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Tidbits on November 15, 2016
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
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Owl That Tried to Crash into Our Cottage
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Birds/Set02/BirdsSet02.htm
Tidbits on November 15, 2016
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---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
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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
Sal Khan (of Khan Academy fame) & the Muppets’ Grover Explain the Electoral
College ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/sal-khan-the-muppets-grover-explain-the-electoral-college.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Those thousands of wonderful Khan Academy videos across so many academic
disciplines ---
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Hear Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage
(1967) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/hear-marshall-mcluhans-the-medium-is-the-massage-1967.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Read about how the book title was a typo that McLuhan decided to leave on the
book ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage
Wabi-Sabi: A Short Film on the Beauty of Traditional Japan ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/wabi-sabi-a-short-film-on-the-beauty-of-traditional-japan.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War Survivors detail brutal Battle of
Chosin ---
http://reason.com/archives/2016/10/28/documentary-recalls-horrors-of-korean-wa
Museum of the Moving Image: the Living Room Candidate ---
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org
Videos Recreate Isaac Newton’s Controversial Alchemy Experiments: Watch
Silver Get Turned Into Gold ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/videos-recreate-isaac-newtons-controversial-alchemy-experiments.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
U.S. National Archives: Giphy Page (gif animations of historical events) ---
http://giphy.com/usnationalarchives
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
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, the
Triadic Ballet First Staged by Oskar Schlemmer in 1922 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/avant-garde-bauhaus-ballet-in-brilliant-color.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Listen to Weightless, The Most Relaxing Song Ever Written
According to Researchers ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/hear-weightless-the-most-relaxing-song-ever-made.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Only Known Footage of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio:
Watch the Recently-Discovered Film (1959) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-only-known-footage-of-louis-armstrong-in-a-recording-studio.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Say Goodbye to Leonard Cohen Through Some of His Best-Loved
Songs: “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne” & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/saying-goodbye-to-leonard-cohen-through-some-of-his-best-loved-songs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Watch the Celebrated Ballerina Anna Pavlova Perform “The Dying
Swan” (1925) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/watch-the-celebrated-ballerina-anna-pavlova-perform-the-dying-swan-1925.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
Photos From a Year on the Campaign Trail With Donald Trump ---
http://time.com/4507952/donald-trump-campaign-photos/?xid=newsletter-brief
Campaign Buttons Etc. ---
http://www.campaignbuttons-etc.com
U.S. Presidential Elections 1992-2012: Historical Photo
Collection ---
http://wimedialab.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/historical-photographs-presidential-elections
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ---
http://19thc-artworldwide.org
From station to the renovated Musee d'Orsay (art history) ---
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/ARK7SK5T
The Gilded Age (history of world art exhibits) ---
http://www.nyarc.org/content/gilded-age
The Most Expensive Yachts in the World With Michael Jordan's
Yacht Being the Most Disgusting ---
http://detonate.com/the-most-expensive-yachts-in-the-world-2/?utm_source=b32&utm_campaign=b32_US_desktop_Yachts_12_562a_20161001_mm_3678&utm_medium=cpc
20 Mesmerizing Videos of Japanese Artisans Creating Traditional
Handicrafts ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/20-mesmerizing-videos-of-japanese-artisans-creating-traditional-handicrafts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Planet Earth II ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-of-planet-earth-ii-episode-2-2016-11
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016 Awards ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-stunning-photos-of-the-british-countryside-2016-11
These are All the Planes in the US Air Force ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-planes-2016-10/#a-10-thunderbolt-ii-1
Cavafy's World (Greek poetry and art) ---
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/galleries/Exhibits/cavafy/cavafy.html
12 of the Most Beautiful New Buildings in China ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-beautiful-buildings-china-2016-11
Minnesota by Design (buildings and landscapes) ---
http://www.walkerart.org/minnesotabydesign
Paleo Porch (paleontology and art history) ---
http://paleoporch.com
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
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
The British Library: Discovering Literature: 20th Century ---
https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature
Cavafy's World (Greek poetry and art) ---
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/galleries/Exhibits/cavafy/cavafy.html
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Ten Poems by Sylvia Plath ---
http://daily.jstor.org/ten-poems-by-sylvia-plath/
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
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 November 15, 2016
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations111516.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
A Loser in the Election Outcomes is a Leading Statistician Named Nate Silver (he should've eaten crow the day after the election)
This was His Final Forecast On the Morning of Election Day
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-election-update-theres-a-wide-range-of-outcomes-and-most-of-them-come-up-clinton/
Throughout the election, our
forecast models have consistently come to two
conclusions. First, that Hillary Clinton was more likely
than not to become the next president. And second, that
the range of possible Electoral College outcomes —
including the chance of a Donald Trump victory, but also
a Clinton landslide that could see her winning states
such as Arizona — was comparatively wide.
That remains our outlook today in
our final forecast of the year. Clinton is a 71 percent
favorite to win the election according to our
polls-only model and a 72 percent favorite according
to our
polls-plus model. (The models
are
essentially the same
at this point, so they show about the same forecast.)
This reflects a
meaningful improvement for Clinton in the past 48 hours
as the news cycle has taken a
final half-twist in her favor.
Her chances have increased from about 65 percent.
More Politics
Our forecast has Clinton
favored in states and congressional districts totaling
323 electoral votes, including all the states President
Obama won in 2012 except Ohio and Iowa, but adding North
Carolina. However, because our forecasts are
probabilistic, and because Clinton’s leads in North
Carolina and Florida especially are tenuous, the average
number of electoral votes we forecast for Clinton is
302, which would be equivalent to her winning either
Florida or North Carolina but not both.
Jensen Comment
I'm a great admirer of Nate Silver, but he should've stuck with baseball.
The main technical conclusion is that statistics as a discipline does
poorly in in non-stationary worlds.
November 9, 2016 reply from Paul Williams
Not sure this makes Nate Silver the loser; it makes
statistical
modeling the loser. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels have a book
titled Democracy for Realists, which takes aim at the accountics style
of research that now dominates political science. Models may do okay
in "stable" times, but fail miserably to account for the inherent
instabilities that bedevil politics (and economics). For too long the
social sciences have been anchored to rational decision theoretic
models and Achen and Bartels argue that for political science it is
bunk. People vote as herds; they don't calculate. In other words
they are occasionally "irrational" and, thus, unpredictable.
Bob Jensen's threads on what went wrong in statistical science
and accountics science ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
Canada is overjoyed by the Trump victory. Now the USA
will send them more of our workers and Canada will send us more oil (maybe
through the Keystone pipeline)
Bob Jensen
A Terrific Holiday Gift Idea (that's available on Amazon if you can't find it
in a store)
Besides bringing your car's battery back to life, this external battery pack
has two additional functions that I like ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/self-jumping-battery-recommendation-for-car-owners-2016-11
Jensen Comment
This sounds like a good idea replacing one that did not work out for me. The
product that did not work out was a dual car battery with a switch
allowing a driver to flip over to the second battery when the first battery
fails. I had two of these dual batteries that let me down. They sounded like
good ideas, because the entire dual system recharges, in theory, from the car's
engine while driving. But when my first batter failed, switching over also
failed, because the second batter was dead. I guess they still sell dual
batteries, buy my mechanics don't recommend them.
The above external battery pack sounds great if I can also use it for my tractor
and my home power generator (when the grid is down) --- both equipment items
that have shorter-lived batteries than my car batteries.
However, I have a quick-start battery charger that will very quickly start my
car, tractor, or generator. The problem with this battery charger is that it is
big and heavy for transporting around. Another problem is that it only works
when plugged into a power outlet. If I'm parked a relatively long distance from
a power outlet, such as being in the parking lot of a mountain trail, my
quick-start battery charger is useless. Also if my home generator battery is
dead the quick start battery charger is useless because the reason for having
such a home power generator is when the power grid is down.
After I buy the battery pack recommended above, it may turn out like my home
power generator. Now that I have a generator that will power the entire house
the power grid never goes down. Before I bout my generator the grid went down
quite often. My neighbors are all grateful that I spent $20,000+ for a great
generator.
Question for Hugely Biased Late Night Television Comedians
Who's having the last laugh?
This is something for them to think about for future
elections.
A majority of voters may not be laughing (or even watching) because of this
bias.
Related Question
Although some students are attracted by political bias in courses does such bias
also turn off students?
At some universities, particularly private universities with high tuition, the
students are often more conservative than the faculty.
The AAUP suggests leaving politics entirely out of courses unless designed in a
curriculum plan for selected courses.
50 Years of The Chronicle of Higher Education ---
http://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/50-Years-of-The-Chronicle-of/61?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=461320b41e744d9bb9e246370c6bc929&elq=d95d698f080840a6bd6551e1f8c7d676&elqaid=11388&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4434
Report Download Site ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Download-The-Chronicles/238323?cid=cp61
The Past and Future of Higher Education
The Chronicle’s 50th anniversary is an occasion to take stock of the world we
cover. What ideas and arguments might shape the next 50 years?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-PastFuture-of-Higher/238302?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=a8364b81235747849abe1b652bdcc766&elq=e2988fd76626460eb128c7b2912e6efe&elqaid=11364&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4421
Jensen Comment
I can't believe it! All these so-called experts ignored some of the biggest
disgraces that descended on Higher Education in the past 50 years.
The biggest disgrace in the past 50 years of higher education not mentioned
in the above report is grade inflation where the median grade in the USA moved
from C+ to A-. The main reason for this disgrace is that colleges made student
evaluations influential in faculty tenure and performance decisions. Now it's
truly disgraceful here on our Lake Wobegon campuses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
In fairness Brian D. Caplan did mention the "credential inflation" that
accompanies the greatly increased share of the population going to college. But
the other experts largely ignored "credential inflation."
The second and somewhat more varied disgrace is the struggle for freedom of
speech on campus the wave of political correctness, another topic that the
Chronicle apparently feared to raise in this report ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
The report finds all sorts of excuses to defend political correctness.
A third disgrace in the hiring bias of faculty in higher education. It's not
at all uncommon for over 90+% of the faculty on campus to be members of the
Democratic Party. Harvard's conservative political scientist Harvey Mansfield
once warned a non-tenured Harvard professor who whispered to Harvey that he too
was conservative. Harvey advised that non-tenured professor against "raising the
jolly Roger" until after attaining tenure. Harvey was serious in this instance.
Fifty years ago college campuses had conservative thought in the curriculum and
focused on the writings of such conservative theorists as Friedrich Hayek and
Milton Friedman. Now such writings are not politically correct. Bravo to the
University of Colorado for creating a professorship for a conservative thinker
so there could be at least one on campus.
A fourth and even more controversial topic avoided is the main difference
between higher (tertiary) education in Europe versus the USA. In many parts of
Europe like Finland and Germany college education and other forms of Tier 3
tertiary education is funded by taxpayers.
