"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"This is an enormously important game for us. We want to win the cup," manager horst heldt said before tuesday’s eighth-final match against FSV mainz 05 at the veltins arena. "The foreground focus is on presenting results."

But it’s not just the sporting goals of the two clubs that make this duel with mainz a tricky one. Because of all things, the 05 football coach thomas tuchel is considered at schalke in the medium term as a desired coach. Even though the konigsblauen management emphasized after the surprising appointment of the former U17 coach keller that he would "definitely work until the end of the season" (head of the supervisory board clemens tonnies).

The continuing weakness of the automotive industry and of smartphones and general lighting continues to impact the osram lighting group.

Sales in the second quarter of the current fiscal year fell by 8 percent compared with the previous year to 862 million euros, the mdax-listed company announced in munich.

Tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, fruit and bread: harvest thanksgiving is now celebrated in churches with a colorful variety of foods. The elementary school students were prepared for this day in religious education classes. They therefore know exactly what the festival is all about and why christians all over the world commemorate god's sacrifice on this day.

But according to a recent survey by the opinion institute yougov, the majority of germans are calling for the abolition of religious education. In its place, they were given a lesson in values. Religion has no place in education, is how the results can be summarized.