Daily Digest for 94-02-10
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Sender: NATASHA@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Subject: Daily Digest for 94-02-10
Greetings Dear Friends!
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#1-10 Feb 94 An interesting paper "IMPACT OF PERESTROIKA
AND GLASNOST ON SOVIET EDUCATION: A HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE FOR FOLLOW-ON RESEARCH"
#2-10 Feb 94 From the "News" section, some interesting
information on an important initiative entitled
"Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE)"
#3-10 Feb 94 From the "Economics" section, interesting paper
writing by Michel Gaspard and republished with
permission by NATO
#4-10 Feb 94 We have started posting the weekly digests
from Rick Olano's excellent "Pen Pal Forum"
service.
#5-10 Feb 94 "Tech Talk" -- today's topic: access Options
for "Friends and Partners"
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-10 Feb 94 Connections, human and otherwise
John Hansen (traphic@cyberspace.com)
#02-10 Feb 94 RE: Daily Digest for 94-02-09
F.Hoffmann
hoffmann@urzdfn.kartographie.tu-dresden.d400.de
#03-10 Feb 94 Russian Education Research
Charles T. Sweeney" (sweeney@explorer.clark.net)
#04-10 Feb 94 Wish to contact dancers
Beverly Seavey (beverly@yola.nmrfam.wisc.edu)
#05-10 Feb 94 Contact with hospital
Cefola, Raymond N.
(CEFOLA@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu)
#06-10 Feb 94 WWW URL
Harold_McWilliams@qm.terc.edu
#07-10 Feb 94 WWW work
heafey@gt308.mso.dec.com
TECH TALK: Access Options for "Friends and Partners"
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: john hansen (traphic@cyberspace.com)
Subject: connections, human and otherwise
I've been receiving the FRIENDS listserv for a couple of weeks now, and
really look forward to each days postings. Many thanks to you Natasha and
Greg and all others involved for this great service for greater
intercultural understanding. I really believe we are at a very exciting
point in human history here. We have an unprecedented opportunity to
seriously, and aggressively wage peace. The hunger for human connections
across cultural, geographical, physical and political bariers is
astoundingly evident in this project, and on the internet as a whole.
Having no specific idea of exactly how I can contribute to this, I offer
my resources for whatever they may be worth.
My background and training is in visual communications consulting and
education. I have been a graphic designer for over 25 years, serving small
local businesses and large multi-national corporations as well as
government institutions with corporate identity, packaging and educational
communications, produced electronically, on film, and in print. For 19 of
these years I have been teaching my craft at the Art Institute of
Seattle as a part-time faculty member. In the last 6 years I have been
focusing on the fine arts, producing abstract oil paintings and some
sculpture which, to my pleasure, is being well-received by museums and
collectors here. The last ten years, my teaching and design work has
involved working on a daily basis with Macintosh and PC computers with
graphic arts and publishing software. My current activities are aimed at
developing consulting services in digital design for interactive
multimedia educational productions, for on-line and on-disk distribution.
I can no longer continue to perform my services for large corporate
entities, due to ethical and spiritual reasons. I want my efforts and
talents to benefit the human race in a more direct and positive manner.
Pardon this long rambling...I'm just very excited by what is happening
here, and its potential for so many positive connections.
Speaking of connections, I do have some technical questions re: viewing
images on the WWW. At the present I assume I am not in a position to do
that, however, I'm wondering if there isnt some way..hmmm. I'm connected
to a Unix server through phone lines to my Macintosh. On the Unix server,
I have access to WWW through Hytelnet and Lynx both. I have Mosaic for my
mac, but assume it will do me no good unless I am connected more directly
to the internet. Am I right? Would it be possible, or at least conceivable
for me to install mosaic, or some other viewer in my Home directory on the
Unix server? I'm also very interested in accessing audio files.
Thank you for reading all this, and thank you again for this great service.
At your disposal:
John Hansen
traphic@cyberspace.com
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Sender: hoffmann@urzdfn.kartographie.tu-dresden.d400.de
Subject: RE: Daily Digest for 94-02-09
ATTN. for UWE @ comlink.de (wo ist denn das...?):
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I don't have any problems writing in Russian using the latin alphabet
in an phonetic transcription order...
This text w'd be like:
U menja net ni-kakich problem pisat' po-russki pol'zujas' latinskim alfavito=
m
v foneticeskom obraze transkripcii...
