vra> Scout Report -June 16, 1995 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Wed Jun 21 14:25:19 CEST 1995
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The Scout Report
June 16, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community
Provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome
to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML) or visit
the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:
http://rs.internic.net/scout_report-index.html
Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Web Geological Time Machine
* University of California Museum of Paleantology
* U.S. Federal Courst Web Page
* American Communities, from HUD
* Wimbledon and Batman both on the 'Net
World Wide Web
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The Johnson Technology Commercialization Center (JTCC) opened in 1993 and
is located close to the Johnson Space Center. The JTCC is funded by a
grant from NASA and is managed by the IC2 Institute, an international
research center for the study of Innovation, Creativity and Capital (ICC)
at the University of Texas at Austin. Among its credits, the IC2
Institute manages the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a recognized
resource for the development of emerging technology companies a model for
JTCC. The IC2 introduced a a laboratory-to-market approach, utilized by
JTCC, which takes technology output from JSC and matches it with
accomplished business and financial partners in the local community. The
final transfer can be the result of either of two primary methods, "Small
Business Incubator Services" and technology licensing.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/ic2/nasajsc.html
Put Prevention into Practice (PPIP) is a national preventive services
campaign to increase the awareness and use of clinical preventive
services by providers, patients, and office staff. PPIP is sponsored by
the U.S. Public Health Service in cooperation with a dozen national
health-related organizations. The campaign encourages consumers to work
with their health care provider to stay well; organizations (Health Care
Systems, Professional Associations) to implement PPIP; educators to use
PPIP in health professions curricula; and researchers to use PPIP
research design tools. Resources on the Web page include a PPIP FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions), DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala's comments
About PPIP, a QuickTime movie, a link to the National Health Information
Center, and PPIP contact/ordering information (e-mail, phone, fax, mail).
http://www.os.dhhs.gov:81/PPIP/
The U.S. Civil War Center's area of interest includes all aspects of the
Civil War and Reconstruction. The Center combines scholarly pursuits with
projects and programs designed to enhance the general public's perception
of the Civil War. Anyone with an interest in the Civil War is welcome to
visit the CWC homepage and their collection of Web links related to the
Civil War, which include indexes, letters, diaries, museums, discussion
groups, newspapers, university archives, and Web-accessible documents.
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm
The University of California Museum of Paleantology's Web site has
information about the museum itself, the exhibits, catalogs, and a very
readable FAQ (frequently asked questions) on paleantology. Ask a private
question to a museum researcher. Read about how they built their server
-- all tricks are revealed.
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/welcome.html
The U.S. Federal Court's Home Page is maintained by the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts. The purpose of
the site is to function as a clearinghouse for information from and about
the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government. The hypertext document
Understanding The Federal Courts gives a description of how the U.S.
Federal Courts operate. Selected articles from The Third Branch, the
monthly newsletter of the federal courts, are available. Recent Press
Releases are also available. The Directory of Electronic Public Access
Services provides information on automated access to U.S. federal court
information and records.
http://www.uscourts.gov/
Ride the Web Geological Time Machine at the University of California
Museum of Paleantology. Click on an item in the list of 25 geological
periods [15 of the 25 periods are available now, the remainder to be
completed] and view a page describing each period, its subdivisions, and
the life and fossils of that period.
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/timeform.html
The Yale-New Haven Medical Center Web site contains information about the
Medical Center and its constituent organizations, Yale-New Haven
Hospital, the Yale University School of Medicine, and the Yale University
School of Nursing. You will also find links to valuable external
biomedical Internet resources.
http://info.med.yale.edu
Gopher
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American Communities is the Information Center of HUD's Office of
Community Planning and Development (CPD). Formerly the HOME Information
Center, American Communities (AMCOM) has been expanded to serve as a
resource for all CPD programs and initiatives, including the Community
Development Block Grant program; HOME Investment Partnership; homeless
and Special Needs Assistance Programs; Economic Development programs
including Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities; the Consolidated Plan
(formerly the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy); and
Environment and Energy. AMCOM serves nonprofit housing and community
development organizations, State and local government agencies, public
interest groups, and HUD staff. The AMCOM gopher disseminates notices of
funding announcement (NOFAs), grant applications, CPD's newsletter for
community and economic development professionals, case studies and
success stories of effective public and private strategies for affordable
housing production.
gopher to: amcom.aspensys.com
The Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) gopher server
provides access to all kinds of information for and about the
association, including news, events and schedules, constituents,
admissions, financial aid, minority affairs, student affairs,
governmental relations, medical education, residencey issues, and AAMC
program, publications, library resources and archives.
gopher to: gopher.aamc.org
The MacArthur Foundation Gopher includes general information about the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, such as how to apply for
grants, the names of staff members, and the history of the Foundation. It
also includes information specific to each of the Foundation's eight
program areas, such as recent program activities, application guidelines,
contact information, and a listing of grants made in the previous
calendar year.
gopher to: gopher.macfdn.org 3016
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect acquires, preserves
and disseminates high quality datasets relevant to the study of child
abuse and neglect. The Archive facilitates secondary analysis by
distributing data in ready-to-use formats for microcomputers and
mainframes, providing technical support to data users, and sponsoring
training programs for researchers.
gopher to: gopher.fldc.cornell.edu
Tennessee Board of Regents is the governing body of the State University
and Community College System of Tennessee. The gopher includes policies,
guidelines, publications and yearly legislative digests.
gopher to: TBR.STATE.TN.US
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio provides
information about the center, its mission, academic programs, magazine,
and related selected network resources.
gopher to: gopher.uthscsa.edu
Electronic Mailing Lists
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The Telecom Post [Note: this announcement is about a month old, and as
you may realize the passage of legislation has already begun. However
it's not too late to get informed.] This spring and early summer will
witness the design and passage of legislation that will shape our
communication infrastructure for many years to come. In an effort to keep
the Internet community abreast of legislative events, Free Speech Media,
LLC intends to publish a weekly bulletin, , with brief updates on the DC
action. This alert will cover the issues and concerns of the public
interest community and point to actions that can be taken on behalf of
these issues. Material will be collected from Internet postings,
newsletters, and interviews. It will consist of summarizations,
paraphrased articles, and excerpts. There will be at least 8 weekly
editions of the Post. It will continue for the duration of the
legislative activity.
send mail to: LISTSERV at CPSR.ORG
in the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE TELECOM-POST your name
Oceans Online (c) is a new service which serves the loosely labled
"marine community" and provides access to peer groups within a large
number of professions, databases, online teleconferencing, libraries for
marine related software, Internet and Usenet access, customer support
services, and more. The Oceans Online system has been established to
service professionals in oceanography, marine biology, geophysics,
geology, engineering, manufacturing, navy, Coast Guard, civil maritime,
maritime law and insurance, state and federal maritime professionals, and
university, collegiate and secondary school interests. Oceans Online
currently provides a LISTSERVE function for basic information on the
system and will shortly be adding LISTSERVS for the major discussion
areas. For an automated reply of topic listings
send mail to: OCEANS at VBS.COM
in the subject line type: INDEX
NetBytes
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DejaNews has the largest collection of indexed archived Usenet news
available anywhere. While WAIS servers typically contain only articles
from a limited number of newsgroups, DejaNews gives you access to most of
the usenet postings (articles posted to groups that match alt.*, soc.*,
talk.* or *.binaries are excluded) in the last month. This amounts to
over 4Gbytes of searchable data. Selected groups have an extended history
of up to a year.
http://www.dejanews.com/
Weekend Scouting
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If you watch TV, listen to the radio, or read newspapers or magazines,
you know that Batman Forever is opened on Friday, June 16. Visit Gotham
City and try to beat the riddler at his own game or file a report with
Commissioner Gordon. On the second site listed below, see dozens of
photos, info bits, and "spoilers''.
http://www.batmanforever.com/welcome/welcome.html ("official")
http://www.batcave.com/~rwilkes/batmanforever.html (more fun, IMHO)
Water Sports Web page is organized by tours, equipment, schools and
stores, with links to industry home pages, trade organizations, clubs,
preservation projects and other related pages. Still in progress is a
hierarchical system of links beginning with your choice of whitewater or
touring categories. Find information on The North American Paddlesports
Association (NAPSA) and an alphabetical list of companies that are Trade
Association of Sea Kayaking (TASK) and/or NAPSA members.
http://www.halcyon.com/wtr/Watersports_Resources.html
The Wimbledon Championships run from June 26 to July 9. Use the
official (All England Lawn Tennis Club) Web page to track the tournament.
Promised are links to: the Draw, Today's Order of Play, Matches in
Progress, Today's Results, News Flashes, Wimbledon and its future, and
Technology at Wimbledon.
http://www.wimbledon.org/wim95/wimbledo.html
About the Scout Report
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Resource Addressing Conventions
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listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available using multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:
World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two forward
slashes. For example:
http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you can use a WWW browser
installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on
your local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all
major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with
your local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more
information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or
for your desktop computer.
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