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Topics in this special issue:
1. BOOK> "BGP" Released by O'Reilly
2. K12> **Helping Kids Lighten Their Loads
3. K12> **Squeezing Education Funding out of a "Lame Duck"
4. MISC> [netsites] ARTICLE: The Hamburger
5. MISC> [netsites] Bloglet
6. MISC> [netsites] 1st Amendment Online
7. RESOUR> [netsites] Advance Space
8. RESOUR> [netsites] Dewey Search
9. RESOUR> [netsites] Dino Directory
10. MISC> [netsites] Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
11. MISC> [netsites] Grizzlies
12. MISC> [netsites] Horse History
13. MISC> [netsites] The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
14. MISC> [netsites] The Foliage Network
15. MISC> [netsites] The Vintage Radio Place
16. RESOUR> [netsites] WTO Documents Online
17. RESOUR> [netsites] World of Mathematics
18. MISC> [netsites] Other Timelines
19. MISC> [netsites] The Schoyen Collection
20. K12> Announcement of addition of Music for the Nation: American Sheet
Music, 1820-1860, to American Memory
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BOOK> "BGP" Released by O'Reilly
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kathryn Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For Immediate Release
September 24, 2002
For more information, a review copy, cover art, or an interview with
the author, contact:
Kathryn Barrett (707) 827-7094 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build Reliable Internet Connections with Border Gateway Protocol
O'Reilly Releases "BGP"
Sebastopol, CA--Every second, millions of hosts send billions of
packets across the Internet to other hosts, with nothing more than the
destination IP address to guide them along the way. The present
protocol of choice for interdomain routing in the Internet is the
Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. Internet service providers use BGP to
inform each other which IP address goes where. BGP is also useful for
end-user organizations that want reliable connections to the Internet
through two or more ISPs. It's the only protocol that can deal with a
network of the Internet's size. It's also the only protocol that can
deal well with multiple connections to unrelated routing domains. In
the event of a network outage, BGP recomputes the path so packets can
avoid the problem area and keep flowing. O'Reilly's latest release,
"BGP" by Iljitsch van Beijnum (US $39.95), contains everything network
administrators need to know to run BGP for regular IPv4 routing in all
but the very largest networks.
"BGP" is a guide to all aspects of BGP: the protocol, its configuration
and operation in an Internet environment, and how to troubleshoot it.
The book also describes how to secure BGP and how BGP can be used to
combat Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The examples
throughout the book are for Cisco routers, but the techniques discussed
can be applied to any BGP-capable router.
"This book is for anyone interested in running BGP to create reliable
connectivity to the Internet," says van Beijnum. "It caters
specifically to the needs of those who have to determine whether BGP is
the right solution for them, and if so, how to go about preparing for
and then implementing the protocol." Much of the information in the
book applies to everyone who needs reliable internet connectivity:
end-user organizations, application service providers, web hosters, and
ISPs. "Later in the book," van Beijnum explains, "the focus shifts to
topics that are mainly of interest to ISPs: interconnecting (peering)
with other networks and providing BGP transit services."
Some of the topics covered in the book are:
-Requesting an AS number and IP addresses
-Route filtering by remote ISPs and how to deal with it
-Configuring the initial BGP setup
-Balancing incoming or outgoing traffic over available connections
-Securing and troubleshooting BGP
-BGP in larger networks: interaction with internal routing protocols,
scalability issues
-BGP in ISP networks
"BGP" is for anyone interested in creating reliable connectivity to the
Internet and running BGP to accomplish it.
Additional resources:
Chapter 6, "Traffic Engineering," is available free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/chapter/ch06.html
For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/
For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596002548.jpg
BGP
Iljitsch van Beijnum
ISBN 0-596-00254-8, 288 pages, $39.95 (US), $61.95 (CAN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> **Helping Kids Lighten Their Loads
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:04:27 EDT
From: Bonnie Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: **Helping Kids Lighten Their Loads
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each year, about 5,000 children are taken to emergency rooms across the
country suffering injuries resulting from carrying heavy backpacks. The
American Occupational Therapy Association is sponsoring a National School
Backpack Awareness Day to give kids and adults the lowdown on ergonomics for
kids and how to improve the environments in which kids learn, play and grow
at school.
