Tidbits on November 15, 2017
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Foliage Pictures Sent to Me by Paula Ward (Virginia) and Ben Plummer (Texas)
 http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/2017PlummerWard/2017PlummerWard.htm  

 

Tidbits on November 15, 2017
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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

USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

NOVA: Killer Volcanos --- www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/killer-volcanoes.html

Bill Nye is a man on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world ---
https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/17-11-08/?utm_source=eSkeptic&utm_campaign=09b6cb9bc3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c0a740eb4-09b6cb9bc3-73241549&mc_cid=09b6cb9bc3&mc_eid=b84401023a#Bill-Nye-Film

Interactive Map Lets You Take a Literary Journey Through the Historic Monuments of Rome ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/interactive-map-lets-you-take-a-literary-journey-through-the-historic-monuments-of-rome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s

The Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/the-elegant-mathematics-of-vitruvian-man.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


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 

See Mozart Played on Mozart’s Own Fortepiano, the Instrument That Most Authentically Captures the Sound of His Music ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/mozart-played-on-mozarts-own-fortepiano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (1968) --- |
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/23-year-old-eric-clapton-demonstrates-the-elements-of-his-guitar-sound-1968.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Hear the Highest Note Sung in the 137-Year History of the Metropolitan Opera ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/hear-the-highest-note-sung-in-the-137-year-history-of-the-metropolitan-opera.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Note That Makes Us Weep ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09wakin.html

Web outfits like Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2

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

The Finalists For The 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Are Hysterical ---
http://digg.com/2017/funny-animal-photos-wildlife-photography

25 Million Images From 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online In One Huge Scholarly Archive ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/25-million-images-from-14-art-institutions-to-be-digitized-put-online-in-one-huge-scholarly-archive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

2,000+ Impressionist, Post-impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes Foundation ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/2000-impressionist-post-impressionist-early-modern-paintings-now-free-online-thanks-to-the-barnes-foundation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

British Journal of Photography Arts --- www.bjp-online.com

The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning Until the Startling End ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/the-art-of-the-japanese-teapot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A Digital Archive of the Earliest Illustrated Editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1487-1568) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/a-digital-archive-of-the-earliest-illustrated-editions-of-dantes-divine-comedy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/watch-a-17th-century-portrait-magically-get-restored-to-its-brilliant-original-colors.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Google Arts and Culture: Crafts Museum Arts --- www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/partner/crafts-museum-delhi

20 photos that prove why this Spanish city was voted the best place to travel in 2018 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-place-to-travel-in-2018-seville-spain-photos-2017-11

Interactive Map Lets You Take a Literary Journey Through the Historic Monuments of Rome ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/interactive-map-lets-you-take-a-literary-journey-through-the-historic-monuments-of-rome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

It's the 99th anniversary of World War I ending — here are 15 stunning photos of the war to end all wars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-photos-from-world-war-i-veterans-day-armistice-anniversary-2017-11

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

NYU Libraries: English and American Literature: Digital Collections and Digital Humanities projects (open access) ---
https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276589&p=1848819

The British Library: Discovering Literature: 20th Century Language Arts --- www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature

A Digital Archive of the Earliest Illustrated Editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1487-1568) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/a-digital-archive-of-the-earliest-illustrated-editions-of-dantes-divine-comedy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Invisible Poems Hidden in the World's Oldest Libraries ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/sinai-peninsula-hidden-texts/536313/

Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Miguel de Cervantes’ Masterpiece Don Quixote ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/yale-presents-a-free-online-course-on-miguel-de-cervantes-masterpiece-don-quixote.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us About Being Rather Than Seeming ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/11/06/walt-whitman-specimen-days-trees/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=913fb5adc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-913fb5adc7-234390133&mc_cid=913fb5adc7&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Best Books of the Year @ Amazon.com (not free) ---
http://lisnews.org/best_books_of_the_year_amazoncom

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

Emily Wilson Is the First Woman to Translate Homer’s Odyssey into English: The New Translation Is Out ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/emily-wilson-is-the-first-woman-to-translate-homers-odyssey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/the-internet-archive-liberates-books-published-between-1923-and-1941-and-will-put-10000-digitized-books-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/11/08/carl-sagan-books-reading/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=913fb5adc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-913fb5adc7-234390133&mc_cid=913fb5adc7&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Free Electronic Literature --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI




Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on November 15, 2017
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations111517.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




How to See What Web Sites Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting To ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/98601/easily-monitor-your-computers-internet-connection-activity/


Best Books of the Year @ Amazon.com (not free) ---
http://lisnews.org/best_books_of_the_year_amazoncom


Apple will release a software fix for iPhones that stop working in cold weather ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-to-release-software-fix-iphones-not-working-cold-weather-2017-11


Why the SEC says "paid-to-click" arrangements may be scams The Securities and Exchange Commission has warned potential investors that "paid-to-click" arrangements, which often promise to pay investors for clicking online ads, might be scams.---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2017/nov/why-paid-to-click-arrangements-scams-201717834.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08Nov2017 


"Why Faculty Members Still Aren’t Sure What to Make of Education Technology," by By Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 9, 2017 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Faculty-Members-Still/241729?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e87554adf82d4e9d9bfb1ec0e56e9c4e&elq=2860f03e45414b41ac4b21ad7103e086&elqaid=16543&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7167

Ask faculty members what they think of technology in teaching, and you’ll get a lot of seemingly contradictory opinions.

They are skeptical of online learning. But they think technology can make them better teachers. They want more high-tech tools but prefer not to do anything too complicated with them. They want more research on whether technology improves learning but often rely on colleagues when figuring out what to use.

Surveys and observations by technology experts show variations on these views, suggesting a collective opinion veering somewhere between caution and outright skepticism. What does it all mean? Probably that there’s a great deal of confusion around the definitions, use, and value of technology.

That’s to be expected when even the surveyors themselves aren’t sure how people are defining terms like hybrid or online learning. If you post your syllabus on Canvas, does that mean you’re teaching a hybrid class? No doubt some professors think so. Others might set the bar higher, to include a mix of video lecture and in-person discussion. Does the term "online learning" suggest a lack of meaningful interaction between professor and student? That may explain why a majority of faculty members, across a number of surveys, believe it is not as effective as face-to-face instruction.

