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Robots Read and Learn from Text Instructions
"Robots Learn to Make Pancakes from WikiHow Articles," by Will Knight,
MIT's Technology Review, August 24, 2015 ---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540781/robots-learn-to-make-pancakes-from-wikihow-articles/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-robotics&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150826
Researchers at a European project are teaching robots to use written text
to learn how to perform tasks.
Jensen Comment
I have a new Dell laptop on its way. I wish I also had a robot to read and
explain the instruction manual to me --- especially for Windows 10 that I've
never used before. I suspect, however, that there's already a lot of YouTube
video help for making the leap from Windows 7 tp Windows 10. The problem
with video help in general, however, is that a lot of time can be wasted
watching parts of the video that you really don't need to learn or relearn.
Since I'm getting a Windows 10 laptop I was interested in the following tip
from David Pogue
How to Find Windows 10's Secret Search Feature ---
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-to-find-windows-10s-secret-search-feature-127597396134.html
Auburn's Political Science Department Weaves Unique Baskets
"Auburn Reversed Course on Cutting a Major Favored by Athletes," by
Charles Huckabee, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/auburn-reversed-course-on-cutting-a-major-favored-by-athletes/103695?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Jensen Comment
The major is is considered pre-professional. What was left unmentioned is that
it most likely is pre-professional football, basketball, baseball, etc.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
Watch The Half Hour Hegel: A Long, Guided Tour Through Hegel’s Phenomenology,
Passage by Passage ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-half-hour-hegel.html
Hegel on Knowledge, Impatience, the Peril of Fixed Opinions, and the True
Task of the Human Mind ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/27/hegel-knowledge-phenomenology-of-mind/?mc_cid=32c8c0dfcd&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
"These Videos Could Change How You Think About Teaching," by Jeffrey
R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/These-Videos-Could-Change-How/232645/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
"The Gifts of a Teacher," by Brett Stephens, The Wall Street
Journal, August 24, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gifts-of-a-teacher-1440457951?mod=djemMER
Amy Kass gave her students the chance to know
themselves.
Why teach? More than once in recent years I’ve
heard from teachers, nearing or past retirement, who wondered whether they
had chosen the right profession. One thought that maybe she would have done
better as an architect. “That way,” she said, “at least I could point to
something I made.”
I suspect that many teachers harbor these sorts of
doubts—the wiser the teacher, the graver the doubt. Teaching at its best is
less in the business of imparting knowledge than it is of shaping souls. But
who can tell what, if anything, has been shaped, much less how well? How
much can any single teacher do, in the space of a semester or two, to form
the interior spaces of her students’ intellectual and emotional lives?
Amy Kass, one of the best teachers I ever had
(along with her husband, Leon, also at Chicago), was not immune to these
sorts of doubts. She knew that even in the best classrooms at the University
of Chicago, with the brightest students in the country, there was a limit to
what she could accomplish.
Clever students in her humanities classes could
disappoint her, in the way that clever people are often disappointing. A
semester’s course on Homer’s “Odyssey” or Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
would probably not long stay in the minds of students aiming at careers in
law or finance. Even students destined for academic careers of their own
were bound to get caught up in everything she disliked about university
life: the need to publish, the intellectual faddishness, the petty
careerism, the higher cynicism.
Yet for nearly 40 years Mrs. Kass persevered,
taking the extravagant gamble that every now and then she would find
students whose minds would alight with recognition in, say, Levin’s feelings
for Kitty in “ Anna Karenina,” or in Malcolm X’s reading of the dictionary
in prison, or in Sullivan Ballou’s letter to his wife on the eve of the
first Battle of Bull Run. These were the students, and such were the texts,
that redeemed the enterprise of teaching. They ennobled the profession not
because the compensations were many, but because they were few. What’s rare
is also precious.
What was it like to sit in Mrs. Kass’s classroom?
The tone was set by the way in which we addressed one another. She was Mrs.
Kass (not Dr. Kass, never Amy) to us; we were Mr. Stephens, Ms. Lehman, Mr.
Lohse and so on to her. It was anachronistically formal but radically
egalitarian: Whatever our other differences, teacher and student were on an
equal footing when it came to discussing the book at hand. We came to class
not to be instructed on the meaning of a text (much less Mrs. Kass’s views
of it), but to read it afresh, without preconceptions. And we read not for
the sake of knowledge, but for self-knowledge: to understand ourselves,
through stories told by others, as we hadn’t fully (or vaguely) understood
ourselves before.
Though I never once heard Mrs. Kass utter a
political opinion, at the core of her teaching was the belief that, while
it’s never easy to really know oneself, modern life makes doing so much more
difficult. The benefits of emancipation from the old conventions regarding
status, sex, manners and morals may be vast. But they come with hidden
costs, notably in the form of aimlessness.
We can satisfy our desires, but we have trouble
recognizing our longings. We can do as we please but find it difficult to
figure out what truly pleases us, or what we really ought to do. Limitless
choice dissipates the possibility of fully realizing the choices we make,
whether in our careers or communities or marriages. There’s always the
chance that something (or someplace, or someone) better is lurking around
the corner.
Mrs. Kass believed that at least one aim of a
higher education is to provide students with a sextant of sorts, by which
they might better discover what it is they should know about life, what they
might hope for it, and how they might go about getting it. Not that this
belief made her censorious or doctrinaire: You cannot love literature the
way she did without also knowing that it is the untidiness of life that
makes it interesting. But she cared enough for her students to let them know
that the steering aids offered by the modern world might not be enough. Jane
Austen still offers the best advice on dating. Aristotle still has the last
word on friendship.
Continued in article
Joe Hoyle, an award winning teacher at the University of Richmond, has been
searching for and writing about what it takes to be a great teacher. I keep
reminding Joe that great teachers are like ice cream --- they come in many
flavors ranging from those gifted at not teaching to those gifted at lecturing.
Search Joe's archives at
http://joehoyle-teaching.blogspot.com/
By gifted in not teaching I mean those great teachers who are best at
contributing to metacognition such as great case method teachers and BAM
teachers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
One of the biggest challenges for any teacher is learning the art and science
of distilling essentials out of the vast material on virtually any topic.
The greatest success is in generating students who passionately want to
learn more and more details about the material a teacher covers in a course.
Sometimes the best learning entails discovery of where to find answers rather
than memorization of the answers.
Marshall McLuhan ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 Deck of Cards, Designed For Out-of-the-Box
Thinking ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/marshall-mcluhans-1969-deck-of-cards-designed-for-out-of-the-box-thinking.html
Jensen Comment
For example, the four of clubs reads "affluence creates poverty." In many
instances "affluence reduces poverty." One way of looking at it is when one of
our AECM professors declared there are no poor in the USA. Poverty is relative,
and this makes Gini coefficients virtually impossible to compare between nations
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
. . .
Different income distributions with the same Gini
coefficient
Even when the total income of a population is the
same, in certain situations two countries with different income
distributions can have the same Gini index (e.g. cases when income Lorenz
Curves cross).[52] Table A illustrates one such situation. Both countries
have a Gini index of 0.2, but the average income distributions for household
groups are different. As another example, in a population where the lowest
50% of individuals have no income and the other 50% have equal income, the
Gini coefficient is 0.5; whereas for another population where the lowest 75%
of people have 25% of income and the top 25% have 75% of the income, the
Gini index is also 0.5. Economies with similar incomes and Gini coefficients
can have very different income distributions. Bellù and Liberati claim that
to rank income inequality between two different populations based on their
Gini indices is sometimes not possible, or misleading.[61]
Extreme wealth inequality, yet low income Gini
coefficient
A Gini index does not contain information about
absolute national or personal incomes. Populations can have very low income
Gini indices, yet simultaneously very high wealth Gini index. By measuring
inequality in income, the Gini ignores the differential efficiency of use of
household income. By ignoring wealth (except as it contributes to income)
the Gini can create the appearance of inequality when the people compared
are at different stages in their life. Wealthy countries such as Sweden can
show a low Gini coefficient for disposable income of 0.31 thereby appearing
equal, yet have very high Gini coefficient for wealth of 0.79 to 0.86
thereby suggesting an extremely unequal wealth distribution in its
society.[62][63] These factors are not assessed in income-based Gini.
Continued in article
"Why some billionaires are bad for growth, and others aren’t," by Ana
Swanson, The Washington Post, August 20, 2015 ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/20/why-some-billionaires-are-bad-for-growth-and-others-arent/
Jensen Comment
My point is that one sentence declaratives can be highly misleading even
when they were produced by Marshall McLuhan. There are usually exceptions and
counter examples for most any simplistic declarative. That's what makes the
Academy so exciting. Only ignorant people have all the simple answers.
Unfortunately, there are quite of few of them seeking to
become President of the USA in 2016. There are tens of millions more who will be
voting for them in 2016.
Philosophy Explained (minimally) With Donuts ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/philosophy-explained-with-donuts.html
"The Economic Guide To Picking A College Major," by Ben Casselman,
Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog, September 12, 2014 (slightly dated) ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economic-guide-to-picking-a-college-major/
Jensen Comment
This is a better-than-most article article on this topic, although virtually all
such articles are misleading in terms of long-term versus short term reasons for
choosing a major. For example, some of the highest paying careers at the point
of graduation are not great careers in terms of long-term opportunities for
professional growth or lifetime income. Accounting and finance, for example, are
typically ranked low in terms of average starting salaries but rank high in
terms of economic opportunities. In part this is because accounting and finance
graduates are neophytes who have minimal expertise that comes with experience
and post-graduate learning (usually on the job). They have a lot of learning to
do before they can earn their keep.
One strong point of the article is that it lists number of majors in each
discipline broken down into quartiles. This is important because numbers reflect
the fact that there are both opportunities and job competition due to high
versus few numbers of majors. For example, there are over 200,000 nursing majors
and nearly 200,000 accounting majors. This suggests that demand for these majors
must be relatively widespread with considerable choices of location both
in urban and rural settings across the USA. Those disciplines having less than
1,000 majors perhaps have much less choice with respect to number of employers
and geographic locations.
The article is weak in terms of showing the incremental advantages of getting
advanced degrees. For example, the physical sciences are not usually great
undergraduate majors without going into some type of graduate study. Some majors
require at least masters degrees for taking the licensing examinations for a
career. Thus comparing these majors with majors that only require undergraduate
degrees is a little like comparing apples and oranges.
Also some majors that used to be great in terms of income and opportunity
have fallen onto hard times. Law schools, for example, are now graduating twice
and many majors relative to career opportunities in law.
Also some majors are much less specific in terms of job skills. For example,
graduates in business management have wide ranging skills (or lack thereof)
relative to accounting, pharmacy, and engineering majors that require many more
specialized courses in a curriculum --- partly due to the way certification
examinations dominate curricula for some majors like accounting, pharmacy, and
engineering but not business management. My point is that the subset of business
management majors is such a heterogeneous subset I'm not certain what starting
salary averages really mean in this diverse population.
My main recommendation is that starting salaries should be given much less
consideration than other factors going into a career. For example, I personally
would never have considered physical therapy as a major, because I think
physical therapy over the course of 50 years on the job must be terribly boring
and generally lacks growth opportunity. Some careers like K-12 teaching lack
growth opportunities buy offer considerable independence in terms of free time
with summer vacations and holidays that add up to a lot of free time in a
lifetime career. free time for example to raise children.
For me, being a professor in a university turned into what I think has to be
the best of all careers as long as becoming wealthy is not a priority in life.
The main advantage is independence choosing how to spend your time on and off
the job. There are of course other types of non-monetary rewards in helping
students learn and develop their own lives. My research and scholarship had
great variety over the years and was not nearly as dull as you might think when
the word "accountancy" is mentioned as an academic discipline.
The 10 Best and Worst Undergraduate Majors for Getting Jobs (without
getting additional credentials) ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-college-majors-2014-6
Top students in the "worst majors" in the past often went on to law
school. They are still doing so but in fewer numbers and greatly
dampened prospects for working in law firms after law school graduation.
Law school losses of students are often MBA program gains. Options in
accounting, engineering, nursing, pharmacy are not so great due to all
the undergraduate prerequisites that must be satisfied before going to
graduate school in those specialties.
Because there are so many graduates in business, neither an
undergraduate degree nor an MBA degree is a very good path to a career
without extremely high grades or specialties in demand like accounting.
Sometimes a combination of degrees greatly improves job prospects such
as an undergraduate engineering or computer science degree topped off
with an MBA from a top school.
Students planning to get MD or science Ph.D. degrees need to
carefully plan their undergraduate studies in advance of going to
graduate school. Unfortunately, graduate studies in those fields,
especially medicine, can be quite long and expensive. For example, most
MD or science Ph.D. graduates must also plan for low-paying
post-graduate residency or post-doc years before they can make
significant progress in paying down their student loans.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Search for the Latest Job Openings in any Discipline of Interest
---
https://chroniclevitae.com/job_search/new?cid=VTECHNJOBSL1
Jensen Comment
When I search for "Accounting" and "Faculty & Research" today there are 256 jobs
posted in the past 30 days. However, not all of these jobs seem property
classified as both "Accounting" and "Faculty & Research." Also I know of some
job openings for accounting professors that are not listed for major
universities.
For persons seeking jobs as accounting faculty in the USA perhaps a better
place to look might be the American Accounting Association Career Center ---
http://aaahq.org/Career-Center
Job seekers may also post their resumes at this center.
Since there are so many faculty vacancies in accountancy, job seekers with
Ph.D. degrees from AACSB-accredited universities are advised to contact colleges
and universities where they would most like to be employed.
Bob Jensen's threads on careers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#careers
Bob Jensen's threads on the higher education faculty job
market ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingFaculty
"The Distribution of a Ratio of Correlated Normals," by David Giles,
Econometrics Beat, August 26, 2015 ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-distribution-of-ratio-of-correlated.html#more
Jensen Comment
We know via the Central Limit Theorem that sample means of a variable are
distributed normally. If there are two such variables that are independent it
can also be shown that the distribution of their ratios follows a Cauchy
Distribution ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
David's blog posting shows what can happen when the two variables are not
independent.
"Admire the Beauty of a Well-Time Covered Call Program," by Bryan
Perry, Townhall, August 26, 2015 ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/bryanperry/2015/08/26/admire-the-beauty-of-a-welltime-covered-call-program-n2043807?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Jensen Comment
Among the various alternatives in derivatives markets, selling covered calls are
among the least risky alternatives for investors wealthy enough to own the
covering shares. Selling covered calls is not as risky or as speculative as many
other alternatives ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_call
However, very few alternatives in investing are risk free. Covered call
options run the risk of sacrificing the opportunity value of value increases in
owned shares between the date of sale of the covered call options and the date
they are exercised (if they are exercised) by the purchaser. Secondly, there's
still the risk of stock ownership when the call options expire unless the owner
of those shares also sells those shares and pays the transactions fees of the
sale. This is because in the options markets for puts and calls are normally
"net settled" for cash such that the owner of the shares really does not
necessarily "sell" those shares to meet option contract obligations.
Selling covered calls does not provide the leverage that derivatives
speculators often are looking for when they are willing to take high risks such
as investing in futures or forward or swap contracts (swaps are usually a
portfolio of forward contracts). Of course without leverage there is lower risk,
which is why risk averse wealthy investors are more inclined to sell covered
calls than purchase naked options ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_%28finance%29
Business students really should graduate understanding more about financial
leverage, net settlements, transactions costs, and other contracting features of
investments.
For example, do your students know how to calculate the profit earned on an
expired covered call option?
Hint: Start with the premium received by the call option seller?
For example, do your students know the enormous difference between selling a
covered call versus selling a naked call?
It gets even more complicated for accounting students who want to learn about
accounting for derivative contracts under FAS 133 in the USA and IFRS 9
internationally ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
September 2015 Readung List from David Giles, Econometrics Beat
---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-reading-list.html
- Abeln, B. and J. P. A. M. Jacobs, 2015. Seasonal adjustment with and without revisions: A comparison of X-13ARIMA-SEATS and CAMPLET. CAMA Working Paper 25/2015, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
- Chan, J. C. C. and A. L. Grant, 2015. A Bayesian model comparison for trend-cycle decompositions of output. CAMA Working Paper 31/2015, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
- Chen, K. and K-S. Chan, 2015. A note on rank reduction in sparse multivariate regression. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, in press.
- Fan, Y., S. Pastorello, and E. Renault, 2015. Maximization by parts in extremum estimation. Econometrics Journal, 18, 147-171.
- Horowitz, J., 2014. Variable selection and estimation in high-dimensional models. Cemmap Working Paper CWP35/15, Institute of Fiscal Studies, Department of Economics, University College London.
- Larson, W., 2015. Forecasting an aggregate in the presence of structural breaks in the disaggregates. RPF Working Paper No. 2015-002, Research Program on Forecasting, Center of Economic Research, George Washington Univer
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week
ending September 5, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541021/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-september-5-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150907
MIT: Recommended from
Around the Web (Week ending September 5, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541011/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-september-5-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150904
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week ending August 29, 2015)
---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/540876/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-august-29-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150828
MIT: Recommended from Around the Web (Week ending August 29, 2015)
---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/540871/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-august-29-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150828
MIT: The 20 Most
Infamous Cyberattacks of the 21st Century (Part I)
---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/540786/the-20-most-infamous-cyberattacks-of-the-21st-century-part-i/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150825
From MIT's 2015 Acknowledgements of Innovators Under 35 Years of Age
"The Student-Loan Siphon: New evidence that the college debt bomb is
hurting the economy," The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-student-loan-siphon-1440803595?mod=djemMER
For years we’ve warned readers about the burgeoning
calamity known as student loans, and the latest news is that the debt bomb
is hurting the economy as well as the federal fisc. New evidence from the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia illustrates how subsidized student
loans sap small business creation.
Student loans have ballooned tenfold since 1999 to
more than $1 trillion, the authors note in a July report. Other consumer
debt—mortgages, car loans, credit cards—dipped during the 2008 financial
crisis, but student debt doubled from $547 billion in 2007, nearly all of it
on Education Department books. The Philly Fed is the first to examine how
mortgaging an education influences entrepreneurship.
Here’s the connection: Entrepreneurs borrow money
to get rolling. But the average student-loan customer owes $28,000 and so
some enterprising adults are loaded up with debt, even decades after
graduation. Nascent business (with no employees) report capital of about
$44,000, according to a recent survey; half comes from loans and lines of
credit. Debt-financing, the Fed points out, is critical for expanding a
business in the years following its founding.
