Digest for 94-11-10
Dear friends,
We wanted to send a big THANK YOU to each who participated in the IRC
session Tuesday as a part of our Internet conference in Prague.
As those of you who were 'on-line' learned, we ended up with a horrible
network connection just 15 minutes before the conference began (!) and were
only able to connect very briefly (and extremely slowly) before losing our
connection (we then reconnected -- again briefly). But it was long enough
to see many of your greetings, to explain who you were and where you were
from -- and this made quite an impression on our conference participants!
This was the first time many of them had ever seen anything like this and I
think it drove the point home that this is indeed a global network.
We'll try again Thursday and hope for a better line (actually, we have had
a pretty good network connection the entire time in Prague -- except for
our 2 hour conference!). We will begin at around 10:00 am Prague time
(9:00 am GMT; 3:00 am EST). If you wish to participate, just telnet to
solar.rtd.utk.edu, enter "irc" (lowercase and w/out quotes) at the login:
prompt, and then follow directions on your screen. (it's actually quite
simple).
Thanks again for your participation!
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-10 November 94 Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: RE: Internet Conference in
Central/Eastern Europe
#02-10 November 94 Sender: Dave Wells (wellsd@elwha.evergreen.edu)
Subject: Looking for Mark Markish
#03-10 November 94 Sender: LFREITAS@ccvax.unicamp.br
Subject: MGU e-mail address
#04-10 November 94 Sender: Jim Dufala (rasin@ortel.org)
Subject: Need Russian Birth Certificate in Moscow
#05-10 November 94 Sender: sue j hildreth (sjh@world.std.com)
Subject: Re: Co-operative e-mail/mail communication
#06-10 November 94 Sender: Kim Brooks (kbrooks@igc.apc.org)
Subject: NISMEDINFO Project
#07-10 November 94 Sender: Phoenix (phoenix@simvol.simbirsk.su)
Subject: EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT
#08-10 November 94 Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org)
Subject: Rewrite of Announcement (INTERNATIONAL
TRADE SPECIALIST)
#09-10 November 94 Sender: Norman Campbell (normcamp@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU)
Subject: status of "Schliemann/Trojan Treasure"@ Pushkin
#10-10 November 94 Sender: Petrus Palms (palbank@eskimo.com)
Subject: Re: Internet Conference in Central/Eastern Europe
#11-10 November 94 Sender: John C. K. Daly (BOKCU%KSUVM@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Travel to Russia, January 1995
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: RE: Internet Conference in Central/Eastern Europe
Best wishes for this exciting conference and the communications
experiments which you'll be trying during the conference. Please
report on how it goes.
Johan Maurer
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Sender: Dave Wells (wellsd@elwha.evergreen.edu)
Subject: Looking for Mark Markish
I am trying to locate Mark Markish. I tried his internet address, but
came up with him not being there any longer. If anyone knows where he is
please connect us.
Thanks
Dave Wells
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Sender: LFREITAS@ccvax.unicamp.br
Subject: MGU e-mail address
I'm planning to spend 4 months in Moscow next year and I need , please,
the e-mail address of Moscow University. Can anybody help me?
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Sender: Jim Dufala (rasin@ortel.org)
Subject: Need Russian Birth Certificate in Moscow
I need to get my wife's Russian Birth certificate in Moscow. Can anyone who
is going to Moscow and returning to the States in the very near future,
please pick it up for us?
Jim Dufala
rasin@ortel.org
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Sender: sue j hildreth (sjh@world.std.com)
Subject: Re: Co-operative e-mail/mail communication
We have friends in St. Petersburg and would like to find an efficient way
to send them a letter from time to time. Is there anyway, via the Friends
network, to ask a person in St. Pete to print out and mail an e-mail
message from us? We'd be willing to do the same thing for someone trying
to communicate with a friend in the US. Since the Russian mail system is
so unreliable, this seemed like a potentially good idea.
