Daily Digest for 94-07-26
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-26 July 94 Russian Language Tutorial Program now available
#02-26 July 94 Goodwill Games World Wide Web Server
#03-26 July 94 Information on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
#04-26 July 94 Eastern-European list of Electronic (Computer-Accessible)
Resources
#05-26 July 94 New 'software russification' WWW page
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-26 July 94 Sender: WAWRUCK@UWPG02.UWINNIPEG.CA
Subject: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
#02-26 July 94 Sender: "Larry Dershem" (RSOCEWH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu)
Subject: Modem Use in Russia
#03-26 July 94 Sender: mfrech@es.rice.edu (Marshall Frech)
Subject: Russian-American Exchange
#04-26 July 94 Sender: pw@shannon.tellabs.com (Peter Wise)
Subject: Language Courses (fwd)
#05-26 July 94 From: Leonard Haskin (leohskin@student.umass.edu)
Subject: New 'software russification' WWW page
#06-26 July 94 Sender: Tanya Pouchkova - Kirtland Community College
(pouchkot@mlc.lib.mi.us)
Subject: expedition around the world
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* One of our F&P subscribers, Edward Swank, has provided us with an
excellent Russian language tutorial program which covers the Russian
alphabet, numbers, and some common nouns and verbs. It runs under
MSDOS & requires VGA. Available from the "language page". Also
available for anonymous ftp from solar.rtd.utk.edu and as
directory /friends/pc/russian.zip. Thanks to Edward for making this
available to us.
* A pointer to a WWW server covering the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg,
Russia has been added to the "Life" page.
* A recently-announced Gopher in Australia has archived contact
information in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Material is found here
on Potential Partners and Partnership Resources, NGO Survey Data, and
Contacts. Link is available from the "More Information Resources"
page. Our thanks to Jim Cashel of Eurasia Foundation for sending us
this reference.
* Eastern-European list of Electronic (Computer-Accessible) Resources,
version 4.0 --Compiled by Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor is available from the "More Information Resources" page.
Our thanks to Michael Segal for forwarding this material to us and
to Ellee Margileth who did a superb job on the hypertext markup.
* See email note below from Leonard Haskin about his new world wide
web page on using cyrillic fonts -- we have placed a link from the
"Cyrillic" page.
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
NOTE: friends who are reading this digest from the GLASNET conferences
can now post to the 'friends' list by sending email to
glasfp@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: WAWRUCK@UWPG02.UWINNIPEG.CA
Subject: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Just couldn't pass up the opportunity to wish F&P a happy half-birthday,
and to congratulate Natasha and Greg on the super job they've been doing
over the past six months.....just look at how we've grown!!!!!
Also a special thank you to Greg for the personal notes of encouragement
he has sent to one of our subscribers during a very traumatic time of her
life. He definitely has gone beyond the call of duty.....
Regards to all "Friends" from the Great Green North,
Connie Wawruck-Hemmett
[wawruck@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca]
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Sender: "Larry Dershem" (RSOCEWH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu)
Subject: Modem Use in Russia
Help!
A friend of mine will be going to Russia in the next several weeks with
the Peace Corps. He would like to know what, if any, types of hardware are
necessary to use his modem (purchased in the U.S.) for accessing Internet
in Russia.
Please send any, and all, suggestions as soon as possible.
Larry
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Sender: mfrech@es.rice.edu (Marshall Frech)
Subject: Russian-American Exchange
My name is Tamara Saltman and I am a member of a non-profit
environmental group in Austin, Texas, USA. We are interested in doing an
environmental exchange program with high-school aged students in Russia for
the summers of 1995 and 1996. It would have both a scientific and
educational focus and include water quality monitoring and canoe trips in
both countries. The students must be between the ages of 14 and 18 and be
interested and have experience in environmental issues. We would pay for
most costs. For more information, please respond to Wes Halverson at:
wesh@tenet.edu.
Marshall Frech
Texas Environmental Center
mfrech@es.rice.edu
(512) 328-7305
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Sender: pw@shannon.tellabs.com (Peter Wise)
Subject: Language Courses (fwd)
[The following message was sent on Thu, 21 Jul 1994 10:35:43 +0100 (BST)
but, due to a strange system failure, never even made it out of the building!
It just "bounced" back to me now, when the fault was rectified. Hopefully,
it's a case of "better late than never"! PW]
Hello,
I thought some people on this list would be interested in helping Professor
Aubrey E. Hartman with Russian. Please reply direct to him and mention
"Friends".
All the best,
Peter Wise,
Tellabs Ltd. ------------------------------------------
Shannon Industrial Estate, | Knowledge is as wings to man's life, |
Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland. | and a ladder for his ascent - |
Tel/Fax: +353-61-471433/471000 | Baha'u'llah. |
Email: pw@shannon.tellabs.com ------------------------------------------
Forwarded message:
) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 15:04:40 EST
) From: "_Aubrey E. Hartman"
)(tellab5!uunet!uga.cc.uga.edu!TCHARTA%VCCSCENT.BITNET)
) Subject: Language Courses
) To: Multiple recipients of list INTDEV-L
)(uunet!uga.cc.uga.edu!INTDEV-L%URIACC.BITNET)
)
) *** Resending note of 07/13/94 16:17
) To: . --VCCSCENT
)
) From: _Aubrey E. Hartman
) Subject: Language Courses
) Greetings:
)
) I am an Associate Professor of Physics at Tidewater Community College
) at Portsmouth, Virginia (U.S.A) and have been asked to assist our foreign
) language teachers in establishing e-mail classroom links to other
) nations or regions where these native languages are in use.
)
) I am in need of any suggestions for accomplishing this task. Prehaps there
) are programs already in existence which TCC might join. Can you suggest
) another "contact" (person) who would be willing to experiment with "truly
) international language instruction".
)
) This is a great opportunity for our students to become skilled in the
) languages at both locations. We are presently teaching languages in;
) French, Spanish, German and English.
)
) TCC is developing instructional methods for "Internet Classes".
) Our first course, Astronomy (NAS 130) will be offered during the
) Fall semester to "local students". The experience learned from
) this course will assist in the planning of future course offerings.
)
) I hope to hear from each of you and will await your suggestions.
)
) Sincerely,
)
) Aubrey E. Hartman, Associate Professor/Physics
) Tidewater Community College
) State Route # 135
) Portsmouth, VA 23703
)
) Telephone: (804-484-2121)
) FAX: (804-483-9169)
)
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)From: Leonard Haskin (leohskin@student.umass.edu)
Subject: New 'software russification' WWW page
Hello,
I spent last week trying to russify most of the software at my
workplace, at which I was quite successful, thanks to the information at
the Friends and Partners server.
I decided to share the information I collected on the subject of
russification with the rest of Internet world, and made a page dedicated
to the topic.
The URL is:
(a href="http://twain.ucs.umass.edu/~leohskin/ussr.html#rustext")here(/a)
I hope that you will find the URL usefull (I will also be adding more
information to the page).
Thank you,
L
--
Leonard Haskin Work (413) 545-1889 (11-5)
leohskin@twain.ucs.umass.edu Home (413) 253-2268
I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we
could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad - Deep Thoughts by J.H.
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Sender: Tanya Pouchkova - Kirtland Community College
(pouchkot@mlc.lib.mi.us)
Subject: expedition around the world
Dear friends and colleagues:
The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences would like to share the following
information.
The UAS is currently organizing an International Biological Expedition to
the regions of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The goals of the
expedition are very diverse since it is being put together by several
scientific institutions of the UAS, such as the Institutes of botanics,
zoology, biology of southern seas, hydrobiology, physiology of plants and
genetics, cultivation of flora, etc. One of the common goals of all the
prospective members of the expedition is to collect the samples of the
flora and fauna of the regions in order to expand the existing gene pool
of the flora and fauna of other regions, and to compose the new
collections for the museums of botanics, zoology, marine life, etc.
Besides, each institution and participating scientists will be able to pursue
their specific interests.
The expedition is going to leave Sevastopol (Russia) in December 1994
and sail along the following route: Sevastopol-Stambul-Lisbon-Boston-
-Caracas-Belem-Manaus-Belem-Rio de Janeiro-Capetown-Madagascar-Lome-
-Las Palmas-Haifa-Sevastopol with a lot of stops at various smaller sites
in between. The expedition should take around 4 month. Right now
the Organizing committee is working on the possibility of also visiting
Australia and several other places, but the final decision depends on the
availability of funds.
Financial side of the planning is currently the hardest. Obviously,
having lost most of the government funding previously available before
the crisis in the USSR, the UAS is looking for sponsors. So far they
were able to find some money from different organizations in the US and
Western Europe, but it still has not solved the problem.
That's why the Organizing Committee of the expedition decided to offer
a unique opportunity. They are willing to take with them anybody who has
interest in the trip and can pay the required fee.
The expedition is guaranteed to be absolutely fascinating. This is not
the first expedition of that kind organized by the Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences. A similar one was undertaken in 1991 and was internationally
considered a big scientific success. The scientific crew will consist of
50 people, half of whom are from Russia and Ukraine, the other half - from
Western Europe. Also, there will be approximately seventy sailors on the
boat. The scientific group does not have any specific plans as for
having journalists on the boat, but as I mentioned, anybody is welcome.
The boat itself is a very comfortable large vessel. Every passenger will
occupy a separate cabin originally built for 2 people. The boat has a
big canteen, buffet-bar, bakery, library, videosalon, gym, volleyball
playground, ping-pong room, pool room, a sauna with a swimming pool.
The service of a physician and the necessary medical supplies will be available.
The above-mentioned route reflects only the major stops of the expedition.
In reality, there will be many more. A lot of smaller islands and cities
are not specified yet simply because the exact route is still being drafted.
All the passengers of the boat will have entrance visas to all the countries
the expedition might visit. In cities and towns everybody will have
enough time to do sightseeing (the boat will usually stay in every port
for at least couple days). As for the scientific part of the expedition,
all the passengers are invited to join the specialists. The scientists will
spent a lot of time in the jungle, mountains, under water routes. The
non-scientists are invited to participate in absolutely every aspect of the
expedition. The crew will also enjoy exotic fishing experiences, rafting,
horse-back riding, under-water video sessions, etc. The scientists offer
their help in composing private collections of unique minerals, plants,
fish and even animals, as well as in the legalization of the collections
with the customs officials.
Besides simply participating, the non-scientific part of the crew are
welcome to contribute their ideas to the general plan, if they do not
interfere with the purposes of the expedition. The route can be
slightly changed on the spot, and any suggestions regarding the sites of
the scientific interest will be appreciated.
The organizers of the expedition believe the experience will be
particularly interesting for biologists, oceanologists, writers,
journalists, film-producers, as well as for anybody interested in nature,
anthropology, ethnography, and travel in general. The fee for the
participants who are not the part of the scientific crew is $ 20 000.
Part of this sum covers the fee of one Soviet scientist on board. The
fee of $ 20 000 includes the room and board during the 4 months trip,
medical assistance, and participance in the scientific research.
The air-fare to and from Sevastopol is the responsibility of the passenger,
but is inexpensive and in December costs between $ 400 and $ 600 for a
round trip from New York.
The expedition can accept not more than 25 additional passengers.
The number of these passengers and, consequently, the amount of money
contributed can extend and enrich the route of the trip. Also,
groups starting from 2 people get significant discounts (up to 30%.)
The organizers of the trip hope to attract American scientific institutions
and organizations to participation in the expedition.
Also, if any of you, friends and colleagues, have any ideas as for the
ways to sponsor the expedition, we will really appreciate your help.
Please, address all your suggestions, comments, and requests for further
information to Tanya Puchkova, tel. (517) 275-5121,ext. 392,
fax (517) 275-8745 or e-mail: pouchkot@mlc.lib.mi.us
Sincerely,
Tanya Puchkova
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