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 If you find broken links please send me an email message at rjensen@trinity.edu

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My SFAS 133 Glossary has been substantially updated at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/133glosf.htm

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This book and some related books are linked at http://www.analycorp.com/c/software.htm

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I hope that many of you will register your accounting courses with the American Accounting Association's new ACE program.

Accounting Coursepage Exchange (ACE)

http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/ace/index.htm

Hopefully the rest of you will register your courses with the AAA's ACE.

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Jerry Searfoss has some good accounting research links at http://www.business.utah.edu/~actdgs/

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Bob—Thanks for your periodic bookmark updates! In response to your note in the latest update about writing resources, here’s one I’ve put up containing the CPA exam guidelines, followed by the basic little errors I’ve most frequently encountered in students’ papers.

http://cbae.nmsu.edu/Classes/Accounting/writing.htm

Ed Scribner (escribne@nmsu.edu)
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Accounting & Business Computer Systems
MSC 3DH
New Mexico State University
PO Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
(505) 646-5163 Fax: (505) 646-1552
escribne@nmsu.edu

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The SEC has a very useful publication at:
http://www.sec.gov/news/handbook.htm
What strikes me as significant about this handbook is that it is not based on deduction from principles of good writing; rather, it is based on testing out alternatives on readers and seeing which they find easiest to understand.

We hand this out to all our grad students.
Regards
Derek Speer
Department of Accounting and Finance
The University of Auckland,
Private Bag 92019,
Auckland, New Zealand.

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Ethics Corner
http://www.inc.com/extra/columns/ethics

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PC Week Labs took a look at RealNetworks’ RealSystem G2 and found it comes very close to achieving high-quality streaming Web video.
http://www.pcweek.com/a/pcwt9812183/377526/

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Small Business Knowledge Base
http://www.bizmove.com

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Iconoclast
http://www.iconocast.com/

Edited by Michael Tchong, Iconoclast is a free weekly email publication with "market intelligence for intelligent marketers." Newsletter contents consider the impact of the Internet on traditional marketing and include The Jacobyte—an "insider column" with "whispers" on the electronic industry. Interested readers may search past editions via the Iconoclast archives or subscribe to the list on-site. From the Scout Report

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How Stuff Works --- Now one of the world's most popular CD-ROMs has some great online explanations
http://www.howstuffworks.com

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Consumers Digest Online
http://www.consumersdigest.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CD

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By dithering 2 or 3 browser-safe colors it is possible to generate over 10 million colors
http://www.colormix.com

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Crime News
http://www.apbonline.com

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Dangerous Places in the World
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dp/dp_intro.html

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World population news (in French or English)
http://www.popexpo.net

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Dan Fan's financial database of China
http://www.tei.com.tw

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Top 10 IT technologies for 1999 (in the eyes of PC Week)
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,380485,00.html

The top 10 strategic issues for IT are at
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,378851,00.html

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One feature in Asymetrix ToolBook that I really like is the easy way that I can make clips of audio and video files. For example, a 60 minute audio file can be stored on a CD-ROM disk and then I can make hundreds of clips of any subsets of the audio in that one file (e.g., a 30 second subset buried in the middle of the file). I have always been happy with ToolBook for distributing my learning modules on CD-ROMs. I am not happy with ToolBook for web delivery. I made some inquiries from experts regarding software more web friendly for making clips. Several of the responses are copied below:

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Bob,

When editing on the Media100, you can have an unlimited number of "clips" linked to one media file. These clips can be trimmed differently without affecting or duplicating the actual media file. But, when you export video for posting on the web, each clip exports as separate media files - not what you want. At first, I thought Premiere might be the answer. But, I think it works the same way as the Media100.

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There are really two major options right now:

RealSystems and Apple.

RealSystems, which has two products, RealProducer Plus (and Pro) that provide streaming media. For "live" broadcasting your web host needs to have the webserver software called RealServer G2, which is not cheap. Many web hosters such as Hiway.net offer use of RealServer free as part of the rent of web server space. Here is the url for the above.

After I get my Quickbooks project done, I’ll switch my web host to hiway.net, and use Realaudio and RealFlash in my future projects. Toolbook version 6.5 has widgets that provide RealAudio connectivity.

The second option is Apple’s Quicktime. The current version (3.0) does not provide streaming media, but the forthcoming 4.0 version MIGHT have streaming capabilities.

Richard Campbell
http://www.rj-int.com

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I received the following message from Asymetrix (although I don't think this deals with my clip making objective of being to make clip subsets from one downloaded audio or video file without using Openscript and Neuron for TBK files):

Many of you may already be using streaming media in your .HTML or .TBK online learning courses, but we now have a holiday gift to make this easier and better integrated than ever before. Early next year Asymetrix will release a new RealSystem G2 object for ToolBook II and, because you are a member of our Level II Technical Support program, we would like to give you early access to this object. Once installed, you will be able to drag the object into your application from its catalog, change its interface by setting the properties, and then either run it in .TBK or HTML format.

Download and start using the new RealSystem G2 object for ToolBook II at:

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That famous rape in cyberspace (MOO)
http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle.html

For more details see David's document at
http://www.memex.org/meme4-06.html

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TV Ultra claims to identify the best show on television each new day
http://www.tvultra.com

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The latest version of FrontPage is coming soon, and now Microsoft will let you buy a beta. For $19.95, you can participate in the Office 2000 Consumer Preview Program and receive the Office 2000 beta (which includes FP 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.0), evaluation materials, product support, and program updates.

For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/2000/ Note: this program is not available in all countries

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From ZA Tips

Have you ever wished that you could see what was in the Clipboard at any time? If you have, you need to install the Clipboard Viewer utility. To do so, insert your Windows 95 CD and when the Windows 95 Autostart screen appears, click the Add/Remove Software link. When he Add/Remove Programs Properties sheet appears, double-click the Accessories icon and select the Clipboard Viewer check box. To continue, click OK twice. Once the Clipboard Viewer is installed, you can easily launch it from the Programs/Accessories menu any time you want to see what?s in the Clipboard.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

On December 20, Trinity University is changing its faculty server from a Unix box to a NT box. I think my web site will continue to work properly with its old links until I revise the links for our new system next summer.

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I added some important segments and corrected some idiotic mistakes to SFAS 133 Glossary and Transcriptions of Experts at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/133glosf.htm
Please help me find my mistakes and curse me out at rjensen@trinity.edu

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Thank you Kevin Stocks. I like the Teaching Tipster section.
The Teaching & Curriculum Section is pleased to announce that the Fall 1998 Edition of The Accounting Educator, the Section newsletter, is available at the following AAA Section newsletter web site:
http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/tccomm/Fall98/news81.htm
Please share this information with your colleagues.

