Subject pages attached to craig:gov

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1.	Uncle Sam search engine [Google] For more ways to search the government. URL: http://www.google.com/unclesam

2.	ANSI online ANSI Online is designed to provide you with convenient access to timely and relevant information on the ANSI Federation and the latest national and international standards-related activities. URL: http://www.ansi.org

3.	MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

4.	World POPClock Projection According to the International Programs Center, U.S. Bureau of the Census, the total population of the World, projected to 8/2/01 at 23:35:01 GMT (8/2/01 at 7:35:01 PM EDT) is 6,164,344,973 URL: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

5.	World News Connection World News Connection, successor to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which translates thousands of articles from foreign publications every day and publishes free headlines. To read the articles, however, costs $65 a month. URL: http://wnc.fedworld.gov/toc.html

6.	A brief intro to copyright [Brad Templeton] This document is here because many people read my original article on copyright myths without knowing very much about what copyright is to begin with. This article is not about to teach you all about copyright, though there are some decent sites out there with lots of details. URL: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html
7.	10 Big Myths about copyright explained [Brad Templeton ] Note that this is an essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work. URL: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
8.	When works pass into the public domain Historic copyright table giving length of the copyright. URL: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
9.	iParadigms iParadigms is a pioneer in the rapidly expanding field of digital information tracking. The Internet, though an invaluable resource for services and information, is unfortunately also an unparalled environment for all varieties of intellectual property theft. We have developed a suite of advanced tracking tools to combat the piracy of intellectual property in the digital millennium. URL: http://www.iparadigms.com/
10.	Understand Copyright Basics Just about everything on the Web is protected by copyright law. That includes images, music, page content, and multimedia. It's important to understand how copyright affects the content you put on your site and the way you link to other sites. With copyright law, what you don't know can hurt you! URL: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/beginner_no22.htm

11.	Small Business Handbook Guide to US employment guidelines. URL: http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/programs/handbook/contents.htm

12.	official Web site of the Presidential Palace of the Islamic State of Afghanistan Welcome to the official Web site of the Presidential Palace of the Islamic State of Afghanistan URL: http://www.afghangovernment.org/

13.	VISA guidelines What to do for U.S. citizen's application for a work permit. URL: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/UKVisasDoINeedAVisa?url=%2Fservlet%2FFront%3Fpagename%3DOpenMarket%2FXcelerate%2FShowPage%26c%3DPage%26cid%3D1006977149962&purpose=Work+Permit+longer+than+six+months&nationality=United+States&location=United+States
14.	Guidance -- Workpermits This guidance explains what you will need to do if you want to come to the United Kingdom (UK) to work in work permit employment, and what the Immigration Rules say. It is only a guide but it aims to answer some common questions. URL: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1018721068127
15.	Sponsor Guidance for Work Permits This guidance explains how you can sponsor a visitor to come to the United Kingdom (UK) and what you can do to support their application. However, you must remember that the applicant must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules and it is the applicant’s intentions that are the important issue. It is only a guide, but it aims to answer some common questions. URL: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1018696644717
16.	Limited Leave to Remain Limited Leave to Remain stuff. URL: http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/documents/all_forms.html

17.	ISO Online The main page for the International Organization for Standardization. URL: http://www.iso.ch/
18.	¬ISO Search Search for various standards. URL: http://www.iso.ch/search.html
19.	¬ISO Catalog The ISO Catalogue can be accessed on this site. This electronic version lists the titles and numerical designations of not only ISO's published standards, but also of draft standards in the later stages of development, namely, DIS (Draft International Standards) and FDIS (Final Draft International Standards). URL: http://www.iso.ch/infoe/catinfo.html

20.	Copyright Search The Copyright Office is pilot testing a new user interface designed for first-time or occasional users of their three databases: registered works, serials, and documents. Their Telnet system LOCIS will still be available, but this site should help novices search for copyrights more effectively. URL: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search
21.	Omaha Indian Music Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html
22.	Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War Includes more than two hundred sheet-music compositions from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, representing Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music from 1859 through 1909. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
23.	America's Library [timeline] [uncommon instruments] Here, you can discover what Abraham Lincoln had in his pockets on the night he was assassinated. (You will be surprised.) Or you can read about other "Amazing Americans" such as Buffalo Bill Cody and his "Wild West" show; the heroism of Harriet Tubman, who helped many slaves escape bondage; the music of jazz great Duke Ellington; or the inventions of Thomas Edison. (You will even be able to see his first motion picture!) URL: http://www.americaslibrary.gov

24.	GRIN -- Great Images in NASA GRIN is a collection of over a thousand images of significant historical importance in space. URL: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
25.	Visible Earth Explore icebergs in Antarctica, plumes of ash streaming from Mt. Etna in Sicily, and an infrared image of the Grand Canyon. URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov

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¬NEH Grant Programs, 2000-2001 Forms and guidelines organized in five categories: challenge grants, education, preservation and access, public programs, and research. Each entry links to important information on the grant, an application cover sheet, and in many cases, budget information and a fact sheet. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook.html

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Constants [Planck Length] The most up-to-date values for the fundamental constants of nature along with the uncertainty of those values. URL: http://physics.nist.gov

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Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function. Problems include traveling salesman and Byzantine generals. Some entries have links to further information and implementations. Index pages list entries by area, for instance, sorting, searching, or graphs, and by type, for example, algorithms or data structures. URL: http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/

29.	River Watch Provides up-to-date river forecast information for the nation's largest river basins: the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio River Basins). Daily river level summaries are provided for each basin, in addition to five-day forecasts for river stage heights (in feet). URL: http://www.riverwatch.noaa.gov
30.	The Global Land One-km Base Elevation Project The GLOBE project has developed a 1-km gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model (DEM). URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml

31.	¬ITR faq FAQ for submission of grant proposals. URL: http://www.itr.nsf.gov/it2-faq.html
32.	Supplementary Documents Instructions Detailed instructions on how to include scanned documents in proposal. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/faqs/mrifastln.htm
33.	PDF creation help Help on creating PDF files for fastlane. URL: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm
34.	Program Announcement Number Subject number for NSF grants. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm
35.	General guidelines for grants Notice #125 regarding the importance of Criterion 2 relating to broader impacts of NSF research. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/iin125/iin125.html
36.	FastLane FastLane is an interactive real-time system used to conduct NSF business over the Internet. FastLane is for official NSF use only. 10 Steps to Prepare Proposal Proposal Preparation Proposal Forms URL: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.htm

37.	Gallery of Obscure Patents [cat exercise] While a lot of the patents filed at the U.S. Patent Office are boring and mundane specifications of uninteresting ideas that never took off, there are true gems among them. This site collects the more astounding ones, and it is well worth a lengthy visit and a hearty laugh. URL: http://www.patents.ibm.com/gallery
38.	U.S. Patent Office Printed patents may be ordered though the mail for $3 from the Patent and Trademark Office, Washington D.C. 20231. URL: http://www.uspto.gov

39.	4,558,302 -- December 10, 1985 The patent for LZW compression, used in GIF images. URL: http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&p=1&S1=4558302.WKU.&OS=PN/4558302&RS=PN/4558302

40.	¬US Patent and Trademark Office Tradmark regulations and information. URL: http://www.uspto.gov/

41.	U.S. Public Debt to the penny 10/31/2001 $5,815,983,290,402.24 URL: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm