Links, & Items of Interest
Updated 3/8/2006
Museum Online
Donate Clothing
Pension Safety
Property Tax Reform
Medicare Info
AT&T Retirees
for AT&T benefits,
medical options, telephone reimbursements, etc.
ATT.com
for company info.
Misc
Museums Online. Many natural history museums have established online
catalogs of their collection. Some of the web sites are simple; others
amount to virtual museums. The selection below is only a sample of what
can be found on the web.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
The gateway to its research collections is
www.amnh.org/research
The Hayden Planetarium gateway is
www.haydenplanetarium.org
Visitors to this site have the chance to download the galaxy. Free
software called Partiview allows a user to view the same data on the
Milky Way used for planetarium shows.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Part of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum has 9 million of its
approximately 125 million specimens represented online. A list of the
collections can be found at
www.mnh.si.edu/rc/db/colldb.html.
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
A plant database with photographic images that can be reached from
www.mobot.org. 
Pension Safety.
Many of us
have had questions about the safety of our AT&T Pensions in light of
what has been going on with Ma Bell. The new retiree magazine ''Reconnect'' addresses the safety of our pensions. It indicates that our
pensions are insured, which reduces the risk of us losing everything.
There is a limit on how much of one's pension is insured. So if you are
above about $44,000 you could lose some money if AT&T's Pension Plan
goes down the tubes. For more information, visit the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp's website at
www.pbgc.gov.
Donate clothing
If you donate clothes
to charity and you want to know how much to deduct, check the Salvation
Army's web site
www.SATruck.com
and click on Valuation Guide.. You can
print out a donation evaluation guide for tax deductions.
For
history buffs this project at Yale University is a must. Documents from
today all the way back to BC are available on-line. If you are looking
at the Magna Carta, or any old documents, a translation is provided.
Go Ask Alice! www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
Answers
to all varieties of health questions come to you from Alice, Columbia
University’s health education Q & A site. From fitness and nutrition to
emotional health to sexuality. Search the archives to see if your
question has been answered, or submit a new inquiry.
Besides
the massive listing of national parks, the NPS Web site is a rich
educational resource for environmental and geological studies. Articles,
photos, and fact sheets as well as tour guides are available.
Who2
www.who2.com
This
irreverent look at celebrity offers hundreds of bios on famous people,
be they movie stars, criminals or writers. It also provides links to the
best sites devoted to theses folk.
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Did you know that an anugram is a true anagram, e.g.
"eleven plus two = twelve plus one". If you like words, you'll love this web
site. www.wordsmith.org is actually much
more than this limited description. A guy who is a consultant for AT&T in Columbus
runs it.
If you are interested in Lighthouses and Lightships, visit www.maine.com/lights for magnificent
pictures, histories and visitor information of the world's most famous.
For those of you who are interested in earth and space
science, there are no better sites than the NASA location at science.nasa.gov. This site is updated almost
daily with new information.
A great all-inclusive reference site: www.refdesk.com.
If you have any interesting site that you would like to
share, please let us know.
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