Tidbits on August 30, 2018
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Part
1 of My Tribute to Barbara Serafini
Barbara succumbed to cancer on August 27, 2018
Barbara's grandparents on the Elm Farm were among the earliest pioneers of Sugar
Hill
Part 1 of the History of the Homestead Inn Torn Down in 2015
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set01/Set01.htm
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USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
The Guardian's Audio Long Reads ---
www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read
Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration
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
Top 365 Songs of the 20th Century ---
https://www.jborden.com/top-365-songs-of-the-20th-century/
Aretha’s Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues
Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/arethas-franklins-pitch-perfect-performance-blues-brothers-film-reinvigorated-career-1980.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
David Bowie’s “Heroes” Delightfully Performed by the Ukulele
Orchestra of Great Britain ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hear-eight-ukulele-cover-david-bowies-heroes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Sound Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/conserve-the-sound.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018
From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018
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 incredible life of John McCain in photos ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-biography-2017-12
Jim Borden and his family spent three months in Amsterdam ---
https://www.jborden.com/the-dutch-seem-to-do-things-the-right-way/
Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral
populations ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4
Underslos Museum: Tanum Rock Art Research Centre Arts
www.rockartscandinavia.com
The Uffizi Digitization Project (art history) ---
www.digitalsculpture-uffizi.org
Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now
Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hundreds-classical-sculptures-uffizi-gallery-now-digitized-put-online-explore-collection-3d-interactive-scans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
ArtCurious Podcast ---
www.artcuriouspodcast.com
Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art
from Taipei’s National Palace Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-70000-high-resolution-images-chinese-art-taipeis-national-palace-museum.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map
Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-the-history-of-cartography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
These 18 beautiful, vintage cars are worth millions and are up
for auction at Pebble Beach ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-cars-for-auction-at-pebble-beach-2018-2018-8
The data behind the search for MH370 (oceanic visualization
research) ---
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214
Islamic Calligraphy ---
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/
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
Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle ---
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/index.html
The Guardian's Audio Long Reads ---
www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read
Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php
LitCharts produces plot summaries for novels and plays with interactive tools
such as searchable quotes, color-coded "theme wheels," and longitudinal study
techniques such as "theme tracking." Our database includes study guides for
newer and lesser-known works, coverage that CliffsNotes and SparkNotes do not
offer ---
https://www.litcharts.com/
The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/the-new-york-public-library-puts-classic-stories-on-instagram.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are
Now Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/encyclopedia-science-fiction-17500-entries-things-sci-fi-now-free-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
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Political Quotations on August 30, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations083018.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob
Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
The Almanac of Higher Education 2018-19 ---
https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/The-Almanac-of-Higher/214?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5b949e163436414ea5c3f2f9d6049129&elq=4a508df39df74014998a842cbbff2926&elqaid=20250&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9481
Numbers tell the story of the current state of higher education: the results
of its diversity efforts, the decline in enrollment, and the growth in
student debt. Among nearly 90 tables and charts are 30 that show which
colleges have done the best on various measures, like increasing enrollment,
graduating students on time, enrolling the most online students, and
spending the most on research.
To purchase a
copy of the Almanac in print or as a downloadable interactive PDF, visit the
Chronicle Store.
Beloit College Mindset List of the Class of 2022 ---
http://themindsetlist.com/2018/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2022/
This morning I feel a whole lot older.
The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up --- Again
https://www.wired.com/story/social-science-reproducibility/
Evaluating the (not-so-great) replicability of social science
experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z
Outrage and Confusion Over the $999 Price of an Introductory Accounting
Textbook ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/08/28/universitys-999-online-textbook-creates-confusion-and-outrage?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=55a2a7bcd3-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-55a2a7bcd3-197565045&mc_cid=55a2a7bcd3&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and
governments over the next five years ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/iot-forecast-book-2018-7
The Internet of Things is
fueling the data-based economy and bridging the divide between physical and
digital worlds.
Consumers, companies, and
governments will install more than 40 billion IoT devices worldwide through
2023.
The next five years will
mark a pivotal transformation in how companies and jurisdictions operate,
and how consumers live.
Continued in article
Big Data Trends You Can Study ---
https://pureb2b.com/blog/big-data-trends-2018/
Who was John McCain? The best answer is in
this 18-year-old David Foster Wallace essay ---
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/26/17783258/john-mccain-david-foster-wallace-essay
10 of John McCain's best quotes on courage,
happiness, and character ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-best-quotes-2018-5
John McCain's Farewell Letter ---
Click Here
Harvey Mudd College (science and engineering) re-evaluates its tough
curriculum ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Liberal-Arts-College-Is/244383/?cid=db&elqTrackId=a914105b22f349659a56605ce7350c80&elq=55bc9fc924c54662af98a8fbc889870a&elqaid=20311&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9513
Jensen Comment
Let's hope the SEALS and Marines don't follow suit by going soft on us. I'm
being a bit unfair here because, unlike the military, depending on each other
for life or death in battle is not quite the same as higher education. However,
a great college that built its reputation on being tough should not, in my
opinion, go too soft on the curriculum.
A reputation for toughness is one way to compete against the grade-inflated
Ivy League universities that now rely more on admission standards than toughness
for reputation. Almost everybody graduates com laude or better from
Harvard.
After Five Years, a Bold Set of K-12 Teacher-Prep Standards Still Faces
Challenges ---
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/08/29/after-five-years-a-bold-set-of.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=58593364&U=2290378
Largest in School's History: $50 Million Gift for Saint Louis
University (includes funding for basic research, applied economics research, and
a chess program) ---
https://www.slu.edu/news/2018/august/historic-gift.php
Foxconn, known for manufacturing Apple’s iPhones in China, is opening a
factory in Wisconsin. Yesterday, it announced that it was investing $100 million
in research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ---
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2018-08-27/foxconn-uw-madison-leaders-to-make-announcement
A wind turbine was blown over by a typhoon in Japan ---
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/wind-turbine-blown-over-by-wind/
Conservatism ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
Chronicle of Higher Education: What Was Conservatism?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Was-Conservatism-/238345?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ad12bf5ef1ef492e9ebff19bdb2489b4&elq=a70b3a81f49f4bae94da4734a1f51227&elqaid=20280&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9495
. . .
And so conservatism has been routed by Trumpism, a
movement driven by all the resentments that the right has dredged up over
the decades with none of the ideas that once animated it. As Nash put it,
there is a "return of the repressed" at work in the rise of the alt-right,
with all the ugliness that Buckley once purged now on full display at
rallies and on the internet. Perhaps there is an intellectual core buried
within the alt-right; if so, that world awaits its Nash.
It took scholars decades to fully embrace the
insight at the core of Nash’s classic work: that over the course of the 20th
century, the intellectual and ideological energy that had driven the left to
great heights and even greater depths had shifted, and it was conservatives
who came to command the high country of the mind. Unless conservatism
experiences a renaissance that restores its original spirit of intellectual
vitality, the same will not be true of the 21st century.
Jensen Comment
In higher education around the globe conservatism was routed from campuses
and the media decades before Trump rose to power.
It was uprooted heavily by barriers to entry in doctoral programs and faculty
hiring in the latter part of the 20th Century.
The Closing of the American Mind: What Allan Bloom Got Right ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Scroll down to the Gitlin article
This is the year that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles began to really show
some momentum ---
https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/ups-to-deploy-fuel-cellbattery-hybrids-as-zeroemission-delivery-trucks
Jensen Comment
These fuel cells are becoming competitive in trucks such as UPS trucks in
Austin.
Amazon: 15 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about Amazon
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-facts-2017-4
Was Saturday's SAT Compromised?
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/08/27/reports-circulate-saturdays-sat-included-questions-available-asia?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=086fff4ec0-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-086fff4ec0-197565045&mc_cid=086fff4ec0&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Default Rates: The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined on
Over $1.5 Trillion in Outstanding Loans
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion&elqTrackId=69b3ece56aa84a079632bb719e785b52&elq=b6d91dce159f4e9c8a9119a53a688685&elqaid=20274&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9492
Jensen Comment
To put $1.5+ trillion into perspective the entire discretionary USA budget for
everything is #1.2 trillion.
The University of Kentucky might give a green light for teachers to profit
from selling their own assigned writings to their students ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/08/university-of-kentucky-faculty-committee-recommends-that-tenured-professor-not-be-fired-for-assignin.html
Jensen Comment
This does not appear to yet be a done deal, but it's not what many (most?)
universities condone due to moral hazard. There are alternatives such as giving
the profits back to students or the university itself. \
Accounting scholars know that there's more to this debate than just profits.
In very large courses (think multiple section courses with 2,000+ students each
term) sales of textbooks at a single university can go a long way toward recover
of fixed costs. The publishers still benefit from fixed cost recovery even if
the teacher gives a share of the profits back to their (politically correct
singular version) students. Fixed cost recovery could be a
factor in getting the book published in the first place. This could
especially be a factor in specialty books published by university presses where
global sales are often very, very small --- the reason that major publishing
houses won't publish the low-sales volume specialty books.
False Alarm: The Democratic National Committee Was Not Hacked Once
Again ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/08/23/dnc-hacked-again-n2512352?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&profileid=
Employees of San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" are set to earn $71,760 a year,
plus an additional $112,918 in benefits (that's $184,678) ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-employees-make-184000-a-year-2018-8
Jensen Question
So what's the incentive to borrow deep on student loans and go 8-10 years to
college to become a professor or other advanced professional?
Union job protections are rock solid in this line of work.
Europe to ban halogen lightbulbs ---
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/europe-to-ban-halogen-lightbulbs
Thomas Kuhn ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn
Errol Morris ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris
Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Errol Morris ---
http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/thomas-kuhn-threw-an-ashtray-at-me
. . .
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
is one of the most influential academic books ever written—not just in the
history of science, but in how we talk about truth and knowledge and
reality.
Yes, it
became overwhelmingly popular, but as a friend of mine once said to me, “So
did pet rocks.”
Kuhn’s popular because of his phrase, “the paradigm shift.” The idea,
roughly, is that Einstein came along and displaced Newton. He superseded the
old view about the universe and now Newtonians couldn’t talk with Einstein’s
people because they had two fundamentally different versions of reality.
And this
is nonsense because of course scientists talk to each other all the time. We
are endlessly changing the nature of science without losing our ability to
communicate with each other about it. It’s inconceivable to me that Newton
and Einstein, if they had the opportunity to get together and carry on a
conversation, would have stared at each other in kind of mute
incomprehension. Yeah, they would have had to discuss this and that, they
would have argued about various, sundry things. But to say that they could
not communicate about science and about the nature of the physical world is
nonsense.
Two hundred years ago, 99 percent of human idiocy went unrecorded. Now we
have the Internet.
So Kuhn’s idea, correct me if I’m wrong, is that to some degree we’re always
trapped inside of our own biases, our own theories. We can’t see beyond the
paradigm. And this stays on until a new paradigm comes along and then our
view becomes outdated.
Yep.
That is such a concise statement. I applaud your concision.
And that idea, to you, is not just wrong, it’s morally wrong?
I would turn it around. It’s morally wrong and it’s also just wrong. There
is the idea, “Do we have access to the world around us, or are we just
trapped inside of our own heads?” You know, I have this ball of neurological
protoplasm inside my skull, cerebrating, and what would make you think that
this would give me access to the world around me? But there’s another,
powerful intuition: As limited as we are, as confused as we are, we can
still search for truth, and we can come to a deeper understanding of
ourselves and the world around us.Continued in article
Amazon Alexa ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa
As more universities give students voice-controlled Alexa devices,
observers and critics ask why ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/22/meet-new-kid-campus-alexa?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d4383a1059-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d4383a1059-197565045&mc_cid=d4383a1059&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Inside Higher Ed: Praise for Trump's Pick for Key Higher Ed Post ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/22/state-higher-ed-leaders-praise-pick-key-us-higher-ed-post?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d4383a1059-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d4383a1059-197565045&mc_cid=d4383a1059&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
MIT: Improving Strategic Execution With Machine Learning ---
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/improving-strategic-execution-with-machine-learning/
The Only Way for Academic Research Respect is Replication
The Guardian: “Open science is now the only way forward for psychology”
---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2018/08/24/in-the-news-the-guardian-august-23-2018/
Accountancy: Where Equations = Truth
Replication is a rare happening in academic accounting research journals where
leading journals editors (thankfully not all) protect their authors and
referees by discouraging submissions of commentaries and as well as
replications ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
Who Gets to Read the Research Taxpayers Pay For?
https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-gets-to-read-the-research-taxpayers-fund.html
Canada: Freedom of information request for York University eresource
costs denied ---
https://www.miskatonic.org/2018/08/22/york-eresource/
Harvard University says it can't afford
journal publishers' prices (at least not from price rip off publishers)---
http://lisnews.org/node/43679/
Exasperated
by rising
subscription
costs
charged by
academic
publishers,
Harvard
University
has
encouraged
its faculty
members to
make their
research
freely
available
through open
access
journals and
to resign
from
publications
that keep
articles
behind
paywalls.
