HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: piij@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr ID Jennings)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.czecho-slovak
Subject: English teaching in the Czech and Slovak republics
Summary: Help wanted for an English-teaching job in xCzechoslovakia
Keywords: teach, English, Czech, Slovak
Date: 3 Oct 92 08:47:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Oct3.084754.10089
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

I am a South African graduate (BA in English and MA in philosophy) who
is interested in teaching in Eastern Europe in 1993.  I also have a TEFL
(teaching English as a foreign language) diploma as well as experience
teaching English to 2nd-language speakers in South Africa.

I would be very grateful if anyone on the net could advise about how to
go about looking for an English teaching job in either the Czech or the
Slovak republics - and any other advice about staying in these
countries.

Thanks very much.
-- 
Ian Jennings
Philosophy Department
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
Newsgroups: soc.culture.czecho-slovak
From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: Re: Are there any Internet nodes in CSFR?
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:39:34 GMT

ttocek@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Tomas (too much) Tocek) writes:
: Soooo, I was wondering if there are any Internet centers in CSFR. For
: possible e-mail exchage, shareware exchange,.....etc.  I noticed that some
: users are from Austria or Germany. Do you know of any sites in CSFR?

  Very many InterNet nodes already in Prague; up to the end of the year,
there should be something in Pressburg too - probably physically connected
over Vienna, using the existing data connections. (Hmmm, now, after having
written it, I see, that this line is already activated...)

  The only problem is currently, that the lines are rather slow. Prague
is connected to the rest of the world only over a 9600-link to Linz, I do not
suppose the Pressburg-link would be any better. But it is surely just a
question of time (and money, hmmm). I have been informed that a 64k line
from Prague to Linz is under preparation.

  As to the other CS-cities - there has been a project/program called
FESNet, a federal networking concept. Now, when the federation is dead
(as good as), this source of money will probably dry out; but even this
problem should be solved. As to my knowledge, Masaryk University of Brno
is now thinking over some connection concepts to Prague.

  If you seek just a possiblity of e-mail, it is actually spread all over the
country. There are some BITNET nodes (in Prague and Brno), and both Brno
and Pressburg have uucp connections (so e.g. the Comenius University can
be reached under addresses ...uniba.cs; looks like InterNet, but in reality
is currently routed over EUNet).

  If you have any concrete wishes how to reach somebody, send me a mail
(Tom.Kovar@itc.univie.ac.at), I'll try to help you.

  Regards,
							Tom
From: paco@cs.rice.edu (Paul Havlak)
Subject: villages of Stavic and Pranik
Reply-To: Paul Havlak <paco@cs.rice.edu>
Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computations
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:39:58 GMT

    Has anyone heard of Pranik, Moravia or Stavic, Bohemia?  These are
two possibilities for the original home of my grandfather, Jan Havlak,
who immigrated around 1900.  I can't find them on even a large roadmap
of Czecho-Slovakia.  Perhaps the names have changed, but my Austrian
map of CS doesn't list them as German equivalents, either.

Thanks,
Paul
--
Paul Havlak			Dept. of Computer Science
Graduate Student		Rice University, Houston TX 77251-1892
PFC/ParaScope projects		(713) 527-8101 x2738 	paco@cs.rice.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.czecho-slovak
From: ljh655 <ljh655@cscgpo.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: The Split again ...
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6F8802AB8033118@24.49.203.150.in-addr.arpa>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:53:14 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 01:53:09 GMT

Thanks for your follow-ups. I did not suggest the
questions for the future referendums, my reflection was of
a "what if" type. However, I agree with Henry that there
is not much sense in doing all this after Slovakia has
proclaimed its indepedence and issued the new
constitution... But - probably many people still want to
have their own say after the politicians had theirs... And
this might bring the controversy - what if the people will
vote against what their own representatives already
decided for ?!? As a paralel with the Maastricht treaty
was mentioned, I think - what's really also the sense of
all those referendums - even the Danish are now scratching
their heads: 'Oops, didn't we want to be in it after all ?'
Decisions - that's what life's all about. Once the
decision to split was made we shouldn't waste time
arguing, but we should rather make any effort building up
something new. And as far as I see the decision to divorce
has already been made, hasn't it ?

Lubos
From: knespl@lprhp3.epfl.ch (David Knespl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.czecho-slovak
Subject: Czech fonts
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:29:59 GMT
Reply-To: knespl@lprhp3.epfl.ch (David Knespl)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Maybe not the right place to ask this question,
but I tried comp.windows.x and comp.fonts with no
respons.

So, are there any public-domain czech fonts (resp. ISO Latin2) available?
It could be in any format : .bdf .snf vfont or postscript,  i can convert them.
Okay, there is a way to build them from metafonts, but its lot of work :)

I think it would be very nice to have them on X-windows.

David
From: kumar@rwja.umdnj.edu (G. Muthukumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Lecture by A.S. Gnanasambandam at New Jersey
Summary: Please attend the lecture of A.S. Gnanasambandam
Keywords: tamil lecture
 Dear Friends:
Date: 4 Oct 92 22:47:29 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.tamil, soc.culture.indian
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

It is my pleasure to announce a program sponsored by New Jersey Tamil Sangam
at Stelton Community Center on Plainfield Avenue (Near Edison Railway Station).

  
DATE & TIME:     SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 3.00 P.M. 
            
PLACE      :     STELTON COMMUNITY CENTER,
                 137, PLAINFIELD AVENUE
                 EDISON.


SPEAKER    :     DR. A. S. GANANASAMBANDAM

TOPIC      :    " KAMBAN ENDRATHOR MAANIDAN "

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

KUMAR.
From: sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy)
Subject: Re: <None>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:32:35 GMT
Distribution: world 

In article <BvBC7L.Atv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> nish@cv1.chem.purdue.edu (Nishantha I.) writes:
>		1987         Necklacing (i.e. placing rubber tires around the 
>			neck and setting fire) 32 Indian paratroopers who 
>			surrendered to the LTTE after an abortive attack on the
>			Jaffna campus area.
>			
>				so long thambi
>					Nishantha
>p.s.:==
	This is very old news and has been proved to be a false propaganda. 
	You are just repeating, intentionally or unintentionally, what     
	was told by the Indian media after the IPKF operations started.
	However, after few days, India Today reporter paid a visit to war torn
	northern Sri Lanka and reported that all of them were alive under
	LTTE captivity, as opposed to what the Indian government was telling.
	In fact, this was the first on the spot visit of any journalist,
	and independent first hand report, as far as I know. He wrote a cover
	story with color photographs of the Indian soldiers in the captivity.
	After few weeks they were exchanged for LTTE prisoners in the 
	presence of International media.

	Also the figure, 32 is inflated and if my memory serves me right it
	was 19.

	I strongly suspect the chronological details and the figures and more
	than that I suspect your motive. If you are genuinely concerned
	about the suffering people, you might have chronicled both the 
	'self styled' freedom fighters' crimes as well as the state's crime.
	and your anger should be equally towards the perpetrators of these
	crimes, I mean your 'Herr' Prabha and the Honorouble Presidents and
	defence ministers of Sri Lanka. 
	
	The pro and anti-LTTE propaganda by Ranjit Ravindran and you 
	may make the cheer leaders of the respective teams to jump, but
	will hardly have any impact on the neutral readers. I am also
	concerned and seriously interested in knowing about the situation
	there and expecting peace to return soon. But neither you nor 
	Ravindran seem to be a genuine source I (and may be many others)can rely
	on. I think it is time for both of you to stop the propaganda of either
	side. 


>			My original qurey still stands.What the hell are you
>			 doing here while your comrades in arms are dying
>		       for YOUR Elam?

	If you are genuinely interested in peace in the region, probably
	you may go Colombo with a peace package, before sending Ravindran to his
	comrades. 
>*********************************************************************************
>      Message for the day:
>	YOU CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE SOME TIMES BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE
>	ALL THE TIME
>********************************************************************************	
>
> 

	I think you should also keep this in mind. 

M. Sundaramoorthy
sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:03:28 -0400 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: <None>


1. Those Indian paratroopers didn't surrender. They were shot while trying land
over Jaffna Campus. Pictures were in India Today also. They were not 'necklaced'-a practiced carried out only by SL army and its underground paramilitary outfits(southern Sri Lanka).
2. Most of those massacres you listed have bloated numbers. No news organization   had such numbers(the listed number of dead in the mosque massacre is 90).
   How did you cook these numbers? Gov. says LTTE did it. LTTE says SL army did(Muslim massacre). Some of those acts(explosions in Colombo) were carried out by
groups other than LTTE. Where are your references? Also we don't differentiate bbetween Sinhala policemen and soldiers. Both do the same thing as far as Tamils
are concerned! You are not a Tamil & never lived under such cicumstances.
Do you want me to start digging up everything your leaders and 'brothers' had
been doing from 1947 to 1983 to the Tamils especially the ones in tea estates?
Oh, you must be talking about your 'Colombo Tamil' friends!


Yes, the Tigers have killed many Sinhalase. Many in Sinhala settlements in Tamil areas while others who abett in any way agression against Tamils. When Tamils
were forced to leaev their homes and lands to make way for 'settlements,' where
were you? Where were you when the SL air force was raining 'barrel bombs' and rockets on Tamil areas? Or when(still does) random naval shelling was going on?
Go to Jaffna and see what you bloody government has done to our homes and lives!
Why are many Sinhalase still in Tamil areas protected by army bases doting ourland? They are not wanted. Because they came in without knocking first. Part of gov. scheme to make Tamils minorities in their land(eastern SL).

Do you think that LTTE is such an unpopular organization, it can still exist in
this state? You're such a fool when it comes to us.. Many Tamils even if they don't like LTTE still don't want a return to Sinhala rule. I don't like some of thir deeds either. But, I have to think about our survival. Afterall, only a tiger can keep in check a hungry lion. I myself have experienced some deeds by this
'lion.' Ans lost many relatives(in addition our home) to this 'lion.'

thambi
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:01:56 -0400 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: An exposure on Sinhala chauvinism

I would like give a small picture of what many Sinhalase think of the 'Tamil
'invaders in Sri Lanka'- where Budhism is to be protected and the Sinhala race
is to surive. According to Mahavamsa, Sinhalase historical chronology, 
Ceylon Tamils are still portrayed as invaders from India bent to destroy
their Budhist heritage. Every Budhist child learns this crap. And the
monks spread the word in earnest. Politicians use  it to get votes(see 
any anology in India?)

Here's a passage from "Only man is vile" by William McGovern that
refelcts Sinhala hatred towards Tamils fueled by the monks. Published in
1992. 
Its from the July 83 riots in Colombo area and the east(Trincomalee)when
more than 3,000 Tamils were 'liquidated' by Sinhalase mobs, some of them
under direction of gov. officials. These 'officials' had the voting
registration lists-to identify Tamils' residencies. I also lived through
that one. There were other anti-Tamil riots in 1956, 1977. (and 1948?)

From "Only man is vile, pg. 98.

"One of the terrifying accounts of the riots is from the diary of a
Tamil man whom Shiva Naipaul quotes in a collection called Unfinished
Journey. Travelling on a bus when a mob laid seige to it, the man
watched as a small boy was 'hacked to limbless death.' The bus driver
was ordered to give up a Tamil. He pointed out a woman who was
desperately trying to erase the mark on her forehead-called a kum-kum-as
the thugs bore down on her. As the witness melted into the crowd, the
woman's belly was ripped open with a broken bottle and she was immolated
as people clapped and danced. In another incident, two sisters, one
eighteen, the other eleven, were decapitated and raped, the latter
'until there was nothing left to
violate and no volunteers could come forward,' after which she was
burned. While all this was going on, according to the diarist, a line of
Buddhist monks appared, arms flailing, their voices raised in a delirium
of exhortation, summoning the Sinhalase to put all Tamils to death"



-Suresh*

(412) 268 - 4455
Pittsburgh

*Guilty of trying to ensure the EelamTamils'  sense of security and
independence in the future.
From: rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Tamil Literary Society
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:40:50 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.


