Daily Digest for 94-04-04


Greetings Dear Friends!

                          Table of Contents

WHAT'S NEW . . .

#1-04 Apr 94       All 1993 Radio Free Europe Daily Reports
                   available for on-line searching and browsing.

#2-04 Apr 94       New pointer to Casey Palowitch's excellent Russian
                   and East European Studies WWW Server at the University of
                   Pittsburg.

#3-04 Apr 94       New pointer to Central European Environmental
                   Libraries Database.

#4-04 Apr 94       New Anesthesiology Gopher Server available
                   from Health Page.

#5-04 Apr 94       New music, "Autumn in Vilnius", from Tom Torriglia's
                   "Those Darn Accordions".

#6-04 Apr 94       New issue of Rick Olano's Pen Pal Forum.

#7-04 Apr 94       Updated "friends" database.



RECENT EMAIL . . .

#01-04 Apr 94      Sender: hchun@hyowon.pusan.ac.kr (Hongchan Chun)
                   Subject: Help with Siberian and Far East Trip

#02-04 Apr 94      Sender: "Stewart A. Pollock" (sapolloc@mailbox.syr.edu)
                   Subject: Christians trying to make connections

#03-04 Apr 94      From: koopman@sgi81.ctc.com (Michael G. Koopman)
                   Subject: ANNOUNCE: Russian and East European Studies
                            Home Pages on WWW (fwd)

#04-04 Apr 94      Sender: Tom Roberts (trob@freenet1.scri.fsu.edu)
                   Subject: trip

#05-04 Apr 94      From: "Thomas F. Burola" (0005495386@mcimail.com)
                   Subject: Waste Management

#06-04 Apr 94      From: "Thomas F. Burola" (0005495386@mcimail.com)
                   Subject: USAID Project!

#07-04 Apr 94      From: DUDKIN@a.psc.edu
                   Subject: INFO-RUSS: okazia v Moskvu

#08-04 Apr 94      From: steven511@aol.com
                   Subject: Russian-American Interch.

#09-04 Apr 94      Sender: dwightv@aol.com
                   Subject: Zhirinovsky's book



APPENDIX:        LISTSERV address & basic procedures

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WHAT'S NEW . . .


* We now have all of the 1993 Radio Free Europe Daily Reports on our
  server and available for both browsing (by month) and searching.
  Available from the "News" page and then from the "RFE/RL" page.

  This material can also be searched directly using WAIS client
  software.  The relevant source information is:
     host:     solar.rtd.utk.edu
     port:     210
     database: rferl93

  Our continued thanks to the good folks at RFE and to John Lepingwell,
  in particular, who has spent many hours organizing these reports
  for us.

  The 1991 and 1992 materials will be available by the end of this week.

* New pointer to Casey Palowitch's Russian and East European Studies
  WWW Server at the University of Pittsburg.

  The Russian and East European Studies Home Pages are a comprehensive
  hypertext guide to the worldwide network-accessible resources available to
  scholars in the interdisciplinary study of Russia and Eastern Europe.

  This is an excellent WWW server -- an an important new resource -- available
  from the "more info resources" page.

* New pointer to Central European Environmental Libraries Database.
  Available from the More Information Resources Page (under Central/East
  European resources).

  This database was created to facilitate peer-matching opportunities between
  libraries in Central Eastern European countries (especially those
  specializing in the collection of environmental information) and their
  counterpart special libraries in other parts of the world.  Activities
  spanning a broad range are possible, including, (but not limited to) the
  following:

     Donating Journals Subscriptions
     Assisting in Collections Development
     Providing Specialized or Expert Resources
     Arranging for Staff Echange Opportunities
     Providing E-Mail Assistance or Access to Specific Information
     Exchanging Monitoring and Scientific Data in Specific Areas
     Engaging in Collaborative Research Project Development

*  Anesthesiology Gopher Server available from Health page.  The NYU Medical
   Center Department of Anesthesiology would like to announce the GASNET
   Anesthesiology Gopher Server.  This Gopher server offers text, files, and
   pictures of interest to anesthesiologists.  It is the home of the archives
   of the Anesthesiology Discussion Group, and the new, on-line anesthesiology
   journal, "Educational Synopses in Anesthesiology and Critical Care."

*  Tom Torriglia of "Those Darn Accordions" has provided us with some
   beautiful music entitled, "Autumn in Vilnius", a song recorded during their
   recent tour through the Baltics and available on their latest CD,
   "Squeeze This".  The digitized version of this song is available
   from the "music" page.  Thanks to Tom and his group for providing us
   with this music -- we hope to post some additional music from his group
   during the next few weeks.

*  We are glad to hear from Rick Olano again and receive from him a new
   issue of the "Pen Pal Forum" -- which we have posted on the pen pal
   page available from both the "life" and "education" pages.  Rick's
   system has recently been moved as the following from Rick explains:

   Our host TriState Online has officially been turned over to the Cincinnati
   Consortium of Colleges and Universities.  Previously housed in the Cincinnati
   Bell Building, TSO is now housed at the Northern Kentucky University.

   Problems with the Internet link have plagued us during the transition and as
   a result you all have not been getting the Pen Pal Forum of late.  There
   have been good souls working very hard to get everything together in TSO's
   new home.  Within the past couple of days the administration feels that the
   Internet connection is now 100% okay.

   So now we will resume where we left off.  Several new subscribers have
   joined the list either by request from the individual or through someone
   else.  If you are one who were subscribed by another and do not wish to be
   subscribed, just drop me a note.

*  We have updated the 'friends' database with all of the recently provided
   bio-demo profiles of our friends subscribers.

   If you are a new subscriber (or an 'old' one :-))  and wish to be
   represented in the 'friends' database, please complete the following
   and mail to biodemo@solar.rtd.utk.edu  :

   name:

   organization:

   position:

   address:

   office_phone:
   fax:
   email:

   statement of interests:

   areas of expertise:

   areas of desired contribution or service offerings:

   language fluencies:

   computer / technical competencies:

   originally from:

   additional information:


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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: hchun@hyowon.pusan.ac.kr (Hongchan Chun)
Subject: Help with Siberian and Far East Trip

   Thanking our Amercian and Russian friends for this wonderful joint network
project "FRIENDS & PARTNERS," I would like to utilize it from Korea. I hope
that you won't mind a Korean's participation.

   I am trying to organize a trip to Siberia and Russian Far East this summer
(prbably early July) for a small group of Korean specialists on Russia
(mostly political scientists and economists) myself included.

   With this trip plan, I would like to locate guides in major cities of
the region who will organize the things which would match our needs and
interests. The following items are a tentative summary of what we want to do
& see and where we want to visit.

  First of all, I want to include in our itinerary major social science
research institutes and universities in the region where we can have some
informative discussions with local scholars. Specific interests of our group
will include: regional autonomy movements, privatization and conversion of
military industries, local politics and power structure, economic relations
with East Asian countries, etc.

  Secondly, we would also like to visit various types of production units
such as privatized factories, military industries waiting to be converted to
factories producing consumer products, old-style and new private farms,
joint venture enterprises, etc.

  Thirdly, visiting ethnically distinctive areas such as those of Yakuts,
Buriyats, and others is also in our interests.

  In short, the trip is intended as an experts' fact finding tour surveying
political/economic/social states of Russian Siberia and Far East (covering
east of Irkutsk probably).

  I hope to hear from Russian citizens who live in those areas and want to
organize those things him(her)self for us. Introduction of other people
would also be appreciated. Of course, the guides will be properly paid for
their service.

   Looking forward to responses...


****** Hongchan Chun (hchun@hyowon.pusan.ac.kr) ******
       Dept. of Political Science & Diplomacy
       College of Social Sciences
       Pusan National University
       Pusan, 609-735, KOREA
       Tel: (+82-51) 510-2142; Fax: (+82-51) 517-4067
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Sender: "Stewart A. Pollock" (sapolloc@mailbox.syr.edu)
Subject: Christians trying to make connections

Christians from a number of denominations on Ecunet are eager to make
electronic contact with Christians and Church groups in Eastern Europe
and Russia.  Please send email to:

CHRISTIAN_ORGS_OF_EURASIA.topic@ecunet.org

Ecunet is a network of about 20 subnetworks of Christian denominations
and other Church groups.  Many of the participants are Church leaders and
pastors in North America.


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)From: koopman@sgi81.ctc.com (Michael G. Koopman)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Russian and East European Studies Home Pages on WWW

---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
)From: cjp+@pitt.edu (Casimir J Palowitch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish,soc.culture.ukrainian,soc.culture.soviet,
            soc.culture.yugoslavia,bit.listserv.cwis-l,bit.listserv.edusig-l,
            bit.listserv.euearn-l
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Russian and East European Studies Home Pages on WWW
Date: 1 Apr 94 16:19:13 GMT

ANNOUNCING:

        Russian and East European Studies Home Pages via WWW

        URL:    http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html

The Russian and East European Studies Home Pages are a comprehensive
hypertext guide to the worldwide network-accessible resources available to
scholars in the interdisciplinary study of Russia and Eastern Europe.
These hypertext documents can be viewed using WWW browsing software such
as the free Mosaic package for Macintosh, X-Windows, and MSWindows,
available from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or
other browsers such as OmniWeb for NeXTSTEP and Lynx.

Resources are subdivided into separate pages by discipline, into

Language, Literature, Music, Art, Culture,
Government and Public Affairs,
Science, Technology, Engineering, Computers, and Communications,
Business, Finance, Economics, and
History, Geography, Sociology.

The resources are also cross-indexed by type, into

Text document resources
Interactive databases
Directories and listings
Software
Multimedia resources

The REES Home pages also list the national WWW home pages of the EE and
FSU nations, as well as other major sites

The REES Home Pages are presented by the University of Pittsburgh Center
for Russian and East European Studies and the University of Pittsburgh
Library System, Networked Information Services Group. Send additions,
comments, corrections, and correspondence to Casey Palowitch,
cjp@acid.library.pitt.edu.

Enjoy,

--
**         Casey Palowitch             Networked Information Services    **
** U. of Pittsburgh Library Systems           Technical Services         **
**          cjp+@pitt.edu            NeXTmail: cjp@acid.library.pitt.edu **


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Sender: Tom Roberts (trob@freenet1.scri.fsu.edu)
Subject: trip



   I will be going to Moscow in May hopefully for the summer and would
like to know if anyone out there can help me find a decent,furnished
reasonably priced room or apartment there in a good part of town?
Please contact me by e-mail or at my fax 904-222-9769 ASAP. Thanks.
                                        Tom

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)From: "Thomas F. Burola" (0005495386@mcimail.com)
Subject: Waste Management

Please put this in F&P next issue

Solid Waste Management

Could anyone on the net point me to information on public or private sector
solid waste management projects in Bulgaria or Romania? I am conducting
research for a paper on the subject.  I would also be interested in
listservers on the subject along with information on funding sources from
the EEC, EBRD, WB, USAID.  I know for example that there has been work in
Sibiu in a programme for waste collection and recycling.  Any information
would appreciated!


Thomas Burola

MCI 549 5386 or TFB@delphi.com
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)From: "Thomas F. Burola" (0005495386@mcimail.com)
Subject: USAID Project!

Technical Assistance for the Newly Independent States and Eastern
Europe under USAID RFP OP/CC/N94-2

Does anyone know of
any groups expecting to make a proposal for the above USAID
funded project. Please have them contact me!

Thomas
Burola
MCI 549 5386 or TFB@cris.com
/

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)From: DUDKIN@a.psc.edu
Subject: INFO-RUSS: okazia v Moskvu

Hello, all on the net! I am about to leave for Moscow on April 10th.
Everyone is welcome to send letters and/or money with me. Of course,
free of charge. Contact me by email personally. Vitaly.


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)From: steven511@aol.com
Subject: Russian-American Interch.

Dear INTERNET Friends.

A few words about our Company CAAD-SCAAN, INC.
Company based in Long Island, New York with sales office in Manhattan and
distribution center in Odessa, Ukraine.  Established in 1983 and registered
on Dun&Bradstreet Information Services.

The main line of products:
1.      Design and construction of PC based high speed image scanning and OCR.
2.      AutoCad workstations with plotters/scanners overlay capability.
3.      Data Acquisition system for industrial processes on VME or AT buses.

Major Domestic customers:
        Rockwell International (Defense Contractor).
        Melon Banks - Telecommunication for security monitoring system.
        US Corp. of Engineers as a supplier to US Air Force.  AutoCad
        workstations to be used by US Federal Government in St. Petersburg.

Major Overseas customers:
        Odesskoe Morskoe Parohodstvo (100 User NetWare 4.0 Network with
        multi-user scanning workstations).

Our computer distribution center in Odessa, Ukraine employs qualified
consultants and technical stuff trained in US.  Center is capable to provide
customers from any industries with recommendation and expert advise in the
field of computer applications.

Purpose of this short write up is to promote CAAD-SCAAN, INC. and to generate
interest in Russian / Ukraine market.

Our Addresses:
In USA:707 Broad Hollow Rd.Farmingdale, NY 11735Tel: 516-293-3761  Fax:
516-293-3762Ask for Michael Balagula
In Odessa:1 Pereulok BaranovaNovy RinokOdessa, Ukraine,Technology 2001Tel:
264-795Sales Manager Anatoly Bezrodniy.

Interested to contact can send a message to AOL for Steve511 or CompuServe
for 70053.2147@cis.
Thanks to John Sloan for providing us with Internet addresses.
Michael Balagula.
PS  This information can be distributed free to all interested.

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Sender: dwightv@aol.com
Subject: Zhirinovsky's book

I'm seeking a copy of Zhirinovsky's book, "The Last Surge Southward", either
in English or Russian.  Any clues where I can find a copy?

Thanks, Dwight Vesty                        DwightV@AOL.com

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---------------- END FRIENDS April 4, 1994 -----------------------

APPENDIX


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