Tidbits on June 14, 2018
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Part 5: Photographs of My Impatiens and Other Flowers of Summer
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet05/ImpatiensSet05.htm

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

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

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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

Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.) Posted: 30 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/watch-rise-fall-british-empire-animated-time-lapse-map-519-b-c-2014-d.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/david-lynch-made-a-disturbing-web-sitcom-called-rabbits.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video:  The World in Ten Blocks of Toronto --- http://theworldintenblocks.com/

Hummingbirds: Masters in Flight Videos --- www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/06/hummingbirds-slow-motion-flight-videos

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

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 

Elevator Music
The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/50-best-ambient-albums-time-playlist-curated-pitchfork.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A Pakistani Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis Play an Enchanting Version of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/pakistani-orchestra-wynton-marsalis-play-enchanting-version-john-coltranes-favorite-things.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Tom Lehrer's rendition of National Brotherhood Week ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgASBVMyVFI

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 flying car backed by Google's cofounder just got a big update, and people can pilot it with less than an hour's training ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/kitty-hawk-flying-car-startup-google-larry-page-launches-flyer-test-flights-2018-6

Explore 7,600 Works of Art by Edvard Munch: They’re Now Digitized and Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/explore-7600-works-art-edvard-munch-theyre-now-digitized-free-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

From Outer Space:  Cities at Night Science ---
http://citiesatnight.org/

NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back even more jaw-dropping photos of the planet's tireless storm clouds ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-clouds-storms-pictures-nasa-juno-mission-perijove-13-2018-5

Cooper Hewitt Museum (a fun museum) --- https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/

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

Step aboard the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's aircraft carrier that's considered one of the worst in the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/step-aboard-the-admiral-kuznetsov-russias-only-aircraft-carrier-2018-5

28 photos that show North Korea's obsession with huge, odd buildings ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-architecture-tour-2017-5

Download 50,000 Art Books & Catalogs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Digital Collections ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/download-50000-art-books-catalogs-metropolitan-museum-arts-digital-collections.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/the-mother-of-all-maps-of-the-father-of-waters.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Modernist Birdhouses Inspired by Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Eichler ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/architecture-birds-birdhouses-inspired-bauhaus-frank-lloyd-wright-joseph-eichler.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

AirVisual Earth (climate and weather) --- www.airvisual.com/earth

Apollo Magazine --- www.apollo-magazine.com

Google Arts and Culture: Faces of Frida ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/frida-kahlo

Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/visualizing-dantes-hell.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Tongue Spitting --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_splitting
Woman, 23, shares her incredible transformation after spending more than $10,000 on her body art, including a split tongue and blue tattoos on her EYEBALLS that could have blinded her ---
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5815591/Amber-Luke-23-shares-transformation-getting-10-000-body-art.html
Forked Tongue --- https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/speak+with+forked+tongue

From the Scout Report on June 1, 2018

Collection of Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings That Depict Hawai'i on View at the New York Botanical Garden

O'Keeffe's Paradise, Lost and Found https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/arts/okeeffes-hawaii-paintings.html Georgia O'Keeffe's Visions of Hawai'i Blossom in the Bronx https://hyperallergic.com/444938/georgia-okeeffe-hawaii-new-york-botanical-garden When Georgia O'Keeffe Went to Hawaii to Paint Pineapples https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-georgia-okeeffe-hawaii-paint-pineapples-dole Flora of the Hawaiian Islands http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora About Georgia O'Keeffe https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art https://crystalbridges.org/exhibitions/georgia-okeeffe Georgia O'Keeffe is usually associated with the American Southwest - a region she captured through numerous paintings she created in her adopted home of New Mexico. O'Keeffe also painted a number of works in Hawai'i, capturing the island's unique flora and landscapes. The New York Botanical Garden recently opened Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i, a show that exhibits seventeen paintings by O'Keeffe alongside 300 tropical plants native to Hawai'i. This exhibit, curated by Theresa Papanikolas of the Honolulu Museum of Art, highlights work that O'Keeffe created in 1939 when the advertising firm N.W. Ayer & Son commissioned the artist to create two images they could use to promote the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (known today as Dole). As part of the commission the firm funded a nine-week trip to the Aloha State, during which time O'Keeffe marveled at what she encountered. She wrote to her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, describing the "[q]ueer, very much wrinkled strange colored green mountains" and a flower that was "so pretty it almost seems impossible that it is real." O'Keeffe captured what she saw through paintings such as "Heliconia's Crab's Claw Ginger," "Waterfall No. 1 Iao Valley Maui," and "Pineapple Bud." The exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden runs through October 28. [MMB] The first two links take readers to articles about the Botanical Gardens exhibition, both of which are accompanied by numerous images of O'Keeffe's art. These articles come from William L. Hamilton at The New York Times and Angelica Frey of Hyperallergic. Readers interested in learning more about O'Keeffe's travels to Hawai'i will want to check out the third link, an essay by Abigail Cain for Artsy. Moving along, the fourth link takes readers to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's website dedicated to "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands." Here, visitors can view an image gallery of plants and flowers from Hawai'i and learn more about the state's diverse flora. Next, the fifth link takes readers to a short documentary about Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work courtesy of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Finally, the last link takes readers to the website for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Crystal Bridges Museum is currently hosting an exhibit entitled The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe + Contemporary Art, which features work by O'Keeffe alongside work by contemporary artists. Interested readers can learn more about this exhibit and view some of the works featured in this show on this website.

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

Hear Philip Roth Read from Five of His Major Novels: Sabbath’s Theater, The Ghost Writer and More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/hear-philip-roth-read-five-major-novels-sabbaths-theater-ghost-writer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Cornell University: Waguih Ghali Unpublished Papers ---
https://ghali.library.cornell.edu/

Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/visualizing-dantes-hell.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

Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on June 14, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations041718.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

2018:  More than six million USA people take online courses each year, including one of every four undergraduates ---
http://onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/gradeincrease.pdf?elqTrackId=8a97109446ab42f4a6d1dd82378a5d42&elq=f017428740324fe9851503671bdc6dcc&elqaid=19259&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8759

Fee-based and free distance education training and education alternatives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
Many employers will pay all or part of the fees, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, etc. For example, Starbucks will pay Arizona State University tuition even for part-time employees. McDonalds will pay tuition for onsite as well as online courses.

Free MOOCs and other high-quality online learning alternatives (there may be fees for certificates and transcript credits but the MOOC learning is free for thousands of courses from prestigious universities around the world) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Video on One Possible Future of Higher Education ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU3FjxY2uQ

University of Pennsylvania:  Political Correctness in the Extreme

WSJ:  University Boardrooms Need Reform ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/university-boardrooms-need-reform-1528652211

I recently resigned as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and an overseer of its law school to protest the shameful treatment of law professor Amy Wax. Her career-threatening offense was to state that in her experience with black students over 17 years at Penn, few had performed in the top half of their class. Penn Law’s dean, Ted Ruger, declared her in error but refused to provide evidence. For dissenting from politically correct orthodoxy, Mr. Ruger forbade Ms. Wax to teach her much-admired first-year course in civil procedure—for which the university gave her an award in 2015.

Since I quit, I have received an education in why universities can trample free expression with impunity. My letter of resignation was printed in full in the student newspaper and excerpted on this page. I received well over 150 supportive messages from, among others, trustees, students, law school professors and alumni. One was from Judge Ray Randolph, a 1969 law graduate who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “You . . . have disgraced an institution I had admired throughout my professional career,” Judge Randolph wrote, addressing Dean Ruger.

 

Mr. Ruger, meanwhile, directed his fundraisers to tell alumni that his treatment of Ms. Wax was “fairly common”—a brazen falsehood. No Penn professor’s teaching responsibilities had ever been changed or limited for speaking out on public issues. He also claimed that Penn Law did not “mandate” ethnic diversity in selecting applicants for law review, traditionally an anonymous, merit-based process. That was misleading, since Penn now encourages a subjective statement from law-review applicants, which is intended to reveal their identity and tip the ethnic scales rather than reward academic excellence.

Other than me, not a single Penn trustee, overseer or professor wrote publicly about Ms. Wax’s treatment or resigned in protest. Nobody in the university community has an incentive to speak out, and everyone seems afraid to do so. Professors fear retaliation; students worry about social ostracism. I sent my letter of resignation to Angela Duckworth, the Penn psychologist and author of the celebrated 2016 book “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.” She and I met last year when I accepted the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award and had a lively email correspondence. She did not respond to my resignation email.

Trustees and donors candidly admit in private that they do not want to jeopardize their children’s chances for admission. Many serve out of genuine interest and affection for their alma mater, although they also enjoy the prestige, influence and perks, like access to the university’s medical system, that go with the positions. There’s no incentive to rock the boat, and universities make sure they don’t get much opportunity. At the trustee level, the board is large and its formal meetings are entirely show and tell, with discussion severely limited and vote outcomes never in doubt. Penn Law overseers do not vote on anything. One Penn medical school board member told me he was dropped because he had asked too many questions.

The corporate world offers a parallel to trustees’ abdication of their fiduciary duties. Reformers of the 1980s argued correctly that the interests of shareholders were too often subjugated to personal interest and small-group social dynamics on boards that compel unanimity. Just as the resulting realignment of interests between corporate boards and shareholders unleashed spectacular value for American investors, an activist response by the governing bodies of America’s universities is now essential.

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Paul S. Levy

Bob Jensen's threads on the shame of political correctness in academe are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness

Bringing Harassment Out of the History Books ---
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringing-harassment-out-of-the-history-books/

As stories of sexual misconduct continue to dominate the news, some alleged perpetrators bear household names (Kevin Spacey, Garrison Keillor, Harvey Weinstein, James Franco), and some don’t (Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle, NPR editor Michael Oreskes, Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine).

Though his moniker is absent from modern headlines, there’s one harasser whose name is known to librarians everywhere: Melvil Dewey. In the #MeToo era, how should the library profession handle Dewey’s legacy, tainted as it is by sexism and racism?

Dewey—who was, of course, a founder of the American Library Association (ALA) and the inventor of the widely used Dewey Decimal Classification—made numerous inappropriate physical advances toward women, including library colleagues and his own daughter-in-law, over a period of many years. Eventually, Dewey was ostracized by the ALA as a result of what one librarian of the period called his “outrages against decency.”

In addition, Dewey refused to admit Jews, African Americans, or other minorities to the Lake Placid Club, the private Adirondacks resort in New York that he and his wife owned and operated for many years. Booker T. Washington was disallowed from its dining rooms, Dewey bought up adjoining land for fear it would otherwise be sold to Jews, and promotional literature made it clear that “no Jews or consumptives [were] allowed” on the property. (“Personally, many of my choicest friends are Jews,” Dewey wrote in an evasive response to a membership request from one Albert Harris of New York City.)

Yet 87 years after his death, Dewey remains revered as the “father of modern librarianship,” “a pioneer in library education,” and “a pioneer in the creation of career opportunities for women,” as the Library of Congress website calls him. Indeed, the ALA itself bestows the Melvil Dewey Medal, and American Libraries’ own Dewey Decibel podcast bears his name (but has dropped his likeness from its logo).

“Obnoxious personal traits”

Beginning in the 1880s, and continuing at least until 1929, Dewey engaged in what biographer Wayne A. Wiegand characterizes as “unwelcome hugging, unwelcome touching, certainly unwelcome kissing” with female acquaintances. Wiegand is author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (ALA Editions, 1996), the definitive biography of Dewey.

“Was there an element of power in his behavior?” Wiegand says. “There was. To my knowledge, he never squeezed a woman who was his equal. It was usually subordinates.”

On a post-conference cruise to Alaska in 1905, the six-foot-tall Dewey made physical advances toward several ALA members. On another occasion, his son and daughter-in-law, Godfrey and Marjorie Dewey, moved out of the family home after becoming uncomfortable with Dewey’s overly familiar behavior toward the latter.

In still another example, Dewey settled out of court in 1929 for $2,147 a lawsuit brought by a former stenographer, whom he had kissed and caressed in public the previous summer. (He had earlier sent a thank-you note to an assistant who referred the woman: “I … wish I had bought her by the pound instead of the piece when the dainty little flapper got off the train.”)

Detailed, first-person accounts of Dewey’s disturbing behavior are hard to come by, perhaps because in his time, women who spoke openly about sexual harassment were more likely to be disbelieved or punished than they are now. What is common knowledge among historians is an incident in which Dewey invited New York Public Library documents librarian Adelaide Hasse to go for a long drive in the country, after which she made a speedy departure—or, as Dewey later put it in a letter to her, “ran away so suddenly.” He continued: “But I am very glad that I know you better. Sometimes I think of you as [Shakespeare’s] Cordelia for your voice is hers. Sometimes as Brunhild fair blue eyed Saxon.”

“Such references to physical attributes were not normal epistolary style among turn-of-the-century librarians,” writes Hasse’s biographer, Clare Beck (The New Woman as Librarian: The Career of Adelaide Hasse, Scarecrow Press, 2006). Hasse declined to take any action against Dewey, writing to library colleagues: “We are a professional body, the members of which, encountering obnoxious personal traits in fellow members, must content ourselves to employ those defenses which reason, training, and character dictate.”

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

Bitcoin 101: Your essential guide to cryptocurrency ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-101-your-essential-guide-to-cryptocurrency-2017-12

Universities are starting to invest in crypto, according to an industry lawyer ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/universities-invest-cryptocurrency-2018-6

Total virtual currency sales jump in 2018 but monthly trend slows: report ---
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-sales/total-virtual-currency-sales-jump-in-2018-but-monthly-trend-slows-report-idUSKCN1J02Y6

CRYPTO INSIDER: London's stock exchange is getting its first mining company ---
http://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-crypto-insider-london-stock-exchange-gets-first-mining-company-2018-6-1026840179

Vermont will pay some new residents $10,000 if they work remotely — here's how to do it ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/move-to-vermont-remote-workers-program-2018-6

Jensen Comment
Sounds like a great deal until you discover why people don't want to move to Vermont in the first place, and why higher income professionals (think physicians and dentists) live across the border in New Hampshire. Vermont only has slightly over 600,000 men, women, and children. One of the main reasons is that Vermont is one of the highest tax states in the USA. Vermont has high taxes everything --- incomes, sales. property values, etc.

My point is that it won't take many years for that $10,000 to be taken back by Vermont in taxes and living costs. Living costs are higher in Vermont due, in part, to both sales taxes and the banning of businesses that do not have union workers (think Walmart). This is why the Walmart stores and shopping malls inside the NH border have a sea of green license plates in their parking lots.

Dvorak Simplified Keyboard --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

But rather than using the traditional Qwerty keyboard most computer and typewriter users over the past century will be familiar with, Blackburn used an alternative layout known as Dvorak ---
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180521-why-we-cant-give-up-this-odd-way-of-typing

Michael Jensen --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Jensen

Famous Harvard economist reused parts of 2002 paper multiple times, says journal ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/06/04/famous-harvard-economist-reused-parts-of-2002-paper-multiple-times-says-journal/

How Do Objects Connect to the Internet of Things?
https://readwrite.com/2018/06/06/how-do-objects-connect-to-the-internet-of-things/

The (Open Source) Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-series-of-unsurprising-results-in.html

The Nobel Prize for Literature Is a Scandal All by Itself ... It really is time to grow up and concentrate on the books themselves, without this razzmatazz of winners and losers ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/nobel-prize-literature-scandal.html

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation: What Does It Mean for Libraries Worldwide?
http://www.arl.org/publications-resources/4543-the-general-data-protection-regulation-what-does-it-mean-for-libraries-worldwide

Compilation on Key Issues on Student Debt ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/06/12/compilation-key-issues-student-debt?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5db6c1c025-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5db6c1c025-197565045&mc_cid=5db6c1c025&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

“It was information based”: Student Reasoning when Distinguishing Between Scholarly and Popular Sources ---
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/it-was-information-based/

Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock ---
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/06/07/infinitives-can-be-split-grammar-conservatives-face-the-shock/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e291fa8b9a9c463f91fd5cf7a3e3e345&elq=3d7d3848d0fd490bbc155f7e3d0ee8fa&elqaid=19371&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8854

For those who boldly violate the Prime Directive by trying to enrich the general public’s understanding of English grammar and thus change the planetary culture, each tiny triumph is something to treasure. And we had one about a month ago. The Economist announced (April 28, 2018) that the new edition of its style guide would no longer proscribe the “split infinitive.”

