Daily Digest for 94-02-09
Sender: NATASHA@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Subject: Daily Digest for 94-02-09
Greetings Dear Friends!
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#1-09 Feb 94 New version of Tom Torriglia's recording
"Lithuania"
#2-09 Feb 94 "Tech Talk" --"What can i do with FRIENDS
listserver
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-09 Feb 94 Hello...
Paula Welch (phalaris@indirect.com)
#02-09 Feb 94 Congratulations!
Diane Midness(dmidnes@raz.csc.ncsu.edu)
#03-09 Feb 94 Informations from Subre Foundation
WLink@world.std.com
#04-09 Feb 94 Re: Friends/Partners
Rick (RSCHEIDT@KSUVM.BITNET)
#05-09 Feb 94 Joint research
A.Petrosian(PETROSIAN@cutter.mco.edu)
#06-09 Feb 94 Any Ukrainian-U.S. BBSs?
Marc Hoshovsky (mch@gishost.dfg.ca.gov)
#07-09 Feb 94 Re[2]: Mosiac
Paul Freedman(pfreedman@zdlmail.zdlabs.ziff.com)
#08-09 Feb 94 Hi there - from Colorado, CIIIA
Richard B.Paine(rpaine@cc.colorado.edu)
#09-09 Feb 94 English to/from Russian Automatic Translation
on Friends & Partners
S. Strzelecki (amer1gl1@CERF.NET)
#10-09 feb 94 Russian coding system
Uwe Wilms (U.WILMS@umwelt.comlink.de)
TECH TALK: "What can I do with the FRIENDS listserver
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
We have a new version of Tom Torriglia's recording "Lithuania" available
from the "Art and Music" page which is 1/2 the size (this version is 1
megabyte) of the former version and which plays at the correct speed on
unix and Macintosh computers. This is worth hearing if you have the proper
equipment and enough disk space for the download!
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
(Yesterday and today in Pushchino and Moscow region very very
cold -22 -23 C but your very warm letter do this work light
and pleasant.)
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Sender: Paula Welch (phalaris@indirect.com)
Subject: Hello...
I joined up with Friends last week and am entirely and pleasantly
surprised by the response out there...
While it's unlikely that I will encounter anyone who shares my interest in
animal agriculture and horse breeding (such topics, I understand, don't
naturally mesh with computers and internet-related matters) I figure that
it certainly can't hurt to inquire. While my interests do go far beyond
that, I would most especially look forward to linking up with individuals
who are involved with agriculture in the former Republics.
Information in my college texts was scanty about dairy production and the
equine industry in that part of the world and I would like to fill in the
blanks...
Paula Welch, librarian/copy editor Daily Racing Form
phalaris@indirect.com
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)From: dmidnes@raz.csc.ncsu.edu (Diane Midness)
Subject: Congratulations!
Dear Natasha and Greg,
I want to congratulate you on your service. I think it will
be a popular resource with our students. I am a media
coordinator at Enloe High School in Raleigh, NC, USA. Our
school has participated in telecommunications projects with
schools in Russia for two years. One of our first contacts was
Pushchino! Natasha, please give my greetings Olga Korneva,
Natasha Shabinalina, and Roman Borisyuk. I have visited
Pushchino three times and look forward to returning. I am
working with Dr. Ilja Levin in Moscow on a Russian/English
language telecommunications project. I think your service might
be helpful for us. I would like to discuss that in more detail
later. We are looking for English speaking students that are
learning Russian language.
Diane Midness
Enloe High School
226 Clarendon Crescent
Raleigh, NC 27610 USA
e-mail dmidnes@raz.csc.ncsu.edu
k920412m@unccptv.ll.pbs.org
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)From: WLink@world.std.com
Subject: basic.sabre.info.txt
I thought the attached is of value to the F&P group.
Asad
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SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Sabre Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable
organization registered as a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO)
with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID).
Sabre's Scientific Assistance Project specializes in providing
college and professional-level educational materials to
institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe and the countries
of the former Soviet Union.
Since 1986, Sabre Foundation has donated more than 1.5 million
books and journals to its on-going programs in Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine; and also
worked with other organizations to send books to Albania,
Eritrea, Kenya, Romania, and Uganda. The book shipments help
fill the needs of scholars, students, scientists, researchers,
medical professionals, lawmakers and fledgling entrepreneurs.