But to make high-quality education affordable admissions to college are
restricted to less than 40% of the Tier 2 graduates
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment
The larger proportion of Europe's Tier 2 graduates get training in the skilled
trades, but this training is funded by the private sector in apprenticeships and
other forms of on-the-job training. In the USA some form of taxpayer-funded
low-cost education is available in or very near every small community where
community colleges and other college branches cover the nation.
Now a movement is underfoot to provide free college to virtually all Tier 2
graduates as if all these graduates are ready, willing, and able to master
higher education after graduating from our deteriorating high schools in terms
of academic quality. The main failing in the USA is the failure to provide
sufficient incentives for the private sector to hire and train those Tier 2
graduates who are are desperately in need of hiring and job training
alternatives. The model of trade school or college degree
to skilled jobs is just not working very well. Business firms need more
European-type incentives to hire and train Tier 2 graduates.
"What Can the U.S. Learn From Switzerland, a
World Leader in Apprenticeships? by Kelly Field,
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 02, 2016
---
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Can-the-US-Learn-From/236323?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ed4c1ab9aec74f92be12624885801484&elq=0ce71537bc894cb8a3f7ee33b218ead9&elqaid=8888&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3032
I have gripes in other parts of The Past and Future of Higher Education
report that mostly overlooks the progress that has been made in minority
education. Much attention is given to racial issues and minority education.
However, the responders overlook many of the positive things that have taken
place. For example, more than 30% of the graduates from some of our most
prestigious universities are minorities, and many of these attended those
universities with free tuition, room and board.
Search for Stanford (37%), MIT (32.7%), Harvard (31.6%), Princeton (32.5%),
Cornell (32.4%), Texas A&M (30.1%). etc.
http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/student-diversity-2016?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=0232a6c335f14a75a6c9c8de066dd14a&elq=600a2190e4de4e46bb287bb898fdf710&elqaid=10747&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4072
Perhaps it's still not enough, but some credit should be given where credit is
due. Need I mention that over 50% of the graduates in USA higher education are
female. In my field well over 50% of the new hires by CPA firms are female, and
there are award-winning affirmative action initiatives to make it easier for
women to become partners in CPA firms. The professionals in CPA firms 50 years
ago were virtually all males.
I could go on, but in my opinion this The Past and Future of Higher
Education report would not get a C grade in any of my courses.
Tertiary education ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education
Tertiary education, also referred to
as third stage, third level, and
post-secondary education, is the
educational level following the completion of a school providing a
secondary education. The
World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including
universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of
higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community
colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and
distance learning centers.[1]
Higher education is taken to include
undergraduate and
postgraduate education, while
vocational education and training beyond secondary education is known as
further education in the
United Kingdom, or
continuing education in the
United States.
Tertiary education generally culminates in the receipt of
certificates,
diplomas, or
academic degrees.
The USA already ranks high in
terms of college graduates
Countries with the highest proportions of college graduates ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/countries-with-the-most-c_n_655393.html#s117378&title=Russian_Federation_54
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- Russian Federation 54.0% (quality varies due
to rampant cheating and corruption where students can buy course grades and
admission)
- Canada 48.3% (shares grade inflation
problems with the USA)
- Israel 43.6%
- Japan 41.0%
- New Zealand 41.0%
- United States
40.3% (colleges vary greatly in terms of admissions standards and rigor for
graduation)
- Finland 36.4%
- South Korea 34.3%
- Norway 34.2%
- Australia 33.7%
Germany college education is free by Germany is still under the OECD average
in terms of proportions of college graduates at
23.9% ---
http://andrewhammel.typepad.com/german_joys/2010/09/education-governments-should-expand-tertiary-studies-to-boost-jobs-and-tax-revenues.html
.
One of the major reasons admission to German schools is elitist is that free
education is expensive to taxpayers. In 2009 the Berlin Senate decided that
Berlin's universities should no longer be allowed to pick all of their students.
It was ruled that while they would be able to pick approximately 70% of their
students with the remaining 30% allocated by lottery. Every child is able to
enter the lottery, no matter how he or she performed in primary school. It is
hoped that this policy will increase the number of working class students
attending a university.
A common myth is that nations that tightly restrict free college to the
intellectual elite provide other forms (learning vocational trades) of free
tertiary education.
OECD Study Published in 2014: List of countries
by 25- to 34-year-olds having a tertiary education degree ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_25-_to_34-year-olds_having_a_tertiary_education_degree
No nation provides more than
Israel's 49% of free tertiary (trade training or college education) to more than
Israel's 49% funded by taxpayers.
The USA, in my opinion, offers the most opportunity to the highest proportion
of Tier 2 graduates to go to college. Even small towns across the USA have
community college campuses and branch campuses with almost no admission
standards for people who want to work toward a college degree or training
certificate. Sadly, ACT testing results show that less than half of the USA's
high school graduates are prepared to go to colllege. Compounding the felony is
the fact that college degrees in the USA vary widely in terms of learning
quality. Many of the USA's graduates are no better or worse than Tier 2 (high
school) graduates in Europe. In some cases the diplomas aren't worth the paper
their written on let alone the thousands of dollars borrowed to get these
useless diplomas.
Across the board from the worst to our most prestigious universities grade
inflation is rampant to where the median grade across the USA is an A-
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
I fear that when college is free for all in the USA the median grade across the
USA will climb to A+ and admission standards will fall to zero as colleges of
poor quality compete to suck up the taxpayer subsidies that make college free
for everybody.
What the USA lacks relative to
Europe are networks of apprentice programs in the skilled trades where companies
rather than taxpayers foot the bill for the training.
"What Can the U.S. Learn From Switzerland, a
World Leader in Apprenticeships? by Kelly Field,
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 02, 2016
---
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Can-the-US-Learn-From/236323?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ed4c1ab9aec74f92be12624885801484&elq=0ce71537bc894cb8a3f7ee33b218ead9&elqaid=8888&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3032
Texas A&M University Commerce: Teaching & Learning ---
http://www.tamuc.edu/dev/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/facultyDevelopment/teachingLearningStrategies.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads in education tools and tricks of the trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
A New Front of Activism : Cases of minority scholars denied tenure call
into question long-term plans to diversify ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/a-new-front-of-activism/238319?cid=db&elqTrackId=2d8ad4e562e348f1821cf594ff8aa87a&elq=6ca09648e9994ad5bc71c2a5a21c55ac&elqaid=11468&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4486
Jensen Comment
One thing I recall in very few minority tenure cases I've witnessed in my 40
years of faculty life at four universities is that the university bends over
backwards to grant tenure to good teachers who were also Black or Hispanic.
Whereas white and Asian professors were expected to have some Tier 1 journal
publications, blacks and Hispanics did not have to attain such high publication
performances. It was more of a problem keeping them if they had strong tenure
performances. Sometimes minority professors like
Ward Churchill are granted tenure without even having a doctoral or other
terminal degree required for white faculty.
It's possible minority professors perhaps have not learned
how to play the tenure "game" ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTenure.htm
(with a reply about tenure publication point systems from Linda Kidwell that
might make it more difficult for special considerations for minorities)
Please forward the above link to a minority assistant professor if you think
doing so is appropriate.
Karl Marx ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
I'm not a Marxist
Karl Marx
"Marx as Educator," by Arthur Goldhammer, Chronicle
of Higher Education's Chronicle Review, November 13, 2016
---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Marx-as-Educator/238352?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=79c9d9e5c7454646871471e1975634c9&elq=3aeb86b0e6c541e0bfb97579c049d6f3&elqaid=11469&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4487
. . .
Marx’s
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte demonstrated his brilliant
insight into the French society of his own time, but the stark clarity of
his vision led him to transform the opposition of class interests into the
clash of contending armies between which no dialogue, let alone compromise,
is possible. Although he appreciated the role of the "decadent aristocracy"
and "rising bourgeoisie" in sustaining the Enlightenment and the critical
spirit he held dear, his implacable theory of history implied that their
role had been transcended, and that only the one "universal class" (as
Lukács characterized the proletariat) could carry on the struggle. Harmony
would be achieved only when the class enemy was definitively crushed.
But harmony is a
false utopia. Conflict is intrinsic to social being. Anyone who aspires to a
more humane social existence, as Marx surely did, should therefore seek to
tame rather than eliminate it. To learn that lesson, one must turn to
teachers other than Marx.
Arthur Goldhammer is a writer, translator, and senior affiliate of the
Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the translator,
most recently, of
Capital in the 21st Century (Harvard University Press, 2014) and The
Economics of Inequality (Harvard, 2015), both by Thomas Piketty
Jensen Comment
Among the most controversial teachings of Karl Marx is his Theory of Value.---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_value
By today's standards his Theory of Value is even more controversial as
the labor contents of goods and services shrink in the eria of robotics and
automation.
Anybody wanting to learn more about Karl Marx should almost certainly begin
with The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
Value Theory ---
http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Theory+of+Value
Pennsylvania State University has paid
settlements totaling $93 million to 33 people who said they were sexually
assaulted by Jerry Sandusky, the assistant football coach who was convicted in
2012 on 45 counts of molesting children, according to an audit released by the
university. ---
http://wjactv.com/news/local/penn-state-has-paid-93m-to-33-sandusky-victims-new-audit-says?elqTrackId=18687d675686499ba6c933b68f3515d0&elq=108b88971dc3455d92872f62d2ec39e7&elqaid=11427&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4456
From the Journal of Accountancy on November 1, 2016
Microsoft Windows: ‘Gigantic’ tip for freeing hard disk space ---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2016/nov/free-up-hard-disk-space.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11Nov2016#sthash.ZwNXEdVn.dpuf
Jensen Comment
I generally rely on the first bit of advice in this article --- yeah, I'm lazy
when it comes to file management!
Life got easier when I stopped making so many Camtasia videos. But more
importantly it got easier when hard drives got better and better and better.
Everything You Need to Know About Finland—In Four Emojis ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/finland-thinks-your-phone-needs-an-emoji-for-disrobing-in-the-sauna-1478791249
Jensen Comment
This article is entertaining and well as informative. Over the years I was
invited twice to do gigs in Finland. The Finns are very industrious and
usually know several languages. Times were better before the demise of the Nokea
smart phones. But Finland is still a world player in technology ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Industry
In an
Economist Intelligence Unit report released in
September 2011, Finland clinched the second place after the United States on
Benchmarking IT Industry Competitiveness 2011 which scored on 6 key
indicators: overall business environment, technology infrastructure, human
capital, legal framework, public support for industry development, and
research and development landscape.
There's also a long history of not caring so much for Russians. In the USA we
tend to love our Canadian neighbors. I don't think there is such love along the
Finland-Russian border.
Question
Do faculty in the USA work longer hours than their counterparts in Europe?
