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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
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Tidbits on November 29, 2016
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

My Photographs of Sunrises and Sunsets on Mt. Garfield
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SunriseSunset/04/SunriseSunsetFavoritesSet04Garfield.htm
 

 

Tidbits on November 29, 2016
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

For earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 
Bookmarks for the World's Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm 

Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page is at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

Google Scholar --- https://scholar.google.com/

Wikipedia --- https://www.wikipedia.org/

Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm

 




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
 

Vanguard Video:  Things That Trip Up Retiree Spending Plans ---
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/video/3647-Retirement-Exc6?EXCMPGN=EX:EM:RIG:eITV:110316:Retail:monthly:video:slot1
Jensen Comment
One of the things that surprised me in retirement is the cost of Medicare and Medicare Supplemental Plans. It's best to think that costs of these plans plus reaching the "Donut Hole" of Medicare D drug reimbursements virtually eat up your Social Security checks each month. In other words don't count on Social Security benefits to do anything more than cover your medical payments. Also keep in mind that Medicare does not cover nursing homes such that you need to have savings to cover nursing homes or cheat to get into Medicaid coverage of nursing homes.

Really Fast Personal Book Scanner (if you tear apart the book binding) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSV2cM6I9U&feature=youtu.be
Scans into PDF as well as OCR picture files

America's B52 Stealth Bomber ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/northrop-grumman-stealth-bomber-air-force-aviation-military-2016-11

Listening to Leonard Cohen ---
http://daily.jstor.org/listening-leonard-cohen/


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 

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Lovely Sung in Yiddish: A Tribute ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/leonard-cohens-hallelujah-lovely-sung-in-yiddish-a-tribute.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Listening to Leonard Cohen ---
http://daily.jstor.org/listening-leonard-cohen/

Hear the Brilliant Guitar Work of Charlie Christian, Inventor of the Electric Guitar Solo (1939)  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/brilliant-guitar-work-of-charlie-christian-inventor-of-the-electric-guitar-solo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

1910 Fairground Organ Plays Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and It Works Like a Charm ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/1910-fairground-organ-plays-queens-bohemian-rhapsody.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

From the Scout Report on November 18, 2016

Remembering the Life and Music of Mose Allison
Mose Allison, pianist, singer, and "William Faulkner of Jazz," dies at 89
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-mose-allison-20161115-story.html

Mose Allison obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/16/mose-allison-obituary

Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Mose Allison Talking Jazz
http://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-mose-allison

The Mississippi Blues Trail
http://www.msbluestrail.org

Jazz in America
http://www.jazzinamerica.org

 

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

Time Magazine:  The Most Influential Images of All Time ---
http://100photos.time.com/?xid=newsletter-brief

Jewish Cultural Center of San Francisco: Arts and Ideas --- https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas

Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory

Schlesinger Library Online Collection: Charlotte Perkins Gilman ---
http://schlesinger.radcliffe.harvard.edu/onlinecollections/gilman

The 11 Prettiest Walled Cities in the World ---
http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/the-11-prettiest-walled-cities-in-the-world/ar-AAjqX9q?ocid=spartanntp

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

Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/18/maya-angelou-library/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=03e0817be2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-03e0817be2-234390133&mc_cid=03e0817be2&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Five Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy: A Free AudioBook ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/free-audiobook-five-short-stories-by-leo-tolstoy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
 

Rain Taxi (reviews of new literature) --- http://www.raintaxi.com

Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries

Schlesinger Library Online Collection: Charlotte Perkins Gilman ---
http://schlesinger.radcliffe.harvard.edu/onlinecollections/gilman

Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954)  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/carl-sagans-ambitious-college-reading-list-plato-shakespeare-gide-and-plenty-of-philosophy-math-physics-1954.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Mark Twain in the West --- http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/mtwest

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 29, 2016
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations112916.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




Scientific advice to governments has never been in greater demand; nor has it been more contested. From climate change to cyber-security, poverty to pandemics, food technologies to fracking, the questions being asked of scientists, engineers and other experts by policymakers, the media and the wider public continue to multiply and increase in complexity. At the same time, the authority and legitimacy of experts are under increasing scrutiny ---
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palcomms/article-collections/scientific-advice


Really Fast Personal Book Scanner (if you tear apart the book binding) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSV2cM6I9U&feature=youtu.be
Scans into PDF as well as OCR picture files


RateMyProfessor.com --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RateMyProfessors.com
Note the criticisms of the site.

Once again the RateMyProfessors.com site demonstrates that to be a top-rated professor you've got to be an easy grader ---
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/blog/toplist/the-2015-2016-annual-top-lists-are-here/

Jensen Comment
You can be a professor in a difficult discipline like mathematics or computer science, but you must be an easy grader in that discipline.

I checked out some professors I suspect are outstanding teachers and tough graders, but in nearly all cases the number of their students submitting reviews to RMP is to small to evaluate. For example, Joe Hoyle at the University of Richmond has highest evaluations possible and is a tough trader. But only two of his students submitted RMP reviews in 2015-2016.

Professors teaching in graduate schools are difficult to evaluate in terms of grading since most of those professors that I know teach in programs that tend to only give A or B grades while requiring B averages to graduate. In any case graduate students tend not to submit evaluations to RMP.

I enjoy perusing the RMP site. I pretty much ignore the numerical ratings (except the rating on easiness) but what I enjoy are the texted comments students make regarding their teachers. The texted comments tend to destroy the myth that professors leave their political biases at the door to classrooms. There are of course exceptions. These evaluations tend to demonstrate the importance of such things as caring, help outside the classroom, humor, etc.

Students tend to be pretty hard on teachers who mostly read from PowerPoint slides or teach straight out of the textbook or handout notes. At the same time students like to be spoon fed without having to learn much on their own.

It's a myth that students submitting evaluations to RMP tend to be disgruntled students. Of course some are disgruntled, especially over workloads of some classes. But my perception is that more than half the students who submit evaluations to RMP tend to praise their teachers.


Why Assessment Is a Waste of Time ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/11/21/how-assessment-falls-significantly-short-valid-research-essay?mc_cid=e5cce96a00&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
When assessing something like a major change in pedagogy the problem may require mostly subjective opinions of teachers experienced in the former as well as the new pedagogy. For example, in a major experiment (called BAM)  at the University of Virginia experienced professors teaching intermediate accounting (across two semesters) via a lecture pedagogy experimented with a radical change in pedagogy that entailed virtually all self-learning on the part of students. The main assessment was subjective opinion of the professors regarding changed pedagogy plus the subjective opinions of the professors involved. It took years to assess the improvement of students in terms of CPA exam passage rates after they graduated --- where the improvement on memory of what was learned seemed to be dramatic.

Eventually there was little doubt about the superiority of self-learning pedagogy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

However the assessment process was limited mainly to the impact on student learning. It failed to measure the impact on teachers including increased burnout and the lowering of teaching evaluations for teachers who no longer spoon fed the learning material. Students don't much like the blood, sweat, and tears of self-learning even though they remember what they learned much better later in life.


The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong Imbalance in the Collective Enterprise ---
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166387

The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There is little evidence regarding the sustainability of the peer-review system and how the scientific community copes with the burden it poses. We used mathematical modeling to estimate the overall quantitative annual demand for peer review and the supply in biomedical research. The modeling was informed by empirical data from various sources in the biomedical domain, including all articles indexed at MEDLINE. We found that for 2015, across a range of scenarios, the supply exceeded by 15% to 249% the demand for reviewers and reviews. However, 20% of the researchers performed 69% to 94% of the reviews. Among researchers actually contributing to peer review, 70% dedicated 1% or less of their research work-time to peer review while 5% dedicated 13% or more of it. An estimated 63.4 million hours were devoted to peer review in 2015, among which 18.9 million hours were provided by the top 5% contributing reviewers. Our results support that the system is sustainable in terms of volume but emphasizes a considerable imbalance in the distribution of the peer-review effort across the scientific community. Finally, various individual interactions between authors, editors and reviewers may reduce to some extent the number of reviewers who are available to editors at any point.

Jensen Comment
This is one of those things that's not perfect, but it's hard to find something better at the same price. Open source publishing exposing a non-refereed article to a "world of potential reviewers" is an alternative, but what if experts mostly ignore and/or are swamped by the flood of non-refereed publications? This may be a special problem in some fields like academic accounting where not much of anybody, especially practicing accountants, have much interest in reading academic accounting research.

And what if authors simply choose to ignore unsolicited reviews? This is not so much of a problem when journals subject submissions to peer reviews, because if the authors ignore those peer reviews the journals are not likely to publish the submissions.


What Was Conservatism? Forty years ago, George H. Nash created the field of conservative intellectual history. What can he tell us about the right today? ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Was-Conservatism-/238345


For decades, marine chemists have faced an elusive paradox. The surface waters of the world's oceans are supersaturated with the greenhouse gas methane, yet most species of microbes that can generate the gas can't survive in oxygen-rich surface waters. So where exactly does all the methane come from? This longstanding riddle, known as the "marine methane paradox," may have finally been cracked thanks to a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
 http://phys.org/news/2016-11-mysterious-source-greenhouse-gas-methane.html#jCp


Book Reviews
1-Free Thought Under Siege?
2-What's Happened To The University? A Sociological Exploration Of Its Infantilisation (read that microaggressions and political correctness)
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/11/whats-happened-to-the-university-a-sociological-exploration-of-its-infantilisation.html

. . .

Rancorous trends such as microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings and intellectual intolerance have taken hold at universities with breathtaking speed. Last year’s controversy over Halloween costumes at Yale led to the departure of two respected faculty members, and this year made the fall festival a flashpoint of conflict at campuses across the country. The recent explosion in the number of university administrators, coupled with an environment of perpetual suspicion—the University of Florida urges students to report on one another to its “Bias Education and Response Team”—drives students who need to resolve normal tensions in human interaction to instead seek intervention by mediators, diversity officers, student life deans or lawyers.

As Frank Furedi compellingly argues in this deeply perceptive and important book, these phenomena are not just harmless fads acted out by a few petulant students and their indulgent professors in an academic cocoon. Rather, they are both a symptom and a cause of malaise and strife in society at large. At stake is whether freedom of thought will long survive and whether individuals will have the temperament to resolve everyday social and workplace conflicts without bureaucratic intervention or litigation.

Mr. Furedi, an emeritus professor at England’s University of Kent, argues that the ethos prevailing at many universities on both sides of the Atlantic is the culmination of an infantilizing paternalism that has defined education and child-rearing in recent decades. It is a pedagogy that from the earliest ages values, above all else, self-esteem, maximum risk avoidance and continuous emotional validation and affirmation. (Check your child’s trophy case.) Helicopter parents and teachers act as though “fragility and vulnerability are the defining characteristics of personhood.”

The devastating result: Young people are raised into an “eternal dependency.” Parenting experts and educators insist that the views of all pupils must be unconditionally respected, never judged, regardless of their merit. They wield the unassailable power of a medical warning: Children, even young adults, simply can’t handle rejection of their ideas, or hearing ones that cause the slightest “discomfort,” lest they undergo “trauma.”

It is not surprising to Mr. Furedi that today’s undergraduates, having grown up in such an environment, should find any serious criticism, debate or unfamiliar idea to be “an unacceptable challenge to their personas.” ...

The new demands for “balancing” free speech with sensitivity and respect have several unifying themes, according to Mr. Furedi. One is that they are based on the subjective sensitivities of anyone who claims to be offended. If words can cause trauma and are almost akin to violence, an appeal to health and safety guarantees that “the work of the language police can never cease.” Microaggressions, by definition, are committed unconsciously and without intent. Since “it is almost impossible to refute an allegation of microaggression,” the author views them as the ultimate “weaponisation” of offense-taking. Emory University students, for instance, demanded redress for their “genuine concern and pain” after seeing the name of a major presidential candidate written in chalk on campus, an incident proving “that in a world where anything can be triggering, people will be triggered by anything.” ...

Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness in action ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness


Limits of Free Speech on Campus are Not Bright Line Limits
Oberlin College has dismissed Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, following an investigation into anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements she made on social media -- including her assertion that ISIS is really an arm of Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies and that Israel was behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris --
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/16/oberlin-fires-joy-karega-following-investigation-her-anti-semitic-statements-social?mc_cid=e537345daf&mc_eid=1e78f7c952 |
Jensen Comment
This probably is testing the limit of free speech on campus. The interesting question is the limit to which professors and students can claim highly questionable "facts" with totally unsupported evidence. Some climate deniers are being squelched on campus for the same reasons. I vote yes to such limits that protect the academic respectability of our higher education institutions. But the limits are seldom bright lines. One of my colleagues and friends at a university was becoming a problem when he paid to publish his own book claiming that his method of exercising was a cure for all types of cancer.


A B Grade is No Longer Good Enough for At-Risk Students --- Inflate Your Grading Even More
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/11/15/developing-metrics-and-models-are-vital-student-learning-and-retention-essay?mc_cid=e52ed87db8&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Bob Jensen's threads on grade inflation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#RateMyProfessor


Nearly Half the Hate Crimes in the USA are Perpetrated by Whites
FBI:  2015 Hate Crimes Statistics in the USA ---
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015-hate-crime-statistics-released


Federal Judge Block’s Obama’s Overtime-Pay Rule ---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/federal-judge-blocks-obamas-overtime-pay-rule/115716?elqTrackId=f20593cb49eb4ba8841f6094ad0f2bbe&elq=6f8a00b797574148a45d000da6336c5f&elqaid=11597&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4578

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration’s effort to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, after 21 states and dozens of business groups asserted that the rule was unlawful and would cause them irreparable harm.

Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Tex., concluded that the U.S. Department of Labor had exceeded its authority and ignored the intent of Congress in issuing the rule, which had been scheduled to take effect on December 1. The regulation sought to raise the salary cutoff below which workers would be eligible for overtime pay, to about $47,000 from about $23,000.

Generally, employees whose primary role can be defined as teaching are exempt from earning overtime pay. But many categories of campus employees — such as early career financial-aid officers and athletics staffers — would have benefited from the rule. This collection of Chronicle articles has more details on how colleges were anticipating the changes.

