The US presidential election is far from over, since there are still some weeks ahead until November, but it's comforting to see evidence in the polls that Trump's divisive campaign is not "winning" at all.

I have walked by the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernauer Straße many times, but yesterday I noticed for the first time the sculpture you see above. It's called Reconciliation, and it was originally created by Josefina de Vasconcellos, an English artist of Brazilian ancestry, and placed at the University of Bradford. According to Wikipedia, there are copies of this original work in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, the Hiroshima Peace Park, and this one here at the Berlin Wall Memorial.

Time really flies by! One year ago I took this picture in Berlin.

After a couple of days of competition in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the medals table is starting to look similar to London 2012. This is the current table:

And this is how the table looked at the end of the London competition.

Clearly, the US and China are dominating this sports event.

The German border with Poland in the east runs through the town of Görlitz, which before 1945 was a single town. This border post marks the end of the country.

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