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Maryland's top cop Marilyn Mosby was indicted for lying on mortgage loan applications for two vacation properties she purchased in Florida.
Mosby, a Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of perjury and making false statements on mortgage loan applications, Yahoo News reported. The indictment was unsealed on Thursday.
The indictment alleges the mom-of-two lied about experiencing "adverse financial consequences" during the pandemic in 2020.
Federal prosecutors say her gross salary of nearly $250,000 increased by nearly $10,000 between 2019 and 2020.
The indictment also alleges that Mosby lied on a COVID relief application. She claimed she lost income during the pandemic and received $36,000, which she used "toward a down payment for a vacation home in Kissimmee Florida" in September 2020.
The indictment accuses Mosby of lying on applications for mortgages of nearly $500,000 for the Kissimmee, Florida, home and a nearly $430,000 mortgage for a condominium in Long Boat Key, Florida.
Mosby faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for each count of perjury and a maximum of 30 years for each count of making false mortgage applications.
Mosby, 41, gained notoriety in 2015 for prosecuting five Baltimore police officers who arrested 25-year-old Freddie Gray in 2015.
Gray was found unresponsive in the back of a paddy wagon. He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The five officers were eventually acquitted of all charges.
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Yes, Barbara Walters had three husbands but was married four times. Here's how that came to be and everything else you need to know about her ex-husbands.
Barbara Walters is a renowned journalist. She has interviewed an immeasurable number of celebrities including Donald Trump, Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey, and hosted shows like 20/20 and The Today Show. However, she is best known for creating and starring on The View. She launched the popular all-female daytime talk show in 1997. She lead firey debates on the series until she announced her retirement from television in 2014.
As far as her personal life goes, the journalist and TV personality was married four times. However, she only had four husbands. While this may seem like on of those brain-teasing riddles, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Here's how Barbara Walters got married four times and everything you need to know about her three husbands.
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Barbara Walters was married to Robert Henry Katz from 1955 to 1957. (Dave Pickoff/AP/Shutterstock)
Robert Henry Katz was Barbara's first husband. He has had a fulfilling life as a former Navy lieutenant and business executive. He and Barbara got married on June 20, 1955, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. She was just 26 years old at the time and her career in journalism hadn't taken off yet. Unfortunately, their marriage didn't last long. They filed for divorce in 1957 and had their marriage annulled in 1958.
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Barbara Walters was married to Lee Guber from 1963 to 1976. (AP/Shutterstock)
Lee Guber was Barbara's second husband. Lee was also involved in the entertainment industry as a theatrical producer and theater owner. They wed on December 8, 1963, as Barbara was in the early stages of her journey at NBC's The Today Show. A few years into their marriage, they explored the option of having children. Unfortunately, they struggled to have a child on their own biologically which lead them down the path of adoption. When their friends who were looking to adopt a boy were offered a girl, Barbara and Lee jumped at the opportunity. They adopted Jacqueline Dena Guber when she was an infant in 1968. Barbara and Lee got divorced after 13 years of marriage in 1976 when their daughter was just eight years old.
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Barbara Walters and Merv Adelson were married from 1981 to 1984 and then 1986 to 1992. (Mark Terrill/AP/Shutterstock)
Merv Adelson is the lucky husband that got to marry Barbara not once but twice. The two met on a blind date that one could say went exceedingly well. Barbara got married to the CEO of Lorimar Television in 1981 as her career was booming and she was getting started on 20/20. The pair ended up divorcing in 1984, the year she landed the co-host spot on 20/20 alongside Hugh Downs.
They attempted to rekindle their relationship and even got married again in 1986. Unfortunately, the second time wasn't a charm for them and they ended up splitting again in 1992. Barbara, however, didn't hold their marriages not working out against him. "Merv was a kind and gentle man with a great sense of humor," Barbara told The New York Times. "We stayed friends long after our marriage."
Merv was a big name in the entertainment industry aside from dating Barbara. He was known as the mogul behind hit shows like The Waltons and Dallas. However, his ventures weren't limited to the entertainment industry. He branched out and invested in the idea of a "24-hour market" opening Market Town off the Vegas strip in 1953. He paired up with a man named Molasky to open the Las Vegas Country Club which was funded by mob boss Moe Dalitz. Merv and the rest of them were exposed in 1963's "The Green Felt Jungle." Merv insisted to Vanity Fair in 2013.
Sources are EXCLUSIVELY revealing how Pamela Anderson's reflecting on her divorce from Dan Hayhurst after a little over a year of marriage.
Pamela Anderson is divorcing from her bodyguard husband Dan Hayhurst of a little more than a year and now, a source close to the actress is revealing her feelings about the split. "Pamela got married to Dan for the wrong reasons. She was in lust, not love. And because they were in the middle of a pandemic, he really helped to get her through that dark time," a source EXCLUSIVELY revealed to HollywoodLife.
"They quarantined together and it was beautiful. The emotions were so raw and he was exactly what Pamela needed at the time. But right before the holidays, Pamela realized that this wasn't working for either one of them," the insider shared. "First off, she did not like living in Canada. She is a California girl through and through and not being close to her sons really got to her. It is over and the divorce is going through but there is no bad blood. You won't hear either one of them talking bad about the other one. It just didn't work anymore."
Pamela Anderson (Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock).
An additional source close to the family told us that Pam's sons Brandon and Dylan are "extremely supportive of their mom no matter what" and that they're "glad she's back in LA" to spend more quality time together. "Brandon and Dylan trust that their mom knows what's best for her and that she makes the best decisions for herself," the insider spilled. "They're proud that she is able to know what she wants in someone and would never settle for less. They know their mom thought this marriage would last forever, so they're disappointed for her that it didn't work out but they love their mom and whatever makes her happy makes them happy."
Pamela Anderson (People Picture/Willi Schneider/Shutterstock).
Pamela got married in a private, intimate ceremony over the 2020 holidays to Dan. The pair began dating in Sept. 2020 seven months after Pam's split from movie mogul Jon Peters. They were living at Pamela's Vancouver island home but now the Baywatch actress is moved back to Malibu and has taken off her ring. This will be her 5th divorce.
Sources close to the Kardashians EXCLUSIVELY reveal Kim's feelings regarding those feud-baiting lyrics of ex Kanye West's about her new beau, Pete Davidson.
After Kim Kardashian's ex Kanye West released a new track, "Eazy," which talked about beating her new flame Pete Davidson's "a–," fans wondered about how Kim felt about the ordeal. "Kim doesn't think that Kanye is doing himself any favors by bashing Pete. If anything, it's only making them grow closer because Pete's sympathizing with Kim throughout this ordeal," a source close to Kim revealed EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife. "Kim figured by divorcing Kanye that there would be some distance between them. But Kanye is trying to spend more time with Kim than they did when they were married. She just thinks Kanye wants what he can't have and she's not paying any attention to it."
Kanye West & Kim Kardashian (MediaPunch/Shutterstock).
In addition, another source shared with us that Kanye was "clearly trying to get a reaction out of Kim or out of Pete," but Kim is smart enough to tell her new beau to "leave it alone" and not react. "She knows that staying silent is the best way to deal with this because, ultimately, Kanye will unravel on his own," they shared. "She doesn't want her, or her relationship with Pete, used as part of Kanye's victim party. Pete isn't scared of Kanye at all and, if this were any other time, he would use SNL to fire back at him. But because Pete respects her, he is not going to say anything about this – at least not right now," they shared. "The only thing that Kim wants from Kanye is for their divorce to be finalized and for a clean break."
Lucky for Kim, her new boyfriend is definitely on her side and unwilling to fan the flames of the feud. "Pete is going to take the high road when it comes to dissing Kanye in a stand-up act or SNL," another insider also revealed to HL. "He may eventually talk about it in a interview down the line but right now the way the relationship is going with Kim and the way his career is going he is not going to latch on controversy if he doesn't have to."
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I'm a mom who loves food: I love to eat, cook, and watch anything food related. Having one kid who is a very picky eater and one who is more adventurous, I find that watching family-friendly food docs and TV shows together encourages them to try new things. Even better, it often encourages them to want to cook themselves.
From educational and inspiring food documentaries to fun cooking competition shows, these 7 docs and food TV shows for kids — that are fun for us to watch too — are sure to educate and entertain. Or at the very least, make everyone hungry.
Fed Up is a documentary available on Netflix narrated by Katie Couric that uses statistics, research, and interviews about the effects of sugar on our bodies. It follows several families struggling with childhood obesity and their efforts to cut back on their sugar intake. It's a bit sensationalized and may have you reading every nutrition label like a hawk, but it's a really good reminder — or maybe a wake up call — about the impact that too much sugar has on our bodies.
My family saw this film at a film festival screening a couple of years back and I loved that it encouraged us to started reading labels and inspired healthier eating. For awhile at least. After all of the ice cream we've eaten this summer, I think we may watch Fed UP again for family movie night soon.
Like Fed Up, The Kids Menu is a documentary available on Netflix about how healthy eating, especially in childhood, is very important. Unlike Fed Up, The Kids Menu uses a more upbeat approach: It shows kids and schools making positive changes with food and nutrition as part of their education. Whether it's a school-garden-to-table program or kids working to get healthier lunch choices in their school cafeteria, this is such a great documentary for families with younger kids that will help foster an appreciation for real food and maybe some activism too.
If your family loves food competition shows then you should check out The Great British Baking Show on Netflix. It's an absolutely fab baking contest that my girls and I are obsessed with. You get the competition, big personality judges, and tons of drool-worthy shots of sweets, all with a British twist. Besides great accents and different baking terms for an American audience — biscuits are cookies, not buttery rolls of bread — we love how the contestants and judges are all so nice and supportive of each other. Well done!
Related: The best culinary summer camps for kids around the country. You both reap the rewards!
My 10-year-old loves every season of Kids Baking Championship on Food Network and I love watching with her. It's hard not to love the 12 kids who compete for the best baker title in a 10 week competition. Their skills are seriously amazing and all of the kids are really likable. You'll root for them all, and also love the judges. Ace of Cakes' Duff Goldman and actress/cook Valerie Bertinelli are sweet and so supportive.
Perhaps a more powerful way than lecturing to get your kids to keep from wasting their food is to watch A Place at the Table. This powerful doc available on Hulu takes a good look at hunger right here in the United States. By showing real communities dealing with poverty and food insecurity, this film will help kids become more aware of the issue. It's a fantastic opportunity to open their eyes to the fact that even some of their classmates might get their meals from government assistance programs or food pantries. And it may inspire you and your family to donate to your local food pantry.
My teen can't get enough of Good Eats, the show that made Alton Brown famous. Netflix offered all 252 episodes, but sadly that run ended. However, you can still watch videos on FoodNetwork.com, Hulu, and The Cooking Channel. If you haven't watched before, the show breaks down the science of cooking with humor, fun and quirky props, and weird characters and skits. It's like a cooking show mixed with The Pee Wee Herman Show, if you can imagine that. Brown has hinted that the popular show may return next year and I can't wait!
The kid version of the popular Chopped on Food Network is great for families with younger kids. Even older kids who love the grownup series will want to see other tweens and teens compete. Each episode of Chopped Junior features three different contestants who have to cook three meals for various judges. The least favorite gets eliminate, aka chopped, and the winner gets $10,000. It's a fun, fast-paced show that will inspire all ages to work on their cooking skills.


