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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Aaron the Explorer
Here is New Zealend, hey it looks like Italy!
Aaron shows his early interest to Geography.
Recently Aarosha, start noticing Globe in a corner of our living room. He enjoys spinning it as well as noticing different shapes and colors countries and continents on a globe. For right now he is calling it ball, he is calling ball everything which is round from ball and balloons to the oranges and apples. As well, he is looking for faces of explorers depicted on a globe, when he finds one he becomes very exited, raises hands to the air and and call everyone in a room to show "Dyadya". Here are some picture of Aaron the Explorer.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Moscow Metro in 2047.
Recently I found a really cool map, which is a proposed Plan of Moscow Metro for 2047 the year than Moscow will celebrate its 900 birthday. Certain things I found interesting, if I still was were, I would have to wait another 30 something years ( 37, to be exact) in order for Moscow Metro to reach my beloved Yuzhnoe Izmailovo. Chelybinskaya station would be build on a corner of Chelyabinskaya and Mali Kupavenski proezd , right next to SHVD (ШВД) ( my former Земляки would not need explanations, but for others SHVD is School #689 in Yuzhnoe Izmailovo ( first school in a district which was build in 1978) ).
You would think Chelyabinskaya would be a last stop on its metro line, you are wrong the line would go far beyond the MKAD ( Moscow beltway, unofficial Moscow border). Moscow metro extensively would spread outside of city proper. Pervomayskaya is not going to be a part Blue Line anymore and Shelkovskaya becomes the extension of red line, something what we were waiting patiently back in `80s. It could take our trip from Izmailovo to Sokolniki mach shorter and faster. If you are fan of Moscow metro you would really enjoy this map.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Unknown event in Jewish history
Very big a meaningful event happened for Russian Jewry 83 years ago, on April 2 of 1917. The ill known The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта́ осе́длости, cherta osedlosti) was abolished by The Provisional Government of Russia. I would think, it is one of the biggest event in a Jewish history, which got lost in a pile of events which happened to jews in XX century.
Brief Geographical history of The Pale of Settlement
The Pale of Settlement included the following areas.
1791
The Ukase of Catherine II of December 23, 1791 limited the Pale to:
• Belarus:
o Mogilev guberniya
o Polotsk guberniya (was later reorganized into Vitebsk guberniya)
• Ukraine:
o Yekaterinoslav namestnichestvo (viceroyalty)
o Taurida Oblast (Crimea)
1794
After the Second partition of Poland, the ukase of June 23, 1794, the following areas were added:
• Minsk guberniya
• Mogilev guberniya
• Polotsk guberniya
• Malorossiya:
o major part of Kiev guberniya
o Volhynia (Iziaslav guberniya)
o Podolia (Bratslav guberniya)
• Chernigov guberniya
• Novgorod-Seversk gubernia (later became Poltava guberniya)
1795
After the Third Partition of Poland , the following areas were added:
• Vilna guberniya
• Grodno guberniya
1805–1835
After 1805 the Pale gradually shrinks, by the exclusion of the following areas:
• Lithuanian guberniyas
• Southwestern Krai
• Belarus without rural areas
• Malorossiya without rural areas
• Chernigov guberniya
• Novorossiya without Nikolaev and Sevastopol
• Kiev guberniya without Kiev
• Baltic guberniyas closed for newcoming Jews
• Congress Poland
Rural areas for 50 verst (kilometers) from the western border were closed from new settlement.
Final
• Northwestern Krai (whole; Lithuania, Belarus):
1. Vilna guberniya
2. Kovno guberniya
3. Grodno guberniya
4. Minsk guberniya
5. Mogilev guberniya
6. Vitebsk guberniya (some parts of it are in Pskov Oblast and Smolensk Oblast now)
• Southwestern Krai (part; now in Ukraine):
1. Kiev guberniya
2. Volhynia guberniya
3. Podolia guberniya
• Polish guberniyas (lands of Congress Poland):
1. Warsaw guberniya (Варшавская губерния (Мазовецкая губерния 1837-1844))
2. Lublin guberniya (Люблинская губерния)
3. Płock guberniya (Плоцкая губерния)
4. Kalisz guberniya (Калишская губерния)
5. Piotrkow guberniya (Пётроковская губерния)
6. Kielce guberniya (Келецкая губерния (Краковская губерния 1837-1844))
7. Radom guberniya (Радомская губерния)
8. Siedlce guberniya (Седлецкая губерния (Подлясская губерния 1837-1844))
9. Augustow guberniya (Августовская губерния 1837–1867), split into:
1. Suwałki guberniya (Сувалкская губерния)
2. Łomża guberniya (Ломжинская губерния)
Others:
1. Chernigov guberniya (some parts of it are in Bryansk Oblast now)
2. Poltava guberniya
3. Tavrida guberniya (Crimea)
4. Kherson guberniya
5. Bessarabia guberniya
6. Ekaterinoslav guberniya
In 1882 it was forbidden for Jews to settle in rural areas.
The following cities within the Pale were excluded from it:
• Kiev (the ukase of December 2, 1827: eviction of Jews from Kiev)
• Nikolaev
• Sevastopol
• Yalta
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Future Vladimir Horowitz at the Piano.
Future Vladimir Horowitz at the Piano.
Picture was made 0n March 13, 2009 at Grand Sorokin's Birthday Party. Aaron was entertaining the guests with his piano playing.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Europe’s Alcohol Belts.
Remember around year and a half ago, I presented my readers map of Europe representing popularity staffed cabbage vs. staffed peppers.
http://katzmanyata.blogspot.com/2008/08/stuffed-cabbage-vs-stuffed-peppers.html
However recently I stumbled on similar thematic Europe maps , only now lets talk about drinking habits of ‘Old’ continent.
