The social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture (SVLFG) receives the bavarian prevention award in the category "prevention in old age" for her "nursing tandem" health program. Partners are the theresienstift bad kissingen, the bavarian red cross bad kissingen, the pflegedienst wehner bad bocklet and the rehabilitation and prevention center bad bocklet as well as the institut fur qualitatssicherung in pravention und rehabilitation gmbh an der deutschen sporthochschule koln (scientific support IQPR).

Bavaria's minister of health and care, melanie huml, emphasized the following at the presentation of the award on 4. December 2019: "especially in agriculture, a lot of care is provided at home. Caregivers do a great job. They often push themselves to the limit and neglect their own health. With the care tandem, the SVLFG has launched a truly innovative service. The training and recreation week for tandems of people in need of care and their caregivers is a great way to strengthen a particularly stressed group of people. The fact that financing is possible within the regular care system makes things perfect."

Project closes a gap

Martin empl, alternating chairman of the SVLFG board of management, briefly describes what the new health program is all about: "we have long established health programs for caregivers at the SVLFG. However, it has always been a prerequisite for participation that the person in need of care had to stay at home and be cared for in some other way. But not every family has this opportunity. The care tandem closes this gap. Our new health program makes it possible for caregivers and their dependent relatives to take part in a health week together. While the family caregivers receive information in lectures and attend courses to strengthen their everyday care at home, those in need of care who travel with them are cared for lovingly and competently in a day care or short-term care facility. All this would not have been possible without the outstanding commitment of our project partners."

The theresienstift bad kissingen provides up to four day care places and two short-term care places at a time. Facility manager simone kiefl says "we have used the project as an opportunity to expand our day care services. We are very happy about this, because other residents will also benefit from it." alexander kretz, deputy district manager of the bavarian red cross bad kissingen, offers up to three day care places and organizes the driving services. "We and our regular guests look forward to the new guests every time. The dates are known well in advance, so we can be prepared for them."

The majority of the care tandems use such facilities for the first time. "Reservations are taken. This increases the chance that the tandems will also use such services at home, either for regular relief or in emergencies.", describes dr. Christian hetzel from the scientific support team (IQPR koln) the benefit.

Participants in the first courses were thoroughly satisfied. "The offer was so varied that I did not miss any point", franz ohler describes the program. The LKK-insured man from lower bavaria took part in one of the first care tandems with his wife, who suffers from dementia. For him, for example, the information on the provision of aids that he received there as part of the nursing course offered was new: "it was good to learn what is available and how to use the aids correctly." "the dementia lecture and the discussion with the other course participants help me even now to accept the situation better", he says thoughtfully. "Until recently I could not. I almost got sick myself. Now I know: I can't change the illness, it is what it is.".

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For example, they want to largely prohibit fishermen from throwing unintentionally caught fish back into the sea, dead or injured. To do this, the fishing methods must be changed. The reform will set the course of european fisheries policy for years to come.

"The ministers have moved on some points, but i had hoped for even more courage," said ulrike rodust, an SPD member of the european parliament. She is the main contact person in the parliament for the fishery reform. "We parliamentarians will now analyze the text calmly."The members of the european parliament must approve the legislation. They had previously announced that they could only give the green light in exchange for further concessions.

In february, the EU member states had already agreed on their position on the reform of the fisheries policy. Now they have made improvements to enable an agreement with parliament. Irish minister and head of negotiations simon coveney said the states had accommodated the parliament on many points. EU fisheries commissioner maria damanaki was confident: "I think an agreement is possible," she said.

For example, the states want to impose stricter restrictions on the throwing overboard of unintentionally caught fish than previously planned. Because the animals often end up injured in the water and die there – their capture is therefore of no use to anyone. EU countries want to reduce the number of so-called discards to a maximum of five percent of catches over the course of several years. In february, the states had still wanted to allow up to seven percent.

In addition, the ministers want to ensure that catch limits (quotas) are set in such a way that fish stocks are not overexploited in the long term. But this is not enough for environmental organizations. "Of all things, the heart of the reform, the mandatory rebuilding of fish stocks, is where the ministers lack the will," criticized anna holl of the WWF. The organization wants to see much more restrained fishing so that stocks can recover more quickly.

