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The G20 Summit in TorontoAs World Leaders met in Toronoto for the G8 & G20 summits, the sur-rounding areas took different action. Instead of promoting peace, the out-come was violence and protests.

On the Courts at WimbledonAll the latest news and upsets from the All England Club. Federer is out after a Czech defeat, Venus Williams is out but her sister - Serena, reigns on and the all the other scores.

Mahler Brightens the RheingauA rather unusual piece to open one of Hessen’s most renowned music festivals. Mahler’s rule-breaking sym-phony performed to the masses in the Basilica at Kloster Eberbach.

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7 | The G20 Summit: To Violent for Toronto?

8 | Technology: Prone to Problems

12 | Sports: On the Courts at Wimbledon

10 | Sports: On the Courts at Wimbledon

9 | Music: Mahler brightens the Rheingau

13 | Looking Forward to Volume Two

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12 | Dear Aunty Jane

Inside The White HouseFEATURE

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Just two years after being sworn in as Presi-dent, a reader of any daily newspaper would get the impression that President Barack Obama is rather over-occupied at the pre-sent time as he attempts to deal with recent disasters that have landed on his desk in The White House’s Oval Office.

In recent weeks, members of the Presi-dent’s administration have frantically tried to solve as many problems as possible within a given day but the strain may be pushing some staff to the limits.

Mr. Obama has been described by many newspapers to have been testing his powers to the limits in recent weeks thanks to his involvement in the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the recent ‘firing’ of General Stanley McChrystal from his post as Gen-eral in the Afghanistan War. As if that wasn’t enough for the President, Mr. Obama was also out in Toronto for the weekend at the G20 summit where he aimed to coordinate with other participating nations in regards to the on-going Wall-Street Reform.

Meanwhile - the job of getting the econ-omy back up and running at full steam seems to have fallen to the Vice President - Joe Biden, who recently spoke to the Press about the progress of the recent recovery act. Mr. Biden has also been seen waving the flag for the United States in South Africa’s World Cup tournament - a last-minute alteration to plans prohibited the President from attend-ing. The Vice President’s trip to Africa came just shortly after returning to Washington from a short tour and negotiating with Presi-dents Mubarak of Egypt and Kibaki of Kenya.

The question being asked about many of the topics on the desks of White House Staff members has to be, is the Obama Adminis-tration over-reacting or being too diplomatic about the topics at hand?

It’s a question that can be argued both ways, but even some members of President Obama’s team don’t think they’re getting the balance right. A recent rumour has surfaced about Obama’s Chief of Staff - Rahm Emanuel who is likely to resign half-way through the administrative term of four years due to disa-greements with the President.

Robert Gibbs - Obama’s Press Secre-tary, is responsible for answering the media’s questioning on the topics at hand, yet there will always be too much to cover in one day.

Inside The White HouseChristopher Sladdin reviews the Latest Surge of Disasters and Obstacles that the President has on his desk.

BP Oil SpillIn his speech to the nation back in June, he described it as an ‘epidemic.’ The President also told people around the world that he’d “fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes.”

BP’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been more than a mere oil spill, it’s turned into a political debate between countries over the company’s future, it’s caused unem-ployment for thousands along the Gulf Coast and it’s been Obama’s biggest test of his pres-idential powers so far.

Since making his speech to the nation on the crisis in mid-June, the President has not been seen on the front-line of the operations as much - possibly due to pressure from the UK to keep BP going or from the dealings with Stanley McChrystal.

In days prior however, the President kept his eyes focused on the spill and did eve-rything he could as president to get things set back to normal - an aim that won’t come to fruition for many months or even years.

President Obama was responsible for placing the federal government in charge of the cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama was also responsbile for making BP put billions of dollars aside to pay for the operations and people’s claims. Presi-dent Obama was responsible for getting the British in a bit of a state over the potential bankrupcy of their beloved and economically critical company.

