Tidbits on May 25, 2017
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
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Tidbits on May 25, 2017
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
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Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Video: Four Lottery Winners Who Lost it All ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/lottery-winners-lost-money-divorce-drugs-powerball-2017-5
All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a
Limited Time) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/all-886-episodes-of-mister-rogers-neighborhood-streaming-online-for-a-limited-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
YouTube: Above the Noise (science) --- https://www.youtube.com/abovethenoise
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
The NPR Classical 50 --- http://www.npr.org/series/99866406/the-npr-classical-50
Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge
Playlist for Your Jazz Education ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/__trashed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Library of Congress Collection: Aaron Copland Collection --- https://www.loc.gov/collections/aaron-copland
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
Visit a New Digital Archive of 2.2 Million Images from the First
Hundred Years of Photography ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/visit-a-new-digital-archive-of-2-2-million-images-from-the-first-hundred-years-of-photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Flickr: The Commons (photo archives) --- https://www.flickr.com/commons
Unpublished Photos Capture the Lifesaving Role of Nurses in
World War II ---
http://time.com/4746347/nurse-shortage-photos-1942/?xid=newsletter-brief
The Falmouth Project (Caribbean architecture) --- http://falmouth.lib.virginia.edu
The Hidden World of National Parks --- https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us
Res Obscura (historic paintings of monkeys getting drunk) --- https://resobscura.blogspot.com
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Spices --- http://spices.biodiversityexhibition.com
Schulz Library Blog (comics, cartoons and graphics in books) --- http://www.cartoonstudies.org/schulz/blog
Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham --- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ahzvven/mapping/map33.html
A photographer captured the astonishing moment a pair of
humpback whales breached in perfect unison off Sydney ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/humpback-whales-breached-in-perfect-unison-2017-5
Women at Work Around the World ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-women-at-work-around-the-world-2017-5
Fake Modiglianis began to emerge in the 1920s, soon after his
death. Now he is one of the world's most faked artists. There are even fake
fakes ---
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/worlds-most-faked-artists-amedeo-modigliani-picasso
Where Jumbo Jets Go to Die ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/victorville-california-airplane-boneyard-photo-2017-5
Architects Identified the 10 Most Beautiful Gas Stations in the
World ---
https://qz.com/985578/architects-have-identified-the-10-most-beautiful-gas-stations-in-the-world/
Worst Tourist Trap in Every State ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-tourist-traps-usa-overrated-attractions-2017-5/#alaska-the-north-pole-2
21 photos that show why Charleston is one of America's most
popular destinations right now (but not in July and August) ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/charleston-south-carolina-travel-guide-2017-5/#charleston-is-a-port-city-on-the-coast-of-south-carolina-the-city-itself-has-a-population-of-roughly-133000-according-to-2015-census-data-1
Font Map --- http://fontmap.ideo.com
From the Scout Report on May 19, 2017
Botticelli Comes to the United States in a New Exhibit that Highlights
the Artist's Full, Complex Oeuvre
Superb Botticelli show at MFA traces the master's arc
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/04/19/superb- botticelli-show-mfa-traces- master-arc/ f0VgVMeuE7MIqFqH51GKAO/story. html
A Lesser Known Venus Visits the U.S. in New Botticelli Exhibit
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/16/527589941/a-lesser-known- venus-visits-the-u-s-in-new- botticelli-exhibit
How this Tiny Museum in Virginia Lands Major Shows of Botticelli and
Michelangelo
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-tiny-museum- virginia-lands-major- botticelli-michelangelo
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/botticelli-and- the-search-for-the-divine
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici
Perspectives on Painting: Investigating Early Italian Renaissance Art
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/ perspectives-on-painting- investigating-early-italian- renaissance-art
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
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Prize-Winning Books Online --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/prize.html
Scottish Chapbooks --- https://scottishchapbooks.lib.uoguelph.ca/home
Life Changing Books (not all are free online)---
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/23-books-that-changed-my-life/
Casebooks Project (astrological medicine) --- http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk
Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels --- http://austen.unl.edu
Developing Clarity: Innovating Library Systems --- http://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/developing-clarity-innovating-in-library-systems
Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students
Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can
Kill Ideas” (1933) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/helen-keller-writes-a-letter-to-nazi-students-before-they-burn-her-book-history-has-taught-you-nothing-if-you-think-you-can-kill-ideas-1933.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
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Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on May 25, 2017
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations052517.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
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
If the American Statistical Association Warns About p-Values, and Nobody
Hears It, Does It Make a Sound? ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/category/news-events/
Jensen Comment
What will it take to get accountics scientists to stop using them in every
empirical study?
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
Here are the 5 books Bill Gates thinks everyone should read this summer ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-book-recs-summer-2017-5/#hillbilly-elegy-by-jd-vance-1
Here are 200 Excel shortcuts that'll make your life a lot easier ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-keyboard-shortcuts-windows-and-mac-2017-5
Python Programming Language --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
Learn Python Programming Language with a Free Online Course from MIT
---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/learn-python-with-a-free-online-course-from-mit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Free eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/36-ebooks-on-computer-programming-from-oreilly-media-free-to-download-and-read.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15c3a864d2816091
Bitcoin --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Someone bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins in 2010 — today they're (the
bitcoins) worth $20 million ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-passes-2000-20-million-2017-5
Do Your Students Learn by Rote? Or Can They Recognize Patterns?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Do-Your-Students-Learn-by/240100?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=f0c39d7d443a461da653e0cd3856d654&elq=8d4e6a13654d41449ebc6eff99d41e01&elqaid=14028&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5865
A question confronts many professors at the start of each semester: Which of their students can grasp a subject’s underlying concepts, and which are simply adept at memorizing? Both kinds of students might complete a problem set or ace a quiz, but for very different reasons.
A new method developed by professors of chemistry and psychology at Washington University in St. Louis may be able to identify which of these two thinking patterns — often called rule-based and rote-based learning — students tend to use. Those who tend to think abstractly about underlying rules also tended to perform well in their chemistry courses, particularly at the upper levels, the scholars found.
In a recent issue of the Journal of Chemical Education (requires subscription), Regina F. Frey, a professor of STEM education and an associate professor of chemistry, and Mark A. McDaniel, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, outlined how the task they’ve designed can reveal students’ thinking patterns by asking them to make predictions about two fictional elements in a fictional organism.
The results of the scholars’ research suggest that rule-based (or abstraction) learners consistently performed better in general- and organic-chemistry courses, even after controlling for their academic preparation.
Ms. Frey and Mr. McDaniel, who also lead Washington University’s Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education, wrote the article with their colleague Michael J. Cahill. They spoke with The Chronicle about how their work can shed light on students’ thinking habits and how faculty members can move students from being memorizers (also known as instance- or exemplar-based thinkers) into those who look for underlying patterns.
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Jensen Comment
A confounding factor is the role of metacognition is forcing students to
learn/discover individually on their own as opposed to providing them with
material from class materials, textbooks, and student teams. There are
experiments that students have better long-term memory when they learn
(painfully) on their own in a way that leads them to question why they even have
"teachers."
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
It's one thing to making them good searchers. However, it's quite
another hardship for them to find and correct errors. In the BAM project
students not only had to learn complicated Intermediate 1 and 2 rules they had
to apply this learning to discovering mistakes in a year-long complicated
financial reporting case.
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
In other words self-discovery of our own errors and errors of others improves long-term memory. Not many journal referees will argue with this. Interestingly, some of the errors in the BAM case were not intentional errors of the BAM Case writers.
At the Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School case writers pride themselves in writing cases that have no "correct" answers. The learning comes from the process of dynamic case discussions in which teachers are more interested in the learning process and case dynamics rather than discover of a hidden optimal solution. Two or more opposite solutions may be equally "correct." There are solution patterns rather than "solutions."
In theory this should also allow a great case to be used more than one semester. However, it can destroy repeated use if students create archives of case notes and videos of prior case discussions. A particularly good class discussion can be "memorized" to corrupt the class discussion in a non-creative way.
Stanford Researchers Discover a Smarter Way to Prepare for Exams: Introducing
MetaCognition, the Art of Thinking About Your Thinking ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/metacognition-the-art-of-thinking-about-your-thinking.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on metacognition ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
Graph: After Peaking in 2010 Law School Enrollments Tumbled ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef01bb099e92bd970d-popup
Jensen Comment
The reasons for enrollment declines are complicated but the leading cause for
enrollment declines in both journalism and law schools is the shrinking of
opportunities for careers after graduation.
This is especially sad in the case of law schools since so many undergraduates majored in humanities disciplines (think history) with the intent of eventually tracking into law schools and law firm employment.
A small but increasing reason for decline in law firm employment is that robots now exist to do some of the legal research work.
A major reason for the decline in majors is the cost of three years in law school (think student loans) coupled with with decline in career opportunities after graduation.
Continue reading --- http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/05/hendersona-measure-of-overcapacity-in-legal-education.html#more
IBM --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
IBM, a Pioneer of Remote (Home) Work, Calls Workers Back to the Office ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-a-pioneer-of-remote-work-calls-workers-back-to-the-office-1495108802
International Business Machines Corp. is giving thousands of its remote workers in the U.S. a choice this week: Abandon your home workspaces and relocate to a regional office—or leave the company.
The 105-year-old technology giant is quietly dismantling its popular decades-old remote work program to bring employees back into offices, a move it says will improve collaboration and accelerate the pace of work
Jensen Comment
One of the arguments for remote work is that it's family-friendly relative to being at the office.
Another argument is that it avoids the waste of commuting time that in IBM's new Boston offices could well be in excess of two hours per day given the enormous traffic congestions in the some of the offices in 170 countries where IBM has business offices.
But there are advantages to having workers be in business offices, including serendipity encounters, face-to-face encounters (such as greeting customers who want to share their needs), fewer distractions such as tending to demanding children, and reduced abuse devoting time to personal rather than business projects. It seems to me, however, that "pace of work" can be monitored online.
The fact is that much depends upon the type of work. A woman lives down the road who hired to edit reports of a prestigious consulting firm. She tells me she's much more efficient and effective at her job if she works at home. There are other types of jobs where this may not be the case such as management and leadership jobs that often benefit from presence among subordinates. This is especially the case where senior workers mentor newer workers.
Political Correctness --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
I think political
correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality.
Juan William before he was fired after a distinguished career on NPR.
http://townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2010/10/21/npr_finally_finds_an_excuse_to_fire_juan_williams
Political Correctness Offends
Me
John Cleese Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klu1SCueDow
Political Correctness and Safe Spaces: Tread Carefully with the
Socratic Method ---
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1806-tread-carefully-with-the-socratic-method?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=634f1b9cd92a47569df50a721f4c0756&elq=671d2781aa214850b36cdc11d4982696&elqaid=14047&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5874
Whatever you may think of Neil Gorsuch as a jurist — or of his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court — there is one episode from his confirmation hearing that should give all faculty members a moment's pause.
As readers who followed the hearing may know, one of the people who wrote to the Senate to object to his nomination was one of his former students at the University of Colorado Law School, where Gorsuch — then serving on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals — had taught as an adjunct professor. In her letter, the student accused Gorsuch of demonstrating bias toward women, based on comments he allegedly made in class. If you're unfamiliar with the details, you can find them here.
Other former students, including women and self-described liberals, quickly came to Gorsuch's defense, as did 11 of his former law clerks, all women. Some commentators pointed out that Gorsuch was merely utilizing the Socratic method, a common teaching strategy in law (and other) courses that seeks to draw out a student's underlying assumptions and foster reasoned debate by asking pointed questions and assuming a contrary position. Gorsuch himself explained that in the particular situation raised by the objecting student, he had been using a case study from a popular law textbook.
Whether or not you believe Justice Gorsuch is sexist — personally, I don't — this incident might send a slight chill up your spine. Because many of us also use some version of the Socratic method in our classrooms, in an attempt to stimulate critical thinking. What if a student takes offense to something we said — perhaps while we were playing devil's advocate — and accuses us of some form of discrimination? On today's hypersensitized campuses, where in many cases emotional responses have been privileged over intellectual ones, that has become a very real possibility.
It has actually happened to me on two occasions. Most recently, a student accused me in a private meeting of saying something during a class discussion that I had never said and taking a position I'd never taken. She was offended and, although she hadn't wanted to bring it up in class, she felt she should do so now.
