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Shift to the left in the czech republic: zeman wins presidential election

shift to the left in the czech republic: zeman wins presidential election

Zeman thus unexpectedly beat conservative challenger and incumbent auben minister karel schwarzenberg (75) by a clear margin. The nobleman scored only 45.19 percent, as the statistical office in prague announced on saturday.

The previous incumbent and fierce EU critic vaclav klaus was not allowed to compete again after ten years on prague’s hradcany hill. In contrast to klaus, zeman calls himself a "euro federalist. Communists and social democrats had campaigned for the left-wing populist.

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Gut Holz Zeil is looking forward to the adventure

The rough day jerks for the 1. SKK gut holz zeil ever closer: for the first time in the club’s history the 1. Team this saturday a match at the national league level. More precisely, it goes for the team around veteran holger jahn in the 2. Bundesliga to hesse to KSC 1950 hainstadt.

The first day of the match is therefore a journey into the unknown. But the hessians are not completely unknown to the zeilers: there has already been a meeting with hainstadt – together with zeil, the KSC realized its dream of promotion to the 2nd division in april. Bundesliga north/ center. As champions of the hessenliga the sharks qualified for the promotion games in goldbach in hesse. After two games they ended up with scores of 3224 and 3330 cones behind the zeilers (3270, 3331) and followed the 1. SKK in league 2.

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When red helmets say firewood

When red helmets say firewood

At the summer festival of the volunteer fire department, the reundorf youth fire department held a gala performance march under the leadership of tobias habermann on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

Seven fire department youth groups of four people each from buch am forst, michelau, redwitz, schwurbitz, uetzing and reundorf (two teams) took up the challenge and completed the seven required stations that were set up along a 1.7-kilometer course.

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A word of power from the head of the dosb on the mudslinging in speed skating

A word of power from the head of the dosb on the mudslinging in speed skating

DOSB head alfons hormann demands consequences from the german speed skating community after the mudslinging with claudia pechstein by national coach erik bouwman.

"The fact that a reigning national coach is making such a quality statement against a team member on the day before the world championship makes me wonder," hormann told the german press agency. "The associated interference in the personnel reorganization of the prasidium of the DESG is unacceptable. We very much hope that the current leadership of the association will immediately bring about an appropriate clarification," demanded hormann, who is following the developments with concern.

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Salary affair probably also overshadows csu party convention

salary affair probably also overshadows csu party convention

Overshadowed by the job affair in the bavarian state parliament, the CSU will today (friday/18.00) nominate your party leader horst seehofer as top candidate for the state elections. The CSU invited 1500 participants to the event in munich’s postpalast – more than to a party convention. The affair about the employment of relatives mainly affects CSU deputies, including half a dozen cabinet members.

State parliament president barbara stamm (CSU) wants to publish as quickly as possible all names of deputies who still had spouses or children working for them after the law was tightened in 2000. Recently, prominent members of the government came under fire – including justice minister beate merk and agriculture minister helmut brunner, according to a survey of all 187 members of parliament conducted by the bavarian radio station.

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Bundesbank: german economy continues to grow

Bundesbank: german economy continues to grow

"The german economy was allowed to continue its strong expansion course in the third quarter of 2017, albeit probably with somewhat less momentum than in the first half," states the monthly report for september published by the central bank.

In the industrial sector, the – presumably temporary – lack of large-scale orders has caused a slowdown, but "the continuing high influx of orders in the industrial sector (…), the continuing extremely brisk construction activity, the extremely good consumer sentiment and the sustained strong increase in employment all point to a very good economic situation," states the bundesbank.

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Even brew from an iron pan meets the taste

Even brew from an iron pan meets the taste

After dorflis, junkersdorf an der weisach and buch, this year the brewers from brunn hosted the growing number of brewing enthusiasts.
The fourth municipal brewery meeting began with a tour of the brunner brewhouse. It stands out because the sudpfanne is not made of copper, but of iron. This significant feature generated lively discussions and shop talk.

With intensive discussions about brewing itself and about the characteristics of a municipal brewery in particular, the beers from buch, dorflis, eckartshausen, hoch-stadten, junkersdorf an der weisach, unfinden and uschersdorf were tapped, tapped, smelled, tasted and finally simply enjoyed.
During a snack, all the beers were subjected to a thorough sensory evaluation, during which the brewers noted that the level of the different brews was very high. All eight beers passed the sensory test without any problems.

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In the name of the bees

In the name of the bees

"We are thrilled with the great entries and it was hard for us to choose the best", commented corinna holzer of the foundation for man and the environment. Under the motto "bavaria – we're doing something for bees!" the winners of the bavaria-wide planting competition were ceremonially crowned in munich. And although the search for the best was rather difficult, a woman from herzogenaurach found herself on the podium. Standing at the top and cheering heavily.
The first place in the category "private garden" dorothea lang's "micro-hortus" is a case in point from herzogenaurach. "My insect-friendly roof garden project is basically in its fifth year, but I have only been trying to implement a continuous fly band since january of this year", she describes her project. But the results are already visible after a few months of hortus farming.

Recognizing potential

Hans-Dieter schuster from the bavarian ministry of the environment was pleased when he presented the certificates together with the foundation. The competition was held as part of the "nature in the city" campaign, of the state ministry for the environment.
He explained: "whether it's five or 500 square meters doesn't really matter. It is important to recognize the potential for colorful, humming life in our gardens. Habitats for our endangered wild bees are not so much gravel gardens, which are very much in vogue, but rather nectar- and pollen-rich flowering plants and structures for nesting such as open sandy areas, natural stones and deadwood." 

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Norma moves out in kups also because of parking situation

Norma moves out in kups also because of parking situation

The background: after 17 years, norma closed its branch in lessingstrabe in december. Between the spielothek "fly and the berankemarkt ultsch now has a gaping 1100 square meter vacancy.

No decision against kups

"the branch has become too small and we no longer see any prospects for development", ulrich schott explains why the company fell in love with the market community. "We were not able to present ourselves as well in kups as in kronach or burgkunstadt."

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