vra> Scout Report - November 18, 1994 (fwd)

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                    Scout Report:  November 18, 1994

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new on
and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of
interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,
however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated fees.

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WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources of
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Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  The Magellan Mission to Venus Home Page
*  The IRS and the CIA are now on the Web for your viewing pleasure
*  PAVNET Online, the Partnerships Against Violence Network
*  What's new with the "What's New" page?
*  Another feature movie site -- Buena Vista, a division of Disney

World Wide Web
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The CIA has a server available which includes general information about
the Agency and the Intelligence Community and the 1994 World Factbook and
Factbook on Intelligence. Visit the CIA.
http://www.ic.gov/

Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides now offers 11
new subject-oriented Internet resource created by student specialists at
the University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies.
Similar to last year, students have identified and evaluated Internet
information resources, and organized them in topical guides in ASCII
format.  These ASCII guides are now available via the Clearinghouse for
Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides. Unlike last year, these guides
will also be published in HTML format for World Wide Web in December.
Watch this space for details when they are announced.
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chhome.html

ICE: Internet Connections for Engineering is a Web site sponsored by the
Cornell University Engineering Library.
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/

A Web page for feminists who are political activists has been established.
Because great pages for women's studies and women in general already
exist, this page concentrates on links to Internet resources of interest
to activists, such as Communicating with other Feminists, Current Feminist
Issues: News and Resources, Women's Organizations, Feminist Resources
General Resources for Political Activists, TAKE ACTION: Suggestion for
current feminist action.
http://www.clark.net/pub/s-gray/feminist.html

The IRS has a Web server offering some tax forms, an FAQ (21 questions
answered) where to file, and where to get help.
http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/irs/irs.html

The Magellan Mission to Venus Home is now available at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Lab. The Magellan mission ended with a dramatic plunge into
the atmosphere of Venus, the first time an operating spacecraft has ever
been intentionally crashed into a planet. On October 11, 1994, Magellan's
thrusters were fired in four sequences to lower its orbit into the
atmosphere of Venus for its final experiment -- to gather data on Venus'
high atmosphere. Within two days after these maneuvers, the spacecraft
became caught in the atmosphere and plunged to the surface. Although most
of Magellan will be vaporized during the fiery descent, some sections of
the spacecraft will probably hit the planet's surface. The latest updates
on Magellan's status -- as well as a comprehensive gallery of images and
information from the five-year mission -- are available on the home page.
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/

The Rockefeller University is pleased to announce the opening of its WWW
server. Details about the University, one of the premier biological and
medical research facility in the world, are available, as are the
Archives of the Rockefeller Family.
http://www.rockefeller.edu/

The U. S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) Web Page links to sources of safety and health
information and organizations.  OSHA is looking for suggestions on
information the public would like to see in an OSHA Web page. Currently
under consideration are topics such as press releases, Contact
Information Standards On-Line, Inspection Data. If you have questions,
please send E-Mail to webmaster at www.osha.gov.
http://www.osha.gov/

Gopher
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Biodiversity Gopher at University of Washington
gopher to:   pacdat.fish.washington.edu

BioMolecular Engineering Research Center
gopher to:   bmerc-gopher.bu.edu

Brookhaven National Labs Protein Data Bank (PDB)
gopher to:   pdb.pdb.bnl.gov

CIESIN Information Gateway: The Consortium for International Earth
Science Information Network (CIESIN, pronounced "season") was established
in 1989 as a private, nonprofit membership corporation with members from
leading universities and non-government research organizations.  The
corporation was formed to respond to the creation of the CIESIN
initiative by the United States Congress (P.L.J101-144), and is dedicated
to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change.
It is agency-neutral, specializing in the access and integration of
physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across agency missions
and scientific disciplines.
gopher to:   gopher.ciesin.org

Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida
gopher to:   Mchnet.ichp.ufl.edu

New York State Governor's Gopher
gopher to:   rain.health.state.ny.us

Ohio State University Atmospheric Science Program
gopher to:   geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu

PAVNET Online, the Partnerships Against Violence Network gopher, is a
"virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk,
representing data from seven different federal agencies.  It is a
"one-stop" information resource to help reduce redundancy in information
management and provide clear and comprehensive access to information for
states and local communities. Pavnet is an interagency (USDA, Justice,
Education, Labor, HHS, HUD, Defense) electronic resource on the internet
created to provide information about effective violence prevention
initiatives. 533 programs that deal with the issues of community, youth,
and family violence, substance abuse, and victims rights are listed on
PAVNET Online. Prevention, Enforcement and Treatment/Rehabilitation
sub-categories hold program descriptions and contact sources. 126 files in
the Foundation and Federal Funding Sources directory describe application
guidelines and the purpose of these funding organizations. 332 files in
the Technical Assistance and Curriculums directory include organizations
that offer consultation or training, and curricula to use in existing or
proposed programs. Gopher links to federal clearinghouse and private
sector databases point to other resources for violence prevention
information.
gopher to:   cyfer.esusda.gov

University of Texas Austin, Institute for Geophysics
gopher to:   gopher.ig.utexas.edu

Email
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To subscribe to the Filmmakers mailing list, filmmakers at dhm.com,
send email to:    majordomo at dhm.com
   in the body of the message type:   subscribe filmmakers

The Rural Health Care Email Discussion List, RURALNET-L, is sponsored by
the Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia.
Students, faculty, practitioners and other interested persons in all heal
Institute for Child Health Policy, th care fields are welcome to
participate. This forum will focus on discussions of delivery,
improvement, technology deployment, education and outcomes-based research
in rural health care.
To subscribe, send email to:   listserv at musom01.mu.wvnet.edu
   in the body of the message type:  SUB RURALNET-L  your-name-here
Additional rural health resources offered by the same institution are
available on Marshall's gopher and WWW servers:
http://ruralnet.mu.wvnet.edu/
gopher to:   ruralnet.mu.wvnet.edu

National Information Infrastructure
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The IEEE Technical Committee on Gigabit Networks LISTSERV is being
sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh following discussions at the
6/94 IEEE INFOCOM Conference in Toronto. This list is meant to facilitate
technical discussions on gigabit networking. Questions/comments can be
directed to giga-owner at tele.pitt.edu
To subscribe, send email to:   listserv at tele.pitt.edu
   in the body of the message type:   SUBSCRIBE GIGA  your-name-here

CPSR-GLOBAL is a moderated Listserv for uniting people all over the world
who want to talk about:  **decisions the USA will make on the information
infrastructure, or NII, that will affect the rest of the world--we want
the NII to be a positive force for a GII (global information
infrastructure); **issues of national identity, "cultural pollution," and
international communication and the GII;  **the new emerging GII world
culture;  **international issues of security and privacy and computer law;
**international issues of computer development (keyboards, safety);
**issues of design;  **language; And whatever other global issues you want
to discuss.  Right now the list will be predominately in English, because
it's the lingua franca of the Net.  It is a MODERATED list.  That means
any posts which are not "on topic" or inflammatory will be filtered out.
To subscribe send email to:   listserv at cpsr.org
   in the body of the message type:
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NetBytes
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What's new with the "What's New" page?  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. is
now working in cooperation with NCSA, the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, to support the NCSA What's New Page. It is
now updated three times a week and has an improved format, which makes it
easier read. Submission numbers have steadily increased, and currently
run about 200 per week, so submitters are asked to be patient if your
entry does not show up immediately. The time between when you submit an
entry and when it is published is approximately ten days to two weeks.
The What's New Page has a link to O'Reilly and to a new sponsoring
organization each week.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html

Weekend Scouting
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Buena Vista Pictures Marketing, a division of the Walt Disney Company, is
proud to announce The Buena Vista Pictures Web--a source for information
and previews of movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and
Hollywood Pictures. The Movie Plex is a very graphical environment
providing movie trailers in QuickTIme format as well as a trivia game and
movie gossip. The Press Room offers the same QuickTime clips and more,
JPEG stills and the Press Kits for the movies. They also have a page for
pointers to QuickTime Players for UNIX, Macintosh and Windows.
http://bvp.wdp.com/BVPM/

The Southland Ski Server, specializing in the Southern California ski
resorts, plus Mammoth and June, now has interactive submit/browse
functionality. You can stop by and submit your own ski reports plus follow
links to resorts in other areas. The webmaster for this site says he is
planning on making the underlying Perl code available via public-domain
anonymous ftp to anybody who wishes to start a similar ski report server
for their own local region.
http://www.cccd.edu/ski.html

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addresses are also listed.

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World Wide Web (WWW)
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A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
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gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt

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