The issue was mainstreaming of students with disabilities in K-12 classrooms, which another student had proposed as a possible essay topic. During the ensuing class discussion, the young woman I was meeting with had asserted that all such students should be mainstreamed. I then asked her in class if she really meant “all,” or if she thought there were some students with disabilities so severe that they couldn't function in a regular class or perhaps needed special attention. Later in our private meeting, she told me that, as a middle-school student, she had been misdiagnosed with a mild learning disability and segregated, even though she was perfectly capable of doing well in mainstream classes. Hence her awareness on this subject.
I appreciated her honesty and discretion but was alarmed that she had so thoroughly misunderstood what was going on in class. I explained that I had merely been playing devil's advocate, asking questions to encourage her and her classmates to think more deeply about their arguments and understand the potential weaknesses of those positions so they could better defend them — and, most important, be better equipped to make a more persuasive case.
The meeting ended amicably enough, and I think she understood. But I was left wondering: Would things have turned out differently if she had gone straight to the dean and accused me of having a bias against students with disabilities?
In my more than 30 years of teaching, I’ve often used a semi-Socratic method in leading class discussions. Up until just a few years ago, students seemed to understand very well what I was doing. To my knowledge, no one got offended or misconstrued my words or intent. In the past few years, however, I have encountered more students who don’t seem to grasp that I am playing devil’s advocate in the classroom.
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Political Correctness Graduation Speech
Forwarded by a Good Friend on the AECM
Leave Your Safe Spaces: The 2017 Commencement Address at Hampden-Sydney College
---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/leave-your-safe-spaces-the-2017-commencement-address-at-hampden-sydney-college.html?_r=0
. . .
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of your peers are also celebrating their commencements, receiving their diplomas, starting out in the world. But not all of their educations have been liberal in the truest sense of the word.
Instead of being educated to a cultured skepticism, too many have been educated to a fervent certitude. Instead of embracing, or at least respecting, heterodox or unsettling ideas, they prefer to retreat into settled convictions. Instead of wanting to engage controversial discussions, they’d just as soon shut them down.
And instead of wanting to emerge at last from the cocoons of their “safe spaces,” they want to extend the domain of those spaces into the next stages of their lives.
Now, don’t get me wrong: The “they” in those sentences consists, for the most part, of nice, well-intentioned, intelligent, hard-working and often high-achieving people.
They just happen to know that truth and virtue are on their side. They are convinced that any difference of opinion on matters they hold dear isn’t simply an error of reasoning but an affront to human decency. They believe they are entitled to denounce the people with whom they disagree as knavish ignoramuses. And they believe that it is imperative to keep a very safe distance between themselves and the ideas that so disturb them.
Today, we live in a world that makes it easy to continue inhabiting these safe spaces, above all when it comes to politics, public policy and ideology.
On social media, you follow, share, “like” and retweet the people you agree with — while you ignore, unfriend, remove or block those you don’t.
If you’re a conservative news junkie, Fox News is your safe space, even if you’d probably never call it that. You can watch it for days — indeed, weeks, months and years — on end without ever encountering a persuasively contrary opinion, at least one that isn’t instantly derided as unworthy of serious consideration. If you’re a liberal, it’s the same story on MSNBC.
When you open the op-ed pages of a newspaper, you’ll turn first to the columnist with whom you already know you’re likely to agree, so that you can see your already-correct opinions repeated and ratified once more. As for the writers with whom you disagree — whether it’s Krugman or Stephens, Kristof or Krauthammer — you’ve already concluded that they’re idiots or liars, so you’ll either skip over them or read them with smirking disdain.
And so it goes. We all believe that the system of checks and balances is a good idea for a well-functioning and prudent government. But where are the checks and balances in our own thinking — the check that whispers, “You could be wrong”; the balance that suggests, “There’s another way of thinking about it”?
This is what I fear we are at risk of losing in America today. Too many of our schools are producing students who have never learned properly to engage, understand or accept an alternative point of view. Too many of our citizens want to hear only from the people whose views they already share, and who will never change their minds about a thing. And too many of our media outlets see no problem in catering exclusively to these increasingly narrow and illiberal tastes.
We worry a lot these days about political polarization, the unpleasant choices such polarization leaves us with at the ballot box, its effects on what used to be our common values, our shared sense of nationhood. What we fail to recognize is that this polarization is a result of us getting exactly what we want — only to rue the consequences.
A month ago, I chose to do my small part in trying to swim against this particular current. After 16 productive and happy years as a conservative writer with the staunchly conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, I decided to switch teams to the mostly liberal editorial page of The New York Times.
In case you’re wondering, my opinions are just as conservative, reactionary and antediluvian as they’ve always been. My salary is pretty much the same. And, no, I wasn’t pushed out of my last job.
But I did have a gnawing sense that it was time to stop talking to my own side, preaching to my own choir. I wanted to write for an audience that might not be wholly receptive — and might even be openly hostile — to what I have to say.
In short, I thought it was time to leave my own safe space: to take the gamble that I might be able to sway readers not always inclined to agree with me, and to accept the possibility that they, in turn, might sway me.
Has it been fun? Yes. Has it been rough? A bit. Has it been worth it? Ask me again in a few years. But I’m optimistic.
So here’s my advice to you: Get out of your own safe spaces. Define what your intellectual comfort zone is — and leave it. Enhance your tolerance for discordant voices. Narrow your criteria for what’s beyond the pale. Read the authors or watch the talking heads with whom you disagree. Treat those disagreements as a whetting stone to sharpen your own arguments. Resist the temptation to call people names.
By all means master the art of being pugnacious in argument — but as a pugnacious dialogian, not a petulant didact.
Go beyond that. Befriend your intellectual adversaries. Assume that they’re smart, that they’re motives are honorable and that they are your fellow travelers in a quest to better understand a common set of challenges. Master the civilized art of agreeable disagreement. Try to remember that words are not weapons, and that politics is not warfare, and debate is not a death sport. Learn that — in politics no less than in marriage — it’s a bad idea to go to bed angry with one another. Have an argument, then have a drink, together.
Members of the class of 2017: Do not close your ears to opposing points of view. Otherwise you cannot learn. Do not foreclose the possibility that you might change your mind. Otherwise you cannot grow. Do not lose sight of the fact that you are not in possession of the whole and only truth. Otherwise you will fail to notice your mistakes, and so suffer their consequences.
Above all, do not forget that the world would be a duller and darker place if everyone thought as you did, and if all our thoughts were safe ones, and if there were nothing to bestir our minds, and inflame our senses, and rouse our consciences, and churn the warm but too-placid waters in which we swim at our own peril.
Safe spaces, physical and intellectual, are for children. You are grown-ups now. If your diplomas mean anything, it’s that it is time you leave those spaces behind forever.
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Updates on Politically Correct Language Trends ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/05/20/in-seattle-police-can-no-longer-report-suspects-they-have-to-say-community-members-n2329542?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
In Seattle, police can no longer use the term “suspect” for use of force reports. Instead, they have to write “community member.” Alas, we have political correctness now infesting law enforcement. Also, this isn’t new. KIRO 7 reported that the Washington’s Department of Corrections no longer calls prisoners inmates; they call them students.
Jensen Comment
Becoming a "student" is now punishment for crime convictions. Bernie Madoff is a
lifetime "student."
One of the problems of the new PC language is that words can no longer be partitioned into different meanings.
A "student" in the State of Washington can be enrolled at the University of Washington or incarcerated for life at the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla.
A "community member" may be a victim or a suspect (who knows which?)
The word "they" is now singular and must be used for both a "he" or a "she"
For example" "They had a hysterectomy" and "They's prostate was removed."
Lake Superior State University's 41st Annual List of Banished Words ---
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
Jensen Comment
Much depends upon context. Motivational speakers make millions of dollars
beating socially incorrect words to death. Rappers make millions beating
politically incorrect words to death.
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
Pressure Builds from Low Endowment Returns ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/05/22/pressure-builds-low-endowment-returns?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=cd4ec41b43-DNU20170522&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-cd4ec41b43-197565045&mc_cid=cd4ec41b43&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
. . .
That is changing as average endowment returns have fallen substantially below levels needed to keep up universities’ standard endowment spending rate, widely considered to be 5 percent. Over the last decade, endowments have posted an average annual return rate of 5 percent. After inflation is factored in, that would mean a 5 percent spending rate would create a shortfall of 2 percent to 2.5 percent, driving down endowment values over time, Moody’s said.
As a result of the crunch, universities could choose to reduce their annual spending levels. Some are gradually cutting spending to the 4.5 percent to 5 percent range, according to Moody’s. However, large reductions are unlikely in a current climate of political scrutiny that has included Congress making noise about taxing large endowments at colleges and universities that do not spend substantial amounts on student financial aid.
Colleges and universities could also choose to pursue strategies like moving to passive management to try to match market returns. Such a strategy would likely limit their possibility of outperforming the market, though.
Others might take on increasing risk. Some colleges and universities may turn to fund-raising and retained cash flow to shore up their long-term endowment returns.
As a result, the wealthiest universities would appear to have the most potential for future endowment health. Such universities tend to disproportionately benefit from fund-raising and cash flow because they have wealthy donors and strong brands commanding more money. They also tend to have the endowment size and flexibility required to invest in the alternative and riskier assets that could yield the highest returns.
Jensen Comment
The Fed's low interest rate policy helps maintain the National Debt while, at
the same time, forces both people saving for retirement and colleges with
endowments to both spend less and take on more
investments having more financial risks. Doing so in recent years hit
Harvard badly.
Harvard Endowment to Lay Off Half Its Staff The school fund will lay off
half of its staff and ask outside funds to run its investments ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-to-outsource-management-of-its-35-7-billion-endowment-1485363650?mg=id-wsj
Harvard University’s endowment fund, which is the largest in the world, is planning to make big changes to its investment approach. Here’s why Harvard and many of its endowment peers are making similar moves.
Books Recommended by This Year's TED Speakers ---
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/50-books-recommended-by-this-years-ted-speakers.html
David Pogue: How to speed up YouTube playback with a keystroke ---
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/pogues-basics-speed-youtube-playback-keystroke-160348751.html
Jensen Comment
The first two accounting courses at BYU are primarily video courses. One of the
features is that the video can be viewed at variable speeds. There are some
learning efficiencies of this feature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#BYUvideo
14-year-old whiz kid becomes the youngest graduate ever at Texas Christian
University ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-graduate-14-youngest-ever-at-texas-christian-university-2017-5
May 2017 Update on Retractions ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/13/weekend-reads-prison-sharing-article-country-fake-peer-review-retractions-counterfeit-reagents/
Which nation has the most retractions?
Does Philosophy Literature Have a Plagiarism Problem? ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/19/philosophy-literature-plagiarism-problem/
Journal flags two more papers by diabetes researcher who sued to stop
retractions (and now has 12) ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/18/journal-flags-two-papers-diabetes-researcher-sued-stop-retractions-now-12/
Nine tips and tricks to unlock cool Uber features you never knew about
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tips-and-tricks-for-using-uber-2017-5
To Criticize? Or Not to Criticize? That is Not the Question (especially in
the social mediia) ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2017/05/06/to-criticize-or-not-to-criticize-that-is-not-the-question/
Net Neutrality --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 on Thursday in favor of
reversing net neutrality rules ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fcc-neutrality-idUSKCN18E2H7?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=a2633ebc2f-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-a2633ebc2f-153727301
Microsoft publicly attacked the US government for 'stockpiling' exploits
after a massive global cyberattack ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-brad-smith-attacks-us-government-stockpiling-vulnerabilities-ransomware-attack-2017-5
This electric bike is powerful enough to tow a car
http://www.businessinsider.com/electric-bike-powerful-enough-tow-suv-moar-ebike-price-fat-tire-tyre-2017-5
Jensen Comment
Maybe electric car owners should carry such a bike if their power runs out short
of a charging station. However, the towing speed is too slow to be safe on a
freeway.
In Tennessee, Free College for All?
https://townhall.com/video/in-tennessee-free-college-for-all-n2326063?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
On the nature of creepiness ---
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X16300320
Efficient Market Hypothesis --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
Efficient Markets Debates That Never End
Profit opportunities exist until (academic) researchers publish findings
on market inefficiencies. Then they disappear ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-11/ivory-tower-wonks-help-traders-make-a-quick-buck
Profit opportunities do not exist in many instances (e.g., those
attributed to p-hacking mistakes)
An Algorithm, an ETF and an Academic Study Walk Into a Bar ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-algorithm-an-etf-and-an-academic-study-walk-into-a-bar-1494528113
Most of the supposed market anomalies academics have identified don’t exist, or are too small to matter
Tie together an algorithm, an exchange-traded fund and an academic study finding an anomaly in the markets, and voilà! You have a formula for making money. Trouble is, it turns out that most of the supposed anomalies academics have identified don’t exist, or are too small to matter.