http://www.connectforkids.org
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> **Squeezing Education Funding out of a "Lame Duck"
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:07:24 EDT
From: Bonnie Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: **Squeezing Education Funding out of a "Lame Duck"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EDUCATION POLITICS
**Squeezing Education Funding out of a "Lame Duck"
The Council of the Great City Schools says education appropriations proposals=
now in Congress will limit education funding below recent trends unless
public support swells enough to pass a sizable education appropriations
amendment on the Senate floor.
http://www.cgcs.org/urbaneducator/2002/sept2_vol_11_no_6_article_
10/sept2_vol_11_no_6_article_10.html
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] ARTICLE: The Hamburger
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:37:29 -0500
Subject: [netsites] ARTICLE: The Hamburger
The Hamburger
**Listen to Pam Fessler's report.
**View a photo gallery about the hamburger.
**Watch an early McDonald's commercial and listen to more hamburger
history.
July 15, 2002 -- Ah, summertime. Long afternoons that stretch into lazy
evenings. The taste of lemonade, the sound of the ice cream truck as it
rolls slowly down the block, and the smell of hamburgers grilling from
back porches and freshly cut lawns.
[...snip for copyright...]
Read this entire interactive article at the National Public Radio site:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/hamburger/
Alan
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Bloglet
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Klaar Von Alle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:52:16 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Bloglet
Bloglet
http://www.bloglet.com/
"For website owners, Bloglet can (1) offer email subscriptions to
your blog that keep your users coming back; (2) simple and seamless
integration into your existing blog; (3) easy setup and hands-free
maintenance; (4) receive daily stats of total new subscribers; (5)
(optional) receive stats on how many sites link to you and a list of
the top 10, as tabulated by Google."
Klaar Von Alle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] 1st Amendment Online
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Pierre Borochaults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:14:05 -0500
Subject: [netsites] 1st Amendment Online
1st Amendment Online
http://1stam.umn.edu/
"1st Amendment Online is a website dedicated to publicly accessible
information, ideas, and images concerning the First Amendment to the
United States Constitution."
Pierre Borochaults
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Advance Space
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:22:29 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Advance Space
AdvanceSpace
http://www.advancespace.com/
Advance Space is an educational site promoting involvement in space.
Here you will find tools, resources and news about space, spacecraft
design, and more...
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Dewey Search
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Finders Keepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:07:56 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Dewey Search
Deweysearch
http://www.deweysearch.com/
"Deweysearch provides a unique set of research tools aimed at schools,
colleges, libraries and anyone who needs search the internet for
information in a focused way."
Fin der Keepoers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Dino Directory
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Reginald Alfalfa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:42:09 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Dino Directory
Dino Directory
http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/
"The Dinosaur Directory at The Natural History Museum, London."
Reginald Alfalfa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Baskin O. Tenninger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:33:48 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
Fisheries and Oceans
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/index.htm
"Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Federal Department responsible for
policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and
scientific interests in oceans and inland waters; for the conservation
and sustainable utilization of Canada's fisheries resources in marine
and inland waters; for leading and facilitating federal policies and
program on oceans; and for safe effective and environmentally sound
marine services responsive to the needs of Canadians in a global
economy."
B A S K I N
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Grizzlies
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:39:47 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Grizzlies
NATURE: Showdown at Grizzly River
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/grizzlies/
"Every summer, in a remote wilderness, a primal battle for survival
takes place with all the drama of the storied gunfights of the Old
West. The combatants, however, are grizzly bears, not cowboys; and
their battleground is the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary in Alaska,
not the OK Corral. NATURE gives viewers an intimate view of this annual
rite of combat in 'Showdown at Grizzly River.'"
Alan
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Horse History
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Rowdy Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:01:34 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Horse History
Horse History (Horse Latitudes)
http://horsehistory.us/
A journal on the history of the horse in the Americas.
Rowdy Yates
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:24:28 -0500
Subject: [netsites] The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
"The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents
over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early
history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from
the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke
University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the
early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American
business and culture."
Alan
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Foliage Network
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:55:37 -0500
Subject: [netsites] The Foliage Network
The Foliage Network
http://www.foliagenetwork.com/
"Providing accurate Fall foliage conditions, Fall foliage reports, and
travel information for New England, the Northeast, Southeast and
Midwest United States."
