Gaby’s Birthday, 28th of August

Today, Peter wrote the following letter to his daughter Gaby who passed away five years ago:

Dear Gaby,
today would be your birthday and I’m sure we would have visited. Sixty years is an enormous number but you did not quite make it. Your fiftieth birthday comes to mind for which you organised a big party for your friends and relatives. It was a great occasion, we will never forget. We even danced together. I’m sure you would have organised something for your sixties too. Perhaps some of your carers are having
a drink at the Parramatta Leagues Club to remember you. There is a picture with all of them. They were more than just carers, they were your good friends and were with you right to the very end. Your life was a shining example of how one should live. You showed us not to despair and to accept the things we can’t change and make the most of it. With this lesson in mind, we have accepted your life and your passing. Memories can be bitter and sweet but we stick to the good memories. Our thoughts are with you every day of our lives but more so today. Mum and I, we wish we could be with you and give you a big hug. XO

Gaby celebrated her 50th birthday on the weekend after her birthday.

DIGITAL CAMERA — Gaby celebrating her 50th Birthday

Gaby’s Birthday

Today, 28th of August 2017, Gaby would have been sixty years! She died five years ago. I searched in my published posts what I wrote about Gaby’s birthday:

https://auntyuta.com/?s=Gaby%27s+Birthday&submit=Search

Uta’s Diary, 2nd of September 2015

On the 2nd of September 2015 (two years ago) I wrote the following:

“Last Sunday turned out to be a lovely family day at our home. It was beautiful to be surrounded by children, grand-children, and great grand-children for a few hours in the afternoon. Some almond-cake was left from Gaby’s birthday. There was also freshly baked cheese-cake. Peter had baked this cake!”

There is a picture of Peter’s freshly baked cheese-cake and another picture that was taken on Gaby’s birthday in 2015. The birthday picture shows an almond cake as well as a picture of Gaby and some flowers. Following this are some pictures with three year old Lucas and eleven months old Alexander in it and I mentioned that our daughter Monika took these pictures of her grandsons an sent them to me for my post.

Here can be found more posts about Gaby:

https://auntyuta.com/?s=Gaby&submit=Search

An Essay By Anne Applebaum

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/anne-applebaum-why-germany-must-build-a-stronger-military-a-1164039.html

An Essay By Anne Applebaum in SPIEGEL ONLINE

A Test of Maturity

“Germany Must Abandon Its Military Reluctance and Lead

Germany enjoys high regard around the world. But with American power weakening and authoritarian powers rising, the country needs to abandon its military reluctance and finally lead in Europe.”

“Anne Applebaum, 53, is an historian and respected expert on Russian affairs. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for her book “Gulag,” about Soviet labor camps. She writes regularly for The Washington Post and Foreign Policy and is married to former Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski.”

She says in her essay: “Trump may be an aberration, but he does reflect a very real American exhaustion, and real American doubt about the worth of the trans-Atlantic alliance. ” I say, but what about the people in America who have the real power?

I also wonder, whether she studied the Putin speeches and what she might respond to these?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Putin+speeches&page=&utm_source=opensearch

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.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/pulse-extras/DM1629H002S00#pageloaded

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.”

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 . . . . . . .”

Exercise Noble Jump 2017

http://www.eur.army.mil/AtlanticResolve/

https://auntyuta.com/2017/06/26/nato-exercises-in-romania/

Nearly two months ago I mentioned the ‘Nato Exercises in Romania’ in a post. Today I had another look at some of the YouTube videos. It is hard to describe what I feel when I watch these videos. After World War Two I grew up thinking that it was possible that mankind should live in peace. That World Wars could be prevented because people did not like these wars. People wanted to live in peace, didn’t they? What do people want now, really?

BuJazzO – Maria Baptist is fascinated by big cities.

http://archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/archiv/festivals2011/07_jazzfest11/jazz11_programm/jazz11_programmlistedetailseite_27753.php

“The BuJazzO, Germany’s Youth Jazz Orchestra, sponsors qualified and talented young jazz musicians in Germany. The current concert repertoire is rehearsed with changing line-ups in working modules that take the form of an intensive musical training in a professional master course atmosphere. The artistic directorship of rehearsals and stage work alternates and is performed by renowned artists. The working modules are followed by guest performances at home and abroad, where the results are presented to an international audience.

To encourage high qualified young female musicians BuJazzO has put a focus on women as conductors and instructors, starting with pianist Maria Baptist, composer/arranger and professor at the Berlin Music Conservatory ‘Hanns Eisler’. She has been conducting the 47th working phase of BuJazzO in March 2011.

Maria Baptist is fascinated by big cities. Together with BuJazzO she presents the programme City Grooves. It reflects the different moods and the mutability of a big city. Powerful energetic music alternates with concertante moments.”

“Her music is a gift, infused with all the creativity, power, . . . ”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Baptist

“Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path. She began studying piano at the music university in Berlin and won her first international piano competitions on improvisation. During this period, the Berlin Wall fell, which meant a great personal change in Maria’s life. She took the opportunity to move to New York. Here Maria experienced the freedom, space and magic, which opened up whole new musical worlds to her. Maria’s artistic work was significantly influenced and inspired by the tremendous creativity, energy, living will, the strength and melancholy of the metropolis. . . . . ”

. . . . ”

My Diary, August 2017

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/guides/guide-marrickville

Wikipedia Copy:
“Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney 7 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government area. ”

There is a cafe in the old Marrickville Post Office building.

We had lunch in the Post Cafe with Caroline and Matthew. It was a sunny day and we were sitting outside under an umbrella. Peter had lamb’s fry with bacon. He was very happy that this was available. And I had haloumi burger and a huge salad with it. I liked my meal very much. I also had a chai tea.

https://www.yelp.com.au/biz_photos/post-cafe-marrickville?select=eFK6Ovd4E4ZFDUK8AtcjOw

I never went inside to have a look. However the above photos give me an idea what the place looks like inside.

With Caroline on the balcony of their studio apartment in Marrickville

DSCN3087 — Apartment Building in Marrickville

There are no lifts in this building. But we had to climb only two floors up to get to their apartment, which was great exercise for us. From Caroline and Matthew’s apartment one has a great view to the city. The apartment is surrounded by a large balcony!