Vote for Kyiv!

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am writing to each of you with the hope that you will join a group of us in Ukraine in voting for Kyiv to become one of the 22 cities of the world to be included in the new Monopoly World Edition game board. After much lobbying of Hasbro in Europe (ironically led by a Swiss gentleman living in Ukraine), Kyiv was included in the 68 city shortlist for voting - a major feat in and of itself.

Beginning today, you may log onto http://www.monopoly.com/ to cast your vote online. In fact, you may continue to do so each day until the cut-off of the contest on February 28, 2008. At the close of the online voting, the twenty cities that receive the most votes will become part of Monopoly history as the first cities selected to be on the World Edition game board. These cities will appear on the Monopoly board from highest rent property to lowest based upon the total number of votes received.

This is a significant development as this World Edition board game will be sold in over a hundred countries around the world and manufactured in 37 languages (including Ukrainian). This is a great (albeit symbolic) way to get Ukraine on the international map!

Please forward this e-mail to anyone that you feel would be interested in supporting this initiative. Should you have any questions about this contest, feel free to send me an e-mail at lbezo@hotmail.com.

Remember: You may vote online each day from January 22 to February 28. If you peruse the leading countries as of today (the start of the contest which opened approximately 8 hours ago), Ukraine is presently in 57th position out of 68 countries. Poor showings indeed...please help to do your online part in raising the country's profile.

Slava Ukrayini!

Дредноуты

После спектакля, на глазах пожарных были слезы, русский адмирал подарил ему свой кортик, потомки немецкого адмирала дали званый обед в его честь, а я сидел и хлопал в ладоши перед экраном лэптопа... Браво!



Евгений Гришковец о своем спектакле:

Спектакль "Дредноуты" имеет подзаголовок "спектакль для женщин или спектакль, который не получился". Я работал над ним, наверное, дольше всего. Больше года. Изучил всю историю военно-морских сражений Первой мировой войны. И, мне кажется, знаю практически всех участников тех боев по именам. И в этом спектакле я пытаюсь от имени мужчин хоть что-нибудь объяснить женщинам о тех мужских иллюзиях, фантазиях, которые в итоге лежат на дне Северного моря, Атлантического океана... да и вообще лежат на дне. Я хочу рассказать о том состоянии мужчин, в каком женщины их никогда не видели, то есть о том, как мужчины умирают... где-то там, далеко от дома. Об этом написано очень много книг, я имею в виду не романов и прочей беллетристики, а исторической и справочной литературы. Также в разных городах стоят разные музеи... но эти книги женщины не берут в руки и в эти музеи не заходят. А ведь в этих музеях и книжках гораздо больше информации о мужчинах, чем в каких угодно романах. И понятно же, что ничего объяснить мне не удастся. Но попытка уже сделана. И эта попытка называется: "Спектакль, который не получился или Дредноуты". А в целом это, конечно же, спектакль для женщин"

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She’s divorcing him right now, while he is suing 1-800-flowers for $ 1,000,000.

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For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net/