New routes for nordic walkers in kulmbach

New routes for nordic walkers in kulmbach

"With the whole hand through the loop and then turn right with the thumb." moni mix, nordic walking coach at the german skiing association (DSV), shows oberburg master henry schramm how to pick up a pole. Then it’s off, the ladies and gentlemen from the city of kulmbach swing their legs true to the instructions of the expert.

With the nordic-walking-auarmtraining the 16,4 kilometer long and 25773,86 euro expensive nordic-walking-parcours between oberpurbach, the kulmbacher airfield and ziegelhutten is handed over to its official purpose yesterday.

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Brk motorcycle patrol gets ready for action on the highway

The members of the BRK motorcycle patrol in kitzingen obviously had a rough time when they took their heavy service machine out of the barn, to get them ready for action. First of all, it was cleaned and checked whether the "anneliese" was in good condition, as the motorcycle is affectionately called, is also technically in perfect condition.

Next weekend, when the summer vacations begin in berlin, brandenburg and hamburg, heavy traffic can also be expected again in bavaria on the north-south axis of the autobahns. Until september, when bavaria and baden-wurttemberg are the last to close for the vacations. In the time in between: chaos, tears, laughter, sorrow. "Everything is on offer", says staff manager hanns strecker.

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Children have driving license

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get children and young people interested in reading books. To counteract this development, the geroda book team has come up with something: since 2013, heidrun scholz, helene wirth, rosi halbig and heidi rodl have been inviting children from the kindergarten abenteuerland to spend two afternoons each year, in order to convey the fascination of books to them at an early age.

In the course of a "book driving licence they get to know the rooms and are sensitized for the handling of books. The team also hopes to attract prospective readers in the future, because even if the number of readers has not dropped, they would like to keep their bookstore open in the long term.

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Christmas crib in the forest

For ten years now, walter ziegler has been setting up a christmas crib every year in the birkig forest department. People gather in front of this manger at christmas time to commemorate the birth of christ together. Since the first sunday of advent, the crib has been on display there.
New this year is a common christmas carol singing with the reichenbacher sangern on the afternoon of the third advent sunday, 15. December. Start is at 14 o'clock. The weichtunger reservists are also part of the party. After singing together, they offer christmas cookies and mulled wine to the visitors.

No competition with devotions
"The christmas caroling in the forest should start a tradition that hopefully will live on for many years", says walter ziegler. In no way is the pre-christmas meeting intended to compete with any advent devotions in the church, ziegler emphasizes. The rusty pensioner has designed and built the crib with much enthusiasm and enriches it every year with new ideas. Shortly after maria lichtmess (2. February) he dismantles the entire nativity scene and stores the ensemble in a shed behind his house until the following year. In the birkig there is nothing to see of the crib during the rest of the year.

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A couple who have been together for 60 years: diamond wedding anniversary at the schlaug home

Roswitha and otmar schlaug met and fell in love during a dance in pinneberg. They didn’t have to think twice and got married in pinneberg church st. Michael. After 60 happy years of marriage, they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

Roswitha was born in breslau, silesia, and as a small child had to make her way west with her mother and thousands of others, most of them fub. After several weeks she was stranded in pinneberg and grew up there. In the beginning, roswitha started an apprenticeship as a notary’s assistant, learned u. A. Stenography, but had to abandon the apprenticeship for health reasons. She then switched to the retail business.

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Burgas bomber came from abroad – israel mourns

Burgas bomber came from abroad - israel mourns

The interior ministry on friday confirmed speculation about the background to the attack on israeli tourists, without giving details about the nationality of the perpetrator. The five victims of wednesday’s bomb blast were buried in their israeli homes.

The man had spent at least four days in the coastal resort of burgas on the black sea before mingling with the israeli tour group and blowing himself up. Immediately after the attack, israel blamed the iranian leadership and the lebanese hezbollah for the bloody deed. Iran vehemently denied this.

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Strabe to be redesigned

The old ramsthaler strabe in ebenhausen, which has remained in its original state for decades, is to be renovated and redesigned at the same time as the extension of the forststrabe. This was decided by the oerlenbach town council on tuesday following a site inspection. The cheaper option of just graveling the road was thus finally off the table.

Parking lot and container location

After today’s ramsthaler strabe was rebuilt, a section of the old strabe between fruhlingstrabe and forststrabe was left in its original state at the beginning of the 1960s. Today, the partly asphalted, partly loosely gravelled flat is used mainly as a parking lot and as a place for waste containers. "Not ideal from the point of view", oerlenbach’s mayor franz kuhn (CSU) was in agreement with the municipal councilors.

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Metro fights for customers with price cuts

Metro fights for customers with price cuts

Media markt and saturn played a major role in this, with their cash registers ringing somewhat stronger than a year ago, even though the european soccer championships and digital satellite technology brought a significant tailwind at the time. However, media-saturn’s operating loss increased significantly – partly because the industry paid fewer subsidies for advertising costs.

Germany’s largest retail group broke even in the first half of the year. In the same period of the previous year, a loss of 105 million euros had been posted due to extensive negative special effects. Group sales down 2.3 percent to 30.8 billion euros. Adjusted for the sale of real eastern europe, the disposal of the wholesale business in the uk and the withdrawal of media markt from china, sales remained constant. The ordinary share, which climbed by more than seven percent by the afternoon, was the best-performing mdax stock.

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Forchheimer stadtwerke opens a customer center in hauptstrabe

Forchheimer stadtwerke opens a customer center in hauptstrabe

Selling electricity and gas over the counter? That’s exactly what the newly inaugurated customer center of stadtwerke forchheim at hauptstrabe 54 in the fubganger zone offers. The inner-city customer center is the final step in the development process of the municipal utility, which has evolved from a pure provider of electricity, gas, water and wastewater to an all-rounder in the field of networking.

Managing director reinhold muller sees a marketing focus on fast internet access. "We have built up market expertise, and since the beginning of the year we have joined the ranks of global players such as telekom and vodafone." these divided the market among themselves, but for forchheim, the municipal utility had created a niche for burghers and businesses. "We offer municipal networking from a single source", underlined muller.

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Greeks strike for two days against austerity package

Greeks strike for two days against austerity package

Planes grounded, buses and subways in depots: the general strike largely paralyzed greece. Tens of thousands protested in athens and other cities against the government’s new austerity package. Greeks to save around 13.5 billion euros by 2014. Protests will continue on wednesday.

Parliament is scheduled to vote on the controversial austerity program late wednesday evening. Many dissenters are expected. The opposition protested because the austerity package is to be discussed in a fast-track procedure. The deputies did not have time to read through the more than 300 pages on this, it hewed.

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