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Tidbits on September 15, 2016
Bob Jensen
at
Trinity University
Wedding at the Rocks Estate
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen//Tidbits/RocksEstate/2016Wedding/RocksEstateWedding.htm
Tidbits September 15, 2016
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For
earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's past
presentations and lectures
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page is at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Updates from WebMD
---
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Scholarpedia (a cross between Wikipedia and Google Scholar) ---
http://www.scholarpedia.org
Google Scholar ---
https://scholar.google.com/
Wikipedia ---
https://www.wikipedia.org/
Bob Jensen's search helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
An Animated Introduction to French Philosopher
Jacques Derrida ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/an-animated-introduction-to-french-philosopher-jacques-derrida.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Polar Spectacular ---
https://player.vimeo.com/video /41225777
The 23 best comedy movies you can stream on Netflix right now (Netflix
streaming service is not free) ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-netflix-comedies-2016-9
Most of them sound to silly to me. Where's the latest BBC comedy?
Erika and I watch one movie every day, usually downloaded directly from
NetFlix or on a mailed NetFlix disk.
We mostly watch BBC mystery series, but this time we watched an ABC television
series.
It's called American Crime (thus far we only
watched the first season)
I can't say I enjoyed it as much as BBC mysteries, but I will say that more than
anything I've watched recently it seemed to capture life and culture as it is in
the USA crime world today.
It deals quite tastefully and realistically with such things as multiculturism,
gangs, biracial love, true love, true hate, addiction, problems of solving crime
in the world today, and issues of family stress
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Hear the Beatles Play Their Final Concert 50 Years Ago Today
(August 29, 1966) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/hear-the-beatles-play-their-final-concert-50-years-ago-today-august-29-1966.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Wynton Marsalis Takes Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet Out of the
Museum & Plays It Again ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/wynton-marsalis-takes-louis-armstrongs-trumpet-out-of-the-museum-plays-it-again.html
The Weather Channel: Drain Hole in a Lake Yet the Lake
Never Dries Up ---
https://weather.com/travel/video/a-waterfall-in-the-middle-of-a-lake?cm_ven=Outbrain_5HoleLake_6172016_1
Watch over 100 bulldozers dismantle a Chinese overpass overnight
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-demolition-jiangxi-2016-9
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
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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Twp Romantic Pictures of Barack and Michele Obama ---
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3782752/Obamas-grace-cover-Essence-Internet-swooning.html#ixzz4Jq5z7iOV
1850s Japan Comes to Life in 3D, Color Photos: See the
Stereoscopic Photography of T. Enami ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/1850s-japan-comes-to-life-in-3d-color-photos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Colors of Classical Art ---
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/online_modules/colors/home.php
The History of Russia in 70,000 Photos: New Photo Archive
Presents Russian History from 1860 to 1999 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/the-history-of-russia-in-70000-photos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Journal18 (art history funded by the Getty
Museum) ---
http://www.journal18.org
The Life of Art (Getty Museum) ---
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/life_of_art/
Fast, Cheap, and Totally Popular: Tintypes ---
http://daily.jstor.org/fast-cheap-and-totally-popular-tintypes/
What Did Manhattan Look Like in 1609? ---
http://daily.jstor.org/what-did-manhattan-look-like-1609/
Download 100,000 Photos of 20 Great U.S. National Parks,
Courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/download-100000-photos-of-20-great-u-s-national-parks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked: Research Reveals their
Bold, Bright Colors and Patterns ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bloomberg: 11 of the Wildest Wildlife Photos of the Year
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2016-09-01/pick-your-favorite-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year?cmpid=BBD090216_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=
19 photos show a rare side of the world that aircraft
servicemembers see ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/aircraft-views-unique-2016-8
An Astronaut’s Stunning Photos of Earth From Space ---
http://time.com/4466572/jeff-williams-astronaut-photos-space/?xid=newsletter-brief
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
YouTube: Very Rare Photographs ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-X84Adbu50
10 Rare Photographs ---
http://thelistlove.com/10-rare-photographs-from-history/
50 Watts (book designs) ---
http://50watts.com
From the Scout Report on September 2, 2016
The Year
of Rembrandt: Revisiting the Dutch Painter's Artistic Genius
A Rarely Seen Rembrandt Is Coming to the Frick
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/arts/design/a-rarely-seen-rembrandt-is-coming-to-the-frick.html
The No-Return Policy: Rembrandt's First Masterpiece Simply Intrigues at the
Morgan Library in New York
http://www.artnews.com/2016/08/09/the-no-return-policy-rembrandts-first-masterpiece-is-deeply-intriguing-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york
Was this painting made by Rembrandt - or Photoshop?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/was-this-painting-made-by-rembrandt-or-photoshop
Did Rembrandt Use Mirrors and Optical Tricks to Create his Paintings?
http://www.livescience.com/55616-rembrandt-optical-tricks-self-portraits.html
Rembrandt's self-portraits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8978/18/8/080401
The Met: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Paintings
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rmbt/hd_rmbt.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures ---
http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/index
Punctuate (free essays) ---
http://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate
Mapping Thoreau Country (history of David Thoreau) ---
http://www.mappingthoreaucountry.org
Mahri Poetry Archive (Islam) ---
http://sites.middlebury.edu/mahripoetry
The Thoreau Reader
---
http://eserver.org/thoreau/default.html
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free
to Read Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/enter-an-archive-of-6000-historical-childrens-books-all-digitized-and-free-to-read-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Keepers Registry (back issues of journals in large libraries) ---
http://thekeepers.org
For example search for "Accounting"
Open Science Directory ---
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
JSTR - The Scholarly Journal Archive ---
http://www.jstor.org/
Electronic Literature Organization ---
http://www.eliterature.org/
Internet Library
of Early Journals ---
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Royal Society
Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online
---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/10/royal_society_opens_online_archive_puts_60000_papers_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
All Free Magazines (links to free
magazines) ---
http://www.all-freemagazines.com/mag.html
These are classified by subject matter.
Many are offer free trial subscriptions for one year.
WindowsMedia.com
http://www.windowsmedia.com/
A search engine for online audio and video.
The Pulitzer Prizes ---
http://www.pulitzer.org/
FindArticles.com - search through an archive of articles from over
300 magazines and journals --
http://www.findarticles.com/
The Atlantic Online ---
http://www.theatlantic.com/books/books.htm
The Library of Economics and Liberty ---
http://www.econlib.org/index.html
Electronic Book Review ---
http://electronicbookreview.com
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on September 15, 2016
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations091516.htm
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob
Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Altmetrics ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetrics
"Altmetrics: diversifying the understanding of influential scholarship,"
by Stacy Konkiel, Palgrave Communications, August 23, 2016 ---
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201657
The increase in the availability of data about how
research is discussed, used, rated, recommend, saved and read online has
allowed researchers to reconsider the mechanisms by which scholarship is
evaluated. It is now possible to better track the influence of research
beyond academia, though the measures by which we can do so are not yet
mature enough to stand on their own. In this article, we examine a new class
of data (commonly called “altmetrics”) and describe its benefits,
limitations and recommendations for its use and interpretation in the
context of research assessment. This article is published as part of a
collection on the future of research assessment.
Open Yale Courses: Philosophy and the Science
of Human Nature ---
http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181
A Syracuse University professor withdrew an
invitation to a New York University professor, who is Israeli, to present his
film at an academic conference, saying that his nationality would upset
colleagues who favor a boycott of Israeli academe.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/06/syracuse-condemns-action-professor-rescind-invitation-israeli-scholar?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c61d554145-DNU20160906&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c61d554145-197565045&mc_cid=c61d554145&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
Why Israel in general is now supporting Donal Trump ---
https://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4hc1qe/why_israelis_love_trump_told_by_an_israeli/d2p3xu7
That is one of the reasons why it's no longer acceptable to invite Israelis to
USA campuses
What
happened to the words:
"
race, color,
religious
creed, national
origin,
ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, military service,
or disability?"
But
this is not a legal issue!
It's the future of the Academy that's at stake in the hearts and minds of it's
faculty and students. I cannot think of a single USA Democratic Party activist
who could not speak peacefully
at Syracuse University or DePaul University or wherever on a campus.
At the
moment it is hard to think of any Republican Party activist who could speak
peacefully at Syracuse
University or DePaul University or wherever on a campus.
How about Ann Coulter who graduated summa cum
laude at Cornell University and became a conservative activist attorney?
There's not campus in the USA where entrances to
her talk would not be blocked!
What
have we become?
It's not so much the administration that will lead the protests outside where a
Republican Activist is invited to speak on campus.
It's our closed-minded faculty and students who will block the entrances.
