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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. 

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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