Daily Digest for 94-02-21
Good day, Dear Friends!
Today we have sections "What's new" and "Recent email".
If you have trouble with work and getting informations
from our "F&P",please send us any comments ,questions
and we will continue our traditional section "Tech talk".
Thank you very much for your kind and friendly collaboration
with us.
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Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#1-21 Feb 94 Three WWW servers in Russia available for browsing
#2-21 Feb 94 Information about the PhysTech quarterly journal is
available from the Science page
#3-21 Feb 94 A posting about NIS Health forums is available on the
"Health/Medicine" page (available from the "Life" page).
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-21 Feb 94 Re: East-West Information server
Peter Brusilovsky (plb@plb.icsti.su)
#02-21 Feb 94 Thanks and help
Laurie Harrison( lharriso@STI.NASA.GOV)
#03-21 Feb 94 Geology
Richard Patton(rpatton@lamar.ColoState.EDU)
#04-21 Feb 94 Friends in Far-East
Peter Leroy ( peter@homer.scgt.oz.au)
#05-21 Feb 94 URL for home page of the server...
Stephanie Sides(sides@sdsc.edu)
#06-21 Feb 94 how to get e-mail addresses?
Deane Merrill(merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov)
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* There are now three WWW servers in Russia available for
browsing. You can reach these from the "more information resources"
page. Thanks to Dmitriy N. Vasilev for this information.
* Information about a new quarterly journal is available from the
Science page. From the introduction,
"CenterCom Publishers and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
presents a new quarterly journal for students, teachers, professors, and
scientists interested in natural sciences and humanities, in the part
related to natural sciences (history and philosophy of science, etc.).
We welcome you among our readers, subscribers, and contributors. Please,
send your requests to get the first paper-version issue of Phystech
Journal free of charge to: infomag@glas.apc.org " Thanks (again!) to
Dmitriy N. Vasilev for providing us with this information.
* A posting about NIS Health forums is available on the "Health/Medicine" page
(available from the "Life" page). "The Department of International Projects
at the National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI) currently
maintains a collection of three public conferences on Health and Medical
Care in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS) and the
US. These conferences are sponsored by the American International Health
Alliance (AIHA) which coordinates partnerships between hospitals in the
United States and the former Soviet Union." A complementary subscription
to AIHA's biomonthly, bilingual newsletter/journal, CommonHealth, is also
available.
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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)From: Peter Brusilovsky (plb@plb.icsti.su)
Subject: Re: East-West Information server
Dear Greg,
We are running servers with up to date information about foreign conerences,
journals etc primarily for Russian reserahers. We just realised that the number
of international conferences in Russia is big enough to provide the reverse
service. This part - ewinfo server is really relevant for your purposes
and you can include all our info (send HELP to ewinfo@icsti.msk.su) to your
messages. We have not WWW access yet but plan to provide it quite soon.
Best wishes,
Peter
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Subject: Thanks and help
)From: lharriso@STI.NASA.GOV (Laurie Harrison)
Great job you and Natasha are doing. Thanks! I do need to
learn more about the other services you provide, however. So far
I am only signed up for your list serve.
My immediate interest is making contacts in Central Asia. I
am particularly interested in learning about Kazakh culture and
'language. I am also interested in institutes of higher
learning in Almaty. What is the language of instruction in
these institutes? Do they offer business courses?
Who on the list knows of US-based programs that teach Kazakh,
Kirgiz, and Uzbek. I know Indiana University teaches Uzbek
and would like to teach Kazakh and Kirgiz. Is there any other
US University or program that teaches these languages? I
am in the Washington area currently. Are there any cultural
organizations that teach these languages here?
Thanks again,
-Laurie Harrison
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Sender: rpatton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Patton)
Subject: Geology
Hi Friends,
Any other geologists out there yet? My particular interest is diamond
prospectingin glaciated terrain. Yours?