Speakers now have to be politically correct to get invitations to speak on
campus.
Philosophy Professor Alan Bloom is correct.
Political correctness is the "Closing of the American Minds"
Allan
Bloom's 1987 book The Closing of the American
Mind ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind
The
banning of conservative writers from college campuses but not
liberal/progressive writers is an example of just what Allan Bloom was referring
to over and over in his classic and frightening book.
The answer is not in the First Amendment of anything about legal rights.
It's about the closing of the academic minds on campus where even an Israeli
professor of chemistry, medicine, or accounting wears a Scarlet Letter and must
be boycotted for being Israeli.
"The
Chicago School of Free Speech," The Wall
Street Journal, August 27, 2016 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chicago-school-of-free-speech-1472168075?mod=djemMER
For a change, we come not to bury a college president but to praise him. His
name is Robert Zimmer, and nearby the University of Chicago president
defends the educational and societal virtues of free speech on college
campuses. Let’s hope he wears body armor to the next faculty meeting.
Mr. Zimmer’s public coming out is all the more notable because it appears to
be part of a university-wide message. The school’s dean of students, Jay
Ellison, has written a letter to incoming freshmen noting that the desire
for “safe spaces” from discomfiting speech or ideas will not override the
academic community’s interest in rigorous debate.
“Members of our community are encouraged to speak, write, listen, challenge
and learn, without fear of censorship,” Mr. Ellison wrote for tender
millennial ears. “You will find that we expect members of our community to
be engaged in rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement. At times
this may challenge you and even cause discomfort.”
This is so refreshing we want to keep going. Mr. Ellison’s letter adds that
Chicago’s “commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support
so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because
their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation
of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and
perspectives at odds with their own.”
The letter comes with a monograph by dean John Boyer discussing the
university’s “history of debate, and even scandal, resulting from our
commitment to academic freedom.” Maybe Chicago’s example will inspire spinal
infusions at the likes of Rutgers, the University of Missouri, and even the
timorous souls at Yale.
Closing
Question
If former Chicago Professor Milton Friedman were alive and well enough to speak
on the campus of the University of Chicago? Do you think some politically
correct professors and students would not turn out in numbers to block the
entrance to his speech?
Paul Krugman, however, could speak ever so peacefully on the campus of the
University of Chicago.
The Importance Of Being Politically Correct ---
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/05/the-importance-of-being-politically-correct/18471/
"Colleges mad with political
correctness over campus rapes, by George Will, NY Post, June 7, 2014 ---
http://nypost.com/2014/06/07/colleges-mad-with-political-correctness-over-campus-rapes/
19 Examples of Political Correctness ---
http://www.infowars.com/19-shocking-examples-of-how-political-correctness-is-destroying-america/
David Pogue Review:
Eero is a pricey but
effective fix for Wi-Fi dead spots ---
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/eero-the-hero-a-pricey-end-to-wi-fi-dead-spots-192537160.html
David Pogue Review: Amazon
Echo Adds 1000 New Features, Making It Even More Amazing ---
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/amazon-echo-adds-1000-new-features-1363173697691702.html
50 must-have tech accessories under $50 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-tech-accessories-under-50-dollars-2016-7
Textbooks: One of the biggest ways college students are ripped off
is getting out of control ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/college-text-book-prices-are-getting-out-of-control-2016-9
Bob
Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Cal State LA offers segregated housing for black students ---
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/
Is looking for
a gap between an object and its reflection a good way to distinguish two-way
mirrors from ordinary mirrors?
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/mirror.asp
Jensen Comment
Reminds me of the time a Texas Aggie coed wore a see-through dress and nobody
wanted to.
Citing Safety Concerns, Northwestern U. Bans Tenured 'Gadfly' Professor
From Campus ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Citing-Safety-Concerns/237692?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=75ced598105a490d81188309d50f850d&elq=8a751280b48448b99b32b10980a22545&elqaid=10544&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3973
Jensen Comment
A lot of professors taking the side of Jacqueline Stevens might be less vocal in
support if the professor in question was a pistol-packing male member of a
white-supremacy clan and tenured professor on the University of Texas
campus teaching a controversial (horrors) conservative economics course.
This article touches on the enormous gray zone between people who have been
treated for mental illness and those whose behavior raises concerns that they
should be being treated. This is a special problem that the FBI has in dong
background checks for buy firearms.
This article avoids the controversial difference between the safety of an
instructor's superiors versus the safety concerns of the instructor's students.
A Bloomberg analysis
found that, since 2008, the 150 largest tech companies in Silicon Valley have
faced 226 age discrimination complaints filed with the California Department of
Fair Employment and Housing. There were more complaints regarding age than even
race or gender bias.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this
Tenured Professors Last Forever
Too Old to Cut the Mustard Anymore ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-l2GgSkA6U
Senior Moments ---
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9nndS22Qda0?rel=0
I Just Do't Look Good Naked Anymore ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8R51IUtYCQ
Time Magazine: These Are the Top 10 Ranked Party Schools in America
---
http://time.com/4470872/top-party-schools-princeton-review-list/?xid=newsletter-brief
Check out the top 10 list — based on 143,000
students’ ratings of their campus experiences — below.
1.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
2.
West Virginia University
3.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4.
Lehigh University
5.
Bucknell University
6.
University of Iowa
7.
University of Mississippi
8.
Syracuse University
9.
Tulane University
10.
Colgate University
Jensen Comment
This should have come out earlier in the year when students were deciding among
university choices.
What happened to the University of Colorado that now has marijuana parties?
We will not, at any time, debate the science of
climate change’
Three professors jointly teaching a science course at the University of Colorado
in Colorado Springs
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28825/
Jensen Comment
These politically correct professors also ordered that any student who wanted to
challenge the science of climate change should stay out of their
online course
Being online it's not possible for disbelievers to take up class time with
questions!
Why is closed mindedness taking over our Academy?
The New Weapons in the Fight Against 2.4 Billion Robocalls ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-31/with-pesky-robocalls-on-the-rise-tech-forces-amass-to-stop-them?cmpid=BBD083116_BIZ
Jensen Comment
This is like fighting cancer --- don't hold your breath
A self-driving bus has hit the road in Australia ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-self-driving-bus-has-hit-the-road-in-australia-2016-9
But with a maximum speed of 28 mph you best not be in a hurry like bigger busses
on the USA open highways that always seem to exceed the speed limit.
Lowe's is rolling out in-store robots this month ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-is-rolling-out-in-store-robots-this-month-2016-9
Jensen Comment
Had Lowe's waited until October the robots could have pumpkin heads or be
headless on a horse.
Hybrid Pedagogy (digital education) ---
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped
The Keepers Registry (back issues of journals in large libraries) ---
http://thekeepers.org
For example search for "Accounting"
Things to know about Apple's upcoming 2016 MacBook Pro ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-pro-2016-rumors-roundup-2016-8
Fact Check: No, Obama has not banned Pledge of Allegiance ---
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2016-08-30/story/fact-check-no-obama-has-not-banned-pledge-allegiance
Jensen Comment
Somebody sent me a link on this topic in what must be an ABC News spoof site.
http://abcnews.com.co/obama/
And I don't think Donald Trump tweeted a picture of his penis (with an ABC
censor pasting over the crotch)
It's getting worse so that you cannot trust the URLs for genuine sites.
And no the NFL will not stop playing the National Anthem at the start of
football games.
'It was a ghost town': Shoppers reveal why
they've abandoned Sears and Kmart ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-dont-shop-at-sears-and-kmart-2016-9
Jensen Comment
It's a classic retail problem. If you're store's losing money you lay off
workers. If you lay off workers unhappy customers go somewhere else. And with
Amazon there's always "somewhere else."
There are no K-Mart stores in these White Mountains. There is a small Sears
store about 10 miles north in Littleton. I always get instant help and
cashiering in our Sears store because I'm always the only one in the store. I
buy my large and heavy items (think kitchen appliances, TV sets, and snow
throwers) from Sears because up here Sears has the best at-home
extended-warranty service.
Our Wall-Mart in Littleton is one of the busiest stores per square foot in
Wall-Mart's worldwide systems of stores. Be prepared to walk a half mile to get
to and from your parked car. Over half the other cars in the parking lot have
green license plates. This is where Vermont shops! Firstly, Vermonters flock
here to avoid sales tax. Secondly, Vermont physicians will phone prescriptions
into the well-stocked, low-priced Littleton Wal-Mart. Thirdly, years and years
ago Vermont banned new Wal-Mart stores because Vermont, the proud home of Bernie
Sanders, supports labor unions 100%. But there's another reason Vermonters flock
to our Wal-Mart store in Littleton. Across the road is a NH State Liquor Store.
