Rodgers sprained his left knee in the season opener against the Chicago Bears. Although he returned to the game and led Green Bay to a stirring comeback victory by throwing three fourth-quarter touchdown passes, Rodgers did not practice until the day before last Sunday's matchup against the Minnesota Vikings.
The 34-year-old Rodgers said earlier this week that he was concerned that the condition of his knee will only worsen as the season progresses.
How the knee feels could impact lead to a practice regimen that evolves on a weekly basis.


While adults are arguing about whether climate change is even a reality, one 15-year old girl is taking the reins to help reverse the effects of global warming through the proper education of a new generation. Michael Gove, Britain's Secretary of State for Education, has removed the subject of climate change from the curriculum for students under the age of 14. In response, Esha Marwaha, a student from the Heathland School in Londoon has created a petition to force the government to keep climate change on the education menu, and the petition has already received nearly 24,000 signatures, and counting.
As reported by The Guardian, currently, the only thing students under the age of 14 are required to learn in school is a brief mention about carbon dioxide and its impact on climate in chemistry class. It's a move that has many people crying foul, citing political interference taking precedent over science.
The petition only needs about 2,000 more signatures before it will be sent off. Whether it forces Gove to reconsider or not, our hats are off to Marwaha for taking a stand. Sign the petition here — Michael Gove: Keep Climate Change in the Curriculum.
While adults are arguing about whether climate change is even a reality, one 15-year old girl is taking the reins to help reverse the effects of global warming through the proper education of a new generation. Michael Gove, Britain�s Secretary of State for Education, has removed the subject of climate change from the curriculum for students under the age of 14. In response, Esha Marwaha, a student from the Heathland School in Londoon has created a petition to force the government to keep climate change on the education menu, and the petition has already received nearly 24,000 signatures, and counting.


Through their connections to a network of black markets and slave-dealers, the Confederacy of Tryscar is one of the first to receive a shipment of the newly acquired and enslaved race...the Kyanites. Three hundred of the captured survivors of Kyanon are shipped into the port, and immediately dispersed around the country to begin training to do hard labor for the Tryscarian corporations. Most of them are men, although some women and even children are brought as well to join the other ranks of workers in Tryscar.
"We have heard of these new Kyanite slaves and want like to inquire as to what would you need from us to trade for 50 of these kyanite slaves? We are willing to part with some of the parts of our automated factories or weapons. They may prove useful to you, as the slaves will prove useful to us. We look forward to your response"
Thank you for your inquiry. We would be willing to offer you fifty Tier 3 Kyanites for a shipment of your products equivalent to the value of 50 credits, not including shipping and handling. A contract with our requests and more details on the agreement is enclosed.
"Mr Wilross, we do understand that these kyanites must be slaves of the best quality people, but we are not sure as to their true value in working. Perhaps the price could be lowered to the equivalent of 45 credits? We beleive such a drop would not put such a dent in your profit and we may be further inclined to buy more, depending on their quality once we put them to the test."
Your request for lowering the price to 45 credits cannot be granted. These products are of very high quality, and unfortunately we cannot sell them in bulk for less than the listed price. However, if you are interested in testing their quality, I can offer you a complementary price of 15 credits for 20 slaves. If you would like to order more afterwards, I will temporarily reserve the originally requested 50 slaves for the original price. I can personally guarantee their quality - they are physically fit and determined workers. Are you interested?
"This is a fair deal, we accept the offer. When can they be delivered to us? We look forward to doing more business with you in the future, it has always been a lucrative relationship between USSR and Tryscar"
On behalf of ServaCorps, I am glad you have accepted this deal. As soon as the paperwork and signed trade agreement are processed, your products will be shipped to the destination of your choice. They should arrive within a week of the order confirmation. Likewise, we look forward to doing business with you as well.
- Jaykon Wilross, ServaCorps Department of Trade"


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The charges for a hit and run in Honolulu vary according to the injury that was caused from the accident. Review the following to see the different charges and penalties in Honolulu's hit and run laws:
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Muay Thai is Life
November 5, 2019	The Striking Corner	Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we speak with up and coming women's Muay Thai fighter, Jackie Buntan. Training out of Boxing Works in Torrance, California; Jackie has been active in Muay Thai since she was 11 years old and won her first TBA Muay Thai World Expo title at just 13 years old.
We discuss Jackie's journey in Muay Thai and discuss the recent news that she has signed with rapidly flourishing Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and MMA promotion ONE Championship.
October 22, 2019	The Striking Corner	Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we speak with LA-based fighter and 2019 IFMA World Championship Silver Medalist, Kennedy-Reilly Maze. Kennedy discusses her journey through Muay Thai, how the sport has shaped her life and helped her overcome past issues and insecurities.
Kennedy is an extremely focused and driven athlete who feels that her journey in the sport is just beginning. She is definitely a fighter to look out for as it is evident that she is willing to sacrifice everything to get to the top of the sport. We had a great time speaking with Kennedy and we know you will enjoy this episode!
September 8, 2019	The Striking Corner	Coaches, Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we talk with Rami "The Son of Palestine" Ibrahim. Rami has had a long successful career in both the American and International Muay Thai scene. In addition to being an accomplished fighter, Rami is also a passionate and successful coach that has instilled the same dedication and sacrifice in his students that he has always demanded from himself.
Rami, has always been a confident, passionate, and fearless individual who speaks his mind and has a gift of inspiring those around him to push harder and be better. He has helped coach both the US Youth and Adult teams as part of the USMF at international competitions.
This man no doubt loves the sport of Muay Thai and it was a pleasure to have him on the podcast. If you are currently a fighter or are new to Muay Thai, this episode with Rami will no doubt motivate you and also help you understand the kind of dedication and discipline that is required if you want to make it to he highest levels of this sport.
June 27, 2019	The Striking Corner	Coaches, Fighters, Officials, Podcast, Promoters
This is it! One of our biggest podcasts to date!
Recorded at the 2019 TBA Classic Muay Thai World Classic in Des Moines, Iowa, Vinny and Eric sit down with a few of the top coaches in the US; Bryan Dobler of Double Dose Muay Thai, Bryan Popejoy of Boxing Works, Danny Brandt of Dan's Gym, Pete Peterson of the TBA and Roundkick Gym, Stephen Strotmeyer of Pittsburgh Muay Thai, Patrick Rivera of Valor Training Center, Sean Madden of Easton Training Center, and last but not least USMF President, Michael "Chase" Corley of Heritage Muay Thai.
It was a late night round table discussion with some of the top Muay Thai minds in America after a long day of Muay Thai fights. We go all in on the growth of Muay Thai in America…somewhat unfiltered. Enjoy!
Episode 91 – Jeff Dojillo
May 28, 2019	The Striking Corner	Journalists, Miscellaneous, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner, we speak with Muay Thai photographer extraordinaire, Jeff Dojillo. If you are a fan of Muay Thai and follow the sport, chances are you have seen Jeff's work. Jeff is a professional photographer that luckily for the Muay Thai community fell in love with the sport and has used his talent to capture the beauty of Muay Thai and showcase it to the world.
Aside from photography, Jeff is now also the Chief Brand Officer for the USMF and helps them with everything from social media to digital marketing. In addition, Jeff has decided to put together a Muay Thai documentary covering Team USA as they compete in the upcoming IFMA World Muaythai Championships in Bangkok. But he needs the help of the Muay Thai community to raise the funds…and that is where we all have to lend a helping hand! Listen, learn, and if you can donate!
Episode 67 – Kirian Fitzgibbons
January 9, 2018	The Striking Corner	Coaches, Podcast
In the first episode of 2018, we decided we needed to start off the new year of The Striking Corner right! And who better to kick off 2018, then CSA Gym owner and head coach extraordinaire, Kirian Fitzgibbons! "Coach K", as he is known to his many students and peers, is without a doubt one of the top striking coaches in North America, coaching the likes of Kevin Ross, Gaston Bolaños, Zoila Frausto, Zach Bunnell, Eddie Abasolo, Alexis Davis, Miriam Nakamoto, and the list goes on and on. Coach K has been a huge part of the growth of Muay Thai and Kickboxing in America for quite some time. He knows all the players and has seen it all. He is very passionate about combat sports, his students, and his brand. He pulls no punches when giving his opinions, takes no bullshit, and we love him for it. Yet for some, his take no prisoners attitude rubs them the wrong way however the success of his gym, his fighters, and his system cannot be denied. In this episode, we discuss everything from his background in combat sports and defensive tactics to the state of Muay Thai and Kickboxing in America. We also discuss why many fighters need to stop bitching, understand that in combat sports you have to learn to promote yourself and that there truly is no secret to success, it's all about hard work, structure, and the occasional usage of the term "motherfucker!" Enjoy!


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La  du Tour de Ski se déroule du  au . Cette compétition, intégrée à la coupe du monde 2020-2021, est organisée par la fédération internationale de ski. L'épreuve comprend huit étapes constituant un parcours entamé à Val Müstair en Suisse, avant de faire étape à Toblach et à Val di Fiemme en Italie.

Les tenants du titre sont le Russe Alexander Bolshunov chez les hommes et la Norvégienne Therese Johaug chez les femmes.

Au terme de la compétition, Bolshunov s'impose devant le Français Maurice Manificat et le Russe Denis Spitsov. Chez les femmes, l'Américaine Jessica Diggins devient la première non-européenne à s'imposer. Elle devance la Russe Yulia Stupak et la Suédoise Ebba Andersson.

Contexte

En raison des conditions sanitaires liées à la Covid-19, certains athlètes, notamment Therese Johaug, ou fédérations, expriment leurs inquiétudes. La fédération norvégienne propose à la FIS d'aménager le calendrier initial, afin de réduire les déplacements, notamment entre les différents pays, comme le regroupement des compétitions dans le même pays. Après la décision finale des organisateurs de conserver le calendrier initial, avec trois étapes en Suisse au Val Müstair, deux à Dobbiaco (aussi connu sous le nom allemand de Toblach) en Italie et trois également en Italie, à Val di Fiemme, la fédération norvégienne de ski annonce en  que ses athlètes ne disputeront pas le Tour de Ski.

Calendrier

Dotation

Classements

Classement général

Classement des sprints

Détail des étapes

Étape 1
, Val Müstair, Suisse

 Les 30 sprinters qualifiés pour les 1/4 de finale bénéficient d'un bonus en secondes réparti comme suit :
 Finale : 60–54–48–46–44–42
 Demi-finale : 32–30–28–26–24–22
 Quart de finale : 10–10–10–8–8–8–8–8–6–6–6–6–6–4–4–4–4–4

Étape 2
, Val Müstair, Suisse

Étape 3
, Val Müstair, Suisse

La liste de départ de cette poursuite est basée sur le classement général du Tour de Ski après les deux premières étapes.

Étape 4
, Dobbiaco, Italie

Étape 5
, Dobbiaco, Italie

La liste de départ de cette poursuite est basée sur le classement de l'étape 4 du Tour de Ski et non sur le classement général après les quatre premières étapes comme a l'accoutumé.

Étape 6
, Val di Fiemme, Italie

 Bonus
 Sprint intermédiaire hommes et bonus pour les 10 premiers sprinteurs : 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1
 Sprint intermédiaire femmes et bonus pour les 10 premières sprinteuses : 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1

Étape 7
, Val di Fiemme, Italie
 Les 30 sprinters qualifiés pour les 1/4 de finale bénéficient d'un bonus en secondes réparti comme suit :
 Finale : 60–54–48–46–44–42
 Demi-finale : 32–30–28–26–24–22
 Quart de finale : 10–10–10–8–8–8–8–8–6–6–6–6–6–4–4–4–4–4

Étape 8
, Val di Fiemme, Italie

Ascension finale : Départ en ligne, Style Libre (15 km)

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Ski en 2021
Sport en Suisse en 2021
Sport en Italie en 2021
Sport en janvier 2021

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Rio Tinto calls for the resignation of Peter Mansell, the Energy Resources of Australia Chairman amid Ranger mine disagreements.
CategoriesSafety and Environment
By Samson
Samson is the Editor in Chief of The Mining Executive and The Engineering Executive.
"Overheating alone isn't necessarily a sign of a potential fire. However, due to the long use periods of mining vehicles, the prolonged vibration this causes can increase the friction between different elements of the vehicle, increasing both wear and tear and furthering the risk of overheating."
Holger Pfriem,
Business Manager,
Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection.
As miners continue to work long hours in consecutive shifts, today's heavy mining equipment – for both underground and overground operations – is often in operation 24/7 to meet tight work schedules.
Operating in a high-risk environment; with dust, prolonged vibration, and extended use, all elevating risk of overheating, these heavy-duty mining vehicles are inevitably prone to fire risk.
Holger Pfriem, Business Manager, of Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection, explores the fire risks associated with heavy equipment at mines, especially as vehicles and technologies evolve, and explains how mining executives can minimize downtime while maximizing safety.
What's influencing fire risks?
When it comes to mine safety, mining executives have a critical responsibility to ensure appropriate measures are in place to mitigate risk and protect mine workers.
Specific risks are determined by individual risk assessments, which take into account a mine's overall operations and the way a vehicle is used in a specific setting. However, the bulk of heavy-duty vehicles and equipment are at risk from several common fire hazards in mines:
Due to the harsh mining environment, dust and debris regularly accumulate in mining vehicles and machinery. Unquestionably, keeping the engine compartment clean reduces risks, but doing so can be difficult in some industries, like mining, where operations naturally generate a lot of dust. However, if left uncontrolled, this could increase the risk of overheating.
When overheating occurs in conjunction with wear and tear issues, such as loose cables and sparks or damage to the injection pipe for diesel-powered engines, for instance, it can cause dangerous electrical or spray fires that spread violently and quickly.
Several mining executives are making strategic decisions to switch vehicle powering operations from traditional combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) in an effort to reduce their environmental footprint.
Although EVs are less likely to overheat, they do bring a different kind of fire risk, due to their lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. There are four main factors that can cause li-ion battery fires:
Heat exposure
Mechanical impacts, such as collisions or mechanical failures
Overcharging or undercharging
Production flaws, where particles can enter battery cells.
Each of these has the potential to cause internal short circuits, which puts the battery at a high risk of thermal runaway which, is especially dangerous as the fire it can create is often extremely difficult to extinguish, a condition marked by a rapid increase in temperature and the associated risk of fire, the release of hazardous gases, and potentially even large explosions.
Until temperatures start to climb, traditional fire detection systems are usually unable to detect thermal runaways, by which time they have frequently passed the point of no return. As a result, there's a need for a unique method of detection and suppression, which can detect the release of hazardous gases before temperatures rise.
The COVID pandemic has accelerated mining automation, and its adoption is now at an all-time high. This is increasing uptime and decreasing risk to worker health, as vehicles can be continuously, remotely operated from outside of the mine itself.
However, it can be more difficult to identify fire risks when there are fewer people present on-site or close to mining vehicles when they're in use. This is making automated detection and suppression systems critical to speed up response times, lower the likelihood of downtime, and prevent vehicle damage.
How can mine executives reduce the risks?
Know the unique risks connected to your mine first. As technology advances, it's crucial to carry out a risk analysis to determine the fire detection and suppression solutions required.
Whether a vehicle is automatic, manual, electric, or diesel, there are particular risks associated with each that must be carefully examined and accounted for in your site's fire protection solution.
You should think about the entire mining process and build a customized solution to handle the pertinent dangers, maximize safety and save downtime.
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Q: Complete FirebaseDynamicLink not tappable when shared on WhatsApp I am generating a FirebaseDynamicLink using below code:
DynamicLink baseDynamicLink = FirebaseDynamicLinks.getInstance().createDynamicLink()
                .setLink(BASE_URI)
                .setDynamicLinkDomain(DYNAMIC_LINK_DOMAIN)
                .setAndroidParameters(new DynamicLink.AndroidParameters.Builder(BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID).setMinimumVersion(MIN_VERSION).build())
                .buildDynamicLink();
        baseDynamicLinkUri = baseDynamicLink.getUri();

I am using below code to share it to other apps such as WhatsApp, gmail, etc:
public void shareDeepLinkWithExtraText(String extraText) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        intent.setType("text/plain");
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Firebase Deep Link");

        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,extraText);

        startActivity(intent);
    }

The generated link looks like this:
Check this out at my app - https://tvh54.app.goo.gl?amv=10&apn=mydomain.myapp&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.co.in%2F.
Now the problem is - when shared on gmail, the complete link is tappable, however when shared on WhatsApp the link is tappable in parts. So https://tvh54.app.goo.gl is tappable, 2Fwww.mydomain.co.in is tappable.
How can I make complete link tappable on WhatsApp?
I can generate short link but problem is when there is no any Internet connection then short link cannot be obtained hence as a fallback mechanism I am allowing user to share the complete link.
In case if there is no any solution for the first query then is there any alternative solution to implement intended fallback mechanism?

A: The link you posted seems correct. As a verification try to append &d=1 to the link. You will go to the debug page for this link. If this page do not have errors, the link should work correctly.
The issue you describing seems to be related to WhatsApp. To get more data, you can post this link to WatsApp iOS App. Interesting, is this behavior will be shown there as well. May want to reach out to WhatsApp/Facebook about this.
Another route you can consider: always use short link. I am wondering what is the use case, there is no Internet connection to shorten the long link, but there are value in sharing the long link? I feel that long link looks quite weird for end-users.

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What two Canadian Artists saw in Russia
Fred Varley and Eric Aldwinckle, whisked almost overnight from their Toronto studios to Moscow as guests of Soviet culture, were almost killed by zeal and generosity. The Russians gave them everything—except a chance to rest or to smile
What two Canadian Artists saw in Russia October 1 1954
IN THE SPRING of this year, chance inserted into the quiet lives of two eminent Canadian artists an incredible month. Fred Varley, 73, a foremost Canadian painter and a founder of the legendary Group of Seven, and Eric Aldwinckle, member of a younger generation of Canadian art ists, were whisked through a kaleidoscopic tour of Moscow, the semi-tropical Russia of Georgia and the Black Sea, and Leningrad. They were shown the treasures of the Kremlin; they quarrelled over the meaning of art with the men who dictate what Russians must appreciate. They returned exhausted in body and bewildered in mind.
The sketches Varley and Aldwinckle made in Russia, many of which are reproduced in these pages, are probably unique. Certainly they are the only Canadian artists ever to set up their easels at the very gates of the Kremlin and sketch for three hours without interference (albeit with surveillance).
Equally interesting are the impressions the two men brought back. It is unlikely that two such Westerners have roamed through Communism's heartland in the era of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War. Varley, totally immersed in art for more than half a century, is an unworldly, puckish man with a keen eye and a sharp opinion in matters
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of form and design and color, but, by his own admission, almost totally uninterested in sociology and politics. Aldwinckle, somewhat more worldly, confesses an equal lack of interest in politics and describes himself as "active only in the creative arts and a strong believer that art is the universal language."
The two artists, by their own account, went to Russia neit her as friends nor as enemies; they asked no penetrating questions about subjects outside of art, attached no predetermined or preconditioned significance to what they saw, heard and experienced. They feel that their reports on Russia are as unbiased as if they had been exploring an unknown planet.
"In fact," Aldwinckle said, "after living among the
"Moscow was thousands of tiny black figures surging about"
Russians for a time, I began to feel I was in another world. It was impossible to conceive that these people were motivated by the same emotions, standards and ethics as we are. I know no more today about what goes on inside a Russian than I knew before I went."
Amid the welter of Varley's memories one extraordinary scene stands out . . . two Russian painters working on the same canvas, "painting under, around and over each other like a team of contortionists," yet using techniques so identical that not even a veteran artist like Varley could tell where the work of one began and the other left off.
In a Leningrad art school where st udents are taught en masse, the standard of excellence amazed Varley.
ALDWINCKLE
"Never among all my hundreds of pupils have I seen work so fluent and competent," said Varley, "yet their finished work is dead and meaningless because both their subject matter and their techniques are dictated from above."
Aldwinckle observed the same incongruity. "I watched students making sketches for their paintings," he said, "wonderfully free and eloquent heads, for example. But when t hose heads were transferred to the final canvas, all that was left was competence —the freedom and eloquence were gone." Communism, Aldwinckle finally concluded after pondering the mystery at length, "forces good artists to do bad work."
"The subway is a shrine and a palace of the Russian worker"
Both Varley and Aldwinckle share the recollection of living for nearly a month under a regimen planned to the last detail, of being inexorably taken to see people who didn't particularly want to see them, of being inexorably taken to visit places they didn't particularly want to visit, of sitting down to enormous preplanned meals t hree times a day whether t hey were hungry or not, of being with people who only rarely, for brief unguarded moments, became human beings as the Canadians understood the term, of being subjected to an endless round of close-fitting activities which finally put both to bed, ill and exhausted - and of returning home each with the thought, "I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
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"The Kremlin's great golden domes above great towers of rose and yellow and emerald stone belong to the Arabian Nights more than to the hard, realistic Russian world"
The adventure began last March when the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society—acting for VOKS, the Soviet Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries—invited the artists to a rendezvous at a Honey Dew restaurant on Bloor Street West. Varley and Aldwinckle met there for the first time.
Aldwinckle was troubled by the fact that, although he had been told that at least fourteen were going, only three prospective travelers turned up. The conveners admitted that one by one the others had dropped out, giving as reasons ill health or inability to fit vacations into the trip.
A day or two later Aldwinckle became more concerned. He learned that yet another man had dropped out with "vacation trouble"; and he heard that one of the others who declined had done so because his business required him to visit the United States and he had heard that he would be barred if he went to Russia.
"That last part only annoyed me," said Aldwinckle. "If the United States can control where a Canadian chooses to visit—well, I would just have to try to survive without visiting the United States. But I began to wonder if there were any other motives on the part of the sponsors than having Canadian artists meet Russian artists."
Varley expressed himself as quite unconcerned over the petty details and possible political implications of the trip. But Aldwinckle wanted a couple of points clarified. He wrote to the Department of External Affairs at Ottawa asking for an official attitude toward the proposed trip, and he asked the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society for assurance that he would not be expected to make speeches or grant interviews either in Russia or on his return to Canada. He received this assurance by letter.
From the office of the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, Aldwinckle received a letter
which said in part: "The official attitude here is
entirely neutral. There are no government regulations of any kind which would prevent you from going, and as a Canadian citizen you would of course be readmissable to this country without question. There is no approval or disapproval of visits of this kind, but I do not think in your case you would be participating 'in anything which might be against the wishes of the Canadian Government.' "
At Dorval Airport, Montreal, Varley and Aldwinckle were joined by Michelaine LeGendre, marionettist; Charles Lemoine, a young poet and radio critic; Pierre St. Germain, a newspaper writer, and his wife, Madeleine, a social worker.
"I gathered," commented Aldwinckle, "that our Russian hosts were still expecting a dozen or fourteen writers, musicians, architects, painters, actors, dancers and the like."
A Dutch KLM airliner flew the six Canadians behind the Iron Curtain to Prague, via Amsterdam and Brussels. They were met there by two representatives of VOKS who, early the next morning, put them on a little, much-used plane with a bleak farewell. Five and a half hours later the plane landed on a military airport at Minsk. As soon as the plane stopped rolling, five uniformed men piled aboard. Two rushed to the front of the plane, brushing roughly by the passengers in the narrow passageway. The other three soldiers barred the doorway. After an exchange with the pilot, one of the soldiers, apparently an officer, demanded the passengers' passports. He examined them closely then returned them with a flourish.
At Moscow airport a very different reception awaited the Canadians. "For the first time," remarked Varley, "we were treated like celebrities. There were flowers for the women, handshakes for everybody." The head of the welcoming delegation
was no less a personage than Comrade Yakoflev, a metallurgist who is district head of VOKS. The visitors were ushered into cars for the twenty-five-mile drive to Moscow.
What Varley remembers of the drive into Moscow was the huge graveyard he passed, acres and acres of headstones crumbling in tall grass. The desolation would be wonderful to paint, he thought. But as the cemetery continued to flank the road as they drove he wondered if anyone could be left alive in Moscow.
Aldwinckle's attention was taken by more animate things. He was witnessing for the first time the extraordinary Russian technique of driving an automobile. "The driver would speed up to about sixty," he explained, "then shut off the engine and coast as far as he could. He kept doing this all the way into Moscow. Later I discovered that it was standard procedure to shut off the engine whenever possible. The Russians even do it while waiting for a stop light."
The destination was the National Hotel, opposite ^e Kremlin. Varley climbed out of the car and had
"Moscow is a strange city with no pets, no laughter in the streets, and no couples holding hands in the parks"
his first look at that fabulous walled city-within-a-city; and found it an artist's delight. "The Kremlin," he later said, "belongs to the Arabian Nights more than it does to the hard realistic Russian world. Huge and ornate, its domes seem to reach the skygreat gold domes above great towers and pillars of rose and yellow and emerald stone."
The two Canadian artists saw Moscow in terms of color and space. To Aldwinckle, Moscow was "soft pastel shades of creams, brick reds, orange and soft greens and greys, all heightened by thousands of tiny black figures surging about." The wide streets and broad squares appeared even vaster than they were because of the comparative absence of automobiles. Cars, Aldwinckle calculated, were only about one tenth as dense in a given area as in Toronto, Montreal or other Canadian cities. Even more noticeable was the lack of bicycles. Aldwinckle reached the conclusion: "Automobiles are completely beyond the
reach of the average person—and bicycles are just beyond their reach."
But light traffic did not mean orderly traffic. Perhaps because cars are fewer, pedestrians have no respect for them. "Moscow traffic is bedlam," said Aldwinckle. "The Russian leaders certainly haven't got around to telling the people to obey traffic lights. They stream across against the red as though it didn't exist, which results in much squealing of brakes and honking of horns. That's the background sound of Moscow—automobile horns every hour of the day . nd night."
Jn their first night at the National Hotel Varley and Aldwinckle were introduced to Constantine Perevoshakov, who was to be their guide, interpreter and companion for most of their stay. Other interpreters were assigned to the French-speaking Canadians and, as their interests differed from those of the Toronto artists, their
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paths crossed only occasionally for the greater part of their stay in Russia.
Constantine was a capable patient man. Half bis chin had been shot off by shrapnel in the war but, instead of making him grotesque, the disfigurement made him look rather like a round-faced schoolboy in his teens. He was the only Russian with whom Varley and Aldwinckle got on any terms approaching intimacy. "Rut we never did get to know even Constantine," said Aldwinckle. "Once or twice we thought he was going to break down and become a human being—but he never quite made it. He never showed us a sense of humor, but he may have had a grim Russian version of one. Often when the women of our party were present he used to sing tunelessly under his breath in Russian. I often wondered what the words were. T know he had good taste in one direction—his wife was a perfectly beautiful woman."
That first night at the National Hotel, too, Varley and Aldwinckle were introduced to two of their hosts' habits that were to exasperate them throughout their stay. The first was for VOKS representatives to ask them what they wanted to see and do, solemnly write their wishes in a notebook—and then add on some ideas of their own. The second was the rigorous serving of vast meals three times a day, course following course inexorably, regardless of Varley's and Aldwinckle's protests that they could not possibly eat so much. Their hosts became offended when the visitors turned aside yet another course, and enquired if they did not like the food.
Chicken Swimming in Soup
Varley particularly suffered from this insistence on showing the Canadians that there was plenty of food in Russia. Varley prefers to talk, sip his wine and eat sparingly at meals, but in Russia he had to run the gantlet of meals that lasted up to three hours, with untouched dishes placed before him, removed when they got cold, and replaced with new platefuls.
"We finally made them understand that we just couldn't put down such quantities of food," said Aldwinckle. "At least, we thought we had made them understand because they smiled and nodded—but next meal it would be the same thing over again." Certainly, if the Russians erred in their hospitality, it was only in the very lavishness of it.
For breakfast the visitors were served yogurt first, followed by a cold-meat plate, then three eggs or an omelet and finally pancakes and jam. Lunch and dinner were much the same as each other: first there was smoked salmon
arid a salad of cold boiled beets, carrots and potatoes; then sliced ham and pickles; next came large platters of hors d'oeuvres, followed by plates holding half a pint of soup with a large piece of meat or a chicken leg swimming in it; but the main course
was to follow—meat and vegetables, topped off with a compote of plums or cherries and a glass of tea or coffee. The coffee was always weak, until the Canadians discovered they could get an approximation of an ordinary cup of coffee by ordering it "Turkish style." No water was ever served at table, and the visitors found out why—it did not taste very good. Instead, four glasses flanked every plate, for Georgia mineral water, lemonade, beer, wines or vodka.
On the day of their arrival in Moscow the Canadian artists started on the practically endless round of activities that was to put them to hed, exhausted, before the trip was over. On the first day, April 11, they were tdken for a whirlwind tour of the city. Vifrley, with a keen eye for period, observed that the older buildings of Moscow were of early Italian architecture, but that more recent buildings harked back to Greek and Roman styles. "They are," he added, "tearing down buildings which show Gothic influence. I wondered if that was because Gothic represents traditional church architecture and has a religious significance."
In the afternoon the two artists went to tea at the Canadian Embassy, while their chauffeur waited outside. It was the first of many occasions on which chauffeurs sat in their cars for long hours waiting for them. Varley and Aldwinckle used to debate whether the chauffeurs—who claimed ignorance of English—were under orders to report what the visitors said when their interpreters were not along. One day when they were driving with one of the chauffeurs Aldwinckle said to Varley, "Look at the coloring of that building on the left." Involuntarily the driver turned his head to look.
The artists' visit to the Canadian Embassy was to be their last. When they were next in Moscow two weeks later the embassy was full and the staff was busy—the occupants of the Australian Embassy had moved in after relations were broken between the two countries over spy-ring revelations in Australia.
On their second day the Canadians were taken to see "Moscow's pride" —the subway. Varley found it an artist's nightmare of garish paint and plaster, improbable chandeliers and crude mosaics—but at least, he noted, there were no chewing-gum posters.
After visiting the subway Aldwinckle wrote in his diaryr "The Kiev Relt station looks like the hall of a palace. Between each arched entrance to the platform is a mosaic illustrating episodes in Russia's revolutionary history. There is extravagant use of marble . . . it extends even to behind the trains across the tracks. In another station there are eight huge mosaics on the ceiling. In still another there isí a huge white sculpture of Stalin leading a group of children, covering the complete end wall of the subway station. At the other end is an enormous iron gate behind which is subtly concealed lighting that gives the effect that the gate leads to the wide open spaces and fresh air. Upon close inspection it proved to be the entrance to the cleaners' broom closet.
"The whole effect of each station is one of extravagance little removed
from that of the palaces of old. The workers move through this opulence in great numbers, black and undecorative. The whole effect of these stations was to recall to my mind 'I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls.' These tubes that take the masses to and from work have become a shrine, a palace, of the Russian worker. I was reminded of the gypsy caravans I used to see when I was a boy in England; I was always impressed by their attempt to live as kings and queens in their own gilded coaches."
On the afternoon of the subway tour the two artists were taken to their first art museum, the former summer home of a nobleman and complete with art gallery, ballroom, theatre and chapel. There they encountered another Russian practice that was to annoy them on every visit to an art gallery or museum: the guide who has learned
her speech by heart and insists on reciting it word for word, each passage in its appropriate place, whether the visitor wants to be instructed or not.
The recital started as the visitors wore donning the big soft overshoes which are standard equipment in Russian galleries. In quick succession they learned that the summer palace had been built between 1792 and 1797 by 210,352 serfs, the property of Count Chekemtiev, and that the palace was now preserved as an example of capitalist decadence. All that was interesting.
"But then," recalled Aldwinckle, "we had to listen to more statistics and a detailed hut rather incomprehensible speech about every porcelain fire pot, every piece of sculpture and every painting, as our lady guide moved slowly and volubly from place to place. Varley begged our interpreter to turn her off, but she wouldn't be turned off, wouldn't let us wander off to look for ourselves. I really believe that if she had missed a sentence in her set speech she would have become hopelessly muddled."
That night the program called for attendance at a puppet theatre. Varley and Aldwinckle dutifully went along, although tired bodies cried out for early bedtime. They enjoyed the show, too. But next morning Varley revolted when the guides informed him he was to spend most of the day at the university observing Soviet education in action. "I came here to meet and talk to artists," he insisted. The guide looked worried and went away. Presently he returned to say that a visit to one of Moscow's foremost artists would be arranged for the afternoon, "but this morning . . ."
"This morning," said Varley, "I am going sketching." Aldwinckle backed him up and the two spent their first leisure hours in several days sketching on a river embankment while their car waited. After lunch they were escorted to their first encounter with a Russian artist in his own studio. They walked through an old courtyard in which dirty children played in the litter then into a strange old building that seemed like a cross between a barn and a castle. They climbed several flights of dark stone steps. The guide knocked on a high heavy oak door. It was opened by a huge man in his early seventies, who held out his hand with a one-word introduction: "Konchalovski."
Konchalovski and his younger brother, also an artist, brought out huge canvases to show the visiting artists. The big studio was lined with racks to the ceiling which held hundreds of paintings up to five feet by seven feet, like records in an album. Varley examined the first paintings that were produced. He said later that they looked more like photo murals than works of art.
Varley turned to Konchalovski. "You
like that?" He pointed to one painting.—
Konchalovski wrinkled his nose and puckered his face to indicate that he wasn't particularly proud of it. Then he brought out another canvas, and Varley's eyes widened. "It was a lovely still life," Varley now recalls. "It was like a Cezanne—but better than Cézanne, I honestly think. I told him 'Bravo, it is perfect, you couldn't change a line.' He understood only a little English, but he knew what I said. Suddenly there was understanding, the rare joy of an artist who meets a kindred spirit. Soon we were going over that painting, discussing its rare color, its lovely modulation of line."
Tears rolled down Konchalovski's cheeks. He brought out cheese and wine. Varley and Aldwinckle sang "For he's a jolly good fellow." The interpreter became worried at this excessive fraternization. He pointed to the "Cézanne" and said: "This
is a stage in the development of the artist; he must paint roughly like this before he learns to paint well like that" —pointing to the despised photo-mural painting. The artists laughed at him and he became a little hysterical. Trying to get the visit back on a safe level he kept pointing to objects in Konchalovski's other paintings and crying, "See, there is a lemon, here is a cup, this is a vase, this is meat." But he could not win the attention of the artists who were thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Men Who Talked Like Parrots
Konchalovski told Varley and Aldwinckle that he painted what he liked. "Of course," he added, "when the National Academy commissions a picture—they usually take three a year and pay me for those enough for me to live well I paint the way they want . . ." he waved to the photomurals . . . "but I can also paint for other museums or galleries, or for private persons who can afford to buy."
Aldwinckle came to the conclusion that Konchalovski was a first-rale artist who could paint well, or with tongue in cheek; that he had no intention of asserting the freedom of the artist as long as a good living depended on a measure of conformin'. The visit, which turned into a men ' party, was to be the only really informal meeting with an artist during the Canadians' stay in Russia.
A day or two later Varley had an encounter much the opposite to his pleasant meeting with Konchalovski. On one of the rare occasions when he had a free hour Varley went shopping with one of the girls in the Canadian party, accompanied by a French interpreter. Suddenly the interpreter appeared to become alarmed. "Mr. Varley," she said, "we must hurry back. You have an appointment to meet some artists at 4.30." It was then 4.15, and Varley had never heard of the meeting. But the girl interpreter led him at a fast pace back to the hotel, dodging sidewalk crowds by walking on the roadway.
Back at the hotel, Constantine, Varley's regular interpreter, hurried him into a car. They drove a long distance to a big building where he was confronted by a group of unsmiling men around a large table. "They looked like bankers," Varley recalled, "and I knew they certainly weren't artists. The man who seemed to be in charge was called the Professor. 1 told them I had come to talk to artists, and asked them where the artists were. They kept answering, 'They will come, they will come.'
There followed two nightmare h hours for Varley, during which tU Professor and some of the "banker "
There is no sex appeal in billboards, movies or TV, and all styles are old
threw question arter question at him, and leaped on his answers with scorn. Constantine had disappeared and the men around the table had their own interpreter.
"I don't remember the words," said Varley, "but I remember that they kept asking me about my beliefs in art. And their favorite reaction to my answers was 'that went out a hundred years ago' or 'all that was said twenty years ago; this is a new world now.' 1 wouldn't let them get me down. I answered all their questions and threw them some of my own: 'What is the
Russian art philosophy?' and 'Do you believe that art must descend to the people, or will the people rise up to the art?' They ignored my questions, or answered with their parrotlike: 'All that was said twenty years ago.' They brought tea, but only I was served. There was a huge ornate box of cigarettes on the big table.
"Excuse me, gentlemen, do you mind if I smoke?" 1 said.
"Certainly not. Help yourself."
"1 pushed the cup of tea to one side, pulled out a tin of Players and smoked my own.
"The Professor blandly remarked: 'You notice we do not smoke.'
"It was a strange, meaningless inquisition. Presently Constantine entered the room and walked around the table. I stood up, said I had an appointment, and held out my hand. Rut they remained dead pan and would only mutter 'good-by.'
"On the way out a young man poked his head out of a door in the corridor and said: 'Thank you, Mr. Varley.
I enjoyed your talk very much.' Constantine seemed uneasy. He rode back to the hotel in the front seat, and would not talk."
As the days went by the two Canadian artists had to accept the fact that they were entirely in the hands of VOKS, from early rising to late bedtime. They came, too, to realize that VOKS was a power in the land. After the theatre, ballet, opera and other functions to which they were taken, crowds overflowing from the building would snarl traffic into knots; hut their guide's pronouncement, of the magic word VOKS would clear the way, bring their car, speed them on their way. Even when the program called for a visit to Lenin's Tomb the utterance VOKS took them to the head of the long line-up without demur from the patient Russians.
By now the artists were becoming a little familiar with Moscow—-familiar enough to analyze the reasons for its pervading unfamiliarity. Said Aldwinckle: "I wondered why Moscow
seemed so strange a city, until it dawned on me that here was a place with no pets, no laughter in the streets." "And," added Varley, "no couples holding hands in the parks."
Another difference between Toronto or Montreal and Moscow, which requires time for realization, is the fact that the Russian capital is aim OÍ t totally devoid of an ingredient familiar to everyday life in North America, something that might be called genteel sex provocation. Here fashions, billboards, movies, television, magazine illustrations and advertisements all utilize the feminine form as part of their stock-in-trade; in Russia such allure is seldom advertised, even by the individual owner. The women dress
in styles that are practically nostalgic to Western beholders, and eminently "respectable."
After a week in Moscow, Varley and Aldwinckle were informed that they would be called for at 1.30 in the morning to be driven to the airport for a 1,500-mile flight to Tblisi in Georgia. "Perhaps it would be as well simply not to go to bed after you get hack from the circus," suggested Constantine casually. The artists decided to pass up the circus.
Aldwinckle, with lost sleep piling up, hoped that the Georgians, being southerners, would be more relaxed than his energetic Moscow hosts. But they were met at Tblisi airport by Comrade Sjkente, an architect and vice-president of GOKS—the Georgian vSociety for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries—and a delegation of society mer -hers who informed the visitors briskly that there wouldn't be a dull moment during their stay. And there wasn't.
Georgia proved to be beautiful, but damp. The Canadians were installed in a hotel with large rooms containing beds with lacy pillows and frilled bedspreads. The bed looked good but Aldwinckle was informed that he was due at a film showing in the basement of the headquarters of COKS—the Georgian equivalent of VOKS. "We sat," said Aldwinckle, "in large padded armchairs which I could have sworn had previously been sprayed with water." After dinner there was a ballet, at which Varley and Aldwinckle shocked their hosts by periodically nodding into sleep to the gentle music of Swan Lake. They were awakened, though, by a strange sound. During the applause for the first act, a large number in the audience gave vent, to distinct "boos." It turned out, though, that "boo" is the Georgian equivale nt of "encore" or "bravo."
Stalin Gazing Out to Sea
Something similar happened when t he artists visited the studio of Dzhaparidse, director of the Georgian Academy of Arts. Aldwinckle had with him several color transparencies of Canadian paintings, loaned to him by the Art Gallery of Toronto. One of them was Paul Peel's canvas, After the Bath, and when the director saw it he uttered a hoarse "rrrhosh!" which sounded something like a Bronx cheer hut really was a Georgian term of approval.
The visit to Dzhaparidse's studio was a much more dignified occasion than the soiree with Konchalovski in Moscow. The walls were adorned with sketches and drawings, many of which Varley and Aldwinckle liked. But on his easel, far too large to be ignored, was a heroic but photographic likeness of Stalin in military uniform, gazing out to sea. Aldwinckle asked politely if the portrait had been commissioned by the government. "No." came the answer through the interpreter, "it is the result of inspiration."
Varley, more bluntly, enquired if the artist was working from a photograph. "Yes, of course," was the reply.
The combination of dampness, loas of sleep and a round of functions and visits that surpassed Moscow's most relentless finally took toll of both Varley and Aldwinckle. Both took to their beds with bad colds and exhaustion. After he recovered par-
tially from his first encounter with Soviet medicine, Aldwinckle wrote in his diary:
At 9.30 a doctor arrived in my room with a retinue of two nurses, two men from GOKS and an interpreter. They talked Russian for a long time and then the interpreter said: "Do you cough?" Considering that I had been coughing in the interpreter's ear for three days at the rate of one cough per minute. I thought I showed admirable control when I answered "yes."
There was another large volume of talk in Russian and then I \v;:s asked in English if I had something in my nose. I said yes. More talk. The doctor felt my wrist and there was a hushed silence in the room. After this there was a long consultation, ending with the verdict which was translated to me: "You have a cold."
I agreed, and asked for some
throat lozenges. Instead the nurse pushed a thermometer into my mouth. When she took it out there was no announcement of my temperature. The doctor peered down my throat, held another consultation. and I received the second verdict: "You have a sore throat."
throat lozenges. The doctor wrote out two long prescriptions, told me I must stay indoors, and the nurse would look after me.
Constantine came into my room with his chess board. Every time he fears that a few minutes might hang heavy on my hands, he produces his chess board. As usual, he beat me. quietly and without show of elation. I never won a single game from him—and I consider myself a pretty fair chess player.
The Canadian visitors had baulked when told that they would be detoured on the return journey from Tblisi to Moscow to visit a collective farm near Msketa, on the Black Sea. But VOKS was adamant. "We came to the conclusion that this was the 'demonstration' farm which visitors must see at all costs," said Aldwinckle.
At Msketa they were ushered into a bare farmhouse which contained a piece of furniture which Varley had come to hate -a board table. All their visits, be complained, began at a board table, which be considered the worst possible medium for discussions on art. So Varley went off and sat on an old leather sofa while the rest took their places at the table.
The farm director launched into an hour's discourse on the organization of a collective farm, its philosophy and economy. Aldwinckle, still unwell from his cold and weariness, remembers only one thing about the manager's performance: "His hands were soft and
white with manicured nails, and made mine look like a farmer's."
The party then drove to another farmhouse occupied by an elderly collective farm worker and his wife hut commandeered by the director to entertain the visitors. In the small main room was a table covered with food and drinks. Somehow forty or fifty people jammed into that room, including a sextet in Cossack uniforms and several women singers, dancers and instrumentalists. There were innumerable toasts anil after every toast the Cossacks sang. The rule was "bottoms up"; fortunately the wine was a fairly light vintage.
Finally came the big toast of the evening in which the farm director invoked "love, peace and harmony between all people." Aldwinckle was nominated to represent the visitors, and was handed a huge silver-mounted cow horn (later presented to him as a souvenir) filled to the brim with wine. He was expected to match the director,
gulp for gulp, in emptying the horn.
"It was an ordeal," said Aldwinckle, "but I just made it. A worse ordeal was to follow, though. Full of admiration for my feat, and filled with brotherly love, the director leaned across the table and kissed me heartily. It was the first time I had tasted a wine-soaked mustache. I thought, 'the things I have done for Canada.' "
Back in Moscow the tireless VOKS immediately placed the Canadians once more on what Aldwinckle now called "the artistic belt line"—a new round of visits and entertainments. They
escaped on a midnight train bound for leningrad where they had been invited to meet the members of the Leningrad Academy Institute.
The meeting opened with everyone angry except Aldwinckle—the academy officials because the Canadians were late for their 10.30 appointment; Varley because he was once more confronted with a hated board table. "Aldwinckle saved the day," said Varley later. "He could always find something to say in trying circumstances. One of the directors asked through the interpreter, 'Why does Mr. Varley say nothing?' I
answered: 'How the devil can we talk with that table between us?" They got the point, and we drew up our chairs in civilized manner for a real talk." Finally, the Leningrad visit turned out to be the most pleasant the Canadians experienced.
Back in Moscow the Canadians made a startling discovery. They were not by any means the only guests of VOKS on this cultural tour. An invitation awaited them to a farewell dinner in the banquet hall of the Kremlin, along with about two thousand persons who had been on similar tours of Russia,
none of whom the Canadians had encountered.
Aldwinckle was anxious to see some of the other buildings inside the Kremlin walls—particularly the interior of the colorful domed church which he and Varley had painted from the outside. A special invitation had to be obtained, passport and other documents produced and checked. Finally Aldwinckle received the necessary permission. Constantine asked to be allowed to take his wife along, since she had never been inside the Kremlin.
Aldwinckle's diary entry of the visit tells the story:
We enter the domed church and I am astounded. It was lined inside with huge icons butted together, filling the entire lower walls all the way around. Above this another row of icons were butted, and above that yet another, making literally hundreds of ancient treasures of art. Above this and over the ceilings were magnificent frescoes. In the entire circular interior there was not a bit of wall or ceiling space not covered with icons, frescoes or paintings.
We had repeatedly been told that the Russian revolutionaries had never destroyed the property of the aristocrats they overthrew—only the aristocrats themselves, and this array seemed to indicate that the Soviets valued these religious treasures despite the official attitude toward religion. We passed into another chapel also jam packed with priceless objects.
Then we go into the palace itself, which is now the government's headquarters, and here we are shown the accoutrements of the pomp and ceremony of former rulers—jeweled gifts from princes, kings and rajahs, beaten silver and gold, suits of armor, royal coaches, palace banquet ware. These things are preserved not so much for their intrinsic value, which is undoubtedly great, but as examples of the "disgusting extravagance" of departed royalty. But somehow these pieces of bric-a-brac make me recall the subway.
After his tour of the Kremlin buildings Aldwinckle made his way to the banquet hall where he joined representatives from Italy, Britain, France, West Germany, Mexico, Finland, India and South America. Rumor had it that high Russian officials were presiding at the head table—but the dining hall was apparently a quarter of a mile long and the Canadians could not see that far. Toasts were offered over loudspeakers to all countries, including the United States, although the Canadians saw no Americans. There was dancing afterward to a surprisingly good jazz band, but the Canadians left early. Their plane for home was to take off at 4.30 a.m.
As the undersized and ancient Russian plane winged its way toward Prague, Aldwinckle passed the time by sketching what he could see through a window: part of a battered oil-
stained engine cowl and a little white cloud beyond. Then he flipped the page and sketched the heads of two sleeping Czech passengers.
Presently the stewardess, dressed Russian style in a plain skirt and sweater, leaned over and said that making drawings was not permitted during flight . . . would he please hand over the book so she could show what he had been drawing to the plane's commander?
Aldwinckle gave her the sketch book. She was a long time in the pilot's compartment. Then she silently returned it. Later, when the Iron Curtain was far behind, Aldwinckle flipped through the pages. The careless drawing of the engine cowl of the ancient Russian plane, framed against a little cloud, was missing.
How the Auto beat the Horse
The Massacre at Lachine
October 1954 By THOMAS B. COSTAIN
We went La Vérendrye's way
October 1954 By Blair Fraser
The Weird and Woolly War Against the Lobster Poachers
October 1954 By DAVID MacDONALD
How a Blind Man Runs His Farm
October 1954 By ROBERT COLLINS
The Surest Way to get a Job
October 1954 By ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN
FOOTBALL WEEKEND
December 1960 By PETER GZOWSKI
How to improve your ploy
December 1960 By Leslie F. Hannon
The weirdest secret weapon of the war
December 1960 By Terence Robertson


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Former Winnipegger Cheryl Hechter and Doron Raphael by the Barbra Streisand sign at gate to Bloomfield Stadium
Photo courtesy of Cheryl Hechter
EDITOR'S REPORT: BARBRA STREISAND IN TEL-AVIV FOR HER 100TH CONCERT: LIKES HER KUGEL SWEET AND RECEIVES HONOURARY DOCTORATE FROM HEBREW UNIVERSITY
by Rhonda Spivak, Tel-Aviv, June 23, 2013
If there is one thing I will remember for the rest of my life it is Barbara Streisand singing an emotion filled rendition of Hatikvah near the end of her concert in the Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa, on a gorgeous night with a full moon in the background.
It was a moment to remember. All 16,000 people sang the anthem with her passionately.
The concert itself was only Streisand's 100th live concert performance in her entire career. Streisand has only performed live 100 times because, as she told her audience during a performance she had which so happened to be during the Six Day war in 1967, she forgot some of the words to one of the songs she was singing while on stage and as a result she was too frightened to perform and didn't perform for 27 years. Streisand who is now 71 (although she doesn't look it) has gotten over this fear by using a teleprompter.
Seeing Streisand perform in Israel was very special as she spoke about coming back to the place of her heritage, and roots, and performing before family, which made the concert so special.
Near the opening of the concert, she looked over to the audience members on her far left and far right, and then said, had she known there would have been so many people sitting on either side of her ,she "would have gotten her nose done." It was a funny remark and made the crowd feel instantaneously comfortable.
Streisand was invited to Israel this time by Israeli President Shimon Peres who celebrated his 90th birthday in Jerusalem on June 18th. At Peres's birthday bash, Streisand performed the ancient Hebrew prayer Avinu Malcheinu.
A very moving moment in the concert occurred when Streisand talked about when she was in Israel 30 years ago she planted trees in honor of her father Emanuel and on this visit she went back to the site and saw how the trees had grown. She spoke of the passage of time and the planting of trees knowing that one will not be alive necessarily "to sit under their shade," but we plant "for generations to come". The theme of planting trees was one that resonated with an Israeli audience and Streisand then invited her 60- piece orchestra as well as the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir and special guests to join her for a resounding performance of "Make Our Garden Grow," leaving the crowd on its feet.
During the show she spoke of her grandfather who had a good singing voice--he wasn't a cantor but "he sang a lot in shul" and she played an audio of her mother Diana singing, with a screen that had old photos of her mother, to demonstrate to the audience that her mother had a very good voice. "You see ma, you made it to Bloomfield Stadium in Tel-Aviv," Streisand quipped, noting that her mother would have been very proud to perform in Tel-Aviv.
To see the legendary Streisand perform with her son Jason Gould (whose father is actor Elliot Gould), for a touching duet of "How Deep is the Ocean," was also very special. Streisand also showed the video that Jason, age 46, had made for her 70th birthday, filled with photos of he and her together over the course of his childhood and adult life. The video made the show feel all the more intimate and personal. (Jason Gould by the way also has a beautiful voice). Later in the show Streisand invited her sister Roslyn Kind, also an accomplished singer, to join her on stage for a sublime duet of "Smile."
Streisand also answered a few questions written on cards by audience members beforehand.
One of the questions which had the crowd laughing was whether she liked salty or sweet kugel. She answered "sweet with raisins" but not too many. Later as she was eating a cookie in between numbers she remarked "Oh this tastes like a ...Passover cookie."
Another question Streisand responded to was whether she was sorry she had missed the Tel-Aviv gay pride event on June 7. Streisand quipped that judging by whom she saw in the crowd "I think quite a few of you have made it to the concert tonight."
During her trip to Israel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conferred an honourary doctorate in philosophy on Streisand, in recognition of her professional achievements, humanitarianism, leadership in the realm of human and civil rights, and dedication to Israel and the Jewish people. In her comments after receiving the award, Streisand said, "For close to 30 years, I've had a deep connection to the Hebrew University. It's not only home to a diverse population of some of Israel's best and brightest students, but it also houses the Emanuel Streisand Building for Jewish Studies."
In 1984 Streisand established the Emanuel Streisand Building in memory of her father, whom she praised at the time as "a teacher, scholar and religious man who devoted himself to education."
"One of the things I've always admired about this [Hebrew] University is the fact that here, women and men, Jews and Arabs, Christians and Muslims, native-born and immigrants, sit together in classes, share the same cafeterias, learn from the same professors, and dream together of a good and meaningful life," Streisand said. "I wish the world were more like the hallways of the Hebrew University," she added.
One of the questions asked by an audience member at her concert was how she ought to be referred to now that she was a Doctor. Streisand answered "Just say what's up Doc?"
Streisand spoke about her father before launching into "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from the film Yentl.
She gave an emotional rendition of "The Way We Were," which she dedicated to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, also accompanied by a selection of old photos of she and he together.
When she sang the classic "People" the audience was on its feet applauding and cheering. She showed her vocal range with favorites such as "What'll I Do," "Lost Inside of You" and "Evergreen." She even sang "Where are the Clowns", a number she hasn't sung for a long time.
She performed "Don't Rain on My Parade" in diva style, with energy, drama and flair.
The crowd loved it all from start to finish.
This was her last concert on a tour that took her to London, Amsterdam, Cologne and Berlin, Germany and Tel-Aviv. (It was her first time performing in Amsterdam, Germany and Israel). She gave two concerts in Tel-Aviv.
Chances are she won't be performing in Israel again, which is why it was an amazing experience to witness her second concert in Tel-Aviv.


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In a Foreign Policy Debate, Attention Should be Given to Climate Change
Tonight is the third and final presidential debate, and it will focus exclusively on foreign policy. Viewers can expect to see significant attention given to Afghanistan, China, Iran and Libya. CNAS published a "National Security Guide to the 2012 Presidential Election" earlier this month that lays out some of the key decision points on a range of issues, such as the defense budget, cyber security and Afghanistan.
One issue that has received very little attention in the debates so far is climate change, which is disappointing when one considers that some of the most important decisions regarding U.S. policy on climate change will need to be made in the next administration in order to avoid potential climate tipping points that scientists say could "lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment." Indeed, the International Energy Agency has already warned that – even with the recent global recession – global carbon emissions continue to rise, pushing the world closer to irreversible damage to the environment. The IEA added last year that unless serious efforts are taken in the next five years to curb global greenhouse gas emissions the world may be unable to avoid "dangerous climate change" and its attendant consequences, including more frequent and severe drought like the kind witnessed today in the American midwest.
But policymakers don't need to wait five years or more to see how climate change may take its toll on U.S. security and foreign policy interests. One need only look to the Arctic – which recorded record low sea ice this summer – to see where climate change is already complicating U.S. foreign policy. The opening of the Arctic is placing increased pressure on U.S. policymakers to assess U.S. interests in the region and to navigate potential international challenges that could manifest from increased activity in the High North.
Beyond the Arctic, climate change may be complicating U.S. interests in the South China Sea by exacerbating tensions in the region. In a January 2012 CNAS report, I wrote about a few of these challenges:
For instance, droughts in China offer a stark example of how broader climate trends may undermine the nation's ability to diversify energy resources and invigorate its efforts to seek fossil fuels in the South China Sea. Although China generated approximately 16 percent of its electricity from hydroelectric dams in 2009 and plans to nearly double its hydroelectric capacity by 2020, China's hydroelectric power is projected to decline by 30 to 40 percent in the last quarter of 2011 because of a prolonged drought in parts of the country. However, this recent decline is not a unique event; in recent years, drought has reduced hydroelectric output even as China has been expanding its hydroelectric capacity. Scientific models suggest that climate change is likely to exacerbate drought in East and Southeast Asia by affecting precipitation trends. Thus, these conditions are likely to get worse, undermining China's ability to generate renewable electricity from hydroelectric power and potentially reinforcing its demand for fossil fuels, including resources in the South China Sea.
Although data remains limited, current evidence suggests that climate change will also affect fish migration in ways that could exacerbate competition in the South China Sea. According to a recent U.N. study, warming ocean waters will drive fish species poleward (north, in the South China Sea). As warm-water species move north, cold-water fish species are likely to decline. Such changes in migration are likely to increase fishing in contested areas of the South China Sea, which may increase the number of confrontations involving fishing trawlers and worsen tensions between China and its South China Sea neighbors.
In a debate that will focus exclusively on foreign policy, there should be some attention given to climate change, not only because it is already complicating U.S. security and foreign policy interests, but because by its very nature climate change is almost exclusively a foreign policy challenge. There are important domestic policy dimensions to be sure. Despite the major shift in U.S. energy production from shale gas and oil, U.S. policymakers will need to avoid doubling down on fossil fuels at the expense of investments in clean energy technologies like advanced biofuels. But the United States alone won't be able to address the global climate challenge. The issue will require a concerted international effort to reign in greenhouse gas emissions in both developed and developing countries; from the United States and Japan to China, India and Brazil.
As international leaders meet in Seoul today and tomorrow for a preparatory meeting ahead of the UN Conference of Parties 18 meeting in Doha, Qatar at the end of November, the question that should be on everyone's mind is this: will the next U.S. administration marshal serious leadership in support of global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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We have reached the milestone of having launched 6,000 pages into the database. That is made up of 5,842 pages in the main section of the database, that on British families in Medieval Renaissance & Modern periods, plus 94 'Continentals' (Medieval & Renaissance) and 64 'Ancient & Mythical'. It excludes 198 draft & temporary files (196 in the British section, 2 in the Continental) much of which could be launched into the main part of the database albeit often as sections within 'miscellaneous' pages.


The neatly dissected, compound leaves of Corydalis will remind you of Dutchman's Breeches or Bleeding Hearts. That's because these plants are all in the same family–the fumewort family. The plants in the Corydalis genus have elongated flowers that are held above the leaves. The species pictured here, Corydalis flavula, is a short, wild species that only reaches about 12 inches in height and has yellow flowers. The upper petal of the flower is toothed and turned upward, distinguishing it from other similar species. This is a re-seeding, native annual that prefers moist, loose soil.
Corydalis is sometimes called yellow harlequin. It can be found growing in moist woods in April and May. I found these plants growing at Falls Ridge Preserve, near Blacksburg, Virginia, in April.
In the gallery below, the last two photos in the series are Corydalis lutea. These plants were photographed in my neighbor's garden. They were most likely purchased commercially and sold under the common name "yellow bleeding hearts".


NEW YORK, May 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Talkspace, the global leader in online therapy, and Michael Phelps today announced a strategic partnership to promote therapy as an important tool to help improve one's mental health. The partnership will feature a national TV campaign in which Phelps will share his personal experiences, encourage people to speak openly about mental health, and demonstrate the unique benefits of Talkspace. The campaign will launch May 22nd and will be supported with corresponding digital assets.
"Throughout my career, I struggled with depression and anxiety at various times, and I found it so difficult to get the help I needed," said Phelps. "As I started opening up and talking about my issues, I felt strength, not vulnerability; and when I discovered I could speak with a therapist by text, web, or video—wherever I might be—it was an amazing feeling of empowerment. I want to help others who may be dealing with the same mental health challenges I have experienced and show them that help is so much easier to access now, and more affordable."
Today's announcement is the evolution of a shared commitment between Talkspace and Phelps to fight the stigma surrounding mental health and the forces that keep millions of people from trying therapy. Additionally, Phelps will join the Talkspace Board of Advisors, which is comprised of a small group of industry experts, psychologists, and corporate CEOs, to help advise the company on its mental health strategy.
"Talkspace is pleased to have Michael Phelps join the team," said Talkspace CEO Oren Frank. "His deep knowledge of the mental health advocacy world, as well as his commitment to data-driven improvements in the field, will be invaluable to the Talkspace Advisory Board as we work to make Talkspace a key part of how people manage their mental health. This initiative demonstrates Michael's commitment to breaking down the stigma around therapy and illustrates how this partnership will help eliminate barriers for those in need."
"Michael Phelps's powerful personal story is an incredible vehicle for educating Americans about the importance of mental health, and for erasing the stigma that has kept so many from seeking therapy," said Talkspace VP of Marketing Michael Kuznetsov. "All too often, we forget that mental illness does not discriminate, and that you can be affected no matter your background, occupation, or level of success. Michael's open and honest story makes it clear that we can all benefit from therapy, no matter who we are."
About Talkspace: Talkspace connects people with licensed therapists through its web and mobile apps. As the leading online therapy company, Talkspace revolutionized mental health care access by bringing the dialogue between therapists and their clients into the digital age. Founded with a mission to eliminate the stigmas associated with mental illness and make therapy more available to millions of people, Talkspace has already been used by more than one million people to contact a therapist. For more information, please visit https://www.talkspace.com. To learn more about online therapy, please visit https://www.talkspace.com/online-therapy/.


Wallace was a Scottish knight who, during the Wars of Scottish Independence, led a resistance against the English occupation. Much of what is known about his life is based on legend and the poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written by 15th century minstrel Blind Harry. In 1305, Wallace was betrayed by a Scottish knight and handed over to the English. Found guilty of treason, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered. What 1995 film depicts Wallace's life?
Sudoku is a number puzzle based on the Latin squares described by Euler, an 18th c Swiss mathematician. The modern, more complex version classically consists of a box divided into 9 squares; each of those squares is again divided into 9 smaller boxes (81 boxes in total). The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid so that there is only one solution. The objective is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. What is a Hexudoku?
Cuvier was a renowned French naturalist and zoologist considered the founder of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology. He originated a system of zoological classification that comprised four phyla based on differences in structure of the skeleton and organs, and his work with fossils greatly advanced the science of paleontology. In 1826, he was named to the Legion of Honour, the most senior order in France. What extinct flying reptile was Cuvier the first to identify and name?


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Options Trading Guide
Options & Derivatives Trading Options Trading Strategy & Education
Average Price Call
By Jason Fernando
What Is an Average Price Call?
An average price call is a call option whose profit is determined by comparing the strike price to the average price of the asset that occurred during the option's term. Therefore, for a three-month average price call, the holder of the option would receive a positive payout if the average closing price for the underlying asset traded above the strike price during the three-month term of the option.
By contrast, the profit for a traditional call option would be calculated by comparing the strike price to the price occurring on the specific day when the option is exercised, or at the contract's expiration if it remains unexercised.
Average price call options are also known as Asian options and are considered a type of exotic option.
Average price calls are a modification of a traditional call option where the payoff depends on the average price of the underlying asset over a certain period.
This is opposed to standard call options whose payoff depends on the price of the underlying asset at a specific point in time - at exercise or expiry.
Also known as Asian options, average price options are used when hedgers or speculators are interested in smoothing the effects of volatility and not rely on a single point of time for valuation.
Understanding Average Price Calls
Average price call options are part of a broader category of derivative instruments known as average price options (APOs), which are sometimes also referred to as average rate options (AROs). They are mostly traded OTC, but some exchanges, such as the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), also trade them as listed contracts. These kinds of exchange-listed APOs are cash-settled and can only be exercised on the expiration date, which is the last trading day of the month.
Some investors prefer average price calls to traditional call options because they reduce the option's volatility. Because volatility increases the likelihood that an option holder will be able to exercise the option during its term, this means that average price call options are generally less expensive than their traditional counterparts.
The complement of an average price call is an average price put, in which the payoff is positive if the average price of the underlying asset is less than the strike price during the option's term.
Real World Example of an Average Price Call
To illustrate, suppose you believe that interest rates are set to decline and therefore wish to hedge your exposure to Treasury bills (T-bills). Specifically, you wish to hedge $1 million worth of interest rate exposure for a period of one month.
You begin considering your options and observe that T-bill futures are currently trading in the market at $145.09. To hedge your interest rate exposure, you purchase an average price call option whose underlying asset is T-bill futures, in which the notional value is $1 million, the strike price is $145.00, and the expiration date is one month in the future. You pay for the option with a $45,500 premium.
One month later, the option is about to expire and the average price of the T-bills futures over the previous month has been $146.00. Realizing that your option is in the money, you exercise your call option, buying for $145.00 and selling at the average price of $146.00. Because the average price call option had a notional value of $1 million, your profit is $954,500, calculated as follows:
Profit = (Average Price − Strike Price)× Notional Value − Option Premium PaidProfit = ($146.00 − $145.00)× $1,000,000 − $45,500\begin{aligned}&\text{Profit}\ = \ (\text{Average Price}\ - \ \text{Strike Price})\\&\qquad\qquad \times\ \text{Notional Value}\ - \ \text{Option Premium Paid}\\&\text{Profit}\ = \ (\$146.00\ - \ \$145.00)\\&\qquad\qquad \times\ \$1,000,000\ - \ \$45,500\\&\text{Profit}\ =\ \$954,500\end{aligned}Profit = (Average Price − Strike Price)× Notional Value − Option Premium PaidProfit = ($146.00 − $145.00)× $1,000,000 − $45,500
Alternatively, if the average price of T-bills over this period had been $144.20 instead of $146.00, then the option would have expired worthless. In that scenario, you would have experienced a loss equal to the option premium, or $45,500.
Average Price Put
An average price put is a type of option where the payoff depends on the difference between the strike price and the average price of the underlying asset.
How In The Money (ITM) Options Work
In the money (ITM) means that an option has value or its strike price is favorable as compared to the prevailing market price of the underlying asset.
Exploring the Many Features of Exotic Options
Exotic options are options contracts that differ from traditional options in their payment structures, expiration dates, and strike prices.
Path Dependent Option Definition and Example
A path-dependent option has a payout that depends on the price history of the underlying asset over all or part of the life of the option.
Vanilla Option Definition
A vanilla option gives the holder the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a predetermined price within a given time frame.
Average Strike Option Definition and Example
An average strike option is an option type where the payoff depends on the average price of the underlying asset instead of a single price at expiration.
How Does Implied Volatility Impact Options Pricing?
Understanding How Options Are Priced
What Is Option Moneyness?
Option Greeks: The 4 Factors to Measure Risks
The Essential Options Trading Guide
Advanced Options Trading Concepts
Write Covered Calls To Increase Your IRA Income


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THE RETURN TRIP – Episode 172
…"I am relieved about Gus!." Francine is all too aware that Gus is the one suffering most by the loss of his parents…
Suffering by Paula Heffel
"I am not going to waste our time together squabbling over that necktie." Their 17 month marriage remains solid, as most do, in spite of the ongoing McKinney heartbreak, career shifts, and the blinding glare of the national spotlight. Like those ships in the night, passing near not seeing, "We can't waste this time."
"Speaking of not seeing someone, how did Deke & Gus do on their Academy exams?" Co-surrogate father Roy would give anything short giving up on the election to be there to help the boys with the critical Space Academy simulator tests; the single biggest factor in becoming an astronaut candidate. Braden King is a ground expert, but has little to offer the two rapidly maturing space-aspiring young men.
The adults' combined mission is to help them attain those desired goals.
"Gus barely got by the book test, then A-ced the simulator." she tells Roy. "Deke lost his gyro-control, hit an asteroid and he will never live it down. It turns out that the professor rigged his test by inserting THE QUARKIAN QUANDARY, I believe he called it."
NASA Top Gun
"They only pull that on the Top Guns. I bet Deke had already been promoted."
"I am relieved about Gus!." Francine is all too aware that Gus is the one suffering most by the loss of his parents.
"The way I see it Francine, Gus knows that his flying skills are the only way he graduates from the Academy; it's hard to keep up with his genius brother."
"Whatever the reason," she concludes as their Ford Hydrogen vehicle pulls up to the Hilton Hotel & Casino, "I think that Celeste would be pleased as punch and Sammy Mac is screaming at the top of his lungs … somewhere out there."
THE RETURN TRIP
Categories: Art, Education, Family, Science Fiction, Space travel, The Return Trip Tags: "Somewhere Out There" Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, astronauts, I Miss U, NASA, Space Academy, The Space Family McKinney, Top Gun