Daily Digest for 94-08-18
Dear friends,
Natasha and I would like to offer a special thank you to 'the list' for
your patience during these past three weeks which have been a very
"quiet" time for the list and for new development on the F&P server.
Natasha's visit to America has been an extremely busy, productive time during
which we have been working on cooperative agreements between our
Universities, planning out future organization and structure for "friends
and partners", looking into possible funding opportunities (to help us with
our obvious time problem), meeting with everyone we can possibly schedule,
and spending every spare moment "seeing America". During the next two
weeks, we will have several significant items to share in which
we feel that many of you will share our interest and enthusiasm.
I'm afraid that at least one of us is about 500 email messages behind
now and will be working over the next two weeks to catch up and so
appreciate your continued patience. If anyone has an urgent request,
please write to Ellee Margileth (emargile@solar.rtd.utk.edu) or Angie
Croft (acroft@solar.rtd.utk.edu) and they can make sure that we get the
request.
A special thanks to Ellee for her efforts during the past few weeks at
assembling the digests!
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-18 August 94 Sender: Lee=A.=Gerhardstein%Data%AG@Server6.ag.ohio.gov
Subject: Lost Friend
#02-18 August 94 Sender: "Leonid Reznick" (reznick@apm.apana.org.au)
Subject: cheap calls
#03-18 August 94 Sender: Georgios Koutepas (gkoutep@theseas.ntua.gr)
Subject: Re:cheap calls
#04-18 August 94 Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Solovier)
Subject: Call to ex-USSR for $0.85/min flat rate!
#05-18 August 94 Sender: E. Wayles Browne (ewb2@CORNELL.EDU)
Subject: Workshop on Slavic Linguistics
#06-18 August 94 Sender: Brent McCunn (bmccunn@werple.apana.org.au)
Subject: Siberian Projects
#07-18 August 94 Sender: PMAGGS@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Request For Proposals
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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Sender: Lee=A.=Gerhardstein%Data%AG@Server6.ag.ohio.gov
Subject: Lost Friend
Greetings,
I am trying to locate a person that I once had a pen-pal relationship with.
We seemed to have lost contact. I have written several times over the last 8
months and have received no replies. His full name is Ainutdinov Anatoly
Leonidovich. The last address I have is Chuvash Republic, Kanash, Vostochny
Rajon. He is a High School English teacher and principal. I did a network
search and could not find him. If anybody knows this person, please let me
know.
Thanks
Lee A. Gerhardstein
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Sender: "Leonid Reznick" (reznick@apm.apana.org.au)
Subject: cheap calls
hi boris simkin,
i am interesting . please send details
leonid reznik
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Leonid A REZNICK
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Sender: Georgios Koutepas (gkoutep@theseas.ntua.gr)
Subject: Re:cheap calls
I'd be happy to receive any kind of info on the subject.
Thanks in advance.
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Georgios Koutepas
National Technical University of Athens
email: gkoutep@theseas.ntua.gr
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"Talk less, say more..."
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Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Solovier)
Subject: Call to ex-USSR for $0.85/min flat rate!
California based company Cyberlink offers quite cheap rate to call
to Russia - $0.85 per minute any time (flat rate). From Canada the
rate is 1.03 US$. The access to their line is through 800 number or
you can be hooked up completely; minimum length of a conversation
30 sec, billing interval 6 sec, no security deposit required, you pay
as much as you call. They have customer service (through 800 number
as well), so if you don't agree with the bill or got wrong number you
can sovle the problem with them. What they don't have, they don't have
an operator, so you can not get to nondialable towns. To become a
customer of this company one needs to fill in the application and send
it out to them.
Since access to them can be made through 800 number there is no any
need to change your local carrier. You can place each overseas call
through your local carrier or through Cyberlink up to you every single
time.
If you would like to get an application, please send me your postal
address, I will send you the application by snail mail.
You can use Cyberlink whenever you want to use it for your overseas calls.
You can place a call through MCI or through Cyberlink each single time, up
to you.
The rates for the countries, for example, are (flat rate, i.e.
the same 24 hours, 7 days a week):
ex-USSR - $.85;
Australia - $.51;
Denmark - $.45 US;
Poland - $.85 US;
Germany - $.45 US;
Israel - $1.08.
If you place these call from Canada add $.18 US for each minute, i.e.
Denmark $.63 US etc.
Also, they have special plan for in-US calls: for $10.00 a
month all your calls up to 1000 miles will cost $.125 (peak: 8 am 5 pm),
$.11 (off peak), more that 1000 miles $.152 - peak, $.13 off peak.
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Maxim V. Soloviev, M.D.
E-mail mvs3@po.cwru.edu, Tel. 216 231-2857 (res.)
Fax 216 461-1770
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Sender: E. Wayles Browne (ewb2@CORNELL.EDU)
Subject: Workshop on Slavic Linguistics
The Fourth Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
will be held at Cornell University, 12-14 May 1995. Slavists, please save
the dates! A formal call for abstracts will follow shortly. Information:
Wayles Browne, ewb2@cornell.edu // Draga Zec, zec@crux1.cit.cornell.edu
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
tel. 607-255-0712 // 607-255-0728
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Sender: Brent McCunn (bmccunn@werple.apana.org.au)
Subject: Siberian Projects
If anyone is interested in finding out about developments in Eastern
Siberia & North Russian Far East, in the region from Taishet to
Sovietskaya Gavin, I have just returned from two months in this region, &
IUd be pleased to answer any questions. The purpose of my trip was to
compile information for the soon-to -be-released guidebook on the Baikal
to Amur River (BAM) railway.
While I was presented with many business, education and other proposals
on my trip, only several do I consider practical and worthwhile, and I
agreed to assist in finding people interested in doing them. I have no
commerical interest in these.
1. Working at the fabulous Nikolaevsk-na-Amure Museum. The work would
involve translating the exhibition information into English, and
producing English language material on the post-communist history of the
area and the excellent indigenous collection. Free accommodation, no wage
and must speak Russian.
2. English language teachers in the Severobaikalsk, on the north end of
Lake Baikal. No pay, free accommodation.
3. Developing a regional tourist centre for Lake Baikal and producing a
guidebook to the region. Must be mature, with a knowledge of the travel
industry. Based at Severobaikalsk.
4. Assisting in the promotion of flora and fauna conservation, including
the Amur Tiger, in conjunction with the Khabarovsk Institute of Natural
Resource Preservation. Conservationists needed throughout the world to
develop network. No wage but joy of working on critical subject and with
dedicated Russian specialists.
If anyone would like any information on any of these, or to receive our
latest issue of RUSSIAN, MONGOLIAN & NORTH KOREAN TRAVEL NEWS, or our
latest RUSSIAN SOFTWARE CATALOGUE, or to be kept informed of my YEARLY
RESEARCH TRIPS, please email me personally.
Athol Yates, Research Manager, Red Bear Tours, Melbourne, Australia.
Email bmccunn@werple.apana.org.au
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Sender: PMAGGS@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Request For Proposals
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Program sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International
Development (CCN#-0007-C-00-4003-00) to create a stable legal and
political environment for developing and strengthening the Rule of
Law (ROL) in the transition to democratic, market-based societies in
the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, as
administered by the ROL Consortium (ARD/Checchi Joint Venture).
The NIS Regional Grants Program (U.S.A.I.D. approval pending)
is soliciting proposals for projects which will be carried out in
two or more countries across ROL contracts. Projects should be
designed to strengthen core legal institutions and processes--as
well as civil society as it relates to legal development--in order
to: support general legal reform; encourage an orderly transition to
a market economy; and protect human rights and limit the potential
for arbitrary exercise of government power.
Although support is not limited to any predetermined list of
activities, the following are illustrative: increasing public
awareness and knowledge of laws and legal procedures; helping
citizens organize to advocate changes in the legal system; helping
citizens protect their individual and property rights; helping
citizens utilize the legal system for the adjudication of conflict;
developing systems of private and quasi-public alternative dispute
resolution; helping the public remove legal and regulatory
constraints on private sector commercial activities; helping the
public establish constitutional guarantees of private ownership,
commercial activity and public accountability; developing a system
of administrative law, public defenders' offices, and other
oversight organizations; etc.
All proposals must demonstrate how they will contribute to
sustainability of the Rule of Law in the NIS.
Proposals are requested from U.S. non-profit, non-governmental
and private voluntary organizations and groups in co-partnership
with corresponding entities in the NIS (proposals may originate with
the NIS partner). Official public institutions (educational
institutions, libraries, etc.) may also participate.
Approximately one million dollars is available over a two-year
period. Most awards will range between $5,000 to $100,000. All
proposals require a 25% match from non-federal sources.
Applications for the Fall 1994 Cycle will be due October 1.
Decisions are anticipated on or about January 1, 1995. For more
information about requirements and an official application package
with guidelines, write, fax, call, or e-mail:
Rule of Law Consortium (ARD/Checchi Joint Venture)
NIS Regional Grants Program
1819 L. Street, NW 5th. FL
Washington, D.C. 20036
202 861 0370 (FAX) 202 861 0513 (Message)
e-mail: 74763.1652@CompuServe.com
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