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A teddy bar clinic will be set up in erlangen’s castle garden next week. If a cuddly toy swallows a lego brick or burns its paw in a child’s cake, the 4. Up to 6. June to the consultation hours student teddy doctors the patients, announced the friedrich-alexander-universitat (FAU) on monday.

The teddy bar hospital, which is already being set up for the eleventh time, is intended to teach children in a playful way how a visit to the doctor works, according to a press release. It could take away possible fears and help them to build up trust in doctors.

The fact that the sermon on the mountain became a topic of the council meeting, even if only in passing, was due to michael neubert, the founder of the initiative "schutzt das lillachtal" (protect the lillach valley). He liked that the municipality builds a mary chapel. But not in miniature, as stated on the agenda and criticized by him, but in smaller replica of the weibenoher monastery.

Weibenohe attracts with the lillachtal annually more and more hikers to hike to the lillinger fountain. The location for the chapel – the newly designated building area weber – let due to the mountain slope with protected flora and fauna the schopfung celebrate and bring abruptly the mountain sermon in mind.

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The german ski jumping mixed team around katharina althaus and karl geiger from oberstdorf has caused a huge surprise with gold at the home world championships in allgau, leaving even the favorites norway and austria behind. "That is extremely surprising. We have hoped to be able to jump for a medal. That we win gold is fantastic," said manner national coach stefan horngacher. Women’s coach andreas bauer said on ARD: "I am very proud of the girls. A boulder has fallen from my heart."

Targeted checks are carried out on motorcyclists in the month of july. The bavarian ministry of the interior and integration initiated a bavarian-wide motorcycle safety campaign in july, particularly to reduce the number of accidents involving motorcyclists. Ten motorcyclists were killed in traffic accidents on the roads in the area of the police headquarters in lower franconia in 2017. In nine of these accidents, the motorcyclist was mainly responsible and to be regarded as the cause of the accident, it says in a press release of the prasidium. In total, there were 614 accidents involving motorcyclists, in which 550 motorcyclists were injured, some of them seriously. The main cause of accidents continues to be excessive or inappropriate speed.
Due to weather conditions, the main accidents naturally occur in the months of april to october, especially on country roads in the lower franconia region.
The lamb load caused by motorcyclists is also playing an ever greater role. Particularly problematic is the fact that some drivers drive at very high speeds on the road and exhaust pipes are manipulated to make the "sound" to change. But the way he drove also played a role. In order to reduce the number of traffic accidents involving motorcyclists, to improve motorcycle safety in general, but also to combat the particular problem of manipulated motorcycles, the bavarian ministry of the interior and integration has planned a bavarian-wide campaign for the month of july.
In the context of the traffic controls the consequences of the disregard and the necessity of the traffic supervision are to be made clear to the concerning in particular. This should cause a change in behavior among motorcyclists and reduce the number of accidents. All lower franconian services will take part in the campaign and will carry out targeted traffic checks throughout july, it continues.

In the hope of good weather, painters from the czech republic, poland and germany will once again be present with easel and brush at various locations in the district this week at the invitation of the erlangen-hochstadt/tarnowskie gory circle of friends, where they will capture special views and capture them on paper. Maria stawik-hohlriegel was responsible for the planning and the artistic direction of the project. The mutual international open-air painting takes place in the annual rhythm alternately in the polish partner county tarnowskie gory and in the county erlangen-hochstadt.
The aim of the open-air painting is to achieve a closer cooperation of the invited artists from the friendly counties, as well as the exchange of professional knowledge and techniques during the creation. Another goal is to popularize the architecture and natural beauty of the communities in the district of erlangen-hochstadt and in franconia through the artworks that are created during the outdoor painting. Furthermore, local cultural initiatives should be called for, as well as a presentation and active promotion of the towns and communities of the district of erlangen-hochstadt and franconia on the tourist and cultural map in poland, the czech republic and germany should be achieved, said maria stawik-hohlriegel.

The number of participants is increasing

It was necessary to make arrangements with district administrator alexander tritthart (CSU) and the respective mayors, to find suitable locations with motifs for the painters, and to secure supplies. In addition, each artist receives a t-shirt with the inscription "artistic look with brush and easel. International outdoor painting june-june 2018 in the district erlangen-hochstadt."
The open-air painters are accommodated in the hotel rangau in dechsendorf, where they were also buried by manfred bachmayer, the chairman of the erlangen-hochstadt/tarnowskie gory circle of friends, and his deputy martin oberle. Bachmayer was pleased to note that the number of participants has increased since the first time in 2012. This action was created on the initiative of the circle of friends. In the meantime, the campaign has met with a good response in both counties, many contacts and friendships have been established, and artworks in the upper three-digit range have been created. The artists have become a close-knit community. From 8. Until 18. July some of them meet in poland and from 5. Until 10. August in the czech republic.

There was a loss of 157 million dollars after a profit of 97 million dollars a year ago. Now 15 percent of jobs are to be cut, the company announced after the US stock market closed on thursday. AMD recently had around 11,000 employees.

This means that the job cuts are somewhat smaller than recently speculated. In u.S. Media reports, rough orders of magnitude between 20 and 30 percent had been mentioned over the weekend. However, it is not over yet: in the first half of 2013 there will be further steps for restructuring, AMD announced. The rebuild could entail a "considerable" financial burden – a sign that it could be a radical action.

"All our policies, orders and all areas will be aimed at winning this war," he said during a speech to the new cabinet in damascus, according to reports by the state news agency sana. According to activists, at least 87 civilians were killed in fighting and attacks by government forces across the country on the same day. In addition, he said, a total of 49 insurgent fighters and government soldiers were killed.

Meanwhile, the shooting down of a turkish military jet by syrian forces has alarmed international diplomacy. Nato and turkey issued strong warnings to assad regime. In a special meeting of the nato council requested by turkey, the alliance condemned the shootdown as "unacceptable". Such a military action must not be repeated, it said in brussels on tuesday.

"We will invest in acquisitions," chief executive kasper rorsted said friday at the presentation of new medium-term financial targets in london. The dusseldorf-based group has significantly reduced its debt since 2008 from around 4 billion to a good 600 million euros. Growth could be accelerated with additional purchases.

According to the new financial targets, henkel would retain all three divisions: adhesives (pritt, pattex), detergents (persil, spee) and cosmetics (schwarzkopf, fa). Chief financial officer carsten knobel put the group’s general financing scope – including for acquisitions – at three billion euros. This still tends to increase. "But we are not buying for the sake of buying, but to generate growth for the future," he said.

"They had batons with them, slats," a police spokesman said on tuesday. In addition, a knife is said to have been displayed during the brawl on monday evening, but it was not used. According to the current state of the investigation, one person was slightly injured.

According to their own statements, the officers were on the scene with "strong forces" from the riot police, among others, in order to bring the situation under control. The officers had used pepper spray, the spokesman said. After the breakup of the brawl, the colleagues had shown their presence for a long time. Percussion tools and blank guns were seized.

On monday morning, the fire department had to rescue a seriously injured driver from the wreckage of a pickup truck in the district of kronach. The car was about 8.10 o'clock collided head-on with a truck.

According to the initial findings of the police, the truck was driving on federal highway 303 in the direction of weidhausen when, for reasons that are still unclear, the oncoming van drifted into its lane shortly before the beikheim exit. The 57-year-old truck driver was uninjured, the 28-year-old passenger of the van suffered minor injuries. The accident was worse for the driver of the transporter. It took a long time and a great deal of effort on the part of the rescuers to get him out of his totally demolished vehicle. The severely injured 20-year-old was then taken to a hospital by rescue helicopter.