Here's a bit of anecdotal evidence (entitled "Work, Work, Work") that
contends that the answer is a resounding Yes! Yes! Yes!
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1603-work-work-work?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=2d5a0c14bc1f40cebde22e3466a3d1d6&elq=3c89d93b3d6e42b0bf563ece6e78ff8e&elqaid=11408&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4446
. . .
The problem wasn’t returning to my college. The problem was returning to the
United States, and the insane “work
first” culture that permeates all
professional interactions with colleagues and administrators. Having escaped
the relentless pace of American
workaholism
for the better part of two years, I suffered reverse culture shock upon my
re-entry.
I spent most of my
sabbatical as a residential fellow based at three European universities — my
first extended experience of being an academic outside of the United States.
I brought my teenage daughter with me and she experienced complete immersion
in secondary schools in two different German cities. Although I wasn’t
teaching, I still worked full time, writing three books and giving 19
lectures in 13 countries. I also had obligations to the research institutes
where I worked, as well as responsibilities to professional associations
back home. And yet I somehow created a saner balance between work and family
than I’d ever managed on my home campus.
I took long walks and
shared slow meals with my daughter. I spent rainy weekends with her
binge-watching entire TV series — like Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of
Cosmos, the Japanese anime series Attack on Titan, and Netflix’s
Jessica Jones. When I returned to work on Mondays, my German or
Finnish colleagues reveled in sharing the nonwork-related things they had
done over the weekend, so I felt no guilt in admitting that I blew an entire
Saturday poking around the Leipzig book fair or visiting friends in Berlin.
My
German peers treated their evenings and weekends as sacrosanct. Their
offices were deserted by 5 p.m. when the Feierabend (literally: party
evening) began. At the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, the director
would sometimes see me in the office after 5, and feel compelled to inquire
if I had an impending deadline. No one responded to email after work or over
the weekend — something I initially found frustrating, but later found
liberating. No one expected me to respond either.Continued
in article
Jensen Comment
When I was at Florida State University a professor from Japan came to work
alongside me for two semesters. When I was at Trinity University in Texas a
Canadian professor and later a professor from Alaska came to work alongside me.
In all three instances they said I worked too hard for too many hours each week.
I plead guilty. For my entire academic career and even now in retirement
I don't know much of anything about life other than "Work, Work, Work."
The Astrophysicists Who Faked It ---
http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/the-cosmologists-who-faked-it
University Of Rochester B-School (30+ years) Professor Pays $100 Million
FBAR Penalty Over Swiss Accounts ---
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/emeritus-professor-pleads-guilty-conspiring-defraud-united-states-and-submitting-false
A Rochester,
New York emeritus professor of business administration pleaded guilty today
to conspiring with others to defraud the United States and to submitting a
false expatriation statement to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo,
head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Dana J.
Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia, after the plea was accepted by
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III.
According to
documents filed with the court and statements made during the plea hearing,
Dan Horsky, 71, is a citizen of the United States, the United Kingdom and
Israel and was employed for more than 30 years as a professor of business
administration at a university located in New York. Beginning in
approximately 1995, Horsky began investing in numerous start-up businesses
through financial accounts at various offshore banks, including one bank in
Zurich, Switzerland. Horsky created “Horsky Holdings,” a nominee entity, to
hold some of the investments and he used the Horsky Holdings account, and
later, other accounts at the Zurich-based bank, to conceal his financial
transactions and financial accounts from the IRS and the U.S. Treasury
Department.
Horsky made
investments in Company A through the Horsky Holdings account using his own
money, money provided by his father and sister, and margin loans from the
Zurich-based bank. Eventually, Horsky amassed a four percent interest in
Company A’s stock. In 2008, Company A was purchased by Company B for $1.8
billion in an all cash transaction. Horsky received approximately $80
million in net proceeds from the sale of Company A’s stock, but disclosed to
the IRS only approximately $7 million of his gain from that sale and paid
taxes on just that fraction of his share of the proceeds. In 2008, and in
subsequent years, Horsky invested in Company B’s stock using funds from his
accounts at the Zurich-based bank and by 2013, his investments in Company B,
combined with other unreported offshore assets, reached approximately $200
million.
“Despite his
extraordinary wealth, Mr. Horsky concealed funds offshore, failed to report
substantial income, conspired to submit false expatriation documents to
cover up his fraudulent scheme, and evaded paying his fair share of tax,”
said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo. “The Department
and its partners within the IRS are receiving a tremendous amount of
information from a wide variety of sources, and we are using that
information to pursue and prosecute individuals like Mr. Horsky, who violate
our nation’s tax laws. Today’s guilty plea proves, once again, that
taxpayers will pay a heavy price when they choose to secrete funds in
foreign bank accounts and evade tax and reporting obligations.”
“You can’t
hide from the IRS,” said U.S. Attorney Boente. “Horsky went to great
lengths to hide assets in secret accounts overseas in order to avoid paying
his share of taxes to the IRS. Today’s plea shows that we will continue to
prosecute those who engage in this criminal activity. I want to thank
IRS-Criminal Investigation and our prosecutors for their work on this
important case.”
Horsky
directed the activities in his Horsky Holdings and other accounts maintained
at the Zurich-based bank, despite the fact that it was readily apparent, in
communications with employees of the bank, that Horsky was a resident of the
United States. Bank representatives routinely sent emails to Horsky
recognizing that he was residing in the United States. Beginning in at
least 2011, Horsky caused another individual to have signature authority
over his Zurich-based bank accounts, and this individual assumed the
responsibility of providing instructions as to the management of the
accounts at Horsky’s direction. This arrangement was intended to conceal
Horsky’s interest in and control over these accounts from the IRS.
In 2013, the
individual who had nominal control over Horsky’s accounts at the
Zurich-based bank conspired with Horsky to relinquish the individual’s U.S.
citizenship, in part to ensure that Horsky’s control of the offshore
accounts would not be reported to the IRS. In 2014, this individual filed
with the IRS a false Form 8854 (Initial Annual Expatriation Statement) that
failed to disclose his net worth on the date of expatriation, failed to
disclose his ownership of foreign assets, and falsely certified under
penalties of perjury that he was in compliance with his tax obligations for
the five preceding tax years.
Horsky also
willfully filed false 2008 through 2014 individual income tax returns which
failed to disclose his income from, and beneficial interest in and control
over, his Zurich-based bank accounts. Horsky agreed that for purposes of
sentencing, his criminal conduct resulted in a tax loss of at least $10
million. In addition, Horsky failed to file Reports of Foreign Bank and
Financial Accounts (FBARs) up and through 2011, and also filed false FBARs
for 2012 and 2013.
“Federal
income tax compliance should be equally shared among all Americans,” said
Special Agent-in-Charge Thomas Jankowski of IRS Criminal Investigation (CI),
Washington D.C. Field Office. “Conspiring to defraud the government with an
elaborate scheme to underreport taxable income is unlawful. Mr. Horsky’s
plea today serves as an important reminder that IRS-CI is committed to
bringing to justice those who shirk their federal income tax
responsibilities.”
Sentencing is
scheduled for Feb. 10, 2017. Horsky faces a statutory maximum sentence of
five years in prison, as well as a period of supervised release and monetary
penalties. As part of his plea agreement, Horsky paid a penalty of $100
million dollars to the U.S. Treasury for failing to file and filing false
FBARs, which is separate from any restitution that the court may order.
Principal
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo and U.S. Attorney Boente commended
special agents of IRS-CI, who conducted the investigation, and Senior
Litigation Counsel Mark F. Daly and Trial Attorney Robert J. Boudreau of the
Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lytle of the Eastern District
of Virginia, who are prosecuting this case.
Additional information about the Tax Division and its
enforcement efforts may be found on the division’s website.
Extreme and Unforgiving Political Correctness Attack on the Former Chair
of the Diversity Committee
Ann Althouse, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, allegedly has
the most popular law professor blog in the USA ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Althouse
I don't follow it much after finding it more personal than professional, but
there's little doubt that it's a long-time popular blog. Below Professor
Althouse is flabbergasted by the extreme and unforgiving political
correctness of 23 law professors at the University of Oregon.
About that Oregon law professor who wore
blackface as part of a Halloween costume and provoked demands that she
resign.
It turns out
it was a female lawprof and she was dressed as the
male author of a book she likes, "Black Man
in a White Coat." She says she "intended to provoke a thoughtful discussion
on racism in our society, in our educational institutions and in our
professions," and: "It provoked a discussion of racism, but not as I
intended."
I
intended to create a conversation about inequity, racism and our white
blindness to them. Regrettably, I became an example of it. This has been a
remarkable learning experience for me. I hope that all who are hurt or
angered by my costume will accept my apology. I meant no harm to them or
others.
The professor — who is 68 years old and has taught at
the University of Oregon since 1982 — was put on leave while she is
being investigated. There's
a petition demanding
that she resign. (I guess that would mean
retire.) And there's
a petition on the other side
(premised on academic freedom, not the idea that it's
okay for a professor to wear blackface or okay as long as she had positive
racial values).
I find it hard to believe that people are willing to be so vengeful over a
single instance of bad judgment. Whatever happened to mercy and forgiveness?
And what about our shared interest in living in a culture where people
aren't fearful that their lives could be ruined if they said one thing wrong
— even when they were trying to say something quite bland (like why can't we
all get along)?By the way, the
professor, Nancy Shurtz, was not just a white person dressing up as a black
person, she was also a woman dressing as a man, and a law professor dressing
as a doctor. Why is the one crossover an outrage when the other 2 are not?
How about some actual intellectual exploration of the subject of inhabiting
alternate identities?
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
You may want to read some of the comments, some of which are utterly stupid.
What is happening to humanity on our campuses in the name of political
correctness humanity? It's like Oregon professor committed a felony!
Don't you love it when lawyers fight?
The Atlantic: The Problem With How
Higher Education Treats Diversity ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/trading-identity-for-acceptance/505619/
200 MOOCs Getting Started in November: Enroll Free Today (including
climate change science and critical thinking skills) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/200-moocs-getting-started-in-november-enroll-free-today.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Tax Penalties for Going on Social Security Early and Other Taxation Issues
for Retirees ---
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-retirement-hurts-living-standards-for-boomers/
"Here's when you should (maybe) start claiming your Social
Security benefits," by Ben Carlson, Business Insider, May 2016 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/when-to-claim-social-security-benefits-2016-5
Jensen Comment
Of course your employer may make you an early retirement deal that lets you
retire without starting Social Security benefits until you reach a later age.
Keep in mind that costs of Medicare and Medicare Supplemental plans most
likely will consume a lion's share of your SS benefits such that you should not
plan on having much discretion on how to spend your SS monthly benefits.
Also keep in mind that your are not eligible for Medicare before Age 65 if
you retire early. Cobra is a very expensive alternative until you reach age 65.
