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There is an air of excitement that surrounds a group of people that are going shopping for military products that will be used at a retirement ceremony. Some of the items will be picked out by people who care a lot about the person who is finally retiring. They want the items to give credit to the fine military service career that their friend is now completing because they know that the person work hard for 20 or more years to achieve that retirement.

The festivities at these military functions are usually well received by all who attend. The group that is shopping will probably select a shadow box in a suitable size that will hold many service medals that the military member earned from duty aboard ship or on a battlefield in a far away land. The medals will be mounted in this finely constructed box and given to the military member as a symbol of thanks for all of the hard work they have done.

There are many other things to buy while shopping for military products for retirement. The group might choose to engrave the name of every command the person was stationed at during their long and prosperous career. These bronze plates will be mounted in the shadow box in the chronological order that they occurred and most people will recognize each name in an instant even if it has been shortened to an acronym because the command name was so lengthy.

One person will have to make a few telephone calls to order an American flag for the shadow box. This is the symbol for the freedom that many American servicemen have fought and died for. This American flag will be folded tightly just like every flag is at sunset and with just as much reverence as if the military member had when they were a young recruit at the start of their stellar career.

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Prologue

The day of December, 23rd didn’t promise anything unusual. Although, stop, there was one unusual thing and it began from the list of people who wanted to visit Chernobyl Zone – only ONE man! Well, liability was to be done. Other way people would not believe you anymore.

So, morning, December, 23rd, 7.00 AM - Kiev railway station – South Terminal. The program of the Zone’s visiting is signed; we take the passenger and go.

§ In this place we will look aside and remember the day two weeks ago. Project pripyat.com lives by its everyday life... December, 8th – rumors about the collapse of sarcophagus. There is panic in net, public excitement in forum, visitor’s inquiries on one topic:

§ Chernobyl wall, collapsed the wall of sarcophagus, the wall of Chernobyl sarcophagus collapsed, radiation level in Kiev, news Chernobyl, Chernobyl catastrophe, Chernobyl sarcophagus, sarcophagus, ChNPP, photo Chernobyl, Chernobyl today, Chernobyl December, News from Chernobyl…

*

Editorial staff connects with ChNPP direction. They answer – “No collapses – everything is ok”. Excitement and panic don’t go away. Site editors go to check radiation in 2 Kiev’s districts: Darnitskiy and Kharkovskiy – photos of 2 radiometers’ data slightly calm down the public…But part of the audience is watchful anyway – “rumors do not appear themselves…something had to be”. The time of trip to Zone is almost near – 23 of December.

*

The project - Address book of the Excluded Zone. During two months Anna Gorelisheva – programmer from St. Petersburg constrainedly works (for free!) for one of main ideas of the project – address (phone) book of People from Pripyat (liquidators, people who work in the Zone). Interactive book is ready for 90%, remained only to put into it the base of buildings of Pripyat. But there is not enough information about it. We need to make a trip to Pripyat to put addresses to the map. The maps with routes are already prepared in Moscow (Nehaev.S.). It is left to go by these routes.

On the way we decided to dedicate our trip to 2 main targets:

1. To stop the rumors about collapsing of the sarcophagus’ wall – to make a photo of it and make measures of radiometer near it (150meters).

2. To prepare information about address book – to put all buildings on the map.

We had no problem with the first task, but the second one could be more difficult. We went early; all organizational problems were almost solved. There would be enough time. If we would know about “unforeseeable consequences” that would prevent us to fulfill the second part of our task.

Check-point Dityatki is left behind; in Chernobyl in “Chernobylinterinform” agency we are waited not earlier than 11 AM. And we are here at .30 AM!...Small briefing…

Let’s go…

Chernobyl-2

Hmm…maybe we can go to Chernobyl -2?...Why not, let’s go…

Turn left. Narrow woodland road, made of concrete plates. Road to”special object”…We ride 3 km like in a train. Tm-tm...Tm-tm… Joints of plates give theirs waves to the car.

Sleepy guard in sport trousers:”What organization are you from? Now I will call my boss”…”Steel garden” – so was called this building at one western site. Sergey Chernov, our attendant, tells us about the “birth” of this idea – to make this building energy source. “Scientists investigated that medium air speed here is 14m/sec, while it is necessary 12meters minimum, so conditions let to make this object in electro station.