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Vintage Radio Place
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:39:47 -0500
Subject: [netsites] The Vintage Radio Place
The Vintage Radio Place
http://otrsite.com/
"Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Place. The place to come to find all of
your Old-Time Radio program information."
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] WTO Documents Online
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "E N Compass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:29:54 -0500
Subject: [netsites] WTO Documents Online
WTO Documents Online
http://docsonline.wto.org/
"This database provides access to the official documentation of the
World Trade Organization, including the legal texts of the WTO
agreements. You may retrieve and consult documents online and also
download selected documents from the site to your PC, if you so wish.
Note: this database does not contain WTO publications."
E.N. Compass
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] World of Mathematics
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:32:18 -0500
Subject: [netsites] World of Mathematics
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
"MathWorld is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia
intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers.
Like the vibrant and constantly evolving discipline of mathematics,
this site is continuously updated to include new material and
incorporate new discoveries."
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Other Timelines
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Paul E. Onimuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:22:40 -0500
Subject: [netsites] Other Timelines
Other Timelines
http://www.othertimelines.com/index.htm
Alternate history:
"Did you ever wonder how differently things may have turned out if one
particular historical event hadn't happened the way it did?"
Paul E. Onimuss
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Schoyen Collection
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:49:23 -0500
Subject: [netsites] The Schoyen Collection
The Schoyen Manuscript Collection
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/
Schoyen collection includes private medieval ancient manuscripts,
history, literature, palaeography; bindings; cuneiform pictographic
script; papyrus seals; bookboxes; Dead Sea Scrolls; pre-Gutenberg
printing; Latin, Greek, Coptic, and Chinese vernacular; magic;
literature; and more...
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:15:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Announcement of addition of Music for the Nation: American Sheet
Music, 1820-1860, to American Memory
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:10:56 -0400
From: "danna c. bell-russel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Announcement of addition of Music for the Nation: American
Sheet Music, 1820-1860, to American Memory
The Library of Congress Announces a New Addition to American Memory, "Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1820-1860"
The newest addition to American Memory, "Music for the Nation: American
Sheet Music, 1820-1860" <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sm2html/>, consists of
over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the pre
Civil War years. This collection, taken from materials in the Library's
Music Division, complements an earlier American Memory project, "Music For
the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885", as well as the "Band Music
from the Civil War Era" and "Sheet Music from the Civil War Era".
This new installment of pre-Civil War music materials are available through
a common "Music for the Nation" page
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/>. Through this one page, sheet
music items are searchable via title, composer or subject for this new
collection, as well as the "Music For the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870
-1885" collection.
The years 1820 to 1860 reflect a coming of age for American popular song,
and many of the songs from this period are still well known
today. Included online are many songs by Stephen Foster (1826 64) who
composed such as favorites as "Susanna", "The Old Folks at Home" and
"Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair". Other recognizable songs from this era
include "There's Music in the Air", "Jingle Bells", "Long, Long, Ago",
"Sweet Betsy from Pike", and "Pop Goes the Weasel".
Evident throughout the collection is the burgeoning popularity of the
polka, and songs that reflect the growing fame of performers such as the
singing Hutchinson Family and the first American tour (arranged by P. T.
Barnum) of soprano Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale". In
addition to songs, the collection also includes operatic arias, piano
music, sacred and secular vocal music, solo instrumental music, method
books and instructional materials, and some music for band and orchestra.
Complete page images for all the sheet music items are included in this
online collection, which also features two special presentations; one, a
listing of the "greatest hits" for the years 1820 - 1860, and a historical
background essay on the development of American music in this period by the
noted scholar, and longtime specialist in the Music Division, Wayne Shirley.
Over the years, Music Division staff selected items deposited for copyright
and added them to the Division's classified collections. These were the
items by the best known composers of the day, or items that were otherwise
thought to be interesting or important. Even so, much music material was
left in the Copyright Office and was not transferred to the Music Division
until some time in the 1950's. It is a portion of those items (published
from 1820-60) that comprise this online collection. These 15,000 pieces of
music, bound in three volumes, comprised nearly a quarter of items that
were transferred to the Library of Congress from the Patent Office in 1870.
Please direct any questions to <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html>.
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