NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 1 May 2000 - Special issue (#2000-241)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. MISC> Some information about countries around the globe
2. K12> Educational Websites about the Holocaust
3. MISC> [netsites] Culinaria Online
4. MISC> Digital Divide, a real life example.
5. MISC> [netsites] HomeTownPress
6. PROJ> Project: Weather for Gr. 1
7. UPDATED> Update for Babel v.00B
8. MISC> [netsites] Achoo
9. MISC> [netsites] Catching the Light - Astrophotography
10. MISC> [netsites] FGS - Federation of Genealogical Societies
11. UPDATED> Lesson Plan Links Website - May 1, 2000
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:25 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Some information about countries around the globe
From: Amnon Till [mailto:amn...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 9:47 AM
Some information about countries around the globe
Many of us probably know the famous
CIA world Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
In this site one can find valuable information about various countries.
However, recently I found two more sites dealing with this topic:
I N F O N A T I O N
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
>From the site:
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and
compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the
United Nations.
In this first menu, you can select up to seven countries. Then, you can
proceed to the data menu where you will be able to select statistics and
other data fields.
Country Profiles: Your Ticket to the World
http://abcnews.go.com/reference/countryprofiles/countryprofiles_index.html
>From the site:
ABCNEWS.com's Country Profiles are a browsable library of nearly every
country in the world, meant to enhance our news coverage.by providing you
background about a country's history,culture,geography, natural resources,
government, politics,economics and demographics. For each country, you'll
also find a color map, its flag and its national anthem in RealAudio. In
addition, you can use our Interactive Atlas, a database of sortable
statistics and cultural
differences, to compare each county to others in theworld and to conduct
your own investigations of world geography, demographics and cultural
diversity.
Bye
Amnon
amn...@hotmail.com
http://sites.netscape.net/amnontl/amnontl1
& if you can read Hebrew
http://www.stage.co.il/Authors/238.html
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:30 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Educational Websites about the Holocaust
From: Jacob Richman [mailto:jric...@jr.co.il]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 5:33 PM
Holocaust Remembrance Day is Tuesday, May 2, 2000.
Below are 50 educational websites to learn about the Holocaust.
For your convenience, the sites are also hyper-linked online at:
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm
We must not forget.
Jacob
Yad Vashem - Jerusalem
http://www.yadvashem.org.il
Holocaust Glossary - The Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/resource/gloss.htm
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (USF)
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC)
http://www.Holocaust-trc.org/
Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://remember.org/
AMCHA - Israeli Centers for Holocaust Survivors and
the Second Generation
http://www.amcha.org.il
Jewish Resources: The Holocaust
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/holo.html
The Nizkor Project
http://www.nizkor.org/
Women and the Holocaust
http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/
The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
Holocaust World Resource Center
http://www.hwrc.org/
The Ghetto Fighters' House
http://www.gfh.org.il/
Witness Legacy - Contemporary Art about the Holocaust
http://sunsite.utk.edu/witness/
Photographs of the Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/library/holocaust/
blpictures.htm"
The Mourners' Kaddish
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/library/holocaust/
blkaddish.htm
Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html
Holocaust / Shoah Resources (Dickerson)
http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html
Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
http://www.fmv.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html
The Holocaust Chronicle
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/
The Knesset Holocaust Site (Hebrew)
http://www.knesset.gov.il/knesset/special/shoah.htm
Beit Therezin
http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/ndx_e.htm
Anne Frank
http://www.annefrank.com/
Holocaust section of About.com
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/library/holocaust/
blholocaust.htm
School Service: Holocaust Resources Catalog
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@oh1FWaBtyzsWA/Pages/holo.html
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
SHOAH - Visual History Foundation
http://www.vhf.org/
March of the Living
http://www.bonder.com/march.html
The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
http://library.advanced.org/12663/
Mazal Library - A Holocaust Resource
http://www.mazal.org/Default.htm
Massuah - Institute for the Study of the Holocaust
http://www.massuah.org/
Rescuers From the Holocaust
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/
Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
Eicheman Trial Testimonies (Hebrew)
http://www6.snunit.k12.il/shoa/shoa.html
Adolf Eicheman Trial (PBS)
http://www3.pbs.org/eichmann/
Jewishpost Holocaust Remembrance Day
http://www.jewishpost.com/holocaust/
Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps
http://mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo//einvert.htm
Descendants of the Shoah
http://www.descendants.org/index.html
Holocaust Names (find holocaust survivors)
http://www.holocaustnames.com/
Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors mailing list
http://www.flash.net/~reyzl/2G-Legacy.html
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
http://www.jfr.org/main.html
We Remember Jewish Opoczno
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/opocz.htm
Treblinka Extermination Camp
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/treblink.htm
Jewish Communities from Poland
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/comm.htm
War Criminal Records Working Group
http://www.nara.gov/iwg/
Living Heirs (help in recovering assets)
http://www.livingheirs.com/
The Struma Tragedy
http://www.alpas.net/uli/struma/struma_engl.htm
University of Minnesota CHGS
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/
Images of Reflection (pictures of the camps)
http://www.imagesforreflection.com/places.html
Holocaust Guide, Edition 2000
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shaked/guide.html
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Culinaria Online
From: "Pierre Borochaults" <pie...@borochaults.com>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: [netsites] Culinaria Online
1,000's of recipes; Search Engine; Tips, Techniques! rec.food.recipes
Archive; 100's of Culinary Links!
