Boomer Quiz #1: Ramblin' Jack Elliott was a part of what sixties music boom? 

Boomer Quiz #2: Who was Knucklehead Smiff?

Take a whiff if Boomer Charlie's old sneakers.


Surprise Boomer link of the month.

Compiled by Chuck
Nyren. Visit Suite 101's Baby
Boomers Front Page.



Celebrate Earth Day:  

http://www.earthday.com/

Earth Day WebSite 

http://www.igc.org/igc/

Institute For Global Communications.  
(PeaceNet, EcoNet,LaborNet,WomenNet,ConflictNet)

http://www.ran.org/

Rain Forest Action Network.

A fine green site:
http://cleanerandgreener.org/


A Climate Change Site.  
http://www.pewclimate.org


Global Warming
http://www2.msstate.edu/~krreddy/glowar/glowar.html

Whole Systems
http://www.worldtrans.org/whole.html



Destination EARTH
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/
Official Website for NASA Earth Science Enterprise. 
What is the Earth Science Enterprise? It is 
the spirit of exploration captured and focus 
on our own planet.


World Transformations
http://www.worldtrans.org/index.html





 

 SECTION TWO - Media / Entertainment!

Check out the April issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, 
pages 21-24 for a cool article on the Rock and Roll 
Hall of Fame Inductions.

Tom Petty is on the road again with the Heartbreakers 
promoting his new album "Echo."  Petty mentions Del 
during his 30-minute VH-1 special "Tour Firsts:  
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:  The Echo Tour."  
The show debuted April 17 at 9 PM and midnight EST.  
Check local listings or "www.vh1.com" for schedule info.  
Petty explains how Heartbreaker's bass player, 
Howie Epstein, was a "great find" he 
"found in Del Shannon's band..."

That's all for now,
Brian Young / DSAS
http://www.delshannon.com


The late Dusty Springfield, the late Del Shannon,
Curtis Mayfield, Billy Joel, Paul McCarthy,
and Bruce Springsteen 
were inducted to the Hall of Fame on 3/15/99.
 


  Dylan-Paul Simon Tour Announced:

  The long anticipated Bob Dylan/Paul Simon Tour is on! 
  Tickets go on sale around April 20th. 

  The Allman Brothers have signed their drummer's 
  nephew 19 yr old Derek Trucks as 2nd guitar. 
  Trucks has been playing central florida clubs
  for the past few years and remeniscent of young 
  Stevie Ray Vaughn, he is the hottest new guitarist
  on the circuit. Another Clapton? The Allmans will 
  use his brilliant slide work to recreate Duane Allman's 
  style.  With the band Jazzed up and Derek Trucks 
  Aboard to weave with Dicky Betts the current ABB 
  tour is a MUST SEE. 

  An Allman Brothers Band Spin Off group, GOVERNMENT
  MULE has released a live double CD on which ABB 
  guitarist Derek Trucks appears.

  GOVT MULE LIVE-WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS
  features covers of Humble Pies 30 Days In The Hole
  and Neil Young's Cortez The Killer. This is a return 
  to the late 60's extended improvisations that 
  rocked the Fillmore. 

  If you thought nobody was doing 20 minute songs 
  anymore check out this CD.

  Whose The Boss??? We'll See if the late summer 
  and fall Springsteen tour delivers. Even Max Weinburg 
  will tour with the band! Guitarists Little Steven 
  Van Zant and the LEGENDARY Niles Lofgrin will 
  both be on the roster. Lofgrin, from Falls Church 
  Virginia was a darling of early FM progressive-
  underground rock in the 1969-71 era.
  He was brought aboard to replace Little Steven
  who has rejoined the E street Band for this 
  incarnation.

  Springsteen live with the E Street Band promises to 
  be a knock your sox off tour de force. 

  bdpoe@aol.com

  check out Music Books and Commentary at:
  http://boomersint.org/BDPoe/bookrev.htm 

  BDPoe is a Music Editor at Boomers International Club.
  

"ABC News Of The Century" aired on ABC in March 1999.
Hosted by ABC News anchor, Peter Jennings,

Phonographs, Radio, TV, Electric car,
1901 Victoria Era come to an end.
90 years later Diana's funeral and she was in the 
carriage for her funeal in the same carriage that 
Queen Victoria's funeral was before she was buried.

http://abcnews.go.com/century/

  The Century: ABC News has captured some 
  extraordinary events from our history in a rich twelve-hour series. 

  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1930.html

Depression and Dictators
Poverty and breadlines ravage a world caught in the worst economic depression in recent memory. Desperate people turn to radical solutions to end the misery and war envelops Europe and Asia.
Corbis Pictures 
 
  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1940.html
World in Flames
A Japanese attack brings America into WWII, which 
finally brings a bloody end to German Nazis and 
Japanese militarists. An estimated 60 million people 
die, but an end to the war leads to tensions between 
the remaining 

  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1950.html

Challenges to the Good Life
Despite the threat of nuclear war, Americans embrace 
the good life and spend money saved during the war. 
But a different America begins to emerge and challenges 
the white, middle-class status quo.
Corbis Pictures 

  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1960.html
Clash of Cultures 
President Kennedy inaugurates the decade with hope and 
idealism, as Martin Luther King leads a non-violent 
confrontation against racism. Assassins and a growing 
war in Vietnam, however, destroy the hope and split 
America apart.

  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1970.html
Decade of Disillusion
Young Americans take to the streets to protest the 
Vietnam War and many turn to a counterculture of sex, 
drugs and rock 'n roll. Confidence in the presidency, 
middle-class values and power collapses under weight 
of defeat and corruption.
 
  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1980.html
America on the Rebound
Ronald Reagan promises brighter days and delivers it 
with an unprecedented package of deficit spending. A 
resurgent America faces down an ailing Soviet Union, 
which finally breaks its choke hold on Eastern Europe.

  http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/1990.html

New World Order
The end of the Cold War gives way to ethnic violence 
as nationalistic groups struggle to assert themselves 
around the world. Television and the Internet are 
there to record it all.

http://abcnews.go.com/century/timelines/2000.html

The video for this series becomes available on 
March 23, 1999 
for a price of $99.99 in Video retail outlets, 
Or Call: 1-800-475-4ABC. 

The Century project also features an educational website 
(thecentury.com) for additional program information 
regarding broadcasts airing on cable television's, 
The History Channel.

  
 CNN Cold War
The show that defines the time.  This landmark TV 
documentary series air every Sunday and Friday night
until early December. This documentary took 3 years 
to produce.  The series concluded with the last episode
aired on April 4, 1999.

CNN coldwar


The CNN coldwar experience
and culture web site.

FLASHBACKS 

Come Celebrate the Century with the United States
Postal Service! This is the official 20th century
commemorative stamp series that YOU get to vote
for.

You've already voted for the nifty fifties, 
the groovy sixties, and the rockin' seventies. 

Now it's time to check the results of the 
votes for the awesome eighties! 

The results of StampVote will be posted at this 
Web Site in the near future:

Stamp Vote




 
  SECTION THREE: 
  
All Stressed Up and No Place to Blow

Frequent headaches? Can't sleep? Difficulty concentrating? 
You may be suffering from job-related stress. Studies now 
indicate that one-fourth of the workforce view their jobs 
as the number one stressor in their lives and that workers 
widely perceive job stress as being on the rise. More 
importantly, work stress may increase a person's risk 
for cardiovascular disease, psychological disorders, 
workplace injury, and other health problems. 

But if job stress is a headache for workers, it's a 
migraine for employers. That's because stressful working 
conditions also are associated with increased absenteeism, 
tardiness, disability claims, and other factors that reduce 
a company's productivity and competitiveness. "Work stress 
imposes enormous and far-reaching costs on workers' 
well-being and corporate profitability," says National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 
Director Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H. "The good news 
is at least some of these costs are avoidable." 

"Research and experience tell us that certain factors 
such as heavy workload, conflicting or uncertain job 
responsibilities, and job insecurity are stressors across 
organizations and that the risk for job stress can be 
reduced through smart, strategic action." And that's 
why the CDC's NIOSH is suggesting practical approaches 
that can be taken by employers and employees to prevent 
workplace stress. "Stress ... At Work" finds that 
organizational changes and stress management for
 employees, with organizational changes given top 
priority, may be the most effective approach for 
reducing work stress. The booklet offers a three-step 
process for preventing stress problems by identifying 
stress factors in the workplace, designing and 
implementing solutions, and evaluating the outcome. 

Job stress is defined as the harmful physical and 
emotional responses that occur when the requirements 
of a job do not match the capabilities, resources, or 
needs of the worker. Conditions that may lead to stress 
include heavy workload, lack of participation in 
decision-making, poor social environment, conflicting 
or uncertain job expectations, job insecurity or lack 
of opportunity, and unpleasant or dangerous work 
environments. 

Organizational changes may include efforts to ensure 
that workload is in line with workers' capabilities 
and resources; to design stimulating, meaningful jobs; 
to define workers' roles and responsibilities clearly; 
to give workers opportunity to participate in decisions 
about their jobs; to improve communications; to provide 
opportunities for social interaction among workers; and 
to establish work schedules that are compatible with 
demands and responsibilities outside the job. 

"The new NIOSH booklet offers employers, human resources 
personnel, and workers a practical, easy- to-read 
resource, with real case studies, to help them answer 
three critical questions: What causes job stress, is 
there a problem in my workplace, and if so, what can 
be done to find sensible, meaningful solutions?" added 
Dr. Rosenstock. 

Copies of "Stress ... At Work," DHHS (NIOSH) Publication 
No. 99-101, are available by calling the NIOSH toll-free 
information number, 1-800-35-NIOSH (1-800-356-4674). 
See related articles in the AgeVenture archives. 
"Sources of Stress Vary for Men and Women" 
"Stress of Care-giving Often Health-robbing" 

By Dr. David Demko,  
AgeVenture News Service, 
21946 Pine Trace, Boca Raton, FL 33428 USA
Voice-mail: 561-482-6271. 
E-mail: demko@demko.com
http://www.demko.com/
AgeVenture News Service 





 
 SECTION FOUR: VIRTUAL FRIENDS

OUR COMMUNITY


       
Boomers International Web Site opened up another venue for 
our boomer friends to meet, exchange ideas, chat with each
other and networking. We have been busy and are having
fun meeting many new boomer friends. Membership reached 
360+ with friends from all walks of life from around the
world.

Check us out by going to this Boomers International Club:

http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/boomersinternational
       

You need to obtain a YAHOO id to log into our member club's
chat room, message posting and to check the calendar.

Single Boomers! Check out and join Boomers Love Connection Club:
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/boomersloveconnection
 

 
Boomers International Club

 Boomers International Club Chat Room!
         		
Chat room open daily at: 6:00pm PST, (5:00pm PST Weekends).
Subjects Discuss 



 
 SECTION FIVE: BOOMER FACTS 
In 1945 the baby boom began. More than 3,400,000 
babies were born in 1946, an increase of 20% from 
the previous year. Births peaked at 4,300,000 in 
1957. A total of 77,000,000 births occurred during 
the boomer years of 1946 to 1964. 


     
 
SECTION SIX: BOOMERS OF THE MONTH
     




   



  
   MARCH 1999

   Barry Wood






   



  
   APRIL 1999

   Gail Mitchell







 

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