Zu deutsch:
Ich habe keinerlei Probleme Russisch zu schreiben, indem ich das lateinische
Alphabet in einer phonetischen Weise der Transkription benutze.
--
This way I'm sending and receiving all messages to Moscow and reversely
without any kind of code conversion like KOI-8.
=46. Hoffmann, Dresden
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)From: "charles t. sweeney" (sweeney@explorer.clark.net) (by way of
gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Greg Cole))
Subject: Russian Education Research
Hello Marju,
Many thanks for your message dated 2-8-94. I've never been to Estonia.
But I have seen the Baltic Sea from Finland. Now that I have a native
contact, perhaps we could link up this summer in your country on my way
to or from Russia as I continue my educational research in St. Petersburg
and Moscow.
As for my report, you certainly can have a copy. But first I must get it
in the proper fromat to send it over the Internet Highway. I'll ask GREG
COLE FOR ADVICE. Previously we exchanged notes about getting it on PRIME
TIME, but I'll need his guidance as to what to do. I trust you are in
on hurry. But please know your request is going to receive prompt
attention. You can expect an update sometime this weekend.
With respect to your area of study, namely, language as it related to
the development of democratic structures and organization, I have some
thoughts on this in the paper I intend to carry into Russia this summer
for review and feedback from my Russian collegues. I'll certainly share
this paper with you too. More on this later.
Until then, I am a Friend among Friends and Partners, Chuck Sweeney :-)
On Tue, 8 Feb 1994 MTOOMSALU@oise.on.ca wrote:
Hello, my name is Marju Toomsalu and I am a graduate student at Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Originally I am f=
rom
Estonia, have been in Canada for almost 4 years now. I was really intrigued
to see in "friends and partners" that you are doing research on Russian post=
-
Soviet eduational enterprise. I would be very grateful if you ould share som=
e
of what you know about the topic, mainly language and eduational policies
with me. I am currently working on my Ph.D thesis proposal which will
supposedly be on the development of democratic strutures and organization as
it relates to decisions on language policies in Estonia. I also hope to
spend the coming summer in Estonia to collect my data. Maybe you have plans
of visiting the Baltics too? (I just noticed that c does not work properly o=
n
my keyboard, so please forgive me for the spelling errors). So, if you have
any bibliographies on disk or whatever other soures on the topic, I would
be very grateful to have a look on them. Maybe you could send me your resear=
ch
report? With best regards Marju.
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Sender: Beverly Seavey (beverly@yola.nmrfam.wisc.edu)
Subject: wish to contact dancers
I wish to get in contact with performers of Uzbek, Tajik, Kazak,
Georgian and Armenian dance. I am also interested in finding out
more about dance from Buryat, Tatar, Tuvan and other peoples. I
have access to many dance resources in the US and could help anyone
interested in finding out more about any dance that goes on in the
U.S. I speak Russian passably and could do some not-excellent
translations.
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Sender: "Cefola, Raymond N." (CEFOLA@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu)
Subject:
Hello to all;
I am a pharmacist working at a large hospital whose primary
focus is organ transplants. My primary interest is the use of
computers both as a information and communications tool. I am seeking
contacts with other hospital pharmacists who share a similar
interest.
Thanks,
Raymond Cefola, MS, RPh
cefola@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu
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)From=9D1:=9D0 Harold_McWilliams@qm.terc.edu
Subject: WWW URL
OFFICE MEMO Help with WWW Date: 2/9/94
Please send the WWW URL. I lost it.
To introduce myself: My name is Harold McWilliams. I work at TERC, a non-pr=
ofit
R & D company in Cambridge, MA, that develops math and science curriculum an=
d
software for K-12 eduction. I work primarily with two projects: National
Geographic Kids Network and the Global Lab project. Global Lab has a number=
of
Russian high school teachers and students participating as part of an
international network of high school students engaged in collaborative studi=
es
of the environment. One of the project's co-directors is Dr. Boris Berenfel=
d,
formerly of the Institute of New Technologies, Moscow. I myself, am
increasingly interested in education in Russia and the NIS countries. I loo=
k
forward to participation in Friends.
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)From: heafey@gt308.mso.dec.com
Subject: WWW work
congratulations on your work with WWW and Mosaic. I wish you
much success in your efforts and I look forward to more fine
work from you.
Dave Heafey
123 Parker Street
Maynard, MA 01754
USA
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What's New . . .
* An interesting paper entitled "IMPACT OF PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST
ON SOVIET EDUCATION: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE FOR FOLLOW-ON RESEARCH"
by Chuck Sweeney is available from the Education page. This was
prepared for presentation to the Russian Academy of Education,
Baltic Academy of St. Petersburg, Moscow State Pedagogical
University in July of 1993. Thanks to Chuck for sharing this with us.
* From the "News" section, some interesting information on an important
initiative entitled "Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE)" has
just been posted. This is worth reading. ACE is a team of volunteers
(both private and public citizens) dedicated to open access to informatio=
n
and learning from every home, and community across the nation. ACE
understands the power of information and the need to distribute this
power in a manner which strengthens our democracy. Thanks to Ted Blake o=
f
the U.S. House of Representatives for providing this information.
* An important paper entitled "INCOMES AND LIVING STANDARDS IN
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS: RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS, CURRENT SITUATION AND OUTLOOK" by Michel Gaspard is
republished with permission by NATO and is available from the 'Economics'
section.
* We have started posting the weekly digests from Rick Olano's excellent
"Pen Pal Forum" service. These are available from the "Education"
page as well as from the "Life" page.
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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.
We have received many questions about the "how to's" involved with
accessing the Friends and Partners information. There are several
different methods of access -- and one new method we are exploring
(#5 option below).
We thought we would summarize today these different methods.
1) the best; have a unix workstation, Macintosh, Windows PC (486,
ideally), or Amiga computer hooked up to the Internet with its own
Internet Protocol address and running the latest version of the
free NCSA Mosaic software. This is wonderful but often not an
option. . .
2) second best, is a SLIP or PPP connection to a unix server which
assigns you an IP address and thus gives you an Internet
connection (although a slow one -- delivered over a modem connection
at 9600 or 14,400 baud). This is definitely possible and is
increasingly being offered at universities and by commercial internet
server providers. As in #1 above, this option requires the use
of the free NCSA Mosaic software.
(NOTE: There are some other excellent WWW browser software packages
such as Cello for the PC. Mosaic appears, though, to be the most
popular browser available today.)
3) If you have Lynx installed on your local host computer, you can use
the 'G'o command with the following URL:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
to connect.
If you don't have Lynx but you can use telnet from your computer, just
telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu and enter 'friends' (without the quotes)
at the login prompt. This will place you on our computer where you
will be running our copy of the Lynx software. Note: you must be
emulating a VT100 terminal to use this.
This is not a bad way at all to access the server (the Lynx software is
amazingly good stuff) but it does not allow you to view graphics
and listen to audio in the same way as Mosaic.
4) If you cannot use any of the above options but you do have email
access to the Internet, you can interact with our email (--) WWW
gateway to obtain material from the Friends and Partners server.
5) Finally, many folk do not yet have any sort of network access. We are
looking at an option that will allow these people to access the F&P
information locally (from their own machine) if they are using a
a relatively high end PC or Macintosh, an Amiga, or a unix
workstation.
This involves installing on a local computer a complete copy of the
F&P server -- complete with Mosaic, as well as graphics viewing
software, audio software, etc. The end result is a 'local' version
of F&P which has everything that is on our primary Internet-based server=
..
This is all 'do-able' because of the 'local' mode option of Mosaic.
Because it does not have to travel the network to grab information,
it is actually faster than the Internet version. But that is the only
advantage . . .
Disadvantages: (1) you would have to update your material periodically
from our server to keep your local version up-to-date; (2) if you
'click' on a resource which is not located on our server, the access
will obviously fail (you simply get an error message).
Although we cannot do much about the #2 disadvantage, we are planning
on providing a periodic update service for those folks who wish to
use this method. We feel this may be of particular interest to folks
in the FSU who just do not have any sort of network access in their
immediate future.
If you are interested in experimenting with us on this #5 option, we
will gladly make the server material available to you via ftp or,
for a few cases, we could mail some diskettes to you. When
compressed, all of the text, graphics, and audio files are about
5 megabytes. Uncompressed, this will use about 7M on your disk
(including all of the software). As the server continues to grow,
disk space may become a problem. We can easily imagine the
day when we will have 20 or 30M of material.
Dr. Jim Falen of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of
Germanic and Slavic languages is our first 'tester' of this new
method. We are looking for additional folks who might be
willing to be 'beta testers' for us.
Please send your comments / questions / suggestions to:
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su OR gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
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Natasha Bulashova, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu