The death of a gorilla at the zoo in the american city of cincinnati has attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of animal lovers beyond the u.S.A. Zoo staff had found the 17-year-old "harambe" in the zoo shot dead on saturday after a young boy climbed over the protective gelander, fell into a water ditch around the gorilla facility and was then dragged through the water by the silver rhino. The four year old was then rescued and came away with the scare.

The storm of protest via the internet and a media frenzy in the u.S. That even upstaged the presidential campaign forced the zoo management to defend its action again on monday. The anger, however, was not only directed against the zoo, which according to the critics was too radical, but also against the parents of the boy.

Because of the devastating smog in eastern china, authorities in five provinces declared the second-highest alert level "orange. The number of people with respiratory illnesses in hospitals in shanghai rose significantly, state media reported. Sales of breathing masks and expensive air filters skyrocketed. "It stinks smoky. The air is really scratchy in the throat," said a woman in the harbor metropolis. "We have never experienced such smog here before."

Bayreuth and kulmbach are exemplary in many respects in their preparation for the energy transition. This is the result of an energy policy discussion attended by bavarian environment minister marcel huber and representatives from business, agriculture, government agencies and local authorities in himmelkron.
"It's not a question of whether we need the energy turnaround, but how we shape it", said mdl gudrun brendel-fischer, on whose initiative the conversation came about. The region was well on the way: from the bioenergy region of bayreuth to the northern bavaria energy agency based in kulmbach, both counties had made rough preparations well before fukushima.

For joint action

It did not take long before our publication was full of comments. The editorial team wanted to know on its bamberg facebook page how the traffic regulation in the lange strabe was received after six months of practice. Have motorists and especially cyclists become accustomed to having to share the busy boulevard at a narrow point?? Is the anger over the banishment of cyclists faded, which had led to many nasty comments and even a wire demo in bamberg?

The rush of opinions rather suggests the opposite. Readers were unabashed in their condemnation of the removal of an apparently functioning bicycle path. Several times there is talk of a sign burger prank. B, for example, finds less flattering words: "the biggest nonsense ever devised. Makes the traffic situation only unnecessarily dangerous for cyclists."

He sings of rain and wind. And of the madness of the world, which can only be drowned with wine. To the wise fools from shakespeare’s comedy "what you will" you certainly feel reminded when you stand in front of the archway on the south side of the hardenbergblock (goethestrabe). Top right the "rainmaker": an old boozer with a barrel over his shoulder, pouring his wet into a shell. On the left, the "windmaker, modeled as a buxom beauty, her cheeks puffing out like a bellows with lusciously spouting breasts. The grotesque-comical clay figures are from hans lewerenz. They are three years after his release from russian prisoner of war at the end of 1947 and previously experienced war atrocities his answer to leave the past behind him. It is an art of laughing away.
Infinitely grateful to have survived are the thousands who made their way to kulmbach at the end of the war or afterwards. At the end of 1951, 6763 expellees, refugees and former concentration camp inmates are registered in the city district with a total population of 24,015. 1046 of them standing as apartment seekers on the waiting list.
But it is a community of need, which despite everything with confidence, courage and elan to the rebuilding approached. The rapid economic upswing in kulmbach after the 1948 truth reform is largely due to outsourced companies such as the sudwerke of the essen-based krupp group, the adalbert raps spice mill, the berlin meat research institute, and efficient refugee businesses such as the erwin-schnittert works. With a herculean effort, the city of kulmbach and the kulmbach building cooperative set about dealing with the housing shortage: between 1951 and 1954, 224 buildings with 806 apartments were erected. The largest building, the hardenberg block, is ready for occupancy in the spring of 1951. In july, the first expellees arrive, mostly silesians and sudeten germans who had been housed in the plassenburg camp.
The feeling of life of these years manifests itself in four other ceramic figures by lewerenz. The ornate house entrances along the south side of the housing complex: allegories of the "four seasons". The sculptures exude a lust for life, a joy in the diversity of creation, as if the artist had the violin concertos of antonio vivaldi in his ear.
Since his arrival in kulmbach, lewerenz has been intensively engaged in modeling, casting, firing and glazing clay. He wanted to take a piece of his pomeranian home in stargard with its many brick churches to his new place of residence – a city with a lot of red brick.
Spring appears as a lovely girl from an eastern book of tales. It releases the birds held captive in the kafig to flutter out into their colorful homeland. The artist alludes to the released prisoners of war. The summer meets us as a harvester with ahrenbuschel in the arm. She has pulled her headscarf over her hat deep into her face to protect herself from the laughing sunflower sun. At the time of the autumn moon the harvest is brought in, ripe fruit and juicy grapes are brought into the winepresses. The last of the season is father frost, who trudges through the cold in felt boots and a fur-lined coat, carrying a hare on his back as hunting prey.
Amusing frescoes painted by lewerenz for the eastern entrance gate to the hardenberg farm. On the left, a father is seen picking apples on a ladder, while a helper collects the fruit in baskets. The fresco on the right shows him coming home to his family in the evening. The woman squats dutifully in the parlor and cradles the sleeping child in her arms.
The sequence of pictures in the new home is deliberately genre-like and of gentle irony. Also the well decorated coats of arms contribute to it: the kulmbacher city coat of arms is present, but also the french revenge receives the honor due to it.

The centrally located recyclables center in the connekt technology park opens a new chapter in the county's waste management system. This is what district administrator tamara bischof said in front of the representatives of the district council and the participating companies. The new yard with access from panzerstrabe offers a lot of space, a lot of comfort and a significant improvement in services for the citizens of burgenland. The extensive plant is state-of-the-art in all areas and has great potential for the future.

300 suppliers a day

"Finally a place where you can unload all your problems."That's what the sign at the entrance says, and since the recycling center opened on 2. January, around 300 people have been using the facility every day. They will be offered a pedestrian-free traffic flow as well as wide parking bays for the unloading of waste. Strict separation of delivery and disposal traffic ensures safety. Covered delivery areas protect against wet and, in addition, waste can be easily disposed of from ramps. The district has also invested in a modern problem waste storage facility.

Raimund kupfer is the spokesman of a community of interest (IG), behind which stand about two thousand citizens of the city. On the lists of the IG "uberhohte grabgebuhren" have signed 1744 forchheimer, which oppose the calculation of the grave fees to the defense.

"We stopped collecting signatures, but we easily got 2500", says copper. When the spokesman for IG jungst was out of town for a week and then checked his answering machine, he could not keep from receiving new inquiries. ."People are now getting the bills and then many remember that there is a community of interest and come forward.", says copper.

The development of the "schlehbuhl" building area is nearing completion. After the tender had brought in some interesting bids, the submission could take place. After weighing up all the important factors, the local council decided on the cheapest option and awarded the contract to a company from the market town of wiesenttal to build the new bridge for around 278 euros.000 euro to carry out the civil engineering works (canal-water and trench construction). Construction starts in april and should be completed by the end of may.

The municipal outdoor swimming pool is also finished in the negative sense, which is why the feelers were already put out last fall to modernize the rough water basin – water runs out here, the basin sinks – and other structures and equipment. At the meeting, mayor stefan fortsch (CSU) was instructed to negotiate a contract with the specialized architecture firm krautloher in order to find out what concept and what costs would be possible for the renovation.

John degenkolb was slowed by a defect a few kilometers from the finish line, but tour mountain king julian alaphilippe took his first rough classic victory instead.

"That makes the "cheeteah-cub" the fastest four-legged robot under 30 kilograms", write the research team around auke ijspeert from the eidgenossian technical university lausanne. They present their development in the international journal of robotics research.

The artificial cat weighs about one kilogram and is 20 centimeters long. Their four legs are modeled exactly on cat legs. Each of the three limbs has the same proportions and angles to each other as a cat does. Springs form the tendons, small motors – so-called actuators – replace the muscles.