Since the rule was issued, many colleges have been scrambling to identify which employees would be newly eligible for overtime pay, and to plan institutional budgets around those changes. It’s not yet clear how colleges that had already changed their practices in anticipation of the rule will respond to the judge’s ruling, or whether they will roll back the adjustments they have made. In any case, the rule itself was already among many Obama-administration policies that had been cast into doubt by this month’s election of Donald J. Trump as president.

Judge Mazzant issued a nationwide injunction against rolling out the rule, saying that such an action best served the public interest. The court’s “ability to render a meaningful decision” on the merits of the case was in jeopardy because of the rule’s imminent effective date, he wrote.

 Continued in article


Punishment includes infractions for helping two players cheat in courses
NCAA Wipes Out 2 Years of Notre Dame Wins in Football ---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/ncaa-wipes-out-2-years-of-notre-dame-wins-in-football/115700?cid=db&elqTrackId=1c792753b35c4f648600748ec7d2b57a&elq=6f8a00b797574148a45d000da6336c5f&elqaid=11597&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4578

Nearly all infractions pale relative to nearly 20 years of fake courses and illegal grade changes at the University of North Carolina, for which  the NCAA turned wimpy in terms of punishments. In my opinion UNC should be banned from Division 1 athlethics.

Bob Jensen's threads on athletics scandals in higher education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#Athletics


What It’s Like to Be Named to a Watch List of ‘Anti-American’ Professors ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-It-s-Like-to-Be-Named/238486?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=410fba0f33354e80aa388d560ba42a66&elq=309c0e331f384e268563f56a0255ec34&elqaid=11596&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4577

Jensen Comment
I'm opposed to this and similar watch lists, although I suspect they're legal if they are based upon freely available public information (not just unsubstantiated tips). One problem is that site does not appear to offer, in the spirit of academic scholarship, opportunities to for professors on the list to comment on their inclusions on the watch list.

Being against gun carrying on campus is not necessarily "anti-American." The definition of "anti-American" is poorly defined for this watch list.

Most (all?) professors on the list are exercising their constitutional rights, although some may be pushing the bounds of AAUP guidelines if they bring their politics inappropriately into their classrooms. For example, it might be more appropriate to bring political controversies into a course on Russian history than a topology course in mathematics.

One way to fight this list is to spam it with lies to a point where the organizers are totally swamped. Joe McCarthy got in trouble in his insane "Communist" sweep of government when he commenced to slander good and powerful folks who fought back like Senator Margaret Chase Smith from Maine ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

For all the fears about David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, the proposal ended up going nowhere in state legislatures last year. But in Pennsylvania, the House of Representatives voted to create a special legislative committee to investigate the state of academic freedom and whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection. The special committee held hearings — amid charges and countercharges from Horowitz, his allies, college presidents, faculty groups and others.
Scott Jaschik, "Who Won the Battle of Pennsylvania?" Inside Higher Ed, November 16, 2006 --- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/16/tabor

 


20 Tech Gifts for Under $100 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-tech-gifts-under-100-dollars-holiday-gift-guide-2016

More Holiday Gift Ideas
These are the tech gadgets you’ll want to have in an emergency ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-tech-for-emergencies-buying-guide-2016-2/#portable-usb-battery-1

Time Magazine:  50 Most Influential Gadgets of Our Time
http://time.com/4309573/most-influential-gadgets/?xid=newsletter-brief

Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology


Time Magazine:  The 25 Best Inventions of 2016 ---
http://time.com/4572079/best-inventions-2016/?xid=newsletter-brief


Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's home battery ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-about-tesla-powerwall-2-battery-2016-11

Jensen Comment
The unmentioned scary part is the dependence on China and parts of south America for the lithium. This dependence was less of a worry for electric car batteries. But dependence on lithium for home power is much more worrisome. Think of all those air conditioners that will one day depend upon the foreign lithium supply cartel.


25 Essential Tips and Tricks for Mac Owners ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-mac-os-tips-tricks-apple-macbook-2016-11


17 Surprising Second Uses for Toothpaste ---
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/beauty/17-surprising-second-uses-for-toothpaste#utm_source=QDT20161125&utm_campaign=quickanddirtytips&utm_medium=email


Here's what Trump's victory means for municipal bonds ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-and-municipal-bond-market-2016-11

Jensen Comment
Over most of my 40 year career I did not invest in tax-free bonds because they are poor hedges against long-term inflation. However, when I retired in 2006 I liquified many of my investments (an Iowa farm, savings portfolio) other than my TIAA retirement annuities and invested in a long-term tax free Vanguard fund. That turns out to be one of the better investment decisions for my remaining life. Firstly, the fund value and investment returns did not crash like the stock market in 2007. Secondly, inflation has been low since 2006. Thirdly, the monthly tax-free cash flow has been steady and easy to manage (with my checkbook on the fund). And the after-tax returns are relatively high in this low-interest era of investing.