A new study making waves in quantitative finance tested 447 anomalies identified by academics and found more than eight out of 10 vanish when rigorous tests are applied. Among those failing to reach statistical significance: one anomaly recently set out by the godfathers of quantitative finance, Nobel-winning economist Eugene Fama and his colleague Kenneth French.
The study, “Replicating Anomalies,” published this week by Kewei Hou and Lu Zhang at Ohio State University and Chen Xue at the University of Cincinnati, is the biggest test of examples of inefficient markets carried out so far. The trio applied consistent analysis to the supposed anomalies, used the same database of stocks and set higher standards for statistical significance. Simply reducing the influence of the plethora of rarely traded penny stocks—which make up just 3% of market value but 60% of all listings—by using market capitalization weightings made more than half of past findings no longer significant.
Messrs. Hou, Xue and Zhang warn that academics have been fiddling the statistics to come up with interesting findings, known to statisticians as data mining or p-hacking. “The anomalies literature is infested with widespread p-hacking,” they write.
It isn’t all bad news for investors and those trying to make a living flogging what have become known as “factors.” The research confirmed that the most popular factors have indeed outperformed the market over long periods even when faced with rigorous tests, but found much smaller returns than previous studies estimated.
Market anomalies that passed the new study’s tests included several of the biggest. Cheap stocks indeed beat expensive ones; share prices have momentum; companies that invest a lot underperform, and quality of earnings matters. Known as value, momentum, investment and quality, these have become the biggest of the so-called “smart beta” ETFs sucking in tens of billions of dollars.
A lot depends on exactly how the factors are implemented, though, and the researchers dismissed one of the industry-standard Fama-French factors as statistically insignificant: Companies with high operating return on equity don’t outperform meaningfully on their tests. Other measures of return on equity did outperform sufficiently, however, underlining the sensitivity of some factors to exactly how they are defined.
One lesson for investors is to be careful about trying to make money by repeating what seems to have worked in the past. If it was so easy, everyone would do it and it would stop working.
A former student of Mr. Fama, Cliff Asness, founder of quantitative hedge-fund manager AQR Capital Management, said he tries to avoid being caught out by false findings by trading on anomalies he can explain, economically or through investor behavior. To assess whether the market anomalies will continue, he looks for ones which carried on after being identified, can be seen in other markets or asset classes, and where minor changes to how they are defined don’t much affect the result. These include most famously value, momentum and corporate quality, among others.
Still, he worries that the “awesome effort” in the new paper might lead some to overreact and reject all factors, even those which Messrs. Hou, Xue and Zhang found evidence for.
“Many factors are demonstrably silly, or are highly correlated versions of the same idea,” he said. “Where I get worried is about overreaction [to the paper] and the cynicism it breeds.”
Investors are still likely to be confused. There are well over 100 value and high-dividend ETFs in the U.S. alone, tracking large, small or midsize stocks, based on different definitions and often combined with other factors such as momentum, quality or low volatility. Intelligently choosing between them would mean examining how indexes are constructed and comparing to the long-term academic studies to see which methodology was best; in practice for most investors there is little more to go on than a few years of performance data and fees.
Worse still, the markets are reasonably efficient. If it turns out that shares usually rise just after Christmas or fall on Mondays when it rains in New York, traders will quickly find a way to profit from the anomaly, and it will disappear.
The danger for investors who have piled into “smart beta” ETFs betting on value or quality is that exactly this happens. Small-capitalization companies stopped outperforming after the landmark study identifying the so-called small-cap effect in 1981, for example, and haven’t looked good since (see chart).
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Enter Desmos, a San Francisco-based company that offers a
free online version of TI’s graphing calculator ---
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2017/desmos-now-embedded-in-year-end-assessments-across-the-united-states/
Jensen Question
Guess reasons why some instructors still require the student to own a pricey TI
graphing calculator.
Life Changing Books ---
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/23-books-that-changed-my-life/
The New Yorker: A.I. Versus M.D. (artificial intelligence in medical
diagnostics) ---
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md
Developing Clarity: Innovating Library Systems ---
http://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/developing-clarity-innovating-in-library-systems
A young researcher could go to jail for sharing a scientific paper ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-young-researcher-could-go-to-jail-for-sharing-a-scientific-paper-2017-5
FAQs and Fair Use Under USA Copyright Law ---
http://graduate.ucr.edu/copyrightresources.html
Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Fair-Use-Too-Often-Goes-Unused/240033?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c435993b44d44c6a95318b390b49091a&elq=2173f922c313468d8e991cf21b680ab4&elqaid=13928&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5810
Read the comments following this article
Jensen Comment
Bob Jensen's threads on the dreaded DMCA ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm#Copyright
Stanford: Can the GOP Fix the Corporate Income Tax?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/can-gop-fix-corporate-income-tax?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=79e2a76402-Stanford-Business-Issue-112-5-14-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-79e2a76402-70265733&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-112-5-14-2017)
. . .
Will Trump address the root of the problem?
I think he really wants to end the lock-out of foreign profits once and for all, but it’s hard to tell if he’s settled on an approach. During the campaign Trump seemed to favor an end to deferral on foreign earnings. In other words, going forward, corporations would have to pay tax immediately on all their income worldwide, so there’d be no reason to hold cash overseas. And then you make that palatable by lowering the tax rate.By the way, that’s what Obama tried to do, and it’s still the approach favored by Democrats. But Obama would only have lowered the rate to 28%. Trump wants to cut the tax rate to 15%, which is pretty low by world standards.
In his latest proposal — which is still just a page of bullet points — the president seems to have adopted an idea from Paul Ryan’s House plan: He now says he wants to move away from our system of global taxation to what’s called territorial taxation, where firms are taxed only on U.S. income. So instead of taxing offshore profits at once, he’d stop taxing them altogether.
Which is how most countries do it.
