EVENTS

Visualize This: The Visual Effects Society has invited college instructors, college students, high school educators and visual effects practitioners to its statewide educational program on the visual effects profession.

Participants will get oversight and direction and an idea of what the future holds for visual-effects artists from those currently working in the field.

For more information about VES or the program, which will be Saturday morning at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, call (818) 789-7083

Mac Talk: Gil Amelio, former CEO of Apple Computer, will be the keynote speaker at MacWest Expo ‘97, Friday and Saturday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. For more information, call (818) 347-3976 or go to https://www.macwestexpo.com

CYBERSPACE * United Nations: In honor of United Nations Day, which is Friday, you might want to visit the U.N. site at https://www.un.org. The site includes information on the organization’s beginnings and recent activities. The U.N. charter can be read at https://www.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/aunchart.htm

* UNICEF Month: October is National UNICEF Month. The Web site for the United Nations Children’s Fund is https://www.unicef.org. At the site you can read about the Progress of Nations 1997 and take a related quiz, find out about UNICEF and look up statistics about the world’s women and children.

* Fall Back: You already know that we gain an hour Sunday morning for daylight saving time, so you think you know it all? At https://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/DST.html you’ll also get information on U.S. time zones, a history of daylight saving and a handy time-zone converter.

* Film Fest: Web surfers will be able to take part the 11th annual AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival without leaving their chairs. AFI will host a special online presentation beginning Thursday, screening 13 international short films from the festival’s competition category. The online portion of the festival is at https://www.afionline.org/fest/cinema

* Human Rights: Amnesty International spends all year protecting your rights, so spend a little of Amnesty International Week reading up on how the group is doing it. Amnesty International On-Line (https://www.amnesty.org) has news, information about current campaigns and ideas about how you can help. The site also has a library. Spanish-speakers should check out https://www.combios.es/amnistia/; it has much of the same news and info in Spanish. Get Up, Stand Up! is a musical site to benefit AI at https://www.getupstandup.com/getupstandup

* Louisiana Purchase: Today marks the 194th anniversary of the Senate’s ratification of the Louisiana Purchase, and you can get a history lesson on the deal at https://crt.state.la.us/crt/purch.htm. And at https://www.ci.natchitoches.la.us/, you’ll find the Web site of the city of Natchitoches, the oldest permanent settlement of the Louisiana Purchase.

* Vatican Day: The official Vatican Web site (https://www.vatican.va) is celebrating Vatican City National Day on Wednesday. The Holy See site has a news service and archives of catechism and church documents and museum information as well as Reflections on Cloning (all in six languages).

* Local Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles recently launched its Web site at https://www.la-archdiocese.org, which has information about and pictures of the new cathedral, a local history and a “Yesterday and Today” section about the church.

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