Category: Finance

For days, continuous rain dampened the rough german tournament, whose spectator response remained far below expectations. Holtwick/semmler missed out on third place with a 0:2 loss to the italians greta cicolari/marta menegatti. "The tournament here was a good rehearsal for london, because the weather forecasts there also predict a lot of rain," said semmler. She and her partner holtwick had already lost 2-1 in the semifinals to the top-seeded chinese team chen xue/xi zhang and had to be satisfied with 18,400 dollars in prize money.

The local heroes sara goller/laura ludwig as well as the two men’s teams julius brink/jonas reckermann and jonathan erdmann/kay matysik (all berlin) qualified for the olympics had already failed early and had disappointed the few spectators. "We really didn’t play well," admitted reckermann.

The CSU members from the federal, state, district and local governments met for the federal electoral district conference at the gasthof wasserschloss in mitwitz. The conference analyzed the current economic and political situation in the region and, as part of the regular elections, elected hans michelbach as its chairman once again.

Hans michelbach emphasized that the CSU in the federal constituency had two successful years behind it, winning all the direct mandates in the federal and state governments, successes in the state and district elections, and most recently in the district council elections in coburg. The region is very well positioned. The continuing record employment, the low number of insolvencies and the stable growth of just over two percent have allowed the region to regain its strength as one of the most industrially dense locations in europe. The CSU is therefore the driving force. "The region must do everything possible to avoid an economic downturn. The framework conditions for education, research and development, and support for family businesses always pose a new challenge", michelbach says. On behalf of all the officials and mandate holders present, he announced an economic stimulus package that would provide relief for employees and investment in innovation and infrastructure. The priority is to prevent tax increases and to push ahead with the complete abolition of the solidarity tax, as well as to ensure competitive energy prices.

Until about 40 years ago, there was only one black garbage can – for paper, residual and plastic waste. "The goal was to collect everything so that nothing goes to unwanted disposal", says susanne knauer-marx, who has been head of the waste management department at the kronach district office since 1990. It took until the year 2000 for waste separation to be practiced as it is today.

In the 80s, glass containers were introduced, followed a few years later by the paper bin. "At the beginning of the 1990s, the district was equipped with paper garbage cans across the board, knauer-marx remembers. The introduction of the yellow garbage can started with a pilot project: "at first there was a red bag for foils, a blue bag for plastic bottles and a yellow bag for packaging like tetra-packs." In 1992, the waste management association of northwest-oberfranken, which is responsible for the areas of coburg, kronach and lichtenfels, decided to abolish the blue and red sacks. Another eight years passed before there was a yellow garbage can.

The girls and young women were subjected to up to 230 volts through their bodies. They cut off electric cables and held them to their fists, stuck electrodes to their sleep, stuck nails into sockets or touched electric fences.

A sensational trial has begun at the regional court of munich II. A 30-year-old man from the wurzburg area is charged with attempted murder of 88 women and girls. He allegedly posed as a doctor and claimed to be conducting scientific studies on pain therapy. By means of the video chat program skype he made his victims – according to the indictment – to inflict life-threatening electric shocks on themselves.

Even after the arrest of two suspects in marktheidenfeld on tuesday afternoon – they are now in custody – the so-called "shock calls" continue in the wurzburg and schweinfurt area away. Thus, on wednesday, two new traps were reported, in which fraudsters were successful and stormed with over ten thousand euros. The wurzburg police are investigating and are again issuing a warning against this phenomenon – especially since the scam has now been extended to e-mails.
The scam is comparable to the grandchild trick and has become more common in the recent past. In almost all reported cases, the caller spoke russian. The victims are so far almost exclusively people with russian or eastern european migrant backgrounds.
This was also the case on wednesday, when an 87-year-old woman received a call from a woman pretending to be her daughter-in-law. She excitedly described how she had seriously injured a girl when she fell down the stairs. In the course of the conversation, an alleged lawyer also intervened and demanded 30 000 euros. This shock apparently had an effect on the victim, because shortly afterwards she handed over 10,000 euros to an unknown person. A little later it turned out that the story was fictitious and the money is now gone.
With a similar story, the fraudsters were previously successful with an 82-year-old man from the same city district. This one lost 2000 euro.
In both cases, the unknown person collecting the money is described as follows: 18 to 24 years old, slim and about 1.75 to 1.80 meters tall. He had two to three centimeters of short hair and wore no glasses or beard. He was dressed in a dark gray or black long-sleeved shirt and dark pants, possibly blue jeans and spoke russian.

Always be suspicious

Bavaria has declared 2013 the year of bavarian castles and palaces. On friday, the bamberger "new residence" was the main attraction in the spotlight. With an "open door day, the finance minister markus soder opened, the free state also wanted to the bamberger "glanzlicht" draw attention. Because, the minister emphasized, bavaria has more culture to offer than just "ludwig II".-locksmith" like neuschwanstein or herrenchiemsee.

"The new bamberg residence is something very special for bavaria. The largest secular monument in bamberg is located in the heart of the old town, which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 1993, underlined soder. It is an image of bavarian-french history and a popular tourist attraction. In the last ten years alone, more than 300,000 visitors have taken a look at the historic rooms.