Shoppers from all sides of NH (including Canada) come to New Hampshire for the
lowest liquor prices in the USA (other than Washington DC).
About an hour south from our cottage the Concord Mall that has a huge Sears
store is a ghost mall full of empty stores. Even the food court has gone dark.
It's sad for many reasons, one of which is that this mall, like most large
malls, is a popular destination for caregivers taking disabled people for an
enjoyable outing.
Amazon is really hurting retail labor markets, especially in rural America.
Former retail workers are unemployed up here not so much due to minimum wages.
Retail unemployment traces back to the convenience and service from shopping
online at Amazon. Some of our unemployed retail workers find jobs delivering
Amazon parcels in UPS trucks.
I recently bought a case of chunky
applesauce from Amazon. The package arrived last week in a Wal-Mart box.
Apparently Wal-Mart is selling some items online via Amazon. Go figure.
Boeing is making a major change to its planes
that could end jet lag as we know it ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-787-dreamliner-777x-cabin-pressure-jetlag-2016-9
Jensen Comment
It depends a little upon how you define jet lag. I think you're still going to
feel "jet lagged" flying economy class for 28 hours (with two changes in planes)
too and from New Zealand.
How to Mislead With Statistics: What did
Bill Clinton do to earn $17.6 million from Laureate University over a five year
appointment?
A (WSJ) Journal editorial has a tale
of two for-profit colleges,
one that paid Bill Clinton $17.6 million and one that did not.
Guess which one was allowed to stay in business
Technical Institute shut down
Tuesday under government pressure while Laureate International Universities,
which retained
Mr. Clinton as its “honorary chancellor,” lives on. The editorial board notes that
the Obama Administration’s College Scorecard shows
Laureate’s five U.S. campuses have graduation rates comparable to ITT’s, but
with higher student debt levels.
WSJ Newsletter on September 7, 2016
Jensen Comment
This illustrates how to mislead by cherry picking comparison items. Laureate is
among various for-profit universities that is surviving thus far, and ITT is
among among various for-profits that have or soon will go down the tube. To
cherry pick a loser after the fact to compare with one that is still viable is
absurd in the context of the above WSJ references.
A more important question to ask is what did
Bill Clinton bring to Laureate to justify hi $17.5 million compensation?
About all I can figure is that it was not his time or his expertise in education
leadership that justify such an enormous amount of compensation. What he brought
is his name that, for any living USA ex-President, lends some legitimacy to a
business, charity, or other organization --- especially on the international
scene. Among the living USA ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter's name and George Bush
Sr.'s name are probably the most reputable. George W. Bush would be a less
reputable name among liberals and progressives.
Bill Clinton's name is badly tarnished by his disbarment in Arkansas and a
USA Supreme Court practice plus the nearly $1 million in fines and settlements
---
http://www.snopes.com/bill-clinton-fined-and-disbarred-over-the-monica-lewinsky-scandal/
Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings marred his reputation, and most of
all, in my viewpoint, the most damaging blots on his reputation were the
scandalous pardons he sold to criminals on his way out of the White House ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controversy
But on the international scene where Laureate International Universities
operate the name "President Bill Clinton" still lends legitimacy to an
organization, although I suspect the name Jimmy Carter is even more valuable.
Republicans might also conjecture that Bill Clinton's wife, as the USA Secretary
of State, was probably doing favors for Laureate but I'm inclined to doubt that
the favors, if any, were all that scandalous.
Would Bill Clinton have given his name to ITT
for $17.6 million?
We can only speculate on this. Certainly the illegal activities of ITT were
known to the Department of Education for years before they came to a head in
2016. If Bill Clinton asked the Department of Education probably would have
shared what they knew with him in confidence. My guess is he would have learned
ITT was a hot potato. Bill Clinton's admirers would certainly give him the
benefit of the doubt when speculating about acceptance or rejection of millions
from ITT. Bill Clinton's detractors would claim he'll do anything if the price
is right. But all of this is pure speculation, and we will never know.
In any case the WSJ references cited above are misleading.
Top 10 Scams of 2016 ---
https://www.scamguard.com/list-of-scams/?gclid=CIni6KfGhM8CFVVahgodlRoFCA
Jensen Comment
I get hit with the computer repair scam phone call several times a week that is
not a recording. Sometimes the scammers even pretend to be from Dell or
Microsoft. The best way to get them to swear out loud at you (with an India
accent) after you've humored them along for 15 minutes with questions is to
insist that they give you a phone number so you can call them back. You will
hear four letter words I did not think people used in India.
One of the top USA top scams are also those
IRS threatening phone calls (usually recorded messages) warning you that the
law will soon knock at your door if you don't make an IRS settlement now ---
http://www.local10.com/news/florida/beware-of-aggressive-irs-impersonators-telephone-scam-
I get one of these phony calls at least weekly. The IRS will not contact you by
telephone or email to warn you of a an issue with your return. The warning will
come by US mail. You may be invited to respond by telephone, but usually the IRS
likes to communicate by postal service mail or office visits.
We got hit as grandparents by a phony call from a supposed grandchild
allegedly arrested outside the USA. As luck would have it we did not fall for
it, although this is a very convincing scam for grandparents who do not talk
with a grandchild frequently on the telephone and are not quite fine tuned in to
voice recognition like we are with our children ---
"Grandparent
scam" explained: What you need to know ---
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grandparent-scam-explained-by-former-scammer-what-you-need-to-know/
These days it's often more common for grandparents and some of their
grandchildren to communicate via email rather than telephone. If you get an
emergency request from a grandchild don't fall for it immediately unless you are
100% certain that the call is genuine. You can ask a grandchild a question that
a scammer cannot answer such as what did we do together during our most recent
visit. If you send money send it via something like a postal money order or
certified check rather than give out a credit card number or checking account
number.
Bob Jensen's threads on scams and what to do if you're scammed ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm
Denominator Effect --- the impact of outlier (large and small) denominators
when averages are computed
American public schools
receive on average about 9% of their revenue from federal sources, 47% from
state sources, and 45% from local sources
School Districts Spending the Most
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/09/09/school-districts-with-the-highest-spending/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=SEP092016A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Jensen Comment
The USA school districts spending the most tend to be up to their necks in oil
and gas revenue in Alaska, but this is changing due to falling oil prices.
High valued property districts in New York rank high, in part, because New
York does not set limits on how much rich districts can spend per pupil.
However, the rankings regarding which districts spend the most is greatly
impacted by a "denominator effect" where they rank high to a great deal because
they have so few students. The joke in Vermont is that some school districts
have more school board members than students. Remember that the entire State of
Vermont only has about a half million people.
The "denominator effect" is illustrated most dramatically by a very small
(among the many small) school districts in Vermont ---
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/09/09/school-districts-with-the-highest-spending/2/
8. Rivendell Interstate School District, Vermont
> District spending per pupil: $33,975
> State spending per pupil: $16,988
> Median household income: $58,317
> Enrollment:
277 (all
grades)
Rivendell is the only
school district outside of Alaska and New York to rank among the 10 biggest
per pupil spenders. The district serves students from both Vermont and New
Hampshire and spends nearly $34,000 per pupil each year. However, due to
recently passed legislation designed to make Vermont’s many small and
disparate school districts more efficient, Rivendell will not likely remain
among the top spenders for long. In 2015, the state enacted legislation
known as Act 46, which stipulates that districts with less than 900 students
must merge
administrations
with other similarly small
districts. Though Rivendell is exempt from the law because it is an
interstate district, there are many strong financial incentives for it to
partner up with other districts.
Second Life as a Learning Tool ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
Was Second Life a Virtual Bust?
MIT:
Serious Games ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/422131/serious-games/
Second Life (Membership is Free) ---
http://secondlife.com/?campaignid=54644670&adgroupid=29573981550&loc_physical_ms=9002382&placement=&keyword=secondlife%2520com&matchtype=p&creative=101006625270&utmsource=Google&creativeid=T002099&gclid=CI_ilf7RhM8CFRdahgod_6sPRg
Also see ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
Second Life Blogs ---
https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Blogs/ct-p/Blogs
Bob Jensen's threads on Second Life and other Virtual Worlds (including
accounting course applications) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#SecondLife
September 10, 2016 reply from Steve Hornik
Hi Bob,
I have never stopped using Second Life, though I've switched up form using
it for Financial accounting since I no longer teach that. But I continue to
use it for my graduate AIS (IT security) course. Students are asked to go
through a simulate office building looking for physical access controls that
are either present or missing and writing up a report. This assignment is
most often described as something they enjoyed the most and learned from the
most for the class.
________________________
Dr. Steven Hornik
University of Central Florida
Dixon School of Accounting
about.me/shornik
Second Life: Robins Hermano
ReallyEngagingAccounting
Island
http://mydebitcredit.com
twitter: shornik
"What Clicks From 70,000 Courses Reveal About
Student Learning," by Jeffrey R. Young,
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2016 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Clicks-From-70000/237704
. . .
Some professors may be
surprised that Blackboard has the right to poke around in student data. The
company insists that it is complying with federal student-privacy laws, and
the terms of its contracts with colleges, because it is considering only
aggregate data and not identifying individual students.
The new study is
evidence of the new and unique role that software companies now play as
colleges think more about so-called learning science, says Mitchell Stevens,
an associate professor in Stanford University’s Graduate School of
Education, though he stressed that he did not know the details of the
Blackboard study.
"We've entered a world
in which many of the most data-rich organizations about student teaching and
learning are not schools — they're learning-management systems, they are
MOOC providers, they are other instructional-service providers," he says.
"We have to start thinking about how to govern data and research in this new
plural domain," he adds. "We have every reason to think that the proprietary
sector should be taking leadership in building that science, but how we
architect and govern that science is the frontier." Mr. Stevens is involved
in an effort to create new policies and ethical norms for such uses of data;
the project released a model policy this week.
What else did
Blackboard find in its student-click research?
Students who spend more
time than the average clicking around the "content" section of a course,
where notes and PowerPoint slides are often kept, are slightly less likely
to get a high grade. "Perhaps students who understand the material and
students who are well prepared don’t need to spend a lot of time learning
the material," says Mr. Whitmer, the Blackboard researcher.
The company planned to
release an overview of the research on Wednesday on its blog. Blackboard
officials also planned to present data from the study at education
conferences, including Educause.
Earlier research showed
how much students value the ability to check their grades using
learning-management systems. In 2007 a survey of undergraduates found that
checking grades was by far the most popular function of tools like
Blackboard.
Some Clinical Medical Professors Face Tenure Risks That Most Other Clinical
Professors Do Not Face
Swedish Institution Known for Selecting Nobel
Prize in Medicine Reels From Scandal ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/09/07/swedish-institution-known-selecting-nobel-prize-medicine-reels-scandal?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2efe45949d-DNU20160907&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2efe45949d-197565045&mc_cid=2efe45949d&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
One of the deepest questions in computer science is
called P vs. NP, and answering the question would earn you a million-dollar
prize. P vs. NP is one of the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize
Problems, seven problems judged to be among the most important open questions in
mathematics ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/p-vs-np-millennium-prize-problems-2014-9
How to Lie With Article Titles and Statistics
High-School Grades Still Count
Most in College Admissions ---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/high-school-grades-still-count-most-in-college-admissions/114083?elqTrackId=0531b0ea1d19413f9d1250bd18a3c071&elq=ac209f22145749e598c673fe9d04f290&elqaid=10576&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3997
Jensen Comment
Firstly the title of the article above is misleading. This phrase "counts most"
is not quite what is claimed in the cited study.
Secondly, in things like acceptance of a college applicant, acceptance of a
marriage proposal, acceptance of a job candidate, etc. there is seldom any
criterion that is "most important" in every instance. For example, ic acceptance
of a college applicant a SAT score is probably most important in cases where the
SAT score is almost perfect. It may be of much lesser importance where it is
very low and other criteria take on greater
importance
such as race, gender, country of origin, and high school grades.
The most common practice, in my viewpoint, is to have acceptable ranges of
criteria where outliers are sometimes rejected outright or accepted outright.
Looks may not be the most important criterion, but grossly obese teens are
almost certainly going to have more trouble getting dates to the prom, marriage
proposals, jobs, etc. SAT scores may not be the most important criterion for
college admission, but a 100 GMAT score is likely not to be acceptable for
admission to a doctoral program except in a for-profit university.
Criteria also interact. An ugly guy (think
John Candy) is more likely to get a date if he's one of the most
popular Hollywood stars. Nurses are not attracted to obese hospital dish washers
but top surgeons in the hospital are another matter entirely.
Having said this, grades in high school are important for admission to
colleges that also reject applicants, because grades are the major evidence
available of scholastic motivation. However, grades per se may not be as
important at trends in grades. A student who got all F grades in the 10th grade
gets a second look if she/he had straight A grades all three years thereafter.
The same can be said for a student who got all A grades in the 10th grade and
all C grades for the next two years.
The hardest thing about making
grades "count the most" if college admission is the phenomenon of grade
inflation over the past four decades. Applicants to Stanford nearly all are
nearly straight-A students. How do you make "grades count the most"
if you're only allowed to accept 5% oif the applicants? Stanford, Harvard, etc.
claim that the most important criterion when comparing straight-A students is
uniqueness that in most instances entails other talents such as exceptional
competitive talent (athletics, music, theatre, ballet, writing, etc.) or public
service such as 1,000+ hours of community service helping disabled children in
Africa. Top schools are also seeking balance graduating classes. A top applicant
from Tibet or Somalia may win out over a top applicant to Stanford from Palo
Alto High School.
We, an irresponsible media,
have built a false equivalency in which the choice between [Mrs.] Clinton and
Trump seems to have equally bad implications, because we have framed it as a
choice between a liar and a lunatic. But this obscures the fact that the lunatic
is also a pathological liar of a kind and quality that we have not seen in
recent presidential politics and perhaps ever.
Charles Blow, The New York Times, September
8, 2016 ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/opinion/donald-trump-is-lying-in-plain-sight.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb&_r=0
"Art of the Lie,"
The Economist Magazine Cover Story, September
10, 2016 ---
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21706525-politicians-have-always-lied-does-it-matter-if-they-leave-truth-behind-entirely-art
"Questioning Claims That Are Too Good to Be
True," by Karen Firestone, Harvard Business
Review Blog, September 7, 2016 ---
https://hbr.org/2016/09/questioning-claims-that-are-too-good-to-be-true?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
Jensen Comment
The real challenge in financial auditing is often discoveries of falsehoods that
lie outside the scope of the audit and what the auditors assert in the audit
report to financial statements. What is their professional and ethical
obligation to not ignore falsehoods that legally are "none of their business?"
This also seems to have been the dilemma of the FBI's investigation of the
Clinton emails.
The FBI admits it
“didn’t pursue evidence of potential false statements, obstruction of justice
and destruction of evidence,”
WSJ Editorial Board
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbis-blind-clinton-trust-1473289804?mod=djemMER
Jensen Comment
In some ways FBI pursuit of false statements is unjust if there is not also FBI
pursuit of Trump false statements.
My point here is that questioning falsehoods is not as simple as what we read
in ethics cases and textbooks and learn in law schools and accounting schools
and journalism schools.
Jensen Comment
The following article comes on the heels of the dilution of mathematics in
college curricula where Wayne State University and Michigan State University
received a lot of recent publicity amidst a lot of dillutions that took place
unnoticed on other campuses.
No Math Isn't Racist ---
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/439846/
I was hoping the article would address the question of whether some races
(think Asian) have superior brains for mathematics relative to other races. But
alas, the above article really does not deal with that issue. Or that some races
have superior brains for music (think African). This is a genetics question
that's probably impossible to determine decisively from SAT, ACT, and other
testing instruments because of so many intervening and interactive variables
such as racial variations in education and family life.
Many (not all) Asian Americans score well on these types of tests because
their parents are so aggressive (think Tiger moms) at home regarding education
apart from what is taught in the schools. I suspect that many African Americans
are very good in music performances because of motivating incidents and
circumstances in early childhood.
What is unanswered (at least for me) is why some children seem to be born
with abilities that cannot be attributed to childhood experiences such as
Savants (think
The Rain Man) who are often mysteriously skilled in mathematics and some
other savants and others (think
Mozart) who mysteriously perform wonderfully in music or art without being
taught or without being taught at a level that they can perform at an early age.
But I'm not a believer of in genetic differences in mental abilities due to
race. I am, however, a believer in differences in mental abilities due to
genetics in general. This of course is a belief not attributable to any type of
study or research on my part. We inherited a lot from our family trees apart
from what we can see in mirrors. But the nature-nurture debate has a long way to
go before issues can be resolved.
Free College? Why Clinton’s Plan Won’t Work ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/free-college-why-clintons-plan-wont-work-1472769722?mod=djemMER
Many states wouldn’t be able to generate the billions of dollars needed
to match federal grants.
Hillary Clinton,
buckling to pressure from her left, recently
proposed
tuition-free college education.
