Daily Digest for 94-04-07
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-07 Apr 94 Information on The Eurasia Foundation
#02-07 Apr 94 New issue of RUSAG Weekly News Update
#03-07 Apr 94 New issue of Pen Pal Forum
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-07 Apr 94 Sender: San Francisco State University (sfsubh@igc.apc.org)
Subject: Request for Info
#02-07 Apr 94 Sender: DEHESSELLE%LTUVAX.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Friends and Partners
#03-07 Apr 94 Sender: coldspring@igc.apc.orga
Subject: help please
#04-07 Apr 94 Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Mac Cyrillic
#05-07 Apr 94 Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Chainii grib (tea mushroom)
#06-07 Apr 94 Sender: tel@mace.cc.purdue.edu (wangc)
Subject: Meet the BUSINESS CLUB in China
#07-07 Apr 94 Sender: kr+cf@khm.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-04-06
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* The Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed nonprofit
grantmaking organization established in 1993 with financing from
the US Agency for International Development. The Eurasia
Foundation supports technical assistance, training, educational,
and policy programs in the New Independent States (NIS) of the
former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States) covering a wide
range of activities in economic and democratic reform.
Information available from the "funding and exchange" page. Thanks
to Jim Cashel for providing this information.
* New issue of RUSAG Weekly News Update available from agriculture
page (available from science page).
* New issue of Pen Pal Forum available from the Pen Pal page.
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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: San Francisco State University (sfsubh@igc.apc.org)
Subject: Request for Info
Dear Friends:
I wish to locate individuals, with e-mail addresses, that
are affiliated with/or have contact with one or more of
the following institutions with which I am in the process
of establishing partnerships:
Kolomna State Pedagogical Institute (Alexander Ryjenkov)
Ryazan State Pedagogical Institute (Anatoly Liferov)
Vladimir State Pedagogical Institute (Dmitri Makeev)
Nizhegorodskiy State Pedagogical Institute (Irina Petrivnyaya)
Moscow Pedagogical University (Nikolai Khromenkov)
If you have internet addresses for anyone with such contacts,
I would appreciate receiving them at my e-mail address:
sfsubh@igc.apc.org
Many thanks!
Bill Hammerman433 Black Oak Drive
Institute for ECO Education
Petaluma, CA. 94953
USA.
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)From: DEHESSELLE%LTUVAX.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Friends and Partners
Dear Ms Bulashova,
We just received word about your newly forming e-mail exchange group.
At this University we are searching for the e-mail addresses and new names
of the Universities in Russia. Would you be able to identify a source which
would list this information? We are interested in establishing educational
relationships between the universities and the e-mail would speed up
all communication exchanges.
Any help you are able to provide us is greatly appriciated.
Sincerely
Frank de Hesselle
Director International Student Affairs
Lawrence Technological University
Southfield Michigan USA 48075
1-810-356-0200 ext 319
Fax 1-810-356-6458
e-mail: IN%"dehesselle@ltuvax"
Spacibo e dobre den ot Southfield
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Subject: help please
from: coldspring@igc.apc.orga
Dear Greg and Natasha,
I am a tenth grade student at Cold Spring Harbor High
School on Long Island. Approximately two times a year, we
produce a global news magazine, called The Contemporary,
through telecommunication as part of our work within the
International Education and Resource Network (I*EARN). Our
magazine (TC) is distributed to schools around the world and
has been widely praised (in all modesty) as a successful,
student-generated telecommunications project.
I have been following with great interest the Russia
Friends and Partners List. I think there have been some
fascinating entries on the List, and I feel the whole idea
behind the List is a great one.
I would like to write an article about the List for the
upcoming issue of TC. If it would not be too much trouble,
could you please answer the following questions to help me
with my research.
1) Where did the idea for the List come from?
2) What is the aim of the Friends and Partners List?
3) How successful do you feel you have you been in
serving the aim of the List?
4) What is the criteria for including items on the
List or for people contributing to it?
5) How difficult is the work of a "moderator?"
6) Are you pleased with the project's progress so far?
I plan to demonstrate in my article the tremendous
variety of items included on the List and to highlight the
purposes served by having such a List. If there is any
additional information you would like to provide about the
List, please feel free to do so.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Shana Hildebrand
age 16
p.s. Please send me your postal mail addresses so that I can
mail copies of TC to you.
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Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Mac Cyrillic
All,
I've just installed the Apple fonts and keyboard (available from ftp.apple.com
and documented on the Cyrillic Text page link to Sergei Naumov's material) and
they're great! The files are nominally for System 7.0.1, but I installed them
with no problems on System 7.1. I installed *only* the fonts and keyboard,
however, so my Mac is still basically American English. I don't think I'd
recommend doing a full-blown update except on System 7.0.1, but the fonts-only
update is safe for System 7.1 users.
I changed the font names with ResEdit so they're understandable (English) in
font menus (I called them "APCCourier", "Bastion", "Latinskij", "ChicagoCyr",
"GenevaCyr", and "MonacoCyr"). Where there were TrueType fonts (the first
three above) I got rid of the bitmap fonts to save space, but I may try putting
them back to see if on-screen quality is affected.
Previously I had some of the "cyrtt" fonts and they were okay, but the Mac
thought it had separate fonts for bold, italics, and normal instead of a single
font with different styles, and they were Cyrillic-only so it was hard to find
a "similar" font to use for bilingual documents. The Apple fonts solve all
that.
Note that ftp.apple.com has a wide range of foreign langauges in the same place
as the Russian support, including Czech and Polish, as well as other European
and Mideast languages. I can only speak for the Russian, but I'd expect some
of the rest to work equally well.
I don't know if this helps MacMosaic users or not, but for simple bilingual
documents I think it's the way to go.
Doug
PS: Still looking for "Newly Independent States" versus "Commonwealth of
Independent States" versus "Former Soviet Union" opinions - are these
equivalent, or are some more "acceptable" than others?
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Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Chainii grib (tea mushroom)
Dear friends,
The subject of this message is "Kombucha" or "tea mushroom" ("chainyi grib" in
Russian).
On one of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to it has ben a long discussion
regarding medicinal and, possibly, toxic values of this "mushroom". I
don't think a lot of Americans know about it but lots of Russians certainly
do. "Chainii grib" was very popular all around the USSR 15-20 years ago and,
I'm sure, some people still grow it.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to any researches on this subject which, I
know, were conducted in the USSR in the 50s and, maybe, later.
I'll be very greatful to receive any information on the results of these
studies. Also, if you have personal experience with the mushroom (for example,
you or your relatives could have it at home, how did you grow it, how did you
use it, why you stopped or not stopped using it, etc.), I'll be very interested
to hear about this too.
Thanks in advance.
Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
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Sender: tel@mace.cc.purdue.edu (wangc)
Subject: Meet the BUSINESS CLUB in China
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Sender: kr+cf@khm.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-04-06
schicke dir heute noch, ws wir reingeben moechten, ca 400 Worte.
c.
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