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The revised Institute of Internal Auditors home page has a great amount of useful information, including e-commerce matters and network security. Every CPA can find something of use here.
http://www.itaudit.org

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Thank you Jim for the new link to Accounting History (an Arthur Andersen web site)
http://www.arthurandersen.com/Framesalt.asp?/Firmwide/about_aa/history/hacc.asp

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Ernst & Young developed a learning web site for children called Moneyopolis (for math and financial planning skills)
But you don't really have to be a kid.
http://www.moneyopolis.org

But if its geography you want your kids to study, the U.S. Government provides the best site at
http://geography.state.gov/index.html

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Personal financial planner information and aids, including stock quotes
http://www.morningstar.net

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Aids in artistic culture
http://www.morningstar.net

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Voicecabulary --- an online dictionary that is supposed to be especially helpful when reading science and medical literature (new additions include German and French dictionaries)
http://www.voycabulary.com

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Current Issues in Education --- an online journal (Note the article on the history of electronic journals
http://cie.ed.asu.edu

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The Scout Report announced three new full-text online journals JSTOR Titles

_Mind_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00264423.html

_The Annals of Applied Probability_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/10505164.html

_Statistical Science_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/08834237.html

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From the Scout Report

Soft Money Laundromat—Common Cause

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Don Eland complained that my bookmark file does not have enough references on how to improve writing. Actually it does have links to some sites that have links to other sites --- but he's right. My bookmarks need some updates on this subject. If any of you can help Don and me, please let me know. Don's email address is doneland@oru.edu Please send a cc to me at rjensen@trinity.edu

http://www.primenet.com/~veyr/tex/techedu.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Instructional_Technology/Web_Directories

If I were to become involved in teaching composition writing, I would look into MOO technologies

See my links to the University of Florida's great MOOville for composition writing at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm#MUD )

It appears that my MUD and MOO bookmarks are behind the times after discovering
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Instructional_Technology/Online_Teaching_and_Learning/Educational_MOOs

Try this from the University of Iowa (Note especially the Part 4 section entitled Resources for the Teaching of Writing)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~enged/online/index.html

The Alliance for Computers and Writing
http://english.ttu.edu/acw

A sampling from the great set of links from Wayne Butler at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbutler/UC153roster.html
Resources for Writing

There are many others. You really should visit Butler's helpful web site.

I found Daniel Andersen's web site somewhat confusing but very interesting at
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel

Claudene Keenan has some helpful links (also some MOO stuff, Rhetorical Theory, Grammar and Punctuation, Style Machine, etc.)
http://cac.psu.edu/~cgk4/015int.html#studwk

An interesting essay about student essays on the web
http://www.virginia.edu/~trc/tc96fmk.htm

Speculative fiction
http://www.spirit.net.au/Dreaming/futurescape.htm

Caterine Taylor
http://www.duke.edu/eng169s2

Why do people forget to try Yahoo? Yahoo can take you anywhere!
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Specific_Languages/English/Education/Teaching

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Instructional_Technology/Web_Directories

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Education

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Literacy

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Resources

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Instructional_Technology/Online_Teaching_and_Learning/Educational_MOOs

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Online_Forums/Message_Boards

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Standards_and_Testing

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Theory_and_Methods

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Microsoft just announced a new phone number to address the Y2K challenge for customers who do not have web access to view the Microsoft Y2K site at www.microsoft.com/y2k/ The number to dial for general Y2K information, FAQs, and to reach fax back services is (800) MSFT-Y2K

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Toys Through Time—Encyclopedia Britannica
http://toys.eb.com/

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Neal Hannon's Internet Essentials Newsletter (including a link to his bookmarks)
http://www.tiac.net/users/nhannon/news.html

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Magic Tricks --- Thank you Neal Hannon
http://www.magictricks.com

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NASA Human Space Flight
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/index-n.html

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From cartoon animator Chuck Jones (You will recognize your favorite cartoon characters)
http://www.chuckjones.com

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Vote for your favorite web sites
http://www.botw.org/1998

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In Iowa kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes (now we know why Amy moved to Connecticut)

Also in Iowa, one-armed piano players must perform for free.

In Florida it is illegal for men to wear strapless gowns.

In Tucson it's illegal for women to wear pants.

In Dallas, realistic dildos are illegal.

While standing in Texas, the maximum number of beer sips allowed is three. (That's why we sit at the bar pardner!)

In San Francisco, elephants must have a leash on the streets (nothing is said about a pooper scooper)

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Sweet Sue --- the largest T. Rex (The Field Museum)
http://www.fmnh.org/sue

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Your site currently links to our stock and Royalty Free photography site, www.publishersdepot.com. We recently relaunched the site as www.PictureQuest.com. We would greatly appreciate it if you would update the link.
Please contact me if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas that will make PictureQuest of greater value to you.

Thank you.
Dave Forbes
Marketing Manager
PictureQuest/PNI Ltd

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Mysterious thinks may happen with links to Trinity University faculty and staff web sites after December 20.

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I have updated my SFAS 133 Glossary and Tutorials. I have also added transcriptions of experts at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/133glosf.htm

The tutorial files, the Mexcobre Case solution, and my Excel file that illustrates some real quirks about finance functions are contained at a secret web site that I am not yet revealing to students. Educators and accounting practitioners may request access by sending me a request at rjensen@trinity.edu

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I converted the draft of two technology assurance services cases that I presented (with the help of my co-authors John Howland and Bruce Sidlinger) at the 1998 AICPA Accounting Educators Conference. The motivation for these cases was to highlight the dangers of CPA ventures into providing assurance services for computers and networking systems. The cases were written for my ACCT 5342 Accounting Information Systems students. I would appreciate feedback on this case from readers who venture to http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/262wp/262case1.htm

The cases and the case solutions will be published by the AICPA next year.

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Accounting history
http://accounting.cjb.net

Or try to get there directly at
http://members.tripod.com/kibrahim/contents.html

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Trinity University's Teaching and Learning Committee has a helpful web site at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/org/tlc/syllabi.html

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Aaron Knostam's Educational Snippits (submit your own reflections on teaching and suggestions for educators)
http://moof.cs.trinity.edu/~akonstam/snippits/index.html

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Investment advice from my old friend and Nobel Prize winner Bill Sharpe
Financial Engines, Inc.
http://www.financialengines.com/

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Kindly consider adding my following url to your fine site:
Barkley’s Financial Glossary
http://www.oasismanagement.com

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For information regarding assessment of business undergraduates,contact
Dr. Ralph Mullin, Department of Management, Central Missouri
State University, Warrensburg, MO 64093 (660) 543-4818

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If you've ever wanted a faster or easier way to search the Internet, f.Search is the tool for you. f.Search takes the hassle out of trying to use the search engines of the Internet by moving them onto your computer! It provides you with two click access to 90 of the web's most popular and most useful search engines.
http://www.meat.com/software/fsearch/

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Great buildings in history.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/

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OnLine Surgery
http://www.onlinesurgery.com/

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Instant Replay Controversies
http://www.fans4replay.com/

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Some authors like GoLive better than Macromedia Dreamweaver
http://www.golive.com

Browser-based, it features an extremely user-friendly interface that enables users on virtually any computing platform to easily enter content and quickly update their Web sites. GoLive CyberWriter users can also access content stored in the GoLive CyberServer, such as images, for illustrating an online story. Because it is browser-based, users can enter up-to-the-minute content from anywhere they have a secure Internet connection.