I like to think discussion on Lingua Franca helped to stiffen the magazine’s resolve on this issue (see this 2016 post, following up this one two years earlier, and this one two years before that).

Naturally, letters to the editor flocked in. The May 26 issue printed four of them (subheadlined, inevitably, “To boldly go”).

Jack Winkler wrote enthusiastically from London: “Please relentlessly continue to radically cull prescriptive language rules. There are many more that need discarding.” (To radically cull is his little joke, of course, illustrating the very easily recognized construction that is under discussion. People cannot resist doing this.)

Oscar Despard, in Dublin, had only one regret: “Your change in grammar rules will surely lead to the sad demise of that finest subgenre of correspondence to The Economist: the letter designed grammatically to mock your avoidance of the split infinitive.” (Grammatically to mock is his little joke, of course, illustrating avoidance of the very easily recognized construction that is under discussion. People cannot resist doing this.)

H. Coleman Switzkay, of Bala Cynwyd, Penn., by contrast, felt dejected:

Et tu, Brute? I pen this missive heavy of heart and slumped in despair. Now that your venerable publication, the last bastion of grammatical fortitude, has abandoned its principled stand against splitting the infinitive, are any of the sacred rules of grammar safe? What next? Will we all soon be pondering the question of to be or to not be?

(To not be is his little joke, of course, illustrating the very easily recognized construction that is under discussion. People cannot resist doing this.  … Is it just me, or are you having a déjà vu experience?)

Switzkay flaunts his conservatism in vocabulary: missive, venerable, bastion, fortitude — he writes to us from the 19th century.

But his knowledge of the past is faulty: The Economist never had a “principled stand” against placing adverbs between to and a following verb. The style guide’s stance appealed merely to cowardice: “The ban is pointless. Unfortunately, to see it broken is so annoying to so many people that you should observe it.” No edict was ever less principled.

Switzkay also holds (or affects to hold) the weird belief that allowing an adverb to intervene in a to + Verb sequence will eventually yield to requiring it, forcing the rewording of Hamlet’s soliloquy. (I remember meeting a homophobic worker in the printing industry in Queens back in 1980, when People v. Onofre had just made homosexual acts legal in the state of New York; he told me forcefully that he was planning to “get out of New York State before they make it obligatory.”) Grammarians are not in the business of Shakespeare expurgation, or banning natural-sounding and frequent constructions like not to be outdone.

One further letter-writer, J.M. Hallinan of Sydney, Australia, is also a conservative. He refers back to a quote from G.B. Shaw that appeared in the Johnson column on language in The Economist on April 28 (Shaw, on finding his split infinitives “corrected” by a subeditor, told the editor: “I ask you, sir, to put this man out. Set him adrift and try an intelligent Newfoundland dog in his place, without interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between ‘to suddenly go,’ ‘to go suddenly’ and ‘suddenly to go’”). Says Hallinan:

The Economist should not take any notice of that Fabian windbag, George Bernard Shaw. Perhaps your style has been changed to appeal to your large North American readership, unsplit infinitives being extinct in those parts.

Unsplit infinitives extinct? In American newspaper text, to followed directly by a verb is vastly more frequent than to followed by any adverb.

And even if we interpret “unsplit infinitives” as “infinitivals modified by an adverb that is not positioned after the to,” Hallinan’s extinction claim is still wildly false: Infinitival complements in current American writing are not limited to positioning adverbs between to and the verb (able to immediately repay); adverbs are often positioned before the to (able immediately to repay) or following the verb (able to repay immediately).

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Bob Jensen's helpers for writers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

Luxury Dorms Are Struggling to Fill Beds (some of these dorms financed with tax exempt bonds) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/texas-a-m-and-oklahoma-luxury-dorms-stumble-amid-sticker-shock?cmpid=BBD060718_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180607&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

These 4 tricks will help you keep your groceries fresher for longer (not much new here) ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-4-tricks-will-keep-groceries-fresher-for-longer-2018-6

Jensen Comment
I was disappointed in this article. But it gives me an excuse to forward Erika's trick (that isn't new but often overlooked). These special green bags really do extend the lives of fruits, vegetables, and bread (although we mostly freeze bread in small packages)---
"Debbie Meyer GreenBags Freshness-Preserving Food/Flower Storage Bags (Various Sizes, 20-Pack)" ---
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I4V1U06/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Deja vous all over again
Yogi Berra

Poisoned Mortgage Fraud on Main Street --- a mortgage given to a borrower with zero hope of making more than a few, if any, mortgage payments. By the time the borrower defaults the lender has since sold the mortgage to the federal government that ultimately bears 100% of the loss without any sharing of the financial risk with the company that originated the mortgage. Before the 2008 financial collapse most of these lenders had criminal intent to steal from the government by getting risk-free lending commissions on hopeless lending. Often those mortgages were subprime mortgages that for a short time had such low (below prime) interest rates that borrowers could make payments for a low-interest period before the contracted rates kicked up above prime. The hope of most subprime borrowers was to turn over the property for a profit before the subprime rates jumped upward. But after the 2008 crash in real estate values there was no hope of selling the property for a profit before the subprime rates soared on the mortgages.

Jensen Lament
Although banks are making fewer poisoned mortgages in 2018 than before the 2008 subprime crash in real estate, for non-banks its business as usual lending money to homeowners with zero chance of making mortgage payments and sticking the losses 100% with the federal government. The only difference is that before 2008 these non-bank criminal lending companies issuing mortgages greatly in excess of property values, whereas today the homeless loans are more in line with collateral values. For example, before 2008 a criminal mortgage company loaned a woman on Welfare named Marvene over $100,000 on a shack valued at $3,500. Marvene then spent the cash away before defaulting on the mortgage in which the federal government then ate the entire loss. Neighbors bought the shack and tore it down ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudMarvene.htm

Poisoned mortgages in 2018 are being issued by non-banks --- thereby sticking it to the federal government all over again. Banks are making fewer of these poisoned mortgages due to newer regulations. But non-bank shyster lenders are in the game all over again.

How To Look Great and Make a Killing in Mortgages ---
https://www.scribd.com/article/380081563/How-To-Look-Great-And-Make-A-Killing-In-Mortgages  (not free)

In his corner of American finance, where hard selling meets hard luck, Angelo Christian is a star, and he looks the part. He’s wearing black caiman shoes and a Bordeaux-red silk shirt, tight and open wide at the chest. His dark widow’s peak is slicked high with gel. He has 180,000 Facebook followers and a budding YouTube network, where he shares original videos such as “How to Master Your Mind,” and “How to Manage a $50 Million Pipeline.”

Each time Christian sells a home loan, the company he works for, American Financial Network Inc., takes as much as 5 percent—$12,500 on a $250,000 loan, to be distributed among his staff, corporate headquarters and, of course, himself. As he and his team chase more than 250 leads a week, they’re on pace to close 50 a month. Christian says he has a Lamborghini on order to go with his Mercedes.

. . .

Many of Christian's customers have no savings, poor credit, or low income --- sometimes all three. Some are like Joseph Taylor, a corrections officer who saw Christian's roadside billboard touting zero-down mortgages. Taylor had recently filed for bankruptcy because of his $25,000 in credit card debt. But he just bought his first home for $120,000 with a zero-down loan from Christian's company. Monthly debt payments now eat up half his take-home pay. "If he can help me, he can help anyone," Taylor says. "My credit history was horrible."

Christian can do this kind of deal because he is, in effect, making the loan on behalf of the federal government through its most affordable housing program. It's a sweet deal. Christian gets his nearly risk-free commission (with no default risk sharing). Taylor puts no money down. If things go south, the government ultimately bears all the risk.

This kind of lending echoes the subprime mortgage boom (those poisoned mortgages) that preceded the credit crisis of 2008. Then, as now, independent mortgage companies (many from organized crime) , the so-called non-banks, dominated the dominated the business of making loans to people with blemished credit and low incomes.

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Bob Jensen's threads on the 2008 financial collapse, scandals, and bailouts ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm

Money --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money
Swiss voters rejected a radical move to change the way money is created ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/swiss-voters-reject-vollgeld-2018-6

From MAAW's Blog on June 6, 2018 ---
http://maaw.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-to-stimulate-economy.html

A Few Ways to Stimulate the Economy.

In Stephan Pastis comic strip Pearls Before Swine (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6/4/2018) the Rat character proposes giving all the tax cut to the middle class rather than to big corporations. He called it “up yours’ economics”.  Here are some other ideas including supply side, demand side (Keynesian) economics (both involve fiscal policy) and monetarist economics (monetary policy). Some of these policies have been called voodoo economics, trickle-down economics, and in some cases socialism. They all appear to have both positive and negative effects. For example, they increase employment but also increase the deficit. Many of the following policies have been used and there is little agreement on whether they were effective from a systems or cost-benefit perspective. More economic analysis and less political spend is needed.

1. Cut the corporate tax rate to encourage corporate spending.
2. Decrease regulation.
3. Print more money and tax corporate savings.
4. Increase spending on the nation’s infrastructure.
5. Forgive federal student loans.
6. Provide more subsidies for research and development.
7. Provide more tax breaks for exports.
8. Provide more tax breaks for foreign firms that invest in the U.S.
9. Subsidize childcare.
10. Allow negative equity homeowners to refinance mortgages at lower rates.
11. Cut unemployment benefits and create job training programs.
12. Extend unemployment benefits.
13. Provide more money to state and local governments.
14. Increase the availability of credit for small businesses.
15. Provide free public college education.
16. Provide Medicare for all.
17. Raise the minimum wage.
18. Reduce interest rates.
19. Legalize online gambling.
20. Provide a parental stipend for working families.

Jensen Comment
this is the most naive and non-academic list of suggestions I've seen in a long time

It fails to consider costs of providing such things in the USA where the Federal government has $21+ trillion in booked debt and over $100 trillion in unbooked debt (entitlements) while many state governments are on the verge of bankruptcy with pension, infrastructure, and other obligations that they don't know how to finance.

It's really a wish list from La La Land. In Number 3 it suggests printing more money. Welcome to Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

In Number 5 it wants to forgive student loans of over $1 trillion, presumably by printing money.

In Number 15 it proposes providing free college education, presumably for anybody who wants free college education. Even the most liberal nations that provide "free" college education (think Finland, Germany, and New Zealand) do not provide free college or free training to over half of their Tier 2 graduates, because providing quality college education or training to every Tier 2 graduate is financially impossible ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Tertiary

Number 16 is straight out of the Bernie Sanders playbook. The problem is that the only way this can possibly be afforded is the way we fund Medicaid today --- with crappy medicine where doctors and hospitals turn away the Medicaid patients except in dire emergencies. The exception would be to fund Medicare for All like other nations fund national health care with such things as more euthanasia, saving fewer premature babies, reduced or greatly delayed services. hospital wards rather than double rooms, and increased taxation of half the people in the USA who do not presently pay income taxes.

Number 19 is a good way to strip millions of households of fiscal responsibility.

Number 20 is something even liberal nations like Sweden have not proposed.

I think Jim must have posted this as a comic strip joke. Then again maybe its suggestive of the 2018 Democratic Party platform. Stephan Pastis does not seem to realize the income taxes in the USA were heavily progressive before the Tax Act of 2018. Giving the middle class even more tax relief while spending massively on free education and health care is doomsday economics for the USA.

The New York Times’ online puzzle offering has surpassed 400,000 paying subscribers, roughly double the number from two years ago ... “It’s been a really great growth trajectory,” Eric von Coelln, the newspaper’s executive director of puzzles, said in an interview.---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/what-s-a-seven-letter-word-for-money-at-the-times-puzzles?cmpid=BBD060418_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180604&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Bob Jensen's neglected threads on use of "edutainment" games (think Jeopardy and Monopoly) in the classroom ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment

How ‘Googling it’ can send conservatives down secret rabbit holes of alternative facts ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/05/25/how-googling-it-can-send-conservatives-down-secret-rabbit-holes-of-alternative-facts/?utm_term=.31cdf5977285

Worst Companies to Work For ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/06/07/worst-companies-to-work-for/

Jensen Comment
This is misleading in the sense that types of employees differ in organizations. For example, a university might be stingy with pay and benefits to adjunct faculty while doing quite well for tenured faculty. An airline might be highly rated by its pilots and mechanics but not so hot by its ticket agents. My wife says in the old days hospitals treated nurses like dirt while laying down red carpets for physicians, including ill-tempered physicians who were arrogant and rude to hospital staff. I think that in this era of multi-million dollar lawsuits hospitals and physicians are now more courteous to staff. Even before the #MeToo craze, lawsuits took its toll on sexual harassment. Still, lingering sexual harassment in the work place varies by industry --- temptations are greater in film making, hospitals, airlines, and colleges relative to oil drilling and road construction. Affirmative action greatly increased sexual harassment risks in some industries. When I was on a battleship there were only 2,600 men on board. Being a woman today on a Navy ship expanded employment opportunities and sexual harassment risks simultaneously. The military does not have a good record to date in preventing sexual abuse, but risks vary greatly among assignments.

Virtual Private Network --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

Protect Your Online Privacy with VPN ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/jun/vpn-for-businesses.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08Jun2018

Why Machine (Language) Translation Matters in the Modern Era ---
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-machine-translation-matters-in-the-modern-era/

. . .

It is estimated that computers translate as many as 600 billion words a day, across the various machine translation (MT) portals. This dwarfs what the localization and professional business translation industry does by a factor of 99. Clearly, global customers need specific information that may not be available in their native tongues, and they will use MT to get at least a gist of what they need to understand.

While many continue to moan about the quality of machine translation tools, we have already reached a point in human history where the substantial bulk of language translation is being done by computers.

Global customers who research products and services can and will get many disparate sources of information that are not controlled by an enterprise to make decisions about whether to buy a product. MT will allow them to get access to non-native language content and instantly obtain translations that are “good enough” to support the personal evaluation process.

In our modern times, we’re experiencing a state of unprecedented connectivity thanks to technology. However, we’re still living under the shadow of the Tower of Babel in terms of global human communication ease. Language remains a barrier in business and marketing. Even though technological devices can quickly and easily connect, humans from different parts of the world often can’t. And traditional translation service offerings simply cannot scale to the needs of the modern enterprise without leveraging technology in a substantial and competent way.

There are many cases where MT just makes sense for business translation needs, and it would be foolish to even attempt multilingual initiatives without competent MT technology as a foundation. Usually, this is true in situations that have some combination of the following factors:

·         A very large volume of source content that simply could not be translated without MT in any useful time frame.

·         A rapid turnaround requirement (days, hours or minutes) for the content to have any value to the people who need translations.

·         A user tolerance for lower quality translations at least in the early stages of information review.

·         A need for information and document triage to identify the highest quality content in cases that involve large collections of documents. (The triage process can also identify the documents that are so important that they need to be translated by people.)

·         Budget constraints that make the cost of traditional translation services unaffordable.

Related Article: Global Customer Experience Requires a Local Touch

Content-Driven Engagement

One can find this combination of requirements in several customer communications-oriented applications, like a technical support knowledge base, ecommerce product listings, customer service material and customer experience reviews for all kinds of products and service experiences. However, in an increasingly digital world, we see the need to be able to process large volumes of business content to identify what is most relevant and valuable for ongoing business needs as well.

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Can It Really Be True That Half of Academic Papers Are Never Read?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-It-Really-Be-True-That/243564?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c455702a0de2462ebafcb2afb044e117&elq=aa24539026d84dd9b66f1ae178897fdd&elqaid=19283&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8794

Jensen Comment
This article is misleading in the sense that the word "read" is a spectrum rather than a point. I "read" papers on a spectrum from reading the title to reading the abstract to scanning or speed reading the article to really digging into article like I have to discuss it in detail in front of an audience or on my blogs. Also there is a matter of timing. I may have only read the abstract of a paper in 1981. Then in 2018 a link to the article pops up in one of my searches on Google Scholar. In 2018 I might dig much deeper into that article. My point is that over long periods of time papers get read a whole lot more than in the first year after publication.

There are of course great risks in how I read. Sometimes I may settle for the main conclusion of an article (e.g., that "half of academic papers are never read") as stated in the title without reading further. This is dangerous in my blog, however, since I might additionally state something about the article that's incorrect about that article, an error that makes it obvious I did not read the article. Thus I try to read articles that I additionally comment about in my blogs. If I don't do an added search to see if the findings have been replicated I'm remiss by merely accepting the findings of a study as being accurate. I did read the article linked above in detail (it's a short article) but I did not search for replications.

Over my 20 years of blogging I depended a great deal on the integrity of the source. I'm more apt to trust reputable publishers (e.g., the NYT and WSJ or Nature versus some lone wolf blogger). But reputable journals such as the Chronicle of Higher Education do not referee articles as rigorously as The Accounting Review (TAR). However, in spite of rigorous refereeing, TAR studies are rarely replicated ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
TAR on occasion publishes articles where the data were fabricated or filled with errors ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
The world of expanding knowledge in the Academy is far from perfect. Many authors who cheat are never detected.

I run three blogs and am very active on two listservs. I cannot count, nor do I want to count, the mistakes that have been pointed out my readers. Over 99% of the time I admit to making mistakes when I agree they were mistakes. However, it's also true that at times I've baited readers with claims or intentional mistakes for the purpose of generating discussion. I appreciate that "lurkers" have their reasons for not speaking up, but it can be frustrating when they don't correct my unintentional 99+% mistakes or intentional 0.01%- mistakes.

Probably the main reason I blog is to learn rather than teach. At this late stage of my life in retirement I don't really care about building a resume or seek "fame." What I really want is to learn, and I wish lurkers would do more to help me out. Often my responders also make mistakes ---this leads to what I really, really enjoy --- a good debate! Often lurkers do not respond because for one reason or another they don't want to debate with me in public. Sigh!

LAPD solved only 8 percent of hit-and-runs last year. Here’s why it’s so hard ---
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/29/lapd-solved-only-8-percent-of-hit-and-runs-last-year-heres-why-its-so-hard

Jensen Comment
Two things might help in urban areas. One is more video cameras (think of the tens of thousands of cameras installed in Chicago for another reason). The other is more readable license plates for those cameras. Perhaps a plate should be visible on the top of a car as well as in front and back. Of course there's still a problem of identifying the driver.

After spending (happily) nearly $1,000 for an Electrolux robot vacuum, I discover this new startup alternative (Eufy RoboVac 11S) for $187 from Amazon ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/eufy-robovac-11s-review-2018-5
The Amazon reviews are pretty good, although you can't always trust positive Amazon reviews.

Jensen Questions
Does this robot return automatically to the charging station when running low on juice?
Does ti return automatically to where it left off vacuuming?
Does it jump from hard floors to area carpets?
Will it fall off ledges and tops of stairs?
Can you buy replacement batteries? (I don't think so from the manufacturer at this time)
 

These features of the Electrolux, even if not available on the Eufy, may not be worth the added $700 in price!
But I would really miss the one-inch jump feature and the 3-D eye that keeps Jeeves from falling off ledges.

Personal Review of My New Electrolux Pure i9 Robotic Vacuum ---
https://purei9.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI99zfks6l2wIVG7bACh0hbQDREAAYASAAEgLXkvD_BwE 
Published reviews don't always mention the negatives ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/electrolux-pure-i9-robot-vacuum-review-2018-5

After reading about how Electrolux improved on robotic vacuums, I recently purchased the "Electrolux Pure i9 Robotic Vacuum" for $899 (plus $85 for a five-year warranty) from Amazon. In the next three weeks I can still have time to return this item to Amazon without any questions asked, but I'm going to keep it even if it is not perfect. It does vacuum floors quite well.

Unless you live in a small apartment forget about turning on a robotic vacuum when you leave your house and return to a a fully-cleaned floor later in the day. Firstly the dirt collector is only about a pint in size and fills five or more times before finishing the main floor of our 3,400 square foot cottage. And the dirt collector must be emptied by hand. Secondly, this robot sometimes gets hung up and speaks out loud to me that he (Jeeves) needs a nudge. In theory this robot will clean for 40-60 minutes, automatically return to the charging station for three hours, and begin again where he last left off. However, in reality Jeeves cannot keep usually going on its own without getting a nudge now and then. He also needs his dirt collector emptied frequently.

At a price of nearly $1,000 many of you will balk at the expense. But with all my outdoor duties of mowing four acres and maintaining our three flower gardens I'm weary of heavy vacuuming inside the cottage. During our 24 years in San Antonio Erika and I both worked full time and hired an expensive high-quality house cleaner. Here in retirement in the White Mountains of NH there seemingly are no quality house cleaners available. Erika dusts and uses a light-weight Dyson cordless vacuum for spot cleaning (each Dyson battery only lasts 5-10 minutes), but after 17 spine surgeries Erika's not up to heavy vacuuming. It's up to me each week to give the entire cottage a corded Shark attack --- at least before I purchased Jeeves. Of course I must still use the Shark to clean upholstery above the floor now and then and to get at places Jeeves cannot reach.

Our cottage has a central vacuum port in every room, but I only use this vacuum machine on carpets in our basement. It's too much work to haul the 15-foot tube around the house and move furniture to get at the ports for the central vacuum connections in the rooms.

Our cottage has mostly oriental carpets on hardwood floors. Jeeves does a great job on these floors and rugs, including getting close to the baseboards. He can lift himself up about an inch to get from the hard floor to a carpet and push himself back down to hard floors.

Erika has the house strewn with things on the floors like dolls in tiny chairs or dolls just playing on the floor. Jeeves has a 3-D eye and can see such obstacles without bumping into them. Of course he cannot lift them and vacuum underneath. But he's built low to the ground and can clean under some beds, chairs, tables, and sofas that are hard for me to get under with the Shark. Of course he cannot get under or behind every piece of furniture.

Jeeves works his way around most obstacles in our house. But on occasion he literally calls out that he's stuck and needs a nudge. Fringes on most of our rugs are no problem for him except in the master bedroom where the rugs have exceptionally long fringes. Occasionally I have to nudge him off the long fringes in that room.

When Jeeves arrived at our house the set up entailed attaching one brush in less than ten seconds. You can purchase an app separately and do a somewhat complicated installation for remote control by a smart phone --- but I wanted no part of that app.

Cleaning Jeeves' parts appears to be quite simple, although he's not yet needed a parts clean up by me.

I confine Jeeves to one room at a time. Most rooms he can finish with less than one battery charge. He just quits when he's finished with a room he cannot exit. In two larger rooms I also set up the charging station that's light weight and easy to move. Then when he does about half a big room he automatically returns to his charging station. When fully charged once again he will automatically resume where he left off and clean for almost another hour before returning to his charging station.

A neat feature is that Jeeves does not fall down stairs in our house. His electric eye senses fall-off cliffs and turns him aside while he keeps cleaning along the upper edge. I think it's not a good idea to use Jeeves in the dark or in dimly lit places. Fortunately, our cottage has lots of bright daylight.

One reviewer said he removes the spinning front brush on carpets. This seems to make no difference for cleaning my oriental carpets. I let the brush spin away on our rugs and hardwood floors. If your house is fully carpeted I would probably remove the brush which simply snaps on and off. I take off this brush for the wall-to-wall carpeting in our top floor.

Jeeves will not end my having to give our house occasional Shark attacks, but he will greatly cut back on the frequency of those chores. Jeeves would be hugely improved if I could lay out a pan on the floor and he could automatically go to that pan, lift up his dirt collector, and dump it gently into the pan. And someday Jeeves might live with his smaller son who does stairs.

I think I'll keep Jeeves in the cottage even if he can't make a good margarita, wash windows, weed the gardens, or dump his own dirt collector.

What's my next robot purchase?
Maybe a robotic tractor with a lawn mower and snow thrower.
The problem is that they've not yet invented robotic lawn/hedge trimmers and flower weeders --- in my lawn these are needed much more than robotic lawn mowers.

Aristotle’s ethics of virtue offers a flexible philosophy for the 21st century. Yet few people read him today ---
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness

Your Seven Year Old Mac Can’t Run macOS Mojave, So Maybe Sell It Now ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/your-seven-year-old-mac-cant-run-macos-mojave-so-maybe-sell-it-now/

Jensen Comment
Then again maybe you should keep it to run your old stuff.

Tom Wolfe --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe
Tom Wolfe was death on intellectual pretension, and he mocked those who always sought out the worst in America ---
https://www.weeklystandard.com/joseph-epstein/tom-wolfes-greatest-legacy-was-his-satirical-take-on-pretentious-intellectualism

Top 10 Security Risk Factors for Public and Academic Libraries ---
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun18/Albrecht--Top-10-Security-Risk-Factors-for-Public-and-Academic-Libraries.shtml

Las Vegas casinos prepare to hemorrhage $10 million a day as their workers, fearing their jobs will be replaced by robots, get ready to go on strike ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-casinos-strike-robot-fears-2018-6

The flying car backed by Google's cofounder just got a big update, and people can pilot it with less than an hour's training ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/kitty-hawk-flying-car-startup-google-larry-page-launches-flyer-test-flights-2018-6

Jensen Comment
Who will keep this flying car out of the air?
My guess (and it's strictly a guess) is the lawyers. How much do you think the liability insurance will be for this flying car?
There are already clauses in your life insurance contract that will negate your life insurance unless you already paid for small plane insurance and are licensed to fly a small plane (this is just a guess on my part and not backed by authoritative research)
There may have to be new laws written about how much airspace is covered by property ownership. Can people fly two feet over your head while you're standing in your yard?
Transportation is at a crossroads in terms of laws, taxation, and the economy?
And imagine how this can affect how wars and crime are conducted?

Terry School of Business at the University of Georgia Inspires a "Zombie" ---
https://news.uga.edu/tony-raffa-zombie-doughnuts/

Jensen Comment
The nephew of the wife of one of our sons was a football standout for Pitt, but he was not good enough for the NFL. Instead he started a cookie business in Sacramento that's been doing quite well for over ten years. Bakeries and restaurants are long-hour and hard work daily businesses that take an enduring dedication.

The Decline of Scholarly Diversity
At Stanford Law School, no more than three of approximately 110 full-time faculty publicly identify as conservative or libertarian. (By way of contrast, Stanford Law School touts on its webpage 23 full-time faculty under the inartful rubric of “minority.”) As a consequence, many of my classmates will graduate having never engaged with a law professor whose worldview and convictions track those of nearly half the voting public.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/05/2018-grad-decries-political-correctness-at-stanford-law-school.html#more

Bob Jensen's threads on liberal bias in the media and in academe ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias

Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons ---
http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/5426
Bob Jensen's threads on the DMCA ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm#Copyright

The science that’s never been cited Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0

Jensen Comment
Bloggers often go uncited while authors who pick up on their early ideas get credit in books and journal articles. If you want citation credit publish a paper or post your modules to SSRN rather than a blog. Examples include my own blogs and the now defunct Grumpy Old Accountants blog.

For-Profit Free Fall Continues, U.S. Data Show ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/06/06/profit-free-fall-continues-us-data-show?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2aaa561d00-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2aaa561d00-197565045&mc_cid=2aaa561d00&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
Billionaire Mike Milken invested heavily in for-profit colleges and said to traditional universities:  "We'll eat your lunch!"
He was right. For profits are foraging in the traditional college dumpsters for students.

The only way colleges without admission standards can have academic respect is if they have high graduation standards. For-profit universities did not meet the test.

How Tax Code Changes Hurt Home Owners ---
https://www.accountingweb.com/tax/individuals/how-tax-code-changes-hurt-home-owners?source=ei053018

Tesla to lay off around 9% of its employees as it 'restructures' (without changing Model 3 production goals)---
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-to-layoff-up-to-9-of-its-employees-2018-6

Jensen Comment
I wonder if any robots are being laid off as well.

Five Interesting Things About Walmart’s New (Nearly) Free College Benefit (especially note Number 5 below)---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/5-Interesting-Things-About/243554?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e8b6094644d3479a8b4760b7a8d95792&elq=e49fecec16e640c68724e4401c2a0cff&elqaid=19305&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8818

. . .

1. Very low upfront cost for the students.
Aside from the $1 a day, which students will probably pay in monthly increments, Walmart will cover expenses for tuition, books, and fees. That eliminates a cost barrier that often keeps lower-paid workers from enrolling in college. Walmart recently raised its minimum wage to $11 an hour.

Most employer-paid tuition programs reimburse students only after they’ve completed a course. Some also reimburse only those students who earn grades above a set minimum. Walmart is imposing neither a minimum grade nor a requirement that students repay the costs even if they leave the company. And they can qualify for the benefit after just 90 days on the job.

2. The effort will be independently evaluated.
The Lumina Foundation, which has studied employers’ tuition-benefits programs on a smaller scale, will coordinate research on how the program benefits the company — using metrics like employee retention and performance — and its impact on the students — looking at measures like salary increases and promotions

. . .

3. The college options are limited, but there could be an upside to that.
. . .

4. Students won’t have many degree choices.
. . .

5. It’s a vote of confidence for the value of coaching, not to mention a big boost for Guild. Walmart’s decision to involve the three-year-old Guild Education means that each student will be assigned a coach from that company to help in applying for admission and then navigating the experience. Many of the most successful adult-student programs use coaching in some form.

Rachel Carlson, chief executive of Guild, says the company has been increasing its hiring, having recently signed deals with Lowe’s and Lyft, among other clients. She won’t disclose the number of students now using Guild’s services, but clearly, for the three colleges and for Guild, the Walmart deal is likely to shake things up considerably.

Correction (06/01/2018, 11:00 a.m.): The University of Florida is not among the colleges offering academic credit through the Walmart Academies program. The text has been updated accordingly.

Jensen Note
Faculty and students who do not subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education can probably access Chronicle articles for free from via their campus library database subscriptions.

Walmart to Offer Debt-Free (limited scope) Degrees to Employees ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/05/31/walmart-offer-debt-free-degrees-employees?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f273f09706-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f273f09706-197565045&mc_cid=f273f09706&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Walmart employees will soon be able to earn degrees in business or supply-chain management for as little as $1 a day.

In partnership with education platform Guild Education, Walmart will offer its 1.4 million employees access to subsidized associate’s and bachelor’s degrees. Employees will also be able to convert completed job training into college credit.

The degrees will be offered online through the University of Florida, Brandman University and Bellevue University -- nonprofit institutions that already work with Guild Education and employers such as Chipotle, Lowe’s and Lyft.

“Walmart is making a significant investment in its workforce that will not just help the company, but help shift how our society moves towards more affordable and accessible pathways for individuals to be recognized and rewarded for their work-based skills and knowledge,” Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, said in a press release.

Lumina will be evaluating the initiative to research and measure its impact and effectiveness.

This is not the first time that Walmart has partnered with universities to offer education opportunities to its employees. The company teamed up with the American Public University System in 2012.

Jensen Comment
I've got mixed feelings about funding that ties students to particular majors for all undergraduate years. It seems to me that one of the most important alternatives students should have is the option to change majors midstream in an undergraduate education. One of the great purposes of undergraduate education is allow students to sample disciplines before locking into eventual majors. There are of course exceptions such as where engineering students usually declare majors in their first term of college.

The big question is what happens to funding when students change majors? Hopefully, changers don't have to pay back earlier terms of funding. But in many instances students lose funding if and when they change majors.

Reasons for changing majors are varied, but sometimes there is not much choice. Business schools prosper somewhat when students start out poorly as engineering majors.

Walmart in this instance may be fulfilling the prophecy that "beggars can't be choosers."

From the Scout Report on June 1, 2018

InterPlanetary FileSystem (IPFS) --- https://ipfs.io/
The InterPlanetary FileSystem (IPFS) provides a peer-to-peer content-addressable distributed filesystem that can store and share linked hypermedia. In other words, it's a decentralized alternative to the web. The web is currently decentralized in the sense that anyone can add their own server to it. However, the servers themselves are often single points of failure. When a server goes away, it is not uncommon for all the content hosted on it to disappear. Organizations like the Internet Archive and Perma.cc seek to provide workarounds to this problem. IPFS seeks to solve it on a structural level, persistently building content into the network itself. As a side effect, IPFS is also highly resistant to denial of service attacks, is more bandwidth-efficient than HTTP, and provides some censorship resistance. For example, IPFS is currently being used to create a mirror of Wikipedia for people living in jurisdictions where access to Wikipedia is blocked. The Why and Uses sections of the IPFS site lists a number of additional advantages and applications. The reference implementation of IPFS (written in Google's Go language) is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Go-IPFS is free software, using the MIT license with source code available via GitHub.

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IRCCloud --- https://www.irccloud.com/  
IRC Cound provides a web-based and mobile IRC client with features similar to newer services like Slack, Tribe, Gitter, or Zulip. For example, it provides file uploads and embedded images, videos, tweets, code snippets, and more. But unlike those services that invent a new and often proprietary messaging protocol, IRCCloud leverages the open and established Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol. As a result, IRCCloud users can connect to any of the established IRC networks (Freenode, IRCNet, EFNet, etc) and join any of the channels there. Like Slack et al, IRCCloud's desktop and mobile clients keep your message history synchronized across all your devices. IRCCloud acts as an IRC "bouncer," keeping users connected to the IRC network even if all their devices are off. Users of IRCCloud's free tier may connect to two IRC networks and will remain connected for up to 2 hours of inactivity. Paid plans are also available that provide permanent connections to an unlimited number of networks. IRCCloud's web client has been tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Internet Explorer. They provide mobile apps for both Android and iOS devices.

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

Education Tutorials

Iowa State University Extension & Outreach: Childcare and Development ---
https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Topic/Home-and-Family/Child-Care-Development?S=0&A=0&F=0

Institute of Physics: Reports: Gender Balance ---
http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/support/girls_physics/reports-and-research/page_63816.html

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

NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back even more jaw-dropping photos of the planet's tireless storm clouds ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-clouds-storms-pictures-nasa-juno-mission-perijove-13-2018-5

From Outer Space:  Cities at Night Science ---
http://citiesatnight.org/

The Ancient Astronomy of Stonehenge Decoded
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/pick-solstice-new-video-considers-astronomical-importance-stonehenge.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Seriously:  Dandruff may have contributed to the extinction of danseurs ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04443-x?elqTrackId=3b6ad366678946e6ae4ec9e9ce37ad0f&elq=e2ee3752b27a45daab5ecf14da5c4d99&elqaid=19284&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8795

Hummingbirds: Masters in Flight Videos --- www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/06/hummingbirds-slow-motion-flight-videos

Map of Life (biodiversity) --- https://mol.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

Data Africa --- https://dataafrica.io/

Iowa State University Extension & Outreach: Childcare and Development ---
https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Topic/Home-and-Family/Child-Care-Development?S=0&A=0&F=0

Institute of Physics: Reports: Gender Balance ---
http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/support/girls_physics/reports-and-research/page_63816.html

We Need Diverse Books (including banned books) ---
http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/

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

Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons ---
http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/5426
Bob Jensen's threads on the DMCA ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm#Copyright

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

Math Tutorials

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

Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.) Posted: 30 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/watch-rise-fall-british-empire-animated-time-lapse-map-519-b-c-2014-d.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/23/pythagoras-olympic-games/?mc_cid=86df70181c&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Aristotle’s ethics of virtue offers a flexible philosophy for the 21st century. Yet few people read him today ---
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness

Cooper Hewitt Museum (a fun museum) --- https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/

We Need Diverse Books (including banned books) ---
http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/

Letters from War Social studies (World War II) --- www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/letters-from-war/?utm_term=.f105e3b5794e

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews comes Jewish Warsaw ---
http://warsze.polin.pl/en

Sex lives of Surrealists
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/a-violent-ultimatum-ended-giacomettis-brief-flirtation-with-marlene-dietrich/

Cornell University: Waguih Ghali Unpublished Papers ---
https://ghali.library.cornell.edu/

The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/the-mother-of-all-maps-of-the-father-of-waters.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Winston Churchill’s List of Tips for Surviving a German Invasion: See the Never-Distributed Document (1940) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/winston-churchills-list-tips-surviving-german-invasion-see-never-distributed-document-1940.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video:  The World in Ten Blocks of Toronto --- http://theworldintenblocks.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on Canada --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---Canada

Global Webcomics Web Archive ---
https://archive-it.org/collections/10181

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

Inky Fool Blog (history of the English language) --- http://blog.inkyfool.com/

Why Machine (Language) Translation Matters in the Modern Era ---
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-machine-translation-matters-in-the-modern-era/

. . .

It is estimated that computers translate as many as 600 billion words a day, across the various machine translation (MT) portals. This dwarfs what the localization and professional business translation industry does by a factor of 99. Clearly, global customers need specific information that may not be available in their native tongues, and they will use MT to get at least a gist of what they need to understand.

While many continue to moan about the quality of machine translation tools, we have already reached a point in human history where the substantial bulk of language translation is being done by computers.

Global customers who research products and services can and will get many disparate sources of information that are not controlled by an enterprise to make decisions about whether to buy a product. MT will allow them to get access to non-native language content and instantly obtain translations that are “good enough” to support the personal evaluation process.

In our modern times, we’re experiencing a state of unprecedented connectivity thanks to technology. However, we’re still living under the shadow of the Tower of Babel in terms of global human communication ease. Language remains a barrier in business and marketing. Even though technological devices can quickly and easily connect, humans from different parts of the world often can’t. And traditional translation service offerings simply cannot scale to the needs of the modern enterprise without leveraging technology in a substantial and competent way.

There are many cases where MT just makes sense for business translation needs, and it would be foolish to even attempt multilingual initiatives without competent MT technology as a foundation. Usually, this is true in situations that have some combination of the following factors:

·         A very large volume of source content that simply could not be translated without MT in any useful time frame.

·         A rapid turnaround requirement (days, hours or minutes) for the content to have any value to the people who need translations.

·         A user tolerance for lower quality translations at least in the early stages of information review.

·         A need for information and document triage to identify the highest quality content in cases that involve large collections of documents. (The triage process can also identify the documents that are so important that they need to be translated by people.)

·         Budget constraints that make the cost of traditional translation services unaffordable.

Related Article: Global Customer Experience Requires a Local Touch

Content-Driven Engagement

One can find this combination of requirements in several customer communications-oriented applications, like a technical support knowledge base, ecommerce product listings, customer service material and customer experience reviews for all kinds of products and service experiences. However, in an increasingly digital world, we see the need to be able to process large volumes of business content to identify what is most relevant and valuable for ongoing business needs as well.

 Continued in article

Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages

Music Tutorials

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music

Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Writing Tutorials

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine

CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/

Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots

Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/

May 30, 2018

• Recall: Birth Control Pills Incorrectly Packaged
• Seniors Slow to Embrace Online Access to Doctors
• Artificial Sweeteners Won't Affect Blood Sugar
• Alzheimer's 'Markers' Don't Doom You to Dementia
• Lowe’s Says It Will Ditch Dangerous Solvents
• Thyroid Cancer Survivors at Risk for Heart Disease
• Another Drug to Prevent Migraines Shows Promise
• Tough State Drunk Driving Laws Save Lives
• Too Much Meat, Dairy Tied to Heart Failure Risk

June 2, 2018

• Not All Hospitals Require Flu Shots for Staffers
• Romaine E. Coli Outbreak Over, Blamed for 5 Deaths
• Kids and Sunscreen Harms: Rare But Concerning for Parents
• Vitamin D May Lower Miscarriage Risk
• More Teens Dying, With Drugs and Violence to Blame
• A Nasty Germ That Can Lurk in Favorite Foods
• Walk Briskly to a Longer Life
• 'Face-Aging' Photos Convince Tanners to Shun Sun
• Pot Replacing Tobacco and Booze Among Teens

June 4, 2018

• Not All Hospitals Require Flu Shots for Staffers
• Romaine E. Coli Outbreak Over, Blamed for 5 Deaths
• Kids and Sunscreen Harms: Rare But Concerning for Parents
• Vitamin D May Lower Miscarriage Risk
• More Teens Dying, With Drugs and Violence to Blame
• Walk Briskly to a Longer Life
• A Nasty Germ That Can Lurk in Favorite Foods
• 'Face-Aging' Photos Convince Tanners to Shun Sun
• Pot Replacing Tobacco and Booze Among Teens

 June 7, 2018

• Human Trials Set for Experimental HIV Vaccine
• Weight Loss Balloons Linked to 12 Deaths, FDA Says
• Colonoscopies Can Cause Greater Infection Risk
• Hot Garden Hose Water Poses Scalding Risk
• More Teens Than Ever Would Try Marijuana
• Job Strain Plus Heart Disease a Lethal Mix for Men
• As CBD Oil Flirts with Mainstream, Questions Mount
• Medicare Financial Outlook Worsens
• Stressed Out at Work? Your A-Fib Risk May Rise

June 8, 2018

• Report: Kate Spade Depressed; No Sign of Suicide
• Blood Test Might Predict Preterm Birth
• Snubbed on Social Media? Your Depression Risk May Rise
• Think Twice About Tonsil, Adenoid Removal
• Drug Combo Could Help Women Through Miscarriage
• New BP Rules Could Prevent Many 2nd Strokes: Study
• Opioid Antidote Naloxone Recalled
• Human Trials Set for Experimental HIV Vaccine
• Weight Loss Balloons Linked to 12 Deaths, FDA Says

June 11, 2018

• 'It's Not a Choice:' Trying to Understand Suicide
• Trump Seeks End to Pre-existing Condition Mandate
• No Safety Concerns With Kids' DTaP Combo Vaccine
• Allergies More Common in Kids With Autism
• Travel Host and Author Anthony Bourdain Dead at 61
• Fish Oil May Protect the Youngest Hearts
• Pediatricians Back Flu Shot, Over Nasal Spray
• CDC: Suicide Rates Rising Across U.S.
• Report: Kate Spade Depressed; No Sign of Suicide

June 12, 2018

• Impotent? Maybe You Should See a Heart Doctor
• Strict Gun Laws Lower Gun-Murder Rates in Cities
• Salmonella Prompts Precut Melon Recall in 8 States
• Walkable Neighborhoods May Lower Kids' Asthma Risk
• Coffee May Do Your Liver Good
• Is Your Workplace Making You Fat?
• Americans' Obsession With Sugar Starts in Infancy
• Outbreaks in 36 States Linked to Backyard Poultry
• 'It's Not a Choice:' Trying to Understand Suicide

June 14, 2018

• High BP in Your 50s May Set Stage for Dementia
• Plastic Surgery for Men Surges
• Honey Helps When Kids Swallow Button Batteries
• 5-Year-Old Girl Paralyzed by Tick
• The ‘Dry Drowning’ Debate: What You Need to Know
• U.S. Obesity Rates Rising Again
• Kitchen Towels Laden With Bacteria
• Strict Gun Laws Lower Gun-Murder Rates in Cities
• Impotent? Maybe You Should See a Heart Doctor

View All Health News

A patient was convinced that her runny nose indicated a deeper problem. She was right. Her case brought cerebrospinal fluid into the national spotlight ---
https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-cerebrospinal-fluid/

Humor for June 2018

Steve Martin & Robin Williams Riff on Math, Physics, Einstein & Picasso in a Smart Comedy Routine ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/steve-martin-robin-williams-heady-comedy-routine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Forwarded by Paula

 An Elementary School Teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.

 

Their insight may surprise you.

While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic.

 

1.	Don't change horses	until they stop running.
2.	Strike while the	bug is close.
3.	It's always darkest before	Daylight Saving Time.
4.	Never underestimate the power of	termites.
5.	You can lead a horse to water but	how?
6.	Don't bite the hand that	looks dirty.
7.	No news is	impossible.
8.	A miss is as good as a	Mr.
9.	You can't teach an old dog new	math.
10.	If you lie down with dogs, you'll	stink in the morning.
11.	Love all, trust	me.
12.	The pen is mightier than the	pigs.
13.	An idle mind is	the best way to relax.
14.	Where there's smoke there's	pollution.
15.	Happy the bride who	gets all the presents.
16.	A penny saved is	not much.
17.	Two's company, three's	the Musketeers.
18.	Don't put off till tomorrow what	you put on to go to bed.
19.	Laugh - whole world laughs with you, cry and	you have to blow your nose.
20.	There are none so blind as	Stevie Wonder.
21.	Children should be seen and not	spanked or grounded.
22.	If at first you don't succeed	get new batteries.
23.	You get out of something only what you	see in the picture on the box.
24.	When the blind lead the blind	get out of the way.
25.	A bird in the hand	is going to poop on you.
And the WINNER and last one!
26.	Better late than	pregnant.

Life on the Front Porch Forwarded by Paula

On the first day, God created the dog and said, “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this I will give you a life span of twenty years.”

The dog said, “That’s a long time to be barking.  How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?”

 

And God said that it was good.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said, “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh.. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.”

The monkey said, “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?”

And God again said that it was good.

On the third day, God created the cow and said, “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.”

The cow said, “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?”

And God agreed it was good.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said, “Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.”

But the human said, “Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?

“Okay,” said God, “You asked for it.”

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information. I’m doing it as a public service. If you are looking for me, I will be on the front porch.

Forwarded by Paula

An Irish priest was transferred to Texas.

Father O'Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new west Texas mission parish. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside.

He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station.

The conversation went like this:

"Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?"

"And the best of the day te yerself. This is Father O'Malley at St. Ann's Catholic Church. There's a jackass lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o'yer lads to take care of the matter?"

Sergeant Jones, considering himself to be quite a wit and recognizing the foreign accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good father, replied, "Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!"

There was dead silence on the line for a long moment.

Father O'Malley then replied: "Aye, 'tis certainly true; but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first, which is the reason for me call."

Humor June 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0618.htm

Humor May 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0518.htm

Humor April 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0418.htm

Humor February 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0218.htm

Humor January 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0118.htm 

Humor December 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1217.htm

Humor November 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1117.htm

Humor October 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1017.htm

Humor September 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0917.htm 

Humor August 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0817.htm

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

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

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

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/

Video on One Possible Future of Higher Education ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU3FjxY2uQ

Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

• With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
• With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
• With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
• With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm

How Accountics Scientists Should Change: 
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm 

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock and Calendar --- http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones --- http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) --- http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
         Also see http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
         Facts about population growth (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth --- http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq --- http://www.costofwar.com/ 
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons --- http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.

Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

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

Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/

Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

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.

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