Of course I could have invested more in the stock market to earn more or less. But at my age I enjoy the comfort of steady tax-free income and zero worry about the ups and downs of the stock market. Most of my returns are plowed back into the fund except when I need some cash for such things as a new car, new tractor, and property taxes. Note that my TIAA retirement income is subject to Federal income tax. But that's separate from my tax-free monthly investment income.

I do not recommend tax-free bonds for young investors, but in retirement they are investment alternatives you might consider. And they do good things for financing schools, hospitals, and public infrastructure things like sewers and roads. Note that these are not like CDs where the principal invested is not subject to value changes. But at this point in retirement I don't care about the slight ups and downs in value as much as I care about steady tax-free cash inflows.

Note that this is not necessarily investment advice that's good for you. Everybody differs in age and investment circumstances and income needs. And most folks don't have a lifetime pension income of high-interest fixed annuities that were available to me in 2006. Times have changed since the Fed lowered interest rates on risk-free savings to virtually zero. Retirement income deals are not as good these days as when I retired in 2006.


I can't believe The Chronicle published this
"What Liberal Academics Don’t Get,"
by Roland Merullo, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 20, 2016 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Liberal-Academics-Don-t/238428?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=328c00f512c04936a81308fecd4427c9&elq=cab44d0705bd49bea9345b727b99e4d5&elqaid=11570&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4562

All the election postmortems make me think of the disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards, who famously talked about "the two Americas." There are different ways to delineate these two Americas: according to race, gender, political preference, religious feeling or the lack thereof, even by dietary choices. But this past week I’ve been thinking more about the dividing line between less educated and more educated Americans.

I straddle that line because, though I’m a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and have two degrees from Brown University, my roots are in Revere, Mass., a rough-edged, working-class city on Boston’s northern cuff. Many of my grammar-school classmates and both my siblings have gone through life without the benefit of undergraduate degrees. Of the 14 uncles and aunts on my father’s side, not one of them had more than a year of higher education. Six of my 36 first cousins went away to college.

When you spend a lot of time around people like that, as I do, and when you care about them enough to listen to them with respect, you come away with a much clearer appreciation for the emotions that propelled Donald Trump to victory than you do by listening to NPR, scanning your friends’ Twitter feeds, or sitting at a table in a university cafeteria with like-minded colleagues.

For those of us who see Trump as an appalling choice for the Oval Office it’s tempting to take the easy route and brand his supporters — overwhelmingly white men — as racist or misogynist. Hillary Clinton gave in to this temptation in her infamous — and politically damaging — "basket of deplorables" remark.

Certainly some of the people who voted for Trump are racists and bigots. Surely we’re within our rights to think of the white supremacists, KKK sympathizers, and woman-haters as deplorable characters, and to condemn Trump for the subtle and not-so-subtle signals he sends them.

But the Trump voters I know — and I know them well — don’t come close to fitting into that basket. The thought patterns that led them to support Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton had little to do with race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. They made their choice out of a deep-seated sense of humiliation, a feeling that they’ve been cheated out of their share of our national abundance.

 I have a close friend who supports his family on a yearly salary of $48,000. In the past two decades, this man has not had a vacation that took him away from home. Every time he turns on the TV he sees advertisements with smiling men and women riding around in new cars, or drinking cocktails on a cruise ship, things and experiences he knows he will never have. In his adult life, has there been a career politician he can point to, Republican or Democrat, who has made his situation easier?

. . .

People take it personally when you mock their candidate (think Alex Baldwin) — whether the mockery is face to face, on the cover of The New Yorker, on a bumper sticker, or in a political speech. And if you’re in the less-educated group, mockery hits home in a particularly painful way. From first grade, these people have been made to feel less because they couldn’t read as well, didn’t get A’s, weren’t the ones with a star on their papers to show Mom and Dad after school. And they didn’t go to college.

And highly educated liberals thought it furthered their candidate’s cause to post Facebook memes calling Trump an idiot, a monster, a fool?

After winning the Nevada Republican caucuses, Trump said, "I love the poorly educated." We laughed and made fun. But poorly educated whites were listening. And they vote, too. For decades those people have felt ignored and belittled. During the campaign they heard a great deal about the concerns of African-Americans, gay and transgendered people, immigrants, refugees. For us, those concerns are part and parcel of a necessary compassion; they dovetail with our sense of being American. For many white voters in the other America, though, stuck in dead-end jobs and low-rent neighborhoods, those comments make them want to say, "But what about me?"

When you spend a lot of time around people like that, as I do, and when you care about them enough to listen to them with respect, you come away with a much clearer appreciation for the emotions that propelled Donald Trump to victory than you do by listening to NPR, scanning your friends’ Twitter feeds, or sitting at a table in a university cafeteria with like-minded colleagues.

