Tidbits on November 30, 2020
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Part 1 of Wes Lavin's Miscellaneous 1 Photographs ---
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/Misc-1/Misc01.htm
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Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Animated Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth
Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years
(1790 – 2010)
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Top 10 Chess Movies (not free downloads) --- https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026630545/
THE CODING TRAIN --- www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/featured
Behold the Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow
Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/behold-the-beautiful-video-for-david-gilmours-the-girl-in-the-yellow-dress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Aerial View of Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ATDjsJUi7M
Foliage in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOPSUMWbclU
Foliage at the Sunset Hill House Hotel in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowlAA9XIno
History of the Sunset Hill House Resort in Sugar Hill, NH 000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3uqK8T1ZDc
Lupines in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-1jCk4Ak0
Lupines in New Hampshire --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOR1vTHZjPo
Four Seasons at the
Sunset Hill House Hotel (near our cottage)
---
https://www.thesunsethillhouse.com/
Watch the video
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
Gangstagrass – Band Fuses Rap and Bluegrass ---
https://jborden.com/2020/11/16/music-monday-gangstagrass-band-fuses-rap-and-bluegrass/
Songs of Thanksgiving
Music Monday: Songs for Thanksgiving – Borden's Blather
(jborden.com)
China: These robots have danced their way to a Guinness
World ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLwAnIyv3rU
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Muslims have visualized Prophet Muhammad in words and
calligraphic art for centuries ---
https://theconversation.com/muslims-have-visualized-prophet-muhammad-in-words-and-calligraphic-art-for-centuries-150053
John Waters Gives Art Collection to The Baltimore Museum Of Art
in Exchange for Getting Its Bathrooms Named After Him ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/john-waters-gives-art-collection-to-the-baltimore-museum-of-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Journey to Swedish Lapland (virtually) through these photos ---
https://www.10best.com/interests/explore/sweden-lapland-virtual-tour/
With 9,036 Pieces, the Roman Colosseum Is the Largest Lego Set
Ever ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/with-9036-pieces-the-roman-colosseum-is-the-largest-lego-set-ever.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Tallest Cliff in the Universe ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona_Rupes
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
EDITING ROBERT BURNS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ---
Editing
Robert Burns for the 21st Century - An AHRC-funded Project to produce a
multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns (glasgow.ac.uk)
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 30, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations113020.htm
Best Classical Music Recordings of 2020 (not free downloads) ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/best-classical-music-recordings-of-2020.html
Best Classical Movies of 2020 (not free downloads) ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/best-movies-of-2020.html
Amazing Amazon in 2020:
Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work
force to more than 1.2 million people globally ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/amazing-amazon.html
Visualization: An
In-Depth Look at 10 Types of Maps
https://www.finereport.com/en/data-visualization/top-10-map-types-in-data-visualization.html
Book Reviews
The best reading of 2020,
according to New Statesman friends and contributors ---
https://www.newstatesman.com/best-books-2020
Tylar Cowen: Favorite
books by female authors ---
Favorite books by female authors - Marginal REVOLUTION
History books: Time's
Monster by Priya Satia ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/26/times-monster-by-priya-satia-review-living-in-the-past
Who is the greatest author
who was rightwing (aside from Shakespeare)?
https://twitter.com/jneeley78/status/1328698947179786242
The Revolution in Freedoms
of Press and Speech ---
https://reason.com/2020/11/13/the-revolution-in-freedoms-of-press-and-speech/
Across five volumes totaling
2,500 pages, Joseph Frank did more than any other critic to illuminate the mind
of Dostoevsky ---
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lectures-on-dostoevsky-joseph-frank-review-caryl-emerson/
Saved By Accident Only dumb
luck has stood in the way of atomic annihilation ---
https://theamericanscholar.org/saved-by-accident/
Platform Economics in Modern
Principles ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/platform-economics-in-modern-principles.html
Children’s books roundup –
the best new picture books and novels ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/31/childrens-books-roundup-the-best-new-picture-books-and-novels
THE ATLAS OF NEW LIBRARIANSHIP
ONLINE ---
https://davidlankes.org/new-librarianship/the-atlas-of-new-librarianship-online/
Bob Jensen's threads on free
electronic literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Good News Tidbits
Yes, Testing Works ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/yes-testing-works.html
New Home Sales Continue to
Surge ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/new-home-sales-continue-to-surge
Jensen Comment
This is a combination of low interest rates, desire to leave large and costly
cities, and anticipation of high inflation as governments spend trillions on
social programs.
The AI 101 Report, Insider
Intelligence details how AI works and looks at its present and potential future
applications (not a book review, but a free download of the report) ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/ai-101?IR=T&itm_source=businessinsider&itm_medium=content_marketing&itm_campaign=leadgen_teaser&itm_content=ai-101-how-learning-computers-are-becoming-smarter-2020-2&itm_term=content_marketing_leadgen_link
How Norway Helped Syria
Rescue Its Seeds ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/how-norway-helped-syria-rescue-its-seeds/
Berlin’s Second-Hand Craze
Is Turning It into a ‘Zero-Waste City’ ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/berlin-second-hand-used-goods-karstadt/
Jensen Comment
Using Covid-19 as an excuse, Goodwill closed all of its collection sites in our
region. What a waste!
Nikon Offers Free Online
Photography Courses During the Holidays ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/nikon-offers-free-online-photography-courses-during-the-holidays.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Time: 100 Best
Inventions of 2020
https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=newsletter+brief-special+default+ac&utm_content=+++20201122+++body&et_rid=31470513
A Free Stanford Course on
How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (November 21 &
22) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/a-free-stanford-course-on-how-to-teach-online-november-21-22.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Law School Pedagogy
Post-Pandemic: Harnessing the Benefits of Asynchronous Online Teaching ---
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3717987
Bob Jensen's threads on asynchronous learning (even for students who live on
campus) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
Penn Pledges $10M Per Year
to Philadelphia Amid Local Tax Debate ---
Click Here
How German Librarians
Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief ---
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-german-librarians-caught-a-book-thief
The top 10 coding skills
recruiters are looking for right now — and how to learn them online for free
The top coding languages recruiters are looking for right now -
Business Insider
01 C/C++
02 Python
03 Java
04 JavaScript
05 Go
06 C#
07 Assembly
08 PHP
09 Ruby
10 Matlab
Bad News Tidbits
How Wells Fargo Became
Synonymous With Scandal ---
https://slate.com/business/2020/11/wells-fargo-scandal-history-karen-attiah.html
FBI: Crime in the USA
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019
Former Commonwealth Edison
Executives and Consultants Charged With Conspiring to Corruptly Influence and
Reward State of Illinois Official ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-commonwealth-edison-executives-and-consultants-charged-conspiring-corruptly
Bitcoin ---
Bitcoin -
Wikipedia
'Dr. Doom' economist Nouriel Roubini trashes Bitcoin for being heavily
manipulated, and blames retail investor FOMO for its recent pump-and-dump ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/economist-nouriel-roubini-trashes-bitcoin-manipulation-retail-investor-fomo-2020-11-1029844248
California Inmates,
Including Scott Peterson, Collected Millions in COVID-19 Unemployment Scam ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/11/california-inmates-including-scott-peterson-collected-millions-in-covid-19-unemployment-scam/
MIT: The Oxford/AstraZeneca
vaccine will be tested in a new global trial after questions over its data ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/27/1012680/the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-will-be-tested-in-a-new-trial-after-questions-over-its-data/
NRA Reports Misspending By
Executives To IRS ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/11/nra-reports-misspending-by-executives-to-irs.html
Seattle police union leader
blasts city law enforcement cuts, warns 'public safety on the line' ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-union-law-enforcement-cuts-mike-solan
Drinking coffee or tea from
paper cups may be ‘seriously’ bad for your health ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/drinking-coffee-tea-paper-cups-bad-for-health/
Hello Fed, Low Interest
Rates Do Not Promote Growth ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/hello-fed-low-interest-rates-do-not-promote-growth
Ex-Fencing Coach at Harvard
Arrested for Taking ($1.5 million) Bribe ---
Click Here
The cities with the world’s
cleanest and filthiest air, ranked ---
https://qz.com/india/1932643/delhis-air-quality-worst-in-the-world-after-diwali-2020/
China’s ‘paper mills’ are
grinding out fake scientific research at an alarming rate ---
https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/china-fake-scientific-research/
United Kingdom:
University staff urge probe into e-book pricing 'scandal' ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54922764
An economics book that costs £44 for a print copy but
is £423 for a single e-book user and £500 for three users
Only about 10 percent of