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This is a plug for a former student who now has some Fortune 500 clients.

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The most popular books from Microsoft Press
http://mspress.microsoft.com/authors

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Noted in the Scout Report

• Annotated Bibliography on Transaction Cost Economics
  http://uhavax.hartford.edu/~hjames/tce-bib.html

• Business Education Lesson Plans and Resources
  http://www.angelfire.com/ks/tonyaskinner/index.html

• Thomas Regional Directories (business links)
  http://www.thomasregional.com/newtrd/nc_home.html

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Thank you Roger for forwarding information to me about the following online course linking program. The bit about 40,000 online courses is unbelievable. This is so important that I am going to repeat the forwarded message here. The system is called the TeleEducation NB database and network in New Brunswick at

Fredericton, NB—TeleEducation NB, a province-wide distributed distance learning network in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, has implemented an international online course database of more than 9 000 courses. The database now contains the most comprehensive listing of fully online courses available anywhere. It includes public and private courses at all levels from more than 15 countries and includes only those courses that can be completed fully online. For example, it includes simple email courses that send out texts or workbooks, but it does not include interactive video courses that require attendance at a specific site.

The database reveals that approximately 75% of courses fully available online originate in the US. A further 18% originate in Canada, with 3% from Australia. The rest of the world accounts for the remainder. As many would guess, most courses are in the Computers and Technology field. Business, Education and English are other fields with a large number of online course offerings. Undergraduate university courses are most common, particularly first year courses. Community college and graduate courses are next in popularity.

The database conforms to Educause’s IMS (Instructional Management System) standards and is one of the first to do so. It also uses the ERIC Thesaurus for institutional names and keywords. Students can access course information by browsing subject areas or by searching specific fields. Hotlinks connect students directly to the delivering institutions.

In the past year, there has been an exponential rise in the number of courses being offered online, from less than 2 000 in January 1998 to more than 10 000 in December, 1998. It is expected that there will be more than 40 000 online courses by the year 2000. The TeleCampus Online Course Database provides students with a means of finding information on courses that meet their needs. Institutions will be able to reach these students more easily through the TeleCampus.

MEDIA CONTACT: Rory McGreal, TeleEducation New Brunswick, Department of Education, 500 Beaverbrook Court, Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1, tel: (506)
44-4230, fax: (506) 444-4232, e-mail: rory@teleeducation.nb.ca.

Sandy LeBreton Préposée au marketing
TéléCampus ,Case postale 6000, 500, cour Beaverbrook
Fredericton (Nouveau-Brunswick) E3B 5H1 CANADA
TéléCampus, l’apprentissage en ligne c’est notre expertise:
http://telecampus.edu
Courriel - sandy@teleeducation.nb.ca
Télécopieur - 506 444 4232

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Thank you Andrew Donnelly

If you liked Windows 3.x’s File Manager, you probably miss not being able to open two windows in Windows 95’s Windows Explorer so that you can easily copy and move files by dragging and dropping.

Fortunately, there’s a way that you can emulate this behavior in Windows 95. To do so, just open Windows Explorer twice and then position your cursor over a blank section of the taskbar. Then, right click and select either Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically from the shortcut menu according to your preference. Now, Windows Explorer looks just like File Manager.

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LINUX has a ways to go
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,375257,00.html

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Thank you Mike Fetzer
When a hyperlink is created from text, FrontPage automatically underlines it. However, you can remove the underline—at least in browsers that support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). To do so, right-click on the link and choose Hyperlink Properties. Click the Style button. In the Style dialog box that appears, click the Text tab. Choose None from the Decoration dropdown list. (This is not the same thing as leaving the Decoration text box blank.) Click OK twice to see the results.

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The Gindler Grinch that stole Bob Jensen's Christmas! (Actually Larry is doing his best to help me through this crisis in my life.)

If you are going to access some of my documents or downloads, I suggest that you do so before December 20. We just received word that our Trinity University faculty servers controlled by the Grinch will shift over to a new system that will require changing 10,000 or more links in my documents. Hopefully, TUCC will help me change my links seamlessly, but many complications can arise in documents that have been created over several years. In the early years I used far too few relative links to my own documents and images --- those pesky absolute links may be problematic in our new system. Please be tolerant of broken links in the early part of next year and let me know which links are broken. My email address is rjensen@trinity.edu

In fact you may not find me on the web for a while. Won't that be good news to some of you.

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I completed the first draft of a case on derivative instruments fair value controversies. The case is called the Mexcobre Case for my ACCT 5341 International Accounting Theories graduate students. I will share this draft, and the Excel file containing the case solutions, with accounting educators and practitioners and would appreciate feedback regarding your corrections and suggestions.

The case is located at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/133sp.htm

The case solutions are contained the 133spans.xls Excel file that can be downloaded following download instructions that is not to be used by my students.  If you are not a student you may request permission from me at rjensen@trinity.edu

The Mexcobre Case is rooted in a real world set of transactions in which ten banks loaned a Mexican mining company called Mexcobre (or Mexicana de Cobre) $251 million. To hedge against political risk in Mexico, the banks and Mexcobre arranged a contract with a copper buyer called Sogem in Belgium to purchase a minimum of 4,000 tons of copper per month from Mexcobre and transfer the sale payments directly to an escrow account in a New York bank. To hedge against copper price movements, the New York bank entered into a copper price swap with Banque Paribus.

I became aware of the above transactions during an intriguing recent presentation in Maui by Rashad. Rashad presented the above example as an illustration of real world derivative contracts that are too complex for SFAS 133. I am grateful to Rashad for later sending me a copy of the original reporting of the above transactions by Paul B. Spraos in Corporate Finance, August 1989. After reading the Spraos article, I disagree with Rashad and feel that reporting the above transactions under SFAS 133 rules is a good exercise for my students. Hence I wove these transactions into my case called the Mexcobre Case.

What is especially interesting about the Mexcobre Case is that it turns into a textbook-like example of why bankers are furious with SFAS 133. Stable economic outcomes become reported as wildly fluctuating accounting performances. The escrow fund must send back to Mexobre any surplus funds above the 11.48% fixed loan rate. Entering into a copper price swap becomes a no-brainer since the escrow fund could only lose from copper price declines and never gain from copper price increases. The copper price swap is virtually a no-cost way of assuring a fixed 11.48% return. And yet the SFAS 133 reporting of the copper price derivative leads to booking a swap that wildly fluctuates between being reported as an enormous asset in some months and an enormous liability in other months. Bankers could not write a better example of bad accounting under SFAS 133. (I am generally in favor of SFAS 133 rules, but SFAS 133 does have its problems for certain types of transactions such as those illustrated in the Mexcobre Case.)

The Mexcobre Case can be used to illustrate theory issues in adjusting assets and liabilities to fair values.

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Name the price you want and where and when you want to go. Price Line will find you the best deals and make all your reservations. Purportedly you will not find better deals anywhere in the world.
http://www.priceline.com

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The best finance and investment site on the web (without a doubt) is Yahoo Finance at
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment

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Dynamic Interactions in Web Sites

I installed Version 6.5 of ToolBook Instructor this morning, and I am not an authority on the 6.5 upgrade. The first thing I tried was a simple document to hide and show a text field using (Object, Properties for Action Trigger) that is intended to automatically code a Java applet on a button, hotword, or other object. It didn't work correctly, and I finally got a high level technician at Asymetrix to concede that there was a bug. The bug actually lies in making the hide/show object a separate applet. In spite of the bugs, ToolBook is still not a great alternative for creating dynamic web documents. It lacks DHTML and JavaScript features of FrontPage 98 and Macromedia Dreamweaver. The only way to create dynamic web pages (animated objects, object layers that hide and show with buttons and hotwords, mathematical computations, etc.) is to create Java applets in ToolBook. This is a pain for the following reason evident in the quote below from the Help Guide:

What a Java class mess, especially for students using lab or borrowed computers. I've been a loyal ToolBook user for years. However, unless you are a patient Java propeller head it appears that Asymetrix is giving up the dynamic web document market to FrontPage 98, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and other authoring options that allow you to do dynamic things (hide and show objects, play media files, animate objects, etc.) using software that is already built into a users browser (Level 4 browsers will run DHTML and JavaScript).

The web site is at http://www.asymetrix.com/products/toolbook2/instructor

ToolBook is still a great authoring software for course materials on CD-ROMs. I would like to hear comments from users of Version 6.5. I would especially like to know if the Packager software works better in Version 6.5 --- any comments Dan Gode or Richard Campbell?

By the way, HotMetal Pro is still trying to stay ahead of FrontPage 98 (I'm not so sure anymore).
For SoftQuad's PR on HotMetal visit http://www.softquad.com/enter_presspub.html

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Hidden Killers
http://hyperion.advanced.org/23054/

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EgyptWorld
http://library.advanced.org/15924/

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A great site for conducting web searches by categories
http://www.beaucoup.com

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National Online Shopping
http://www.onlineshoppingweek.com

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KIDSNET
http://www.kidsnet.org/

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Thank you Neal --- This sounds pretty expensive for a listing service. Perhaps they do more than provide web links. However, the "guarantees" listed at the web site might help to justify the "sponsor's" 50%.

Any professor who has a course that can be taught over the Internet can list the course description here for free. Course fees paid by students are split between the sponsor (50%) and the professor (50%). The web site, www.noncredited.net, is a marketing vehicle for matching students and courses offered

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Thanks Milt

You don’t need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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International Development Research Center
http://www.idrc.ca/

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ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps

ALPS, Active Learning Practices for Schools, is a new Website promoting the improvement and advancement of pedagogical practice. ALPS functions as an electronic resource center for teachers and school administrators worldwide, allowing them to collaborate with educational researchers and curriculum designers working at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Cleverly organized into sections that Look, Reflect, Explore, Build, Connect, and Learn, ALPS provides a wealth of educational resources including, but not limited to, model lesson plans and activities; curriculum design tools; online educational publications; and interactive forums, workshops, and conferences. Most importantly, ALPS facilitates group collaboration among educators through an interactive online community. From the Scout Report.

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Provided by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) with funding from the Ford Foundation, the AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse serves as an education research guide, helping researchers locate information about educational policy issues in the US at the federal, regional, and state level. In addition, the site posts educational news items and links to relevant online publications, policy agencies, and statistical resources. At the site, users may also register for the Legislative Tracking Service, a device which monitors the latest developments in federal and state education legislation. From the Scout Report

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Thanks Neal

Hi again. Get ready of a special Thanksgiving edition of the Internet Essentials Newsletter. It’s now available at http://www.tiac.net/users/nhannon/news.html This week’s leading tip is about how to do some comparison shopping on the Internet. Also look for the scoop on networks, how to change sounds on Win 95 and more

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Thanks ZD Tips
As you work on a Web, FrontPage automatically indexes all the text on your pages. This index is used by the search bot when you add a search form to your Web. Occasionally, however, the text index can become outdated, and the search form will return bad results. (For example, it might list a page in the search results that no longer exists.)

To update the index, just choose Recalculate Hyperlinks from the Tools menu in FrontPage Explorer. If that doesn’t help, try the procedure outlined in this Knowledge Base article:

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Maybe some of you can help Professor Box. His message to me reads as follows:

I would appreciate receiving information on specific assessment methods currently used or contemplated to assess the learning of business school students at the undergraduate level. I am familiar with the MFAT exam. I’ll be glad to prepare a summary of responses if folks elect to answer me directly.

Thomas M. Box, Ph.D.
110 Kelce
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS 66762

Voice: 316-235-4582
Fax: 316-235-4513

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Matt Stroud claims this trick is "downright spooky." Michelle Bushey says she's scared. Sandra Henandrez got the answer. Matt claims belatedly that he saw through this thing. Fred Loxom says it's too easy.
http://www.hondomagic.com/html/pick_a_card1.html

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

There is an interesting interview with James Burke in the November/December 1998 issue of Educom Review (pp. 16-22). The article is also available online at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9866.html

Quottions of particular interest to me are given below:

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One magazine that I read cover-to-cover each month is NewMedia (http://www.newmedia.com ). In the December 1998 issue (pp. 28-46), Invision Awards for Excellence are given to digital products in the following categories:

Best of Show
Entertainment
Nonprofit
Information
Education
Business
Marketing and Sales
Creative and Technical
Excellence