For those of us who see Trump as an appalling choice for the Oval Office it’s tempting to take the easy route and brand his supporters — overwhelmingly white men — as racist or misogynist. Hillary Clinton gave in to this temptation in her infamous — and politically damaging — "basket of deplorables" remark.

Certainly some of the people who voted for Trump are racists and bigots. Surely we’re within our rights to think of the white supremacists, KKK sympathizers, and woman-haters as deplorable characters, and to condemn Trump for the subtle and not-so-subtle signals he sends them.

But the Trump voters I know — and I know them well — don’t come close to fitting into that basket. The thought patterns that led them to support Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton had little to do with race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. They made their choice out of a deep-seated sense of humiliation, a feeling that they’ve been cheated out of their share of our national abundance.

I have a close friend who supports his family on a yearly salary of $48,000. In the past two decades, this man has not had a vacation that took him away from home. Every time he turns on the TV he sees advertisements with smiling men and women riding around in new cars, or drinking cocktails on a cruise ship, things and experiences he knows he will never have.

In his adult life, has there been a career politician he can point to, Republican or Democrat, who has made his situation easier?

 

Continued in article


The New Book of Snobs:  A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/27/the-new-book-of-snobs-a-definitive-guide-to-modern-snobbery-dj-taylor-review

Snobbery is a form of social superiority, but it can also be a moral failing. Snobs may laud it over others, but we, in turn, despise and punish them for it.


There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter (they are all racist)---
Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html


Mourning for Whiteness
Toni Morrison
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/aftermath-sixteen-writers-on-trumps-america#morrison
She doesn't get it --- it's not about race in 2016 for most Trump voters

If progressives want to win back political influence in America, they may need the support of the people they see as racists ---
Emma Green
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/protesters-trump-phildelphia/507665/ 
Jensen Comment
Whipping up unrest on college campuses and in the streets is not a good way to win back political influence in America. The Ferguson looting and fires did a whole lot more for Trump than Clinton

Joan C. Williams --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_C._Williams
"What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class," by Joan C. Williams, Harvard Business Review, November 10, 2016 ---
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class?referral=00202&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-weekly_hotlist-_-hotlist_date&utm_source=newsletter_weekly_hotlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hotlist_date&spMailingID=15892371&spUserID=MTkyODM0MDg0MAS2&spJobID=903305802&spReportId=OTAzMzA1ODAyS0

. . .

Hillary Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the email server. The smugness: the basket of deplorables. Worse, her mere presence rubs it in that even women from her class can treat working-class men with disrespect. Look at how she condescends to Trump as unfit to hold the office of the presidency and dismisses his supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic.

. . .

Avoid the Temptation to Write Off Blue-Collar Resentment as Racism

Economic resentment has fueled racial anxiety that, in some Trump supporters (and Trump himself), bleeds into open racism. But to write off WWC anger as nothing more than racism is intellectual comfort food, and it is dangerous.

National debates about policing are fueling class tensions today in precisely the same way they did in the 1970s, when college kids (and professional athletes) derided policemen as “pigs. This is a recipe for class conflict. Being in the police is one of the few good jobs open to Americans without a college education. Police get solid wages, great benefits, and a respected place in their communities. For elites to write them off as racists is a telling example of how, although race- and sex-based insults are no longer acceptable in polite society, class-based insults still are.

I do not defend police who kill citizens for selling cigarettes. But the current demonization of the police underestimates the difficulty of ending police violence against communities of color. Police need to make split-second decisions in life-threatening situations. I don’t. If I had to, I might make some poor decisions too.

Saying this is so unpopular that I risk making myself a pariah among my friends on the left coast. But the biggest risk today for me and other Americans is continued class cluelessness. If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, Ohio, the consequences could turn dangerous.

In 2010, while on a book tour for Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, I gave a talk about all of this at the Harvard Kennedy School. The woman who ran the speaker series, a major Democratic operative, liked my talk. “You are saying exactly what the Democrats need to hear,” she mused, “and they’ll never listen.” I hope now they will.

oan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

If progressives want to win back political influence in America, they may need the support of the people they see as racists ---
Emma Green
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/protesters-trump-phildelphia/507665/ 
Jensen Comment
Whipping up unrest on college campuses and in the streets is not a good way to win back political influence in America. The Ferguson looting and fires did a whole lot more for Trump than Clinton.

Bob Jensen's threads and many quotations on the 2016 outcome are provided at ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations111516.htm
 


This Professor's List of "Fake News" Sites Goes Predictably Wrong ---
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/17/this-professors-list-of-fake-news-sites

Jensen Comment
Even those fact finding sites like Snopes and Politico have subtle bias. They are most apt to show their biases by cherry picking what "facts" they choose to correct and what facts they elect not to correct.


