Tidbits on November 15, 2018, 2018
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Pictures of Our Crab Apples versus Cranberries versus Cherries
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CranberriesCherries/Set02/Set02ofBerries.htm  

 

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

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

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

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

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

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

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




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

TED Talk:  The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w

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 

Hear How Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Would Sound If Sung by Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra & 38 Other Artists ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/hear-how-queens-bohemian-rhapsody-would-sound-if-sung-by-johnny-cash-david-bowie.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A Map of the U.S. Created Out of 1,000 Song Titles That Reference Cities, States, Landmarks & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/map-u-s-created-1000-song-titles-reference-cities-states-landmarks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Story of Outlaw Country in 33 Songs ---
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-story-of-outlaw-country-in-33-songs/

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 Library of Congress Makes Thousands of Fabulous Photos, Posters & Images Free to Use & Reuse --- 
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLWxTLCfGRCRbnxpQQmwxDTdF 
A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries --- 
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/prepare-online-database-600-overlooked-female-artists-15th-19th-centuries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 
The Art Institute of Chicago: Collection --- www.artic.edu/collection 
To capture the extent of California's wildfires, you need to see them from space --- 
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612413/to-capture-the-extent-of-californias-wildfires-you-need-to-see-them-from-space/?utm_source=TR&utm_content=11.14&utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=f8417f091d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_14_12_52&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-f8417f091d-153727301 
Malibu Burning --- https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/11/malibu-burning.html 
Before-and-after photos show the devastating destruction in Malibu as the California wildfires rage on --- 
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-wildfires-photos-malibu-woolsey-fire-2018-11#malibu-is-home-to-some-of-the-nations-most-expensive-properties-1 
Great Photos of Earth and Moon --- https://www.businessinsider.com/best-photos-earth-moon-from-deep-space-2017-3 
The Most Beautiful Covered Bridges in America --- 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/the-most-beautiful-covered-bridges-in-america/ss-BBPmpgY?ocid=spartandhp 
Now a pair of Harvard researchers are raising the possibility that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft --- 
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-say-mysterious-oumuamua-object-could-be-alien-spacecraft-ncna931381 

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Art, Science, and Joy of Tea ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/16/a-little-tea-book-sebastian-beckwith/?mc_cid=fde13e0ad8&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

A miniature universe exists just beyond our sight — these award-winning photos capture it in breathtaking detail ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-microscope-images-nikon-small-world-winners-2018-10

Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions ---
http://nautil.us/blog/12-mind_bending-perceptual-illusions

A photographer spent 7 years exploring the barren expanse of America's highways and returned with stark photos documenting the difficult realities of life in the US ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-road-trip-usa-highways-photos-2018-11

US Marine Corps' 243rd Birthday ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-these-awesome-photos-of-the-marines-on-the-corps-birthday-2018-11

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/the-model-book-of-calligraphy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Take a tour of Russia's Admiral Kuznetsov, the world's worst aircraft carrier that recently suffered a massive shipyard accident ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/step-aboard-the-admiral-kuznetsov-russias-only-aircraft-carrier-2018-5

Russia celebrated the 'first defeat of the German army' in World War II on Wednesday — here's what it looked like ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/parade-in-moscow-marks-russias-first-defeat-of-german-army-in-wwii-2018-11#the-soviets-were-in-bad-shape-so-were-the-germans-whose-3-million-man-invasion-force-had-suffered-more-than-500000-casualties-hundreds-of-german-panzers-and-trucks-had-broken-down-since-the-invasion-differences-between-german-and-russian-railways-and-other-logistical-problems-left-the-nazis-short-of-food-fuel-and-ammunition-4

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

The Most Famous Author From Every State ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-authors-from-every-us-state-2015-3

Modernist Archives Publishing Project --- www.modernistarchives.com

An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/an-atlas-of-literary-maps-created-by-great-authors.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 November 15, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations111518.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 25 US colleges that give the most financial aid, ranked ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-colleges-most-financial-aid-ranked-2018-11
 
Jensen Comment
There are some colleges that are free (although they may require work study of some sort) and some that are totally free while in college but require a work commitment after graduation (think military academies). There are also some programs that are free within universities that are not free --- such as the elimination of medical school tuition at NYU.
 
Accountancy doctoral programs are generally free (including room and board allowances), although most have combinations of some terms with research/teaching assistantships and some terms with fellowships. Many other disciplines have somewhat similar doctoral program funding, although these may not be available to all doctoral students like they are available to accounting doctoral students. The sciences often get doctoral student support from research funding that can be quite generous for doctoral students.
 