The "Best Nine Digital Products on Earth" are also reviewed beginning with the X-Files Game (generally I hate computer games unless their main intent is educational). Among the Top Nine, HotBot takes top search engine honors (http://www.hotbot.com ) Also in the Top Nine is a differential equation educational CD-ROM called ODE ARCHITECT (http://www.intellipro-inc.com ). Top web e-commerce honors go to THE APPLE STORE (http://store3.apple.com )

The main web site for viewing the Invision Awards reviews is at
http://newmedia.com/newmedia/98/13/feature/Invision_Awards.html

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The NewMedia issue for December 1998 also contains (pp. 61-63) a feature review of the top 24 web video and audio conferencing systems. The article also has a section entitled Future Trends. The web version of this article is at

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Also a concise review of the current and forthcoming state of the art for home/office recording of DVD discs appears in the magazine (pp. 49-52). Unfortunately, the major vendors are divided between the DVD-RAM Type 1 and 2 standards (Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi) versus the DVD+RW standard (Sony, Philips, HP). At present the competition is somewhat hostile, including lawsuits over the use of the DVD logo. DVD-RAM is first on the market, but it is too soon for most of us to abandon our CD-R recorders for DVD-RAM. Although DVD-RAM and DVD+RW discs will read on most DVD players on computers, neither type will play on set-top DVD-Video players for television sets. In any case, you can read about the top three hardware recording machines to date beginning on Page 49. Another article on this confusing battle of standard setting can be found at

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A great review of the latest version of Macromedia Dreamweaver appears on Page 16 of the December 1998 issue of NewMedia. Dreamweaver is designed for creating interactive and animated multimedia web applications.

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The Internet Essentials Newsletter (New Web Site) By Neal Hannon
http://www.tiac.net/users/nhannon/news.html

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Hi Bob -

Great website!

I thought you might want to know about an online course I’ve developed for those who wish to learn the basics of Instructional Design.

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I know that Barry Rice and some other professors continue to use wireless keypads in order to interact with students in the classroom. Wireless Computing in Austin, Texas now has a "Wireless Surfboard" complete with a full keyboard and mouse controls.

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A supposedly great new software option for authoring simulations is available Stagecast (650-354-0735). Stagecast Creater is an authoring tool that Larry Tesler purchased from Apple Corporation (Larry was the former chief scientist at Apple). Stagecast Creater is an extension of the former Cocoa from Apple Corporation. It is now a Java-based authoring tool for the PC or Macintosh computers. The Beta 2 version can be downloaded from

I would love to hear from any of you who have tried this software. Glenn Kroeger where are you?

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Features of the latest (6.5) update of  Asymetrix ToolBook Instructor from Asymetrix
http://www.asymetrix.com/products/toolbook2/instructor/

For Rick Birney's streaming ToolBook applications see
http://129.219.56.56:80/tbstream

For Asymetrix CMS Course Management System see
http://www.asymetrix.com/products/toolbook2/cmsplus.html

For Asymetrix Librarian see
http://www.asymetrix.com/products/librarian/

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The Internet Grammar of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm

Written and designed for undergraduate students, the Internet Grammar of English (IGE) explains the functions and relations of word classes in English sentences, in order to teach readers the principles and rules governing grammatical structure. The IGE consists of an introduction and five chapters: Word Classes, Introducing Phrases, Clauses and Sentences, Form and Function, and Functions in Phrases. A series of three dozen interactive exercises correspond to the lessons in the grammar. The IGE is extremely easy to navigate and may be used as a reference source as well as an instructional tool. It includes a detailed table of contents, a glossary of terms, and a complete index. Moreover, the entire site is searchable by keyword. The IGE was produced by the Survey of English Usage, a research team within the English Department of the University College London. (From the Scout Report)

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American Sign Language Browser (note that this site has very helpful videos for the deaf)
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

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Library Juice
http://www.libr.org/Juice/

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Meanies (my wife likes this site, I can't stand it!)
http://www.meanies.com

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Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/workpaper.html

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Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing
http://www.swcollege.com/mm/gitm/gitm.html

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Pam Peterson's great Research Methods in Finance
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~ppeters/fin6842/index.html

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Real Estate Glossary
http://www.indiana.edu/~cres/glossary/index2.htm

Don't forget my Technology Glossary and links to other glossaries at
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/#Glossary1

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Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) modelling is still alive at
http://www.expertchoice.com

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Yahoo! Shopping
http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Consumers Digest Online
http://www.consumersdigest.com/

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Useless Knowledge (trivia(
http://www.uselessknowledge.com

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New Choices for Old Duffers --- hey, they're talking about me
http://www.newchoices.com/

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Digital TV --- where's it headed?.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/

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Sonnet Central
http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/sonnet.htm

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Hello Bob:

I just came across a couple of your pages at Trinity.Edu which contain a number of high quality links to other sites for research purposes. Two such pages were: http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ -- your homepage and
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm -- a subpage.

Please consider this as an invitation to visit Langenberg.Com to determine if you feel the search capabilities would be a "fit" for your future writings. I can think of three pages that are highly accessed that you may want to have a look at in particular:

 http://Search.Langenberg.Com/
http://Acronym.Langenberg.Com/
http://Religion.Langenberg.Com/

Warm Regards

Chuck Langenberg
Search@Langenberg.Com
http://www.Langenberag.Com/

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Online continuing education credit CPE programs for accountants

McGraw-Hill CPE Online from McGraw-Hill/Irwin at http://www.mhcec.com

CPEasy from Bisk Publishing at http://www.cpeasy.com

Insight CPE from Insight CPE at http://www.insight-cpe.com

CPE Internet from the University of Phoenix at http://www.cpeinternet.com/catalog/default.asp

Jouarnal CPE Online from Rutgers University at http://rarc.rutgers.edu:80

Best CPE (for tax only) from Hardwick Publications at http://www.bestcpe.com

ICPE from the Institute for Continuing Professional Education at http://www.icpe.com (No longer available for public access)

A review is provided in the Journal of Accountancy, November 1998, 59-62. Online Journal of Accountancy articles can be found at http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/joaiss.htm

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URL change for NYU's Dan Gode (author of the basic accounting CD-ROM tutorials marketed by John Wiley & Sons)
New URL: http://dgode.stern.nyu.edu
Old: http://dgode.ssb.rochester.edu

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Restoring Icon Corruption in Windows 95
If your desktop icons become distorted, fuzzy, or even turn black, it’s time to reset Windows 95’s icon cache. There are actually two ways to reset the icon cache. The first method involves restarting Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode, changing to the Windows folder, and deleting the SHELLICONCACHE file. The second method involves accessing the Display Properties sheet, selecting the Appearance tab, and then selecting Icon in the Item dropdown list. Now, adjust the icon size up or down one notch and click Apply. Then, change the icon back to the original size and click OK. (From ZD Journals)

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Dear Mr. Jensen,

We ran across your useful directory of resources and would appreciate a listing for Global Business Web ( www.gbw.net ). Here’s a brief description of the site:

Global Business Web ( www.gbw.net ) - a free world trade resource providing extensive information, international promotion and access to experts, services and trade opportunities around the world.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. Thank you very much for you time.

Sincerely,

Jean-Pierre von Halle
Director of Technical Services
781-273-5476
http://www.LinkInteractive.com

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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

When I made a presentation at the University of Georgia on November 13, my afternoon audience was comprised of faculty members in College of Business (including former FASB Chairman Denny Beresford) who are teaching in the online MBA Program resulting from a partnering of the University of Georgia and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). All students in the program take this graduate degree program online while continuing to work for PwC (mainly in the consulting division). While I was in Athens on November 12, Denny invited me to sit in on a session in which the program faculty discussed such things as heavy messaging that often results from delivering courses asynchronously.

The partnership mentioned above is one of many in a rising trend of partnerships between corporations and universities for delivery of online and on-campus degree programs. An excellent review of this trend is given by Jeanne C. Meister in a book entitled Corporate Universities (McGraw Hill Companies, 1998). The book is reviewed in T.H.E. Journal, October 1998, pp. 20-26. An online version of the review article temporarily available at http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/current/news.asp

I suggest that you download the above file before it disappears from the web. Among the interesting passages from Jeanne Meister is the following passage (which she elaborates upon in the book):

The explosion of corporate universities and corporate partnerships with traditional universities offers many new opportunities and challenges. This explosion offers all sorts of non-traditional career paths for educators, especially educators interested in development of learning materials for online courses. There are also some concerns at are mentioned at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm#Corporate

I applaud the University of Georgia for forming a pioneering online partnership with one of the world's largest accounting and consulting firms. It is very difficult to inspire and manage change among faculty, especially faculty in major universities where research performance overshadows performance in developing learning materials.  The PwC partnership with the University of Georgia is one that we will be watching carefully. It may be that this type of partnership will become more popular than the alternative of leaving out traditional universities and forging ahead with corporate universities that compete with traditional schools.

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MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
http://mitpress.mit.edu/MITECS/

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Thank you Jagdish.
I have placed on the web a draft outline of a graduate course on electronic commerce that i will be offering next spring at
http://www.albany.edu/acc/courses/acc680.spring99/a680s99s.html
I shall appreciate any valuable comments you may have

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NewMedia is high on GOLIVE in the November 1998 issue on Page 16
New! GoLive Web Publishing System Professional online content management system for Web designers, editors and content managers.
http://www.golive.com/three/index.html

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Thanks Dan
The Accountants Ledger, the online magazine designed for accountants.
http://www.accountantsledger.com

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Thanks Richard
In looking at the RealAudio site - the RealPresenter Powerpoint plugin is now free by going to:
http://www.real.com/products/tools/presenter/index.html?src=toolsmain

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On the lighter side ---- thanks Derek
http://www.phoenixat.com/phoenix/seuss.htm

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Thank you Roger
RealPresenter, which is a plugin for PowerPoint97, is now free. See
http://www.real.com/products/tools/presenter/index.html?src=toolsmain
RealPresenter is a really (non pun intended) nifty tool to create RealVideo files from a PowerPoint presentation .. complete with audio narration

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Rick Birney's demo of streaming ToolBooks (maybe there is hope for Internet ToolBooks)
http://129.219.56.56:80/tbstream

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Yahoo! Espana
http://www.yahoo.es/

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World Population Estimates
http://www.popin.org/pop1998/

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Health Central
http://www.healthcentral.com/

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Arts & Letters Daily
http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily

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From the Internet Search Advantage

If you’re looking for news - local, national, or global - the Ecola Newsstand Web site is an excellent place to start. The site links to more than 6,800 online news publications and is well organized for quick, easy access. The Ecola Newsstand features links to hundreds of online newspapers around the world and organizes them by country, region, province, and state. The site also includes links to hundreds of online magazines organized by subject. But that’s not all. If you’re interested in breaking news, The Ecola Newsstand has links to 17 organizations that specialize in breaking news, like the Associated Press and Reuters wire services, and broadcast organizations like ABC, CNN, CBS, and NPR. The Ecoloa Newsstand is located at

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Hi Bob,

Following is our current release email. I hope it is ok that I have used a part of your comments as a review at the bottom. Please let me know if you have any concerns about this.

Thanks again

Pete Mazany

We have developed an internet-based, cross-functional, business learning environment for MBA, Executive Education, distance learning and advanced undergraduate-level courses.

MIKE’S BIKES - Integrated Business Learning - Online!

... has been designed specifically for the Business School Professor. It is already being used by several universities and has received significant interest from the business community.

Go to http://www.netmike.com for free demonstration software and sample course material. Please email us at info@netmike.com for a free 20 minute multi-media CD video of the service in use, to set up a free internet demo for your school, or for further information.

This could also be of interest to someone else in your school.

Please forward it on if appropriate.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Mike’s Bikes is based on "learning by doing". Participants run a simulated company in a bike industry, accelerating their learning of strategic business issues in marketing, operations, finance, strategy, accounting, managerial economics and team dynamics, and the interactions among these. It has detailed support material and may be used for an entire cross-functional or strategy course or as a 4 week complement to existing functional courses. You have the choice of running the course over the internet or using it stand-alone in your class. And it can be branded for your university.

PRICE

The price is US$60/student. An undergraduate option will be

available in Spring 1999 at US$30. And there will be frequent

upgrades as an option. Free demonstration software is available at

BACKGROUND

A Yale graduate, Dr Pete Mazany teaches at the University of Auckland Business School in the MBA program. He saw a need for an indepth business learning environment but was unable to source something that would cover all his requirements. He found other simulations difficult to use, costly in time and resources, and with generally inadequate performance. He and his team have spent 4 years developing this software as a result.

They have received valuable support from Prentice Hall Business

To date, this software has been used in a number of MBA, undergraduate and Executive Education programs in the US and UK. After extensive testing it is now ready for international release.

FEATURES (all internet-based)

1. SoloMike - to use for learning on stand-alone computers;

2. NetMike - an interactive game against other teams/firms over the internet;

3. User Manuals;

4. Powerpoint presentations;

5. Spreadsheets, assignments and model answers;

6. An Assessor ( a tool to improve team dynamics);

7. An Administrator (for easily managing games online);

8. Email support for students on technical issues can be provided to keep students going and give you peace of mind; (response within 24 hours);

9. Email Support for instructors is free (response within 24 hours) as well as a phone Help line from 2pm -8pm EST, 11am - 5pm PST;

10. Newsgroup to share information and ideas.

Please email us at info@netmike.com if we can assist you further.

