<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 22 Jun 2011, at 12:08, Johannes Widmann wrote:</div><div><br></div>I've already explained why I think a petition is inadequate to show support for Eckhard's section. I have instead emailed the four named people directly to express my feelings over the threatened closure. I dug around on the two ministries web sites to locate the minister's email addresses (thankfully I know another Scandinavian language because the English pages of both ministries do not provide the addresses).<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello Eckhard,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I also support Ana’s suggestion which would make it a lot easier to help keeping VISL online.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hannes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Johannes Widmann<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">English Department, Applied English Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">www.ael.uni-tuebingen.de<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">+49 (0)7071-297 84 55<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">SkypeID: hanneswidmann<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> corpora-bounces@uib.no [<a href="mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no">mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Ana Frankenberg<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011 11:37<br><b>An:</b> Eckhard Bick<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] VISL and Corpuseye threatened at University of Southern Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Eckhard<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">How horrible! This is really bad news. I am a great fan and certainly want to help maintain VISL, but I think few people will have time to write individually to the authorities you list. Maybe it would be more practical if you circulated a petition, which people like me could then sign? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Best <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Ana <br><br>-- <br>Ana Frankenberg-Garcia<br>Auxiliary Professor<br>ISLA Campus Lisboa<br>Estrada da Correia 53<br>1500-210 Lisboa<br>Portugal<br><br>Home page <a href="http://anafrankenberg.synthasite.com/" target="_blank">http://anafrankenberg.synthasite.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: <a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Corpora mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>