- So, what is going on there?-we ask.

- - No money, the most widespread saying in Ukraine in all spheres of life.

- I am sorry, guys, but I can’t let you in. You need special pass from direction. This tells us the guard of secret object in the past. We go further.

Address book of the Excluded

Zone

Check-point “Pripyat”. We leave the car near the town entrance – where guards can keep an eye on it. We divide and agree to meet near CP “Energetic” and go according our routes.

2 micro district, left side of the Lenin street...1…kindergarten…Lesya Ukrainka street…Work is not boring – I was not here 20 years! My “partner” Sergey doesn’t work as attendant for 7 years, but also has never been here.

- I was in Pripyat before accident in 1986, he tells – we came here in student’s team. We liked the town and I decided to move here after graduating. But – catastrophe.

- What did you like best of all? – I ask

- Children and flowers – he answers sparingly. A lot of children and flowers.

- Do you remember this shop?

- This one? No, I don’t remember…But remember that here was a lot of food. And in general I like this city more than Kiev. And now every time when I come here, I come almost every day, I feel sad.

- And I don’t feel sad. I like the silence of this place and its special aura. Here I feel myself calm and cosy. Here I relax.

***

- First – first, I am second, the voice of editor from portative radio station.

- I hear you, Alexander.

- We are finishing 1 micro district, will wait for you in the center, near Culture House.

- Ok, we will be there in 30 minutes, finishing Kurchatova Street.

Awful Sounds of Pripyat

Attendant was behind about 100 meters. A house without a tablet, we have to go inside – maybe the number of house is in the residents’ list or at post cards which could be found on the floor. I don’t have big desire to come in alone. Still have a lot of impressions from September’s trip. Awful, but anyway I go. The door wasn’t open for several years…Nothing special – same half-opened doors, paper and other small things on the floor. But there are strange subdued sounds from cellar. I can’t compare it with something…and animal fear comes closer…to my back, near neck (familiar feeling: city hospital – second and third floor…as one of the visitors told “Feeling that you are in somebody’s unseen sights”). Sounds do not stop, they seem to be closer and closer. The fear grows and legs don’t want to go further. Sharp turn, some quick steps or even jumps and I am at the street already, where is same friendly winter sun. Somewhere in the distance could be heard Sergey’s steps.Yee…What’s the nonsense there, in cellar?...Who or what could make such sounds?

Interesting that when our groups meet, Sasha firs begins to talk about awful sounds in Pripyat. I nodd…hmm…yes…If former residents say such nonsense…Maybe because of hard work, and psychics is not good already. Only that who visited houses and cellars of Pripyat alone can judge. But I don’t think that there are lots of people like that.

Marodeurs

The work in two micro districts are finished. Light breakfast.

- You know, it is not enjoyable to go in groups, let’s join together?- I offer.

- Sure. We have a lot of time. Let’s do it together.

- Ok, and then let’s start with 3 micro district (road cross of Kurchatova and L.Ukrainka Street). You take this group of nine-storey buildings. I take that – buildings opposite to electro shop of “Complex”.

- Hm…Again I am alone. Sergey is left to guar a car. Let it be so, I know that planca and iov (nicknames of Sasha and Oleg in forum) are somewhere near. Inner yards of 3 micro district are gloomier. This is so because of that there are no 5-storey buildings, only 9- and 16-storeyed.

Combined in 3 or 4 houses nine-storied buildings – no tablets. I come to the yard with intention to clear up the number of building, even if I have to go through all the flats from first to ninth floor…meanwhile Sasha and Oleg are coming.

We pip in the lift room of one of the living buildings. Warehouse of gas-masks, filters for them and other accessories. Above there is new, packed nickel-plated tablets with names of streets and numbers of buildings. Above – festive transparency for parades and demonstrations…Gas-masks, evidently, were not used like all other stuff.

- This is Housing Service, - shouts Oleg when coming into first apartment.

Now it is understandable why here are so many gas-masks. Unintentionally my thoughts come back to that date – 27 of April 1986 – evacuation of the town…

Further investigation of buildings goes on with bad mood spoiled by marauders activity in this place.

Three more nine-storied buildings near 4th school, and after we come back by car to L.Ukrainka Street and move to 5th micro district.

- Wow… Savings bank

Reading forms, books and cards we plunge into “saving atmosphere” of past years. “You can save money in savings bank” – poster of Savings Bank on the wall. “Yes, it was possible, probably…” And after it was also probably to lose it all – in one day…

Events more than twenty years ago still agitate but only to satisfy curiosity. How was it?

We go outside – sunny day in Pripyat…

- Here is pink square on the map; do you know what is it? – I ask Sasha.

- Kindergarten, - jauntily tells Planca.

- Noo…Kindergarten is near…And here, I don’t know what it is. Well, we have to look and mark on the map, let’s go…

50 meters before the pink square I see one-storey building with painting – “sickle and hammer” at one of the window glass. How could I forget! This is new shop! I saw it only once or twice.

- And I almost didn’t visit this district. I had nothing to do here, - grandly says Planca.

- Aha, that time your legs were too small to come here.

- And it seems it was at the end of the world, - also jokes Sasha.

Inside everything is left as it was. Looking at soviet cash registers and old milk bottles with wide neck unwillingly begin to remember that time.

- Guys, do you know that there are radiators in that yard prepared to move out, - says Oleg.

- Where?

- There, he shows the way to barns.

While we go to inner yard through the shop, and there we stop near “the monuments” of past years: tablet “ChNPP working supply department”; milk bottles, bath for ferment and storage of cucumbers, cabbage and potatoes… (Oh…How tasty were these tomatoes in childhood!). We make photos and go on.

Dark corridor, the inner yard of the shop is already seen through the door and suddenly…I hear people’s voices and the roar of the engine.

Aha…Here are marauders…

- Silence! ( I wave to planca and iov) Thieves are going…

I switch my Sony to video…Let’s go…I make one-minute clip about 5 people who entruck the radiators…

How can it be! They act without fear, like at home!

Further events occur as quickly as the old animation film. We divide. I go to bring official representative of the agency and car, Sasha and Oleg – look for the thieves.

Meanwhile marauders go to the neighboring building where already packed and prepared radiators is, and entruck the KAMAZ again. We have already enough video and it is time to know who are they and who let them pillage the town.

(to look video)

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- Who let you?

- It is personal permission..

- Whose?

- One high-ranking official

…We come to truck which is half full of radiators…” Loaders” ran inside the house, left one man to answer all our questions and hide behind board box the governmental number of an auto near the truck.

- And where will you move it?

- To processing point…

It is time to call the police.

(In connection with the investigation, part of materials of this report is unavailable till the end of the case.

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The Fortis watches were first unveiled in 1912, which were well received among those people who like adventurous life like pilots and astronauts. The mechanical functions with high precision and accuracy make them an ideal choice for anyone who ventures into the sky.
The Fortis B-42 Pilot watch stands out in the Fortis watches collection for its splendid combination of soberness and elegance, yet suitable for the life in the air. It contains 25 jewels and an Incabloc shock absorber together with an ETA automatic movement, day and date indications, sweep seconds and 28, 800 semi-vibrations per hour. The superLuminova polished hands, numerals and indices enable it easy to read in the dark environment. The mineral crystal and the sapphire crystal which has the effect of anti-reflecting are infused on the back of the stainless steel case, making it very practical in the special environment. All these distinguish features make it a dream watch for many people.

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Hats have been in the market for many years now. Designed to protect the head from elements, for safety and religious purposes, hats now become an accessory. Though hats are regarded as a social symbol during earlier centuries, hats today can now be worn practically by everyone to suit their needs and style. Tired of your usual self and style? Do you want to reinvent and experiment on fashion and make a fashion statement? Then, don on a hat and see that transformation - from plain to fashionable.

Hats’ getting back in the fashion arena can be attributed to popular TV programs like MasterChef, Australian Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. Races also have a big impact on the now-booming hat industry. Robert Carroll, the milliner and manager of Strand Hatters, shares that in his 20 years in business, this is the time when men wore hats more than ever. He also said that he has customers from the younger generations coming to the store, looking for hats, cufflinks, braces and ties fitted for the race. Another customer shares his view on donning a hat. After choosing a sharp trilby-brown hat made by Akubra, he expresses that wearing a hat makes him more edgy and smarter, plus it highlights his suit.

One very good indicator that hats are indeed making waves in the fashion scene is by seeing it worn by international celebrities. Superb performer Robbie Williams and good artist Kanye West have both been spotted wearing Jive Masters belonging to the Club Collection of Akubra. The hat is stylishly designed as a straw pork pie hat trimmed with retro-inspired band.

There is a variety of hat styles and among these are balaclava, the popular baseball cap, boater, cowboy hat, Deerstalker (popularized by Sherlock Homes), fedora and Panama, the popular straw hat made in Ecuador. There are also some hats used by military men and are regarded very important as it signifies rank and regiment. Samples of this type of hat are beret, boonie hat, busby, and the peaked cap which is worn by militaries across the globe.

Wearing a hat means many different things. Whether its part of your uniform or a fashion statement, wearing it well is what is important. One good observation pointed out by Carroll is hat etiquette. He said that gentlemen should never wear their hats indoors and should always dip their hat when greeting a lady. Complete your gallant looks by wearing a brand name necktie. Men’s necktie never fails to add a complete look to your suit and hat combo.

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If you are going to basic training in the near future, then this article is for you. Below are the top 5 most difficult tasks you will endure at boot camp and how to overcome them.

5) No Snacking-Believe it or not, snacking is a habit. Most people don't realize that snacking is a habit so they continue to snack all day long. There is no snacking at basic training, just a quick three square meals a day. I have a challenge for you. I challenge you to go one week without eating anything but three square meals a day. It's tough to do! You will realize your hooked on snacks the first few hours your at basic training. To overcome this habit, I strongly suggest you take the challenge I just mentioned. The week before you leave for basic training, stop snacking. Doing this before you leave for basic training will accustom your body and mind for your eating only three meals a day. The first week you will go without snacking is the toughest, its better you overcome this at home than fight it at basic training in combination with all the other stress you have to deal with.

4) Homesickness-From 80 pound females to 300 pound men, everyone gets homesick. It's not a sign that you are mentally weak; it's just a sign that you like your family and friends. Although there is no magic pill you can take to completely get rid of homesickness, there are steps you can take before you leave for basic training to greatly reduce it. Prepare a list of addresses of your friends and family. Write it out on paper because you won't have your cell phone available. Before you leave for basic training, fill out the addresses on envelopes, complete with stamps. You will only have a short time to write letters at basic training, you don't want to waist that precious time filling out envelopes and searching for stamps. When you get to basic training, simply write letters to your friends and put them in the premade envelopes. Always encourage a return correspondence in your letters. Mail call is often the best time of the day for recruits.

3) Dealing with Drill Sergeants-Unless you associate with very mean people on a daily basis, you will not be prepared for drill sergeants. Drill instructors will be yelling at you for just about anything. If the sun is shining to bright that day, it's your fault. If the drill sergeant has a stomach ache, it's because of your ugly face. You have to be mentally prepared for what drill sergeants will throw at you. You have to be prepared for the mental "game" of basic training. If you start taking what drill instructors say personally, basic training will seem like a never ending adventure. Overcoming this obstacle is really a reflection of your attitude. Simply repeat in your head "no one hates me, the drill instructors are trying to make me a better person and soldier" and based on how well you believe yourself, you should be fine.

2) Waking Up Early-Waking up early is never easy, especially if it's as early as 4:00am. Usually when someone wakes up early in the civilian world it's because they are preparing a fun day of skiing, fishing or camping. In basic training however, when you wake up early, you will be cleaning the barracks, going on road marches or doing a workout on a muddy lawn. It's not a motivation factor for waking up early. To overcome your hatred for waking up early, I would suggest preparing your body before you get to basic training. Three days before you leave, get on the same time zone as where you will be attending basic training. If you will be going to basic training on the east coast and you live on the west coast, you need to go to bed at 6:00 pm and wake up at 1:00 am at least three days before you leave for basic training. In basic training, you will probably hit your bunk around 9:00 pm and wake up at 4:00 am. With the time difference between the east and west coast, your body can't be experiencing jet lag or you will be exhausted during your first few days at basic training.

1) Mental Fitness-Mental fitness is 95% of surviving basic training. To overcome the mental portion of basic training, there are a number of preparations you can make. Just know what is expected of you before you arrive

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