In fact - the President can be blamed or thanked for many things related to the Oil Spill in the Gulf but his current silence isn’t going to get anybody any further.

The scene of the spill has been silent for a number of days but maybe that is because people are working on what the President knows will continue for more than a ‘few minutes or days’.

He will - or so the White House indi-cates, be back on the scenes, whenever action needs to be taken but in the future, he may have to tread carefully to avoid arguments.

Stanley McChrystalHe was - until last week, the top general in Afghanistan but his comments in a lengthy ar-ticle published by the magazine - Rolling Stone put an end to his career in the longest war the US has ever been involved in.

Although many articles go unnoticed in today’s politics, this one was instantly picked up by officials leading to the President sum-moning General Stanley McChrystal to pri-vate meetings at the White House.

On arrival at the White House a letter of resignation had already been drafted by McChrystal which was later accepted follow-ing a one-to-one meeting with the President that lasted for just twenty minutes. President Obama, however told the press in his state-ment regarding the firing of General Mc-Chrystal that “it was a difficult decision to come to the conclusion that I’ve made today.”

The President’s presentation said noth-ing about the article itself but was full of praise and admiration for the long-serving general. He also hoped that the new leader-ship under General Petraeus in Afghanistan would help achieve the mission there.

The President’s chosen leader in Afghan-istan used to be McChrystal’s boss but he’s now taking a step down to try and achieve the same success as he did in the Iraq war just a few years ago.

“Let me say to the American people, this is a change in personnel but it is not a change in policy” said the President in his statement. He made note that the General was already fully on-board with the on-going mission in Afghanistan saying that he “helped design the strategy that we [America] have in place.”

Throughout the week long frenzy over Stanley McChrystal’s comments the White House staff kept their heads down keeping many of the facts away from the public, but - in his usual way, the President made it clear at the end that he did what he did “with consid-erable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military, and for our country.”

President Obama has been working hard at their relationship ever since taking office but now it looks as if he need not have tried, thanks to the FBI’s arrest of who they believe to be Russian Secret Agents, which sparked outrage from the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.

Just days after President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the G8/G20 conferences in Canada, the im-proving relationship between the two coun-tries has taken a mighty blow with countries on both sides of the Atlantic finding them-selves instantly involved.

Within the space of 24 hours, ten alleged spies were arrested in the United States and one in Cyprus, including one who is said to have ‘held [a] fake British passport.’

The ‘spies’ were believed by the FBI to have been sharing secret government details with the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) for the past ten years. Evidence compiled by the FBI showed that one suspect - known as Anna Chapman, communicated with Russian officials from a coffee shop by pairing their computers via wireless internet.

Although the President has refused so far to comment on the situation, the likeli-hood of an improved relationship with Russia is now threatened and the improved circumstances may just as well return to those that followed the Cold War.

USA ♥ Russia?He arrived, and has been battling it since. The United States was one of the worst hit by the recent recession and may, in some cases be blamed for various elements of the reces-sion’s appearance thanks to Wall Street’s ma-jor banking problems. Always thinking in the interest of the people however, the President has set out to reform the banking system to prevent recessions from happening again.

Before leaving for Toronto for the G8 & G20 summits this weekend, he made it clear to the press that the country was ready for the toughest financial reform in its history and he urged Congress to passthe reform as quickly as possible sothat the lengthy process of adjustmentcould begin.

In his speech to the press he said that “Credit card companies will no longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print. You will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties.”

In his term in office he’s already reformed health care and is working hard on education reform. Financial reform is just another reason

why he should - in some people’s minds, be

re-elected in 2012.

Wall Street ReformA final topic on the mind of the President is the progress of his Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, who is currently going through her Senate confirmation hearings.

Kagan - who used to be Dean of Harvard Law, was ‘grilled’ on Tuesday by Republicans over a military recruitment ban at Harvard during her time as dean.

