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Congratulations to Andrew Priest for making the Scout Report for AcctInfoPlus
http://www.bs.ac.cowan.edu.au/acctinfoplus/

AcctInfoPlus is an accounting resource metacenter developed for the academic and professional community. Author Andrew Priest of Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia draws on postings from Rutgers Accounting Web (discussed in the <A HREF="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-960920.html#5">Septemb er 20, 1996 _Scout Report_</A>-- ), the Summa Project, and the Nordic Accounting Network, among others, to link users with the latest Internet resources and conferences in accounting. Links are organized into a multi-faceted but easy-to-follow system with general topics covering academic, regulation, and professional interests.

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Also congratulations to Jagdish for making the Scout Report.

Two Accounting Courses from SUNY Albany:

ACC 681: Analysis & Design of Accounting Systems
http://www.albany.edu/acc/courses/acc681.fall98/

ACC 682: Analysis & Design of Accounting Databases
http://www.albany.edu/acc/courses/acc682.fall98/
Jagdish S. Gangolly, School of Business, SUNY Albany, introduces students to the analysis, design, and implementation of accounting systems in ACC 681 and the theoretical foundations of database management systems in ACC 682. Syllabi and calendars are provided for both courses in addition to selected lecture notes

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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A Strategic Focus by Ansari Bell Klammer Lawrence (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1997)

Quite a lot of matrerial (including PowerPoint slides) can be downloaded from the web site at http://www.mhhe.com/business/accounting/modules. The first module in the series, Strategy and Management Accounting is available as a free download or as a hard copy on request. Phone 1/888 GO MODUL(ES) or 1/800 634-3963, ext. 5337 or e-mail tracey_douglas@mcgraw-hill.com.

The above series has a new module entitled , The Theory of Constraints and Throughput Accounting by Monte Swain and Jan Bell.

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The following working papers along with others can be downloaded from Georgetown University at http://www.gsb.georgetown.edu/dept/facserv/work

"The Precision Effect and Information Content of SFAS No. 95 Disclosures" by J. Scott Whisenant and G. Lee Willinger

Does Fundamental Analysis Produce More Value-Relevant Summary Measures? by J. Scott Whisenant

Restating Financial Statement for Alternative and Non-GAAPs: Worth the Effort (revisited)? by J. Scott Whisenant

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Professor Jensen,

First a word of introduction. I’m a former Trinity grad now working in the publishing industry. Specifically, I manage the web development group within Simon & Schuster’s higher education group. You may have seen web based content for some of our imprints—Prentice Hall, or Allyn & Bacon, or Macmillan publishers.

You can see a sample of this to determine your interest in reviewing it at the following urls:

Thanks in advance---and go Tigers:-)

Ray Henderson
VP, Product Technology Group
Simon & Schuster Higher Education Group
ray_henderson@prenhall.com

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Links to references on culture in business (an excellent listing)
http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/gsia/jh38/refs.html

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PALLADIAN NOW AVAILABLE

The Fall 1998 issue of the Associated Colleges of the South’s newsletter, *The Palladian*, is now in print and has been sent to all member institutions for distribution. It is also available on line—point your browsers to http://www.colleges.org/palladian/palladian_f98.html .

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I recently shared a platform with David Boldt at an education technology conference at Bentley College. David has a great web site for economists, particularly in the area of macroeconomics. His materials are listed at http://www.westga.edu/~dboldt

For some great web links in economics click on his Bentley College presentation. Among other things, David's links will take you to some highly innovative web sites of economic educators.

Also, an excellent set of economics lecture notes is available from Roland Buck of Morehead State University
ECON 600: Survey of Economics
http://dl1.morehead-st.edu/courses/ECON600/

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Internet Detective (Web site TQM)
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

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CAL Learning Strategies Database
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/database.html

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Business Week Enterprise
http://enterprise.businessweek.com/

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Social Security Online:
http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html

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Ethics in Busness (from the UK)
_Fusi@n Business Magazine_
http://www.memegroup.co.uk/

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SADD - Students Against Driving Drunk
http://www.saddonline.com/

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Go for it Rudy
Physics of just about everything
http://www.kent.wednet.edu/staff/trobinso/physicspages/PhysicsOf.html

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What happens when you join both halves of the brain? Mathematics + Art
http://library.advanced.org/16661

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The famous Rodin in French or English
http://www.musee-rodin.fr

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I know that it is in the Paid Advertisement section of Application Development Trends, September 1998, but I found the article entitled "The Visual Basic Community: Strength in Numbers" to be a well-written summary of the history of Visual Basic and the tremendous leaps this developers' language has taken with the latest version 6.0

Among other things, the above article integrates the extremely confusing array of Microsoft packages such as SQL Query Designer (allows visual creation of database queries without having to write the SQL code), ActiveX Control, Data Environment Designer, Data Environment (a drag and drop tool), Data Report Designer, Visual Studio, and others.

I could not find this article among the other online articles of this issue of ADT at http://www.adtmag.com That is probably because the article is in the Paid Advertising section of the hard copy version.

However, two Microsoft web sites of general interest in this area include the following:

Of course there is a problem in that Microsoft is still fighting the CORBA standard. See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#CORBA

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From The Internet Search Advantage

GovBot

If you spend lots of time searching for government Web sites, you may just want to forget the major search engines. The GovBot Web site is an index of more than 840,000 U.S. government and military Web sites. This search engine indexes only sites with .gov and .mil domain name suffixes so you won’t get back any non-government Web pages. The GovBot search engine is built on the INQUERY information retrieval system, which was developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts. This is the same search engine used in THOMAS, the U.S.

Legislative database. INQUERY employs a relevance-ranking algorithm for searching, and displays search results with the most-relevant items appearing first on the results list. INQUERY also lets you search with Boolean operators to override the relevance-ranking default. GovBot is located at
http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/

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From the Scout Report
The History of Education Site
http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/index.html

The History of Education Site categorizes and annotates international resources concerning education history, childhood history, and the history of education research. This frequently updated, easily navigated metasite—initiated and maintained by Henk van Setten, Associate Professor of the Philosophy and History of Education at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands—indexes online bibliographies, pedagogical texts, specialized archives, discussion lists, educational statistics, and research organizations, in addition to numerous sites devoted to the history of education, the history of childhood, and the lives and works of important educators from the past. Each brief annotation in the index is accompanied by an icon that visually represents the site’s content type, quantity, quality, relevance, and usability. The entire metasite is searchable; furthermore, helpful tips are provided on how to locate additional history of education resources on the Web.

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Also from the Scout Report

Dead Sociologists Index
http://www.runet.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML

The Dead Sociologists Index compiles brief biographies of sixteen famous sociologists, summarizes their important contributions to sociology, and provides excerpts of their original work. Some of the expired sociological theorists included in the index are Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Thorstein Veblen. Larry R. Ridener, the creator of the index, intends to expand this site, include more dead sociologists, and develop a small digital library of sociological resources.

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Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Culture_ [RealPlayer] A New Online Journal http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/hum/as/intersections/

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Dear Robert Jensen,

As a valued Adobe ® customer, we wanted to you to be among the first to hear about our newest Web graphics products—Adobe ImageStyler ™!

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Next-generation middleware.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/online/jini.html

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Bob
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
Voice: 210-736-7347 Fax: 210-736-8134  Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu

Some of you that subscribe to the aecm may not be aware of the web site URL at
http://pacioli.loyola.edu

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Microsoft Excel has inconsistencies in formula inputs (especially financial function formula inputs) that are very confusing to students. A particular problem arises about knowing when and how to use array designators. I have a tutorial file called FUNCLONG.xls that shows what will work and what will not work for various types of functions. This file is available free to educators and practitioners. However, in order to keep the answers out of the hands of students, you must send me an email message requesting the secret link to this tutorial file. My email address is rjensen@trinity.edu

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This is a terrific art history site

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Two of the Internet’s largest search engines provide special features for finding sound files. Lycos (http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html) has a special search feature that lets you search for only sound files. This search engine allows you to use radio buttons to search for sound-related sites. You can also access the sound search engine via a dropdown box from Lycos’ main page. HotBot’s (http://www.hotbot.com/) advanced search provides a similar feature.

Filez Sounds and Music page (http://www.filez.com/Win/Sounds_Music) At the Filez FTP index, you can search directly for sound files to download. The Filez FTP index scans more than 5,000 FTP servers, indexes an incredible 75 million files. You can search for sounds in the Sound and Music section on the Filez main page or use the Search For dropdown box and query sound files by the categories like Real Audio, Karoke, Midi, and Wav.

The Sound Ring (http://sound-ring.com/)

(http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/Sound) is another great Internet resources for finding sound related Web sites.

alt.binaries.sounds.*  Newsgroups have always been great resources for sound files. You can find a good list of sound-related newsgroups under alt.biniaries.sounds.*

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Hi Professor Jensen,

I’m a lowly Tech Support employee at CyberFlix Inc. I was cruising the web and noticed your lists. You may wish to check out http://www.cyberflix.com/dream.html as a possible addition to your high-end CD authoring list. DreamFactory is non-linear, where fixed movies show the same sequence, our movies can include props/actors/hotspots on the fly. These objects can move in movie space, too. Actors can have tons of dialog (with subtitles). Bill Appleton also wrote WorldBuilder which led to CourseBuilder. It’s not sold, rather licensed to assemble a CD.Clients are Disney and the like. An individual might not have the business proposal to start things.

Just thought you would like to know,

Mark Frizzell

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Good work Barry
Leading the class into the 21^st century
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/jun98/cytron.htm

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Hi Bob

We are rapidly approaching the date of the IBM Global Campus meeting planned for October 5/6 in Stuttgart, Germany. Many people (mostly from Europe) have registered and I wanted to write again to you now to give you one last chance to attend that meeting since the response to my last note regarding having a second meeting in Orlando has not evoked sufficient response to justify two meetings. I have attached the agenda below in both .lwp and .htm formats for you to see the exciting topics we plan to cover in the two days. You may still register by sending an e-mail to Julie Cooper (julie_cooper@uk.ibm.com). Julie will also help you with hotel registrations and other logistical information.

Many of you have written to me requesting an ID and password to the IBM Global Campus community - our on-line private intranet for customers using IBM Global Campus products and services to deliver learning in their institutions. If you have visited it recently, you have seen the news about the European Schoolnet conference as well as new articles on asynchronous learning from one of our most advanced NA customers. If you haven’t yet applied, just send me an e-mail. The agenda for our meetings are posted there under ‘Discussions/Upcoming Events’. We plan to post content from that meeting in the community afterwards. Note that our community is being featured in LotusSphere, Europe which is being held next week in Berlin, Germany.

So please don’t lose out on a great opportunity to learn the latest developments in and around IBM Global Campus- register now by sending an e-mail to julie_cooper@uk.ibm.com - but, If I don’t see you in Stuttgart on October 5^th, I hope to meet you on the IBM Global Campus community.

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Thank you Chrein.com LLC <Lloyd@CHREIN.COM>

Was the Navy Defrauded? You be the Judge! See http://www.california.com/~rhelbig/coopfraud.html

What is the real relationship between certain senior naval officials and their retired counterparts working for Coopers and Lybrand? Was it innocent as Department of Defense Inspector General Audit Report 94-113 claims, or was it really criminal?  Ten million dollars was spent to employ them, but even the Inspector General found no measurable value in the resultant product

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Thank you Richard
Microsoft Agent streaming animation demo
http://www.real.com/products/tools/agent7

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Yahoo! Local Events
http://localevents.yahoo.com/

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Yahoo! Auctions
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Placido Domingo - Three Tenors - Two
http://www.PlacidoDomingo.com/

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LSAT - no lawyer jokes please

Concord University School of Law - earn your law degree online
Graduates of the School of Law become eligible to sit for the California Bar Examination. Upon successfully completing that exam, graduates can become members of the State Bar of California eligible to practice in Federal and California courts.

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Art Faux Fine Art Gallery
http://www.pcmagic.net/cpinckney/

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New York Times Learning Network for kids in grades 6-12 and those of us who can't keep up
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

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It's a wonder that Andy survived.
Playing the Piano: Playing with Fire?
http://artemis.centrum.is/~sen/

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A real-time virtual safari webcam.
http://www.africam.com/

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Fireworks. Dreamweaver. The Required Tools. Web Designers are depending on these professional design tools to build compelling web sites better and faster than ever before. Use Fireworks to create, optimize, animate, and slice graphics to produce banners, buttons, and menu designs. Then integrate your designs into your favorite HTML Editor, Dreamweaver, where Roundtrip HTML, Behaviors, and visual layouts make building sites with advanced features like DHTML and JavaScript a breeze. Fireworks and Dreamweaver were developed to dramatically streamline the web design work flow together, so integration between the two tools is seamless—you can even launch and edit Fireworks right from within Dreamweaver.

Take advantage of Macromedia’s Web Essentials to start updating your web site today

Since you already own Dreamweaver, you can get Fireworks for just $199 --

that’s a $100 savings!

Just call (800) 457-1774 in North America and mention source code #103 to get this special offer.

Buy before September 30^th and get a FREE book! The first 100 responses to this offer will also get the new "Visual Quickstart Guide—Fireworks for Windows and Macintosh" by Sandee Cohen. This handy book uses pictures rather than wordy explanations so you can teach yourself Fireworks quickly and easily.

Visit http://special.macromedia.com/webessentials/ for more details now!

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From InformationWeek Online September 15, 1998

The 1998 Computer Virus Prevalence Survey, released yesterday, found that although almost 100% of the organizations surveyed have antivirus software, the rate of infection is 48% higher than reported in 1997. The study interviewed technology professionals at 300 businesses and government organizations across the United States.

The most prevalent viruses striking companies, according to the survey, are macroviruses. Although diskettes are still the most common route of infection, infection via E-mail attachments is rapidly growing.

The Internet is also contributing to increase in virus infections, and adding a new threat in the form of malicious Java applets or ActiveX controls, according to Peter Tippett, president of ICSA. And even though 83% of the survey respondents said the Internet was either mission-critical or important to their organizations, and 72% said the threat from executable code is either high or moderate, only 27% of the respondents have policies in place on the use of Java or Active X.

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From Internet Search Advantage

Even the largest keyword indexes don’t contain all the information on the Internet, and many tend to specialize in certain types of information. Using a meta search tool is one good way of making sure your search is comprehensive. Meta search tools let you access several databases at once.

There are many pseudo meta search tools, such as All 4 One Search Machine, Metasearch, and FindIt!, which are really search link stations that embed multiple search engines on a single page so that you can access them one at a time. These search link stations can prove useful if they’re well-designed. For example, the Research-It! Web site at

is a great link station for searching dictionary, thesaurus, language translation, and other reference databases. But true meta search engines, like the ones shown below query multiple search engines simultaneously from one search query and then return the results organized by search engine or combined into one set of returns. Meta search engines can give you more complete search results, but there’s a cost. Meta search engines tend to be slow precisely because they query more than one search engine at a time. Conducting a search with a meta search engine can take a minute or more, as opposed to the 5 or 10 seconds it takes using other search tools. And meta search engines won’t let you specify search parameters for individual search engines (most meta search engines allow only simple Boolean operators), so you’ll have more results to sift through.

SuperSeek http://w3.superseek.com/superseek/too many frames!

Personal Compass http://www.personalcompass.com/

Inference Fine http://www.inference.com/ifind/

Mother Load http://www.cosmix.com/motherload/insane/

DigiSearch http://www.digiway.com/digisearch/

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Limiting search results with NOT operators (seltzer) The key to any good search query is to construct it in such a way as to limit search results to only the subject you’re interested in. With most searches, limiting the query is not extremely difficult, but when searching popular or ambiguous subjects, narrowing search results can prove extremely frustrating. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Boolean NOT operator to keep unwanted hits out of your search results.

Advice about AltaVista advanced (seltzer) by Richard Seltzer

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Most people who use Advanced Search at AltaVista presume that it’s really the same as Simple Search—that while it uses different syntax for the queries (with Boolean operators), it should provide the same results for equivalent queries. This misconception can lead to confusion, and divert you from taking full advantage of the power of this alternative search mode. In this article, I’ll take a closer look at AltaVista’s Advanced
Search.

Surfing with ZurfRider (search sites) If you’ve ever thought you’d like to see greater speed and flexibility in your Web searches, you’ll want to check out ZurfRider, from Zurf, Inc. In addition to impressive speed, this utility includes features that can organize similar sites into folders and allow you to refine your searches and save the results.

Searching the THOMAS legislative database (search sites) Keeping track of changing federal legislation in the U.S. Congress is a monumental task. Each Congress proposes and passes hundreds of bills which it debates vigorously. Fortunately, the THOMAS (dedicated to Thomas Jefferson) Web site makes the full Congressional Record and bill text

available for searching in one place. In this article we’ll take a close look at the THOMAS legislative database and give you some pointers for searching the site.

Finding Web site contact information with WHOIS (techniques) The Internet consist of about 30 million Internet hosts which serve as gateways to well over 100 million documents. Searching for information in Web pages is hard enough, but tracking down basic contact information from a Web site can often prove extremely difficult. Some Webmasters simply

overlook including contact information about their Web site or bury such information on an obscure page. In other cases the site administrator might purposely avoid including contact information - for example, for a site that is illegally publishing copyrighted material - in which case contacting the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is often the next logical step. But tracking down contact information for the ISP is also often difficult. In this article, we’ll explain how to use Whois databases to obtain basic Web site contact information.
http://www.zdjournals.com/isa/s_isa/989/isa9896.htm

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Go for it Rita
Bushido Martial Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.bushido.ch/

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Do-It-Yourself Congressional Investigation Kit --- where's the PAC money come from and go to?
http://www.crp.org/diykit/

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Thanks Barb --- it may be too much to ask religious and political factions to do this, but for us academic combatants it's great to be puppies!

Of course, two pups may squabble over a bone.
But soon you will find it left all alone,
While the former combatants snuggle close, sound asleep.
Secure in the knowledge that their treasure will keep. Warmth and closeness mean so much more to them, Even though the battle will probably begin again. It is more playful than serious, this game of tug, And will end again with them both asleep, close on the rug.

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

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I added some new shells to my courseware summary (Convene, CourseInfor, Intrakal, MentorWare, and WebMentor) in addition to the shells that were already there. Most have chat room capabilities along with course design and course management features.

These new additions are reviewed in Syllabus, September 1998, beginning on Page 18. Also see the online version is not available at the time of this writing, but eventually it will be available at http://www.syllabus.com

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Company Annual Reports Online (CAROL)
http://www.carol.co.uk/

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ISBN Search (the search engine works better than so-called search engines of Amazon and Barnes and Noble)
http://www.isbn.nu

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Please add your courses NOW! I added my courses to the database.

