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Kiev Culture LabLearn Russian, Live Ukraine!
SRAS cultural programs are designed to give you a wide introduction to your city and to Ukraine as a whole. These structured experiences are laid-back, educational, and an opportunity for students to get to know each other.
In our experience, however, most students prefer to save on the costs of organized activities and to have mostly free time – to study, to peruse independent interests, and to spend time with the friends they make from around the world while in Russia.
To strike a balance between these needs and wants, we offer several core activities, attendance to which is required and the cost of which is included in most programs (see the individual program pages for details). We also offer several optional experiences that are available at additional cost.
1. Included Events
Central Kiev TourWe begin our excursion near the newly renovated Golden Gate site which for many centuries served as the main entrance to Kiev. The street on which NovaMova is located on is called "Yaroslavov Val"- which means "Yaroslav's Barrier Wall," part of the ancient city walls that once protected the citizens of Kiev from invaders and local, competing tribes. We will view the most ancient of Kiev's cathedrals - the St. Sophia Cathedral, which was constructed during Yaroslav the Wise's rule in 1037 and has dazzled the world with its unique mosaics and frescos for eleven centuries. Next is the Mikhailovsky Zlatoverhy Cathedral, originally built in the 12th century, but blown up by the Soviets in 1934, and only recently reconstructed following the original plans. Some parts of the frescos and mosaics of the original cathedral survived the explosion and collapse and are now on display in the St. Sophia Cathedral. Further on we pass the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and come to the Andreivsky Church - built with a unique baroque influence. Near the church is Andreivsky Hill - a favorite street of most people from Kiev. Andreivsky Hill is a traditional gathering place of artists, musicians, souvenir dealers, and more.
Lavra Cave MonasteryThe Pechersky (Lavra Cave) Monastery, included on UNESCO's World Heritage list, is a complex of caves, magnificent architecture, churches, and museums. Here, you will be introduced to the history of this place, travel through the caves and see the ancient catacombs, which have been the final resting place for many holy figures since the 11th century. The Lower grounds, where you will find the ancient cave system, are still home to an operating monastery. The cave is open to the public - to all pilgrims as well as tourists just looking to catch a glimpse of a part of Orthodoxy's rich history.
Chernobyl Museum TourFew people of the world have not heard of the deadly accident that took place on April 26th, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. This museum is rich with photos, videos, and artifacts from the event. A visual timeline tells the tale of the events which lead up to this disaster and exactly what caused the deadly explosion.
Cultural PerformanceEach semester, students are treated to one cultural performance. In this past, this has generally been a play or ballet but has also, based on requests and scheduling, could be a puppet show, a jazz performance or even concerts by a modern group.
2. Optional Events
Pirohovo Village MuseumOut on the far edge of Kiev, a full hour's drive from the city center, is the Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Life, more commonly known as "Pirogovo Museum." This is an incredibly unique museum consisting of about 500 sites. Almost all are authentic residential and farm structures brought here from different regions of Ukraine. Most buildings are from the 18th and 19th centuries, but the exhibit also includes authentic cottages and churches from as far back as the late 16th century!
World War II Museum TourThe purpose of this tour is to present you with visual and comprehensive information about the events of the Second World War as it played out in the former Soviet Union, particularly Ukraine.
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Site MuseumA short distance south of Kiev, in the middle of fertile fields, lies what was once one of the deadliest places on the planet – the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile site near the city of Pervomaisk. During the Cold War it housed the unstoppable SS-18 (Dubbed by NATO as "Satan" missiles). These were multiple nuclear warhead missiles with a combined power of nearly one hundred times that experienced at Hiroshima. The 200-ton rocket with ten independently targeted nuclear warheads could reach any place in the world within twenty minutes and penetrate the most sophisticated anti-ballistic umbrella. In the early years of its long-sought independence, Ukraine made a strategic decision to completely abandon its entire nuclear arsenal, which had ranked third in the world after Russia and the USA.
Weekend Trip to LvivWithout a doubt, the top attraction and premier tourist destination in western Ukraine is the gorgeous city of Lviv. Today it is a vibrant city of nearly a million people that is proud of its long and glorious history, rich heritage, and architectural beauty – which was heavily influenced by Italian styles and greatly resembles Central European cities perhaps more than most Russian. This trilingual city (it is heavy with Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish speakers) is a melting pot of diverse influences, as befits a country at the crossroads of the world, inhabited by well-traveled and novelty-seeking entrepreneurs, merchants, soldiers, and gentry.
A Trip to OdessaThe most noteworthy and picturesque attraction of southern Ukraine is undoubtedly the sparkling city of Odessa, often called the "southern gateway to Ukraine" and has long been revered for its complex and cosmopolitan culture. Odessa is home to people from all over the world. Here, both the American teacher of English and the Arab student of Russian will find their senses roused and their mind enlivened. Odessa's past is indelibly etched upon its present. A heady mix of class, elegance, and an intense desire to live life to the fullest can be felt throughout the city.
Other EventsNOVAMOVA keeps a close eye on events and keeps you informed of other unique tours, exciting cultural events, city celebrations, etc. These events are often available at little or no cost.