Elena Kagan

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PHOTO: HAWKWING3141/FLICKRThe G20 Summit: Too Violent for Toronto?

The leaders of the G20 countries assembled over the weekend in Toronto, Canada to dis-cuss important issues including Financial Re-form, but people around the world have been voicing their complaint over the summit.

Thousands of anti-G20 protesters took to downtown Toronto on Saturday, with their anger directed at the site of the meet-ing: The Metro Toronto Convention Centre. This building, along with many other buildings including various hotels, business offices and The Eaton Centre shopping mall were put under lockdown while the meetings took place for security reasons.

The protests were said to have at-tracted the support of as many as 10,000 people. Most of the protestors were union members, easily identified by their union ban-ners and logos which they bore with them throughout the day. The protesters may not have left behind a strong message of dispute against the policies being discussed but they did, however, leave behind chaos and thou-sands of dollars worth of damage.

Store windows were smashed, police cruisers set ablaze, cars and buses vandalized and a Toronto Transit Commission Streetcar was abandoned downtown after being spray painted with anti-summit and anarchy sym-bols. One protester, Peter Kennedy of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, told CBC News, “We are here to make sure our voices

are heard, and to tell the leaders that they can’t ignore the voices of those they were elected to represent.”

Police have been working around the clock to keep the protesters away from the summit site using tear gas and plastic bul-lets to keep protesters at bay. By late Satur-day evening, it was reported that more than 103 people had been arrested due to the protests.

Premier Dalton McGuinty made a statement and condemned the actions that were happening, saying, “Peaceful protest has always been part of the bedrock of our democracy… However, willful, mindless de-struction and violence have no place in our province. I appeal to all involved to allow calm to prevail.” In a different statement made by Stephen Harper’s spokesperson Dimitri Sou-das, he said, “Free speech is a principle of our democracy, but the thugs that prompted vio-lence earlier today represent in no way, shape or form the Canadian way of life.”

Around 7:30 PM on Saturday even-ing, a riot broke out at Queen’s Park. Tight lines of police took control of the Park using weapons on those who did not obey orders. Other protests further downtown were re-routed. Protesters were blocked by police in an attempt to stop them from getting any fur-ther south than Queen Street West.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair told The Globe and Mail that the main goal of the po-lice is to protect the site of the G20 Summit

TORONTO | By Liz Turnerand to protect the public.

Since there had been so much trou-ble in the downtown area, many means of public transportation had been shut down. Subway service in the lower loop between Bloor and St. George stations had to be shut down by the Toronto Transit Commission and street-car service in the area was also halted. Officials had to suspended the com-muter GO Trains in and out of Union Station as an extra precaution. Many residents took a weekend break from city life due to the pro-tests.

Many offices and residential buildings in downtown Toronto gave their workers and residents safety packets for getting around downtown Toronto. Business attire is not to be worn outside because it may put people in a susceptible situation with protesters. Hos-pitals are on high alert this week with a large number of staff on call in case of emergencies.

As an extra precaution, the police in-troduced a new regulation on Friday regard-ing the site of the G20 Summit which stated that anyone who came within five meters of the summit site has to state their name and purpose of visit. Should they fail to do so, the police could arrest them.

With all of the protests happening in the downtown area, the G20 Summit may have a lot to think about for safety and secu-rity in the next city they elect for meetings. Toronto has been a reminder of the protests in London, so remoteness is likely key.

Prone to Problems - Apple and the iPhoneApple’s latest product, the iPhone 4 has suffered from manufacturing issues and now a new Privacy Policy.

It’s just another problem that Apple’s loyal customers have to deal with. Apple an-nounced last Thursday that the white model of the iPhone 4 wasn’t going to be on sale that day due to manufacturing problems.