Yet graduates have sunk too far into the red to
amass more liabilities, and not even bankruptcy can liberate them. The Fed
found that new firms with roughly five employees dropped 17% on average
between 2000 and 2010 in counties where relative student debt grew by 2.7%.
Pockets of the Midwest seem hardest hit, and much of this debt is saddled on
middle-class students and families. The authors call the correlation
“significant” and “economically meaningful,” which in academic publishing
means “huge.”
One result is that students choose different
careers, flocking to existing companies—if they manage to find a job in an
economy in which more than half of parking lot attendants report some
college experience. There’s no longer an incentive to plunge into the
risk-taking that produces valuable and innovative companies. It’s
fashionable to treat college as an Elysium promising higher earnings and
eternal happiness, but the Fed research is the latest clue that many
students would be better off without a degree. The 17% delinquency rate is
another hint.
Less obvious is the damage to the economy. The
report notes that small businesses create six in 10 new jobs, and make up
about half of the private economy and 99% of businesses. This could slow as
small business creation wanes, and there’s other evidence this is happening
among young people. The Kauffman Foundation has reported that new
entrepreneurs ages 20 to 34 fell to 23% of self-starters in 2013. That’s
down from 35% in 1996.
Continued in article
"Automation in the Newsroom:
How algorithms are helping reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and
respond to breaking news," by Celeste LeCompte, Nieman Reports,
September 1, 2015 ---
http://niemanreports.org/articles/automation-in-the-newsroom/
Philana Patterson,
assistant business editor for the Associated Press, has been covering
business since the mid-1990s. Before joining the AP, she worked as a
business reporter for both local newspapers and Dow Jones Newswires and as a
producer at Bloomberg. “I’ve written thousands of earnings stories, and I’ve
edited even more,” she says. “I’m very familiar with earnings.” Patterson
manages more than a dozen staffers on the business news desk, and her
expertise landed her on an AP stylebook committee that sets the guidelines
for AP’s earnings stories. So last year, when the AP needed someone to train
its newest newsroom member on how to write an earnings story, Patterson was
an obvious choice.
The trainee wasn’t
a fresh-faced j-school graduate, responsible for covering a dozen companies
a quarter, however. It was a piece of software called Wordsmith, and by the
end of its first year on the job, it would write more stories than Patterson
had in her entire career. Patterson’s job was to get it up to speed.
Patterson’s task is
becoming increasingly common in newsrooms. Journalists at ProPublica,
Forbes, The New York Times, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Yahoo, and others
are using algorithms to help them tell stories about business and sports as
well as education, inequality, public safety, and more. For most
organizations, automating parts of reporting and publishing efforts is a way
to both reduce reporters’ workloads and to take advantage of new data
resources. In the process, automation is raising new questions about what it
means to encode news judgment in algorithms, how to customize stories to
target specific audiences without making ethical missteps, and how to
communicate these new efforts to audiences.
Automation is also
opening up new opportunities for journalists to do what they do best: tell
stories that matter. With new tools for discovering and understanding
massive amounts of information, journalists and publishers alike are finding
new ways to identify and report important, very human tales embedded in big
data.
Years of
experience, industry standards, and the AP’s own stylebook all help
Patterson and her business desk colleagues know how to tell an earnings
story. But how does a computer know? It needs sets of rules, known as
algorithms, to help it.
An algorithm is
designed to accomplish a particular task. Google’s search algorithm orders
your page of results. Facebook’s News Feed determines which posts you see,
and a navigation algorithm determines how you’ll get to the beach.
Wordsmith’s algorithms write stories.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
"Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? Yes Says a Woman Who Runs the Bar Exam"
Bloomberg, August 20, 2015 ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-08-20/are-lawyers-getting-dumber-?cmpid=BBWGP082615_BIZ
When answer sheets for the July 2014 bar exam
flooded in, the results were unusually bad. Scores on the multiple-choice
portion hit a record low. Amid the alarm, the National Conference of Bar
Examiners had a simple message for law schools: It's not us, it's you.
Indeed, American legal education seems to be in
crisis. In 2015, fewer people applied to law school than at any point in the
past 30 years. With enrollments down, law schools are lowering the standards
for admittance. Many fear that will affect the legal profession for years to
come, as law schools produce less-qualified lawyers or deeply indebted law
school graduates with no chance of ever becoming attorneys.
"Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs." by Steven J. Harpe,
The New York Times, August 25, 2015 ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/too-many-law-students-too-few-legal-jobs.html?_r=0
. . .
Amazingly (and perversely), law schools have been able
to continue to raise tuition while producing nearly twice as many graduates
as the job market has been able to absorb. How is this possible? Why hasn’t
the market corrected itself? The answer is that, for a given school, the
availability of federal loans for law students has no connection to their
poor post-graduation employment outcomes.
Students now amass law school loans averaging $127,000
for private schools and $88,000 for public ones. Since 2006 alone, law
student debt has surged at inflation-adjusted rates of 25 percent for
private schools and 34 percent for public schools.
In May 2014, the A.B.A. created a task force to tackle
this problem. According to its recent report, 25 percent of law schools
obtain at least 88 percent of their total revenues from tuition. The average
for all law schools is 69 percent. So law schools have a powerful incentive
to maintain or increase enrollment, even if the employment outcomes are
dismal for their graduates, especially at marginal schools.
The underlying difficulty is that once students pay
their tuition bills, law schools have no responsibility for the debt their
students have taken on. In other words, law schools whose graduates have the
greatest difficulty finding jobs that require bar passage are operating
without financial accountability and free of the constraints that
characterize a functioning market. The current subsidy system is keeping
some schools in business. But the long-term price for students and taxpayers
is steep and increasing.
Paradoxically, the task force chairman was Dennis W.
Archer, the former mayor of Detroit, who is also head of the national policy
board of Infilaw, a
private equity-owned consortium of three
for-profit law schools — Arizona Summit, Charlotte and Florida Coastal.
These schools are examples of the larger problem. Most Infilaw 2014
graduates didn’t find jobs that required their expensive degrees. Excluding
positions funded by the law school, only 39.9 percent of Arizona Summit
graduates found full-time jobs lasting at least a year and requiring bar
passage. Florida Coastal’s rate was 34.5 percent. At Charlotte, it was 34.1
percent.
Yet as the demand for new lawyers continued to
languish from 2011 to 2014, the size of Infilaw’s graduating classes almost
doubled, to
1,223. These schools are also among the
leaders in creating law student debt. Arizona Summit’s 2014 graduates had
average law school debt of $187,792. At Florida Coastal, the average was
$162,785. Charlotte’s average was $140,528.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on the tough time for law schools and law graduates
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#OverstuffedLawSchools
"Gender and Accounting in Historical Perspective,"
SSRN, August 31, 2015
Author
Amah Kalu Ogbonnaya. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture
Link
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2649066
Abstract:
The work looks at Gender and Accounting in
Historical perspective, it to identifies the women that have made impact in
accounting profession in the World such as Jennie M. Palen and Lene E
Mandelnolin and many others. It also talks about the importance of gender in
accounting both in the lower level of management and higher level.
Conclusively, there is evidence that issues of gender may be embedded in the
functions, practices and process of accounting. It would seem that an
organizational practice, accounting could well be impacted by gender effect
and that gender research in accounting has a potential role in identifying
and investigating those gender affect that influence accounting.
Bob Jensen's historical threads about women in accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#Women
Can you do anything to prevent crabby, verbose full professors from
dominating faculty meetings? ---
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1102-the-professor-is-in-stopping-the-senior-snipers?cid=VTEVPMSED1
Jensen Comment
My experience over 40 years of being on the full-time faculties of four
universities is that speaking times in faculty meetings, especially large
faculty meetings, bifurcates heavily into those senior faculty who rarely speak
up versus those who always speak up. It becomes quite predictable over the years
regarding what both types of faculty will say when they do speak up. I tended to
be the quiet type usually because I was impatient for adjournment.
Often those that speak the most at meetings were also considered to be pretty
good teachers and advisers who published the least among their peers. However, I
never saw a study of my impressions about that aspect of faculty meetings.
"Islam and Slavery: The Persistence of History," The
Economist, August 22, 2015 ---
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21661812-islamic-states-revival-slavery-extreme-though-it-finds-disquieting-echoes-across
If you want to start your own blog you might want to take a look at
http://firstsiteguide.com/
Competition for eyeballs is fierce.
Bob Jensen's threads on listservs, blogs, and the social media ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Career Education Corporation ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_Education_Corporation
Note the module on Controversy and Federal Scrutiny
Career Education was investigated by the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission[
for various issues of non-compliance
in 2005. On February 15, 2005, the company announced an adjustment related
to an increase in the estimate for its allowance for doubtful accounts and a
restatement for a change in revenue recognition method for its Culinary and
Healthcare externships.[11]
In January 2008, CEC reported that the SEC has closed its investigation and
will take no action against the company. A
Department of Justice investigation began in 1994[15]
and was terminated in April 2007, with the DOJ declining prosecution.
In June 2005, the U.S. Department of Education
prohibited CEC from expanding until it had resolved issues with financial
statements and program reviews connected with
Collins College and
Brooks College two CEC schools.
In January 2007, the U.S. Department of Education
lifted its restrictions on the company opening new schools or acquiring
existing ones.
Career Education's
American InterContinental University was placed on
probation in December 2005 with its accrediting agency,
SACS.
The probation status was reviewed after one
year, in December 2006, and extended an additional 12 months.
On December 11, 2007, CEC announced
that SACS has removed AIU's probation and that the university's
accreditation remains in good standing.
Brooks College, a Career Education owned school,
was the subject of an unfavorable examination of for-profit trade schools in
the
CBS news magazine
60 Minutes which focused on alleged
misrepresentations by admission representatives to prospective students. A
CBS producer with a hidden camera visited several Career Education schools
in the New York area, including the
Katharine Gibbs School.
In June 2007, Career Education
announced its plan to close both campuses of Brooks College.
In January 2007, the New York State Education
Department reported deficiencies at the
Katharine Gibbs School's New York campus. The
problems related to faculty qualifications and remedial course offerings.
Career Education has since closed Katharine Gibbs School's New York campus.
Continued in article
"FTC Will Investigate Career
Education Corporation," Inside Higher
Ed, August 25, 2015 ---
Click Here
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/08/25/ftc-will-investigate-career-ed?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=df921ff721-DNU20150825&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-df921ff721-197565045
"How Literary Fame Happens," by Carlin Romano, Chronicle of Higher
Education, August 24, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Literary-Fame-Happens/232537/?cid=at
. . .
Jackson makes it abundantly clear, all told, that
an appetite for literary immortality, like the desire to read one’s
obituary, poses sufficient challenge that a writer should concentrate on
other goals. If you don’t have time to read her iconoclastic book, at least
enjoy a limerick by William S. Baring-Gould, foisted on Jackson by a
mischievous friend, that sums up much of it:
A goddess capricious is Fame.
You may strive to make noted your name.
But she either neglects you
Or coolly selects you
For laurels distinct from your aim.
"Ashley Madison Faces $578 Million clAss Action Lawsuit," by Tanya Basu,
Time Magazine, August 23, 2015 ---
http://time.com/4007374/ashley-madison-578-million-lawsuit-canada
Two Canadian firms filed the suit on Thursday
Two Canadian law firms filed a $578 million
class-action lawsuit against the companies that run extramarital-affairs
website Ashley Madison over a recent hack that exposed the personal
information of about 39 million users.
Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg LLP—two
Canadian law firms—filed the suit on Thursday on behalf of Canadians whose
personal information was breached in a company hack. The Toronto-based Avid
Dating Life and Avid Life Media, which run the company, are named in the
suit.
The lawsuit’s class-action status remains to be
certified by the court.
“Numerous former users of AshleyMadison.com have
approached the law firms to inquire about their privacy rights under
Canadian law,” the firms said in a statement. “They are outraged that
AshleyMadison.com failed to protect its users’ information. In many cases,
the users paid an additional fee for the website to remove all of their user
data, only to discover that the information was left intact and exposed.”
The statement went on to say that the class action
lawsuit will not seek damages from the hackers who leaked the information.
Continued in article
From the Scout Report on August 28, 2015
RebelMouse ---
https://www.rebelmouse.com/
RebelMouse is a social media aggregator. In other
words, the links, updates, tweets, photos, and other content that readers
post on their various social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest,
Instagram, etc.) can now all appear in one place - and that place happens to
be beautifully designed, convenient, and free. Readers may sign up with
their existing Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ accounts, or they can use the
simple email/password function. From there, provide the service with your
sign in information for your social media accounts and it will start pulling
your updates and blending them into a visually satisfying arrangement.
You'll also have more editorial control than on other social media sites
with the magazine-like format. The only potential downfall is that,
predictably, others will have to also sign up for RebelMouse before they can
view your content.
MeetingBurner ---
https://www.meetingburner.com/
For readers looking for a free online platform for
small meetings and webinars, MeetingBurner is a good choice. The free
service can host up to ten participants, and includes screen sharing, group
chat, audio and video conferencing, and some mobile tools. This can be
especially helpful for small organizations with a limited budget, since few
web conferencing providers offer free plans. However, to access more of
MeetingBurner's advanced features (such as the ability to host up to 50 or
250 attendees and recording options), users must pay a monthly fee. In a
nutshell, this basic service is one of the few free web conferencing
services available and it is perfect for small business owners or
non-profits on a budget.
A Corpse Flower Blooms in Denver
Foul-smelling 'corpse flower' blossoms in Denver (+video)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0823/Foul-smelling-corpse-flower-blossoms-in-Denver
Corpse Flower: Facts About the Smelly Plant
http://www.livescience.com/51947-corpse-flower-facts-about-the-smelly-plant.html
Why Insects Are Drawn to Corpse Flower's Stench
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150728-stinky-corpse-flower-university-of-california-blooms/
Amorphophallus titanum History & Statistics
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/amorph/amorphophallus-history.html
'Tabitha the Titan' begins making seeds
http://news.ucdavis.edu/special_reports/titan/default.lasso
How do we smell?
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-smell-rose-eveleth
Bob and Erika have a foul experience with a
"corpse plant" (the photographs) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/DeathBlossoms/StarFlowers.htm
From the Scout Report September
4, 2015
Todoist
---
https://en.todoist.com/
Todoist is one of
the best online productivity apps on the market, and the basic version,
which will satisfy most readers, is free. To use Todoist, readers must go
through a simple sign up process. From there, they can create their first
project, then add tasks and subtasks, set due dates, and manage priorities.
The idea is that Todoist helps users track their projects by helping them
prioritize their tasks. Once a task is completed, you simply click the small
box to the left, and move on to the next task. There is also an inbox where
readers can quickly add to-do items without attaching them to any particular
project. For readers who would like something more, there are also options
to add notes, set up filters, sync calendars, upload files, and share
projects, among other possibilities. Todoist provides a simple and effective
platform for staying organized and productive.
Jotti's
malware scan ---
https://virusscan.jotti.org/
Jotti's malware
scan does one thing and one thing only: it scans files for viruses and then
tells you what it finds. The process is fast and easy. Simply upload any
file using the site's Submit Files option. From there, Jotti will scan the
file with over 20 different online scanners, including such popular services
as Avast! and ESET. About a minute later it will return your results in an
easy-to-read format. The service is free. Up to five files can be scanned
simultaneously, with a 50MB limit. For readers who need to know about the
safety of individual files, Jotti is one of the best services around.
Burning Man, Past and Present
Voices: At Burning Man, pretty much anything goes
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/31/voices-scene--burning-man/71453610/
Burning Man's Fashion Is Wild, but There Are Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/style/at-burning-man-a-counterculture-festival-the-fashion-police-walk-the-beat.html
Timeline: Burning Man
http://burningman.org/timeline/
The Huffington Post: Burning Man
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/burning-man/
My first Burning Man: confessions of a conservative from Washington
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/my-first-burning-man-grover-norquist
Commercializing the Counterculture: How the Summer Music Festival Went
Mainstream
http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/commercializing-counterculture-summer-music-festival-went-mainstream-86334
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance,
economics, and statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Education Tutorials
TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing ---
http://ed.ted.com/
TED Talks: How schools kill creativity ---
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
Mindfulness in the Classroom ---
http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/contemplative-pedagogy/
CBC Digital Archives: For Teachers
(Canada, News) ---
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/teachers/lesson-plan
How Courts Work ---
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work.html
Renewable Energy Projects for the Classroom (PDF) ---
http://www2.ivcc.edu/mimic/nsf/Resources for Teachers/Renewable
Energy Projects - Handbook.pdf
PBS Learning Media: Teen Maps Contaminants from a Coal Plant
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/envh10.health.coalmap/teen-maps-contaminants-from-a-coal-plant/
The Week In Congress ---
http://theweekincongress.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
How Astronauts Dock at the Space Station ---
http://time.com/4008222/soyuz-space-station/?xid=newsletter-brief
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Learn About Nuclear Weapons ---
http://laromkarnvapen.se/en/
ChemIDplus (chemical database) ---
http://chem2.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/chemidlite.jsp
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine: Medicine Prize Related Educational Productions
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/
PLOS: Computational Biology ---
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/
Go Botany: Discover thousands of New England plants ---
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/teaching/
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: Macaulay Library (audio of birds and other
animals) ---
http://macaulaylibrary.org/
Renewable Energy Projects for the Classroom (PDF) ---
http://www2.ivcc.edu/mimic/nsf/Resources for Teachers/Renewable
Energy Projects - Handbook.pdf
Modules: Free Ag Energy Curriculum for Teachers ---
http://agenergyia.org/modules/
PBS Learning Media: Teen Maps Contaminants from a Coal Plant
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/envh10.health.coalmap/teen-maps-contaminants-from-a-coal-plant/
Scientists have found a massive stone
monument buried underground that could be even bigger than Stonehenge ---
http://uk.businessinsider.com/stone-monument-found-near-stonehenge-2015-9#ixzz3l4CbTEO3
Typographica (typeface design) ---
http://typographica.org/
Data Snapshots: Reusable Climate Maps
---
http://www.climate.gov/maps-data
"Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactors Get
a Safety Check in Europe," by Richard Martin, MIT's Technology Review,
September 4, 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540991/meltdown-proof-nuclear-reactors-get-a-safety-check-in-europe/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150908
Researchers say
they could build a prototype of a molten salt reactor, a safer, cleaner
nuclear power option, in 10 years.
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
America By The Numbers (PBS analysis of changing demographics in the USA) ---
http://www.americabythenumbers.org/
America By The Numbers (PBS analysis of changing demographics in the USA) ---
http://www.americabythenumbers.org/
Office of National Drug Control Policy
--- https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp
The Week In Congress ---
http://theweekincongress.com/
The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development: Tax ---
http://www.oecd.org/tax/
The Poetry Society: Poetryclass ---
http://www.poetryclass.poetrysociety.org.uk/
Explore America's history the 21st century way with: 700 digital maps ---
http://dailym.ai/1kEvKnB
FlackCheck.org ---
http://www.flackcheck.org
Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the
University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org offers resources that help students
"recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular"
Bloggingheads.tv (political commentary ---
http://bloggingheads.tv/
Embargo Watch (news censorship) ---
https://embargowatch.wordpress.com/
Student Press Law Center ---
http://www.splc.org/
National Archives: Records of Rights ---
http://recordsofrights.org/
Rights in America ---
http://www.docsteach.org/home/rights
Renewable Energy Projects for the Classroom (PDF) ---
http://www2.ivcc.edu/mimic/nsf/Resources for Teachers/Renewable
Energy Projects - Handbook.pdf
Museum of the City of New York:
Reginald Marsh ---
http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MNY_11_VForm
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
How Courts Work ---
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work.html
National Archives: Records of Rights ---
http://recordsofrights.org/
Rights in America ---
http://www.docsteach.org/home/rights
Embargo Watch (news censorship) ---
https://embargowatch.wordpress.com
Student Press Law Center ---
http://www.splc.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
PLOS: Computational Biology ---
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000
Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection
---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-british-library-puts-over-1000000-images-in-the-public-domain-a-deeper-dive-into-the-collection.html
Everything to Know About Ebay on Its 20th Birthday ---
http://time.com/4020222/ebay-20-anniversary-birthday/?xid=newsletter-brief
Scientists have found a massive stone
monument buried underground that could be even bigger than Stonehenge ---
http://uk.businessinsider.com/stone-monument-found-near-stonehenge-2015-9#ixzz3l4CbTEO3
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler
incident ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident
The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,”
Now Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-history-of-cartography-the-most-ambitious-overview-of-map-making-ever-now-free-online.html
Bob Jensen's threads on cartography ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#MapCollections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Galleries ---
http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/museum-map/galleries
The Poetry Society: Poetryclass ---
http://www.poetryclass.poetrysociety.org.uk/
British Library: Virtual books ---
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html
Harry Ransom Center Digital
Collections: Project REVEAL (English & American Books) ---
http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/reveal#nav_top
William Faulkner Rocked Fourth Grade
(1907-1908) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/william-faulkner-rocked-fourth-grade-1907-1908.html
3 Million Judgements of Books by their Covers ---
https://medium.com/@deancasalena/3-million-judgements-of-books-by-their-covers-f2b89004c201
Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters:
Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/tolstoy-and-gandhi-exchange-letters.html
A Nerd’s Guide To The 2,229 Paintings At MoMA ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-nerds-guide-to-the-2229-paintings-at-moma/
America By The Numbers (PBS analysis of changing demographics in the USA) ---
http://www.americabythenumbers.org/
Explore America's history the 21st century way with: 700 digital maps ---
http://dailym.ai/1kEvKnB
Tulane Digital Library: Baby Boom America Collection ---
http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/collection/id/38
Watch The Half Hour Hegel: A Long, Guided Tour Through Hegel’s Phenomenology,
Passage by Passage ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-half-hour-hegel.html
Hegel on Knowledge, Impatience, the Peril of Fixed Opinions, and the True
Task of the Human Mind ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/27/hegel-knowledge-phenomenology-of-mind/?mc_cid=32c8c0dfcd&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Typographica (typeface design) ---
http://typographica.org/
The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for Superman, Batman &
Your Other Favorite Superheroes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-1982-dc-comics-style-guide-is-online.html
Bombsight: Mapping the WW2 Bomb Census (bombing sites of London) ---
http://bombsight.org
WW II Airplanes ---
http://pippaettore.com/Horrific_WWII_Statistics.html
Museum of the City of New York:
Reginald Marsh ---
http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MNY_11_VForm
The Frying Pan and the Fire
Why did 99% of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Denmark survive while 99% of the Jews
in Nazi-occupied Estonia were murdered? ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-frying-pan-and-the-fire-1441402937?mod=djemMER
Such questions lie
in the background of the Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s remarkable “Black
Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning,” a book that extends his
gripping, somber “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” (2010). In
that volume’s account of purges, massacres, shootings, starvations,
executions and incinerations in Germany, the Soviet Union and the contested
lands in between, the Holocaust is but a subset of 14 million gratuitous yet
calculated murders. In “Black Earth,” the Holocaust is the focus of
attention, but we are never allowed to forget the surrounding charnel house.
Mr. Snyder said that in “Bloodlands” he wanted to write a “transnational”
history, taking a broad look at events from without rather than from within
the world of a particular nation. “Black Earth” takes a similarly broad
approach: He does not see the Holocaust as a “war against the Jews”—as the
historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—for which Hitler was prepared to
sacrifice ordinary military strategy, but as an extreme example of Hitler’s
wide-ranging racial obsessions.
Continued in
article
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
New Research Shows How Music Lessons
During Childhood Benefits the Brain for a Lifetime ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/new-research-shows-how-music-lessons-during-childhood-benefits-the-brain-for-a-lifetime.html
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
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
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
August 24, 2015
August 25, 2015
August 26, 2015
August 27, 2015
August 28, 2015
August 29, 2015
August 30, 2015
August 31, 2015
September 1, 2015
September 3, 2015
September 4, 2015
September 5, 2015
September 8, 2015
September 9, 2015
September 10, 2015
Grace Paley on the Art of Growing
Older ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/03/grace-paley-aging/?mc_cid=a06f2bb48a&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
How to Age Gracefully: No Matter What Your Age, You Can Get Life Advice
from Your Elders ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/how-to-age-gracefully-no-matter-what-your-age-you-can-get-life-advice-from-your-elders.html
New Research Shows How Music Lessons
During Childhood Benefits the Brain for a Lifetime ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/new-research-shows-how-music-lessons-during-childhood-benefits-the-brain-for-a-lifetime.html
Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward in
a 1961 Letter ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/marilyn-monroe-recounts-her-harrowing-experience-in-a-psychiatric-ward-in-a-1961-letter.html
Mental Health ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health
"An Epidemic of Anguish: Overwhelmed by demand for mental-health
care, colleges face conflicts in choosing how to respond," by Robin Wilson,
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/An-Epidemic-of-Anguish/232721/?cid=at
Cassie Smith-Christmas and Margaret Go have
something terrible in common: Both have family members who killed themselves
while attending prestigious universities. In both cases, the students went
to the campus counseling center before taking their own lives. But that’s
where the similarity ends.