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If you're joining this story in progress, you may not know that I've been struggling with my health over the past year. I had mono, then a lingering respiratory infection, and then some odd neurological symptoms that may have been a reaction to an antibiotic. Fortunately, I've come through all those illnesses, confirming in the process that I most likely don't have anything life-threatening or horribly degenerative--but, unfortunately, I haven't regained my energy. I wake up tired, and get progressively more so as I go about my day.
I'm starting up this blog again for two reasons. First, I've been terrible at keeping everyone except a handful of people up-to-date. (If you're among the perfectly lovely people I've neglected over the past year, I hope you'll accept my apologies, and know that I miss you. I also hope that you'll get a personal apology sometime soon.) Second, I want to have a place to record what happens as I start to make changes in my life to try to manage my energy more effectively.
I've kept this separate from my other blog so that those who aren't particularly interested in the Perils of Christine don't have to slog through all these details to get to the fascinating reports of presumed break-ins and ant invasions chronicled there. After a long internal debate I've decided to put a link on the other blog that leads here, and to leave the link to my profile (and real name) intact. I do feel a little shy about making this so public, but it would be silly to post anything particularly private on the internet in the first place--and, well, it's hardly a secret that I'm tired.


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MOSCOW, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged NATO not to use Turkey's application for an alliance meeting to escalate the tension around Syria.
"Turkey's application to NATO could be considered as a very disturbing signal that there is a possible escalation of the situation around Syria," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Glushko told RIA Novosti news agency.
Under the current situation, the international community must make joint efforts to create the environment for a political transformation of the crisis in Syria, the diplomat said.
"All Syrian parties must be encouraged to look for a political solution," Glushko said.
Ankara has applied to NATO for a special meeting to discuss Article IV of the North Atlantic Treaty in relation to Friday's incident, in which its fighter jet was shot down by Syria.
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Hope you have all had a wonderful week. Weather here has been very wet, but has done the garden good and also meant I got a little time in the craft room.
Today, it is week 2 of our Fun in the Sun challenge over at Polkadoodles, and we have plenty of inspiration for you, so why not go over and check what the rest of the Design team have been up to. That's after you take a look at my creation, of course LOL!
I used several CD collections for this card and used all pre-coloured images and the wonderful papers.
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Some of these accusations might be dismissed as the jealousy of those who have not been hired. Moreover, while free software licenses permit -- even encourage -- code borrowing, you can easily imagine Debian members being upset to see Ubuntu becoming successful while their own efforts go unrecognized. As Kevin Bowling describes the situation, "Ubuntu is stable because they are standing on the shoulders of giants," perhaps without mentioning the fact as often as it might.
Yet the largest reason for complaints from the Debian distribution seems to be a difference in culture. Where Debian is democratic to a fault, Ubuntu is ultimately led by Mark Shuttleworth, who half-jokingly describes himself as dictator for life. Just as seriously, while Debian prides itself on non-commercialism, Ubuntu's goal is commercial success.
Consequently, when Shuttleworth offered to help Debian meet a proposed feature freeze, the offer was seen in some quarters as less a generous offer than an attempt to control and manipulate Debian -- especially when the decision to meet the freeze was not debated and voted upon in Debian's usual fashion.
A similar, more general resentment also exists in the free software community in general. For instance, while acknowledging Ubuntu's many improvements in usability, Blackbelt Jones accuses it "of a lack of empathy for me, the experienced Linux user. In re-engineering Debian, Ubuntu creates detours in the familiar highway of GNU/Linux administration, and then doesn't bother to put up a sign. And so, before I know it, I'm off the road."
Jones cites the simple example of labeling Ubuntu's KDE packages "Kubuntu desktop," which emphasizes Ubuntu's sub-distro while confounding the expectations of experts searching for KDE. But other examples abound, such as adding changes to notifications in GNOME before they are accepted by GNOME and replacing the init daemon with the appropriately named Upstart.
Others complain that the new users who are attracted to Ubuntu know nothing about Linux in general. "They seem to think Ubuntu is responsible for all that is good in the [free software] world," Bowling complains. As often as not, changes that are credited to Ubuntu would be more properly credited to the GNOME desktop or another piece of software, and alleged innovations by Ubuntu can also be found in distributions like Fedora or openSUSE.
However, a far more serious charge is that Ubuntu manipulates the free software ethos for its own advantage, making changes within its distribution rather than in specific projects where others can easily share them.
This charge has been whispered off and on for years. But it found its strongest form in the keynote delivered by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman at the 2008 Linux Plumber's Conference. Throughout his presentation, Kroah-Hartman used Ubuntu and Canonical as a example of an organization that was not contributing to the community as it should.
According to Kroah-Hartman, Ubuntu contributed only 100 of 99,324 kernel patches in the last three years -- substantially below the 11,846 from Red Hat or the 7,222 from Novell. He also found similar statistics in contributions to GCC, X.Org, ALSA, and other core aspects of GNU/Linux. His conclusion? "Canonical does not contribute to Linux plumbing."