Many critics openly criticised Apple’s revolutionary iPhone when the latest model was announced at Apple’s Developer Confer-ence (WWDC) in San Francisco last month for having various problems in both techno-logical and manufacturing processes, and it

appears that they’ve got Apple figured out.Many of Apple’s loyal customers aren’t

so happy with the announcement, which came on the day the product should have been available for sale in Apple retail stores across the United States.

Apple’s short press release last week didn’t release any details as to the cause of

the problem in manufacturing but said that they expected the model to be available in stores and for delivery in the second half of July - nearly a month after its expected re-lease.

Apple’s ‘more popular’ black model of the iPhone was unaffected by the manufac-turing hiccup selling hundreds of thousands in Apple Retail Stores and through pre-orders on Thursday alone.

Prior to the release date, Apple an-nounced that they had sold 600,000 devices in pre-orders on one day alone, a number that came as a shock to critics who didn’t expect the device to sell so well due to its lack of new features.

Although the lucky thousands who have received their new iPhone 4 seem delighted with the result of their expensive purchase, officials in Germany are not so impressed with Apple’s general policies according to ar-ticles published in this week’s Spiegel.

Germany’s Justice Minister was quoted in the weekly magazine saying that Apple must “immediately make clear” the exact types of data that they collect from their us-ers under the new Privacy Policy agreement with customers.

Apple’s Privacy Policy - which was re-vised last week, now includes the rights for the company to collect user’s geographic lo-cation data anonymously but analysts feared that the company may start to build up user

profiles such as those constructed by Goog-le’s Street View service.

Germany’s government seem to be keeping a close watch on technology compa-nies at the moment, with Google under heavy attacks for their collection of private emails sent from unprotected wireless networks and other user identification sources.

Apple - which is one of the top ranked consumer technology companies, doesn’t want to follow in the same footsteps as the search giant should its market price decline further than it has already.

Over the last few weeks, Apple’s stoc price has been on the decline despite record sales numbers, and analysts feared they may continue to drop as thousands of iPhone 4 users discovered connection problems and dropped calls last week when holding the phone in a particular position. Apple resur-rected their stock price on Monday however with the announcement that sales of the new iPhone had topped 1.7 Million in just three days of the product’s launch.

Steve Jobs also apologised to users who were turned away from stores due to a lack of supply - a signal that Apple have once again miscalculated their sale figures like they did in April with the iPad, which lead to delays in international shipping.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF APPLE INC.

FRANKFURT | By Christopher Sladdin

TECHNOLOGY Edition 11 | Page 8

The iPhone 4 PHOTO: FR3D.ORG/FLICKR

MUSICPage 9 | Edition 11

PHOTO: A. KLOSTERMANNUnusual Mahler opens in the Rheingau

To many, the old and the new don’t always go together but the Rheingau Music Festival’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s second sym-phony in the Basilica at Kloster Eberbach last Saturday proved the doubters wrong.

Mahler’s rather hectic second symphony is a clear example of his personality - re-nowned for stretching far beyond reality and normality. The symphony is one of his longest hence Saturday’s performance lasting nearly an hour and a half, it is also one of his larger works in terms of musicians. Besides a Ba-silica crammed full with members of the pub-lic; an orchestra of over fifty musicians with a large chorus and two soloists - who sang for only a matter of minutes at the end of the work, were required by Mahler.

Modern day standards portray a sym-phony as an orchestral work in four move-ments which is what makes Mahler’s so

unusual. The added fifth movement is accom-panied by choir and soloists who sing a text written in part by Mahler that talks about life after death - one of the key themes in the symphony, which is known more commonly as the Resurrection.

In the camera spotlight for broadcast on hr-Television was conductor Paavo Järvi who looked near exhaustion as he turned for his bow which was greeted with rapturous ap-plause from the audience. Also on stage with him were soloists Camilla Tilling (soprano) and Lilli Paasikivi (alto) backed by the Hessi-che Rundfunk symphony orchestra and the NDR Choir of the Bayerischen Rundfunks.

