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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Harrison !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know, I'm late in my growing up, as I've just
read the book "Expanding our NOW" - just great!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Harrison, you gave me just the right words for
things I was thinking about!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Especially when we are going to make a FSC in
Rubtsovsk, a city in Altay reigion, which is now on the boarder with Kazahkstan
after USSR collapsed and the city lost nearly all production possibilities as
that was agricultural machines, which nobody can buy now .... and so
on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So in the situation when nobody know what to do -
no jobs, young people leaving, - what to do? - we are providing Future Search
Conference "Rubtsovsk in 2005: Search for Future and Strategies".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We (Marina Tyasto and me) know, that we are
unforgivable optimists to start such a work, but if not us -who?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We start with FSC as even this type of work is met
very hard - A Conference with out speakers and topics and so on, though with
some schedule, which they tryed much to specify. No way! Just analyses of past,
present tendencies, then focus on the future and OS on projects - what we can do
now?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do remember, Harrison, and loved our discussion
more then a half year ago before my first 3 hour OS in June, 29,2000, whether OS
can give the strategic plan in the outcome, and whether it is possible to use it
in the work with people who are not used to talk and work democratically, and I
really believe now that OS can do a lot after providing three of them (not big
ones - I'm sorry about that, two were 3 hours and one - a day and nearly a half
(but without closing session)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So we start our new FSC on this
weekend</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Though, we start with FSC - we have OS at the end -
not really - on the 3-rd day and I really think that FSC starting part helps our
Russian people to start talking democratically with some tasks and define where
they come from and what are the tendencies they have to deal with, and the
part of defining the Ideal Future (though we decide we better use the word
Desired Future) - to go further with the OS - what they have passion on - helps
somehow our people to cover this lack of decades of not speaking at all. We had
as we said kitchen talks among family members and friends.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But now, when we are allowed to speak we don't know
how to do it! the people in parlarment are crying at each other! what to say
about common people?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And you and your book give me the right start with
word NOW, so I'm pretty sure, that I need to say more then just 4
principles and 1 law at the beginning of OS!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>not much - not to take away the attention from the
topic and not to loose the potential force and synergy of the previous days of
work, but still ! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and I wonder, is this the only way to give people
knowledge ? - to translate and publish the book (like for example this one -
"Expanding our Now" - and now I have several more!!! thanks to
my OS-friends - Lisa Heft, Birgiitt Williams and you, Harrison!!!! Sorry if I
don't know some people who helped me in this also -- I know there was a
publisher, who donated a book..., but I don't know the name - thank you, thank
you very much! ) - it take such a long time - to find a publisher who will risk
to publish something...., I tried with "Change Handbook" and
still wait for the answer, though I translated it in summer last year
and gave to Soros Foundation in Septermer and they postponed the competition
(for books which they select for publishing) for January and now is March and no
answer ... - years are passing with our way of business (of couse,
without just paying money for this like 1,000 dollars....) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>there should be a way, and ....I know it.... -
workshops, but people are not ready to go to what they don't know, so we have to
start with small portions of information which we can give on workshops we
have...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This FSC in Rubtsovsk is sponsored by German
orgainization INSTITUTE FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT, as Altay region has
several places where german nationality people are living and the Headquarter of
the organization is in S-Petersburg. They were so much interested in the event
that they said that they will come themselves (let's see). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I'm really trying to use all possibilities to
give more information and it looks like we are going forward step by
step....thank to our friends !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sorry for the long letter</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes to all OSers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>good luck in you life and all
startings</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elena Marchuk, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Director of the Regional Development Center
"Ceres"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Novosibirsk, Russia</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>