Daily Digest for 94-09-28
Dear Friends,
We were pleased to welcome our 1,000th subscriber to this listserver
yesterday and happy to see interest and activity continuing to grow!
We wish to point out today a very important new resource related to this
effort. Richard Upjohn of the Center for Civil Society International
announces in today's mail an incredible new information resource -- a
"Wide Web Site Oriented to Third Sector Projects in Russia and the former
Soviet Union." Richard and his colleagues have put together an enormous
amount of information in a very well organized server.
Please see Richard's announcement in the email messages below and then
visit!
This server exemplifies so much of what we hope to accomplish with the
"friends and partners" server -- providing information about people and
organizations working to build relationships between our regions of the
globe; providing information of special interest to our friends in Russia
and the former Soviet Union; and providing a home in which such efforts as
CCSI's new server can be developed and maintained.
Our congratulations and collective thanks to Richard, Holt, and the rest of
the nice folks at CCSI who have developed a very important new resource!
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-28 Sept 94 Center for Civil Society International's new
Information Server
#02-28 Sept 94 US-Russia Summit News Service
#03-28 Sept 94 Newspaper article on "Friends and Partners"
#04-28 Sept 94 Hypertext version of Anna Karenina
#05-28 Sept 94 Link to United States Institute of Peace Gopher
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-28 Sept 94 Sender: Center for Civil Society International
(ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: New US-NIS Internet Resource
#02-28 Sept 94 Sender: sas@opus.xyplex.com (Scott Sminkey)
Subject: Hello and a question...
#03-28 Sept 94 Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: World Bank Newsletter - Transition
#04-28 Sept 94 Sender: RandyFair_SITEOFFICE@VINES.ORNL.GOV
Subject: ...no subject...
#05-28 Sept 94 Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@eskimo.com)
Subject: Russian graphics
#06-28 Sept 94 From: "Aron Tannenbaum"
Subject: Russian public opinion survey data
#07-28 Sept 94 From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: NIS Summer Language Teacher Exchange Program
#08-28 Sept 94 From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Special American Business Internship Training
Program
#09-28 Sept 94 From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Training Program with the Newly Independent
States
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Richard Upjohn of the Center for Civil Society International
announces an incredible new information resource -- a "Wide Web Site
Oriented to Third Sector Projects in Russia and the former Soviet Union."
This server is directly available from the Friends and Partners home
page and via URL: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html.
* We begin today a "new" news service (on the "News page", naturally)
describing events surrounding the current summit being held in
Washington between our leaders. Tammy Benshoof and John Gerber will be
working to maintain this service over the next several days.
* An article was published in the local Knoxville, Tennessee newspaper
and then distributed on the Scripps-Howard news wire this
past August describing a little about the Friends and Partners service.
We have had a few requests to reprint this article and received
permission from the news service to do so. It is available from the
home F&P page.
* Ellee Margileth has completed a "hypertext" version of Anna Karenina
which makes it possible for the reader to view this text chapter by
chapter (instead of downloading the entire text at once). This is
available from the Literature page.
* We have placed a hook to the United States Institute of Peace Gopher
server from the "More Information Resources" 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: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: New US-NIS Internet Resource
"Civil Society" Internet Site Opens
* * * * *
CCSI Announces New World Wide Web Site Oriented to
Third Sector Projects in Russia and the former Soviet Union
URL: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html
[with apologies for xposting]
The Center for Civil Society International (CCSI) announces the
opening of a collection of on-line electronic information and
resources intended to support the growth of exchanges, joint
projects and other direct links between third sector organizations
in the U.S. and the new independent states (NIS) of the former
Soviet Union.
"Third sector" refers to the sphere of non-governmental and non-
commercial organizations generally: i.e., professional associations
and trade unions; charitable organizations; educational and health
organizations; special interest and advocacy groups; mutual aid
societies; clubs, hobby and fraternal groups.