The EU states had made "another significant step" toward the parliament, explained federal agriculture minister ilse aigner (CSU). "It was the maximum that was negotiable, so to speak, in the council (of the eu states) now also."

If states and the european parliament come together, the fisheries reform could be a done deal within the next few weeks, said parliamentarian rodust. "But I cannot guarantee it".

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Chinese government responds to u.S. Tax reform and the middle kingdom's foreign investment crackdown.

The finance ministry in beijing announced that foreign companies would no longer have to pay tax on their profits if they reinvested them in the country under certain conditions. The move is intended to revive foreign investment in china, the ministry said.

The regulation, which was published on the ministry's website on thursday, will take effect retroactively from 1 january 2009. January 2017, so that reimbursements can also be claimed for the expiring year. China wants to actively use foreign investment, demand it and improve its quality, the ministry said.

However, in order to be exempt from the tax, foreign companies must meet certain requirements for their new investments. Among other things, it is demanded that they invest in industries that are on the list, which are particularly demanded by the chinese government.

Foreign investment grew by only 1.9 percent in the first ten months of this year compared to the same period last year. But in november they made a jump of 90 percent, so that for the first eleven months an increase of 9.8 percent was achieved. Now, however, US president donald trump's tax reform, passed shortly before christmas, has increased the pressure on the school system.

American companies are then offered incentives if they repatriate their profits from operations abroad. The tax reform also lowers costs for companies in the u.S. And thus improves location factors. Experts on the chinese side saw the concern that capital could flow out or some american companies might even pull out of china. In germany, too, industry and companies have reacted by calling for reforms and simplifications.

In any case, the conditions for foreign companies in china have deteriorated, according to recent surveys. Local protectionism, lack of market access, rising costs, especially for personnel, and unfair predatory competition have been complained about. German and other european companies are also noticeably holding back on new investments in china.

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The contribution of the "eigen-sinn" theater group on the festive day of the marktgraf-georg-friedrich gymnasium: a panopticon of students, parents, teachers and other useful spirits of the school. It was a matter of individual quirks, secondary issues and the educational mandate.
The audience was amused on both evenings of the performance, not least because it cynically recognized itself and others – and documented this with repeated interjections of applause.

Theater is a serious subject

The performances were fast-paced, well-paced and showed that theater is a serious and challenging subject – far from some afternoon elective spab.

Its pedagogical value, however, did not even remotely preoccupy the schools. They had collected a vast amount of observations in the school business and pasted them together themselves into a collage. Caricaturing themselves, teachers, parents, and administration, if not actually portraying them. There were the schoolchildren themselves: the nerdy, the well-behaved, the slow-witted, the stressed and nervous. And the teachers: the overly accurate pedagogical administrator strictly following the curriculum, the overly committed and the cynical-arrogant one.

Nagging parents

There were the parents who leave their educational task to the school alone, who bicker at each other in the competition to see who has the smarter child, and those who drive their offspring to the educational institution for a state visit.

There was the teachers' conference, which is as human as any club meeting, and which deals with educational objectives such as keeping the toilets clean. School life, in which the secretariat plays a particularly varied role.

Dressed smartly, if not very smartly, they always try to represent the school to the outside world with friendliness, taking all possible and impossible calls, doing their paperwork diligently and properly – but also taking time out in between to just let the store run and keep fit with gymnastics for their further tasks. The schoolchildren got help from theater teacher bianka zeitler.

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Godehard schramm’s book about lake como has just been published: "the chancellor and the lake – lago di como – land and people, culture and konrad adenauer". The nurnberg writer will bring this book to bad staffelstein today. We wanted to know in advance what impulses the obermain gives him.