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Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential is a type of postsynaptic potential where the binding of neurotransmitters with the postsynaptic receptors causes the opening of ion channels which results in hyperpolarization (or the net gain of negative charge across the membrane) thus the firing of an action potential from the postsynaptic cell is less likely. In general, the resting potential of a neuron is about -70mV and the firing threshold of an action potential is about -50mV. When there is a net gain of negative charge across the membrane of a postsynaptic neuron, the potential moves further to zero or away from the firing threshold. Hence, the postsynaptic potential is inhibitory since the probability to fire an action potential is reduced. Abbreviation: IPSP.
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
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Various scholarships and grants are available for college women interested in business. You can get a grant to help you pursue your education. Sources of college grants include federal, state, and local governments, businesses, private foundations and nonprofit organizations. Check for available grants through your school, such as grants funded by alumni or local businesses and organizations. Some grants allow you to renew or reapply for assistance annually until you graduate. Grants are sometimes need-based, meaning that to qualify for aid, you must demonstrate financial need.
Junior and senior undergraduate students studying business management should apply for a Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship (zonta.org). Multiple students are selected annually and receive a $5,000 award. The application includes an essay of up to 500 words and two recommendations, from a professor and an employer/supervisor/academic adviser.
Rising high school seniors and undergraduates are eligible for a $1,000 College Business Scholarship through scholarships.com. To apply, a 250- to 350-word essay must be submitted. For the 2010 application, students should discuss personal influences that affected their desire to study business.
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Women in Defense offers the HORIZONS Scholarship to female students (wid.ndia.org). Business majors are eligible if their studies or career goals relate to national defense or security. Students have to be U.S. citizens, though both full- and part-time students qualify.
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The National Association for the Self-Employed has a scholarship for future entrepreneurs (nase.org). The professional organization awards $12,000 for the first year and $4,000 each subsequent year. Leadership skills, financial need, grades, extracurricular activities, and recommendations all are factors that the selection committee assesses.
The National Federation of Independent Business (nfib.com) provides grants to teen entrepreneurs pursuing higher education, including at a vocational or technical school. One national recipient receives $10,000, four regional recipients receive $5,000, and several other students can receive $1,000.
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Duane Loynes describes himself first and foremost as a family man—husband to Ericka and father to 12-year-old Duane, Jr.—but he is also a scholar at heart.
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"One day I looked at my bookshelf and saw that all the books I was reading for fun dealt with theology, philosophy, and religion," he says.
He left Stevens, packed his bags and headed to Chicago. There he worked in the IT department of Wheaton College while finishing a BA in Communication and Organizational Leadership at Trinity International University.
Eleven days after graduation he began taking graduate courses at Wheaton, earning his MA in theology in 2005. Two years later, he earned an MA in philosophy from Northern Illinois University.
Duane is now in a doctoral program at Marquette University, working on his dissertation. He is examining the way Christian theology makes space for racism—for instance, the KKK uses the Christian cross as its symbol, yet for some reason people are not scandalized by that. He is delving into the philosophical foundations for the way Christians engage the world, including issues of apologetics, atheism, gender, and race.
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'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah credits success to Black women, fans in farewell address
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After seven years in the role, "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah signed off for the final time Thursday evening.
Noah, who was chosen for the role in 2015 following the departure of longtime host Jon Stewart, took a few minutes at the end of the episode to share his gratefulness and the things he has learned over the years as the late-night host.
The South African comedian described his time as the face of the Comedy Central program as "a wild ride" and the "craziest journey that I didn't predict, I didn't expect."
Leading up to his final goodbye, Noah spent most of the episode reminiscing on memories and joking about his departure and future plans with his correspondents, also known as the "World's Fakest News Team."
When it was his time to sign off, Noah began by thanking the audience and then shared three things he said he learned at the helm of the show. The first being that "issues are real" and politics are a made up way of trying to solve the issues.
Acknowledging he has only been in America for a "relatively short time," Noah went on to explain the divisiveness between the two-party system and said issues aren't Republican or Democrat.
The left-leaning host, who occasionally took shots at the Democratic Party on the satirical news show, even credited former President Trump for his prison reform policies and said he wished he could have better explained the importance in not fixating on the party a person may associate with.
The second thing Noah said he learned is that context matters and without it "nothing makes sense." He noted that the world reacts to short video clips where what happened before the video and after the video may not be included or even publicly available.
"Maybe we shouldn't have an opinion immediately," Noah suggested. "Maybe we should wait and see what happened."
The final learning he shared with the audience is that the world is "a friendlier place than the Internet and the news will make you think."
Noah ended his farewell address with a spew of "thank yous" to his and the show's fans, his family and his coworkers. He said "The Daily Show" taught him to "be grateful for everything he has."
"I remember when we started the show, we couldn't get enough people to fill the audience," Noah said. "Thank you to the people who watch, the people who share the clips, everyone who's had an opinion, everyone who's been kind enough and gracious enough."
He also thanked the people who "hate watched" the show and said he is eternally grateful to them because they helped get the ratings.
Noah also issued a specific thank you to Black women. He credited his intelligence and success to the influences of his mother, grandmother, aunt and other "Black women in his life."
"If you truly want to learn about America, talk to Black women. Unlike everybody else, Black women can't afford to f*** around and find out. Black people understand how hard it is when things go bad, especially in America," Noah said with tear-filled eyes. (Fox)
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The Hochkönig region is a home of variety, and this is expecially evident in Summer. The beauty of the region around its 2,941m namesake mountain is rich in variety and is home to limitless possibilities for sportspeople and families with children alike, from idyllic herbal Alms to Natrun, the Adventure mountain, from fast mountainbiking flowtrails through to hiking routes with breathtaking views.
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Now a whole entire airplane has vanished into thin air. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 souls lost contact with air traffic control and disappeared. Known as Flight MH370, it is a B777-200 aircraft heading to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Associated Press reports that the flight lost contact somewhere over Vietnam.
There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the plane would vanished from radar screens almost an hour after it took off. There are reports of two oil slicks off the coast but absolutely no wreckage has yet to be found. Where did the plane go?
There is only one possible answer. Aliens.
Aliens have been abducting ships and planes in the Burmuda Triangle for as long as civilized people have been sailing those seas. Could the aliens have decided to abduct yet another plane form a different place?
"We are not ruling out any possibilities," Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference full of journalists.
Now it is being reported that atleast two of the people on the plane had stolen passports. The passenger manifest issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans, Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi, both of which were not on the plane, according to their foreign ministries. Both men reported their passports stolen in Thailand in 2013. There were no indications of sabotage nor claims of a terrorist attack, but Thailand is known as a hotbed of alien activity.
So once again, the only possible cause is Aliens.
So will this finally drive our Government to admit that there really is an alien race here on our soil and in our air? Will Obama finally stop asking the Russians to fly us to space and reinvest in NASA so that we can fight this Alien scourge? Calls to the White House were not returned.


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Q: Categorize Django + AngularJS real world examples I am working on a project with Django and AngularJS. I am a bit experienced with both, but I never integrated one into the other, and I have difficulties finding real world examples, (apart from tutorials, libraries and starter kits), that would help bring me to the next level.
I would like to read code to see all the tools used (building assets, deployment,…), the project layout, the answer to specific problems, etc. As I think I've reach a point where reading tutorials isn't enough.
I want to read other people's code while I build my app.
I have found good entry points with the doc from Django-Angular, the "two scoops of Django" book and a good seed, but to build real project this is not enough.
I would love to see examples with the following information:

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*Assets build system: (Django-pipeline, Grunt, Gulp, other ?)

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*Javascript, Coffee, Rapyd, Pure, other ?

*Html, Jade, other ?

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*3 way data-binding: (yes/no)

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*Django and Angular versions

*other characteristics
I'll give an example answer with the aforementioned seed, which isn't satisfactory because it is just a seed.
Thanks !

A: Django, Angular, Bootstrap, Gulp -  Cookiecutter seed

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*Project: https://github.com/bearstech/cookiecutter-Django-bootstrap-angular/

*Assets build system: gulp and javascript, html, bootstrap

*REST api: No

*3 way data-binding: No

*Uses djangular: No

*Many Django apps: No

*Deployment automation: No

*Running on production: No

*Own documentation: Scarce (Setup instructions only)

*Django and Angular versions: Django 1.7, and 'latest' JS libraries

*Other characteristics : Cookiecutter seed example

Taiga
Taiga is a management tool with scrum in mind (free accounts). It is divided into multiple parts, where the backend is written with Django, the front-end, with AngularJS. Also includes a ncurses client.

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*Project: https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back and https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-front

*Front-end technos : Coffee, Jade, SASS; Gulp

*REST api: Yes (Django Rest Framework)

*Uses Djangular: No

*On production: Yes

*Own documentation: Yes (Sphinx. Not complete.)

*Django and Angular versions: 1.7 & 1.2

*Other: The Angular front-end is served by Ruby-on-Rails O_o

Real World - full stack Medium.com clone with many stacks (of which Django, Angularjs, Angular2, Vuejs,…)

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*Project: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

*rest api: yes, all backends and frontends consume the same api.

*documentation: tutorials for each stack

Pootle (Django + Backbone)
Pootle is a community localization server. It is an online tool that makes the process of translating so much simpler. It allows crowd-sourced translations, easy volunteer contribution and gives statistics about the ongoing work.
The backend is written in Django, the front-end in Backbone (sorry, small entorse to this post !).

A: I use both AngualarJS and Django tools in one project, but both tools are unrelated since they don't adress the same cases.
When you say "integrated one into the other", I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but here is one way to make them work together:

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*You create a Django app, and write a REST API (using DRF, Tastypie, Restless, etc..).

*You create a AngularJS app, and you call the webservices of your server, using $http

EDIT :
If you want to avoid duplicating code with for example data validation, you can make your validation at a "server level", not at the "form" level. Let me explain:
When you're doing form validation in Django, your kind of making the validation in the "client side" (which is not technically true but nevermind). So if you have another app in AngularJS, of course you won't be able to reuse the validation logic that you put in Django.
However, if you decide to process the validation in the models, as a part of your business logic, and that you use webservices for angularJS clients, here what's happens:

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*When you try to submit a form with a Django page, the business logic is called

*When you try to submit a POST request with your data to your server API using AngularJS, the same business logic will be called.

This way you have one business logic for your both "clients".
But if you want to perform frontend validation, of course you will need to write N verifications for N clients.

