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                                Scouting Digest

                               Volume I, Issue 1
                             12th of October, 1995

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                             What's New on the Web?


   Jim Speir's Scouting Page
   http://www.dfc.com/~dfc/scouts/speirs.htm
   Incredible  collection of articles that from The Leader -magazine that Jim
   has been posting on rec.scouting and can.scout-guide over the years.  Def-
   initely  a  page worth checking out - actually a web-page where content is
   the issue, not fancy background graphics or blinking text.

   The WWSEB Home Page
   http://www.islandnet.com/~wwseb/
   A page devoted to 'The Wilderness Walking Staff Electronic Book'. You  can
   also download Shareware Version 1.4 of the book from the website.

   Troop 82
   http://grove.ufl.edu/~cirop02/scout_html/troop.html
   http://grove.ufl.edu/~cirop02/scout_html/songs_html/songs.html
   Homepage for BSA troop 82. Also includes a nice page of at least a hundred
   or so scouting songs.

   National Finnjamboree 1997
   http://www.utu.fi/harrastus/partio/loisto-leiri/
   Information about the forthcoming Finnish National Jamboree in the  summer
   of 1996. Some 12,000 guides and scouts around the world are expected.

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                            Interesting Information.


   You can get ScoutTracker, a Macintosh based troop data management program,
   downloaded from ftp.darthmouth.edu in directory /pub/ScoutTracker. Current
   version is 3.2. The program is provided free of charge.

   If  you  happen  to be interested in Esperanto - an easy-to-learn language
   devised in Warsaw, Poland by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof at the end of the 19th cen-
   tury - check out the 'Scouting and Esperanto FAQ' at:
     http://www.webcom.com/~usej/selfaq.html (Western Hemisphere)
     http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~mbaehr/scouting/sel/sel-faq.html
   The FAQ is prepared by Skolta Esperanto-Ligo -- Scout Esperanto League.

   TechSolutions International marketed it's product 'The Ark Shelter' as be-
   ing: rugged, affordable, versatile  "building-in-a-box".  TSI  claims  the
   shelter suitable for varied things such as archaeological digs and refugee
   camps -- and apparently also  scouting,  because  of  an  announcement  on
   rec.scouting.  To  learn  more  about  'The  Ark  Shelter'  check  in  to:
   http://www.halcyon.com/tsirlr/welcome.html.

   Trevor Taylor (trevtay@gil.ipswichcity.qld.gov.au) announced that there is
   on  the  Microsoft  Network (MSN is ready-to-be-used with every Windows 95
   installation) in the 'On Australia' -section a forum called  'Scouting  in
   Australia'. Might be worth checking out if you happen to be on MSN which I
   unfortunately am not. ;=)

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                              Outdoor Information.


   Parksearch
   http://www.llbean.com/parksearch/
   An excellent resource that let's you browse some 900  national  and  state
   parks,  forests  and other outdoor locales in the U.S. Search enine allows
   you to specify what kind of activities you are looking for, what areas  to
   look  from  and  what season you are planning to travel and then returns a
   list of appropriate locales. Every park also has a description  with  pic-
   tures.   Parksearch is provided by L.L.Bean Inc. producer of sporting gear
   for outdoor activities. In my rating Parksearch scores 4,5 out  of  5  be-
   cause of rich content and appealing graphics desing.

   Outside Online
   http://outside.starwave.com/outside/online/inside.html
   Electronic version of the Outside Magazine. Lots of material to browse and
   read; updated on a regular basis. Articles published in the paper  version
   of  Outside  Magazine  appear on the Web couple of months late, but anyway
   the service is free so I can't complain.

   Outdoor Information Links
   Few sites where to start when looking for outdoor information:
     http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Outdoors/
     http://outside.starwave.com/outside/online/sites/intsites.html
     http://scoutwww.strw.leidenuniv.nl/scout/pointers.html
   On Usenet News: rec.backcountry and rec.climbing (+ others in rec.*  cate-
   gory).

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   Scouting on the Internet and other computer networks. Mostly it's intended
   to gather into one place all the announcements for new sites and resources
   on various newsgroups and mailing lists.

   Scouting Digest may later come to include also longer  articles,  but  for
   now it's only to provide pointers for interesting sites.

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                  My preferred Scouting resources on the Web:
                   http://scoutwww.strw.leidenuniv.nl/scout/
                            http://chnet.ch/~scout/
                       http://www.scouting.org/scouting/

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