This map shows Europe dominated by three so-called ‘alcohol belts’, the northernmost one for distilled spirits, a middle one for beer and the southernmost one for wine. Each one’s existence and extension is determined by a mix of culture and agriculture.
The Wine Belt covers the southern parts of Europe, where wine has historically been an important industry and an everyday commodity: the whole of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova and Georgia; all but the northwestern zone of France; and significant parts of Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, and Romania.
Either through effects of climate change or renewed viticultural enthusiasm, grapes and wine-making have in recent years been introduced in areas to the north of the traditional Wine Belt, in southern Britain and the Low Countries, creating an overlap between Wine and Beer Belts. That overlap is often ancient rather than recent; the introduction not rarely is a reintroduction. And indeed, southwestern Germany, for example, has an ancient and unbroken tradition of wine-making.
The Beer Belt comprises areas where beer has been the alcoholic beverage of choice since times immemorial: Ireland and the UK, the Low Countries, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Albania; most of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia and Romania; and significant, western parts of Poland. Beer production requires the cultivation of cereals, so this is a climatic-agricultural precondition for the Beer Belt.
An interesting co-explanation for the prevalence of beer in southern parts of this belt is the relatively weak cultural influence of the Roman Empire on these places. The Wine Belt indeed conforms to a large extent with the territory formerly occupied by Rome, with notable exceptions in areas with large Slavic or Germanic migration (the Balkans, southwestern Germany, northern France respectively), where beer predominates (although often overlapping with wine).
The Vodka Belt occupies what’s left of Europe, to the east and north: Scandinavia (except Denmark), Russia, the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and central and eastern Poland. There is a climatological imperative to the Vodka Belt: freezing temperatures make grape cultivation impossible (except in southernmost Russia and some areas of Ukraine). So there’s almost no overlap possible between the Vodka and Wine Belts. For cultural reasons, however, the Vodka Belt has been losing ground to the Beer Belt. Scandinavians tend to drink more beer than before (although possibly this doesn’t mean they drink less wodka). Maybe this is due to the perception of beer correlating more with ‘core European’ behaviour (as it is the preferred alcoholic beverage of Britain, Germany and other influential and centrally positioned countries). That might explain the emergence in Poland, some years ago, of a Beer-Lovers’ Party (which actually won seats in the Polish Parliament in the early 1990s). Beer has since surpassed wodka as the most consumed type of alcohol in Poland.
http://katzmanyata.blogspot.com/2008/08/stuffed-cabbage-vs-stuffed-peppers.html
However recently I stumbled on similar thematic Europe maps , only now lets talk about drinking habits of ‘Old’ continent.
This map shows Europe dominated by three so-called ‘alcohol belts’, the northernmost one for distilled spirits, a middle one for beer and the southernmost one for wine. Each one’s existence and extension is determined by a mix of culture and agriculture.
The Wine Belt covers the southern parts of Europe, where wine has historically been an important industry and an everyday commodity: the whole of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova and Georgia; all but the northwestern zone of France; and significant parts of Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, and Romania.
Either through effects of climate change or renewed viticultural enthusiasm, grapes and wine-making have in recent years been introduced in areas to the north of the traditional Wine Belt, in southern Britain and the Low Countries, creating an overlap between Wine and Beer Belts. That overlap is often ancient rather than recent; the introduction not rarely is a reintroduction. And indeed, southwestern Germany, for example, has an ancient and unbroken tradition of wine-making.
The Beer Belt comprises areas where beer has been the alcoholic beverage of choice since times immemorial: Ireland and the UK, the Low Countries, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Albania; most of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia and Romania; and significant, western parts of Poland. Beer production requires the cultivation of cereals, so this is a climatic-agricultural precondition for the Beer Belt.
An interesting co-explanation for the prevalence of beer in southern parts of this belt is the relatively weak cultural influence of the Roman Empire on these places. The Wine Belt indeed conforms to a large extent with the territory formerly occupied by Rome, with notable exceptions in areas with large Slavic or Germanic migration (the Balkans, southwestern Germany, northern France respectively), where beer predominates (although often overlapping with wine).
The Vodka Belt occupies what’s left of Europe, to the east and north: Scandinavia (except Denmark), Russia, the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and central and eastern Poland. There is a climatological imperative to the Vodka Belt: freezing temperatures make grape cultivation impossible (except in southernmost Russia and some areas of Ukraine). So there’s almost no overlap possible between the Vodka and Wine Belts. For cultural reasons, however, the Vodka Belt has been losing ground to the Beer Belt. Scandinavians tend to drink more beer than before (although possibly this doesn’t mean they drink less wodka). Maybe this is due to the perception of beer correlating more with ‘core European’ behaviour (as it is the preferred alcoholic beverage of Britain, Germany and other influential and centrally positioned countries). That might explain the emergence in Poland, some years ago, of a Beer-Lovers’ Party (which actually won seats in the Polish Parliament in the early 1990s). Beer has since surpassed wodka as the most consumed type of alcohol in Poland.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Party at Aaron's House
After long delay, Katzman Cinema Production is ready to relies the latest Aron's film.
Aaron host the party at his house, and by being a nice host he entertains everyone with a good variety of music, dance and food table spread. After the party Aaron takes time to clean up the place after whole day of fun and dance.
Enjoy!!!!!
Aaron host the party at his house, and by being a nice host he entertains everyone with a good variety of music, dance and food table spread. After the party Aaron takes time to clean up the place after whole day of fun and dance.
Enjoy!!!!!
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