Thanks,
Sue Hildreth, Dimitry Zarkh
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Sender: Kim Brooks (kbrooks@igc.apc.org)
Subject: NISMEDINFO Project
In an effort to increase the quantity of current medical
information in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern
Europe, the American International Health Alliance, in conjunction
with the National Public Health and Hospital Institute, has
launched the NISMEDINFO Project. The NISMEDINFO Digest, a
compilation of abstracts from leading Western medical and public
health journals such as the Journal of the American Medical
Association, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, the
American Journal of Public Health, and the International Journal of
Health Services, is posted on-line weekly, and distributed via
electronic mail to health professionals in the former Soviet Union
and Central and Eastern Europe.
Individuals from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are
invited to subscribe to this list free of charge. To subscribe, or
for more information, send an e-mail message to
kbrooks@igc.apc.org.
For others, I wanted to introduce this list because I am hoping to
expand the Digest to include more full-text clinical
articles. I am appealing to this list for any articles which you
may have authored and for which you could grant copyright
permission. I would also like any feedback from you as to how this
project can be most useful to the health and medical professionals
in this region. Please send any ideas and suggestions by e-mail to
Kim Brooks at kbrooks@igc.apc.org. Thank you in advance for your
input!
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
Kimberly Brooks
NISMEDINFO Project
National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI)
1212 New York Avenue, NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 408-0229 fax: (202) 408-0235
e-mail: kbrooks@igc.apc.org
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Sender: Phoenix (phoenix@simvol.simbirsk.su)
Subject: EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT
We adapt education services to the demand of citizens,
conduct consulting management of pre-schools institutions with
the aim of improving of their efficiency, namely: regional
distribution of working hours, relational usage of educational
hours of children, adapting of educational programs to the
requests of clients conduct consultations for individual
education of children within pre-school institutions, perform
training courses for pre-schools personal.
We want to know and come into contact with specialists who
deal with the similar problems in America and Europe and
overspeak these problems.
More disirable if Universities which have education administration
departments would take part in discussion: Whether it's possible or
not to apply term "Management" in educational sphere.
We hope to define possibilities of future contects and
mutual researches in this field.
Thanx in advance,
Dr. Falushina
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TECHINFORM JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Snail address p/o box 6670
ULYANOVSK 432026
RUSSIA
E-mail phoenix@simvol.simbirsk.su
Phone (8422) 327-662
Fax (8422) 324-822
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TECHINFORM JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Snail address p/o box 6670
ULYANOVSK 432026
RUSSIA
E-mail phoenix@simvol.simbirsk.su
Phone (8422) 327-662
Fax (8422) 324-822
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Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org)
Subject: Rewrite of Announcement (INTERNATIONAL TRADE SPECIALIST)
The BISNIS Center at the Commerce Department currently is seeking a
Deputy Director. Attached is the job announcement sent by Linda
Nemec, Director of BISNIS.
-- Jim Cashel
______________________________ Forward Header _____________________________
Subject: Rewrite of Announcement (INTERNATIONAL TRADE SPECIALIST)
Author: NEMEC@USITA.GOV at Internet
Date: 11/4/94 4:24 PM
TITLE, SERIES & GRADE
International Trade Specialist
G-1140-12/13
Salary: GS-12 starting at $42,003
GS-13 starting at $49,947
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
TERM APPT. NTE 4 Years
DUTIES: Serves as Deputy Director of BISNIS, managing staff
resources when director is unavailable. Assists director in setting
priorities and establishing work patterns for BISNIS. Helps director
identify training needs, trains, and provides guidance to rest of staff in
counseling, analysis, writing, and responses to controlled
correspondence. Works with director and staff to develop objectives
and programs for increasing US. private sector interest in doing business
in the NIS. Works with staff to ensure they are following USG policies
and procedures. Consults with U.S. private sector to identify
areas where the Department can play a useful role in encouraging
expanded trade and investment in the NIS. Develops working
relationship with officials from other USG agencies to ensure BISNIS
regularly receives information on their programs in the NIS. Represents
IEP and/or Department at interagency meetings and briefing sessions.
Strategies with director and staff to expand outreach programs,
contributing to marketing strategy, speaking at conferences, visiting
district offices and World Trade Centers and working with other multiplier
organizations such as trade associations. Helps prepare budgets
outlining office initiatives. Oversees $2 Million budget. Prepares reports
summarizing office activities. Uses Russian language when meeting
with foreign officials.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: One year of specialized experience which
demonstrates the application of knowledge of international, economic
and political factors influencing the flow of goods and services between
countries: the impact of government policies and regulations, business
conditions, and market structures on international competitiveness; or of
problems and techniques relating to the sales and marketing of goods
and services in world markets. To be creditable, specialized experience
must have been at least equivalent to the next lower grade level.
SELECTIVE FACTORS: Ability to manage a staff of employees including
setting priorities and providing guidance. (Selective factors are the
knowledge, skills and abilities essential for satisfactory performance on
the job and represent and addition to the basic qualifications for the
position. Those applicants not possessing the identified selective factors
will be disqualified from consideration.)
QUALITY RANKING FACTORS: Ability to prepare and present briefings.
Ability to plan outreach programs and marketing strategies supporting
trade and investment promotion initiatives. Ability to speak and read
Russian or other NIS language. (Quality Ranking Factors are the
knowledge, skills, and abilities used to distinguish the best-qualified
applicants from a group of persons basically qualified for the position.
BASIS FOR EVALUATING APPLICANTS: Applicants will be evaluated
based on experience, training, self-development, outside activities, and
awards. Dates and hours of training and types of awards should be
included on the application. Performance appraisals will be given due
weight prior to making a selection.
Applicants will also be evaluated against the quality ranking factors listed
above. Applicants are encouraged to submit a separate statement
addressing each quality ranking factor. Do not simply repeat your entries
from your SF-171 in addressing each factor. Instead, elaborate on your
training, experience, and accomplishments in a manner that will
demonstrate your possession of the identified quality ranking factors.
FAILURE TO ADDRESS EACH QUALITY RANKING FACTOR MAY AFFECT
YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS POSITION.
STATUS APPLICANTS WHO WANT CONSIDERATION UNDER OPM
COMPETITIVE PROCEDURES MUST SUBMIT TWO (2) COPIES OF THEIR
sf-171. IF ONLY ONE SF-171 IS RECEIVED, IT WILL BE CONSIDERED
UNDER MERIT PROMOTION PROCEDURES.
HOW AND WHERE TO APPLY: Submit a completed SF-171, 6/88 edition,
"Application for Federal Employment." If claiming veterans preference,
submit a DD -2214, "Certification of Release or Discharge from Active
Duty." If claiming 10-point veterans preference, also submit an SF-15,
"Proof of Discharge from Active Duty." If claiming 10-point veterans
preference, also submit an SF-15, documenting any disability. Please
mail to: U.S. Department of Commerce, ITA Personnel, Room 4808, 14th &
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230, OR DELIVER IN
PERSON TO ROOM 4809. Please indicate Recruitment Bulletin ITA 95-06
(CM) in Block 1 of the SF-171. For further information call:
(202)482-1533
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Sender: Norman Campbell (normcamp@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU)
Subject: status of "Schliemann/Trojan Treasure"@ Pushkin
Do any of our Moscow friends have info on the progress of plans to exhibit the
Schliemann Gold now in possession of Pushkin Museum? Plans were originally to
have world premiere in Athens, Istanbul, Berlin, Moscow. I have promised to be
there where-ever,whenever!--Norm Campbell,Univ. of Oregon USA
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Sender: Petrus Palms (palbank@eskimo.com)
Subject: Re: Internet Conference in Central/Eastern Europe
)From Dr. Piotr Johannes van de Waal-Palms
Russian Venture Capital Fund of America
Palms & Company, Investment Bankers
palbank@eskimo.com (or) Palmbank@pnw.net
) Among other things, we will be demonstrating "Friends & Partners" and
) talking about how such efforts can be used to build global community. For
) this reason, we would so appreciate help from members of this list in
) several ways:=20
)
) 1. We would very much welcome any general or specific information=20
) that you feel would be helpful to share with the members of this=20
) conference.
