Pilots’ strike: lufthansa almost suspends flight operations

The list of more than 200 connections published on the internet on monday only included the canceled intercontinental flights, a spokesman in frankfurt explained. The list will be extended on monday to include the short and medium haul routes which have also been cancelled. The cancellations are valid for connections until saturday.

Further information on the pilots’ strike and flight cancellations at lufthansa can also be found here.

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High damage caused by fire in bamberg

High damage caused by fire in bamberg

Around three o’clock on friday morning, passers-by noticed a strong smell of fire coming from the currently vacant house on jackstrabe and notified the police. Immediately afterwards, the flames were already blazing meters high from the roof trusses of the multi-story building. A large fire department began with the firefighting work.

For this purpose, the jackstrabe and the magazinstrabe had to be completely closed temporarily. About 7.At 30 o’clock, the fire department had the fire under control, but further safety work by the fire department continued until 1 o’clock p.M. No one was injured.

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Schoolchildren discover the world of books

The final event of the "lese-kompass" reading program was recently held at the langendorf bookstore. For the past two years, elementary school students from the johannis-petri-schule langendorf have been meeting regularly with employees of the bookstore, who have accompanied the students with reading challenges and introduced them to the exciting world of books. At the end of the day, the children of the 2. All-day class with its head teacher evi nerreter in the parish hall. First, the children were invited by carolin karner, an employee of kob langendorf, to come with her to the parish garden to listen to the reading story "the olchis alone at home" by erhard dietl. The next item on the program was a reading rally, which also took place in the parish garden, and the children obviously had a lot of fun. Afterwards, the children had to prove their rhyming skills by replacing missing words in a text. At the end, the children created matching coloring pictures. Since the first grade, the children came to the bookstore of langendorf, packed with their green backpacks, in order to participate in the prepared class tours. Now all children are "bib-fit", because from now on they are able to choose media on their own. The schoolchildren now know how the lending desk works and how the media are set up in a bookstore. As a small gift at the end of the reading requirement course, the children received some subes and a compass, with the help of which they will be able to find their way to the library on their own in the future.

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Marriages curb men’s alcohol use

Marriages curb men's alcohol use

This is what U.S. Researchers found after analyzing several studies with a total of more than 5,000 participants.

Married women also consume more drinks than those who have been divorced for a long time or recently widowed. One of the reasons is that many had lived with a man who drank more alcohol than they did, the researchers, led by corinne reczek of the university of cincinnati, suggest. They wanted to present their results at the 107. American sociological association (asa) to present findings at its meeting in denver, which ends on monday.

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Lonnerstadt has a new viewing pavilion

"We made yellow snow", an entry in the guest book gives information. From which it can be concluded that on the one hand it was winter and on the other hand that the hikers met an urgent need. Katja and uwe from the wine-growing town of erlabrunn in lower franconia had a craving for something different: "if there was still beer here, it would be perfect", they wrote in the guestbook and added: "the drill is right!"
The fact that the first pavilion along the hiking trails around lonnerstadt has been excellently received can be seen from the five guest book entries that have been made so far. From everywhere come the wanderers. Even a page in japanese writing is to be discovered, however, not to be decided. Let’s hope that the new second pavilion above lonnerstadt, near the schutzenhaus, will not be inferior to it.
The nature lovers of lonnerstadt have erected the hut including the seating area on the viewing platform, covered it with roofing and paved the area. Although it was already finished in the fall of 2011, it was only now that a small "inauguration" was held with champagne and a snack celebrated and handed over the building to the second mayor stefan himpel () and thus officially to the community of lonnerstadt.
Of course, bernhard kostner, a carpenter from fetzelhofen, was also on hand, who made the plans, carried out the preliminary work for the wooden construction and was responsible for supervising the building work.
"From the beginning in may until the completion in october, about 300 volunteer hours were spent", reported naturfreunde chairman erich gittelbauer. The work is essentially "taken care of" by the board of directors have been. The nature lovers have therefore come up with
its initials immortalized in the pavement and in the substructure of the table.
Stefan himpel, who represented burgermeister link, thanked everyone who helped make this place possible. He also thanked the owners of the land, herbert krafft and karl herzog, who leased the land for the two viewpoints to the community. First for twelve years, then the contract has to be extended.
The new vantage point is – according to local councillor regina bruckmann – 330 meters above sea level and is thus probably the second highest elevation in the area. The view sweeps into the distance – with good visibility as far as the walberla in french switzerland. From up there you have a beautiful view of hochstadt, sterpersdorf, mailach and of course of lonnerstadt itself.
The "am furst" viewing pavilion, the pavilion erected by hans feth, hermann and erich popp in a private initiative is the older of the two. Feth recalls the origins. On 1. August 2009 was the beginning and the pavilion was ready for the church fair in lonnerstadt at the beginning of october.

At work with enthusiasm

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Forchheim: outgoing father especially concerned about seniors

After two years as parochial vicar in charge of the parishes of st. Martin, declaration of christ in forchheim and st. St. John d. T. And st. Ottilie kersbach leads father binu puthenkunnel the professional way to st. Michael in nurnberg. There he will lead, with more responsibility, the fate of the parish. Nuremberg is not unknown to him. Already at the beginning of his work in germany he was active in a parish of nurnberg. The parish of kersbach bid farewell to father binu in a service which he celebrated with dean martin emge. Many kersbacher came to the parish church, as far as the corona rules allow it.

Father binu said he had enjoyed being in kersbach and was looking forward to his new task. But he will be missed in the pastoral area: there is no substitute for him.

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Euro zone remains the problem child of the global economy

Euro zone remains the problem child of the global economy

The world’s leading economic powers are at odds over the right medicine for the eurozone’s weak economy. While the germans insist on deficit and debt reduction and warn against exaggerated growth expectations, other blocs call for more reforms to create jobs and increase competitiveness.

"Stronger demand in europe is important for global growth," u.S. Treasury secretary jack lew said at the spring meeting of the international monetary fund (imf) and the world bank in washington over the weekend.

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Fire department is prepared for ice tunnel accident

fire department is prepared for ice tunnel accident

In the middle of the corridor between stadel and puchitz is the entrance to the rescue gallery. A gravelled square with a barrier, two container-like houses with utilities and the angular concrete block of the access road form the head of the rescue tunnel. KBI siegfried hammrich has the key power, he opens the gate to the underworld. One of his tasks as district fire inspector is to develop the rescue concept for the three ICE tunnels in the district of lichtenfels, the "eierberg", "kulch" and "lightwood" – to coordinate.

On this day, KBI siegfried hammrich and puchitz commander nikolaus weib look after things in the tunnel. They open the gate and drive down to the bottom of the tunnel, to the level where the actual ICE tubes are located, through which they are already driving at up to 300 km/h on a trial basis. At the end of the year, the nurnberg-erfurt intercity express line, which includes the three tunnels, will be regularly opened to rail traffic.

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Bathroom rodach soon also for drinking

Lifting jugs like those in the bohemian health resorts could soon be available for the spa guests in bad rodach as well. New expert reports show that the water of the spa also has a healing effect when used internally, as managing director stine michel informed on thursday. A concept is now being developed to make the water from the thermal fountains available to guests for internal use as well. "We want to create a second mainstay and a unique selling point", explains lutz lange from the management of the therme.
The water in one of the thermal wells is highly mineralized. "It can be used for detoxification in the gastrointestinal tract", explains stine michel. So you could imagine that soon spa guests would be sitting in front of the spa with small jugs and taking a few sips of healing water for internal use after a bath. It is just one of many steps that are being taken to bring the therme forward.
Mayor tobias ehrlicher (SPD) speaks of a "rough draft" for the spa and bath rodach. It will take time to complete this project. It includes an extensive redesign of the entire facility. A start has already been made in the foyer and box office area. The showers were supposed to wait, but are now being brought forward and renovated. "We will organize this in such a way that it can happen during ongoing operations", says stine michel. Because all those responsible agree that a closure of the baths should be avoided at all costs.

Overall concept in view

all the steps being taken now are already geared to the future overall concept, emphasizes tobias ehrlicher. This includes the treetop trail, a special recreational area that was established last year. "When we choose tiles for a section now, we are already thinking about how they will fit in with what is planned further down the line", says ehrlicher.
While this year for the "rough throw" before planning can move forward, small steps will be taken to increase the attractiveness of the spa and sauna area, as was done last year. Nancy grau reports, for example, on the partnership with the sambafestival.
There were employees of the spa in bathrobes with samba headdresses on the road to promote the spa. An action that also brought guests to bad rodach to relax after the exhausting festival, as she notes. A specially created cocktail then awaited the sambistas there.

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Climate money for the kirchweih

Bernhard panzer admittedly, in the current times of the corona crisis, it is not easy to think about future major events and their effects on the climate. Especially since the burger’s CO2 emissions are currently rather low – there are simply no events. The planning committee has dealt with the issue for a long time. And even before corona and the exit restriction, a basic resolution was passed.

This provides for financial compensation for the environmental impact and greenhouse gases caused by the staging of city events. In short: every visitor to the summer church fair, for example, "pays" an environmental levy.

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