I have information from another F&P subscriber (Hi, Ricardo) that there is a
Russian film about the the first Siberian diamond expedition, which is shown on
Geologist's Day (we need one of those over here! :-)). He doesn't remember the
name,but suggests that someone from the Moscow TV station Ostonkino might know.
Is there anyone out there who might know of this? Is it available, preferably
in English, in the US? Interlibrary loan, perhaps?
He also suggested that there may be geologists with the Novosibirsk section of
the Academy of Sciences who may be interested in networking. If there are, let
us talk!
Finally, there is an article in the February, 1994 issue of Geotimes magazine
(p.7) that mentions a student exchange program for those interested in energy
resource exploration. It's cosponsored by the American Geological Institute and
the Russian Federation Committee on Geology and Use of Underground Resources.
According to the article, the program covers expenses for one year, and
involves two semesters of study at a Russian university and 3-4 months work in
oil exploration research. The preliminary requirements they list include an
undergraduate degree in geology,plans for a career in energy exploration, and a
knowledge of the Russian language.
For more information, they suggest writing to: Ed Davin, American Geological
Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA 22302-1507.
Bye for now,
Rick Patton
Dept. of Earth Resources
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
rpatton@lamar.colostate.edu
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Sender: peter@homer.scgt.oz.au (Peter Leroy)
Subject: Friends in Far-East
Privet..:] If by chance our friends that used the RUOZ.CHAT fido echomail
area when it was still linked to Khabarovsk, Magadan etc. happen to
subscribe to F&P it is time we began writing. As we used to do in the old
'ruoz' a small spelling error will probably be allowed by Natasha and Greg
:]
I believe that we will all benefit from the server access and I am sure that
those who have never heard of some of the small villages that are in that
part of the world will be suprised at the sources of knowledge available.
If Andy 'the Keypresser' .. :] in Magadan is out there I would like to hear
from you via this great idea of joining people via IP connects....and as for
the guys linked via RELCOM.. come don't be shy.. :]
:peter (Moderator of RUOZ.CHAT)
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Sender: sides@sdsc.edu (Stephanie Sides)
Subject: URL for home page of the server...
Hi Greg and Natasha --
Would it be possible to publish the URL of the home page (for Mosaic access
to the server) as part of each e-mail message (perhaps where you tell how
to subscribe, etc.)? I've misplaced it and even if you publish it again,
I'll be wondering what it is in another few weeks, I'm sure...
Also, I accessed the first www server in Russia (http://www.elvis.msk.su)
but was disappointed to be unable to "see" the Cyrillic. Would anyone know
how to implement a Cyrillic font on a Mac to be able to use it through
Mosaic to access this server? My Russian is getting very rusty and I
thought this would be the perfect way to stay current!
Thanks,
Stephanie Sides
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Stephanie, this is an excellent idea and will be added to the
appendix we will begin publishing in tomorrow's digest. But, for now,
the URL is: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
On the Cyrillic font question, there is a Mac Cyrillic font available
on the Internet which you should be able to use in Mosaic to view
documents (if it adheres to the encoding used for Cyrillic text). I'll
check this out and post some information here about 'how to' before
the end of the week.
Thanks!
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Sender: merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Deane Merrill)
Subject: how to get e-mail addresses?
I am a newcomer to friends, so please excuse an ignorant question.
Where to start, to find electronic addresses of Russian scientists?
N. Laverov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a
presentation today at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory today and I would like to
send a brief greeting.
Thank you.
Deane Merrill, Ph.D.
Information and Computing Sciences Division
Building 50B, Room 2239
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road
Berkeley CA 94720
tel: 510-486-5063
fax: 510-486-6363
internet: dwmerrill@lbl.gov
bitnet: merrill@lbl (merrill@lbl.bitnet)
compuserve: 71001,62 (71001.62@compuserve.com)
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Please address any comments, questions, or suggestions to your
friendly moderators:
Natasha Bulashova, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu