Sonnyboy of the german hit – gus backus is dead

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Sonnyboy of the german hit - gus backus is dead

In the 60s and 70s, he was one of the biggest names on the hit scene: with hits like "da sprach der alte hauptling der indianer" or "der mann im mond", gus backus became a star. The new york native also made a name for himself as an actor.

Now he has died after a serious illness in his adopted home of germering near munich. Backus was 81 years old. For his last birthday, he had only one wish: "that I would live to be 90," he had told the german press agency.

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District fdp wants to keep the 10h-rule for wind energy

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Adelheid zimmermann (FDP), a member of the district council of bad bruckenau, comments on the press report about the district party conference of the FDP and explains: the FDP parliamentary group voted 6:5 in favor of the motion of the greens in the bavarian state parliament to allow wind turbines within a distance of 800 meters from settlements. Adelheid zimmermann (FDP) could not let this stand. That’s why she proposed at the district party conference that the bavarian FDP should support the retention of the 10H regulation. The proposal was unanimously adopted at the district party conference in aschaffenburg, it further announces.

"As a society, we have to be careful that we don’t lose our landscape in the countryside because of the energy structures. That would be the loss of the pound, with which we could grow", says carpenter. With the building of new wind power plants a 800-m-distance of settlements could not be decisive, because otherwise impact sound would destroy each acceptance of wind turbines. However, the 800-m distance is still possible if the municipality draws up a development plan for planned wind turbines, explains ms. Zimmermann.

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10.1 Million people in companies are on short-time work

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10.1 million people in companies are on short-time work

The federal employment agency is sitting on a gigantic pile of money: 26 billion euros is the reserve that the agency in nurnberg has accumulated over the past few years.

And even this thick financial cushion will probably not be enough to combat the consequences of the corona crisis on the german labor market. What the chairman of the federal employment agency, detlef scheele, had to announce makes the impact of the crisis on the economy abundantly clear. Unemployment is on the rise, short-time allowances are rising exponentially to "unimaginable levels," and the number of new jobs is plummeting – scheele summarized the negative figures right at the beginning.

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Long wait for new – low: absolutely need it

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Long wait for new - low: absolutely need it

The long wait for top goalkeeper manuel neuer is developing into one of the most exciting questions on the threshold of the 2018 world cup year.

According to new statements by national coach joachim low, the 31-year-old soccer world champion could not return to the goal of FC bayern munich until the final phase of the season and would not be available to the german national team until the immediate preparations for the world championship tournament in russia.

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Dr.-schneider group celebrates 90.

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Dr.-schneider group celebrates 90.

For the dr.-2017 is a very special year for the schneider group of companies – the international automotive supplier celebrated its 90th anniversary this weekend with a big family day and gala evening. More than 5,000 visitors came to see the plant in kronach-neuses.
The family day offered a varied program – starting with tours of the production facilities, a roadshow of exclusive cars in which dr. From the schneider products to the goal wall slide, foosball, bouncy castles, and a raffle with lucrative prizes.
The foreign sites (china, poland, spain, u.S.A.) also had a lot of fun – they offered various culinary delicacies and gave visitors a cultural insight into their respective countries. The day was rounded off with a gala evening for all employees of the group of companies.

Contemporary working conditions

In addition to the anniversary event, dr. Schneider celebrated further highlights in the past few days. The new management& project center at the kronach-neuses parent plant was inaugurated and the final planning phase for the new technology& process center has begun. The recently completed management& project center officially inaugurated. The extension building on the northeastern edge of the company’s premises will offer modern working conditions for a good 280 employees on an area of around 4300 square meters. The building will house the shareholders, management, sales and marketing, legal, communications, organization/processes/corporate strategy, sales controlling and business units.

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Sports economist: “superstars continue to have rough value”

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sports economist: 'superstars continue to have rough value'

"There will certainly be a dip for the time being," says sports economist christoph breuer of the german sports academy in koln to the deutsche presse-agentur. "Especially for players of the second row will probably not be paid for the first time the prices as recently."

The economic report of the german soccer league (DFL) shows a record 675.1 million euros in transfer fees for the bundesliga last season. At the 2. League, also with 18 clubs, it was 96.3 million euros.

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Bindrim with wise words

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It was a thankless task that gottfried bindrim, chairman of the schweinfurt soccer district, had been assigned at the special DFB award ceremony in hergolshausen: he had to say his greeting to the volunteers after the ceremonial address by jurgen pfau, chairman of the district of lower franconia. And actually everything had already been said.
But bindrim offered an ingeniously simple solution: he made a declaration of love to the honorary office itself: "you are the attentive eye, the watchful eye, the fingertip feeling that thinks of all those who are so easily overlooked and passed over", bindrim addressed the honorary office and the volunteers. He spoke of "the driving force and incentive for many good works", from the "good soul that has many names and faces." It was the shortest of the pit words, and yet nothing fit in because of all the estimation of value.
This was also expressed earlier by the honorary district commissioner edgar hedrich: "you are the real heroes, and you are worthy of being honored today", he had buried those to be honored in hergolshausen. Jurgen pfau emphasized the importance of volunteer work for the associations.
Without it an association, if it did not work under professional conditions, simply could not exist. He appealed to the politicians to provide the necessary infrastructure, because top-class sport is only possible "because the basis is created at the grassroots level".
The following people from the habberge district were honored for their voluntary work: erich barfub (TV konigsberg), helmut krug (FC kleinsteinach), claudia stark (FSV krum), norbert steinke (SC maroldsweisach), norbert schwinn (SV ostheim) and armin nikolaus (vfb humprechtshausen). 

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Image film is extended

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On the homepage of vestenbergsgreuth, an image film – with music – shows the market town with its 14 districts from its most beautiful side. Youth camps and recreational facilities, sports clubs, music and singing groups, church fairs and beer tastings all feature in the film to promote the community. Picturesquely embedded in the forest and pond landscape, the center of frankens is pointed out. But the globally active tea company martin bauer, agriculture and young people are also featured in the film.

Backed by language

"In the meantime, however, our desires have increased", stated mayor helmut lottes (CSU/UB) in the youngest meeting of the municipal council. A longer version with a running time of about eleven minutes is to be added to the already existing short film and backed up with speech. The production of both versions cost the municipality a total of 4879 euros. According to the mayor, the long version should be available in about four weeks. At the meeting, lottes now proposed to overcome the language barriers and to invest another 1700 euro for soundtracks in english and polish. English mainly because of the tea manufacturer, whose visitors and employees come from many countries and are partly ignorant of the german language. Polish to call for relations with partner municipality nowe miasto nad warta. "This was a good sign for our partnership", so lottes. The rate found the same and approved the issue without exception.

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In the quarry of the lord

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In the quarry of the lord

A total of 1000 cubic meters of rubble will be removed by the volunteers during the renovation of the parish church of st. John the baptist. St. Nicholas in sand move. More than 30 women and men, equipped with pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows, came together on saturday to lend a hand in the construction of their new house of worship.

Father michael erhart has exchanged the chasuble for work clothes and is currently holding a jackhammer in his hand. "I am delighted that so many volunteers are pitching in and helping to give our church a new lease of life", says erhart proudly, who has set himself the goal of being able to celebrate the service on saint’s eve in the parish church again.

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U.s. Military to honor soldiers for drone and cyber missions

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u.s. military to honor soldiers for drone and cyber missions

At his farewell, u.S. Defense secretary leon panetta (74) introduced a medal of honor for cyber warriors. In the future, soldiers will be awarded for special achievements in drone and computer warfare. It’s the first new medal created by the U.S. Military for combat missions since 1944.

In his years as CIA chief and as secretary, he has seen "how modern technologies like remotely operated platforms and cyber systems have changed the way wars are fought," panetta said wednesday in washington.

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