Some employers will continue to provide medical insurance if you retire early,
but this must usually be privately negotiated.
Dubious Claim in the WSJ about Laureate ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/11/08/dubious-claim-wsj-editorial-about-laureate?mc_cid=bd6daeee84&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
Underlying concerns about graduation rates in for-profit universities are
concerns about admission standards, academic standards in courses, and
dependence upon government funding. Is there a USA for-profit university at the
undergraduate level that does not get nearly all of its funding from the
government?
Lousy graduation rates are often reflective of low admission standards in
both for-profit and non-profit schools. In turn, massive needs for remedial
education among college applicants are reflective of declining low academic
standards of our Tier 2 (high school) level graduates.
If we tighten academic standards for Tier 2 graduation we will be left with a
greatly increased population of young people who do not graduate from high
schools. Now that the military requires high school diplomas, tightening
academic standards at the high school level will shut down employment and
training in the military for many of those young people.
Underlying lack of disciplined and motivated learners in our high schools,
particularly urban high schools, are breakdown in family structures and drug
cultures where young people think they can prosper more selling drugs, selling
bodies, and invading homes than graduating from high school.
And then belatedly when they are poor, undereducated, and released from
prison or the military they belatedly want the government to pay their way to
for-profit colleges like Laureate and Walden.
The Education Department's College Navigator, the
companion to the College Scorecard, explains Walden's lack of a federal
graduation rate. "Data reported in the IPEDS Graduation Rate survey is based
on a cohort of first-time, full-time undergraduates," a footnote in the
entry says. "Undergraduate students enrolled at
Walden University do not typically fall into this group."
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/11/08/dubious-claim-wsj-editorial-about-laureate?mc_cid=bd6daeee84&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Free College in the USA Future Should Not Mean a Free Ride --- But it
Wil if It Ever Becomes Realityl!
This is Indicative of the Future of Free Colleges Without Rigor: Everybody
Gets a Blue Ribbon Diploma Just for Attendance ---
Rigor, Faculty Rights, Completion: Instructor says he was fired --
shortly after he complained to accreditor -- for refusing to water down his
curriculum and requirements. Another instructor quit rather than comply.---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/07/adjunct-says-he-was-fired-insisting-rigor-his-course?mc_cid=ffa0c4791c&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Colorado, like many states,
wants to increase the number of community college students who transfer to
four-year colleges and universities and earn bachelor's degrees.
To encourage such
transfers, the state has designated some community college courses as
Guaranteed Transfer
Pathways
courses, meaning that anyone who earns a C-minus or higher is assured of
transfer credit at Colorado public colleges and universities. A major
complaint of community college students who transfer is that the
institutions at which they enroll don't grant credit for many of their
community college courses. Programs like Guaranteed Transfer Pathways are
designed to deal with that issue.
But one instructor has been
dismissed by the Community College of Aurora and another quit over the way
they say that college is carrying out the program. They allege that to make
courses consistent with state guidelines, the college required them to make
it easy for students to complete courses and earn good grades in them --
with academic rigor sacrificed.
The American Association of
University Professors has launched an investigation focused on the dismissal
of Nathanial Bork, who had taught philosophy courses at the college for six
years before he was dismissed. The AAUP says that his dismissal raises
concerns both because of the issues he raises about rigor and also because
he was fired shortly after he complained about the situation to the Higher
Learning Commission, the college's accreditor. Further, Bork was active in
efforts to improve the working conditions of adjuncts at the college.
Bork's complaint to his
accreditor is that he was ordered to take these steps to make it more likely
that students could pass:
Reduce course content by
20 percent.
Ensure a "success rate"
(passing rate) of 80 percent for all students and for students of different
racial, ethnic and gender groups.
Set aside five class
sessions for helping students with writing skills and learning how to write
an essay.
Limit papers assigned to
two to four pages, or a single six- to eight-page paper.
Community College of
Aurora officials did not respond to requests for comment but have told local
reporters that individual faculty members still control their curricular
plans, and any guidelines still leave great leeway for individual faculty
members. The Colorado Department of Higher Education has
affirmed that the
college is acting within what it considers acceptable standards.
But the AAUP is not
convinced.
In a letter it sent to the
college, it noted that Bork was "not alone" in viewing the college's demands
as inconsistent with a faculty member's responsibilities. The AAUP says it
has a letter from a former instructor who quit Aurora over the new
requirements, writing, "I could not do what the school asked and keep any
integrity."
A letter from the
AAUP to the college states that it is concerned that Bork was raising issues
that go to the heart of an instructor's need to assure quality instruction.
He was fired after raising concerns over "severely degraded" standards
ordered by the college. Further, the AAUP said, academic freedom should
protect the right of a faculty member like Bork to express concerns to an
accreditor without retribution.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Community colleges are already notorious for lower academic standards. What's
sad about this in many instances is that it demeans minorities who commonly
struggle more with community colleges. This sends a message that we have to
reduce academic standards so minorities can get diplomas. For years we've
demeaned them in high schools by watering down academic standards for high
school. Now we're asked to demean them in college.
What it says is that minorities are second class students in college. This
should not be the case so that minorities that meet more rigorous academic
standards can take pride in their accomplishments and not have to be looked down
upon for diploma giveaways.
Legislators across the USA want to turn colleges into diploma mills that
require only attendance.
The University of North Carolina paved the way by having fake courses for nearly
20 years.
More Americans Leave Expensive Metro Areas for Affordable Ones ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-americans-leave-expensive-metro-areas-for-affordable-ones-1478088003
Jensen Comment
The article fails to point out that efficient public transportation differences
make some metro area loss of middle and lower income people worse than others.
For example, lower-income workers like school teachers forced out of San
Francisco have the wonderful BART system for commuting in from east of the San
Francisco Bay. New York, Boston, and Chicago have good metro systems to lower
cost living areas. Palo Alto, San Jose, San Diego and Honolulu have lousy
commuting alternatives other than by congested freeways. For example, Palo Alto
now provides subsidized housing for public service workers who would not
otherwise apply for those jobs. Sadly, installing new and better subway systems
is now enormously expensive, especially for cities having vast urban sprawl like
San Diego and Los Angeles where the subway tunnels would have to run for miles
and miles and miles.
University Of Rochester B-School
Professor (30 years) Pays $100 Million
FBAR Penalty Over Swiss Accounts ---
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/emeritus-professor-pleads-guilty-conspiring-defraud-united-states-and-submitting-false
A Rochester,
New York emeritus professor of business
administration pleaded guilty today to
conspiring with others to defraud the
United States and to submitting a false
expatriation statement to the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS), announced
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney
General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the
Justice Department’s Tax Division, and
U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the
Eastern District of Virginia, after the
plea was accepted by U.S. District Judge
T.S. Ellis III.
According to
documents filed with the court and
statements made during the plea hearing,
Dan Horsky, 71, is a citizen of the
United States, the United Kingdom and
Israel and was employed for more than 30
years as a professor of business
administration at a university located
in New York. Beginning in approximately
1995, Horsky began investing in numerous
start-up businesses through financial
accounts at various offshore banks,
including one bank in Zurich,
Switzerland. Horsky created “Horsky
Holdings,” a nominee entity, to hold
some of the investments and he used the
Horsky Holdings account, and later,
other accounts at the Zurich-based bank,
to conceal his financial transactions
and financial accounts from the IRS and
the U.S. Treasury Department.
Horsky made
investments in Company A through the
Horsky Holdings account using his own
money, money provided by his father and
sister, and margin loans from the
Zurich-based bank. Eventually, Horsky
amassed a four percent interest in
Company A’s stock. In 2008, Company A
was purchased by Company B for $1.8
billion in an all cash transaction.
Horsky received approximately $80
million in net proceeds from the sale of
Company A’s stock, but disclosed to the
IRS only approximately $7 million of his
gain from that sale and paid taxes on
just that fraction of his share of the
proceeds. In 2008, and in subsequent
years, Horsky invested in Company B’s
stock using funds from his accounts at
the Zurich-based bank and by 2013, his
investments in Company B, combined with
other unreported offshore assets,
reached approximately $200 million.
“Despite his
extraordinary wealth, Mr. Horsky
concealed funds offshore, failed to
report substantial income, conspired to
submit false expatriation documents to
cover up his fraudulent scheme, and
evaded paying his fair share of tax,”
said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney
General Ciraolo. “The Department and
its partners within the IRS are
receiving a tremendous amount of
information from a wide variety of
sources, and we are using that
information to pursue and prosecute
individuals like Mr. Horsky, who violate
our nation’s tax laws. Today’s guilty
plea proves, once again, that taxpayers
will pay a heavy price when they choose
to secrete funds in foreign bank
accounts and evade tax and reporting
obligations.”
“You can’t hide
from the IRS,” said U.S. Attorney Boente.
“Horsky went to great lengths to hide
assets in secret accounts overseas in
order to avoid paying his share of taxes
to the IRS. Today’s plea shows that we
will continue to prosecute those who
engage in this criminal activity. I want
to thank IRS-Criminal Investigation and
our prosecutors for their work on this
important case.”
Horsky directed
the activities in his Horsky Holdings
and other accounts maintained at the
Zurich-based bank, despite the fact that
it was readily apparent, in
communications with employees of the
bank, that Horsky was a resident of the
United States. Bank representatives
routinely sent emails to Horsky
recognizing that he was residing in the
United States. Beginning in at least
2011, Horsky caused another individual
to have signature authority over his
Zurich-based bank accounts, and this
individual assumed the responsibility of
providing instructions as to the
management of the accounts at Horsky’s
direction. This arrangement was
intended to conceal Horsky’s interest in
and control over these accounts from the
IRS.
In 2013, the
individual who had nominal control over
Horsky’s accounts at the Zurich-based
bank conspired with Horsky to relinquish
the individual’s U.S. citizenship, in
part to ensure that Horsky’s control of
the offshore accounts would not be
reported to the IRS. In 2014, this
individual filed with the IRS a false
Form 8854 (Initial Annual Expatriation
Statement) that failed to disclose his
net worth on the date of expatriation,
failed to disclose his ownership of
foreign assets, and falsely certified
under penalties of perjury that he was
in compliance with his tax obligations
for the five preceding tax years.
Horsky also
willfully filed false 2008 through 2014
individual income tax returns which
failed to disclose his income from, and
beneficial interest in and control over,
his Zurich-based bank accounts. Horsky
agreed that for purposes of sentencing,
his criminal conduct resulted in a tax
loss of at least $10 million. In
addition, Horsky failed to file Reports
of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs)
up and through 2011, and also filed
false FBARs for 2012 and 2013.
“Federal income
tax compliance should be equally shared
among all Americans,” said Special
Agent-in-Charge Thomas Jankowski of IRS
Criminal Investigation (CI), Washington
D.C. Field Office. “Conspiring to
defraud the government with an elaborate
scheme to underreport taxable income is
unlawful. Mr. Horsky’s plea today
serves as an important reminder that
IRS-CI is committed to bringing to
justice those who shirk their federal
income tax responsibilities.”
Sentencing is
scheduled for Feb. 10, 2017. Horsky
faces a statutory maximum sentence of
five years in prison, as well as a
period of supervised release and
monetary penalties. As part of his plea
agreement, Horsky paid a penalty of $100
million dollars to the U.S. Treasury for
failing to file and filing false FBARs,
which is separate from any restitution
that the court may order.
Principal
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Ciraolo and U.S. Attorney Boente
commended special agents of IRS-CI, who
conducted the investigation, and Senior
Litigation Counsel Mark F. Daly and
Trial Attorney Robert J. Boudreau of the
Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney
Mark Lytle of the Eastern District of
Virginia, who are prosecuting this case.
Additional
information about the Tax Division and
its enforcement efforts may be found on
the division’s website.
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Learning Technology: T.H.E. Magazine's Readers Choice Awards for
2016 ---
https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/10/31/readers-choice-awards-2016.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Competency-Based Learning (where teachers don't selectively assign grades)
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_learning
Western Governors University (with an entire history of competency-based
learning) ---- http://www.wgu.edu/
From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on
November 3, 2016
Over the past 20 years, Western Governors University has grown into a
formidable competency-based online education provider. It’s on just its
second president, Scott D. Pulsipher, a former Silicon Valley
executive, who stopped by our offices yesterday.
WGU has graduated more than 70,000 students, from all
50 states. But a key part of the institution’s growth strategy is local,
using its affiliations with participating states (not that all the
partnerships
start smoothly,
mind you). There are six of them, and more growth is
on the way; Mr. Pulsipher says WGU is in serious discussions to expand into
as many as five more states — he declines to name them — at a pace of one or
two per year.
The university's main focus remains students, he says. One example is an
effort to minimize student loans. Through better advising, students are
borrowing, on average, about 20 percent less than they did three years ago,
amounting to savings of about $3,200. “Humans make better decisions,” Mr.
Pulsipher says, “when they have more information.” —Dan Berrett
2016 Bibliography on Competency-Based
Education and Assessment ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/01/26/rise-competency-based-education?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=0f02e8085b-DNU20160126&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-0f02e8085b-197565045
Bob Jensen's threads on competency-based learning ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
Finance Tips from
The Math Dude Blog ---
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/
These my be especially interesting when
teaching financial literacy modules
is a credit card
APR and how is it
calculated?" A. APR
is short for Annual Percentage Rate,
... which is the interest you’re
charged over a 12-month period. For
instance, a card with 24%
APR costs 2% ... a
single account can have several
different
APRs. The card
company may charge one rate for
purchases, one ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- December 18, 2013
a higher rate of interest.
Understand APY vs.
APR Speaking of
interest, there are two main ways
that ... interest is expressed for
CDs: APY and
APR. APY stands for
annual percentage yield and it’s the
rate you’d ... APY is the rate
you’ll get if you never withdraw
interest from a CD.
APR, on the other
hand, stands ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- February 10, 2011
Jensen
Comment
CD's have very lousy investment
returns since the Federal Reserve
drove interest rates to almost zero.
In general these days you have to
take on more risk to get better
returns.
transfer card with 0%
APR for 12 months,
no annual fee, no balance transfer
fees, plus cash back rewards. ...
APR after the 0%
APR 12-month
promotion period expires. If she
continues to make $500 monthly ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- January 08, 2012
a lower interest rate, you can save
a lot of money. The Discover® More
Card gives you 0%
APR for 15 months
... Lending Club or Prosper —where
you can borrow for as little as
6.59% and earn an average of 10.59%
APR ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- June 02, 2012
typically charged a daily rate
that's equal to the card's annual
percentage rate (APR)
divided by ... 365. For instance,
the
APR for new
purchases could be 11.99%, cash
advances 23.99%, and balance ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- December 01, 2011
Jensen
Comment
Make every effort to pay more each
month than what the credit card
billing says is the "minimum"
amount.
Better yet always take the monthly
amount due down to zero to avoid
interest charges altogether.
6.
card debt of $6,000. The
APR (annual
percentage rate) on my card is high
at 17% and I'd love to ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- December 21, 2010
8.
Otherwise, after the promotion ends,
the annual interest rate or
APR usually
skyrockets on your outstanding ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- September 26, 2013
transfer at 0%
APR for a limited
time. Should I transfer the balance
of my higher-interest card and save
... a balance transfer card, look
for the following features: an
introductory interest rate of 0%
APR for ...
By Laura Adams, MBA,
Money Girl
- December 18, 2012
The Khan Academy also has some
great personal finance tutorials ---
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/investment-vehicles-tutorial
Bob Jensen's threads on personal
finance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
Helpers for Student Loan
Forgiveness and Cancellation ---
https://www.moneygeek.com/education/college/resources/student-loan-forgiveness-cancellation/
Jensen Comment
If you do not qualify for student loan
forgiveness you should probably compare
your current annual loan payments with
payments if you privately refinance at
the present low interest rates. However,
you may lose some protections and
options in doing so. Be careful about
refinancing that sounds too good to be
true. You might be able to refinance
with your parents in a win-win situation
if your parents consider you a good
investment risk and you pay a higher
interest rate than their safe investment
alternatives. Read that as meaning you
have a good job in a good profession and
are not an unemployed aspiring artist or
writer or getting a Ph.D. in a
discipline where Ph.D. graduates are a
dime a dozen.
Whether or not you pay your student
loan off aggressively by making above
the minimum amounts due each year
depends much upon what you would
otherwise do with the money. Savings
rates are so low that you are probably
better off paying the loan off
aggressively relative to saving. Risky
investments are not the same as
gambling, but you should probably be
very cautious with putting money into
risky investments like tech stocks until
you have your student loans paid off.
Also remember that there are
transactions costs for buying and
selling land, houses, and stocks.
Short-term ownership (called flipping)
of a house/condo is risky unless the
buying deal was very good in a very hot
housing market such as near a college or
medical center. It helps in house
flipping markets if you do the fixing up
of a house yourself.
My advice is to avoid buying new cars
until your loan is paid off, although
you may have to invest in a quality
pre-owned car or lease modest cars at
low rates. Think public transportation
if you live in an urban area that has
good public transportation. You can
always rent an occasional car if needed
for a trip.
Bob Jensen's personal finance
helpers are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
MIT's Technology Review: Our editors pick the 50 companies that best
combine innovative technology with an effective business model ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies/2016/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email_marketing&utm_content=website_stories_newsletter&utm_campaign=engagement_series
Jensen Comment
Amazon leads the way
IBM ranks near the bottom. Microsoft is in the middle of the pack.
Some worrisome things are clear; Profit, cash flow, and financial risk are
not among the business model criteria in this ranking. Otherwise many of the
high ranking companies would not make the Top 50. Also MIT ignored ependence on
government subsidies as part of the business model. Without government subsidies
many of the high ranking companies in this listing would be out of business.
This may be a good ranking in terms of innovation, but I dispute the
definition of "effective business model" since reliance
upon government handouts (think Tesla and First Solar) and virtual dependence on
Chinese labor (think iPhones) and Chinese raw material (think lithium) is
what I consider a very high risk model for customers and shareholders.
Law School Bubble Bursts: As hard as it is to believe, some of these
lawyers lied
Inside Higher Ed: Law Schools Flagged for Job Data ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/01/initial-audit-finds-flaws-some-law-school-employment-reporting-practices?mc_cid=16d4a56a74&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
"NY Times: A
Majority Of Law Schools Are Scamming Students And Taxpayers," by Paul
Caron, TaxProf Blog, October 25, 2015 ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/10/ny-times-a-majority-of-law-schools-admit-unqualified-students-charge-outrageously-high-tuition-and-s.html
Law Schools 2011-2015
Enrollment, Faculty Down 60%, Tuition Up 40%
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/02/cooley-craters-60-drop-in-enrollment-faculty.html
Trustees at Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne have voted to close the
institution's law school at the end of June 2017 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/11/01/indiana-tech-shutter-law-school?mc_cid=16d4a56a74&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
The Future Is ‘Bleak’ For Law Students And Law School Graduates ---
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/05/the-future-is-bleak-for-law-students-and-law-school-graduates/?rf=1
Legal education has been getting bad press since
the start of the Great Recession, and perhaps for good reason. While tuition
skyrocketed, often leaving graduates with six-figure debt loads, quality job
prospects seemingly disappeared. The jobs that were left had salaries that
were too low to service those graduates’ tremendous debt loads. Prospective
law students began to hear about new lawyers’ joblessness and indebtedness,
and stopped applying. This prompted many law schools to lower their
admissions standards in the hope of filling their seats. This, in turn,
brought about wave after wave of record-setting failure rates on bar exams
nationwide.
Now that class sizes are smaller, employment
statistics seem to look “better,” and law school administrators across the
country have started spreading the word that law school is once more a good
investment. But is it really?
Law students and graduates have started using
Whisper, an
anonymous messaging service, to tell the world about legal education and
what it has done to them. These messages are representative of the general
tone of posts having to do with law school.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on the rise and fall of law schools ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#OverstuffedLawSchools
How to Solve the World’s Hardest Logic Puzzle ---
http://nautil.us/blog/how-to-solve-the-worlds-hardest-logic-puzzle
From the Washington Post:
AT&T and DurectTV partner to Screw the Public
Full title: AT&T and DirecTV
colluded in an illegal plot that kept Dodgers games off the air, DOJ lawsuit
alleges AT&T and DirecTV acted as ringleaders in an illegal plot against the
Dodgers Channel that kept Los Angeles sports fans from watching their favorite
team on television, according to a major lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Justice
Department. The anti-collusion suit alleges that DirecTV -- and its corporate
parent, AT&T -- shared private negotiating information in 2014 with other TV
providers, including Cox Communications and Charter Communications, in order to
gain a collective advantage over Time Warner Cable, which was...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/02/doj-accuses-att-and-directv-of-an-illegal-plot-that-kept-the-dodgers-channel-off-the-air/
Time Magazine: The 50 Best Apps of the Year ---
http://time.com/4549647/best-apps-year-2016/?xid=newsletter-brief
David Pogue Review: Intel Compute Stick: The Windows PC That's
Smaller Than a Snickers Bar ---
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/intel-compute-stick-a-full-windows-pc-smaller-124848163919.html
PC Magazine: Microsoft Surface Book (2016) ---
http://www.pcmag.com/review/349130/microsoft-surface-book-2016
This computer due out November 10 has not yet been fully tested by PC Labs
NYU Says Leave Was Voluntary for Professor Who Criticized Political
Correctness ---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/nyu-says-leave-was-voluntary-for-professor-who-criticized-political-correctness/115322?elqTrackId=9996d54380c94a528b77e0a058f7ffa1&elq=07b25d38b0f14a45951bfd62dc517bdb&elqaid=11316&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4393
Jensen Comment
My guess is that most politically correct assistant professors would also like a
year of paid relief from teaching so that they can work full time on building
their research credentials for tenure. In reality, however, being deemed not
politically correct is probably the kiss of death in most universities as far as
tenure is concerned.
