Boomers International - Worldwide Communities

Season's Greetings.

Year 2001 has almost come to an end.
It's has been a long and trying year
for so many of us.  

With the holiday season approaching,
we do hope that it will be a very 
fufilling time for all of you. 
We hope that you will be able to take
some time off from worry and stress
and spend time with your loved ones,
your family and your friends.

We know that while we feel blessed and 
are thankful for what we have.  We will 
always remember to keep in mind and 
remember all of those who are lost
during the tragidy events on September 11th
and we will remember those who have served 
and sacrificed. 

We would like to extend an invitation 
to friends who are interested in 
helping our fellow human beings
find the true nature of our spirit.
We will resolve to strive to be a 
catalyst and a courier of love, 
faith and hope so that our future 
generation can live in peace. 

We are very grateful for the many 
blessings we already enjoy 
and wish you and your families 
with love, joy and happiness on 
your holiday. May you find peace, love 
and happiness and an abundance of the 
precious things of life. 


Peace, Love and Light,
Boomers International�

In The Holiday Spirit! By: Jeri Maier �� This year, in the midst of national tragedy, we saw civility and kindness of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. More than ever now, the whole world is crying out for spiritual healing and a quest for peace, harmony and unity. This is a perfect time to share our love and our abundance. When we can share and help others, we are making the world a better place for ALL beings. We at Boomers International, will resolve to strive to be a catalyst and a courier of love, faith and hope. We hope that our contribution to society will bring a positive impact all of us and our future generation as well. Boomers International donoted and will continue to donate our profits to several of the worthy causes and organizations. We hope that you will share your love and give to others in your community as well. Your kindness and contributions will be deeply appreciated from the hearts and souls of those in need. Here are few of an "Acts of Kindness" from around the country. �� College Of Notre Dame students hosted and served 400 homeless people in Golden Gate Park on Thanksgiving day. This was their eighth year of having a "Picnic in the Park" for those less fortunate. �� American's children have donated more than $1.5 million to help the children of Afghanistan. On Saturday Dec 8, President Bush helped send off the first shipment of humanitarian aid purchased from funds donated. http://www.whitehouse.gov/afac/ America's Fund for Afghan Children c/o The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20509-1600 �� Aids To Kabul Zoo
Animals and their care-takers in need of help received aids from AZA http://www.nczoo.org/press_release/Kabul2.htm

By: Dr. David Demko Work-place depression is on the rise, says Reg A. Williams, associate professor of nursing at the University of Michigan. In the United States, over 17 million people will have an episode of depression each year. Until depression became the focus of research, occupational health programs primarily focused on common physical illnesses, but not depression, which is known to be one of the most expensive costs for business. "Occupational health nurses are seeing more people who suffer from depression in the work place and they don't feel prepared to manage it because up until recently, depression in the work place hasn't been a focus of work-place health," Williams said. "The indirect and direct cost of depression in the work place is immense. Consider the loss of employee productivity. Productivity and absenteeism losses associated with depression cost U.S. companies $24 billion annually, or about $3,000 a year per depressed employee," he said. The total cost of depression at work is estimated to be as high as $44 billion. Symptoms of depression in the work place include: - employee is off work longer than the company allows for disability; - loss of concentration; - reduced productivity; - loss of interest in work; - withdrawn from colleagues; - irritability; - excessively late to work; - high absenteeism; - cannot reach employee by phone. Williams cites a study in which depression is the most expensive medical cost of all behavioral health conditions accounting for 52 percent of all claims of one major company. It was the most common diagnoses of those who sought help from the company's employee assistance program; it resulted in more days of disability and 12 month recidivism than employees who suffered from common chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, diabetes and back pain. See more related articles in AgeVenture at: AgeVenture News Service, http://www.demko.com

�� Oldest Worker In America: Washington (AP) A 100-year-old architect advises this for those who want to work into old ages: find a job you enjoy. "When you have something you love to do, it keeps you alive," Harold Fisher said Monday after receiving Green Thumb Inc's annual "America Oldest Worker" award. "I never had dying in my mind at all because I love my work and spent so much time at the office." Fisher found his calling at 15 when he became an apprentice for an architect in Uniontown, PA., for $2 a day. Eighty-five years later, he still go to work five days a week designing religious building at the fir he owns in Michigan. "Since it's my company, they can't fire me," Fisher said with a grin. "You might say I'm retired now and doing what I love to do, but I'm still working."

�� Who's Hiring? http://sacbee.employmentwizard.com/perl/vaui/EmpList �� Job Training http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/business/careers/schools.html �� Signs Of Silence A non-profit group helping the deaf or hearing-impaired to find jobs. http://www.signsofsilence.com �� The Work Search Organization: 3450 N.W. 47 Avenue, Coconut Creek, Florida 33063, Phone: (954)978-5595 Fax: (954)978-1598

�� December 13, 2001. Washington(AP) According to the US Government study, the number of people age 65 and older more than tripled over the past 50 years to a record 420 million world- wide. The Census Bureau and the National Institute on Aging's study find that in general, seniors are bttter educated, retiring earlier and living longer. The 65-and-older population increased from 131 million in 1950 to 420 million in 2000. Over the 1990s, the increase was about 2 percent each year. The one-year increase of 9.5 million between 1999 and 2000 was unprecedented, the report said. In the United States, the 2000 census showed about 12 percent, or 35 million of the nation's 281.4 million people, were at least 65. That compares with 13 percent of the country's 248.7 million people a decade ago. Aging Internet Information Notes: Baby Boomers http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/NAIC/Notes/babyboomers.html Agewave. http://www.senate.gov/~aging/hr42kd.htm �� Boomer Wake-Up Call Prepared by Ken Dychtwald in support of testimony given to the Senate Committee on Aging on November 8, 1999. Excerpts... Based on 25 years of personal study, experience, dialogue and analysis, I have come to believe that of all the possible obstacles and opportunities, there are five key aging-related crises toward which boomers are currently heading--all of which are preventable - but only if we begin to take corrective action soon. They are: Elder Boomer Challenge # 1: Obsolete markers of aging. Elder Boomer Challenge # 2: Tithonus' revenge or healthy aging? Elder Boomer Challenge # 3: The coming caregiving crunch. Elder Boomer Challenge # 4: Financial wake-up call. Elder Boomer Challenge # 5: Shangri-La or "Gerassic" Park? Elder Boomer Challenge # 1: Obsolete markers of aging. Aging boomers will not only live longer than previous cohorts, they'll grow "old" much later as well. When Otto Von Bismarck picked 65 to be the marker of old age in the 1880's, in preparation for Germany's first pension plan, the average life expectancy was only 45. On the day that Social Security began, the average American could expect to live 63 years. In 1997, former President George Bush celebrated his 72nd birthday by parachuting from a plane to commemorate his last parachute jump, when he'd escaped from a crippled airplane in World War II. U.S. Senator John Glenn, who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth, recently returned to space at 77 as a silver-haired "payload specialist." At 82, Lena Horne remains talented and beautiful, and 69-year-old Sean Connery is still considered one of the world's sexiest men. The increasing longevity and youthfulness of today's seniors - who are serving as new role models for a vital maturity - are causing a dramatic redefinition of what it means to be "old." .....

�� We have created a member's photo album at our WEB SITE. If you are a member and you have uploaded your photo for your profile, your picture will be posted on our photo album. If you do not wish to have your picture posted please write to us and inform us of your user-id. http://boomersint.org/boompics.htm By: Jeri Maier, boomersint@aol.com

�� More than a year ago, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Economic Forecast predicted that the US will experience recession in 2001. Since the Dot.com crashed in early 2000, layoffs and the unemployment rate sky rocketed. The attack on September 11, 2001 has put the economy in further downward plunge. The US government has tried to stem the economy from spiraling down further. The Fed have cut interest rates for the 11th time. All in all, the boomer generation suffered the most from this economic downturn. With so many layoffs since 2000 abd 700,000 more US job lost since the September 11th tragedies, it all added to already depressed world economies. The whole world is also impacted by the global recession and with the ending of this year closing in, many people are looking forwarded to a new year with faith and hope for any signs of good news. In the last few weeks as the "War Against Terrorists" slowed down to nearly a halt, stocks market have been making a comeback and some have recovered from September 11th. On December 19, the Conference Board reported that the U.S. index of leading economic indicators rose 0.5 percent in November -- the largest rise since a 0.6 percent increase in May -- after a 0.1 percent gain the previous month. The leading economic index has risen in four of the past six months, which suggests that the recession could be losing steam and the economy will re- cover in the middle of 2002. We all hope that the new year will be a better year for all of us Boomers

Boomers Related News in the past few months: �� Wednesday October 10, 2001 Press Release SOURCE: Universal Music Group Universal Music Group Announces Worldwide Release Of 'Bee Gees: Their Greatest Hits: The Record' 40 of Their Biggest Hits Including 19 #1's and 4 Newly Recorded Songs, 2 CDs, 5 Decades of Music and Photos Set for Release on November 20th, 2001. �� Saturday - November 9, 2001 Novelist Ken Kesey dies at 66 GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) ---- Ken Kesey, who broke into the literary scene with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and then helped immortalize the psychedelic 1960s with an LSD-fueled bus ride, died Saturday. He was 66. Kesey died at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, two weeks after cancer surgery to remove 40 percent of his liver. After studying writing at Stanford University, Kesey gained fame in 1962 with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," followed quickly with "Sometimes a Great Notion" in 1964, then went 28 years before publishing his third major novel. In 1964, he rode cross-country in an old school bus named Furthur driven by Neal Cassady, hero of Jack Kerouac's beat generation classic, "On The Road." The passengers called themselves the Merry Pranksters and sought enlightenment through the psychedelic drug LSD. The odyssey is documented in Tom Wolfe's 1968 account, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." �� History Of Peace Movement. http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/history_of_peace_movements �� November 30, 2001 Goerge Harrison Lost His Battle with Cancer. A sad day indeed. Goerge Harrison, John Lennon and The Bealtes had given us so much pleasure at the time of our life. The End Of An Era? The Beatles, a part of the musical and cultural revolutions in the 60's. Georeg Harrison is the quiet one. We will miss him and his music will be with us forever. �� BBC News Today: Harrison penned some of the band's most enduring tunes - including While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Something. He was the first of the Fab Four to top the charts with My Sweet Lord in 1970 after the band split. Although he was always regarded as the quietest band member, his talent spoke for itself. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/obituaries/ george_harrison/default.stm �� The quiet Beatle http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/ music/newsid_1432000/1432634.stm Flags were flying at half mast as The Beatles' home city of Liverpool came to terms with the loss of one of its most famous sons. �� December 8, 2001 Anniversary of John Lennon's death in New York.

�� Fun new sites - new discovery : Come discover the pioneers of the musical forms that combined on American soil to become the most pervasive music throughout the world. The 4-Part PBS series airs Mondays at 10 p.m. (ET, PT) beginning October 29, 2001. Check local listings. http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/ �� So, can rock change the world? U2 - Bono are still the biggest band in the world. Still talking politics http://www.time.com/time/musicgoesglobal/audio/u2_ joshua_trck2.mp3 Hippy Net http://HippyNet.com Yesterday Land http://www.yesterdayland.com/ Retirement Planning. http://aolsvc.pf.aol.com/pf/planning/Retirement Quicken Retirement Planner http://vb1.quicken.com/ts/r/233/18/30/23/132 Music Launch http://music.launch.com/artist/default.asp? artistID=1008048&vo=yahn http://music.launch.com/ CreatAbiliTOYS! is an incredible collection of over 700 advertising icons spanning more than a century of American history. http://www.toymuseum.com The American Museum http://www.americanmuseum.org/ The American Museum in Britain is the only museum in Europe devoted to American furniture, decorative arts and quilts. The collections illustrate the domestic arts in America from the late seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The Fillmore East Journals
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/227/41967 �� Bill Graham's Fillmore East
http://www.kidnepro.com/KN/canarsie/fillmore_east.html Opened March 8th 1968 - Closed June 27th, 1971 �� Fillmore East Presevation Society. http://www.fillmore-east.com/"> Dedicated to the memory and excitement that was the Fillmore East Auditorium in New York City �� California Surfing Ocean View: The Depiction of Southern California Coastal Lifestyle http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/ocean-view/ �� California Boomer: Keeper of the Story
A great book
http://californiaboomer.tripod.com/ Old Time Nostalgia.
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/ �� Steve Johnson - a songwriter inspires burned out baby boomers Inspire yourself and your friends to live out your dreams! Dreams In The Making is an upbeat, inspiring collection of songs, ranging from powerful adult pop/rock to sensitive ballads, centered around the theme of creating a life of one's own design. "Most people give up on their dreams by the time they're 30 or so," says Johnson. "We're all so busy with work, family and school. But it's never too late. At 42, I feel like I'm just getting warmed up." http://www.googolpress.com/html/music_ditm.htm �� Last BUT NOT LEAST!!! Courageous Americans! http://www.bk.com/courage.htm