German football and money

BERLIN (AP) - The German Football League has secured an increase in income of more than 50 percent for television rights to the Bundesliga in a four-season deal starting next year. The deal announced Tuesday starts with the 2013-14 season and runs through to 2016-17. It leaves the main players unchanged, with Sky television keeping the live broadcast rights and ARD public television retaining the highlights rights of Bundesliga matches. The league, or DFL, said it will bring in about €2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in total. That amounts to about €628 million per year on average, compared with €412 million per year at the moment. Sky Deutschland added live broadband Internet television and mobile rights to the live pay TV broadcasting package for the top two divisions it already held, and said it will pay an average €485.7 million per year." This is the latest news of German football, it attract great attendances but are they going to kill the league with to much money. The Premiership in England has overpaid players who once they get big money don't try very hard while playing. Sky has to much influence in deciding when the games are played 2 live matches Saturday, 3 Sunday, monday night, to much football when they want it. The behaviour of the players, managers and owners has been influenced by to much money around. I hope the Germans don't let the money ruin there football.

It's all right India

India successfully test-fired today a nuclear-capable missile that can reach Beijing and Eastern Europe. The Agni V is the most advanced version of the indigenously built Agni, or Fire, series, part of a programme that started in the 1960s. So it's ok for India to have nuclear weapons ! America and Europe have not complained. A French company is selling them 100 advanced jet fighters, and America will sell them anything they want.

Television Adds

There are a lot of adds on TV at the moment for over 50 life insurance. Presented by TV Stars Michael Parkinson's ect. You invest a fixed amount every month and get a fixed lump sum when you die. No medical check is needed. Sounds great. BUT ! You can never get out of these contracts. You have to keep upl payments or you loose the lot. If you don't die early you will properly put in more than you get out. Most importantly inflation is not taken intolerance account so you lump sum might sound good now but in 10 or 20 years they could be very small value for money. In ten years there will be investigation into the selling of these products. You heard it hear first.

Democracy flawed !

Democracy is flawed and causing problems world wide. People don't like being taxed. It is impossible to be elected President of America by raising taxes. So they have a national dept of billions. Here in Ireland we have no property tax and are having trouble introducing one, even though we need one to pay for health and education. It's the same in most democracies. But there is not alternative YET.

Satellites Week

America got very upset when North Korea launched a satellite into the air. It never got into space as it blew up. But in the same week the United States set up a Spy satellite on a Delta rocket. No one knows what it will do, yet the world did not give out to them. In Europe the European Space agency lost contact with it's weather satellite which was up there since 2002. It had passed it's life expectancy by 5 years.

Beware of pressure Sore's

Beware of pressure Sore's

Six months, three weeks and four days, that the hospital time I have just paid for getting a pressure sore. I was in an isolation room in the annex of St Michael's. Four operations, five litres of blood, 3 trips to St Vincent's for pic lines and once to the HDU ward. I had a Vac machine for months before I entered the hospital and again between the operations. Mr Carroll ( God bless him ) the plastic surgeon tried a skin graph but it did not take so he did a muscle flap. The sore was on my hip so he opened the skin on my leg and rapped the muscle around the hip bone afters cleaning out the dead tissue. I had to lie on one side and my back for the 6 months. The staff were wonderful but they were not use to a spinal cord patient so I had to teach them how to handle me. The hospital had no shower trolly ( believe it or not ) so they got one. So all I can advise you look after your skin and remember prevention is better than what I have just gone true.
One last nightmare while in hospital was that my apartment flooded the night of the storm in October, all the wooden floors were destroyed.

Martin Sinnott C5/6 complete
28 February 2011

POPE

The Pope is saying Mass in Zagreb, Croatia. Very political at the moment. Yet it is not making any impact around the world. It is not making the news on TV or radio, only local. has the RC Church lost its influence.