A memo from
Harvard
Library to
the
university's
2,100
teaching and
research
staff called
for action
after
warning it
could no
longer
afford the
price hikes
imposed by
many large
journal
publishers,
which bill
the library
around $3.5m
a year.
From
Harvard
University says
it can't afford
journal
publishers'
prices | Science
| The Guardian
Bob Jensen's threads on how for-profit journals are ripping off
research libraries ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ScholarlyJournals
Chronicle of Higher Ed: Why Learning Chinese Makes So Much Sense ---
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/08/21/chinese-among-high-school-seniors-and-in-the-movies/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=91be1a45faff41e3a9abe7ad74d09449&elq=bbd3481e14194902881c739c740907ea&elqaid=20219&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9460
Jensen Comment
The article surprised me by stating that until now German is the most popular
second language in the U.K. high schools. Without doing any research on the
matter, my guess is that Spanish is the most popular second language in the USA.
In Canada perhaps it's French, although there may be a difference between
eastern Canada and western Canada.
The investing app comes with an interesting promise: make money in the
stock market without paying a single cent in commissions (Stay Away) ---
Click Here
MoneySmart: Teaching Resources From the Australian Government ---
www.moneysmart.gov.au/teaching/teaching-resources
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/
When you need to look up data in a spreadsheet and HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP
won’t work, another approach (INDEX MATCH) might do the job ---
https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2018/aug/microsoft-excel-index-match-201819265.html?utm_source=mnl:globalcpa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22Aug2018
Tennessee's tuition-free community college program is proving popular with
adults (expected 8,000 and got 30,000+ initially) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/24/tennessee-sees-thousands-apply-tuition-free-adult-plan?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5cb126ef99-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5cb126ef99-197565045&mc_cid=5cb126ef99&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
What is not clear is whether the most expensive programs have the capacity to
serve a surge in applicants. The most expensive courses include science courses
like biology with lab components)
How to mislead with statistics
It's cheaper to enroll people in Medicaid than to subsidize their private
insurance ---
Scroll down at
http://ritholtz.com/2018/08/10-sunday-reads-126/
Jensen Comment
This graph is misleading because it only looks at the short-term annual expense.
Subsidizing private insurance only covers short-term medical expense annually
and does not cover long-term nursing care. The two-ton guerilla is the excluded
Medicaid coverage of long-term nursing care that even Medicare won't cover. This
also is misleading in that private insurance might cover treatments by doctors
and hospitals that will not treat Medicaid patients.
The U.K. Is About To Regulate Online Porn, and Free Speech Advocates Are
Terrified ---
Click Here
The EU wants to use the threat of fines to force the tech giants to eliminate
terrorist content from their platforms ---
https://www.ft.com/content/a4068e88-a22a-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce36e4
Jensen Comment
The wonderful Wikipedia for a was time blacked out Europe due to prior
regulations on copyrights. This new round of EU regulations may force giant
search engines (think Google) and other tech giants out Europe. The EU seems to
be trying to regulate Europeans back to the Dark Ages by demanding perfections
that are probably just not feasible in the networking age. Apple is seeking to
conform with China's censorship demands. Maybe Apple, Google, Facebook, and
others can conform to the EU's censorship demands For now Wikipedia ended its
blackout across Euorple. Not far down the road will be the burning of books in
European libraries.
A Third of Teenagers Don't Read Books (at all) for Pleasure Anymore ---
Click Here
Jensen Comment
I suspect the real fraction is much less than a third. When I'm waiting in
hospitals and doctors offices, the difference between me and most of the younger
people around me is that I will have my nose in a book. The folks around me are
mostly playing video games or texting on mobile devices. Admittedly, however, I
read less for pleasure at home than was the case in my earlier life. Erika and I
now watch one movie per day --- much more movie watching than before we retired.
I've not read War and Peace for decades, but today I ordered the NetFlix
series (staring Anthony Hopkins). It's so much more time saving to watch the
movie than to read War and Peace when the time left in life grows more
precious.
