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		<title>Veteran members anchor new Art Talkers officer team</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ArtTalkers held elections on Saturday June 13th. Founding member Olga Pogorelova will continue as VP education.  Graham Seibert will serve as president and Valentina Karabayeva as VP membership. Rounding out the team are two longtime members from our British Council days and before, Victor Fursov VP PR and Liz Korotchenko, Secretary, and newer member Nataliya [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=395&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paganini tops Art Talkers February 7 bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 7, we had only one speaker who was an ATM speaker Olga Pogorielova. She told about Niccolo Paganini (October 27, 1782 &#8211; May 27, 1840), an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist and composer. Olga brought two musical compositions on CD to supplement her speech. The beginning of her speech was accompanied by Caprice No. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=355&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December 27 holiday party</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/december-27-holiday-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We emerged like groundhogs from the Zhitomirskaya Metro, blinking in attempting to locate the Vostoki Veranda. It was exactly where it was supposed to be, but it had no signs whatsoever to indicate it was a restaurant. Once inside, it was a delight. An excellent choice.
 
People kept arriving long after 11 o&#8217;clock. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=310&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 30.  If your heart aches&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/november-30-if-your-heart-aches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Heart To Heart…
 
                                            “If we fail to dare, if we don’t try,
                                            then the next generation will  reap the harvest
                                            of our indifference…”             
 
I was deeply impressed during the auction at “Art-Talkers”. The aim of the event was to collect money for the benefit of the Fastiv orphanage, to be able to invite the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=296&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our first meeting at the Art Library, November 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Talkers Toastmasters meeting Saturday, November 8, 2008. Tanya Knyazeva presided over the first meeting in a trial location, the Art Library, Povitroflotskiy Prospect 10. Getting there was not difficult. Kostya and I made a short walk from the Vokzalna Metro. 
 
The physical layout is interesting, presenting both challenges and advantages. We shared the room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=291&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting notes for October 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our president Tatiana Knyazeva chose an autumn theme as Toastmaster today.  We think of change, and our mortality is brought to mind by the falling of the leaves and the coldness in the air.
Oksana Fedorinenko told us about herself in her icebreaker.  Modestly enough, she said 22 years doesn&#8217;t give you the vast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=243&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 27 meeting in photos</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/september-27-meeting-in-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology keeps improving.  A Toastmaster at Dnipro Hills introduced your webmaster to Google&#8217;s Picasa product for displaying pictures.  It is fantastic.  Here is a link to the best of the pictures from our meeting.
http://picasaweb.google.ru/Arttalkers/PhotosOfSeptember27Meeting#
With pictures telling the story, there is not much else to say.  Kostya led a wonderful table topic session on relationships.  He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=198&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 13 meeting notes</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/september-13-meeting-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Tanya still on the road, Olga presided over the meeting, with Lucy serving as Toastmaster.  She fills that role extraordinarily well.  We had four guests: Славик, Денис, Елена and Оксана.
 
Ekaterina Mezentzeva&#8217;s icebreaking speech did exactly what it should.  It told us who she is, where she is from, and what she is looking forward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=195&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 6 Meeting Notes</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/september-6-meeting-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parkinson&#8217;s Law states that &#8220;work expands to fill the time available for its completion.&#8221;  ArtTalkers never seems to have a short meeting.  With only one scheduled speaker, we still managed to fill our time beautifully this lovely Saturday morning.  
 
As has been true all summer, people continued to arrive after the meeting and started and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=185&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ArtTalkers is a Distinguished Toastmasters Club</title>
		<link>http://arttalkers.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/arttalkers-is-a-distinguished-toastmasters-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ArtTalkers is a distinguished Toastmasters club.  Lucy Povaliy presented the ribbon, earned during her presidency, to Tania Knyazeva.  Tanya then explain to us how a club or earns such distinctions.  There are several factors, among them the number of new members, the number of members who had advance to new levels by completing ten speeches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttalkers.wordpress.com&blog=325401&post=142&subd=arttalkers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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