Manhattan office workers were back as of Sept. 18, more than six months after
the coronavirus pandemic upended life in the Big Apple, the Wall Street Journal
had reported, citing data from commercial real estate services firm CBRE Group
Inc. ---
https://nypost.com/2020/10/23/de-blasio-disses-manhattan-midtown-is-not-center-of-universe/
Ex-Raytheon engineer
sentenced to prison for technology exports ---
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/ex-raytheon-engineer-sentenced-to-prison-for-technology-exports-558015
A
group of so-called ‘sovereign citizens’ who claim they own most of the land in
the Western Hemisphere have been knocking on the doors of rich homeowners in the
Seattle area and presenting fake documents claiming that their properties belong
to them ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1021555-feared-anti-us-group-demanding-american-homes-bringing-proof-to-prove-ownership?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=3DQRUwfHbKmcJ1V_NFDY6CkYb3g..A
National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER): Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental
leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender
convergence ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28082#fromrss
Jensen Comment
This is consistent with Nordic countries where generous parental leave and child
care subsidies have done little to bring women into top executive ranks in the
private and public sectors ---
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lessons-from-feminist-par_b_3044782
Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_top_executives
How to Mislead With Statistic
Americans Increasingly Are
Leaving High-Tax States For Low-Tax States ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/11/americans-increasingly-are-leaving-high-tax-states-for-low-tax-states.html
Jensen Comment
The phrase "statistically" significant in the context of state taxation is
misleading. State taxation can be a major factor in state migrations, but there
are other factors that work interactively with state taxation to "cause" state
migration. These include nearness to children, climate, economic opportunity
(including remote work), health facilities, real estate availability/cost, other
living costs, scenery. recreation, entertainment (think Broadway), etc.
For example, San Antonio is a very popular place to live among retired military. The fact that Texas has no income tax and the relatively low real estate prices are important factors to consider, but for some retired military the big attraction is medical services from the enormous Brooke Army Medical Center and the Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital. Retired military can get surgeries and other medical services from BAMC even if they are no longer on active duty.
MIT graduate microeconomics
exam, 1961 ---
MIT graduate micro exam, 1961 - Marginal REVOLUTION
In High Court Appeal, Ex-Law
Student Alleges Texas Law School's Cheating Scandal Caused His Bad Grades,
Dismissal ---
https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2020/11/25/in-high-court-appeal-ex-law-student-alleges-texas-law-schools-cheating-scandal-caused-his-bad-grades-dismissal/?slreturn=20201027095026
Law Grad Who Twice Failed
Florida Bar Exam Gets Four Years In Prison For Setting Up Fake Law Firm ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/11/law-grad-who-twice-failed-florida-bar-exam-gets-four-years-in-prison-for-setting-up-fake-law-firm.html
Current and past editions of my blog called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Teaching Modern Principles of Economics Online ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/teaching-modern-principles-online.html
Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a
Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/toni-morrisons-1200-volume-personal-library-is-going-on-sale.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in
Straightforward English ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/a-free-700-page-chess-manual.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
National Bureau of Economic
Research: More money can lead to more happiness than more psychotherapy (I
rephrased the title) ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28106
These 6
cities and these states will pay you to move to them ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/these-cities-pay-you-move
Vermont
Tulsa and Oklahoma City
The Ozarks
Savannah, Georgia
Topeka, Kansas
Newton, Iowa
Hamilton, Ohio
Alaska
Jensen Comment
Some deals are a bit deceptive. For example, Hanover and Lebanon are on the New
Hampshire-Vermont border. Dartmouth College professors and its medical center
employees who are lured into moving by Vermont's relocation program will find
that their funding for moving to Vermont is quickly gobbled up by the
monumentally higher taxes in Vermont if they continue to commute to New
Hampshire in their jobs. And moving to Vermont for a job is likely to be
disappointing in almost any profession.