Harvard's conservative political scientist Harvey Mansfield once warned a
non-tenured Harvard professor who whispered to Harvey that he too was
conservative. Harvey advised that non-tenured professor against "raising the
jolly Roger" until after attaining tenure. Harvey was serious in this instance.
Stanford researchers weigh
in on a contentious debate around changes to an important renewable energy
incentive (net metering)---
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/saving-future-residential-solar-installations?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Stanford-Business-Issue-99-10-30-2016&utm_content=alumni
More American homeowners are investing in residential solar power systems,
thanks in part to regulations that enable such installations to sell surplus
electricity back to utility companies at retail rates.
Solar Soundcloud
Listen to This Story
But that regulation, called net energy metering, is a victim of its own
success. Electric utilities are required to buy this rooftop-generated
electricity at rates far higher than the wholesale rates that they would
have otherwise paid for the same energy. These additional costs, in turn,
are passed down to all ratepayers, effectively acting as a cross-subsidy.
Now
regulators and lawmakers in dozens of states are reevaluating their policies
— and their decisions will have a major impact. “There’s a lot of fighting
in state capitols,” says Stanford Graduate School of Business professor
Stefan Reichelstein,
“and it’s going to shape how quickly the whole residential and commercial
segment of the industry will grow.”
New
research
from Reichelstein and coauthor
Stephen Comello,
director of the
Sustainable Energy Initiative,
examines three states that have already enacted changes and calculates the
threshold to keep the solar industry humming without undue economic support.
Beware the Death Spiral
When net metering policies were first introduced in the 1980s, they were an
important mechanism to help jumpstart the solar industry. While the details
vary by state, these policies typically call for owners of solar systems to
be compensated for the surplus electricity they feed back into the grid at
the going retail rate. Utilities are required to buy this power, even though
they could procure the electricity at a much lower rate on the wholesale
market. In California, for example, rooftop solar customers can sell back
electricity at around 17 cents per kilowatt hour, whereas the utility could
buy it on the wholesale market for around 4 cents per kWh.
The utilities opposed the agreement initially, Reichelstein says, but “at
the time the solar industry was so tiny that the utilities shrugged it off.”
Now,
solar costs are dropping and demand is spiking, changing the economics of
residential solar installations and the need for net metering.
Some
even speculate
solar incentives will lead utility companies into a “death spiral.”
This threat unfolds like this: As more customers install solar panels, a
utility will sell less electricity in total. Since the utility also incurs
fixed costs in order to maintain the overall grid infrastructure, the rate
it charges for electricity goes up even as it sells less of it. This makes
installing solar panels even more attractive to more people, which means the
utility sells even less and charges even more. And so on down the spiral.
Even if encouraging more solar deployment is desirable, this is not a happy
scenario for the overall health of the industry. For one thing, while solar
customers add to the overall infrastructure burden by requiring two-way flow
of electricity, those costs tend to get shifted onto the remaining non-solar
customers while solar developers reap tidy profits.
“With retail rates going up and the cost of solar going down,” Reichelstein
says, “the margins are getting fatter for the solar companies. But those
margins are based on the support mechanism of net metering.”
For customers, Comello says, net metering can amount to a subsidy for the
rich. “Those who own their home and are more traditionally well off are the
ones who have the advantage. Whereas if you live in an apartment or don’t
have the means to install solar panels, you’re cut off from all the benefit
while paying more for your electricity.”
The Happy Middle
As regulators and lawmakers across the country look to revise net energy
metering policies, the open question is what they will look like in their
next incarnation.
Continued in article
Elon Musk's solar shingles are a lot like the forever-lasting slates of
the 19th Century---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming?cmpid=BBD103116_BIZ
Also see
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/31/13469846/tesla-solar-roof-solpad-solarwindow
Jensen Comment
In my opinion this sounds like a great advance in solar energy and roofing in
warmer climates. I continue to be concerned about selling our souls (read that
economic freedoms) to China (and maybe Chile) for lithium in backup batteries.
Melting snow on a roof at below-zero temperatures is not always a great idea
in these parts since our cottage sometimes has several feet of snow on the roof.
Here's what happened in our cottage before we added more rim insulation to stop
roof melting in cold weather. Sides of our cottage became coated with thick ice
that could have been damaging year after year until we added the roof insulation
to prevent roof melting in very cold weather. It was almost like living in an
ice-covered igloo.
There also is an issue roof leaks. Leaks in a solar-shingle roof may be much
more difficult to repair. I guess time will tell.
Solar shingles are not a new idea. I'm not sure why they've not caught on
before now. Perhaps Musk's shingles will be better.
Harvard Business Review: Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid? ---
https://hbr.org/2016/11/are-ceos-overhyped-and-overpaid?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date&spMailingID=15790876&spUserID=MTkyODM0MDg0MAS2&spJobID=900369182&spReportId=OTAwMzY5MTgyS0
Jensen Comment
I think the answer is yes on both counts. Of course CEOs often matter to the
success of the firm, but more often than not their compensation is outrageous.
Even when linked to performance like stock prices their role is only part of the
reason for stock price changes.
Bob Jensen's threads on the outrageous compensation of corporate executives
are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#OutrageousCompensation
I'm especially upset about golden parachutes that outrageously reward failure.
Hayley Peterson: I tried Kroger's new grocery
service, and I'm never buying food the old way again ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-clicklist-review-2016-10
Jensen Comment
Except for perishable items I've been doing this for years from Amazon, and
Amazon Prime even saves me the cost of shipping. This also saves me time and
driving costs since UPS and FedEx deliver my groceries to the inside of my
garage. I could order some perishable items like meat from Amazon, but I still
like to look at the meat before I buy. Meat also tends to be cheaper in a market
like a Kroger's market albeit often somewhat lower in quality than what can be
ordered from Amazon.
Until Kroger robots pick, pack, and bring groceries to your car in front of
the store this has to considerable labor expense to your grocery order. Kroger
is unionized and pays well above minimum wage.
It would be interesting to compare prices of identical shopping carts
from Amazon versus Kroger. If meat and other perishables are excluded I suspect
Amazon will win on pricing except in carts that contain multiple single items
like one bottle of dish soap, one box of cereal, one bag of sugar, one jar of
pickles, etc. When I buy groceries from Amazon I usually buy by the case since I
have an enormous basement with lots of shelves. This would not suitable for
people living in cramped quarters.
Crimes of the future: Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyze
data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?
https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-trust-predictive-policing-software-to-cut-crime?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f9b8e3d69a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_10_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-f9b8e3d69a-68951505
Jensen Comment
I'm a loyal fan of a TV show called "Forensic Files" on HLN (in spite of the
tiresome repetition of episodes). In one episode clues for a series of rapes
were fed into a Predictive policing algorithm. Among other things the app
predicted that the perpetrator was a policeman or former policeman and
pinpointed a 10-block radius where the perpetrator most likely resided. A
surveillance team increased watches over this neighborhood. Sure enough they
caught in a policeman in the act. He was a rape-crime investigator. Fortunately,
this bad guy was not included in the surveillance team assigned to the
neighborhood in question.
One of the key clues arose when several victims described how the bad guy
held a flashlight in the dark. It turns out that, for whatever reason, police
officers are trained to hold the butt end of a flashlight on their
shoulders
One of the fascinating findings of the app was that it also vectored in on
the block where the perpetrator most likely lived. The surveillance team found
that a policeman lived in that block before they stalked him and caught him in
the act.
Nature: The Polling Crisis: How to Tell What People Really Think ---
http://www.nature.com/news/the-polling-crisis-how-to-tell-what-people-really-think-1.20815
. . .
It’s harder and
harder to find people willing to pay for any polls, given their poor
performance this year and last year. They’re heavily discredited in the UK,”
says Stephen Fisher, a political sociologist at the University of Oxford.
As the US presidential
election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to improve their methods and
avoid another embarrassing mistake. Their job is getting harder. Until as
recently as ten years ago, polling organizations were able to tap into
public opinion simply by calling people at home. But large segments of the
population in developed countries have given up their landlines for mobile
phones. That is making them more difficult for pollsters to reach because
people will often not answer calls from unfamiliar numbers.
So the
pollsters are fighting back. They are fine-tuning their efforts in reaching
mobile phones, using statistical tools to correct for biases and turning to
online surveys. The increasing number of online polls has prompted the
formation of polling aggregates, such as FiveThirtyEight, RealClearPolitics
and Huffington Post, which combine and average the results to develop more
nuanced forecasts“Polling’s going
through a series of transitions. It’s more difficult to do now,” says Cliff
Zukin, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. “The paradigm we’ve used since the 1960s has broken down and we’re
evolving a new one to replace it — but we’re not there yet.” Changing times
The ingredients of an accurate poll are fairly simple, but they can be hard
to find, and everyone uses a different recipe to pull them all together.
Start by recruiting a large group of people — preferably more than 1,000.
The sample should be split evenly between women and men. And it should
reflect the population’s mix in terms of race, education, income and
geographical distribution, to represent these groups’ different views and
voting behaviours. Once the data are in hand, pollsters analyse the gaps in
their sample and weight the results to account for groups that are
under-represented.
“Polling is an art, but it’s largely a
scientific endeavour,” says Michael Link, president and chief executive of
Abt SRBI polling firm in New York City and former president of the American
Association for Public Opinion Research.
Continued in article
Time Magazine: Can you pass a fourth-grade science test?
http://time.com/4548308/national-science-test-fourth-grade/?xid=newsletter-brief
Jensen Comment
I got a perfect score. I doubt that I could pass an eighth-grade test.
Why We Shouldn’t Teach Girls to Code ---
https://howwegettonext.com/why-we-shouldnt-teach-girls-to-code-becec0ef4a98#.mcu6uz2bd
Jensen Comment
This article is mostly bull crap.
Firstly the article associates coding with routine work leading to nowhere.
In computer science and information coding alternatives are languages for
innovation and creativity.
The professional world that I see is trying desperately to make it easier for
women and minorities to advance to the top of their professions. Reasons for
failing to do so are much more complicated that the broad brush blaming for
failures on prejudices. This article is hugely superficial with little evidence
to bolster opinion and little acknowledgement for progress women, including
mothers, that is being made in the USA. If you want more evidence of prejudicial
barriers to women look to business firms in Scandinavia where breaking the glass
ceiling is much more of a rare event than in the public and private sectors of
the USA. It's no longer so rare in the USA for women and minorities willing to
genuinely compete for executive positions. Of course there are still barriers to
be broken in many circumstances, but credit should be give for progress that is
being made in the USA. It's absurd to blame some of the failure on learning to
code.
The article puts down civil service when in fact civil service in many
instances in the public sector is a faster route to high pay and executive
statis in the private sector. There's a coziness
of the private and public sector such as when government bureaucrats are given
fabulous incentives to bail out of government jobs into high paying jobs in the
industries they preciously regulated. FDA civil servants hope to become
executives in the pharmaceutical industry. SEC, FBI, and Department of Justice
employees hope to get plush jobs and offices in big accounting and law firms. It
did take long before industries eventually owned the government agencies that
regulated and investigated those industries.
The SEC Path to Defending Companies You
Previously Investigated
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger
on September 6, 2016
Government parachute
The former head of the
Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program is joining a
law firm that represents those same tipsters—an unusual turn of the
revolving door that highlights the potential profitability of legal work
that didn’t even exist a few years ago. Government officials typically
go into private practice to
defend the companies
they previously might have investigated. Sean
McKessy, who left his post as the first chief of the SEC’s Office of the
Whistleblower in July, is taking the riskier path of the plaintiffs’ bar
by joining Washington-based Phillips & Cohen LLP.
Jensen Comment
The Regulator to Regulated path of advancement is not confined to the SEC. Is there a
government agency where the top regulators don't become employees of the
companies they regulated?
Exhibits A, B, and C are attorney generals, military officers, and health
regulators in the FDA, NIH, etc. And many of those higher-level private
sector opportunities are being given to women and minorities in the civil
service.
Careers and Pay for PhDs
Outside the Education Career Tracks ---
http://humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatorDoc.aspx?i=69
Note that the study includes PhD holders other than humanities PhDs
Jensen Comment
Firstly note that the number of business PhDs employed outside of education is
almost negligible such that salary comparisons are probably misleading in that
grouping. In some disciplines such as engineering and biological sciences what
is learned in PhD programs adds vital skills for professional jobs outside of
education. In my field, accountancy, job applicants for employment outside of
education benefit much more from attainment of professional skills that are
virtually not taught in accounting PhD programs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
One question I would raise is the dividing line between
full-time and part-time work.
Were all subjects included in the study required to work at least 40-hour weeks
roughly 50 weeks per year. Personally I doubt it. For example, I know a local
housewife and mother with a PhD who works from her home at very high pay in our
mountain village for high-flying Booz Allen Hamilton as a report editor. Her
hours vary from 10-60 hours per week depending upon the work sent to her. This
type of work variability is more common than you might think, especially in
certain disciplines such as language translation and tax return preparation
where the work loads vary quite a lot.
Gender pay gap may also be driven by many things other than
gender prejudice.
For example, the desire to work out of the home may be more common for mothers
than fathers. Work-at-home jobs tend to pay less because of savings in commuting
costs, elimination of commuting time/stress, and the disproportionate supply of
applicants seeking work-at-home jobs.
My point is that the above study probably is comparing
apples with walnuts in many instances.
These insider trading video "cartoons" may be of interest to students
learning about ethics and markets ---
Insider-Trading Stories in ’Toon Town
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/insider-trading-stories-in-toon-town
The main economics argument against insider trading is that, if insider
trading becomes rampant, there will be no more markets to exploit with insider
trading.
The smart insider traders infrequently exploit their inside information.
Enigma Machine ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
Nova: How the Enigma Machine Works ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/how-enigma-works.html
An interesting insider trading analogy for students is what happened after
the United Kingdom, under the imaginative leadership of computer guru Alan
Turing, broke the Nazi's "Enigma Machine Code" in World War II. After the Code
was broken the U.K. military leaders faced another type of "enigma." If the
break in the code was exploited too often the Nazi war machine would catch on
and change the code. A decision was made to instead only exploit knowledge of
the Enigma Machine Code only now and then so the Nazi war machine, especially
the U-boat Command, would continue to use the Enigma Machine Code. This of
course meant that some Allied Forces personnel were needlessly sacrificed in the
short run to save more lives in the long run. In a similar manner smart insider
traders will sacrifice some short-run opportunities to exploit longer-run
opportunities, albeit illegal, opportunities.
One of my favorite all time movies about the Enigma Machine is called "The
Imitation Game" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
Time Magazine: What Winter Will Be Like Across the USA
http://time.com/4543546/winter-weather-forecast-rain-snow/?xid=newsletter-brief
Wildlife populations plunge almost 60 percent since 1970: WWF ---
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wildlife-populations-plunge-almost-60-percent-since-1970-000904325.html
Pennsylvania State University defamed the former assistant football
coach who initially brought to light charges of molestation in the university's
football program, a jury ruled Thursday in awarding $7.3 million in damages, the
Associated Press reported ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/10/28/jury-penn-state-defamed-ex-coach-who-reported-molestation?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=04c0732966-DNU20161028&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-04c0732966-197565045&mc_cid=04c0732966&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Bradley A. Berkenfeld: I Won $104 Million for Blowing the Whistle on
My Company—But Somehow I Was the Only One Who Went to Jail ---
https://melmagazine.com/i-won-104-million-for-blowing-the-whistle-on-my-company-but-somehow-i-was-the-only-one-who-went-to-7ed8a808d50c#.4rvzavrxp
Bob Jensen's threads on whistle blowing ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#WhistleBlowing
From the Scout Report on November 4,
iMathematics ---
http://imathematics.en.softonic.com/android
From Marco Santonocito and Antonio Giarrusso,
iMathematics is a free phone application for practicing a variety of
mathematical subjects, including arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
trigonometry, calculus, and probability. As Giarrusso explains, this phone
application can be considered "the Duolingo for Learning Math." Like the
popular application for learning new languages, iMathematics teaches users
new skills in small steps and then quizzes them on new concepts. Students
and teachers alike can create a free account; however, some topics and
quizzes require purchasing a Pro version. iMathematics is available for iOS
or Android devices.
Sizzle Analytics ---
https://www.sizzleanalytics.com
Anyone looking to create appealing visualizations
as a way to share data will want to check out Sizzle Analytics. This free
tool is designed for creating data visualizations. To create one, users
simply upload data as a CSV (Comma Separated Variable) file. Next, users
select what variables to measure and what kind of graph to use. Notably,
Sizzle Analytics allows users to create graphs that allows others to select
variables themselves - allowing for sleek, versatile visualizations.
By creating a free account, users can save their work. Those looking for
inspiration can check out Featured Boards, which include visualizations of
the top Spotify tracks for 2015-2016
Research Team Uses Climate Data to
Uncover New Clues about Human
Migration
How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/science/south-pacific-islands-migration.html
Early Pacific seafarers likely latched onto El Nino, other climate patterns
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161028113828.htm
How did Human Settle the Pacific?
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/how-did-humans-settle-the-pacific
Using seafaring simulations and shortest-hop trajectories to model the
prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/10/18/1612426113
The Human Journey: Migration Routes
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey
DNA Learning Center: Human Migrations Map
https://www.dnalc.org/view/15892-Human-migrations-map-interactive-2D-animation.html
From the Scout Report on November 11, 2016
Workfrom ---
https://workfrom.co
Those who travel frequently for work or who are new
to a city may want to check out Workfrom. This online tool is designed to
help anyone find coffee shops, restaurants, and libraries where they can
access WiFi and work or study. By simply typing in one's current address or
zip code into Workfrom (available both through this website and as an iOS
application), users can view a list of available workspaces, along with
information about their hours and any community comments. Similar to Yelp
reviews, Workfrom members are invited to provide notes about how amenable
different locales are for working (e.g. noise level, WiFi speed, or seating
availability). Workfrom is continuing to grow; at this time, some cities
include far more marked locations and details than others. By creating a
free membership, users are welcome to nominate new spaces and comment on
current listings.
Piwik ---
https://piwik.org
For individuals, organizations, and companies who
manage their own websites, Piwik is an open-source analytics tool that may
appeal. Once installed, users can explore extensive analytic data about
their website, including the number of visitors in real-time or users'
visits over time. Users can also explore what web browsers and search
keywords site visitors are using, as well as their country of origin. The
analytics dashboard may be customized to best fit user's needs, allowing
them to quickly access information of interest. Piwik is available for
download as a zip file or as an application for Android or iOS devices.
