WELCOME TO MY SCAVENGER WEB PAGE!!
1.
According to www.census.gov, the
median family income in my home county, (Union County, NJ, is 50,254.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/34/34039.html
2.
The Net income of AOL for the 2000 fiscal year was 1.152 billion dollars
(before the merger with Time Warner) http://sec.freeedgar.com/displayText.asp?ID=522137
3.
The P/E Ratio of AOL vs. the Industry is 36.15 vs. 277.15 http://thomsoninvest.netscape.com/cgi-bin/ns_report?ticker=AOL&type=pro
http://pfquotes.netscape.com/finance/quotes/quotes.tmpl?symbol=AOL
4.
AOL stock is priced at 27.48 as of closing on Friday, January 25, 2002. http://pfquotes.netscape.com/finance/quotes/quotes.tmpl?symbol=AOL
On March 7, 2000, AOL stock was 56.50. http://table.finance.yahoo.com/t?a=03&b=7&c=00&d=03&e=7&f=00&g=d&s=aol&y=0&z=aol
5.
The 30 firms that make up the DJIA are as follows:
ALCOA
INC.
ALLIED
SIGNAL INC.
AMERICAN
EXPRESS CO
AT AND T
CORP
BOEING
CO
CATERPILLAR INC.
CITIGROUP
COCA
COLA CO
DU PONT
EI DE NEMOURS
EASTMAN
KODAK CO
EXXON
CORP
GENERAL
ELECTRIC CO
GENERAL
MOTORS CORP
HEWLETT
PACKARD CO
HOME
DEPOT INC
INTEL
CORP
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO
JOHNSON
AND JOHNSON
JP
MORGAN AND CO INC
MCDONALDS CORP
MERCK
AND COMPANY INC
MICROSOFT CORP
MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING
PHILIP
MORRIS COMPANIES INC
PROCTER
AND GAMBLE CO
SBC
COMMUNICATIONS INC
UNITED
TECHNOLOGIES CORP
WAL MART
STORES INC
WALT
DISNEY CO
6.
The closing price of the DJIA when I was born, March 7, 1983, was
1141.70. Its closing price on
January 25, 2002 is 9840.08. http://table.finance.yahoo.com/t?a=03&b=07&c=83&d=01&e=25&f=02&g=d&s=%5Edji&y=0&z=%5Edji
7.
The top three ways to avoid
identity theft are as follows:
Destroy papers you don't
need: credit-card and ATM receipts, checks or deposit slips, health insurance
benefit statements, paycheck stubs, tax records and preapproved credit-card
offers. Buy a shredder and use it.
Do not carry your Social
Security number with you, never give it out unless absolutely
necessary and do not have it printed on your checks.
Check your credit report
each year. Investigate any accounts you did not apply for directly. To check
your credit, contact one of the three major agencies: TransUnion 800-888-4213 (www.tuc.com),
Experian 888-EXPERIAN (www.experian.com),
or Equifax 800-685-1111 (www.equifax.com).
There is a fee for this service.
http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=54993&d=101&h=0&f=0&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
8.
Amazon vs. Barnes and Noble
www.amazon.com has a very professional and
easy to use interface. Not only
does amazon.com carry but it also carries everything under the kitchen sink.
From kitchen stuff to DVD’s to toys, Amazon.com has it all.
They have also seemed to develop some partnerships with well-known brick
and mortar stores such as Target and Toy R Us.
Checking out seems very with the option of checking out in one step.
Amazon.com even provides recommendation for items you may like based on
previous purchases. Shipping however seems high unless you spend $99.00 or more.
There they have a free shipping offer in place. The entire site is a very
excellent and easy to navigate site. No
wonder they are number one when it comes to internet shopping.
http://cso-fps.villanova.edu/FMPro
10. An activity run by Campus Ministry that sounds interesting is Balloon Day. Balloon Day has a two-fold purpose to raise money for the poor in the Philadelphia area while bringing the Villanova Community together for fun and appreciation of springtime. This festival involves approximately 2,000 people and is one of the few events at Villanova that involves the entire University Community.
http://www.campusministry.villanova.edu/volunteer_fair/index.html#BDAY
11.
a. We
examine four areas of rapid technology development that exploit the capabilities
of interactive e-channels: Web-based self-service, data mining, personalization
and e-cash.
E-Cash. While making credit card payments over the Web has not turned out to be the "show-stopper" that many expected, e-businesses addressing the consumer space will need to improve customer trust and the online convenience of payments for mass adoption. Early e-cash offerings (e.g., from CyberCash or Qpass) focus on the user setting up an account or providing credit card information to provide the source of the funds. A new generation of payment schemes (e.g., Trivnet) are looking at using relationships that users have already established — e.g., with their Internet service provider (ISP) or phone company — to form the basis of the billing mechanism. This may finally expand the potential revenue sources for e-retailers down into the micropayment arena as institutions such as the phone companies already have mechanisms in place for aggregating and billing for numerous small transactions
http://www.gartner.villanova.edu/ras_frame.html
b.
From the April 19, 2001, Hartford Courant:
In its first quarter as a combined company, AOL
Time Warner Inc. posted a net loss of $1.37 billion on investment write-downs
and other costs Wednesday, but revenue and cash earnings rose. The company
reaffirmed its aggressive growth targets for the year. The net
loss of 31 cents a share compared with a net loss of $1.46 billion, or 34 cents,
a year earlier, when the company had an accounting charge of $443
million to comply with rules for the carrying value of film inventories.
The year-earlier results were calculated as if the companies were combined a
year
earlier.
12. Here are some great multimedia files everyone should enjoy.
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song.MP3
Windows Media Player will open to play this file!!
One of Troy McClure's Witty Lines. R.I.P. Phil Hartman
Classical Music to Ease the Mind
13. A great shareware program is Paint Shop Pro.
http://tucows.epix.net/mmedia/adnload/194869_86932.html
Click here for some helpful tips for Paint Shop Pro
14. a. The author of personal technology is Walter S. Mossberg. The two devices featured in the December 21, 2000 article were the Philips Expanium and the Pine D'music SM-200C. There were problems with both models. The D'music skips in my MP3-CDs and, in some cases, it played five or 10 seconds of static before starting a song. While the Philips model didn’t display any song information, making navigation hard. Its overall feel is flimsy and its controls were a little clumsy.