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Ten of 19 rounds of the season in the national gliding league have been completed. The lichtenfels team is currently lurking in the midfield in 11th place overall. In the overall ranking, LSG bayreuth leads ahead of LSR aalen and LSV burgdorf. The U25 juniors of the aeroclub are surprisingly on top of the table after a round win ahead of FG oerlinghausen and SFZ konigsdorf.

The tenth round brought usable flying conditions again after the weak results before, even if the weather situation was very complicated and hardly predictable for the pilots. With the hot temperatures the risk of thunderstorms was very high. Already early in the day there were first showers in the low mountains. Together with the strong easterly wind only a narrow, well flyable strip from the fichtelgebirge to the edge of the spessart remained.

Getting a picture of what you’ll look like in 70 or 80 years. How does aging feel? What does a city for every age look like?? Living in retirement. These are just a few of the topics and questions that will be addressed starting this monday, 19. August, until wednesday, 21. August, answers. Then the exhibition ship "MS wissenschaft" moors at the jetty in kitzingen.

Since april, the converted cargo ship has been traveling on canals and rivers, visiting 40 towns in germany and austria. The exhibition is entitled "all generations in one boat – shaping demographic change together". This is also the topic of the science year 2013. The floating "science center" with its 600 square meters of exhibition space is considered the high point of the respective science years, ever since it was first commissioned by the university of bremen in 2002.

Among other things, lukewarm consumption is to blame, the U.S. Department of commerce announced in an initial estimate on friday in washington. Growth was still a revised 2.0 percent in the first three months, down from a revised 4.1 percent (previously: 3.0 percent) in the final quarter of 2011.

However, experts had expected an even sharper slowdown in the second quarter of 2012. They had expected a growth rate of only 1.4 percent.

It is the story of a prisoner who must have lain in the dungeon of the castle tower for half a century. This is what emerges from the minutes of a council meeting. At that time, the spanish war of succession (1701-1714) was in progress and the danger of a french or bavarian invasion was growing for herzogenaurach.

On 12. January 1704 a letter was sent from the general of forchheim to the amtmann of herzogenaurach, according to which single boys as well as the bulwark diggers should be sent to forchheim.

The commerzbank’s revision was rejected. The second-largest german bank has so far charged 15 euros for a statement of account that is long overdue.

For the federal association of consumer advice centers (vzbv), attorney peter wassermann affirmed in the hearing before the federal court of justice the view that most customers were charged excessive fees by the bank. More than 80 percent of the cases involved account statements up to six months old. And the actual costs for the bank of 10.24 euros were significantly lower than the demanded fee. Here "the mass of the case is burdened with excessive costs and that is not in the sense of the legal regulation," said the lawyer.

In many places around the world on saturday at 20 o'clock sharp there will be.30 local time the lights went out. To the 13. For the first time, the environmental organization WWF proclaimed "earth hour" and thousands of cities turned out the lights on famous landmarks.

The first to go was the island state of samoa – by 7.30 in the morning german time. Bringing up the rear were the cook islands and french polynesia. With this annual campaign, which has been taking place since 2007, the participants want to set an example for more climate and environmental protection. Private individuals were also asked to do without light in their houses and apartments.

The beautiful musical setting with iris ferenz on the piano, accompanied by ilka friedel on the transverse flute, was also a perfect match. The laudatory speech was held by eva warmuth, herself a visual artist who is now known far beyond the region and is virtually predestined for such tasks. Both women are not "young jumpers more, warmuth amused the audience.

Both had a rich life with diverse experiences as a basis for their respective artistic expression. "Karin hacker’s painting jumps straight into the eye, her colors sometimes even want to jump the theme of the canvas, are a direct expression of spontaneity" warmuth said.