I spend much more time on the Internet now than when I
still received paychecks for my time. On the Internet I rarely read books
cover-to-cover, although I do usually have at least one book that I chip away at
sporadically on my PC's Kindle software. I always keep a poetry book beside my
keyboard. The current book sitting there is The Breath of Parted Lips:
Voices from the Frost Place that was written by multiple visiting poets
about two miles down the road from our cottage. I read and re-read 2-3 poems a
day.
I do scan lots and lots of books and poems and
reviews while on the Internet
Bob Jensen's pointers to tens of millions of free book and poem downloads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Teenagers just don't know what they're missing.
Immigration Since 1840
---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840
Cryptocurrency ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
A member of Congress dipped her toes into crypto — and likely took a big
hit ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/ethereum-litecoin-crypto-purchases-by-representative-tulsi-gabbard-2018-8-1027478098
Basis in Accounting ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_of_accounting
MIT: How to tell if you’re arguing with a Bob (er make that Bot) ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611831/how-to-tell-if-youre-arguing-with-a-bot/
Y Combinator Startup Course for Entrepeneurs is different from Y Combinator's
core accelerator programme, which has helped famous startups such as Airbnb,
Reddit, and Stripe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator
Y Combinator, a startup course that's harder to get into than Harvard,
accepts all 15,000 applicants into Startup School after a major screwup ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-accepted-15000-startups-into-startup-school-2018-8
Journals That Publish Any Article Submitted with the Required Fee
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/10/predatory-publishers-the-journals-who-churn-out-fake-science
Academics seeking to advance their careers have had hundreds of thousands
of their articles published for a fee in journals that either deserve suspicion
or are outright phony.---
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/b-c-economist-locked-in-grim-battle-against-deceptive-scholarship
Jensen Comment
Then there's the questionable
very high-fee
"conference" in an exotic tourist locale sponsored by a phony outfit that
publishes the delivered papers in a proceedings book. This begs the question of
why every proposal is accepted for the conference. And when a session at the
conference has four speakers those four speakers comprise the entire
audience for that session. Sometimes the last speaker ends up with no audience,
but he or she does not mind because it's a publication on a resume and a great
family vacation paid for by each speaker's university.
How to Mislead With Statistics
Students in a new Rutgers study indicate pay doesn't matter in selecting a major
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/17/rutgers-study-pay-doesnt-affect-students-major-choice?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e04f10c3ed-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e04f10c3ed-197565045&mc_cid=e04f10c3ed&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
I did not investigate details of this survey. Hence I can only speculate based
upon my 40 years of experience in teaching mostly accountancy. There are two
types of pay. One is starting salary. The other is long run opportunity salary.
Students now pay a price for majoring in accountancy. It's not possible to
take the uniform (nationwide) CPA examination without getting 150 credits which,
in nearly all instances, entails getting a masters degree in accountancy.
Secondly, there are a lot of accounting, tax, ethics, law, computer, auditing,
and other courses that must be taken before being allowed to sit for the CPA
examination, although the numbers of such courses vary among the 50 states. And
on top of that starting accounting salaries are not notably high when compared
with average starting salaries for students with degrees in engineering,
pharmacy, etc.
This begs the question of why do students major in accounting?
The answer is somewhat complicated. Firstly, accounting graduates are almost
(not entirely) assured of getting multiple job offers before they even graduate.
Secondly, accounting majors are attracted to internships that are usually
offered in the senior year, internships that usually lead to job offers during
the internships. Thirdly, and probably most importantly, accounting firms tend
to offer tremendous training programs and on-the-job exposure to multiple
clients, clients that in turn often end up offering jobs to younger graduates
still in training by public accounting firms.
My point is that high starting salaries do
not attract most accounting majors. What attracts them are lots of job openings
at graduation date combined with long-run opportunity trails, some of which lead
to the executive suites.
What attracts accounting majors is the virtual assurance of getting a job
after earning their masters degrees and the tremendous and varied career choices
that those starting jobs lead to further down the road. Being an accounting
graduate can be a great track to becoming a highly paid executive. Plus there's
the possible choice of going on for a Ph.D. after some years of professional
experience where accounting Ph.D.s are the highest paid graduates going into
academe (there's a tremendous shortage among colleges for tenure-track
candidates in accountancy).
I might also add that "pay" is somewhat relative. For example, why do so many
students major in KI-12 education. Some just want to serve the world as
teachers. But others think ahead to to earning salaries and still having 2-3
months each summer for raising a family, writing books, farming, or teaching
summer school to earn added "pay" not measured in the salary data not shown in
to students in the above Rutgers survey.