The American Accounting Association's Accounting Coursepage Exchange (ACE)

The AAA requests that you enter information about your coursepage to become part of a searchable database that will allow accounting and business educators worldwide to share information about curriculum, teaching approaches, tools to stimulate learning, useful links to additional web resources and specific course schedules, policies and plans.

This searchable database is designed to make it possible for faculty to both share educational materials and find useful ideas to support the development of their accounting courses.

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ABC Resources

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) Resources is provided by the Economics Division of the US Secretary of the Air Force Financial Management & Comptroller (SAF/FMC) departmental site. This succinct page of reference materials contains links to key professional organizations and periodicals, a dictionary of terms, and a lengthy annotated bibliography of ABC and Activity-Based Management (ABM) books and articles. From the September 10 Scout Report

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From InformationWeek Online on September 10, 1998

Ernst & Young Touts Service For Building E-Commerce Apps__ Consulting firm Ernst & Young aims to help customers quickly build custom electronic-commerce applications with new templates based on Microsoft technology.

Ernst & Young’s eCommerce RapidStart, built around Microsoft’s Visual Studio suite and Windows DNA application architecture, promises to let customers develop an E-commerce application pilot within 30 days. In addition to the time savings, the company claims that RapidStart applications will work better with other applications than typical custom apps because they’re built on top of commodity Microsoft software.

The service starts with Ernst & Young components for E-business activities such as buying, selling, and procurement. The components can tie into a company’s existing enterprise applications.

Ernst & Young consultants help companies establish an implementation road map that takes into account relationships with clients and trading partners. They then move the projects into an Ernst & Young lab. The finished application can be "palletized," essentially configured to drop directly into a site.

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From Information Week Online on September 9, 1998

T-Bill Trading Goes Electronic

Electronic trading of U.S. Treasury bond futures will begin today at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities Corp., which received regulatory approval to create the electronic exchange last week. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued its approval following a comprehensive examination and testing of Cantor Fitzgerald’s information systems, as well as economic and market factors. The automated exchange will cut trading costs by 50%, according to Howard Lutnick, president and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Most futures contracts are still traded on exchange floors using the traditional "open outcry" method of trade matching. Trading on the Cantor Financial Futures Exchange, jointly operated by Cantor and the New York Board of Trade, will rely upon Cantor Fitzgerald’s existing system for trading in the U.S. Treasury cash market. Terminal operators and administrative overseers enter and check phoned-in orders using Windows NT workstations connected by two Windows NT servers to the trade-matching host system, a cluster of five DEC Alpha servers that passes trading data to a Sybase database supported by two Sun Microsystems servers and to three Vax servers used for data distribution.

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Dear Educator:

I am a member of the AICPA MCS Member Development and Communications SubCommittee. One of the primary goals of our Subcommittee is to improve the communication with educators who are Campus Champions interested in the development and education of students who may be focused on a career in consulting.

The Institute’s Vision 2000 project has identified consulting services to be one of the five key components of the accounting profession in the future.

Our Subcommittee is available to assist you and your educational institution to make students aware of the career opportunities available in consulting.

We can assist you by:

1. Arranging speakers for accounting clubs or other groups on campus.

2. Providing handouts and other literature to students or items for bulletin boards.

3. Acting as a clearinghouse for any successful speaker programs, questions which you or the students may have regarding consulting, etc. The data we collect will be sent to all educators on our mailing list.

We would appreciate your input on the level of awareness of students on your campus regarding consulting, whether your institution has focused on specific education courses on consulting, and, if so, what they may be.

We anticipate sharing feedback with you from over 400 educators along with other consulting literature in early November of this year.

Please contact Monte Kaplan at the AICPA MCS Division if you have any questions or comments regarding this project.

Telephone # (212) 596-6021
Fax (212) 596-6025
E-Mail: Mkaplan@aicpa.org

Sincerely,
Richard B. Donahue, CPA

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Congratualations Mike: Mike Kearl is featured in the September 8, 1998 Scout Report for the Social Sciences

Sociology of Death and Dying in the Number 9 slot:
http://WWW.Trinity.Edu/~mkearl/death.html

According to Professor Michael C. Kearl, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University, death is "the central dynamism underlying the life, vitality, and structure of the social order. . .[and] reveals the most central social processes and cultural values." To explain and explore the social and cultural implications of death, Kearl created this extensive guide to sociological thanatology. The guide consists of a series of hypertextual essays divided into nine major sections, including Death and the Social Order, Bids for Symbolic Immortality and Longevity, and How We Die. Throughout the site, numerous links to relevant thanatological resources are provided.

Mike also appears in the Number 10 slot with the message below:

Voices of Youth—UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
UNICEF’s Voices of Youth teaches young people about current global issues and fosters discussion of these issues among children  worldwide. Comprised of three educational forums: The Meeting

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Other selected items from the Scout Report:

Foreign Policy In Focus
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/index.html

Index Morganagus
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/index.html
Developed by Eric Lease Morgan, a Systems Librarian for the North Carolina State University Libraries, the eponymous Index Morganagus is a full-text index that collects, organizes, and disseminates articles from over 80 library-related electronic serials

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Newsweek November 14, Page 12 did a piece on the Scour.net search engine

It is more focused upon searches for multimedia, sound clips, video clips, entertainment features, etc.
http://www2.scour.net

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How Stuff Works (now you don't have to buy the CD to find out how many things work)
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

You can also ask Yahoo about ingredients and how stuff works
http://howto.yahoo.com/ask/main.html

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An Online Synagogue is featured in Newsweek, September 14, 1998, Page 16
This article provides a link to forums of various religions at
http://forums.msn.com/Religion

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Cancer Care
http://www.cancercare.org/

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Leonardo's Codex Leicester
http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Codex/index.html

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art --- The Glory of Byzantium
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/education/byzantium/byzhome.html

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

I have updated my free SFAS 133 tutorials on accounting for financial instruments derivatives and hedging activities. In SFAS 133, Examples 2 and 5 are especially troublesome since the FASB did not provide the swap curves. Nor did the FASB explain yield or swap curve derivation in the entire SFAS 133 booklet. In my tutorials, I have explained how to derive swap curves for Examples 2 and 5 along with explanations on how to derive quarterly amortizations and interest accruals.

I have also added the yield.xls workbook tutorials on yield curves, single-period forward rates, and multi-period forward rates. These explain derivations and provide the Excel formulas for these derivations.

Since I do not want the answer files to get in the hands of my students, educators and practitioners must send me an email to get the URL for the secret document that links to all these tutorials. The few parts that are available to my students at the moment are at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/default3.htm

TracerLock is a Web robot (web bot) that sends search queries to the AltaVista search engine. To setup a search, first go to the TracerLock Web site, which is located at

To establish an account, you’ll need to provide a name, password, and your email address. Then enter your search on your TracerLock User Profile Page. TrackerLock lets you enter up to five search terms for both Web based and USENET AltaVista searches. You can use AND, OR, and NOT Boolean operators, quotes for searching by phrase, case sensitivity, and other AltaVista search features

Thank you Aaron
Britannica editors do their level best to organize the chaos of the Web. Pick a subject—any subject
http://www.eblast.com

AIET News
http://webprofessor.org/AIETnews

Where Dick Bartels can find his favorite movies reviewed --- those rotten tomatoes
http://www.rotten-tomatoes.com

Custom Searches are A Snap
http://www.snap.com

The Frick Art Reference Library - includes a virtual tour with 360-degree panoramic views.
http://www.frick.org/

Security Service - official site of the UK security intelligence agency commonly known as MI5. Where’s James Bond?
http://www.mi5.gov.uk/

Mathematician Trading Cards --- Who needs baseball?
http://www.bulletproof.org/math/

Garden of Origami --- lessons on paper folding
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/

Yahoo! Calendar --- a clever tool (it’s free) Bob Jensen subscribed to this. The advantage is that you can view and edit your personal calendar from anybody’s computer anywhere in the world as long as you remember your password. Others (like a spouse or child) can also see your calendar if you choose to disclose your password. You might have multiple calendars for multiple purposes --- but can you remember all those passwords?
http://calendar.yahoo.com

Other nice links at Yahoo are as follows:

Do you want a search engine for your own site --- to create your own site scroll down my search site at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/search01.htm

CD Streamer lets you store music CDs in highly compressed CD-quality RealAudio on your hard drive. It automatically retrieves the album title and song names from the Internet, and allows you to create customized playlists for playback via CD Streamer.

Now your entire music library is instantly available on your computer.

CD Streamer won ZDNet Editors’ Pick with a 5-star rating.

"Leave your CDs at home and try CD Streamer"—ZD Net

For a limited time, we’re offering CD Streamer for only $19.95 (reg. $34.95), a savings of $15!

