Daily Digest for 94-06-24
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-24 June 94 Alliance of Universities for Democracy Proceedings
Documents now available from Education section.
#02-24 June 94 "Network Infrastructure Development . ." paper
available from Telecommunications section.
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-24 June 94 Sender: dstephan@brynmawr.edu
Subject: info on foreign copyrights
#02-24 June 94 Sender: Mikhail Mozolin (mozolin@phoenix.cs.uga.edu)
Subject: Russian telephone standard
#03-24 June 94 Sender: reimann@access.digex.net
Subject: WWW) Database - Announce: Chernobyl Accident...
#04-24 June 94 Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@eskimo.com)
Subject: Russian graphics
#05-24 June 94 Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org) Eurasia Foundation
Subject: Belarus "School of Tomorrow"
#06-24 June 94 Sender: Funding Opportunities System
(funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Freedom Support Act-Secondary School Initiative
for Short-Term Exchange Projects
#07-24 June 94 Sender: Funding Opportunities System
(funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Freedom Support Act-Youth with Disabilities
#08-24 June 94 Sender:Victor Voronkov victor@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Subject: HamRadio, Russian Robinson Club
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) "Perspectives in High
Education Reform" -- available from the Education page.
These are the entire proceedings from the Third Annual Conference of AUDEM
held in Krakow, Poland, November 8-12, 1992 and represent papers from
participating universities in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, and the US. Just a few of the papers reproduced here include:
* Historical Roots of the Democratic Society, Antoni Maczak
* Civilizational Competence: A requisite of Post-communist Transition,
Piotr Sztompka
* University Reorganization and Development in Bulgaria, P. R. Bontchev
* Eastern Europe and Democracy: Enhancing Common Needs and Values While
Maintaining Diversity, Ben P. Granger
* Higher Education Governance, Herman Postma
* The Private Sector as a Source of Finance for Higher Education, King Rogers
* Health in Hungary, Katalin Veress
* From the University to Industry: Methods to Transfer Technology,
Herman Postma
* Development of National Automated Library Information Network (NALIN) in
Bulgaria, Alexander Dimchev
* Library Development, Educational Reform, and Democracy Building,
L. Evans Roth, Jos-Marie Griffiths, Karen M. Drabenstott,
Russell D. Hensley, Mary Ellen L. Jacob, I. Kenneth Luker,
and Glenda J. Rousseau
The AUDEM organization is one with which we hope to become increasingly
active. We would like to soon publish their 1993 conference proceedings and
will be participating with them during the 1994 conference in Prague.
F&P will be assisting in organizing a special one day session on
"Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure in Central /
Eastern Europe and the countries of the Former Soviet Union" geared
towards the chief education officers of higher education institutions.
Our thanks to Dr. Dave Hake and Dr. L. Evans Roth of AUDEM for their
permission to publish these materials and to Lance Bernard and David
Zlotchenko for their expert help in converting all of these materials
into a format suitable for publishing on the World Wide Web.
* An interesting paper, entitled "Network Infrastructure Development and
Defense Industry Conversion for Satellite Towns: Using and Building an
Electronic Distance Education System for Russia with Connections to the
Worldwide Information Society" is available from the Telecommunications
Page. Our thanks to the authors and, in particular, Peter Knight, of the
World Bank and A.V. Galitsky, of Elvis+, for their permission to post
this on our server.
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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: dstephan@brynmawr.edu
Subject: info on foreign copyrights
Does anyone out there know how to go about getting permission to use video
clips from Russian or Former Soviet Union video materials? We at Bryn
Mawr are developing multi-media materials for advanced-level students and
want to use short video clips. Specifically:
1) Does anyone have the addresses of copyright holders for Mosfilm,
Lenfilm, or other studios' video materials?
2) Has anyone been successful in getting permission to use materials from
these sources? If so, how did you go about it? Did they ask for
royalties and if so, how much and for what?
Any assistance you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
David Stephan
dstephan@kramer.brynmawr.edu
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Sender: Mikhail Mozolin (mozolin@phoenix.cs.uga.edu)
Subject: Russian telephone standard
I will be leaving for Russia in a few days, and I'd like to
take a touch tone phone with me. Does anybody know if a
regular telephone set used in the US will work in Russia too, or
I have to buy a special type customized for Russian (or European?)
standards.
Thanx in advance
Mikhail Mozolin
mozolin@phoenix.cs.uga.edu
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Sender: reimann@access.digex.net
Subject: WWW) Database - Announce: Chernobyl Accident...
I haven't visited this site; it may be useful, and you may already
know of it.
Carl
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)From: x0352@kiae.su (Dobrynin Yu.P.)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.users
Subject: Announce: Chernobyl Accident ...
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 19:40:55 +0400
Dear Colleagues.
We are glad to present a hypertext data base describing an accident on
Chernobyl' Nuclear Power Plant("Polyn"). As a platform of this data base
a last official version of events published in 1992, materials of Chernobyl
Kurchatov Institute Expedition and a number of publications in scientific
and mass media have been used.
This data base is not an official publication but an initiative work
of our group. If "Polyn" is useful for anybody , it will be pleasure for us.
Any ideas, remarks, error checks are welcome.
You can use:
http://polyn.net.kiae.su/polyn/manifest.html
for access.
Khramtsov Pavel ( e-mail: dobr@kiae.su ).
Russia, Moscow,
Russian Scientific Center "Kurchatov Institute",
Information Analitical Center of Physics Nuclear Institute.
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Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@eskimo.com)
Subject: Russian graphics
Someone asked about Graphic Images of Russia. I just got a mailer on the
Corel Professional Photos CD-ROM. It has CD's full of photos, one called
"Russia, Georgia & Armenia" Now I'm not sure if you get it they can be
used to give away on a WWW or Telnet though. But thought I'd mention it.
Info at: Corel Corporation (613) 728-3733 (Worldwide), it's in Canada I
think.
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Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org) Eurasia Foundation
Subject: Belarus "School of Tomorrow"
I received the following letter (by post) from Belarus. Please
forward to anyone who might be interested in establishing contact with
this school. Thank you.
* * * * * *
"School of Tomorrow"
12, Zhukova Street
Gomel, Belarus
Telephone: 8 0232 44022
Dear friends,
We are really very excited to have the opportunity to send you a
letter on occasion.
Let's introduce our school. It's called "School of Tomorrow". Our
school is a new one. It's only 2,5 years old. The school roll is 150
(7 classes) at present and in future this will rise to 400. Pupils
from all the parts of our city attend "School of Tomorrow". Now they
are from 6 to 10 years old.
Staff (30 teachers) are extremely hardworking. Our aim is to provide
the conditions which allow all the pupils to achieve their potential,
i.e. to get the best they can from school in all its aspects. Our
teachers try to achieve good results through the cirriculum and
teaching, extra-curricular activities, the guidance system, links with
parents and the atmosphere in the school. They are coping with the
pace of eductional change in terms of new courses and methods of
teaching. Our shcool is not typical. English is the main and
favourite subject at school. Our pupils study English, Social
Studies, Science, word-building and Maths (all in English), Russian,
Byelorussian, the World Culture History, Space Science, P.T, Drawing,
Music. Our kids can read, write and speak English.
At our English lessons we try to use books and methods of teaching of
Dr. D. Howard (the USA). His Department is in Russia (Moscow). But
since Belarus became a separate state our school lost all the links
with this Department and has a lot of difficulties in teaching
organisation. We are short of text books, tape cssettes, filmstrips,
slides, posters and kits on topics for our English lessons.
The city of Gomel is the second in Belarus after its capital Minsk.
Gomel is not far from Chernobyl (120 km) and certainly the life isn't
easy for all of us. But nevertheless we are very lucky to work in
such a school (the smollest in the city) and try to give our pupils a
very good education. We belive that we all have no future without our
kids, they are our "tomorrow" and the "world of tomorrow" must be
happy and free.
Our staff and pupils have a great desire to find pen-pals in your
country. We'd be so delighted to get to know your methods of
teaching. We'll be very glad to find a "twin-school" in your city.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Our best wishes to your staff
with regards,
Galina Buoy
Headteacher
Staff, "School of Tomorrow"
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Sender: Funding Opportunities System (funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Freedom Support Act-Secondary School Initiative for
Short-Term Exchange Projects
Freedom Support Act-Secondary School Initiative for Short-Term Exchange
Projects
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The United States Information Agency invites
applications to conduct exchanges of young persons between
the ages of 14 and 17 years of age with the twelve Newly
Independent States of the former Soviet Union: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan. The Agency's main objectives are to foster
interaction between American and foreign youth, to promote
democractic values and the development of democratic
institutions, and to build sustainable partnerships between
organizations in the United States and organizations in the
former Soviet Union. Four different program designs will be
utilized in the NIS Secondary School Initiative: a) an
academic year program; b) a semester exchange program; c) a
school-to-school linkage program, and d) a short-term
exchange program.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. educational, cultural, and other not-
for-profit institutions.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/16/94 pg. 30973
DEADLINES: 09/02/94
CONTACT:
Youth Exchange
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 314
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Steven Lauterbach
PHONE: 202 619 6299
RFP NUMBER: E/P-95-02
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Sender: Funding Opportunities System (funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Freedom Support Act-Youth with Disabilities
Freedom Support Act-Youth with Disabilities
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The United States Information Agency invites
applications to provide materials, training and facilitative
support on programming for youth with disabilities for USIA
grantee organizations administering international exchanges.
The purpose of the training is to promote access to
Initiative programs for youth with disabilities. Materials
should support the training and supplement this goal where
training is unfeasible. Facilitative support should foster
connections between secondary school exchange organizations
in the US with organizations serving persons with
disabilities; also promote links with similar organizations
in the following countries with organizations recruiting
students for NIS-US exchange programs: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kryrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. educational, cultural and other not-for-
profit institutions.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/16/94 pg. 30965
DEADLINES: 09/30/94
CONTACT:
Secondary School Initiative
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 314
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Robert Persiko
PHONE: 202 691 6299
RFP NUMBER: E/P-95-04
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)From: "Victor Voronkov" (IBPM/VICTOR)
Subject: HamRadio, Russian Robinson Club
Reply-to: victor@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Hello ALL
I'am looking for any contact with HAMs.
My first Transmitter I have made in fifth school-class.
Now my primary interest in HamRadio is Packet and IOTA.
I'am member of Russian Robinson Club. In last year I was
in DX Pedition on IOTA EU-162, Oleniy is. in White Sea.
Our call sign was 4K3WQ.
I think about HameRadio page on our WWW server with information
about our Robinson Club and HamRadio in Russia.
All the best, 73! de RX3DIN Victor RRC#33
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Internet: victor@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Packet: RX3DIN @ RK3KP.MSK.RUS.EU
AmprNet: rx3din@gw.ra3apw.ampr.org
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