Over 100 American and European publishers have contributed new
texts in areas such as: business and economics; science and
engineering; computer science; English language and literature;
medicine, nursing, and health care; law and government;
humanities, political and social sciences. Sabre also
administers a purchase program for reduced-cost books and
journal subscriptions, and places private libraries and special
collections in institutions abroad.
In each country, a designated partner organization, or affiliate,
is responsible for title selection, identification of recipient
institutions, and country-wide distribution. From inventory
lists provided by Sabre, partners are able to select titles and
quantities. The books and journals are then packed at Sabre's
warehouse and sent in ocean freight containers (holding on
average over 20,000 books) to partner organizations for
distribution. On-going programs receive between one and three
containers per y ear, depending on the size of the program and
available funding.
Recent initiatives have included the development of a large-scale
donation program in the Russian Federation and a pilot shipment
to Uzbekistan. Donation programs in Belarus and Uzbekistan are
scheduled to begin in early 1994.
New initiatives include: a project to provide technical
assistance and training in Internet on-line resources for six
sites in Ukraine, Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation;
negotiating royalty agreements for a series of practical business
books to be published in translation in Poland and Ukraine; and
compiling a directory of American studies centers and libraries
in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
September, 1993
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Tania Vitvitsky, Project Director
Sabre Foundation, Inc.
Scientific Assistance Project
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
tel: 617/868-3510
fax: 617/868-7916
e-mail: sabre@world.std.com
sabre@igc.org
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Sender: RSCHEIDT%KSUVM.KSU.EDU@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU
)From: Rick (RSCHEIDT@KSUVM.BITNET)
Subject: Re: Friends/Partners
Hi Greg! Thanks for your interest in XAGING. XAGING is a network of
designed to bring together Russian and Western psychologists (or, more
generally, behavioral scientists) who are interested in adult development
and aging, lifespan human development, and geropsychology. It is an offshoot
of a larger network called XFSU, linking U.S. and Russian psychologists with
more general interests. The primary computer linkup for XAGING, as for XFSU,
is located at the University of California at San Diego, while Russian linkup
is located in Moscow (various sites, including the Vega Lab at the Institute of
Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences). We are attempting to recruit Russian
psychologists from outside of Moscow (e.g., St. Petersburg), as well as other
CIS geropsychologists (e.g., large gerontology institute at Kiev in Ukraine).
We have about 70 subscribers, consisting of about 15 Russians, 50 or so
Americans, with a few Canadian subscribers -- and one in Berlin. What have
we done so far? As coordinator of this network (here at Kansas State Univer-
sity), I try to linkup people with common area interests in hopes of stimulat-
ing collaborative research efforts. We have been in existence for about four
months -- but we've got some interesting things going. For instance, we have
arranged a cooperative publishing effort using XAGING involving the Journal of
Russian and East European Psychology (edited by Mike Cole out of UCSD) and
the Psychological Journal (Russian journal edited by A. Brushlinsky of IPRAS).
Each journal has agreed to devote a special issue to psychogerontology. The
JREEP issue will consist of lead articles by Russian researchers/scholars,
followed by Western commentaries. The PJ (which I will edit) will consist of
Western writings, followed by Russian commentaries. We are using XAGING to
coordinate this effort and invite commentaries. XAGING is a reflector system,
so all subscribers see all messages put out over the system. Those who are
interested in signing on can subscribe by writing to xaging@weber.ucsd.edu --
listing their affiliations and areas of interest. Hope this info might be of
some use. We would appreciate any publicity you might offer! Cheers. Rick.
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Sender: PETROSIAN@cutter.mco.edu
Subject: Joint research
Dear friends,
A small biomedical research oriented company is seeking
partners (individuals or organizations) in CIS to conduct
joint research in biomedical signal-image processing and to
introduce technological innovations in the related areas.
The emphasis will be placed in the development of software and
novel electronic devices in the following areas:
EEG signal pattern recognition (including automated
sleep staging, detection and prediction of abnormalities);
3D reconstruction using images from different modalities;
fractal and wavelet signal-image compression.
Other findings in application of front-end signal processing
for advanced products will be welcomed to incorporate as well.
Close collaboration with the existing research groups in the
US and W.Europe in the mentioned areas and strong support
are expected.