The choir performed their small part with great strength from behind the orches-tra without taking the shine out of the two soloists who stood calmly at the front of the stage to perform their rather simple roles in Mahler’s strange work.

Despite the concert having its impres-

RÜDESHEIM | By Christopher Sladdin

UPCOMING FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES

JULY 2ND, 2010- Spanish Guitar Music | Gala Concert- Friday Night in J’berg | Manhattan Transfer

JULY 3RD, 2010- Summer Festival with Fireworks- Jazz Matinee | Big Band Concert

JULY 4TH, 2010- Daniel Barenboim celebrates with Chopin- Beethoven: Missa Solemnis- Best of Angelo Branduardi

Performance being repeated on 3sat - July 3rd, 2010 at 20:15. Also available online on ARTE Live Web.

More concert details and tickets are available online at: www.rheingau-musik-festival.de. Subject to change without notice. Details correct on day of publication.

sive sides however, there were many simple errors in the orchestral parts throughout the concert, which was - according to the festi-val’s website, rehearsed intensively for many days.

That being said, there is a lot more to of-fer during the course of the Rheingau Music Festival which will continue throughout the summer weeks. With 125,000 tickets for sale to over 150 concerts featuring every type of music from classical symphonies to Jazz from Johannesburg (see upcoming) there is some-thing to suit nearly everyone’s musical tastes.

One thing not to forget when attending a performance, however, is turning up early. If the concert is anything like that of Saturday evening’s, you may end up parking a long way from the venue, and not every performance has a free shuttle service!

JULY 7TH, 2010- Sonatas at the Piano with Lars Vogt

JULY 8TH, 2010- Music Dialog: Robert und Clara Schumann- Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays Mendelssohn- Quadro Nuevo: »Canzone della Strada«

SPORTS Edition 11 | Page 10

Their sudden exits from the All England Club made it look rather like this year’s unusual World Cup victory succession, with all the expected teams not living up to their fan’s expectations, but the exits have added a new sense of anticipation to the tournament.

With Venus Williams - the five-time ladies champion at Wimbledon, and Kim Clijster’s exits from the Wimbledon Cham-pionships on Wednesday during the ladies quarter-finals, some player’s roads to the final looked rather better than expected.

Beaten by the Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova in a rather quick match that ended 6-2, 6-3, Venus Williams lost her chance to play her sister - Serena Williams, in the Finals which has become a tradition in recent years.

Pironkova, who ranks Number 82 in Ladies Tennis, is the first Bulgarian to ever reach the Semi-Finals at Wimbledon. “Maybe I will be on the news back home tonight” said Pironkova. “I had won one over her before and I actually thought I could win today, so I was going for it.”

Meanwhile on Center Court, Vera Zvon-areva or Russia who ranks Number 21, beat the crowd’s favourite - Kim Clijsters of Bel-gium in three sets - 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Just days pri-or, Clijsters - who ranks as the world Num-ber 5, beat the renewed talent, Justin Henin in her round of eighteen match, much to the crowd’s surprise.

Until yesterday, the men’s singles tourna-ment had less surprises to offer until the first match on center court saw six-time champi-on - Roger Federer, beaten in the quarter fi-nals by Tomas Berdych of the Chezch Repub-lic who ranks thirteenth. The upset - which finished 4-6, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, is to see Federer

removed from his position as world ranking number two to number three - the lowest he’s been in years.

Despite Federer’s difficulties, his ‘en-emies’ ploughed through their quarter-final games - some with slight difficulties, to reach the semi-finals where they’ll face tough com-petition from each other for the two spots in this weekend’s final which will be first with-out Federer’s presence in a long time.

Britain’s favorite - Andy Murray, beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in four sets - 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 6-2. Meanwhile on Court One, Ser-bia’s Novak Djokovic beat Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu in straight sets; 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. His match was followed by the reigning king of tennis’s struggle as Rafael Nadal of Spain played his tough Swedish opponent - Robin Soderling, proceeding to the semi-finals after four sets; 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1.

Today saw the other William’s sister - Serena, follow the tradition winning her place in Saturday’s singles final against Vera Zvon-areva.

The men’s finals may have a slightly tougher draw to go through however as the final cannot take place between Nadal and Murray due to their appearance tomorrow in the semi-final’s together. Nadal or Murray face the possibility of playing either Tomas Berdych or Novak Djokovic at the final net on Sunday.

As the BBC commentary team said fol-lowing Federer’s match yesterday, the tour-nament is having one of those unusual years when things go a bit like they have done for the World Cup.The question for the lucky fans with tickets to the last few days of the championships will be which lucky or unusual players they’ll be watching on the courts and who will be the next profi to leave.

FRANKFURT | By Christopher Sladdin

PHOTO: CLOTHEYES/FLICKR

On the Courts at Wimbledon

Celebrating its Jubilee anniversary, the 25th annual Burg-Lauf took place in Eppstein on Friday with 305 athletes taking part in run-ning the ancient mile - known today as a dis-tance of 7.77km.

The challenging course - which winds its way down the Eppstein/Vockenhausen ridge, circles the town twice and then returns up the ridge to the start line at the TSG Eppstein outdoor sports facilities, was a challenge even for the professional athletes amongst the crowd.

Following a mass-start, the first two kil-ometres proved who was set to come in first and who wasn’t with a time lapse of over ten minutes between the first and the last ath-letes emerging from the forest track at the bottom of the steep decline.

The finish times showed an even bigger lapse in time with some athletes coming in fifty minutes after the first athlete through the finish arch - Araria Gammachu from Frankfurt, who took a time 00:27:10 to finish the race.

The race isn’t just a local event how-ever, as it attracts athletes from across the Main-Taunus and Frankfurt/Wiesbaden areas for some light competition before the longer professional races later in the year. Earlier this month, the Frankfurt Chase Challenge attracted thousands - many of whom partici-pated as company teams, to the city center for a five kilometer run.

The Eppstein race does have its unique elements as well, though. In front of the adult’s race was a group of children aged 7+ who participated in the full-length race as teams of three in a relay formation, many achieving some impressive times. Behind the adult race was the Nordic Walking group, which - de-spite prior estimates, attracted participants from all age groups.

Record time were not achieved at the event however. The Eppsteiner Zeitung report-ed yesterday that the heat on race day was un-bearable for athletes compared to usual temperatures on race day. Athletes received relief after the short race at the post-race party which continued late into the night.

Next year’s race is already in planning and it will easily be just as popular.

EPPSTEIN | By Christopher SladdinRacing the Ancient Mile

SPORTSPage 11 | Edition 11

PHOTO: COMPSCIGRAD/FLICKRWorld Cup 2010: The Need for Technology

Four countries, two different games, one day. England’s goal from Frank Lampard should have been allowed while Carlos Tevez’s goal for Argentina while playing Mexico should not have counted as a goal. The question being asked by millions of fans around the world is; how could two mistakes like these be made?

Loud cries from fans around the world ask for technology to be introduced at the World Cup and other leagues around the world as it would have been likely to help the referees prevent poor calls such as those at the weekend from being made.

Many different options have been brought forward in order to assist football referees. The first solution presented is to use Goalline Technology. This technology is already used successfully in other sports such as cricket and tennis. Hawkeye, a type of Goalline Technology would give referees a definite answer in one second of an incident happening. Dr. Paul Hawkins, who invented Hawkeye, told The Guardian, “Introducing [Goalline Technology] to rule whether the ball had crossed the line would aid referees rather than undermine them.”

Another option that has been suggested to the International Federation for Football Association (FIFA) is the use of video replays. Replays could pick up incidents that could al-ter the course of the rest of the game. The

only notable problem with this method is that the game of football doesn’t have natural breaks in its game, as games such as American Football does and it has not been made clear as to how the referee would be able to stop the match in order to view the video foot-age. It is also not clear how the game would be continued once the footage had been watched and a decision made.

FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter, is strongly against the use of any technology in the game of football. He had argued that, instead, foot-ball should retain its “human face” and that debates like those that have already hap-pened only add to the game. One the topic, Blatter told The Daily Telegraph, “Personally, I deplore it when you see evident referee mis-takes but it’s not the end of a competition or the end of football, this can happen. The only thing I can do is yesterday I have spoken to the two federations [England and Mexico] directly concerned by referee’s mistakes. I have expressed to them apologies and I un-derstand they are not happy and that people are criticizing.” Although he is still against the use of technology, he plans to reevaluate the topic again at the International Football As-sociation Board’s meeting in July.

Instead of technology, FIFA would like to pursue the option of having extra officials behind each goal. This would give the referees an extra pair of eyes to watch the controver-sial incidents that may arise. This also retains the ‘human’ element that Mr. Blatter called

TORONTO | By Liz Turnerfor. The downside to this method is that it has the potential to increase the confusion between officials and the chance that extra officials may not see every incident.

The debate of the use of technology in the football games could be one that is not resolved for a while as there are strong argu-ments on both sides. Sometimes, the cutting edge technology is not always needed and all that is needed is the raw video footage. Other times, though, technology would aid the referees in making the right call. Dr. Paul Hawkins told The Daily Telegraph that while he is “[disappointed] that FIFA have been reac-tive rather than proactive” on the topic of technology, he hopes that the aid of technol-ogy will change football for better in the long run.

Technology has improved the accuracy of calls in sports such as cricket, rugby and tennis. It has also improved respect for the referees by eliminating their chance for false calls. Maybe it is time for FIFA to step up and implement technology into the world’s most popular sport.

JULY 2ND, 2010Netherlands vs. Brazil | 16:00Ghana vs. Uruguay | 20:30

JULY 3RD, 2010Argentina vs. Germany | 16:00Paraguay vs. Spain | 20:30

OPINION Edition 11 | Page 12

Dear Aunty Jane PHOTO: [PHIL H]/FLICKR

Q: Dear Aunty Jane, Why do I always muck things up and only realize the mistake once I’ve done it?

A: Dear Trouble. In hindsight everything is so much clearer and decisions would be so much easier if we already knew everything ahead of time. Only a person who does nothing at all can avoid mistakes, active people are bound to get into a scrape or two - although I must say, some are more prone than others! There are a number of small sayings, which have helped me such as “think before you speak.” This sounds obvious doesn’t it? However, occasion-ally it is good to step back and think the whole thing through before you carry on. “If your stomach is sinking, you probably shouldn’t be doing this!” Our gut feel-ing very often reflects our conscience. It is good to listen to it! “Get in a second opinion” In many situations you could talk things through with friends - collectively you will find the right way to go. “Never mind” - sometimes we quite simply make the wrong decision. We should never dwell on the “if onlys” - you know, if only I had taken the other route/choice/piece of cake. Dwelling on our mistakes is not constructive. It is far better to move on, learn from the mistakes and enjoy life. There is little benefit in getting older if we cannot grow wiser through our expe-riences. Just think how wise you will be at seventy! Good luck! Aunty Jane

Q: Dear Aunty Jane, I’m bored. What would you suggest I do during my holidays?

A: Dear Lucky Thing. Holidays! Freedom! Time to do what ever you would like! How lucky you are. There’s no time for boredom. I am an outside person and when the sun is shining I cannot wait to be out and about. Here are some ideas: go out and enjoy the sun - but do not forget the sun screen; you could go to an outdoor pool with friends, take a pic-nic and stay all afternoon; you could take some time for sport - an active body is a healthy body! Why not go on a bike ride with friends - don’t forget the pic-nic and plenty of water; walking in the woods with friends on a hot day is great fun - pack the picnic and a bird book; a photography project, why not capture your home town/village and make a small documentation, you could read up on lo-cal history and go visit some sights. This is fun in a group too - pack a picnic, cam-era, notepad and pen. If you want a more relaxing break, how about stringing up a hammock and reading a good book; try your hand at writing - may be a poem, or short story, or something humorous; are you a painter or artist? Then take some time to draw - portraits, the scene from your bedroom window, a funny cartoon. Visiting people is also a good pastime. Grandmas, Aunties, cousins and friends will all enjoy a visit - take along a cake

for afternoon tea. Talking of cake, why not learn to bake. You could even cook some-thing for Mum, she will be pleased to have a break and everyone needs to know how to make a cake or cook a meal. You could make a delicious salad and enjoy it in the garden. You could check the internet and find a calendar of events happening near you - open days, street parties, concerts and other events. So you see - there is definitely no time for boredom! Have fun!

Aunty Jane

Q: Dear Aunty Jane. Will you be back to an-swer our calls in Volume 2 of The Frankfurt Globe?

A: Yes I will! Have a great summer, dear read-ers. I shall be enjoying my garden and get-ting new ideas for answering your won-derful questions. With Love. Aunty Jane

The Frankfurt Globe welcomes questions on any topic for submission to the ‘Dear Aunty Jane’ column. We ask that you submit your questions to us by email.As the ‘Dear Aunty Jane’ column is anonymous, all names will be kept private and names in-cluded in your question will be changed to protect identities.The Frankfurt Globe will not publish swear words or questions that are deemed unsuit-able for our readers.

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It’s time for the long summer vacation but we weren’t going to depart for our holidays without one final edition to end the first vol-ume of The Frankfurt Globe.

This week’s edition may look a little odd to our loyal readers who have read many of the last ten editions we’ve produced since April. The cover design is - for a start, slightly altered with a larger image and mini-stories and there are numerous other design chang-es throughout this week’s lengthy publication.

What you have in fact been looking at is our first edition in our Second Volume’s new design which we couldn’t resist putting out a few months early due to its gorgeousness.

Our first few months have been eventful ones. The Frankfurt Globe team have churned out eleven editions featuring hundreds of thousands of words alongside a selection of special projects - most notably, the TriStar111 Germany race in Worms last month.

Next year promises to be even better. Our team of corespondents who origi-

nate from a wide-range of countries have been planning out the next year for The Frank-furt Globe ever since we began in April and many ideas that were originally suggested for implementation next year have already been put in place with new ideas taking their place.

So you may be wondering what is going to happen to our publication during the holi-days. Here’s a brief summary for you.

Starting next week there will not be a weekly edition of The Frankfurt Globe as our staff are on holidays. Therefore should you want to catch up on your news we recom-mend visiting the New York Times’s website or the website of The Daily Telegraph!

We are currently debating about a mid-holiday edition at the beginning of Au-gust however we aren’t sure yet so it’s best to check our Facebook Page for an update nearer the time.

We will resume our normal publication schedule in late-August when the holidays come to an end and the new working calen-dar begins.

A final note before taking off on holiday are three thank-yous. The first is to the staff who back this magazine every week, writing every article you see when you flip open the

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huge applause.The second is to our two proof-readers

who have - on occasions, been asked to work until one o’clock in the morning in order to get various editions out on time. They de-serve some well-earned sleep!

The final thank-you is to our 791 read-ers who - together, have read our publica-tions hundreds of times accounting to over 1,000 page reads within the last four months via the web alone. We also have over 500 people who read the magazine in print when we brought out the Triathlon edition at the beginning of June. Without you - this paper would be pointless and not worth producing!

We wish all our readers an enjoyable summer holiday and we look forward to an-other successful year of The Frankfurt Globe with new surprises starting in August.

Christopher Sladdin, Editor in Chief

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