Further, Kroah-Hartman stated flatly, "Developers who are not allowed to contribute to Linux should change jobs," in effect urging Canonical developers to quit -- a plea that seems to have been almost entirely ignored.
Like other complaints from the community, Kroah-Hartman's keynote can be seen as partly personal -- the fact that he is employed by Novell could indicate that he is attacking a rival of his employer. But, at the same time, the trend he indicates is too obvious to ignore. The numbers are not even close.
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In our first conversation, Coming Home: Veterans Readjusting to Civilian Life, our contributors — including veterans, family members of veterans and members of organizations that support veterans — share their own stories, offer insights on the challenges facing returning veterans, and provide tips and resources on the kinds of support that families, friends and communities can offer veterans.
Throughout the course of our lifetimes, we make and break bonds with people. Some bonds are formed in friendship: schoolmates, neighbors, fellow workers. I have close friends from each of those groups. I maintain, however, that the bonds forged in military service are perhaps the strongest of all bonds. Stronger than steel. Stronger than adversity. Stronger than time.
We all know the story of veterans sittin' around and one says, "No kidding! There I was..." followed by a story of improbability or hilarity, typically punctuated with profanity, irreverent phrases and sordid images. It will end with much backslapping and hearty handshakes. The circle might contain members of a single unit or a single war, or it might contain an assortment of veterans from many of this nation's conflicts. But they are bonded and tied to each other by the commonality of their service. Some are bonded by mettle and the blood of battle. You need look no further than the Illiad or the St. Crispen's Day speech from Shakespeare's Henry V for evidence of the emotional connection these men share.
My husband's military service began almost a half century ago, and ended half that long ago, but the friends that could pick up the phone or walk in our door without missing a beat, the friends we welcomed most warmly, are those with whom he served.
There are other bonds in the military community — those between the families of our servicemen and women. Parents of soldiers form bonds with each other, as do the spouses and the children of soldiers. The relationships between some milspouses (military spouses) are as close as blood sisters. I cannot begin to count the number of spontaneous hugs I have received from and given to other Blue Star moms. We — spouses and parents — form these bonds based on our shared experiences and our shared worry; we find solace and consolation among our "brothers and sisters." We know that they know.
Some of my closest friends today are people I didn't know before my son deployed. We met via military blogs (including my own) and private online Internet forums established by parents of soldiers — one by a Third Infantry Division parent, another established by military moms for military moms. These were places to share information, to share worry, to celebrate good news and to commiserate when the news was bad. These were places that let us share this bond, hammered and shaped by our worry for our sons and daughters. Another soldier's mother, whom I had never met, was the first to call me after my son was wounded; the blogger wife of an Air Force blogger, who was stationed in Germany, emailed to offer their assistance when I blogged that we would be traveling to Landstuhl to see our wounded son there. Because I have publicly written about my experience with deployment, and my son's personal struggles PTSD, I receive emails and comments from mothers, wives and other family members of those who are deployed, about to be deployed and those who have returned. Some seek advice while others simply wish to say "I have been there, too!!" These relationships are equal parts ethereal and practical; as much emotional as they are physical. It involves both the spiritual and the material worlds — prayers and novena candles as well as care packages and cookie recipes. It is an inclusive sisterhood for which we did not volunteer, but in which we are now forever members.
We don't intentionally keep others out of the circle, but until you have been where we are, you cannot be in the circle. It's not that we believe no one else could possibly understand what we endure, but we know that other mothers and spouses of deployed soldiers fully understand. It's akin to knowing how to drive a stick transmission. You either do or you don't. I know many mothers and wives (and veterans themselves) will smile reading that sentiment.
Military service generally — and deployment more specifically — is the bond that ties us to one another. We are now related and connected — like hands held in a circle or people gathered in a group hug. It is that way now as it has been for all the centuries that men have gone to fight and wives and mothers have sent their men to war.
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Yes, a nuclear base.
The asking price, according to the article in the London Telegraph, was a measly $1.5 million dollars U.S. Hell, all I'd need to do is round up 15 of my closest friends to chip in and we'd have our own place of business.
For someone like myself - who is secretly convinced that a genetically-engineered plague designed by an aristocrat vampire will one day wipe out most of humanity (except for the lucky few who will survive only to turn into some form of flesh-eating, homicidal, mutant albinos) - this is an ideal place to purchase. I will no longer have to live in fear of zombie invasions, the Four Horsemen, rain of frogs or an attack by crazed vegetable-eating killbots.
What surprised me about the article is that this is only one of many nuclear bases for sale. Although the bases (sadly) do not come with any ICBMs all it would take is a few bribes to a corrupt Chechnyan general and baby we'd be in a position to make ludicrous demands on an unsuspecting world.
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It's such an important part of our mission that we have a whole job devoted to it. Erin Hertog is the Wedge's Organic Certification and Sustainability Coordinator. She works to keep the Wedge committed to our goals of creating a more ecologically, economically, and socially fair and viable food system. And she keeps owners updated on our progress with the annual Sustainability Report, an important measurement and transparency tool for the co-op.
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