Question: what do you think of when you hear the place name bad staffelstein??
Godehard schramm: first of all, the reunion with my friend erich walter, the famous botanist from bayreuth, after an almost fatal stroke – when he was already smiling again in a wheelchair in the care of the staffelstein health clinic. Next: that in the circle of french towns with the noble title of bad in front of them, the dominance of the lower franconians has dwindled and after bad berneck, bad alexandersbad and bad rodach, staffelstein can now also decorate and identify itself as a bad’ish. To this crowning came recently the "ring of figures" of the sculptor wilhelm uhlig, who has been working in nurnberg for a long time, adds. As I have seen the art of this almost last "figurative I am very pleased, before my reading, to see this "gold right standing" crib to be able to see the sculpture-septet in the spa park.

What do you know about the staffelberg?
I don’t know anything about the staffelberg, but for me it belongs to the magical and actually also holy mountains of france – like its sibling, the walberla.

Is the term "gottesgarten am obermain" a designation that attracts you or is it rather a hackneyed term?
When i was driving on the A 73 to thuringia as a pilgrim to visit our pope benedict XVI., i read the brown highway sign with the designation "gottesgarten – and it was clear to me: in our society, which is characterized by the perfidious art of "negative tolerance as "master from germany it won’t be long now, and then someone who doesn’t believe in god will go to court and be charged with personal illness or. Defamation lawsuit until from the public space of the highway – as in schools, etc. – this designation must be removed, like the cross. The term "god’s garden is a confession and at the same time a sign of our faith – always more significant than the more modern sign, also at the highway, which describes upper franconia and the "genussregion" expulsion.

Do you have a favorite place on the obermain??
If I knew exactly which places belonged to "obermain belong to . . . So let’s take the main river downstream, after the confluence of the red and the female main as the northern beginning and then until shortly before bamberg – then i say bayreuth. For the simple reason that I do not want to talk to people who live there or who do not believe. I am connected to the people who lived there; and over the years, the connection to people has become more important to me than anything related to location or culture. Architectural beauty. And then of course fourteen saints.

What book are you working on?
Now that my book about lake como has been published and my "life journey through franconia" has been finished as a 500-page-typoscript is already at the munchner verlag, i can finally get to the conclusion of my "explorations in fernnebenan" turn to: this will be my france-book: "france – fireworks in colors. My "contact with the czech republic" is quite advanced: "in smetana’s fatherland", which begins in 1968. Poems are also being prepared for a book of poetry. I have a piece in mind: "twelve suicides at the lord’s table" – with two special references to franconia.

From which books or payments do you read in bad staffelstein?
The theme of the evening are my "at the same time-homelands": local, spiritual and acquired homelands. I will read from "second home lake garda", "the chancellor and the lake"; "invitations to poland" and from my translation of the polish poet and priest jan twardowski "i herd the cow for a communist". I might also recite one or two texts from my frankenbuch.

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Opinions differ widely on the meaning and aesthetics of tattoos. While some people can’t understand why ink or dyes are immortalized under the skin as body art, for others going to the tattoo artist is almost as normal as going to the hairdresser.

Tattoos have long since ceased to be the exclusive mark of certain groups. There seems to be almost no limit to the imagination in the motif and design of the body ornaments. As far as the choice of color motifs is concerned, however, the rough freedom could soon be over, at least within the EU.

Tattoo scene sounds the alarm

The european chemicals agency (ECHA), based in helsinki, has recommended that more than 4,000 substances of concern be restricted in tattoo colors and permanent makeup. Including the color pigments blue 15 and green 7, which are contained in two-thirds of all tattoo colors.

The tattoo scene is already sounding the alarm: "if there is a ban, over 60 percent of color motifs will no longer be possible, at least officially", says tattoo artist jorn elsenbruch from north rhine-westphalia. From his point of view, the ban is nonsensical. It has not been scientifically proven that the color pigments are harmful to health. "In 25 years I have not experienced a serious problem with pigments", so elsenbruch.

The substances of concern are already taboo in cosmetics according to a corresponding EU regulation. ECHA’s position is clear: what cannot be used on the skin cannot be used under the skin.

In the specific case of blue 15 and green 7, the agency is concerned about two things: first, the concerns are related to the substances’ bladder cancer risk, and second, an ECHA committee has concluded that the information about the pigments is insufficient to guarantee safe use.

Arguments that do not justify a ban from the point of view of many tattoo artists. An online petition initiated by elsenbruch is running until sunday under the title #savetattoocolors. He has already won over more than 143,000 supporters, including, according to the initiative, several prominent soccer players.

This means that the petitions committee of the bundestag will discuss the demands of the signatories in a first step. "We call on the federal government and the bundestag to avert an EU ban", says elsenbruch. The initiative also calls on politicians to enter into dialogue with the tattoo scene. "We don’t want anything dangerous in tattoo colors", emphasizes the 53-year-old. "If tests confirm that the pigments in question are harmful to health, we can talk about a ban."

Tattooing should become "safer

Banning the pigments just like that would destroy the health standards that have been painstakingly built up over the past few years, elsenbruch fears. "Because of a ban, the scene will not do without the pigments green 7 and blue 15." Tattoo artists would get the colors from abroad or the black market would fill the gap with colors that are not labeled. "Then we will be back to where we were 25 years ago in terms of regulation.", the tattoo artist is sure.

The ECHA says it is primarily concerned with the well-being of the citizens of burgenland. "Neither the commission nor ECHA is proposing to ban tattoos or tattoo colors, or even to ban blue and green colors in tattoos.", said an ECHA spokesman in response to a question from the german press agency. "Our goal is to make tattooing safer for the consumer."

This goal also pursues the federal government. The federal ministry of food and agriculture says that its central concern is the protection of consumer health on a scientific basis. "The federal government will use itself in this sense with the discussions in the responsible committees in brussel."

In april the EU countries will discuss a ban. In the short term, however, the tattoo scene will by no means have to do without green 7 and blue 15. Before the ban takes effect, there will be a transitional period of several years to find alternatives for the two pigments. But according to elsenbruch, there won’t be one. "Research has been going on for ten years without success. The planned transition period is a contradiction for the tattoo artist anyway, which shows the nonsense of the ban: "if something is supposed to be dangerous, you can’t take two years to look for alternatives"."

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Bayer, the pharmaceutical and agrochemical company based in leverkusen, germany, plans to send employees into retirement as part of its massive staff reduction program.

"There will be a 57+ program under which bayer employees can retire at 57," oliver zuhlke, head of the bayer general works council, told the "rheinische post" (wednesday). This is "extremely attractive" for long-term employees. For employees who were not able to take advantage of the deduction-free pension at 63, bayer must compensate for losses in company and statutory pensions, zuhlke demanded. "This will cost bayer a lot," says works council chairman. A bayer spokesman said in response to a question: "talks are still ongoing."

By march 2019, employees are expected to have clarity on how many of the world’s 12.000 jobs to be cut in germany eliminated. "We are still discussing this. In the pharmaceuticals sector, where negotiations have been going on for a long time, this will soon become clear. In the other areas, probably by march 2019," said zuhlke, who is also deputy chairman of the supervisory board. Bayer ceo werner baumann had said that the job cuts would affect "a significant proportion of jobs in germany, but not the majority of the 12 employees.000 places". The reduction is to be made on the basis of a social contract.

The massive workforce reduction is part of a program to increase efficiency with which the group aims to significantly enhance its competitiveness. Following the acquisition of the u.S. Seed company monsanto, bayer plans to accelerate its growth. Group sales are expected to grow by around 4 percent before exchange rate movements in 2019 and by an average of 4 to 5 percent per year thereafter until 2022, the company announced on wednesday at a capital markets day in london.

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In a pub in the australian outback, emus have been banned from the premises for unmannered behavior. The giant ratites, native only to down under, had learned to climb the stairs to the restaurant of the yaraka hotel in southwestern queensland and served themselves uninhibitedly and unasked at the plates of the guests there.

But the worst thing is that emus are not housebroken, the ABC quoted hotel owner chris gimblett as saying: "that’s the biggest problem, because they defecate a lot. We just did not want them to become regular guests of the hotel."

That’s why gimblett has now secured the entrance to his pub with a sturdy cord – the human guests are supposed to leave this "emu barrier" behind them again, as can be read on a sign. "Emus is banned from entering due to bad behavior."

The flightless birds, which can weigh over 40 kilos, are bred in the area and are considered a tourist attraction. The yaraka hotel is located in a tiny community about 1000 kilometers northwest of brisbane. The site is a popular stopover for travelers heading into the vast australian outback.

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Sunday marks the beginning of the parish st. Josef now officially enters a new phase of community life in the gaustadt district of bamberg. After pastor matthias wunsche moved to erlangen, on 1. September his successor, father solomon sahayaraj MSFS, began his service as parish administrator.

At a festive service at 5 p.M. In the parish church of st. John the baptist, he will be inaugurated. Josef to be inaugurated by dean pastor gunter hofer. This was followed by a reception for all parishioners in the church square or, in bad weather, in the parish hall.

Born in 1975 in the state of kerala in south india, the priest approaches his new task in good spirits, trusting, as he writes in his parish letter, in jesus christ "who offers himself to each one of us as a chief, as a captain, who wants to guide us to the safe harbor.

For four years in germany
he clergyman, who prefers to be called just father solomon for simplicity's sake, comes from kerala, an indian state strongly influenced by the catholic faith. In india itself, only 2.5 percent of the population professes christianity. Attending a school run by nuns made him think about becoming a priest, and in 1992 he entered the seminary in goa.

Five years later he became a member of the order "missionaries of saint franc de sales" (MSFS). Between his studies in philosophy and theology, the clergyman also completed an apprenticeship in the metalworking industry. After his ordination as a priest in 2005, he worked for a time as head of the printing department at the institute of the order in nagpur, central india. Sahayaraj came to germany four years ago, first to rehau near hof, then as a chaplain to neunkirchen am brand. The last two years he was active as a chaplain in herzogenaurach.

Father solomon looks forward to his new tasks in the gaustadt parish. He is also optimistic about working with people of other nationalities who represent the district. In herzogenaurach, he has already had to deal with people of other religions and different cultures.

Even at his new place of work, the clergyman wants to maintain contact with his confreres. The conversation with the indian sisters who run the senior center st. Managing josef and working there will always bring him a little closer to home.

And if there is still some time left besides the many new tasks to be tackled, the new pastor, who is also interested in sports activities, among other things, may be traveling in germany. In his free time he liked to visit interesting places here in the country and abroad, but also places of pilgrimage.
 

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Point at 14.12 o’clock it started. Herzogenaurach’s mayor german hacker (SPD) gives the starting signal for the more than 360 people waiting to get into the sports club herzogenaurach nord.

Running and cycling for "mother earth, an idea that appeals to the participants. And an idea that appeals to more and more participants. Last year there were 120 participants, so this year there is almost a threefold increase in the number of participants. These started neither for money nor recorded or victory-drunk ehr’ on the 6.1 kilometer long round respectively 3.6 kilometer loop. Those who had made their way past the reuthersweiher pond or over the birkenbuhl forest trail were fronted by idealism and a good idea.

Natascha, a trainee at puma, thinks winning is not decisive. "I like to demonstrate that I think earth day is good. We think far too seldom about the consequences of our actions, today is the opportunity." Birke from adidas agrees with her: "that’s why we were willing to pay a ten euro participation fee."

The starting fee of ten euros, however, did not remain in the hands of the organizers. Money donated for planting a meadow orchard. Birke and natascha agreed: "we see immediately what happens with our money." Because directly after the run, about 20 fruit trees, under the expert guidance of the city’s gardeners, were planted on the plot of the old game preserve. This area had been lying fallow for some time and was threatening to go to seed; now a colorful flowering orchard is to be created that will not only provide a habitat for plants and animals, but will also invite walkers to linger.

But admittedly: besides the good feeling there was of course a little something for the cycling and running participants. An "earth day t-shirt, the day and the tour remembered, pretzels to taste and drinks to regain strength. Of course from a bakery in herzogenaurach and a brewery in herzogenaurach to demonstrate that the choice of regionally produced food also contributes to climate protection.

What remains of sustainability? In any case, the meadow orchard and with one or the other a little sore muscles, but worth it. After all, it’s about mother earth. And it is expected to continue for a long time!

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