Transparency Perhaps Should Have its Limits
Imagine lying in the bathtub and looking up at the sky or out at the buildings across the way ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/bathrooms-with-a-view-the-latest-luxury-real-estate-must-have?cmpid=BBD111616_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=


Jensen Comment
Perhaps this type of bathroom is only for the superrich who are so ignorant they've not learned about telescopes and drones with video cameras.  Or these bathtubs with a view might be for the aged superrich. I'm reminded of when an oldster wore a transparent see-through suit and nobody wanted to.

In any case for accountants clamoring for more "transparency" this article reminds us that transparency has its sensible limits.


What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ---
http://www.chronicle.com/resource/what-you-need-to-know-about-le/6130/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=4d4c83fea2fb451c8d9c867f9d30ccc1&elq=31cbeda21b1342f291cfa8b8731709c7&elqaid=11484&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4499

The advent of online learning has made it possible to track an individual student’s path toward understanding and mastering course content. That kind of tracking, known as “learning analytics,” is a hot topic among educators. This 24-page collection considers the debate over how to use the data to enhance course design and improve teaching.


Prospect Theory --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory

History Corner
How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down ---
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/decision-science-daniel-kahneman-amos-tversky


All my plans for sending out email messages after death are now on hold ---
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/experiment-raise-dead-blocked-india?utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=e77dab2446-newsletters-the-download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-e77dab2446-153727301&goal=0_997ed6f472-e77dab2446-153727301&mc_cid=e77dab2446&mc_eid=fe7f400ea3


Apple's new 'Touch Bar' MacBook Pro is totally un-upgradeable ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/ssd-storage-apple-touch-bar-macbook-pro-soldered-in-un-upgradeable-2016-11


Browse & Download 1,198 Free High Resolution Maps of U.S. National Parks ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/browse-download-1198-free-high-resolution-maps-of-u-s-national-parks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's Travel Helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Travel


The inventor of the bestselling vacuum cleaner robot has created a bot that cuts weeds ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/?utm_campaign=internal&utm_medium=homepage&utm_source=cover-story&set=602860&utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=e77dab2446-newsletters-the-download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-e77dab2446-153727301&goal=0_997ed6f472-e77dab2446-153727301&mc_cid=e77dab2446&mc_eid=fe7f400ea3

Jensen Question
If I can't tell the difference between some weeds versus some flowers how can this robot tell the difference?


Stanford University (and other universities) might become sanctuary sites for people Trump wants to deport
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/5f1ef13e-c496-341e-a9ee-c2d08b7ebf17/ss_hundreds-walk-out-of-stanford.html
At the moment Trump says his priority id deporting undocumented persons who commit crimes
Stanford better up its security efforts and budgets for refugee camps


Canadians are up to their eyeballs in debt ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/canadians-are-up-to-their-eyeballs-in-debt-2016-11

CBS News:  Canadian Healthcare in Crisis ---
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/canadian-health-care-in-crisis/




From the Scout Report on November 18, 2016

Brainscape --- https://www.brainscape.com 

Whether you are learning a new language, studying for a standardized test (such as the GRE or the MCAT), or just looking to brush up on your knowledge base, Brainscape may be for you. This interactive flashcard program is offered both as a web browser and as an iOS or Android application. By creating a free account, Brainscape users can access a number of existing flashcard sets or create their own. As users go through each set, they rate their overall knowledge in confidence about each card. Brainscape then takes these self-ratings to engage users more frequently with the cards reported as challenging. Users can create a basic account for free; to access all available flashcards, users must purchase a subscription. There is also a version for Educators.


Wickr ---- https://www.wickr.com

Those looking for a secure, private way to send messages, videos, and pictures may want to check out Wickr. Available for iOS or Android mobile devices as well as on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, Wickr is a messaging system that allows users to share text messages, voice messages, or a number of files to either another individual or to a group. All messages are encrypted, and Wickr does not collect user data. Individual users can also manage who can contact them or gain access to their address book information. Users can send and receive messages and files on multiple devices, while maintaining their privacy with a password.


Remembering the Life and Music of Mose Allison
Mose Allison, pianist, singer, and "William Faulkner of Jazz," dies at 89
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-mose-allison-20161115-story.html

Mose Allison obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/16/mose-allison-obituary

Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Mose Allison Talking Jazz
http://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-mose-allison

The Mississippi Blues Trail
http://www.msbluestrail.org

Jazz in America
http://www.jazzinamerica.org


 

 

 

 


Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers


Education Tutorials

The Mathematics Shed (K-12) ---  http://www.mathematicshed.com

MathPapa (learn algebra) --- http://www.mathpapa.com

Mathplanet (K-12 Helpers) --- http://www.mathplanet.com

Medical Education Online --- http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo

PBS Newshour: Teachers' Lounge --- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/teachers-lounge

Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch

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Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