Lastly, I might mention that students are sometimes attracted to majors where
they're more likely to graduate with high grade averages. What limits the number
of accounting graduates is that accounting is usually a tougher major other
majors in the business school. In a top engineering school students who do
poorly the first year often track into other majors including business degrees.
Weaker business schools sometimes are in universities that have very tough
engineering schools.
Also the some majors are so popular that universities limit the number of
those majors by setting minimum grade averages for those majors. It's not
uncommon for universities to require a 3.0 gpa or higher to major in accounting
as an undergraduate. And students who want to sit for the CPA exam must qualify
for admission to a masters program that usually entails having a high grade
average plus a respectable score on the GMAT or GRE.
University of Akron phases out 10 Ph.D. programs, 33 master’s programs, 20
bachelor’s programs, and 17 associate-degree programs ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/U-of-Akron-Will-Phase-Out-80/244293?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5b623e7d3ea64f0b948a51f01beee615&elq=02014c7c90d84f85b87db2ff8a1ed80d&elqaid=20157&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9416
St. Louis University Is Installing Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Dots
Campus-Wide ---
http://fortune.com/2018/08/15/amazon-alexa-echo-back-to-school-dorm-room/
Dartmouth College: Star researcher in health policy plagiarized a
colleague, probe says ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/08/20/star-researcher-in-health-policy-plagiarized-a-colleague-probe-says/
Bob Jensen's threads on professors who cheat ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
SciRev is a resource for academic researchers of all disciplines that
allows researchers to share their experiences of submitting articles to
peer-reviewed journals ---
https://scirev.org/
The site lists a huge amount of journals, but many of the journal editors failed
to submit data, especially in accountancy accountancy.
Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral populations
---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4
The 30-Year Manhunt for China’s Most Elusive Serial Killer ---
https://newrepublic.com/article/150576/30-year-manhunt-chinas-elusive-serial-killer
Hume the Humane ---
https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=116979c112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-116979c112-68951505
Bob Jensen's threads on philosophy and related topics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
New York U.’s School of Medicine Goes Tuition-Free (irrespective of need
or merit) ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/New-York-U-s-School-of/244292?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9e4111ed38114b98be7f9b7845bdb7e9&elq=02014c7c90d84f85b87db2ff8a1ed80d&elqaid=20157&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9416
Jensen Comment
This begs the question of how a medical school that is not funded by taxpayers
can afford such an enormous expense. Firstly there's endowment money. Secondly,
there are "profits" to tap from medical services performed by the medical
school. The question is how long before other top medical schools will follow
suit.
From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018
ProtonVPN ---
https://protonvpn.com/
ProtonVPN is a virtual private network service
produced by the company that runs the ProtonMail high-security email
service. ProtonVPN is similarly designed to be a high-security VPN suitable
for journalists and political activists. The service exclusively uses
ciphers designed for Perfect Forward Secrecy, which means that a compromised
encryption key cannot be used to decrypt past sessions. ProtonVPN's parent
company is based in Switzerland, a country with famously strict privacy
laws. Switzerland is not a member of either the five eyes or the fourteen
eyes global surveillance networks. ProtonVPN also includes a kill switch
feature that will disable internet service entirely when the VPN connection
unexpectedly drops. Many other VPN systems react to a connection drop as if
it were a deliberate shutdown of the VPN and begin sending traffic over the
regular internet. ProtonVPN's free tier allows access from a single device
from up to 3 countries. Paid plans offer more devices and higher speeds.
Client software is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers as well
as Android and iOS mobile devices.
Global Math Department ---
http://globalmathdepartment.org/
The Global Math Department is an informal network of
mathematics instructors who met online (many blog about their instructional
techniques and are active on Twitter) and decided to create a series of
free, open webinars designed for use by other instructors. These webinars
cover topics such as coding in math class and teaching students to make
mathematical connects. Instructors can participate in live webinars each
Tuesday evening at 9:00 PM EST; alternatively, anyone may view recordings of
all past webinars on this website. To learn about upcoming webinars, one can
check out the website's calendar. The Global Math Department also publishes
a weekly online newsletter that highlights articles related to math
instruction and features digital tools that can be used in the classroom. In
addition to curriculum and instruction ideas, there are also many tips about
blogging and using Twitter on this website.