Right. And of course U.S. multinationals have been clamoring for this for years. They talk about “abolishing the repatriation tax,” which makes it sound like there’s a separate, unfair tax on foreign income. It’s just the ordinary income tax that companies have deferred for so long that they sort of stop thinking of it as a liability they already owe.Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted a territorial tax system?
There are real risks. If you say foreign earnings aren’t taxable, you’re incentivizing companies to shift more of their operations offshore. And if you try to counteract that with a low tax rate like 15% — and at the same time, you’re shrinking the tax base by excluding foreign profits — you could be looking at significant revenue losses. It might really increase the federal deficit.Continued in article
ABC News: Global cyberattack has hit more than 200,000 organizations
in 150 countries ---
http://abcnews.go.com/International/global-cyberattack-hit-100000-organizations-150-countries/story?id=47400573
Also see
http://fortune.com/2017/05/14/ransomware-wannacry-faq/?xid=newsletter-brief
Jensen Comment
Rumors are flying that this was an attack from North Korea.
San Francisco is so expensive, the city is spending $44 million so its
teachers won't be homeless ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-teacher-housing-affordability-2017-5
Jensen Comment
This is probably a drop in the bucket compared to the need for cheaper housing
for teachers, firefighters, police officers, hotel workers, janitors, etc.
The biggest boon to low cost housing is probably the BART train system leading
to Oakland. But Oakland has its own troubles dealing with a culture of crime and
racial strife.
The problem of not having low cost housing in Silicon Valley becomes more severe
in cities like Palo Alto that are further from BART terminals. Palo Alto was one
of the first to offer low cost housing to public service workers.
Jensen Question
My question is what this will do for taxation of relatively low-paid public
servants who are almost twice or more above the USA poverty line.
College presidents, for example, pay income taxes on the estimated value of
their subsidized housing?
A College president can easily afford the added income tax on free rental of a
campus house valued at $1+ million anywhere in the USA.
Can a K-12 teacher earning $85,000 per year afford the
added income tax on a free tiny cottage in valued at $1 million Palo Alto (that
would be valued at less than $20,000 in rural Swea City, Iowa).
Active Learning, Cooperative Active Learning, and Passive Learning Methods
in an Accounting Information Systems Course
Issues in Accounting Education, Article Volume 32, Issue 2 (May 2017)
http://aaajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2308/iace-51366
Authors
Jennifer Riley, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Kerry Ward, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Abstract
We report the results of a study to examine the effectiveness of active versus passive learning methods in the accounting information systems area. Two groups of students completed an assignment under two active learning conditions (individual and cooperative), while a third group covered the same topic in a passive lecture. Our findings indicate support for active learning, measured through student performance on exam questions and student feedback on a questionnaire. However, compared to passive learners, we find significantly improved exam performance only for students who work individually in an active environment. Students in the cooperative active environment posted exam scores that were not statistically different from passive participants' scores. Students in both individual and cooperative active environments reported positive feedback on satisfaction, perceived learning, and effectiveness of the method. We conclude that active learning enhances student outcomes, particularly for those who work individually.
Bob Jensen: Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of
Computer Aided Education and Training: Are We Misleading Ourselves About
Measures of Success?
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
Growing Up: How Audit Internships Affect Students' Commitment and
Long-Term Intentions to Work in Public Accounting
Issues in Accounting Education, Article Volume 32, Issue 2 (May 2017)
http://aaajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2308/iace-51431 Texas Tech University
Authors
Matthew Hart, Texas Tech University
Joleen Kremin, Portland State University
William R. Pasewark, Texas Tech University
Abstract
This study investigates factors that influence audit interns' commitment and long-term intentions to work in public accounting. We measure the organizational and professional commitment of 127 audit interns prior to the start of busy-season internships with public accounting firms and then again at the conclusion of the internship. We find that both organizational and professional commitment decline significantly as a result of the internship experience. We note that heavy workloads during the internship decreased the degree of commitment to a particular firm. On the other hand, offering challenging work assignments and surrounding the intern with desirable coworkers significantly increased commitment to both the firm and the profession. We also find that changes in organizational commitment are related to changes in interns' long-term intentions to work in public accounting, and that by the end of the internship, nearly 60 percent of the interns changed their views with regard to how long they planned to work in public accounting, with a majority of respondents anticipating a shorter career in the profession.
Jensen Comment
It would be interesting to compare these results with a similar study of tax
interns.
Here's what could happen to America's hundreds of dead malls ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-will-happen-to-closed-malls-2017-5/#before-the-department-store-1
Jensen Comment
Some malls within a few hundred miles of our border with Mexico are still doing
well because the launder money for the drug cartels.
U.S. Crackdown on Fraudulent For-Profit
Schools Is Said to Go Idle ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/education-department-for-profit-schools.html?elqTrackId=ac9840b1f7a84800a6bcdaaa806c6a9d&elq=8314fc8dcf554e22811100d5e69b74f8&elqaid=13920&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5805&_r=0
Jensen Comment
Except for outright diploma mills most of these marginal "schools" are ripping
off taxpayers (thing billions in student loans) with substandard education and
training programs for Veterans and folks otherwise not equipped to compete in
legitimate schools.
These questionable for-profits "schools" have virtually no admission standards
and no academic standards. There are instances where dogs have gotten diplomas.
The Obama Administration shocked the world by shutting down the huge and
fraudulent ITT Technical Institute. There's doubt that this would've happened
under President Trump.
Sitting Near a High-Performer Can Make You Better at Your Job ---
https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-sitting-near-a-high-performer-can-make-you-better-at-your-job-825f1699c29b
Jensen Comment
In academe there are at least four types of low performers. First there are the
disgruntled performers who perform only to minimum levels to keep their jobs
such as when only meeting classes and having a few office hours each week. Other
than that you never see them on campus. Your presence near them does little to
help unless you can find a way to make them less disgruntled. Usually these
employees are what we call lifetime associate professors. Often they ceased
being scholars in their field and focus on non-academic hobbies and side
businesses (like raising cattle). At the University of Maine we had a science
professor who spent more time making harpsichords than in doing his paid job at
the University. Another lifetime associate professor of business spent a lot of
time on his lobster boat.
Second there are low performers in research who do a might be more respected if they were re-classified as clinical professors. They are still scholars in their disciplines who often became discouraged by journal rejections of their research submissions to a point where they no longer do research. Sometimes these low performers in research can be helped by having offices next to high performer researchers who help them some with research.
Third there are the low performers in research who are under-appreciated for the monumental effort they make in their teaching, especially by having an open-door policy that many students take advantage of for help and inspiration. Sometimes high performers change opinions about the contributions these teachers make to the main mission of the university.
Fourth there are the high performers in research who are low performers in teaching. Sometimes sitting near top teachers can inspire top researchers to give more effort into becoming better teachers. When I had an office near a leadership professor named Don Van Eynde I became impressed with the way he would know the names of all his students after the first week of class. Being near him inspired me to become closer with my students. Until then I always thought I was doing a better job if I provided Camtasia videos on technical course modules than enabled students to have less need to come to my office.
Early May 2017 Suggested Readings in Econometrics
by David Giles
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2017/05/heres-what-ive-been-reading.html
Here are some of the papers that I've been reading recently. Some of them may appeal to you, too:
- Bampinas, G., K. Ladopoulos, &T. Panagiotidis, 2017. A note on the estimated GARCH coefficients from the S&P1500 universe. WP 17-09, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
- Heberle, J. & C. Sattarhoff, 2017. A fast algorithm for the computation of HAC covariance matrix estimators. Econometrics, 5(1), 9; doi:10.3390/econometrics5010009.
- Kristensen, D. & B. Salanié, 2017. Higher-order properties of approximate estimators. Journal of Econometrics, online.
- Lei, J., M. G'Sell, A. Rinaldo, R. J. Tibshirani, & L. Wasserman, 2017.Distribution-free predictive inference for regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association, online.
- Tsagbey, S., M. De carvalho, & G. L. Page, 2017. All data are wrong, but some are useful? Advocating the need for data auditing. American Statistician, online.
- Zhang, X. & C-A. Liu, 2017. Inference after model averaging in linear regression models. IEAS Working Paper No. 17-A005.
From the Scout Report on May 12, 2017
OperaVPN --- https://www.operavpn.com/
Accessing websites served over plain http (rather than https) using public wifi can be problematic for user privacy. As technically minded readers will be aware, any other users on the same network can snoop on http connections. Wifi network owners can even modify content traveling over http links (e.g., to insert advertising). OperaVPN makes the virtual private network already built in to the Opera web browser available to Android and iOS users as well. When using the service, all web browsing is shunted through an encrypted tunnel to the servers at SurfEasy Inc, a Canadian subsidiary of Opera Software, which then connect to sites on a user's behalf. Because traffic through the tunnel is encrypted, browsing sessions cannot be observed by other users on the same network, nor can they be modified by the network owner.
Hemingway Editor --- http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Writing can be among the most mercurial of skills, in large measure because of how quickly clarity can slip through one's fingers. The Hemingway Editor provides a distraction-free writing environment with a twist. It has an Edit mode that will highlight complex sentences and common errors, compute readability scores, and estimate reading time. According to the about page, "It's like a spell checker, but for style." These features can help authors to sharpen, clarify, and simplify their prose. In addition to the free web version of the editor, a desktop version is available for purchase for both Macintosh and Windows computers
Astronomers Map Out Lava Waves on Io, Jupiter's Most Tumultuous Moon
Enormous lava waves spotted on Jupiter moon Io
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/10/lava- waves-size-wales-jupiter-moon- io
A Rare Peek at the Waves of Lava on Jupiter's Moon Io
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a26474/ io-jupiter-moon-lava-waves
Waves of lava seen in Io's largest volcanic crater
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/05/10/waves-of-lava-seen-in- ios-largest-volcanic-crater
Multi-phase volcanic resurfacing at Loki Patera on Io
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7653/full/ nature22339.html
Volcanoes in the Solar System
http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_ 05.04.03_u
Space Volcanoes
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/volcanoes/en
From the Scout Report on May 19, 2017
Signal Private Messenger --- https://whispersystems.org
Signal is a communications platform for iOS and Android devices that supports text messaging, voice calls, and video calls. While users are identified by their phone number, Signal messages and calls are sent via the internet using a wifi or data connection, not over the cellular voice network. Because of this, there are no charges beyond data fees for Signal calls, even for long distance or international calls. Signal conversations are encrypted using the namesake Signal Protocol, designed by Open Whisper Systems and subsequently also adopted by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google Allo. Unlike the other systems using the Signal Protocol, complete source code for the Signal client applications as well as the Signal servers is available under a free software license. Signal has been recommended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in their "Surveillance self-defense guide," has been endorsed by Edward Snowden, and was recently approved by the US Senate's Sergeant at Arms for official use by Senate staff members.
Open Broadcaster Studio --- https://obsproject.com
It can be a surprisingly difficult task to record and stream video over the internet. Users must often assemble a pipeline of several different tools that each handle a different aspect of the production process. Open Broadcaster Studio wraps the entire process into a single, simple to use application. It can be used to pre-record video content, but it truly shines as a tool for live streaming. Multiple popular streaming services are supported including YouTube and Facebook Live. It can perform real time video and audio mixing, audio filtering (e.g. noise suppression), video filtering (e.g. color correction), custom transitions between scenes, and more. Extensive documentation is available on its website, including step-by-step guides with detailed instructions and screenshots. Users may also seek assistance via the very active Open Broadcaster Software forums or via live community chat. Open Broadcaster Studio is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers.
Botticelli Comes to the United States in a New Exhibit that Highlights
the Artist's Full, Complex Oeuvre
Superb Botticelli show at MFA traces the master's arc
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/04/19/superb- botticelli-show-mfa-traces- master-arc/ f0VgVMeuE7MIqFqH51GKAO/story. html
A Lesser Known Venus Visits the U.S. in New Botticelli Exhibit
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/16/527589941/a-lesser-known- venus-visits-the-u-s-in-new- botticelli-exhibit
How this Tiny Museum in Virginia Lands Major Shows of Botticelli and
Michelangelo
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-tiny-museum- virginia-lands-major- botticelli-michelangelo
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/botticelli-and- the-search-for-the-divine
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici
Perspectives on Painting: Investigating Early Italian Renaissance Art
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/ perspectives-on-painting- investigating-early-italian- renaissance-art
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Mathematics Assessment Project (learning assessment) ---http://map.mathshell.org
ArtsEdge (teaching resources) --- http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx
Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15c3a864d2816091
Science Notebook Corner --- http://www.calacademy.org/educators/science-notebook-corner
Prize-Winning Books Online --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/prize.html
Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels --- http://austen.unl.edu
Child Trends: Databank Indicators --- https://www.childtrends.org/databank-indicators
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 Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter ---
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/the-physicist-who-denies-dark-matter
Science Notebook Corner --- http://www.calacademy.org/educators/science-notebook-corner
YouTube: Above the Noise (science) --- https://www.youtube.com/abovethenoise
NASA's Science Friday: Space Seen Through a Window --- http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/space-seen-through-a-window
The Cell Image Library --- http://www.cellimagelibrary.org
The New Yorker: A.I. Versus M.D. (artificial intelligence in medical
diagnostics) ---
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md
Marine Species Identification Portal --- http://species-identification.org
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Spices --- http://spices.biodiversityexhibition.com
The Falmouth Project (Caribbean architecture) --- http://falmouth.lib.virginia.edu
CrashCourse (Philosophy and more) --- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR
Books, Health, and History --- https://nyamcenterforhistory.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
National Women's History Museum: Creating a Female Political Culture ---
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/politicalculture/index.html
Child Trends: Databank Indicators --- https://www.childtrends.org/databank-indicators
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
Mathematics Assessment Project (learning assessment) ---http://map.mathshell.org
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
Prize-Winning Books Online --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/prize.html
New Interactive Tool Traces the Evolution of the U.S. Constitution ---
http://time.com/4777130/compare-drafts-us-constitution/?xid=newsletter-brief
CrashCourse (Philosophy and more) --- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR
Unpublished Photos Capture the Lifesaving Role of Nurses in World War II ---
http://time.com/4746347/nurse-shortage-photos-1942/?xid=newsletter-brief
Books, Health, and History --- https://nyamcenterforhistory.org
National Women's History Museum: Creating a Female Political Culture ---
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/politicalculture/index.html
The Women's Library @ LSE --- http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/thewomenslibrary
DPLA: American Empire --- https://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/american-empire
Casebooks Project (astrological medicine) --- http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk
The Falmouth Project (Caribbean architecture) --- http://falmouth.lib.virginia.edu
Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels --- http://austen.unl.edu
Developing Clarity: Innovating Library Systems --- http://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/developing-clarity-innovating-in-library-systems
Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham --- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ahzvven/mapping/map33.html
The Hidden World of National Parks --- https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us
Res Obscura (historic paintings of monkeys getting drunk) --- https://resobscura.blogspot.com
Schulz Library Blog (comics, cartoons and graphics in books) --- http://www.cartoonstudies.org/schulz/blog
Hidden Patterns of the Civil War --- http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar
National Archives of Japan Digital Archive --- https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/index_e.html
Scottish Chapbooks --- https://scottishchapbooks.lib.uoguelph.ca/home
Font Map --- http://fontmap.ideo.com
Flickr: The Commons (photo archives) --- https://www.flickr.com/commons
Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students
Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can
Kill Ideas” (1933) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/helen-keller-writes-a-letter-to-nazi-students-before-they-burn-her-book-history-has-taught-you-nothing-if-you-think-you-can-kill-ideas-1933.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
Fake Modiglianis began to emerge in the 1920s, soon after his death. Now he
is one of the world's most faked artists. There are even fake fakes ---
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/worlds-most-faked-artists-amedeo-modigliani-picasso
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
Library of Congress Collection: Aaron Copland Collection --- https://www.loc.gov/collections/aaron-copland
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
Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels --- http://austen.unl.edu
Schulz Library Blog (comics, cartoons and graphics in books) --- http://www.cartoonstudies.org/schulz/blog
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/
Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
May 15, 2017
May 16, 2017
May 17, 2017
May 18, 2017
May 19, 2017
May 20, 2017
May 22, 2017 --- http://www.webmd.com/news/default.htm
May 23, 2017
May 24, 2017
May 25, 2017
Hepatitis C is Spiking Among Young People ---
http://time.com/4775698/hepatitis-c-diagnosis/?xid=newsletter-brief
A promising new cancer treatment is facing a deadly setback ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cancer-immunotherapy-setbacks-with-car-t-cell-therapy-2017-5
Meet Emma, the wearable that helps people with Parkinson’s ---
http://readwrite.com/2017/05/13/microsoft-parkinson-wearable/
Humor for May 2017
Humor in the Workplace (the good and the
Ugly) ---
http://blog.aicpa.org/2017/05/just-kidding-humor-at-work.html#sthash.JJ2c9OIw.dpbs
Every day, your mom wasted 90 minutes of her
life on you, so today get her a present.
Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog Tweet on Mothers Day
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jennifervanlaar/2017/05/14/five-thirty-eights-mothers-day-graphic-isnt-polling-well-n2326679?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
The above tweet did not go over well.
Forwarded by Paula
An amazing 2 letter English word.
A reminder that one
word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and
preposition.
UP
Read until the end
.... you'll laugh.
This two-letter word
in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is
'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It's easy to understand
UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in
the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does
a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election
and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our
friends, brighten UPa room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and
clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times, this
little word has really special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for
tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one
thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is
confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We
open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be
pretty mixedUP aboutUP!
To be
knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the
dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page
and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If
you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is
used. It will takeUP a lot of your time, but if you don't giveUP, you may
wind UP with a hundred or more.
When
it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we
say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth soaks it UP. When it does
not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it
UP, for now . . . my time is UP!
Oh .
. one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last
thing you do at night?
U
P !
Did
that one crack you UP?
Don't
screw UP. Send this on to everyone you look UP in your address book . . or
not . . it's UP to you.
OK..OK...Now I'll shut UP!
Humor May 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0517.htm
Humor April 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0417.htm
Humor March 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0317.htm
Humor February 2017 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0217.htm
Humor January 2017 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0117.htm
Humor December 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1216.htm
Humor November 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1116.htm
Humor October 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1016.htm
Humor September 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm
Humor August 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor083116.htm
Humor July 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor June 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
Humor May 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor053116.htm
Humor April 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor March 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
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
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
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi- 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.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
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Business Valuation Group
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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
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
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