Two pillars of physics – general relativity and quantum mechanics -- have been borne out in countless experiments. But they contradict each other ---
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/10/has-physicist-found-key-reality

Truth in Science:  Whatever Happened to the Piltdown Man?
http://daily.jstor.org/piltdown-man-hoax/

Inhabiting the Anthropocene (ecology) --- https://inhabitingtheanthropocene.com

Medical Education Online --- http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo

Nature Insight: Neurodegenerative Disease --- http://www.nature.com/nature/supplements/insights/neurodegenerative-diseases

BrainCraft --- http://braincraft.tv

NSF Special Report: Understanding the Brain --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/brain/

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

The New York Times’ First Profile of Hilter: His Anti-Semitism Is Not as “Genuine or Violent” as It Sounds (1922) Yeah Right! ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-new-york-times-first-profile-of-hilter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Inhabiting the Anthropocene (ecology) --- https://inhabitingtheanthropocene.com

PBS Newshour: Teachers' Lounge --- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/teachers-lounge

Status of Women in the States --- http://statusofwomendata.org

China, Art, and Cultural Diplomacy --- http://www.rewialleyart.nz

Jewish Cultural Center of San Francisco: Arts and Ideas --- https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas

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

Status of Women in the States --- http://statusofwomendata.org

Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law


Math Tutorials

The Mathematics Shed (K-12) ---  http://www.mathematicshed.com

MathPapa (learn algebra) --- http://www.mathpapa.com

Mathplanet (K-12 Helpers) --- http://www.mathplanet.com

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

Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954)  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/carl-sagans-ambitious-college-reading-list-plato-shakespeare-gide-and-plenty-of-philosophy-math-physics-1954.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Listening to Leonard Cohen ---
http://daily.jstor.org/listening-leonard-cohen/

Mark Twain in the West --- http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/mtwest

The New York Times’ First Profile of Hilter: His Anti-Semitism Is Not as “Genuine or Violent” as It Sounds (1922) Yeah Right! ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-new-york-times-first-profile-of-hilter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Plowline: Images of Rural New York --- http://plowline.farmersmuseum.org

512 Pixels: Apple History --- https://512pixels.net/apple-history

Status of Women in the States --- http://statusofwomendata.org

China, Art, and Cultural Diplomacy --- http://www.rewialleyart.nz

Jewish Cultural Center of San Francisco: Arts and Ideas --- https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas

Rain Taxi (reviews of new literature) --- http://www.raintaxi.com

Schlesinger Library Online Collection: Charlotte Perkins Gilman ---
http://schlesinger.radcliffe.harvard.edu/onlinecollections/gilman

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

From the Scout Report on November 18, 2016

Remembering the Life and Music of Mose Allison
Mose Allison, pianist, singer, and "William Faulkner of Jazz," dies at 89
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-mose-allison-20161115-story.html

Mose Allison obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/16/mose-allison-obituary

Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Mose Allison Talking Jazz
http://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-mose-allison

The Mississippi Blues Trail
http://www.msbluestrail.org

Jazz in America
http://www.jazzinamerica.org

 

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/

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From MIT on November 16, 2016

CRISPR’s First Human Trial
A team of Chinese scientists has become the first to test CRISPR gene-edited cells in a human. The researchers, from Sichuan University in Chengdu,
injected the cells into a patient with lung cancer. The experiment uses CRISPRa cheap, easy, and accurate way to edit DNA in living cells—to disable a gene that suppresses immune response. By editing a small number of cells then growing them outside the body, the team was able to inject a large number back into the patient, with the intention of having them fight off the cancer. Human trials of CRISPR have been proposed in the U.S., but so far none have been carried out. Carl June, a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania who hopes to carry out some of the first such experiments in America, told Nature that he thinks that the news could “trigger ‘Sputnik 2.0’, a biomedical duel on progress between China and the United States.”

 


Expensive Drug Test Fails
Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Fails Trial ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-lillys-alzheimers-drug-trial-fails-to-achieve-goals-1479902563


Humor for November 2015

Saturday Night Live Punctures the Liberal Bubble ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/saturday-night-live-social-scientist/508337/

Jimmy Kimmel's 'Politically Correct' Thanksgiving School Pageant - Education and the Media - Education Week ---
 

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
Original Version
From Web MD on November 12, 2016
Spell Checked Version
November 12, 2016

 

November 12, 2016

 


Forwarded by Paula

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:

 -----------------------

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').

 ------------------------

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.'

 ------------------

3.  July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

 -----------------

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.

 ----------------------

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.

 ----------------------

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.

 -------------------

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.

 -------------------

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.

 ---------------------

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.

 --------------------

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

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Humor March  2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm

Humor February  2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm

Humor January  2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm

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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




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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

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: 
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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/

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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

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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.
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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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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 
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
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FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
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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.
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

 

 

 

 

Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm

 

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Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
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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/

 

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