From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018
Quassel Science ---
https://quassel-irc.org/
Quassel is a cross-platform, graphical Internet Relay
Chat (IRC) client. Users can opt to run the core of the application as a
standalone server on an always-on machine, which they then connect to with
the Quassel client. In this client/server mode, Quassel functions similarly
to Irssi or WeeChat inside GNU Screen or tmux; users maintain a persistent
connection to their IRC networks that they can splice into from any of their
computers. Quassel can also run in a monolithic mode, where the client and
server are all wrapped up in a single application. In this mode, Quassel is
similar to more traditional chat programs. Quassel executables can be
downloaded from the website for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Many free
operating systems also include Quassel in their package repositories.
Quassel is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License,
with source code available on GitHub.
Chrono Download Manager ---
www.chronodownloader.net
Chrono Download Manager is a Chrome extension that
enhances Chrome's built-in download features. For example, Chrono provides a
"detect all images/audio/video on this page" button that will generate a
list of resources it could download. Users may then narrow this list by file
type or regular expression filtering on file names. Download rules can also
be configured to sort files into different folders based on file type, file
name, and other attributes. The FAQ section on the Chrono website provides
detailed documentation on the rule system along with examples. Chrono
Download Manager is available for Google Chrome via the Chrome Web Store
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and
Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
MoneySmart: Teaching Resources From the Australian Government ---
www.moneysmart.gov.au/teaching/teaching-resources
Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration
Nature's Notebook ---
www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: BirdSleuth K-12: Free Webinars for Educators
---
www.birdsleuth.org/free-webinars
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/
Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers
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
Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration
Aquatic Invasions ---
www.aquaticinvasions.net
The data behind the search for MH370 (oceanic visualization research) ---
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214
Tracking Cuckoos to Africa... and Back Again ---
www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking
Nature's Notebook ---
www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
The Super Bowl of Beekeeping Science ---
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/magazine/the-super-bowl-of-beekeeping.html
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: BirdSleuth K-12: Free Webinars for Educators
---
www.birdsleuth.org/free-webinars
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
Immigration Since 1840 Social studies dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840
---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840
Naonaiyaotit Traditional Knowledge Project Atlas (Canada Native Americans)
--- www.ntkp.ca
Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php
USA Wildfires ---
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/usa-wildfires/
MediaNOLA (New Orleans History) ---
http://medianola.org/
The Caribbean Memory Project ---
www.caribbeanmemoryproject.com
Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers
Rainbow History Project (LGBT) ---
www.rainbowhistory.org
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018
Global Math Department ---
http://globalmathdepartment.org/
The Global Math Department is an informal network of
mathematics instructors who met online (many blog about their instructional
techniques and are active on Twitter) and decided to create a series of
free, open webinars designed for use by other instructors. These webinars
cover topics such as coding in math class and teaching students to make
mathematical connects. Instructors can participate in live webinars each
Tuesday evening at 9:00 PM EST; alternatively, anyone may view recordings of
all past webinars on this website. To learn about upcoming webinars, one can
check out the website's calendar. The Global Math Department also publishes
a weekly online newsletter that highlights articles related to math
instruction and features digital tools that can be used in the classroom. In
addition to curriculum and instruction ideas, there are also many tips about
blogging and using Twitter on this website.