Pierre Borochaults
pie...@borochaults.com
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:40 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Digital Divide, a real life example.
From: John Walker [mailto:jwa...@networx.on.ca]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:20 PM
Digital Divide, a real life example.
Last week I was asked:
"To what extent does the growth of the internet reinforce political and
economic inequalities in the global political economy?"
A question with no easy answers.
The story below shows what can happen.
NOTE: I will extend the registration date for the Creating Effective
Web Sites course to 15 May 2000. Information is available at:
http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker/wp.htm
The following is an excerpt from the CSS Internet News. If you are
going to pass this along to other Netizens please ensure that the
complete message is forwarded with all attributes intact.
http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker/inews.htm
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Tech's Janitors Rally for Wages (US)
by Leander Kahney
4:30 p.m. Apr. 27, 2000 PDT
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35790,00.html
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- Thousands of Silicon Valley janitors
are poised to begin a strike that could significantly disrupt the
region's technology businesses.
On Thursday afternoon the janitor's union kicked off a "Justice for
Janitors" campaign with a rally through this tony town in the heart
of Silicon Valley.
About 1,000 janitors participated in the rally, during which a
handful of Northern California's top union officials were arrested
for blocking El Camino Real, a main thoroughfare through town.
They were protesting what they consider are janitors' intolerably
low wages in one of the world's richest and most expensive places to live.
"Based on experience, we are going to have to prepare for a strike,"
said Mike Garcia, president of the Local 1877, the union local. "The
only way to get justice is to create a crisis in the valley."
Police arrested six of Northern California's top union officials and
an elderly churchman at the rally for blocking the street, an
orchestrated act of civil disobedience intended to bring media
attention to the janitor's plight.
The seven were handcuffed and arrested by members of a local Swat
team, who were clad in flak jackets and riot helmets.
A police spokeswoman said the arrestees would be cited with a
traffic violation and released.
The Northern California branch of the Service Employees
International Union, which organized the rally, is preparing to
renegotiate a contract for its 5,500 members with janitorial firms
that subcontract to some of the biggest and richest companies in the
valley, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and Cisco.
The union is asking for a 16 percent increase in wages over the next
three years. On average, Valley janitors are paid $8-9 an hour,
which translates into about $17,000 a year, with no benefits.
The union says the majority of its workers are forced to work at
least two jobs to make a living and cites studies estimating a family
of four needs an income of $53,000 to live above the poverty line in
Northern California.
"It makes me angry, it makes me feel we should do everything
possible to fight for economic justice for janitors," one protester said.
The contract between the union and the cleaning contractors, which
includes American Building Maintenance, Able and One Source, expires
at the end of May.
Garcia said the firms had not yet responded to the union's terms,
but the union is prepared to take action if their demands aren't met.
The union last week successfully negotiated a 30 percent wage
increase over three years for Los Angeles janitors after an
acrimonious three-week strike.
At the Mountain View rally -- the biggest the sleepy town has seen
for years -- the janitors carried placards estimating how long it
would take the technology companies to pay for the three-year wage
increase. According to the placards, HP could cover the extra costs
with two minutes worth of sales, IBM in 30 seconds.
One speaker at the rally said it would take a janitor 800 years to
match the annual salary of one Valley CEO who made $116 million last
year, a relatively modest sum for a technology executive.
One of the janitors at the rally, Mari Loja, works two cleaning jobs
five days a week to help pay her rent and send her three children
through college in her native Ecuador. Loja makes $8 an hour during
her night job at Cadence, and $6 an hour cleaning offices at Logistix.
Loja shares a two-bedroom apartment in San Jose with four other
families. She lives in one of the bedrooms with her husband, her
daughter, and two teenage cousins. She sleeps only four hours a day
in a pair of two-hour shifts.
"I'm very, very tired," she said. "I'm extremely exhausted and
economically I'm not doing very well. It's a struggle every day. The
money I make one day, goes that day. I came here to improve my life,
to get a better life economically. But it's hard. I can't improve my
life. We're still living in poverty."
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:45 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] HomeTownPress
From: "Pierre Borochaults" <pie...@borochaults.com>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: [netsites] HomeTownPress
http://www.hometownfreepress.com/index.htm
"Over 1,500 links to local news sources in the United States and the world."
Pierre Borochaults
pie...@borochaults.com
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:52 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: PROJ> Project: Weather for Gr. 1
From: "Housley, Kathleen" <KHou...@CLASSROOM.COM>
To: <C...@LISTSERV.CLASSROOM.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Project: Weather for Gr. 1
Hello. We are first grade teachers from New Jersey and Ohio. We would like
to invite you to participate in an online project called "What's the
Weather?" We are trying to get one representative from each area of the
country to join with us this year. If you aren't interested, or able to
participate this time, perhaps you could let us know of someone that might
be. Would you be interested in creating a page that keeps track of your
daily weather? We would like to have a partner from the West Coast, the
South (Texas, Alabama, Florida, etc.), Hawaii, and California.
Sorry for the late notice - we had partners who decided not to do this at
this time.
Here is the link to our
page from May 1999:
http://www.mefnj.com/wood/cv/may/weather.html.
Please let us know if you are interested and send us your
information including teacher name, school name,
location and the web site address.
You can send information to Sharon at mailto:lh...@cinci.rr.com. This
project will begin next Monday, May 1.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Valenti and Sharon Hall
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:21:58 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: UPDATED> Update for Babel v.00B
From: Irving Kind [mailto:ik...@erols.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 7:42 PM
BABEL:
A GLOSSARY OF COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
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Version 00B
May 2000
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HTML Format
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http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html [207KB]
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babelhtm.zip [ 65KB]
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TEXT Format
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http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babeltxt.zip [ 63KB]
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LOOK FOR THE NEXT VERSION (00C) September 2000
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Irving Kind ik...@mcimail.com
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:22:03 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Achoo
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <ASHa...@MASTNET.net>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 7:39 PM
Subject: [netsites] Achoo
"Search or browse through our extensive Directory, or tap into
Healthcare News, get that book or journal you have always wanted, &
more. Finding medical & healthcare information on the Internet has
never been this easy."
Alan
ASHa...@MASTNET.net
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:22:09 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Catching the Light - Astrophotography
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <ASHa...@MASTNET.net>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 8:00 PM
Subject: [netsites] Catching the Light
"This is a web site of deep-sky astronomical photographs, tips and
techniques for astrophotography, and digital enhancement in Photoshop."
Alan
ASHa...@MASTNET.net
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:22:14 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] FGS - Federation of Genealogical Societies
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <ASHa...@MASTNET.net>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 8:12 PM
Subject: [netsites] FGS
"The Federation of Genealogical Societies, founded in 1976, has three
major purposes: serving the needs of its member societies, providing
products and services needed by member societies, and marshaling the
resources of its member organizations."
Alan
ASHa...@MASTNET.net
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 07:22:33 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: UPDATED> Lesson Plan Links Website - May 1, 2000
Just a quick note.
The Lesson Plan Links website:
http://rrnet.com/~gleason/lesson.html
has been updated for a total number of 141 sites.
The Subject Lesson Plan Links website:
http://rrnet.com/~gleason/subject.html
has been updated for a total number of 177 sites, including
a new section on WebQuests!
If you know of other sites that should be listed on either website, send
them along and I will check them out.
Comments, suggestions are welcome!!
Thanks.
<Gleason>/Classroom Connect
Net-happenings moderator
gsac...@classroom.com
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