Using the "Friends and Partners" World Wide Web site established
in January 1994 by Greg Cole of Tennessee and Natasha Bulashova of
Pushchino, Russia, CCSI has uploaded over 250 files to the
Internet. All of these files can be accessed and retrieved,
either in the U.S. or Russia, by using a World Wide Web "browser"
such as Mosaic or Lynx, or by "telnetting" to one of the two
Friends and Partners servers--in Knoxville and in Pushchino.
(Telnet is a simple utility used widely on the Internet, and soon
to be available for Compuserve, America On-Line and other popular
networks.)
Friends and Partners is a global 'virtual community' initiated by
friends in Russia and the United States to encourage communication and
cooperation between people in the newly independent states of the former
Soviet Union and those in the United States and other interested
nations. It utilizes the global Internet computer network. It is a free
service comprising an electronic mail listserver for facilitating
communication among approximately 1,000 subscribers, a series of
databases and a World Wide Web server (located at URL:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html).
Among the material that CCSI has put on the Internet are files in
the following categories:
1. In-depth profiles of more than 140 American "third sector"
organizations taken from CCSI's publication, "Civil Society:
USA."
2. Third sector projects and private not-for-profit
organizations of American origin working in the NIS.
3. Profiles of Russian and other NIS independent third sector
organizations carrying on important work within their
societies.
4. NIS "Search for Contacts" Program: NIS third sector
organizations seeking partners in the U.S.
5. City Links: a compendium of active U.S.-NIS third sector
contacts, by city.
6. Channels: A Compendium of Service Opportunities in the NIS.
7. CCSI brochure and background.
8. Special announcements and what's new.
9. Current and back issues of CCSI's newsletter, "Civil Society
. . . East and West."
10. Current and back issues of "Net Talk," CCSI's monthly guide
to on-line news, files, and other resources.
11. CCSI's Electronic Top Ten.
12. Curricular and Distance Learning Materials in Electronic
Form.
13. An annotated guide to:
* Important "Listservs" (electronic mailing lists) and
conferences;
* Electronic journals, magazines, and newsletters;
* E-mail directories and other reference materials;
* Important electronic files in different social sectors,
e.g. legal reform, public health, agriculture, business.
The focus of CCSI's activities is on disseminating information
that helps to build relationships and joint projects between
voluntary American organizations and "third sector" organizations
emerging in the new independent states (NIS) that succeeded the
collapse of the Soviet Union. CCSI is a private, non-partisan
educational organization, based in Seattle, Washington. It is
registered as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code and receives its funding from voluntary donations and
foundation grants. The project under which the work described
above was completed was funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) through a grant from the Eurasia
Foundation.
* * *
HOW TO GET THERE
* IF YOU HAVE A WWW BROWSER . . .
If you have a World Wide Web "browser" such as Mosaic or Lynx, the
URL is:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html
* IF YOU DON'T . . .
If you don't have a World Wide Web browser you can "telnet" to the
Friends and Partners World Wide Web site. At the UNIX prompt (it
is the percent sign, %) type:
telnet solar.rtd.utk.edu
(solar.rtd.utk.edu is the computer address of Friends and
Partners)
At the "login" prompt, type:
friends
This takes you to the home page for Friends and Partners. The
home page is essentially a table of contents for the site. Move
your cursor to the line: "Center for Civil Society International,"
and press (Return).
* USERS IN RUSSIA . . .
Users in Russia can access the same information from the Friends
and Partners server in Pushchino, near Moscow.
Once on-line, at the UNIX prompt, type:
telnet april.ibpm.serpukhov.su
At the "login" prompt, type:
friends
Again, you are taken to the home page for Friends and Partners.
Proceed as above.
People in the NIS with questions should contact Natasha Bulashova
at:
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
For more information or suggestions contact Richard Upjohn or Holt
Ruffin at:
ccsi@u.washington.edu
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Sender: sas@opus.xyplex.com (Scott Sminkey - Sustaining Eng Group)
Subject: Hello and a question...
Hello everyone...
First, I'll introduce myself... My name is Scott Sminkey. I live in
central Massachusetts. I've just started taking a conversation Russian
course once a week from a local public school. I decided to do this
because I like to learn foreign languages and also because I'm a ham
radio operator (WO1G) and I think it will be fun and interesting to speak
to hams in the former Soviet Union in a more suitable language! I work
for a computer networking company as a software engineer.
Last night while in my Russian class, I remembered a Russian story I
learned in grade school many years ago. It was the story of Ivan Ivanovitch's
old coat that came to life by itself. My instructor remembered the story as
being a well-known one by someone named Gogov, I think. Does anyone else
remember this story and could they perhaps point me to a copy of it?
Good bye for now and do svidaniya...
Scott
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Scott Sminkey email: sasminkey@eng.xyplex.com
Software Sustaining Engineering voice: 508 952-4792
Xyplex, Inc. fax: 508 952-4887
295 Foster St. (Opinions, comments, etc. are mine,
Littleton, MA 01460 not Xyplex's...)
"Ollie ollie oxen-free! Pass it along." - Swami Bill
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Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: World Bank Newsletter - Transition
I have just received the July-August 1994 newsletter from The
World Bank entitled Transition: The Newsletter about Reforming
Economies. The newsletter is distributed free of charge, and is
one of the more informative publications I have seen. The cur-
rent issue has stories on Privatization in Estonia, a survey on
Public Behavior in Postsocialist Countries, and an article on
Lessons on Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe. The news-
letter also contains, in every issue, a listing of scheduled
conferences, new books and working papers, and a bibliography of
selected articles. To receive Transition, send name and address
to:
Ms. Jennifer Prochnow-Walker
Room N-11023X
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20433 U.S.A.
Tel: [202] 473-7466
Fax: [202] 522-1152
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* DR. DENNIS MCCONNELL * TEL: +1.207.581.1988 *
* EASTERN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE NETWORK * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
* COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION * TLX: 62955628 *
* UNIVERSITY OF MAINE * *
* ORONO, MAINE 04469-5723 U.S.A. * MAC@MAINE.MAINE.EDU *
**************************************************************
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Sender: RandyFair_SITEOFFICE@VINES.ORNL.GOV
Subject: ...no subject...
I have been searching the internet for a cyrillic font that's compatable with
Word Perfect 6.0a (for a PC) and that is phonetically similar to the english
keyboard (english "N" is the cyrillic "H", english "V" is the cyrillic "B",
etc.) I had such a font for a Mac but have been unable to find one for a PC.
Thanks
Randy Fair (FQR@VINES.ORNL.GOV)
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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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)From: "Aron Tannenbaum" (TANBAUM)
Subject: Russian public opinion survey data
I am seeking assistance in locating Russian public opinion survey data
for the past five or seven years, including data on attitudes toward
business and economic affairs defined bery broadly. Both primary and
secondary materials are welcomed, in both scholarly and popular (news-
paper) publications, in both Western and Russian sources. Are there
any bibliographies of Russian survey data and data analysis? Are
there particular sources of data and particular analyses which you
have found useful?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Aron Tannenbaum/Political Science/Lander University
TANBAUM@CLEMSON.EDU
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)From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: NIS Summer Language Teacher Exchange Program
NIS Summer Language Teacher Exchange Program
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The U.S. Information Agency is seeking applications
to develop a new summer language teacher exchange program
between the United States and selected Newly Independent
States (NIS). The agency is looking for programs that bring
English language educators from NIS to the United States and
U.S. language educators in one or more of the languages and
cultures from the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine
and Uzbekistan. Courses may include, but are not limited
to: foreign language teaching methodologies, techniques,
and principles, skills building, materials review and
development, creative uses of technology in the foreign
language classroom, American English and NIS languages for
specific purposes (e.g., business, law, social sciences),
techniques in testing and evaluation, and training teacher
trainers.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. nonprofit organizatgions, including
higher education institutions are eligible to apply.
MONETARY SUPPORT: $240,000 is available. USIA will make one
or two awards.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 09/15/94 pg. 47374
DEADLINES: 10/21/94
CONTACT:
European Branch
Academic Exchanges Division
301 Fourth Street, SW
E/AEE, Room 246
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Rhonda E. Boris
PHONE: 202 619-5341
REFERENCE NUMBER: 014258
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)From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Special American Business Internship Training Program
Greg Cole
Special American Business Internship Training Program
AGENCY: Department of Commerce-ITA
PROGRAM: The Department of Commerce established the Special
American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program as a
key element in the Administration's ongoing efforts to
provide technical assistance supporting the former Soviet
Union's transition to a market economy. Since then SABIT
has been matching managers from the former Soviet region
with U.S. firms which sponsor them for short term management
training programs. Similar to the pilot program, the
expanded SABIT program will assist economic restructuring of
the Independent States of the former Soviet Union
(Independent States) by providing business managers with
exposure to American ways of innovation and management
through three to six month management internships in U.S.
firms.
QUALIFICATIONS: Profit or non-profit U.S. corporation,
association, organization or other public or private entity.
MONETARY SUPPORT: The maximum amount of financial assistance
available for the program is $3,675,000. This amount
includes the $2,400,000 which was previously announced.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 09/14/94 pg. 47117
DEADLINES: 12/15/94
CONTACT:
International Trade Administration
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Herbert Clark Hoover Building, Room 3413
Washington, DC 20230
ATTN: Liesel Duhon
PHONE: 202 482-0073
COMMENTS: This notice extends the closing date from
September 15, 1994 to December 15, 1994; and announces the
availability of additional funds.
REFERENCE NUMBER: 011670
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)From: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Training Program with the Newly Independent States
Training Program with the Newly Independent States
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The Office of Citizen Exchanges announces a
competitive grants program to develop training programs in
(1) local government and public administration, (2) business
administration and business development, (3) rule of law;
and (4) independent media development for the following
countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
QUALIFICATIONS: Public or private nonprofit organizations.
MONETARY SUPPORT: Proposals for less than $200,000 will
receive preference. Organizations with less than four years
of successful experience in managing international exchange
programs are limited to grants of $60,000.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 09/15/94 pg. 47368
DEADLINES: 11/30/94
CONTACT:
Office of Citizen Exchanges
Russia/Eurasia Programs
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 216
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Ruth Leeb
PHONE: 202 619-5326
RFP NUMBER: E/PN-95-16
REFERENCE NUMBER: 012296
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APPENDIX
FRIENDS is a free service started by friends in Russia and the United
States. This Listserv is one element of that service.
To subscribe to FRIENDS (if someone has passed you a copy of this
announcement), just send an email message to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
listproc@april.ibpm.serpukhov.su
consisting of *one line* of the following format:
SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS firstname lastname
and substitute your first and last names for 'firstname lastname'
To unsubscribe from FRIENDS, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE FRIENDS to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
listproc@april.ibpm.serpukhov.su
To post a message to FRIENDS, send it to: friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
To visit the FRIENDS WWW server, use the following URL if you have
a World Wide Web browser: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
(if you are in Russia or other countries in the NIS, please feel free to
use this address: http://april.ibpm.serpukhov.su/friends/home.html )
If you don't have a WWW browser, just telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu
and enter 'friends' (in lower case and without the quotes) at the
login prompt.
For those who need it, the IP address of our computer is 128.169.112.24.
Please address any comments, questions, or suggestions to your
moderators:
Natasha Bulashova, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Greg Cole
Research Services
The University of Tennessee Phone: (615) 974-2908
211 Hoskins Library FAX: (615) 974-6508
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu