Dear Friends and Electronic Colleagues: Yuletide 2006

We hope this joyful holiday season will find you well and happy.

We sincerely thank you for your continuing encouragement, support and cooperation for our various projects. Without your help, our progress would not have been possible. This year, we made the creations of GUS/Siberia <http://tinyurl.com/yxzsx9> and GUS/Turkey <http://tinyurl.com/wy5xz>.

During the fact-finding and assessment trip to Novosibirsk and Altai region in Siberia in September with the fund from the US Agency for International Development through the Eurasia Foundation, we were overwhelmed with astonishing interest in our project at all the levels of governments, municipalities, higher educational and healthcare institutions — our meeting was even televised throughout entire Russia by a national TV program from Moscow!!

In October, by the very cordial and generous invitation from TOBB Economics and Technology University in Ankara, we had a very memorable trip with sight-seeing of very interesting landscapes in Cappadocia and the archeology museum and large mosques in Istanbul, Turkey.

We will forge ahead further our best effort of extending the benefits of Internet with e-learning and e-healthcare to underserved people in developing countries for attaining global peace.

Takeshi and Hisae Utsumi

43-23 Colden Street, #9L, Flushing, New York, 11355-3998, USA

Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: Utsumi@columbia.edu, hutsumi@earthlink.net

Web: http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/

Altai, Siberia		Cappadocia, Turkey
September, 2006		October, 2006