Interested people should reply to the following address:
petrosian@cutter.mco.edu "Arthur A. Petrosian"
Phone: (419)381-3969
(419)381-3544
Fax: (419)381-3093
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Sender: Marc Hoshovsky (mch@gishost.dfg.ca.gov)
Subject: Any Ukrainian-U.S. BBSs?
I'm trying to convince my father to link up with Internet as a way to
contact people in his native Ukraine. Are there any BBSs that focus
more specifically on the Ukraine, rather than Russia? Keep up the
progress in achieving world peace! :)
--
Marc Hoshovsky PHONE: (916) 322-2446
E-MAIL: mch@gishost.dfg.ca.gov
Davis, California
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)From: pfreedman@zdlmail.zdlabs.ziff.com (Freedman, Paul)
Subject: Re[2]: Mosiac
I am even newer to Mosiac then that.
do you have the UCP for Arts and Music page? I don't have it on my home
screen (which is currently set to UIUP.
Paul Freedman, ZD Labs
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)From: rpaine@cc.colorado.edu
Subject: Hi there - from Colorado, CIIIA
Hi Natasha,
You and Greg are doing a wonderful service. I am sure that many people
are grateful.
I hope to leave Colorado for Russia for the ninth time, early in March.
I plan to visit several cities: Smolensk, Chelyabinsk, Omsk. I live in
Colorado Springs, and my city and Smolensk are sister-cities. That
organization promotes friendship between American and foreign cities. I
wonder if there might be an overlap with your FRIENDSHIP organization.
In Chelyabinsk and Omsk I plan to give lectures in Russian and in
English about America, hoping to increase mutual understanding between
our countries. I wish I could speak Russian as well as you write English!
There is also another organization which sent out a description of
activities through email. Rick Olano (ricko@TSO.UC.EDU) has established
a "pen pal forum" and I read messages from Russia and America in English.
Many are from school children.
The reason I cite these other organizations which overlap perhaps
with FRIENDS is that, if someone's participation in one organization would
be more effective in another, then that person might be informed about the
other organization. Just a suggestion.
Again Kudos to you and Greg. I hope you can get some rest from work
and can relax a little. I know what some work demands - it is 430am now.
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PEACE and FRIENDSHIP are beautiful words in any language
Richard B. Paine
Home telephone number (719) 635-4879
(Work) FAX number: 719-634-4180
internet: RPAINE@CC.COLORADO.EDU
bitnet: RPAINE%CCNODE@COLORADO
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)From: "S. Strzelecki" (amer1gl1@CERF.NET)
Subject: English to/from Russian Automatic Translation on Friends & Partners
Hello:
Received today first information about Friends & Partners network.
The Global Linguistic Institute is establishing a Global Linguistic
Utility to provide human assisted automated translation. At present we
provide English to/from Russian. Additional languages are being
introduced during the second quarter of 1994.
We are headquartered in San Diego and working with SDSC, U of Moscow,
SDSU and Far Eastern State Ploytechnic Univ. in Vladivostok. We are very
interested in participating in your activity.
The environment we are seeking to create is "linguistically transparent"
enabling users to send and receive in their own natural language although
several participants may be using different languages. The "talk-room"
sounds as if it may be an ideal forum for this.
Please send me an e-mail response. I have been visiting in Washington DC
for a month. I'll call you when I return to San Diego.
Regards,
Stanislaw Strzelecki
Executive Director
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)From: Uwe Wilms (U.WILMS@umwelt.comlink.de)
Subject: Russian coding system
Hamburg, 8 February 1994
Hi,
I am a newcomer to this medium who so far unsuccessfully tried to write e-
mail messages in Russian. I am therefor looking for someone to help me so
that I might be able to communicate in Russian.
I wrote my texts using the DOS codepage Nr. 866 [Russian]. But my Russian
friend was not able to read it.
Are you folks able to read this:
gqaas_Gsn-Gn!
E?OQG ia( tsQ i?= (_ ?: ba(mnaza. f aam+Gae ;aQ;+qasaGQ=Q(
(aGQ(aG?,? s O,+=Q. laOa O,+=a ?(QQG GQ_!dQ _s :? _ +q!+- O,+=+- s
fa!,G-EQGQamnazQ, zqQ md= n*Q !Q_,+= ,+ aa:.
My Russian friend told me that she uses a so-called alternative coding
system (?) and that there is another widely used coding system named coi8
(?).
I would be happy if someone could send me some helpful explanations.
Uwe.
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TECH TALK . . .