To take advantage of this offer by ordering now, simply click on:

ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com/

Microsoft Weekly (free)
You can preview the HTML edition at:
http://www.microsoft.com/misc/mstw/

Then, if want to switch your subscription format to HTML, visit the Personal Information Center at:
http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/forms/Pic.asp

ZNet - "a community of people concerned about social change."
http://www.lbbs.org/

Some personality psychologists compare everyday life to a play in which we put on different faces or play different roles for different audiences. In fact, the word personality comes from the Latin root persona, meaning "mask." The impression we make on others—or the mask we present to the world—determines how people feel about us.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/personality

An exhibition from the National Gallery of Art in Washington
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html

The Household Cyclopedia
http://members.xoom.com/mspong/

What do you want to know about cloning
http://library.advanced.org/24355

Nutrition and exercise --- at the bottom of my list!
http://www.dietwatch.com/

Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

Updated: Courseware Shells, Chat Rooms, Collaborative Software, RealAudio/Video, and High-End Authoring

Instructors who want a specially configured server (e.g., to set up chat rooms), have no server space available, or otherwise want server space off campus may be interested in my new CyberClass information and links. For as low a $12 per student, it is possible to put an entire course online in CyberClass without having to bother the computer center on your own campus or use any campus servers. It is possible to require students purchase a CyberClass password in much the same manner as it is possible to require a book for a course. If you know of any other vendors like CyberClass, please let me know at rjensen@trinity.edu

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Accounting Glossaries Online

I would appreciate readers to inform me about accounting, auditing, tax, and related glossaries that are online. Some that I know about are as follows:

Bob Jensen's SFAS 133 Glossary and links to other glossaries http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/133glosf.htm

Bob Jensen's Technology Glossaries http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/#Glossary1

CPATeam Links (a great listing) http://www.cpateam.com/investment-glossaries.htm

DFIN Links http://www.dfin.com/glossar2.htm

Quicken: http://quicken.macleans.ca/eng/help/glossary/htmlist.htm

Utah Association of CPAs http://www.uacpa.org/glossary/s.htm

AIS http://www.ais-cpa.com/glosa.html

Murphy Green http://www.mcn.org/A/MGCO/glossary.htm

KPMG Due Diligence http://www.kpmg.ca/dd/dd_glos.htm

Various Dictionaries http://www.internedweb.com/searchDictionaries.htm

WCSU http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/finance/research/dictionary.html

Global Investing http://www.global-investing.com/glossary.html

Loan Terms http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/icm/loan-glossary.html

Yahoo http://biz.yahoo.com/f/g/bfgloso.html

Idea Café http://ideacafe.com/getmoney/finWords.html

ACT http://actg.canberra.edu.au/ofm/accpol/95apglos.htm

Insurance http://www.jcpenneyinsurancegroup.com/glossary.html

Insurance http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Publications/Life/stce.htm

UBS Multiple Language Euro Glossary http://www.ubs.com/e/pcc/euro/euro_facts/glossary.html

Investments and Taxes http://www.jhancock.com/basics/glossary/index.html

OMB Governmental Accounting http://www.co.mo.md.us/government/omb/fy98cip/glossary.htm

Governmental and Tax in the UK, Ireland, and Germany http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Government/Taxes/Glossaries

Australia and New Zealand Tax and Accounting Glossaries http://www.yahoo.com.au/Government/Taxes/Glossaries

FIS Governmental Accounting http://www.fis.umd.umich.edu/adguide/Glossary.htm

Investments http://www.comstockbank.com/glossary/words_n.htm

Concept of Capital http://www.showtower.com.tw/~gunning/subjecti/workpape/aucaploa.htm

Capital Equipment http://www.vpad.uab.edu/finance/Equpactn/gloss.htm

Roughneck http://www.dpliv.com/roughnec/Glossary.htm

SEC http://idt.net/~reach/Lance/Plain_English.html

Utilities and Environment http://www.santeecooper.com/whoweare/glossary.html

Government Contracting http://www.kcilink.com/govcon/contractor/gcterms.html

Legislative Glossaries http://usis.intnet.mu/ref/legis/NA27.htm#glossary

Investments http://www.freeadvice.com/law/604us.htm

A Four Language Glossary on Derivative Instruments http://finance.wat.ch/termFinance

Howard County Junior College listing http://www.hc.cc.tx.us/library/busdict.htm

Financial Regulations http://www.e-analytics.com/glossdir.htm

Bentley College's Listing of Glossaries http://bnet.bentley.edu/dept/fi/finance/resource.htm#Glossaries

ABC Costing Bibliography http://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/SAFFM/FMC/ABC/bibliography.htm

Not Just Accounting:

A long listing (including wines) in English, French or Italian http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c613/termlogy/lspgloss.html

Study Web http://www.studyweb.com/toc2.htm

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Origins and meanings of the word "capital" (from the Austrian School)

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Thank You Brian L. Dos Santos

Electronic Commerce Course Syllabi

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I found this to be extremely clever research. Did the Babylonians discover the Pythagorian theorem thousands of years before Pythagoras? What is interesting is the exercise in following Harvey Brudner's line of analysis. The article appears in hard copy in T.H.E. Journal, August 1998, 8-9. The online version is at

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"Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences" by W.R. Klemm

The article appears in hard copy in T.H.E. Journal, August 1998, 82-83. The online version is at
http://www.thejournal.com/98/current/feature4.html

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I am sorry that I do not have a link to the note on Page 10 of Educom Review, September/October 1998, Page 10. That note reports on CIA Director George Tenet's warnings for the Senate about scary information warfare advances in China and several other nations. I have some links about information warfare at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/260wp/260wp.htm

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Do you want to track over 100 pending Internet bills in the U.S. legislature (or other pending legislation)? You can also get contact information at this site sponsored by IBM:

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Hi Bob,

It was a pleasure to meet you in New Orleans. I came specifically to see your presentations (I returned to Rhode Island on Monday AM) and to see Diane Van Bakel from South-Western. Both the session and my meeting were very enjoyable.

I have two sets of bookmarks. The first is located at my Web site http://web.bryant.edu/~nhannon and the second was recently developed for South-Western College Publishing. SWCP is currently verifying the bookmarks and will have the links live for September. I will let you know when they are live.

My organization of the SWCP links break into two main areas. The first group, Accounting super sites, is meant to showcase comprehensive resource sites that keep information both relevant and current. Your site is listed in the first group. The second group is organized according to generic headings such as tax, financial accounting, managerial, not-for-profit, etc.

My Web site will contain most of the links listed by SWCP but the SWCP site will be easier to navigate.

By the way, I downloaded Catch the Web yesterday and found that it does a credible job of creating presentations of material captured from Internet sites. http://www.catchtheweb.com will get you to the 30 trial download site.

Thanks again and I let you know asap when the SWCP Web site is live.

Neal

Note from Jensen: Neal also has a great book entitled The Business of the Internet at http://course.com/downloads/mis/biznet

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Yahoo! Calendar --- a clever tool (it's free) Bob Jensen subscribed to this. The advantage is that you can view and edit your personal calendar from anybody's computer anywhere in the world as long as you remember your password. Others (like a spouse or child) can also see your calendar if you choose to disclose your password. In theory this can be a bulletin board of sorts. You might have multiple calendars for multiple purposes --- but can you remember all those passwords?

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Thanks for the CD updates Connie

CD burners are finally cheap and easy enough for the average person to use. So what’s the difference between CD-R and CD-RW? Will DVD eventually replace CD-ROMs? CNET.com helps you slog through the alphabet soup and tells you how to burn your own CDs, cheap:

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Profit versus non-profit universities
http://www.trainingsupersite.com/tss_link/trainset.htm

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Search the www by category at Beaucoup!
http://www.beaucoup.com/engines.html

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Thanks Roger
Issues and Opportunities in ‘E-Publishing’" by Edna Reid in THE STAR ONLINE, August 11, 1998. http://thestar.com.my/intech/980811/edna11.html This column from a Malaysian newspaper provides a global perspective

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Navigating the Health Care System

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HealthScout

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CollegeWeb - where students can publish

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Amuse or impress your friends --- Download a variety answering machine messages with English accents.

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A great site to visit if you are interested in Internet privacy and other technology information.

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Resources for the Future (RFF)

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Index Funds Online

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Hey Paula,

The American Psychological Association (APA) developed PsychCrawler—a local area search engine—to provide rapid access to high quality psychological information. This search engine currently indexes five organizational sites that have "substantial authoritative content in the area of psychology." PsychCrawler searches the Websites of the APA, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Mental Health Services, and the APA Help Center. The extensive documentation in the Online User’s Guide explains the functions of PsychCrawler and instructs users in the art of searching large text databases. From the Scout Report.

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Hey Curtis, (from the Scout Report)

US Mirror Site:

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Bob,

Jim Groff informed me that you told him that you are trying to get some feedback on computer based materials in Governmental Accounting courses. I sent him some such that is included with my Omnis Mus software package. It is a computer practice set, the program is called Omnis II.

You can get an overview from

follow the link to Omnis II.

I used it last year, Fall and Spring. I cover governmental in advanced accounting, and I wanted to be able to use my software. The computer forces an exactness that is omitted / sloppy in textbook problems. I do not see how anybody justify or rationalize having students hand-write journal entries when PRE-school kids now use computers.

Most important, the extensive online line help makes doing the problem(s) ACTIVE LEARNING.

I have sent copies to several people over the summer. So far no one has informed me of their intent to use it.

Thank You

George Bodnar

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Deal Consulting

Jack Deal created the Deal Consulting Website in 1997 to display his business strategies and provide a forum for business discussion. The resulting product is a lengthy list of articles with financial, operational, and managerial advice and anecdotes. In addition to browsing Deal Consulting opinions, users may subscribe to the Deal mailing list, make comments, or submit their own business world experiences to this ongoing compendium of ideas From the Scout Report

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Don't forget the Cybertext site for information systems and AIS materials

I like the online textbooks at this site and will adopt one of them for Spring Semester. Students who generally weep and moan over my materials online had mostly good things to say about their online assignments from the good guys --- Murthy and Groomer. The materials include quizzes that are graded online by Cybertext.

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Probably the least understood and least used resource by must of us is Usenet (as opposed to the popular www). A nice article appears in "A Network for the World" by Richard Koreto in the Journal of Accountancy, August 1998, 33-35.

There are a variety of search engines that specialize in newsgroup searching, but few offer original content - most pull information from the DejaNews index. Tile.net at http://www.tile.net , however, provides special functions you won’t find in standard search engines and that can prove very useful in resear ching newsgroup information. Tile.net is a Web site designed to make USENET newsgroups easy to find. Tile.net’s advantage over other newsgroup indexes is that it helps you search for newsgroups rather than individual messages. Tile.net also provides statistics and other information about newsgroups and provides a link directly to each newsgroup, which will launch your Web browser newsreaders. Newsgroups in Tile.net are organized by index, description, and newsgroup hierarchy. Tile.net also provides information about listservs, FTP sites, and computer product vendors.

One of the more frequently posted questions is "How can I create a new newsgroup?" Briefly, creating a new newsgroup in the comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc or talk hierarchies involves first proposing the newsgroup in news.announce.newgroups, then conducting a "vote" among those Usenet readers who have an opinion on the proposed group. The entire process can take up to three months. For additional details see http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8211/newgroup.html

Also see the U terms in http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245gloss.htm

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From INFOBITS

"Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial" http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html Excellent introduction to Web searching basics; materials come from the University of California, Berkeley Teaching Library’s Internet Workshops series.

"Search Engine Showdown" by Greg Notess, Reference Librarian & Associate Professor, Montana State University-Bozeman library http://www.imt.net/~notess/search/ Summarizes, reviews, and compares the search features and database scope of Web search engines and finding aids.

"Search Tools Chart" http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/src/chart.html Summarizes search options used in some of the most popular Web search sites.

"Search Engine Reviews Chart"

Compares how search engines have scored in various reviews. Published

on Danny Sullivan’s "Search Engine Watch" Web site, which contains

"Web Search Services in 1998: Trends and Challenges" by Susan Feldman http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun/story2.htm Comparison of several major search engines shows that "you must use more than one Web search engine if you need a comprehensive search." (Reprinted from SEARCHER, vol. 6, no. 6, June 1998, pp. 29ff.)

PUBLIST.COM—ELECTRONIC YELLOW PAGES FOR PERIODICALS

In June 1998, Bowes & Associates, Inc., published PubList.com, a free, online directory of information on over 150,000 journals and newspapers. Users can search for publication information by title, subject, ISSN, publisher, or keyword. The service (using definitive sources such as ULRICH’S INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS DIRECTORY) includes publisher’s name and address, price, Web address, and how to get copies of articles.

Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

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The new requirement for all courses to have web pages at UCLA and the online connectivity of students to grades, registration, bookstore purchasing, etc. is really quite controversial and should be tracked by virtually all educators.

You can read about one well-known professor's reactions in Appendix 4 at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

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Syllabits is a index of Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Risk, and Insurance syllabi sponsored by the educational publisher Digital Springs, Inc. Syllabi from a variety of American public and private institutions are browsable by subject, and course contents are listed by instructor name with easily discernable codes indicating the educational level of each link. Interested parties may also submit their own course URLs for future inclusion in this ongoing compilation. From the Scout Report.

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Richard B. Donahue, CPA

The AmosWorld Reading Room

Orley Amos, Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University, has recently added The AmosWorld Reading Room as a metapage short cut to his growing universe of online publications. Links to the layman’s guide to basic economic concepts, _A Pedestrian’s Guide to the Economy_, the fictional classroom supplement _Extra Credit_, and the socio-economic analysis _Growth Pole Cycles_ are provided with detailed and engaging annotations. In addition, links to the AmosWorld Encyclopedia Glossary and The Best of Ask Mister Economy (both reviewed in the November 21, 1997 Scout Report—http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-971121.html#12) are provided as reference material for the inquisitive AmosWorld reader. From the Scout Report.

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To join the IBM Global Campus network, contact

IBM Learning Technologies Solutions

Education Industry EMEA / Europe

tel: 33(0)140015035 / mobile: 33(0)609697889 / fax: 33(0)140015600

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SEC ESTABLISHES OFFICE OF INTERNET ENFORCEMENT

On 28 July the SEC established an Office of Internet Enforcement. The release notes in part ""While the Internet has many benefits, a small group of thieves is trying to hijack unsuspecting investors on the information superhighway," said Richard H. Walker, the SEC’s Director of the Division of Enforcement. The SEC has already brought more than 30 cases involving Internet-related securities fraud that have involved virtually every type of investment scam, including phony offerings, market manipulations, affinity frauds (e.g., frauds that target a particular ethnic or religious group), and pyramid and ponzi schemes."

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If your Web site changes locations, you’d probably like a way to move users from the old URL to the new one. Doing so is very easy. In FrontPage Editor, pen Default.htm at the old URL, then click the HTML tab to switch to HTML view. Just above the </head> tag, add the following line:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=http://www.newurl.com">

where 10 is the number of seconds and http://www.newurl.com is the page to jump to.

You should also include a regular hyperlink on the same page for those users who don’t want to wait 10 seconds.

Thanks ZDTips.

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Flat Screens

<http://www.cnet.com/Content/Gadgets/Techno/Flatscreen/?dd.cn>

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Wireless Technologies

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Need a Lawyer (I found this after you sent your note Ceil)

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Global Warming - is this for real Fred/

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Women’s Studies and Women in Classical Antiquity (from the Scout Report):

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Dear ROBERT E JENSEN:

This message is to alert you that the limited-edition NewMedia 500 poster is currently on sale. Profiled in the July issue of NewMedia magazine, this poster is the definitive guide to the key alliances, acquisitions, and investments among the most influential companies in the digital marketplace. No other resource gives you this type of in-depth information all in one place.

Beautifully produced and colorful, the 39"x26" NewMedia 500 poster is printed on glossy, high-quality stock. Framed or unframed, it’s sure to become the visual focal point of your office.

Note from Bob Jensen; NewMedia is my favorite source for update information on new hardware and software in multimedia. The NewMedia magazine is free in hardcopy, and most articles are also available free online.The main web site is at http://www.newmedia.com

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When you buy S-PLUS before September 30^th you will receive a complimentary copy of the book "Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS" by William Venables and Brian Ripley—a $59.95 value. This book is an invaluable resource when working with S-PLUS.

S-PLUS is an easy-to-use tool with over 80 graph types and an incredible array of statistical techniques including resampling and bootstrap methods

I received the above message from Statistics [ stats@towhee.towhee.com ]

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I was wondering if you would mind visit my page:

It is a site about free internet resources. We could exchange a link. If you’re intrested, let me know where you want your link placed and give me a brief description on each URL.

Hope to read you soon. Best regards.

Distribuzione Interattiva

Geom. Federico Mercatali - di@biosys.net

Voice +39 55 620153 - Firenze, Italy

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An aboriginal art gallery.

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Helping children who have been forced into prostitution or pornography.

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Yahoo! Parks

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Make your own post cards from great photographs

Corbis Picture Experience

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A different kind of art web site

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Kinda scary Connie

Your mission: to obtain images, record confidential conversations, and track bad guys. Your tools: hidden cameras, microphones, night-vision goggles, and other gadgets culled from the best spy sites on the Net. Are you up for the challenge? Plus, devilish downloads that will help you keep tabs on your employees, track what your kids are doing on your computer, and set up your own Web cam:

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Take advantage of Shopper.com before you go back to school. Check out special academic pricing for hundreds of computer products:

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

I receive quite a few private messages from aecm subscribers every week. I am not being rude if I do not respond quickly over the next few months. I am conducting some technology workshops and doing some research on sabbatical leave. I probably will only answer messages when I return to campus. I plan to be too busy to fool with email on the road.

Those of you with technical questions should contact the propeller heads on the aecm who are much smarter than Bob Jensen. These include Roger, Barry, Skip, Richard, Dan, Ceil, Amy, Jim, and various others who actively send helpful messages to the aecm.

If you really do need to contact me when I am on the road, my phone numbers are as follows:

505-295-3243  August 05-10 (Iowa)
504-861-0500  August 14-20 (New Orleans at http://www.craig.csufresno.edu/dprtmnt/conasia.htm   )
781-891-9543  September 17-20 (Boston at http://www.bentley.edu/itecon   )
908-949-4321  October 03-06 (Honolulu)
email Speer Derek [d.speer@auckland.ac.nz] (Aukland) October 07-22
808-879-1922  October 23-27 (Maui at http://www.craig.csufresno.edu/dprtmnt/conasia.htm   )

If you are looking for an excuse to go to Maui, Roger, Skip, and I are conducting a public "Ocean Spanning" workshop at the Aston Wailea Resort on October 25. Roger set up a web page describing the workshop at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/adebreceny/maui/index.htm

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I have added Bob Anthony's fundamental questions for distance education debate in Appendix 3 (The Emperor's Naked as He Can Be) of http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm You would be doing Bob and me a great favor if you emailed answers or more questions to ponder to Bob at the email address given in Appendix 3. Please send me copies of your messages to Bob Anthony.

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I have added some shell updates and a summary of some forthcoming team authoring (collaboration) software at

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Have you considered adding Royalty Free Photos at http://www.RoyaltyFreePhotos.com to you list of links?

Thank you,

Bill Erfurth

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Spam must die

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One location where you should *never* place a call:

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Paula Hertel's (at Trinity University) learned friend (from UCLA) and expert on metacognitive learning and metamemory sent me the following message with respect to my paper at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm I think you will find his update comments helpful if you are curious about metacognitive implications in learning.

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Hi Bob,

I read your online article with great interest. You do an excellent job of making concrete some very important points in your article, including, of course, some of the points I tried to emphasize in my 1994 article.

The other important thing that comes through in your article is that computer-based individualized learning technologies, for all of their potential, are not something magical: They are tools that can be used in counterproductive and ill-advised ways as well as in innovative and productive ways. Starting last year, for example, there was an initiative at UCLA to have an internet site for every course at UCLA. That initiative—well meaning, in my own opinion—has raised cries of alarm from certain professors about infringement of intellectual property. Those concerns are legitimate in a few cases, I think, but I (and I alone, I sometimes think) have been concerned about the kind of issues you address in your article—namely, the potential for such "hi-tech" resources to be used in ways that impede, rather than promote, learning. Instructors now get day-to-day pressures from students to put most everything on the web—overheads, outlines, lecture notes, etc. The web site then becomes a kind of remedial device. Students decide that they can skip the lecture, or, when they do attend, that they don’t need to take good notes, understand the lecture, or ask questions when things are confusing, because they can (hopefully) get a repetition on the course site.

There are, of course, creative ways to use a course site—ways that make the learner an active participant in the learning process, but such exercises/materials to enrich a course demand the professor’s time and energies and will not necessarily be used or appreciated by students, who are prone to view such enriching exercises as an additional course burden.

When I teach the graduate course on learning and memory this fall term, I would like to consider using your article as one of the packet of course readings. I printed a copy from the web site, but that copy is not one that would lend itself to being reproduced for the course. Would you be willing to either send me a hard word-processing copy or attach one to an email message?

A couple related articles of my own that appeared after the Bjork "Memory and Metamemory Considerations" article are:

Bjork, R.A. Institutional impediments to effective training. (1994). In D. Druckman and R.A.Bjork (Eds.), Learning, remembering, believing:

Enhancing human performance (pp.295-306). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Bjork, R. A. (in press). Assessing our own competence: Heuristics and illusions. In D. Gopher and A. Koriat (Eds.), Attention and Peformance XVII. Cognitive Regulation of Performance: Interaction of Theory and Application. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (41 pages)

I’ll have my assistant send copies of those articles to you.

Thanks again for making me aware of your article (and please say hi to Paula Hertel from me).

Best regards,

RAB

Robert A. Bjork, Editor

PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
Department of Psychology
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
(310-825-7028; fax 310-206-5895)

 

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Easily edit your web graphics in Fireworks by using launch and edit right from within Dreamweaver. Fireworks was developed to dramatically streamline the web design work flow. It gives you all the essentials tools to create, import, modify, animate, edit, slice, and optimize all your web graphic elements in just one application. You can create the highest quality, fastest downloading GIFs, JPEGs, animated GIFs, and JavaScript rollovers then flow these web graphics and HTML files smoothly and seamlessly into Dreamweaver to continue composing your site.

For more details and to download a FREE trial version:

Maintaining backwards-compatibility is a snap. Check out the file menu’s "convert" command.

Don’t have Dreamweaver 1.2 yet?

Want more tips?

PS I hope to find time to demo Dreamweaver in my New Orleans workshops.

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There was an interesting piece in yesterday’s Education column

of the NYTimes

(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/07/cyber/education/22education.html).

The conclusion reached was that it’s hard to draw a conclusion. That is, it’s difficult to define variables for such a study. They couldn’t really isolate the effect of computers away from other interfering variables. With that said, it’s still an interesting bit of information.

Paul D. Boyer, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin—Parkside
Assistant Professor 900 Wood Road, Box 2000
Biomedical Research Institute Kenosha, WI 53141-2000

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Ruth Orkin's photo archive (with audio)

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Hertz Car Sales

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From InformationWeek:

The technology, which IBM says it has been working on for 15 years, also benefits much smaller machines. An SOI chip could require only a third of the power that an equivalent processor would, which would mean more battery life for devices such as notebook computers, cell phones, and personal digital assistants.

IBM is producing SOI chips in pilot and will have them in high-volume production in the first half of 1999. The company will use SOI in its PowerPC processors and in its S/390, AS/400, and RS/6000 servers. IBM will manufacture SOI chips for phone and handheld device vendors, not license the technology to them

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Physicists on(in?) the Money --- go for it Rudy

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The South Pole

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Now Bob Jensen is going underground for three months. You're probably relieved.

G'Day Mates!

(Roger prefers "Cheers." After my trip to New Zealand, however, I am hoping that somebody, someday, will invite me to Australia. I figure that chances are better if I pretend that I can speak the native Australian tongue.)

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Please download the latest totally-free versions of my SFAS 133 for Dummies. Just don't tell my students where to find the answer files. I have doubled the number of Excel examples with derivations and explanations, complete journal entries, questions, and answers. My SFAS 133 For Dummies Glossary and Tutorial materials on derivative instruments accounting and hedging activities have been corrected, added to, and revised. Among other things I have added links to online Black-Scholes Model calculators and other derivatives instrument calculators. You may want to note the section added on Option Pricing Theory heady stuff about which I have some doubts even if that theory did earn some Nobel prizes. Nobody wanted to publish my old "Ross Economy Lunch" paper, so I put it on the web. I like to think it bruised some egos. Journal editors said it was incomprehensible like a lot of my papers. I think it’s a vintage piece. In any case, if you want to see the economy lunch paper it is at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/index.html#BigOnes

This is an appeal for bean counters to send me suggestions and corrections for improvements of these materials. SFAS 133 is pretty tough for us dummies.

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How can your provide interactive learning modules, RealAudio/Video, have online examinations and automatically grade those examinations, have discussion groups and chat rooms, etc.? These goals entail specially configured servers. Educators have two choices. Either they must install software to specially configure servers on their own campuses or they must use the servers of vendors such as publishing firms. Software for configuring these servers and serving up online courses is called "shell" software. You can read about some of the alternative software and other options at

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I took the liberty of adding Bob Blystone's teaching evaluation message to the document at

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Thanks to Roger Debreceny for this Stanford tip. Looks like its time for you and your colleagues to retire Mahbub.

Check out an interview at http://www.news.com/Radio/Index/0,55,,00.html with Prof. Dale Harris of Stanford’s Engineering School on their new completely distance Masters in Engineering.

Interesting stuff .. I visited his shop in ‘96 .. at that stage they were delivering only to Silicon Valley companies that had high speed connectivity. Now they’re going national

If you want to see a summary of what other universities are doing about distance education programs, take a look at the updated version of

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A collaborative authorship of a perpetual document describing technology issues for CPA firms with significant tax practices. Each outline topic will ultimately become a linked page. Each topic page will have a related comment/discussion/suggestion page. Any comment page will always begin with an Ag (for AutomationGuide) and include the word Comments and the topic page name (as AgCommentsInternet as the comment page for the page on the Internet). You may want to skip down the page for topics under the general section entitled Communications where some of the more recent work has occurred.

Thank you for the tip John DeBruyn.

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Writer’s Handbook --- if you read many of my messages, you know Jensen can use this one.

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There are wide ranging options for removable storage these days. I also use a Jazz drive, but some new SyQuest drives claim to be faster. Panasonic has a new 5.2 Gb LF-D101 DVD RAM drive. There is a nice review of many alternatives in the August 1998 issue of NewMedia, pp. 55-57. The web version is at

As indicated in a previous message, I recommend that you purchase removable storage drives and other components from local dealers or local retail stores whenever possible. For example, when I purchased an Iomega Jazz Drive from my local CompUSA store, I purchased an extended two-year CompUSA warranty. When the drive blew in about three months, the store just gave me a new drive off the shelf. This was neat and convenient compared to trying to get Iomega to replace another drive still under an Iomega warranty. Dealing with Iomega directly is a nightmare and virtual waste of time. Buy local when possible!

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Web bartering

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Interact with arts and culture online.

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Disabilities & Managed Care

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Savage Earth

Remote Sensing Archaeology Research at NASA

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The web site that claims to have everything

It doesn't cover insects. For those go to

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Web Math

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If your kids are really bored this summer, link them to American History at

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Grit your teeth Paula --- those 100 "best" novels are listed at

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Go for it Curtis --- Trivia and other facts from Yale

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William Faulkner

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Gifts of Speech (Women)  Looking for Ceil to be added any day now.

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Email security (Thank you Larry Gindler)

There is a patch available for Outlook 98.

A patch was released for Outlook Express, but has now been determined to

not fix all of the problems. This patch will be re-released later in the week.

Details of the problem with Outlook can be found at the following Microsoft site.

Netscape has posted its response to the mail bug problem that Larry mentioned yesterday. Information can be found at

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Financial Information from US Government Agencies

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Here's Microsoft's bid to put RealPlayer out of business.

I downloaded the beta version a couple of months ago. The beta version worked great. Now let's all request that Microsoft create a free audio recorder that works better than mplayer. Bill Gates  thinks that nobody wants to record more than 60 seconds of audio, so he limits mplayer audio recording to 60 seconds. However, I have no complaints about Windows Media Player, except that I really did like my RealPlayer even if it cost me $30.

If you really need to record audio for more than 60 seconds, try Sagebrush Systems' Recall at

If you want to help out another very fine small business now threatened by Microsoft, download the free beta version of RealPlayer from

It's good stuff.

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Small business may want to GetSmart

For serving up credit, they should take a look at CardWeb

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Consumer Information—NCLC

Founded at the Boston College School of Law, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) is a nonprofit corporation committed to the legal problems commonly faced by low-income and financially distressed families. Accurate and authoritative information regarding issues of debt collection abuses, home improvement frauds, usury, and utility terminations, among others, are provided at the Consumer Information section of the site for lawyers, low-income community organizations, public policy makers, consumer and business reporters, and interested citizens, alike. Links to related websites are also provided for additional consumer guidance. From the Scout Report.

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When searching for a company you generally go to a search engine, type in a few keywords, hit enter, and get hundreds or thousands of results. But there is a search method that is often simpler and more effective - its called brute force searching. To conduct a brute force search just type in the company’s name as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in your browser location/address box and press [Enter]. When developing a Web site most Webmasters try to use a domain name that fits their company name. For instance, when you type www.ibm.com in your location/address box and press [Enter] your Web browser will display the IBM Web site. Of course this search method doesn’t always work because domain names are sometimes already registered when a company develops a Web site. For example, when Digital Equipment developed the AltaVista search engine, the URL http://www.altavista.com/ was already registered by another company, so Digital used http://altavista.digital.com/ for its domain name. Still, conducting a brute force search is often very effective. You can even make effective searches for particular subjects like cars, cooking, news, startrek, harvard, and navy. When conducting this type of search you’ll need to keep the domain name suffixes in mind. For example, if you’re searching for Yale university, you’ll what to type www.yale.edu, not www.yale.com. The most common domain name suffixes are.

.com - commercial business
.edu - educational institution
.gov - government agency
.mil - military
.net - miscellaneous
.org - non-profit organization

The above search tip is from the Cobb Group

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Prior to July 26, please read the virus alert at the bottom of this message.

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I have significantly revised the SFAS 133 Glossary on Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. The Glossary and my tutorials are linked at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/#new

I added illustrations of buying and using futures, forwards, and options.

Various online, freeware, and shareware calculators are listed at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/133glosf.htm#Option

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In the August 1998 issue of NewMedia on Page 50, Macromedia's Dreamweaver wins the Oscar for visual authoring tools in web documents. I have mixed feelings about all tools using DHTML. A problem is that standards are not yet set in stone for DHTML. I have a tutorial on Dreamweaver at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/helpers1.htm#JavaScript (go to Tutorial 1d) If the tutorial does not work on your browser, then you have discovered one of the problems with DHTML.

An upgrade to Macromedia's Dreamweaver can be downloaded at
http://www.macromedia.com (Click on Support, Dreamweaver)

If you do not already own Dreamweaver, you can download a free trial version at

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A great site for valuing options

You may want to check out a listing of all sorts of investing freeware and shareware at

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Hundreds of online calculators with a nice index (this is a repeat of an earlier notice, but I like this site)

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The Newspaper Association of America has set up a site to search for US newspapers, plus giving space to outstanding features from member papers.

See http://www.newspaperlinks.com/

Regards

Andrew Priest, School of Accounting, Edith Cowan University

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Return on Investment (ROI) in Education Technologies

Three annotated bibliographies of articles and books on evaluation and ROI from American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Some of the articles, or excerpts of articles, cited are available on the ASTD Web site.

"Return-on-Investment - ASTD Publications."

"Evaluation - ASTD Publications."

"Return-on-Investment Bibliography."

See also:

Phillips, Jack J. "How Much Is the Training Worth?" TRAINING &

DEVELOPMENT 50, no. 4 (April 1996): 20-24.

Phillips, Jack J. "ROI: The Search for Best Practices." TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 50, no. 2 (February 1996): 42-47.

Phillips, Jack J. "Was it the Training?" TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 50,

no. 3 (March 1996): 28-32.

Higher Education Information Resources Alliance. "What Presidents Need to Know About the Payoff on the Information Technology Investment. HEIRAlliance Executive Strategies Report #4." Boulder, CO: CAUSE, 1994.

From INFOBITS

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Speech and Transcript Center

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The Technical Realities of Virtual Learning: An Overview for the Non-Technologist

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Links to online journals (a great site)

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1-800-HOTEL-Dr

Please read this before July 26.

Important virus alert (Thank you for the tip David Spener)

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The July-August issue of _European Dialogue_, the magazine of European Integration (discussed in the February 10, 1998 Scout Report for Social Sciences—http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/socsci/1998/ss-980210.html#17), is now online. Themes for this issue include Financial Control, Monetary Union, Countdown to Memmbership, and European Sport.

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The rules of the game for pooling of interests accounting in mergers changed again in the U.S. I do not have a web link for this. However, the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, July 14, Page C1 asserts the following: "The SEC may increasingly block the use of the accounting treatment known as pooling of interests for all stock deals . . ."

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Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science [.pdf]

Founded in 1971 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science is an interdisciplinary research center for economists, managerial economists, mathematicians, and other interested social scientists who use mathematical methods and models in their work. Research interests vary from the analysis and design of systems, organizations, and institutions for managing and controlling economic activities to, more recently, the theory of games. An extensive bibliography of over 1200 staff Discussion Papers dating back to 1972 is available for viewing, with more recent papers available for download (.pdf format). Math Center workshops, seminars, conferences, staff directory, and links to related departments are also listed on site. From the Scout Report.

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US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau [.pdf]

Created by Congress on June 5, 1920, to "promote the welfare of wage earning women," the US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau (DOLWB) seeks to inform the public of women’s work rights and employment issues. Bureau publications include _Fact Sheets on Women in the Workplace_, the legally informative _Know Your Rights Series_, survey results, and special reports on the history of the Equal Pay Act, child care, and financial success stories, among others (.pdf format). A Statistics and Data Library will be of particular use to educators, offering current and historical employment totals and earnings estimates in graphical, presentation formats. Male to Female wage and employment comparisons are also included on site, and some DOLWB studies delineate employment totals by occupation. Links to relevant DOL agencies and reports, as well as other women’s labor organizations are also useful in researching the long history of women’s labor struggles in the US. From the Scout Report.

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MBA 604: Marketing through New Media

Douglas Anderson and Bruce Bailey of Madaille College, Buffalo, NY, liken marketing firms to the flesh of an orange, macroeconomic forces to an orange peel, and the process of marketing research as "peeling the orange" in this beautifully executed educational site designed to heighten student use of the web. Course objectives call for thoughtful evaluation of multimedia product design and presentation as well as the development of digital projects by students themselves. An annotated webliography of interesting essays and resources, provocative quotations, and intelligently placed graphics throughout make this site an exemplary marketing design all its own. From the Scout Report.

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Microsoft HomeAdvisor (for home buyers)

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Financial Players, Inc. (helpers for investors, including calculators)

Stock Trading Charts

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Geographic Data Links, including a glossary and bibliography

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Domestic Goddesses, a.k.a. Scribbling Women http://lonestar.texas.net/~kwells/dg1.htm

Created by graduate student Kim Wells of Texas A & M University, this site is designed as a collection point for literary criticism of six Victorian women writers: Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, and Edith Wharton. Entries for each writer offer some biography and related links, but the focus is on user-submitted essays. Currently, the site contains papers ranging from an MA thesis to an informal three-page presentation. Additional submissions from graduate students and scholars are welcome and guidelines are available at the site. From the Scout Report

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Beazley Archive --- Art History Collections

Classical Dictionary

Greek/Roman Sculpture

Beazley Archive

African American Art

And don't forget the very popular Perseus Project

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What I really like are oriental rugs

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Police accountability

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The Sears Tower

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History of India

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The Museum of Bad Art

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U.S. Historical Census Data Browser

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Africa Research Central

Historically, researchers in Europe and the US have had difficulty finding updated information on primary source African collections. African Research Central, hosted by California State University at San Bernardino, seeks to bridge this information gap by offering centralized and frequently updated information on primary source collections, as well as publicizing the needs of the repositories and suggesting a plan of action for concerned researchers. The site is divided into three sections: The Repositories, For Researchers, and For Repository Professionals. The first section serves as a gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources. The emphasis is on Africa, but European and North American institutions are also listed. Information for institutions includes contact information, access conditions, publications, references, and a preservation wish list. The second section includes a Researcher’s Questionnaire and information on how academics can contribute to the preservation of African sources. The Repository Professionals section invites archivists to update information on repositories or add new ones and publicize their preservation needs and desires. Both of the latter sections also offer related links. Future plans for the site include a searchable database, an expanded repository list, and a section for educators. From the Scout Report

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I have spent the last few weeks developing tutorials and assignment questions of the FASB's new SFAS 133 standard on Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. At the moment these are in Excel. I am trying to decide whether to translate them into JavaScript. As soon as I find the correct interactive medium, these will be shared freely at my web site. I will announce the URLs soon. Most things are going smoothly except for Example 5 in Paragraph 137. If any of you experts know how to calculate the interest accrued values from the data given in the Example 5, please let me know. For example, how is the $1,210 calculated in the third quarter? What am I missing here?

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This worked like a piece of cake for me:

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Thank you Roger (I am overwhelmed)

The abstracts of the papers presented at the annual conference of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand, which is currently being held in Adelaide, South Australia, are at:

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CNET SHOPPER.COM: 1 MILLION PRICES ON 100,000 PRODUCTS

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My reply to a faculty member concerned about how to reference email messages:

I think that when referencing such things you should fine tune distinctions between bulletin boards, email groups, listservs, forums, and chat rooms.

Bulletin boards do not allow users to all send messages to the bulletin board to each other. For example, an investment service my send bulletins to subscribers but subscribers cannot send messages to all other subscribers (unless they are given email addresses of each subscriber). Messages may also be posted at a web site with or without passwords for viewing messages on the board.

Listservs, listserves, or list serves (all three spellings seem to be used in practice and I am no authority on the "correct spelling" here) are like TigerTalk. Only subscribers can send messages to the list and messages sent to the list are sent to all subscribers' mail boxes. Usually you can subscribe or unsubscribe with a simple email message.

Email groups are like listservs with the distinction that a webmaster sets up designated members and one cannot simply "subscribe" to join the list or depart from the list. Since listservs are more complicated for webmasters to set up, the web master will usually recommend setting up an email group for a relatively fixed group. For example, the Department of Business Administration has a group address business-all@trinity.edu Staff in this department all receive any message sent to this address. However, no person can "subscribe" to or "unsubscribe from" the list with a simple email message like can be done with a listserv. Only the webmaster can add and remove members from the email group.

Forums can be listservs, email groups, or web sites programmed for input of user messages. The key distinction in being designated a "forum" is that there is a manager (moderator, editor, czar, steering committee, or what have you) who "runs" the thing to stimulate messaging on certain topics, follow-ups to messages, and generally keeps the thing moving in certain directions or blocks moving in other directions. The manager usually has an "official" appointment. For example, Southwestern Publishing as designated a famous author to manage a forum on certain types of topics. Often forums depend upon the reputation or power of the manager. An author or publisher may establish a forum for a given book or subset of related books.

Chat rooms entail messaging at designated times such that email discussions are more like conference calls.

If you find a preferred spelling of listserv, please let me know.

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Chris Nolan (Head of Reference in the Trinity University Library) replied as follows to the above message:

Hi, Bob. I think your distinctions sound correct to me. My only thought is that "listserv" is sort of a name brand used as a generic item. There is "Listserv" software which works to provide the enabling software for discussion groups, but other software can also be used ("Listproc" is very popular these days, e.g.). I tend to use "discussion groups" for this entity, though there is certainly overlap with bulletin boards, too. To be honest, this is a period of experimentation and there is some vagueness among the differing ways of communicating among groups of people.

Chris

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Yellowstone Geographic

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Sara Lee Foundation - sweeten up your research

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Why not leave any of those parts that still work?

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China’s Free Markets

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Online diaries

One in particular

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Investigating the Renaissance --- those were the days my friend

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IBM withdrew most of its support for the IAT and IKE (actually IKE evolved into the IBM Higher Education web site). Now IBM is initiating a new IBM Global Campus (IGC) program. I stumbled on the web link the very first day it was posted. The IHE and IGC web links are given at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#IKE1

I sent a message to Alan Levit [ alan_levit@uk.ibm.com ], and he phoned me from London the next morning. That is one way to be impressed by IBM. At the bottom of this bookmark update message I have reproduced a subsequent email message from Alan. Just scroll down from here to view his message.

I think I will join the IGC Community. How about you?

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The ZDNet web site has put together a series of articles intended to help

users search the Net more efficiently. To see the list of articles, go to:

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Sometimes speeding up a search is as simple as opening a second browser window. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer let you run multiple browser windows at the same time, allowing you to read a page in one window while another page or search is loading in the second window. A second browser window also comes in handy when you want to view active search results in one window and navigate to other sites in the second. There are several methods for working with a second window. You can open a second window by pressing Ctrl+N (Command+L on a Mac) or by going to the File menu and selecting New/Window. You can also open a second window by right-clicking on a hypertext link and selecting Open in New Window from the resulting pop-up menu. And if you want to quickly load a page into a second browser window, simply drag a link from one window to the other … From ZDNet.

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Microsoft presents a full terrabyte (ie. LOTS) of downloadable satellite images (see your house?)

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The National Forum on People’s Differences

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Crayola FamilyPlay - solutions to the aging professor syndrome

CNN/SI Home Run Rally --- if you would rather swing a bat than color

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Parks and History Association (the photos are great!)

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Have you ever been typing something in MS Word and find that the software automatically does something to your document that you do not want such as making an unwanted capitalization or superscript.

You may have noticed that when you begin a new document, Word makes formatting changes to your text as you type. Many times, these changes may not be something you want. This happens because Word uses a feature called AutoFormat As You Type. This feature automatically formats headings, bulleted and numbered lists, borders, numbers, symbols, and so on as you type. AutoFormat can also automatically insert text, graphics, and symbols. Fortunately, you can turn off either all of the changes that AutoFormat As You Type makes or you can choose specific changes.

To make changes to the AutoCorrect feature, choose Tools/AutoCorrect... and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. To clear the options you don’t want, simply click the box to de-select the item. To automatically correct options, click the box to select the individual items. If you decide you don’t want Word to make any formatting changes as you type, clear all of the options and click OK. From the Cobb Group.

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We all know this, but sometimes we forget.

If you forgot to bookmark a particularly cool Web site you found the other day while surfing with Netscape Navigator, chances are good that you can locate it quickly without using a search engine. Just look through your cache. Unless you’ve turned off caching, Navigator stores a copy of every Web page and image on your hard drive, emptying it according to preferences you’ve set. To locate URL and cache file names, type about:cache in the Location box and press [Return]. Navigator will display a list of Disk Cache Statistics for your recent visits. To display only the URLs of the cache files, enter about:global instead. Since this data relies on the amount of caching you’ve set up for your browser, the number of items and their ages will vary. From the Cobb Group.

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Better Business Bureau Central Web Server

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Social Investment Forum Guide to Socially Responsible Investing

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Federal Reserve Board's Directory of Community Development Investments—FRB [.pdf, 192p.]

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Africa Business Network—IFC

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Parametric statistics and categorical data analysis (a book for sale)

http://www.statistics.com/books.html#12

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Although Windows 95 supports long filenames for 32-bit applications, there are still areas in the operating system shell that do not recognize all of the long filename characteristics. One such area is the Run dialog box that you open by selecting Run... from the Start menu. When you try to run a program from this dialog box that contains a space in its long filename, Windows 95 will report that it can’t find the file. To solve this problem, simply place quotation marks around the command line string. For example, suppose you wanted to run a program called C:\MY NEW PROGRAM.EXE. At the Run prompt, you’d enter "C:\MY NEW PROGRAM.EXE" and click OK.

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Repeated from above.

IBM withdrew some of its support to the IAT and IKE. Now IBM is initiating a new program. I stumbled on the web link the very first day it was posted. The web link is given at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#IKE1

I send a message to Alan Levit [ alan_levit@uk.ibm.com ] and he phoned me from London the next morning. That is one way to be impressed. At the bottom of this bookmark update message I have reproduced a subsequent email message from Alan. Just scroll down from here to view his message.

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A July 9 message from Alan Levit [ alan_levit@uk.ibm.com ]

IBM Global Campus (IGC) membership, made up of the leading users of learning technology in higher education, has up until now defined itself with bi-annual meetings for those who adopted learning technologies within their institutions. At the most recent meeting in Europe, a direction was taken to create a community where members can meet in an on-line, private secure intranet.

What is a Community ?

A community of interest is a closed user group that shares a common interest and needs to facilitate communication among members in a private and secure environment. The content inside the community is focused on the needs of its members and is contributed by the members of the community. All of the benefits of attending the previous highly rated meetings should be available with the added benefit that the community runs continuously since it is on-line and accessible via any internet service provider.

Speed up value creation and collaboration with an on-line IBM Global Campus community:

The education market is rapidly adopting learning technology. As a result, there is great need for training, consulting and on-line materials. The community can be considered as a place where IBM Global Campus users will want to come and meet each other and share their experiences of adopting it within their institutions. Much of the emerging content is being developed by the early adopters of these technologies who realize that their efforts have value to others. The IBM Global Campus community may be the vehicle they need to reach the people who need them most.

What benefits can you expect from IGC Community ? . learn best practices from the most advanced users world-wide and . hear from and discuss with developers and . share experiences with each other (avoid pitfalls/get fast start)

. get access to beta codes

. understand their vision

What will you find in the IBM Global Campus community ?

The prototype version is opening July 1998 and will contain:

. biographies and contact information of IBM Global Campus early adopters (community members)

. discussions on setting up the community

. discussions on deploying new learning technologies

. a document library containing latest papers and publications of interest

. a calendar of IBM Global Campus events and news of general interest

Can you join the IGC Community ?

The community is intended for users of IBM Global Campus products or technologies - experienced or novice.

This is your chance to join the protoype at no cost to you. You accept some rules of ‘good behavior’; you get an ID and password that gives you right of entry, and it is free until September with no obligation for you to continue. But you must join now to take advantage of this offer. If you have an ID and password from the previous trial, you must re-apply now since we have deleted the old names. Based upon the user feedback, and from our own experience, we now have a new version with a new look and feel that will now be open to the leading academic professionals from across the world. It will run until the Fall when we will evaluate the results and chart our course for the future.

To join now:

Send me an e-mail and we will send you the information you need to gain access to the IBM Global Campus community.

Please include the following information in your note:

1. your title

2. the name of your institution or affiliation

3. the mailing address and

4. telephone and FAX numbers for you

Conclusion:

This is your chance to ‘meet’ some of the most advanced users of learning technologies in the world. Where else can you find such a focused group? If you are thinking about starting a project to deploy new technology in the field of learning, this is where you will find people who perhaps have done it before and can save you time and effort with their advice. This could be the forum you need to present your accomplishments to your peers, gain recognition and open up your horizons through the contacts you will make. If you are in education, this is the place and the time is now. So, don’t delay, send me an e-mail today.

Alan

(alan_levit@uk.ibm.com)

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