On Monday, Experience the Moon As It Has Not Been Seen Since 1948
November's Supermoon Is Closest Since 1948: 5 Surprising Facts
http://www.space.com/34676-closest-supermoon-since-1948-surprising-facts.html
Supermoon science: November 2016 moon biggest and brightest in 60 years
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/10/the-science-of-supermoons-the-lunar-lowdown-on-the-biggest-and-brightest-in-60-years
Next week's supermoon to be biggest since 1948
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1103/Next-week-s-supermoon-to-be-biggest-since-1948
When to watch the closest supermoon
http://earthsky.org/?p=190918
Supermoon: Photos from around the world of the full moon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/picture-galleries/11025235/Supermoon-Photos-from-around-the-world-of-the-full-moon.html
The Best Resources About the "Supermoon"
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/06/22/the-best-resources-about-the-supermoon
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and
Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Beyond Citation (study of scholarly search engines) ---
http://www.beyondcitation.org
Texas A&M University Commerce: Teaching & Learning ---
http://www.tamuc.edu/dev/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/facultyDevelopment/teachingLearningStrategies.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads in education tools and tricks of the trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
ATLAS: Numeracy Resource Library Site Map (K-12 level math) ---
http://atlasabe.org/resources/mni-toolkit/numeracy-resource-library-site-map
Ambitious Science Teaching (K-12) ---
http://ambitiousscienceteaching.org
Sift Podcast (science) ---
http://siftpodcast.com
Library of Congress: America Reads (USA History of Learning and Education)
---
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/america-reads
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
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
The Astrophysicists Who Faked It ---
http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/the-cosmologists-who-faked-it
Videos Recreate Isaac Newton’s Controversial Alchemy Experiments: Watch
Silver Get Turned Into Gold ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/videos-recreate-isaac-newtons-controversial-alchemy-experiments.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
NASA images show Utah’s Great Salt Lake shrinking dramatically ---
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/5/13528698/great-salt-lake-drying
Sift Podcast (science) ---
http://siftpodcast.com
bioGraphic (nature's sustainability) ---
http://biographic.com
Science Sessions Podcast ---
http://www.pnas.org/site/podcasts/podcasts.xhtml
John Hopkins School of Public Health: Urban Health in Developing Countries
---
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/urbanhealth/coursePage/index/
New York City Street Trees by Species ---
http://jillhubley.com/project/nyctrees
Paleo Porch (paleontology and art history) ---
http://paleoporch.com
Hurricanes: Science and Society (history)
http://hurricanescience.org
Project Noah (biodiversity and the identification of living things like
plants) ---
http://www.projectnoah.org
Beyond Citation (study of scholarly search engines) ---
http://www.beyondcitation.org
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
Creating the United States: Election of 1800 ---
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/election-of-1800.html
History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage: Crusade for the Vote ---
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org
Women's Legal History ---
http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/
Teaching Tolerance: The Votings Rights Act, 1965 ---
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/voting-rights-act-1965-and-beyond
The Fight to Vote: America's Turbulent Voting Rights History ---
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/08/25/the-fight-to-vote-a-history-of-voting-rights-in-america
Pew Research Center: U.S. voter turnout trails behind most developed nations
---
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/02/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries
Pew Research Center: U.S. voter turnout trails behind most developed nations
---
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/02/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries
The UK Electoral Commission: Compulsory Voting Around the World (PDF) ---
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/electoral_commission_pdf_file/0020/16157/ECCompVotingfinal_22225-16484__E__N__S__W__.pdf
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy ---
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html
NARA: Federal Register: U.S. Electoral College ---
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college
The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History: Teaching Resources:
Government and Civics ---
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/topics/government-and-civics/teaching-resources
Nature: The Polling Crisis: How to Tell What People Really Think ---
http://www.nature.com/news/the-polling-crisis-how-to-tell-what-people-really-think-1.20815
Museum of the Moving Image: the Living Room Candidate ---
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org
Mapping Inequality ---
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining
The Pirate Tree (children and history of social justice) ---
http://www.thepiratetree.com
John Hopkins School of Public Health: Urban Health in Developing Countries
---
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/urbanhealth/coursePage/index/
The New York Times: Living in China's Expanding Deserts ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html
Library of Congress: America Reads (USA History of Learning and Education)
---
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/america-reads
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
History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage: Crusade for the Vote ---
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org
Women's Legal History ---
http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/
Teaching Tolerance: The Votings Rights Act, 1965 ---
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/voting-rights-act-1965-and-beyond
The Fight to Vote: America's Turbulent Voting Rights History ---
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/08/25/the-fight-to-vote-a-history-of-voting-rights-in-america
NARA: Federal Register: U.S. Electoral College ---
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
ATLAS: Numeracy Resource Library Site Map (K-12 level math) ---
http://atlasabe.org/resources/mni-toolkit/numeracy-resource-library-site-map
How to Solve the World’s Hardest Logic Puzzle ---
http://nautil.us/blog/how-to-solve-the-worlds-hardest-logic-puzzle
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
Technology History Book: Why the Wheel Is Round
Book Author: Steven Vogel
ISBN-13: 978-0226381039 ISBN-10: 022638103X
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Wheel-Round-Muscles-Technology/dp/022638103X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478347589&sr=1-1&keywords=Why+the+Wheel+Is+Round
Excellent Book Review
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-brilliant-history-of-technology-1478288337?mod=djemMER
Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection (art and historic manuscripts) ---
http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll35
Early Modern Texts ---
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com
Moveable Type ---
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type
The Pirate Tree (children and history of social justice) ---
http://www.thepiratetree.com
What Did Nietzsche Really Mean When He Wrote “God is Dead”? ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/what-did-nietzsche-really-mean-when-he-wrote-god-is-dead.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Crooked Timber (philosophy blogs) ---
http://crookedtimber.org
A cleverly-constructed timeline on the history of the
world's great religions ---
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf
Princeton Seminary Digital Library (Religion) ---
http://digital.library.ptsem.edu/
The Association of Religion Data Archives ---
http://www.thearda.com
U.S. National Archives: Giphy Page (gif animations of historical events) ---
http://giphy.com/usnationalarchives
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ---
http://19thc-artworldwide.org
The Gilded Age (history of world art exhibits) ---
http://www.nyarc.org/content/gilded-age
From station to the renovated Musee d'Orsay (art history) ---
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/ARK7SK5T
Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War Survivors detail brutal Battle of
Chosin ---
http://reason.com/archives/2016/10/28/documentary-recalls-horrors-of-korean-wa
The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook Collects Recipes From T.C. Boyle, Marina
Abramović, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/the-artists-and-writers-cookbook.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Creating the United States: Election of 1800 ---
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/election-of-1800.html
Campaign Buttons Etc. ---
http://www.campaignbuttons-etc.com
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy ---
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html
U.S. Presidential Elections 1992-2012: Historical Photo Collection ---
http://wimedialab.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/historical-photographs-presidential-elections
History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage: Crusade for the Vote ---
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org
Women's Legal History ---
http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/
The Business Women of the Early 20th Century ---
http://daily.jstor.org/the-businesswomen-of-the-early-20th-century/
Minnesota by Design (buildings and landscapes) ---
http://www.walkerart.org/minnesotabydesign
The British Library: Discovering Literature: 20th Century ---
https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature
Hurricanes: Science and Society (history)
http://hurricanescience.org
The New York Times: Living in China's Expanding Deserts ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html
Cavafy's World (Greek poetry and art) ---
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/galleries/Exhibits/cavafy/cavafy.html
Beyond Citation (study of scholarly search engines) ---
http://www.beyondcitation.org
Library of Congress: America Reads (USA History of Learning and Education)
---
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/america-reads
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
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
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
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/
October 28, 2016
October 29, 2016
October 31, 2016
November 1, 2016
November 2, 2016
November 3, 2016
November 5, 2016
November 7, 2016
November 8, 2016
November 11, 2016
Vitamin D May Affect Breast Cancer Survival
Daily Can of Soda Boosts Odds for Prediabetes
Voters Unite Behind Pot Legalization Laws
Traumas Beyond the Battlefield
Deputy Sheriff: 'I Felt Like a Failure'
Car Crash Survivor: ‘You Grow Up Pretty Quickly’
Doctors Use iPads to Treat Lazy Eye
Fewer in U.S. Smoke, but Death Toll Continues
Can Community 'Well-Being' Help You Live Longer?
November 12, 2016
Male Birth Control is Here: One Study Finds it Incredibly Effective
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/does-male-birth-control-work-96-2016-10
A running coach explains the 2 most important activities runners should do
to avoid knee pain ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-runners-avoid-knee-pain-2016-11
Humor for November 2015
Watch What Penguin Does When He Comes Home To Cheating Wife ---
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/watch-what-penguin-does-when-he-comes-home-to-cheating-wife/ar-AAjWtu7?li=AA2qN5v&ocid=spartanntp
Jensen Comment
The ending sort of contradicts Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.
From Web MD on November 12, 2016
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A HUSBAND IS AT HOME WATCHING A FOOTBALL GAME WHEN HIS WIFE INTERRUPTS,
"HONEY, COULD YOU FIX THE LIGHT IN THE HALLWAY? IT'S BEEN
FLICKERING FOR WEEKS NOW".
HE LOOKS AT HER AND SAYS ANGRILY,
"FIX THE LIGHTS NOW?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE GE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T
THINK SO".
"FINE," THEN THE WIFE ASKS, "WELL THEN, COULD YOU FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR?
IT WON'T CLOSE RIGHT "
TO WHICH HE REPLIED,
"FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR? DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE WESTINGHOUSE
WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO".
"FINE", SHE SAYS.
"THEN YOU COULD AT LEAST FIX THE STEPS TO THE FRONT DOOR? THEY
ARE ABOUT TO BREAK "
"I'M NOT A CARPENTER AND I DON'T WANT TO FIX STEPS," HE SAYS,
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ACE HARDWARE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I
DON'T THINK SO! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU. I'M GOING TO THE BAR!!!! "
SO HE GOES TO THE BAR AND DRINKS FOR A COUPLE OF
HOURS......................... ..........
HE STARTS TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HOW HE TREATED HIS WIFE, AND DECIDES
TO GO HOME
AS HE WALKS INTO THE HOUSE, HE NOTICES THAT THE STEPS ARE ALREADY
FIXED.
AS HE ENTERS THE HOUSE, HE SEES THE HALL LIGHT IS WORKING.
AS HE GOES TO GET A BEER, HE NOTICES THE FRIDGE DOOR IS FIXED.
"HONEY", HE ASKS, "HOW'D ALL THIS GET FIXED?"
SHE SAID, "WELL, WHEN YOU LEFT I SAT OUTSIDE AND CRIED.
JUST THEN A NICE YOUNG MAN ASKED ME WHAT WAS WRONG, AND I TOLD HIM.
HE OFFERED TO DO ALL THE REPAIRS, AND ALL I HAD TO DO WAS EITHER GO
TO BED WITH HIM OR BAKE A CAKE".
HER HUSBAND SAID, "SO WHAT KIND OF CAKE DID YOU BAKE?"
SHE REPLIED, "HELLOOOOO.. DO YOU SEE BETTY CROCKER WRITTEN ON MY
FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO!!"
Forwarded by Paula
From the Queen to all U.S. Citizens.
Elizabeth II:
In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for
President of the U.S.A. and thus to govern yourselves,
we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence,
effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical
duties over all states, commonwealths and territories
(except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).
You wanted a female leader,
We’ve got one.
Our new Prime Minister, Theresa May, will appoint a Governor
for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether
any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following
rules are introduced with immediate effect:
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1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,'
'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut'
without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced
by the suffix '-ise.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your
vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up 'vocabulary').
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2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler
noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and
inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English.
We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker
will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the
elimination of '-ize.'
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3. July
4th will
no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
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4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,
lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and
therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent.
Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things
out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not
ready to shoot grouse.
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5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry
anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler -- although a permit
will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
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6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you
will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same
time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit
of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you
understand the British sense of humour.
--------------------
7. The former U.S.A. will adopt U.K. prices on petrol (which you have
been calling gasoline) of roughly 10/US gallon. Get used to it.
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8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French
fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato
chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in
animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
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9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not
actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be
referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted
provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also
acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting
nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also
part of the British Commonwealth -- see what it did for them. American
brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can
be sold without risk of further confusion.
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10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English
actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast
English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie
Macdowell attempt English dialect in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
---------------------
11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one
kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough
will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities
to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every
twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
---------------------
12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to
host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played
outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world
beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket,
and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting
out of their deliveries.
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13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
-----------------
14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's
Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all
monies due (backdated to 1776).
---------------
15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4
p.m. with
proper cups --
with saucers and never mugs -- with high-quality biscuits (cookies)
and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
Humor October 2016 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor1016.htm
Humor September 2016 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm
Humor September 2016 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm
Humor
August 2016
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor083116.htm
Humor
July 2016
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor
June 2016
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
Humor
May 2016
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor053116.htm
Humor
April 2016
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor
March 2016
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016
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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.
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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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu