Free screening

Since the 1. January the forchheim clinical center participates in the "freder1k study, an early detection screening of newborns that analyzes genetic components. In this unique europe-wide project of the institute for diabetes research at the helmholtz center, parents have the opportunity to have their child tested free of charge for the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in connection with regular newborn screening.
The test uses two drops of blood from the baby’s heel or umbilical cord to determine whether risk genes are present. Children who carry these risk genes and develop diabetes usually have no relatives with diabetes. That means the disease can affect anyone. The screening is suitable for children up to the age of four months.
The forchheim clinic sends in the blood drops. Parents receive no notification if test results are normal. The screening is voluntary. 92 percent of those born in january 2018 take the exam.

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Rene lezard, a premium fashion manufacturer based in schwarzach, announced last week that it would be laying off 47 of its 107 employees. The layoffs, cushioned by a social plan, are to be completed in the first half of 2019.

A development with highs and lows

Mayor volker schmitt has mixed feelings about the development of the company, which has been reeling for years. The reduction of almost 50 percent of the jobs in schwarzach is a serious cut, but on the other hand, they are glad "that the location will be preserved. Sometimes shrinking is healthy, too, says schmitt. Rene lezard has so far been the second-largest employer in the market town, explains schmitt, looking ahead to the next few months. The only major company is the munsterschwarzach monastery, which employs more than 300 people.

Rene lezard is also significant for schwarzach because many local people work there. The company is looking back on its 40th anniversary this year, and some employees have been working there for more than 30 years.

Hopes pinned on new investor

Schmitt had hoped that the upcoming entry of a turkish investor in rene lezard would change the development of the schwarzach fashion company for the better. But the mayor was well aware that the current managers already had their work cut out for them. Before the takeover by the new majority owner yasar esgin of cemsel tekstil, they had to restructure the company, which had been in crisis for years, and above all avert a new insolvency. And for schmitt, especially important: the preservation of the location.

In the meantime, the mayor has also spoken with some of the burghers affected by the announced layoffs. Various age groups are affected, including employees from administration, logistics and production. Despite all the tragedy: schmitt sees good chances for them to find a place on the job market again. Currently, the district of kitzingen has an unemployment rate of 1.9 percent. The economy is booming. "We have full employment," says schmitt. That’s why he hopes that even workers over 45 will be employable. Schmitt has noted a fundamental change in companies in this regard: experience and know-how now pay something again, and not just the age of an employee.

Good development in the commercial area

The development in the schwarzach industrial area was also encouraging. All the land there has been sold, she says; company relocations are imminent. Craftsmen and other skilled personnel were sought everywhere. "Even people from the administration are in demand", so the mayor has heard.

What is rene lezard up to??

What is rene lezard planning? As reported, in the future the company will rely on a complete purchasing of goods and services instead of a division of labor between the schwarzach site and external suppliers. Consequently, product development, production and delivery of the collections were no longer done in schwarzach, but outsourced. Let the stores remain unaffected. The changeover affects only the head office, and there mainly the areas of production/logistics, returns/customs, CAD/composition and purchasing. After job cuts, around 200 employees will still work in schwarzach and the rene lezard store in germany.

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It has been almost five weeks since the unicef children’s festival in mitwitz castle park attracted about 1200 visitors. Now the head of the unicef working group in upper franconia, gisela schardt, has announced that the amount has been raised: 11,057 euros have gone to unicef emergency aid. "Every cent of it will go to the victims of the cyclone "idai" the earthquake that struck mozambique, zimbabwe and malawi in march of this year. So we can always do something good twice at the same time. At the unicef children’s festival, we make the children who come to us happy, and then our donations go to needy children all over the world."

Gisela schardt also provided information about the challenges facing aid organizations: "it was a great misery when the cyclone hit, but unicef, with its many years of experience, is networked all over the world, and its staff can be deployed very quickly." Unfortunately, in order to be able to help adequately, much more is needed than just medical care, clean water and something to eat. "Children should be able to go to school again, they should feel safe and secure in their free time, protected in their home environment." After the disaster pictures that everyone immediately had in mind, gisela schardt also drew more pleasant pictures of children who have enough to eat and drink and a place to sleep safely. "And if we can contribute something to this, then that makes me and my team infinitely happy."

Her team, a team of fifteen, are also the people who support this children’s festival every two years. They, their families and many volunteers are making children happy again. What was still burning on gisela schardt’s soul were the words of thanks: "i would like to express my thanks once again to all the helpers, donors, musicians, actors, moderator joffrey streit, the county, the municipality with its mayor, the building yard and the fire department."

Mayor hans-peter laschka has additional words to say about this successful concept: "perhaps it is also due to the wonderful surroundings, the castle with its park, and the fact that this festival has a very special character. It’s not about just eating and drinking and spending money, it’s about combining your stay with a good deed. Donations help to alleviate the hardship and misery of the world. From the bottom of my heart, a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to this project."

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The look at the wine label should no longer leave consumers at a loss: federal agriculture minister julia klockner has presented the draft for a new wine law to the cabinet, which is intended to improve the business of german winegrowers and offer wine lovers more orientation.

The CDU politician said in berlin that the core of the project was to raise the profile of the origin of german wines. The wine producers are internationally respected, but have been losing market share in international comparisons for years, and domestic demand is also "rather sluggish.

Among other things, a "pyramid of origins" for wine is to provide a remedy. At the top are wines from individual vineyard sites, at the bottom is country wine from germany, without more precise origin information. The pyramid stands for the principle: "the smaller the origin, the higher the requirement and thus the quality," said klockner, who herself grew up on a vineyard in the rhineland-palatinate wine village of guldental. The idea behind this is that a layer wine expresses in a special way the particularities of a vineyard and its soil, known in the trade as "terroir".

Many winegrowers have already introduced the distinction between layer wine, local wine and estate wine, following the example of the verband deutscher pradikatsweinguter (VDP). The new wine law thus also brings german law into line with the provisions that have been in force in the EU since 2012. This includes the distinction between "protected designations of origin" (g.U.) – which is roughly the association of a place name with the designation of a vineyard site – and the broader "protected geographical indications" (g.G.A.) – this could be the name of a growing region such as the pfalz.

For the final version of the wine ordinance, some points of contention, such as the handling of the so-called coarse layers, are reportedly not yet finally clarified. Coarse vineyards have names that look like a single vineyard site, but comprise completely different vineyards. For example, the mosel wine "piesporter michelsberg" comes from 37 individual vineyards in nine different communities. In the future, the name of the village should no longer appear on wines from such coarse vineyards. The details are still to be clarified in talks with winegrowing associations.

The new wine law, which came into force in december after the conclusion of the parliamentary procedure, also stipulates that new plantings of vines will be limited to 0.3%. In concrete terms, this means that around 300 hectares of vines per year could be added by 2023, explained klockner. This is in the interest of all winegrowers.

In addition, the marketing of german wines is to be improved. France and italy are already making "enormous efforts," the minister said. "Germany is now following suit." From 500.000 euro, the funds for the federal agency for agriculture and food were increased to two million euro. In addition, 37 million euros for the federal states came from an eu pot, which has not yet been used by all the states.

Winegrowing associations in germany are now faced with the task of redefining their specific requirements for quality wines. With the new wine law the general framework is given. Producers can develop specific profiles for their growing areas, including the determination of permitted grape varieties and specifications for hectare yields or residual sugar content. "This will be a relatively complicated matter," expects the president of the rheinhessen winegrowers’ association, ingo steitz.

Protective associations were founded last year to develop profiles for local and regional wines, for example. Previously, this was exclusively the subject of state ordinances. In addition to the winegrowers’ association, the wine cellars and winegrowers’ cooperatives are also represented in the rheinhessen protection association.

"It’s a matter of working out individual qualities," said steitz. Thus, the information on the wine label should correspond to the expected taste image. The requirements for wines with a special label, such as kabinett or spatlese, as well as flavor specifications, such as "dry," are to be developed and defined in the regions.

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Who knows the comic heroes asterix and obelix, knows that wild boars are the highest of feelings for the brave gauls. They go hunting almost every day, and in the evening they can enjoy the hunt’s prey grilled over the fire.

In germany, the so-called black boar is less revered, it has now become more of a problem. In the last decades it has increased according to the wildtierportal bavaria strongly, tendency rising. "The number of wild boars must be controlled regularly and reduced if necessary in order to limit the damage they cause", david buchwald, press officer at the district office in kulmbach, gives information about the situation.

A rusted sports field

Helmut muller has seen such damage himself. Overnight a horde of wild boars had plowed up the whole sports field. The honorary commissioner of the SSV peesten was horrified. "Far too few wild boar are shot in germany", he finds. In five years, the plague can no longer be ignored.

"Our efforts in the county to get the wild boar under control are unreservedly high," he says, confirms on the other hand otto kreil, deputy chairman of the hunt protection and hunters association kulmbach e. V. The association works closely and productively with individual agencies to prevent a rapid spread across the area. These bodies are the bavarian farmers’ association, the office for food, agriculture and forestry in kulmbach, the district administration, the AG hunting cooperative and the association he co-chairs.

Until now, the hunting of wild boar was only allowed from mid-june to the end of january. Since 2018, hunters have been allowed to hunt wild boar all year round. "As a matter of principle, parental animals may not be hunted as long as they are necessary for the breeding of the young animals", according to head of department heinrich rauh from the district office of kulmbach.

Difficulties in hunting arise from the fact that the animals are extremely adaptable to the local living conditions, and are also nocturnal. This is one of the reasons for the rapid increase of the population numbers. The past mild winters favor the food supply, the wild boar do not have to suffer hardship, explains otto kreil. Agricultural developments have also led to more contiguous plains, which are often planted with corn in the summer. "It’s literally a meal for the wild boar," says rauh, says the experienced jager.

Tendency increasing

In 2017, the kulmbach district office recorded 1.691 wild boars for the county, which is divided into six so-called hunting communities. This represents a slight increase on the previous two years; in 2015, 1.368. 30 years ago, it was estimated that there were only 50 animals in the entire county, says otto kreil. The data for 2018 are not yet available, because the recording period of a year always runs until 31 december. Marz. It’s possible that the numbers have gone down slightly, he says, but the situation has to be looked at over the years as a whole.

Damage to corn, canola and meadow fields often runs into thousands of euros in hunting districts, says press officer david buchwald. Furthermore, they occasionally become a hindrance to motorists. According to the police inspectorate, the number of accidents involving game in the district of kulmbach increased in 2018 compared to the previous year.But if you look at the individual distributions, roe deer, red deer or fallow deer cause more accidents (770) than wild boar (71).

Changes in hunting

In principle, the hunting cooperative, an association of all owners of huntable land, is liable to pay for damage that occurs on commercially used land. But the cooperative has the option of rolling over the costs to the hunt tenant. For special use areas, such as the football field of the SSV peesten, this regulation does not apply if they are not huntable.

Until a few years ago, when the wild boar population was not such a major problem, some mistakes were made in hunting, says otto kreil. "In the nineties, it was still something special when a hunter shot a sow. Then we drank a beer together", he reports with a laugh. Today, however, pushing is normal to a certain extent. But wild boars live in a fixed social structure. If a leading sow is killed, the population increases more uncontrollably, as it helps to control the daily routine and also the time of reproduction, explains otto kreil.

The right method for tackling the problem of wild boar has to be put together from individual building blocks, says kreil. Pressure hunts or the use of technical aids are only two examples of many factors that are used in hunting.

The thrill of the hunt

From a hunter’s perspective, however, it can also be gratifying to catch sight of a wild boar. "Hunting wild boar is also something fascinating," says otto kreil, finds otto kreil. Just a week before, he was out walking in his territory, he says, when three sows suddenly crossed his path. He has shot one of them. This is not self-evident. "There are always surprising moments", he says about his activity. That is the attraction of the hunt, which still evokes a tingling sensation in the hunter.

The damming of wild boar will probably remain a topical issue in the coming years, because even intensive hunting to date has not been able to stop the rapid increase, as can also be seen from the wildtierportal bavaria. The hunting community, at least, is endeavoring to counteract this further. According to otto kreil, an important basis is above all the continued good cooperation of the individual committees.

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Doctors, nurses and caregivers often have little time in their daily hospital routine – hospital staff have too many responsible tasks to perform. All the more touching and unusual is the action made possible by the staff of the palliative care unit of the hospital in furth.

Together with the wittinghof riding stable, they fulfilled the last wish of a terminally ill MS patient last week and committed a gross abuse in return. According to the hospital in furth, the critically ill 58-year-old had wished to be able to pet her favorite horse once again.

"Actually, the plan was to take the patient once again to the stable where she had spent a lot of time", reports josef rauch, team leader of the palliative care unit at the hospital furth. But then her condition had deteriorated very quickly. So he thought: "if we can't get to the horse, maybe the horse can come to us"."

Stable owner rita froschauer did not think twice about it. There was "no question at all about doing it", says the 51-year-old. She knew the whole family of the woman. "Horses were her life." For years she had her own horse. When the horse died, the 58-year-old took over the care of dana. "As far as her health allowed, she took care of her, fed her and cleaned her. She always made sure she was with the horses." So she put the mare in the trailer and drove with her to the clinic, about 15 kilometers away.

A resounding action by the hospital in furth

The hospital staff, in turn, brought the seriously ill woman in her bed to the gate of the hospital, where she was able to pet the animal once again in the presence of her family.

How the hospital in furth compares to infranken.According to the statement, the woman died last sunday, two days after her heart's desire was fulfilled.

The situation was not easy for the owner of the stables. But she is proud of her horse that made this special moment possible. "Dana is not a normal horse, she is something special."

Froschauer found the idea of the clinic "just great". "If such a thing is possible – I would do it again and again." The action has also moved many others. Almost 12,000 people have already liked the hospital's post on the social network facebook, many have shared it. A user wrote: "class action, more of it!!" And a user: "even without knowing a single contributor personally… If there is such a thing as heaven, then one day you will have earned the fluffiest cloud. Such people are worth their weight in gold."
 

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Spring work had to be postponed again and again because of frost and bad weather. Now the head of the building yard, stefan sluzar, is hoping that the weather will cooperate to some extent this week and in the weeks to come. The paths and playgrounds throughout the city are to be repaired as quickly as possible.

Started the bauhof employees on the damm. There the winter, but also the braveheartbattle have left their mark. It is the roads and paths that have been particularly affected by the constant change from frost to thaw this year. "We are in the process of eliminating the most serious traffic hazards", says sluzar. This year, the condition of the roads connecting fridritt to fridritt and wermerichshausen to seubrigshausen is particularly bad. The old roads were not built for the loads of today’s traffic.But sluzar woman: "no one can pay for rubbing out". So they are being repaired.
A construction yard team is currently taking care of the gravel paths in the entire city area. There are several in the city center alone. The footpaths along the flood embankment require special attention. Because it is not only a matter of providing walkers with a proper recreational area, but also of the best possible maintenance of the dam as a protective facility.

In winter, the dense vegetation had to be removed so that roots could not damage the dam structure. Now the paths are being pushed off in such a way that no backwater forms there and runs off during rainfall. After that, a dark gravel layer is applied. On the music school path, the holes in the path were already patched before easter. And this is how it will continue over the next few weeks – from district to district."Working through one part of the site at a time", sluzar explains. In the building yard, there is a precise plan of where and in what order which upcoming work is to be tackled. According to stefan sluzar, this rule has been preserved. It’s a round trip similar to winter road maintenance, he explains. "The organization is not easy, but sluzar has fun with it. "This is a challenge for me", says the head of the public works department and mentions that the city, with an area of 95 square kilometers, is lower franconia’s largest and bavaria’s second-largest flat municipality. There is no end to the work.

The playgrounds also need to be systematically cleaned up in the next few days and weeks. There are 29 of them in the whole city. The main annual inspection is currently underway. "Every screw is really looked at", says sluzar.

But also in the sky the playgrounds are looked at more closely. It must be ensured that no rotten ashes fall from the trees and injure children. But the children’s playgrounds keep the construction team busy all year round. In addition to the rough inspection in spring, there is another basic inspection every quarter. And every week a look is taken at the facilities to make sure that there are no broken pieces or garbage lying around and that more serious damage is repaired immediately.

And now of course there is the maintenance of the grounds to be done – when spring comes. "There is no more snow now…" Word sluzar. He really can’t use him anymore now.

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The emotion of the showdown for the most important sports trophy in the united states will give many goose bumps as the best teams of the national football league nfl and the two coaches john and jim harbaugh compete.

In the late summer of that year, tens of thousands of people in the city on the banks of the mississippi river desperately sought refuge from the floodwaters of hurricane katrina, which had inundated 80 percent of the city. The sports arena with the domed roof, the superdome, became an island of hope for many people, but was itself affected by the forces of nature. The repair cost more than 200 million dollars. "It’s nice to see the superdome back in such great shape," stresses baltimore coach john harbaugh.

In november 2011, he won the first duel against his 15-month-younger brother jim and his 49ers with a score of 16-6. This time, san francisco is the favorite. And from martina navratilova to future U.S. Secretary of state john kerry to donald trump or arnold schwarzenegger, quite a few celebrities from sports, shows and politics see the team in red and gold in front. Meanwhile, michael phelps gives the ravens the thumbs up. The 22-time olympic champion from baltimore tweeted immediately after landing in new orleans: "lets go ravens".

For another baltimore hero, ravens rookie ray lewis, the finals will mark the end of his 17-year nfl career, with a second championship title as the crowning achievement. The middle linebacker announced that he wanted to give his teammates everything he had one more time. "And after that i’ll ride off into the sunset and have a nice life."Lewis is the face of the club, a fan favorite thanks to his emotional and committed style of play.

But there are dark shadows in lewis’ career. Following a super bowl party, he was on 31. January 2000 involved in a stabbing with two friends outside a nightclub in atlanta – two people died. Blood evidence of a victim was recovered in his car and lewis was subsequently charged with two counts of murder. He got off with a preservation penalty.

The doping allegations that have now surfaced also spoil the picture. Lewis allegedly treated his torn triceps muscle at the start of the season with a banned deer antler extract, but vehemently denied it. "Never."

On the 49ers’ side, all eyes are on colin kaepernick. The quarterback is in his second NFL season, having started the season as a substitute. Now the 25-year-old is scheduled to play in the 19. NFL game of his career to add to the californians’ unblemished super bowl record. San francisco has won all of its five previous finals. Millions of americans still revel in quarterback joe montana’s four titles and steve young, who excelled in the 1995 victory. "It would be a great honor to be mentioned in the same breath as you," kaepernick says.

Before the shooting star is set to add another glorious chapter to NFL history, spectators in the stadium and in front of TV screens around the world will be reminded of another event, a horrific one. Pop star jennifer hudson will perform before the start of the game with students from sandy hook elementary school in newtown, where a rampage killer killed 20 children and six adults in december, according to u.S. Media reports. Your song: "america the beautiful".

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The 71-year-old made a crucial mistake: he played his system ticket with his customer card in the kiosk where he works and which, according to hessen lotto, belongs to his wife. However, according to the state treaty on gambling, neither the owners of sales outlets nor their employees are allowed to do so.

Around 24.According to his own information, henning had won 000 euros with this ticket. Now he gets instead the 36,25 euro stake refunded again. First the "bild"-zeitung had reported about it.

Henning himself says: "had i known that i would not be allowed to play here, i had not done so after all."Lotto hessen has a clear opinion on the case. The man "had to know what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do," said press spokeswoman dorothee hoffmann. That owners and also employees were not allowed to play in their own outlet was part of the training that everyone received. "In this individual case it is very unfortunate", but the intention of the legislator is that owners and staff do not play themselves uncontrollably.

201 players were part of the virtual betting community that hit the right "6 out of 49" at the beginning of november with their lottery ticket. 3.2 million euros was the total winning amount according to lotto hessen. Each tipper receives a corresponding profit in a so-called system chance according to his purchased shares – "between 7500 and 75.000" had been the number in this case, said hoffmann.

Henning bought, according to his own words, three shares, which are about 24.000 euros had been worth. And in the process, as hoffmann also explained, it had been enough if henning had simply played in another outlet.

This is what the 71-year-old now wants to do in the future as well. Because after many years of lotto experience, he can not be dissuaded from continuing to type every wednesday, friday and saturday. Because henning is convinced: "you learn from your mistakes."

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The oberaurach burger project "burgers help burgers" invited a few days ago to an extraordinary sound event in the "sternstubla" in trossenfurt. The speaker, sound therapist ursula diroll, took the listeners into the world of sounds. She informed about tibet, the country of origin of the singing bowls, and how the secret knowledge was passed on from the monasteries. She also explained the importance of sound, its effect on the human body, and its potential for use in the private sphere as well as in social institutions and in the health sector. She explained that sound is energy that moves from cell to cell through the body.

Introduction to the instruments

Afterwards ursula diroll presented all the instruments used in this form of sound therapy and talked about their variety of tones and the importance of the overtones. To the remarkable equipment numbers: cymbal and temple bell, which free the mind; 13 different coarse singing bowls, which are set up and played according to the human energy system; furthermore a sound couch strung with piano strings and a monochord; the male tam tam and the female feng gong, which do a remarkable job; a whole body bowl, in which the sound moves upwards in a spiral form through the body of the person played on, and existing blockages gradually dissolve. An impressive sound experience followed for the women. For this purpose, the participants lay down on the couches provided to facilitate deep relaxation, which was not difficult for them. Because the sound carpet that spread in the room had a very soothing and harmonizing effect.
At the end, the listeners, now noticeably balanced and decelerated, spoke about their experiences. Organizer anita amend summed up that they have successfully entered a new terrain. There have already been many lectures on orthodox medicine at "burgers helping burgers" given. The women made the experience that sound therapy can be regarded as a health precaution, since pollutants are eliminated by the newly stimulated cell vibration and therefore each cell is detoxified. Ursula diroll emphasized that sounds cleanse the body and activate the metabolism.

Further events

"Burgers help burgers" offers further events until the summer break: on monday, 18. June, michael oppel from untersteinbach informs at 7 pm about bread and healthy food. Wolfgang hohensee from trossenfurt will give a lecture on friday, 27th. July, 7 p.M. On the topic of "funeral provisions – one less thing to worry about".

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