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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

A highlight for me at the November 6-7, 1998 AICPA Accounting Educators Conference was a presentation by Sharon Lightner from San Diego State University and Linard Nadig from Switzerland. This presentation followed a ceremony presenting Professors Lightner and Nadig with the $1,000 AICPA Collaboration Award prize. The Collaboration Award was given for an online course that is now offered to a class comprised of five students from each of six universities in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, and Hong Kong. I videotaped the presentation by Professor Lightner and Nadig and will now share my summary of the highlights of this innovative international accounting course. The summary highlights and links can be found at

The course has some highly innovative features including the online participation of accounting standard setting bodies in the various countries mentioned above. The course is also innovative in that students in class and in team projects see and hear one another over the Internet in a manner much like they would see and hear each other if they were all in the same classroom. The course has one instructor from each of the campuses.

The Table of Contents in my summary reads as follows:

Introduction

The Course is Globally Synchronous On the Internet

The Main Purposes of the Course

Invited Guests are Also Online

Technology Software Successes and Problems

Coordination and Course Credit Problems

Student Evaluations of the Course

Advantages and Disadvantages from a Faculty Perspective

Professor Lightner's Acknowledgements

Conclusions by Bob Jensen

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THE ULTIMATE CAREER AND COLLEGE LIFE HELP PAGE
http://www.uwm.edu/~ceil/career/jobs/index.html

You may also obtain work and career advice from
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/annie/index.html

Yahoo! Employment - when you’re ready to get to work.
http://employment.yahoo.com/

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A must-see site for ToolBook developers (Thanks Dan)
http://www.plattecanyon.com

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The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
http://mitpress.mit.edu/MITECS/

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Internet Intelligence Index
http://www.fuld.com/i3/index.html

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Virtual Religion Index
http://religion.rutgers.edu/links/vrindex.html [Frames] http://religion.rutgers.edu/links/vrindexb.html [No frames]

The Virtual Religion Index is an excellent portal for locating religious studies resources on the Internet. Created and maintained by the Department of Religion at Rutgers University, the index provides an extensive compilation of annotated links for the academic study of religion. Comprised of eighteen topic sections, the index covers the historical, philosophical, theological, psychological, sociological, and artistic aspects of a wide range of international religious traditions. The well-organized index divides major topic sections into several subtopics. Within each subtopic, indexed links are arranged alphabetically and include brief annotations highlighting important content available at each listed site. Comprehensive as well as current, the index frequently posts updates to its What’s New? section. (From the Scout Report)

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Biz/ed Virtual Factory
http://bized.ac.uk/virtual/home.htm

Biz/ed (described in the September 20, 1996 Scout Report) has created the Virtual factory to give students an opportunity to apply their production, accounting, and marketing skills to real life business situations. Currently, students can "tour" and learn about the Cameron Balloons Virtual Factory with worksheets, photos, relevant studies, and explanations of each main business function. A general company history, product costs, and a glossary of technical terms are also provided to heighten learning, and instructors may benefit from a Teacher’s Guide and offline copy available for download. From the Scout Report

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Company Research
http://iws.ohiolink.edu/companies/

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Women and Entrepreneurship
http://www.cfpa.org/womensvoices/entrep/entrep.html

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TaxWeb
http://www.taxweb.com/

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EarningsWhispers.com
http://www.earningswhispers.com/

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Thank you Frimette

OANDA 164 Currency Converter - current and historical exchange rates for 164 currencies. Available in English, German, and French.
http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic

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WPR FrontPage Tip

When a hyperlink is created from text, FrontPage automatically underlines it. However, you can remove the underline—at least in browsers that support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). To do so, right-click on the link and choose Hyperlink Properties. Click the Style button. In the Style dialog box that appears, click the Text tab. Choose None from the Decoration dropdown list. (This is not the same thing as leaving the Decoration text box blank.) Click OK twice to see the results.

From—Mike Fetzer, [mne469@netdoor.com]

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Educom was held in Orlando, Florida on October 13-16. You may learn more about
IBM’s role and demonstrations shown by visiting the IBM Global Campus web page
WWW.hied.ibm.com/igc/

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Guinness Book of Records
http://www.guinnessrecords.com/

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Healthology.com
http://www.healthology.com/

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Myria for Moms
http://myria.com

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"Roads to Ruins" is about the history of German castles and is meant as a travel guide and educational introduction to Germany's "Middle Ages". To walk the same paths as the kings and queens, and knights and nobles that forged civilization out of Europe's ancient hostile environment is an experience steeped in history and adds a meaningful dimension to what is to many travelers a once in a lifetime adventure. Good pictures as well.
http://www.roadstoruins.com

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

I will see some of you Nov. 6-7 at the AICPA Accounting Educators Conference described at http://www.aicpa.org/calendar/confs/conf28.htm On November 7, with the help of a former Trinity student (Bruce Sidlinger), I will try to demonstrate the tremendous risks of new CPA assurance services called WebSeal and WebTrust at http://www.aicpa.org/webtrust/index.htm

Bruce will show that hackers and crackers are bad enough, but when phreakers target a system you do not want to be liable for assuring the security of that system. Also thanks to John Howland for writing a module (Appendix 3) of our case. John’s module can be viewed at http://ariel.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/security/security The Jensen and Sidlinger cases and solutions will be published by the AICPA and distributed free to colleges

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In my technology workshops, I generally seek to find the latest and best technology applications in education. Good applications can be found in medicine, science, and humanities. It is rare that I find good applications in business. I would like to link you to an outstanding business education application that I discovered on my travels to New Zealand.

Pete is on leave from the University of Auckland and is devoting full time to a company that he formed called VisionPlus Developments Ltd. This company specializes in creation of interactive business simulations for learning on your own or in teams. The firm’s main product to date impressed me more than most anything I have ever seen in education technology. It is called Mike’s Bike: Integrated Business Learning at http://www.visionp.co.nz/mike    Prentice-Hall also describes the product at http://www.netmike.com

Pete also showed me a new demo on CD-ROM that is available. For students, both soloMike and netMike versions are available. The CD-ROM is described at http://www.visionp.co.nz/mike

These applications are built upon complex C++ programs that are quite easy to use and cover an immense amount of learning material on business strategy, accounting, finance, marketing, product development, operations, economics, and team dynamics. There are many interactive learning simulations, but soloMike and netMike are on the leading edge of the latest technologies.

Among other things, soloMike and netMike versions aid students in learning how functional areas of business interact in a very realistic way. You have to see these applications to really appreciate what technologies can do for learning. When I was a student in operations research and game theory courses back at Stanford many, many years ago, one of the most respected scholars in game theory and simulation mathematics was Martin Shubik from Yale University. Shubik wrote the following quote shown at http://www.netmike.com

"I have been developing and running business simulations in the corporate and educational sector for much of my career. Mike’s Bikes is a new generation simulation, taking full advantage of "learning by doing", a cross-functional approach, the graphical Windows interface and the convenience of the internet. It greatly enhances the learning experience both in speed and quality." Martin Shubik

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The Psychology of Cyberspace
http://www1.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

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PwC's Business Executives Accounting Network (BEAN) which is an
http://www.knowledgedirect.net/bean

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Marxists Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/

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Centers for Teaching and Learning
http://www-isu.indstate.edu/ctl/info/centers.html

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Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews
http://www.ed.asu.edu/edrev

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Earth and Sky (Great Site)
http://www.earthsky.com/

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The Asynchronous Learning Networks Magazine (ALN Magazine) is published on-line by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Web.
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/maga_v2_i2.htm

The October 1998 issue contents include the following:

Cultural Studies in Cyberspace: Teaching with New Technology
Dr. David Finkelstein and Dr. Linda Dryden

Pedagogy Using Mathematica Through the Web
Philip Crooke, Luke Froeb, Steven Tschantz

A Model For Asynchronous Learning Networks In Medical Education
Nabil Alrajeh and Bob Janco

Learner Control in Asynchronous Learning Environments
Paula B. Doherty

Models of Online Courses
Robin Mason

The September 1998 issue contains the following online articles at
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln_vol2issue2.htm

University of California Extension Online: From Concept to Reality
Mary Beth Almeda
Director, Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California Extension
Institutionalized Resistance to Asynchronous Learning Networks
David Jaffee
Department of Sociology SUNY-New Paltz

The SCALE Efficiency Projects
Lanny Arvan, John C. Ory, Cheryl D. Bullock, Kristine K. Burnaska, Matthew Hanson
Sloan Center For Asynchronous Learning Environments, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign and Office of Instructional Resources, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Impact of Student Verbal/Visual Learning Style Preference on Implementing Groupware in the Classroom

D’Arcy Becker, Meg Dwyer
Assistant Professors, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Net-Learning: Strategies for On-Campus and Off-Campus Network-enabled Learning
John R. Bourne, Ph.D, The ALN Web Group
Director, Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Vanderbilt University

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Best Practices of College Teaching compiled by Tom Drummond
http://nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu/%7Eeceprog/bstprac.html

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Information Resources for Higher Education
http://www.mass.edu/infores

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Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl

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Laws of Cyberspace and Privacy
Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
http://cyber.harvard.edu/lessig.html

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Dear Professor Jensen,

Your homepage is *very* impressive and I look forward to your talk at the University of Canterbury next Friday.

Check out my newest Internet project.

I visited Trinity a couple of years ago to give a lecture in that endowed series of Humanities lectures you have there—the name escapes me now. It’s a terrific place, and there’s a lot to like about San Antonio too.

Look forward to meeting you.

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Bob,

Thanks for your message. I heard from Curtis Brown that you’d passed along some word to your TU mailing list that a grad was working in the field—it was great to hear from him again (I was philosophy/biology). Also delighted to learn the Tigers are doing well. Until I became a casualty of the Typhoid epidemic in 84, I was a footballer:-)

I see you’ve chosen a wonderful place to take your leave—and I shant intrude with requests for reviews. I’ve added you to my list of folks to contact in January. Your work for Irwin sounds interesting, and I’m sure you’re right about merger derailing talks. I think the MHill folks were pretty well settled that they’d adopt TopClass broadly when this happened, so they may not have felt the need for advisement. We’ll see if they live to regret this:-)

Regarding publicizing the url’s I gave you—all’s fine doing so. They’ve just been made available to the public (see list below). There are a few secret items—and these I had hoped to get you to review as well—but we’ll save them for later.

Example sites:

Ray Henderson [ ray_henderson@prenhall.com ]

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"THE NUMBERS GAME," Tell It Like It Isn't
Remarks by Chairman Arthur Levitt Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/newsarc/pr101898.htm

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For homeworking moms or wannabe's
http://www.homeworkingmom.com

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Summer and Spring 1998 ACS-Mellon Technology Fellows
Included here are Fred Loxsom, Pablo Martinez, and Matt Stroud
http://www.colleges.org/tech/fellows98.html

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Thanks Fred! This is funny if you wait it out.
http://www.thesitefights.com/wepatrol/mil_bug.gif

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Pictures to go with the news
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/g/ts

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Ladies & Gentlemen, on the following pages you will mostly see photos, photos, photos. Amazing, crazy, weird, beautiful photos. And you will encounter the small Russian camera Lomo, a great compact camera from St. Petersburg, which stands at the beginning of it all.

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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

I have placed a revised and updated version of my SFAS 133 Glossary on accounting for financial instrument derivatives and hedging activities at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/default3.htm

I also have assignment materials on accounting for derivatives and managing financial risk at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/acct5341.htm Many of the hints are linked directly to SFAS 133

Scholars’ Information Requirements in a Digital Age. Consultation Draft
Edited by Sarah Porter and Daniel Greenstein on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Data Service http://ahds.ac.uk/public/uneeds/un0.html

http://www.pbs.org/netlearning/home.html

Available online at http://chronicle.com/free/v45/i06/06a04101.htm

"Non-Traditional Universities Challenge 21^st Century Higher Education" by Thomas H. Athey, ON THE HORIZON, vol. 6, issue 5, September/October 1998.

Available online to subscribers at
http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon/online/html/6/5/default.asp

On the Horizon [ISSN 1085-4959] is published bimonthly by Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 350 Sansome Street, Fifth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
USA; Web: http://www.jbp.com/
Subscription information is available at
http://www.jbp.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jbp/cgify?user_id=35532&filename=oth.html

Note: Jensen and Sandlin have a forthcoming article in this journal

From the Librarian’s viewpoint

Competing With the Web: If We Don’t Win, Our Users Lose" by Infobits editor, Carolyn Kotlas, appears in the October 1998 issue of
INFORMATION OUTLOOK (vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 13-14). The article discusses how information professionals can add to and improve upon the information that their clients find on the Web. The article is available online at http://informationoutlook.com/oct98/onthenet.html

Information Outlook [ISSN: 1091-0808] is published monthly by the Special Libraries Association, 1700 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009-2514 USA; tel: 202-234-4700, ext. 644; fax: 202-265-9317; email: magazine@sla.org; Web: http://www.sla.org/ Subscriptions are included with membership in the SLA. Annual non-member subscription are $75 (U.S.) and $90 (non-U.S.).

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

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