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Increasing of irrigated lands
The task for the agricultural sector is to increase the area of irrigated land to 3.5 million ha by 2028
In Kazakhstan, by 2028, the plan is to bring the area of irrigated land to 3.5 million hectares. It is planned to restore abandoned but demanded land on an area of 600 thousand ha and introduce new – 1 500 thousand ha. The amount that is planned to be allocated for these purposes is also known – 1 233 million tenge, with gross output amounting to 3 727 billion tenge. Such ambitious goals are defined in the Irrigated Land Development Plan 2028. For the development of irrigation infrastructure, it is necessary to switch to financing with the involvement of private investments and international credit organizations. Today the agricultural enterprises are the main consumers of water.
Innovations will help
A special role in the implementation of the task is given to innovative water-saving technologies. Indeed, one million hectares will be irrigated using advanced technologies. It is necessary to reduce water losses during transportation of surface water resources for agricultural needs by 1.24 km3. The introduction of the drip irrigation will allow farmers to save up to 40% of water, reduce the amount of fertilizer to 50%, as they are applied directly to the root zone along with irrigation, and most importantly - such technologies can increase productivity by 1.5-3 times. Irrigation rates for drip irrigation are 2-4 times less than for irrigation with furrows, and irrigation rate and specific costs of irrigation water are 1.5-2 times less. Use of sprinkling machines, in turn, will increase productivity by almost 2 times. The farmers of Pavlodar region, who switched to advanced irrigated technologies, have already seen the result. In one of the peasant farms in the region this year, 20 hectares were sown under drip irrigation. Productivity is impressive. Up to 35 tons per hectare of beets were collected. Great potato harvest. If the average yield in the region is just over 28 tons per hectare, then here it is up to 45 tons. Innovations are also actively used when using traditional irrigation systems. Thus, before the water channel was simply concreted with reinforced concrete, now geo-membrane grids, films and other insulating materials are used, which at times reduce water losses. From January 1, 2018, for each hectare on which water-saving technology is applied, the state returns 350 thousand tenge in the form of subsidies.
Now the country has 1.4 million hectares of irrigated land. Most of them are in the southern regions. In the Turkestan region - 38%, almost 30% are in the Almaty region, 14% - in the Kyzylorda region and 8% in the Zhambyl region. The new plan provides that the area of irrigated land will be increased in Karaganda, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan, Akmola and East Kazakhstan regions. Thus, in the Pavlodar region, in recent years, the area of irrigated land annually increases by 5 thousand hectares. A considerable role in this is played by innovation. By 2022, the irrigation area in the region is planned to be increased by 4.6 times - from 46.8 to 210.6 thousand hectares.
Future challenges
Today in Kazakhstan, irrigated lands account for 7% of the total sown area and 40% of the total gross agricultural product is grown on these irrigated lands. The program plans to increase the share of irrigated land to 15%, and the share of gross product - up to 80%. In addition, it is planned that 70% of the products thus obtained will be exported abroad. Simple arithmetic: if today 3 tons of corn are produced using traditional irrigation methods, then with the use of innovative irrigation technologies they will already receive up to 10 tons, thus, the yield will increase by 33.5 times. That is not all. Today, cattle are fed with wheat, which costs 50 thousand tenge per ton, which in turn affects the price of meat. Corn, on the other hand costs slightly less, so the yield of meat products will be cheaper. Thus, one follows from the other. Obviously, the increase in irrigated land will help maintain the country's food security, provide raw materials for the manufacturing industry, and preserve jobs and a source of income for a significant part of the rural population.
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Livin' on the Edge of Riots
Livin' on the Edge, written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Mark Hudson, was released in 1993 as the first single from the band's commercially successful Aerosmith's album Get a Grip. According to the band's autobiography Walk This Way,this single was inspired by the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
The song is one of Aerosmith's most successful attempts at tackling social issues. It reflects on the sorry state of the world ("There's something wrong with the world today"), religion ("We're seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain't his"), racism ("If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin"), among other things. However, the lyrics in the song also suggest that the world is still worth living in ("We could tell 'em no, or we could let it go, but I would rather be a-hangin' on"). The lyrics also contain a reference to the Yardbirds song, Mister You're a Better Man Than I (Aerosmith had previously recorded a version of a song popularized by the Yardbirds, "Train Kept A-Rollin'").
The music video for Livin' on the Edge is notable for a number of things, including depicting vandalism, theft (notably grand theft auto), joyriding, airbag crashing, unprotected sex, and violence among school-aged youth, cross-dressing teachers, a naked Steven Tyler holding a zipper by his crotch with half his body painted black (to give the effect he pulled down a zipper, unzipping his body) and lead guitarist Joe Perry playing a lead guitar solo in front of an oncoming train. Directed by Marty Callner, the video was praised for its groundbreaking theatrical scenes and special effects. The video featured acting by Edward Furlong.
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Rush to Exit… Stage Left
Hugh Syme is notably responsible for all of Rush's album cover art since 1975's Caress of Steel. He is also a musician and has appeared in some Rush songs as a keyboard player and he has contributed as a musician with Ian Thomas Band and Tiles.
The album cover for Caress of Steel was intended to be printed in a silver colour to give it a "steel" appearance. A printing error resulted in giving the album cover a copper colour. The error was not corrected on subsequent printings of the album.
The Starman emblem (also known as the 'Man in the Star' logo) was adopted by Rush fans as a logo since its first appearance on the back cover of 2112. Peart described the Starman in an interview with Creem magazine:
"All (the naked man) means is the abstract man against the masses. The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality."
In 1983 Hugh Syme told Jeffrey Morgan that he never imagined the band would use the Starman as their main logo.
The title of this album alludes to William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.
Permanent Waves (1980)
The cover art sparked some controversy because of the appearance of the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline on the newspaper. Because of pressure from the Chicago Tribune, cover designer Hugh Syme changed the text to "Dewei Defeats Truman". The billboards in the distance were changed from Coca-Cola (who objected to the use of their logo) to include each band member's name in similar type style.
The background scene comes from a photo, taken by Flip Schulke, of the Galveston Seawall in Texas during Hurricane Carla on September 11, 1961. The woman pictured in the foreground is model Paula Turnbull. The waving man in the background is Hugh Syme.
The title is from the signature catchphrase "Exit, stage left!" of the Hanna-Barbera pink mountain lion cartoon character Snagglepuss (coincidentally, Time Warner, former owners of Rush's later label Atlantic Records, owns the H-B properties today). The term "stage left" is a stage direction used in blocking to identify the left side of a theater from the point of view of the performer, as opposed to the point of view of the audience.
An item from each of Rush's previous eight studio album covers can be seen on the front and back cover of this live album, though each has been modified in some way. The owl from Fly by Night flies above Apollo, the man in the suit from Hemispheres, who stands next to the woman from Permanent Waves. The puppet king from A Farewell to Kings sits atop a box stenciled with the "Rush" logo from Rush. Next to him is a painting of the Caress of Steel album cover, held by one of the movers from Moving Pictures, with another mover standing behind. Next to this is Dionysus, the nude man from Hemispheres. Behind this scene, the starman from 2112 hangs in the background, next to an "EXIT" sign. This entire foreground scene, shot in Toronto's then-abandoned Winter Garden Theatre, is on the left side of the stage (from the point of view of the artist), thus "Exit…Stage Left".
"…The essence of these songs is: if there's a chance, you might as well take it. So what if some parts of life are a crap shoot? Get out there and shoot the crap. A random universe doesn't have to be futile; we can change the odds, load the dice, and roll again…. For anyone who hasn't seen Groucho Marx's game show You Bet Your Life, I mean that no one but Groucho knows the secret word, and one guess is as good as another… Anything can happen. That is called fate.
Counterparts (1993)
Retrospective I (1997)
Retrospective II (1997)
Vapor Trails (2002)
The album features eight covers of songs that were influential for the band members during the 1960s.
According to drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, inspiration for the title of the album was conceived after considerable research from several sources; the 2000-year-old Buddhist game called Leela, the Game of Self Knowledge, the related children's game Snakes and Ladders (also known as Chutes and Ladders), and Hamlet's quote "slings and arrows." This information helped convince bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson to adopt the original painting of the age old game board as the cover for the new album.
The album's cover depicts a clock marked with alchemical symbols instead of numbers. It displays the time as 9:12 (21:12 in 24-hour time), in reference to the band's 2112 album and its title suite. Other symbols are incorporated into the band name and album title.
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This half-day Target Zero Training course is designed to raise awareness levels of individuals, to the potential of asbestos exposure in the workplace.
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Individuals with a direct or indirect responsibility for the management of asbestos in the workplace.Furthermore,the training is suitable for individuals coming into contact with asbestos,as part of their daily work activity. Therefore anyone who is working on the fabric of buildings, this will include anything from putting up a picture hook to large-scale refurbishment. Of value to: general maintenance staff, electricians, plumbers, gas fitters, painters and decorators, joiners, plasterers, demolition workers, construction workers, roofers, heating and ventilation engineers, telecommunication engineers, burglar and fire alarm installers, computer installers, architects, building surveyors, shop fitters, other such professionals and their supervisors.


000197281 520__ $$aThis paper presents new sufficient conditions under which a field (or image) can be perfectly reconstructed from its samples on a union of two lattices that share a common coarse lattice. In particular, if samples taken on the first lattice can be used to reconstruct a field bandlimited to some spectral support region, and likewise samples taken on the second lattice can reconstruct a field bandlimited to another spectral support region, then under certain conditions, a field bandlimited to the union of these two spectral regions can be reconstructed from its samples on the union of the two respective lattices. These results generalize a previous perfect reconstruction theorem for Manhattan sampling, where data is taken at high density along evenly spaced rows and columns of a rectangular grid. Additionally, a sufficient condition is given under which the Landau lower bound is achieved.


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In November 2015, TLC ambitiously aimed to raise £10k with an online crowdfunder. The target was smashed, and the money raised helped create TLC in the Ark youth and community centre in Harehills.
Near Neighbours, a charity supporting work bringing people with diverse backgrounds together, featured TLC in a short film they produced.
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Q: typescript/js comparing arrays of objects adding new key value My goal is to compare 2 objects if there is a match between object 1 and 2 using if they have the same id then insert new key value to object 1 which isConfirmed = true to each object that has a match;
Any idea guys ? I provided my current code below. Thanks.
#objects - original data
const object1 = [
    {
        "id": 10691,
        "city": "Morris",
    },
    {
        "id": 10692,
        "city": "NY",
]

const object2 = [
    {
        "id": 10691,
        "city": "Morris",
    {
        "id": 10500,
        "city": "JY",
    }
]

#ts code
  let result = object1.filter(o1 => object2.some(o2 => o1.id === o2.id));

#expected sample result
object1 = [
        {
            "id": 10691,
            "city": "Morris",
             "isConfirmed": true,

        },
        {
            "id": 10692,
            "city": "NY",
         }
    ]

A: You can easily achieve the result using Set and map as:

const object1 = [
    {
        id: 10691,
        city: 'Morris',
    },
    {
        id: 10692,
        city: 'NY',
    },
];

const object2 = [
    {
        id: 10691,
        city: 'Morris',
    },
    {
        id: 10500,
        city: 'JY',
    },
];

const map = new Set(object2.map((o) => o.id));
const result = object1.map((o) =>
    map.has(o.id) ? { ...o, isConfirmed: true } : { ...o },
);

console.log(result);

A: You can do it by using the snippet
let result = object1.map(o1 =>
  object2.some(o2 => o1.id === o2.id)
    ? {...o1, isConfirmed: true}
    : {...o1}
);

Check if object2 array has the object with any id from object1. If so, add isConfirmed: true to it.

const object1 = [
    {
        id: 10691,
        city: 'Morris',
    },
    {
        id: 10692,
        city: 'NY',
    },
];

const object2 = [
    {
        id: 10691,
        city: 'Morris',
    },
    {
        id: 10500,
        city: 'JY',
    },
];
let result = object1.map(o1 => object2.some(o2 => o1.id === o2.id) ? {...o1, isConfirmed: true} : {...o1});

console.log(result);


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Entry for February 29, 2008
MY LETTER TO THE BBC
Further to my latest entry I am posting the letter which I emailed to the BBC home page on March 31, 2004 — the next day after Alistair Cooke died at age 95. The advice to make the letter a part of my blog has been given to me by my daughter. She studies in Washington, DC. and makes shuttle trips to New York City. The book in the picture is my son's present. He works in the North of England. Interestingly, Alistair Cooke was born in the North of England and lived in New York City for most of his adult life.
Sirs,
In the 1960s Alistair Cooke was presented to the students of our pedagogical institute in Ukraine (ex-USSR) as an unnamed Radio Moscow news analyst. The reason was that the local KGB prohibited to make any audio recording of BBC programmes: only Radio Moscow recordings were allowed for the students of English in our tape-library. That is why we used to record the "Letter from America" but we always removed the name "Alistair Cooke" from it. After each recording session we placed the recorded reel with Alistair Cooke's message in a box labeled"Radio Moscow news analysis" and the students could use it for their listening comprehension practice.
Much later, in Gorbachev times, when I started teaching at the institute (of which I was a student in the 1960s) I liked to bring recorded Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America" into the students' classroom. A quarter-of-an-hour work on "Alistair Cooke" was the "meat" of any English class where I was teaching . Of course, at that time I could already fearlessly tell my students that it was ALISTAIR COOKE's programme. Once (it was the Christmas eve of 1990) when I was collecting my morning mail from the mailbox, I picked up an envelope, the return address of which had the name of Alistair Cooke. I almost fainted right there, at my mail-box: just only fancy! A Christmas greeting from Alistair Cooke himself!! It turned out to be a practical joke my students played on me. Knowing my passion for the programme, they sent me their own Christmas greeting card having arranged the address as if it were from the object of my worship.
Alma mater is Latin for a "nursing mother". The common idea is that it nourished us when we were struggling to out feet and we should remain thankful to it (to HER) for those days.
I remain thankful. First of all, for a very pragmatic reason: I have a profession which has always been in demand and which—for most of the time – has been decently paid. It helped me provide for my family, raise my children. Until now it has kept me independent and given me a kind of self-esteem.
However, there's more to it. In those days we were a fanatical sect of "English zealots". We spoke English anywhere we could – with our teachers and friends, with people who we knew and with complete strangers, with those who had a command of the language and those who had never heard a sound of it – until they heard us. We spoke in classrooms, in the streets of our provincial city, in public transport…We were busy with English all through the academic year and in the summer… We hummed the Beatles in the original and sang soviet songs translated into English. We saw English dreams.
It was a tradition with us to arrange annual English parties. Then the whole building was taken for it. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh used to walk along the corridors. You had also a chance to strike a personal acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, with the Three Men in a Boat (also Montmorency!), Alice in Wonderland, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Oliver Twist, Admiral Nelson, Lady Hamilton and a good dozen more who would call themselves "Pride of England". Unperturbed policemen (usually first-year students) patrolled the approaches to the building. The helmets they wore had been borrowed from the local fire department and painted black. Later it took some time to wash the helmets.
Our language laboratory was filled with recordings. They were spools of tapes. The tapes got quickly dry and broke and we put them together with acetone glue. The smell of acetone was always in the laboratory.
Most of the recordings were "home-made", although — almost clandestinely — our technician would tune in to the BBC broadcasting on short waves and record some non-political programs. Our favourite was "BBC Short Story Competition". And even now I can very audibly hear Alistair Cooke's hoarse voice with his "Letter from America" on Mondays.
Nowadays young people know English better than we did. They express themselves more naturally, they pick up a characteristic English twang and speak more colloquially and are more fluent.They participate in all kinds of exchange programs, they win grants and study a foreign language for some definite purpose — to do business, to make a career, to work abroad, etc. Sometimes they take up not only English, but also French, German, Arabic.
Yet… something tangible has been lost. Probably because there's no Alistair Cooke on short waves and you won't hear Montmorency barking in the corridors of the pedagogical institute.
An article in a Ukrainian e-paper was extensive. It was all about the use of profane language in Ukrainian and was written as an interview with a professor of linguistics. The interviewee was savoring the subject matter of her research: she had just published a dictionary of foul words. Her professorship was specially emphasized by the correspondent – probably as a counterbalance to what people earlier (until the interview was published on a popular Ukrainian web-site) might have thought to be an ignoble theme. After finishing this article the readers would realize they were now far more enlightened and were marching abreast with the 21st century.
Ironically, this "breakthrough" in local linguistics coincides with the memorable date: International Mother Language Day. Readers may think that all the problems of the Ukrainian language had been solved by February 21, 2008 and the only remaining problem is the in-depth study of taboo words in Ukrainian.
Obscenities fall from the lips of the professor as naturally as "Yes, please" and "No, thank you". So cynical…shameless… A kind of stench bomb, if to use military terminology…
I could reach for the Book of Books and dwell on Colossians 3:8: "But now ye also put off all these; … out of your mouth." However, I'm more than sure: this kind of approach is usually lost on such people. I remembered another example. Being a budding linguist in the days of yore I heard a phrase which determined my scholarly work for a long time to come. My colleague said to me: "The very subject of your research must uplift you". The colleague was busy with the literary heritage of John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. When my colleague sat down to write the dissertation, he did it to the Renaissance and Baroque music of the period.
Sometimes I ask myself: why should I be so much concerned with what other people think or say? Eventually, it's their choice and they have the right to this freedom. But…Aren't I also becoming less of a moral (read: human) being when moral norms are broken round me?
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
Those are words by selfsame John Donne
There is a place (only one?) in the capital of Ukraine which is infested with packs of truant dogs and if you take a walk through that place, you never smile until you pass it. However, the unavoidable thing happened: I was bitten by a stray dog. Knowing that last year more than 5,500 people living in Kyiv were bitten by tramp dogs and appealed to emergency first-aid facilities, I also rushed to the local hospital and had two injections made. As I was explained, one injection was against tetanus and the other was a kind of general inoculation. Nevertheless, my main concern was with rabies, which I knew was incurable if you addressed the doctor too late and I inquired why no injection against rabies was made to me in the Anti-Rabies Ward (that was the official name of the medical room – I had read the door sign). The doctor explained that I shouldn't be afraid of rabies since there was none of it in Kyiv. On the other hand, those injections were harmful for a person's cerebrospinal nervous system and I will be given the injections only if they know for certain that the dog which had bitten me was really infected with the disease. For the hospital to be free of any possible charge in the future (which charge?), I should write and sign a note of hand to the effect that I take a pledge to observe the dog in question for the next ten days to get ascertained that the dog is not ill with rabies. Naturally, I took an interest in a suggested method of observation: the dog was ownerless, I had no idea where I should be looking for it, and even if I met it, I would hardly identify the culprit. I just hadn't remembered its "face". The doctor only shrugged his shoulders and handed me a sheet of clean paper. I wrote the pledge.
While going through the notorious place today, I made up my mind to take a picture of the dogs for this blog-entry. The moment I lifted my cell phone the dogs – definitely thinking I came with a kind of food for them — dashed to me and surrounded me. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I SEEN SO MANY HUNGRY EYES. Human-like eyes.
I slowly lowered my mobile camera and SMILED into those eyes – painfully and apologetically. Then –also cautiously – I turned round and making short steps headed out of the dog circle, of which I was the center. The dogs did not move.
I remembered that the other day a scene from Germany was broadcast where a stray dog was being washed after it had been taken to a special care center…
I must take something edible for my new friends tomorrow…
A week ago my acquaintance asked me for a manual about business correspondence. When I brought it for her today, it turned out that she had that kind of book already. "Thanks, anyway", the lady said. "It's ok", I answered, "the most important thing with all these requests and responses is the heart we put in them". An elderly gentleman who was present at our conversation, suddenly said: "Our hands have met, but not our hearts…" That was an off-the-wall quote: the poetic line was definitely recited for the sake of the word "heart" mentioned by me. I was sort of surprised because — being a student of English literature in my youth — I should have noticed the poet who managed to coin the phrase so powerfully charged with talent. The gentleman didn't know the name of the poet. "It looks like P.B.Shelley…", he said hesitatingly. On coming home I googled that line. That's how I came to know Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 23, 1845).
Here's the poem quoted this morning:
To A False Friend
By Thomas Hood
Our hands have met, but not our hearts;
Our hands will never meet again.
Friends if we have ever been,
Friends we cannot now remain:
I only know I loved you once,
I only know I loved in vain;
Our hands will never meet again!
Then farewell to heart and hand!
I would our hands had never met:
Even the outward form of love
Must be resigned with some regret.
Friends we still might seem to be,
If my wrong could e'er forget
Our hands have joined, but not our hearts:
I would our hands had never met!
The music (I still have to listen to the song) was set by the Irish composer William Vincent Wallace. Restless and adventurous as a young man, Wallace, with his wife and infant son, his sister and his brother emigrated in 1935 to Australia. That is why the first edition of the song book, which cover you see in the picture above, is kept in the Australian National Library.
I could say many more things about Thomas Hood: about the difficulty to classify him as either a Romantic or a Victorian writer since his work spans both periods, about his being both a novelist and a humourist. However, Thomas Hood is best known as the author of the "Song of the Shirt" which he published anonymously in the extra Christmas number of London's newest and most celebrated comic weekly magazine, Punch, in 1843. The poem is, however, grim social realism. Based on a previous account by Punch editor Douglas Jerrold of a woman accused of pawning articles belonging to her employer, the poem attacks the exploitation of the cheap labour of seamstresses, the poem was quickly reprinted in The Times, and translated into German, French, Italian, and Russian for newspaper publication abroad. It was even adapted for the stage by Punch staff writer Mark Lemon as The Seamstress. As a result of this and other works such as "The Song of the Labourer" which stimulated the Victorian social conscience, a monument to his memory was raised by a subscription inaugurated by Richard Monckton Milnes for Hood's grave in London's Kensal Green Cemetery. Here are the first three stanzas of the poem:
The Song of the Shirt
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread–
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the "Song of the Shirt."
"Work! work! work!
While the cock is crowing aloof!
And work … work … work,
Till the stars shine through the roof!
It's Oh! to be a slave
Along with the barbarous Turk,
Where woman has never a soul to save,
If this is Christian work!
"Work … work … work
Till the brain begins to swim;
Till the eyes are heavy and dim!
Seam, and gusset, and band,
Band, and gusset, and seam,
Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
And sew them on in a dream!
Those who know the Ukrainian literature cannot but compare Thomas Hood's poem with the Pavlo Hrabovsky's "The Seamstress":
Рученьки терпнуть, злипаються віченьки,
Боже, чи довго тягти?
З раннього ранку до пізньої ніченьки
Голкою денно верти…
For all that, I'd like to finish on a more cheerful note. Here's another marvellous verse by Tom Hood — perfect in form and loaded with humour and optimism (it's only superflouous reading that can make you think otherwise):
Ballad (Spring it is cheery…)
Spring it is cheery,
Winter is dreary,
Green leaves hang, but the brown must fly;
When he's forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?
Love will not clip him,
Maids will not lip him,
Maud and Marian pass him by;
Youth it is sunny,
Age has no honey, —
June it was jolly,
O for its folly!
A dancing leg and a laughing eye;
Youth may be silly,
Wisdom is chilly, —
Friends they are scanty,
Beggars are plenty,
If he has followers, I know why;
Gold's in his clutches,
(Buying him crutches!) —
Konstanin Paustovsky in his book "The Golden Rose" says that Oscar Wilde hated the sight of a beggar who was standing outside Oscar Wilde's house in his shabby clothes. So the writer had a tailor take the beggar's measure and a wonderful suit was made for the beggar in his size. After which Oscar Wilde took the scissors, made holes in the suit and sewed patches of various colours on them. Now the beggar was standing at the intersection in "in the full blaze of beauty".
Applying Oscar Wilde's approach to Thomas Hood's ballad one can authoritatively state: the poem about the inevitability of death written with that degree of skill and thrust can make you only delight in the poem and, henceforth, REJOICE IN LIFE.
That's my today's discovery
VALUE-ADDED BEHAVIOUR
The swinging doors leading into the Kyiv metro are massive and heavy. You should exert quite some force to push the door open and no less effort to stop it when the door bounces back after a person, who was entering the metro right before you, releases it right into your face. There's something to observe during rush-hours. However, from time to time potential passengers may become aware that there is another person following them. The door is held from shooting back and the chain-reaction takes place: several people in succession will hold back the door for those stringing along after them.
You are going down in a lift. On some floor the lift stops and another person comes in. He/she may greet you or may just keep silent. Until you reach the ground floor the psychological field in the lift will be different in each separate case.
You may cross the street against the red light or you may wait – even if the street is empty of transport – to do it legally.
I like when people hold the door for you and I like to hold the door for other people. I like to greet people in the lift and to be greeted. I hate people jaywalking, remaining silent when you say to them "Wonderful weather today, isn't it?" or keeping their face grim when you give them a smile.
I work for an IT company which resells computer equipment, audio- and video products, etc. Some resellers are simple "box-movers". We are a VAR – a value-added reseller. We take an existing product and add our own "value" usually in the form of a specific application for the product. We also extend the warranty time for the products sold and accommodate long-distance truck drivers who deliver imported goods to us. Our partners are invited to our annual corporate parties and holiday trips are arranged for our most loyal and efficient dealers.
I often think: what if we start adding value to everything we do? Going by the metro or using the lift, walking across the street or doing the shopping. Wouldn't the life get much more exciting then?
A CULTURAL SPIN
Today's February 15th. The day which in religious calendars goes under various names: the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Candlemas. If you translate it from Ukrainian it sounds like the Meeting. The variety of the names becomes clear if you do some Bible-search.
In the Law of Moses a woman after childbirth had to stay at home for a certain period and abstain from touching anything consecrated to God. This was a state which the Law called 'unclean'.
Forty days after the birth of a boy or eighty after the birth of a girl the mother would bring to the door of the Temple a lamb of a year old and a pigeon or a turtle dove: the lamb for a burnt offering in recognition of God's sovreignty and in thanksgiving for her happy delivery, and the bird for a sin offering. These being sacrificed, the woman was cleansed of the legal impurity and was reinstated in her former privileges. In the case of poor people, a lamb was not required but two pigeons or turtle doves had to be brought – one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering.
Mary came like every other mother for this ceremony of her 'purification', desirous as she was to honour God by every prescribed observance and act of religion. And being poor, she and Joseph brought the offering appointed for the poor.
The second aspect of the same event was the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. A first born son had to be offered to God and then ransomed back. So Mary would have offered her Son to the Father, and then Joseph would have paid the priest five shekels. Then she would have received Him back in her arms and they would have been free to go home.
The third step is the meeting of Simeon with our Saviour. For years Simeon had been praying for the coming of the Messiah. Like the prophet Daniel, he was a 'man of desires' and God had told him that he would live to see the One he so longed for. So besides the titles of Presentation (of Our Lord) and Purification (of Our Lady), this feast is also called in the East, 'the Meeting' (of Simeon with the Infant Jesus).
And because of Simeon's prophecy that the Messiah would 'be a Light to enlighten the Gentiles' the custom grew up of celebrating the feast with candlelight processions. And so the title of 'Candlemas' was also given to the day.
It's interesting that many Ukrainians interpret the name of the day (the "Meeting") as the event of Winter and Spring meeting together. You may hear people tell a story about a rooster which would try to drink water on this day. If the rooster DRINKS from a pool of melt-water (i.e. when the temperature outside is above zero on this day), the spring will supposedly arrive late. However, if cold grips the ground and everything is frozen hard on February 15th , we are in for an early spring : ).
The approach to such stories may be different: from downright rejection to trusting them wholeheartedly. I would characterize my position as "humorously positive". They help you understand the Ukrainian mentality.
I just love the weather today: light snow in the morning, a very bright, sunny afternoon. And… the temperature is about minus five Celsius. The pools are frozen… Guess what the spring will be.
