Krutaja Babulka

Month: May 2016

  • BADEK NEWS 72

    First. Ice Hockey, Moscow. 2016 IIHF World Championship.

    Canada Retains World Ice Hockey Title with win over Finland. Congrats to team Canada on their gold medal performance! MSN News, May 22, 2016

    Second. Strangers Rally Helps Bride Elise Phillippo who Lost wedding dress in Fort McMurry Wildfire.

    In the midst of chaos, Phillippo asked her Toronto-based wedding photographer Alex Neary, if she knew of anyone who could lend her a dress.

    “A bride with no dress on her wedding day? That just can’t happen.” said Alex.

    So, she posted a request on her personal Facebook page. Within hours, she heard from hundreds of people offering to help.

    Elise Phillippo's wedding dress

    Third. Red Cross donations for Fort McMurry hit $ 100 million. May 23, 2016 Metro News.

    Fourth. “Sleepbus” Provides Homeless Australians ( and their Pets) a safe place to sleep. Simon Rowe, a formerly homeless Australian man, is converting a bus into a mobile shelter to provide more than 8030 “safe sleeps” per year. GoodNewsNetwork.com

    Fifth. Elderly Dog Cries with Joy at Soldier BFF’s Homecoming.

    For 3 whole months, Army Private Hannah Foraker had been at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA, undergoing basic training. So, when she returned home to Cleveland for a visit over Christmas, her canine friend Buddy, could hardly contain her excitement. The 13-year old golden retriever could not even stand up, crying of joy.

  • Baryshnikov and Nijinsky (Performance in Madrid, Teatro del Canal, May 12, 2016)

    Letter to a Man(Ticket &Signature)“Letter to a Man” (Nijinsky’s Diaries) is a theatrical work performed by a great dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, staged by Robert Wilson.

    Nijinsky’s mental health had broken down in Switzerland at the close of the First World War. His diaries are an extraordinary document of his struggle not to go mad and to understand what was happening to him. When he stopped writing his Diary, he locked himself away, as in a tomb. There he remained for more than two decades, watched over by his wife. But as another catastrophe in Europe draws to its close, the great artist seems to be coming to life again. We visit him, behind his silence. For Nijinsky, time has stood still. He is alone with his ghosts, especially that of Diagilev, the impressario who first put him on stage before the ballet world.

    Nijinsky-Baryshnikov,2016Everything is important at the stage: set design, lighting, movements and voice…

    Baryshnikov is 68.

    Change performing arts is very natural for him.

    After the show we asked to give us his autograph. So, he did. This is among the other photos.

    Thanks a lot, MAESTRO!

    Baryshnikov in Madrid, 2016

  • BADEK NEWS 71

    First. The celebrations of the Victory Day on May 8-9, 1945 are over. Everywhere in the world there were marches, parades, meetings, auto-rallies. We met one of the participants of the auto-rally in honour of the Victory over the fascist Germany, Valentin Nomikossov who shared with us his positive emotions about this event and presented to us a photo. Here it is:

    Victory Day Calgary, 16

    Second. Yesterday, May 14, 2016 there was a direct air of Eurovision Song Contest with finals. The winner became Jamala “1944”, a singer from Ukraine.

    This is her performance:

    Third. Disaster fell on the northern city of Alberta, Fort MacMurry: the powerful forest fire having burnt many houses and buildings inside and outside the city. Plenty people were left without houses and job. All the world is helping to the victims of great fire. Now the situation is under control.

    Fourth. The world oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, Brooklyn.

    Fifth. The other oldest person in the world, Misao Okawa, died at 117.

    Japan, known for longevity of its people, is home to the world’s oldest man-Sakari Momoi, who celebrated his 112th birthday in February.

    In 2013, life expectancy for women in Japan, was 86.61, the longest in the world followed by Hong Kong women, according to the health ministry.

    For men it was 80.21, the fourth longest after men in Hong Kong, Iceland, and Switzerland.

    Source: Huffpost Living Canada, May 15, 2016.