Would you rather retire in Vermont or New Hampshire (where there are no income taxes or sales taxes)? Yeah, I know there are some considerations other than taxes such as where your children are now living.
November 28, 2020 Reply from Barbara Scofield
Stephen Cobert on moving to Topeka: https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Choose-Topeka- program-joked-about-on-The- Late-Show-with-Stephen- Colbert-566302531.html Topeka's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= h2ClwjHYkhU
Bloomberg: Rich
Americans Are Increasingly Looking for Second Passports ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-24/wealthy-u-s-citizens-are-increasingly-eyeing-a-second-passport
Eric Schmidt acquired all the typical trappings of a mega-rich U.S. citizen: a superyacht, a Gulfstream jet, a Manhattan penthouse.
One of his newest assets is far less conventional: a second passport.
Alphabet Inc.’s former chief executive officer applied to become a citizen of Cyprus, according to an announcement last month in a Cypriot newspaper that was first reported by the website Recode. Schmidt, 65, joins a growing club of individuals participating in government programs enabling foreigners to acquire passports.
In previous years, U.S. citizens rarely sought to buy so-called golden passports. The business mainly thrived targeting people from countries with fewer travel freedoms than the U.S., such as China, Nigeria or Pakistan.
But that’s changing. People close to the industry say they’ve been inundated with inquiries from citizens of the world’s richest country.
The benefits of owning a second passport, which range from potentially lower taxes, to more investing freedoms and less hassle traveling, can be had for as little as $100,000. The so-called citizenship-by-investment programs haven’t historically been as popular with Americans since one of their main draws -- the favorable tax regimes of adopted countries -- has been of little benefit to citizens of the U.S., one of the few nations to tax its people regardless of where they live.
The current heightened interest among U.S. citizens predates the coronavirus pandemic, but the crisis has helped turbo-charge demand as they plan for how to maintain some freedom of movement with lockdown measures increasing amid a swelling second wave of Covid-19 cases.
“Americans are thinking: ‘I want to have that ability to move as quickly as possible and not be stuck,’” said Nestor Alfred, chief executive officer of St. Lucia’s citizenship-by-investment unit.U.S. Elections
The U.S. elections have also stoked interest. While Joe Biden has rejected the wealth tax pushed by some of his Democratic primary rivals, his proposals could disrupt the ways that many Americans minimize -- or altogether avoid -- taxes on their investment gains. Some have also looked to get an additional passport due to fears of social unrest, according to citizenship advisory firm Apex Capital Partners, which said inquiries from clients -- typically about five a year -- have increased 650% since this month’s vote.
“We’re seeing this interest from Americans who are all saying the same things that Chinese, or Middle Eastern or Russian clients are saying,” Apex founder Nuri Katz said in an interview. “They’re saying, ‘We’re not leaving the U.S. right now, but we’re concerned and we want to have something else, just in case.’”
St. Kitts and Nevis was the first country to introduce a citizenship-by-investment program in the early 1980s, and more than half-a-dozen nations have since done the same. In many cases, they’ve proved lucrative. Malta raised almost $1 billion through June 2019 after launching its program last decade, while the Caribbean territory of Dominica has raised more than $350 million in the past five years.
The industry has generated plenty of consternation for effectively turning citizenship -- usually obtained from birthplace or heritage -- into something that can be purchasedContinued in article
How to Mislead With Statistics
Here are the average
retirement savings by age: Is it enough? ---
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-average-retirement-savings-by-age-is-it-enough-2020-11-16?mod=home-page
Jensen Comment
The first thing to do is have your students explain the wide disparity of means
and medians in this data.
Next have students how outliers can distort statistical inference.
Black Swans --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable
Campus Reform --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Reform
Campus Reform regularly
publishes articles rehashing professors’ tweets and comments, presenting them as
evidence of what it considers liberal bias on college campuses ---
Click Here
Sami Schalk has a protocol for when Campus Reform gets in touch. When a reporter from the conservative news site emails her to ask about a recent tweet, the associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison sets the plan in motion. It’s happened several times this year.
Campus Reform regularly publishes articles rehashing professors’ tweets and comments, presenting them as evidence of what it considers liberal bias on college campuses. Schalk has an active Twitter feed and is a frequent target.
“I am aware of being heavily monitored,” she said.
Schalk knows that after an article about her is published, she’ll hear from Campus Reform readers. If a more prominent site, like Breitbart or Fox News, picks up the story, she’ll be inundated with emails, messages on Twitter, and calls to her department and administrators.
The messages are vile. People label her with racist and sexist slurs. They compare her to animals and try to shame her for how she looks. Schalk has some filters set up to block certain emails. She asks a friend to scan the other emails in case they contain a threat to her safety.
“I don’t want to censor myself, so I’m not going to,” said Schalk. “I have to accept that this is what comes with it.”
Just a few years ago, professors didn’t have a protocol for dealing with
Campus Reform. It sent the scholars it targeted into retreat and administrators scrambling to respond. The site is now about 10 years old, and much of higher education is learning to live with it. Professors like Schalk have fortified themselves against the hate mail — and found allies elsewhere in academe.
Campus Reform Home Page --- https://www.campusreform.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness and speech restrictions are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Syracuse University
professors cancel midterms because students are stressed ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16169
Jensen Comment
Will Syracuse cancel all other examinations and give all students A grades just
for being stressed?
Stress will probably continue throughout the 2020-21 academic year.
It's probably a good thing that Syracuse sold its medical school in 1950 ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Medical_College
Who wants doctors who didn't have to take examinations if they were stressed?
How Time-Pressured
Performance Tests In Law School Prepare Students For The Bar Exam And Legal
Practice ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/11/how-time-pressured-performance-tests-in-law-school-prepare-students-for-the-bar-exam-and-legal-pract.html
The Faux Righteousness of
Test-Optional Admissions ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-faux-righteousness-of-test-optional-admissions?cid=gen_sign_in
. . .
Officials at test-optional colleges are well aware that those privileged students, who tend to do best on the test, will continue to submit their scores, and that their institutions benefit from their doing so. The truth is that many colleges that go test optional aren’t sincerely interested in increasing socioeconomic diversity on their campuses. Instead, they choose to go test optional because it allows them to artificially inflate their average SAT and ACT scores, a key component in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, since generally only students with good scores submit them.
T his is a strategy that Miami University, in Ohio, considered pursuing in 2019. As part of its strategic planning process, Susan Schaurer, then the associate vice president for strategic enrollment management and marketing, wrote that the university “could take a bold step toward increasing its rankings in USNWR” by moving to test-optional admissions. Noting that colleges that have done so generally “see increases in their overall academic profile,” she wrote: “This process naturally allows schools that are test optional to submit test scores only for a portion of the applicant pool that chose to submit scores — as they self-selected and saw themselves fitting an already high student profile.”“If Miami went test optional and retained its merit guarantee, we would likely see a boost in our profile with students who fall within the grid and our admitted-student profile, whereas students who feel outside the grid would likely not submit,” she explained. The university did not move in this direction until the pandemic hit, and the institution is currently test optional for the high-school Class of 2021 only.
Continued in article
Arizona-Ashford Deal Wins
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Partnerships
How to Mislead With Statistics
Nate Silver thinks the polls weren't all that bad --- Yeah Right
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-why-polls-were-off-in-2020-and-why-they-werent-that-bad/
NY Times: A Black Eye’: Why Political Polling Missed the Mark. Again
---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/election-polls-trump-biden.html
Senator Susan Collins did not lead in a single publicly released poll during the final four months of her re-election campaign in Maine. But Ms. Collins, a Republican, won the election comfortably.
Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, trailed in almost every poll conducted in his race. He won, too.
And most polls underestimated President Trump’s strength, in Iowa, Florida, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Instead of winning a landslide, as the polls suggested, Joseph R. Biden Jr. beat Mr. Trump by less than two percentage points in the states that decided the election.
For the second straight presidential election, the polling industry missed the mark. The miss was not as blatant as in 2016, when polls suggested Mr. Trump would lose, nor was the miss as large as it appeared it might be on election night. Once all the votes are counted, the polls will have correctly pointed to the winner of the presidential campaign in 48 states — all but Florida and North Carolina — and correctly signaled that Mr. Biden would win.
But this year’s problems are still alarming, both to people inside the industry and to the millions of Americans who follow presidential polls with a passion once reserved for stock prices, sports scores and lottery numbers. The misses are especially vexing because pollsters spent much of the last four years trying to fix the central problem of 2016 — the underestimation of the Republican vote in multiple states — and they failed.
Continued in article
Tesla was named to the S&P
500 on Monday, in a move that will greatly broaden the investor base of the
groundbreaking electric automaker. The company, founded and run by billionaire
Elon Musk, joins the storied index next month ---
Click Here
Citigroup says successful
vaccines will send the dollar plummeting ---
Click Here
It Is Time To Eliminate The
Federal Corporate Income Tax ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/11/it-is-time-to-eliminate-the-federal-corporate-income-tax.html
The authors provide an overview of the true purposes and incidence of corporate taxation and argue that it is inefficient and largely borne by consumers and employees, not shareholders. While the authors would prefer the elimination of the corporate profits tax, they understand the conventional thinking that taxes are necessary to help finance government expenditures—even if they disagree. Accordingly, the authors present alternatives to the corporate tax that shift the burden from consumers and employees to those who benefit the most from corporate success.
Best Classical Music
Recordings of 2020 ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/best-classical-music-recordings-of-2020.html
THE CODING TRAIN --- www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/featured
From the Scout Report on November 6, 2020
PAGEKITE --- https://pagekite.net/
Pagekite is a reverse proxy service that can make sites and services running on a user's local machine accessible from the Internet, even for machines that are behind a firewall. For example, a web developer could use Pagekite to make the development copy of a site residing on their personal machine accessible over the Internet for testing or review. Users configure names for the services they want to set up (called "kites"), then run a small helper program on their computer that connects to Pagekite's cloud. When a request for a given kite arrives from the public Internet, it is forwarded along to the helper and then to whatever program on the user's machine should handle it. In Pagekite's QuickStart Guide (found on the Support page), users can find instructions for setting up a website both with and without a web server running on their computer. The Pagekite wiki contains instructions for setting up additional types of services such as Minecraft, SSH, VNC, and others. Pagekite is written in Python and should run anywhere that Python does. The Pagekite front page provides installation instructions for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems. The service is free to all users for one month. Individuals can continue to receive free service thereafter by providing a review of Pagekite.
UGREP --- https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep
The classic UNIX grep command searches in text files for lines that match a pattern. It was named for the command in ed (the original UNIX text editor) that it replicated, g/re/p to perform a Global search for a Regular Expression and Print anything that matched. Ugrep extends classic grep with a number of helpful features including support for Unicode files, fast parallel search of multiple files, and an interactive query interface. It can also search within archives, handle non-text formats like PDF, DOCX, XLSX and others, and produce output in a variety of formats. The Notable Improvements Over Grep section of the ugrep README gives a complete list of its additional features. The Tutorial section in the README walks users through a number of example uses of the tool. The Download and Install section provides instructions for installing ugrep on Windows, macOS, Debian, NetBSD, and Haiku. Ugrep is also available via the package repositories of most UNIX-like systems.
