Less turnover in the stadel this year

Less turnover in the stadel this year

The weather gods are anything but kind to the bierfest 2013. "I had ordered temperatures around 22 degrees. That would have been ideal, but we won't get that this year," says schmid, said michael schmid of kulmbacher brewery in his half-time review of the beer week, which kicked off on a much too bright saturday. "Nevertheless, we can be proud that so many people found their way to the tent, but we served much less beer than usual." "But we don't want to set new records every year at the beer festival. This is a festival with tradition", adds company spokeswoman helga metzel.

Relatively quickly came to the beginning of the week, the hoped-for cooling, but with rain. "We have had significantly fewer visitors. But at the isartaler witches were 3500 people in the tent. And at the day of the generations there were 2100, that's also another 250 more than the year before", says schmid.

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Sandy shocks in the exchange year

Sandy shocks in the exchange year

By our editorial member julia riegler

Volkach/staten island – this is certainly not how johanna had imagined her stay in new york – but what german teenager can do that?? The dimensions that natural disasters have assumed in recent years, especially in the USA, are completely unknown to the volkacherin. "We spent the whole first day in the house, you couldn't go outside", the schoolgirl remembers the 29th day. October, on the hurricane "sandy" the storm really swept over the state on the eastern seaboard. "But it didn't really start until the evening. At 9 pm the power went out – good thing we had a gas stove."

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Recuperation in cars reduces fuel consumption

When engines work, they convert chemical energy bound in the fuel into mechanical energy: they make the car roll. If the driver brakes, part of this energy is lost again in the form of warmth, the brakes become heavier. But there are technical procedures to prevent energy losses like this one. The technical term for this is recuperation. The potential fuel savings are not insignificant.

The technical term comes from the latin "recuperare" recuperate, which means to regain or regain again. When buying a car, people who think about fuel-saving technology such as an automatic start-stop system often come across the term recuperation brake. Because both methods of increasing efficiency are usually offered together. But recuperation is not new.

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On the a7 near kirchheim: truck skids across the road – does the emergency lane work??

Overturned truck blocks A7: in the night from wednesday to thursday (29. March 2018), a semitrailer truck overturned on the A7 at the hattenbacher triangle. Around 1 a.M., a 27-year-old truck driver from the district of bamberg made a serious driving mistake. The man works for a forwarding agency in saxony.

On wet road, the truck came at "inappropriate speed" in lurch and the driver lost control of the steering wheel. The tractor-trailer skidded across the four lanes of traffic and hit the left-hand concrete safety barrier. The trailer overturned and remained heavily damaged, lying across the carriageway of the A7 motorway.

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Eight rockers in custody after raid

Eight rockers in custody after raid

On friday, a 38-year-old man was charged with drug trafficking in a not insignificant amount, according to the spokesman of the public prosecutor’s office, martin steltner. In addition, seven men had already been issued arrest warrants for gang-related narcotics trafficking on a large scale. Following an examination, a 19-year-old man was also remanded in custody on friday evening, steltner said.

Around 1100 officers, including the GSG 9 special unit, raided almost 80 bandido apartments, workplaces and clubhouses on thursday. Focus of the raid was the clubhouse of the bandidos del este in hennigsdorf north of berlin.

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Schulze: buyers of gas-guzzling cars should pay more

Schulze: Buyers of gas-guzzling cars should pay more

Environment minister svenja schulze wants to make the purchase of heavy cars with high fuel consumption more expensive in order to protect the climate – electric vehicles, on the other hand, are to become less expensive.

The SPD politician told the german press agency: "I think it would be very good if those who buy the gross gas-guzzling cars, who simply pay a little more, simply get a surcharge." This could then be deducted from small, less expensive cars. This could make electric cars cheaper so more people buy them. Schulze said she thought such a "bonus-malus system" was a "very, very good idea".

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Specialist company cuts trees in the floodplain

Forestry technician alfons loser sets the motor saw to work, cutting small slices from a beech trunk about 20 centimeters thick. The tree is quite crooked, threatening to topple onto the road and parking lot in the meadow. As well as about 50 other species. They must be cut down before something worse happens. As on 19. April 2010, when a tree fell in the au and totally demolished six cars in some cases.

The city and forester axel maunz have reacted immediately after the heavy rains of the past days and weeks, hired a forestry company that now removes the dangerous trees.

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