Fool’s freedom. The city of coburg’s public order department points this out in a recent press release.
Commercial new year’s eve rockets, firecrackers and bangers ("category 2") are only allowed on 31. December and on 1. January be burned. What many people do not know: only adults are allowed to launch these fireworks corpses.
Fireworks are prohibited in the immediate vicinity of churches, hospitals, children’s homes, old people’s homes and half-timbered houses. It is also important to keep a safe distance from livestock farms, gas stations, barns, stables and all easily flammable substances.
The sky lanterns, which carry their fire risk uncontrolled into the distance, remain generally forbidden on new year’s eve and new year’s day.
The public order office emphatically warns against possible fire hazards caused by fireworks for the many historic coburg buildings such as coburg fortress, ehrenburg castle, the state theater, the natural history museum, the town hall and the town hall on the market square as well as the arsenal in herrngasse. "In their vicinity, all fireworks are to be stopped as a matter of principle!" Says kai holland, head of the city’s public order department.
The police also strongly advise against using fireworks that do not have a permit in germany. In many cases, these untested fireworks have a much higher explosive force that poses a significant risk of injury.

Health risks

However, the health risks for the fireworkers should not be underestimated, even with approved fireworks. Especially under the influence of alcohol the risk of accidents increases again. The range of possible injuries goes from ear damage to burned or torn fingers to severe eye injuries.
Who violates a burn ban, risks a fine under the explosives act, which in extreme cases can be up to 50 000 euros, reads the concluding note of the press release.

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The graveyard may stay. A little hidden behind blue tarpaulins, stone slabs with artistic portraits of the deceased defy the swirling dust. On the huge construction site where the sochi olympic park is being built, the graves between the stadium and the figure skating palace are the last relic of days long past. The former residents of the area were forcibly relocated, their houses demolished. For the gigantic project of winter games of opposites on the black sea and in the north caucasian mountains, the makers are only being held back by the peace of the dead at the most.

If you want to find out what the olympics in russian will look like in two years, start your journey in lukewarm to the coast. Here, the eaves of five ice rinks are already rising into the winter sky, cranes as rough as towers are pulling up the olympic stadium. Trees, grassy areas, a bird sanctuary are to follow. For the sporting image campaign of an entire country, the former summer health resort has set everything back to square one. "Ground zero" is what mayor anatoli pachomov calls the state of sochi at the beginning of the work – the "zero hour".

Such an atmosphere of the end of the world arises during the night drive to the second center, the mountain town of krasnaya polyana. A fast track is to take olympic tourists to the competitions on snow in just under half an hour. The rollers still rotate here, shrouded in a ghostly fog, and workers hover on the tracks in the glare of the spotlights – a total of 50,000 are toiling away on the olympia construction site.

Skepticism whether all the promised marvels would be completed by the time of the opening on the 7th. The hosts counter in a friendly but firm manner that the project will be completed by february 2014. "If putin promises the people a railroad, then there will be a railroad," says a senior ministry official on the bumpy ride in a minibus shuttle, "no matter what it costs."

With a construction budget of more than 24 billion euros, the city, where head of government vladimir putin used to reside as president in the summer, has already secured the title of the most expensive winter games in history before the start. Money is no obstacle. The advertising signs at the edge of the muddy road show why. "Gazprom 2014" is written there female on blue. The state-owned company builds the laura ski resort for cross-country skiing and biathlon. Moreover, the prestigious olympic project has rarely received such support from the private sector. Metal entrepreneur vladimir potanin invests heavily in his resort rosa chutor, where alpine medals are awarded.

To the meeting with the billionaire oligarch at the downhill slope, the journey continues with two gondolas and a chairlift: welcome to the high-security zone. On the road, which, seen from above, winds its way up the mountain, police officers stand at every concrete pillar with a sinister expression on their faces.

Three guard posts are set up like border crossings, signs on the metal detector warn of forbidden objects – from pocket knives to radioactive material. Light gray security walls with barbed wire prevent people from leaving the prescribed paths. A feared attack by terrorists from the conflict region of abkhazia, just a few kilometers away, seems almost inconceivable in the military cordon with 5,000 guards. The price is a feeling of oppression, no one goes jogging here without a passport.

Meanwhile, in the press tent, potanin is lying in his chair with his ski boots stretched out more than he is sitting down. Questions about the rampant corruption that the russian court of auditors deplores elicit a mude smile from him. His topic is another. Spectacular images of the first world cup and especially olympics should make russians want to spend a skiing vacation in its hotels.

However, often only the foundation walls are still standing. "Honestly, with all the security people and the construction work, it"s not realistic that atmospher will be here anytime soon," potanin says, quickly diverting the conversation to the future, "but it will come right after playing."

Russia not only wants to demonstrate its economic strength with the olympics. A cosmopolitan image is also to be created on the rough sports stage. At the reception of the mayor in the first gondola station, a cossack choir from the kuban region animates central european journalists to dance. Even a folk group with – so it is announced – georgian-origin inhabitants of sochi shows its program. Mayor pakhomov repeatedly asks the translator to point out that people from 100 different nations live in his city.

Bernhard russi also knows the language barrier. "The problem in this particular case is that you have to translate not only the language but also the philosophy," reports the swiss athlete on the edge of the descent that bears his handwriting. Since 2006, he has been designing the course, which has been praised by most of the athletes, and he has felt his way into the russian soul during about 20 visits. "They are a very, very melancholic people, that"s what i felt at the beginning too. But this then turns extremely, and you then very quickly have very fat friends."

With a view of the facades of the houses, the path leads back down to the valley by gondola. In brown, orange and yellow pastel shades, the illuminated hotels and the bell tower look like a film set. After the first visit, it remains unclear how real the russian winter dream really is, how high the price for nature and people will be. A question that will probably be asked not only by the mourners on the shores of sochi, who can only visit their dead relatives with a security pass.

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The german national team won several medals at the bodybuilding world championships of the world fitness federation (WFF) in the cyprian capital nikosia. 20-year-old leon schenkendorf from kulmbach won the world championship title in the junior class and was spontaneously invited to compete in the professional category. At his debut there he reached the fifth place.

Germany’s johann singer came second, the title was won by sudkorean ken kim. In the women’s aerobics class, the german celina bar became vice world champion, her training partner eva-maria bub took 3rd place. A total of 220 participants from 27 countries took part.

"In my family, everyone is actually sporty", says the world champion from kulmbach schenkendorf. He himself, however, only started competing late in life. At the age of 15 he decided to join a gym. "I’ve been training hard from the beginning, but competing wasn’t on my mind at the time", he says. That changed when he visited the fitness, wellness and health trade show (fibo) in colonia, he says. "I was immediately fascinated by bodybuilding and decided to participate in a WFF competition." He won second place at the first attempt.

"The slovakian in front of me finished second in the european championships. So why shouldn’t I just take part in the world championship??", he thought to himself. To compete there, he had to work on his "posing", his presentation, work. But in the reigning german champion johann singer he found the perfect training partner for the task.

"Please not the 156 now!"

Then the time had come. "On the day of the competition i was actually quite relaxed. It was only when the top 6 were read out and my start number 156 was there that I became restless", tells schenkendorf. Together with his competitors he waited behind the stage for the placings. "While the places six to three went on stage one after the other, my tension became more and more coarse." Then the kulmbacher stood behind the curtain with only one sudafrican.
"Please now the 156", he thought to himself "and that is exactly what happened. An incredible moment", he describes. After being awarded the world champion title, he had to stay alone on the stage to answer a question: "do you accept the WFF pro-card??", the competition director asked him. "I thought about it for a second and then said ‘yes’. Now I have the opportunity to compete with the best in the world", the man from kulmbach is looking forward to his professional career.

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Formula 1 legend niki lauda has unexpectedly had to undergo a lung transplant in vienna. The general hospital in vienna reported on the operation, without giving any information about the health condition of the 69-year-old.

The hospital published the announcement in consultation with the family, said spokeswoman karin fehringer to the deutsche presse-agentur. "We ask for your understanding that the family will not make any public statements and request that the privacy of the lauda family be respected," the statement read. Lauda had a serious lung disease. The company laudamotion would not comment further, as a spokeswoman said.

According to media reports, the three-time formula 1 world champion had already been in hospital for a week. The austrian is said to have interrupted his vacation because of the illness and returned to vienna. The head of the supervisory board of the mercedes team led by british world champion lewis hamilton was also absent from the formula 1 races at hockenheim (july 22). July) and hungary (29. July). "I wish niki lauda and his family much strength in the time to come! You’re a stand-up guy!!!" Tweeted germany’s tennis legend boris becker.

Lauda had been in poor health since his horrific accident at the nurburgring in 1976. He miraculously survived the accident with severe burns. His lungs were partially injured. As a late consequence of the accident, he has already had to undergo two kidney transplants. His brother florian donated a kidney to him in 1997, and his wife birgit donated another in 2005. With her, lauda has eight-year-old twins – max and mia. He has two sons from his first marriage, lukas (39) and mathias (37).

Lauda became a legend because he was already back in the cockpit of his racing car just 42 days after the fire accident. The following world cup duel with brit james hunt was shown in the movie "rush" in cinemas in 2013. In his first race after the accident, he finished fourth in monza. "The quick return was part of my strategy, not to sit at home for a long time and ponder why and how the whole thing happened to me," he later said.

Lauda won the world championship title three times: 1975, 1977 and 1984. After his accident, he makes a red cap his trademark. He wore it in the beginning so that the bandage on his burnt scalp wouldn’t slip when he took off his racing helmet. Later he used it as an advertising medium for his entrepreneurial activities.

Unlike hunt, who died young, the ambitious viennese from an industrial family made a smooth transition to a life as a successful entrepreneur. The enthusiastic pilot founded his own airline with lauda air. The airline was sold to competitor austrian airlines (AUA) in the late 1990s. In 2003, he launched a new fleet under the name "niki.

Niki’s belligerent founder left in 2011 and took over the helm at air berlin. With the company laudamotion, he entered the private jet business at the beginning of 2016. But after the bankruptcies of air berlin and niki, he took the helm at niki again and relaunched the company under the name laudamotion. A little later, he brought ryanair on board as a new shareholder.

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Although the peking environmental authorities also spoke of "severe air pollution," only the third-highest yellow alert level was declared in the 20-million-metropolis on wednesday.

Once again, 30 percent of official service vehicles were not allowed to drive in the capital. The smog in beijing and other cities, which the authorities used to play down as "fog," played a prominent role in the national evening news broadcast by state television. The ministry of industry promised new measures in the fight against air pollution, such as the elimination of unstable production facilities.

Airborne levels of the particularly dangerous fine dust, which can pass directly into the blood via the lungs, were ten times the limit recommended by the world health organization (WHO) in beijing. Visibility dropped to less than 300 meters in hazy weather wednesday in some parts of town. Many people in peking have been wearing respirators for weeks anyway.

After the mega-smog almost two weeks ago, when unprecedented highs had been reached, the people of pekingen had actually only been able to breathe a little easier. Pollutant levels have since stabilized at a further high level. At the annual meeting of the peking people's congress, many delegates said that the complaints about the peking cough "describes the reality", as the official news agency xinhua wrote.

Smog is causing hospitals to see an increase in patients with respiratory diseases and cardiovascular problems. "My father-in-law still can"t breathe on his own," described a 44-year-old woman from peking. The 81-year-old, who until then had been rusty and healthy, had ignored warnings and gone for a daily walk in the mega-smog. Suddenly he started having breathing problems and was taken to hospital, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. "The air is just too bad."

While the U.S. Embassy considers an air index of less than 50 to be good, the values since then have usually ranged from 200 to more than 400. The scale used to go only up to 500, but with the mega-smog in the middle of the month, peak loads of more than 800 were measured. On wednesday, the u.S. Index rose again to more than 400, while chinese readings indicated values of more than 300.

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Flower decorations, well-kept green "spots in the whole village, easter fountains and christmas decorations – without the horticultural association it would look quite dreary in some streets of steinwiesen. But there they are, the ruhrigen members of the horticultural association steinwiesen with ingeborg wich-reif in the lead.
And this has been the case for 40 years: back then, on 14 june, the. April 1977, founded by seven people. Volker naser took over the post of first chairman and remained at the helm of the association for 34 years. Ludwig deuerling became treasurer and is still treasurer today.
Already in 1981 the horticultural association had grown to 23 members. In the years that followed, there were highs and lows. Volker naser took over more supra-local tasks, which resulted in fewer activities in steinwiesen. But one started again and again, there were many who were interested in the association and its activities.
In 1998, 34 members were paid, and work continued steadily. In 2002, the 25th anniversary of the association was celebrated and the members proudly celebrated having taken over the sponsorship of public grounds and having contributed to the rethinking of plant protection with presentations and lectures.

The association continues to grow

Hedi hohn went into the chronicle in her incomparable way and in the most marvelous dialect. Especially on the fact that in 2011 with ingeborg wich-reif a woman had taken over the chairmanship. Volker naser could not continue at the helm for health reasons and resigned his office. "And so neiles-ludwig is working as treasurer and ingeburch as the new chairman of the board of directors, stressed the hedi and said immediately in addition that "it would be a shame if the 35 members were to become marra wan deudn". And it has been successful, there are already two new admissions.

Founding members still active

On this anniversary, district chairman fritz pohl was able to present two awards for 40-year memberships – founding members volker naser and ludwig deuerling. Volker naser was chairman for 34 years and received a certificate and the "pin of honor on ribbon" for his work and many years of membership.
Ludwig deuerling has been treasurer of the horticultural association for 40 years. He received a certificate and the "gold badge of honor" from the district chairman. As a surprise, this time there was no flower bouquet, but a beautifully bound fruit bouquet for the honorees.
In his greeting, district chairman fritz pohl emphasized that the horticultural societies are "all green" in the village. In steinwiesen, too, a lot is done here on a voluntary basis. A municipality would not be able to pay for these tasks if they had to be carried out by the local building yard. He also briefly mentioned the new district advisor, beate singhartinger. With her, the horticultural associations and communities again have advice at their disposal. Pohl wished the jubilee association continued enjoyment.

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