It is very important to develop an Email directory of Banks,
instrumentalities of government, newspapers, industry etc to ave a means
of communication. Fax doesn't cut it. mail is prehistoric.
More than $22 billion in capital for economic redvelopment is going
begging due to lack of communications media. Every investment requires
thousands of pages of data to be exchanged. Without internet it will not
happen. The government organizations in the West are communicating only
with the large multinationals. The are millions of individual
entrepreneurs left out in the West and in Russia who cannot even
communicate to each other the existence of these economic development
programs.
)
) 2. We invite your own stories of how you have used the Internet in=20
) your personal and professional life -- and, in particular, about your=
) =20
) own use of the F&P service. We are putting together a document of=20
) =D2quotes=D3 to share with the conference participants. =20
Through F&P we have accessed Who is Who and are developing system
operator Email adresses through which we are securing subscriber lists
and communicating with banks, newspapers, government officials, defense
industries, teaching and explaining economic development programs and
means of accessing these programs. We are providing free articles to
newspapers and conducting reader question and answer colums, about
the economy, inflation, business management, monetary policy,
business management, international trade, rule of
law, taxation, licensing laws, etc. to create an informed electroate that
can chose officials wisely, and understand the effect of government
policy upon their lives.
We are teaching banking to banks and explaining risks and loan processing
and collateral, loan portfolio monitoring, bankruptcy, ROI, profit
margins, depreciation, marketing, etc.
We are explaining the financial strategies of defense conversion to
defense plant managers, reverse dilution, non-convertible/ convertible,
stock/bonds/debentures, cumulative/non-cumulative,
particpatory/non-participatory, voting/non-voting, common/preferred,
minutues, By-Laws, articles of incorporation, officer, directors,
shareholders, dividends, interest, GAAP accounting, capital syndication,
transfer agent, stock registry, stock certificates, etc etc.
We are reaching officials and ministers and exlplaining economic policy
an dbudgeting and answering questions aboutthe effect of proposaed
legislation.
)
) 3. On Thursday, November 10th we will be demonstrating the use of a=20
) facility called Internet Relay Chat which permits online, interactive=
) =20
) "conferencing" and in which we can have people from all over the world=
) =20
) carrying on a discussion. We would like to demonstrate this as an=20
) illustration of the immediate and global nature of Internet-based=20
) communication. =20
)
We would be please to participate from palbank@eskimo.com in any way you
see fit
Participant
Palms & Company, Inc. Investment Bankers
Seattle, Washington, U)S)A
Thursday session
2:30 A.M. EST (Seattle time 11:30 P.M. Wednesday)
This is our first experience with on line. If you can check us out ahead
of time it might be useful
I invite questions from the floor which we could answer about any
business or economic or monetary subject
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Sender: John C. K. Daly (BOKCU%KSUVM@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Travel to Russia, January 1995
Friends and colleagues,
I will be taking a group of Kansas State University students, faculty and
alumni to St. Petersburg and Moscow 2-9 January 1995. In St. Petersburg we
will be staying in the Oktiabrskaia hotel on the Nevskii Prospekt, in
Moscow our hotel will be the Intourist, a modern facility three minutes walk
from Red Square.
We will be flying FINNAIR out of JFK, New York. The travel has been arranged
by ITS, and the cost will be (depending on when one applies) $1220-$1330.
This fare is all-inclusive, and covers flights to and from Russia, hotels
(double occupancy), meals, city tours, cultural events, and intercity
travel.
I still have several spaces available on the trip; if anyone should be
interested in further details, I can FAX them applications and details.
You can reach me either by BITMAIL at the above address, tel. (913) 532-6730,
or FAX at (913) 532-7004.
In addition to myself, Professor Patrick Rollins of Old Dominion University
will also be on this trip. Needless to say, there will be a great deal of
additional "commentary."
I look forward to hearing from interested parties soon. Thanks for reading this
far.
Sincerely,
John C. K. Daly,
Associate Professor,
Russian History
Kansas State University
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