Foreigners who have been to the countries of the former Soviet Union and who arrive in Kyiv, observe that the people of the Ukrainian capital look more optimistic than those in Moscow or St Petersburg. I remembered that remark when I saw a couple of youngsters the other day who were holding their sides with laughter. I did not know the reason for their titters of amusements. However, whatever the reasons were, there was more than enough ground to tune down their merriment. One should only have cast a glance at a homeless person who was crouching right here – with a stray dog next to him. Or a red-faced man in his winter cap and heavy coat selling CDs from his open stand in freezing cold all day long. Or a busker further off playing some nostalgic melodies, but actually soliciting for alms. I thought about the stairwell of the apartment house where I lived, which was graffitied and vandalized all over. If I should think higher, I would also recollect the tabloids feeding the multitudes with oodles of crime reports and pop-star trivia, about the politicians' venality or the fact that Ukraine is no longer a place for a highly-educated person with moral principles
In the 18th century the British chemist Joseph Priestly invented nitrous oxide – a kind of gas that was used by dentists as local anesthetics. It could also cause euphoria in people, which is why it was named "laughing gas". I was tempted to consider the scene that I had been watching in terms of gas N-2-O – and to give a sarcastic ring to the scene. However, I remembered the other inventor of the laughing gas with a different spin to the word. Here's a short quote:
"And as she spoke, she looked up at the ceiling, Jane and Michael looked up too and to their surprise saw a round, fat, bald man who was hanging in the air without holding on to anything. Indeed, he appeared to be sitting on the air, for his legs were crossed and he had just put down the newspaper which he had been reading when they came in…'You see, it's this way: I'm a cheerful sort of man and very disposed to laughter…If I laugh,…I become so filled with Laughing Gas that I simply can't keep on the ground. Even if I smile it happens. The first funny thought, and I'm up like a balloon. And until I can think of something serious I can't get down again…It's awkward, or course, but not unpleasant…Once after I'd been to the circus the night before, I laughed so much that I was up here for twelve hours, and couldn't get down till the last stroke of midnight".
The inventor of Laughing Gas-2 was P.L.Travers. The stern and efficient nanny in her book understood the speech of animals, manipulated space and time, floated and flew at will and possessed a wonder bag with things in it which could be far larger than the bag itself. She could go up (not down!) the banisters, arrive with the east wind and depart with the wind from the west. When P.L.Travers was young her favorite author was J.M.Barrie, that is why there are so many similar motifs running through both "Peter Pan" and "Mary Poppins".
And I thought: what if I mistook the ebullience of the young people? What if the real reason for their mirth was P.L.Travers', not Mr. Joseph Priestley's laughing gas? The one which lifts them up and sets positive values after which millions of people will be modeling their lives. What if I am too "serious", which makes me always DOWN and never UP?
I felt strangely elated at the thought. Yet, I was not certain whether this guess was right. Let's live and see. In the meantime I feel like saying (let me brace my energies!) SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS! = a word made up for the 1964 Disney movie musical "Mary Poppins" (pronounced [supɚˌkælɪˌfrædʒəlɪstɪkɛkspiælɪˈdoʊʃəs] )The word is taught to the children in the movie to be used as a polite way of saying something when you hesitate what to say. The song lyrics are as follows:
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
You'll always sound precocious
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
My father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me aching nose
The biggest word I ever heard
And this is how it goes:
Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it may change your life
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's my wife!
She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
There were times when the world was at a standstill: the same room, the same school, the same people around you. Day after day…As if in irons…But you were youthfully restless, impatient, dynamic. You moved faster than the "milieu" …To get unfettered you studied languages, built a family, raised your children, traveled thousands of miles, defended your dissertation, attended all kinds of symposiums, mastered the fine art of making friends.
At some point you start feeling the world is out-striding you. In the metro there are more and more people who look younger than you are. Songs and films are becoming increasingly tasteless. The circle of friends isn't any circle at all but just two or three whom you phone once or twice a month. When average salaries keep going up and yours is unfailingly steady, you start understanding that the administration is simply waiting for your retirement. You begin looking for a job opportunity and discover that you are on the wrong side of the age bracket which is set for open vacancies. The key-word of your existence – "a HAS-BEEN" – is creeping in. And your only advantage is that you – with your degrees and research experience – can explain that the word "a has-been" is a wonderful example of English word-building: it's the result, firstly, of grammatical ellipsis, then, composition, and, lastly, nominalization. Not so many entrants, even those who are up-and-coming, are versed in such linguistic niceties 🙂
JEKYLL-HYDE COUNTENANCE
I am not sure whether a wired radio-outlet will live long enough to see the second half of this century. In Ukraine this kind of radio goes under the name the "little liar" and is usually installed in the kitchen rooms of flats that date back to the 1960s – 1980s. At least I don't know any of such boxes put up in luxurious apartments of modern high-rises.
The wired radio was an essential part of the culture that relied on the official information portioned for socialist mass-consumption. The word heard from the dark radio-box (earlier the device looked like a big black dish hung up on a wall) was the highest authority and should have been used for further guidance. Nothing that came on the radio was haphazard or occasional. Everything was a well-thought instruction – be it the latest news, a concert at listeners' choice, an interview with a member of a communist shock-brigade or the morning dozen which – with the verbal tutorial and accompanying music – was transmitted over the huge country stretching through nine time zones. Even whims of weather were reported in a soothing tone to make two hundred million citizens aware that the Party and Government will leave no unturned stone to help the peasants secure a rich crop.
The reaction to that kind of brainwashing was twofold. Some people swallowed the propaganda even without preliminary chewing since it had already been duly processed. Critical minds used to filter the information for bare facts and more often than not they managed to do it. Especially with the appearance of short-wave transistor radios in the 1960s which served as an optional channel of the information received. For one, I usually fell asleep only when a transistor was humming into my ear the news from Radio Liberty, the BBC, the Voice of America and the Deutsche Welle, and I knew what was going on in the world a day or two before the news was presented on the Soviet land-line radio in a refined way. No such "luck" nowadays! With the richest Internet menu making a wonderful replacement, radio-stations are opting out and the short wave bands get dead-silent. Or just become filled with electronic noise which makes it impossible to hear even those still surviving.
What are my sentiments when I see that means of communication disappearing over the hill? I'd characterize them using the learned word "EQUIVOCAL"? Yes, the thing is the "little liar" and it has deserved the name. And yet…
Shall I forget the slow solemn music that sounded from the radio one day in early spring? The music was periodically interrupted by no less solemn and very thunderous voice of the news announcer. The moment the "health report" of the dictator started being updated, I – a small tot – shouted "Mum!" at the top of my voice: I knew she would rush to the radio to listen. And so she did each time. She did not look saddened, though. The first half of the 20th century – probably the most tragic in the history of my nation – was coming to an end.
Shall I forget how blown my mind was when I heard a tragic story about a fisherman who was "broken but not defeated"? The story was a regular evening read on the radio. That was done in Russian translation by a professional actor. I was listening to it when I was already in bed, but after I heard it I could not go to sleep till the day broke again. Somewhat later I came to know that Earnest Hemingway received the Nobel Prize just that same year – also for that story.
Or the romantic 1990s – when people were being awakened to freedom and their own identity? Our son, a teenager, courageously gave radio interviews commenting on the current politics, and our daughter's poems, which came with that revival, were broadcast all over Ukraine. Each time my wife and I dashed to the kitchen radio with a cassette-recorder to tape their voices (we still keep the recordings!)
I could also mention the music and songs and the melodious speech which appealed to our inner beings and reminded that our origin and history and our language shall always be remembered. Otherwise we will simply cease to exist – as ceased to exist those who spoke Dalmatian, Crimean Gothic, Apalachean or Polabian – to name just a few.
So, how shall I estimate the phenomenon of the "box"? Was it a "baddie" or a "goodie"? My answer is: being evil one day and good another day, it was just as much good or bad AS ALL OF US WERE. Robert Louis Stevenson (see the title of this blog entry) noticed it as early as 1886.
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