2000-JAN-01: World: The year 2000 started with minimal computer failures. The hysteria, raised largely by religious writers, turned out to be groundless.

JAN-5: Chicago IL: The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a letter written to them by the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. The council had asked that the Baptists not send thousands of missionaries to Chicago for fear they would create a climate conducive to hate crimes.

JAN-7: Tibet: The 17th Karmapa, a teenage Tibetan Buddhist leader, escaped from Tibet to India.

APR-22: Florida: Armed immigration officers seized Elian Gonzales, 6, and returned him to his father near Washington. They later returned to Cuba.

APR-27: Illinois: Wheaton College dropped its 'Crusaders' mascot, a symbol despised by many Muslims and Jews because of the mass crimes against humanity committed by Crusaders from the 11th to 13th century.

MAY-1: Worldwide: the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom issued its first report. They warned of religious freedom concerns in China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.MAY-11: USA: The Southern Baptist Convention, by far the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., decided that no women are to be ordained to its ministry in the future.

MAY-17: Alabama: Former members of the KKK were charged with a church bombing. It had caused the deaths of four young black girls, and triggered massive popular support for the civil rights movements in the 1960's.

JUL-3: Indonesia: A ferry carrying Christian refugees fleeing Muslim violence sank in a storm. Over 400 drowned.

AUG-7: USA: Senator Joseph Lieberman (R-CT) was selected as the vice-presidential Democratic candidate. He is the first Jew in the history of the U.S. to run as a VP candidate for a major party.

AUG-13: Illinois: 450 Muslim families in Palos Heights, IL decided to convert an unused church into a mosque. Some Christians complained. One suggested that the Muslims either convert to Christianity or return to their country of origin. City Council voted to bribe the group with $200,000 if they would cancel their plans. The mayor vetoed the offer.

SEP-25: USA: A Hindu priest, Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala, opened the session of the House of Representatives with a prayer. He was the first Hindu in history to do so. The Family Research Council placed a statement on their web site which said, in part: "Our founders expected that Christianity -- and no other religion -- would receive support from the government. They would have found utterly incredible the idea that all religions, including paganism, be treated with equal deference." The statement was later removed. The FRC then issued a clarification, but not an apology. 

SEP-29: USA: A statement signed by over 150 rabbis and Jewish scholars was published. It asked Jews to recognize the dramatic improvement in Jewish-Christian relations during the last few decades. It states that today's Christians who reject the old "teaching of contempt" for the Jewish people should not be blamed for Sins of their ancestors, including the Nazi Holocaust.

OCT-4: Texas: In spite of major opposition from Christian demonstrators and a Christian radio station, Bryan Lankford, a Wiccan Priest was allowed to deliver a prayer which opened a government meeting prior to a Dallas City Council meeting.

OCT-28: Oklahoma: Charlie Bushy head, a vice-principal at Union Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, OK, became convinced that Brandi Black bear, 15, had placed a magic spell on a teacher, causing him to become sick and to be hospitalized. Bushy head suspended Black bear for 15 days. 

NOV-1: Abortion violence: The National Abortion Federation recorded 57 violent incidents at U.S. abortion clinics to date in 2000. This is a massive reduction from the 437 incidences logged in the peak year of 1993. The level of violence is well behind 1999, when there were 113 such incidents recorded by NOV-1. 1

April/May 2000 OPDC will review verification for coursework and equivalent activities

Completed during the 1999-00 school year. Evaluation forms (Form 4b:

University/College Graduate Level Coursework Evaluation, or,

Form 5b: Equivalent Activity Evaluation) with initial or preapproved

Proposal forms (Form 4a or Form 5a) should be submitted along with any

Other verification needed as outlined on the Options Chart.

April/May 2000 OPDC will be reviewing proposal forms for summer coursework and equivalent

Activities that will count toward certification renewal and/or transition to

Licensure. (Form 4a: University/College Graduate Level Coursework

Proposal or, Form 5a Equivalent Activity Proposal). Educators

Submitting these proposal forms must have IPDPs on file.

May 5, 2000 OPDC Survey - spring 2000 due to OPDC Committee.

Thanks in advance for your participation.

May 15, 2000 Deadline for submitting preapproved equivalent activities evaluation

Forms/products for approval for CEUs needed for certificate renewal/ transition

To licensure in 2000. Proposal forms submitted after this date will be reviewed

After August 21, 2000.

May 15, 2000 Deadline for submitting proposal forms for summer coursework and equivalent

Activities for preapproval. Proposal forms submitted after this date will be

Reviewed after August 21, 2000.

August 21, 2000 OPDC will begin to review verification for coursework and equivalent activities

Completed over the summer. Evaluation forms (Form 4b:

University/College Graduate Level Coursework Evaluation, or,

Form 5b: Equivalent Activity Evaluation) with initial or preapproved

Proposal forms should be submitted along with any other verification needed as

Outlined on the Options Chart. (Remember to collect the Certificate of

Attendance from any training activities attended and to keep a time log [Form 8:

Activity Time Log] for all other equivalent activities options.)