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Education Tutorials
SIEMENS STEM DAY --- www.siemensstemday.com
TEACHER ADVISOR --- https://teacheradvisor.org/
A SCIENCE BLOG --- www.sciencetalk.org/a-science-blog
The top 10 coding skills
recruiters are looking for right now — and how to learn them online for free
The top coding languages recruiters are looking for right now -
Business Insider
01 C/C++
02 Python
03 Java
04 JavaScript
05 Go
06 C#
07 Assembly
08 PHP
09 Ruby
10 Matlab
CADE AT HOME (creativity and invention) ---
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SIEMENS STEM DAY --- www.siemensstemday.com
WE REP STEM --- https://werepstem.com/
ASSOCIATION OF STATE WETLAND MANAGERS ---
Association of State Wetland
Managers (aswm.org)
The top 10 coding skills
recruiters are looking for right now — and how to learn them online for free
The top coding languages recruiters are looking for right now -
Business Insider
01 C/C++
02 Python
03 Java
04 JavaScript
05 Go
06 C#
07 Assembly
08 PHP
09 Ruby
10 Matlab
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Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
Arthur Eddington, an astronomer and physicist wrote Mathematical Theory of
Relativity, a book highly praised by Einstein in 1923 ---
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eddington/
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
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History Tutorials
THE ATLAS OF NEW LIBRARIANSHIP ONLINE ---
https://davidlankes.org/new-librarianship/the-atlas-of-new-librarianship-online/
CPA Journal: History of the Auditing World, Part 1 ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/11/25/history-of-the-auditing-world-part-1/
With 9,036 Pieces, the Roman Colosseum Is the Largest Lego Set Ever ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/with-9036-pieces-the-roman-colosseum-is-the-largest-lego-set-ever.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
VIET STORIES: VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ---
http://ucispace.lib.uci.edu/handle/10575/1614
Writing with a pen used to be a leaky, smudgy, frustrating affair. That all
changed on October 29, 1945 ---
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen
THE SUFFRAGE POSTCARD PROJECT ---
About ·
The Suffrage Postcard Project (omeka.net)
EDITING ROBERT BURNS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ---
Editing
Robert Burns for the 21st Century - An AHRC-funded Project to produce a
multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns (glasgow.ac.uk)
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see
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Language Tutorials
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings --- https://folkways.si.edu/
Speak English Fluently Using The 3000 Most Common Words in English ---
https://basicenglishspeaking.com/3000-most-common-words/
48 New Words in the Oxford Dictionary ---
Oxford Dictionary’s Word(s) of the Year – Borden's Blather
(jborden.com)
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November 16, 2020
Is the Pandemic Harming Kids' Mental Health?
Fish Oil, Vitamin D Supplements Won't Prevent A-Fib
Annual Report Highlights Dangerous Toys
Restrictions Return As COVID Surges Across the U.S.
Study: New Mutation Sped Up Spread of Coronavirus
Biden COVID Task Force Weighs In On Lockdown
Common Cold Antibodies Could Protect Against COVID-19
November 17, 2020
Restful Sleep Could Help Ward Off Heart Failure
Warming Planet Ups Risk of Deadly Tick-Borne Fever
'Polypill' May Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk By 40%
Walmart Limits Customers Again; Grocers Limit Items
Poll: Many Will Attend Large Indoor Holiday Events
Confidence Drops in Prescription-Strength Fish Oil
Moderna: Data Shows COVID Vaccine 94.5% Effective
November 18, 2020
Dolly Parton Helped Fund COVID Vaccine Research
Is Ablation Rx the Best First Choice for A-Fib?
Can Supplements Boost Your Immunity This Winter?
Over 1 Million U.S. Children Infected With COVID
Rising Cases Mean Increased Restrictions
What the Pandemic Did to Workouts
COVID-19 Circulated in Italy Earlier Than Thought
Homeless Shelters Grapple With COVID Safety as Cold Creeps In
November 21, 2020
32 Test Positive for COVID After Ohio Wedding
FDA Authorizes Arthritis Drug Combo for COVID-19
Pfizer Seeks COVID Vaccine OK As Roll Out Planned
Why Are COVID Cases Increasing So Fast Right Now?
Thanksgiving Guide: Finding Antibiotic-Free Turkeys
Losing Your Hair Because of Pandemic Stress?
WHO Says No to Remdesivir as COVID-19 Treatment
November 25, 2020
Could the Pill Reduce Asthma Attacks?
Model: COVID Cases Could Top 20 Million in January
Mediterranean Diet Cuts Women's Odds for Diabetes
Anxiety Might Speed Alzheimer's: Study
Millions Fly for Thanksgiving Despite COVID Spread
1 in 3 Parents Say Holiday Gathering Worth COVID Risk
Junk Food, Alcohol Often Star in Hit Movies
November 27, 2020
Leaders Urge Caution as COVID Surges in Nursing Homes
Study Casts Doubt on Plasma as COVID Treatment
Kentucky Teen Who Survived Cancer Dies of COVID-19
Report: CDC May Shorten Self-Quarantine Time
Hundreds of Bodies Remain in NYC Mobile Morgues
Could the Pill Reduce Asthma Attacks?
Model: COVID Cases Could Top 20 Million in January
November 30, 2020
Scotland Will Supply Period Products for Free
Study Casts Doubt on Plasma as COVID Treatment
Kentucky Teen Who Survived Cancer Dies of COVID-19
Report: CDC May Shorten Self-Quarantine Time
Hundreds of Bodies Remain in NYC Mobile Morgues
Could the Pill Reduce Asthma Attacks?
Model: COVID Cases Could Top 20 Million in January
Mediterranean Diet Cuts Women's Odds for Diabetes
Anxiety Might Speed Alzheimer's: Study
A new research study was just published that suggests that vegans
are more prone to bone fractures as
compared to people who eat fish or meat
---
https://jborden.com/2020/11/28/should-i-blame-my-vegan-diet-for-my-broken-wrists/
November 29, 2020 reply from Jagdish Gangolly
Bob,
What I found most interesting with this paper was the fact that ALL referee reports are published along with the published paper (See https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01815-3/peer-review). The only thing missing is the original manuscript submitted. These reports do provide insights that would be lost otherwise. I really wish accounting journals did the same. I do not know any social science journal that does publish referee reports. Ex post facto, there should be no reason to hide them from the public.
I read the paper with considerable interest,being a strict vegetarian who converted to carnivore via ovo-lacto vegetarianism, and then full circle to ovo-vegetarianism. The number of variables to consider, as the paper states, is incredibly diverse, and the authors seem to have done a great job. I was surprised to find BMI playing such a crucial role in fractures (such as hip, ankle) especially the ones that afflict us old coots. I was also surprised to find the importance of adequate BMI and muscle mass in preventing ankle fractures.
It is also a very good statistical study, and I hope the archivologists among us accountants study this paper. I am downloading it so I can refer to it from time to time.
Regards,
Jagdish
Jagdish S. Gangolly
Emeritus Associate Professor
Department of Informatics
Director (Retired), PhD Program in Information Science
State University of New York at Albany
1400 Washington Ave Albany, NY 12222
email: j.gangolly@albany.edu Cell Phone:(518)505-4557
New diabetes drug (empagliflozin) can also reverse damage caused by heart
failure ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/diabetes-drug-empagliflozin-heart-failure/
Also see
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109720377536?via%3Dihub
and
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-diabetes-medication-effective-patients-heart.html
MIT: One in five covid-19 patients are diagnosed with a mental
illness within three months ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/11/1011987/one-in-five-covid-19-patients-are-diagnosed-with-a-mental-illness-within-90-days/
A potential game-changer to reverse alcohol intoxication ---
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-potential-game-changer-reverse-alcohol-intoxication.html
Wrinkled ‘super peas’ prevent sugar spikes, lower risk of developing
diabetes ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/wrinkled-super-peas-lower-diabetes-risk/
Humor for November 2020
EVERYTHING IS ALIVE --- www.everythingisalive.com
Great Gags and Happy Endings: Books to Cheer Everybody Up ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/16/great-gags-hope-and-happy-endings-books-to-cheer-everyone-up
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed To beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule Of thumb'
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Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'.. .and thus, the word GOLF entered Into the English language.
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The first couple to Be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Every day more money Is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
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Men can read smaller Print than women can; women can hear better
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Coca-Cola was Originally green.
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It is impossible to lick Your elbow.
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The State with the Highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get This...)
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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The cost of raising A medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
$ 16,400
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The average number Of people airborne over the U.S. In any given Hour:
61,000
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Intelligent people Have more zinc and copper in their hair..
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The first novel ever Written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer.
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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck Of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, The Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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Newspapers are half of the size they used to be because in those days they published both sides of an issue.
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You should have seen the class reaction when young Stephen King read his first short story in the second grade.
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The doctor said my blood test outcome had a lot in common with a potato chip --- high in cholesterol, high in sodium, high in toxins
Humor November 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1120.htm
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Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
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The Cult of Statistical Significance:
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How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
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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
---
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Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
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Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
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World Clock ---
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Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
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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 ---
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Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
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Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
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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
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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