Students who attend in-state public colleges and universities, and whose
families have incomes less than $85,000 a year, would qualify for varying
levels of assistance. This threshold would rise to $125,000 by 2021. The
students would have to work 10 hours a week. Federal grants, matched by
state contributions, would finance the program. Estimates of the cost to the
federal government over 10 years range from $350 billion to $700 billion.
Though the
proposal is still only an outline and lacks important details, it already
has at least five serious deficiencies that make it infeasible.
Because more
than a few states will likely choose not to participate, the proposal offers
false hope to millions of future students. Tuition at public colleges and
universities has escalated in large part because state legislatures have
chosen to shift more of the tuition burden from taxpayers to students and
their families.
Under the
Clinton plan, states would have to make a policy U-turn. This politically
difficult decision would be even harder for financially strapped states.
Many legislatures would find it nearly impossible to generate the billions
of dollars needed to match federal grants.
The proposal
excludes tens of thousands of students of equal need who are ineligible
because they attend private colleges. This number could grow, as needy
students are crowded out of public colleges by an influx of applications
from well-off students who otherwise would have attended private
universities.
In providing tuition assistance only to students attending public
universities, the proposal would seriously weaken the financial and academic
strength of most private universities. A few wealthy universities such as
Harvard, Princeton and Yale could use their large endowments to offer
tuition assistance equal to the assistance under the Clinton plan. Yet most
universities lack the resources to do so. They would receive fewer
applications, and some would inevitably close.
Students who
attend universities that are large relative to their local communities—such
as Penn State in rural Pennsylvania—would not find the employment necessary
to fulfill the part-time-job requirement.
The proposal
only tangentially addresses costs. It says participating institutions should
try to do something about costs but includes no specific cost-control
requirement. It suggests that universities could use technology to lower the
costs of instruction, but many schools have been doing this for years. It
would be more effective to require colleges to rein in salaries and
administrative costs.
In striking
only a glancing blow at the cost structure of higher education, the proposal
simply shifts the burden of these costs onto taxpayers. Including the added
administrative expenses for participating universities and the state and
federal governments, the program as proposed would actually increase the
cost of a college education.
Mrs.
Clinton’s plan also ignores that more attention to the K-12 years can reduce
college costs. The president of Bard College, Leon Botstein,
suggested in his 1997 book, “ Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture,” that the
final two years of K-12 could be eliminated in favor of an early college
system. Even with a less-radical proposal, college courses could still be
introduced into the high-school curriculum.
The
foundation for such a shift has already been laid through Advanced Placement
courses, which enable high-school students to reduce their college course
requirements if they pass these courses with high grades.
The Clinton
higher-education proposal, given its myriad flaws, is currently unworkable.
A much more broadly framed debate, producing more serious proposals, will be
needed to address the rising costs of post-high-school education that so
many families face.
Mr.
Grigsby is emeritus professor of city and regional planning at the University
of Pennsylvania.
The Asian American Coalition for Education lodged a complaint with
Department of Education last Wednesday, accusing Cornell and Columbia University
of discriminating against an Asian student in the admissions process ---
http://cornellsun.com/2016/08/30/cornell-columbia-accused-of-discriminating-against-asian-american-students-in-college-admissions/
Jensen Comment
Asian Americans constitute 4.8% of the USA population making them a clear
minority. Black Americans constitute 12.2%. Hispanic and Latinos constitute
16.3%. Native Americans now constitute less than 1% ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity
Of course it's possible to be prejudiced in admissions even if your admission
profile looks good relative to the above percentages. For example,
if a significant number of Asian Americans who
are rejected have much better admission credentials than other races accepted
into the university then there's some merit to the complaint of racial
discrimination. There are long-standing complaints that some prestigious
universities like Harvard that's chronically accused of discrimination against
Asian Americans.
One defense of the universities is there are relatively so few applicants
among races other than White and Asian Americans. The universities contend that
they want a more suitable racial balance in each graduating class. This often
entails acceptance of some students with weaker admission credentials relative
to rejections of those with better credentials other than race.
One counter complaint is that by lowering the admissions bar too far for some
races you're offering false hopes of graduation. I've seen anecdotal evidence
that this complaint is real just as it is most definitely real when lowering the
admissions bar for top athletes of all races who often have miserable graduation
rates.
There are no easy answers when resources like classroom space, dorm space,
and financial aid dollars are limited relative to the total number of
applicants. Courts and regulators are usually hesitant go against the defense of
a university in affirmative action cases. Universities are in trouble if there's
evidence of discrimination against top applicants of color.
The IRS has discovered more than 1 million
Americans whose Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, but
officials never bothered to tell the taxpayers themselves, the agency’s
inspector general said in a withering new report released Tuesday ---
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/30/irs-doesnt-tell-1-million-taxpayers-that-illegal-i/
Jensen Comment
Of course a much, much larger number of identities are stolen by American
citizens filing phony tax returns for refunds. The IRS never informed me that my
identity had been stolen from my electronic 2014 tax return. I probably would've
never known had it not been for a small refund that I never received. In fact
the IRS to this day never acknowledged that my identity was stolen on my
electronic filing. I did, however, get my refund after I sent in a long-delayed
second tax return via the USA Post Office. I think that the thief who stole my
tax return and got a huge tax refund got it from the security breach at TurboTax
in early 2015. I wish all Americans would stick it to the IRS by no longer
filing electronic tax returns until the IRS is more forthcoming about when your
electronic ID has been stolen.
Bloomberg: Why They Did It: Madoff and Enron’s Fastow Explain the
Biggest Frauds in U.S. History ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/why-they-did-it-madoff-and-enron-s-fastow-explain-the-biggest-frauds-in-u-s-history?cmpid=BBD082916_BIZ
Jensen Comment
When con artists explain why they committed fraud can you believe them?
Con artists are so convincing even when they are lying?
The Worst Purchases Made By Athletes ---
http://sportschew.com/worst-purchases-made-by-athletes/?s=y&v=yai4
Jensen Comment
I'm inclined to say (without research) that these are probably the athletes who
did not graduate or took all those fake courses offered by the University of
North Carolina for nearly 20 years.
But what I feel more confident in claiming is that these athletes, like 99%
of the university graduates in the USA, graduated totally ignorant of personal
finance knowledge.
Bob Jensen's personal finance helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
Outrage Over U. Chicago Trigger Warning
Letter Shows Power of Political Correctness ---
https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/26/outrage-over-u-chicago-trigger-warning-l
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness and freedom of speech---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
How much has Vanguard saved investors? Over a trillion dollars
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-30/how-much-has-vanguard-saved-investors-try-1-trillion
Jensen Comment
Aside from my six TIAA lifetime annuities, all my savings are invested through
Vanguard. I have a checkbook and can write a check anytime I need liquidity for
such things as buying a car or paying property taxes. My returns are
automatically invested. However, I also have a checking account with a local
bank.
Child Care for Parents in College: A State-by-State Assessment
---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/files/2016/09/Child-Care.pdf
Jensen Comment
Child care services on campus are on a steep decline. The above article does not
provide reasons, but reasons do not appear to be lack of demand for such
services. Tight budgets are likely the major reasons for reduced fringe benefits
in general. But the main reason in this case is probably the reason most
campuses did not offer child care services in the first place --- legal
liability. The lawyers come running faster than the police if you lose or abuse
just one child. There are also medical liability risks that are magnets for
lawyers. Child care services are frequently available from very small businesses
(such as that a one-home provider) where there's nothing of great value to
excite the legal profession.
There is usually
liability insurance available, but the cost increases with the number of
children that are cared for.
Caps on legal
liability should help increase campus services for child care.
This is an
informative handbook from a campus child care service ---
http://www.niu.edu/ccc/handbooks/ParentHB2016.doc.pdf
How to Start a
Quality Day Care Service ---
https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/pub_mp29.pdf
Early Labor Market and Debt Outcomes for Bachelor's Degree Recipients
(PDF) ---
http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/early-labor-market-debt-outcomes-bachelors-recipients.pdf
Thanks in large part
to Obama policies, only 37% of student borrowers are paying down their student
loans ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/writing-off-student-loans-is-only-a-matter-of-time-1471303339?mod=djemMER
How to Mislead With Statistics: Compare Public Schools With Charter Schools
With Home Schools
Some People Mistakenly Assume Charter Schools are All For-Profit Schools
Actually Most are Non-Profit and Receive Taxpayer Support Through State
Legislatures and are Tuition Free
Only Non-Profit Charter Schools Receive Donations from Individuals and
Foundations Like the Gates Foundation
In return from receiving much less taxpayer support charter schools are subject
to fewer rules such as the requirement to serve all types of students in a
school district such as learning-disabled students
Often
charter schools are intended to serve students with higher scholastic abilities
who are not receiving special attention in public schools where their talents
are often lost
Charter Schools in the USA
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools_in_the_United_States
Like most other types of schools there are great examples and lousy examples of
charter schools ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools_in_the_United_States#National_evaluations
How to Mislead With Statistics: Compare Public Schools With Charter Schools
With Home Schools
Comparisons of student performance in different types of schools can be highly
misleading. The biggest reason is that
students are not randomly assigned to these three types of schools.
All have superior learning students. But charter schools and home schools tend
to
have
a greater proportion of students who have higher-end learning abilities.
Home schools obviously have small classes, usually one-on-one learning combined
with a lot of self-learning from materials (such as CD files) specially prepared
home school students.
Public schools, especially in urban areas, tend to have larger classes than
charter schools.
Public schools, however, may have the best teachers
because salaries and benefits are often better in public schools. One drawback
of public schools, however, is that unions made it virtually impossible to fire
bad teachers and teachers who habitually don't show up or are late for work.
Inability to fire or sanction inattentive teachers is the leading complaint
about public school unions relative to charter schools who have non-union
teachers.
Another Obama Broken Promise
An Internet Giveaway to the U.N.: If the U.S. abdicates internet
stewardship (on Sept. 30), the United Nations might take control ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-internet-giveaway-to-the-u-n-1472421165?mod=djemMER
When the Obama administration announced its plan to
give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations
would never take control. But because of the administration’s naiveté or
arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet
stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30.
On Friday Americans for Limited Government received
a response to its Freedom of Information Act request for “all records
relating to legal and policy analysis . . . concerning antitrust issues for
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” if the U.S. gives
up oversight. The administration replied it had “conducted a thorough search
for responsive records within its possession and control and found no
records responsive to your request.”
It’s shocking the administration admits it has no
plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can
operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a
legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department
that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government.
Antitrust rules don’t apply to governments or
organizations operating under government control. In a 1999 case, the Second
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the monopoly on internet domains
because the Commerce Department had set “explicit terms” of the contract
relating to the “government’s policies regarding the proper administration”
of the domain system.
Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be
overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust
exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of
the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much
for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a
“government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”
Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited
Government, called it “simply stunning” that the “politically blinded Obama
administration missed the obvious point that Icann loses its antitrust
shield should the government relinquish control.”
The administration might not have considered the
antitrust issue, which would have been naive. Or perhaps in its arrogance
the administration knew all along Icann would lose its antitrust immunity
and look to the U.N. as an alternative. Congress could have voted to give
Icann an antitrust exemption, but the internet giveaway plan is too flawed
for legislative approval.
As the administration spent the past two years
preparing to give up the contract with Icann, it also stopped actively
overseeing the group. That allowed Icann to abuse its monopoly over internet
domains, which earns it hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Earlier this month, an independent review within
Icann called the organization “simply not credible” in how it handled the
application for the .inc, .llc and .llp domains. The independent review
found Icann staffers were “intimately involved” in evaluating their own
work. A company called Dot Registry had worked with officials of U.S. states
to create a system ensuring anyone using these Web addresses was a
legitimate registered company. Icann rejected Dot Registry’s application as
a community, which would have resulted in lowered fees to Icann.
Delaware’s secretary of state objected: “Legitimate
policy concerns have been systematically brushed to the curb by Icann
staffers well-skilled at manufacturing bureaucratic processes to disguise
pre-determined decisions.” Dot Registry’s lawyer, Arif Ali of the Dechert
firm, told me last week his experience made clear “Icann is not ready to
govern itself.”
Icann also refuses to award the .gay domain to
community groups representing gay people around the world. Icann’s ombudsman
recently urged his group to “put an end to this long and difficult issue” by
granting the domain. Icann prefers to earn larger fees by putting the .gay
domain up for auction among for-profit domain companies.
And Icann rejects the community application for the
.cpa domain made by the American Institute of CPAs, which along with other
accounting groups argues consumers should expect the .cpa address only to be
used by legitimate accountants, not by the highest bidder. An AICPA
spokesman told me he has a pile of paperwork three feet high on the
five-year quest for the .cpa domain. The professional group objected in a
recent appeal: “The process seems skewed toward a financial outcome that
benefits Icann itself.”
Continued in article
Coursera ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera
Jensen Comment
The roots of Coursera extend into MOOC thousands of free courses from
prestigious universities. MOOCs are windows into some of the top courses taught
by leading expert professors at universities like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc.
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
At first Coursera was adding a for-profit layer of competency testing for
students who completed or intended to complete those free MOOCs with zero
interaction one-on-one with the MOOC teachers.
Then commenced Coursera-University partnerships where Coursera coordinated
the MOOCs (still) free with university programs for providing alternatives in
the degree programs. It's important to note that most MOOC offerings around the
world are in advanced courses such as advanced engineering courses from MIT and
humanities courses from Ivy League universities, courses that are often very
expensive for some universities with fewer resources to offer at the quality
level of the MOOC courses. Hence, the Coursera alternative became a partnering
free courses with for-profit competency testing and curricula design ---
The popularity of these Coursera partnerings went international and became quite
successful as a way for foreign universities to give such things as degree
credits for MIT and other prestigious "free" MOOC courses ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera#Partners
At the same time, Coursera is quite despised by distance education programs
providing their own courses for a fee.
Coursera Launches Corporate Training Platform
---
http://coursera.tumblr.com/post/149744002062/announcing-coursera-for-business
Coursera now appears to be extending its offerings for training partnerships
with private sector companies. The concept, as I see it, is not new. Germany for
example is extending its highly successful private sector training on site to
newer models of online training in the private sector.
It seems to me that the training model in Coursera is quite different than
the education model. In the education model Coursera is tapping into the
prestigious free advanced courses of prestigious universities. It's not entirely
clear where the trainers will be employed in the new Coursera training module.
Access to a top training expert is not likely to be free as is MOOC access to
top professors at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc. Like the German model the
students may already be employed in the private sector and may merely be
extending their skill sets with training modules. However, will the Coursera
training module also be available at reasonable cost to high school graduates
who are not yet employed?
One thing MOOCs have taught us is that MOOCs tend to work better in advanced
courses where the "students" already have demonstrated academic ability. Indeed
MOOC students may be only seeking certain parts of those courses and are not
interested in finishing the entire free MOOC courses or get academic credit for
doing so. At the elementary level MOOC courses are not going to as successful as
online or onsite courses where teachers do a lot more one-on-one motivating of
students who are not yet as eager or as able to do a lot of self-study.
It's one thing to have a skilled job and seek out advanced training to become
more skillful. It's quite another to be an unemployed high school graduate
seeking to become sufficiently skilled to get a job.
At this point it's not clear what need Coursera is seeking to fill in it's
new training model, but I'm inclined to think that the target audience is in
advanced training for employees where in most cases employers will foot the
bill. In other words this is quite unlike the enormous for-profit ITT that the
Department of Education is now seeking to bury ---
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-bans-itt-enrolling-new-title-iv-students-adds-tough-new-financial-oversight
Sad Illustrations of Commonplace Cheating in Higher Education
"The New Cheating Economy," by Brad Wolverton, Chronicle of Higher
Education, August 25, 2016 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-New-Cheating-Economy/237587?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=57c94038703546fda36eca130ad20e28&elq=0b0c884a216449389c04ae98e7b9068a&elqaid=10453&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3922
Bob Jensen's threads on cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
An Introduction to Digital Photography: Take a Free Course from Stanford
Prof/Google Researcher Marc Levoy ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/an-introduction-to-digital-photography-take-a-free-course-from-stanford-profgoogle-researcher-marc-levoy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
New York DMV’s facial recognition enhancements have led to more than 100
arrests since January ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-dmvs-facial-recognition-enhancements-more-than-100-arrests-2016-8
Jensen Comment
Paying someone else take your examination or even an entire course is somewhat
common at universities especially in large lecture hall courses and distance
education.
Perhaps new facial recognition applications will lessen this type of cheating.
Bob Jensen's threads for reducing online cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#OnsiteVersusOnline
David Giles received the following message
Dummies with Standardized Data
Recently, I received the following interesting
email request:
"I would like to have your assistance regarding a
few questions related to regression with standardized variables and a set of
dummy variables. First of all, if the variables are standardized (xi-x_bar)/sigma,
can I still run the regression with a constant? And, if my dummy variables
have 4 categories, do I include all of them without the constant? Or just
three and keep the constant in the regression? And, how do we interpret the
coefficients of the dummy variables in such as case? I mean, idoes the
conventional interpretation in a single OLS regression still apply?"
Read David's September 2, 2016 reply here ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2016/09/dummies-with-standardized-data.html
David Giles's September Readings in Econometrics ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2016/08/september-reading.html
Esquivel, M.L., P.P.
Mota, & J.T. Mexia, 2016. On some statistical models with a
random number of observations. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice,
online.
Gorroochurn, P., 2015.
On Galton's change from "reversion" to "regression".
American
Statistician, in press.
Kourtellos, A., T.
Stengos, & C.M. Tan, 2016. Structural threshold regression.
Econometric Theory, 32,827-860.
Jandhyala, V., S.
Fotopoulos, I. MacNeill, & P. Liu, 2016. Inference for single and
multiple change-points in time series. Journal of Time Series Analysis,
in press.
Malloch, H., R. Philip,
& S. Satchell, 2016. Decomposing the bias in time-series
estimates of CAPM betas. Applied Economics, 28, 4291-4298.
Xu, J. & P. Perron, 2016.
Forecasting in the presence of in and out of sample breaks. Mimeo.
From the Scout Report on August
Seterra Online Geography ---
http://online.seterra.net
Looking to brush up on your geography? If so, check
out Seterra. Originally created in 1998 for Windows computers, Seterra is
freely available online or for purchase as a mobile application. Users can
test their knowledge of countries, states, provinces, rivers, lakes and
cities through interactive quizzes, all of which are browsable by continent.
Once visitors select a quiz, they will be asked to locate an item (e.g.
state, river, city) on a blank map. When users click on the incorrect area,
the correct name for that region will be shown - allowing users to learn as
they go. Each attempt to fill out a map is timed and graded for accuracy.
Opinion Stage ---
https://www.opinionstage.com
Opinion Stage is an online tool for creating
multiple choice quizzes, interactive surveys, and online polls. Users can
then embed these items into their websites or forms, along with accompanying
videos or photographs. While created in part for commercial use, Opinion
Stage provides a useful free resource for educators. One can use Opinion
Stage to create an interactive quiz that allows students to check their
comprehension of an online reading assignment or video. Alternatively,
instructors or facilitators might use this tool to survey students or
participants about their interests or goals. All basic features of Opinion
Stage are free; users also have the option to upgrade to a paid account.
A New Planet is Discovered in the "Habitable Zone" of a Neighboring
Solar System
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri is Closest Ever
http://www.space.com/33834-discovery-of-planet-proxima-b.html
Proxima b will be our prime laboratory in the search for extraterrestrial
life
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/24/proxima-b-will-be-our-prime-laboratory-in-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life
A Planet Orbiting Our Closest Neighbor, Proxima Centauri
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/24/science/space/proxima-centauri-nearest-exoplanet.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fspace&action=click&contentCollection=space®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
PBS Digital Studios: Exoplanets: Crash Course Astronomy #27
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365621240
A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19106.html
7 Amazing Exoplanets [Interactive]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/7-amazing-exoplanets-interactive
From the Scout Report on September 2, 2016
Google Duo ---
https://duo.google.com
Released in the United States on August 16, 2016,
Google Duo provides a new option for video chatting, joining the ranks of
Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts (to name just a few). This free
application is available for both iOS and Android devices, however, to use
Google Duo, both parties will need to download the application. A unique
feature of this simple video-calling service is that it allows those you
contact to see a video of you when they check your incoming call - allowing
users to show off, say, a new pet or an acceptance letter as they "call" the
other party.
Canvas ---
https://usecanvas.com
Canvas is an online collaborative tool that allows
individuals to share ideas by editing documents from separate computers. The
tool's utilization of Markdown sets this tool apart from other file sharing
and collaborative editing devices. As a writing and notetaking tool,
Markdown allows users to quickly and easily incorporate special text forms
(i.e. bold or italics), bullet points, to-do lists, hyperlinks, or code
blocks using only keyboard commands. (To learn more about Markdown, check
out the 10-02-2015 edition of the <i>Scout Report </i>). Canvas users can
invite others to view or edit their document - or "canvas" - by sending an
email invitation or by passing along a security key
The Year
of Rembrandt: Revisiting the Dutch Painter's Artistic Genius
A Rarely Seen Rembrandt Is Coming to the Frick
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/arts/design/a-rarely-seen-rembrandt-is-coming-to-the-frick.html
The No-Return Policy: Rembrandt's First Masterpiece Simply Intrigues at the
Morgan Library in New York
http://www.artnews.com/2016/08/09/the-no-return-policy-rembrandts-first-masterpiece-is-deeply-intriguing-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york
Was this painting made by Rembrandt - or Photoshop?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/was-this-painting-made-by-rembrandt-or-photoshop
Did Rembrandt Use Mirrors and Optical Tricks to Create his Paintings?
http://www.livescience.com/55616-rembrandt-optical-tricks-self-portraits.html
Rembrandt's self-portraits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8978/18/8/080401
The Met: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Paintings
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rmbt/hd_rmbt.htm
From the Scout Report on September 10, 2016
Wikiverse: A Galactic Re-Imagining of
Wikipedia ---
http://wikiverse.io
Wikiverse is a new tool
that provides users with a whole new way to browse Wikipedia and explore
topics of interest. Created by data visualization engineer, Owen Cornec,
Wikiverse allows visitors to visualize and explore links between Wikipedia
subjects. The size of the Wikiverse can be controlled by the user, allowing
users to explore either one, two, or five percent of Wikipedia. From here,
users can explore any topic and see how this topic is linked to others. A
list of related topics will appear on the right hand side of the site, or
visitors can view the topic as a star in a three-dimensional galaxy. Related
topics appear close by and are arranged into clusters, such as Art, Biology,
or Geography. As visitors click on stars, full definitions and additional
links appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Wikiverse provides a
riveting experience, and highlights the interconnections between topics
that, at first blush, seem entirely unrelated.
When2meet ---
http://www.when2meet.com
For visual learners,
When2meet is a free tool designed to alleviate the stress of planning a
large meeting or event. First event planners select days and times that may
work (e.g., Thursday between 10:00AM- 4:00PM). Participants may then be
emailed or provided with a distinct URL to offer input about the schedule in
question. Participants can mark half hour blocks when they are available and
unavailable to meet. As participants respond, a group schedule is shaded in
(the more people available to meet, the darker the shade for that time
period). This allows visitors to quickly visualize the best time to meet.
FDA Bans Nineteen Anti-bacterial Chemicals from Soap
F.D.A. Bans Sale of Many Antibacterial Soaps, Saying Risks Outweigh
Benefits
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/science/fda-bans-sale-of-many-antibacterial-soaps-saying-risks-outweigh-benefits.html
FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used in Antibacterial Soap
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/02/492394717/fda-bans-19-chemicals-used-in-antibacterial-soaps
U.S. Bans Common Chemicals in Antibacterial Soap
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-bans-common-chemicals-in-antibacterial-soaps
Review of Administrative Action: National Resources Defense Council, Inc.
vs. FDA
http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/01/natural-resources-defense-council-inc-v-fda
NOVA scienceNOW: Killer Microbe Classroom Activity
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/0303_04_nsn.html
Frontline: The Trouble with Antibiotics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trouble-with-antibiotics
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and
Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
BBC Skillswise (resources for adult learners) ---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0
The Keepers Registry (back issues of journals in large libraries) ---
http://thekeepers.org
For example search for "Accounting"
Open Science Directory ---
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
JSTR - The Scholarly Journal Archive ---
http://www.jstor.org/
Electronic Literature Organization ---
http://www.eliterature.org/
Internet Library
of Early Journals ---
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Computer Software ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software
Historical Software Collection ---
https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware
Exploring Computer Science: CS Teaching Resources
http://www.exploringcs.org
HippoCampus (mathematics and science resources) ---
http://www.hippocampus.org
Royal Society
Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online
---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/10/royal_society_opens_online_archive_puts_60000_papers_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
All Free Magazines (links to free
magazines) ---
http://www.all-freemagazines.com/mag.html
These are classified by subject matter.
Many are offer free trial subscriptions for one year.
WindowsMedia.com
http://www.windowsmedia.com/
A search engine for online audio and video.
The Pulitzer Prizes ---
http://www.pulitzer.org/
FindArticles.com - search through an archive of articles from over
300 magazines and journals --
http://www.findarticles.com/
The Atlantic Online ---
http://www.theatlantic.com/books/books.htm
The Library of Economics and Liberty ---
http://www.econlib.org/index.html
Mathigon (Sixth Grade Math) ---
https://mathigon.org
A Way With Words (history of phrases) ---
http://www.waywordradio.org
Punctuate (free essays) ---
http://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Visualization Threads and Links
Bob Jensen's Threads on Visualization of Multivariate Data (including
faces) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
Bob Jensen's Links on Imaging and Visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#---Visualization
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Jupiter, the (Surprising and Weird) King of the Planets ---
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/09/07/juno_s_first_results_from_jupiter_reveal_weirdnesses.html
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory ---
https://www.emsl.pnl.gov/emslweb
HippoCampus (mathematics and science resources) ---
http://www.hippocampus.org
Biocubes: Life in One Cubic Foot (ecosystem) ---
http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/biocubes-life-one-cubic-foot
The Guardian: Science: Neurophilosophy ---
https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy
How Outer Space Dulls an Astronaut’s Mind ---
http://nautil.us/blog/how-outer-space-dulls-an-astronauts-mind
Cosmos Magazine: The science of everything ---
https://cosmosmagazine.com
Pacific Salmon Explorer ---
http://salmonexplorer.ca
BMC Medical Education (collection of journals) ---
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com
Wellcome Library: Blog (medicine, psychology, science) ---
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ---
http://epubs.siam.org/journals
Avery's Architectural Ephemera Collections ---
h
ttps://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/ephemera
Tabletop Whale (vidualization) --
http://tabletopwhale.com
Visualization Threads and Links
Bob Jensen's Threads on Visualization of Multivariate Data (including
faces) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
Bob Jensen's Links on Imaging and Visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#---Visualization
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
Savage Minds (anthropology articles) ---http://savageminds.org
Women in Science ---
http://www.womeninscience.org/
Lady Science ---
http://www.ladyscience.com
History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust ---
https://newspapers.ushmm.org
Remember Me: Displaced Children of the Holocaust ---
http://rememberme.ushmm.org/
Complex TV (programming) ---
http://scalar.usc.edu/works/complex-television/index
Civic Media Project ---
http://civicmediaproject.org/works/civic-media-project
Places Journal (urban planning architecture and landscaping) ---
https://placesjournal.org
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning: Religion on the Web ---
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/guide_headings.aspx
Holocaust: "Everyone would believe my pictures": The Legacy of Julien
Bryan ---
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/bryan/
Holocaust Theater Catalog ---
http://htc.miami.edu/
Africa is a Country (news and articles about Africa, including music) ---
http://africasacountry.com
Africa through a lens: The
National Archives ---
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/africa/
The
African Studies Collection ---
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AfricanStudies/HaroldScheub
African Activist Archive
(struggles against colonialism in Africa) ---
http://africanactivist.msu.edu/
Africa Research Institute
---
http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
Mathigon (Sixth Grade Math) ---
https://mathigon.org
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ---
http://epubs.siam.org/journals
HippoCampus (mathematics and science resources) ---
http://www.hippocampus.org
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
1850s Japan Comes to Life in 3D, Color Photos: See the
Stereoscopic Photography of T. Enami ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/1850s-japan-comes-to-life-in-3d-color-photos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The History of Russia in 70,000 Photos: New Photo Archive
Presents Russian History from 1860 to 1999 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/the-history-of-russia-in-70000-photos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Mind is a Metaphor (government, machines, etc.) ---
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu
How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=efb09ffa986845e1ac578b879a71c12d&elq=911785415ab648de85882757a854a430&elqaid=10545&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3974
Electronic Book Review ---
http://electronicbookreview.com
The Reflection of Technology in Brewing ---
http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/technology_in_brewing
Marx’s views were occasionally prescient,
often wrong-headed, sometimes repugnant. But they had little in common with what
later came to be understood as Marxism ---
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-dialectical-man
NOVA: Dawn of Humanity ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
The Public Domain Review ---
http://publicdomainreview.org
Journal18 (art history funded by the Getty Museum) ---
http://www.journal18.org
The Life of Art (Getty Museum) ---
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/life_of_art/
Harvard Arts Museum: The Bauhaus (German Art History) ---
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/special-collections/the-bauhaus?group=The+Bauhaus
What Did Manhattan Look Like in 1609? ---
http://daily.jstor.org/what-did-manhattan-look-like-1609/
Avery's Architectural Ephemera Collections ---
h
ttps://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/ephemera
Mapping Thoreau Country (history of David Thoreau) ---
http://www.mappingthoreaucountry.org
The Thoreau Reader
---
http://eserver.org/thoreau/default.html
Mahri Poetry Archive ---
http://sites.middlebury.edu/mahripoetry
Complex TV (programming) ---
http://scalar.usc.edu/works/complex-television/index
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures ---
http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/index
History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust ---
https://newspapers.ushmm.org
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History (Kentucky) ---
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org
Packers Project (Green Bay Packers
Football History) ---
http://packersproject.org
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning: Religion on the Web ---
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/guide_headings.aspx
Jewish Atlantic World ---
http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/jewishatlanticworld
Square Dance History Project ---
http://squaredancehistory.org
Not Even Past (about history and Texas history) ---
https://notevenpast.org
Africa is a Country (news and articles about Africa, including music) ---
http://africasacountry.com
Women in Science ---
http://www.womeninscience.org/
Lady Science ---
http://www.ladyscience.com
A Way With Words (history of phrases) ---
http://www.waywordradio.org
Colors of Classical Art ---
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/online_modules/colors/home.php
From the Scout Report on September 2, 2016
The Year
of Rembrandt: Revisiting the Dutch Painter's Artistic Genius
A Rarely Seen Rembrandt Is Coming to the Frick
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/arts/design/a-rarely-seen-rembrandt-is-coming-to-the-frick.html
The No-Return Policy: Rembrandt's First Masterpiece Simply Intrigues at the
Morgan Library in New York
http://www.artnews.com/2016/08/09/the-no-return-policy-rembrandts-first-masterpiece-is-deeply-intriguing-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york
Was this painting made by Rembrandt - or Photoshop?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/was-this-painting-made-by-rembrandt-or-photoshop
Did Rembrandt Use Mirrors and Optical Tricks to Create his Paintings?
http://www.livescience.com/55616-rembrandt-optical-tricks-self-portraits.html
Rembrandt's self-portraits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8978/18/8/080401
The Met: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Paintings
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rmbt/hd_rmbt.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Creative Language Learning Podcast ---
http://fluentlanguage.co.uk/podcast
BBC Skillswise (resources for adult learners) ---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Square Dance History Project ---
http://squaredancehistory.org
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
A Way With Words (history of phrases) ---
http://www.waywordradio.org
Punctuate (free essays) ---
http://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate
50 Watts (book designs) ---
http://50watts.com
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Job Search Writing ---
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/6/
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
CDC Blogs ---
http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
August 29, 2016
August 30, 2016
August 31, 2016
September 1, 2016
September 2, 2016
September 5, 2016
September , 2016
September 8, 2016
September 8, 2016
September 9, 2016
Why College Is a Risky Time for Students’ Mental Health ---
http://time.com/4473575/college-mental-health-guidebook/?xid=newsletter-brief
There’s a dangerous side-effect of over-the-counter nasal sprays ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/dangerous-side-effect-over-the-counter-nasal-sprays-2016-8
Humor September 1-15. 2015
Is looking for
a gap between an object and its reflection a good way to distinguish two-way
mirrors from ordinary mirrors?
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/mirror.asp
Jensen Comment
Reminds me of the time a Texas Aggie coed wore a see-through dress and nobody
wanted to
Gene Wilder Recalls the Beginnings of His Creative Life in Two Hilarious,
Poignant Stories ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/gene-wilder-recalls-the-beginnings-of-his-creative-life-in-two-hilarious-poignant-stories.html
11 Books by Comedians That Will Make You Laugh ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/comedian-books-2016-8
Florida: The Punchline State ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-the-punchline-state-1472845591
I completely forgot to write about jail being one of the retirement options
70-year-old says he robbed bank because he
preferred jail to his wife -+--
http://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article100357577.html#fmp
Ex-Playboy model runs from Interpol to avoid prison for honeypot mafia-murder
plot ---
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/7/slobodanka-tosic-ex-playboy-model-runs-from-interp/
Jensen Comment
You can identify her by looking for the staple scars
An Oklahoma mother and
daughter are behind bars after it was revealed they had an incestuous marriage.
Patricia Ann Spann, 43, and Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, were married in March
2016 in Comanche County. It has since been revealed that Patricia Spann, also
known as Patricia Clayton, was previously married to one of her sons, Jody
Calvin Spann, in 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3778944/Oklahoma-woman-daughter-arrested-incestuous-marriage.html
I'm My Own Grandpa ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
Humor
August 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor083116.htm
Humor
July 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor
June 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
Humor
May 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor053116.htm
Humor
April 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor
March 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
Humor December 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor123115.htm.htm
Humor November 1-30, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor113015.htm
Humor October 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Tidbits Archives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some
Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.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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