In this new section of the 'daily digest' we will try to answer questions
and post material of a technical nature for those who are learning to use
the various elements of the "Friends and Partners" service.
"What can I do with the FRIENDS listserver?"
Many have had questions about the FRIENDS listserver and would like to
know more about the purpose and capabilities of this information tool.
We will try to answer some questions and provide you with some background
information . . .
First, the FRIENDS listserver was created as a mechanism to facilitate
communication among people interesting in helping (or just watching) the
"friends and partners" effort. To minimize 'noise' and to reduce traffic
on the list, this is a moderated list -- which means that all messages
are sent first to the 'moderators' (Natasha and Greg) and they are then
edited each day into a 'digest' which is then sent via the listserver
software to all subscribers.
At the end of its first week of existence, it had around 360 subscribers
(a big surprise to us!). As we near the third week of its existence, we
now have 458 subscribers.
(end of background information . . .)
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Now, for some questions and answers . . .
1. There appear to be two email addresses involved with the use of
this listserver:
friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu AND listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
What's the difference?
ANSWER:
(a) First, the 'friends' address is used *only* for posting
messages which are to be transmitted to all other subscribers
on the list. To be able to successfully send messages to
'friends', you must first 'subscribe' to the list (only
subscribers are permitted to post messages).
(b) The 'listproc' address is the address to which all
'administrative' requests are to be sent. These include
requests to subscribe (and to unsubscribe); requests for help;
requests for information; requests to obtain information via
email, etc. These various requests will be discussed in the
material which follows.
2. Besides posting information to the 'friends' list, what can I do
with the listserver?
ANSWER:
There are many things you can do with a listserver. We will try
to outline some of these below. All of the following commands
should be emailed (on a line by themselves) to the address:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!)
(a) SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS
This, of course, gets you started. Note: all subsequent
interaction with the list MUST be from the same email address
from which you posted your initial subscribe request.
(b) UNSUBSCRIBE FRIENDS
As expected, this removes you from the friends list.
(c) HELP
This will result in a listserver HELP file being mailed to you.
(d) INFORMATION FRIENDS
This will result in an information file on the 'friends'
listserver being emailed to you.
(e) REVIEW FRIENDS
Gets a listing of all non-concealed people who are subscribers
to the friends list.
(f) INDEX FRIENDS
This will return a listing of all the archive material that
you can retrieve using the GET command.
(g) GET FRIENDS YYMMDD
where you substitute a date for YYMMDD -- this
will retrieve an archive file for the specified date. For
example, if you want to retrieve the "Daily Digest" for
February 7, 1994, just issue the command:
GET FRIENDS 940207
and the digest for that day will be emailed to you. This
may be handy for folks who subscribed late to the list and
who wish to review material from the 'early days' of this
effort.
(h) SEARCH FRIENDS "X"
(where X is a term you wish to search for)
This allows you to search all archive files ("Daily Digests")
for a word or phrase. It will then return to you a listing
of all lines from the various archives that matched your
search criteria.
An example: If you send the message,
SEARCH FRIENDS "embassy"
you will receive an email message which lists all of the
lines in all of the archives that contain the word embassy.
You can then use the GET command to retrieve any of the
archives that met your search criteria.
This is a *very* handy feature of the listserver software.
(i) RUN FRIENDS NONE HTTP X
(where X is a document on a World wide web server *somewhere*
which you wish to retrieve)
This feature was described in some detail in the 'tech talk'
section for 94-02-08. It permits you to retrieve documents
from our WWW server (or from other WWW servers) via the
friends listserver.
(j) HELP LIVE
For the very 'advanced' user who is on the Internet and who
wishes to work interactively with the listserver, there is a
mechanism for doing so.
Issuing the above command will give you the instructions.
3. After interacting with the listserver, I get the information I
requested, but I also always get an additional note listing
some error messages. WHY?
ANSWER:
The most common reason for this is that users oftentimes have
'signature' entries at the bottom of their email notes (listing
their name, institution, phone number, etc.). This basically
confuses the listserver software and it complains. Solution?
(a) just ignore the error messages
(b) turn off (temporarily) the feature of your mailer which
places your signature information at the bottom of your
email message.
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There's lots more information we could provide on the use of the
listserver, but we will hold that for another day. The instructions
above should help you get started with some advanced 'listserving'.
As always, please send questions / comments / suggestions to:
natasha@ibpm.serpukov.su OR gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
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