No speed skating presidential elections before autumn

No speed skating presidential elections before autumn

"The election of the prasidium will, if you look at the corona-measures realistically, certainly only take place in a proper MA," explained vice-president uwe rietzke in an interview with the german press agency. The 57-year-old dresden resident will thus presumably lead the association on a provisional basis until the annual general meeting scheduled for september.

At the DESG meeting in erfurt, a new president was to be elected, but the office has been vacant since stefanie teeuwen resigned in november 2019. Two candidates had officially submitted their candidacies for these elections: claudia pechstein’s life-threatening matthias grobe and michael kurz, who was previously completely unknown in the speed skating scene.

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Keeping your cool even in the “chaos phase

Keeping your cool even in the 'chaos phase

District fire inspector thomas habermann and the two district fire chiefs jonas ludewig and ralph morgenroth explain the fire department’s approach to a rough operation based on a real operation almost three weeks ago, when a forest fire broke out near ebern.

Actually, it was just a normal sunday. Jonas ludewig is the youngest district fire chief in the county and responsible for ebern and all parts of town. The 26-year-old is about to set off on a bike ride with his partner sarah and enjoy the day off. Suddenly the peace is over: the radio message receiver emits its shrill tone and calls for an operation.

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Fc eintracht has all men on board

Fc eintracht has all men on board

"We have a home game, and at home we are a power. We want to show that to the bambergers as well", this is the clear message from anton bobenstetter, coach of TSV buchbach, where FC fubball-regionalligist FC eintracht bamberg 2010 will play this saturday (14 o'clock).
The hosts' record so far is impressive only on home soil. At the moment they are in fourth place and have won twelve and drawn four of their 23 games. 23 of their 40 payers they got at home and had to leave the court only twice as losers. For TSV buchbach, the game against bamberg marks the start of the rest of the second half of the season. Bobenstetter is correspondingly motivated: "we are ready and eager to get started!"

Still one bill open
But the team of trainer petr skarabela will be similarly spurred on. On the one hand, because they last played against the 1. FC nurnberg II at least in the second half showed a good performance and so also with the 1:1 deserved to keep a point in the cathedral city, on the other hand, because the bamberger still have a score to settle with today's opponent. 0:4 was the result in august 2012 at fuchs-park-stadium. Buchbach's top attacker stefan lex scored two of his total of 16 goals in the process.
But with the encounter against nurnberg, the violets are one step ahead of the home side: "our advantage is that we already played against the club last weekend and know where we stand", according to skarabela. Bobenstetter has a similar view: "of course, this is a huge disadvantage for us. The first game is never easy, you don't know exactly where you stand. But: we are well prepared and in good spirits."
Skarabela is warned and female: "we go to a strong opponent, where we have to bring a top performance. We have always looked good against strong teams, and we want to prove that again on saturday. The table has become really tight, and we don't want to lose touch with the non-relegation places." In terms of personnel, the FC coach can make full use of his resources in this game, all suspensions have been "served, there are no (more) casualties to mourn.

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Together for the steigerwald

The world heritage site is still a long way off. However, the first step has already been taken for the steigerwald. The farming community forests in the steigerwald and traditional village fruit production in the hutzeldorf fatschenbrunn (district habberge) have found recognition in munich: they have been included in the "bavarian state register of immaterial cultural heritage" recorded. The title is mainly about the cultivation and preservation of traditions.
They come from three administrative districts and they want to promote the steigerwald: the district councils of the steigerwald counties of bamberg, habfurt, schweinfurt, kitzingen and neustadt-aisch/bad windsheim. They are in the same boat and are justifiably proud that their joint efforts have borne fruit so quickly. "The dot on the i is after the words of bamberger landrat johann kalb (CSU), that the rural community forests in the steigerwald for the "federal list of intangible cultural assets", a further step towards world heritage, were suggested.
The district administrators wilhelm schneider (habberge), florian topper (schweinfurt), and the deputy district administrators bernd schnizlein (neustadt-aisch/bad windsheim) and paul streng (kitzingen), together with their bamberger colleague kalb, expressed their common endeavor at a press event in the historic schlusselfelder burgersaal.

Quickly landed at culture

In 2014, when the debate about a national park steigerwald moved the region, it all started, says district administrator kalb. "When we thought about what else is going on in the steigerwald, we quickly landed on culture." Culture is also to continue: as kalb informed, ebrach monastery, together with other cistercian monasteries throughout europe, will be seeking european cultural heritage status next year. For the titles currently awarded, the application was based on a 500-page expert opinion. The commonalities of the steigerwald as well as the special features are highlighted in it. Beside the rechtler forests and the dorrobstherstellung also the burgerwehren in the steigerwald were particularly worked out. So far, however, still without a title from munich.
"No, these traditions are not about "old pigtails", emphasizes bernd schnizlein. In the district of neustadt/bad windsheim, there are still a hundred community forests with a total of 2600 rightholders. The rights of the burgers also correspond to their duties: they manage the forest together and contribute to its maintenance with manual and tensioning services. Schweinfurt district administrator topper is not worried that one day these traditions will only exist on paper. The people in the steigerwald were still very closely connected to their forest. The traditions were passed on within the families.

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Helga’s hamburger humor also finds sharp ears on the obermain river

Helga's hamburger humor also finds sharp ears on the obermain river

For 37 years, hamburg cabaret artist helga siebert has been forging verse – small, subtle and mean. With her program "abgefeimtes und gereimtes" she was at the "stadtcafe" on thursday to hear.

With hamburger humor, helga siebert presents the essence of her long career on the stage to her listeners. These are rhymes presented with a sharp tongue, which she serves to her listeners virtually on a silver platter. She is happy when she sees men’s teeth, says siebert, looking around the room. What follows is a look at the individual forms of laughter, divided according to the respective ethnic groups (the swabian laughs esoterically, in berlin people are quick to laugh) …).

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Spain and italy with the same problems

spain and italy with the same problems

Mario balotelli and his colleagues first looked at the destination of their dreams from above. From the 710-meter-high corcovado with the world-famous statue of christ, italy’s national players looked down on the legendary maracana stadium.

"We need protection from above and we will certainly get it. This pilgrimage will certainly do us good," said coach cesare prandelli.

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The second advent window opened

The second advent window opened

The evangelic kindergarten "vogelnest" with its leader christine babucke designed on saturday the second advent window opening in front of the city hall in the context of a small celebration, which opened the pastor anne salzbrenner. Advent is a time for reflection, a time to calm down and think about what it’s all about, said the pastor. The children and the kindergarten team also had thoughts which they now wanted to express.

As an introduction, the kindergarten children sang the first two stanzas of the advent song "we’ll tell you about advent", before the educator michael blume read the event described in the gospel of lucas of the announcement by the angel gabriel that the virgin mary was to give birth to the son of god. The after-school children had designed the window according to this story. On this picture is also the saying of the angel "do not be afraid" when he stepped in front of maria to tell her the good news, the parent.

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Irish toy trader buys german toys-r-us store

Irish toy trader buys german toys-r-us store

A buyer has been found for the 93 stores of the collapsed US toy retailer toys R us in germany, austria and switzerland.

The stores in the three countries, including the online stores, will be taken over by the irish industry giant smyths toys, according to the national company for toys r us in central europe. The agreement still had to be approved by the competent insolvency court in the USA and the competition authorities. The iren wanted to take over all employees and the management in the countries, including the head office in koln. No information was provided on the purchase price.

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Stupid penalties seal relegation of tsv meeder

Stupid penalties seal relegation of tsv meeder

After seven years, FSV buttenheim returns to the fubball district league, while TSV meeder has to make the bitter transition to the district league: in the decisive relegation match, the second-placed team from the bamberg district league beat the now ex-district league team 3:1 on the DJK lichtenfels pitch in front of almost 1000 spectators.

Two penalties help FSV

Both teams did not want to stop with lengthy feeling out, it was immediately brisk to the point. Buttenheim owned the first actions, but there was no danger of a goal being scored. And when meeder made his presence felt for the first time in front of marcel’s goal, the ball was already in the net. First, a shot in the penalty area was still blocked. But the ball landed with johannes krumm, his left shot from 20 meters centrally in front of the goal flew flat into the corner (16.).

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Un calls for end to israel’s annexation plans

un calls for end to israel's annexation plans

A few days before possible steps by israel, UN secretary-general antonio guterres has warned against annexation of the occupied west bank.

"If implemented, the annexation would constitute a grave violation of international law, significantly impair the prospect of a two-state solution and undermine the possibility of new negotiations," guterres told the united nations security council in new york on wednesday. The UN chief spoke of a "turning point" in the middle east conflict and called on the israeli government to abandon its plans.

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