Of course by definition MOOCs provide free courses online from the most prestigious universities in the world. Certificates and transfer credits may have MOOC fees, but the learning is free without such credentials.
MOOC --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
 
Over 2,000 MOOCs starting in November 2018 ---
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
 
Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
 

Robocall --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall
 
Washington Post:  Are robo-calls driving you crazy? Here’s how to block and beat them ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/are-robo-calls-driving-you-crazy-heres-how-to-block-and-beat-them-for-good/2017/09/11/23c9d6d6-9253-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.1febc9239ca2

How to Mislead With Statistics:  Don't Move to Norway Just Yet
Review: The Mismeasure of Nations: A Review Essay ---
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2808029?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
For example, college is free in Norway but college is only available to about a third of the prospects.  Most cannot get into the universities. ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment

November 13, 2018 reply from Tom Amlie

On a related note, given the dogged determination with which some people try to use the "Nordic Model" as evidence of the desirability of "Democratic Socialism" (obviously an overused, misused, and poorly defined term; perhaps "heavily interventionist" is better), the following is interesting. (From IEA)

http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/Sanandajinima-interactive.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3vxAk0jmS0WHSop2FmBbyfeCZWkUBSfntJUPhp45Ng1KQoeKmdC_IvxDU 

Tom A


Free With Registration:  Graduate & Professional Education: An Ever-Changing Environment booklet ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/booklet/graduate-professional-education-ever-changing-environment


Class Central (MOOCs around the world) --- www.class-central.com

Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs ---
 


Southern New Hampshire University --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_New_Hampshire_University

Chronicle of Higher Education Case Study:  Southern New Hampshire University exceeded expectations when it reported roughly 136,000 active learners this year ---
http://results.chronicle.com/LP=1866?elqTrackId=0C30408036AD6AFDAD13E671B0C35390&elq=e6c8bd48f5f247a2ab050b913f097568&elqaid=21256&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=10022 

Jensen Comment
Both Liberty University and SNHU astound the education world with the way they boomed in enrollments. However, each boomed to over 100,000 students in different ways.


Mapping Student Debt --- https://mappingstudentdebt.org/#/map-1-an-introduction


Investing in China: It’s Still “the Wild, Wild West” ---
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/investing-china-its-still-wild-wild-west?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Stanford-Business-Issue-150-11-11-2018&utm_content=alumni 


Here are safety features you should consider for your next new car, especially in winter climates ---
https://blog.nationwide.com/winter-car-safety-features/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NI&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_content=Regional Marketing:na:na:na:na:ERM81018&utm_term=295418.31911002&WT.dcsvid=31911002

Jensen Comment
We know that four-wheel drive is no protection against skids on ice. I suspect the same is true for automatic braking. Drive very slowly and sensibly on ice. Give me snow any day relative to ice.


Books Wall Streeters think everyone should read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/rising-stars-of-wall-street-book-list-2018-10


Here are the 10 tech gadgets you should buy this holiday season, according to Oprah ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/oprah-favorite-things-2018-tech-gadgets-2018-11

Jensen Comment
I don't agree that most people should buy any or all of these gadgets. Usefulness of gadgets depends both upon your life style and tech-use abilities. I always remembering when I attended a lecture by Jay Leno on the Trinity University Campus. He said he bought a VCR so his parents could record TV shows. He set it up gave them instructions on how easy it was to use. A year later they'd never used the machine.

Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets (there must be some gadgets that excite you) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology
Note that things (think tools) that you put in drawers or boxes are usually forgotten. I hang and many tools and gadgets on the walls of the basement and garage and barn so that I can quickly scan to find them and to be reminded that I do have them.


University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School:  Is There a Replication Crisis in Research?
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/research-replication-crisis/

Bob Jensen's threads on the replication crisis in accountancy research ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm


The Economist's Global MBA Rankings ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/11/the-economist-mba-rankings.html

Four Popular European MBA Programs for Americans ---
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/2018-04-05/4-popular-european-mba-programs-for-americans

US News USA MBA Rankings ---
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools


Most Students Are Afraid To Disagree With Their Professors ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/10/most-students-are-afraid-to-disagree-with-their-professors.html


Unfortunately, Cornell’s lack of transparency about the Brian Wansink  case puts them in the majority. Here’s a piece by our two co-founders, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, about why this veil of secrecy needs to be lifted ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2018/11/06/its-time-to-end-the-code-of-silence-at-universities/

Jensen Comment
An exception is the transparency report from inside Bentley University on its investigation of accounting professor Jim Hunton accused of data fabrication (over 30 of Jim's co-authored research papers were retracted by publishers before and after he resigned from Bentley) ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/06/29/accounting-professor-notches-30-retractions-after-misconduct-finding/#more-29236

Bob Jensen's threads on professors who cheated are at ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize


Jensen Comment
Coffee may not be cost efficient in powering homes of the future, but the technology is available to "make homes run on coffee."

