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press stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy to occur and if you and st stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sam paul well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion.
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this is the best time to come here before opening hours to hear all this silence you can feel that the holes and everything in them are waiting for this day. i was about three years old or maybe less when i first came to the farm attached i remember the impression that everything here is alive but i'm in a sort of fairy tale and when i touched the feet of the atlantis i felt that they were alive and the only statues of ancient gods they seemed alive to me maybe they were just frozen in the moment but they were still living and probably still working some of their miracles.
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you know i. used to need to present in the other a star pierce near tears david other oh yeah and if you didn't to this. the hermitage as an international and. institution and its famous world why people are yes very jealous that i get to have this opportunity to see what the most of the public wouldn't be able to see. i don't think too many people have ever seen me or even heard of me but i am one of the oldest guardians of the herman taj who knows what could have become of the exhibits if not for me and my friends all.
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biota balance on is never late for work but she isn't an employee here at the hermitage or a good iona is a volunteer from england and we stand in the entrance we have seats healthy and they're passing through t.v. and ten styles we have to tell them to take off the outdoor plating that caisson jackets and put them in the fake family and and just on to any general questions that they may have about an uneasy about west finds them out still guy. and excursion. in london iona studies russian culture different from russia recommended that she worked at the petersburg built into.
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the system of the us a yes and that's pretty nice that it says a when the sea is still fairly solid. and that goes up but the ninety m. yes it's. not totally fancy it is that handles them on the left could only be conservative world. iow no bugs here for free she's one of one hundred fifty volunteers they all share in the visitors carry boxes arranged chairs where they needed to be whatever it takes to earn that prestigious title become a volunteer not everyone is worthy of the on a. just about five hours is what we expect from people if they really want to become fully fledged volunteers a lot of them will have
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a museum pass made for them. that's required. and find enough free time. probation period she will become a. grand museum. that you will be taking part in one of our grand events dharma taj camp day. instead of an interview i was taking by the hand and led to the basement where we're hanging peaches i have absolutely no idea what a way doing or what it is for but i see that it's all about the cat's tail cap. which is. it's the cats this lets people realize underneath. it would catch in my very early through the day and. get in the way down as any of the precious life that they have. she has a right no enemies down here i've been in the museum basement with my friends for
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years roan dare not set foot in this place they can sense danger from all four. volunteers. could you help. with this felicitous i think we need to fix this here but you said. you don't need scissors and i'll show you. ok. so this is how we put our volunteers to work whether or not oxana becomes a volunteer will be mr hughes decision. came to how much is one day to offer his own help. with troops of the same petersburg's three hundred verse three was approaching and i didn't want to be just an onlooker in two thousand and two i came to the hermit offered to organize a group of state hermitage volunteers our task was to find one hundred fifty people
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and select the most active ones who would be able to act in any unexpected situation you have to remember that on the night of may twenty seventh when the hermitage was open all night it had the highest number of visitors. there were many many ladies because a lot of them hope to have their child on this very day because there were special prizes offered like apartments for babies who were born petersburg's anniversary. indeed a few women did deliver their babies right here. so the volunteers had to be ready to do whatever was needed to react quickly keep smiling while helping us to resolve all possible situations. but first the volunteers were not well received at the museum which is veterans sort of the new generation wanted to take away their jobs. for any a few years to stuff members became friendly.
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fire. first of all please. because we. want. to. send i will tell you a little bit of the. chronology is about comparing the rings in trees studying them can reveal a lot of information about the state of the environment the tree grew in and its age volunteers francis infelicitous to work out how old these bills are. to have peace in their hands because it's. put it out of the war two. hundred you realize that it's.
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a little. bit scary because i don't want to do it wrong and destroy. his. show any. brings in it's it's. it's more useful to do it. recently volunteers have begun taking photographs they also write descriptions measure ancient greeks found on the black sea coast. they've measured the whole sarcophagus as well as every tiny detail you can see the guy have so many decorative elements on them every single decoration needed to be measured and photographed. but what's most important is that each of the names of
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volunteers will be mentioned in the academic prospectuses will feature dozens of names of people who worked on the team here for over a year all of them were really immersed in this fascinating process. through her period she'll have to go through all this herself if she succeeds. her assignment is a game for the grand event. cats are very important inhabitants the winter palace and the state hermitage. they've lived in the old winter palace since the times of peter the great when he brought the first cats from holland later his daughter elizabeth just special de craye for
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cats to be bred in what is now modern day. fifty cats were then brought from. since the seventeen forties those cats descendants have lived in the winter palace they've been provided with food in return for keeping the exhibits say. we are also volunteers of sorts we work for food and that serena she is also a volunteer gives us food and medicine and takes care of us i don't quite understand why she does it. matter of course her name is so if you call. if you better here she's going to. here. right here. where often asked we can't you know a favorite our favorite is the one that is the saddest the one who is sick at that
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moment we give them all the same love and care when they get well we have another favorite who is less happy than the others. and with us here you will hear a little girl my beauty let's take a pill here's a good girl well done here we go. we now have sixty five cats at the hermitage that can sometimes reach eighty five there were times when we had one hundred twenty cats of course we try to make sure the number of the animals stays within a certain limit seven to is the maximum we can afford. but if there is more there will be trouble. cat so selfish they like their own territory. and we don't have my so told we have so many cats that the month is just don't show up here there was
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a time when the cats were removed from the museum i don't know what happened but in a month we lost half the library because rats ate everything they don't care much for the value of an exhibit even if it's a million dollars they'll still finish it off i know i have a cat at home and i'm starting to look a bit like a cat. i can now like a cat and my like a cat. my cat and it was good he does it like this. it. is my childhood fairy tale where my parents would take me with you when you all get here and forget which century. it felt like your historic. but i remember when i was a child i always wanted to walk around and i strive. to where i had of course it was my dream to play a part and all that somehow to gain access to the archives. this
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hello. must until the big game begins here and this is the story today we're fishing and this is a map of the hermitage to help you find your way around this is where began and this is a clue that you need to get to where you need to go. about this is a quiz that needs to be answered if you get the answer to the question right. and then you get another flyer and go to another room if you need to pay attention to these kiddies here. here you go. of course many of my friends my parents at first asked me why i said because i like it it's my hobby for quite a long time mom couldn't get used to me leaving early for the hermitage and she's
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used to it the family's gotten used to it yeah she said the hermitage she's at home and you can drag her out of there. you know usually come to the museum before opening time and doesn't leave until god closes the main entrance on the tenth anniversary of the volunteer service friends jokes that they should give. them should be able to spend the night there was well. i like it maybe i would have been a housewife maybe i read a book maybe watching t.v. but it's not that interesting it's boring i get bored very quickly so i came here first of all it's a museum there's always something interesting happening here their children today is the home of house cat day and the day involves again we catch big fish and small fish which is the challenge is to find stories devoted to cats and fish. we've set up a few checkpoints in the hermit with volunteers post about them and that's where
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you see the guys all of them taking part in the quest they find the right picture the right story or piece of art the sounds of the questions and then move along the route that. you found a fish you found one so go on read that question see life two large fish glittering with scales it sits on a low table the third one at the feet of the boy who is holding a bowl of succulent fruit and a basket of green the bouyeri presents one of the. summer months. if you put that down next question. the next question. at least your answer. was alan. nugent i really like the way children's health positrons oh i'm helping them nice to have in fine you guessed photon.
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you see that's very very funny. seeing that because. you know. we haven't said this in a cave and i'm. good but it seems like a great game it's really getting teligent in both because they have said identify us back face to it it's not spot on they're all getting excited it's obvious and out and i think they at i find it interesting as well say give them a fight. so that's what i'm so this year's reward for all the participants was a trip to the theater where a musical performance was staged for them because this book that. i. did not know. yes.
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a few years ago a portuguese writer worked with the children here in the same way he had decided to write a book about russia and came to work and. back then volunteers were often bankers who'd gone bust in the crisis children of people who worked in world famous museums . whose father is the louis director. he didn't mention who he was a where he was from like everyone else he helped everywhere. to the conference's he helped with evening events he helped if we had to meet guests or something he helped the department carry boxes folders and he always worked with us here he also talked french here in the department to anyone who wanted. along with everyone else student visitors questions for hours on end sometimes the most unexpected questions . some people think that they're at the russian museum and when they're told at the
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moment they're very surprised with where's the russian art where's the dip and they say you know one time for example a young man came up looking around the room asked where he was he was told you're in a museum. then he was still surprised his second question was but which one exactly did this chinese tourists are an interesting but i've never found anything that they find particularly interesting. the paintings hanging on the poles is just to corrections the same with floors and ceilings i even heard of one group of chinese tourists who turned down a trip to the hermitage because they said they'd already been to the over so they already knew what a music. it was like. in america everyone always talks about the home the ties. the collection of old
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renaissance art that's the most famous stuff that gets talked about america and i of course want to see it and i also in america i study history and reading about. the revolution that was in st petersburg and all the stuff that happened here through history and i got to see that all my first day here and i've seen that many many times and i'm working. one of rayman streams is to join an expedition with just from a message over the summer museums to conduct excavations in russia's regions and inflate everyone to take part in less experience if this is our expedition we've been doing it for fifty years now last year we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary and i have to say that many monuments have been discovered over those fifty years of excavation but we can still say that even more sites remain unknown usually the
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archaeology department i've done translating work about different. archaeological excavations that people have done but signed of the research i've done and also i was doing some translating on renaissance art that's definitely been the most rewarding work because it's been interesting and it also helped me practice russians. in the archaeology department is for many volunteers one of the most interesting places in the museum. you can literally touch history. and to draw these ancient objects from. different things that they found and i need to document this way as of and ted's here helped kill a good partner and you have to be very precise spending these drawings it's not like normal and during my mess out some things hey you need to every every mark is important for that. leaving to be and to be behind the theme of the
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hermitage and to see the. good public feel the best research. which i would have no idea that there were so many selves in shelves of all these different i. think most people wouldn't even. know about what was going on behind. the message stuff sometimes thank the volunteers by giving them free tours for example a tour is a new storage facility in the old village region. of what was stored in the museum was once moved there a million items. the largest being a tent given to russia's interests comes through in the second by the ultimate emperor souls on syria. there was a visit by the turkish ambassador to st petersburg with diplomatic gifts and one of those gifts is this tent it's all around us it's like we're inside the museum
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exhibit. this is i mean a fifth of it the rest is still rolled up and stored away turned his way to launch because it covers about a hundred square meters. along with a new storage facility. will soon be offering the museum of modern art. this building is the left wing of the general headquarters building by carl ross sea in the early nineteenth century before the revolution and. the ministry of finance and the ministry of foreign affairs where here next year this grand reconstruction will end and will have one of the largest contemporary art museums. and one of the two courtyards which have been rebuilt so far we can already see one of the first exhibits of the it's an installation created by the already famous
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russian artist and. they created this immediately after the collapse of the soviet union. members installation. it represents the emergence and growth of the soviet union and its collapse as it. did it actually yes this isn't just a dead body left behind it's part of the installation. we lived through constant construction and during communism so therefore this part probably just represents the continuing construction there is still many things they haven't seen the fermatas but i think one day they'll catch up and join in other events. maybe one day he'll pass something. bank by god i did that as a way to painted over that crack over there it's this is all i was everything that
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you passed by you see it and realize you have something to do with that as well you know also part of history part of the museum part of those accidents. is now all the interior of the habitat and it's new employee after six years of support to the museum she's been offered a job. but even so still volunteers at the end of her working day she hurries to meet the visitors. with a smile. plus . live.
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