When her younger brother, Ian, told a counselor at
the College of William & Mary that he was feeling suicidal, says Ms.
Smith-Christmas, the response was quick and decisive: An administrator
called their parents that day and forced her brother to leave and seek
professional help. After five days in a mental hospital and a couple of
weeks on academic leave, he returned to the campus and tried to catch up on
his work. He felt rejected, fragile, and overwhelmed, his sister says. Just
a few days after he returned, in April 2010, his body was discovered in his
parked car.
At the California Institute of Technology, where
Ms. Go’s son Brian was a junior, the reaction to his suicidal thoughts was
very different. After he wrote an email message to a counselor questioning
whether he had the "will to go on," the counselor told him she couldn't meet
with him for a few days. And although university administrators knew that a
week after he wrote the email he had gone to the roof of a campus building
and told a friend he planned to hurt himself, the university never informed
his parents or sent him to a hospital, says Ms. Go. On his third attempt,
she says, in May 2009, he killed himself.
Ian and Brian’s stories demonstrate two different
campus responses to troubled students. College officials won’t comment on
specific cases, citing privacy laws. But R. Kelly Crace, associate vice
president for health and wellness at William & Mary, says the college
typically asks students to withdraw if the campus environment is deemed "too
toxic" for them. Before they can return, the students must prove that
they've received the help they needed, he says.
The Go family sued Caltech and its counseling staff
for malpractice and wrongful death — and while they settled with the
counseling staff, a judge dismissed their suit against the university and
its administrators. "We had stars in our eyes," acknowledges Ms. Go, who had
suggested that her son visit the campus counseling center after he became
devastated over a breakup with his girlfriend. "I thought: elite school,
elite everything."
Continued in article
"How One University Uses a ‘Mental Health Kiosk’ to Reach Students,"
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Video-How-One-University-Uses/232195/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
"A College Wish List for My (bipolar) Son," by Max's Mom, Chronicle
of Higher Education, August 31, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/A-College-Wish-List-for-My-Son/232715/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Jensen Comment
Distance education programs face different problems with respect to student
mental health and some other medical disabilities. In some ways it's easier not
having to provide on-campus medical services. In other respects it's more
difficult accommodating some of these students with such things as added time
for projects, examinations, and learning materials for disabled students ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
Humor September 1-11, 2015
Philosophy Explained With Donuts ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/philosophy-explained-with-donuts.html
Woody Allen Tells a Classic Joke About
Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Gertrude Stein in 1965: A Precursor to Midnight in Paris
---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/woody-allen-tells-a-classic-joke-about-hemingway-fitzgerald-gertrude-stein.html
Gene Autry's Cowboy Code
1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair
advantage.
2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
3. He must always tell the truth.
4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6. He must help people in distress.
7. He must be a good worker.
8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal
habits.
9. He must respect women, parents, and his nations laws.
10. The Cowboy is a patriot.
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/WorldCodes/Cowboy.Code.html
From the Washington Star-News
Friday, President Obama visited Mason Crest elementary school in Annandale,
Virginia to announce major progress on his ConnectED initiative. Before his
remarks, however, he stopped by one of the school’s 2nd Grade classes to chat
with students.
In his informal meeting with the young students the President asked them to
“Define the word “tragedy”.
One unidentified girl replied, “If my mommy ran over my dog, Bailey, that
would be a tragedy!”
The President smiled at the little girl and said, “No, sweetie. That would be
an accident! Would anyone else like to give it a try?”
A little boy sitting across the room raised his hand and said, “I know! I
know! If our bus driver ran off of a cliff and killed everyone!”
The President shook his head and said, “No son, that would be a great loss!
Doesn’t anyone know of a good example of a tragedy?”
Then 7 year old Francine Upton, raised her hand and said, “Well, Mr.
President, if you and Michelle were in Air Force One and it was hit by a missile
and blown to smithereens, most people would think that that was a tragedy!”
“Very good” he said, “And what was your reason for that answer?”
“Well” she answered, “It would not be an accident and it sure would be no
great loss!” - See more at: http://www.washingtonstarnews.com/satire/7-year-old-just-put-obama-in-his-place-with-this-answer-to-his-question/#sthash.vuHDDNvL.dpuf
Forwarded by Paula
John was sitting
outside his local pub one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling
good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts
decrying the evils of drink.
"You should be
ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of
the devil!"
Now John gets
pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.
"How do you know
this, Sister?"
"My Mother
Superior told me so."
"But have you ever
had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is
right?"
"Don't be
ridiculous--of course I have never taken alcohol myself"
"Then let me buy
you a drink - if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up
drink for life"
"How could I, a
Nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"
"I'll get the
barman to put it in a teacup for you, then no one will ever know."
The Nun
reluctantly agrees, so John goes inside to the bar.
"Another pint for
me, and a triple vodka on the rocks", then he lowers his voice and says to
the barman "and could you put the vodka in a teacup?"
"Oh no! It's not
that Nun again is it?"
Humor August 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Humor December 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor123114
Humor November 1-30, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor113014
Humor October 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor103114
Humor September 1-30, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor093014
Humor August 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor083114
Humor July 1-31, 2014---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor073114
Tidbits Archives ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
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
-
With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.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.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
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://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
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, etc.
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for
accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting
education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial
accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing,
doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics)
research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
|
CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
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] |
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 ---
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv
September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and
the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
Counts
Yes you may mention info on
your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any
CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is
possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not
have access to the files and other items posted.
Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in
top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and
in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I
will get the request to join.
Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage
people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then
via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in
your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the
inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.
We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in
California.... ]
Please encourage your members
to join our listserve.
If any questions let me know.
Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk
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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
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All
my online pictures ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
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