The First House Powered by Coffee ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/first-house-powered-coffee.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Added Jensen Comment
The cog railroad to the top of Mt. Washington is probably the most historic cog railroad in history (depending on weather it still runs most days in season) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CogRailroad/History1/CogRailroadHistory.htm

In the olden days the locomotives pushing people up Mt. Washington were powered coal fired steam engines. The first locomotive to leave the station each day currently is coal steam engine. Passengers on that ride are covered with soot. All subsequent locomotives leaving the station each day are biodiesel.

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


VW is about to launch a direct Tesla competitor The all-electric car will sell for less than $23,000, according to rumors ---
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-strategy-electric/volkswagen-plans-to-sell-electric-tesla-rival-for-less-than-23000-source-idUSKBN1ND2C2?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29&utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=fe5364e9b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_09_11_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-fe5364e9b5-153727301

Jensen Comment
Negotiations are also in process for a VW-Ford partnership in electric vehicles. What Tesla investors seem to be ignoring is what economists call "economies of scale" in automobile manufacturing and distribution ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

My prediction (I'm not an expert) is that Tesla will one day have to partner with a company that has a global automobile factories and dealerships. This maybe should happen before it's too late for Tesla, a company that never yet has had a profitable year. Of course I said the same thing about Amazon years ago, another company that went years without earning a profit. I always thought that a big catalog company like Sears or a retailing giant like Walmart would overwhelm Amazon in the fledgling online market. And today Amazon has over 60% of the enormous online market. So much for my lousy crystal ball.

Amazon benefited enormously by the lack of foresight of its giant retail competitors. I don't think the giant automobile manufacturing firms are as naive about the fledgling electric car market.


Demand for computer languages in job postings in Silicon Valley vs. US ---
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/SyxSe3O27


An Australian Woman Was Charged With Hiding Sewing Needles in Strawberries (appears to be for employer revenge) ---
Click Here


From a Chronicle of Higher Education newsletter on November 13, 2018
It's especially advisable for non-tenured faculty to serve up sodas and cookies for every class

 Student course evaluations, a key part of faculty recruitment and assessment as well as curricular and budgeting decisions, have long drawn criticism from faculty members who say it’s unfair to empower such subjective and uninformed opinions. But in the age of the student as customer, colleges nevertheless continue to rely on them. Now, thanks to new research in Germany, professors can fight back. The researchers, at the University Hospital of Münster, found that “students who had free access to chocolate cookies evaluated both the teacher and the course session significantly more highly than students who did not have access to cookies.

The study, published in Medical Education and noted on Friday by the Annals of Improbable Research, concludes that the shortest distance to students’ hearts may be through their stomachs. Still, the study’s findings could be limited. “Would we have found similar effects,” the researchers ask, “if we had offered the students unpalatable kale and celery, a monogrammed commemorative course T-shirt, or a coffee mug?” The effect of simple reciprocity cannot be discounted, they write, so “future studies” — presumably with more cookies — are warranted.

Bob Jensen's threads on how teaching evaluations over the past five decades contributed significantly to the disgrace grade inflation raising USA median grades from C+ to A- ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
In USA higher education almost everybody is above average.
On RateMyProfessors.com top teachers are usually easy graders.


The Earth’s Population Is Reaching New Heights. Are We Prepared for the Consequences?
https://businessconnectworld.com/2018/09/12/the-earths-population-is-reaching-new-heights/

Jensen Comment

Videos of Interest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U 

Interestingly, Malthus claimed controls on population explosion will be "sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array"

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. —
Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Chapter VII, p. 61[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe#Thomas_Malthus
Jensen Comment
Famine, in turn, is heavily the result of draught such as the climate change that turned much of lush North Africa into a desert. Now it's the turn of South Africa runs runs out of water.

2018:  The New York Review of Books:  The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/

How to Mislead With Statistics
A World With Fewer Babies Spells Economic Trouble ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/humans-having-fewer-babies-is-a-big-economic-problem-quicktake

. . .

The United Nations calculated the world’s population as of 2017 at 7.6 billion people, a number it projects will grow to 11.2 billion at the end of this century, after which it could begin to fall. But a lot of countries are going to shrink before then. With a fertility rate of only 1.6, China’s population will drop 28 percent by 2100, ceding the title of world’s most-populous nation to India, the UN predicts. With a fertility rate of 1.4, Japan’s population will plunge 34 percent by 2100. The U.S.’s headcount is expected to keep growing, despite a low fertility rate of 1.8, because of large numbers of immigrants, though government policies could change that.

Continued in article

Jensen Comment
It's unbelievable that Bloomberg published such a misleading article that the encourages increased birth rates at a time when climate change impacts on food and water shortages are so dire for the next few decades while we await dramatic and technologies to feed and water the existing world populace. The problem is just not climate change. Before climate change was on everybody's mind agricultural aquifers (think Nebraska and Oklahoma) were drying up from over use.

It's unbelievable that Bloomberg would publish such a misleading article when it's known that robotics and artificial intelligence advances threaten so many labor markets, especially the unskilled labor markets and even quite a few of the skilled labor markets where robots are even doing complicated surgeries these days. Sure the birth rate in Japan is down, but a high tech nation like Japan could lead the way in robotics and artificial intelligence.

It's like Bloomberg merely wanted to paint a gloomy picture of declining birthrates in some industrial nations while overlooking the enormous problem of the ever-onward growth in world population amidst growing resource shortages to meet that steady growth in global population. And we really cannot rely on that growth leveling out in Year 2100 so far ahead in time. The Mad Max era may have come and gone by then ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max

It's certain that there will be ever- increasing numbers of immigrants in the USA and Europe because nothing, certainly not walls, will stem the flow of undocumented immigration thru all borders while health care, education, and higher incomes in the USA and Europe serve as magnets for the sick and the poor.


The best-paid and most promising internship in every field, according to more than 13,000 interns who kno ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-internships-every-field-vault-survey-2018-10

Jensen Comment
Accountancy internships are usually less than two months and do not particularly pay well. The good news is that there are a lot of internships available, and accounting interns usually return to complete their masters degrees with job offers in hand.


TED Talk:  The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w

Jensen Comment
For me what this video suggests is that parents should know the dangers and use their powers to distract children into more constructive time use. In youth we did not have television (wasn't marketed yet). There were no home computers or anything like an Internet.

Small children did imaginative things like play with blocks and color outside the lines. Parents gave their children empty cereal boxes and other "free" toys to play with. On the farm as we grew older parents put us to work like gathering eggs and feeding the chickens.

My worry about these millions of videos is that they may stifle imagination with destructive idleness. It's time for parents to turn off YouTube.


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

Accounting firm EY says it has developed the first implementation of zero-knowledge proof privacy technology on Ethereum ---
https://www.coindesk.com/ey-reveals-zero-knowledge-proof-privacy-solution-for-ethereum/

How much energy does bitcoin "mining" consume?
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612355/no-bitcoin-probably-wont-doom-our-climate-but-we-have-no-idea-how-much/?utm_source=TR&utm_content=10-31&utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=db868b7fc4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_31_12_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-db868b7fc4-153727301
Jensen Comment
A huge problem is that we don't know how many home "mines" there are in the world.
We do know that Iceland is very popular for bitcoins because of cheap geothermal energy.
We don't know that the global mining of bitcoins is using a massive amount of energy.

Bitcoin is 10 years old on Halloween Day 2018 — here's a look back at its crazy history ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-10-year-anniversary-of-cryptocurrency-2018-10


How to Mislead With Statistics
America's highways and roads are crumbling — here are the 10 states that have it the worst

https://www.businessinsider.com/worst-highways-roads-us-ranked-2018-10

The above rankings made me wonder why some of our largest states (think Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, etc.) are not in the Top 10. I honestly don't know since both Montana and Wyoming have severe winter issues with roads. It could be a population density thing but why do Kansas and Iowa have worse roads then Nebraska and South Dakota? I don't know.

Much depends upon what we mean by "roads." In USA towns most roads and streets are maintained by the towns or counties. Herein lies the problem since towns and counties are so variable in terms of maintenance. Some have fairly decent re-paving programs while others continually do lousy patch ups year after year. Where we live in northern New England frost heaves are an enormous problem in winter. They make hazardous bumps and cracks in streets and roads that are virtually impossible to fix until summer, and those so-called fixes are often not a whole lot of improvement.

My point is that when ranking states as to road maintenance, there is an enormous variation among road maintenance jurisdictions within those states. This variation is caused in large part by local politics. Some counties, for example, place higher priorities on road maintenance than adjoining counties.

Winter adds enormously to road and street expense.

One time when I did a gig up in Fairbanks our host, Professor Tom Robinson, met us at the airport and  insisted on inspecting our rental car before Erika and I signed on the dotted lines. He said you always inspect rental cars in advance in Alaska because there are only three paved highways. On the other Alaska roads flying rocks frequently cause cracks in windshields, and you don't want to be blamed for a crack that exists before you rent your car.

In many ways, gravel roads are easier and cheaper to maintain, but there are added discomforts of dust and flying rocks. Pot holes are easier to fill and grade on gravel roads and snow plows can have tire chains. Crumbling roads become more of an expensive problem when roads are paved. Those of us in the NH mountains who have winter-beaten paved driveways have much more expensive maintenance relative to our neighbors with gravel driveways.


Hands-on with Apple's new redesigned MacBook Air: This could be the laptop that Apple fans have been waiting for ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-air-hands-on-at-the-apple-event-2018-10
Jensen Comment
Sure hope it has an HDMI port.

None of Apple's latest laptops come with regular USB ports ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-air-usb-c-no-regular-usb-a-2018-10


NFL player who pleaded guilty to insider trading is reportedly facing an 8-game suspension (before his December 2018 sentencing) ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nfl-mychal-kendricks-faces-8-game-suspension-insider-trading-report-2018-10-1027672936

Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm


Victoria's Secret Revealed
Victoria's Secret employees say they witness shoplifting almost every day but that they'll be fired if they try to stop it ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/victorias-secret-shoplifting-policy-according-to-workers-2018-10

Jensen Comment
Is this one of those "secret" policies that that possibly cannot survive after being made public?
If this becomes tantamount to giving away too many products for free the policy cannot possibly survive.
Of course, non-employees could be hired to detect shoplifters such as paying of undercover off-duty police officers wandering about the store (I hesitate to say the VS "Undercover" Policy)
However, this would be very expensive in small stores like VS compared to Super Walmarts.

Now that I think about it there are internal control alternatives less expensive than hiring police officers wandering about inside the store.
In clothing stores it's now common to put a device on each expensive clothing item that signals when then device is moved through an outside door.
The device is removed electronically when then item is paid for inside the store.
Police officers can be hired to wait outside the store or outside the mall when the device is passed through a front door.

It appears that the VS current policy is simply to factor in estimated losses from shoplifting into the prices paid by honest shoppers.
An externality of this policy is added population increase in the case of Victoria Secret products.

October 31, 2018 reply from Tom Selling

The various requirements in the securities laws to maintain effective internal controls include the safeguards on the misuse of assets.  It would seem to me that letting product simply walk out the door should rise at least to the level of a “significant deficiency,” if not a reportable “material weakness” – especially for a retailer that could have low profit margins even when pilferage is low.    

From a purely financial statement (ICFR) standpoint, the higher the pilferage rates get, the harder it is to estimate them reliability.  For example, a 10% error on a typical underlying loss rate of 1% is lower than a 10% error on an atypical underlying loss rate of 10%.

Best,

Tom

October 31, 2018 reply from Bob Jensen

Reading between the lines suggests that VS has become paranoid about racial profiling lawsuits. This begs the question about what a store should do if in fact (hypothetically in this illustration) over 90% of the shoplifting is being carried out by one or two minority groups. If shoplifters are arrested and charged in court the lopsided arrest rates would suggest racial profiling to aggressive lawyers.

In the case of Victoria Secret's secret perhaps the company is doomed either way. If it vigorously enforces shoplifting detection and conviction for reasons of accountancy internal controls of inventory then it exposes itself to lawsuits regarding racial profiling. Makes me glad I'm not the owner of a retail store in a mall.


Tax Identity Theft:  A Horror Story ---
https://blog.aicpa.org/2018/10/tax-identity-theft-a-horror-story.html


Is Bob Dylan a Plagiarist ---
http://christinejustice.yolasite.com/

Bob Dylan's Nobel Lecture ---
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/lecture/

The Evolution of Bob Dylan: Early Recordings Let You Hear an Unknown Singer Turn Into a 60s Superstar (1958-1965) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/10/evolution-bob-dylan-early-recordings-let-hear-unknown-singer-turn-60s-superstar-1958-1965.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on Celebrities Who Plagiarized ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#Celebrities


This Spanish company found a way to produce a fuel that emits no CO2 — and it's made of sewage and other compost ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/this-fuel-burns-like-coal-but-emits-no-co2-and-its-made-of-sewage-2018-10


Business Insider compared Google Search with Bing and DuckDuckGo to find the best search engine out there — and the race was closer than expected ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/bing-vs-duckduckgo-vs-google-search-comparison-2018-10

Jensen Comment
If you're searching for an entity's home page, DuckDuckGo is a better alternative, although Google Search got better after criticisms that home pages were hard to find in search outcomes. For example, if you searched for a hotel's home page Google used to give priority to travel companies that would book the hotel rather than begin with that hotel's home page. I suspect this is because the travel agencies provided more advertising revenue to Google or paid to be listed early on in search outcomes.

If you're searching for some things like people, towns, and companies Wikipedia is sometimes better. For product searches, Amazon is often a better search engine.

Google has specialized search engines to factor into the comparisons. For example consider the following:

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

Google Books ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#OnlineBookFinders

YouTube --- https://www.youtube.com/

Bob Jensen's search helpers, including listings of other specialized search engines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm


University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions ---
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-university-futures-library-futures/report.html


A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/10/data-visualization-modern-philosophy-1950-2018.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Nature:  What Future for the Philosophy of Religion?
https://www.nature.com/collections/xzdznbgdwg

Bob Jensen's threads on data visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on philosophy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
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Dyson's $410 Heater ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/dyson-heater-air-purifier-pure-hot-cool-link-review


From David Giles on November 5, 2018

Econometrics Reading for November

In between raking leaves and dealing with some early snow, I've put together this list of suggested reading for you:

·                     Beckert, W., 2018. A note on specification testing in some structural regression models. Mimeo., Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London.

·                     Clarke, D., 2018. A convenient omitted bias formula for treatment effect models. Economics Letters, in press.

·                     Liu, Y. & Y. Rho, 2018. On the choice of instruments in mixed frequency specification tests. Mimeo., School of Business and Economics, Michigan Technological University.

·                     Lütkepohl, H., A. Staszewska-Bystrova, & P. Winker, 2018. Constructing joint confidence bands for impulse functions of VAR models - A review. Lodz Economic Working Paper 4/2018, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz.


Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest --- |
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebooks-backs-down-after-booksellers-stage-global-protest


What's the Matter With Fiction Sales ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/78446-what-s-the-matter-with-fiction-sales.html

Jensen Comment
Personally I think some of the worst books being published make it to the NYT Best Sellers list, especially what I think are formula-written books by authors of numerous clones (think of authors like James Patterson, Lee Child, Lisa Jackson, etc.).




From the Scout Report on November 2, 2018

WebAIM Color Contrast Checker ---  https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a set of recommendations describing how to produce websites that are more accessible for people with disabilities and that work well across a range of devices. These guidelines specify the minimum levels of contrast between text and background colors necessary for pages to be easily readable. The WebAIM Color Contrast Checker provides an interactive tool to check a given pair of colors. The tool also allows users to interactively adjust the lightness of their provided colors, updating the computed contrast ratio automatically as changes are made. The resources block on the top right of the page provides links to detailed technical descriptions of how colors are checked. For more technical users, the Color Contrast Checker can also be used as a REST API. An example of API usage is provided at the bottom of the page. The WebAIM Color Contrast Checker works in any modern browser.


ScreenStudio --- http://screenstudio.crombz.com/
ScreenStudio is screen recording software with support for live streaming. Users may add text overlays to the recordings that they've produced and can also place images from their webcam into an inset. The instructions section of the ScreenStudio site includes a detailed reference manual. A 15 minute video tour of ScreenStudio's features is also available. The ScreenStudio YouTube channel contains a variety of tutorials and demos; some demonstrating features of ScreenStudio, others using ScreenStudio to record demos for other things (e.g., installing a new printer in Ubuntu Linux, creating fillable PDFs). Production versions of ScreenStudio are available for macOS and Linux computers. An experimental Windows 10 version can also be downloaded. ScreenStudio is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, with source code available for download alongside the installers.

 




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


Education Tutorials

Disability History in the Classroom --- www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/edu/overview.html

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

Mapping Student Debt --- https://mappingstudentdebt.org/#/map-1-an-introduction

Education & Research Archive (20,000+ theses in Canada) --- https://era.library.ualberta.ca/

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

Biologists are closer to creating synthetic life from scratch ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07289-x?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=fe5364e9b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_09_11_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-fe5364e9b5-153727301

Science History Institute: Beckman Historical Collection ---
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/collections/wh246s128

IPCC Report: Global Warming of 1.5 *C --- www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15

Climate Interactive --- www.climateinteractive.org

What's the Matter With Fiction Sales ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/78446-what-s-the-matter-with-fiction-sales.html

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

Disability History in the Classroom --- www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/edu/overview.html

Disability History Museum --- http://www.disabilitymuseum.org

Earth 911 (ecology and recycling) --- https://earth911.com/

The Freecycle Network (ecology and reclycling) --- www.freecycle.org

Recycling at Work (ecology and recycling) --- http://recyclingatwork.org/

Northeast Recycling Council (ecology and recycling) --- https://nerc.org/

 Brief History of Household Recycling (ecology and recycling)  www.citylab.com/city-makers-connections/recycling

Recycling: Who Really Leads the World? (ecology and recycling) --- https://resource.co/article/recycling-who-really-leads-world-11739

Jambeck Research Group: Import Export Plastic (ecology and recycling) --- https://jambeck.engr.uga.edu/importexportplastic

The Circuit: Tracking Down America's Electronic Waste (ecology and recycling) --- https://kcts9.org/programs/circuit/tracking-down-america-s-electronic-waste

TeachEngineering: 3RC (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Compost) ---  www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_environ_lesson05

Washed Ashore (ecology and recycling) --- http://washedashore.org/

Steel Recycling Institute (ecology and recycling) --- www.steelsustainability.org

Waste360 (ecology and recycling) ---  www.waste360.com

Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ecology and recycling) --- www.isri.org

Garbology (ecology and recycling) --- https://naturebridge.org/garbology.php

Bob Jensen's threads on ecology and the environment---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#...EcologyEnvironment

Time Magazine:  Why Are We All Having So Little Sex?
Click Here

Education & Research Archive (20,000+ theses in Canada) --- https://era.library.ualberta.ca/

Mapping Student Debt --- https://mappingstudentdebt.org/#/map-1-an-introduction

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

Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data ---
https://lisnews.org/harvard_converts_millions_of_legal_documents_into_open_data

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


Math and Statistics Tutorials

Eurostat: Statistics Explained --- https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Bob Jensen's threads on economic and social statistics ---
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics

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

A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/10/data-visualization-modern-philosophy-1950-2018.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Nature:  What Future for the Philosophy of Religion?
https://www.nature.com/collections/xzdznbgdwg

A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/prepare-online-database-600-overlooked-female-artists-15th-19th-centuries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Modernist Archives Publishing Project --- www.modernistarchives.com

Bette Davis Divorced: “She Read Too Much,” Says Husband (1938) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/bette-davis-divorced-read-much-says-husband-1938.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads (with pictures) on Bette Davis ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Houses/Set01/HousesSet01.htm

Merriam-Webster: Time Traveler (history of words) --- www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/the-model-book-of-calligraphy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty Amid the Wreckage of the Soul ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/19/tchaikovsky-letters-depession/?mc_cid=dac0b292d9&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

The Top 100 Foreign-Language Films of All-Time, According to 209 Critics from 43 Countries ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/top-100-foreign-language-films-time-according-209-critics-43-countries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/an-atlas-of-literary-maps-created-by-great-authors.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Disability History Museum --- http://www.disabilitymuseum.org

Disability History in the Classroom --- www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/edu/overview.html

Russia celebrated the 'first defeat of the German army' in World War II on Wednesday — here's what it looked like ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/parade-in-moscow-marks-russias-first-defeat-of-german-army-in-wwii-2018-11#the-soviets-were-in-bad-shape-so-were-the-germans-whose-3-million-man-invasion-force-had-suffered-more-than-500000-casualties-hundreds-of-german-panzers-and-trucks-had-broken-down-since-the-invasion-differences-between-german-and-russian-railways-and-other-logistical-problems-left-the-nazis-short-of-food-fuel-and-ammunition-4

Science History Institute: Beckman Historical Collection ---
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/collections/wh246s128

The Art Institute of Chicago: Collection --- www.artic.edu/collection

 Brief History of Household Recycling (ecology and recylcling)  www.citylab.com/city-makers-connections/recycling

How Did We Can? The Evolution of Home Canning Practices ---
www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/canning

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

From the Scout Report on November 2, 2018

Maritime Archaeologists Find Oldest Intact Shipwreck Ever Discovered

 

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/23/oldest-intact-shipwreck-thought-to-be-ancient-greek-discovered-at-bottom-of-black-sea

This ancient Greek ship is the oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/this-ancient-greek-ship-is-the-oldest-intact-shipwreck-ever-discovered

Ancient Black Sea shipwreck is unprecedented discovery
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture-exploration/2018/10/black-sea-shipwreck-archaeology-map

The Centre for Maritime Archaeology
http://cma.soton.ac.uk

The British Museum: The Siren Vase
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399666&partId=1

NOAA: Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist
https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/every-full-moon/full-moon-maritimearchaeology.html

 


Language Tutorials

Merriam-Webster: Time Traveler (history of words) --- www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

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


Music Tutorials

 

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/

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Warning:  Walmart Pharmacists, Unlike Other Pharmicists, Forced to Override Pain Management Physician Decisions  ---
https://news.walmart.com/2018/05/07/walmart-introduces-additional-measures-to-help-curb-opioid-abuse-and-misuse

Jensen Comment
Three nights ago Erika fell down three stairs. We thought she had a broken shoulder, but fortunately she only dislocated her shoulder. The ER doctor sent her home with a prescription for a small number of pain pills. He also recommended that we not use our usual Walmart Pharmacy to fill that prescription because of the new dosage-limit policy of Walmart. Rite Aid filled the prescription the next day.

This is something to keep in mind if you have emergency pain prescription. I've never taken any pain medications except for aspirin, and I really don't know what constitutes "high dosages." Just be aware of that Walmart has stricter limits on pain medication dosages that many of its competitors --- at least that's what Erika's ER physician warned about.

I'm more concerned about Walmart's refusal to fill some physicians' prescriptions for patients having really severe pain such as pain from cancer. It's like Walmart is overriding physician decisions even for dying patients.

November 13, 2018 reply from a former colleague

Yup. My partner has cancer. We have been fighting it for a while now. we have to go to HEB or Walgreens for his meds. His painkillers are very very strong and walmart has not only refused to fill them correctly, they have kept the prescription itself (not giving it back so we can get it filled else where) causing untold amount of pain as I try to get the doctors to send out another prescription in place of that one. why do they think they can override the doctors? and they have no right to refuse because of their beliefs - which they do all the time as well.


Backpacks Can Stress Your Students' Spines More Than Previously Thought ---
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2018/11/backpacks_can_stress_students_backs.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news2&M=58661578&U=2290378&UUID=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f


Bipolar Disorder --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

This 'Better Call Saul' actor cut off his own arm, then pretended to be a war veteran to land TV roles ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/better-call-saul-actor-cut-off-his-arm-then-posed-as-a-war-veteran-2018-11



Humor for October 2018

White Elephant gifts under $50 that are guaranteed to get a good laugh ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-funny-white-elephant-gifts-2018-10#an-edible-pickle-rick-from-rick-and-morty-6

Forwarded by Paula

Technically, Moses was the first person to download from a cloud into a tablet

As a kid I wondered how the Wizard of Oz character could talk without brain
Then I discovered on Facebook that it happens all the time

As a retired chemist I'm sometimes ask what being retired was like
I tell them that it's still about chemistry --- converting beer, wine and vodka into urine

It's frustrating when the resident expert in using an IPAD is asleep
He's only five years old, takes naps, and goes to bed early

 




Humor October 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1018.htm   

Humor September 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0918.htm 

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

 




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

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/
 


The Earth’s Population Is Reaching New Heights. Are We Prepared for the Consequences?
https://businessconnectworld.com/2018/09/12/the-earths-population-is-reaching-new-heights/

Jensen Comment

Videos of Interest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U 

Interestingly, Malthus claimed controls on population explosion will be "sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array"

The New York Review of Books:  The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. —
Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Chapter VII, p. 61[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe#Thomas_Malthus
Jensen Comment
Famine, in turn, is heavily the result of draught such as the climate change that turned much of lush North Africa into a desert. Now it's the turn of South Africa runs runs out of water.

2018:  The New York Review of Books:  The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/

How to Mislead With Statistics
A World With Fewer Babies Spells Economic Trouble ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/humans-having-fewer-babies-is-a-big-economic-problem-quicktake

. . .

The United Nations calculated the world’s population as of 2017 at 7.6 billion people, a number it projects will grow to 11.2 billion at the end of this century, after which it could begin to fall. But a lot of countries are going to shrink before then. With a fertility rate of only 1.6, China’s population will drop 28 percent by 2100, ceding the title of world’s most-populous nation to India, the UN predicts. With a fertility rate of 1.4, Japan’s population will plunge 34 percent by 2100. The U.S.’s headcount is expected to keep growing, despite a low fertility rate of 1.8, because of large numbers of immigrants, though government policies could change that.

Continued in article

Jensen Comment
It's unbelievable that Bloomberg published such a misleading article that the encourages increased birth rates at a time when climate change impacts on food and water shortages are so dire for the next few decades while we await dramatic and technologies to feed and water the existing world populace. The problem is just not climate change. Before climate change was on everybody's mind agricultural aquifers (think Nebraska and Oklahoma) were drying up from over use.

It's unbelievable that Bloomberg would publish such a misleading article when it's known that robotics and artificial intelligence advances threaten so many labor markets, especially the unskilled labor markets and even quite a few of the skilled labor markets where robots are even doing complicated surgeries these days. Sure the birth rate in Japan is down, but a high tech nation like Japan could lead the way in robotics and artificial intelligence.

It's like Bloomberg merely wanted to paint a gloomy picture of declining birthrates in some industrial nations while overlooking the enormous problem of the ever-onward growth in world population amidst growing resource shortages to meet that steady growth in global population. And we really cannot rely on that growth leveling out in Year 2100 so far ahead in time. The Mad Max era may have come and gone by then ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max

It's certain that there will be ever- increasing numbers of immigrants in the USA and Europe because nothing, certainly not walls, will stem the flow of undocumented immigration thru all borders while health care, education, and higher incomes in the USA and Europe serve as magnets for the sick and the poor.


 

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.
The CAlCPA Tax Listserv

September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker [lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as well as a practicing CPA)

I found another listserve that is exceptional -

CalCPA maintains http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/  and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.

There are several highly capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and the answers are often in depth.

Scott

Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts

Yes you may mention info on your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not have access to the files and other items posted.

Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I will get the request to join.

Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.

We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in California.... ]

Please encourage your members to join our listserve.

If any questions let me know.

Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk

 

 

 

 

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

 

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