September 1, 2000 Form 1: Annual Employee Profile revisions due to OPDC as well as

Original profiles from new employees. You will receive a copy of your 1999

Profile form on Orientation Day to revise as needed or to resubmit.

September 30, 2000 Deadline for submitting IPDP (Form 2a, 2b: Individual Professional

Development Plan) for educators who just renewed or upgraded their

Certification or received a new or renewal license and for new hires. An IPDP

Must be on file from every certificated/licensed educator working for the Oberlin

School District. If you had no change in certification or licensure, you do not

Need to resubmit or change the IPDP that has been approved and is on file. The

IPDP remains in effect until you renew, upgrade, or transition to license and

Begin a new one.

U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).

 

Religion

January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world.
January 1 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, despite fears to the contrary.
January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to be bought out by Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
January 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, its highest ever (the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
February 13 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
February 17 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000.
March 10 - The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048.
March 21 - Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel.
April 1 - Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
April 3 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
May 3 - A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon.
May 11 - The billionth living person in India is born.
June 1 - Mount Etna erupts on the island of Sicily.
July 31-August 3 - The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President.
August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
September 15-October 1 - The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.
October 26 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series, 4-1, to win their 26th World Series title (and latest to date). This was the first Subway Series matchup between the two cross-town rivals. It was their 4th World Series win in the last 5 years under Manager Joe Torre.
November 7 - United States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
December 13 - Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
December 31 - The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening.

U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).

 

Modern Inventions of 2000/ Science

The book mystery of Ginger was published.

Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils was invented by the T.V. Oommen.

Fluid Sense infusion pump invented (automatic and standardized intravenous applicator).

Important people:

United States president Bill Clinton

Nov 2000 - Youngman joined Decade Systems in November2000 and has nearly 20 years of information technology, marketing, business development and corporate management experience, which includes ten years in mortgage lending technology and e- business. Prior to joining.

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Abby Kohnstamm, who has led IBM's marketing organization since 1993, becomes IBM's first female senior vice president

Popular cultures/arts

January 21: Mary Harran’s American Psychopremieres at Sundance, presaging 2008’s Wall Street bloodbath. Star Christian Bale becomes aught box-office wunderkind/anger-management poster boy.

January 24: With The Daily Show’s “Indecision 2000,” newish host Jon Stewart Began transforming absurdity and outrage into relevance.

January 25: D’Angelo’s album Voodoo released. Responsible for approximately 3,257 babies conceived within week.

January 27: Zadie Smith is decade’s first literary phenom, with sprawling, multicultural White Teeth. Six months later, James Wood becomes decade’s first critical phenom by attacking novel as “hysterical realism.”

February 1: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius catapults Dave Eggers into literary stardom; with McSweeney’s, introduces The Art of Twee.

March 22: NBC cancels short-lived but hugely influential Freaks and Greeks, firing ne’er-do-well creator Judd Apatow and cast members Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jason Segel.

March 30: Susan Stroman’s Contact opens. Bare-bones storytelling through evocative dance changes Broadway musicals … forever.

April 17: Tom Stoppard evolves from brainy trickster to decade’s powerhouse playwright with revival of The Real Thing, then The Coast of Utopia (2006) and Rock ’n’ Roll (2007).

May 18: Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie project ushers in documentary theater—cheap, potent way to address everything from death penalty (The Exonerated) to handbags (Love, Loss, and What I wore).

May 31: Survivor debuts. Viewer’s elated critics bewildered, pundits relieved: Subsequent reality-TV explosion becomes convenient totem for debating nation’s cultural maturity (or lack thereof).

July: Napster’s file-sharing rocks music biz when Radiohead’s Kid A is leaked three months before the CD is released. Ironically, it helps drive album to No. 1 on soon-to-be-irrelevant Billboard chart.

October 15: Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres; augurs cringe-comedy trend (The Office, The Comeback …).

October 26: Sony’s PlayStation debuts, selling over 139 million units to date. Welcome, new generation of 3-D gaming!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issues/problems

Major Ethical Dilemmas

Cyber crime

Privacy issues (data mining)

Financial mismanagement.

International corruption.

Loss of privacy - employees versus employers

Intellectual property theft

The role of business in promoting sustainable development

Business Ethics Developments

Business regulations mandate stronger ethical safeguards (Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations; Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)

Anticorruption efforts grow.

Stronger emphasis on Corporate Social Responsibility and Integrity Management

OECD Convention on Bribery (1997-2000)

UN Convention against Corruption (2003); UN Global Compact adopts 10th principle against corruption (2004)

Revised Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (2004)

Increased emphasis on evaluating ethics program effectiveness

 

 

 

 

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