Month: August 2017

Newcastle and Sussex Inlet (continued)

I reckon one gets a wonderful impression watching this 2 and a half minute video about Newcastle’s Merewether Beach.   This video was made in 2015:

“From Plan to Place – Sea Change@ Merewether Beach precinct.
Merewether Beach is one of Newcastle’s famous beaches and has been designed as a National Surfing Reserve.”

As I said in a previous post –  https://auntyuta.com/2017/08/24/lunch-in-newcastle/ –

we had lunch in Newcastle at beaches cafe. We had this view from the terrace of the cafe:

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View to Merewether Beach from the beaches cafe.
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Martin had ordered baby octupus

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I had four prawn cutlets. They were delicious. The chips and salad were good too. After lunch we went down to the beach for coffee and ice-cream:

And now back to my post about Sussex Inlet:

Diary, August 2017

Just one week ago we arrived there and stayed only for the weekend. We had booked three units. Each unit could accommodate four adults plus two children. There were only in one unit some children, that is,  there were of course our lovely great-grandsons: Lucas (5) and Alexander (nearly 3). Unfortunately no-one did take a group picture. But we are going to have a great memory about this weekend anyway.

It says that the wildlife should not be fed by us!

Pulse

http://iview.abc.net.au/category/drama

Pulse

Series 1 Ep 6

DRAMA

Tanya Kalchuri is forced to tell Frankie she read her medical files – a breach of professional ethics; while Berger works with Eli Nadar to save a patient from deportation. CAST: Claire van der Boom, Owen Teale, Liam McIntyre

Broadcast 8:30pm Thu 24 Aug 2017. Published 10 minutes ago, available until 9:33pm on 7 Oct 2017. File size approx. 460 MB
Just now Peter and I finished watching Ep 6. We have been watching all episodes so far starting with Ep. 1. 

Pulse Extras

Series 1 Real Casting

DRAMA

Meet the diverse group of real-life doctors and actors that make up the cast of Pulse.

This episode was published 1 month ago and is available until 9:30pm on 7 Oct 2017. File size approx. 18 MB
All these episodes are still available on iview! In today’s episode the doctors work very hard to save a patient from deportation. It is heartbreaking how a woman in desperate need of medical care is in danger of being deported! 

Football for the blind

http://www.ibsasport.org/sports/football/

I copied this information about football for the blind. If you go to the above link you can see pictures about this football for the blind.

“Football for the blind and partially sighted started out as a playground game for school children in special schools for the visually impaired. It has now become one of the most popular sports for people with a visual impairment worldwide.

The game was taken up in several countries, each playing according to its local rules (different balls and pitches were used, rules varied from country to country, etc.). Many countries, such as Spain and Brazil, set up national championships, and soon countries began to organise the first friendly international matches.

Blind football – or futsal, as it is also known – joined IBSA in 1996 when the federation decided to take the game on board. The first task was to agree and approve internationally recognised rules.

With a set of rules in place, the first IBSA European Championships were held in Barcelona, Spain, and the first American Championships took place in Asunción in Paraguay, in 1997.

Since then official IBSA regional and world championships have been held regularly and international friendly tournaments such as the IBSA Cup are a regular feature on the blind futsal calendar.

Brazil are the current IBSA Blind Football World Champions, having won in Tokyo in 2014. Brazil has won four IBSA world titles and Argentina two.

The next world championships will take place in Madrid, Spain, in June 2018.

IBSA has two types of football – B1 for footballers who are completely blind, and B2/B3 for players who are partially sighted.

Blind football has become one of the biggest sports on the Paralympic Games programme following its debut at the Athens 2004 games. This was recognised at the London 2012 Paralympic Games when the number of teams taking part rose from six to eight. Blind football was one of the most popular sports at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where hosts Brazil won gold for the fourth time running.

Blind football enjoys support from UEFA for its development activities in Europe.”

Isabel dos Santos

https://www.forbes.com/profile/isabel-dos-santos/

Isabel dos Santos
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 8/23/17
$3.5 B
Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos is the oldest daughter of Angola’s longtime president. Though her representatives deny that her holdings have any connection to her father, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, FORBES research found that he transferred stakes in several Angolan companies to her. In June 2016, he appointed her the head of Sonangol, Angola’s state oil firm. In February 2017 he announced he will not seek reelection. Dos Santos’ assets in Angola include 25% of Unitel, the country’s largest mobile phone network, and 42% of a bank, Banco BIC. In Portugal she owns nearly 6% of oil and gas firm Galp Energia (alongside Portuguese billionaire Americo Amorim), and nearly 19% of Banco BPI, the country’s fourth-largest bank She is also a controlling shareholder of Portuguese cable TV and telecom firm Nos SGPS (formerly called Zon). In October 2015, four members of the European Parliament publicly called for an investigation into her investments in Portugal, questioning their legality. A spokesperson for Dos Santos told Forbes that “Isabel dos Santos is an independent business woman and a private investor representing solely her own interests. Her investments in Angolan and/or in Portuguese companies are transparent and have been conducted through arms length’s transactions involving external entities such as reputed banks and law firms.”

Throw Out all Your Writing Books

I have not read the whole post yet. Creative Writing as a subject that interests me very much. So I plan on studying this post a bit more.

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Okay maybe not actually throw them out but a lot of people seem to miss the point of creative writing. They turn it into a competition, with charts and graphs as if it’s Mathematical all of which is (at least for me) bad for creativity.

Image may be copyrighted. Used in reference to George R.R Martin and Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire comment.

Creative writing is about creativity, imagination and storytelling. It’s about imagining what’s possible and telling tales through characters.

Here’s some rules that I don’t actually always agree with. Most of them I would say I think that they are blanket statements and don’t consider exceptions:

1. Show don’t tell.

It’s a very confusing rule because most stories have showing and telling. Too much telling can be overkill but sometimes it has a place.

2. Never use modifiers.

Could you kindly rephrase that? In the…

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Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock-Lichtenhagen_riots

Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lichtenhagen in relation to Rostock
“From August 22 to August 24, 1992 violent xenophobic riots took place in the Lichtenhagen district of Rostock, Germany; these were the worst mob attacks against migrants in postwar Germany. Even though stones and petrol bombs were thrown at an apartment block where asylum seekers lived, no one was killed. At the height of the riots, several hundred militant right-wing extremists were involved, and about 3,000 neighbourhood onlookers stood by, applauding them . . . . . . .”

Diary, August 2017

Here are Martin and Peter soon after our arrival at Sussex Inlet on Friday, the 18th of August 2017:

We were the first to arrive at our ‘camp’ at Sussex Inlet. Four more cars with ten more family members turned up during the late afternoon. We all stayed until the following Sunday and had a very good time. These family gatherings are very stimulating. I would not want to miss them.