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
Hume the Humane ---
https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=116979c112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-116979c112-68951505
The Uffizi Digitization Project (art history) ---
www.digitalsculpture-uffizi.org
The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/the-new-york-public-library-puts-classic-stories-on-instagram.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral populations ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4
Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers
Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put
Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hundreds-classical-sculptures-uffizi-gallery-now-digitized-put-online-explore-collection-3d-interactive-scans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
ArtCurious Podcast ---
www.artcuriouspodcast.com
The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever
Undertaken,” Is Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-the-history-of-cartography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle ---
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/index.html
Immigration Since 1840 Social studies dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840
---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840
The Brilliant Line (engraving history) ---
http://mantis.risdmuseum.org/Brilliant-Line/
Historical Collections of the Great Lakes ---
www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/collections/hcgl.html
MediaNOLA (New Orleans History) ---
http://medianola.org/
A Liberian Journey ---
http://liberianhistory.org/
Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php
LitCharts produces plot summaries for novels and plays with interactive tools
such as searchable quotes, color-coded "theme wheels," and longitudinal study
techniques such as "theme tracking." Our database includes study guides for
newer and lesser-known works, coverage that CliffsNotes and SparkNotes do not
offer ---
https://www.litcharts.com/
USA Wildfires ---
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/usa-wildfires/
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/
The Caribbean Memory Project ---
www.caribbeanmemoryproject.com
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
Rainbow History Project (LGBT) ---
www.rainbowhistory.org
Islamic Calligraphy ---
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/
Underslos Museum: Tanum Rock Art Research Centre Arts
www.rockartscandinavia.com
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
The Legendary Language of the Appalachian “Holler” ---
https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018
Bob Jensen's threads on free mu, sic 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
V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/v-s-naipaul-creates-list-7-rules-beginning-writers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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/
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Humor for August 2018
How Comedians Are Turning #MeToo Into Laughs ---
Click Here
College Humor ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CollegeHumor
College Humor ---
http://www.collegehumor.com/
his video forwarded by Paula is not only funny it shows how most of really
don't have the video-making skills of the true, and very patient, pros in making
videos ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/164d430b30f86dbd?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1
CBS News: Zoo accused of painting donkeys to look like zebras
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoo-accused-of-painting-donkeys-to-look-like-zebras/
Amazon facial recognition 'wrongly' matches 28 members of Congress with
criminal mugshots ---
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/amazon-facial-recognition-wrongly-matches-28-members-of-congress-with-criminal-mugshots
Mark Twain said members of Congress are the most criminal class in America
21 jokes Obama made in office that had his daughters cringing ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/dad-jokes-obama-2018-8
Man busted on moped with $100+ worth of Walmart steaks in pants, Nash
deputies say ---
https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/man-busted-on-moped-with-100-worth-of-walmart-steaks-in-pants-nash-deputies-say/1335279363
Jensen Comment
Gives a whole new meaning to rump roasts.
The case for puns as the most elevated display of wit ---
https://qz.com/1344927/the-case-for-puns-as-the-most-elevated-display-of-wit/
Here are a few things that are
effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting.
And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by
the Bay. Straws. Fur coats. Bottled water. Eating at work. Vaping liquids.
Upholstered furniture. Plastic bags. Pet stores. Electric scooters. Coffee cups
and packing peanuts. Tropical fish. The McDonald’s Happy Meal ---
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270883/san-francisco-bans-everything-daniel-greenfield
Jensen Comment
I think banned "eating at work" means eating free meals provided by the employer
(a move to support restaurants). You can still bring your lunch box and a
thermos. I don't understand banning bottled water, but it's probably the plastic
bottles that are banned. You can bring your own water and coffee in a thermos
and drink out of the lid. It's best to place store merchandise behind
unbreakable glass walls. It would also be best to wear plastic baggies over your
shoes when walking on the streets, but plastic baggies are banned. Jumping is
the new craze on SF streets --- that and sliding. Scooters became a popular
means of pushing through the poop until the scooters were banned. Changing a
bike tire can be hazardous to your health
From the
CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on July
30, 2018
Walmart Inc.
is exploring a
subscription video-streaming service
that
would seek to challenge
Netflix Inc.
and
Amazon.com Inc.
by offering programming that targets Middle America, according to people
familiar with the plans.
Jensen Comment
Aside from using the F-word less than 1,000 times per movie, I'm not sure what
Middle America programming entails. If Walmart decides to produce movies it has
an advantage in producing both comedies and erotica. All it has to do is use
it's own security camera footage of how people are dressed in Walmart stores ---
https://www.providr.com/now/worst-walmart-customers/
Humor August 2018---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0818.htm
Humor July 2018---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0718.htm
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 March 2018---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0318.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/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
-
With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at
http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
AECM is an email Listserv list which
provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software
which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the
college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and
peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets,
multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base
programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for
accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting
education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial
accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing,
doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics)
research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
|
CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of
all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an
unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments,
ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed.
Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L
or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for
a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional
accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
education. Others will be denied access. |
Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA.
This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ
initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA. |
AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as
accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed
assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and
taxation. |
Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag
[RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 ---
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and
the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
Counts
Yes you may mention info on
your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any
CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is
possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not
have access to the files and other items posted.
Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in
top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and
in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I
will get the request to join.
Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage
people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then
via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in
your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the
inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.
We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in
California.... ]
Please encourage your members
to join our listserve.
If any questions let me know.
Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) ---
http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some
Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice
timeline of accounting history ---
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All
my online pictures ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu