Daily Digest for 94-04-18
Sender: NATASHA@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Subject: Daily Dagest for 94-04-18
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-18 Apr 94 All Radio Free Europe Daily News summaries now available
for 1991 - 1994.
#02-18 Apr 94 April 15 issue of Pen Pal Forum available.
#03-18 Apr 94 The Media List available.
#04-18 Apr 94 April 15 issue of RUSAG Current Events available.
#05-18 Apr 94 'Friends' database updated with new material.
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-18 Apr 94 Sender: johns426@aol.com
Subject: Trips to Russia and Ukraine
#02-18 Apr 94 Sender: alexandr@MIT.EDU
Subject: Letter1
#03-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Chris Scheurweghs (NATO)" (scheurwe@shape.nato.int)
Subject: E-mail to Tasjikistan
#04-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Jinny L. Husty" (73734.226@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Educational Software
#05-18 Apr 94 Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: Technology from Russia '94
#06-18 Apr 94 Sender: BAZYKIN@JHUVMS.HCF.JHU.EDU
Subject: Funding opportunities for NIS earth scientists?
#07-18 Apr 94 Sender: kcollins@gelac.lasc.lockheed.com (Kyle Collins)
Subject: Cyrillic Text in email
#08-18 Apr 94 Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Volunteer Advisor for Service in Moscow
#09-18 Apr 94 Sender: Magda Lehovich (lehovich@cap.gwu.edu)
Subject: Russian Word Perfect
#10-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Mac Cyrillic
#11-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Russian/English software
#12-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Additional KOI8/Windows info
#13-18 Apr 94 Sender: dwightv@aol.com
Subject: Letters hand-delivered to Russia
#14-18 Apr 94 Sender: Natasha Maltsev
Subject: an invitation to Workshop on Integration of
Biochemical Databases
#15-18 Apr 94 Sender: "Michael V. Smith" (gaia@iac.net)
Subject: Increased danger of world chaos...Zagreb Diary on
8 -12 April, 1994 (fwd)
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* All of 1991 - 1994 Radio Free Europe Daily Reports are now available
for browsing and searching. The 1992 data has been added as has the
January, 1994 data. Also, the 1994 data has been organized by
month. Our thanks once again to the RFE/RL folks
for permitting us to disseminate their excellent news summaries, to
John Lepingwell who gathered all the data for us, and to Carol Larsen
who spent a lot of time and energy reformatting the 1992 information.
All of this material is available from the "news" page and then from
the RFE/RL page.
* April 15, 1994 issue of the Pen Pal Forum by Rick Olano available
from the "Life" and "Education" pages.
* The Media Listing is provided by Jim Cashel of the Eurasia Foundation and
is posted with the Eurasia Foundation material from the "funding and
exchange" page. This is a listing of newspapers, magazines, TV stations
and other media outlets that accept electronic submissions from readers and
viewers, along with their main e-mail addresses.
* April 15, 1994 issue of RUSAG Current Events -- available from the
agriculture section on the "science" page.
* Updated friends biodemo database with new additions. Available for
searching from the "who is who" 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: johns426@aol.com
Subject: Trips to Russia and Ukraine
Greetings all,
Since summer 1992 I have been organizing special visits to Russia and Ukraine
focused on history from earliest times, especially military history. The
groups visit battlefields, museums, fortifications, meet military historians
etc.
In 1992 the group of 54 spent 28 days going from Vyborg to Sevastopol and
Balaklava. There were three smaller groups in 1993. This summer we have
planned special tour with Russian military officer guides to visit the WWII
battlefields and related museums at Kursk and around Moscow, with side trip
also to Borodino - all in 14 days. I have also planned a general history
tour for 14 days from St. Petersburg through Pskov and Novgorod to Moscow,
Vladimir. Rostov Veliki, Suzdal etc. This is planned to depart US 23 June
Recently friends in Kiev and Sevastopol have invited Americans to visit or
participate in the "historical days" festival and commemoration on 3-6 June
in Sevastopol. Participants in reenactment groups who would come with their
historical uniforms of whatever era are especially welcomed. I realize that
is short notice, but perhaps there are friends on the list who would like to
do this or know someone who would.
Please contact: John Sloan - johns426@aol.com
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Sender: alexandr@MIT.EDU
Subject: Letter1
Hello Greg and Natasha:
I am really impressed with your project and want
to wish your success on your three month \"birthday\".
I'd like also to suggest you my services. I found FRIENDS just
yesterday and had no time to inform my friends about you but I
will definitely do it this week. I subscribed yesterday and today
I want already to suggest you two things. First,
maybe we can use FRIENDS AND PARTNERS in the initiative
of EDMUND S.MUSKIE FELLOWS ASSOCIATION. I am sending you
my Resume and some information on the project I am
working now with my friends. Please, feel free to use
this information. Maybe we can make announcement about the
initiative and will invite all interested persons to contact.
We can unite people from Russia who are now abroad and help them to
be in touch with home.I also want to suggest you to add a new item:
Regional corner (instead or in addition to Geography and Geology). I am
certain that we will manage to find in every region of Russia
a person who can be a regional coordinator. He will prepare the
basic information about its region and will supply information and
answer questions on it. We can have a map of Russia with their
locations and contact information. Everybody who has some interest in specific
region will be able to talk to them. These are my preliminarily ideas and I
want to know your opinion.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Alexander Gloukhov
Supplement1
MIT, Room 3-404
Cambridge, MA 02139
Fax: (617) 253-7402
Tel: (617) 621-3588
550 Memorial Drive Apt 20 C-1
Tel: (617) 253-4510
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Sender: "Chris Scheurweghs (NATO)" (scheurwe@shape.nato.int)
Subject: E-mail to Tasjikistan
Are there e-mail fascilities in the Republic
of Tasjikistan?
Please reply to scheurwe@hq.nato.int
Thanks in advance.
Chris Scheurweghs
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Sender: "Jinny L. Husty" (73734.226@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Educational Software
Hello. We have just started subscribing to Friends and Partners and are
enjoying the newsgroup very much so.
I was wondering if anyone could please tell me what Russian elementary
schools are like. Are they using computers to help teach their
students? If so, what type of computers do they use? We are a
shareware vendor that specializes exclusively in educational and
children's shareware and are very well known here in the states. We
would like to know if Russia would be interested in obtaining our
software as well. Needless to say, all of it is written in english
though, so I am not sure whether we would be of use to them or not.
Also, on a more personal basis, I was wondering if regular lay people
are interested in the Friends and Partners newsgroup? It appears to be
mainly very professional at this point in time. I thought it might be
nice to hear from regular citizens just wishing to corresponde with
people who are interested in...food, clothing, the weather, and so on.
Thank you for any responses. Jinny Husty
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Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: Technology from Russia '94
In case people haven't heard about it before, there is a conference in
Washington, DC from May 10-12. According to the brochure, the purpose is
to: "... initiate contacts between US and Russian businesses, assist in
the establishment of joint ventures and continue educating people in the
areas of business management, US laws, contract negotiations and other
general business practices." There are 76 Russian companies which will be
exhibiting. The conference fee is $425 for the full conference, $150 for
one day, and $10 for the exhibits only. I will be going to the exhibits.
If anyone else is interested in going, you can contact J. Spargo &
Associates, Inc. at (703) 631-6200 (voice) or write me at
[jlgreen@clark.net]. I'll try and collect as many email addresses as
possible and post them later.
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* Jennifer Green |"There is no more fatal blunderer than *
* jlgreen@clark.net | he who consumes the greater part of his *
* | life getting his living" - Thoreau *
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Sender: BAZYKIN@JHUVMS.HCF.JHU.EDU
Subject: Funding opportunities for NIS earth scientists?
Dear Friends,
A friend of mine, a geologist from Moscow, asked me to try to find out
any sources of possible financing of his research. He is looking for
any kind of support: grants, postdoc scholarships, short- and long-term
contracts - you name it. So far my search did not yield much - it seems
like most of the sponsors are interested in social sciences, humanities,
business training, media, but not in natural sciences. Does anybody
have any suggestions where to look for this kind of information? any
well- or not-so-well-known sources I missed? Any suggestions/info will
be greatly appreciated both by myself and my friend in Moscow.
Best,
Dmitry Bazykin
bazykin@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
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Sender: kcollins@gelac.lasc.lockheed.com (Kyle Collins)
Subject: Cyrillic Text in email
Hello Friends & Partners,
RE: Following Message in April 14, 1994 Digest
) Sender: ourusoffn@queen.lsc.vsc.edu (Nicholas Ourusoff)
) Subject: Re: Russian/English software
) I would like to know the best sources of information on (i) encoding/decoding
) Cyrillic for e-mail to and from Russia; (ii) Russian(-)English language
) software for Macintosh and PC. My question is in part inspired by Vera
) Gubnitskaia's request on 4-11.
I have been corresponding with a guy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and we
have worked out a scheme that enables us to send and receive Cyrillic
text in Windows. I had picked up some Cyrillic Windows fonts that came
with a Russian tutor program that I had downloaded (I can send it to
anyone that is interested). Here is the procedure that we are using:
1. I used Windows Write to create my message changing fonts
from English-to-Russian and vice versa.
2. I then sent the resulting Write file to our Sun using
binary transfers.
3. Next I encoded this file on the Sun using UUENCODE. There
is also a version of UUENCODE that works on the PC.
4. Next I composed a message to my friend and included the
encoded Windows Write file.
Once the message is received, just go through the reverse process.
1. First run the received message through UUDECODE on either
a Sun or your PC.
2. ftp the file over to your PC.
3. Load the message into Windows Write and read both
English and Russian.
I have the Windows Cyrillic fonts and the UUENCODE and UUDECODE
programs that I could send to anyone that is interested.
Hope this helps.
Kyle
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2345 Old Orchard Drive | fax: (404) 494-6989
Marietta, GA 30068-3450 | internet: kcollins@gelac.lasc.lockheed.com
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Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Volunteer Advisor for Service in Moscow
The Citizen's Democracy Corps [CDC], located in Washington,
is seeking the services of a Volunteer Advisor to work with
the Modern Humanitarian University in Moscow in May or June
of this year. The Volunteer will be expected to perform the
following work, presented in order of priority [as presented
by the CDC representative in Moscow]:
1. Curriculum and academic programs development for the
Department of Management that would meet international
standards in higher education. Accomplishment of prelimi-
nary work prior to introduction of BBA and MBA interna-
tional level teaching programs.
2. Assistance in developing working contacts with universi-
ties and business schools in the United States, with
leading American scientists and specialists in economics,
management and business law.
3. Assistance in writing a business plan for cooperation with
American and international foundations, in an effort to
secure financing for priorities such as organizational
structure development and development of teaching materi-
als and facilities.
4. Facilitation of contacts with U.S. computer manufacturing
companies, to obtain computers, computer networks, and
computer work stations.
5. Assistance in working out a plan for the University's
business incubator development.
This is the extent of the information available to me at
the moment. The contact party at CDC for additional
information:
Mr. David A. Ciagne, Program Officer
Citizens Democracy Corps
1735 I Street, N.W., Suite 720
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: [202] 872-0933
Fax: [202] 394-1945
E-Mail: David@CDC.Org
Mr. Ciagne will be in Russia until 9 May. In his absence,
please feel free to contact his colleague, Mr. Jonathan Hoy,
in his absence.
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* EASTERN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE NETWORK * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
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Sender: Magda Lehovich (lehovich@cap.gwu.edu)
Subject: Russian Word Perfect
I'm looking for a commercial source for Russian Word Perfect for hard
currency payment.
Vlad Lehovich
(Lehovich@cap.gwu.edu)
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Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Mac Cyrillic
William,
I'd recommend you use the Russian fonts from Apple. They give you bilingual
fonts (you can mix English and Russian with the same typeface, style, size,
etc.) and it's really easy to switch between languages (COMMAND-space or
pulldown menu). You do need to be able to do a little ResEdit fixing of the
names.
I assume you're on System 7.0.1 or System 7.1. If not the following may not
apply 100%.
First, you need to do "ftp ftp.apple.com" and login as "anonymous" with a
password of "wrs@unf6.cis.unf.edu" (your mail address). Then do the
following:
cd /dts/mac/sys.soft.intl/russian.7.0.1
binary
get fonts-1.hqx
get install-1.hqx
quit
You can retrieve all of the files if you want, but if you only want the fonts
you don't need anything else.
Then, using "BinHex" or "Stuffit Expander" or whatever, you need to expand the
files.
You'll also need a copy of "Disk Copy", since that is the format that "fonts-1"
and "install-1" are in. If you don't have a copy, get it from /dts/utils and
get file "diskcopy-4-2.hqx", also from ftp.apple.com.
Now double-click on "fonts-1" and then "install-1", and when it asks you to,
insert a 1.44 MB (high density) floppy. It doesn't need to be formatted; if it
has Mac files the program will double check that you want to completely
overwrite the disks. BE SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS!!
Okay, now the ResEditing begins. For each of the font files on disk "fonts-1",
open it with ResEdit. If it shows an "sfnt" resource, double-click on it and
find out what the "real" font name is (APCCourier, Bastion, or Latinskij).
Then close the SFNT window, SINGLE-click on the FOND resource, and hit
COMMAND-I and change the name to APCCourier or Bastion or Latinskij (it'll look
like garbage characters when the window opens). Now quit, saving the change,
and go on to the next font. You should also rename the suitcases as you go.
For the three fonts that DON'T have SFNT resources, you need to figure out what
system font they look like: the Chicago one is pretty easy to spot, the Monaco
one has only 9 and 12 point sizes and is monospace, and the Geneva one has
three sizes and is proportional. (This is from recent memory, but I don't
think you'll have trouble figuring out which is which.) The easiest way of
"seeing" this is to back out and double-click on the font suitcase, then any of
the font(s) that are inside, and you'll see a font sample. Get out of Font/DA
Mover, get back into ResEdit, and change the FOND name to anything you like,
but I'd recommend "ChicagoCyr", "GenevaCyr", and "MonacoCyr". Again, after you
save changes and get out, change the suitcase's file name to match also.
At this point, you should have six English-named font suitcases, which can now
be dragged on top of your System Folder. The Mac will tell you that you need
to put fonts in a special place (either the System file or the Font folder,
depending on what level Mac OS you're at).
Now you need to put in disk "install-1", open its System file, and see if you
see a document with a little globe inside it. If you do, drag that from the
floppy disk's System file onto the System folder on your hard drive, and again
it will tell you that it needs to go into the System file. If you DON'T see
the document, just some sounds, you need to find or create a bootable floppy
with System 7.0.x on it and use THAT system to look at the System file from
"install-1". For some reason (I'm almost SURE it's "a feature"!) you can't see
the document from a System 7.1 system, at least sometimes you can't. You may
also have to copy the System file temporarily to your hard drive (NOT into your
system folder, though!!), to avoid endless floppy shuffling. Be sure to get
rid of it again before you reboot from the hard drive!
At this point, you should have the six Apple Cyrillic fonts installed, and the
WorldScript file (the thing with a globe in the middle of it) installed also.
Reboot your Macintosh and you should see a tiny US flag between Balloon help
and the application icon (upper right corner of the screen).
If you're in Word, you can use one of the TrueType Cyrillic fonts (APCCourier,
Bastion, or Latinskij) and then pull the "flag" menu down and switch to the
Russian keyboard, or you can do COMMAND-space to switch from the keyboard. You
can of course use the Cyrillic versions of Chicago, Geneva, and Monaco, but
they're NOT TrueType and thus don't scale very well, so I'd stick to the three
TT fonts for most purposes.
You can use Key Caps to find out what the keyboard layout is; most of the
characters are available "live" but you can get a few additional ones with the
Option key (like the (( and )) style of quote marks). What I did was to create
a SuperPaint template that shows the English and Cyrillic characters on each
key. I believe that the keyboard arrangement is fairly "standard" but never
having seen a REAL Russian keyboard I can't be sure.
Good luck - mail me if you have problems.
Doug
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| Douglas K. Eldred | E-MAIL: douglas.k.eldred@cdc.com |
| Control Data Systems, Inc. (ARH253) | |
| 4201 Lexington Avenue North | FAX: (612) 482-4746 |
| Arden Hills, MN 55126-6198 USA | Voice: (612) 482-4395 |
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| The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it. |
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Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Russian/English software
Nicholas,
I believe the "standard" for Russian email is KOI8. That's available via
anonymous ftp from "ftp.elvis.msk.su" in file /pub/apple/koi8.cpt.hqx. After
you un-binhex-ify it, it will be a self-extracting archive containing the font
and a keyboard.
With that, you should be able to read files that you get from F&P or from
news/email postings.
If you want to COMPLETELY "Russianize" a Macintosh running System 7.0.1,
including Finder menus, dialog boxes, etc. you can get the necessary files from
ftp.apple.com in /dts/mac/sys.soft.intl/Russian.7.0.1. If you just want the
fonts, I just posted instructions on that also. They should show up on
Monday's posting, or I can forward you the details if you want to try it before
then.
Finally, EXPERIMENTALLY I was able to use the KOI8 font described above to see
Cyrillic "live" (while connected, not after the fact) by inserting the font's
resources into a MicroPhone document and giving them the same IDs as the
PC/ANSI font, then telling MP to use PC/ANSI. I didn't try typing anything,
but the font files come with a keyboard. The same or a similar trick may work
with other popular Mac communications packages; I can only testify about MP.
Good luck!
Doug
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| Douglas K. Eldred | E-MAIL: douglas.k.eldred@cdc.com |
| Control Data Systems, Inc. (ARH253) | |
| 4201 Lexington Avenue North | FAX: (612) 482-4746 |
| Arden Hills, MN 55126-6198 USA | Voice: (612) 482-4395 |
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| The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it. |
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Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Additional KOI8/Windows info
Vera,
I downloaded the KOI8 Windows fonts (from ftp.elvis.msk.su directory
/pub/windows/fonts/koi8fon.zip), ran "pkunzip koi8fon.zip" to decompress them,
and then loaded them into Windows (from the Windows 3.1 Control Panel "Fonts"
icon). The "Fonts" tool is perfectly happy with these fonts.
That's the good news. The bad news is that Word 2.0c doesn't find the fonts,
nor does Windows Write. However, Terminal DOES find them, AND it has a "View
File" menu item, so you could possibly read existing files with that; on the
bottom of the Terminal window there are two button, "Stop" if you want to stop
readint the file and "Pause" if you merely want to stop the scrolling. Or of
course you could actually RUN the Terminal program using the KOI8 font and then
you'd see stuff in mixed English/Cyrillic "live", just as can be done on the
Macintosh.
Hope this helps; I can't understand why only some applications "know" about the
new fonts, but then there is a LOT about Windows that I don't understand! :-)
Doug
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| Douglas K. Eldred | E-MAIL: douglas.k.eldred@cdc.com |
| Control Data Systems, Inc. (ARH253) | |
| 4201 Lexington Avenue North | FAX: (612) 482-4746 |
| Arden Hills, MN 55126-6198 USA | Voice: (612) 482-4395 |
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| The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it. |
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Sender: dwightv@aol.com
Subject: Letters hand-delivered to Russia
Letters are being hand-carried to Novgorod, Russia monthly from Rochester,
NY.. Glad to take yours. They will be hand-delivered within Novgorod, or
can be posted there for another destination. Translation to Russian is
available. E-mail me for details.
-- Dwight DwightV@AOL.com
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Sender: Natasha Maltsev
Subject: an invitation to Workshop on Integration of Biochemical
Databases
Dear reader: Please bring this notice to the attention of persons
you think might wish to participate.
Workshop on Integration of Biochemical Databases
June 8 - June 10, 1994
Pushchino, Russia
(Registration deadline May 12)
We invite all interested researchers to visit the largest center
of biomedical research in Russia and the former Soviet Union).
The workshop will be a forum for informal discussion of all databases
relevant to molecular biology and medicine, and especially on means for
integrating them. Several leading biological database experts from
outside Russia will be present, as well as representatives of many
interesting (and probably unfamiliar) Russian database projects.
The workshop will be hosted by Professor Evgeni E. Selkov and
coworkers, and is arranged in part by Dr. Ross Overbeek et al. at
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.
We have scheduled the following events:
o Overview of EMP (Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways database). EMP
contains the encoding of the most important articles (approx.
10,000) describing enzymes, phylogenetically arranged. It also
contains in graphical form most of the known metabolic
pathways for all organisms. We consider EMP the world's leading
database of its kind. All participants will receive a free
academic copy of this database (see details below).
o For the first time, a presentation of a broad selection of
Russian / FSU databases. There will be poster sessions and
demonstrations on PC computers. During this winter we have
collected brief descriptions and invited representatives from
the groups who created (in our judgment) the most interesting
of these. In Russia there exist substantial data collections
ranging from minor ones done by single experts to very large
collections of for example medicinal properties of compounds,
3D structural data, sequence data, culture collections, genetic
markers, tumor characteristics, regulatory sequences, and more.
o Optional introductory course to general metabolism and related
computational issues. This will be given prior to the workshop
(June 5-7) by Professor Selkov.
There will be no scheduled talks. We instead invite open
discussion of topics of common interest, such as metabolism and
enzymes, or phylogeny, alignments, compounds, motifs, and maps. If
you wish to use or generate such integrated biological data, then
please join us.
Sincerely,
Evgeni Selkov
Ross Overbeek
Natalia Maltsev
Amos Bairoch
Nat Goodman
George Michaels
Harold Morowitz
Niels Larsen
Anthony Bonner
Terry Gaasterland
Pat Gillevet
Rick Stevens
Alexander Zamyatnin
Practical details
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Pushchino is a community of some 30,000 people located 100 km
south of Moscow. The main acitivity is research. The area is
generally safe. The water is not contaminated; the food is fresh
and locally produced. You will be able at least to send electronic
mail.
The registration fee is US $650 for the workshop if you plan to
attend the introductory course, $550 otherwise. The fee covers housing
(single hotel rooms), meals, and transportation to and from Moscow
International Airport. We accept Visa and MasterCard, or a check made
out in US$ and cashable within the United States. Upon payment of the
workshop fee, participants will be given a US $400 purchase credit for
EMP or an actual CD-ROM copy, if there is enough time before the
meeting. EMP will soon be generally available for $400 ($4000 for
commercial licenses).
The workshop is so far unsponsored, but we welcome interested
sponsors. We need help with computer equipment and coverage of
travel expenses for Russian participants.
Please fill out the fields that apply in the form below, and
send it by regular mail, fax, or electronic mail to
Center for Professional Development
Business Office, Mail Stop 3G3
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Fax: 703-993-2112
Electronic mail: overbeek@juju.mcs.anl.gov
Questions can be directed to either Ross Overbeek
(overbeek@mcs.anl.gov) or Mary Baroody at George Mason
University (703-993-2090).
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Sender: "Michael V. Smith" (gaia@iac.net)
Subject: Increased danger of world chaos...Zagreb Diary on 8 -12 April, 1994
(fwd)
Dear friends:
The attached material will give you some insight about situation in
occupied part of Croatia (occupied by Serbian army and the UN!).
The situation with the Russian brass is getting more dangerous.
Their public condemnation of NATO strikes in Gorazde (where
Serbian army has been systematically destroying the last vestiges
of civilization in Bosnia) is an indication that they are reqdy
for Zhirinovsky-type justice!
The history may repeat itself (former USSR could become like former
Yugoslavia) if Russian people are not properly informed! Of course, the
scale is for an order of mqgnitude largeer and Red Army has nuclear
weapons. Please forward this to your friends, especially in Russia,
because otherwise the chaos may prevail (IN WHICH CASE NONE OF US IS SAFE!)
MVS
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Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 18:36:00 +0100
)From: Wam (WAM@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de)
Subject: Zagreb Diary on 8 -12 April, 1994
Zagreb Diary 8 - 12 April, 1994
Dobar dan,
After the last days I went to Zagreb to have a rest for some days since I
spend most of the time in house resting not much has happened in
those days at least not in my direct surroundings.
8 April
Just before we left from Pakrac we saw the news on the television wit a
big report about a fire in Zagreb, by the time the music was turned down
and the volume of the television up the topic was over. But coming
closer to Zagreb, black cloud at the horizon showed that something still
was going on. Closer to Zagreb it was clear that all the road to the North
and North East were blocked and at some of the cross point the road
were blocked by military police. The first reaction in my head was o, shit
please let it be an accident, please not a rocket or so on one of the oil
factories in Sesvete.
In Zagreb at the peace center it is soon clear what happened this
afternoon the weapon depot, army munitions-ware house in Sesvete
exploded. Immediately afterwards the state of emergency was declared
over Sesvete, Dugo Selo and Dubrava. People must have had
enormous shock when it happens, first a big explosion, than a series of
small ones, the sirens going off and no information. They must have
thought that they were in the middle of an attack, since who thinks that
munitions deport blow up by themselves.
Today the newspapers are full about the blow, 17 people are wounded,
from which 5 really serious and 6 soldiers are missing. The emergency
state is still going on and watch is set out for bio-chemical weapons.
Also a commission is set up to find out how the biggest and best
protected munitions warehouse could exploded. Who knows what the
after bang will bring.
In Zagreb further on a meeting from the Jewish community to remember
the 6.000.000 Jews who were killed during world war two. Before the
war this remembering day took place in Jasenovac, South in Sector
West, very near to Okucani. Yesterday they have asked UNPROFOR to
get permission to visit that remembering place. But UNPROFOR
couldn't stand in for their safety and forbid it. That's why they stay in
Zagreb, like the Patriarch stayed up in the village yesterday.
Also the news announced that the telephone lines with Tuzla are now
working and soon we will be able to phone with Sarajevo, Zenica and
Doboj, probably Zagreb is faster connected with Sarajevo than with
Beograd.
When I came home Vesna told me that they have only a few days left to
find a new place for the ARKzin editor place, the land lady have
cancelled their contract in the last week.
Zagreb 9 April
I have been doing introduction with the new volunteers and went to bed
afterwards and slept the rest of the day.
Somebody phoned from Pakrac telling that the Danish-Croatian theatre
players came by after all and did a gig for the volunteers.
Vesna came home and told that she found a new place for the ARKzin
editor room, it looks ideal, but to be sure she have given the owner some
ARKzin's to be clear that they are agree with what is happening in their
house.
Zagreb 10 April
The concert of the Irish folk and hard core band the "7 Kevin's", who
really are 10 persons, from which nobody calls Kevin in Pakrac was
great. After some nice sets it ended up in a jam session between the
Kevin and the local youth. No fighting, no tension.
I have been writing my monthly article for ARKzin today. It was the only
thing which came out of my fingers. e story is about the sea of madness
and how I try to walk through it by singing "Always look upon the bright
side of life".
Later I heard from Pakrac that nothing had happened today, nobody
seems to have the energy to have a part on the 10th of April, worries for
nothing.
Zagreb 11 April
I spend most of the day translating my notes from the last weeks into
readable stories and repairing the BBS in the Peacecenter. But although
it seems to work again, not as it use to, but at least a bit.
Late in the evening, in the early morning really, Vesna comes back from
ARKzin. The owner of the new place has phoned today to tell that she
re-thought about it and that she thinks tat it is not good to have such a
political group in her house.
Lot's of talking about the air strikes of NATO of Gorazde who took place
yesterday, 2 F-16 jet bombed some positions from Bosnian Serbian
Army around Gorazde and stop so a heavy artillery attack which was
going on on the city. And the possible chemical weapons attack on that
place by the Bosnian Serbs some days before. Rumours say that this
will be the worst offensive for General Mladic, he totally miscalculated
the reaction of the UN and NATO and this probably will cost him his
position.
Zagreb 12 October
I should go to Pakrac today, but there is so much work today so I hope
that I finish it all today and take the early morning train in the hope to be
in time for my meeting in Okucani tomorrow. I also hope that the money
from Netherlands soon arrives for the seed otherwise that whole action
goes down the drain.
In the town rumours about the explosion in Sesvete, some people say
that it has been but in scene to prepare the political fall of Cucak, the
minister of Defence and a representative of the right wing part of HDZ.
After the fall from the left wing representative Manolic this would
stabilise the power in HDZ in the middle.
Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska,
Wam
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