Regarding the 'Padigal'Interview:-

I am too pressed for time now. But I will try to post some important
portions of that interview soon.

Regarding all that poor response:-

I think this is the real situation and one has to accept  without much
whining.  Propably the following may help kindle some interest.

I am not sure how many have heard  about the writers  let alone
their works. Next what are the set standards used in evaluating 'modern'
literature [ex. should it be emotionally appealing or not? - Writers like
Rajaji chose the latter]. What does 'modern' mean? Is this just a
fictional story or something else?

How exactly those revered writers contribute to earn the distinction? Is it
their narrative style? or the subject chosen for treatment or some
socio-political conditions which they chose to attack earned them such
distinctions?

These are few which come to my mind, whichI feel, if discussed initially,
may set a stage for further active discussions.

With this in mind once I asked whether anybody was interested in literary
crticisms? I guess that was too trivial to be followed up:-)  

Life goes on....

raghavan

PS:- Has anybody read 'sandi kudiraigal' of Anuradha Ramanan?
Though I like some books of Balakumaran, I was generally irked by his
verbose empathic style as one can see in "Irumpu kudiraigal' or 'Ullam
kavar kalvan"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Affable)
Subject: Another question to netters.
Reply-To: Venkatachalam Aruna <aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu>
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:01:41 GMT

 achcham - bayam
 madam - ?
 naanam - vetkam
 payirppu - ???

 Any knowlegeable netter out there?

Venkat
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From: elee6eg@rosie.uh.edu (S.SANJAY GOPAL)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: roommate: huntington beach,orange county, california
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:46:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: rosie.6OCT199214461255
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	A friend of mine (Sridhar Krishnan) is looking for a roomate in huntington
beach, orange county, california. if anyone is interested please
email me at sanjay@bayes.ee.uh.edu or call me at (713) 747-0232 as early
as possible.
thanks
sanjay
From: rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:35:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.MempAQG00YV904PYQa
	<BvF5rv.975@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	>		Pitsburgh!! while the real tigers do the battle!!)any sinhalese found
>	in "his" tamil area is fair game for the murderers of the LTTE.So the
>	sinhalese cannot live in the so called tamil areas while the tamils
>	can live work and own property.DO I HEAR THE TERM ETHNIC CLEANSING 
	here?


Well, the Tamils who are in Colombo or in other Sinhala(very few) areas
didn't displace Sinhalase nor had the intention to create a 'new
biographical fact on land.' Starting in the 60's, this is what the SL
government has been doing in eastern SL. Since the gov. feels free to
bomb, shell and kill Tamils in their land, why shouldn't these
'settlers' be a 'fair game.'? These settlements similar to the ones by
Israelis' in the Occupied Territories are 'political facts' on ground -
making it attractive as a target. 

There were Sinhalase in Tamil areas before the this settlement program.
There was no problem what so ever between these Sinhalase and Tamils.
Some of of the people who worked for grandfather were Sinhalase. What
I'm trying to say is that Sinhalase settlers are pretty much 'political
fodder' for SL governments as Eelam Tamils had been to India. 

This war is still going on because of the SL gov's desire to reap the
benefits of this settlement policy. Dividing the eastern province from
the northern in an 
'autonomy' settlement would maked Tamils minorities in their own
land(eastern SL). This position is totally unacceptable. Also, none of
the major Sinhala poltical parties are putting forward any meaningful
solution to the war. They are hamstrung by what you call 'Sinhala
extemists.' Add to it some rotten monks.

>	if the death toll at Kalawanchikuddy was 90 so be it.The fact of the 
>	matter is 90 people(according to you) died for nothing.In what way
>	did it serve the cause of your liberation movement?If you insist

You are positive on the identity of those masked men? 


>	 Yes that popularity was gained with the barrel of a gun!!
That barrel is pointed at the Sinhalase government who for a little too long 
used it on Tamils. A lot of Sinhalase still wish for those 'good ol'days.'

	>fool who venerates a bunch of murders and thugs who have become the 
>	scrouge to their own people.Perhaps looking at the mirror early in
The best description ever of the current SL government. 

-thambi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian.telugu
From: mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu)
Subject: Telungaana Armed Struggle
Originator: mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:45:58 GMT


Telungaanaa Armed Struggle.


During the British rule, as part of their divide-and-rule strategy,
peasant's land were taken by the government and were given to the
zeminthars (sp?).  The Telugu peasants started an armed struggle to
get back their land.  The armed struggle had two goals: to attack
the Britishers and to attack the Zamins who robbed their land.

Similar struggles in India includes the 1755's santhaal armed struggle,
1860's avuri armed struggle of Bengal, 1921's armed struggle by the
Kerala Muslim peasants.

Here is a Tamil translation of a Telugu poem written during the
Telungaana Armed struggle:


\(TAMIL)

en puradcip paadalin pallaviyai   (puradci == revolution)
en paathac cuvaduhaLilE           (cuvadu == footstep)
pidiththu vida vENdumaam
athaRkaaha
en kaal thoosiyaiyum              (kaal thoosi == feet dust)
arraycci ceyya eduththu anuppuhiRaarhaL
ennudaiya kural kuRRamudaiyathu   (kural == voice)
enathu sinthanai araajahamaanathu    (araajaham = not disciplined)
Enenil
avarhaLudaiya paadalukku
naan kaiththaaLam pOdavillai
avarhaLai enathu thOLil sumanthu
sellavillai
ennaic cathikaaran enRu azaippathaRku   (cathikaaran == conspirator)
caddap puththaham avarhaLukku           (caddap puththaham == law books)
aathaaramaay irukkiRathu
ellaa mathankaLum
pothuvaana moodaththanaththai           (moodaththanm == superstitions)
maRaiththu vaiththiruppathu pOla
avarhaL thangaL varkka nalankaLai       (varka nalam == class interests)
ellac caddangaLin
punitha opputhalin keez                 (opputhal == oath)
puthaiththu viduhiRaarhaL
aanaal avarhaLudaiya 
mathaththiRkO caddaththiRkO isaivaaha   (isaivaaha == in tune with)
oru raaham kooda
en thoNdaik kuziyilirunthu varaathu.    (thoNdaik kuzi == throat)


Meenan Vishnu
Xref: sparky soc.culture.tamil:2522 soc.culture.indian:32399 alt.sex:31157
From: jose@csd.uwo.ca (Jose Thekkumthala)
Subject: IT IS QUIZTIME
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
Distribution: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:16:35 GMT

Hi netters,

I have some pressing questions I like to have answers of
rather quickly. I could not find a better newsqroup 
to ask these questions.

Please post or respond by e-mail. Thanks. The following 
are the questions:

  -- Indian Mythology --
  ----------------------
  
1. What are the ten incarnations of MahaVishnu?

2. Is BalaRaman one of the incarnations and if so,
   is he related to Lord Krishna?
   
3. What is the significance of the order in which the
   incarnations take place?
   
4. Is there any time-frame known for the tenth incarnation?



  -- South Indian History --
  --------------------------
  
1. When did Chenthamil reign supreme?

2. Are the following statements right or wrong?

  * 	The three mighty South Indian kingdoms are:
   	CHERA, CHOLA(or is it CHOZHA?) and PANDIA.
   	
  *  Chera became Kerala, Chola became TamilNadu
  	and Pandia became Andhra Pradesh.
  	
3. Where does Karnataka come in this scheme of things?
   Is there any ancient kingdom representing Karnataka?
   
4. When did these kingdoms exist? 

 Thanks.
 
 jose@csd.uwo.ca


Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 1992 15:29:11 -0400 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Need to know Chulaka's id 


This message is for Chulaka Ailapperuma:

I sent you an e-mail, but it bounced back. I used the same id as the one
attatched to your posting. Can you clear this out?

-Suresh