Yet professors are far from anti-technology. More than 70 percent of faculty members prefer teaching that is a mixture of online and in-person, according to a recent survey by the Educause Center for Analysis and Research, an arm of the higher-education-technology consortium. About half believe that online learning leads to pedagogical breakthroughs. And many are eager to get involved with multimedia production, educational games and simulations, and online collaboration tools.

Jeffrey Pomerantz, a senior researcher at Educause who presented the survey results at the group’s annual conference last week, called this mix of skepticism and enthusiasm over digital technologies "some very weird doublethink."

Mr. Pomerantz says the survey, which reached more than 11,000 full- and part-time faculty members from a range of U.S. colleges, masked a lot of variability in the opinions. "You’re always going to have old-school resisters and you’re always going to have early adopters," he notes.

Confusion over terminology, as well as the pace of development and adoption of digital technologies, probably complicate faculty views, he says. Learning management systems, for example, are now ubiquitous, deployed at more than 99 percent of all higher-education institutions. So, he asks, does that even count as a technology anymore? Meanwhile, he wonders whether the term "online learning" conjures up a course devoid of classroom presence. "And we all know how strongly faculty feel about classroom presence."

What faculty want more of, he says, are tools that lead toward a hybrid course model, in which technology is infused into the curriculum. Multimedia production means that you can flip your classroom. More open courseware means you can deliver already prepared materials to your students when they want it. "That allows you to use face-to-face time for other things," he says. "That allows for more interactive course time."

Adding technology to a course, or creating an online version, however, requires both resources and support. It changes the way you teach, requires knowledge of different products and services, and consumes a lot of time. But resources and support are something that faculty members aren’t getting, according to another report, "Time For Class: Lessons for the Future of Digital Learning in Higher Education," which surveyed 3,500 faculty and administrators. Among administrators who say support for faculty development is critical to implementing digital learning on their campus, only one in four believes their college is doing it effectively.

Another survey on faculty attitudes toward technology, by Inside Higher Ed and Gallup, found that fewer than half of faculty members who designed or revised an online or blended course received professional development. There’s a disconnect, in other words, between institutional strategy and execution.

Elusive Evidence

Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, which produced the "Time for Class" report, says faculty views toward technology are more nuanced than surveys often make them appear. They understand the value and purpose of online education, even if they prefer face-to-face, for example. And faculty who have participated in online education are generally more supportive of it.

Yet there are so many digital technologies available to faculty members: clickers, flipped classrooms, digital materials, adaptive learning technologies. How are instructors supposed to make sense of what actually works and master the different tools? The Babson survey also showed, for example, a high level of dissatisfaction with digital courseware products — which combine the delivery mechanism and the content — among faculty and administrators.

Mr. Pomerantz of Educause notes that faculty members say they want proof that digital technologies will improve learning outcomes before they use them. But that evidence often doesn’t exist. "The pace of research and the pace of corporate R&D are so wildly different," he says, "you get new tools and technologies coming out much faster than the evidence of their value can be produced."

As a result, professors often rely on colleagues, including early adopters, to figure out which tools to use, surveys show.

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Jensen Comment
About the only "law" of education technology is that one size does not fit all in terms varying circumstances such as level of academic content. For example, each month there are thousands of free online courses (MOOCs) available from prestigious universities that can also be taken with fees for certificate badges or transcript credits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
MOOCs, however, require a high level of motivation to learn and talents for self-learning. Many "students" who enroll in MOOCs who are merely curious about how prestigious schools teach MOOCs or are otherwise not committed to shed blood, sweat, and tears for the hard work of learning are more apt to not succeed in learning much from MOOCs compared to onsite campus students who take such courses live. There are, however, enough dedicated and committed MOOC students who comprise a growing archive of success stories such as the Mongolian student who worked his way with MOOCs into a Ph.D. program at MIT.

The same can be said about success versus horror stories of "flipped classrooms" where instructors rely more on learning technologies and less on lecturing. One size just does not fit every student or every instructor.

Bob Jensen's threads on the history of education technologies ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on the tools of education technologies ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm


What colleges and universities are the most fraudulent? ---
https://tcf.org/content/report/college-complaints-unmasked/

John Grisham (famous lawyer and author) ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grisham

John Grisham’s Latest Villain? For-Profit Colleges ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/John-Grisham-s-Latest/241613?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9921a830ffbc4cbb847e1bca5148ef9d&elq=4dcc906cdb244deb9249836ccae5d5c6&elqaid=16368&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7075

There’s a scene early in John Grisham’s new legal thriller, The Rooster Bar, where a third-year law student begins to unravel the sort of conspiracy that audiences have come to expect from a Grisham novel. Intertwining shell companies and a greedy villain work behind the curtain, pulling invisible strings to imperil the protagonists. Grisham fans will anticipate that, before the final page, this corporate titan will get his comeuppance and our heroes will have the last laugh.

What’s different here, which may broaden Mr. Grisham’s audience to include higher-education enthusiasts, is that Hinds Rackley, the Svengali figure at the center of The Rooster Bar, makes his millions as the owner of eight for-profit law schools. While he cashes in, the students run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt with little prospect of ever passing the bar exam or finding gainful employment.

"So how does Rackley do it?" the student asks. "He sells the dream and we took the bait."

After years of Congressional hearings, white papers, and regulatory fixes, the student-debt crisis and the abuses of for-profit colleges have officially gone mainstream. An issue that has largely been the province of policy wonks now serves as the dramatic catalyst for a novel by one of the nation’s top-selling fiction authors. Through his latest book, Mr. Grisham, a pop novelist with no formal higher-ed expertise, could do as much as anyone ever has to educate the general public about student lending, proprietary colleges, and the perils of college debt.

Continued in article


Leading Western Publisher Bows to Chinese Censorship ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/world/asia/china-springer-nature-censorship.html

Great Firewall of China ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/great-firewall-of-china

Jensen Comment
China is also notorious for publishing the most fake science news, although in fairness these are rogue scientists acting for themselves rather than the Chinese government.

Why China is Pulling Ahead of the West ---
http://time.com/5007097/china-winning-5-facts/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2017110514pm&xid=newsletter-brief


Chronicle of Higher Education
Academics Share Pictures of Their Tattoos --- |
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Academics-Share-Pictures-of/241731?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c384155815b54fa9a867dd4b09ad81be&elq=2860f03e45414b41ac4b21ad7103e086&elqaid=16543&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7167

On Wednesday, The Chronicle published an article examining what it means to have a tattoo as an academic in 2017. In response, academics were quick to show off their ink on social media, while sharing some of their concerns about being tattooed.

We’ve collected some of the offerings below. You can read the original story here:

Continued in article

Jensen Comment
No comment other than to warn students about the physical, social, and mental risks of tattoos.


Newly released AI software writes papers for you — what could go wrong? ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/11/09/newly-released-ai-software-writes-papers-go-wrong/


In a recent financial report, Pennsylvania State University disclosed that it has spent more than $100 million on settlements related to the Jerry Sandusky child-sex-abuse case.---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/penn-state-payouts-on-sandusky-abuse-claims-now-top-100m/2017/11/10/49b16166-c660-11e7-9922-4151f5ca6168_story.html?elq=185dc05aa1cc45f3894db5d8904ee143&elqCampaignId=7188&elqTrackId=95fe568e7b1644e5a300be2753d434e4&elqaid=16558&elqat=1&utm_term=.06a5877882b5


Why Sign-Language Gloves Don't Help Deaf People ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/why-sign-language-gloves-dont-help-deaf-people/545441/

Bob Jensen's Threads on Technology Aids for the Handicapped, Disabled, and Learning Challenged---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped


Bloomberg:  America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/?cmpid=BBD110817_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=171108&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

More than 3,000 stores opened this year in the U.S.—but almost 6,800 closed. This comes while there is sky-high consumer confidence, unemployment is at a historical low, and the U.S. economy keeps growing. Those are normally all the ingredients for a retail boom, yet more chains are filing for bankruptcy and rated distressed than during the financial crisis.


Behind the Publication Gender Gap ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/08/study-finds-male-phd-candidates-submit-and-publish-papers-significantly-higher-rates?mc_cid=2510c7c184&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


Fair Use Act --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_USE_Act

Chronicle of Higher Education
Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Fair-Use-Too-Often-Goes-Unused/240033

When you are writing a book analyzing images from Kurosawa’s Rashomon, you should include images from the classic 1950 film. The logic behind that seems straightforward — but the logistics can be less so.

For Blair Davis, an assistant professor of communications at DePaul University who edited Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their Legacies, published in 2015 by Routledge, getting permission to use the stills in the book turned out to be almost as difficult as ferreting out the truth in the film itself.

"I spent at least a year dealing with the Japanese corporation Kodansha, which owns the rights," Davis told me by email. He had to "hire someone who spoke Japanese to conduct face-to-face negotiations in Japan." Worse, in the end, Davis wasn’t even allowed to use the images he had asked for. Kodansha insisted he choose from a small selection of publicity photos, rather than the scenes actually analyzed in the text.

Davis’s acquisition process was more arduous than most, but the general predicament will be familiar to many academics who work with film, art, comics, or other visual materials. Many academic presses and journals require permission for the reprint of any images. For instance, Julia Round, a principal lecturer at Bournemouth University and editor of the journal Studies in Comics, told me that, at the request of its publisher (Intellect Books), "we always seek image permissions." Only if authors can’t track down permissions holders, Round said, does the journal consider printing small images under the legal doctrine of fair use.

But while publishers want authors to get permission, the law often does not require it. According to Kyle K. Courtney, copyright adviser for Harvard University in its Office for Scholarly Communication, copyright holders have certain rights — for instance, if you hold rights for a comic book, you determine when and by whom it can be reprinted, which is why I can’t just go out and create my own edition of the first Wonder Woman comic. But notwithstanding those rights, fair use gives others the right to reprint materials in certain situations without consulting the author — or even, in some cases, if the author has refused permission.

Courtney explained that courts have used a four-factor test to decide whether or not the reproduction of artwork, or other elements, falls under fair use. Judges look first at the purpose of the use; then at the nature of the copyrighted work itself; then the amount of the work reproduced; and finally at the effect of the use upon the market. Thus, when you publish — for scholarly purposes — a single image from a feature-length film that will not affect the market of the film, you have a good chance of being covered under fair use.

In the last decade, courts have also used the concept of transformative use, Courtney said. If you are using an image for a different purpose than it was originally intended, and thereby transforming it, you have a strong fair-use argument. "So if a comic book at the time period was to entertain, but you’re doing a critical/social analysis of what the comic means today," he said, "you’re applying a new meaning, a new message — you’re transforming the original for a new purpose."

In some recent court cases, judges have upheld fair use after the copyright holder had explicitly denied permission. In the early 2000s, DK publishing was refused permission to reprint Grateful Dead posters for an illustrated history of the band. The publisher reproduced the images anyway, and then defeated the lawsuit in court. Asking a copyright holder for permission does not mean that you vitiate your fair-use rights. (Courtney has created a handy explanatory comic about the case, available here.)

Betsy Phillips, sales and marketing manager at Vanderbilt University Press, said that it evaluates fair-use questions on a "case by case basis." In particular, Vanderbilt treats marketing images very differently from reproductions inside the book. "There’s a difference between a film still on the inside of a book that’s discussed in that book, and a page from a comic book on the cover," she said. The amount of material reproduced is also important: A black or white thumbnail of a detail of a painting would probably be fine, but a high-resolution, full-color image of an entire work might require permission.

Phillips also emphasized that the press tried to keep a clear paper trail of its use of images, including discussions about the rationale for fair use of each image, and why permission did or did not need to be sought. She noted that professional societies often have useful guidelines. For instance, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies discusses fair-use policies on its website.

Of course, some publishers may still prefer to ask for permission each and every time you want your book to reprint an image — it seems safer. If you get permission, you know for sure that you won’t have legal struggles. Why mess about with fair use, where there is at least a small risk of unpleasantness?

Seeking permission may seem safe, but it can have serious ethical and practical downsides.

Consider the case of David W. Stowe, a professor at Michigan State University who wrote Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America, a 1994 book about the cultural milieu of big-band jazz. Stowe wanted to reproduce cartoons from Down Beat magazine to illustrate the racism and sexism of the era. Down Beat had approved reprint requests for such materials from other scholars. In this instance, however, according to a 2000 account by Lydia Pallas Loren in Open Spaces Quarterly, the magazine refused because "the drawings made the magazine ‘look bad.’" Stowe feared a lawsuit, and so did not use the images. Asking for permission gave the magazine a chance to stifle criticism.

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The Gray Zone of Fair Use Safe Harbors in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
For Second Time, Appeals Court Hears GSU E-Reserves Case ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/74401-for-second-time-appeals-court-hears-gsu-e-reserves-case.html


"The Disillusionment of Samuel Moyn The Yale historian has become a prominent critic of liberalism. But what’s he for?" by Jon Baskin, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2013 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Disillusionment-of-Samuel/241588?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c5779b34518246599be3e57075e5477e&elq=e2802c08537b4676b44d0ccd856df993&elqaid=16465&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7123

Samuel Moyn looks suspiciously like a teenager. The impression is momentarily belied by his impressive résumé: At the age of 45, Moyn is teaching his first semester as a professor of history and law at Yale University, following appointments at Harvard and Columbia. Moreover, even for an adult scholar, Moyn has well-informed views on a startling diversity of topics. Slumped across a chair in jeans and Converse in his Harvard law office last winter, he ricocheted from the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (the topic of Moyn’s dissertation and first book) to theories of political economy — something Moyn has devoted more attention to since the 2008 financial crisis — to Jonathan Littell’s 2009 novel The Kindly Ones, which Moyn called "intentionally sickening and an unquestionably brilliant success" in a review for The Nation.

On the other hand, Moyn has a social-media habit rivaling that of most teenagers.

"It’s more important for you to see Moyn’s Facebook page than the interior of his house," says Thomas Meaney, a former student of Moyn’s at Columbia. "He basically lives there. It’s like he publishes his own magazine."

On a recent visit to the page, links could be found to an editorial on the ACLU’s defense of white supremacists in the wake of Charlottesville, an abstruse law-review article on global political economy, and a conversation between the New Yorker editor, David Remnick, and the intellectual historian Mark Lilla about Lilla’s new book, The Once and Future Liberal. The comment sections under each serve as a forum for discussion among people who seem to know each other, by byline if not by face, from the middle reaches of academe and publishing. As is common on social media, the discussions tend to converge toward a self-congratulatory consensus, to such an extent that Moyn’s occasional refusal to signal where he stands on controversial articles can be a cause of consternation ("Sam, is this one of those fyi posts? Or an endorsement?" asked one commenter, nervously, under his link to an excerpt of Lilla’s book). Yet Moyn’s range of interests, his volume of activity, and the unusually high erudition of his followers make the page destination reading for an increasingly prominent community of left-liberal scholars.

It’s also a good place to start understanding Moyn’s growing influence. At the time we met, Moyn was putting the finishing touches on Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (Belknap). Due out in the spring, the book promises to cement his reputation as one of the most trenchant critics of "liberal humanitarian" foreign policy. Yet Moyn’s reputation is also tied to his status as a model and magnet for a generation of younger historians and public intellectuals, many of them former students or mentees, who drifted into his orbit during his time in the Columbia history department from 2001 to 2014.

The list includes Meaney, whose writing has appeared in the London Review of Books and The New Yorker; Timothy Shenk, an editor at Dissent and a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis; Stephen Wertheim, a historian of international relations at the University of Cambridge; Ana Keilson, a scholar of dance and politics who teaches at Harvard; James G. Chappel, an intellectual historian at Duke University; Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, a philosopher of religion at Yale; and David Marcus, the literary editor of The Nation.

"It’s difficult to think of a teacher in American academia whose students have made a greater contribution to leftist thought over the past decade," says Yascha Mounk, a lecturer in political theory at Harvard, who audited a class with Moyn in 2005.

At first glance, Moyn’s impact is difficult to explain. Although energetic and unfailingly responsive — he rarely takes more than 10 minutes to respond to an email — he is not strikingly charismatic, in writing or in person. His eagerness to speak seriously about ideas and politics, in magazines and newspapers big and small, casual conversation, and on social media, surely makes him a good fit for a time when strictly scholarly writing has begun to seem like gig work. But Moyn’s appeal also resides in another kind of versatility, one of particular interest to a generation that came of age during the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crisis, and that now finds itself confronting the presidency of Donald Trump: the ability to balance an uncompromising critique of liberalism with a refusal to settle comfortably into any of the usual ideological alternatives.

In the first half of Moyn’s career, there was little indication that he was on his way to becoming a public intellectual, or a prominent critic of American liberalism. His first two books, both published in 2005, were based on research he’d done as a student of Martin Jay, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. In Origins of the Other (Cornell University Press), Moyn tracked Levinas’s intellectual development against the spread of Protestant theology and Cold War political theory in postwar Europe. And in A Holocaust Controversy (Brandeis University Press), he examined a 1970s debate in France over what had happened in the Treblinka concentration camp. Moyn then embarked on a study of Claude Lefort, a left-wing French political philosopher perhaps best known for his controversial interpretations of his teacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Twelve years later, Moyn says he still plans to complete his book on Lefort, once he is finished with the "detour" that began when he reviewed Inventing Human Rights (Norton, 2007), by the University of California at Los Angeles historian Lynn Hunt, for The Nation. It is for this detour, which led to the publication of his own history of human rights, The Last Utopia (Harvard University Press, 2010), that Moyn is best known today.

His shift to writing about human rights can look anomalous, but Moyn had a prior relationship with the topic. In the summer of 1999, motivated by his "romance" with the idea of a human-rights-driven foreign policy, Moyn interned on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. America was then engaged in a military intervention in Bosnia. "I was someone who is a pretty common figure in my generation," Moyn told me. "I came of political age in the 1990s. It’s at the peak intellectually and culturally of Holocaust memorialization, and so this is abetting the sense that our agenda is institutionalizing the moral imperative ‘never again.’ Kosovo was pivotal because it was the time when finally action was taken."

. . .

It’s an inspiring injunction, and one that speaks to Moyn’s appeal for those convinced that the "realistic" political options are "not enough" — not ambitious enough, or thoughtful enough, or humane enough — to address the consequences of decades of liberal moralism and mismanagement. It also leaves Moyn, in the cluttered slipstream of the Trump presidency, vulnerable to a powerful counterargument. "So long as the liberal international order was very strong, it made sense to point to its many flaws and hypocrisies," says Yascha Mounk. "But now that Donald Trump is attacking its most basic elements, there is a real danger that international rules will soon be set by China, Russia, and Iran. Any leftist who ignores this danger is committing a huge act of self-sabotage."

Over the summer, the case for manning the liberal barricades received support from an unlikely source. Moyn’s former adviser Martin Jay, famous for his history of the Frankfurt School, argued in The Nation that, while he sympathized with those dreaming of an alternative to liberalism, it was "for the moment … more prudent to defend what is increasingly under threat."

Moyn responded in a Times op-ed, co-written with David Priestland, a historian at the University of Oxford, and given the incendiary title, "Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is." Comparing liberal "anti-Trumpism" to the anticommunist politics of the early 1950s, Moyn and Priestland contended that "Tyrannophobia" would only reinforce the "status quo ante of free markets and social conservatism," while obscuring the urgent need "for new direction." Coming the same weekend as the white-supremacist marches in Charlottesville, the column sparked rebuttals, even from quarters usually supportive of Moyn’s ideas.

The op-ed, however, was no surprise to anyone who followed Moyn on social media. "One of Marxist thought’s greatest historians allows himself to be terrorized by Donald Trump into embracing his inner defensive crouch liberal," read Moyn’s Facebook preface to Jay’s essay. Below, in the comments section, a cavalcade of left-liberal intellectuals heartily seconded the judgment.

The commenters would probably not be able to agree on where to go next. Like Moyn and his students, however, they appeared united in their conviction that it was time to deflate the ideological configurations that had stranded us here.

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Chronicle of Higher Education
2006-2015 — Only half of graduates felt their education was worth the price -
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http://results.chronicle.com/InnCaCS2017?elqTrackId=99CD086AD5D73A30E9C5E9E957C36A64&elq=03f5b4dea4c948f19d727756eac4b791&elqaid=16427&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6878
A Case Study at Colorado State University


Death: A Free Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/death-a-free-philosophy-course-from-yale-helps-you-grapple-with-the-inescapable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jensen Comment
Before he himself died much too young, Trinity University's Mike Kearl focused his research on The Sociology of Death and Dying ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/mkearl/death.html


New York Times
STEM:  So Many Degrees, So Little Demand ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=19a9c7fbef-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-19a9c7fbef-153727301


NY Times: Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Texas & USC Are Among Colleges Using 'Blocker Corporations' To Avoid Taxes On Endowment Income ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/11/ny-times-columbia-dartmouth-duke-stanford-texas-usc-are-among-colleges-using-blocker-corporations-to.html

The Ivory Tower Tax Haven ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/11/the-ivory-tower-tax-haven.html

List Of 140 Colleges With Endowments Greater Than $100,000 Per Student That Would Be Subject To GOP's Proposed 1.4% Tax On Investment Income ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/If-House-Republicans-Get-Their/241659?cid=db&elqTrackId=dfebc3089230490dbb4e5ab4f555ebe8&elq=906cab73cb54446290e12a47c59a1d38&elqaid=16432&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7114

The following chart shows the 200 private institutions with enrollments of 500 or more, ranked by the value of their endowment per student. Institutions marked in yellow would have endowments subject to taxation:

 

Institution

Endowment value (2014)

Full-time enrollment (2015)

Endowment value per student

Princeton University

$20,576,361,000

8,013

$2,567,872

Yale University

$23,858,561,000

12,250

$1,947,638

Harvard University

$36,429,256,000

20,568

$1,771,162

Stanford University

$21,466,006,000

15,778

$1,360,502

Pomona College

$2,101,461,000

1,651

$1,272,841

Amherst College

$2,149,202,662

1,795

$1,197,327

Swarthmore College

$1,876,669,000

1,571

$1,194,570

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$12,425,131,000

11,181

$1,111,272

Grinnell College

$1,829,521,000

1,665

$1,098,811

Williams College

$2,143,152,951

2,135

$1,003,819

 

. . .
 

Trinity University (Tex.)

$1,187,928,689

2,350

$505,502

University of Chicago

$6,539,289,712

12,980

$503,797

Hamilton College (N.Y.)

$927,520,000

1,862

$498,131

Duke University

$7,036,776,000

15,183

$463,464

University of Pennsylvania

$9,582,335,000

21,563

$444,388

Northwestern University

$7,501,116,000

17,185

$436,492

Berry College

$925,698,267

2,128

$435,009

Middlebury College

$1,081,893,682

2,516

$430,005

Wabash College

$371,229,584

867

$428,177

Vassar College

$974,179,926

2,421

$402,387

Colby College

$740,631,000

1,857

$398,832

Haverford College

$490,699,895

1,233

$397,972

Carleton College

$792,737,205

1,997

$396,964

Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion

$404,998,859

1,028

$393,968

Columbia University

$9,223,047,000

23,525

$392,053

Reed College

$524,943,103

1,394

$376,573

Davidson College

$647,919,787

1,784

$363,184

Denison University

$799,108,339

2,252

$354,844

Whitman College

$504,524,000

1,430

$352,814

Macalester College

$749,550,000

2,138

$350,585

Harvey Mudd College

$283,696,431

815

$348,094

Vanderbilt University

$4,046,250,000

11,807

$342,699

Brown University

$2,999,749,000

8,894

$337,278

Mount Holyoke College

$713,514,514

2,131

$334,826

Lafayette College

$832,811,462

2,491

$334,328

 


Chronicle of Higher Education
The Future of Work: How Colleges Can Prepare Students for the Jobs Ahead  ---
http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/store?elqTrackId=2af1ac1a5117475ea35e7f058b883385&elq=581eae2acfdf4074be859b3cf2c8dd2d&elqaid=16506&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7146#id=45&?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The print edition of this report is $179. You might have your campus library order a copy.
The digital edition is $129.


The Case(s) Against Personalized Learning ---
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/11/08/the-cases-against-personalized-learning.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=58266850&U=2290378

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are backing it with hundreds of millions of dollars. States from Florida to Vermont have adopted supportive laws and policies. And school districts across the country are embracing this emerging education trend.

But as "personalized learning" takes root, it's also coming under greater scrutiny.

 

Leading researchers say their work does not support the most enthusiastic claims being made by personalized-learning supporters. Education experts are raising questions about implications for teaching and learning. Tech-industry critics are sounding alarms about Silicon Valley's growing influence over public schools. And a small but vocal coalition of parents and activists from across the political spectrum deride the term "personalized learning" as an Orwellian misnomer for replacing teachers with digital devices and data-mining software.

 

Such resistance is probably not surprising.

 

When any new educational strategy receives money and attention, questions arise. Like other efforts to improve U.S. schools, personalized learning is getting swept up in decades-long disagreements over how children learn, the proper role of teachers, and who gets to decide how public education is organized.

 

But personalized learning also faces some unique challenges. The biggest is lack of clarity around what the term actually means.

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The Full Report ---
https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/personalized-learning/index.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=58266850&U=2290378

Jensen Comment
Home schooled students generally do quite well in competency testing. But this is a biased analysis of personalized learning in that home schooled students are generally high in intelligence and motivation with supervision coming from parents who more often than not have better educations than public school teachers. Also the home school curricula are quite standardized relative to what many educators think of as "personalized learning."

In general I favor more standardized pedagogy and academic standards because these foster competition. I think competition is a terrific motivator for more blood, sweat, and tears that, I think, are necessary for better learning. But then I've never taught at the K-14 level where students are more varied in terms of motivation and other circumstances of life. By "standardized pedagogy" I do not mean there is one best pedagogy for every course of learning. Pedagogy (such as using case method and Socratic method) should vary with the type of course content and objectives. However, I favor having all students in a course subjected to the same pedagogy. I think adapting to different pedagogy in different courses is a part of becoming a better student. Repeated empirical tests show that good students tend to adapt well to variations in pedagogy as long as the grading standards are consistent and fair. The problem lies with average or below-average students.


Competency-Based Learning --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_learning

EDUCAUSE:  Competency-Based Education (CBE) ---
https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/competency-based-education-cbe

Bob Jensen's threads on competency-based learning and alternatives in higher education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge


Inside Higher Ed
A nonpartisan watchdog group is questioning whether City Colleges of Chicago is misleading the public with proclamations of dramatic graduation rate increases ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/08/city-colleges-chicago-faces-scrutiny-over-completion-rate-gains?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=56d068f9cd-DNU20171108&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-56d068f9cd-197565045&mc_cid=56d068f9cd&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

City Colleges of Chicago has received a heaping of praise in the last few years for dramatically improving single-digit graduation rates.

But a new report is calling into question just how the system of seven two-year institutions has increased degree completions, alleging it softened standards and manipulated data in the pursuit of better graduation rates.

According to the report from the Better Government Association, an Illinois-based nonpartisan watchdog group, “Since 2010, City Colleges has watered down its curriculum, violated its own rules on what constitutes a degree, changed the way it counts statistics and bestowed thousands of degrees -- sometimes in multiples to the same person -- to current and former students who in many cases neither requested nor wanted them.”

Critics of City Colleges’ completion push see the system as having altered policy and created initiatives simply to improve its metrics and image.

The report criticized Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for proclaiming “in frequent appearances across the nation that the City Colleges’ overhaul is a trend-bucking higher education success story.”

The system and its defenders, however, say the policy and curriculum changes the system made as part of a “reinvention” it began seven years ago met all accreditation standards and have helped improve the quality of academic programs.

Despite the criticism behind how City Colleges has operated, the report said, “There is no debate over whether graduation rates and completion numbers are up -- they are.”

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Jensen Comment
This criticism is not entirely fair since the majority of those graduates can read even if they can't do arithmetic.


Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub ----
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/court-demands-search-engines-and-internet-service-providers-block-sci-hub


Social Media 1857 ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/what-twitter-was-like-the-day-the-atlantic-launched/544727/


Authorship for sale: Some journals willing to add authors to papers they didn’t write ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/09/13/authorship-sale-journals-willing-add-authors-papers-didnt-write/

Bob Jensen's threads on academic cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm


GroupMe --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupMe

Ohio State Accuses 83 of Cheating Via GroupMe ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/11/13/ohio-state-accuses-83-cheating-groupme?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c5ce232171-DNU20171113&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c5ce232171-197565045&mc_cid=c5ce232171&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Ohio State University has accused 83 students in its Fischer College of Business of cheating. The students are said to have used the messaging app GroupMe -- used for large group chats -- to facilitate “unauthorized collaboration on graded assignments,” according to the university statement given to The Columbus Dispatch.

“Students are welcome to use social media tools like GroupMe to communicate with classmates but must remember that the rules are the same for online and in-person interactions,” OSU spokesman Ben Johnson told the Dispatch. “Students should not share anything online that is prohibited by the rules for the course.”

The exact way that students collaborated, and what exactly they were sharing on GroupMe, is not clear

Bob Jensen's threads on new kinds of cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#NewKindOfCheating


Dogs are all ears as kids practice reading in Philly libraries ---
https://whyy.org/segments/dogs-ears-kids-practice-reading-philly-libraries/


The Guardian:  The Library of the Future ---
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/08/the-library-of-the-future-its-digital


From David Giles

Econometrics Reading List for November
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2017/11/econometrics-reading-list-for-november.html

Some suggestions........

 

Garcia, J. and D. E. Ramirez, 2017. The successive raising estimator and its relation with the ridge estimator. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46, 11123-11142.

Silva, I. R., 2017. On the correspondence between frequentist and Bayesian tests. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, online.

Steel, M. F. J., 2017. Model averaging and its use in economics. MPRA Paper No. 81568.

Teräsvirta, T., 2017. Nonlinear models in macroeconometrics. CREATES Research Paper 2017-32.

Witmer, J., 2017. Bayes and MCMC for undergraduates. American Statistician, 71, 259-274.

            Z immerman, C., 2015. On the need for a replication journal. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Working Paper 2015-016A.

Sharpe Ratio for Risk Adjusting in Investment --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio

How to Properly Use the Sharpe Ratio (According to Dr. Sharpe Himself)
Wall Street Journal
By Norb Vonnegut
Oct. 31, 2017

Most investment professionals are familiar with the formula known as the Sharpe Ratio. The calculation is so omnipresent in financial circles that it even features as a sales objection on the television series “Billions”: “My people have a few questions. Your Sharpe Ratio’s very low.”,

The power of the Sharpe Ratio is what it conveys in one simple number—incremental investment reward per unit of risk. Or said more colloquially, it communicates how much bang investors are getting for the bucks they risk.

There are several variations of the Sharpe Ratio. But for this column let’s think of it as [average portfolio returns - the risk-free rate] / standard deviation, where “excess return” is calculated in the numerator as the average of portfolio returns for a given period, like a month or a year, minus the risk-free rate (usually, Treasury bills). The denominator is the standard deviation of excess return, and the resulting quotient is the Sharpe Ratio. The bigger the number, the better the risk-adjusted performance.

But guess again if you think funds with high Sharpe Ratios are all it takes to build client portfolios.

I recently sat down with the ratio’s namesake, Nobel laureate and Stanford University finance professor emeritus Dr. William Sharpe. I asked him to put himself in the shoes of a financial adviser and explain the right way to use his calculation.

In his unassuming manner, Dr. Sharpe referred to it as the “reward-to-variability ratio.” He also addressed active versus passive management, hedge funds and the human touch. And several of his observations might affect how you think about risk—or position your investment advice.

Not a Sales Pitch

Go to Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, and many other repositories for financial data, and you will find Sharpe Ratios for virtually all the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. There is a tendency in the world of financial advice (and, apparently, on the set of “Billions”) to cite the ratio as a reason to hire or fire individual money managers.

Not so fast.

“The Sharpe Ratio, in its traditional form, ought to be used primarily for one’s whole portfolio,” Dr. Sharpe says.

True to his professorial core, he forwarded me reading material, including his 1994 paper published by the Journal of Portfolio Management. In it, he stresses the importance of correlation to manager selection and explains why a fund with a low Sharpe Ratio might be the better investment choice for client portfolios.

“It is entirely possible that a fund with a smaller Sharpe Ratio could have sufficiently smaller correlation with the investor’s other assets that it would provide a higher expected return on assets for any given level of overall asset risk,” he wrote in the paper.

Hmm.

The Math of Active Management

While working through my homework assignment, I noticed Dr. Sharpe’s focus on fund expenses. So I asked him to weigh in on active-versus-passive investments given that some ETFs have expense ratios as low as 3 or 4 basis points.

“The average active manager, net of costs, will underperform the passive manager by the difference” of their expenses, he says, describing cost differentials as the “arithmetic of active management.”

Fees, therefore, create barriers to outperformance. And if there’s one sector where the math really comes into play, it’s with hedge funds. In my view, “2 and 20” fees that take a fifth of any profit on top of the management fee make them more of a pig-out than compensation schedule.

Continued in article




From the Scout Report on November 3, 2017

SILEX --- www.silex.me 
Silex is a graphical site builder designed for quickly assembling landing pages or small sites. Individual pages are created by selecting from a library of templates, then customizing the layout and content using a point-and-click interface. More technical users that prefer to enter their own CSS may also take that approach. Completed sites can be uploaded to your own server via FTP or Webdav, to dropbox, or to github, and from there published on any hosting provider. Sites generated with Silex do not require any special server support to work. Users may opt to use the public Silex editor or to host their own instance of Silex on their own server. Detailed requirements for self-hosting can be found on the Silex github page. Silex can be used through any modern browser.


TONIDO --- www.tonido.com 
Tonido is a set of tools to create a "personal cloud." Users install Tonido Server on the machine they wish to use for storage. This machine should have ample storage, but need not have much memory or a particularly powerful processor. A Raspberry Pi will suffice for light usage; official Raspberry Pi images are available. Next, users then install the Tonido client on as many desktops, laptops, tablets, or smart phones as they wish. When on the same network (e.g., in one's home or office), clients can access the Tonido server without sending data over the internet. Access from other networks can be enabled either through port forwarding or by using an encrypted relay through servers at tonido.com. Tonido Server is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, or as a Docker image. Tonido client software is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Blackberry.


Remembering Iona Opie, Who Researched Childhood Rhymes, Folklore, and Playground Culture

 

Iona Opie: Amateur scholar behind 'The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes' catalogued centuries of childhood
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/iona-opie-amateur-scholar-behind-the-oxford-dictionary-of-nursery-rhymes-a8021231.html
 

Iona Opie, 94, Authority on Childish Things, Is Dead
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/obituaries/iona-opie-dead-authority-on-childish-things.html

Iona Opie obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/25/iona-opie-obituary

The University of Sheffield: Childhoods and Play
http://www.opieproject.group.shef.ac.uk/opies-biography.html

British Library: Iona Opie
https://www.bl.uk/people/iona-opie

Bookworm: Maurice Sendak and Iona Opie
https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/maurice-sendak-iona-opie




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


Education Tutorials

Minnesota Literacy Council: Tutor Tips --- https://mnliteracy.org/tools/tutor-tips

Denver Art Museum: Creativity Resources --- http://denverartmuseum.org/teacher-resources

Science Matters (K-12) --- http://sbsciencematters.com/

Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/11/08/carl-sagan-books-reading/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=913fb5adc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-913fb5adc7-234390133&mc_cid=913fb5adc7&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

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

Bill Nye is a man on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world ---
https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/17-11-08/?utm_source=eSkeptic&utm_campaign=09b6cb9bc3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c0a740eb4-09b6cb9bc3-73241549&mc_cid=09b6cb9bc3&mc_eid=b84401023a#Bill-Nye-Film

Rewind the Red Planet (Mars) --- www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2016/11/exploring-mars-map-panorama-pictures

NOVA: Killer Volcanoes --- www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/killer-volcanoes.html

ChemSpider (34 million chemical structure database) --- www.chemspider.com

Map of Life (biodiversity and environment geography) --- https://mol.org/

Biodiversity in Focus --- http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/

MEDPIX Searchable Library of Medical Images --- https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/home

The Guardian: Why Can't We Cure the Common Cold? Health ---
www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/06/why-cant-we-cure-the-common-cold

From the Scout Report on November 10, 2017

Spacing out after staying out late? Here's why.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/spacing-out-after-staying-up-late  

Sleepless Nights Leave Some Brain Cells As Sluggish As You Feel
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/06/562354635/sleepless-night-leaves-some-brain-cells-as-sluggish-as-you-feel

Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Brain Activity As Much as Alcohol By Causing Mental Glitches and Lapses
http://www.newsweek.com/sleep-tiredness-stress-703675

Selective neural lapses precede human cognitive lapses following sleep deprivation
https://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.4433.html

Jeff Iliff: One More Reason to Get a Good Night's Sleep
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_iliff_one_more_reason_to_get_a_good_night_s_sleep

The Secrets of Sleep
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-secrets-of-sleep

 

 

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

NORC: GSS General Social Survey --- http://gss.norc.org/

Environment & Society Portal Science --- www.environmentandsociety.org

Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/11/08/carl-sagan-books-reading/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=913fb5adc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-913fb5adc7-234390133&mc_cid=913fb5adc7&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Social Media 1857 ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/what-twitter-was-like-the-day-the-atlantic-launched/544727/

Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at
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Law and Legal Studies

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Math Tutorials

he Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/the-elegant-mathematics-of-vitruvian-man.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
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Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics

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History Tutorials

Coursera: The Modern and the Postmodern Social studies (philosophy and art) ---  www.coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-1

Here's a super-short history of 2,400 years of emerging markets ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-emerging-markets-investing-2017-11

Death: A Free Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/death-a-free-philosophy-course-from-yale-helps-you-grapple-with-the-inescapable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jensen Comment
Before he himself died much too young, Trinity University's Mike Kearl focused his research on The Sociology of Death and Dying ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/mkearl/death.html

Emily Wilson Is the First Woman to Translate Homer’s Odyssey into English: The New Translation Is Out ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/emily-wilson-is-the-first-woman-to-translate-homers-odyssey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The British Library: Discovering Literature: 20th Century Language Arts --- www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature

British Journal of Photography Arts --- www.bjp-online.com

Newberry: Religious Change in Print, 1450-1700 --- http://publications.newberry.org/dig/rcp/index

Social Media 1857 ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/what-twitter-was-like-the-day-the-atlantic-launched/544727/

18th Century American Women --- https://b-womeninamericanhistory18.blogspot.com/

Cuba Libre --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Libre
What Rum and Cokes Have to do With War ---
https://daily.jstor.org/what-rum-and-cokes-have-to-do-with-war/

Ask a Professor: A.K.M. Adam and Postmodern Biblical Studies ---
https://daily.jstor.org/ask-a-professor-a-k-m-adam-and-postmodern-biblical-studies/

Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Miguel de Cervantes’ Masterpiece Don Quixote ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/yale-presents-a-free-online-course-on-miguel-de-cervantes-masterpiece-don-quixote.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Europeana: Royal Book Collection Social (art history) --- www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/royal-book-collections

Baseball:  Breaking the Color Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (1932-1939) ---
http://cdigs.uwindsor.ca/BreakingColourBarrier/

Google Arts and Culture: Crafts Museum Arts --- www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/partner/crafts-museum-delhi

Garden of Earthly Delights (art history) ---
https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en#

City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea Social studies (Wales) --- www.medievalswansea.ac.uk/en

Utah History Encyclopedia --- www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia

NYU Libraries: English and American Literature: Digital Collections and Digital Humanities projects (open access) ---
https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276589&p=1848819

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

See Mozart Played on Mozart’s Own Fortepiano, the Instrument That Most Authentically Captures the Sound of His Music ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/mozart-played-on-mozarts-own-fortepiano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Hear the Highest Note Sung in the 137-Year History of the Metropolitan Opera ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/hear-the-highest-note-sung-in-the-137-year-history-of-the-metropolitan-opera.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Note That Makes Us Weep ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09wakin.html

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

Chronicle of Higher Education:  Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/PhDs-Are-Still-Writing/241700?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=b0bc12e8862f4fb0a0cfaeacb1073358&elq=696138ce35514615a75a8813a19b67c4&elqaid=16528&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7157

Chronicle of Higher Education:  A Guide (10 articles)  to Writing Good Academic Prose ---
http://www.chronicle.com/resource/a-guide-to-writing-good-academ/5877/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5a5b6a4376d44410baf7d98f703f459e&elq=696138ce35514615a75a8813a19b67c4&elqaid=16528&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7157

Grammarphobia Blog Language Arts ---  www.grammarphobia.com/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/

November 6, 2017

November 7, 2017

November 8, 2017

November 9, 2017

November 10, 2017

November 11, 2017

November 13, 2017

 

 

 

 


MedScape Medical News ---
https://login.medscape.com/login/sso/getlogin?urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL3ZpZXdhcnRpY2xlLzg4ODI4Ng==&ac=401


How burnout is plaguing doctors and harming patients ---
https://theconversation.com/how-burnout-is-plaguing-doctors-and-harming-patients-86445


How to clone your dog for $100,000 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/clone-dog-korea-sooam-2015-8


Mechanical Arm Surgery ---
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/doctor-will-see-you-now


The Guardian: Why Can't We Cure the Common Cold? Health ---
www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/06/why-cant-we-cure-the-common-cold


 

 

 

 


Humor for December 2015

True Story:  City Clerk Searching for Owner of Dentures Left at Polls ---
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/maine/articles/2017-11-09/democracy-bites-search-on-as-someone-left-dentures-at-polls

The Finalists For The 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Are Hysterical ---
http://digg.com/2017/funny-animal-photos-wildlife-photography




Humor July 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0717.htm

Humor June 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0617.htm

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Humor October 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1016.htm

Humor September 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm

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Humor July  2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm  

Humor June  2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm

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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

 




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One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
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What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
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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

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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.

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CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

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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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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.

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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:  rjensen@trinity.edu