Lanier Lanier party pictures are available online at http://www.RussianAtlanta.NET/album/ For printing: http://www.walmart.com/agt/bounce.gsp?ID=12446qjt566jmerzn0qy More pictures (contributed by Shooher) are available at http://www.pbase.com/apivoshenko/lake_lanier_05182002

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Thank you Kostya, great pictures! Now, how can I get my hands on those? Can you upload them to walmark like sasha did, so we can order which ever ones we want?

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Awesome pictures! I'm really beginning to appreciate the miracles of digital photography.. Kost', upload 'em please, so we can help Wal-Mart push K-Mart completely into the depths of Chapter 11...

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Luchshe by podderzhat' utopayuschego. Dlya vseh luchshe. :)

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.. Alesh, kak Kanada? Monreal' - vtoroi Parij..? ili ne sovsem..?

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Thank you for the pictures Kostya. I like the one with Alona and the sky -- conveys a sense of freedom!

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Kostya, klasnie fotki! Osobenno mne bilo priyatno videt' na bol'shinstve fotok - moj voleybol'nij myach! Trogatel'no - do slyoz! On stal takim popular za etot den'... s nim vse hoteli fotografirovat'sya... Znachit on zhiv.. i zdorov... i ya veryu chto skoro ego snova uvizhu! Vot chto ya dlya sebya zametil vo vseh etih fotkah - tak eto to chto ya ne uspel poznakomit'sya i poobschat'sya s dovol'no bol'shim kolichestvom naroda! Eto horoshij stimul dlya togo chtob povtorit' meropriyatie Chto zdorovo eto chto na vseh fotkah lyudi smeyutsya i ulibayutsya - definitely a good reklama dlya posleduyuschih meropriyatij. Escho paru fotok (shtuk 15) est' u menya, i kak tol'ko zakonchitsya plyonka ya predostavlyu eti snimki vseobschemu vnimaniyu tozhe.

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V soobschenii na forume ne rasskazhesh' obo vseh vpechatleniyah, koih i za dva dnya nakopilos' prilichno. Monreal' - v nekotorom smysle unikal'nyi gorod, tak kak v nem uzhivayutsya i Evropa, i Amerika. Ya uznal v nem s desyatok drugih gorodov: ochevidny yavnye popytki perenesti v Novyi svet cherty Parizha (naprimer, Notr-Dam; takzhe mnogochislennye parizhskie nazvaniya), uzkie bulyznhye mostovye s butikami po obeim storonam dorogi napomnili mne Amsterdam (ili Rigu, hotya ya tam tak davno ne byl, chto pomnyu tol'ko bulyzhnye uzkie ulitsy i Domskiy sobor), a tam, gde ulitsy izognuty rel'efom i osobenno uzki, voznikayut assotsiatsii so Shveitsariei (Zurich). Naberezhnaya v kakom-to meste probudila vo mne vospominaniya o Vltave. Istoricheskaya chast' goroda, bezuslovno, krasivee sovremennoi. Gulyaya po staromu Monrealyu, oschuschal sebya v Evrope. V Monreale ya takzhe nashel vpolne londonskie mesta. V gorode mnogo ochen' krasivyh soborov (bolee krasivyh vnutri, chem snaruzhi). Samyi krasivyi - Notr-Dam. Konechno zhe, v Monreale naryadu s Evropoi shiroko predstavlena Severnaya Amerika. Gde-to uznavaem Boston (ulitsy s domami, pohozhimi na ih sobrat'ev s Commonwealth avenue), v drugih mestah - New York (tsentral'nye prospekty s malen'kimi magazinami, kak Madison ave v Manhattane ili shirokaya avenue s razdelitel'noi polosoi, sovsem kak Park avenue tam zhe). V bol'shom kolichestve prisutstvuyut strashnye obodrannye krasnokirpichnye zdaniya barachnogo tipa s pozharnymi lestnitsami na fasadax (tochno kak v Manhattane). Kak-to ya nabrel na unylyi raion s preimuschestvenno dvuxetazhnymi zhilymi domami libo melkimi biznesami, i tut zhe vspomnilis' nekotorye mesta Brooklyna i Buckheada. Downtown Monrealya mestami priyatnyi, a mestami sovershenno nikakoi (to est' sovsem kak v Atlante, gde krome Westin hotel, Olimpiiskogo parka i vidneyuschegosya "Isaakiya" smotret' printsipial'no nechego). V tselom mne ponravilsya gorod - nastoyaschiy, dovol'no udobnyi dlya zhizni, soedinyayuschiy v sebe cherty i Starogo sveta, i Novogo. Tem ne menee nazvat' ego vtorym Parizhem ne mogu: vse-taki raznye vesovye kategorii. Monreal' po krasote gde-to urovnya Amsterdama. Predlagayu vsem tuda s'ezdit', chtoby sostavit' sobstvennoe mnenie.

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.. slushai, nu ugovoril..! :) a fotografii est'..? a picture is worth a 1000 words.. ili shto to takoe..

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Originally posted by Alesha: V soobschenii na forume ne rasskazhesh' obo vseh vpechatleniyah, koih i za dva dnya nakopilos' prilichno. Monreal' - v nekotorom smysle unikal'nyi gorod, tak kak v nem uzhivayutsya i Evropa, i Amerika. Ya uznal v nem s desyatok drugih gorodov: ochevidny yavnye popytki perenesti v Novyi svet cherty Parizha (naprimer, Notr-Dam; takzhe mnogochislennye parizhskie nazvaniya), uzkie bulyznhye mostovye s butikami po obeim storonam dorogi napomnili mne Amsterdam (ili Rigu, hotya ya tam tak davno ne byl, chto pomnyu tol'ko bulyzhnye uzkie ulitsy i Domskiy sobor), a tam, gde ulitsy izognuty rel'efom i osobenno uzki, voznikayut assotsiatsii so Shveitsariei (Zurich). Naberezhnaya v kakom-to meste probudila vo mne vospominaniya o Vltave. Istoricheskaya chast' goroda, bezuslovno, krasivee sovremennoi. Gulyaya po staromu Monrealyu, oschuschal sebya v Evrope. V Monreale ya takzhe nashel vpolne londonskie mesta. V gorode mnogo ochen' krasivyh soborov (bolee krasivyh vnutri, chem snaruzhi). Samyi krasivyi - Notr-Dam. Konechno zhe, v Monreale naryadu s Evropoi shiroko predstavlena Severnaya Amerika. Gde-to uznavaem Boston (ulitsy s domami, pohozhimi na ih sobrat'ev s Commonwealth avenue), v drugih mestah - New York (tsentral'nye prospekty s malen'kimi magazinami, kak Madison ave v Manhattane ili shirokaya avenue s razdelitel'noi polosoi, sovsem kak Park avenue tam zhe). V bol'shom kolichestve prisutstvuyut strashnye obodrannye krasnokirpichnye zdaniya barachnogo tipa s pozharnymi lestnitsami na fasadax (tochno kak v Manhattane). Kak-to ya nabrel na unylyi raion s preimuschestvenno dvuxetazhnymi zhilymi domami libo melkimi biznesami, i tut zhe vspomnilis' nekotorye mesta Brooklyna i Buckheada. Downtown Monrealya mestami priyatnyi, a mestami sovershenno nikakoi (to est' sovsem kak v Atlante, gde krome Westin hotel, Olimpiiskogo parka i vidneyuschegosya "Isaakiya" smotret' printsipial'no nechego). V tselom mne ponravilsya gorod - nastoyaschiy, dovol'no udobnyi dlya zhizni, soedinyayuschiy v sebe cherty i Starogo sveta, i Novogo. Tem ne menee nazvat' ego vtorym Parizhem ne mogu: vse-taki raznye vesovye kategorii. Monreal' po krasote gde-to urovnya Amsterdama. Predlagayu vsem tuda s'ezdit', chtoby sostavit' sobstvennoe mnenie.

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Just curious, how long does it take the average Russian on here to read the above passage (quoted text)?

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Alla, nekotorye fotografii est', nekotorye budut pozzhe. II, here is about a half page of text so an average russian person would be able to read this for 20 to 30 seconds.

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Per your request, http://www.walmart.com/agt/bounce.gsp?ID=12446qjt566jmerzn0qy

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Kost', thanks for the link to W-M. Sasha, I don't know about an average Russian (no one on here is "average"! we're all super-unique and special) ;), but something like Alesha said.. 20-30 seconds..

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Originally posted by Alesha: Alla, nekotorye fotografii est', nekotorye budut pozzhe. II, here is about a half page of text so an average russian person would be able to read this for 20 to 30 seconds.

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Please don't take this as a flame, but I don't believe that. This is not half a page of text. This is a half page of text using latin letters to write out words which were meant to be written in cyrillic. Maybe I'm just slow, but it would seem to me that it's very hard to read this stuff fast. Not complaining, just really wondering if you guys are that much faster? It's actually not tough for you to read this?

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II, its hard to tell whether we are or how faster are we - but if you want, print the page and next time we get together I can try reading it to you out loud - will that give u a better idea?

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